THERE IS A PLAIN VERSE IN THE BOOK OF 2 SAMUEL THAT A
CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND. GOD TELLS US THAT HE WOULD APPOINT
A PLACE FOR ISRAEL - OBVIOUSLY A NEW PLACE AS IT IS
IN THE FUTURE TENSE, FROM THE LAND THEY WERE IN - THE
HOLY HAND. THIS ONE VERSES PROVES GOD WAS PLANNING TO
MOVE ISRAEL OUT INTO A NEW LAND. THE VERSE IS 2 SAMUEL
7:10 - Keith Hunt
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by J. H. Allen (published in 1917)
ISRAEL IN THE ISLES
We must keep in mind the fact that the Lord cast Israel afar
off to the isles o f the sea, and then, through the prophet
Isaiah, commanded silence for a certain period, or until the
people should have renewed their strength. This same prophet, in
the first verse of the forty-ninth chapter, again addresses the
people who dwell in the isles as follows: "LISTEN, O isles, unto
me: and hearken, ye people from afar"; and then makes the
declaration: "Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be
glorified."
Israel, as we know, was cast out of her land for idolatry,
and Baal-ism was one of her chief idolatries. Before she was cast
out she seems to have acquired the habit of attaching the name of
the god Baal to places and cities, for on the ancient maps of
Palestine we find Baal-meon, Baal-gad, Baal-ath, Baal-shalisha,
Baal-tamar, Baal-peor, Bawl-hazor, Baal-zephon, Mt. Baalah, and
others.
But surely these people carried that same proclivity with
them to the islands, for in Ireland this name of the god Baal is
found just as frequently, if not more frequently, a circumstance
which shows that this idol was honored and worshipped by her
eastern colonists. The Rev. T. R. Howlett furnishes us with the
following list of Baal-it-ish names found in Ireland: Baal-yBai.
Baal-y-gowan, Baal-y-Nahinsh, Baal-y-Castell, Baal-y-Moni,
Baal-y-ner, Baal-y-Garai, Baal-y-nah, Baal-y-Con-El, Baal-y-Hy,
Baal-y-Hull-Ish, Baal-NahBrach, Baal-Athi, Baal-Dagon.
Regarding the evidence given by these names, Howlett says:
"These certainly are memorials of the Baal worship once
prevailing in Ireland. In them we have not only the name of Baal,
but its conjunction also with other Hebrew names. How can this be
accounted for, except as they were so called by emigrants from
Phoenicia and Palestine?
One thing that particularly marks the Hebrew origin of these
names is their attachment to places but not to persons. The
Canaanites and Phoenicians, attached the names of their gods,
Baal, Bal, Bel to persons, as Eth-Baal, Itho-bal, Asdru-bal and
Han-i-bal. These were family names among the heathen nations
surrounding Israel. In like manner, we find among the chosen
people the names of their God associated with and forming a part
of family and personal names; as 'El' and 'Jah,' in Isra-el,
Ishma-el, Lemu-el, Samu-el, Ezeki-el, El-isha, El-ijah. Baal
never found favor among the Hebrews as a personal name, though
used freely for localities. They gave it to their towns, but not
to their children. Its use in Ireland is proof of the Israelitish
origin of the earliest settlers - philological evidence of racial
unity."
But this custom of thus using the name of Baal has long
since passed away from the descendents of those who settled in
"INNIS PHAIL"--an Island Wonderful - and her sister isles. These
islands need no longer keep silent, for their people have renewed
their strength and thus the isles are yielding up their secrets.
Hence, we should not be surprised that the name of Baal is no
longer in the mouth of their people. By the mouth of the prophet
Hosea, whom the Lord used to declare that he would hedge up the
way of Ephraim Israel, so that she could not find her paths, he
also says: "I will take away the names of Baal-im (plural of
Baal) out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by
their name." (Hosea 2:17.)
But just prior to this saying the Lord has given a prophecy,
of which this is but a part, the sequence of that which precedes
it, and which reads as follows: "Behold, I will allure her, and
bring her into the wilderness (the hitherto uninhabited country),
and speak comfortably to her heart (Margin). And I will give her
vineyards from thence (there), and the valley of Achor (sorrow)
for a door of hope; and she shall sing as in the days of her
youth, and as in the day when she came out of the land of Egypt.
And it shall be at that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call
me Ishi (my husband); and shalt call me no more Baali. For I will
take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth." All idolatrous
names were taken from the mouth of Israel, not so much because
they had reached that God-appointed place where they were to be
moved no more, and where the children of wickedness were not to
waste them as at the first, but because they had passed out from
their former sorrow through the door of hope, which was caused by
the fact that their Lord had spoken comforting words to their
hearts, and because she could look up in love to him and say,
"Ishi-my husband." The reason for this heart-experienced hope
will become clearer as we proceed with the prophetic history of
this people, whose centralization of racial life and power is in
those islands which are northwest of Palestine.
But in this same forty-ninth chapter of Isaiah, after
letting us know that Israel is located in the isles, the prophet
foretells some events in the future history of that island
nation. Among these predicted events we find the following: "Thus
saith the Lord, the Holy One: In the time of favour (grace) have
I heard thee, and in the day of salvation (the Christian era)
have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and I will appoint
thee, as a people of the covenant, to establish the earth, to
cause (thee) to inherit the desolate heritages."
