THRONE OF DAVID--- ANOTHER STUDY!

 

   The Throne of David

        It was to Endure and ...

TRACING OUR ANCESTORS #17   by Frederick  Haberman  First Edition 1934 Second Edition 1962 THE THRONE OF DAVID Chapter XII As the object of this book is to trace the ancestors of the race that forms the backbone of the people of the United States of America, it may appear superfluous at first thought to deal with the Throne of David; yet, as to many readers the very thought and thread of this book is revolutionary from hitherto held conceptions, so also will be to them the subject of the Throne of David. Besides, many readers will find that they themselves belong to the House of David. This is an age of wonders, so don't be surprised at anything that is going to be discovered or brought to light these days. These are great days, despite the Depression, and greater days are yet in store for many of us, but I am not so sure whether for all of us. In our ninth chapter, dealing with Brutus, we have already studied the foundations of the House of Judah. According to 1 Chronicles 2:3 and 4, Judah had five sons: Er, Onan, Shelah, Pharez, and Zarah; but a reading of the 38th chapter of Genesis makes it clear that Er and Onan died childless, and the 19th verse of the 26th chapter of Numbers confirms it. This chapter gives us the roster of the people of Israel who entered the land of Canaan and tells us in Vvrves 20-22 that the descendants of the other three sons of Judah numbered 76,500 people. These people constitute the tribe of Judah but not the Jews. The Jews were the remnant that came out of Babylonian captivity. It seems that our theologians have studied the Bible backwards instead of forwards; because the ancestors of the Jews were the tribe of Judah, which was one of the tribes of Israel, does not make all the Israelites Jews; yet such a naive idea is held even by the most modern of our theologians and educators, and the only authority they have for it is that their Sunday School teachers said so and their grandmothers. Many Americans are descended from Irish stock, but that would not make the people of Old Ireland five or ten centuries ago Americans, would it? It is strange that even our modern highbrows are so illogical in this respect and still hold to very primitive ideas. The firs chapter of Matthew gives us the, genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son David, who came of the line of Pharez, Hezron, Aram, Boaz, and Jesse. David was the second king of Israel, and Solomon was the last. After the separation of the kingdom of Judah from Israel in 970 B.C. the House of David ruled only over the House of Judah, while Israel had kings of divers houses. Zedekiah was the last Davidic king of Judah. His two sons were killed before his eyes; then his own eyes were put out and he was taken to Babylon as a prisoner by Nebuchadnezzar in 584 B.C., as told in the 25th chapter of 2 Kings. Was that the end of the Throne of David? Orthodox Bible students tell us that it was and that the throne was vacant and will be vacant until Christ returns again to occupy it. But the promise was: "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." This promise was made by the dying Jacob in the 10th verse of the 49th chapter of Genesis. Oh, how little faith even orthodox Bible students have had in the promises of the Scriptures. If Shiloh refers here to the Messiah's first coming, then that promise was only a fairy tale indeed, for nobody has held that Scepter from the time of Zedekiah until Christ. Besides, that Scepter was a literal Scepter; and Christ's Scepter has been a spiritual one, at least until today. Orthodox Bible students in their eagerness to hold up Christ have also done Him a great deal of harm when they allow their wishes to outrun the statements of Scripture concerning temporal matters. The Old Testament is first of all a historical record of the eople of Israel, and a prophetical forecast of their destiny and those who question that, whether they be modern critics or orthodox believers, if they spiritualize whatever is possible, have done untold harm to the Old Book. "Ought ye not to know that the Lord God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, even to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?"---2 Chronicles 13:5. If our orthodox friends believe that these are God's Words, then I would like to ask them how much of this promise they really do believe. The Word says: "David shall rule over Israel forever." But unfortunately it did not say "where," so the faithful could see it. Again in I Kings 9:5 Jehovah promises: "Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel forever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel." In the 89thh Psalm Jehovah establishes His Covenant with David and his house forever. "I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generenations. Selah ... I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him: with whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him. The enemy shall not exact upon him; nor the son of wickedness afflict him. And I will beat down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him. But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the rivers ... Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him. His seed also will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgments; if they break my statutes, and keep not my commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their inquity with stripes. Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, or suffer my faithfulness to fail. My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips. Once have I sworn by my holiness that I will not lie unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah." As long as the sun endures, so long shall that Covenant last; and as the sun has been shining every day since David's time that Covenant must be still in force, and the House of David must still be ruling over Israel. Many of the higher critics of the Bible, from Tom Paine to Bob Ingersoll, have challenged the orthodox defenders of the Bible to show them where and how this Davidic Covenant has been fulfilled, but orthodox theology has never been able to show where, except in heaven. Yet the Covenant reads: "If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my judgment ... Then will I visit their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes." This cannot be applied to Jesus Christ, who was perfect and who died for our transgressions; and I don't think it can apply to those who are in heaven. It can only apply to David's literal sons throughout the ages. "And the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord; if ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying, Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord bath chosen, he hath even cast them off, thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. Thus saith the Lord; if my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to the rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them."--Jeremiah 33:19-26. What about it, earnest Bible students? If you really believe that Jehovah uttered these solemn words, then it is your sacred duty to prove to an unbelieving world of sceptics and agnostics where, when, and how, those words have been fulfilled. The answer is given in 2 Samuel 7 8-116: "Now therefore so shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep to be ruler over my people, over Israel: and I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth. Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime. And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the Lord telleth thee that he will make thee an house. And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom for ever. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: but my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever." We have already seen that the 'appointed place' was in the Covenant Land - 'Brith-ain' - in the Isles of the West. And it was there, we shall find, that the throne of David was established a few years after it was thrown down in Jerusalem. "The King is dead, long live the King." "The King never dies, he only demises the throne." These slogans are as old as history and even older; they go back to Adam and his dynasty, which ruled for nine hundred and thirty years (Genesis 5:5), or thirty-one Golden Cycles of thirty Solar years each. At the end of each Cycle the dynasty was renewed at the shrine of the Deity. These cycles of Renewal Mr.Davidson has explained and demonstrated in Pharagraphs 35 and 38 of his book, "The Great Pyramid," and also has shown their application in Egyptian history in his work, "Early Egypt and Babylonia." These 30 year cycles also form the basis of the 2520-year cycles of Prophecy, as 84 times 30 equals 2520, and are fully explained in my "Seven Times of Prophecy." The first Egyptian Dynasties, whose kings were Aryans, instituted a series of Renewal or Sed Festivals that had their origin in 622 A.K. (3378 B.C.), which was the year of Enoch's birth. (That is not so but here is not the time to go into Bible chronology - Keith Hunt). To the Egyptians their kings were the heaven born sons of God, who could never die, for they considered that the king sat on the throne of God until the Messiah should come. Rameses II, who was the Pharaoh of the Oppression and who knew perfectly well that the Israelites in his land were the carriers of the Messianic promises, declared that the Egyptians were the Messianic carriers and that the Messsiah had come in the shape of Osiris. In Chapter VI we have traced the Messianic promises back to the early Aryans by means of their crosses. The legend of the Phoenix is the story of the translation of Enoch. On Egyptian temples the Phoenix is portrayed as an oval (rising) sun with long, outstretched wings. Prof. Waddell in his book, "Phoenician Origins," Page 248, shows a Hittite Sumerian seal picturing a Phoenix with a Cross in the Sun. St. Clements of Alexandria tells us that the Phoenix is the symbol of the coming Resurrection and of the Messiah (Refer to Phoenix on title page); and in the language of Malachi 4:2 we read of the returning Messiah as "the Sun of Righteousness with healing in His wings." All the kingdoms of the ancient world held their kings to be the incarnation of the Deity. Concering this ancient belief and its meaning Prof.S.H.Buchanan in his "The World and the Book" writes on Pages 364-65: "Kingly priests, after the order