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The Vital Key to End-Time Prophecy

erhaps most of us remember reading the biblical story We all need to wake up, look at what is happening all around us of Joseph. It is one of the most touching and mean- and realize that we are truly living in the prophesied “last days.” Pingful stories in all the Bible. Joseph’s jealous broth- Things are not going to continue as they have been. Many of the ers had sold him into slavery. For more than 20 long years, major countries we live in or are familiar with will literally it had been assumed by his father Jacob and the rest of his cease to exist within the lifetimes of many of you reading this! family that Joseph was dead or lost for good. But the God of Knowing this, and knowing that God’s true servants have Abraham had orchestrated a series of remarkable events to always spoken out to warn His people about major future cat- make Joseph the ruler, under Pharaoh, over all of Egypt. In astrophes, we who publish this material do not want to let you this capacity, he had stored up grain during seven plentiful down. We feel inspired and impelled by the Spirit of God to years. And, while he was sharing that grain with starving let you know the real meaning of today’s news and what multitudes during the seven years of famine which followed, prophecy indicates is soon to occur. As the Prophet Amos Joseph’s brothers came to Egypt to buy some. wrote, “If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the people be Finally, Joseph revealed himself to them and a joyous afraid? If there is calamity in a city, will not the LORD have reunion followed! When his brothers went back and told done it? Surely the Lord GOD does nothing, unless He their father, the old patriarch just couldn’t believe it. But, reveals His secret to His servants the prophets. A lion has after they recounted the details of how Joseph revealed him- roared! Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken! Who self to them—and he saw the wagons Joseph had sent him— can but prophesy?” (Amos 3:6-8). Jacob said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is alive. I will go So as you read this brochure about what is prophesied and see him before I die” (Gen. 45:28). to happen to America, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Where is Joseph today? While it is true that the Jewish Zealand—and, to a lesser extent, all the other peoples people were given the “scepter” promise of kingship and the descended from the nations of Northwest Europe—recog- lineage of the Messiah, the Bible makes it very plain that the nize that this is exactly what the true servants of God ought tribe of Joseph was to inherit the promised blessings of nation- to be talking about at such a time as this. al greatness and power—“the BIRTHRIGHT was Joseph’s” There have been times in the past when centuries went (1 Chron. 5:2). Where are these people who were to become a by with very little in the way of prophesied events taking great “nation AND a company of nations” (Gen. 35:11), who place. Perhaps even God’s true ministers need not have spent were to inherit the “gates” of their enemies (Gen. 24:60), and too much time on prophecy back then. But not now! For now which were to be physically BLESSED above all nations? Did it is all beginning to come together—and you need to be they end up among the so-called “Ten Lost Tribes” of Israel informed. You need to understand. God warns us, “Scoffers who seemingly disappeared from the world scene after being will come in the last days, walking according to their own taken into captivity by Assyria around 734-721 B.C.? lusts, and saying, ‘Where is the promise of His coming? For The story of the discovery of modern-day “Joseph” is since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were moving and powerful in its implications. It presents to us the from the beginning of creation’” (2 Pet. 3:3-4). vital KEY that unlocks the real understanding of scores of Let’s be sure that we are not found among those who scoff end-time Bible prophecies! But is it really important that we at or belittle prophecy. Let us rather be alert to prophecy and to understand such prophecies? the meaning of present world events. Let us obey Jesus’ Jesus Himself prophesied of the last days of this world’s inspired command, “WATCH therefore, and pray always that present civilization, “For in those days there will be tribulation, you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will such as has not been since the beginning of creation which God come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man” (Luke created until this time, nor ever shall be” (Mark 13:19). These 21:36). And let’s also be sure that we fully grasp the importance are powerful words coming directly from the Son of God. After of understanding who the American and British-descended describing a number of specific events to occur at the end of this peoples of the earth are in Bible prophecy—as most end-time age, Jesus stated in this same prophecy, “Heaven and earth will prophecies directly concern US (and our Jewish brothers). For, pass away, but My words will by no means pass away” (v. 31). truly—as this brochure proves—Joseph has been found!

Roderick C. Meredith ChapterIntroduction— 1—

The Identity Question

hat, or WHO, was really it. I have the feeling that God has creat- Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome—and behind the rise of Britain and ed us and brought us to our present even smaller nations like Arabia, WAmerica to the very pinnacle position of power and strength for some Cyprus, Ethiopia, Iran, Lebanon, of national wealth and power? Many great purpose!” Libya, Malta and Spain. Would the world leaders have stood in awe of the Other national leaders have been Word of God utterly neglect to men- economic and military power which recognized America’s special role. tion the greatest empire in human his- the Anglo-Americans have wielded Former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of tory—the mighty British Empire of during the 19th and 20th centuries. India said, “Today the U.S. is the top modern times which dominated the How did U.S. President Ronald country, with a high opinion of its glob- world for over two centuries? Reagan view America? He said, “I have al responsibilities. There is no part of Also, one might ask, is it rational always believed that this anointed land the world that does not sense American to believe God would totally ignore was set apart in an uncommon way, that influence. Even societies built on other mentioning in His Word the richest, a divine plan placed this continent here ideals wish to emulate American stan- most powerful nation this earth has between the oceans to be found by peo- dards in material consumption” (Time, ever seen—the United States? ple from every corner of the Earth who Nov. 1, 1976). Mrs. Gandhi also spoke As we will see, God Almighty does had a special love of faith and freedom” about America’s sheer vastness and nat- not ignore mentioning our great (Newsweek, Dec. 27, 1982, p. 44). ural endowment, the vitality and friend- nations. In fact, the Anglo-Saxon- liness of its people, and its immense Celtic-descended peoples are men- achievements as a civilization. tioned more often in the Bible than any U.S. President Ronald Reagan Admittedly, America has become others. Of course, they are not referred much greater than Britain during this to there by the modern names of 20th century. Nonetheless, Britain was America and Britain. To know who already a great nation for centuries they are, we must come to understand before America gained her indepen- their ancient origins. What are the dence. Furthermore, Britain and the ancestral roots of the peoples of British-descended members of the America and Britain? Why have they Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, played such a dominant role in the New Zealand) are, together, much larg- affairs of this world in modern times? er in geographic size than the United In his famous work, A History of States. Australia alone is nearly as the English-Speaking Peoples, former large as America. British Prime Minister Sir Winston In this eye-opening brochure, we Churchill wrote, “Vast numbers of peo- will examine the Bible prophecies, ple [Americans and Britons] on both given long ago, which clearly reveal sides of the Atlantic and throughout the that the Anglo-American peoples were British Commonwealth of Nations to become the greatest national powers have felt a sense of brotherhood” “I have always believed that this anointed on earth. (vol. 1, p. vii). land was set apart in an uncommon way, And Prime Minister Margaret that a divine plan placed this continent Would the Bible Ignore Thatcher later commented, “I think here between the oceans to be found by there was... a bit of anti-Americanism people from every corner of the Earth who the Greatest Nations? had a special love of faith and freedom.” [in Britain]. But the moment you Stop and think for a moment. Is it remind people that the world is not like- reasonable to believe God would not ly to be free or safe unless we [Britons] And President Harry S. Truman even mention influential nations like and the U.S. stick together, and of the once said, “I do not think that anyone America and Britain in Bible prophe- fantastic generosity of the U.S. to can study the history of this nation of cy? Bible prophecy mentions all of the Europe, putting it on its feet with the ours without becoming convinced that mighty empires which arose in ancient Marshall Plan [following World War II], divine providence has played a part in times: Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, immediately they get their things in per-

2 The Identity Question spective. People [in Britain] are not anti- states, “They [the Puritans] believed English-speaking peoples. That nation American really. It is really like being that, like Israel of old, they had been is, as you might have guessed, none members of the same family” (Time, singled out by God to be an example other than Israel! Yet the modern state June 20, 1988). for the nations (especially for of Israel is a far cry from the fabu- Who ARE these people? French England)” (p. 27). lously wealthy and prestigious super- President Valery Giscard d’Estaing Seeing the rise of the United States power nations that God prophesied said this of the Americans: “You have as a replay of the story of ancient Israel end-time Israel to become. How can it begun to question your identity... you became a major theme in Colonial have ceased to believe in your des- America: “In 1776 Benjamin Franklin tiny” (Time, May 24, 1976). Just what proposed to the Continental Congress British P. M. Margaret Thatcher is the identity and destiny of these that the great seal of the United States peoples? bear the image of Moses leading the Israelites across the Red Sea. Thomas Searching the Scriptures Jefferson also urged an Exodus image: for National Identity he wanted the new nation represented by an Israel led through the wilderness by The British people have tradition- the Biblical pillar of cloud and fire” ally looked to the Holy Bible in an (Woodward and Gates, p. 47). attempt to define their role in the world. In assuming the U.S. presidency Winston Churchill, arguing against the for the second time, Jefferson idea that Moses and the Exodus were employed similar imagery: “I shall merely legendary, remarked, “We may need, too, the favor of that Being in be sure that all these things happened whose hands we are, who led our just as they are set out according to forefathers, as Israel of old, from Holy Writ; we may believe that they their native land and planted them in happened to people not so very differ- a country flowing with all the neces- ent from ourselves” (Thoughts and sities and comforts of life” (Second “The moment you remind people that the Adventures). Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1805). world is not likely to be free or safe unless However, national identification In 1783, Connecticut Governor we [Britons] and the U.S. stick together... with the Old and New Testaments has Trumbull asked Ezra Stiles, President of immediately they get their things in per- spective.... It is really like being members nowhere been stronger than among the Yale University, to preach the state’s elec- of the same family.” American people. A 1982 Newsweek tion sermon. Stiles began with the Old article, “How the Bible Made America,” Testament narrative of the Sinai covenant stated, “Now historians are discovering “as introductory to a discourse upon the be that the British and American peo- that the Bible, perhaps even more than political welfare of God’s American ples seem to have inherited the bless- the Constitution, is our founding doc- Israel, and as allusively prophetic of the ings of national greatness promised ument: the source of the [belief in]... the future prosperity and spendor of the only to Israel? This publication will United States as a special, sacred nation, United States.... This America Joseph reveal the astonishing answer! a people called by God to establish a (now separated from his brethren)... model society, a beacon to the world” has already risen to an acknowledged Does It Really Matter? (Kenneth Woodward and David Gates, sovereignty among the republics and Dec. 27, p. 44). kingdoms of the world” (“The United Does it even matter who “Israel” is Why would modern English- States Elevated to Glory and Honor,” today? Yes! The knowledge of Israel’s speaking peoples base their culture on reprinted in God’s New Israel, p. 83). modern identity is proof that the Bible the ancient book of a Middle Eastern President Stiles posed this signifi- is true—that it is, in fact, the inspired, people? The same article explains, cant question: “May we not see that infallible Word of God—and that God “Only one other nation has ever WE [Americans] are the object which can be trusted completely. looked to the Bible to find a warrant the Holy Ghost had in view four thou- Additionally, this wonderful for its very existence: Israel, whose sand years ago when He inspired the understanding will bring the panora- early history is actually written in it. venerable Patriarch [Jacob, later ma of end-time prophecy into focus, The foundation of this [belief]... was renamed Israel] with the vision as the vast majority of Bible prophe- laid by the New England Puritans who respecting his posterity?” Isn’t that cy revolves around “Israel” in the end literally ‘discovered America in the amazing? time. So knowing who Israel is today Bible’” (p. 46). There is just one nation whose is the major key to unlocking most of Conrad Cherry, in his 1971 book, biblically prophesied greatness the prophecies given in God’s Word. God’s New Israel: Religious remotely resembles what has been Thus, the identity question really IS Interpretations of American Destiny, actually experienced by only the important! 3 Furthermore, just as God foretold God Is Not Racist! national “prosperity and splendor” for Israel, He also prophesied what would hap- Countless millions have been tainted by attitudes of racial prejudice. Who pen to that nation as punishment for contin- is the author of racial bigotry? Is there any way to rid the earth of this curse? ued disobedience. The erosion of its moral “Racism... [is] a belief that... racial differences produce an inherent superi- base and the promotion of godless values ority of a particular race...[or is defined as] racial prejudice or discrimination” would result in unprecedented calamity! (Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed.). Who is the real author of God addressed many prophecies of racial prejudice? The Bible reveals that God Almighty is not the author of racial divine punishment specifically to Israel— bigotry. Rather, Satan the Devil is the author of hatred, murder, lies, bigotry His direct chastisement upon them for fla- and racism (cf. John 8:44). He wants all peoples to be divided by racial bigotry, grantly disobeying His commands. For and would like to get all races fighting one another. Conversely, the Great God this reason, it is absolutely vital that loves all mankind and wants all men to be treated with consideration, respect and Christian love. whomever God means by “Israel” in His In 1976, Alex Haley published his book, ROOTS: The Saga of an American Word must be made aware of their identi- Family, giving the background of blacks in America. “ROOTS was adapted as a ty—and WARNED of coming destruction! multi-episode television program, which, when broadcast in 1977, became one In this regard, we are like the Prophet of the most popular shows in the history of American television.... ROOTS Ezekiel, who was told by God, “I have spurred much interest in family trees [among blacks], and Haley created the made you a watchman for the house of Kinte Foundation to store records that aid in tracing back genealogy” (“Haley, Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from Alex,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1993 ed.). When ROOTS was televised, tens My mouth and warn them for Me. When I of millions of Americans (black and white) viewed it with great interest. Likewise, say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you many white Americans also have a desire to know more about their ancient Anglo-Saxon-Celtic roots! It is perfectly natural and normal for people of what- shall surely die!’ and you do not speak to ever race to want to know more about their racial heritage. warn the wicked from his way, that wicked Even the Apostle Paul stated, “For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin” (Rom. 11:1). Was it wrong for Paul to want I will require at your hand. Nevertheless if to know about his racial heritage? Didn’t Jesus think it important to preserve you warn the wicked to turn from his way, His own genealogy, all the way back to Adam (Matt. 1:1-14; Luke 3:23-38)? On and he does not turn from his way, he shall the other hand, knowing about one’s physical descent is of much less impor- die in his iniquity; but you have delivered tance than knowing about his spiritual lineage! your soul” (Ezek. 33:7-9). Individually, God does not judge us by the color of our skin or by physi- We who know that God’s punishment cal appearances (John 7:24). “For the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart” will soon fall on the people of modern (1 Sam. 16:7). The really important thing is to know that you are a true son or “Israel” have a duty to warn them in broth- daughter of God (Rom. 8:9; 1 Cor. 12:13), being filled with, and led by, God’s erly love. This “watchman” responsibility Holy Spirit (Rom. 8:14)! Christians must always put the major stress on our spir- has been called the “Ezekiel Warning.” itual lineage directly to our Father in heaven and His Son, Jesus Christ! You will hear that warning sounded with The Bible nowhere says that God’s people, the Israelites, were superior. greater clarity near the end of this But He did choose them to fulfill a unique role among the nations of this earth brochure. However, in order to convince (Deut. 7:6-8)! They were divinely chosen to serve as an example for the rest of today’s “Israelites” that God’s prophecies humanity of what happens to those who obey or disobey the Creator God. As in this regard concern them, we must first one Jewish man painfully remarked in the aftermath of World War II,“Why doesn’t He choose someone else for a while?”The Israelites were to be the PROVE to them who they are! recipients of the covenant blessings which God Almighty promised to Abraham, But some might wonder, “What on Isaac and Jacob, but they’ve also been severely punished whenever they’ve fla- earth does Israel have to do with grantly transgressed His covenant! America and Britain in prophecy?” No true Christian should believe in or teach racism in any form, including Simply this: To understand what the “white supremacy” or “anti-Semitism.” God calls Christians out of “all nations, Bible reveals about our Anglo-American tribes, peoples, and tongues” (Rev. 7:9)! The Bible teaches that peoples of all nations, it is vital to understand what the races are “offspring of God” (Acts 17:29)—with the potential to become glorified Bible reveals about the people of Israel. sons and daughters in the great FAMILY OF GOD (2 Cor. 6:17-18)! Suffice it to say for now that God The Apostle Peter explained God’s attitude toward racism this way: “In truth I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation whoever has been working out a plan through fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him” (Acts 10:34-35). The the United States, Britain, Canada, golden verse of the Bible assures us that God sacrificed His Son, Jesus Christ, Australia, New Zealand and the for the benefit of all mankind: “For God so loved the world [every single human democracies of Northwest Europe that being] that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should dovetails quite remarkably with His not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16)! plan for Israel. In fact, by the time you Scripture reveals that racial harmony will be achieved in the soon-coming reach the conclusion of this brochure, Kingdom of God (Zech. 8:20-23)! Real peace between the races of this earth you will, no doubt, marvel at what a will only come when all races follow the “Prince of Peace” and His law of love huge understatement that is! (Is. 9:6; 11:1-9; Rom. 13:10)! God Almighty and His Son, Jesus Christ, are NOT racists! We must make sure that we aren’t either. Chapter 1—7—

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel

o truly understand the subject of life, according to the biblical record— The Family of Abraham America and Britain in prophecy, Abel, Enoch and Noah (Heb. 11). The Tit is first imperative that we under- rest of mankind lived in rebellion against In the course of time, God Almighty stand what God reveals about His chosen God. His solution was to bring a Great would choose a unique man named people of Israel. Have the modern Flood upon the earth and start over with Abram (later renamed “Abraham” by Israelites experienced the fulfillment of just eight people—Noah, his wife and God) and his “seed” to form a new nation prophecies regarding them? their three sons with their wives (Gen. 6). by which He would preserve the true To learn who the modern people of Noah’s three sons became the fathers religion and carry out certain aspects of Israel are, we must examine the fascinat- of the three great families or “races” of His divine plan upon this earth. ing facts concerning the history of the mankind. After the Deluge, God instruct- Abraham’s illustrious ancestors are ancient people of Israel. In doing so, we ed these three families to disperse into listed in Genesis 11:10-32. Nine gener- need to realize that, of all nations on those regions of the earth to which He had ations before Abraham was Noah’s son earth, God Almighty plainly says He has previously assigned them (Gen. 10-11). Shem, who, generally speaking, was only “known” one nation—Israel! “Hear Yet, within a few generations, men were father of the white or Caucasian race. this word that the LORD has spoken once again not looking to God, but to their Thus Abraham’s descendants are pre- [concerning]... the whole family [of own devices—striving against God to dominantly white. The term “Semite” is Israel] which I brought up from the land build the huge Tower of Babel (Babylon) derived from Shem’s name. The of Egypt, saying, ‘You only have I known of all the families of the earth’” (Amos 3:1-2). Then God brought This does not mean that God does Abram outside and said, not love all peoples of all nations (John “Look now toward heaven, 3:16), but there is only one people, on and count the stars if you are the national level, with whom God has able to number them.... So ever had a close, hands-on, engaged shall your descendants be.” relationship. God told Israel, “For you are a holy people to the LORD your —Genesis 15:5 God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth” (Deut. 7:6). But notice what He says next: “The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers” (vv. and a world-class city to prevent them- Hebrew language is classified as 7-8). Who were these “fathers”? What selves from being scattered abroad over “Semitic,” and racial hatred of Jews is was so special about them? the face of the earth (Gen. 11:1-9). called “anti-Semitism.” For that rebellion at the Tower of Next in this lineage was Shem’s National Roots Babel, the Almighty rebuked them son, Arphaxad. He was father of the sharply and confused their languages, Chaldeans—which makes Abraham and Mankind has basically rejected God forcing the peoples to separate and his descendants part of them. This and His way since the Garden of Eden. migrate out into the areas which He had makes sense since Abraham came from Almost 2,000 years from that time, only assigned each of them as their inheri- “Ur of the Chaldeans” (v. 31). Next in three men had accepted God’s way of tance (Deut. 32:8; Jer. 27:5; Acts 17:26). line was Salah and then Eber (or 5 America and Britain in Prophecy

Heber), whose descendants are called Promises of Ethnic shall be Abraham [Heb. “Father of a Hebrews. So Abraham was a “Hebrew.” Multitude”]; for I have made you a But, because all of Eber’s descendants Lineage and Grace father of many nations. I will make didn’t come through Abraham, there are It is fascinating to realize the nature you exceedingly fruitful; and I will more “Hebrews” than just his family! of the promises God made to Abraham. make nations of you, and kings shall Next in Abraham’s lineage was Many have missed the fact that God’s come from you” (Gen. 17:1-2, 4-6). Eber’s son Peleg. It was in his lifetime promises were dual. To reconcile the fact Numerous prophecies reveal that that the Tower of Babel incident that the Jews have never become a “great Abraham’s descendants would become occurred—when God assigned Noah’s nation” in the world, some claim that this “many nations”! Those prophecies descendants their allotted portions of reference is to the Church only. It is true could never have been fulfilled in the the earth (Gen. 10:25). After Peleg was that to inherit the spiritual promises of Church or in the two small kingdoms of Reu and then Abraham’s great-grandfa- God, everyone must become a descen- Israel and Judah, which we will exam- ther Serug. Next came his grandfather dant of Abraham spiritually (Gal. 3:29). ine later. “Many” can’t possibly be Nahor and, finally, his father Terah. It is also true that the Church is interpreted to mean only two! So was And “Terah begot Abram [later called a “royal priesthood, a holy all of this to be through Ishmael then? named Abraham], Nahor, and Haran” nation” (1 Pet. 2:9). However, as we Notice what God did next. He (11:27). “And Terah took his son will see, this promise of a “great changed Sarai’s name to Sarah (Heb. Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of nation” was later expanded to include “Princess”) and said, “And I will bless Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai “many nations.” That certainly cannot her and also give you a son by her; then [later named Sarah], his son Abram’s refer to the Church. This is speaking of I will bless her, and she shall be a wife, and they went out with them from Abraham’s physical descendants— mother of nations; kings of peoples Ur of the Chaldeans [in Lower ETHNIC LINEAGE! [plural!] shall be from her” (v. 16). Mesopotamia] to go to the land of Many have recognized that when The main promises of their descen- Canaan; and they came to Haran and God said, “In you all the nations of the dants becoming many nations were not dwelt there.... and Terah died in Haran” earth shall be blessed,” this was primari- to go through Ishmael. Abraham was (vv. 31-32). The city of Haran was ly a spiritual promise (although there is happy about Sarah, but he still hoped located between the Tigris and a physical application even to this, as that his firstborn son Ishmael—now 13 Euphrates in Upper Mesopotamia. succeeding chapters will reveal). God years old—would be his heir: “And Why were Terah, his son Abram and later told Abraham: “In your seed all the Abraham said to God, ‘Oh, that Ishmael their clan trekking their way to the “land nations of the earth shall be blessed” might live before You!’” (v. 18). of Canaan”? Genesis 12 explains: “Now (Gen. 22:18). The singular “seed” here But God answered, “No, Sarah the LORD had said to Abram [while his refers to Jesus Christ—the Son of God your wife shall bear you a son, and family was still in Ur]: ‘Get out of your who would come in the flesh as a you shall call his name Isaac; I will country, from your kindred and from your descendant of Abraham to offer spiritual establish My covenant with him for an father’s house, to a land that I will show salvation to the entire world—GRACE! everlasting covenant, and with his you. I will make you a great nation.... Through Abram’s descendants descendants after him. And as for and in you all the families of the earth would come these tremendous dual Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I shall be blessed’” (vv. 1-3). blessings. God told Abram, “‘Look have blessed him, and will make him Here was a tremendous promise now toward heaven, and count the stars fruitful, and will multiply him exceed- of God—conditional upon Abram’s if you are able to number them.’ And ingly. He shall beget twelve princes, obedience. This was a real test! Ur He said to him, ‘So shall your descen- and I will make him a great nation was a prosperous city. Abram was dants be.’ And he believed in the [see box: “Isaac and Ishmael”]. But asked by God to leave it and go to a LORD, and He accounted it to him for My covenant I will establish with backward land far, far from civiliza- righteousness” (vv. 5-6). Isaac, whom Sarah shall bear to you tion. Could his descendants really At Sarai’s prompting, Abram soon at this set time next year” (vv. 19-21). become a “great nation” there? had a son, Ishmael, by Sarai’s Egyptian The tremendous promises of Moreover, by this time, the world handmaid Hagar. But this is not how national blessings to Abraham were, at had again strayed a long way from God intended to bless Abram. first, conditioned upon his complete God. Society was so deeply When Abram was 99 years old, obedience to God. Would Abraham per- entrenched in paganism that the true God appeared to him and said, “I am severe in obeying God’s commands? religion was almost unheard of any- Almighty God; walk before Me and be When Abraham later proved his more. Yet what was Abram’s response blameless. And I will make My total obedience to God, the Lord to God’s command? “So Abram covenant between Me and you, and will rewarded him by making the conditional departed as the LORD had spoken to multiply you exceedingly.... and you promises to him UNconditional! “By him” (v. 4). There was no grumbling shall be a father of many nations. No Myself I HAVE SWORN, says the or arguing. Abram simply obeyed God. longer shall your name be called Abram LORD, because you have done this That’s the unique character he had. [Heb. “Exalted Father”], but your name thing, and have not withheld your son,

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your only son, in blessing I will bless ering in the Promised Land, it would take Isaac and Ishmael you, and in multiplying I will multiply until well into that future age for them to your descendants as the stars of the overspread the world and take possession heaven and as the sand which is on the of such gates. And, by that time, there The Arabs readily acknowl- seashore; and your descendants will be NO enemy nations (Is. 2:2-4). So edge Abraham’s son Ishmael to be [“race” Fenton translation] shall pos- this prophecy can ONLY be fulfilled in their father—as any one of them will tell you! God promised to make sess the gate of their enemies [promise this present evil age of strife and war them “a great nation” (Gen. 17:20; of ETHNIC LINEAGE]. In your seed all which will soon come to an end. 21:18). People might look at the the nations of the earth shall be blessed Therefore, we must look for a group of Arab countries today and balk at [promise of GRACE], because you have nations—all descended from Abraham— this because—even though some obeyed My voice” (Gen. 22:16-18). that has possessed the vital land and sea of them are quite rich from oil God had now SWORN—it would gates of the world. We must do this or exports—they are not a “great happen no matter what! Abraham’s reject the Bible as fraudulent. There is nation” now. They are fragmented. physical descendants would be innu- simply no way around it. This isn’t what God meant when merable—compared to counting stars in He made this promise to Abraham. So is God unreliable? No! Arab the sky or grains of sand on the The Birthright greatness has already passed. But seashore. And the singular “seed,” Jesus for a Bowl of Stew! in its heyday, it was truly remark- Christ, would come through his lineage. able to behold. What is a “gate”? Merriam Webster’s Let’s look again at the dual nature Louis L’Amour, the famous Collegiate Dictionary (10th ed.) defines of the promises to Abraham. The American author, described this a gate as “a means of entrance or exit” promises of ethnic lineage and the future period well. In his number one or as a strategic “gateway.” availability of God’s grace were uncon- bestseller, The Walking Drum, set The word “gate” in the national ditional. However, as the New Testament in 12th century Eurasia, he wrote, blessing means a strategic geographic makes clear, actually receiving God’s “In the space of one hundred years following the death of passageway which controls the move- grace by an individual was conditional Mohammed in 632, the Arabs had ment of trade and military forces for a upon repentance—turning away from carried the sword of Islam from certain region—such as an important breaking God’s law. The promise of the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, mountain pass or sea passage. Modern ethnic lineage, however, required holding at one time most of Spain, examples of land and sea gates would be nothing from Abraham’s descendants. part of southern France, the isle of the Khyber Pass, the Panama Canal and Their behavior might have affected the Sicily, all of North Africa and the Strait of Gibraltar. TIMING that God chose for giving them Egypt, all of Arabia, the Holy Land, the promised national blessings—but Armenia, Persia, Afghanistan, God had bound Himself to give those and almost a third of India. The Promises to Isaac’s Seed empire of the Arabs was larger blessings no matter what. Thus, the than that of Alexander the After Abraham’s death, the uncon- promises of lineage now belonged to the Great or of Rome.... Under the ditional promises of his descendatns descendants of Isaac by RIGHT. Such a FLUSH OF GREATNESS... for becoming “many nations” passed to his right is termed a birthright. more than five hundred years son Isaac. These incredible promises The 1992 American Heritage the Arabs carried the torch of would devolve upon Isaac’s descen- Dictionary defines birthright as “a civilization” (Bantam Books, dants—not Ishmael’s. Isaac later mar- right, possession, or privilege that is 1984, pp. 171-172). ried Rebekah. Notice the blessing her one’s due by birth.” It can also mean “a Now consider what this family gave her as she left her home- special privilege accorded a first- means for Isaac! If this is what God meant by Ishmael becoming land to go and marry Isaac: “Our sis- born.” Notice this note in The New a GREAT NATION—a vast ter, may you become the mother of Open Bible (NKJV) from Thomas empire, larger than Rome’s, which thousands of ten thousands [“many Nelson Publishers: “The term preserved civilization through millions!” Living Bible]; and may birthright appears several times in the Europe’s Dark Ages—then just your descendants possess the gates of Bible. The word refers to the inheri- think what must have been in those who hate them” (Gen. 24:60). tance rights of the firstborn son in a store for Isaac’s descendants, Here, again, this was prophetic. Hebrew family in Old Testament who were to inherit FAR Isaac’s descendants would become times. The property of a father was GREATER blessings and become many millions and possess the strategic normally divided among his sons at his MANY NATIONS! Certainly, no one can argue that this has been gateways of their enemies. The Jews death. But a larger amount, usually a fulfilled by the Jewish people— have NEVER fulfilled this—and it cer- double portion, went to the oldest son ever! Nor was it fulfilled anciently tainly can’t refer to the Church. (Deut. 21:17), who assumed care of his by Israel in the Holy Land. It’s hard Neither can these verses refer to the mother and unmarried sisters” (p. 35). to even imagine that. So, then, Jews in the coming Millennium of Normally, the birthright was contin- was it ever fulfilled? The truth will Christ’s rule—because, after their regath- ued through the firstborn son. But there astound you! 7 America and Britain in Prophecy are instances where God intervened and younger son Jacob (v. 23). Jacob, despite his character prob- dictated otherwise. This happened But Jacob would live up to his name lems, prized and valued the awesome with Isaac. Ishmael had been by trying to supplant Esau prematurely. divine blessings promised to Abraham. Abraham’s firstborn One day Esau came in tired and hungry, Esau did not (25:34; Heb. 12:16-17). son. Yet God desiring some stew Jacob was eating. God later confirmed the birthright saw Jacob sold him the stew in exhange for promises to Jacob in a dream: “I am the Esau’s birthright (vv. 27-34). LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie [Canaan] I will give to you and your descendants. Also your descen-

this son as the product of a lack of faith—an attempt to bring about God’s promises through human effort. Abraham’s firstborn lawful son, in God’s eyes, was Isaac. “And Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac” (Gen. 25:5). God’s Promises to Jacob dants shall be as the dust of the earth; God later told Isaac, “I will perform Years later, Jacob even deceived you shall spread abroad [colonize] to the oath which I swore to Abraham your his own father, Isaac, to get the bless- the west and the east, to the north and father. And I will make your descen- ings that accompanied the birthright. the south; and in you and in your seed dants multiply as the stars of heaven; I So Isaac mistakenly blessed Jacob: “See, all the families of the earth shall be will give to your descendants all these the smell of my son is as the smell of a blessed” (Gen. 28:13-14). Jacob’s lands [“countries” KJV—not just field which the LORD hath blessed. So descendants would be great coloniz- Canaan!]; and in your seed all the God give thee of the dew of heaven, ers—spreading themselves around the nations of the earth shall be blessed; and of the fat places [“rich soil” whole world! because Abraham obeyed My voice and Moffatt translation] of the earth, and Jacob married two sisters, Leah and kept My charge, My commandments, plenty of corn [“grain” NKJV] and Rachel, and by them and their two hand- My statutes, and My laws” (Gen. 26:3- wine. Let peoples serve thee, and maids, fathered 12 sons and a daughter. 5). We must always bear in mind that nations bow down to thee. Be lord over And, after he repented of his deceit, God Abraham’s descendants were NOT thy brethren, and let thy mother’s sons changed his name: “Your name shall no blessed because of racial superiority, bow down to thee. Cursed be everyone longer be called Jacob, but ISRAEL but because of Abraham’s obedience. that curseth thee, and blessed be every- [Heb. “Prevailer with God”]; for you have The birthright blessings were to be one that blesseth thee” (Gen. 27:27-29 struggled with God and with men, and passed on to the descendants of Isaac. Holy Scriptures, Jewish Publication have prevailed” (Gen. 32:28). He and Rebekah had twin boys. At their Society). So here is the origin of the name birth, “the first came out red. He was These are purely physical promises “Israel”! Through Israel’s 12 sons, God like a hairy garment all over; so they of national prosperity. Nothing stated would build His chosen nation. Each of called his name Esau [Heb. “Hairy”]. here concerns spiritual salvation. Yet Israel’s sons would be the progenitor of Afterward his brother came out, and his what incredible promises these are: ideal an individual tribe of people. For hand took hold of Esau’s heel; so his rainfall on the choicest agricultural lands instance, Jacob’s son Judah was the name was called Jacob [Heb. on earth to yield an overabundance of father of the tribe of Judah. His descen- “Supplanter” or “Heel-Grabber”]” produce; administrating over the affairs dants, as we will see in more detail later, (Gen. 25:25-26). God had prophesied of other nations; enemies brought low were called “Jews.” You need to make that the birthright wouldn’t go to the and allies prospering. Jacob was sure you understand this because firstborn, Esau, in this case—but to the promised all this for his descendants! many are confused about it. Ethnic 8 The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel

Jews are only one tribe of Israel. And the firstborn, but because he defiled his the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose there are 11 other tribes of Israel father’s bed his birthright was given to and also stood upright; and indeed your besides them. This, then, is the origin of the sons of Joseph son of Israel, so that sheaves stood all around and bowed the TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. he [Reuben] is not enrolled in the down to my sheaf.’ And his brothers Later, God confirmed Jacob’s new genealogy according to the birthright; said to him, ‘Shall you indeed reign name and the fantastic promises: “And though Judah became prominent over us? Or shall you indeed have God said to him, ‘Your name is Jacob; among his brothers and a ruler [“the dominion over us?’ So they hated him your name shall not be called Jacob any- chief ruler” KJV] came from him, yet even more for his dreams and for his more, but Israel shall be your name.’ So the birthright belonged to Joseph)” words” (vv. 7-8). He called his name Israel. Also God said (NRSV). He then had a second dream: “‘This to him: ‘I am God Almighty. Be fruitful Something remarkable happened time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven and multiply; a nation and a company here! God decided to split the promises of stars bowed down to me.’ So he told it to of nations shall proceed from you, ethnic lineage and grace between two dif- his father and his brothers; and his and kings shall come from your ferent tribes. Judah would receive the father rebuked him and said to him, body’” (Gen. 35:10-11). Here again is kingly line, referred to as “the ‘What is this dream that you have the promise of a line of “kings,” but SCEPTER” (Gen. 49:10). A scepter is dreamed? Shall your mother and I there is something else here we haven’t defined as “a staff held by a sovereign as and your brothers indeed come to seen before—the promise of “a [single] an emblem of authority” or “ruling power bow down to the earth before you?’ nation and a company [“group” Moffatt] or authority; sovereignty” (American And his brothers envied him, but his of nations”! Heritage Dictionary). King David would father kept the matter in mind” (vv. 9- The Ferrar Fenton 11). As time would translation says, “a prove, these dreams were Nation and an The 12 Sons of Jacob (Israel)* prophetic—not only Assembly of Nations.” foretelling what would The New International happen to Joseph him- Version renders it, “a By Leah By Bilhah By Zilpah By Rachel self, but also what would Rachel’s handmaid Leah’s handmaid nation and a commu- happen to his descen- Gad Joseph nity of nations.” A Reuben Dan dants far into the future. “company,” “group,” Simeon Naphtali Asher Benjamin What did happen to “assembly” or “com- Levi Joseph himself is amaz- munity” of nations. Judah *Each son fathered one of the ing. His brothers sold This could not be Issachar Twelve Tribes of Israel. him into slavery and con- something like the Zebulun vinced their father Jacob United Nations that he’d been killed and because its member eaten by a wild animal. nations are not all of the same family. come from this line and from him would Jacob, of course, was devastated. Joseph No, this would have to be something descend the “one seed,” Jesus Christ, was sold into Egypt and spent years in similar to the Arab League or the offering salvation to the world. slavery and then in prison. Yet God British-descended Commonwealth No wonder Jesus later said, miraculously worked it out so that the nations. When did such a “company of “Salvation is of the Jews” (John 4:22), Egyptian Pharaoh made Joseph the nations” ever form in ancient Israel? and Paul wrote of “salvation for every- prime minister of all Egypt! “You shall Never. When has it happened among one who believes, for the Jew first and be over my house, and all my people the Jewish people? It has not. We must, also for the Greek” (Rom. 1:16). The shall be ruled according to your word; then, look elsewhere. promise of GRACE was to come only in regard to the throne will I be down through JUDAH. But the greater than you” (Gen. 41:40). “The Birthright birthright promises of national bless- Joseph, a gifted administrator over Belonged to Joseph” ings—ETHNIC LINEAGE—would this great Gentile nation—as his future come through JOSEPH! Get this fixed descendants would also be—directed The birthright would next have in your mind. It is an extremely impor- the project of storing food through gone to Jacob’s firstborn son by tant key to understanding your Bible! “seven years of great plenty” (v. 29) to Leah—Reuben. But Reuben committed Joseph was Jacob’s favorite son. make it through “seven years of famine” incest with Bilhah, his own father’s con- Joseph’s brothers saw this favoritism— (v. 30). During this famine, Joseph’s cubine (Gen. 35:22; 49:3-4). Therefore, displayed in such ways as the famous brothers came to Egypt to buy food but the birthright fell to the firstborn of “coat of many colours” (Gen. 37:3 did not recognize him. However, after Rachel—Jacob’s 11th son, Joseph. First KJV)—and hated him. One day Joseph Joseph put them through a test, he final- Chronicles 5:1-2 explains: “The sons of told them of a powerful dream he had: ly revealed his identity. Then there was Reuben the firstborn of Israel. (He was “‘There we were, binding sheaves in weeping with tears of joy. 9 America and Britain in Prophecy