In this quotation we have, for the sake of clearness,
followed in part both the King James and the Isaac Leeser
translations. The italicized phrase is from Leeser, and is
remarkable for its clearness, especially in its use of the
article 'a' before people, because Ephraim-Israel, although not
all the people, is distinctly a people, of the covenant; and as a
people of the covenant she is appointed to establish, people, or
cause to be inhabited, the desolate, uninhabited places of the
earth. These desolate localities are given to Israel as an
inheritance, and she has needed them in fulfilling the destiny of
the Birthright Kingdom of Israel - that of becoming many nations,
or a company of nations.
But we must now notice the word covenant, since it is used
in the phrase as a people of the covenant. The Hebrew word for
covenant is Beriyth, which in judges 8:33 and 9:4 is used as a
proper name, and, for that reason, it is simply transferred into
the English text without being translated. It is given there as
the name of one of the idols of Israel, namely: Baal-beriyth, and
means Baal of (the) covenant. Also the Hebrew words Ben-iysh
Yemiyniy are translated "Son of a man of Jemini. Thus Ben means
"a son"; Iysh, "a man," and Yemiyniy, Jemini. The anglicized form
of these words are Ben, ish and jamin, and, taken together, they
mean "A man of Benjamin, or a Benjaminite."
We have brought you through this group of words to show that
'ish' in Hebrew means a man. Now take the Hebrew word which is
translated covenant, which in its original form has no vowel, but
which in its Anglicized form retains the vowel 'i' to preserve
the y sound, and we have Brith, which joined with ish is
Brith-ish, and means "A covenant man." Today the BRITISH people,
or men of the covenant, are called Britons, and are dwelling in
the British Isles!!!
We are told that the people of Wales call themselves, in
ancient Welsh, "Bryth y Brithan," or Briths of Briton," which
means "The Covenanters" of "the land of the Covenant." The first
form of this phrase is almost vernacular Hebrew.
It is also unmistakably recorded in British history that the
earliest settlers in Wales and southern England were called
Simonii. They came by the way of the sea in the year 720 B.C.
At this time there was the greatest influx of the Tuatha de
Daanan to Ireland, and this synchronizes with the deportation of
the Israelites of the commonwealth of Ephraim to Assyria, and the
flight of Dan and Simeon from the seaports and coast country of
Palestine. That Simonii is the plural of Simeon we need scarcely
mention.
But all evidences of the fulfillment of this prophecy are
not philological, for Isaiah, still addressing the Israelites who
dwell in the islands, predicts the following: "For thy waste and
desolate places, and the land of thy destruction (the destruction
of their identity), shall even now be too narrow (pressed,
straightened) by reason of the inhabitants, and they that
swallowed thee up (the Assyrians) shall be far away.
The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the
other, shall say again in thine ears: The place is too straight
(small, crowded, cramped) for me; give a place to me that I may
dwell." (Isa.49:I9-20.)
Here are a people called Israel who are living in the isles
of the sea. They have lost one company of people, and yet their
children say that the place is still too small, cramped and
crowded, because there are too many inhabitants for such a small
country. Consequently they ask the Mother Country to give them a
place also. Or, according to Leeser's translation, they say,
"Make room for me to dwell," and the Mother Country must do it,
because it is she to whom the Lord has given the desolate
heritages of the earth.
Mark this! It is also said of the mother country, or Mother
Israel, that she "lost" her first children before other of her
children asked for territory in which to dwell.
England is the only country on the face of the earth where
these conditions obtain. Her first child was called New England,
but she LOST it, and now together with that which, for various
reasons, has been annexed - is called The United States of
America.
But, after losing her American colonies, her work of
colonizing non-populated portions of the world kept right on;
until today through the power of these colonies she holds
possession of Prince Edward's Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
British Columbia, Vancouver's Island, New Foundland and Canada.
All of these are unitedly called the Dominion of Canada, and to
these are added the six States of Australia, New Zealand,
Tasmania, British India, the Fiji Islands and parts of Africa,
Egypt and China. So that now the sun never sets on the realm of
the United Kingdom.
(Remember Allen was writing in 1917 - Keith Hunt)
But we should expect this, and even more, for according to
Jer.31:9-10, the Israel which is located in the Isles is none
other than Ephraim, the Abrahamic Birthright People, of whom the
Lord says: "I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first
born."
Ephraim, as we have shown, was the second son of Joseph. But
when the birthright blessing was given to Joseph in his sons,
Ephraim, the younger, was set before Manasseh, the elder. They
were to remain together, however, until they grew into a
multitude in the midst of the earth. After that they were to
separate; then Manasseh was to become a "great" people, or
nation, and Ephraim was to become "a multitude, or company of
nations."
The people in the British Isles did certainly grow together
until they became a multitude of people in the earth, and then
they separated. The separated people has become a great nation,
and those who were left in the isles have become a multitude of
nations. The government of the separated people is democratic,
the people in the isles still live, as they ever must, under a
monarchy, but the two peoples are, as Joseph's two sons were,
brothers; and they even call each other "Brother John" and
"Brother Jonathan." There are no other nations on earth who thus
brother each other.