of Melchizedek, standing in a line that hold the hope of a Divine incarnation have held universal sway over the human races. Montezuma and Mikado, the Sun-God of the mound-builders, and the Pharaohs; the royal lines of Peru and Central America, Brahma and Chisnu of India, as well as its Buddha, are all the outcome of the faith that looked for the Divine One. Men universally have made of this Divine One just what Christ's disciples wished to make of Him. The conquests of Mexico and Peru by the Spanish were made by the assassination of the royal families holding this hope. This done, the hope of reconstruction departed. The chief difference between the mound-builders and other Indians was the result of the destruction of their royal lines. Whenever this was done they became nomadic and hunters, and fell back upon an altarless, intangible worship of the sun as the Great Spirit, and faded away ... Fully fourfifths of the flags and coins of the nations of the world show traces of origin from the patriarchal cherubim." If, then, all the ancients, whose kings were mostly Aryans, believed their rulers to be the Vicars of the Messiah until His return, is it not only natural that a son of David should sit upon the Throne of Jehovah, as David and Solomon did, until "He come whose right it is." According to the promises quoted, the Throne would never be left vacant, for, according to Luke 1:32, "the Lord God shall give unto Him the throne of his father David." God has promised that the Throne shall be there when He comes, so it must be somewhere. The faith of faithful Bible students does not seem to be strong enough to believe that David's Throne must be somewhere else, after it was overturned in Jerusalem in 584 B.C. and they also appear to have overlooked the prophecy in Ezekiel 21:25-27, which prophesied that the Throne would be overturned: "And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel, whose day us come, when iniquity shall have an end, Thus saith the Lord God; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: and it shall be no more until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him." Jeremiah the prophet had warned Zedekiah, his own relative, of the coming judgment (refer to Chapters 36-39 of Jeremiah), but his warnings were not heeded. To get rid of such a pessimist the prophet was thrown into a filthy pit; and he was only set free by the command of Nebuchadnezzar after Zedekiah's capture. The captain of the guard even invited him to come with them to Babylon, but Jeremiah's mission lay in another direction, to replant the seed of David in another land. Although Zedekiah's sons were slain the diadem and the scepter were overturned into the female line, Zedekiah's daughters, and these Jeremiah took to Tahpanhes in Egypt, accompanied by Baruch the scribe, as told in the 34rd chapter of Jeremiah. Let us now turn to the riddle that the prophet Ezekiel presents in his seventeenth chapter. Thus saith the Lord God; A great eagle with great wings, long winged, full of feathers, which had divers colors, came unto Lebanon, and took the highest branch of the cedar: he cropped off the top of his young twigs, and carried it into a land of traffick; he set it in a city of merchants. He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree. And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs." The word eagle is, no doubt, used to represent a means of transportation, for "it came" and "took" and "carried" something into another land. That something was "his young twigs" (young members) of the "highest branch of the cedar of Lebanon" (symbols of the royalty of Palestine). Also the "seed of the land" (the people of Israel) was placed in another land "by the great waters" (not the Mediterranean), "was planted in a fruitful field," "set it as a willow tree." No other tree will take root as easily and quickly as a willow. It increased and became a vine, this vine of "low stature," and turned its branches "toward him." This "him" must necessarily be above the branches, i. e., be acknowledged as a ruler; but the inference is that this ruler is also not very high, i.e., low, because the vine is of low stature. This personage referred to as "him" is the low one to whom the diadem was to be turned over. Previously, we have related the wanderings of many of the people of Israel to Ireland "by the great waters." Quoting the seventh and eighth verses we continue the riddle: "There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers; and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation. It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine." "Another great eagle" means a different means of transportation than the one before used. And this vine bent "her" roots toward "him," that is, a female twig joining a male twig, by the furrows of her plan tation. This last phrase helps us greatly to identify the place by the "great waters," where the replanting was to take place - in Ulster, Ireland; for in olden time, Ulster is spoken of as the "plantation of Ulster." "I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it." - Ezekiel 17: 24. For further elucidation of this subject the reader is referred to the J.H.Allen's book "Judah's Septer and Joseph's Birthright, and J.D.Massey's