How prophetic! The identity of the When Jacob and Joseph at last met, beget after them shall be yours” (vv. descendants of Joseph is generally hid- “they fell into each other’s arms and 5-6). So Jacob adopted these two boys den right now. But it will not be that wept a long while” (46:29 Living as his own sons in order to pass on the way for long! Also, notice what Joseph Bible). What a deeply emotional expe- birthright to them. So, instead of told his brothers: “But now, do not rience this was for the family of being only their uncle, Judah was now therefore be grieved or angry with Israel—just as it will be again in the also their brother! And notice this: yourselves because you sold me here; very near future when the identity of Jacob switched the order of the boys’ for God sent me before you to preserve Joseph’s descendants is revealed! names. In verse 1, the order was life.... to preserve a posterity for you in “Manasseh and Ephraim”—Manasseh the earth, and to save your lives by a Why Jacob being the firstborn. great deliverance” (Gen. 45:5, 7). Crossed His Arms But here was another instance of How true this would be, also, of divine intervention. Because Jacob’s Joseph’s descendants in the dark days Pharaoh had given an Egyptian sight had grown dim with age, he asked of Nazi Germany—as we will later see! woman, Asenath—daughter of Poti- Joseph to bring the two boys right up to Joseph asked his brothers to go and Pherah priest of On—as a wife to him. “And Joseph took them both, get their father and bring him down to Joseph (Gen. 41:45). She had borne Ephraim with his right hand toward Egypt. The Pharaoh was going to give him two sons, Manasseh (Heb. Israel’s left hand [the lesser position], them the choicest lands to dwell in. So “Forgetting” his previous troubles) and and Manasseh with his left hand toward the other sons of Israel returned to Ephraim (Heb. “Fruitful”). Thus the Israel’s right hand [the greater posi- Canaan to get him. “‘Joseph is alive,’ two boys were half-Egyptian. tion]” (v. 13). they shouted to him. ‘And he is ruler When Joseph heard that Jacob was But look at what happened next: over all the land of Egypt!’ But sick, he took his two sons and hurried “Then Israel stretched out his right Jacob’s heart was like a stone; he could- to his dying father’s bedside. Jacob hand and laid it on Ephraim’s head, n’t take it in. But when they had given managed to sit up to receive them. He who was the younger, and his left hand him Joseph’s messages, and when he told Joseph, “God Almighty appeared on Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands saw the wagons filled with food that to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and knowingly, for Manasseh was the first- Joseph had sent him, his spirit revived. blessed me, and said to me, ‘Behold, I born” (v. 14). To do this, Jacob had to And he said, ‘It must be true! Joseph will make you fruitful and multiply have actually crossed his arms. This my son is alive! I will go and see him you, and I will make of you a multitude was clearly intentional! before I die’” (vv. of people, and give this land to your “And he blessed Joseph, and said: 26-28 Living descendants after you as an everlasting ‘God, before whom my fathers Bible). possession’” (Gen. 48:3-4). Notice that Abraham and Isaac walked... bless the Jacob is speaking to Joseph of only the lads [both of them—it was a joint birthright promises of national great- blessing]; let my name be named ness here. The promise of kings and of upon them, and the name of my the one “seed,” Christ, were for Judah. fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let “And now your two sons, them grow into a multitude in the Ephraim and Manasseh, who were midst of the earth’” (vv. 15-16). born to you in the land of Egypt The name “Israel,” then was to be before I came to you in Egypt, stamped on Ephraim and Manasseh are mine; as Reuben and together. That is why most Bible Simeon, they shall be prophecies about “Israel”—and even mine. Your off- “Isaac” mentioned here—do not pri- spring whom marily refer to the Jews or any other you tribe for that matter. In end-time prophecy, “Israel” refers mainly to the descendants of Joseph through Ephraim and Manasseh! This is an incredible fact that few are “He [Manasseh] too will become a people, and he too will become great. Nevertheless, his younger brother [Ephraim] will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.” —Genesis 48:19 NIV The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel aware of. Ephraim and Manasseh the obedience of the people” (v. 10). its fullness” (vv. 15-16). What peo- would jointly become the promised Again, the kingly line and the Savior ples have mined the greatest wealth in multitude—the nation and company of would come through Judah. precious metals and minerals? “...and nations (Gen. 35:11). Some might try But look at the descendants of the favor of Him who dwelt in the to argue that Judah would be the single Joseph, through Ephraim and [burning] bush”—God (v. 16). nation and the other tribes would form Manasseh: “Joseph is a fruitful Which nations have seen definite the company of nations. But that just bough, a fruitful bough by a well; His instances of divine intervention in can’t be. This birthright blessing was branches run over the wall [their their undertakings? simply not meant for any tribes other national boundaries]” (v. 22). In other “Let the blessing come ‘on the than Ephraim and Manasseh. words, they would grow so numerous head of Joseph, and on the crown of At this point, Joseph noticed that as to become great colonizers and the head of him who was separate Jacob had his arms crossed and wanted expansionists. “The archers have bitter- from his brothers.’ His glory is like a his father to switch them. “And Joseph ly grieved him, shot at him and hated firstborn bull, and his horns [symbol- said to his father, ‘Not so, my father, him. But his bow remained in ic of military power] like the horns for this one [Manasseh] is the firstborn; strength, and the arms of his hands of the wild ox; together with them he put your right hand on his head.’ But were made strong by the hands of the shall push the peoples [“he will con- his father refused and said, ‘I know, my Mighty God of Jacob” (vv. 23-24). quer nations” Fenton] to the ends of son, I know. He also shall become a Ephraim and Manasseh would have the earth; they are the ten thousands people [a nation], and he also shall great military strength and would be of Ephraim, and they are the thousands be great; but truly his younger victorious through miraculous divine of Manasseh” (vv. 16-17). brother shall be greater than he, and intervention. So if we want to find the his descendants shall become a mul- Continuing, “the Almighty... will birthright nations of “Israel” today, titude [“group” NIV] of nations.’ bless you with blessings of heaven we must look for the modern descen- “So he blessed them that day, say- above [perfect climates], blessings of dants of Ephraim and Manasseh. ing, ‘By you Israel will bless, saying, the deep that lies beneath [such as They will have become a great single “May God make you as Ephraim and great petroleum wealth], blessings of nation in a special brotherhood with as Manasseh!”’ And thus he set the breasts and of the womb [great a great company (or community) of Ephraim before Manasseh” (Gen. population growth]. The blessings of nations. They will possess vast nat- 48:18-20). your father have excelled the blessings ural resources and the choicest agri- This blessing was NOT a joint of my ancestors, up to the utmost cultural regions on earth. They will one like before. It was broken down bound of the everlasting hills. They have overrun their national bound- individually. Now we see that shall be on the head of Joseph, and on aries and colonized abroad—over Manasseh would be the great nation the crown of the head of him who was much of the world. They will have and that out of Ephraim would come separate from his brothers” (vv. 25- been a global military superpower the company of nations! Israel told 26). What an incredible prophecy! alliance. They will have been Joseph, “I have given to you one por- Let’s take one more glimpse at the exceedingly rich and affluent above tion above your brothers” (v. 22). birthright that Joseph would receive. all other nations. They will have Indeed. The double portion belonged Deuteronomy 33 affords us an awe- ruled over the affairs of many other to Joseph. some preview of what was to come nations. And they will have been far upon Israel. The Prophet Moses greater and larger than the Arab Prophecies for blessed the various tribes of Israel empire at its dizzying height. Have “the Last Days” before his death. Look at what he there been such nations in the world? revealed about Joseph: “Blessed of the Many will argue that these promises Then Jacob called all of his sons LORD is his land, with the precious were fulfilled in the ancient to him: “Gather together, that I may things of heaven, with the dew, and Kingdom of Israel. But is that so? tell you what shall befall you in the the deep lying beneath” (v. 13). What last days” (Gen. 49:1). This, certain- nation and company of nations are From Mount Sinai to ly, is not some stuffy, outdated scrip- blessed with the best climates and pos- the United Kingdom tural passage. This chapter is about sess vast fossil fuel resources? “...with “the last days”! Space prevents us the precious fruits of the sun... the The story of Moses and Israel’s from explaining the prophecies about precious produce of the months” deliverance from cruel Egyptian each tribe—we will look only at (v. 14). What nations consistently reap bondage is well known. After the Joseph and one detail of Judah. “The the most bountiful agricultural har- Eternal led the Israelites through the scepter shall not depart from Judah, vests? “...with the best things of the Red Sea (c. 1446 B.C.), He took them nor a lawgiver from between his feet, ancient mountains, with the precious to the foot of Mount Sinai and gave until Shiloh [a reference to the things of the everlasting hills, with them His Ten Commandments along Messiah] comes; and to Him shall be the precious things of the earth and with His statutes and judgments. Israel 11 America and Britain in Prophecy

then entered into a COVENANT with to rule over all Israel (c. 1050-1010 to be a wise and understanding ruler. God to keep His laws and became His B.C.—all dates of kings are reigns He built God’s Temple in national “wife.” But Israel repeatedly throughout) was Saul (Heb. “Asked Jerusalem—perhaps the most magnif- rebelled against her “Husband” and, as For”—Israel had “asked for” a human icent building ever erected. a result, had to wait 40 years to enter king). A young man from the tribe of Unfortunately, later in his reign, the Promised Land. Benjamin (1 Sam. 12), Saul at first King Solomon initiated Israel’s down- Once in the Promised Land, the had a self-effacing, humble attitude. ward slide into idolatry and debauch- tribes of Israel received their territorial But that soon gave way to pride, self- ery. He took to himself “700 wives... will and lack of faith! and 300 concubines” (1 Kings 11:3). Samuel finally told Saul, But worst of all, Solomon’s harem SIDON ✦ “Because you have included a number of foreign women, rejected the word of the whom he had married for political ISRAEL AS DIVIDED LORD, He also has purposes (v. 1). These women clung to AMONG TYRE ✦ DAN (NORTHERN) rejected you from being their idolatrous worship, creating THE TWELVE TRIBES king” (15:23). quite a problem. “For it was so, when MANASSEH God then chose Solomon was old, that his wives (EASTERN) APHTALI SHER David (Heb. “Beloved”) turned his heart after other gods; A N to become Israel’s next and his heart was not loyal to the

ZEBULUN king (c. 1010-970 B.C.) LORD his God, as was the heart of his and, because of his God- father David” (v. 4). ISSACHAR fearing attitude, the Lord For Solomon’s betrayal, God promised him an ever- informed him, “Because you have MANASSEH lasting dynasty (2 Sam. done this, and have not kept My (WESTERN) GAD 7:11-16)! What was covenant and My statutes, which I Mediterranean Sea AMMON God’s overall opinion of have commanded you, I will surely JOPPA ✦ SHILOH ✦ Jordan R. David as king? “I have tear the kingdom away from you and DAN EPHRAIM (SOUTHERN) found David the son of give it to your servant. Nevertheless I BENJAMIN Jesse, a man after My will not do it in your days, for the sake own heart, who will do of your father David; but I will tear it REUBEN JUDAH all My will” (Acts out of the hand of your son 13:22). Even though [Rehoboam]. However I will not tear

Dead Sea David made serious mis- away the whole kingdom, but I will MOAB takes, he was, on the give one tribe [of Israel in addition to SIMEON whole, a man after God’s Judah—i.e. Benjamin] to your son for own heart—that is, he the sake of my servant David, and for thought like God. the sake of Jerusalem which I have EDOM David’s deep rever- chosen” (vv. 11-13). ence and love for God Shortly before King Solomon’s inheritances—except for Levi which, enabled him to serve the Lord with all death, God sent the Prophet Ahijah, the instead, served as the nation’s priest- his might (2 Sam. 6:14)! As a result of Shilonite, to meet an Ephraimite hood (Num. 18:20-32). David wholeheartedly following God, named Jeroboam. “Then Ahijah took Then, for several hundred years, the Eternal made an unconditional hold of the new garment that was on God gave His covenant people a long promise that his descendants would him, and tore it into twelve pieces” line of judges to serve as righteous forever sit upon his throne some- (v. 30). God showed Jeroboam that, of leaders to the nation and to teach where on this earth—ruling over all Twelve Tribes of Israel, “ten tribes” them His ways. The Lord worked Israel (1 Chron. 28:1-10; Ps. 89:3- (v. 35)—represented by ten of the directly through these divinely 37—this subject will be fully twelve strips of clothing—would be appointed judges. During this period, explained in a future publication). ruled by him as king (vv. 31-33). Israel was a theocracy in which God When King David died, Israel lost her ruled directly. greatest, most righteous human king. A Kingdom Divided! But, still, Israel constantly “So he died in a good old age, full of rebelled and finally wanted a human days and riches and honor; and Israel had grown weary of king—like other nations—to replace Solomon [Heb. “Peaceable”] his son Solomon’s burdensome taxes. In the Samuel, the last of the judges. This was reigned in his place [c. 970-930 time of Samuel, God had warned the really a rejection of God as Israel’s B.C.]” (1 Chron. 29:28). Israelites that if they chose human “King” (1 Sam. 8:7; 12:12). Like Saul, Solomon began his kings, they would surely be oppressed The first divinely-anointed king reign in humility. Initially, he proved by them: “And you will cry out in that

12 The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel day because of your king whom you there would be intermittent, bitter even committed suicide. have chosen for yourselves, and the rivalry and outright warfare between A later king, Omri, proved to be LORD will not hear you in that day” the two rival kingdoms of Judah and one of the Northern Kingdom of Israel’s (1 Sam. 8:18). Israel: “And there were wars between most capable kings. Though he reigned Shortly after King Solomon’s Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their only 12 years (c. 885-873 B.C.), Omri death, his son, Rehoboam, “went to days” (2 Chron. 12:15). exercised political savvy. He moved Shechem, for all Israel had gone to Israel’s capital from Tirzah to a far more Shechem to make him king” (1 Kings An Apostate Nation defensible position, the “hill of 12:1). The clan chiefs of Israel had sent Samaria,” where he proceeded to build a message to King Rehoboam, asking The Prophet Ahijah had explained his new capital. (Samaria would remain him to lighten their taxes, and then they that Solomon’s blatant idolatry was the Israel’s proud, unconquered capital city would gladly serve him (vv. 3-5). reason Jeroboam was now ruling over until its utter destruction by the Unfortunately, the young, arrogant the northern Ten Tribes. Ahijah told Assyrians in 72l B.C.) king rejected the counsel of the “old Jeroboam that God men” in favor of the advice of the would build him an Hittites Euphrates R. “young men” (vv. 6-15). Rehoboam everlasting dynasty if haughtily told Israel’s clan chieftains he would obey the CHITTIM assembled at Shechem, “My father Lord’s laws and fol- (CYPRUS) made your yoke heavy, but I will add to low in His ways (1 your yoke; my father chastised you Kings 11:38). God’s with whips, but I will chastise you with promise was remark- scourges!” (v. 14). ably similar to what

“Now when all Israel saw that the He had said to David. HOENICIA Syrians P (Aramaeans) SIDON ✦ king did not listen to them, the people But despite ✦ DAMASCUS ✦ answered the king, saying, ‘What Jeroboam’s knowl- TYRE ✦ DAN portion have we in David? We have edge of the dire conse- BASHAN no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To quences of Solomon’s GALILEE your tents, O Israel! Now, see to your apostasy, as soon as Mediterranean Sea ISRAEL own house, O David!’ So Israel [the he was made king SAMARIA ✪ ✦ northern Ten Tribes] departed to their over the Ten Tribes of SHECHEM ILEAD Jordan R. G tents” (v. 16). Some have mistakenly Israel, he immediately ✦ BETHEL ✪ JERSALEM MMON thought that King Rehoboam and the set up two golden HILISTIA P A Jews seceded from Israel. But that is calves, one in Dan and JUDAH ISRAEL’S

(RiverWadi of Egypt) el Arish Dead Sea not so. Rather the Ten Tribes seceded another in Bethel MOAB KINGDOM PERIOD from the dynasty of David, deter- (12:28-29). Amalekites Empire of Solomon mined to establish their own dynasty He instituted this (c. 950 B.C.) of kings: “So Israel has been in rebel- system of false wor- EDOM Kingdom of Israel lion against the house of David to this ship to prevent the (c. 860 B.C.) day” (v. 19). Israelites from going Kingdom of Judah Rehoboam’s hard-nosed reply to Jerusalem to wor- (c. 860 B.C.) stirred the Ten Tribes to install ship—where they Jeroboam as their king (v. 20). From might realign with that day onward, the Northern Judah and the Davidic Kingdom would be called the “house line (vv. 26-27). The Kingdom of Israel Omri became widely known of Israel,” while the Southern would never recover from the infec- throughout the ancient Near East dur- Kingdom would be known as the tious idolatry which Jeroboam started. ing his lifetime. Numerous cuneiform “house of Judah,” which included The Northern Kingdom of Israel inscriptions reveal that the Assyrians the tribes of Judah and Benjamin as lasted only 209 years, from around were well acquainted with him and well as some of the Levites (v. 21). 930 B.C. to 721 B.C. During that 209- his dynasty, and called the Kingdom “Modern Jews thus consider them- year period, the Ten Tribes were ruled of Israel “mat-bit-Humria” (the land selves to be descendants of the tribes of by 19 kings representing nine differ- of the house of Omri). Israel was still Judah and Benjamin or are classed as ent dynasties! The kings of the Ten referred to as such by the Assyrians in Levites” (“Benjamin,” Encyclopaedia Tribes reigned, on average, just 11 their cuneiform inscriptions more Britannica, vol. 2, 1991). This is a vital years! Of the Northern Kingdom’s 19 than 100 years after he reigned. The point that many fail to grasp today! kings—none of whom returned to famous Moabite Stone mentions that Jews and Israelites are not necessarily truly worship God—eight were assas- “Omri, king of Israel” oppressed the synonymous terms. As time went on, sinated, usually by the next king. One Moabites during his reign. 13 America and Britain in Prophecy

After Omri’s death, his son Ahab Israel’s King Ahab. Shalmaneser’s in spite of its healthy appearance, was in reigned in his place (c. 873-853 B.C.) inscription says, “I crossed the an advanced state of decay, socially, along with his wicked queen Jezebel. Euphrates; at Qarqar I destroyed... morally and religiously” (Bright, p. 256). This evil couple promoted even greater 100,000 men of Ahab, the Israelite.” Contrary to the Prophetic Warnings Assyrian’s boasting, and Assyrian Inroads that crucial battle was Ahab’s greatest military Through the voices of the prophets achievement and it Amos and Hosea, Jeroboam’s contempo- momentarily checked raries, we can still feel the intensity of the power of the God’s abhorrence at these backsliding, “Colossus of the North.” apostate people. The wealthy gained their However, the Assyrians money at the expense of the poor and would come back again deprived the needy of justice. “‘Therefore and again during the I will send you into captivity beyond idolatry in Israel. During their reign, next 150 years until the fall of their Damascus,’ says the LORD, whose name the menacing cloud of Assyria’s rising empire in 612 B.C. is the God of hosts” (Amos 5:27). power began to appear on the horizon. Though the Israelites maintained a Unfortunately for Israel and Judah, Jehu’s Bloody Revolution form of religion and gave lip service to they were situated on the strategic God, they had forsaken all of His teach- land bridge of the Middle East’s King Jehu, who had been anointed ings and would reap bitter fruit: “My Fertile Crescent, separating rival pow- by God to overthrow the house of Omri, people are destroyed for lack of knowl- ers located in Mesopotamia and in was a revolutionary firebrand who edge. Because you have rejected knowl- Egypt. reigned over Israel for 28 years (c. 841- edge, I also will reject you... because King Ahab was destined to do bat- 813 B.C.). During Jehu’s reign, Israel you have forgotten the law of your tle with the Assyrians. One of began to pay tribute to God, I also will forget your children” the well-known inscriptions of Assyria in a partly suc- Assyria’s King Shalmaneser cessful effort to buy III (c. 859-824 B.C.) Assyrian protection (as describes the famous battle a vassal state) from of Qarqar—which occurred the Aramaeans in 853 B.C. between his (Syrians). Another army and a coalition of famous inscription of western nations allied Shalmaneser III against him, led by recorded, “The trib- Right: The 6.6 foot Black ute of Jehu, son [royal Obelisk of Shalmaneser successor] of Omri, III, now at the British silver, gold, bowls of (Hos. 4:6). God foretold their society’s Museum, which records gold, chalices of collapse. As a result of its social, moral the Assyrian king’s tri- gold, cups of gold, and religious decay, it would be too weak umphs. Above: Detail vases of gold, lead, to resist invading armies and ultimate of the Black Obelisk scepter for the king, captivity. showing King Jehu of Israel kissing the and spear shafts, I During King Menahem’s reign (c. ground at King have received.” 752-741 B.C.), the Assyrians, under Shalmaneser’s feet. Jeroboam II (c. Tiglath-Pileser (Pul), began to serious- Far right: Detail show- 793-753 B.C.), the ly menace the nation. The Assyrians ing the Israelites pay- fourth king of the issued a demand that Menahem ing tribute to the Jehu dynasty, was (“Menihummu of Samerina” in Assyrians. The ser- one of Israel’s most Assyrian annals) pay them tribute—to vants’ long fringed garments, soft point- illustrious kings which the Israelite king quickly acced- ed caps, short hair because He ed. Menahem’s reign was overlapped and pointed beards, enlarged the by that of Israel’s next-to-last king, like those of Jehu, Northern Kingdom Pekah (c. 752-732 B.C.), who would identify them as of Israel to its experience the heavy yoke of the rapid- Israelites, in contrast greatest territorial ly rising Assyrian Empire. He was a to the long hair and thick, curly beards of extent! But shrewd military officer who ruled for the Assyrians. “Israelite society, 20 years (2 Kings 15:27-31). 14 The Rise and Fall of Ancient Israel

During King Pekah’s reign, he represented about three-fourths of all the dren of Israel; and they took possession allied the Kingdom of Israel with Aram territory of the Kingdom of Israel! of Samaria and dwelt in its cities” (v. 24). (Syria), and they together attacked After the Galilean Captivity, only a These Gentile peoples from Babylonia, Judah (2 Kings 16:5-6). NOTE: Here rather small “rump state” situated who totally displaced the Israelites, is the first use of the term “Jews” in around Samaria, Israel’s capital city, became known as the Samaritans—as the King James Bible and they are at remained intact. Regarding this same they were still called in Christ’s day. war against “Israel”! captivity, Tiglath-Pileser III himself said, Both the Bible and the Assyrian Ahaz, king of Judah, sent an “Bet Omri [House of Omri = Israel] all state records agree: all the inhabitants urgent appeal to the Assyrians for of whose cities I had added to my terri- of the Ten Tribes were removed from immediate assistance against his tories on my former campaigns, and had the land of Israel! Apparently, some foes—Israel and Syria (v. 7)—along left out only the city of Samaria.... The stragglers were left behind, and a few with a large present. “So the king of whole of Naphtali I took for Assyria. I even moved south to Judah. This Assyria heeded him” (v. 9). put my officials over them as governors. explains all biblical references to The land of Bet Omri, all its people and people from the northern Ten Israel’s Two their possessions I took away to Assyria” Tribes in the Holy Land following Assyrian Captivities (Western Campaign and the Assyrian captivity (Hezekiah’s Gala/Damascus Campaign). Obviously, Passover of 2 Chronicles 30 was Time had run out for Israel! God’s the vast majority of Israel’s population undoubtedly before Samaria’s patience with this part of His “covenant was carried away. fall—cf. 2 Kings 18:9-10). So all the people” was at an end. God had warned After becoming a vassal to the Ten Tribes, as tribes, were removed— them repeatedly of the consequences Assyrians, Israel’s new king, Hoshea, not one single tribe remained! their sins would bring. Through Amos, tried to enlist Egyptian aid to free Israel Finally, after 200 years of rank He had threatened, “Behold, the eyes from that yoke (2 Kings 17:1-4). This idolatry and debased morality, God’s of the Lord GOD are on the sinful rebellion by Samaria’s last monarch, and patience had worn thin. Israel’s day of kingdom, and I will destroy it from the the stubborn resistance of a small portion reckoning came at the hands of the cru- face of the earth” (Amos 9:8). But they of the Israelites, convinced the Assyrians elest of all the heathen conquerors— ignored God. They simply would not they would have to completely break the Assyrian Empire, the rod of God’s heed. So He delivered them over to the both the power and will of the Northern anger (Is. 10:5-6). The ancient cruelty of Assyrian captivity: “In the Kingdom of Israel. Their answer? Kingdom of Israel was destroyed— days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath- Israel’s second Assyrian captivity! without ever realizing the tremendous Pileser [III] king of Assyria [745- The inspired biblical historian says, blessings God had promised! 727 B.C.] came and took Ijon, Abel “Now the king of Assyria [Shalmaneser In all the days from Joseph until Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, V] went throughout all the land [of the Assyrian captivity, the Israelites Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the Israel], and went up to Samaria and never colonized around the entire land of Naphtali; and he carried besieged it for three years [c. 724-721 globe, inheriting its best agricultural them [the Israelites] captive to B.C.]. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the regions. They never came into posses- Assyria” (2 Kings 15:29)! king of Assyria [a new king, Sargon II, as sion of the most important land and The Israelites were deported in Shalmaneser had died] took Samaria sea gates of the world. They never two separate captivities. The one just and carried Israel away to Assyria, became a “multitude of nations”— mentioned was the first (c. 734-732 and placed them in Halah and by the much less the prophesied “nation and a B.C.). Based on the locations just Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the company of nations.” And by no given, this first deportation was also cities of the Medes” (vv. 5-6). stretch of the imagination did they ever known as the “Galilean Captivity.” It Did the Assyrians take all the peo- become the greatest military super- included all the Israelites living through- ple of Israel out of their land? Or did power nations on the planet! out Galilee and the Plain of Sharon, plus they only deport a few of them? The So these blessings had to wait until the territories east of the Jordan inspired Word of God unequivocally the Israelites returned to the Promised (Reuben, Gad and the eastern half-tribe answers, “There was none left but the Land from captivity—right? NO! of Manasseh—cf. 1 Chron. 5:26). tribe [Heb. sebet] of Judah alone” (v. For—and here’s the astonishing part— Yet some have subscribed to the 18)! Sebet can mean an entire nation the Ten Tribes of Israel never came notion that the Assyrians took only a few with more than one tribe (cf. Jer. 51:19 back, even to this day! To many histo- thousand Israelites into captivity, leav- NRSV, NIV). So only the peoples of the rians, they simply disappeared from ing the bulk of them still living in the Southern Kingdom of JUDAH were left! history and are now known as the “Ten land of Israel. One author even tries to Notice this too: “Then the king of Lost Tribes of Israel.” What happened convince his readers that only about two Assyria brought people from Babylon, to them? Does anyone know? Were percent of the Israelites were actually Cuthah, Ava, Hamath and from they destroyed from the face of the removed to the land of Assyria. This is Sepharvaim, and placed them in the earth? If they were, then what about all plainly wrong. The areas just mentioned cities of Samaria INSTEAD of the chil- of God’s promises? 15 America and Britain in Prophecy

We can’t answer this apparent Land at that time—and not one of the province to Syria Palaestina (after dilemma by looking at what happened TEN TRIBES returned with those Jews Israel’s ancient enemy, the to the people of Judah and their mod- who did! Philistines)—out of spite. ern descendants, the Jews. The For the most part, the Jews In following centuries, the Jews Southern Kingdom of Judah, the TWO remained a subject people of the great were always scattered and TRIBES of Benjamin and Judah, con- empires of the Middle East except for a persecuted—yet, amazingly, their iden- tinued as a viable kingdom from 930 very brief period of independence tity was somehow preserved. They B.C. until its downfall in 586 B.C. (a under the Hasmonean dynasty of the never had any real homeland up until period of 344 years), at which time the Maccabees. At the time of Christ, the the creation of the modern Jewish state Babylonians took the peoples of Judah kingdom of Judea had become directly of “Israel” in 1948. Yet even it contains captive to Babylon. subject to Rome (from 47 B.C.). And, only a small fraction of the world’s eth- Shortly after the fall of Babylon, almost 40 years after Christ’s death, nic Jews. And it is a far cry from the in 539 B.C., some of the Jews returned the Romans, in putting down Jewish national greatness promised Israel’s to their former land of Judah and, insurrection, razed Jerusalem in 70 descendants. IS there an answer to this under Ezra and Nehemiah, reestab- A.D. After putting down a later revolt quandary? There certainly is—as fol- lished themselves as the nation of (132-135) led by Simon Bar Kokhba, lowing chapters will reveal—and it is Judah. However, only a small portion the Romans wiped out the Jewish state one of the most astounding revelations of the Jews returned to the Promised completely, changing the name of the in your Bible!