The facts recorded above are also in fulfillment of another
prophecy given by dying Jacob concerning Joseph, which reads as
follows: "Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a
well (water), whose branches run over the wall." (Gen.49:22.)
An objector has said: "But I believe the words 'a multitude of
nations' means a multitude of different nationalities." If this
be the true meaning of these words, then surely England, with her
sixteen nations in British India, her Indians and Esquimaux of
British America, her Fiji Islanders and New Zealanders, and her
subjects of still other nationalities, which are absolutely too
numerous to mention - surely England is a multiplicity of
nationalities. Still we do not believe this to be the meaning of
the words under discussion, but we do believe that this fact of
England's thus ruling so many nationalities, and of America's
holding dominion over the Sandwich Isles, Cuba, Haiti, Porto Rico
and the Philippines is the fulfillment of a promise that Israel
shall inherit the lands and labor of the heathen, which is given
as follows:
"He brought forth his people with joy, and his chosen with
gladness: and gave them the lands of the heathen; and they
inherited the labour of the people; that they might observe his
statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord." (Psa.
105:43-45.)
The Bible follows Anglo-Saxon conquests, and some of the
people in all these nations both receive and keep the law of God.
We must remember that Ephraim and Manasseh, as the represent-
atives of the house of Joseph, both together received the
birthright blessing under the hands of the dying patriarch, and
that since they thus jointly hold the birthright blessing, even
though Ephraim was set before Manasseh, we may expect that they
shall hold many of its blessings in common. Take, for instance,
the blessing pronounced upon the land of Joseph, as given by
Moses on the day of his death, which is only an enlarged edition
of that which was given by Jacob on the day of his death, and
which is as follows: "And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord
be his land, for the precious things of heaven (rain), for the
dew, and for the deep (ocean) that croucheth beneath (his
vessels), and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun,
and the precious things put forth from moon to moon, and through
the chief (best) things of the ancient mountains, and for the
precious things of the everlasting hills, and the precious things
of the earth and the fullness thereof, and for the good will of
him that dwelt in the bush: let this blessing come upon the head
of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated
from his brethren. His glory is like the firstling (firstborn) of
his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of an unicorn (the
unicorn is in the national seal of England) with them he (Joseph)
shall push the people together to the ends of the earth; and they
are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of
Manasseh." (Deut.33: I3-I7.)
This promise of wealth on land and sea, of abundant
harvests, of rare gems and precious stones, of the richest and
the greatest mining interests in the world, is fulfilled in
England and America. It is also true that these nations, not only
push the aborgines of their possessions into the ends, or
corners, of their countries, but they also push the people of
other nations with whom they war into corners. Concerning America
and her aborigines, we need only say, "Lo, the poor Indian," and
ask, Where is he? And then ask the same question concerning the
aborigines of the countries which fall into the hands of England.
Just here the alien testimony of the Russian Vernadsky is
pertinent. He says, "Britain is a spider whose web encompasses
the whole world within her own dominions. She has all the
resources of all the continents. Her empire is stronger and
vaster than any coalition of other states. She is a standing
menace to all other powers, and her increasing strength is
destructive to the balance of power. Nevertheless, unsatisfied
and insatiable, she is grasping for more territory. Yesterday she
seized Fiji; the day before she took the Diamond fields; today
she annexed Transvaal, and tomorrow she will clutch Egypt. It is
only too clear that the power of Britain is too great to be
compatible with the general safety, and that the aggressive
empire, unless speedily checked, will establish a universal
dominion over all the people of the earth."
Our reply to this expressed fear concerning Britain's
"universal dominion," is that England alone will not gain this,
but that England and America will yet form an alliance and that
then they shall push the people to the ends of the earth, for it
is foretold that they, Ephraim and Manasseh, "together" shall do
Israel in the Isles this, and also that, "Israel shall blossom
and bud, and fill the face of the whole WORLD with fruit." (Isa.
27:6.) The fulfillment of these promised blessings, which were
pronounced upon the land of Joseph, by the people in the isles
and their "separated" brother, is the cause of the fulfillment of
another prophecy given by Isaiah concerning this same people,
which is as follows: "Be still, ye inhabitants of the isle; thou
whom the merchants of Zidon (Palestinean seaport), that pass over
the sea have replenished. And by great waters (same place as in
Ezekiel's riddle) the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river is
her revenue; and she is the mart o f nations."
The Sihor is a river in Egypt. Israel dwelt in Egypt for
four hundred and thirty years, hence they were formerly from
Egypt, latterly from Palestine, now in the isles of the Great
Waters!!! Moreover, the birthright holders were born Egyptians.
Thus the Lord says, "When Israel was a child, then I loved him
and called my son out of Egypt." It is for these reasons that, in
the Bible, the Ephraim Israelites are in two places called
Egyptians.
This fact of calling Israel out of Egypt is doubly true in
the case of Israel; first in the fact that when Israel was a
child (a young nation), the Lord called her out of Egypt; second
in the fact that the Lord's son, Ephraim his first born was
called out of Egypt. This was also true again, after the flight
of Joseph and Mary into Egypt with the babe under the protection
of an angel, for it is again written, "Out of Egypt have I called
my son."