interesting work, "Tamar Tephi." As Scripture tells us that Jeremiah took the king's daughters into Egypt and we loose sight them there; by analogy we apply Ezekiel's riddle of the tender twig to the transplanting of the royal line into Ulster, and, therefore, let us take up the thread from there, and follow it. Irish historians are unanimous that about 580 B.C. there arrived in Ulster a notable man, a patriarch or saint, accompanied by an Eastern princess, and a lesser person by the name of Simon Brach, or Barech. This party brought with them several remarkable things about which Ireland's songs and legends cluster; those things were a harp (David's harp), and a wonderful stone - the Stone of Destiny - the Lia Phail. According to many traditions, Jeremiah took the princesses to Spain, where one of them married a prince of Zaragossa. With the other princess he arrived in Ulster some time later. Irish tradition tells us that Jeremiah married the princess Tamar Tephi to Eochaidh, the Heremon, or head king of Ireland, after the latter had embraced the worship of the true Jehovah. Jeremiah became the chief figure in Irish history, life and religion. He became the patriarch of Ireland, and is the original "St.Patrick." The latter was, as is well known, not an Irishman at all, but an early missionary to Ireland, who was interpolated by the Roman Church to take the place of the original saint - patriarch of Ireland, for reasons of their own. In Simon Barech who accompanied them we recognize Baruch the scribe, of Jeremiah 36. For twenty-five centuries Irish songs and ballads have lauded the princess who came with Jeremiah, Tamar Tephi, meaning "Tamar the princess." She is also spoken of as Tea Tephi. Irish historians call her the king's daughter or the daughter of Pharaoh (Pharaoh meaning royal house). Tamar, we will recall, was also the name of her ancestor, the mother of Zarah and Pharez. Her name and her story, as well as that of the Patriarch of Ireland, are so interwoven with Irish folklore, traditions, and history that it is difficult for critical highbrows to eradicate it. The Hebrew-Phoenician words connected with Tamar Tephi, Jeremiah, and Tara alone provide a powerful evidence of their Hebrew origin. Jeremiah is known in Irish tradition as the 0llam Fodhla or Fola. Ollam denotes in Hebrew the possession of "hidden knowledge." Fola in Hebrew is "wonderful" or in Celtic "revealer," the two together describing a Hebrew prophet. Jeremiah, the Ollam Fola, demanded from the Heremon, the king, a renunciation of the Bel and serpent worship practiced in Ireland and an acceptance of the Mosaic law and the worship of Jehovah before he gave his charge, the princess Tamar, to the king for a wife. From this eradication of the serpent worship appears to have grown the legend that the Patriarch, St.Patrick, drove the snakes out of Ireland. At Cathair Crofin, the royal residence, Jeremiah established a school or college, known in Irish history as the Mur-Ollamain or "school of wisdom," and the name of Cathair Crofin was changed to Tara, which word is derived from the Hebrew-Phoenician Torah, meaning "the Law." In the succeeding centuries Tara became a famous seat of learning, not only for Ireland but also for western Europe. It is of this center that Thomas Moore wrote: "The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed, Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled. So sleep the pride of former days, So glory's thrill is o'er, And hearts that once beat high for praise Now feel that pulse no more!" For over two thousand years the only national emblem that Ireland had was the harp of Tara with its angel guardian. That emblem was seen floating from her castles and was stamped upon her shields and coins, and is seen upon the stamps of the new Free State. For documentary proofs concerning the role that Tamar or Tea Tephi and Jeremiah played in Irish lore, the reader is referred to the Milner's excellent work, "The Royal House of Britain," which also contains an exhaustive Chronological Chart of the Royal house of Judah Zarah and Judah Pharez, tracing the descent of many noble houses from that line. The princess Tephi is said to be buried in a burial mound, the Great Mergesh, on the Hill of Tara. (See Plate XXIII.) Several attempts have been made by archeologists to enter that mound, but every attempt has been frustrated by the neighboring Irish peasantry with guns and pitchforks. That mound is sacred to the Irish people, but some day soon it will be opened, and speculation is rife as to what it will contain. In the historic Four Courts of Dublin hangs, in companionship with Moses, a medallion portrait of the great Irish legislator, identified by the F.R.A.Glover with Jeremiah (Shown on Plate XXIV). Jeremiah himself is said to be buried near the ruins of Devenish Abbey on the Isle of Devenish in Lower Lough Erne, near Inniskillen, County Fermanagh. Tamar Tephi's marriage to Eochaidh, the head king of Ireland, accomplished the transplanting of the Royal line of Judah, Pharez, David from him that is high of Ezekiel's riddle to him that is low; for Eochaidh himself was of the line of Judah Zarah as a descendant of the Milesian prince Gallam, who, at the head of the Gadelos, overcame the Danaans