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A Great Mystery of History

or their terrible sins, “the LORD In this and the next few chapters, we disproven by two valuable sources: rejected all the descendants of examine one of the greatest mysteries of Scripture (especially, the books of FIsrael, afflicted them, and deliv- the Bible: What happened to the northern Ezra and Nehemiah) and the brilliant ered them into the hand of plun- Jewish historian, Flavius derers, until He had cast them Josephus (c. 37-100 A.D.). from His sight.... For the children Testimony of Ezra: God of Israel walked in all the sins of “stirred up the spirit” of King Jeroboam which he did; they did Cyrus the Great so he would not depart from them, until the permit the Jews to “build Him LORD removed Israel out of [God] a house at Jerusalem His sight, as He had said by which is in JUDAH” (Ezra all His servants the prophets. 1:1-2). But which tribes of So Israel was carried away Israel returned at that time to from their own land to Assyria” help build the Temple at (2 Kings 17:20, 22-23)! Jerusalem? “Then the heads They had been amply Detail of a Neo-Assyrian panel in King Sennacherib’s of the fathers’ houses of warned—over centuries of time! palace in Nineveh depicting the siege of the cities of JUDAH and BENJAMIN, and In fact, shortly before his death, Judah (recounted in 2 Kings 18 and Is. 36). The fortified the priests and the Moses had given the Israelites a Jewish city of Lachish was captured in 701 B.C. and its LEVITES... arose to go up inhabitants were driven out as depicted above. stern warning regarding what and build the house of the would happen to them if they departed Ten Tribes of Israel after they were taken LORD which is in Jerusalem” (v. 5). from their God and His covenant: “And into captivity beyond the Euphrates? A careful study of the rest of this it shall be, that just as the LORD book clearly reveals that those rejoiced over you to do you good and Which Tribes Returned Israelites who were mentioned were multiply you, so the LORD will rejoice to the Promised Land? only from the tribes of JUDAH, over you to destroy you and bring you to BENJAMIN and LEVI. nothing; and you shall be plucked from Some historians have held the view Testimony of Nehemiah: “So I off the land which you go to possess. that the northern Ten Tribes returned to called a great assembly.... And I said to Then the LORD will scatter you the Promised Land from the areas of their them [the Jews], ‘According to our abil- among all peoples, from one end of Assyrian captivity at the same time the ity we have redeemed our JEWISH the earth to the other” (Deut. 28:63- Jews returned from their later Babylonian BRETHREN’.... Moreover there were 64)! “I will scatter you among the captivity—and that the northern Israelites at my table one hundred and fifty JEWS nations and draw out a sword after you” subsequently intermingled with the Jews, and rulers” (Neh. 5:7-8, 17). He also (Lev. 26:33). losing their separate national identity. But says, “And I found a register of the Throughout the entire history of the this just isn’t so! The Bible makes it very Northern Kingdom of Israel, God sent clear that the overwhelming majori- many of His prophets to warn the people ty of those who returned to the to reform their ways or else lose their Holy Land from Babylonian God-given heritage. For example, after captivity were from the tribes of the North’s very first king, Jeroboam, JUDAH and BENJAMIN, plus instituted idolatrous worship in the king- plus part of LEVI. dom, God sent the Prophet Ahijah with a Many today harbor a chilling message: “For the LORD will common misconception strike Israel, as a reed is shaken in the that ALL Twelve Tribes The Cyrus Cylinder: The Akkadian text inscribed on this water. He will uproot Israel from this returned to the Promised ten-inch-long clay barrel includes a justification by Cyrus good land which He gave to their Land (“Judah” or “Judea”) II of Persia for his conquest of Babylon in 539 B.C. and his decree freeing the Jews from Babylonian captivity so fathers, and will scatter them beyond in the late 500s and early they could build a new temple—in line with his policy of the [Euphrates] River” (1 Kings 14:15). 400s B.C. But this can be promoting the religions of peoples under his dominion. 17 Were Millions Just Assimilated? genealogy of those who had come up in the first return [from Babylonian cap- tivity], and found written in it: ‘These are the people who came back from the Most historians assert that the Ten Tribes in captivity intermarried with other peoples with whom they came into contact, thereby being “swallowed captivity, of those who had been carried up” by those peoples. To support this opinion, many argue that the population away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of the Northern Kingdom of Israel was not large enough to maintain its sepa- of Babylon had carried away captive [to rate identity in captivity—that its population was rather small and subject to Babylon—NOT whom Shalmaneser or easy assimilation. But what was the actual number of people deported to Sargon had carried to Assyria!], and Assyria? How many people are we really talking about? who returned to Jerusalem and Judah At the time of the Exodus (c. 1446 B.C.), there were about three million [NOT Samaria and northern Israel], Israelites. Clarke’s Commentary and numerous others both offer this estimate everyone to his own city” (7:5-6). Thus based upon the biblical figure of “about six hundred thousand men on foot the Bible makes it very plain that those [who could fight], besides children” (Ex. 12:37). So it is possible, from able- bodied “men of war” figures, to accurately estimate total population— who returned were NOT descendants of including women, children and elderly men. the northern Ten Tribes who went into About 456 years later (c. 990 B.C.), King David took a military census. Assyrian captivity in the late 700s B.C. Halley’s Bible Handbook says, “The census showed a population of about a Rather, they were descendants of those million and a half of fighting men, exclusive of Levi and Benjamin (1 Chr. 21:5); Jews taken captive eastward to or a total population of, probably, about SIX TO EIGHT MILLION” (23rd Babylonia in 586 B.C. ed., p. 188). In fact, Israel and Judah may have had a combined population of Why, then, does verse 73 say, about eight to fifteen million at the time of David’s census—the early part of “So the priests, the Levites... and the tenth century B.C. The Ten Tribes alone must have contained at least ALL ISRAEL dwelt in their cities”? five to ten million people! Israel’s final captivity occurred approximately 270 years afterward, in 721 B.C. Is it logical to suggest that they had decreased to Some biblical scholars assume that less than 100,000 by that time? No, that’s ludicrous! There must still have “all Israel” here refers to all Twelve been millions of Israelites at the time of their deportation, probably close Tribes. But all of the Jews had not to the same figures given for David’s time. even returned—much less all of the All historical accounts are unanimous in showing that the Northern Kingdom ISRAELITES! So is there a different of Israel was far more populous than the Southern Kingdom of Judah.Yet, there way to look at this? Yes—EVERY are some who would foolishly conclude that the Assyrians took far more captives descendant of Israel (Jacob) is an from Judah than from Israel. Assyrian Emperor Sennacherib invaded Judah in ISRAELITE in the broad sense of 701 B.C., 20 years after the northern Ten Tribes of Israel were taken into captiv- the word! The JEWS who returned to ity. Despite his failed attempt to destroy the Kingdom of Judah and deport all the Jews, he nevertheless reports taking 200,150 Jewish captives. the land of JUDAH traced their lin- “Though the figure of 200,150 captives and the razing of 46 walled cities [in eage back to the tribes of JUDAH, Judah] has been contested... later scholarship has increasingly accepted the BENJAMIN and LEVI; therefore possible authenticity of the numbers.... Sennacherib successfully captured the they all would have been fortified towns of Judah (2 Kgs 18:13; 2 Chr 32:1), exacted spectacular tribute “ISRAELITES.” Clearly, when (2 Kgs 18:14-16), and failed to capture Jerusalem though he walled up Hezekiah Nehemiah spoke of “all Israel,” he ‘like a caged bird’” (“Hezekiah,” Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 3, p. 192). meant all the descendants of Israel “Hezekiah’s revolt in 705 BC, crushed by Sennacherib 4 years later, reduced that were there at the time—living in Judah to a shadow of its former self, at least two-thirds of the population perish- the land. And which “Israelites” ing or being carried away captive, and a large portion of its territory being lost” (“Judah,” Illustrated Bible Dictionary, pt. 2, p. 825). If about 200,000 men consti- would they have been? Almost tuted two-thirds of Judah, Judah must have had over 300,000 men—meaning exclusively those of the tribes of there were a few million Jews. And Israel would have been even bigger! Judah, Benjamin and Levi! Professor Salo Baron, acclaimed by the London Daily Express as the world’s Testimony of Flavius Josephus: greatest authority on Jewish history, says that, prior to Israel’s Assyrian captivity, Writing his history near the end of the “there were not less than FOUR HUNDRED SETTLEMENTS classified as first century A.D., Josephus explains, towns” (Social and Religious History of the Jews, vol. 1, p. 72). Interestingly, “The entire body of the people [the “Tiglath-pileser boasts that he destroyed at this time five hundred and ninety-one Ten Tribes] of ISRAEL remained in cities [!], whose inhabitants were carried away with all their possessions to Assyria” that country, wherefore there are (“Tiglath-pileser,” Unger’s Bible Dictionary, p. 1,094). We must remember that those nearly 600 cities were all located in the northern part of the Northern Kingdom and but Two Tribes [Judah and in the region across the Jordan—away from the main concentration of the northern Benjamin] in Asia and Europe sub- tribes! Thus, Israel, in the eighth century B.C., was an extremely populous nation! ject to the Romans, while the TEN When we put all the facts together, it is clear that the population of the TRIBES are beyond Euphrates till Northern Kingdom of Israel, at the time of its captivity, was probably at now [c. 100 A.D.], and are an least five to ten million! What happened to those teeming millions after they immense multitude, and not to be went into captivity? Were they assimilated by other peoples? Flavius Josephus estimated by numbers” (Antiquities said the Ten Tribes of the first century A.D. were “an IMMENSE MULTITUDE, of the Jews, bk. 11, chap. 5, sec. 2). and not to be estimated by numbers.” It is unlikely in the extreme that such a multitude just disappeared as an identifiable people from the face of the earth. A Great Mystery of History

That should settle the matter! More an says, “The kingdom of the Ten nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve” than 600 years after the return of the Tribes of Israel, had in one day disap- (v. 9). We have already seen this in Jews to the Promised Land from peared, leaving no trace behind. The other prophecies. The people of the country vomited Ten Tribes would be scattered and dis- out the Ten Tribes, persed abroad. So would this be the as it had vomited end of Israel? Would the Israelites be out the Canaanitish assimilated into other nations and dis- “The Ten Tribes are beyond Euphrates till tribes. What has appear as a people? The rest of the now, and are an immense multitude.” become of them? verse answers, “...yet not the smallest They have been grain shall fall to the ground.” God looked for and would SIFT the Israelites through Flavius Josephus believed to have other nations. But, in doing so, He 1st century A.D. been discovered in would preserve them intact as a peo- the distant East as ple. They would NOT be amalgamated well as in the far with other people. Not one of them West.... But there would be “irretrievably lost.” Euphrates River can be no doubt This is further borne out by the fact that the Ten Tribes that Bible prophecy identifies Israel as Babylonian exile, the Ten Tribes had have been irretrievably lost among the a key player in end-time events. Israel STILL not returned from the lands nations” (Graetz, History of the Jews, must exist today as “many nations.” If beyond the Euphrates River to which vol. 1, p. 265). we accept the Bible, then we must also the Assyrians had deported them! Graetz, though, was only partially accept all of its promises and prophe- No, they hadn’t returned by then correct. Unlike the Jews, the Israelites cies regarding the national greatness of and they still haven’t returned to this had lost the laws of God that identi- Israel, in addition to what it says about very day! Notice this from the Jewish fied them as His people (such as the Israel’s return from a yet future captivi- Quarterly Review: “The captives of Sabbath—Ex. 31:13-17). So when ty. If, however, the Israelites have [the Ten Tribes of] Israel exiled they were put away (Jer. 3:8), cast from become so lost that they can never be beyond the Euphrates did not return God’s sight and scattered, the Ten found, then the Bible must be com- as a whole to Palestine along with Tribes of Israel, over the course of time, pletely rejected as untrustworthy! their brethren the captives of Judah; forgot their identity and became the The Jewish Quarterly Review cited at least there is no mention made of LOST Ten Tribes. As we will later see, above says that “the return of the Ten this event in [any of] the documents at Jesus Christ referred to them as the Tribes was one of the great promises of our disposal” (vol. 1, p. 15). The exiled “LOST sheep of the House of Israel” the Prophets, northern Ten Tribes did NOT return to (Matt. 15:24). So they were indeed and the their former homeland, nor were they “lost.” But, it is a serious mistake to advent later assimilated, as a group, by their assume, as did Graetz, that the Ten of the relatives, the Jews. Neither were they Tribes have become “irretrievably lost.” assimilated by other peoples (see box: Why? Because God’s Word tells “Were Millions Just Assimilated?”). us otherwise! Before Israel’s captivity, What, then, became of them? the Prophet Amos quoted God as say- ing, “Behold, the eyes of the Lord Israel’s Identity Lost GOD are on the sinful kingdom [Israel], and I will destroy it from the A Jewish historian, Alfred face of the earth” (Amos 9:8). The Edersheim, says, “No notice has been political entity of the Kingdom of taken of those wanderers of the Ten Israel was indeed destroyed. But the Tribes, whose trackless footsteps prophecy did not end here. The same seem as mysterious as their after- verse continues, “...yet I will not fate.... Josephus [cited above] utterly destroy the house of “For surely I will describes them as an innumerable mul- Jacob.” Though God would com- command, and will titude, and vaguely locates them pletely destroy their kingdom, He sift the house of Israel beyond the Euphrates.... Still the great would not wipe out the people of among all nations, as mass of the Ten Tribes was in the Israel. grain is sifted in a sieve; days of Christ, as in our own, lost to Notice what God says He yet not the smallest the Hebrew nation” (Life and Times would do next: “For surely I of Jesus the Messiah, pp. 14-16). will command, and will SIFT grain shall fall to Another prominent Jewish histori- the house of Israel among all the ground.” —Amos 9:9 America and Britain in Prophecy

Messiah is therefore necessarily identi- Israel is clearly differentiated from over maritime trade and travel. fied with the epic of their redemp- Judah (the Jews) here and was to be Where is this leading us? Look at tion.... The hope of the return of the found to the NORTH. As such direc- another prophecy Jeremiah recorded for Ten Tribes has never ceased among the tions in the Bible are always given from “the latter days” (Jer. 30:24; 31:1). God Jews in Exile.... This hope has been the vantage point of Jerusalem, that was says, “You shall be rebuilt, O virgin of connected with every Messianic ris- certainly true during the time of the Israel!... You shall yet plant vines on the ing” (pp. 17, 21). ancient Northern Kingdom. But this mountains of Samaria.... For there shall The Jewish Encyclopaedia says, prophecy was recorded more than 130 be a day when the watchmen will cry on “As a large number of prophecies years after Israel’s Assyrian deportation. Mount Ephraim, ‘Arise, and let us go up relate to the return of ‘Israel’ to the Notice a few verses later, obvious- to Zion, to the LORD our God’” (vv. 4- Holy Land, believers in the literal ly referring to a yet future time: “In 6). So this is clearly referring to end- inspiration of the Scriptures have those days the house of Judah shall time Israel. God refers to Israel as always labored under a difficulty in walk with [KJV margin “to”] the house “Jacob... the chief of the nations” regard to the continued existence of of Israel, and they shall come togeth- (31:7). Which modern nations have ful- the tribes of Israel, with the excep- er out of the land of the NORTH to filled such a role? tion of those of Judah and Levi (or the land that I have given as an inheri- God then says, “Behold, I will Benjamin), which returned with Ezra tance to your fathers” (v. 18). As we bring them [the Israelites] from the and Nehemiah. If the Ten Tribes have have seen, this prophesied return has north country, and gather them from the disappeared, the literal fulfillment of never happened. Israel, then, would be coasts of the earth.... for I am a father to the prophecies would be impossible: to the north of the Holy Land in the Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn” if they have not disappeared, obvi- last days. (vv. 8-9 KJV). The colonization of the ously they must exist under a differ- But some will argue that the areas earth’s coasts pictured here gives fur- ent name” (“Tribes, Lost Ten,” vol. of northern Mesopotamian and Media ther support to Israel’s dominance at 12, p. 249). to which Israel was anciently deport- sea. Then, in the next verse, God makes The Jewish Chronicle of May 2, ed, although not due north, were, nev- it even clearer: “Hear the word of the 1897, says, “The Scriptures speak of a ertheless, north of the Holy Land. And LORD, O nations [Ephraim and future restoration of Israel, which is so they were. They were northeast of Manasseh], and declare it in the isles clearly to include both Judah and the Holy Land. But notice that Hosea afar off” (v. 10). Isles? Our search is Ephraim (or Israel). [See Ezekiel 37:16- 12:1 says, “Ephraim... pursues the becoming even more intriguing. 22.] The problem, then, is reduced to its east wind.” An east wind comes from This fascinating prophecy is corrob- simplest form. The Ten Tribes are cer- the east and blows WEST! Hosea also orated in the book of Isaiah. God says, tainly in existence. All that has to be recorded God asking, “How can I give “Keep silence before Me, O coastlands done is to discover which people rep- you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you [“islands” KJV].... You, Israel, are My resent them”! over, Israel?” (11:8). He then states, “I servant, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the To do this, we must understand will not again destroy Ephraim.... descendants of Abraham My friend. You WHEN, according to the Bible, the They shall walk after the LORD.... whom I have taken from the ends of the prophecies we have seen of “a nation Then His sons shall come trembling earth, and called from its farthest regions and a company of nations” with awe- from the WEST” (vv. 9-10). This [“chief men” KJV]” (Is. 41:1, 8-9). He some national wealth would be fulfilled cannot, then, refer to the ancient further confirms this a few chapters later: and WHERE God said they would be! Assyrian captivity of Israel. “Listen, O coastlands [“isles” KJV], to Where, to the north and west, Me, and take heed, you peoples from Where Does God’s Word would Israel be? In a forthcoming pub- afar!... You are My servant, O Israel” (Is. Locate Modern Israel? lication, we will examine the fascinat- 49:1, 3). In verse 12, He states, “Surely ing promises God made to King David these shall come from afar; Look! Those The when is the late 1700s (see about perpetuating his throne. from the north and the west, and these box: “Birthright Blessings Delayed Jeremiah was commissioned “to root from the land of Sinim.” 2,520 Years!”). But where does God’s out” the Davidic throne from In the ancient Hebrew language, Word locate the birthright holders of Jerusalem and “plant” it elsewhere (Jer. from which this verse was translated, Israel in end-time prophecy? In the 1:10). As our future brochure will there was no specific word for “north- book of Jeremiah, God gives instruc- reveal, the line of David would contin- west,” but that is what was actually tions to those bearing His message in ue to reign over those of the House of meant by “the north and the west.” The the end time: “Backsliding Israel hath Israel—even in their new land! God Latin Vulgate translation gives the justified herself more than treacherous said regarding the dynasty of “David word “Sinim” as Australi (“south”). Judah. Go and proclaim these words my servant.... I will SET [plant] his So, not only are the modern Israelite toward the north, and say, Return, thou hand [authority] also IN THE SEA” nations specifically NORTHWEST of backsliding Israel, saith the LORD” (Ps. 89:20, 25 KJV). So Israel, under Jerusalem, they are also spread all over (3:11-12 KJV). the Davidic line, would have authority the globe!

20 Birthright Blessings Delayed 2,520 Years!

When would the birthright promises be fulfilled? Remember and times and half a time.” A “time” would be a 360-day year. that God had made them UNCONDITIONAL to Abraham’s “Times” implies the smallest plural, since it is unspecified. descendants. Thus, God would HAVE to bestow the promised Therefore it refers to TWO years of 360 days each. “Half a blessings—no matter what. But He would decide the proper time time,” then, is 180 days. Adding these figures together, we get frame. Would God have given the blessings to the newly formed 360 + (2 x 360) + 180 = 1,260 days (3.5 years, corresponding nation of Israel that was headed toward the Promised Land? to 42 months of 30 days each in Revelation 13:5). Yes—IF Israel had met the condition of continued obedience to A well-known principle among students of Bible prophecy Him as outlined in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. is that “days” can sometimes represent years! That is certain- (Remember that the blessings themselves were ly the case when referring to the Israelites’ punishment. This UNconditional—but God was free to attach conditions as to “day-for-a-year principle” was established with them early on. WHEN He would give them.) For their disobedience and lack of faith in failing to enter But for disobedience, God promised terrible punishments. the Promised Land when God first told them to, He punished Sadly, this is what happened repeatedly. Notice what God said them by DELAYING or WITHHOLDING their possession of the to these people who refused to live by His law: “And after all land for a definite period of time. Notice: “According to the this, IF you do NOT obey Me, then I will punish you SEVEN number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, TIMES MORE for your sins” (Lev. 26:18). The phrase “seven for each day you shall bear your guilt one year, namely times more” is translated from the Hebrew words, sheba’, simply forty years, and you shall know My rejection” (Num. 14:34). meaning “seven,” and yacaph, meaning “to add, increase, do Centuries later, the Prophet Ezekiel was told by God to again” (Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon, 1992). The sense conveyed act out an imaginary siege against Israel by lying on his left is that of “multiplied times seven” or “sevenfold”—here meaning side for 390 days—and against Judah, by lying on his other seven times greater intensity of punishment. God then lists some side for 40 days. God told Ezekiel, “I have laid on you a of these increased punishments (which, as we will later see, are day for each year” (Ezek. 4:6). Thus, a day for an individual dual—applying to both ancient and end-time Israel). And what if here represents an entire year for a nation. they still wouldn’t obey? “Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and With this principle clearly in mind, we can now return to are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you SEVEN TIMES Leviticus 26 and discover what the “seven times” in verse 24 MORE PLAGUES, according to your sins” (v. 21). The refer to. God was speaking here of seven prophetic “times” or plagues upon them would be increased seven times yet again! years with 360 days each.Therefore, 7 x 360 days = 2,520 days. Yet, despite the terrible punishment God brought on the Using the day-for-a-year principle, each DAY here represents a Israelites, they still failed to heed and obey Him. What did the YEAR of national punishment—a DELAY in the promised bless- Eternal say would happen in this case? “And if by these ings (as in Numbers 14:34). This gives us 2,520 YEARS that things you are not reformed by Me, but walk contrary to the birthright blessings would be WITHHELD! Me, then I also will walk contrary to you, and I will punish At the END of 2,520 years, the blessings would finally be you yet SEVEN TIMES for your sins” (vv. 23-24). There is bestowed upon Ephraim and Manasseh. How do we know something very important to notice here! The word “more” that? The very fact of withholding something for a specific time does not occur after “seven times” as it did above. This is not, means that it will no longer be withheld after that time. Does then, talking about a sevenfold increase in intensity as before. that mean that the Israelites would be righteous or somehow The word sheba’ (“seven”) can also refer to duration, con- deserving of the birthright at the end of the 2,520 years? No! tinuation or repetition of an action over some period of time. In They would NOT be. In fact, they would still be without the Psalm 119:164 and Proverbs 24:16, “seven times” (Heb.sheba’) important laws of God, like the Sabbath, which would identify refers to something being repeated seven times. The same is them as God’s people if obeyed. Still ignorant of these laws, true of the “seven times” of Leviticus 26:24. It is talking about a the Israelites would not know their own identity and, thus, the specific punishment repeated seven times. As it is a repeated true reason WHY they were being so greatly blessed. punishment, each episode must be of equal duration. Thus, we Why, then, would these blessings come at that time? are talking about seven successive time periods making up one Because they HAD to in order to fulfill God’s promises and long period of punishment. prophecies regarding Israel. Since He had nowhere obliged Has God ever used “seven times” to correctively punish Himself to give the blessings to any particular generation except someone else? In fact, He has—King Nebuchadnezzar of “in the last days” (Gen. 49:1), He did not violate His promise by Babylon! God, wanting to humble this arrogant world ruler, said offering them conditionally to ancient Israel. However, since that the king would be reduced to eating grass with the cattle for ancient Israel did not meet God’s conditions, the blessings a period of time:“And SEVEN TIMES shall pass over you, until would have to wait 2,520 years to be given unconditionally. you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men” (Dan. When would the 2,520 years start? We see that in the 4:32). For seven literal years, Nebuchadnezzar was out of his next verse of Leviticus 26: “And I will bring a sword against mind, grazing with the oxen. So a biblical “time” equals a year. you that will execute the vengeance of My covenant... We must be careful here though. A “time” is not a 365-day and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy” solar year. In the ancient past, a year was considered to be 360 (v. 25). This terrible consequence came to pass with the days, based on twelve 30-day months. To demonstrate, the Assyrian captivity of Israel in the late 700s B.C. Great Flood of Noah’s era was exactly five months—equal to As we will see in a later chapter, if we count 2,520 years 150 days (Gen. 7:11, 24; 8:4). Thus, each month was exactly 30 from almost any significant starting point around the time of days—and 12 months would have been 360 days! Israel’s captivity, we arrive at a corresponding, significant Do we see biblical “times” specifically referring to 360-day event in the late 1700s A.D. That should certainly help us to years in the Bible? Yes! Revelation 12:14 mentions “a time identify modern Israel! America and Britain in Prophecy

Remember that God had told must have been later—when their set- great single nation that emerged from Jacob this long before: “You shall tlement in the “Isles” became too there—Manasseh—is the United spread abroad to the west and the east, cramped. States of America. And the “company to the north and the south” (Gen. We now have all the information of nations”—Ephraim—is clearly the 28:14). And of Joseph’s descendants, we need to identify modern “Israel.” United Kingdom of Great Britain Jacob had prophesied, “His branches Which “nation and a company of along with the other British-descend- run over the wall” (49:22)—i.e. they nations” began their rise to promi- ed nations of the Commonwealth, would colonize beyond their national nence in the late 1700s, later sitting as e.g. Canada, Australia and New boundaries. This colonial spirit is “chief of the nations” and possessing Zealand. explained later in Isaiah 49. God, greater national wealth than any other Amazing! The Puritan founders speaking of the future reign of Jesus political entities in human history? of America were more right than they Christ over all nations, says to Israel, Which peoples have come from the knew! There can be no question, now, “The children you will have, AFTER “islands” which are “in the sea” far to that when God’s holy Word refers to you have lost the others [in global cat- the northwest of Jerusalem—who, Ephraim and Manasseh in prophecy, it astrophes soon to strike at the end of finding these islands “too small,” had means the English-speaking peoples. this age], will say AGAIN in your to branch out and colonize all over the There are, however, some questions ears, ‘The place is TOO SMALL for world? Who has possessed the vital remaining. Has God simply trans- me; give me a place where I may sea gates of the world and, for cen- ferred the names and blessings of His dwell’” (v. 20). turies now, has “ruled the waves”? Is covenant people to different peoples— Notice this! Some time after being the answer not right here before us? our peoples? Or, as incredible as it regathered to the Promised Land, Surely there can be NO mistaking this sounds, are our Anglo-Saxon-Celtic Israel’s burgeoning populace in the description! peoples the true physical descendants World Ahead will express a need for Notice the map below. If we of the actual tribes of Ephraim and new territories in which to expand. Yet extend a line due northwest of Manasseh that were lost with the other this event is described as happening Jerusalem, it crosses the European northern tribes of Israel? For that to be AGAIN—i.e. it is the repeat of a prior continent, comes to the sea and then so, the footsteps of the Lost Ten episode. When did the Israelites say reaches “the isles afar off.” Which Tribes must lead to northwestern this the first time? Certainly not while isles are these? The British Isles! As Europe. But do they? And if so, can they still lived in the Holy Land. It we will see more closely later, the we trace them?

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Early Israelite Migrations Before we try to find where the lost Israelites went after their captivi- Abraham’s ty, we should examine where some of kindred” (p. 98). the early Israelites were going long This may be sur- before the Assyrian Empire was even prising. Nevertheless, it is in existence—much less a threat. Other his- borne out in one histori- The historian C.W. Muller noted torians have drawn cal source after anoth- that, “Hecataeus [of Abdera, Greek his- the same conclu- er. According to torian, 4th century B.C.]... tells us that sion—that the Danites of Josephus, the the Egyptians, formerly being troubled Israel and the Danaans or Lacedemonians by calamities [the Ten Plagues at the Danoi, an ancient people of (Spartans of southern time of the Exodus] in order that the southern Greece, were one Greece) were Danites and, divine wrath might be averted, expelled and the same. A well- therefore, closely related to the all the [Israelite] aliens gathered togeth- known 19th century eth- Jews. He relates the incredible er in Egypt. Of these, some, under their nologist, Dr. Robert G. contents of a letter from Sparta leaders Danuss and Cadmus, migrat- Latham, definitely to Judah: “Areus king of the ed into Greece; others into other believed the Greek Lacedemonians, to Onias regions, the greater part into Syria Danaans were descen- [Jewish High Priest], sendeth [Canaan]. Their leader is said to have dants of the tribe of Dan: greeting; we have met with a been Moses, a man renowned for wis- “Neither do I think that the certain writing, whereby we dom and courage, founder and legislator eponymous [ancestral name] of the have discovered that both the Jews of the state” (Fragmenta Historicorum [Greek] Danai was other than that of and the Lacedemonians are of one Graecorum, vol. 2, p. 385). the Israelite tribe of Dan; only we are stock, and are derived from the kin- Diodorus of Sicily (Greek historian, so used to confining ourselves to the soil dred of Abraham. 1st century B.C.) writes, “They say also of Palestine in our consideration of the “It is but just, therefore, that you, that those who set forth with Danaus, history of the Israelites” (Ethnology of who are our brethren, should send to us likewise from Egypt, settled what is Europe, p. 137). “Yet,” Dr. Latham con- about any of your concerns as you practically the oldest city of Greece, cludes, “with Danai [of Greece] and please. We will also do the same thing, Argos, and that the nations of the Colchi the tribe of Dan this is the case, and no and esteem your concerns as our own: in Pontus and that of the Jews, which lies one connects them.” He then mentions and will look upon our concerns as in between Arabia and Syria, were founded that the Danites of Palestine must have common with yours. Demoteles, who as COLONIES by certain emigrants had close connections with the peoples brings you this letter, will bring your from their country; and this is the reason of southern Greece. answer back to us. This letter is why it is a long-established institution A book entitled Hellenosemitica foursquare: and the seal is an eagle, among these two peoples to circum- (1965) goes to great lengths to show that with a dragon [snake or serpent] in cise their male children... the custom the Greek “Hellenes” and the Israelite its claws” (bk. 12, chap. 4, sec. 10, pp. having been brought over from Egypt” “Semites” were closely related. This 296-297). (bk. 1, sec. 23, 1-5). Circumcision was book mentions two branches of the This seal is revealing because the trib- the sign of the Abrahamic covenant that Danites (“Danunians” and “Danaans”), al emblem or ensign of the people of Dan God made in Genesis 17. and shows that these people once occu- included the image of a “snake” (“Flag,” In recent times, the well-known his- pied the island of Cyprus. It also men- The Jewish Encyclopaedia, p. 405). This torical linguist, Dr. Cyrus H. Gordon, tions the Cyprian “tradition of the symbolism was derived from what Jacob has also shown connections between the Danaan migration from the eastern had foretold: “Dan shall be a serpent by early Greeks and the Hebrews (Common Mediterranean” (pp. 14, 79). That was the way, a viper by the path, that bites Background of Greek and Hebrew the very same area which was assigned to the horse’s heels so that its rider shall Civilizations, New York, Norton, 1966). the tribe of Dan when Joshua led the 12 fall backward” (Gen. 49:17). Thus the So, too, has Professor Allen H. Jones tribes of Israel into the Promised Land! emblem traditionally associated with Dan (Bronze Age Civilization—The “And already Hecataeus of Abdera is an “adder biting horse heels” (Thomas Philistines and the Danites). He traces represented both the Jewish Exodus and Fuller, Pisgah Sight of Palestine). the Danaans, a name that the famed the Greek migration of Danaos and However, Aben Ezra, a learned Jewish Greek poet Homer often used for all Cadmus as episodes of one and the same scholar of the 1600s, said that the Greeks, back to the Israelite tribe of Dan event.... Thence the assertion... that the emblem of Dan was an “eagle with a (“Danaans and Danites—Were the Spartans (whose kings... claimed dragon in its claws.” Hebrews Greek?,” Biblical Archaeology descent from Danaos) are brothers of Another Jewish High Priest, Review, June 1976). the Jews and descend from Jonathan—somewhat later than Onias— 23 America and Britain in Prophecy wrote the Spartans “concerning the allotted its tribal inheritance in the south- remain on ships?” (Judges 5:17). The kindred that was between US and western area of that land. Dan was situat- Danites were so preoccupied with sea YOU... because we were well satisfied ed west-northwest of the tribe of Judah; trade that they chose to remain in their about it from the sacred writings.... It is its territory extended westward to the ships rather than fight alongside their a long time since this relation of ours to Mediterranean Sea, and included the brethren. So, even before that time, you hath been renewed, and when we, busy port city of Joppa, next to modern some of the Danites were already upon holy and festival days, offer sacri- Tel Aviv (Josh. 19:40-48). engaged in seafaring activities. fices to God, we pray to Him for your The Bible here notes an important preservation and victory” (Josephus, bk. characteristic of the Danites when they “The Ships of Tarshish” 13, chap. 5, sec. 1, p. 318). occupied a place: “The children of Dan This kindship seems pretty well went up to fight against Leshem and took Later, King David and Hiram, the established. Stephanus Byzantium also it; and they struck it with the edge of the king of Tyre, established a national wrote that historians Alexander sword, took possession of it, and dwelt in friendship between Israel and Polyhistor and Claudius Jolaus both it. They called Leshem, DAN, after the Phoenicia. Then, under Solomon, the affirmed a direct kinship between the name of Dan their father” (v. 47). relationship grew even more. Notice ancient Spartans and the Jews (Bryant, But the geographic location of the what happened in those days: “King Ancient Mythology, vol. 5, pp. 51-52, 60). Danites’ inheritance made it vulnera- Solomon also built a fleet of ships at And, for biblical support to all of ble to pressure from invading armies Ezion Geber, which is near Elath on the this, the Prophet Ezekiel mentions “Dan whose chariots were effective, lethal shore of the Red Sea, in the land of also and Javan going to and fro [as weapons against the Israelite infantry Edom. Then Hiram sent [“him ships mariners] occupied in thy fairs” on the flat, coastal plain (cf. Judges by the hand of his servants”—2 (Ezek. 27:19 KJV). So we see a close 1:34). So the Danites decided to look Chron. 8:18—and] his servants with relationship between Dan and Javan (or north for new territory: “Then they the fleet, seamen who knew the sea, Yavan)—mentioned in the Table of went up and encamped in Kirjath to work with the servants of Nations (Gen. 10) as a son of Japheth. It Jearim in Judah. Therefore they call Solomon. And they went to Ophir [pos- is common knowledge among biblical that place Mahaneh DAN to this sibly India, South Africa or America], historians that “Javan was regarded as day” (Judges 18:12). This is the sec- and acquired four hundred and twenty the representative of the Greek race” ond instance where we learn that the talents of gold from there, and brought (Smith’s Bible Dictionary). NOTE: people of the tribe of Dan had a regu- it to King Solomon” (1 Kings 9:26-28). Though they were in close proximity, lar habit of naming places after their During the reign of Solomon and we must be careful not to confuse the ancestral father, Dan. subsequent kings, it is more than likely Danites with the true Greeks descend- “So they [the Danites]... went to that a number of Israelite colonists left ed from Javan. So we see that both the Laish, to a people quiet and secure; and Israel for other coastlands—just as Bible and secular history show that some they struck them with the edge of the Phoenician colonists emigrated from of the Danites settled among the Greeks. sword and burned the city with fire.... So their homeland. Where did the In a future publication, we will they rebuilt the city and dwelt there. And Phoenicians colonize? We have already show that some of Judah’s descendants, they called the name of the city DAN, mentioned Carthage in North Africa. through his grandson “Darda” (1 Chron. after the name of Dan their father, who They also settled a number of 2:6; 1 Kings 4:31), established them- was born to Israel” (vv. 27-29). Mediterranean islands, the Ionian coast selves in Dardania, the region of ancient This northern city of Dan (formerly of southern Italy and also southern Troy (northwestern Asia Minor). In fact, Laish) was less than 30 miles inland Spain. These were places the descen- the Dardanelles were named after them! from the ancient Canaanite port city of dants of Javan—the Greeks—were Tyre. Thus, the Danites must have had already settling. So why did the Ancient Mariners frequent contact with its Phoenicians go to these places? inhabitants—the Phoenicians, a people Principally for trade, of course. The Danaans of Greece, along with famed for trade and navigation (Ezek. The name of Javan’s son, Tarshish many more from the Promised Land, 27). They built the great cities of Tyre (Gen. 10:4), can be found in the famous were not content to settle down for long. and Sidon (on the modern Lebanese ancient port of southern Spain, Many would emigrate overland while coast) and, as they spread abroad, far- Tartessus—the “Tarshish” of many others would travel in ships. flung outposts like Carthage (in what is Solomon’s day. Yet the great “ships of According to the Bible, some of the peo- now Tunisia in North Africa). Tarshish,” mentioned numerous times ple of Dan early took to the sea. They In the early 1200s B.C., in a song in the Old Testament, primarily referred were the first tribe mentioned as becom- commemorating a great Israelite mili- to huge, oceangoing Phoenician and ing mariners. How did this come about? tary victory, the Judge Deborah lament- Israelite vessels that would come to When the Twelve Tribes of Israel ed that, during the battle, the men of Palestine from that far western port. actually took possession of the Promised “Gilead stayed beyond the Jordan According to 1 Kings 10:22, Solomon Land (c. 1406 B.C.), the tribe of Dan was [River], and [asked] why did Dan “had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea

24 A Great Mystery of History with the fleet of Hiram. Once every Irish historian Thomas Moore says Dan be a serpent on the way.”The word three years the fleet of ships of that one of the earliest resident peoples “way” can also be “road,” “path,” “jour- Tarshish used to come bringing gold, of Ireland—the Firbolgs—were dispos- ney” or “direction” (Logos Software, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks” sessed by the Tuatha de Danaan, “who Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon). As a snake (NRSV, cf. 2 Chron. 9:21). after sojourning for some time in leaves a visible trail or path behind it, so Undoubtedly, the Danites were Greece... proceeded from thence to would the tribe of Dan leave a trail across foremost among the Israelites sailing Denmark and Norway” (History of those lands they journeyed through—by these vessels. Not only had the coastal Ireland, vol. 1, p. 59). simply following their old habit of nam- Danites been sailing for some time, but Who were the Tuatha de Danaan ing places after their ancestor. Since even the inland Danites in the north— who migrated up from Greece into Hebrew was written with only consonants by virtue of their close contact with Denmark and Norway and then over to and no vowels, Dan would be spelled Tyre—had probably been sailing with Ireland? The word tuath simply means “Dn”—and any or no vowel could occur the Phoenicians and their coastal “tribe”—“Tuath... Irish history... A between the two consonants (e.g. Dn, Danite kinsmen who docked there. ‘TRIBE’ or ‘people’ in Ireland” (New Dan, Deen, Din, Don, Dun, etc.). Moses had prophesied, “Dan is a English Dictionary on Historical By Dan’s “serpent trail,” we can fol- lion’s whelp; he shall leap from Principles, vol. 10, pt. 1, p. 441). So they low the Danites’ ancient travels. In addi- Bashan” (Deut. 33:22). Bashan was were the tribe of Danaan from Greece. tion to their Mediterranean and Atlantic the location of the inland Danites! When we consider that the Danaans or voyages, Danite mariners almost cer- Therefore, a great many of them must Danoi of Greece were Danites of Israel, tainly sailed into the Black Sea and up have “leapt” from inland Palestine—as it is simple logic to conclude that the the major rivers of Europe. Moving east probably the majority would later, at Tuatha de Danaan was none other than to west along the north shore of the the time of the Assyrian invasions of the Israelite tribe of Dan! Black Sea, we pass by the mouths of the Israel—following their southern Danite Another Irish historian, Geoffrey following rivers: Don, Donets, Dnieper, brothers to the far-off Mediterranean Keating, mentions that “the Danaans Dniester and Danube. If we follow the colonies of the Greeks and Phoenicians. were a people of great learning and Danube River upstream, it takes us into But was that the extent of their jour- wealth; they left Greece after a battle the very heart of Europe, where we find neys? By no means! The Phoenicians with the Assyrians and went to the Rhine and Rhone Rivers—known in traveled through the Pillars of Hercules Ireland; and also to Danmark, and Roman times respectively as the (Strait of Gibraltar) and into the Atlantic called it ‘DAN-mares,’ Dan’s country” Eridanus and Rhodanus Rivers. Ocean. Herodotus, the Greek “father of (History of Ireland, vol. 1, pp. 195-199). Across northern Europe we find: history,” also attributes the circumnaviga- Evidently, when the Assyrians began to Danzig in Poland; Sweden (Svea-Dan); tion of Africa to them. Furthermore, pea- invade Israel in the eighth century B.C., Odense in Denmark (Dan’s Land); cocks, which were brought back by the the Danites—not only of the Promised Dunkirk and Dinan in France. If you ships of Tarshish, are native only to Land, but from Greece as well—must then cross the English Channel to the Southeast Asia and the East Indies. And it have struck out in their ships to find and British Isles, you will find many dozens is a widely accepted fact that Phoenician dwell with the vanguard of those of cities, towns or rivers containing the traders sailed north from Spain, establish- Israelites who had already been settling name “Dan”—for example in Scotland ing commerce links with Ireland and Ireland for some time. we notice Dundee, Dunraven, Aberdeen, Britain. It should be no surprise, then, to Do we have further evidence of the Duncansby Head and the Don River. But realize that the Danites and other tribe of Dan settling in Northwest it is in Ireland where such place names Israelites probably did the same thing— Europe and the British Isles? We certain- are most prominent: Dun Laoghaire, the even settling in those beautiful islands. ly do! Remember that the Danites had a Dunkellin River, Dundalk, Dans-Laugh, regular habit of naming places after their Dan-Sower, Dungarvan, Dundrum, “Lost Tribes... in Ireland”? ancient ancestor, Dan. Notice this inter- Dunglow, Dingle Bay, Donegal Bay and esting fact: “According to late Danish Dunmore Head. (It is certainly no coin- All early histories of Ireland mention tradition... Jutland [the mainland of cidence that the Irish Gaelic word a people coming there from Greece called Denmark] was acquired by DAN, Dun or Dunn means “Judge,” just as the Tuatha de Danaan. From The Annals the... ancestor of the DANES” from Dan does in Hebrew!) of Ireland, we read, “The Dan’ans were whom their name derives (“Denmark,” Dan’s migrations, then, can be a highly civilized people, well skilled in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., vol. traced. But that doesn’t help us in architecture and other arts from their 8). As the Danites migrated in hopes of locating the other Israelite tribes does long residence in Greece, and their finding a secure homeland, they contin- it? After all, hadn’t most of the intercourse with the Phoenicians. ued their habit of naming places after Danites escaped the Assyrian con- Their first appearance in Ireland was their ancestral father, Dan! quest and deportations (migrating into 1200 B.C., or 85 years after the great J.P. Green’s Literal Translation of the Europe) while the rest of the northern victory of Deborah.” It seems pretty Bible, which accompanies his Interlinear tribes of Israel were dragged away clear who we’re talking about here. Bible, renders Genesis 49:17 as, “Let captive to northern Mesopotamia and 25 America and Britain in Prophecy

the Medo-Persian area? Yes, but Jacob Americans. “For one day everyone was of Israel.” Some of these dispersed prophesied of the last days, “Dan Irish. Cardinal John O’Connor [of Irish Israelites were then living around the [Heb. “Judge”] shall judge his peo- descent] had a warm embrace for Black Sea (see box: “The ‘Diaspora’”). ple as one of the tribes of Israel” [Jewish] Mayor Ed Koch, who But by the first century A.D., many of (v. 16). Dan’s descendants could not explained his presence at the head of the Ten Lost Tribes had already left do this very well if they were not the grand parade, ‘It’s part of my Western Asia and had migrated else- located among the other tribes. roots. The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel where. But to where? So, though the Danites may have we [Jews] believe ended up in Scotland’s most treasured docu- parted company with the rest of Israel Ireland’” (Mar. 30, p. 7)! ment, the Declaration of Arbroath at the time of the Assyrian captivity, As we’ve seen, history reveals that (also called the Scottish Declaration they would all rejoin each other later. at least some early Israelites did end of Independence), was drawn up in Therefore, the proclivity of the Danites up in the Emerald Isle! But what about 1320 A.D. In it, King Robert the to name places by the Hebrew word for the rest of the tribes? Just where did Bruce (1306-1329)—recently popu- “Judge,” after their father, was a they go after their Assyrian captivity larized in the 1995 box-office hit remarkable CLUE which God planted ended? Can we find out anything from movie, Braveheart—and his Scottish within their very tribal nature to help Christ and the commission He gave to nobles solemnly appealed to Pope us today in searching out ALL of the His apostles? John XXII to persuade the King of Ten Lost Tribes of Israel which would England (Edward II) to allow the later follow the Danite migrations. “The Lost Sheep Scots to live in peace, unmolested by What incredibly detailed planning the of the House of Israel” their English tormentors. Almighty God has done! The declaration states that the Scots Once we understand the racial Christ mentioned “OTHER sheep “journeyed from Greater Scythia [pre- connection between the Tuatha de I have which are not of this fold [of sent-day southern Russia] by way of the Jews living in Judea]; them also I Pillars of Hercules [Gibraltar], and dwelt New York City Mayor Ed Koch must bring, and they will hear My for a long course of time in Spain.... voice; and there will be ONE flock Thence they came [c. 250 B.C.], twelve and one Shepherd” (John 10:16). The hundred years after the people of “house of Israel” is repeatedly referred Israel crossed the Red Sea, to their to in the Old Testament as God’s home in the west where they still live SHEEP, the sheep of His pasture (Jer. today” (para. 2). Why did the Scots 23:1-8; Ezek. 34:1-31). solemnly preserve, as an important mile- So Christ was clearly referring to stone in their nation’s history, this refer- the other tribes of Israel. He commis- ence to the crossing of the Red Sea? sioned His twelve apostles to preach the The declaration reminds the pope Gospel to them: “Do not go into the how the Scots received Christianity: way of the Gentiles, and do not enter “Nor would He [Christ] have them a city of the Samaritans [who some- confirmed in that faith by merely times claimed, falsely, to be anyone but by the most gentle Saint Israelites]. But go rather to the ANDREW, the Blessed Peter’s broth- LOST SHEEP of the HOUSE OF er” (para. 4). So the Apostle Andrew ISRAEL” (Matt. 10:5-6; cf. 15:24)! obeyed Christ’s command to go “to the Obviously, Christ knew the where- lost sheep of the house of Israel”— abouts of the Ten Lost Tribes and some of whom then lived in Scotland! “The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel we would have made certain His apostles [Jews] believe ended up in Ireland.” also knew. Why do we hear absolutely The Story of nothing about Peter and the other apos- Joseph of Arimathea Danaan of Ireland and the ancient tribe tles still being in Jerusalem and Judea of Dan, it is easy to see why the song, during the years immediately preceding Many Britons believe that Joseph “O, Danny Boy” is so popular in south- the fall of Jerusalem in 70 A.D.? of Arimathea—the important rich man ern Ireland! With this biblical and his- The twelve apostles knew the Jews in Judea who buried Christ and had torical background, we can also under- had not been totally “lost.” So after tak- secretly been His disciple (Matt. stand why former New York City ing the Gospel to the Jews in Judea, and 27:57; Mark 15:43; John 19:38)— Mayor Ed Koch made a particular after preaching to the Jewish communi- once lived in what is now Glastonbury, comment. “It was St. Patrick’s Day in ties in the big cities of the Near East, England, using that village as his America,” reported a 1987 U.S. News Greece and North Africa, Peter and the home base from which to preach the & World Report about the March 17 apostles then took Christ’s Gospel to Gospel to many of the Brtitish people. holiday commonly celebrated by Irish- the dispersed “lost sheep of the house “Joseph, Saint, Of Arimathea (fl. c.

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A.D. 30), a Jew who undertook the one article attesting to these strong The “Diaspora” burial of Jesus and whom later leg- British traditions. There are often ker- end connected with the Holy Grail nels of truth in many legends; of course, of Glastonbury.... A mid-thirteenth not every detail of a persistent legend is Notice how James, the Lord’s century interpolation... by William necessarily true. half-brother, addressed his epistle of Malmesbury relates that Joseph But consider this: Britain was an around A.D. 60: “James, a servant of went to Glastonbury in England integrated part of the Roman Empire in God and of... Jesus Christ, to the TWELVE TRIBES [not just the two as head of 12 missionaries sent the first century A.D. To move from tribes of Judah and Benjamin] thither by the Apostle Philip” Judea, an eastern province of the which are scattered abroad [Gk. (“Joseph, Saint,” Encyclopaedia Empire, to a western location would be diaspora, “dispersed”]” (1:1). Britannica, 1970). just as feasible as moving from New James did not address his epistle to Tradition maintains that Joseph’s York to California in the 1800s! just the Jews. Rather, he addressed oldest brother was the father of Mary, “Mediterranean traders had been visit- his inspired letter to ALL the Jesus’ mother. If true, that would ing the country from at least as early as Israelites—“to the TWELVE TRIBES make him Christ’s great uncle. And a the fourth century B.C.... There was a in the Dispersion” (same verse, NRSV common saying in the English coun- good deal of cross-channel trade and and Moffatt). The English translation of the original Aramaic text is as fol- tryside is that “Joseph was a tin man.” migration in the centuries before the lows: “James... to the twelve tribes Tin mining was big in early Britain. Roman conquest” (T.W. Potter, Roman which are scattered among the In fact, the British Isles were known Britain, British Museum Publications Gentiles.” The Goodspeed Bible ren- in ancient times as the Cassiterides Ltd., 1983, p. 5). ders this verse in a similar way: (“tin islands”). So it seems clear that at least some “James... to the twelve tribes that are And, through Phoenician-estab- of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel in the scattered over the world.” lished commerce links, the tin trade days of Christ and His apostles were in The dispersed Jews are only part between Britain and the Eastern Europe—some having gone even as of the diaspora—only a small portion Mediterranean world was quite sub- far as the British Isles. How did they of the Israelite peoples whom God said He would disperse throughout all stantial. Thus, Joseph was probably get there? The most widespread people nations. Of course the diaspora would involved in tin trade between the in Europe at this time were the Celts. not be of the same nature for the Jews British Isles and the Near East. In In fact, the areas of Britain, Ireland, as for the other Israelites. The Jews going to Glastonbury in Somerset, he Gaul and even the southern Black Sea were widely dispersed but never may have been returning to a familiar region—the areas in which we just “lost,” whereas the Ten Tribes of place, where he could effectively located some people from the Ten Israel were both dispersed and preach the Gospel. Tribes—were ALL Celtic at the time. later “lost” to the world in general! Collier’s Encyclopedia says, But surely there couldn’t have Where were these Israelites of “Glastonbury Abbey, a ruined abbey been very many Israelites among the all Twelve Tribes—including the Ten Lost Tribes—living in New Testament in Somersetshire, about 6 miles Celts, could there? After all, the Celts times? The Apostle Peter gives us south of Wells, England. Tradition were a European, not Middle Eastern, part of the answer to that question: has it that it was here that Joseph people, right? Besides that, most of the “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, of Arimathea established the first Celts were later overrun by Germans. to the pilgrims [“strangers” KJV] Christian Church in England” Hasn’t history pretty well established of the Dispersion [which were (vol. 9, 1959, p. 120). “According to that Britain and the other Northwest then] in Pontus, Galatia, the legends... the first church of European countries are Germanic Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Glastonbury was a little wattled nations? English is even a Germanic elect according to the foreknowl- building erected by Joseph of language! Surely someone couldn’t edge of God the Father” (1 Pet. 1:1- 2). These areas of dispersed Jews Arimathea as the leader of the seriously think that some scattered and Israelites were in what is today twelve apostles [i.e. the 12 “mission- Israelites lost amid the great mass of northern Turkey—showing a west- aries” mentioned above] sent over Celtic and Germanic peoples could ward migration. As we will see in the to Britain from Gaul by St. Philip” possibly constitute the greater part of next chapter, there is abundant his- (“Glastonbury,” Encyclopaedia the Ten Lost Tribes. torical evidence to prove that many of Britannica, 11th ed., vol. 12). America seems an even more the Ten Lost Tribes migrated even Notice that Philip preached the unlikely candidate. After all, isn’t it beyond this point in the centuries pre- Gospel to the lost Israelites then living just one big “melting pot” of many ceding Christ; but some of them still in Gaul (modern France and Belgium)! peoples? In the next chapter, we will lingered here on the southern shores of the Black Sea in the days of Christ Some Britons also believe that Peter examine the roots of the major ethnic and His apostles. This area was himself took the Gospel to England. groups which make up America and immediately west of the Caucasus Can these “legends” be Britain—showing where they came Mountains and the Caspian believed? Nearly every English-lan- from. And you may be very surprised at Sea—along the land route from west- guage encyclopedia contains at least what you learn! ern Asia into Europe. 27 ChapterChapter 5— 3—

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hat are the ancestral roots of imperfectly” (“Myth of the Melting while Hispanics make up only 9.5 per- the British and American Pot,” p. 145). cent (Encyclopaedia Britannica 1995 Wpeoples? Is America just a In an interesting Los Angeles Times Book of the Year, p. 741). blend of all manner of ethnicities—a article, Ernest W. Lefever (a senior fel- “mongrel nation” as Adolph Hitler low at the Ethics and Public Policy A Whole Nation “Sifted” labeled it? And what about the Britons? Center in Washington, D.C.) reported, Aren’t they primarily a Germanic peo- “Most Americans seem to have given Remember from chapter two that ple? Who are these peoples really? up the dream of a serene melting God said He would “SIFT the house of These are some of the fascinating ques- pot—as both unrealistic and perhaps ISRAEL among all nations, as grain is tions we will be tackling in this chapter. a bit un-American. Many of us have sifted in a SIEVE; yet not the smallest settled for a less demanding metaphor grain shall fall to the ground” (Amos Is America a “Melting Pot”? of America as a bountiful and variegat- 9:9). An interesting “parallel” has ed salad bowl” (“America Is Being occurred in American history. In his 1976 book, Destination Ripped Apart,” Aug. 8, 1993). For years, immigrants to the U.S. America, Maldwyn A. Jones says that Of what ethnicity are most were greeted by the Statue of Liberty on most Americans have preferred to mix Americans? A July 7, 1986, article in their way to America’s chief port of U.S. News & World Report revealed entry, Ellis Island. Notice what Maldwin that, based on 1980 census figures, Jones says: “Ellis Island was a gigantic nearly 80 percent of Americans SIEVE, whose sole function was to polled claimed descent from keep out undesirables.... [and serve as a Northwest Europe: “The govern- gateway] to America for sixteen million ment found out that there were 134 immigrants” (pp. 54, 64). different ethnicities living in the It is interesting to note that U.S. United States. The largest number— immigration laws and policies—during nearly 50 million, or 22 percent of the much of America’s critical, formative population [at the time]—claimed years and up until the middle of the 20th English lineage. Americans of century—deliberately favored the peo- German ancestry are almost as ples of Northwest Europe while, at the numerous. Just behind them are peo- same time, limiting white peoples from ple with Irish ancestors.” southern or eastern Europe. This idea of According to that article, here are a “sieve” has circulated since the early the actual figures given in the 1980 American settlements—and God was census: English, 49.6 million; seen as the One doing the sifting: “The German, 49.2 million; Irish, 40.2 mil- Puritan founders of New England never lion; French, 12.9 million; Scottish, doubted that they were, in a quite spe- 10 million; Dutch, 6.3 million; cial way, God’s chosen people. One of Swedish, 4.3 million; Norwegian, 3.5 their leaders spoke of God’s having million; Welsh, 1.7 million; Danish, ‘SIFTED a whole nation’ in order to 1.5 million. This adds up to a total of find the instruments which were 179.2 million U.S. citizens who to work out His purposes in the culturally, socially and religiously with claimed descent from the peoples of new world” (p. 18). those of their own ethnic background: Northwest Europe. American President “They seldom intermarried and it was Americans who are not of Calvin Coolidge echoed this soon clear that intermingling, far from Northwest European ancestry make up sentiment in 1923: “It has producing social unity, generated ethnic only about one quarter of the total U.S. often been said God sifted the nations discord which could erupt into open population. Latest population figures that He might send choice grain into violence. Insofar as the melting pot reveal that blacks constitute only 11.9 the wilderness [of America]. Who can functioned at all, it did so slowly and percent of the American populace fail to see in it the hand of destiny?

28 Who can doubt that it [the U.S.] has Who Were the Celts? been guided by the hand of God?” John Hay, the first chief justice of Who were the Celtic peo- the U.S. Supreme Court, made this inci- ples? The Britannica states, sive statement in 1787: “Providence “Celt... the generic name of an [had] been pleased to give this one con- ancient people, the bulk of nected country to one united people— whom inhabited the central and a people descended from the same western parts of Europe” (“Celt,” ancestors, speaking the same language, 11th ed., vol. 5). small professing the same religion, attached World Book Encyclopedia says, group of to the same principles of government, “The first Celts were a mixed people. Gauls (Celts or very similar in their manners and cus- They tended to be fair-haired and light- “Galatians”) settled in central Asia toms.” Yes, the peoples who formed the skinned, but some had darker-colored Minor and was still there in the first cen- 13 original British colonies were over- hair and complexion [brunets]. They tury A.D. As a wide-ranging, on-the- whelmingly of British stock and spoke were taller than many of their neighbors, move people, the Celts were united in the “mother tongue,” English. but not so tall as the Norsemen” their languages, dress and culture—and As we learned in the last chapter, the (“Celts,” vol. 3). in their pagan religion (druidism). British Isles—and most of continental The same entry continues, “Little is Caesar wrote about the Celts in his Europe—were populated in ancient known of the Celts until about 500 B.C. Gallic Wars. But his is not the definitive times by the Celts. However, Great Then they were found mainly in south- history to which we will look for the Britain was eventually overrun by peo- western Germany, but later, the Celts ancient origins of these peoples. For ples from the east known as the Angles ranged east, west, and south. They soon that, we must turn elsewhere. and Saxons. In time, the Anglo-Saxons spread over most of western Europe. In Of the many thousands of books would come to dominate all the countries the British Isles, they were divided into dealing with ancient history, none has which made up the British Isles—the two branches. One branch, which includ- presented ancient British origins in as Angles even giving their name to ed the Irish, the Manx, and the Highland clear and accurate a light as the monu- England (Angland). The Celts were Scots, spoke Goidelic [Gaelic]. The other mental, multi-volume work, The History pushed west. Yet, even today, a branch to which the Welsh [Cymry], the of the Anglo-Saxons from the Earliest substantial portion of the Cornish [of Cornwall, England], and the Period to the Norman Conquest by the British population Bretons [of Brittany, France] belonged, well-respected English historiographer, remains spoke Brythonic. The Celts in Europe Sharon Turner (1768-1842). He says, Celtic. developed the Gaulish language.” “Europe... has been peopled by three History clearly shows that, eventu- great streams of population from the ally, few of the Celts remained east of East, which have followed each other, at the Rhine River. In the days of Julius intervals so distinct, as to possess lan- Caesar (1st century B.C.), the Celtic guages clearly separable from each other. lands included northern Italy, northeast- The earliest of these... comprised the ern Spain, France, Belgium, Cimmerian and Celtic race. The sec- Denmark, western Germany ond consisted of the Scythian, Gothic, and Switzerland. and German tribes; from whom most Also, a of the modern nations of continental Europe have descended” (vol. 1, p. 3). According to Turner, the “third and most recent” ethnic group to migrate into Europe was the “Slavonian and Sarmatian nations... who have now estab- lished themselves in Poland, Bohemia, Russia, and their vicini- ties. It is from the first Top: fifth century Celtic gold torc and bracelet from the tomb of Rheinheim, Saarland, Germany.Above: the “Dying Gaul,” Musei Capitolini, Rome. Note the characteristics known of the Celts such as flowing mustaches and wild backward-swept wavy hair, which was smeared with a thick wash of lime to lighten and thicken it like a horse’s mane. The fighting men were known for parading naked in the forefront of the battle line, adorned only with gold torcs around their necks, and gold armlets. Left: the Battersea Shield found in the Thames. Its symmet- rical design, glass inlay, and interlacing is peculiar to British Celtic art of the first century A.D. 29 America and Britain in Prophecy

two generations of the European popu- Turner also noted that the Keltoi lowed the Celts into Britain as “Germans.” lation [Celts and Scythians] that the (Celts) were the same people as the But, as we will examine shortly, they were ancient inhabitants of England succes- Galatai, and that they, in turn, were the quite different from other tribes, whose sively descended.... The earliest of these same as the Galli (the Gauls), and that descendants today inhabit Germany. Still that reached the northern and western the Keltoi were “one of the branches of later, some of those so-called “Germans” confines of Europe, the Cimmerians and the Cimmerian stock” (p. 36). who had settled in Britain migrated to Celts, may be regarded as our first America as British colonists. After the ancestors; and from the German or Who Were the British North American colonies were Gothic nations who formed, with the Anglo-Saxons? founded, numerous other “Germans” left Scythians, the second great flood of Germany and began flooding into those population into Europe, our Anglo- According to the 1980 U.S. Census British colonies. Saxon and Norman ancestors proceed- figures previously cited, “Germans” Who were the “Germanic” Saxons? ed” (pp. 4, 21). were the second-largest ethnic group in Sharon Turner says, “The Saxons were Samuel Lysons wrote about “the America after the English. Of course, if a... Scythian tribe; and of the various Cimmerians seeming to be the same we count all peoples of British stock Scythian nations which have been record- (English, Scots, Irish and Welsh), we ed, the Sakai, or Sacae, are the people find them more than twice as numerous from whom the descent of the Saxons as the Germans. Still, the “Germans” may be inferred with the least violation of represent a sizable portion of America’s probability. Sakai-Suna or the Sons of ethnic background. Moreover, even the Sakai, abbreviated into Saksun, which is English have descended from early the same sound as Saxon, seems a rea- “Germanic” invaders of Britain. sonable etymology of the word ‘Saxon.’ Exactly who were these people? The Sakai, who in Latin are called Teutons or “Germans” migrated to Sacae, were an important branch of England as Angles, Saxons and Jutes in the Scythian nation. They were so cele- the decades immediately following the brated, that the Persians called all the departure of the Roman legionnaires Scythians by the name of Sacae; and from Britain around 410 A.D. In The Pliny [the Elder, Roman historian, A.D. Story of English, a 1986 companion 23-79]... speaks of them as among the book to the PBS television series of the most distinguished people of Scythia same name, authors McCrum, Cran and (Pliny, lib. vi. c. 19). Strabo [Greek histo- MacNeil say, “The tribes which now rian, c. 63 B.C.- 24 A.D.] places them threatened the Celtic chiefs of Britain eastward of the Caspian [Sea]” (p. 87)! were essentially Germanic.... There are, According to historian William Tacitus [famed Roman historian, c. 55- Camden, the Saxons and the Getae 120 A.D.] writes, seven tribes.... One of (Goths) were related Scythian peoples. Seventh century Anglo-Saxon helmet found in the these seven barbarous tribes was the He writes, “But that [opinion] of the most Sutton Hoo mound near the English coast in Suffolk. Angli, known to history as the Angles, learned German seems most probable and The Sutton Hoo treasure is believed to have who probably inhabited the area that is worthy to be embraced, which makes the belonged to an East Anglian king. now known as Schleswig-Holstein Saxons descend from the Sacae, the most people [as] the Gauls or Celts under a [immediately south of Denmark on the considerable people of Asia, and to be so different name; and it is observable Jutland Peninsula].... The speech of the called quasi Sacasones, or Sons of the that the Welsh, who are descended Angli belonged to the Germanic family Sacae, and to have gradually overspread from the Gauls, still call themselves of languages” (pp. 56-58). Europe from Scythia or Sarmatia Cymri or Kymry” (Our British According to Encyclopaedia Asiatica, with the Getae, Suevi, Daci, and Ancestors, 1865, pp. 23, 27). Britannica, the Angli (Angles) definite- others. Nor is their opinion ill-founded, Turner mentions that the ancient ly had a close affinity with the Saxons which brings the Saxons out of Asia” Celtic and Cimmerian languages were the (“Saxons,” 11th ed., vol. 24). The Story (Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. 1, p. same. He also says “that the Kimmerioi of of English continues, “To this day the 151). Herodotus says, “For the Persians the Greeks were the Kimbroi of the [cultural] gap between the English on call all the Scythians Sacae” (Polymnia, Greeks, and the Cimbri of the Latin writ- the one hand and the Welsh, the Scots bk. 7, para. 64). ers.... Diodorus Siculus expressly says, and the Irish on the other, is often The famous English poet and histo- that to those who were called Kimmerioi, huge.... To the Celts, their German rian, John Milton—author of the classic the appellation of Kimbron was applied in conquerors (Angles, Jutes and work, Paradise Lost—wrote, “They [the the process of time.... Plutarch, in his Life Saxons) were all Saxons” (p. 61). Saxons] were a people thought by good of Marius, also identifies the Kimbri with So historians are generally agreed in writers to be descendants of the Sacae, the Kimmerioi” (footnote, p. 28). referring to all the major peoples who fol- a kind of Scythians in the north of

30 Asia, who with a flood of other northern Who Were the Germans? nations came into Europe, toward the declining of the Roman Empire [c. 400s A.D.]” (History of England, 1835, bk. 3, Today, many are confused regarding the word “German” as commonly used in pp. 406-407). Scythian artifacts from history books. Modern Germans have never referred to themselves as “Germans.” many thousands of tombs have been They call themselves Deutsch—and their country, Deutschland. Spanish-speaking found all across southern Russia and as peoples today call Germany by the name Alemania. There are two French words for far west as Berlin. “German.” One is Allemand, which, according to the authoritative French dictionary, Le Petit Robert, is derived from the Latin word Alamanni, a people who were part of Anciently, the vast, sparsely inhab- the confederation of German peoples (p. 50). The other word is Germain, from the ited land stretching from eastern Europe Latin word Germanus. The French dictionary offers a possible etymological sense far into Asia was known as “Scythia.” In (descriptive, literal meaning from root word origins) of “born of the same father and fact, at one time or another, the Scythian mother” or “of the same blood” (p. 862). When the Norman French conquered people were scattered from the England in 1066 A.D., a whole host of French words entered into Anglo-Saxon- Carpathian Mountains, eastward across Celtic usage, which in this case is easily seen. the Steppes of southern Russia, all the The first-mentioned “Germans” were actually a Celtic tribe, which had formerly way to the Great Wall of China! The area lived east of the Rhine River. Notice what the Encyclopaedia Britannica says: “Of the north of the Black Sea, however, was Gaulish [Celtic] tribes west of the Rhine... the Treveri claimed to be of German ori- gin, and the same claim was made by a number of tribes in Belgium.... The mean- their main center from about the fifth ing of this claim is not quite clear, as there is some obscurity concerning the origin century B.C. until they migrated west- of the name Germani. It appears to be a Gaulish term, and there is no evidence ward from that region during the first that it was ever used by the Germans themselves. According to Tacitus it was centuries of the Christian Era. first applied to the Tungri, whereas Caesar records that four Belgic tribes... were col- The westward migration of the lectively known as Germani. Scythians into Europe greatly diminished “There is no doubt that these tribes were all linguistically Celtic, and it is now the their numbers in their Asian homeland. prevailing opinion that they were not of German origin ethnologically, but that their This enabled them to be pushed com- claim had come from over the Rhine (Caesar de Bellico Gallico ii 4).It would there- pletely out of Asia and eastern Europe by fore seem that the name Germani originally denoted certain Celtic tribes to the east of the Rhine” (“Germany,” 11th ed., p. 830). According to Kephart’s Races of the Sarmatians—the ancestors of the Mankind, the word “German” simply means “warrior” (p. 380)—i.e. Guerre-man = Slavs. Many modern nations of Europe “war man.” Therefore, it is fairly easy to see how later warlike invaders of this same can claim descent from the Scythians: territory—the northern Teutonic or Scythian peoples as well as the modern “This second stock of the European pop- Germans—could have easily been referred to as “Germans.” ulation [the Scythians] is peculiarly inter- This also explains how some Germans have been labeled as Celts. Notice this esting to us [Anglo-Saxons], because description of the Celts in the Britannica: “The ancient writers regarded as homoge- from its branches not only our own neous all the fair-haired peoples dwelling north of the Alps, the Greeks terming them immediate ancestors, but also those of all Keltoi. [The Romans called the same Celtic peoples Galli or Gauls.] Physically the most celebrated nations of modern they fall into two loosely-divided groups, which shade off into each other. The first of these is restricted to northwestern Europe, having its chief seat in Scandinavia. It is Europe, have unquestionably descended. distinguished by a long head, a long face, a narrow aquiline nose, blue eyes, very “The Anglo-Saxons, lowland light hair and great stature.... Scots, Normans, Danes, Norwegians, “The other group is marked by a round head, a broad face, a nose often Swedes, Germans, Dutch, Belgians, rather broad and heavy, hazel-gray eyes, light chestnut hair; they are thick-set Lombards and Franks have all sprung and of medium height. This race is often termed Celtic or ALPINE from the from that great fountain of the human fact of its occurrence all along the great mountain chain.... It thus stands MID- race, which we have distinguished by WAY not only geographically but also in physical features BETWEEN the the terms SCYTHIAN, German, or Teutonic type of Scandinavian and the so-called [olive-complexioned] Gothic” (Turner, pp. 82-83)! For his Mediterranean race with its long head, long face, its rather broad nose, dark brown or black hair, dark eyes, and slender form of medium height” (“Celt,” 11th unparalleled work in ancient historiogra- ed., vol. 5). Though the “Alpine” group contains some truly Celtic people (as not phy, Turner is certainly to be highly all Celts are tall and fair-haired), the majority of the Alpine people are actually respected. But is his identification of the true Germans. Notice that they are a completely different stock of people from Scythians with the Germans accurate? the Northwest European types mentioned first. How do we know that the Germans should be identified with this “Alpine” people? Are the Anglo-Saxons Madison Grant, in The Passing of the Great Race (1916) writes that “from the time of the 30 Years War [ended 1648], the purely Teutonic race in Germany has been large- True Germans? ly replaced by the ALPINE types in the south and by the Wendish [Slavic] and Polish Most true Germans are character- types in the east. This change of race in Germany has gone so far that it has been computed that out of 70,000,000 inhabitants of the German Empire [at the time], only ized by “Alpine” round skulls (see 9,000,000 are purely Teutonic in color, stature, and skull characters” (p. 185). box: “Who Were the Germans?”). Yet Fleure, in The Peoples of Europe, says that “the dominant broad-headedness ethnologist Madison Grant writes, “In of the Alpine” race has spread over most of modern Germany (p. 42). It is sim- the study of European populations ply indisputable that this is the modern type of German today. 31 It is helpful to note that any- one who lived in the vast region of Scythia (beyond the limits of the Greco-Roman world) was looked upon as a “Scythian”—a term which incorrectly came to be syn- onymous with “barbarian” from the perspective of Greek and Roman writers. Actually, the Scythian tribes had a well-devel- oped, though nomadic, way of life. These nomads dwelled mainly in tents or wagons. They raised some crops, but their main talent was in tending livestock: cat- tle, sheep, goats and especially horses! The Scythians were acknowledged to have been the best horsemen of their day, and no cavalrymen could match their skill in fighting. In about 512 B.C., Darius the Great tried to subdue them north of the Danube River and the Black Sea, but he failed. On numerous occasions the Scythians defeated the powerful armies of their enemies—the Assyrians, Persians and Romans. In fact, it was some of the hard-riding, violence-loving Scythian tribes which later laid in the dust the might and glory of Rome! Archaeological evidence and historical records reveal that the Scythians were fair- skinned peoples closely akin to, if not iden- tical to, today’s northwestern Europeans! In fact, archaeologists have discovered burial mounds containing the frozen bodies of Scythian chieftains and their retainers. “The chieftains were exceptionally tall and strong and... racially the Altai [a Scythian tribe] were predominantly [of] European type.... At least one man had black wavy hair and one woman a luxuriant soft pile of dark chestnut tresses. A silver and gilt amphora [vase] discovered in 1862 in a grave at a site called Chertomlyk, also on the Dnieper, bears in relief

the great and fundamental fact Keith wrote that “the Briton and of Anatomy,’ regarded the flat about the British Isles is the almost German represent contrasted and occiput as a German characteris- total absence there today of true opposite types of humanity” (The tic.... He came, rather unwillingly, to Alpine round skulls” (p. 137). Graphic, Dec. 4, p. 720). He explained, the conclusion that the vast majority Ripley, in The Races of Europe, “The radical difference in the two of modern German people differed says, “The most remarkable trait of the forms leaps to the eye. In the majority from the British, Dutch, Dane and population of the British Isles is its head of the Briton—English, Welsh, Scandinavian in head form. form; and especially the uniformity in Scottish and Irish—the hinder part of “The explanation,” according to this respect which is everywhere mani- the head, the occiput, projects promi- Keith, “is easy. With the exodus of the fested. The prevailing type is that of the nently backwards behind the line of the Franks to France and the Anglo-Saxons long and narrow cranium, accompanied neck; the British head is long in com- to Britain in the fifth, sixth, seventh by an oval rather than broad or round parison with its width” (p. 720). and eighth centuries of our era, face” (p. 303). Remember that this is the Keith then pointed out that “in the Germany was almost denuded of her same as the northern Celtic type. It is vast majority of Germans,” the back of long-headed elements in her popula- also the same as the Teutonic, the head is “flattened”—indicating “a tion.” So the land of Germany seems Scandinavian type—the Scythian type! profound racial difference. Even in the to have been operating as a massive In a 1915 article—“Are We sixteenth century, Vesalius, who is SIEVE—while the round-headed Cousins to the Germans?”—Sir Arthur universally recognized as the ‘father population elements were retained,

32 on its gleaming surface a group of Scythians who could be American wranglers: one is rop- ing a shaggy-maned steed, another is removing hobbles from a saddled horse.... The Budini [another Scythian tribe, were] a powerful people with bright red hair and deep blue eyes.... Sometimes the Scythians pre- pared a sort of haggis [a Scottish dish] by boiling the flesh of a cow Upper left: hard-fighting Scythian in its own skin. cavalryman carrying a javelin. “They were in all respects a passionate Bottom left: detailed comb of people—bearded men with dark, deep-set Scythians in combat. Middle: eyes, weather-cured faces and long wind- detailed gold pectoral depicting life snarled hair. They drank from the skulls of scenes in the Scythian world. Upper slain enemies and flaunted the scalps of right: detail of a frieze on an ampho- their foes as trophies. In a time when ra showing a group of Scyths break- nations had not yet developed skilled caval- ing in a horse. Bottom right: a gold rymen and relied almost entirely on foot sol- and enamel torc of thick, plaited wire diers and chariots, the Scythians came rid- adorned with Scythian horsemen. ing at the gallop, shooting fusillades of singing arrows from their bows. “Herodotus also reported that the Scythians liked to get high from marijuana! ‘In order to cleanse their bodies, the men make a booth by fixing in the ground three sticks inclined toward one another, and stretching around them woolen felts; inside the booth a dish is placed on the ground, into which they put a number of red- hot stones, and then add some hemp seed. Immediately it gives out such a vapor as no Greek vapor bath can exceed’” (Frank Trippet, The First Horsemen, Time-Life Books, New York, 1974, pp. 9, 18, 105-106, 112, 122). So the ancient Scythians not only looked like most of our American and British peoples (and others of northwestern European descent) today, they even appear to have passed on some of their terrible habits to our modern peoples—their descendants.