But there is another prophecy in Isaiah which has been most
wonderfully fulfilled in the history of Ephraim and his brother
Manasseh, i. e., England and America, the long lost house of
Joseph. It is the following: "The Lord sent a word into Jacob,
and it hath lighted upon Israel. And all the people shall know,
even Ephraim, and the inhabitants of Samaria." (Isa.9:8-9.)
Here we have the names of Samaria-Ephraim-Israel, the
birthright kingdom, used prophetically. In connection with these
names is the fact that the Lord sent a word to Jacob, and that it
lighted not upon Judah, but upon Israel, and that all the people
of Ephraim "shall know" this.
Hear this!
"Ye chosen seed of Israel's race Ye ransomed from the fall!"
Again we say, hear this! "In the beginning was the WORD, and
the Word was with God, and the WORD was God. The same was in the
beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him
was not anything made that was made. In him was life; and the
life was the light of men. And the WORD was made flesh, and dwelt
among us full of grace and truth. He came to his own (Judah) and
his own (the Jews) received him not." So he said to his
disciples, "Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." Christ,
the Divine WORD was "SENT" "into Jacob," bringing life, light,
grace, and truth, but Judah rejected the word sent from God, so
it lighted upon Israel. Thus, the Apostle Paul, who was brought
up at the feet of Gamaliel, and who was raised a Pharisee of the
strictest sort, understood himself perfectly, when he said,
"Israel (as a whole) hath not obtained that which he seeketh for;
but the election hath obtained it, and the rest (Jewish-Israel)
were blinded." Who, "as concerning the gospel are enemies; but as
touching the election are beloved for the fathers' sakes." Hence,
"blindness in part (or blindness to a part) is happened to
Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in."
But of that part of the elect race which is appointed to be
the recipients of the Word which God sent. Paul says, "There is a
remnant according to the election of grace," and it is the people
who belong to the election of grace, that follow the colonies of
that elect race, and plant the standard of the gospel of the
grace of the Son of God among the nations of the earth. Thus the
Messianic promise, which the Lord made to Abraham, that in his
seed all the nations of the earth should be blessed, has received
a double fulfillment, in that those who carry the message of the
One Seed, are also the seed of Abraham. This is true either
nationally or spiritually, for all who have been baptized into
Christ have put on Christ, are Abraham's seed and heirs according
to the promise. And it is also true that the Anglo-Saxons are
pre-eminently the evangelists of the world.
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NOTE:
YES A DUAL PROPHECY. THE ELECT BY GRACE, THE UN-BLINDED,
HAVE AT FIRST, BEEN THE PEOPLE OF THE ANGLO-SAXON-CELTIC
RACE. THEY LIKE NO OTHER PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN THE BIBLE TO
THE WORLD, TO THE GENTILE NATIONS, NEAR AND FAR. THIS
TRUTH IS ON THIS WEBSITE UNDER MANY VARIOUS STUDIES,
UNDER THIS SECTION OF "HISTORY."
IT IS RECORDED IN HISTORY THAT THE FIRST NATION TO
DECLARE CHRISTIANITY AS ITS NATIONAL RELIGION WAS BRITAIN.
AND IN MODERN TIMES THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, HAVE GIVEN THE BIBLE TO MOST
OF THE WORLD, THROUGH MANY OF ITS BIBLE CHARITIES.
TRULY THE PROPHECY BY GOD IN 2 SAMUEL 7 HAS COME TO
PASS. ISRAEL WAS GIVEN A NEW LAND OUTSIDE OF THE HOLY
LAND.
Keith Hunt
To be continued
Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright #24A Few More IdentitiesTHERE IS A PLAIN VERSE IN THE BOOK OF 2 SAMUEL THAT A
CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND. GOD TELLS US THAT HE WOULD APPOINT
A PLACE FOR ISRAEL - OBVIOUSLY A NEW PLACE AS IT IS
IN THE FUTURE TENSE, FROM THE LAND THEY WERE IN - THE
HOLY HAND. THIS ONE VERSES PROVES GOD WAS PLANNING TO
MOVE ISRAEL OUT INTO A NEW LAND. THE VERSE IS 2 SAMUEL
7:10 - Keith Hunt
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by Allen (1917)
A FEW MORE IDENTITIES
In Ezekiel's riddle concerning the kingdom of Israel which
is in the northwest isles of the sea, that fruitful land by the
great waters to which those two ships of Dan carried their royal
passengers, we are told that the kingdom became a green tree
after the royal pair were united and placed on the throne in the
height of Israel, and that it became a goodly cedar. Of that tree
it is said, "Under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the
shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell."
All understand, of course, that the prophecies of this
riddle are given in veiled language, mostly metaphor, but we know
of no prophecies in all the word of God that have been any more
perfectly fulfilled than those of this riddle, and we affirm that
there can be found no race on the face of the earth in which the
conditions, as given in the above, are so completely fulfilled as
in the Anglo-Saxon race; first in England and her colonies, and
then in America.
"Fowl of every wing," i. e., people of every nation, all
dwelling under the royal cedar, whose scions came from Lebanon
(Palestine territory), or under the extended shadow of its
branches; that is, directly under the central power, or under the
dominion of one of its protectorates, or else under the
protection of the separated brother of the house of Joseph, i.
e., Manasseh, the brother of Ephraim, or America, England's
brother nation.