about 700 B.C. Prof. Totten of Yale in his "Irish Genealogies" traces Gallam's descent to Calcol, brother of Darda and son of Zarah. Prof.Totten says: "The term Milesian is derived from the mediaeval title of Gallam, the conqueror of Ireland, who was called Milesius, or the Milesian, i.e., the soldier, a term derived from the Latin 'miles,' whence we derive our word 'militia.'" In Chapter X it has been explained that Gallam and Gadelos are derived from the Hebrew-Phoenician gadil, meaning "to become great," in the plural "the exalted," "fortunate ones," or "fortune seekers." Thus the Hebrew roots indicate that these people, the people of Gadelius, were the exalted ones who were low at first but who were to inherit the diadem of David after it was taken from Zedekiah. It was around the hand of Zarah, meaning "the seed," that the midwife tied the Scarlet Thread, and Prof. Totten tells us that in Milesian records of Old Ireland the sons of Gadelius or Gallam call themselves the Curaithe na Cruabh ruadh, meaning "the Knights of the Red Branch." Some of my readers who are of Scotch-Irish descent will find in Fairbairn's Crests of the Leading Families of Great Britain and Ireland several crests picturing a forearm, which stands for the "Red Hand" of Ulster and indicates that their ancestors belonged to the "Knights of the Red Branch." When Princess Tamar of the line of Judah-Pharez, "the breach," married Eochaidh the Prince of the Scarlet Thread, the high tree of Ezekiel's riddle had united with the low tree, and the two branches of Judah, Pharez and Zarah, were reunited; but we must always bear in mind that it was of the line of Pharez, "the breach," the Messiah came, to heal "the breach." "Furthermore, these Knights of the Red Branch, of whom Gallam, the conquering Milesian, was one, called themselves Craunnogs, or 'the crowned.' The true meaning of their name is 'tree tops,' for it comes from words common to all dialects: craun 'a tree,' and og 'a tuft' or 'termination.' We use the same word for a 'crown,' as they did, and the very use of it in common language would be enough to verify this identity of race were there not other reasons in their history and legends to establish it conclusively." - Totten. The memory of that Scarlet Thread is still kept alive in Britain, although unwittingly; every one of the British official papers is wrapped with a red cord. Likewise; a red thread runs through every rope in the British Navy, and we still talk about "red tape." From this union of Tamar Tephi with Eochaidh the Heremon of Ireland at Tara sprang that long line of Irish Ardaghs or overlords, who for one thousand years were crowned upon the Stone of Israel and wielded the Scepter of Judah over the whole of Ireland. The last of those Ardaghs was Murtough, who, dying without male issue, left his daughter Earca, who married Muiradhach, king of Abilene (Dublin). This was the second transfer through a female. These people of western and northern Ireland called themselves Scots, as Bede in his "Ecclesiastical History" records, and western Ireland was then called Scotland. About this time, the fifth century, the Pictish clans of Caledonia had weakened themselves by inter-tribal warfare and the west coast offered opportunity for invasion. Fergus MacEarca, son of the Princess Earca, headed an armada across the Irish Sea and landed on the Mull of Kintyre or Kintraw, which word is derived from the Hebrew Kenaz, "nest," and Tur, "rock." After much stubborn fighting he occupied the whole of Kintyre and founded the kingdom of Argyle, derived from the Hebrew Ard, "leader," and Giloh, "he that overturns." Fergus also occupied the southern Hebrides (from Heber), including the Hi or Island of Iona, on which there was already at this time a Cathedral and a congregation Here Fergus was crowned king on the Stone of Destiny in 498 A.D. During the reign of Aidan (548-604), the fourth king of Argyle, St.Columba came to the island of Iona and founded a famous school of missionaries. It was here that the Presbyterian Church of Scotland was founded. The fifteenth king of Argyle, Kenneth MacAlpin (836-854), married the heiress of the Pictish throne of Scotland and became the first king of Scotland. His descendant, the seventh, Malcolm II was murdered in Glamis Castle, leaving only his daughter Beatrix to carry on the royal line of Judah. She married Crinan the Thane of Albanach. Thus the Scepter of Judah was transferred for the third time. Seven kings of the house of Albanach ruled over Scotland. As the last one died without issue, the two daughters of David, Earl of Huntingdon, carried on the line of Judah. PLATE XXIV. Medaillion Portrait of Jeremiah in the historic Four Courts in Dublin. Margaret married Alan, Lord of Galloway, and founded the house of Baliol. Isabel married Robert Bruce, Lord of Annandale, and founded the house of Bruce. This was the fourth transference of the Scepter of Judah. (Many readers of Scotch descent can trace their genealogy to these ancient houses and through them to the royal line of David.) The fifth transfer took place when Margaret Bruce married Walter the Steward of Scotland and thus founded the house of Stewadt. When James IV of Scotland, son of Mary by Lord Darnley, became James I of England, the