the long-headed elements passed estimated at more than 4,500,000.... the remainder of the Empire—no, not through. This is rather astounding! “The greater number of the more even excluding Prussia, east of the Elbe— Could something like this have hap- recent emigrants [to the U.S.] was from is less Teutonic in type; until finally in the pened by chance alone? Surely there the agricultural provinces of northern essentially Alpine broadheaded popula- was something more at work here! Germany—West Prussia, Posen, tions of Baden, Wurttemburg, and Did any more of the Scandinavian Pomerania, Mecklenburg, Schleswig- Bavaria in the south, the Teutonic race long-headed type leave? Yes—to Holstein and Hanover, and sometimes the passes from view” (p. 214). America! Look at the entry on emigration reached 1% of the total popu- It is generally known that the “Germany” in the Britannica: “There lation of these provinces. In subsequent northern “Low Germans” differ from have been great oscillations in the actual years the emigration of native Germans the southern “High Germans.” But emigration by sea. It first exceeded greatly decreased” (11th ed., vol. 11). there were differences even among 100,000 soon after the Franco-German What is so special about northern the Low Germans. War (1872, 126,000), and this occurred Germany? Notice this reference from Another source comments, “A sepa- again in the years 1880 to 1892. Germany Ripley’s Races of Europe: rate study, in the case of Germany at least lost during these thirteen years more than “Northwestern Germany—Hanover, would seem to indicate that those [immi- 1,700,000 inhabitants by emigration. The Schleswig-Holstein, Westphalia—is dis- grants] who went to the U.S.A. in the total number of those who sailed for the tinctly allied to the physical type of the 1800s were somehow different from United States from 1820 to 1900 may be Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes. All those who stayed behind and German 33 America and Britain in Prophecy officials themselves remarked on such Armenia! Notice this from the multime- people. Bede was just ONE person. a difference. The claim for such a dis- dia encyclopedia, Microsoft Encarta ’95: More than likely, it was he who made tinction is based on consideration of “Iberia, ancient name for both the the slip by using the word “Armorica”! physical types, areas-of-origin within Iberian Peninsula and the country Samuel Lyson’s history also traces the Germany, religious orientation and social lying between the Greater Caucasus “Cimbri” to Armenia. And remember outlook” (Yair Davidy, The Tribes, and Armenia, approximately coexten- that Armenia was just south of Iberia Russell-Davis Publishers, p. 430). It sive with present-day Georgia [south and the Caucasus! seems America’s Puritan founders were of Russia]” (“Iberia,” Microsoft Corp. Observe this from the 11th edition indeed right in believing that God was and Funk and Wagnall’s Corp., 1994). of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: sifting a whole nation! This word is also the probable ori- “Cimmerii... Herodotus (iv., 11-13), in It is clear, then, that the Anglo- gin of the name, Ireland! The name his account of Scythia, regards them as Saxon peoples are not Germanic—at Ireland comes from Eire-land (“Eire” the early inhabitants of South Russia least in the modern sense of that term. being what the Irish call it). (after whom the Bosporus Cimmerius Neither are the Teutonic peoples of Traditionally, this name came from q.v. and other places were named), dri- Scandinavia and the rest of Northwest “Erin.” The Romans called it Hibernia or ven by the Scyths along by the Europe who sprang from the Scythians. Ivernia. It sometimes appears as Iberon. Caucasus into Asia Minor, where they These people who overran the But where did these names come from? maintained themselves for a century.... British Isles were in many respects the The late Harvard professor Barry “Certainly it is that in the middle of same as the Celts who were already living Fell wrote, “One of the ancient names of the seventh century [650s] B.C., Asia there. Notice what Professor Huxley’s Ireland is Ibheriu, pronounced as Iveriu, Minor was ravaged by northern nomads Racial Origins says: “The invasion of the a fact that suggests that the word is (Herodotus iv., 12), one body of whom is Saxons, the Goths, the Danes and the derived from a still-earlier pronunciation, called in Assyrian sources Gimirrai and Normans changed the language of Iberiu. Now this is very interesting, for is represented as coming through the Britain, but added no new physical ele- the Gaelic histories assert that the ances- Caucasus. To the north of the Euxine ment. Therefore we should not talk tors of the Gaels came to Ireland from [Black Sea] their main body was merged anymore of Celts and Saxons, for Iberia, the old name of Spain. Could in the invading Scyths. Later writers THEY ARE ALL ONE. I never lose an Iberiu be the same as Iberia, the name of identified them with the Cimbri of opportunity of rooting up the false idea the older homeland having been trans- Jutland [present-day Denmark], who that the Celts and Saxons are different ferred to the younger? Many people, were probably Teutonized Celts” races.” Winston Churchill was of the including some linguists, think this may (“Cimmerii,” vol. 6, p. 368). same opinion (History of the English- well be the case” (America B.C.: Ancient This is quite strange. Around the Speaking Peoples, vol. 1, preface). Settlers in the New World, 1976, p. 43). 650s B.C., 70 years after Israel’s second The Celtic people are certainly not Could such Irish forebears in Spain deportation in 721, a group of German either. The modern Germans have come from the area of Iberia just Scythians—evidently southeast of the (Deutch) represent an altogether different south of the Caucasus Mountains? The Cimmerians—were pushing some group of people located today in Greater Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 891 A.D.), Cimmerians north through the Caucasus Germany—i.e. Germany, Austria, west- the primary source for the early history and some west through Asia Minor. Yet, ern Poland, the western Czech Republic of England, says Southwest Asia was at the Cimmerians who went north through and the Rhineland of eastern France. We one time the home of the Celts: “The the Caucasus encountered more will learn the true identity of these people first inhabitants [of England] were Scythians coming from the east! How later in this brochure. Britons [Welsh or Kymry], who came was this possible? The answer will from ARMENIA, and first peopled become clear when we later learn who From Where Did Britain southward” (p. 21, translated by the Scythians actually were. the Celts Arise? James Ingram). Some people argue that the compil- Armenian Homeland? When did the Celts or Cimmerians ers of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle used begin migrating into Europe? And from the word “Armenia” by mistake. They Dr. Robert Owen says, “In leaving where did they come? Though they have cite the fact that A History of the English the Far East, they [the Cimmerians, since moved on, a large Celtic populace Church and People by Bede (673-735 Cimbri or Kymri] must have occupied spent a considerable amount of time in A.D.), which was used as one of the a country south of the Caucasus, Spain. There they were known as the sources for the Chronicle, has a similar extending from the river Araxes Celtiberri or Celtiberians—thus Spain sentence using the word “Armorica” [between the Caspian and Black Seas], and Portugal are located on the “Iberian instead—i.e. modern Brittany in north- to the... Sea of Azov [north of the Peninsula.” This is quite interesting since western France. However, those who Black Sea], where Herodotus remarks Iberia was the name of a region between argue in favor of this should consider on the many places yet bearing the the Black and Caspian Seas, just south of that the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle was a name of Kimmerian in his time” (The the Caucasus Mountains and north of monumental work overseen by MANY Kymry, p. 11). Owen discovered “in the

34 Anglo-American Ethnic Roots nomenclature of rivers and mountains Scythians during the seventh century monk and historian] and the Anglo-Saxon some grounds for inferring the occupa- B.C.” (“Crimea,” Encyclopaedia Chronicle and all our earliest histories, tion of the country east of the Euxine Britannica, vol. 7). Under Scythian pres- and to anyone who has studied the ques- Sea [Black Sea] by Celts or traces of sure, these “Celtic Cimmerians” were tion, seems most convincing” (p. 27). their presence, which any temporary forced into Europe and on around the How and when did the Scythian irruption [forcible entry] in later times Black Sea to its southwestern shores. fathers of the Anglo-Saxon and other will never suffice to explain” (p. 12). There they converged with other Celts Northwest European peoples come into So we see a great deal of historical (Cimmerians), who had been pushed Europe? Madison Grant wrote, “The evidence that the Celtic people traveled westward across Asia Minor by a differ- Nordics [Scythians]... migrated around north through the Caucasus region into ent group of Scythians, and had crossed the northern and eastern sides of the eastern Europe. Dr. Owen continues, “It the Bosporus Strait into Thrace—pre- Caspian-Aral Sea” (p. 214). Sharon is not impossible that Turner says, “Herodotus, some of the Kimmerioi, besides the main Scythia, who retired from their which he places in Asiatic home before the Europe, mentions also an onset of the Scythians, Eastern or Asiatic took a northern course, Scythia, beyond [east of] which the pursuers after- “The first inhabitants [of England] were the Caspian [Sea] and wards followed... from the Britons, who came from Armenia.” Iaxartes [River]” (p. 82). Sea of Azov to the shores Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 891 A.D.) But where did the of the Baltic” (pp. 26-27). Scythians come from? Thus the Cimmerians Remember that the name moved north, along the Saxon was from eastern side of the Black “Saksun” which came Sea, and were then forced from “Sakai-Suna.” This westward by the advanc- branch of the Sacae is ing Scythians—who were coming sent-day European Turkey. Sharon actually mentioned in ancient history: around the north side of the Caspian Turner wrote, “The Kymry came from “They seized Bactriana, and the most Sea from the east. the eastern parts of Europe, or the fertile part of Armenia, which, from When did this merger and struggle regions where Constantinople them, derived the name Sakasina; they between the Cimmerians and Scythians [Istanbul, Turkey] now stands” (p. 32). defeated Cyrus; and they reached the occur? Dr. Edwin Guest says, “Our The Danube River formed the north- Cappodoces on the Euxine. most trustworthy authorities agree in ern border of Thrace. The migrating “This important fact of a part of fixing these events in the latter part of Celtic Cimmerians followed the Danube Armenia having been named Sakasina, the sixth century B.C.” (Origines westward, then—as we’ve seen—fanned is mentioned by Strabo... and seems to Celtica, vol. 1, 1883, p. 17). He thinks out over Europe into France, Belgium, give a geographical locality to our that historic event occurred in the late Switzerland, northern Italy and northern primeval ancestors, and to account for 500s B.C.—two centuries after the Spain. Some of them settled in the the Persian words that occur in the Saxon Israelites had been taken captive, and “Cimbric Chersonosus,” the Jutland language, as they [the Saxons] must about a century after the Assyrian Peninsula of modern Denmark (though have come into Armenia from the Empire was destroyed (612 B.C.). some writers have also used this name northern regions of Persia” (Turner, p. This time frame makes sense. for the Crimea). Others moved north- 87)! So at this point the Scythian Saxons Remember that World Book says little ward into Scandinavia, while a consider- were in the same region as the was known of the Celts until the 500s able number of them migrated further Cimmerians! What’s going on here? B.C. Notice also: “The Celts [began] to westward into Britain and Ireland. emerge from the anonymous mass of the Lysons’s history summarizes these The Master Key non-literate peoples of Europe during facts quite well: “The chain of evidence Linking Two Great Peoples the late sixth century B.C.” (Vencelais seems to be complete. Appian [of Kruta, Celts of the West, pp. 10-11). Alexandria, Greek historian, 2nd century The real master key to unlocking As the Cimmerians came up around A.D.]... says the Cimbri were Celts. the mystery of why the Cimmerians the Black Sea, they migrated to the Diodorus [of Sicily] says that the Cimbri and Scythians were both coming from Crimea, north of that sea: “Crimea were Gauls or Celts; Gauls were the same places—around the south [called by the Russians by the Tartar Galatae... Geltae or Keltae. The names Caspian Sea region—is to be found in name Krym or Crim]... a peninsula on the are synonymous.... The Cymric Celts the well-known BEHISTUN ROCK north side of the Black Sea.... The earli- [migrated] from Armenia to Britain... it INSCRIPTIONS (also called Bisutun est inhabitants... were the Celtic confirms all the traditions of the Welsh, Inscriptions). Cimmerians, who were expelled by the the views of Nennius [9th century British While exploring Persia in 1835, a 35 America and Britain in Prophecy

British army officer, Sir Henry Henry Rawlinson, who copied and deci- Cimmerians or perhaps both since the Rawlinson, noticed a great rock rising phered the inscriptions (1835-1845), and Scyths and Cimmerians were origi- about 1,700 feet above the main road thus completed the reading of the old nally ONE ENTITY” (Davidy, p. 360). from Babylon to Media. On the face of cuneiform text and laid the foundation Sir Henry Rawlinson was also of that perpendicular rock cliff, 400 feet of the science of Assyriology” this opinion: “The identification of the above the road, Rawlinson noticed a (“Behistun,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, Persian Sacae or Scythians with the smoothed surface with cuneiform 11th ed., vol. 3). people named by the Greeks (wedge-shaped) engravings. Upon further Do the Behistun Rock Inscriptions Kimmerioi [Cimbri = Celts]... would investigation, Sir Henry noticed that those help us in understanding our Celtic seem highly probable” (Proceedings inscriptions were written in three lan- (Cimmerian) and Anglo-Saxon of the Royal Asiatic Society, May 12, guages: Persian, Susian (Elamite or (Scythian) heritage? Yes! They list 23 1849, p. xxi). How about that! provinces which then constituted Incredibly, history reveals that the Celts the Persian Empire (c. 520 B.C.). (Cimmerians) were merely the western According to the translation by branch of the wide-ranging Scythians! L.W. King and R.C. Thompson Madison Grant concurred with this (Inscriptions of Darius the Great conclusion, writing that the at Behistun, British Museum, Cimmerians, the Sacae (Saxons) and 1907), the 19th province listed, in the Massagetae all sprang from the the Persian language, is called Scythians (p. 194). So these great peo- “Scythia” (phonetic: Saka— ples, seemingly originating in northern Rawlinson has Sacae). It is also Mesopotamia and in Persia, were basi- named “Scythia” (phonetic: cally the same. The Cimmerians (to the Sakka) in the Susian (Median) lan- west) and the Scythians (to the east— guage. But, in the Babylonian lan- yet always advancing westward upon guage, that same province is called the Cimmerians) were actually branch- “the land of the Cimmerians” es of the same great family! (phonetic: Gimiri)! The Cimmerians and Scythians must Dating the Emergence have been of the SAME PEOPLE! of the Celto-Scythians Notice the following extract from The History of Herodotus: When did the Scythian people first “The ethnic name of Gimiri first come on the scene? “The term occurs in the cuneiform records ‘Scythians’ [Gk. Skythes] is used both to of the time of Darius Hystapses describe specific tribes which inhabited [Darius I], as the Semitic equiva- the north and east of the Black Sea lent of the Arian name Saka beginning in the seventh century B.C. The Behistun Rock Inscriptions describing the [Sacae = Scythians = Saxons].... and as a generic word for horse-riding rise to power of Darius I of the Achaemenid The nation spoken of contained pastoralists [shepherds]” (“Scythians,” royal house over the Persian Empire around at this time two divisions, the Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 5). Turner 522-521 B.C. eastern branch, named confirms this: “The emigrating Scythians Median) and Babylonian. These inscrip- Humurga... and the [western branch] crossed the Araxes [in Armenia], passed tions had been engraved around 520 B.C. Tigrakkuda or ‘archers,’ who [shared a out of Asia, and invading the at the command of Persian Emperor common border]... with the Assyrians” Cimmerians, suddenly appeared in Darius I—or “Darius the Great” (ruled (translated by G. Rawlinson, H. Europe, in the seventh century before 521-486 B.C.)—to commemorate his Rawlinson and J.G. Wilkinson). the Christian Era [600s B.C.]” (p. 85). reign and military successes. Here is more about these eastern Chambers Encyclopedia says, Rawlinson performed a great ser- and western branches of the Scythians: “Scythians: Greek Skuthai, Latin Scythae, vice for historical scholarship when he “A group of Amyrgian Scythians in the Assyrian Ashguzai... the Persians called made squeezes (clay impressions) of the time of Darius, king of Persia, were all people like them Saka, were the first inscriptions. For modern historians, those reported as then dwelling on the Tigris nomadic people of which we have any trilingual cuneiform inscriptions proved [River] banks. They were led by a chief real knowledge.... Herodotus said that the to be a master key to understanding the Saku’ka and revolted against the Persian Scyths came out of upper Asia crossing ancient languages of the Near East, rulers. In a bilingual inscription these the Araxes... somewhere about 700 thereby unlocking to the world the vast Amyrgians are called Saka Humuvashka B.C., and fell upon the Cimmerians... so treasures of Assyrian and Babylonian lit- in Persian and Gimirri Umurgah in that part [of the Cimmerians] were erature: “In 1835 the difficult and almost Babylonian. Gimirri [in the Babylonian destroyed... and part driven through the inaccessible cliff was first climbed by Sir version] means either ‘Tribes’ or Caucasus into regions about Armenia and

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Media” (“Scythians,” vol. 12). Fascinating Racial Roots! Many have tried to argue that the Cimmerians were north of the Caucasus first and then migrated south through the Caucasus—later going back north again (by All peoples on earth today have descended from Noah’s this reasoning, the only way to explain the northward three sons—Shem, Ham and Japheth—as recorded in Genesis migration that we definitely know transpired). Yet we see 10. (NOTE: By comparing the known geographic origins of the nothing of the Celtic Cimmerians north of the Caucasus major racial groups with the ancient locations of the biblically list- ed descendants of Noah’s sons, it is possible to determine which until around 500 B.C. However, historical evidence clear- son of Noah fathered which major race.) Ham is the father of the ly places them south of the Caucasus, in Armenia, when Negroids—the dark-skinned peoples who inhabited Africa, India, the Scythians met them in about 700 B.C. And they must and, anciently, certain eastern Mediterranean countries like have been there for at least a short while before that. So Canaan. Japheth is the father of the Mongoloids—the yellow when the Cimmerians did go north through the Caucasus, and brown peoples of Asia and the native Indian tribes of North, that was almost certainly their first time being there. Central and South America. Many of the olive-skinned peoples What else can we learn of this time? Chambers con- who inhabited the countries of the northern rim of the tinues, “For the whole seventh century [600s B.C.] Mediterranean Sea (e.g. Greeks) are also descendants of Scythians and Cimmerians played their part in the confu- Japheth and his sons. Shem is the father of the Caucasoids— the fair-skinned blonds, red-heads and brunets who are often sion that reigned in western Asia during the last days of called the “white” peoples. So the Anglo-Saxon-Celts must have the Assyrian empire and the resurgence of Babylon. The descended from Shem. This makes absolutely perfect sense Scythians were mentioned in Assyrian records first under when you realize that the very name of the Caucasian race is Esarhaddon (681-669 B.C.); whereas the Cimmerians derived from the CAUCASUS MOUNTAINS—the area we’ve were hostile to the Assyrians, the Scythians [at this time] been reading so much about! seem to have been friendly.... [The Scythians] are said to Some, though, have argued that Shem’s descendants— have ruled Asia 28 years, penetrating as far as the borders including Abraham’s descendants (Gen. 11:21-32)—are not of Egypt, and taking a part in the siege of Nineveh, 612 white. Yet the Bible clearly describes Abraham and Sarah’s B.C. No one has satisfactorily fitted this 28 years into the descendants as “fair” (Heb. yapheh—Gen. 12:11; 24:16; 26:7; Esther 2:7 KJV). As a youth, King David (a Jew) was “ruddy and chronology of Media and Babylonia. Herodotus repre- of a fair countenance” (1 Sam. 17:42 KJV). Such words could sented the Scyths as returning after it into south Russia never be used to describe either Hamites or Japhethites. “Ruddy: and reestablishing their dominion there. Here we may red; reddish; of the colour of healthy skin in white-skinned peo- regard them as continuously dominant from 700 B.C. ples” (Chambers Concise Dictionary, 1988, p. 932). Israel’s till the last century B.C.” Nazarites are described as being “purer than snow, they were The Anchor Bible Dictionary entry on “Scythians” whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies” also mentions Esarhaddon’s reign: “The Scythians... (Lam. 4:7 KJV). What peoples might have “ruby-red cheeks”? apparently first appear in written history in the annals of These are words that could never apply to darker-skinned peo- Esarhaddon, and seem to be centered at that time in ples. Black, brown, yellow or even olive-skinned Mediterranean- type people could never be called “ruddy in body.” what is today Northwest Iran. According to Herodotus What color are the majority of today’s ethnic Jews—many of (1.103-6) the Scythians ruled over all of the Near East whom live in Russia or New York City? White! Many of them could for 28 years after entering the area from the north; tra- easily pass for British, Scandinavian or other Nordic European ditionally this period of rule is assigned to the seventh types. Notice this quote by Huxley and Haddon in We Europeans, or sixth century B.C.... By the third century B.C., the concerning the few Nordic type people in Germany: “Hence their Scythian presence in the Near East is restricted to the physique... is identical: fierce blue eyes, red hair (rutilae comae), Crimea and the shores of the Black Sea. Ovid [famous tall frames.... It may be noted that red hair is rare among mod- Latin poet, banished to the Black Sea for unknown rea- ern Germans, save among those of Jewish origin” (p. 36)! sons in 8 A.D.] records Scythian life in the first century Though some of Shem’s descendants are darker because of their intermarriage with darker-skinned peoples, still, it is almost A.D., by which time their power is spent; the Scythians exclusively among the descendants of Shem—such as the shortly after fade from history.” Israelites—that we find light-skinned brunets, red-heads and The same article reveals that Scythian “grave blonds. Therefore the Celts and Scythian Anglo-Saxons must be goods [artifacts recovered by archaeologists from descendants of Shem! Another indication of this descent is found tombs] demonstrate economic interaction with the in the following quote: “Alfred, king of the Anglo-Saxons [b. 849 local settled populations, in the seventh and sixth cen- A.D.] was... the son [descendant] of Sem [Shem]” (Church turies with Urartians [people of Ararat = Armenians] Historians of England, vol. 2, p. 443). Notice also: “So the Anglo- and other northeast groups and in the fifth and fourth Saxons may well have had records of the ancestry of their centuries with Greeks.... Although the Scythians pri- kings, beginning with Sceaf... and calling Sceaf the son of Noe, born in the Ark, or even identifying him with the Patriarch marily lived in tents [as wanderers among the Shem” (Haigh, Conquest of Britain by the Saxons, p. 115). nations!], there is some evidence in the North Steppe of Nothing here implies that one skin color is somehow bet- settlements dating to the seventh or sixth century B.C.” ter than another. They are just different! God loves all peoples. Many scholars have believed that the Scythians orig- He is Creator of the many genetic differences among the inated in the Russian Steppes and LATER moved south races—including all the various shades and hues of skin. 37 America and Britain in Prophecy around both sides of the Caspian Sea. In Samuel Lysons says, “Thus I pro- that the Celtic and Scythian languages fact, the very opposite is true! pose to show in the course of these pages, were both tied to Hebrew! Isn’t it Archaeologists have examined a great when we come to the relics of British becoming more and more clear who number of graves in the Steppes and have worship remaining in this country... the these people were? confirmed that Scythian culture in that remarkable similarity between those In his authoritative 1913 work, area didn’t begin until the end of the sev- names and the Hebrew and Chaldee Scythians and Greeks, Ellis H. Minns enth century B.C. (From the Lands of the languages. The same theory holds good wrote of the “Scythians.... Next in impor- Scythians: Ancient Treasures from the in the names of some of our old British tance to their horses came the cattle used Museums of the U.S.S.R. 3000 B.C.-100 families” (p. 21). Continuing, he writes, for drawing their great waggons.... They B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art and “Now whatever may be the historical had sheep as well, for mutton bones are Los Angeles Museum of Art, p. 99). value of the Welsh poems, it is undoubt- found in cauldrons in the tombs, as for There is NO archaeological evi- ed that Taliesin [renowned 6th century example at Kul Oba. They made no use dence showing that Scythians were in Welsh poet] in his Angar Cyfyndawd, of pigs either in sacrifice or any other south Russia prior to the late 600s says that his lore had been ‘declared in way.... [and] regarded swine as tabu” B.C.—certainly not thousands of years Hebrew, in Hebraic’” (p. 22). (p. 49). Where did this prohibition against prior, as some modern scholars have Thus, Lysons argued that the Celtic eating pork originate? Could it have been claimed! Yet there is much evidence of tongue was closely related to the from the Hebrew Bible? Leviticus 11:7-8 Scythians around the southern Caspian Hebrew language. “Yet this we gather says, “And the swine... is unclean to you. area well before 600—and even back to from the names attaching to the British Their flesh you shall not eat, and their car- 700 when they clashed with the monuments... that there is a strong affin- casses you shall not touch” (cf. Deut. Cimmerians in Armenia! ity between these British names and that 14:8). As is commonly known, the Herodotus realized that these people language of which Hebrew is either the Orthodox Jews of today still strictly weren’t originally from there. So he original or one of its earliest off-shoots; observe this dietary principle. picked another place of origin—to the and that therefore Hebrew, Chaldee, or Robert Owen relates another inter- north. Yet, as we’ve just seen, that can’t some other very near cognate, must esting detail: “Some of their Celtic be! Where did they come from then? have been the language of the first traditions resemble Semitic records Earlier, we read Sharon Turner’s conclu- inhabitants [the Celts or Kymry] of of antediluvian patriarchs” (p. 33). sion that these fathers of the Saxons must this island” (p. 83). Isn’t that amazing? This historian then shows that, like the have come from southeast of Armenia— But Lysons isn’t the only one who Israelites of old (2 Kings 21:1-5), the from PERSIA. Thus the Scythians must sees a kinship between the ancient Celtic ancient Britons worshipped “Baal, the have been in Persia, south of the Caspian, tongue spoken by the Kymry and the sun, and the hosts of heaven.... Our even shortly before 700 B.C. And, in fact, Hebrew language. Robert Owen writes, British ancestors were devoted to that Turner informs us that Homer dated the “Most Welsh scholars have employed kind of worship which they brought rise of these people to that time. their time on the production of grammars with them from the East, whence they IMPORTANT NOTE: We have and dictionaries. The Hebrew learning of came at a very early period, even close established that the emergence of the Dr. John Davies of Mallwyd seems to upon the Patriarchal times of Holy Cimmerians (Celts) in Armenia and have influenced his countrymen to accept Writ” (pp. 93-94). their Scythian (Saxon) brothers in the Puritan atavism [resemblance to Sharon Turner noted the following Persia, south of the Caspian Sea, remote ancestors] of referring Welsh to remarkable practice of the ancient occurred in the 700s B.C. Yet those the language of Moses [Hebrew] as its Britons: “The Kimbri swore by a places were not their original cradles. fountain” (p. vi). brazen bull, which they carried with This is a very significant fact of history. What about the Scythians? Is their them” (p. 34). This fact is a grim language also related somehow? The reminder of the idolatrous “calf worship” Language Says It All! Scyths spoke Scythiac, which is classi- which Jeroboam (first king of the Ten fied thus: “Scythiac... Scythian [lan- Tribes of Israel) introduced into the Can we derive any clues about the guage]... There is a strong similarity Northern Kingdom. Where, then, is all of origins of the Celts or Scythians based between the Hebrew and the Scythian this leading us? on their languages or traditions? It may languages” (“Scythiac,” New English come as a surprise to learn that Dictionary on Historical Principles, An Inescapable Encyclopaedia Britannica reports, “For 1971, vol. 8). Then why isn’t English— Conclusion! many centuries the affinities of the our language through the Anglo- Celtic languages were the subject of Saxons—like Hebrew? Undoubtedly, as Remember from chapter one that great dispute. The languages were in the Scythians were “sifted through” the the northern Ten Tribes of Israel had turn regarded as descended from true German peoples, they must have been carried away in two separate cap- Hebrew, Teutonic and Scythian” adopted much of the early Germanic tivities. The first one, which took place (“Celt,” 11th ed., vol. 5). “Hebrew”? language—from which modern English around 734-732 B.C., was the huge How could that be possible? is descended. Still, it is truly remarkable “Galilean Captivity,” in which about

38 Anglo-American Ethnic Roots three-fourths of the Northern Kingdom conclusion by this point! “ten” and the Armenian says “nine and was carried away, including the The closely-related Cimmerians a half”] that were taken away from Israelite tribes dwelling on the EAST (Celts) and Scythians came from two their own land into exile in the days of side of the Jordan River. different areas, of Armenia and Persia, King Hoshea, whom Shalmaneser, This latter aspect of the first depor- which weren’t their original homelands. king of the Assyrians, made captives; tation is described in 1 Chronicles 5:26: These are the very same places that the he took them across the river “So the God of Israel stirred up the spir- Lost Ten Tribes of Israel were taken to [Euphrates], and they were taken it of Pul king of Assyria, that is, as captives in two different deporta- into another land” (13:39-40 NRSV). Tiglath-Pileser.... He carried the tions! The Celto-Scythian people came Perhaps the missing tribe here, if Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half- on the scene at the exact same time the there was one, was Dan since, as we saw tribe of Manasseh into captivity. He Israelites were taken into captivity! in chapter two, many Danites probably took them to Halah, Habor, Hara, and Who cannot now help but see? This is “leapt” west from the Promised Land the river of Gozan to this day.” These simple logic: SAME TIME + SAME (Deut. 33:22) before and during the places, according to The Macmillan PLACES = SAME PEOPLE! Assyrian invasions. Though, undoubted- Bible Atlas, were located in Assyria in To see this even more clearly, did ly, there were still a number of Danites northern Mesopotamia (Yohanan you know that the word “Scythian” is who went into captivity with the rest of Aharoni and Michael Avi-Yonah, pp. in your Bible? It IS—but only once. It their brothers of the Northern Kingdom. 96-97). These locations were in the occurs in Colossians 3:11, in which the Look at what happened next to the immediate vicinity of Armenia! Apostle Paul says that, within God’s Israelites in Assyrian captivity: “But they The second deportation of Israel Church, physical status does not mat- formed this plan for themselves, that they occurred with the fall of Samaria, fol- ter: “Where there is neither Greek would leave the multitude of the nations lowing a three-year siege. This captivity nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircum- and go to a more distant region, where no of the rest of the Northern Kingdom— cised, barbarian [nor] Scythian, human beings had ever lived, so that the small “rump state” left around the slave nor free, but Christ is all and in there at least they might keep their capital city—is described in 2 Kings all.” The missing “nor” here was pro- statutes that they had not kept in their 17:5-6: “Now the king of Assyria went vided in the same way that the New own land. And they went in by the nar- throughout all the land, and went up to King James Version and other Bible row passages of the Euphrates river Samaria and besieged it for three years. translations provide the missing “nor” [undoubtedly the mountain passages In the ninth year of Hoshea [c. 721 between “slave” and “free.” north of Lake Van from the Euphrates to B.C.], the king of Assyria took Samaria Each of the four pairs mentioned the Araxes Rivers].... Through that and carried Israel away to Assyria, and here contain two contrasted types of region there was a long way to go, a placed them in Halah and by the people. The first two clearly contrast journey of a year and a half; and that Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the Gentiles and Israelites. Undoubtedly the country is called Arzareth” (2 Esdras cities of the Medes.” same is true for “barbarian” (Gentile) 13:41-43, 45 NRSV). How are we to understand this and “Scythian” (Israelite). In any case, The Euphrates-Araxes passages just verse? Were those of the second captiv- they are viewed as opposites. Scythians mentioned would take them NORTH ity taken to the same places as those in are looked upon here as not being bar- toward the Caucasus Mountains. What the first captivity—the only additional barians—i.e. not Gentiles. God’s Word, about Arzareth—or Arsareth, as it is destination being the “the cities of the then, supports this conclusion! often spelled? It has traditionally been Medes,” i.e. ancient Media, the territory identified with the region of the Sareth south of the Caspian Sea? Notice this Corroborative Evidence or Siret River—which flows south along important missing detail provided by the east side of the Carpathian the Jewish historian, Josephus: “The Now let’s look at the apocryphal Mountains in eastern Romania until it king of Assyria... besieged Samaria book of 2 Esdras—which claims to be a meets the Danube just before flowing three years and quite demolished the series of apocalyptic visions to Ezra the east into the Black Sea. (Remember that government of the Israelites, and trans- Scribe. Though it cannot be trusted as it took a “year and a half” to get there planted all the people into Media and Scripture, it can nevertheless give us a from south of the Caucasus.) Incredible! Persia” (Antiquities, bk. 9, chap. 14, historical perspective. Zondervan This migration pattern from south of the sec. 1). So the vast majority of the peo- Publishers’ New Revised Standard Caucasus, moving northwest around the ple in the second captivity were taken to Version notes that the bulk of this book north side of the Black Sea until entering the lands south of the Caspian Sea! was probably written at the end of the Eastern Europe was exactly the same What is the significance of these first century A.D. path we have already established for the locations and the time frame of Israel’s Notice the following passage: Cimmerians! Clearly, this is more than Assyrian captivities? If you have kept “And as for your seeing him gather to freak happenstance, isn’t it? in mind the important note mentioned himself another multitude that was Was it mere coincidence that the earlier in this chapter, you may have peaceable, these are the nine tribes Celtic and Scythian languages both had reached a startling, yet inescapable, [footnote: Other Latin manuscripts say strong linguistic roots in Hebrew? Was it 39 GREENLAND ICELAND

PRE-CAPTIVITY & DANITE MIGRATIONS

POST-CAPTIVITY MIGRATIONS ORSEMEN N

SCANDINAVIA HEBRIDES RUSSIA SCOTS SVEA-DAN TUATHA DE DANAAN JUTES GEATS (JUTLAND) Danwina R. ARMATIA

Baltic Sea IBHERIU S DAN-MARK GOTHS CYMRI ANGLES ANGLES T RITAIN H SAXONS Y I B LONGOBARDI SCOLOTOI Eridanus R. C SCUTHS A

BELGAE(Rhine) KIMBRI S GETAE Donets R. SAGETAE BRITTANY Carpathian Mts. G AUL Sareth R.Dniester R. SAKAI Don R. DnieperIMMERIA R. C SEA OF Caspian Sea M

Rhodanus R. The Alps Danube R. ASSAGETAE (Rhone) ARSARETH AZOV MERICA CELTICA Atlantic CRIMEA A GALACIA OSTROGOTHS Ebro R. VISIGOTHS Black Sea Caucasas Mts. (Euxine Sea) Ocean I BERIA THRACE IBERIA ORTUGAL(CELTIBERIA) BYTHINIA PONTUS ORTH ✦ P ROME G ALATIA ARMENIA ✦ N CAPPADOLIA TARTESSUS DardanellesTROY CIMMERI ✦(TARSHISH) ASIA MINOR PILLARS OF HERCULES YAVAN (GREEKS) M ASSYRIA SACAE ESOPOTAMIA (GIBRALTAR) ✦ SICILY ✦ Euphrates R. CARTHAGE MILETUS Tigris R. Israelite Migrations to New Lands! DANAI MEDIA CYPRUS

❁ Some Israelites left the Holy Land very early. Soon after the Exodus, a group of Danites migrated to Greece ✦ Mediterranean TYRE BABYLON and later left for Ireland. King Solomon had a fleet of “Ships of Tarshish” which sailed with the navy of the Sea Phoenician king, Hiram of Tyre. It is a well-accepted fact that Phoenicians established far-flung outposts in PERSIA North Africa, Spain and Ireland. Therefore, during and after Solomon’s reign, it is probable that a number of ISRAEL Israelite colonists did the same—colonizing the British Isles and the coasts of Northwest Europe. JUDAH ❁ In about 734-732 and 721 B.C., the Assyrians deported the Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel into northern Mesopotamia and the region south of the Caspian Sea. When the Assyrian Empire was later crushed SINAI by a Babylonian-Persian-Scythian alliance in 612 B.C., some of the Israelites began to break free from their EGYPT captors’ lands, migrating northwest into Europe. This was a centuries-long process. Persian Gulf ❁ The first wave of Israelites into Europe migrated from northern Mesopotamia. Some traveled west along the south- ARABIA ern Black Sea coast, crossing the Dardanelles. Others went north through the Caucasus Mountains and moved west along the northern Black Sea coast. These peoples became known to historians as the Cimmerians or Celts.