The fact that these two nations have with them in their home
country so many people of other nationalities has been used as an
argument to prove that it is not possible for the Anglo-Saxons to
be the lost house of Israel; but the very fact that this is so,
and that men of other nations can come among us, take out their
naturalization papers, become citizens, and have equal rights
with those who are home-born, has on its very face the proof that
we are Israel. For the Lord gave commandment unto Israel saying,
"When a stranger shall sojourn with thee he shall be as one that
is born in the land. One law shall be to him that is home-born,
and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you." (Ex.12:48-49.)
The political conditions mentioned above do obtain in Anglo-Saxon
countries, and in no other countries of the world.
The reason given for the establishment of the law that
permitted stranger to become as home-born citizen in Israel, is,
that they were strangers in the land of Egypt; as before them
Abraham their father was a stranger in the land of promise. The
fact that this law prevailed in Israel, and that it is the law in
all Anglo-Saxon commonwealths, shows that they are one and the
same people, and accounts for the following state of affairs in
Ephraim, which we must remember is the representative name of the
house of Joseph "Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people;
Strangers (foreigners) have devoured his strength, and he knoweth
it not." (Hosea 7:8-9.)
Foreign labor, anarchy,* and Romanism 1 In both England and
America many of these strangers are naturalized and become as
home-born, only that they may secure official authority, power,
and prestige in their affairs of state so as to help the
noncitizen foreign hordes to devour the strength of their
government, and yet, apparently, they know it not.
Surely, these identities, as given above, are some of the
"waymarks" which the Lord commanded Ephraim-Israel to set up.
(Jer.30:20-21.) But there are yet others.
We have certainly made it clear, that the Tuatha de Danaans
of northern Ireland were those of the tribe of Dan who belonged
to the seacoast colony, or at least that part who abode in their
ships and thus escaped. But where Dan is there Israel must be
also, for Dan was a part of Israel, and was to judge or Dan his
people, as one of the tribes of Israel. It is a well
authenticated fact of history that the Milesians, or Scots,
inhabited the north of Ireland as well as the tribe of Dan, that
they were the same race of people, and that the word Scots means
wanderers. Prof. Totten says: "Scythopolis has been traced to
Sikytopolis (city of Siccuth), a corruption of Succoth, or
Scothotti, the city of the Scots, Scyths,
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*Since these words were written the President of the United
States, William McKinley, has fallen a victim to Anarchy.
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Sacs, or wanderers, i. e., "dwellers in booths." When Ephraim
was cast out, Hosea declared, "they shall be wanderers among the
nations," and this is in harmony with Amos, who says that they
should be sifted through the nations, as corn is sifted through a
sieve, and yet not one grain, or stone (margin) was to fall to
the ground. Hence, they were to wander through the nations until
they reached the isles of the sea, that God-appointed place for
his people, where their enemies should not waste them, and where
they should renew their strength.
But where Israel and Dan are, there, too, must the Canaanite
be, and it is a well-known fact that the settlers of southern
Ireland are a vastly different people from those of northern
Ireland, and that the difference is in their origin, for they
sprang from a different race. Moses said to Israel: "But if ye
will not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you; then
it shall come to pass that those which ye let remain of them
shall be pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and shall
vex you in the land wherein ye dwell." (Num.33:55) The Lord also
said, "If ye do in anywise go back and cleave unto the remnant of
these nations, even those that remain among you, and shall make
marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you; know
for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any
of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and
traps unto you." (Josh.23:12-I3.)
The Philistines most certainly did become a snare to the
tribe of Dan, for they were the first tribe of Israel to
fraternize with them, and the first who joined with them in the
worship of their god Baal. Simeon soon joined with them, and so
eventually did both Israel and Judah.
The evolution of the name of this Canaanitish nation is from
Philistine to Phoenician, then Phenesian, then Venetian, and then
Fenian. The Fenians of Ireland boast of their Phoenician origin,
had the sixteen letter alphabet, and many evidences to justify
their claim. These people lived with Dan and Simeon in Palestine,
and came with them to Ireland. They are still "hewers of wood and
drawers of water," and certainly "thorns in the sides and pricks
in the eyes" only of England and America. This is the vexing
"Irish question." For, "These are the nations which the Lord
left, to prove Israel by thorn." (Judges 3:1.)
The physiognomy of Israel must be different from that of the
Jews. We must remember that although Benjamin was with the
kingdom of Judah, they were the children of Rachel, and that they
differed much from the characteristic Jew. both in looks and in
speech. The Galileans were Benjaminites; hence all the apostles
of Christ, except Judas, were Benjaminites, for they were
Galileans; and while Christ was in the judgment Hall, some of
those who stood by said to Peter, "Surely thou also art one of
them, for thy speech betrayeth thee." Also Esther, that lovely
daughter of the captive people, and Mordecai, that "Jew of the
Jews," could pass in and out of the palace of Ahasuerus, and not
betray the fact that they were of Abrahamic blood, because they
were Benjaminites. (Esther 2:5-10-20.)
If these differences were noticeable in the case of those
tribes, which differences lay in the fact that they were only
half-brothers, how much more so would they be in the case of the
house of Joseph, who were still further removed from Judah, in
that they were half Egyptian! Hence, the Abrahamic origin of the
Anglo-Saxon has not been disproved, when its opponents assert
that we do not possess "crooked noses." But we assert that, if
they had the same "shew of countenance" that is peculiar to the
Jewish people, they could not be the house of Joseph. But we
Saxons get our straight noses from our royal Egyptian ancestor.