Scepter of Judah ruled over the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, and Wales; and all the various divisions of Israel, the Celts, the Saxons, the Angles, and the Jutes had been blended into one nation. The Stewart reign came to an end. The house of Orange ruled only for a short time, but the Scepter of Judah was transferred again, for the sixth time, when Princess Sophia, daughter of James I married Ernest of Guelph, Duke of Brunswick, who was the line of Judah/Zarah-Odin, as spoken of in the previous chapter. (See "Chronological Chart" by Milner.) The son of the two was George I of England. The Scepter remained in the house of Guelph until Queen Victoria and then passed into the house of Saxe-Coburg with Edward VII, son of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria. This was the Seventh transfer. The next and final transfer will be when King George or Prince David hands it back to "Him whose right it is," and that will be very soon. (We see here how people have hoped that the return of the Messiah Christ would be in their life time. Obviously the desire and wish of this author was not to be, and we still in 2010 wait His return - Keith Hunt). This will be the eighth transfer; eight is the number of Christ, marking a new beginning. Concerning the significance of the number eight refer to "The Sevcn Times of Prophecy," Page 81 (Again the errors of man when he tries to put "numbers" or what man thinks is lined up with the Second coming of Christ. The author of this book, I'm sure on his death bed, knew the events did not match actuality. It is the folly of men to depart from watching the signs Jesus told us to watch concerning His soon coming, and get into numbers, and chronology, and all kinds of other ideas, to try and fix the coming of the Lord. They have all ended up with egg on their face - Keith Hunt) The Scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, "until Shiloh come" was the Prophecy; and it has been fulfilled to the letter. Almost all the noble Houses of Europe have lost their scepters and they are wondering why. The British Throne is yet standing. In this connection it is interesting to recall the remark of King Edward, which he made thirty years ago at Cannes to Grand Duke Alexander of Russia, as told by the latter in his book, "The Twilight of Royalty." Pointing to the present Prince of Wales, who was then only a child, King Edward said to the Grand Duke: "There is the last king of England." (How foolish can be the mind of man. Once more the face is smushed with egg. When people take their eyes off the signs Jesus gave in Matthew 24; Mark 13; Luke 21; and put in their own ideas of the "last times" and Jesus' coming - egg splattered all over the face with be the sure result - Keith Hunt) The J.H.Allen's book " Judah's Scepter and Joseph's Birthright" gives an appendix which he traces the geneology of the British sovereigns in an unbroken line. This list was compiled some twenty years ago and ended with King Edward VII. The authors of that list were wholly oblivious to any significance of numbers; yet it reveals some numerical units that are most startling to students of Prophecy. 30 Thirty generations from Adam to Obed, father of Jesse. 31 Jesse, with whom begins the royal line. 49 Eighteen kings in Palestine. (Note the 49, 7 times 7.) 50 Tea Tephi, the 50th (the Jubilee number). 103 Fifty-three kings of Ireland from Eochaidh to Earca (makes 103, an intercallery cycle). 116 Thirteen kings of Argyleshire, from Fergus. 141 Twenty-five sovereigns of Scotland, from Kenneth 11 to Mary. 151 Ten sovereigns of England, from James I to Edward VII. 152 To the above list we now add the name of the present King George. 153 We have reached the climax of these numbers if we add to the foregoing Prince David of Wales. His number is the mysterious number, 153, the number of the elect. (Refer to "The Great Pyramid's Message to America," Page 28, 2nd Edition.) In this connection it is striking to note that the Prince of Wales has so far refused to marry. Will he be the last king of England? (Weeeelllll.....we now know the above all meant nothing as far as the signs of the times to the return of the Messiah Christ. How many times, in the last 150 years and more, have men put forth figures of this and that to advocate Jesus is coming in this decade or in this person's life. The Protestant fundamentalist prophets were busy doing it in the 1980s; writing aricles and books as to why Jesus would be back before 1990 was here. Some are still at it today, date setting, because of this set of numbers or that set of chronology. You would think they would have learned from the mistakes of others over the last 150 years, but they seem to be blinded to the past; maybe they do it because people want them to do it, so they preach what people want to hear, but chickens keep producing eggs to smash on all their faces - Keith Hunt) Probably the most treasured possession of the Court of St.James (St.Jacob's) is the Coronation Stone in Westminster Abbey. (see Plate XXV). All of Britains's princes and princesses, who have reigned in Ireland, Scotland, or England from Tephi to Queen Victoria and since, have been crowned upon that stone. This is British history and not fiction. PLATE