❁ The second wave of Israelites migrated north around the eastern side of the Caspian Sea before being pressed Nile River westward, centuries later, by the Sarmatians (Slavs). Known in history as the Scythians and Sacae, they moved across southern Russia and then northern Poland and Germany. Because of close proximity, the Scythians have at AFRICA Red Sea times been confused with the modern Germans, but they are completely different peoples. The Scythians spread out over most of Northwest Europe, becoming the Scandinavians, Franks, Normans, Lombards, Anglo-Saxons, etc. ❁ No one disputes the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic background of the British, by whom Colonial America was primarily settled. These peoples also migrated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. through unrelated circumstances that the Scythians and Israelites Hard, Physical Evidence! both considered pork taboo? Was it insignificant that the Celts and Scythians were white (Caucasian) people who must have descended from Shem—just like the Israelites? The parallels are Is there any archaeological evidence of Israelites manifold. There can be NO DOUBT—WE HAVE FOUND migrating up through the Caucasus and around the THE LOST TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL! They are the Northwest northern side of the Black Sea? Yes! Europeans who have descended from the Celts and Scythians! Authentic gravestones have been found in the Isn’t this incredible? God performed a great miracle by preserv- region of the Crimea (or Krim—named after the Cimmerians), north of the Black Sea, bearing Hebrew ing the Israelites as a people—as He promised (Amos 9:9). inscriptions. Three of note were referred to by J.W. This is not a new idea. Notice what Encarta ’95 says: Bosanquet in his article, “Synchronous History,” pub- “The so-called Anglo-Israelite theory, which gained consider- lished in the 1873 Transactions of the Society of Biblical able credence in the 17th century, is that the Ten Tribes were Archaeology, volume 2. One reads, “This is the tomb- the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxon peoples; many Jews were stone of Buki, the son of Izchak, the priest; may his rest admitted into England about that time based on the strength be in Eden, at the time of the salvation of Israel. In the of the theory” (“Lost Tribes”). Yet it is more than just a theo- year 702 of the years of our Exile.” The second states, ry! The historical proof is simply overwhelming that the “Rabbi Moses Levi died in the year 726 of our Exile.” Celto-Scythians were none other than the dispossessed And the third says, “Zadok, the Levite, son of Moses, died 4000 after the creation, 785 of our exile.” Israelites. This is not to say that every Celt or Scythian was an Counting from an eighth century B.C. captivity, the Israelite. But the vast majority of them undoubtedly were! years just mentioned indicate that these people died Yet, the greatest and, by far, the strongest proof that our around the beginning of the Christian Era. Bosanquet Northwest European heritage can be traced back to ancient says that, according to Neubauer’s History of the Israel lies in the pages of the Holy Bible—in its record of Crimean Tombs (p. 29), the Israelites there claimed “to prophecies and God’s promises concerning national greatness. be descended from the Ten Tribes.” So, many descen- Only among the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples have the tremen- dants of those Israelites who were deported to Assyria dous birthright blessings promised to Abraham’s descendants still lived north of the Black Sea at this time. been realized. And it is through the Bible that we are able to How these people had gotten there is recorded in an amazing epigraph found on another tombstone in identify the sons of Joseph who have specifically received the this same region. Here is C. Coffin’s translation of A.E. birthright—America and the British-descended nations. Harkavy’s German version (published in Academia What about the rest of the Lost Tribes? Though not recip- Scientiarum Imperialis Memoires, St. Petersburg, vol. ients of the birthright promise of dominance, nevertheless, as 24, no. 1, 1863, p. 9): God’s chosen people also, they have been greatly blessed with material prosperity. There is some debate about which of these I Jehuda ben Mose ha-Nagolon of the East tribes form which Northwest European nations today. And, for country, ben Jehuda ha-Gibbor of the tribe lack of space, we are not able here to explore all the possible of Naphtali, of the generation Schillem, who reasons for thinking that a particular nation may represent a went into the exile with the exiles, who were driven away with Hosea, the king of Israel, specific tribe. Still, it can be stated with a fair amount of cer- together with the tribes of Simeon and Dan tainty that these other tribes may be found in France, and some of the generations of the other Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium, the Netherlands, tribes of Israel, which (all) were led into exile Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland. by the enemy Shalmanesser from Schomron God Almighty kept His promise! HE REALLY KEPT IT! [Samaria] and their cities to Chalach What tremendous trust and faith in God this should inspire in [Halah], that is, Backack and to Chabar us. Here is certain, living proof of a REAL GOD! And this [Habor], that is, Chabul and to Hara, that is, God—the Lord OUR God, the God of OUR FATHERS, Herat, and to Gosan [Gozan], the cities of ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB AND JOSEPH—is not disin- the exiled tribes of Reuben, Gad and the half of Manasseh, which Pilneser [Tiglath- terested, far removed or uninvolved. Our God is an intimate- Pileser] drove into exile and settled there ly INVOLVED God—the God who keeps promises and who (and from there they scattered them- answers prayers! Our Father Abraham trusted in God com- selves over the whole land of the East as pletely. And, for that, we, his descendants—as well as the far as Sinim)—when I returned from wander- non-Israelites who dwell in our lands—have been lifted to the ing in the land of their exile and from jour- heights of the world, blessed as no other peoples have ever neying in the dwelling places of the descen- been. We should fall on our knees before God in continual dants of their generations in their resting thanks for what he has done for us—for these awesome bless- places of the Land of Krim [the Crimea]. ings that we are so unworthy of! This, of course, confirms everything we have In the next chapter, we will examine how God specifical- already seen about the journeyings of the north- ly fulfilled the birthright promises. It is truly an awe-inspiring ern Ten Tribes following their captivity. It is story—filled with amazing evidence of miraculous, divine remarkable historical evidence that they passed intervention! through the Crimea en route to Northwest Europe! ISRAEL’S POST-CAPTIVITY NAMES

How Did the Israelites Become Known as Cimmerians, Celts and Saxons?

The spelling of “Omri,” then, varies in its transliteration by The Land of the House of Omri scholars into English. So which name is right? Omri, Humri or Khumri? Actually, they all are! In antiquity, and in more The Assyrians did not call the Israelites by any Hebrew recent centuries as well, the reduction of oral language into names. They used a different language and hence a different written text opened the door to a variety of possible spellings name: “The usual term for the Kingdom of Israel in the for some words (e.g. site or sight, centre or center). Easy Assyrian inscriptions is not this [Israel].... The ordinary access to stylebooks, dictionaries and computerized spell- designation was rather... ‘Land of the House Omri [mat checking are modern conveniences. bit-Humri]’” (Eberhard Schrader, The Cuneiform To better understand how “Omri” might have been pro- Inscriptions and the Old Testament, vol. 1, p. 177). Recall nounced anciently, we must learn a few things about Semitic from chapter one that King Omri of Israel reigned for 12 languages like Hebrew. For instance, totally unlike English, years. Yet, in that time, he earned quite a name for himself— ancient Semitic languages (and modern ones like Arabic) by moving Israel’s capital to Samaria, subduing the were constructed of “roots” made up of consonants only, with Moabites, etc.—enough to perpetuate his name through no vowels. If English followed the same system, the word other dynasties. “run” would be spelled “rn,” and the word “love” would become James Hastings comments, “Omri seems to have been an “lv.” Also, Semitic languages shared some “root” words in able soldier and he subdued Moab to Israel. This is acknowl- common and speakers didn’t hesitate to adopt another edged by the Moabite King Mehsa in an inscription which has Semitic language’s word into their vocabulary. Thus the word come down to us [“Moabite Stone”].... The Assyrians first for “son” (Heb. ben) becomes in Aramaic, bar (Davidy, p. 176). became acquainted with Israel in the time of Omri, and The root word for “Omri” is composed of the three they call the country of the Ten Tribes of Israel ‘the land of Hebrew letters ayin, mem and resh, with a final yud indicat- the house of Omri’ even after the extinction of his dynasty” ing the vowel, long e (the “i” in English is pronounced “ee” in (“Omri,” Dictionary of the Bible, vol. 1, p. 668). Hebrew). Of critical importance is how the first consonant of “Omri [was]... the founder of one of the greatest dynas- the Hebrew root for “Omri”—the letter ayin—was pronounced ties of Israel.... Although little is preserved of Omri’s history, by their Semitic cousins, the Assyrians and the Babylonians. the fact that the Northern Kingdom long continued to be “The name ‘Eri’ [Gen. 46:17] in Hebrew begins with an ‘Ayin’ called by the Assyrians after his name is a significant letter. This letter may be described as a soft guttural and is indication of his great reputation” (“Jews,” Encyclopaedia sometimes transliterated as ‘H’ as in ‘Hebrew’ (Ivri), or Britannica 11th ed., vol. 15, p. 377). In fact, the Assyrians some other vowel and at other times as a ‘G’ as in ‘Gaza’ continued to call Israel by the term “mat bit-Humri” for over for ‘Aza.’ In the Caucasus area a similar sound receives a 200 years after his death (c. 874 B.C.). harsher emphasis and therefore the likelihood that the “In Assyrian inscriptions from the time of the Jehu ‘Ayin’ was pronounced as a ‘G’ becomes more probable. dynasty and even afterward... not only is Jehu called ‘son of Also some indications exist that the Assyrians and Omri’ (mar Humri) but even the whole of the N Kingdom of Persians rendered Semitic words beginning with ‘Ayin’ Israel is referred to as ‘house of Omri’.... The internation- as if with an initial ‘G’ sound” (p. 156). al reputation of the Omride dynasty is reflected in this devel- “Omri was likewise pronounced in accordance with the opment from a dynastic appellation to the name of a country” older system, before the [Hebrew letter] ghain became ayin. (Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 5, p. 19). Humri shows that they said at that time Ghomri” (Dr. But notice the following account from another source: Pinches, The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical “Payment of tribute by Iaua (Jehu), the son of Khumri Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia, 3rd ed., (Omri) who brought [to the Assyrian king] silver, gold, lead, 1908, p. 339). The clearest way to prove the initial hard “g” and bowls, dishes, cups, and other vessels of gold. The sound is that the Hebrew spelling of the doomed city of description ‘Son of Khumri’ is thought merely to show that “Gomorrah” begins with the same three root consonants Jehu was an Israelite, because Israelitish territory was that Omri does. Consequently, it is entirely reasonable to called [by the Assyrians] ‘bit-Khumri’” (Luckenbill, expect the Persians of the time of Darius the Great to take Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, vol. 1, p. 46). the Hebrew letters in “Omri”—(g)ayin, mem, resh and yud

—over (G, M, R, I)—and pronounce the word “Gimiri”—the very frequently, the “House of Jacob” (Heb. beit Ya’akov). However, way the name of the Cimmerians appears on the they were also referred to as the “House of Isaac” (Heb. beit Behistun Rock Inscriptions! Yitzak, Amos 7:16). So here we have people from the “land of the house of About 751 B.C. (30 years before the Assyrian deporta- Omri” (Israel) called Ombri, Ghomri, Khumri, Humri, Gimiri, tion of the northern tribes to Media) the Prophet Amos said, Gimarrai, Kimmerioi, Cimmerians and Cimbri. As we’ve “The high places [idolatrous shrines] of Isaac shall be deso- learned, the British people who today inhabit Wales still call late, and the sanctuaries of Israel [at Dan and Bethel] shall themselves the Cymry or Kymry! Appian, we know, linked the be laid waste” (v. 9). In that scripture, “Isaac” and “Israel” both Cimmerian people with the Celts. refer to the same people—the people of Israel. Amos also stated, “And the LORD said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to My peo- ple [the Northern Kingdom of] Israel’” (v. 15). Amos then told Etymology in Celtic Names Amaziah, king of Judah, “Now therefore, hear the word of the LORD: You [Amaziah] say ‘Do not prophesy against Israel, The Cimmerians or Celts have also been known as the and do not spout against the HOUSE OF ISAAC’” (v. 16). Keltae, Geltae, Galatae, Galatians, Goidels, Gauls and Notice that the people of the Kingdom of Israel were being Gaels. Where did these names come from? The Cimmerians called the “House of Isaac” a few decades before the Northern in Armenia were later joined from the southeast by westward- Kingdom was destroyed and its people taken captive. Those advancing Scythians from Medo-Persia—i.e. Israelites from Israelites would have told their captors that they were the peo- around Samaria (taken in the second captivity). However, the ple of “Beit Yitzak.” Since the Assyrian language was a Semitic Cimmerians were first established as those people who tongue akin to the Hebrew language, the Assyrians may well had been carried away in Israel’s first Assyrian captivity, have referred to the captives of the House of Israel by not only known as the “Galilean Captivity,” from the northern and the name “House of Omri,” but also the “House of Isaac”! eastern regions of the Northern Kingdom—the lands of Then after Israel’s national captivity, what did the large GALILEE and GILEAD! (There was a practice of attaching majority of Israelites end up being called by the Persians and “gilead” as a suffix to places, e.g. Jabesh-gilead and Ramoth- others? “Sacae” or “Sakai.” Earlier we quoted a passage from gilead.) In the Trans-Jordan area was also the tribe of GAD. Sharon Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons showing part of Just to the east of the Sea of Galilee we still find the Armenia being named “Sacsina” after them—a term parallel GOLAN Heights. The Hebrew Golan means “their captivity” with the “Saxons.” Let’s look again at the relevant sentence and comes from the word Golah, meaning “captive” or “exile” here showing the development of the word “Saxon”: “Sakai- (Enhanced Strong’s Lexicon). Arthur Spier, Jewish author of Suna or the Sons of Sakai [Sakai-sons] abbreviated into A Comprehensive Hebrew Calendar, says that “Golah” Saksun, which is the same sound as Saxon, seems a referred to those Israelite “communities living beyond the reasonable etymology of the word ‘Saxon’” (p. 87). confines of Israel” (p. 62). Galilee, Gilead, Gad, Golan and Now where did this word Sakai or Sacae come from? Golah are all possible etymological roots for Galatae, Goidels “SACCAE was the contemporary Middle Eastern term for or Gauls—the Celtic people! Scyth and the name is believed to be a DERIVATIVE OF Remember too that in Spain these people were ‘ISAAC’” (Davidy, p. 128). Doesn’t it make sense, then, that Celtiberians or just Iberians—as the Israelites living just north of “SAXONS” is simply a logical linguistic corruption of Armenia were also called. Iber-ia is “land of Iber.” Based on what “ISAAC’S SONS.” we now know of these people, we can easily see that “Iber” is In pronouncing the Hebrew word for Isaac, Yitzak, it is almost identical with “Eber” or “Heber”—that is, “Hebrew,” which easy to see how the first syllable could be dropped over time. sounds very close to “Ibheriu,” the ancient name of Ireland (Heb. In American English, the first “o” in the word “oppossum” is Ivri = ancient Gaelic Iveriu). The “Emerald Isle” was also known no longer pronounced by many people. Other word corrup- as Ivernia, Hibernia, Iberon, Ierne, Erin, Eire, Ire-land. tions are more dramatic—a “telephone” is now simply a Immediately west of northern Scotland, the Hebrews prob- “phone.” A “refrigerator” is a “fridge.” Instead of sending “fac- ably gave their name to the islands called the Hebrides. In north- similes,” we send “faxes.” Most nicknames derive from the east Spain, the Ebro River was most likely named after them. It same shortening of words. For instance, women named is probable that Israelite mariners brought the name Hebrew to Elizabeth are often called “Liz” or “Beth.” the Iberian Peninsula. And, since the northern Danites dwelling But perhaps the most poignant example of this for our near the Phoenicians lived in the region of Galilee, they may purposes is what the Assyrians (whose court language was also have brought such Celtic names as Galacia (northwestern Semitic) did with the word Israel (Heb. Yisra’el). Notice how Spain) and Portugal (“Port of the Gaels”). These names may they referred to King Ahab of Israel in ancient documents: “A- also have been brought by the transcontinental Celts. ha-ab-bu Sir-’i-la-a-a” (cf. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, pp. 277-281). They clearly dropped the Yi from Yisra’el (or the “I” from Israel)! “In Isaac Your Seed Shall Be Called”! Wouldn’t the same be true of Yitzak? Based on all we’ve seen, more than likely! The Yi would be dropped, leaving We read back in chapter one that before Abraham’s son, Tzak (or the “I” dropped, leaving Saac or the plural Saccae). Isaac, was born, God gave this solemn prophecy: “For in The name Saccae occurs in numerous other forms besides Isaac your seed shall be called” (Gen. 21:12)! It is repeat- Sakai, Sakai-Suna, Sacsina and Saxons. They were also known ed twice in the New Testament (Rom. 9:7; Heb. 11:18). But as Sakki, Sagettae, Massagetae, Getae, Geats, Goths, Sacai, how would Almighty God fulfill that ancient prophecy? How Scyths, Scythians, Scolotoi, Scuths, Scuits and Scots. So not would Isaac’s sons be called after the name of their ancestor? only is Isaac’s name to be found in the modern Saxons, it is the In the Old Testament, the people of Israel were general- “parent” name of all these listed names. Scotland, Skaane and ly called the “House of Israel” (Heb. beit Yisrael) and, quite Scandinavia are named after the Scythians—and thus Isaac! ChapterChapter 4— 7—

The Birthright Finally Realized!

ow did God at last fulfill the naval confidence on the high seas which Beautiful,” by Katherine Lee Bates: “O birthright promises of a GREAT gave her the courage to make permanent beautiful for spacious skies, for amber HNATION and a COMPANY OF settlements around the world. waves of grain, for purple mountain NATIONS (Gen. 35:11; 48-49)? The Chief among the world’s colonizing majesties above the fruited plain!” answer is a story which should be quite nations were the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic By itself, the cozy island of Britain familiar to most Americans and peoples from the British Isles. Only is an incredibly beautiful and productive Britons—because it is simply the story Bible prophecy explains why, beginning land. Yet remember that, according to of the modern history of our nations! in the early 1600s, the colonizing instinct prophecy, the people there would some- Of course, the vast majority of our became so strong in these peoples. God, day say, “The place is TOO SMALL people do not comprehend this most remember, had promised Jacob, “Your for me; give me a place where I may important aspect about our nations’ his- descendants shall be as the dust of the dwell” (Is. 49:20). So, from this small tory. Many of us fail to grasp the reason earth; you shall spread abroad to the homeland, Britons went forth and colo- for the incredible rise of the English- west and the east, to the north and the nized nine-tenths of the North American speaking peoples to unparalleled great- south” (Gen. 28:14). So Jacob’s descen- continent, the whole continent of ness and prosperity. As Winston dants were destined to become the Australia, the beautiful, rich lands of Churchill said before the U.S. Congress world’s foremost colonizers! New Zealand, parts of South Africa and on December 26, 1941, “He must Remember, also, that Joseph’s numerous other islands and territories. indeed have a blind soul who cannot see descendants would become the chief col- There is no other instance in the that some great purpose and design is onizers of Israel: “Joseph is a fruitful entire history of the world where such a being worked out here below.” bough, a fruitful bough by a well; his small, seemingly insignificant people Let’s now examine the last few branches run over the wall” (Gen. 49:22). spread out around the globe, successfully centuries of American and British his- But where would they “run over the wall” colonizing such enormous, rich tracts of tory from the awesome perspective of God’s Word.

The World’s “So God give thee of Greatest Colonizers the dew of heaven, of the fat By the early 1500s, Spain had places of the earth, and plenty become the most powerful nation in Europe—enjoying almost total naval of corn [grain] and wine.” supremacy. England, on the other hand, was only an average power. But then —Genesis 27:28 JPS came England’s victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588. Amazingly, the Armada was defeated—not so much by English might as by stormy weather! Winston Churchill later wrote that “the defeat of the Armada came as a MIRACLE.... One of the medals struck to commemo- rate the victory bears the inscription ‘Afflavit Deus et dissipantur’—‘God blew and they were scattered’”(History (colonize)? Verse 26: “Up to the utmost land—thereby becoming many nations! of the English-Speaking Peoples, vol. 2). bound of the everlasting hills.” Genesis How did Britain become “too From that day forward, English 27:28 says they would be given the “fat small”—creating the need to colonize? sailors confidently believed they could places of the earth” (JPS). Fulfillment of Historians reveal that various factors more than hold their own against their some of these blessings can be seen in the (war, famine, disease) kept the population Spanish counterparts. It was England’s words of the song, “America the of Britain from increasing very rapidly 45 America and Britain in Prophecy until the Industrial Revolution (1750- 14:19; Acts 17:23-26). The French discovered, as if God had held it in 1850). Then, suddenly, a population assemblyman Alexis de Tocqueville reserve and it had only just arisen above explosion occurred. British historian, made these incisive comments in his the waters of the flood” (p. 258). Colin Cross, observes that “one of the famous 1835 work, Democracy in North America was indeed held “in unexplained mysteries of social history America: “The Indians occupied but did reserve” by God for the descendants of is the explosion in the size of the popu- not possess the land. It is by agriculture Israel. As God had inspired Moses to lation of Great Britain between 1750 that man wins the soil, and the first inhab- write, “When the Most High divided and 1850. For generations the British itants of North America lived by hunt- their inheritance to the nations, when He population had been static, or rising only ing.... Providence [God] when it placed separated the sons of Adam, He set the slightly. Then in the space of a boundaries of the peoples century it almost trebled— [all other nations] according from 7.7 million in 1750 to to the number of the chil- 20.7 million in 1850. Why it dren of Israel [whose popula- happened is unknown.... It tion size He foresaw and must just be recorded that planned for]” (Deut. 32:8)! human reproduction and vital- Great Britain established ity follows unpredictable pat- its first permanent colony in terns.... Britain was a dynamic North America at Jamestown, country and one of the marks Virginia, in 1607. In 1620, the of its dynamism was the pop- Mayflower landed at ulation explosion” (Fall of the Plymouth Rock with its British Empire, p. 155). Pilgrim settlers. The Puritans Very striking here is the arrived soon afterward to time element! As we saw ear- establish the Massachusetts lier, Israel had to wait 2,520 Bay Colony. By the early years from the time of her 1700s, a string of 13 thriving Assyrian oppression and cap- British colonies were firmly tivity before receiving the established along the eastern actual fulfillment of the seaboard of North America. In birthright promises. This the 1763 Treaty of Paris, coincides exactly with France ceded to Britain her Britain’s population explo- Canadian colonies, as well as sion, which gave the British all the Louisiana Territory east the impetus to spread abroad. of the Mississippi River— Lord Curzon, Viceroy of excluding the city of New India, in 1907, expressed the Orleans. Thus the die had been belief that God had put in the cast toward making the Anglo- Englishmen a divine impulse Saxon-Celtic peoples the to establish colonies around the globe: “I them amid the riches of the New World, dominant ethnic group in North America. would describe the [British] Empire... as seems to have granted them a short lease Remember, Joseph’s descendants the result, not of an accident or a series of only; they were there, in some sense, only were to become a “great nation” and a accidents, but of an instinct—that inerad- waiting. Those coasts so well suited for “company of nations.” Only 12 years icable and divinely implanted impulse, trade and industry, those deep rivers, that after the first Treaty of Paris in 1763, the which has sent the Englishman forth inexhaustible valley of the Mississippi— 13 British colonies in North America into the uttermost parts of the earth, in short, the whole continent—seemed rebelled against the Mother Country. and made him there the parent of new the yet empty cradle of a GREAT During their War of Independence (1775- societies and the architect of unpremedi- NATION” (p. 24). 1783), the upstart Americans threw off tated creations” (The British Empire, De Tocqueville further stated, the Old World’s yoke. BBC TV and Time-Life Books, p. 2,466). “When the Creator handed the earth over Subsequently, the second Treaty of to men, it was young and inexhaustible, Paris was signed on September 3, A Nation and a but they were weak and ignorant; and by 1783—this time by British and Company of Nations the time that they had learned to take American diplomats. In this treaty, advantage of the treasures it contained, Britain officially recognized the United As Creator, Possessor and Ruler of they already covered its face, and soon States as a sovereign nation and ceded this earth, it is within God’s prerogative to they were having to fight for the right to all of her North American territories give any nation or individual whatever an asylum where they could rest in free- south of the Great Lakes to the victori- portion of this earth He chooses (Gen. dom. It was then that North America was ous rebels. Spain’s Florida Territory then

46 Ephraim and Manasseh—Which Is Which?

Remember from chapter one what God Almighty than the entire United States, and Australia is almost as big inspired the Patriarch Jacob to prophesy of the descendants as the territory of America’s 48 contiguous states. Britain of Joseph’s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh: “He directly possessed the wealth of all these regions too. It only [Manasseh] also shall be A NATION—and he also shall be seems that America has possessed a greater percentage of GREAT [i.e. a GREAT NATION or GREAT PEOPLE]—but wealth than Britain did. Why? Because advances in technol- nevertheless his younger brother [Ephraim] shall be ogy have enabled so much greater things to be accom- GREATER than he, and his race shall be a MULTITUDE OF plished with money than could ever have been done before. NATIONS” (Gen. 48:19 Fenton). Millions have come to see For example, a million dollars in today’s money will buy only the fulfillment of that divine promise in the emergence to a tiny fraction of what a million dollars would have bought in nationhood of the United States (the GREAT NATION); and the 1800s—yet today it could buy much better things that did they have also come to believe that Britain and her British- not even exist then! descended Commonwealth nations constitute the MULTI- What about military dominance? It is true that, since TUDE OF NATIONS—both of which Almighty God prophe- America was the only nation in possession of the atomic sied would rise to prominence “in the last days” (cf. Gen. 48- bomb after World War II, the ratio of power between the U.S. 49; Deut. 33). and the rest of the world was greater at that time than any In recent years, however, some have concluded that the other nation has ever enjoyed. (In fact, none have even come United States is modern Ephraim and that Britain, Canada, close.) However, this only lasted about four short years— Australia and New Zealand are Manasseh. This view is during which time the U.S. was in an extremely tight alliance based, primarily, on three arguments: 1) America is the “mul- with Great Britain. The tremendous military supremacy titude of nations” because it is composed of 50 states; 2) the Britain enjoyed during its heyday lasted far longer than U.S., at its height, was “greater” in wealth and power than America’s. And Britain has possessed far more of the vital Britain at its height; and 3) the U.S. is “younger” than Britain— “sea gates” than America. Here, again, it is obvious that just as Ephraim was younger than Manasseh. Do these Britain is Ephraim and the U.S.A. is Manasseh. points prove the case? Let’s look at them one at a time. Third, just because the United States of America is a First, could the 50 states of the Union be considered 50 younger state than the United Kingdom of Great Britain and “nations”? Could the U.S. now be, or ever have been, looked Northern Ireland, does that mean that the U.S. must be upon as a “multitude of nations” in any sense? Emphatically, Ephraim, Joseph’s younger son, and that the U.K. must be no! America is “ONE nation under God, indivisible” (as Manasseh? Definitely not! These two brother peoples lived stated in the U.S. Pledge of Allegience). The American Civil together in Britain for centuries. Thus, both peoples are basi- War was fought (1861-1865) to prevent the United States cally the same age! However, from a national perspective, from being rent asunder into two nations—the Union and the consider that, with the separation of the two brothers through Conferacy. Our nation’s motto, E Pluribus Unum, means, the War of Independence (1775-1783), the Americans were “From many [people], ONE [nation]”! During the 1960s, forming into a “great nation” well before the British expanded when various state governors tried to prevent racial deseg- into a “multitude of nations.” And the United States is much regation, U.S. presidents sent federal law enforcement offi- older than the British Commonwealth, which was not formal- cers into certain states (Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi) ly established until the Statute of Westminster in 1931. to prove that those states were not sovereign, or indepen- But think about this, too. Joseph gave up his tribal sta- dent, but had to answer to a higher power—the U.S. Federal tus among the Twelve Tribes of Israel to his sons Ephraim Government! Not one of the 50 states which presently make and Manasseh. These then became two separate tribes— up the United States is a sovereign nation! The U.S. is defi- meaning there were now THIRTEEN Tribes of Israel in all nitely, as De Toqueville called it, “A GREAT NATION”—i.e. (though the count normally stayed at 12 since the Levites Manasseh! didn’t have a territorial allotment in the Promised Land). By the same token, it would be wrong to call Britain, Benjamin, Jacob’s 12th son, then moved into the 11th Canada, Australia and New Zealand “A great nation.” They, in position vacated by Joseph. And the 12th and 13th posi- fact, form a plurality of independent, sovereign nations—each tions, if we reckon their births chronologically, would be possessing its own parliament with complete authority over filled by Israel’s adopted sons, Manasseh and Ephraim its own citizens, foreign policy, defense and finances. respectively. However, because Scripture makes it very Canada, Australia and New Zealand each has a Governor clear that God, through Jacob, “set Ephraim before General as a representative of the British Crown. However, Manasseh” (Gen. 48:20), their two positions should be this is a very loose tie, as these three countries look upon the reversed—Ephraim being made 12th and Manasseh British monarch as only a figurehead. Of course some will becoming 13th. (Note the recurrence of 13 in American argue that the British Empire, which preceded the British heritage—13 colonies, 13 flag stripes, 13 everything on Commonwealth, was the great single nation. Yet that too is the Great Seal—see box: “Clues from Our National false. Britain was the “Mother Country” which, through colo- Heraldry.”) Thus Ephraim would inherit the birthright first nization, gave birth to several other British nations. Clearly, and Manasseh would follow. And that is exactly what hap- Britain is Ephraim! pened—the 1800s were the “British Century” and the Second, was the American zenith of greatness really 1900s have been the “American Century.” higher than Britain’s? Absolutely not! The British directly It should now be crystal clear. Modern Ephraim is defi- ruled a quarter of the earth’s land and nearly a third of its nitely the U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand, while population. Even today, Canada alone is territorially larger Manasseh, without question, is the U.S.A. America and Britain in Prophecy formed the southern boundary of the nation and a company of nations” would they advanced into British Canadian ter- new Republic, and the Mississippi River be fulfilled. This required separating the ritory: “From the beginning, America’s formed its western boundary. Now it two brothers, Ephraim and Manasseh. first campaign of territorial conquest could rightly be said that America was So, in the late 1700s, God did just that. [into Canada] seemed dogged with mis- assured of becoming the GREAT He certainly guided the outcome of fortune. Everything went wrong.... The NATION God had promised. the Revolution, or the Americans would annexation of Canada was clearly not Again, the time period for all of this have been crushed by the far-more- in God’s plan for the United States.... is extremely significant, as we saw in powerful British. Benjamin Franklin It was as if God had a different plan chapter two. If we begin counting the reminded the Constitutional Convention for Canada... a plan separate and dis- seven prophetic times (2,520 years) of in 1787, “In the beginning of the contest tinct from His plan for America”(Peter Leviticus 26 from the initial Assyrian with Great Britain, when we were sensi- Marshall and David Manuel, The Light incursions into Israel around the mid- ble of danger, we had daily prayer in and the Glory, pp. 292, 295-296). And so 740s to early 730s B.C., we would end this room for the divine protection. He did. God, we now know, had reserved our count around A.D. 1776 (the signing “Our prayers, sir, were answered. All that area for Ephraim! Thus, God divid- of the Declaration of Independence) or of us who were engaged in the struggle ed the descendants of Ephraim and 1783 (the Treaty of Paris recognizing must have observed frequent instances Manasseh politically and began to bless American independence). If we begin of a superintending Providence in our them in their separate courses—yet not counting from Israel’s first Assyrian favor. To that kind Providence we owe so separate, for these sons of Joseph are deportation (c. 734-732 B.C.), we arrive this happy opportunity of consulting in close brothers. The Declaration of at 1787-1789. The U.S. Constitution peace on the means of establishing our Independence even mentions “the ties of was signed in 1787, ratified in 1788 and future national felicity.” our common kindred”! put into force in 1789. Thus was estab- This, however, does NOT mean that lished the long-prophesied great single God favored the Americans (Manassites) America’s nation of Manasseh (Gen. 48)! over the British (Ephraimites). He was “Manifest Destiny” What about counting from the simply working out His purpose. God three-year siege of Israel’s capital city of gave the Americans victory when they Following right on the heels of the Samaria (c. 724-721 B.C.)—the final fought in their own land—but NOT when end of the 2,520-year delay in bestowing end of the Kingdom of the promised birthright bless- Israel at the time of its sec- ings, Napoleon Bonaparte’s ond deportation? That takes war-weary French Empire us to 1797-1800. As we will “To Joseph were born two sons... made an incredible deal with shortly see, it was in this U.S. President Thomas time frame that, by defeat- whom Asenath, the daughter of Jefferson in 1803. France sold ing the French, unques- Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.” the Louisiana Territory to tioned naval supremacy fell —Genesis 41:50 America for about $15 mil- to the British—enabling lion, a paltry five cents per modern Ephraim to become acre! By the “Louisiana the prophesied “company Purchase,” the U.S. acquired of nations”! more than 500 million acres It is also an astounding of the richest, most fertile fact that exactly 2,520 farmland on earth—the years after the ancient “Breadbasket of the World.” capital of Samaria fell in And, by this awesome pur- 721 B.C., U.S. federal chase, the size of the U.S.A. offices were moved in grew by about 140 percent! 1800 from Philadelphia, Napoleon is said to have Pennsylvania, to a NEW remarked, “This accession of capital city—Washington, Memorial at Peace Park, where D.C.! Truly, only the great, Interstate Highway 5 crosses the omnipotent God could have U.S.-Canadian border. Its inscrip- orchestrated such events to tion, “Children of a Common Mother,” is true in more than one happen on such a precise sense. For not only do the U.S. time scale! Finally, after the and Canada share the same passing of the seven times, Mother Country (Britain), they there would be no more also share the same actual moth- er (Joseph’s wife Asenath, the delay! The incredible mother of Ephraim and birthright promises of “a Manasseh—Gen. 41:45, 50-51)!