We say royal Egyptian ancestor, because Joseph married Asenath,
the daughter of Poti-pherah, Prince of On, instead of a "Priest
of On," as you may see by consulting the original reading of
Genesis 41:45, whereas the Saxon has neither a decided aquiline
nose, or its pronounced opposite, the Egyptian acute angle, but
he has an exquisite Egyptio-Jacobic blend, which is much more
handsome.
(I doubt very much indeed that the "southern" Irish, for the most
part, are not Israelite, but Gentiles. There may be some Gentile
blood in them, but I would say the vast majority of Irish - north
and south - are Israelites - Keith Hunt)
It has been made clear to our readers that Omri, the sixth
king of Israel, built the city of Samaria, the third and
permanent capital of Israel, and that eventually the entire
country, formerly called "All Israel," became known as Samaria,
because that was the name of its capital; also that Samaria
became one of the national names of Israel, and is so used in
some prophecies concerning them. Hence Omri is regarded as the
real founder of the kingdom of Samaria, and Samaria-Israel was
often referred to by other nations as the House of Omri.
When Shalmanesar, the king of Assyria, who led Israel into
captivity, made a record of that captivity on the tablets of
Assyria, he called them the House of Omri (Beth Khumree); also
when Israel was confederate with Resin, king of Syria, and went
against the Jews, and the Jews besought Tiglath-Pilesar, who was
at that time king of Assyria, to become their confederate, he
also in his records referred to Israel as the Beth-Khumree. In
the annals of Sargon, who was also a king of Assyria (Isa.20:1),
successor of Shalmanesar, and predecessor of Senacharib, Israel
is called Beth Khumree (House of Omri), and their capital city
Khumree. On the Nimroud obelisk, "Jehu, the son of Omri," is
written "Yahua-abil-Khumree." Prof. Rawlinson, who does not
believe this truth we are enforcing, says: "Jehu is usually
called in the Bible the son of Nimshi - although Jehosaphat was
his actual father (2 Kings 9:20), but the Assyrians, taking him
for the legitimate successor to the throne, named as 'his father,
or rather ancestor, 'Omri,' the founder of the Kingdom of Samaria
- Omri's name being written on the obelisk, as it is in the
inscriptions of Shalmanesar, where the Kingdom of Israel is
always called the country of 'Beth Omri.' Dr. Hincks also says
'The title, Son of Omri,' is equivalent to that of King of
Samaria, the city which Omri built, and which was known to the
Assyrians as Beth Omri, or Khumri."
The tribes of both Dan and Simeon belonged, of course, to
the Beth Khumree, when used as meaning the Kingdom of Omri, or
Samaria. Simeon seems to have clung to this name far more
tenaciously than did Dan, for they still call themselves and
their country Kimry. Saville says: "This name Kymri, or Cymry, as
it is more commonly written, is in reality the plural of Kymro,
meaning a Welsh-man, and the country of the Kymry is called by
themselves Khymru, which has been Latinized into the well-known
name of Cambria. The letter v in the Welsh language has two
powers, and both these powers are active in the word Kymry. This
letter v sounds as u, except when it stands in the last syllable
of a word, and then it has the sound o f the Italian i or the
English ee! Hence, the correct pronunciation of the country of
Wales, or land of the Cymry, in its ancient tongue would be as
near as possible to the names Kumree, Khumree, or Kumri."
Thomas Stephens, in the preface to his "Literature of the Kymry,"
says: "On the map of Britain, facing St. George's Channel, is a
group of counties called Wales, inhabited by a people distinct
from, and but very imperfectly understood by, those who surround
them. Their neighbors call them Welsh-men. Welsh or Walsch is not
a proper name, but a Teutonic term signifying 'strangers,' and
was applied to all persons who were not of that family: but the
proper name of these people is Kymry. They are the last remnant
of the Kimmerioi of Homer, and of the Kimry (Cimbri) of Germany.
From the Cimbric Chersonesus (Jutland) a portion of these landed
on the shores of Northumberland, gave their name to the county of
Cumberland, and in process of time followed the seaside to their
present resting-place, where they still call themselves Kintry,
and give their country a similar name. Their history, clear,
concise and authentic, ascends to a high antiquity. Their
language was embodied in verse long before the languages now
spoken rose into notice, and their literature, cultivated and
abundant lays claim to being the most ancient in modern Europe."
Thus we find that the Khumree, Kumri, Kimry, Cumbre, Cimbri,
or Cambrians, as the name is variously called in different
tongues, were strangers and wanderers among the nations until
they settled in the isles of the sea with the rest of their
brethren, the Brith-ish or covenant people.
"Herodotus, the 'Father of History,' tells us much about the
Khumbri, a people who, in his day, dwelt in the Crimean peninsula
and thereabout. He particularly notes that they had come into
that territory from Media, which he remarks was not their
original home or birthplace." - Our Race.