XXV (not shown - Keith Hunt) CORONATION CHAIR AND STONE OF DESTINY, WESTMINSTER ABBEY The stone lies beneath the seat of the Coronation Chair; it is of oblong shape, about twenty-six inches in length, sixteen inches broad, and eleven inches high. It is a dull reddish sandstone; there are none others like it in Britain. Geologists tell us that it belongs to a sandstone formation near the Dead Sea. On each side of it are two iron rings throug which poles were passed to carry it. This stone has been resting in Westminster Abbey since 1298 A.D., when Edward I brought it from the Abbey of Scone. Before that it lay in the church of Iona, where Fergus the Great was crowned upon it in 498 A.D. after he had inherited the stone from his mother Earca, whose ancestors kept it in the royal hall of Tara for a thousand years. Yet its rings are worn down by years of carrying. An old Irish rune refers to that stone and was put into the following words by Sir Walter Scott: "Unless the fates are faithless grown. And prophet's voice be vain, Wher'er is found this sacred stone, The Wanderer's Race shall reign." Edward 1 called it a "precious relic." This Stone of Destiny is said to be Jacob's stone, upon which he laid his head on the plains of Luz. It is the stone of Israel - the "rock" that was carried in the wilderness .... Sometimes it is spoken of in the Old Testament as the "pillar" upon which Israel's kings were crowned. "And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el." - Genesis 35: 13-15. That rock, Bethel, the Lord's house, is in the Lord's house today, i.e., in Westminster Abbey ... When Tea Tephi brought with her that symbol into the Isles of the West, the diadem was overturned for the first time. When her descendant, the Irish Princess Earca, passed it to her son Fergus, king of Argyleshire, that symbol went to Scotland, and the diadem was turned over for the second time. And for the third time into England, when the son of Mary Queen of Scots became James the First of England. It was this third turnover that gave us the English Bible. Truly God has kept His Word. He promised David that there should never lack a man to sit upon the throne of David. He has overturned that Throne three times, as we have seen; and it is still in existence today, waiting for Shiloh to come. "And the Lord shall give unto Him the throne of His father David. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob forever; and of His Dominion there shall be no end." Shiloh means "rest giver," and Shiloh alone can give us rest and deliver us from the present chaos. "Unto Him shall the gathering of the people be," as Jacob said. Nothing but His wisdom and power can restore order out of the weltering chaos of human factions..... Then "Out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem." - Isaiah 2: 3. No amount of unbelief can hold up God's plans, and our people who have been led stray by their teachers and shepherds are earnestly advised to study God's plans for themselves, as found in His Book and now corroborated by the monuments. How much longer must our people suffer before they trun to the Bible for guidance instead of to the wisdom and beliefs of men? ....................... Note: My answer to the authors last question: Until all that is written in the prophets be fulfilled; then Jesus will come and bring in the RESTITUTION of all things. In a space-age world, we still have a somewhat strange institution (that many would like to see abandoned and torn down) in full swing, I speak of the British Royal Throne. There has never been such the like in all the history of mankind. It is a throne that STILL holds MANY nations together in a family of nations. If in doubt just watch the "Commonwealth Games" when it comes around. The British throne will never DIE! It will remain to the end of this age; kings and/or queens will still take their place on this throne as long as the sun and moon endure, to the coming of the Messiah, who will rightly sit on that Throne of David in Jerusalem, for one thousand years. Yes, He will sit on that Throne of David that was promised to Him in the plan of God, thousands of years ago. While thrones of various nations fall and become obsolete, while kingdoms rise and kingdoms fall, all around the earth, ONE THRONE remains untouched by world events. It cannot just be happenstance; it cannot just be "luck" or whatever other mundane word you want to give it, that first in Ireland, then in Scotland, then finally in England, for two and a half thousand years kings/queens have been coronated while sitting on or standing by a stone block. Surely this somewhat strange fact of the British Throne is one proof that God's Word is inspired, and one proof that God DOES EXIST, and that what He has declared has come to pass, nay, is still coming to pass, and will come to pass. You live in exciting times! You are living in a time when all things that are written in the prophets, are taking shape to move this world into the very last 42 months of this age. Then as promised, Jesus Christ will return in power and glory to sit upon the Throne of David, and to rule the earth for a thousand years. Lord, may Thy Kingdom come, and may Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven! Keith Hunt