48 The Birthright Finally Realized! territory affirms forever the power of the other commercial products nets the U.S. rouse him? Blessed is he who blesses United States.” Robert Livingstone (U.S. tens of billions of dollars annually! you [Israel], and cursed is he who curs- ambassador to France) is said to have With the purchase of Alaska in es you” (23:8; 24:5, 8-9). commented, “From this day the United 1867, America had acquired her final The Prophet Micah also revealed States take their place among the pow- ers of the first rank.” Never before in the RED RIVER BASIN 1818 history of mankind had any nation struck such a wonderful deal! OREGON Massive territorial expansion con- COUNTRY 1846 tinued, and many Americans came to OLONIES C believe in “Manifest Destiny”—that LOUISIANA 1763 PURCHASE THE God had foreordained the American 1803 UNITED STATES INE OF HIRTEEN IN 1783 L T people to possess the vast land between MEXICAN CESSION Mexico and Canada, “from sea to shin- 1848 RIGINAL ing sea.” During the 1840s, the idea of O HE ROCLAMATION T America’s “Manifest Destiny” swept the TEXAS P ANNEXATION nation like a religious revival. 1845 In The United States Magazine and GADSDEN PURCHASE 1853 FLORIDA HAWAII 1819 Democratic Review, John L. O’Sullivan ANNEXED 1898 ALASKA wrote of “the fulfillment of our mani- PURCHASE fest destiny to overspread the continent 1867 allotted by Providence [God] for the free THE GREAT EXPANSION development of our yearly multiplying millions.” He argued that America’s claim to the Oregon Territory was “the right of our manifest destiny to over- territorial acquisition in continental that the modern descendants of Israel spread and possess the whole continent North America. Thus, during a period would be like the king of beasts, the which Providence has given us for the of a mere 84 years (1783-1867), the “lion” among the nations of this earth. development of liberty and federative United States received legitimate titles “And the remnant of Jacob shall be self-government.” to all of the contiguous 48 states, plus among the Gentiles, in the midst of many In exactly 70 years, 1783-1853, the mineral-rich land of Alaska! Later, peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the United States acquired all the terri- America would receive titles to Hawaii, the forest, like a young lion among flocks tory of the original contiguous 48 Puerto Rico and other beautiful and of sheep, who, if he passes through, both states (see map on this page). Never strategically important islands. treads down and tears in pieces, and none before in the entire history of the world can deliver. Your hand shall be lifted had any nation acquired so much land Prophesied Anglo- against your adversaries, and all your so cheaply! But that was not the end of American Military Might enemies shall be cut off” (Mic. 5:8-9)! U.S. territorial acquisitions! Remember from chapter one that, of America’s hunger for new land During Israel’s 40-year sojourn in Israel’s descendants, Joseph’s offspring was still not fully satisfied. So, in 1867, the desert, its enemies hired Balaam, a were prophesied to become the most the U.S. purchased “Russian America” false prophet, to employ enchantments powerful in military prowess. In fact, they (Alaska) from Russia for the unbeliev- against the people of Israel—hoping to would become the most powerful nations ably low price of $7,200,000—only curse them. But, God forced Balaam, on earth! Of Joseph “in the last days,” about two cents per acre! Despite the against his will, to prophesy good Jacob said, “The archers [his enemies] extremely low cost, the fantastic pur- things regarding Israel (Num. 22-24). have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and chase of Alaska was ridiculed by some Balaam asked, “How shall I curse hated him. But his bow remained in Americans as “Seward’s Icebox” and [Israel] whom God has not cursed? And strength, and the arms of his hands were “Seward’s Folly” (William Seward was how shall I denounce whom the LORD made strong by the hands of the Mighty America’s Secretary of State who nego- has not denounced?... How lovely are God of Jacob... who will help you” (Gen. tiated the purchase). But those foolish your tents, O Jacob! Your dwellings, O 49:1, 23-25). Clearly, Joseph’s descen- Americans soon came to see their own Israel!... He has strength like a wild ox dants would become MIGHTY in mili- folly when GOLD was discovered in [“unicorn” KJV—symbolic here of a tary power “in the last days.” the Klondike region in 1896. very powerful nation]; he shall con- We also saw a similar picture of Furthermore, the “Alaskan sume the nations, his enemies; he shall modern Joseph given to Moses: “His Pipeline” is now a major source of break their bones and pierce them with glory is like a firstborn bull, and his American OIL! And the sale of Alaskan his arrows. He bows down, he lies horns [weapons] are like the horns of a fish, lumber, minerals, petroleum and down as a lion; and as a lion, who will wild ox [“unicorns” KJV]; together with 49 Clues from Our National Heraldry

In Numbers 2:2-34, God commanded the tribes of Ephraimites have been the chief possessor of God’s ancient Israel on their way to the Promised Land to divide into birthright blessings (1 Chron. 5:2; Gen. 48:19). As God four brigades of three tribes each when they set up camp— declares, “Ephraim is My firstborn” (Jer. 31:9). Isn’t it natural- with each brigade arranged on one side of the square camp. ly fitting that those BIRTHRIGHT people should today have Each brigade would assemble behind the “standard” of its as one of their mottos, “God and my [birth] right”? leading tribe on its side. The four leading tribes were Judah, What about the United States? The fact that America Reuben, Ephraim and Dan. The Jewish Encyclopaedia began with 13 colonies, and that America’s Great Seal has (“Flag”) and many other numerous sets of 13 on it, has convinced some that sources attest that the there was a reason for this number 13 being used in con- ancient heraldic symbol on nection with Manasseh—the 13th tribe of Israel. The the standard of Ephraim reverse face of the Great Seal (seen on the back of a was a bull or ox. Dan’s, as dollar bill) displays a pyramid with 13 steps; and atop the we saw in chapter two, was pyramid is an “all-seeing eye,” representing the “eye of an eagle. Reuben’s was a God.” The obverse face shows an eagle holding in its man. And the symbol of right claws an olive branch (representing peace), having Judah was a lion. 13 leaves and 13 olive berries. In its left talons, the eagle The origin of these is holding 13 arrows (representing its power to fight). symbols can be traced to Furthermore, on the eagle’s breast is a shield, having 13 the prophecies God gave bars and 13 stripes, representing the 13 original British regarding particular tribes colonies. Above the eagle’s head are 13 stars within a (Gen. 49; Deut. 33). Remember what God had said of cloud of glory, and in his mouth is a scroll bearing 13 let- Ephraim and Manasseh: “His glory is like a firstborn BULL, ters—E PLURIBUS UNUM! Thus the number 13 is stamped and his horns [weapons] are like the horns of a wild OX all over America’s Great Seal. Did Almighty God have a hand [“UNICORNS” KJV]” (Deut. 33:17). Notice that the New King in seeing to it that the United States of America began with James replaced the King James word “unicorns” with “a wild 13 colonies, as a fit reminder that the core peoples of this ox.”This is certainly correct since the medieval unicorn idea is new nation were, in fact, descendants of Manasseh, the 13th thought to have originated from the bovine oryx of the Sinai tribe of the ancient Kingdom of Israel? Peninsula and not from any horse-related animals! Let’s notice some of the particulars from the Great Seal In Genesis 49:9, God said, “Judah is a lion’s whelp.” in light of a few verses. Eagle: “You have seen what I did to The lion became the national symbol of Judah—and was the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and later tied to the House of David. Jesus Christ, the Messiah brought you to Myself” (Ex. 19:4). Remember, as mentioned who sprang from that line, is called “the Lion of the tribe of previously, that Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin Judah, the Root of David” (Rev. 5:5). But we have also seen both wanted an Exodus theme on the seal. Olive branch: the lion used as a symbol of Joseph’s military power (Mic. Israel’s “branches shall spread; his beauty shall be as the 5:8-9) along with the bull and wild ox (or unicorn). olive tree” (Hos. 14:6); “Joseph is a fruitful bough... whose Recall that, in later years, Jeroboam, the first king of branches run over the wall” (Gen. 49:22). The olive branch northern Israel, would erect two golden BULLS—one each in “is particularly the heraldic device of the tribe of Manasseh” the cities of Dan and Bethel—for the Israelites to wor- (E. Raymond Capt, Our ship (1 Kings 12:28-33). As Jeroboam was “an Great Seal: The Symbols of Ephraimite” (11:26) of the “house of Joseph” (v. 28), Our Heritage and Our he may have used the fact that the bull was his own Destiny, 1979, p. 49). tribal symbol to introduce it into Israel’s new pagan Arrows: “The archers have worship. The Angles (Angli) who immigrated to Britain bitterly grieved [Joseph].... in the 400s A.D. were people who once worshipped a But his bow remained in bull or heifer. Is it any wonder that a well-known nick- strength... by the hands of name for the English is “John Bull”? the Mighty God of Jacob” Of course, we see these symbols elsewhere in (Gen. 49:23-24). The golden Scripture too. For instance, Israel became associated radiance breaking from with- with THE LION AND THE UNICORN (or wild ox) in in a cloud represents the Numbers 24:8-9 (KJV)—representing the scepter and shekinah (Heb. “indwelling”) birthright tribes of Judah and Joseph respectively. Incredibly, glory of God—His presence—such as in the pillar of cloud both these symbols appear on the British Coat of Arms, their and fire by which God led the ancient Israelites through the Great Seal. Between the Lion and the Unicorn are the Old wilderness. Notice that the 13 stars in the glory are French words, Honi soit qui mal y pense, meaning “Evil to arranged in a “Star of David” formation! him who thinks evil”—of Britain, that is. This is very similar When we remember that the mother of Ephraim and to the birthright promise: “Cursed be everyone who curses Manasseh was an Egyptian (Gen. 41:45), it is amazing to find you” (Gen. 27:29; cf. Num. 24:9). At the bottom are words, the main symbol of ancient Egypt—the Great Pyramid—on the Dieu et mon droit, meaning “God and my [birth] right.” How reverse side of America’s seal. This becomes even more com- remarkable! Ephraim was the leading tribe of the family of pelling when we learn that on the reverse side of the British seal Joseph who long ago used the BULL as its tribal symbol. The is the other great symbol of ancient Egypt—the Sphynx! The Birthright Finally Realized! them he shall push the peoples [Gentile wherever there is water to float a ship Anglo-American dominance of the nations] to the ends of the earth; they are we are sure to find you [English] in the high seas was crucial in their victory the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they way’” (British Empire, vol. 1, p. 274). over the Central Powers in World War I are the thousands of Manasseh” (Deut. One of history’s most significant and the Axis Powers in World War II. 33:17). How did God fulfill His many naval engagements occurred in 1805, Even though Germany and Japan seri- promises regarding the people of Israel when British Admiral Lord Nelson vir- ously challenged the U.S. and Britain becoming as powerful as a lion or a wild tually annihilated a combined French on the high seas during World War II, bull among the nations of this world? and Spanish fleet off Cape Trafalgar and Anglo-American naval strength—aided As mentioned earlier in this chap- captured 20 enemy ships. Although Lord by Almighty God—finally won out! ter, a global power shift occurred in the Nelson died in battle, France, Spain and A major reason for British-American last few years of the 1700s. Napoleon other nations were forced to acknowl- supremacy on the high seas is something Bonaparte attempted to seize Egypt, edge British supremacy over the high else that was prophesied thousands of fully intending to gain control of the seas. British historian James Morris, in years ago. Recall that God told Abraham, Mideast and, eventually, to wrest India his Pax Britannica, writes, “The pres- “Your descendants shall possess the from the British as a prized imperial ence of the sea, at once insulating the GATE of their enemies” (Gen. 22:17)! possession. But he was thwarted by the Mother Country and linking it with This blessing was reiterated to Israel’s British navy. In 1798, Britain’s the Empire, gave the British an impe- mother: “May your offspring gain pos- Admiral Horatio Nelson tracked rial confidence” (p. 46). session of the gates of their foes” (Gen. Napoleon’s French fleet to Aboukir Britain’s pride in her supremacy over 24:60 NRSV). The Anglo-Americans Bay, Egypt, and then almost destroyed the seven seas was aptly illustrated by have possessed, over a period of four cen- it at the famous Battle of the Nile. the words of British Admiral St. Vincent: turies, most of the major “sea “Overnight, the Mediterranean “I do not say the French cannot come. I gates”—vital maritime choke points—of became an English sea. Napoleon’s only say they cannot come by sea.” the world (see map on this page). army, although intact, was stranded in In the fateful years 1853-1854, Egypt. Bonaparte could not march to American naval power, under The Greatest India which was his plan—without a Commodore Matthew C. Perry, persuad- Empire in All History! fleet behind to supply him. He tried to ed the Japanese leaders to crawl out of move up through the Levant [Eastern their isolationist cocoon, thereby opening “It is likely that if a public opinion Mediterranean] but a British naval Japan to the outside world. And American poll had asked a representative cross- squadron stopped him at Acre. ‘If it had sea power later enabled the U.S. to section of Englishmen in the late 1890s not been for you English, I’d have been achieve a quick victory over Spain in the whether they would accept the follow- Emperor of the East,’ he said later. ‘But Spanish-American War of 1898. ing two propositions—that the British

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Sea gates Height of British and American Possessions America and Britain in Prophecy people had a divinely ordained calling 1933, when its area was 13.9 million the conscious result of national policies. to hold and rule an overseas empire, square miles and its population 493 mil- There seemed no deliberation to it. One and that they ruled their Empire better lion.... The Roman Empire in its prime thing simply led to another” (pp. 22, 42). than any other European power—the comprised perhaps 120 million people in He further explains, “Wherever overwhelming majority would have an area of 2 1/2 million square miles” there was [vacant land with a temperate answered ‘yes’ to both” (British (Morris, pp. 21, 27, 42). Thus we see that climate]... the British had seized and Empire, p. 2,466). the British Empire was more than five occupied it, filling in the empty spaces Lord Archibald, British prime minis- times the size of the Roman Empire, of the world, and setting up their own ter (1894-1895), made some revealing and included within its jurisdiction kind of society wherever they went. comments while speaking to students at more than four times the number of Such was, so the romantic idealists Glasgow University in November 1900. subjects! thought, the Manifest Destiny of the Referring to the British Empire, he called Was the Empire the result of an Empire” (p. 41). its construction “human, and not wholly intelligent, carefully-thought-out “During Queen Victoria’s remark- human, for the most heedless and the British plan, or was it something which able reign [the longest in British history, most cynical must see the finger of the the British stumbled onto—almost in 1837-1901] the empire had grown by divine... reaching with a ripple of a rest- spite of themselves—because they, more than ten times, from a scatter of less tide over tracts, and islands and con- unknowingly, were being used by God disregarded possessions to a quarter of tinents, until our little Britain woke up to to fulfill His Word, written nearly 4,000 the land mass of the earth, and a third find herself the foster-mother of nations years ago? “It was [British historian] of its population. It had changed the and the source of united empires. Do Sir John Seeley who remarked that the face of the continents with its cities, its we not hail in this, less the energy and for- Empire had been acquired ‘in a fit of railways, its churches, its myriad can- tune of a race than the supreme direc- absence of mind’” (p. 37). tonments, and it had changed the man- tion of the Almighty?” (p. 2,466). Morris answers, “Their Empire, ner of life of entire peoples, stamping its Just what did God direct Ephraim’s hitherto seen as a fairly haphazard own values upon civilizations from the descendants to inherit? In its heyday, the accretion of possessions, now appeared Cree to the Burmese, besides creating enormity of the British Empire was stag- to be setting into some gigantic pat- several fully-fledged new nations of gering to contemplate. As it was spread tern.... They felt their power was self- its own. out around the entire globe, a popular say- engendering, that they were riding a “The powers of the world, envious ing of the time was, “The sun never sets wave of DESTINY, sweeping them on of the British Empire’s splendor, reluc- on the British Empire.” Just how big was to fulfillment.... The acquisition of it all tantly acknowledged its supremacy. Even it? “It was the largest empire in the his- had been a jerky process. Absence of the German Kaiser [Wilhelm II] congrat- tory of the world, comprising nearly a mind it never was, but it had happened ulated his aunt [Queen Victoria] upon her quarter of the land mass of the earth, and so obscurely that to the ordinary Briton glorious Diamond Jubilee in 1897” a quarter of the population.... the rise of the Empire must have seemed (James Morris, Heaven’s Command, p. “In fact... it continued to grow until more like some organic movement than 539). The British Empire was the “forge”

The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, 1897 or the “crucible” by which the British- 3:2). Dr. Curzon said, “If controlled territories were transformed we dare to use the [expres- A Note About “Anglo-Israelism” into actual separate, completely sover- sion] ‘a chosen people,’ all eign “nations” of the Commonwealth. boasting will be excluded if we remember that in the The biblical and historical facts presented in this publication do not support much of what has “Chosen for Service” language of true religion ‘chosen’ means chosen been known, generally, as “Anglo-Israelism.” James Morris also noted, “It was for service, perhaps for 1) “Anglo-Israelism,” generally speaking, equates the Ten Lost Tribes with the English peo- not merely the right of the British to rule suffering, never for ples. However, this brochure has consistently men- a quarter of the world, so the imperialists favouritism” (Brian tioned that the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples of thought, it was actually their duty. They Williams, Judgment on Northwest Europe—not just the English (Anglos)— were called. They would so distribute Britain, 1966, p. 11)! trace their ancestors’ footsteps back to the lands of across the earth their own methods, prin- Even the military their captivity in Southwest Asia. Furthermore, this ciples and liberal traditions that the supremacy of Ephraim brochure has shown from history that, today, the future of mankind would be reshaped. and Manasseh has been “Anglos” (i.e. English peoples) only make up, in actu- Justice would be established, miseries used for service (see box: al fact, a minority of those Northwest European peo- relieved, ignorant savages enlightened, “The Dark Days of World ples who now constitute the Ten Lost Tribes. In North America the Celtic peoples (Scots, Irish, all by the agency of British power and War II”). The United Welsh etc.) are more numerous than the English. money” (Pax Britannica, p. 26). States of America Even in northwestern and southwestern England, Many Britons believed that the task emerged from the Second many people are not descendants of either the of ruling their Empire was a divine World War as the greatest Angles or the Saxons, but are of Celtic blood. It is also assignment, and they took it very serious- superpower nation the a fact that many of the British-descended peoples of ly. They felt an immense sense of pride in world has ever seen. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa their imperial achievements. “Never since Winston Churchill later trace their lineage back to Britain’s first permanent the world began... did any nation assume reflected on the brother- inhabitants, the Celts (who immigrated to the British anything like so much responsibility.... hood his nation shared Isles centuries before the time of Christ), rather than tracing their lineage to the Anglo-Saxons, who poured The British had no doubts about the supe- with its chief ally. into eastern England in the fifth century A.D. riority of their civilization and its faith.... Speaking before the 2) Some who embrace “Anglo-Israelism” ‘In the Empire we have found,’ George House of Commons on look upon many (if not most!) of the Jews as Curzon once magnificently announced, October 28, 1947, he said, being “Gentiles”—the descendants of Esau, the ‘not merely the key to glory and wealth, “I must turn to the United Canaanites or other non-Israelites such as the but the call to duty, and the means of ser- States, with whom our Khazars of Russia. But that simply is not true. vice to mankind.’ fortunes and interests are In addition, some who believe in Anglo- “Even Joseph Chamberlain [colonial intertwined.... The Israelism wrongly teach that many of the people secretary, 1895-1903], who saw the Americans... have of southern Ireland are descendants of the ancient Canaanites, who descended from Noah’s Empire primarily as a profitable estate, become today the great- son Ham. But there is nothing, either in the Bible declared that British imperial rule could est state and power in or in secular history, to indicate this! be justified only if it added to the happi- the world, speaking our 3) Many adherents of “Anglo-Israelism” have ness, prosperity, security and peace of the own language, cherishing also believed that the British Empire, in its hey- subject peoples—‘in carrying out this our common law, and pur- day, constituted the fifth world-ruling kingdom work of civilization we are fulfilling what suing... the same ideals.” mentioned in the book of Daniel—which is obvi- I believe to be our national mission.’ Paul Kennedy, in The ously the KINGDOM OF GOD (Dan. 2:31-45; 7:3- ‘Take up the White Man’s Burden!’ cried Rise and Fall of Great 28)! However, the Word of God reveals that the [author Rudyard] Kipling, when the Powers, pointed out that, British Empire was not God’s Kingdom. The Bible clearly teaches that the Kingdom Americans were debating whether or not at the end of World War of God will be made up of spirit-composed, to acquire the Philippines’” (pp. 45, 122). II, the U.S. was more immortal saints (glorified children of God, either Like our ancient father Joseph, the powerful in relation to by a “resurrection from the dead” or by instanta- British and American peoples have other nations than it has neous “change”—1 Thess. 4:13-17). The Bible served as able administrators over other ever been: “America plainly says that “flesh and blood [i.e. mortal nations (Gen. 27:29). But we Britons alone, he noted, held the humans] cannot inherit the KINGDOM OF and Americans must never forget that secret to the atomic GOD; nor does corruption inherit incorruption” God has blessed us, not because of our bomb. It also held two- (1 Cor. 15:50)! own innate intelligence, goodness or thirds of the world’s 4) And some who hold “Anglo-Israel” views teach that our Anglo-American peoples can never imagined superiority, but for His own gold reserves, half its be conquered. Bible prophecy says otherwise! high purpose! We have been chosen by manufacturing produc- Let it, therefore, be made quite clear that the God to fulfill a special purpose in His tion and half its ships ideas expressed in this brochure do not Great Master Plan (Ex. 19:4-6; Amos and supplied one-third reflect such “Anglo-Israelite” views as those mentioned above! of the globe’s Divine Intervention During World War II exports” (Los Angeles Times, Aug. 27, 1989). Remember how God sent Joseph to Egypt before the rest of his family “to preserve life.... What incredible and to save [their] lives by a great deliverance” (Gen. 45:5, 7)? The descendants of Joseph were power in the hands of used in a similar way in the 20th century.When the other Israelite nations of Northwest Europe were a single nation! But oppressed by the Nazi jackboot, it was primarily America and Britain—the sons of modern “Joseph”—who freed them. Of course, no one was as sorely afflicted during World War II as the how did America use Jews, the children of Judah, who were enduring Hitler’s “Final Solution”—the awful, genocidal that enormous wealth Holocaust. After a hard, bitter struggle, Joseph’s descendants at long last broke through the German and influence? To lines and came to the rescue of their brother Judah and the other Northwest European nations of browbeat other Israel. And, even amid the horror of what had happened, there was great weeping and rejoicing at nations into submis- this wonderful deliverance in 1945. At no time has it been more true that “the arms of [Joseph’s] sion? No! America set hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty God of Jacob” (Gen. 49:24) than during out to rebuild the the Second World War. Were it not for the many instances of divine intervention in that conflict, the nations of Europe Axis Powers could have emerged victorious, plunging the entire world into a new “Dark Age.” through the Marshall In the “Miracle of Dunkirk” (May 26-June 4, 1940) the trapped Allies could easily have been destroyed by Hitler’s army as they attempted to evacuate across the English Channel. But, inexplic- Plan—including ably, unusual weather closed in. An extremely thick fog blanketed the area and the usually rough Germany! The U.S. water of the Channel became so calm that even the smallest boats could sail on it without risk of governed Japan for a capsizing. The fog grounded the Nazi airplanes which couldn’t effectively see their targets to bomb few years, recon- them—and Hitler gave a strange order for his tanks to halt their advance. So a motley flotilla of about structed the war-torn 1,000 boats of every size and description evacuated over 338,000 Allied troops from the beaches at country and gave it a Dunkirk. Hitler’s strange order and the God-sent weather saved the day. Many among the Allies con- new constitution. sidered their escape from Dunkirk an instance of divine intervention! As Churchill later said, “Wars Germany and Japan are not won by evacuations, but there was a victory inside this DELIVERANCE.” are global economic The Battle of Britain (June 20-Oct. 31), which soon followed, was decisive in saving Britain from Nazi invasion! Though severely pounded by German bombing, Britain rallied behind Churchill, and powers today, thanks, the British Royal Air Force eventually won the day against the German Luftwaffe. Britain’s Chief Air in part, to the great Marshal, Sir Hugh Dowding, Commander-in-Chief of Fighter Command, gave God the credit:“I say generosity of the with absolute conviction that I can trace the INTERVENTION OF GOD,not only in the battle itself, American people— but in the events which led up to it, and that if it had not been for this intervention, the battle would for which all credit have been joined in conditions which, humanly speaking, would have rendered victory impossible!” really belongs to God! In the first battle of El Alamein in July 1942, more than 1,000 Germans surrendered to the In recent years, Allies due to extreme thirst caused by drinking salt water out of a British-laid pipeline—which, the Soviet Union has remarkably, would have been empty the day before—or full of fresh water two days later. disintegrated as a According to British Major Peter Rainier, “For 1,100 of them [the Germans] to surrender when escape lay open—that was nothing short of a MIRACLE!” (“A Drink That Made History,” superpower. American Reader’s Digest). On October 31, 1942, during the final battle of El Alamein, a somber Churchill President George gave God full credit: “I have a feeling sometimes that some GUIDING HAND has interfered. Bush explained in his I have a feeling that we [Britons] have a GUARDIAN.” January 28, 1992, On D-Day (June 6, 1944), the Allies landed on the beaches of Normandy. Years later, the “State of the Union” Supreme Commander of Allied Forces, American General Dwight D. Eisenhower, revealed what an address, “A world agonizing decision he had been called upon to make when giving the green light to the invasion. once divided into two He also said, “If there were nothing else in my life to prove the existence of an Almighty and armed camps now rec- Merciful God, the events of the next twenty-four hours did it!” D-Day was a great success! ognizes one sole and Later that same year, American forces in the Pacific fought the powerful Japanese fleet in what became the world’s greatest sea battle—the Battle of Leyte Gulf—on October 23-25. preeminent power, the “Sprague [the U.S. force’s operational commander] was dumbfounded.... He had held his own United States of against a fleet many times his superior.... His success was due, he wrote later, not simply to America. And they the tactics he had adopted but also to ‘the definite partiality of ALMIGHTY GOD’” (The World regard this with no at War, p. 375). But it would take far more than this victory to defeat the Japanese—who were dread. For the world resolved to hold out to the last man if need be. trusts us with power, The Anglo-Americans—with the help of Jewish scientists fleeing Nazi persecution in and the world is right. Europe—won the frenzied race to build the atomic bomb. And, to avert the possible deaths of mil- They trust us to be lions in a conventional invasion of Japan, President Truman ordered the new super weapon to be fair, and restrained. used. Churchill said, “We [Anglo-Americans] seemed suddenly to have become possessed of a merciful abridgment of the slaughter in the East and of a far happier prospect in Europe. I have no They trust us to be on doubt that these thoughts were present in the minds of my American friends. At any rate, there never the side of decency. was a moment’s discussion as to whether the atomic bomb should be used or not! To avert a vast, They trust us to do indefinite butchery, to bring the war to an end, to give peace to the world, to lay healing hands what’s right.” These upon its tortured peoples by a manifestation of overwhelming power at the cost of a few words followed the explosions, seemed, after all our toils and perils, A MIRACLE OF DELIVERANCE” (p. 553)! The Birthright Finally Realized!

Persian Gulf War in which the peoples have sent hundreds of mil- other nations ever have. They became American-led coalition liberated Kuwait lions of Bibles, in virtually every industrial supergiants. And how did from Iraq. known tongue, into all nations! And it they use their new-found power? As a has been primarily through those blessing to other peoples of the globe! Israel—a Blessing same peoples that the true Gospel of And it all happened right on sched- to Other Nations! the Kingdom of God has been ule—exactly as prophesied. Can you preached WORLDWIDE—and must think of a more amazing proof of a liv- Here, then, is the fulfillment of the yet be preached and published GLOB- ing, intervening God? physical aspect of God’s promise to Abraham that “in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Gen. 12:3). Not only would spiritual salva- tion come through Abraham’s descen- dant, Jesus Christ, but also Abraham’s modern descendants would be a great blessing to other nations. The United States and Britain have spent multiple billions of dollars in providing foreign aid to other coun- tries. Historically, our nations are the ones that have always raced to the res- cue of those in need. Untold millions of tons of food and humanitarian supplies have been unloaded on foreign docks bearing such labels as, “From the peo- ple of the United States.” Notice the incredible parallel drawn by Royal Society member Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940), a British physics professor and universi- ty principal: “We [British], too, are a chosen people. It were blasphemy to ALLY (Matt. 24:14; 28:19; Mark Here, then, is Israel—not the tiny deny our BIRTHRIGHT and 16:15)! Americans and Britons have Jewish state in the Middle East, (which, responsibility. Our destiny in the been chosen NOT for favoritism—but incidentally, owes its very existence to the world is no small one. We are peopling for SERVICE toward the other nations continued support of its Josephite brother, great tracts of the earth and carrying of the world! the U.S.A.), but superpower nations sit- thither our language and our customs. Again, God fulfilled His promises ting astride the geopolitical landscape, The migration of that primitive in amazing detail. Ishmael’s descen- controlling world affairs! Here, then, is tribe from Ur of the Chaldees under dants, the Arabs, may have become an Israel—not scratching in the dust to grow the leadership of that splendid old empire larger than Rome’s, but that meager amounts of food to barely survive chief, Abram, into the Land of pales into insignificance when com- on, but helping to feed the entire planet Promise, was an event fraught with pared to what became of Isaac’s from the superabundance of the richest stupendous results for the human descendants. Ephraim ALONE became soil imaginable! Here, then, is Israel— race.” If Lodge only knew how true the greatest empire in human experi- not looking elsewhere for new tools, but his words were! ence—FIVE TIMES as big as that of always leading the world in advancing the But there is a spiritual side even the Romans—on which the sun never cutting edge of technology. And here, to this. A British minister, C.H. set! From it emerged a “multitude of then, is Israel—not constantly defending Spurgeon (1834-1892), once said, nations”! Manasseh became the great- her flag from stronger enemies, but plant- “I judge that God has blessed the est single nation that has ever existed. ing her flag on the surface of the moon! two great nations of the Anglo- Since World War II, it has been the Can there be any doubt that the Saxon race—England and the undisputed leader of the free world. mighty hand of God has directed all of United States—and given them The descendants of these two sons this? How thankful are we for what God preeminence [so that]... they may of Joseph came into possession of the has done? In the next chapter, we will spread abroad the knowledge of most bountiful lands on earth. God see how well our American and British the glory of God” (Treasury of the gave them the vital sea gates of the peoples have fared in living up to their Old Testament, vol. 2, p. 145). world. They rose to military domi- divine calling and purpose—and what is How true! The Anglo-American nance and national prominence as no prophesied to happen to them. 55 ChapterChapter 8— 5—

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hat does the future hold for murder, substance abuse, poverty, illit- too privileged.... God has not been very our American and British peo- eracy, teenage pregnancy and increas- fair in the distribution of resources.... Wples? Despite the tremen- ing misery of every sort. Americans have the most stable econo- dous, incredible blessings God has Tragically, Britain and America my, they have an abundance of resources poured out on our peoples, not all is have mostly failed in God’s purpose for available within their own country, and well with Britain and America. In fact, them of being a blessing and good they have more investments abroad than something terribly wrong has happened. example to other nations. Moral debase- any other country” (U.S. News & World Following World War II, the sun ment and a rejection of God by far too Report, Nov. 26, 1973). finally set on the mighty British Empire many have exacted a huge toll. In this Have we, indeed, been “too privi- as it quickly vanished from the global chapter, we will see how this has hap- leged”? As we read in the previous scene—almost overnight! Today, pened to the English-speaking peoples chapter, it is God’s prerogative, as the Britain’s foreign holdings continue to and why God is going to have to vio- Creator and Possessor of Heaven and dwindle. For example, Hong Kong lently SHAKE us out of our evil ways. Earth, to distribute resources to reverts to China in 1997. The British whomever He wills—to fulfill His Commonwealth is no more. (There is “Too Privileged”? supreme purpose. But we, the recipi- still a “Commonwealth,” but its 50 ents of the fabulous birthright blessings, member nations are no longer subject to The American author, John need to always appreciate them, giving the British Crown and are predominant- Steinbeck (1902-1968), once said, “If I Almighty God thanks for everything we ly non-British in descent.) wanted to destroy a nation, I would have, remembering that “every good The United States, once the great- give it too much and I would have it gift and every perfect gift is from est creditor nation in earth’s history— on its knees, miserable, greedy and above, and comes down from the Father even forgiving many other nations many sick.” Compared with the one billion of lights” (Jas. 1:17). Yet we Anglo- impoverished Americans have not always kept this human beings lack- important fact in mind. ing adequate food, many Americans, “We Have Forgotten God” Britons, Canadians, Australians and President Abraham Lincoln elo- New Zealanders are quently summarized our forgetful atti- overfed and over- tude as the American Civil War raged: weight! Have we “We have been the recipients of the been so blessed that choicest bounties of Heaven; we have we have taken these been preserved these many years in God-given blessings peace and prosperity; we have grown in for granted? Have numbers, wealth, and power as no other we been too blessed nation has ever grown. But we have for our own good? forgotten God. We have forgotten the billions of dollars of debt—has now Japan’s late Prime Minister Kakuei gracious hand which preserved us in become the greatest debtor nation the Tanaka once said, “I often wonder why peace and multiplied and enriched world has ever seen! Our society is you [Americans] worry so much about and strengthened us, and we have plagued by persistent unemployment, domestic problems when you have such vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness broken homes and crime. an abundance of resources. For example, of our hearts, that all these blessings Instead of gleaming “alabaster look at American agricultural productivi- were produced by some superior wis- cities,” many of our urban centers are ty. It’s easy for the U.S. to expand its out- dom and virtue of our own. like festering scabs—just waiting to put whenever it chooses. We can’t do that “Intoxicated with unbroken suc- erupt in racial strife and uncontrollable in Japan. When I compare the situation cess, we have become too self-suffi- violence. Our inner cities are breeding here in Japan with the situation in your cient to feel the necessity of [God’s] grounds for rioting, gang violence, country, I think that as a nation you are redeeming and preserving grace, too

56 What Is Now Prophesied? proud to pray to the God that made for this is your wisdom and your under- Some believe that, because God us!” (Proclamation, Mar. 30, 1863). standing in the sight of the peoples who divorced ancient Israel (Jer. 3:8) and God even foresaw this mindset— will hear all these statutes, and say, because the Old Covenant marriage and warned Israel against it: “Beware ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and ended with Christ’s death, God no that you do not forget the LORD your understanding people.’ For what great longer deals with His physical people God by not keeping His command- nation is there that has God so near to it, based on these principles. While the ments, His judgments, and His statutes as the LORD our God is to us.... And Husband/wife relationship based on the which I command you today, lest— what great nation is there that has such when you have eaten and are full, and statutes and righteous judgments as are U.S. President Abraham Lincoln have built beautiful houses and dwell in in all this law which I set before you this them; and when your herds and your day?” (Deut. 4:1, 6-8). flocks multiply, and your silver and your Yet notice what would happen if gold are multiplied, and all that you have the Israelites betrayed their special is multiplied... your heart is lifted up, relationship with God: “O children of and you forget the LORD your God.... Israel... ‘You only have I known of all Then you say in your heart, ‘My power the families of the earth; therefore I and the might of my hand have gained will punish you for all your iniquities’” me this wealth’” (Deut. 8:11-14, 17). (Amos 3:1-2). God believes in How does God answer this? “And accountability! “But they [the you shall remember the LORD your Israelites] rebelled and grieved His God, for it is He who gives you power to Holy Spirit; so He turned Himself get wealth, that He may establish His against them as an enemy, and He covenant which He swore to your fought against them” (Is. 63:10). What fathers.... If you by any means forget the a frightening thing it is when we make LORD your God... I testify against you God—the most powerful Being in the this day that you shall surely perish” universe—our enemy! (vv. 18-19). But, frighteningly, this is During the Korean War, on exactly what most of our peoples HAVE December 12, 1951, General Douglas “We have been the recipients of the done! Surely national destruction can- MacArthur alerted his fellow Americans: choicest bounties of Heaven... we have not be far behind. “In this day of gathering storm, as the grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we God’s prophecies reveal a broken moral deterioration... spreads its infec- have forgotten God.” and devastated Israel at the very end of tion... it is essential that every spiritual this age—sorely punished for forget- force be mobilized to defend and pre- ting and rebelling against God. “Indeed serve the religious base upon which this Sinai covenant HAS ended between God all the nations will wonder, ‘Why has nation was founded. For it is that base and physical Israel, the God/people rela- the LORD done thus to this land? What which has been the motivating impulse to tionship based on much earlier promises caused this great display of anger?’ our moral and national growth. to Abraham has certainly NOT ended! They will conclude, ‘It is because they “History fails to record a single The conditional prophecies of blessings abandoned the covenant of the LORD, precedent in which nations subject to and curses was not the Old Covenant the God of their ancestors’” (Deut. moral decay have not passed into polit- itself. Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 29:24-25 NRSV). ical and economic decline. There has simply express how God would deal Frankly, then, we have only our- been either a spiritual reawakening to with His physical people—even today! selves to blame. In President Lincoln’s overcome the moral lapse, or a pro- Through Moses, God solemnly solemn words, “If danger ever reach- gressive deterioration leading to ulti- promised the Israelites that if they es us it must spring up amongst us. It mate national disaster” (A Soldier obeyed Him, He would bless them and cannot come from abroad. If destruc- Speaks, pp. 285-286). As horrible as it is their descendants in their cities and tion be our lot, we must ourselves be to contemplate, this is exactly where countryside. They would be given its author and finisher.” He was right. America and Britain are heading! peace, prosperity, overflowing happi- It is our grievous national sins that sep- ness and every blessing imaginable! arate us from God (Is. 59:1-2)! “I Will Break the This included unquestioned military If Israel had continued to wor- Pride of Your Power!” supremacy: “You will chase your ene- ship and obey God, it would have mies, and they shall fall by the sword become a model nation for all the Remember from chapter two that before you. Five of you shall chase a other nations to follow! Moses made Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28 out- hundred, a hundred of you shall put ten this point clear: “Now, O Israel, listen to line blessings for Israel’s obedience to thousand to flight” (Lev. 26:7-8). the statutes and the judgments which I God and curses for disobedience. These But if they flagrantly broke God’s teach you to observe, that you may live... were not for Old Testament times only! covenant, His laws and statutes, then 57 America and Britain in Prophecy What Is Now Prophesied?