We have thus conclusively followed the word Khumree, for the
reason that the people who are known as Angles, Saxons, Danes,
Celts or Kelts, Jutes, Scots, Welsh, Scyths (or Scythians), or
Normans can trace themselves back to Media-Persia, but no
further, and find their ancestors in the Khumree, at the place,
and at the very time, when Israel was losing her identity and was
actually known in the history of that country as the Beth
Khumree.
We cannot take time or space to deal with the origin of all
the above names, but we feel that we must say something
concerning the name Saxon, as it is the most general name of the
race - really the present generic name of the house of Joseph.
It seems to be a well-known Hebraism, and for some reason it
certainly was a very common custom among the Israelites, to drop
the first letter of a proper name. Bible examples of this custom
are: Oshea, other-wise Hoshea; Hagar, otherwise Agar; Jachan,
otherwise Achan; Heber, otherwise Eber, etc. Scholars tell us, if
we have caught their thought, that this Hebrew idiom is peculiar
to the possessive case, and also to allow the introduction of an
affix.
When Jacob transferred the birthright to the sons of Joseph
he, with one hand resting on the head of each, prayed: "Let my
name (Israel) be named on them, and the name of my fathers
Abraham and Isaac." The birthright kingdom did, as we have seen,
inherit the name of Israel, and also that of Isaac. For Amos
says: "And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the
sanctuaries of Israel (Bethel and Dan) shall be laid waste, and I
will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword." (Amos 7:
9.) Here we have Isaac, Israel and the house of Jeroboam used as
interchangeable names for the ten-tribed kingdom. Amaziah also
says to Jeroboam, the king of Isaac-Israel: "The Lord said unto
me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel. Now, therefore, hear thou
the word of the Lord, (but) thou sayest, Prophesy not against
Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac." (Amos
7:16.)
Thus the name of Isaac was named upon the house of Joseph,
and it is true, both in race and name, that, "in Isaac shall thy
seed be called." It seems that the Jews had a preference for the
name of Jacob, but Israel clung to the name of Isaac, especially
after they were taken into captivity; they dropped the name of
Israel and called themselves "Saac" - Saxae, or Saxae, as per
Latin derivation - which is nothing more or less than the Hebrew
name of Isaac, from which the initial letter 'I' has been
dropped.
It is now a well-authenticated fact that the word Saxon is
derived from the Hebrew name of I-saac, together with an affix
which means sons of. Prof. Totten says: "In most of the Eastern
languages 'sons of is written 'sunnia.' It is equivalent to the
Scottish 'Mac' and the English and Irish 'Fitz'--Mac Donald, son
of Donald; Fitz Henry, son of Henry. So, in the distant home of
our ancestors, Saac-Sunnia means sons of Isaac. Stambul is formed
of Istambul by dropping the prefix I, and so the Saxon is a
direct descendant of our father Isaac. Dr. W. Holt Yates accepts
this derivation of the Saxon name as positive, and the Rev. W. H.
Poole, D.D., speaks of it as follows: "It is a little curious to
glean from the ancient nations and from the stone monuments of
the early times the various forms in which this word is to be
found. I will here insert a few from a list of my own gleaned
from ancient history, thus: Sons of Isaac, Sons of Saac,
Saac-Sunnia, Saac-Suna, Saac-Sena Sacaa-pena, Esakska,
Sacae-Amyrqui, Beth-Sakai (House of Isaac), Sunnia-Sakai,
Sakai-Suna, Saca-Suna, Sacae-Sunnae, Sackisina, Sakaa-Sunia,
Saca-cine, Saka-Suna, SacasSani, Sakas-Saeni, Saxi-Suna,
Sach-Suni, Sachi, Sacaa, Sakah, Saachus, Saacus, Sacho, Saxo,
Saxoi, Saxonia, Saxones, Saxae, Sach-sen, Sack-sen, Saxesen,
Saxone, Saxony, Saxon." - "Our Race."
Concerning the etymology of the word Saxon, Yatman says:
"Its history is as follows: The Persians used the terms Sacae and
Scythian as convertible, whether from a corrupt rendering of one
from the other or because the Sacae, a great tribe of Scythians
(wanderers) bordering upon them, were so called by a tribal name.
Of the fact of the identity of the Sacae and the Scythians there
is not the shadow of a doubt, and it is clear that these people
called their country Sacasena. It is equally clear that the
Saxons of England were the Scythians or Celte-Scythians. Their
geographical position in Europe is accurately described by
Plutarch, Tacitus, Ptolemy, and other authors."
To this testimony all the historians agree. Strabo asserts
that the most ancient Greek historians knew the Sacaea as a
people who lived beyond the Caspian Sea. Diodorus says: "The
Sacaea sprung from a people in Media who obtained a vast and
glorious empire."
Ptolemy finds the Saxons in a race of Scythians, called
Sakai, who came from Media.
Pliny says: "The Sakai were among the most distinguished
people of Scythia, who settled in Armenia, and were called Sacae-Sani."
Albinus says: "The Saxons were descended from the ancient
Sacae of Asia."
Prideaux finds that the Cimbrians came from between the
Black and Euxine (Caspian) seas, and that with them came the
Angli.
Sharon Turner, the great Saxon historian, says "The Saxons
were a Scythian nation, and were called Saca, Sachi, Sakai,
Sach-sen."
