
Jewish Rabbis and ascetic Essene movements had been studying the Prophets to figure out everything God was about to do. Jewish documents produced from 1st Century theologians, like 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, Enoch, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, talked about what would take place. God was about to step into history to redeem. He was about to put an end to an age of oppression and corruption. He was about to introduce a new age. But what signs would tell people the new age had begun?