God Almighty said He would remove our national interests, we stopped God (Lev. 20:1-27). will die during the terrible coming those blessings and punish them for short of marching in and depos- But in the eyes of our soci- crises at the close of this age (Rev. 9:12- their unfaithfulness. They would have ing the “Butcher of Baghdad.” ety, homosexuality is accepted 21)! Such awful, nightmarish destruc- drought, crop failures, famine and pesti- as a “lifestyle choice”—even tion could happen only by a horrifying lence. The aliens in their land would rise The Coming with signs held aloft at parades World War III! up very high above them until they were “Great Tribulation” for “gay pride” with blasphe- At the time when the Anglo- destroyed as a nation (cf. Deut. 28:43). mous slogans such as, “God is Americans have become, among other Moreover, God warns: “But if you do One of the most detailed gay!” God will not let such nations, “like a lion among the beasts of not obey Me, and do not observe all these prophecies in the Bible is found wickedness go unpunished (cf. the forest” with all our enemies “cut commandments... but break my covenant, in Jeremiah 31-32. The Prophet Gen. 19; 1 Cor. 6:9-10). Also, off” (Mic. 5:8-9), God says that, I will do this to you: I will even appoint Jeremiah wrote about 130 years the murder of countless mil- because of our skyrocketing sins and terror over you, wasting disease and after the northern Ten Tribes of lions of innocent unborn chil- crimes, He will bring sudden destruc- fever.... I will set my face against you, and Israel were taken captive in 721 dren (i.e. “legalized” abortion) tion upon us—giving us over to crush- you shall be defeated by your enemies. B.C. Therefore his prophecies is a terrible blot on the Anglo- ing defeat at the hands of a cruel Those who hate you shall reign over you, couldn’t possibly refer to ancient American national conscience enemy! The very next verses in Micah and you shall flee when no one pursues Israel prior to that time. (That (Num. 35:33; Ezek. 7:23; Is. make this quite clear: “And it shall be in you. And after all this, if you do not obey would be like a prophet today “In all your dwelling places the cities shall be laid waste” 59:3). Rest assured—God is that day... that I will cut off your horses Me, then.... I will break the pride of your “foretelling” the American Civil —Ezekiel 6:6 going to repay our peoples for from your midst and destroy your char- power” (Lev. 26:14-19)! Not only did this War.) Jeremiah’s prophecies can such great evil! iots [tanks, artillery, armored cars]. apply to ancient Israel—it also applies to only refer to the end time—our Shamefully, the Anglo- “I will cut off the cities of your modern Israel—the Anglo-Saxon-Celts! day! They are addressed to both “Israel beginning of the world until this time, The Prophet Ezekiel, writing Saxon-Celtic peoples are flagrantly land and throw down all your Have we witnessed warning signals and Judah” (Jer. 30:4), meaning both no, nor ever shall be. And unless those between the times of Jeremiah and breaking God’s laws—committing not strongholds [military installations]. I that our power is already being broken? the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples and days were shortened [by God], no flesh Daniel—about 150 years after the Ten only religious crimes such as idolatry will cut off sorceries from your hand, Many claim that Britain has been reduced our kinsmen, the Jews. would be saved [“alive” Moffatt]; but for Tribes went into Assyrian captivity— and Sabbath breaking (cf. Ezek. 20:12- and you shall have no soothsayers [no to a “fourth-rate power.” The U.S. has Jeremiah writes, “For thus says the the elect’s sake [i.e. the sake of those who also mentioned this unparalleled time 24; Is. 59:1-15), but also many heinous more psychic phone hotlines!]. Your been called a “paper tiger” or described as LORD: ‘We have heard a voice of genuinely turn to God in repentant obedi- of Jacob’s trouble. God, in Ezekiel 5, sins and perversions. carved images [which fill our churches “all bark and no bite.” Has America lost trembling, of fear, and not of peace. ence and faith] those days will be short- tells modern Israel, “Because you have and religious shrines] I will also cut the will to win? When we fought North Ask now, and see, whether a man is ened” (vv. 21-22; cf. Mark 13:19-20). multiplied disobedience more than the Horrifying World War III! off.... You shall no more worship the Korea, along with our U.N. allies, we ever in labor with child? So why do I Only in our modern age—with the prolif- nations that are all around you, and work of your hands.... Thus I will reached a stalemate. When we fought the see every man with his hands on his eration of nuclear weaponry—has it been have not walked in My statutes, nor In Ezekiel 5, the Almighty destroy your cities” (vv. 10-14)! Vietnamese, our soldiers never lost a loins like a woman in labor, and all possible that if a great conflict were not kept My judgments... I, even I, am describes future pestilence, famine and How will this happen? Ezekiel 6:6- major military engagement. But politics faces turned pale? Alas! For that day halted, “no flesh would be saved alive.” against you and will execute judgments warfare on an almost unimaginable 7 makes it even more plain: “In all your and public scorn forced us to shamefully is great, so that none is like it; and it Christ said, concerning this Great in your midst.... And I will do among scale: “ONE-THIRD of you shall die dwelling places the cities shall be laid crawl out of that war-torn country on our is the time of JACOB’S trouble, but Tribulation, “For it will come as a you what I have never done, and the of the pestilence [disease epidemics, waste.... The slain shall fall in your bellies. Of course, we Anglo-Americans [after going through it] he shall be SNARE on all those who dwell on the like of which I will never do again” such as cancer, AIDS, Ebola, etc.], and midst, and you shall know that I am the have won a few police actions against saved out of it’” (vv. 5-7)! face of the WHOLE EARTH” (Luke (vv. 7-9). be consumed with famine in your LORD.” This never happened in the such tiny countries as Grenada, the The Prophet Daniel, who wrote his 21:35). Yet Jesus has promised those But why would a loving God allow midst; and ONE-THIRD shall fall by destruction of ancient Israel—it must Falkland Islands and Panama. prophecies even later than Jeremiah— who remain faithful to Him, “Because such a terrible calamity to befall His the sword [warfare] all around you; and refer to a time soon coming! What, then, More recently, we and our allies nearly 200 years after the ancient cap- you have kept my word of patient people? “A disaster, a singular disas- I will scatter ANOTHER THIRD to all is meant here? Think about it: cities like fought Iraq in the Persian Gulf War. tivity of the Ten Tribes—also mentions endurance, I will keep you from the ter; behold, it has come!... Doom has the winds, and I will draw out a sword New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Early in the conflict, U.S. President a time of trouble for Israel “at the time hour of trial [Tribulation] which is come to you, you who dwell in the land; after them. Thus shall My anger be Toronto, Montreal, London, Glasgow, George Bush called on all Americans to of the end” (Dan. 11:40). “At that time coming on the whole world to test the the time has come, a day of trouble [the spent, and I will cause My fury to rest Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland—ALL pray to God for divine help and the safe- Michael shall stand up, the great prince inhabitants of the earth” (Rev. 3:10 Great Tribulation] is near, and not of upon them, and I will be avenged; and LAID WASTE! ty of our men. It is striking that there [“the archangel” Moffatt] who stands NRSV)! rejoicing.... Now upon you I will soon they shall know that I, the LORD, have Coupled with Christ’s remark that were remarkably few losses! President watch over the sons of your people When we put these verses togeth- pour out My fury, and spend My anger spoken it in My zeal, when I have spent “no flesh would be saved alive” if God Bush responded admirably to this out- [Jacob’s descendants]; and there shall er, we see that ALL of them refer upon you; I will judge you according to My fury upon them” (vv. 12-13)! didn’t intervene (Matt. 24:22), this almost come by again calling on Americans to be a time of trouble, such as never unmistakably to the SAME TIME. your ways, and I will repay you for all What a staggering death toll! If certainly indicates horrific nuclear war- pray—this time to thank God for answer- was since there was a nation, even to There cannot be more than one worst your abominations. one-third of our people die of disease fare or some other advanced method of ing the nation’s prayers. that time. And at that time [after time ever! These passages describe a “My eye will not spare, nor will I and famine, and one-third die by war, mass destruction. It is a terrifying fact that However, in general, our people enduring this horrible “trouble”], your unique time in man’s history—a time have pity; I will repay you according this would mean the deaths of man has never invented a weapon he has have not truly turned to God in heartfelt people shall be delivered” (12:1). of great trouble so traumatic that no to your ways, and your abominations approximately 200 million modern not later used. Missiles packing multiple repentance—rejecting their sinful ways In Matthew 24, Jesus Christ spoke of other period in the entire history of the will be in your midst. Then you will Israelites—since there are now about nuclear warheads will, more than likely, and embracing God’s commandments. what could only be the same traumatic earth will have ever been so bad. In all know that I am the LORD who strikes” 300 million Anglo-Saxon-Celtic prove to be no exception. Thus, the pride we had in our military time of unprecedented worldwide human the bloodstained, awful history of (7:5, 7-9). Idolatry, sorcery, murder, descendants of the ancient Patriarch In the aftermath of the coming power remains broken. In fact, even suffering: “For then there will be great humanity, never has any people experi- rape, adultery, incest and homosexual- Jacob living in Northwest Europe, conflagration, a lack of sustenance will though we could have vanquished Iraq, tribulation [Gk. thlipsis megale, “mega- enced the intensity of horrors prophe- ity and numerous other loathsome acts North America and Australasia. Also, produce ghastly consequences: “I will totally eliminating the threat it posed to misery”], such as has not been since the sied to come on a global scale. are all “abominations” in the eyes of ONE-THIRD of all mankind in general let loose the sword of war on you, in

58 59 America and Britain in Prophecy punishment for your breach of com- those of you who escape will remember both the Anglo-Americans and the pact, and you shall huddle inside your Me among the nations where they are Jews will suffer together at the hands towns; I will send pestilence among CARRIED CAPTIVE” (Ezek. 6:8-9). of the coming “Beast” mentioned in you, and you shall fall into the hands of “Carried captive”? Many contend Revelation 13, 17 and 19—a revival of an enemy. When I deprive you of the that Ezekiel, himself a Jewish exile in sorts of the Holy Roman Empire of the bread that sustains you, ten of your Babylonian captivity, was writing here Middle Ages in a ten-nation European women will need but one oven for about the Jews. That is simply not so. power bloc. This system is also their baking, and your bread shall be God told him to direct his words to the referred to as “Babylon” (Is. 47; Rev. doled out in rations, till you never “mountains [prophetic symbol for 18). Even as you read these words, this have enough to eat. If all this will not nations] of ISRAEL” (v. 3). When shown coming political, economic and reli- make you listen to me, if you continue this, many then conclude that these gious superpower is forming in Europe to defy me, then I will defy you in my words refer to ancient Israel’s Assyrian under the auspices of the European fury.... You shall be forced to eat the captivity. But could that be so? No—for, Union. Other prophecies show that flesh of your sons and of your daugh- as mentioned previously, Ezekiel wrote Germany will provide its dynamic ters” (Lev. 26:25-29 Moffatt). his prophecies a century and a half after heart (see box: “Portrait of a Cruel The starving, emaciated descendants that captivity. Thus God, through Conqueror”). of modern Israel (our Anglo-American Ezekiel, was here referring to a yet future Israel’s captivity will be a horrific people) will even stoop to CANNIBAL- captivity and deportation IN OUR DAY! time of unparalleled suffering, during ISM! Ezekiel also prophesied this tragic The Almighty tells our peoples, “I which the vast majority of modern Israel condition: “Therefore fathers shall eat will scatter you [as He did the Ten will die. Isaiah wrote: “Then I said, their sons in your midst, and sons shall Tribes in the 700s B.C.] among the ‘Lord, how long will it be before they eat their fathers” (Ezek. 5:10). The nations and draw out a sword after you; are ready to listen?’ And he replied, Word of God relates the gory details of your land shall be desolate and your ‘Not until their cities are destroyed— this vile episode in Deuteronomy 28:53- cities waste.... You shall perish among without a person left—and the whole 57 (cf. 2 Kings 6:25-29). the nations, and the land of your ene- country is an utter wasteland, and they mies shall eat you up. And those of are all taken away as slaves to other National Captivity—Again? you who are left shall waste away in countries far away, and all the land of their iniquity in your enemies’ lands” Israel lies deserted! Yet a TENTH—a Correction from God is absolutely (Lev. 26:33, 38-39). How very similar remnant—will survive; and though necessary. Just as any loving parent to the concentration camps of Nazi Israel is invaded again and again and will sometimes discipline his or her Germany! destroyed, yet Israel will be like a tree children for their ultimate good, so it is In Jeremiah’s prophecy, God cut down, whose stump still lives to with God (Heb. 12:5-11). Our merciful explains the nature of the coming captiv- grow again’” (Is. 6:11-13 Living Bible). God promises, “Though I make a full ity which Israel and Judah will yet be led Think of it! Of the 100 million scat- end of all nations where I have scat- out of (something that has NEVER hap- tered Israelites taken into captivity, only a tered you [Israel’s countries today], yet pened before): “For behold, the days are mere fraction will survive! How might I will not make a complete end of you. coming... that I will bring back from this happen? Are you, the reader, aware But I will correct you in justice, and captivity My people Israel and Judah” that the Nazi gas chambers and ovens of will not let you go altogether unpun- (30:3). In ancient times, Israel’s captivity Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, ished” (Jer. 30:11). The United States, (721 B.C.) occurred 135 years before Treblinka, etc.—by which millions of the United Kingdom, Canada, Judah’s captivity (586 B.C.). But, during Jews, Slavs and others were slaughtered Australia, New Zealand—all of these “Jacob’s Trouble,” the captivity of Israel during the Second World War—have not political entities will disappear from and Judah will occur simultaneously. been dismantled? They stand right now history. But, as with the ancient What will God be delivering them as monuments of great human atrocities. Kingdom of Israel, the citizenry of from? “For it shall come to pass in that Yet they could be put back into macabre these countries will not be completely day... that I will break his YOKE from service almost overnight! All of this wiped out (Amos 9:8-9). What will your neck, and will burst your should shake us out of lethargy! happen to those who are not destroyed? BONDS; foreigners shall no more As we saw in Ezekiel, though two- enslave them’” (v. 8). When Britons And Now — thirds of modern Israelites will die by sing “Rule Britannia,” they boast that the “Good News”! war, disease and famine, another third “Britons never will be slaves!” But, (about 100 million people) will be scat- despite those lyrics, modern Britons, and Will the Israelites finally heed God tered. How will this be accomplished? Americans too, will be herded into slav- after suffering the Great Tribulation? God says, “Yet I will leave a remnant, so ery—scattered over the globe to work in God says, “If they confess their iniqui- that you may have some who escape the their captors’ mines, factories, fields, etc. ty and the iniquity of their fathers, with sword among the nations, when you are Prophecy reveals that, during the their unfaithfulness in which they were scattered through the countries. Then coming, horrendous World War III, unfaithful to Me... and that I also have...

60 Portrait of a Cruel Conqueror

Who will Israel’s main enemy in the end time be? Moses is still Allemagne! Certainly we have identified the modern predicted, “The LORD will bring a nation against you from descendants of Asshur. They are the German-speaking peo- afar, from the end of the earth, as swift as the EAGLE ples of Central Europe! flies, a nation whose language you will not understand” Now it is much easier to see how some of the Germans (Deut. 28:49). To fulfill this prophecy to Israel in ancient times, have been looked upon as Scythian-related by modern histori- God used the Assyrians— ans. They migrated from the with their symbol of the same areas! Also we can bet- eagle. A number of prophe- ter see how the language of cies show that, in the last the modern Scythians days, God will use these (Israelites) is Germanic same people to lead a ten- (Assyrian)—they adopted the nation United States of language of their captors! But Europe to capture and wasn’t Assyrian a Semitic lan- enslave modern Israel. In guage like Hebrew—totally fact, modern Assyria will be different from modern the main land of our peoples’ German? The Oxford future captivity (Is. 11:16; Companion to the Bible says 27:13; Zech. 10:10). that Assyrian Emperor Just who were the “Ashurnasirpal II (884-859 Assyrians—and who are B.C.E.)... brought large num- they today? Smith’s Bible bers of Arameans [descen- Black Obelisk detail (above) showing the Assyrian sym- Dictionary says, “Assyria... dants of Shem’s son Aram— bol of the god Shamash, the winged disk, overlooking derived its name apparently Syrians] into the heartland of the scene. Note the similarities between the Assyrian from Asshur, the son of Assyria, swelling the ranks of icon and the symbol of the Nazi regime (below). Shem, Gen. 10:22, who in the court... and, by the early later times was worshipped seventh century, replacing by the Assyrians as their the Assyrian language with chief god” (“Assyria, Aramaic [Semitic language Asshur”). What happened to like Hebrew] as the vernacu- these people when their lar”—i.e. at court and as the empire fell at the destruc- language of writing (1993, p. tion of their capital city of 63). The unwritten language Nineveh in 612 B.C.? Pliny of the Assyrian people was the Elder (23-79 A.D.) undoubtedly the one from located the “Assyriani” of which the Germanic lan- his day NORTH of the guages descend. Crimea in Russia (Historia Notice what God says Naturalis, bk. 4, sec. 12). about the sons of Asshur: So the Assyrians must “Woe to Assyria, the rod of have migrated north My anger and the staff in through the Caucasus Mountains just as the Cimmerians whose hand is My indignation. I will send him against an and some Scythians did! This would make them ungodly nation [Israel], and against the people of My wrath I “Caucasian” too—which makes sense, considering their will give him charge, to seize the spoil, to take the prey, and Shemite (white) ancestry. Where did they go from the to tread them down like the mire of the streets.Yet he does not Crimea? Jerome (Latin scholar, c. 340-420) later wrote, mean so, nor does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to “Asshur also is joined with the tribes invading Western destroy, and cut off not a few nations” (Is. 10:5-7). God is Europe ALONG THE RHINE” (Nicene and Post-Nicene saying that he uses Assyria as His instrument of punishment Fathers, ltr. 123, sec. 16). So their migratory route was sim- upon Israel, but the Assyrians have other motives. Their only ilar to the Israelites—except the Assyrians stopped in concern is destroying other peoples in a continual rage of Central Europe and settled “along the Rhine.” imperial conquest. Haven’t we seen that in modern times too? The names of some of Asshur’s descendants also give World Wars I and II were both primarily due to German some striking clues about the identity of the modern imperialism! When Adolph Hitler stood before the great Assyrians. Though not listed in the Bible, they can be found German eagle and cried for lebensraum (“living space”), was in numerous ancient histories and Bible encyclopedias. They that so very different from the ways of ancient Assyria? “Its include: Khatti; Akkadians; Kassites (or Cossaei); and imperialistic ethic was embodied in the Middle Assyrian Almani (or Halmani). Now notice the names of early German coronation ritual, in which the officiating priest solemnly tribes in Europe: Hessians (anciently named Khatti— charged the king: ‘Expand your land!’” (p. 63). There are “Germany,” Encyclopaedia Britannica); Quadians (Latin for many such parallels. The worship of their father Asshur is Akkadians); the Chauci (same as the Cossaei); and the quite interesting. Perhaps it could explain why, instead of a Allemani (Latin for Almani). The French name for Germany “Mother Country,” the Germans exalt the “Fatherland.” —over What kind of people were the ancient fear at the October 1995 Forum for Assyrians? Their cruelty was renowned International Policies in Colorado Springs. brought them into the land of among the ancient conquering empires: Speaking of Germany, she said, “Her their enemies... if [they]... are “They were a proud, warlike, and cruel national character is to dominate.There humbled, and they accept their race. Although possessing genuine reli- is something in the character of the guilt—then I will remember my gious feeling, still the Assyrian monarchs German people that led to things that covenant with Jacob... with Isaac often displayed in their treatment and... with Abraham.... [The of prisoners the disposition of savages. The sculptured marbles Israelites] will accept their guilt, taken from the palaces exhibit the because they despised My judg- cruel tortures inflicted upon pris- ments and because their soul oners; kings are being led before abhorred My statutes. their conqueror with hooks thrust “Yet for all that, when they are through their lips; other prisoners in the land of their enemies, I will are being flayed alive; the eyes of not cast them away, nor shall I some are being bored out with the abhor them, to utterly destroy them point of a spear; and still others and break My covenant with them; are having their tongues torn out” (Philip Meyers, Eastern Nations for I am the LORD their God. But and Greece, 1904, pp. 69-70). for their sake I will remember the These are the conquerors whom covenant of their ancestors, whom God gave the Israelites over to! I brought out of the land of Egypt, Historian Will Durant writes, in the sight of the nations, that I “Most often the prisoners [the might be their God: I am the Assyrians took in war]... were dis- LORD” (Lev. 26:40-45). patched after the battle; they knelt This will indeed happen! Our with their backs to their captors, Anglo-American peoples will who beat their heads in with clubs, or cut them off with cutlasses....The eventually come to their senses king, if time permitted, presided and bitterly cry out to God when at the slaughter. The nobles He allows our plight to become among the defeated were given desperate! Jeremiah quotes God more special treatment: their ears, Assyrian troops impaling the Jewish prison- as saying, “In those days and in noses, hands and feet were sliced ers of war at the siege of Lachish. Extreme that time... the children of off, or they were thrown from high cruelty was used in battle to deter the vic- ISRAEL shall come, they and the towers, or they and their children tim’s compatriots from risking the same fate children of JUDAH together; with were beheaded, or flayed alive, or and also to convince them to quickly aban- continual weeping they shall roasted over a slow fire. No com- don their resistance. punction seems to have been felt come, and seek the LORD their at this waste of human life” (Story of never should have happened. Why was God. They shall ask the way to Civilization, vol. 1, p. 271). Assyrian annals it that the German people let Hitler do Zion... saying, ‘Come and let us even boast of such cruelties. the things he did? This is something I join ourselves to the LORD in a Perhaps this conjures up images of still fear, even to this day”! perpetual covenant that will not the horrible torture experienced by the Yes, under the right circumstances, be forgotten’” (Jer. 50:4-5). Jews and others in the Nazi Holocaust. It the cruel, warlike tendencies of these Our peoples will say, “Come, should! These national character traits modern Assyrians can be coaxed to the and let us return to the LORD; for have not disappeared—and they won’t surface again. And, you can be certain, He has torn us, but He will heal us; until after Christ returns to earth and sets they assuredly WILL BE! A “Fourth Reich” up His Kingdom over all nations. Then will soon appear on the world scene under He has stricken, but He will bind things WILL change: “In that day Israel a new Hitler-type dictator. This German- us up. After two days [speaking will be one of three with Egypt and led European power bloc will conquer the prophetically, each day equals Assyria, even a blessing in the midst Anglo-American descendants of Israel one year—Num. 14:34; Ezek. of the land, whom the LORD of hosts and make them slaves! 4:6] He will revive us; on the shall bless, saying, ‘Blessed is Egypt Please understand! The Nazi third day [year] He will raise us My people, and Assyria the work of My Holocaust of World War II was merely a up, that we may live in His hands, and Israel My inheritance’” (Is. forerunner—a small “foretaste”—of a sight” (Hos. 6:1-2)! Ancient 19:24). Then Assyrian nature will be much worse fate yet to befall the Anglo- Israel’s bondage lasted many changed through receiving God’s Spirit Saxon-Celtic peoples and, again, our fel- and His government! low kinsmen, the Jews! Bear in mind, too, years, but modern Israel’s enslave- That time, however, has not yet come. that as the Great Tribulation will be the ment will apparently only last Many Britons still remember the Nazi-led worst time our peoples have ever experi- about two and a half years (yet, as horrors of World War II. Many still shudder enced, the soon-coming Assyrian-led cap- we’ve seen, it will be far worse). at the thought of a revived, dynamic, mili- tivity will make Israel’s ancient Assyrian Following this, repentant taristic Germany. Former Prime Minister captivity seem like a walk in the park. Who Israelites will be spared the next Margaret Thatcher recently expressed this will heed this warning? Will YOU? What Is Now Prophesied? year—“the day of the LORD,” men- almost 3,700 years ago. What a great and false! God promises, “If those ordi- tioned over and over in Scripture—in marvelous family reunion that will be! nances [of the sun and moon] depart which God will discipline all nations! At Then, God Almighty will again from before Me... then the seed of Israel the end of that year, the Messiah, Jesus unite the Anglo-Saxon-Celts with the shall also cease from being a nation Christ, will at last return to earth in all Jews as one people (Ezek. 37:15-17). He before Me forever” (v. 36). He also adds, power and glory to establish His peaceful says, “Surely I will take the stick of “If heaven above can be measured, and Kingdom over all nations for 1,000 years Joseph, which is in the hand of the foundations of the earth searched out (Rev. 20:1-4; Dan. 2:44). At that same Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his beneath, I will also cast off all the seed time, Christ will destroy the “Beast” and companions; and I will join them with of Israel for all that they have done, says “the false prophet” (Zech. 14; Rev. 19), it, with the stick of Judah, and make the LORD” (v. 37)! who will have put a “yoke of bondage” them one stick, and they will be one in Through Jeremiah, God clearly on the neck of modern Israel (Is. 47:1-6). My hand.... prophesied, “If My covenant is not with Notice what Isaiah prophesied: “It “Surely I will take the children of day and night, and if I have not appointed shall come to pass in that day that the Israel from among the nations, wherev- the ordinances of heaven and earth, then I LORD shall set His hand again the er they have gone [into captivity], and will cast away the descendants of Jacob.... second time to recover the remnant of will gather them from every side and For I will cause their captives to return, His people who are left, from Assyria bring them into their own land; and I and will have mercy on them” (33:25-26). [Greater Germany] and Egypt... and the will make them one nation in the land.... Look at what the Apostle Paul stated islands of the sea [British Isles, New They shall no longer be two nations, in the New Testament: “I say then, has Zealand, etc.] He will set up a banner for nor shall they ever be divided into two God cast away His people? Certainly the nations, and will assemble the out- kingdoms again” (vv. 19, 21-22). not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed casts of Israel, and gather together the Ezekiel 48 reveals that all the of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. dispersed of Judah from the four corners Twelve Tribes will then be reassigned God has NOT cast away His people of the earth” (Is. 11:11-12). Isaiah is their own tribal allotments in the whom He foreknew” (Rom. 11:1-2). describing a SECOND EXODUS! Also Promised Land—which will be much Paul shows that God will yet save Israel’s note that, at the time of the end, Israel bigger in area than in biblical days. This physical descendants. “And so all Israel and Judah will still be two separately will, at first, accommodate the millions shall be saved, as it is written: ‘The identifiable peoples. The prophet contin- of Israelites returning from captivity. Deliverer will come out of Zion, and He ues, “For the Lord will have mercy on But remember what God told Israel will turn away ungodliness from Jacob; Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and would soon happen at that time: “The for this is My covenant with them, when settle them in their own land [the children you will have, after you have I take away their sins’” (vv. 26-27). Promised Land]” (14:1). lost the others [in the Great Tribulation], This is a prophecy for the future. Who will lead this return and will say again in your ears [as they did Presently, God has ordained that He restore the Twelve Tribes to God’s in Great Britain before], ‘The place is will call both physical Israelites as well favor? Through Isaiah, the Messiah too small for me; give me a place where as Gentiles into His Church: “I say states, “And now the LORD says, who I may dwell’” (Is. 49:20). So what will then, have they [the Israelites] stumbled formed Me [Christ] from the womb to God do? “Those who come He shall that they should fall [“beyond recov- be His Servant, to bring Jacob back to cause to take root in Jacob; Israel shall ery” NIV]? Certainly not! But through Him, so that Israel is gathered to Him.... blossom and bud, and fill the face of their fall [“transgression” NIV], to pro- ‘It is too small a thing that You should be the world with fruit” (Is. 27:6). voke them to jealousy, salvation has My Servant to raise up the tribes of At the time when God gathers the come to the Gentiles. Now if their fall is Jacob, and to restore the preserved ones remnant of Jacob, He will make a “per- riches for the world, and their failure of Israel; I will also give You as a light to petual covenant” with both Israel and riches for the Gentiles, how much more the Gentiles, that You should be My sal- Judah: “Behold, the days are coming, their fullness!” (vv. 11-12). vation to the ends of the earth’” (49:5-7). says the LORD, when I will make a new This is profound! Spiritual salvation covenant with the House of Israel and has been opened to some Gentiles now to Israel’s Family Reunion with the House of Judah.... I will put My prod Israel to look at her own condition law in their minds, and write it on their and start obeying God. In this way, In the wonderful World Ahead, hearts; and I will be their God, and they Israel’s failure has been a blessing to when the Jews and continental shall be My people.... For I will forgive many Gentiles. Yet how much Northwest Europeans have finally their iniquity, and their sin I will remem- GREATER will the blessing for the learned their own true identities, they will ber no more” (Jer. 31:31, 33-34). After Gentile nations be when Israel learns to at last recognize the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic being converted by God’s Spirit, Israel finally set the example God intended peoples of America and Britain as their will finally stop rebelling against Him! from the beginning? Israel will yet be long lost brother Joseph. With great tears Some people think that God has the wonderful model nation God of joy, they will again shout, “Joseph is abandoned His purpose for the physical meant her to be all along. This is truly alive!”—just as the sons of Israel did descendants of Israel. That is totally incredible! 63 America and Britain in Prophecy

For Gentiles Too! Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you who is one inwardly” (Rom. 2:28-29). are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according Everyone must become a spiritual Jew. But God loves all peoples (John to the promise” (Gal. 3:26, 28-29). Paul told the Ephesians, “But now in 3:16)—not just Israelites! He is “no God’s Old Testament “Church” Christ Jesus you [Gentiles] who once respecter of persons”—or nations (Acts was a nation of physical, carnal-minded were far off have been made near by the 10:34-35). How, then, do the Gentiles co- people who, as a group, never had God’s blood of Christ” (Eph. 2:13). “For through inherit the vast riches and wealth, both Holy Spirit within them to empower Him we both [Jews and Gentiles] have physical and spiritual, which was them to do His will. But God’s New access by one Spirit to the Father” (v. 18). promised to the ISRAELITES? Paul Testament Church—the “Israel of God” With God’s Spirit in us, we, as spiritual reveals more of this “mys- Israel can succeed where tery” by saying, “Those physical Israel has not. who are the children of the The main lesson of flesh, these are not the chil- Israel is one of utter fail- dren of God; but the chil- ure without God’s Holy dren of the promise are Spirit! God gave the counted as the seed [of Israelites everything. Yet Abraham]” (Rom. 9:8). they just could not keep His Clearly, all of God’s law. By the New Covenant, covenants and promises Israel will finally be given were given to Israel, and the spiritual POWER to the only way Gentiles can actually obey God and His partake of those promises law “in spirit and truth” is by them being grafted (John 4:24). But if you, the spiritually “into a good reader, have begun to under- olive tree” (Israel), there- stand the importance of sub- by becoming partakers of mitting your life to God and the fabulous riches which obeying Him totally, you Almighty God promised don’t have to wait until the Israelites (Rom. then! You can partake of the 11:15, 17-21). New Covenant’s terms right Paul also explained now (Heb. 8:1-13). this mystery to the But you need to realize Christians at Ephesus, who “The Deliverer will that you can’t do it alone. were Gentiles: “Therefore come out of Zion, and To truly obey God with all remember that you, once your being, it takes Jesus Gentiles in the flesh—who He will turn away ungodliness Christ, as your personal are called Uncircumcision from Jacob; for this is My covenant Savior, living in you by what is called the with them, when I take away their sins.” through the power of the Circumcision made in the Spirit of God (Col. 1:27; flesh by hands—that at Gal. 2:20). How do you that time you were without —Romans 11:26-27 receive that blessing? By Christ, being aliens from deeply REPENTING the commonwealth of before God of breaking His Israel and strangers from the (Gal. 6:16)—is composed of only those spiritual laws, accepting in FAITH the covenants of promise, having no hope who repent of their sins, receive His tremendous sacrifice of Jesus Christ as and without God in the world” (Eph. Holy Spirit (Acts 2:38) and “keep the payment for your sins, being BAPTIZED 2:11-12)! But the apostle does not stop commandments of God and have the and then receiving the priceless gift of there. “Now, therefore, you are no longer testimony of Jesus Christ” (Rev. 12:17). God’s HOLY SPIRIT (Acts 2:38-39). strangers and foreigners, but fellow cit- The New Testament “Church of This is how to become a spiritual izens with the saints and members of God” includes people of all races! But Israelite (Gal. 6:16) and partake of the the household of God” (v. 19). it is a serious mistake to assume that true New Covenant’s terms right now. It He told the Gentile converts of Christianity is a “Gentile” religion. Paul doesn’t matter whether you are a physi- Galatia, “For you are all sons of God explained that this was not so (Rom. 9:3- cal Israelite or not. All humanity des- through faith in Christ Jesus.... There is 4; 11:16-24). He told the Gentile saints at perately NEEDS God’s Holy Spirit—to neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither Rome, “For he is not a Jew who is one obey Him and, thus, truly worship Him. slave nor free, there is neither male nor outwardly, nor is that circumcision which This is what God desires from you— female; for you are all one in Christ is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew and, more importantly, FOR you!

64 Epilogue—Epilogue—

t is easy to dismiss truth out of hand ings, then—barring repentance—you promises to provide a shelter from the or even ridicule it. But, as has often will also suffer with them when their coming storm of violence for individu- Ibeen noted, “Facts are stubborn punishment for disobedience comes! als who believe, and live by, the Word things!” The “Man of the Century,” God is NOT a respecter of persons. of God—whether Israelite or Gentile! Winston Churchill, wisely observed that Of course, if our nations would This protection for God’s faithful chil- “TRUTH is incontrovertible. Panic may change their ways, God always stands dren is promised in Revelation 3:10 resent it; ignorance may deride it; mal- ready to forgive: “The instant I speak and 12:13-17. Jesus also warns us, ice may distort it; but THERE IT IS!” concerning a nation and concerning a “Watch... and pray always that you He later said, “Men occasionally kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and may be counted worthy to escape all stumble over the truth, but most of them to destroy it, if that nation against these things” (Luke 21:36)! pick themselves up and hurry off as if whom I have spoken turns from its President Calvin Coolidge once nothing had happened” (International evil, I will relent of the disaster that I said, “We [Americans] do not need Encyclopedia of Quotations). YOU thought to bring upon it” (Jer. 18:6-8)! more material development, we need have somehow stumbled across the Which way will our people go? Will more spiritual development. We do not irrefutable truth concerning what hap- they continue in unspeakable sins and need more intellectual power, we need pened to the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. rampant crimes, plunging headlong into more moral power. We do not need Will you, like many, simply ignore it? the impending abyss? Or will they repent more knowledge, we need more char- As we’ve seen, our peoples will of their waywardnesss, by turning back acter... we need more [true] religion... learn to live righteously after Jesus to our God and His way? He tells our more of the things that are unseen.” Christ returns. But, as we’ve also seen, peoples what to do to get straightened And former U.S. Secretary of a lot of horrible agony must precede that out: “Yet the Lord pleads with you still: Agriculture, Ezra Taft Benson, hit the joyous time. Why? Because of the awful Ask where the good road is, the godly nail on the head when he stated, “The spiritual condition of our peoples. paths you used to walk in, in the days of greatest work in all the world is the God told Ezekiel to make an long ago. Travel there, and you will find building of men and women of charac- announcement to Israel—which must rest for your souls” (6:16 Living Bible). ter. Without character there is not much refer to the modern peoples of Israel However, God knows what to that’s worthwhile, because character is since Ezekiel wrote long after Israel’s expect from our peoples, as He relates the one thing we take with us from this ancient destruction. Here, then, by the immediately following: “But you reply, world into the next” (An Enemy Hath authority of God Almighty, we announce ‘No, that is not the road we want!’ I set Done This, p. 299). His message to YOU. The wording in watchmen over you who warned These men may not have truly the Living Bible makes it easy to follow: you: ‘Listen for the sound of the trum- understood God’s plan, but they cer- “Tell Israel, Wherever you look—east, pet! It will let you know when trouble tainly got an important key correct—the west, north or south—your land is fin- comes.’ But you said, ‘No! We won’t need to build godly character. By your ished. No hope remains, for I will loose pay any attention!’” (vv. 16-17 seeking God now, individually, He can my anger on you.... With one blow after Living Bible). Will this, dear reader, be begin developing His holy righteous another I will finish you. The end has YOUR response? character within you immediately— come; your final doom is waiting. The publishers of this material you averting the need, if you remain faith- “O Israel... the day of trouble are now reading have been set as “watch- ful, for you to be SHAKEN out of your nears. It is a day of shouts of anguish, men”! Knowing what we do, according wrong ways through the horrible day of not shouts of joy! Soon I will pour out to the Word of God, we are obeying “Jacob’s trouble” (Jer. 30:7)! my fury and let it finish its work of God’s command to sound this “trumpet” The Jefferson Memorial stands on punishing you for all your evil deeds. I warning—through this brochure, our the south banks of the Tidal Basin in will not spare nor pity you, and you other free literature, and the World Ahead Washington, D.C. Inscribed on its wall will know that I, the Lord, am doing it. magazine and television program. God are these poignant words of Thomas The day of judgment has come... for tells us in Isaiah 58:1, “Cry aloud, spare Jefferson that still serve as a solemn your wickedness and pride have not; lift up your voice like a trumpet; tell warning to our American and British reached their climax.... All your boast- My people their transgression, and the peoples: “God who gave us life gave us ing will die away, and no one will be house of Jacob their sins.” You have now liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be left to bewail your fate” (Ezek. 7:2-11). been warned! secure when we have removed a con- Whatever your ethnic origin, if you Though our nations as a whole are viction that these liberties are the gift have lived among the descendants of not likely to repent of their evil ways of God? Indeed I tremble for my coun- modern Israel, enjoying with them their until they are greatly humbled by the try when I reflect that God is just, that God-given material and spiritual bless- awful events ahead, Jesus Christ his justice cannot sleep forever!” 65