15. TRADITION OF BURIED RECORDS:
Some of the scrolls were deliberately stored in jars, and put into caves, some were so saved about 35 B.C. others were just tossed into nearby caves when the Romans of the Tenth Legion destroyed their compound, about 70 A.D. SCHONFIELD, p 159 states: "All these considerations, and many more, when we go over the records, tell in my opinion of a gigantic effort, of the most careful planning and preparation, so that the Elect of the period of the Consummation would be primed with everything they would need. Everything would be in the books, nothing neglected, and all the books safely stored for their predestined purposes." And "It would appear that in the caves of the Khirbet Qumran area we have stumbled upon books designed for the faithful in the last great struggle with evil, books for the skilled to understand and not meant to be accessible before the time, as well as other books permitted to be circulated among the uninitiated." Who are the skilled? Who are the initiated? Who get any mileage out of the Scrolls today?