Gawler, in "Our Scythian Ancestors" (Page 6), says: "The
word 'Saacae,' is fairly and without straining or imagination,
translatable as Isaacites."
But why has it been necessary for the historians of these
various nations thus to trace this name, search records, tablets
and monuments, and hunt for the origin of the Anglo-Saxons? Are
they an obscure people? Are they a feeble nation? Are they an
ignorant folk? Are they an uncivilized race? No; they are
diametrically opposite to all this. They are in every way the
greatest race on earth, but they do not know where they
originated, nor who were their ancestorsthey are lost.
Some of these historians whom we have quoted do not agree
among themselves as to the origin of the Saxons, but belong to
different schools of contention, and are wrangling over the
question whether these lost people belong to the Aryan, or to the
Semitic race. The only use which we have, just here, for their
contention is to show that they all trace the Saxons to the very
place where the captive ten tribes of Israel were deported by
Shalmanesar, the King of Assyria. These same historians also show
that the Sax-ons sprang into existence, in so far as their modern
and mediaeval history is concerned, about three years after the
Israelites were taken to that country, and that there they lose
them and can trace them no further.
Since both the Saxons and Samaritan-Israelites are lost, and
since those Israelites are the sons of Isaac, and were so called
in sacred history, and since both people bear the name of their
father I-saac, we have no hesitancy in saying that they are one
and the same, and that the lost are found. And since these people
have been told that they were not the chosen people of God, we,
together with many others, now declare unto them that they are
the natural children of Abraham, the national sons of God.
It is a most significant fact, that Lia-F-aid, the name of
the Bethel stone, is the same, whether read from right to left,
as the Hebrews do, or whether it is read from left to right, as
the Saxons do. Also, the word has just seven letters (the perfect
number), and if we start with the fourth (the human number), or
central letter, and read from that, either to the right or to the
left, we have in both instances the same word, i. e., f-a-i-1, in
which if we use ph for the f sound, we have that Hebrew word
wonderful, which is one of the names of the Messiah. Or if we
start either with the right or left, read to the central letter
and then back again to the place from which we started
(l-i-af-a-i-l), then we have the full name of Liafail.
In a former chapter, when quoting from Irish chronicles
concerning Liafail, we showed that one form of the word, or one
of its names, was written Leagael. This word has the same
peculiarities as that of Liafail in that it also has seven
letters, and that when it is read either from left to right or
from right to left, it is the same word, or by beginning either
to the right or left and reading to the central letter, and back
again, we still have Leagael, and by beginning with the fourth,
or central letter, and reading either from left to right as the
Saxons do, or from right to left, as the Hebrews do, we have in
each case the same word, i. e., gael.
This word gael is a Hebrew word, and yet it is absolutely
one of the most important words in all the history of the Saxon
people; for it is the name of that tongue, speech, or dialect,
which is the very root of the "King's English," as that language
is sometimes called, which is now known as the mother tongue of
the Saxons, but which evidently is not the original language of
that race, for it is only several hundred years old, and these
historians from whom we have quoted trace them back along the
line of history for two thousand five hundred and twenty years.
The fact of this change in the language of the Saxons, as the
years have been rolling by, dovetails into the history of
Ephraim-Israel as foretold by the prophet Isaiah, who in the
first verse of the twentyeighth chapter says: "Woe to the crown
of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim." Remember we are not
dealing with a race of saints, but with a people who have largely
gone away from their God, although to begin with, they were a
people who were "wholly a right seed." Nationally speaking, while
other nations are opium eaters, and have other vices which cling
to them as a people, the Saxons are the drunkard nation of the
earth. Great Britain, in drunkenness, is worse than America; but
America is bad enough in this respect to be so recognized by the
more temperate nations of the world. But our chief object in
giving this quotation is to show that the prophet was addressing
Ephraim, of whom he further says: "For, with stammering lips and
another tongue, will he (the Lord) speak to this people." The
Hebrew word, which in this text, is translated 'stammering' is
that word 'Gael.'
It is a remarkable fact that Young in his "Analytical
Concordance" gives us the word Leag, as the original Hebrew word,
while Strong in his "Exhaustive Concordance" gives us the equally
correct word Gael, from the same Hebrew word. But be it Leag to
the Hebrew or Gael to the Saxon, it is the same word to the same
people, which they have reversed and given to their newer
language, which is called the Gael, or Gael-ic tongue, which is
not only the foundation of the English language, but is yet
spoken in its primitive simplicity in many places in Wales,
Scotland and the north of Ireland.
Wa-els is only another form of Gaels, and the people whose
language was called Gael were themselves often called Gaels. At
first when a person needed to speak of but one of these people,
the custom was to say "One Gael," but as the language changed,
the form of one changed to 'an' before a vowel sound, and to 'a'
before a consonant sound. Thus one Gael became Angael. And since
the Hebrew word 'ish' means man, we can understand how things
would get a little mixed, and how very easy would be the
evolution from ANGA-EL-ISH-MAN to AN ENGLISHMAN.
Also, since these same people were called Angli, and Sax-es,
the combination and evolution of these names into Anglo-Saxon
would be inevitable.
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To be continued
Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright #25A Study in ScarletTHERE IS A PLAIN VERSE IN THE BOOK OF 2 SAMUEL THAT A
CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND. GOD TELLS US THAT HE WOULD APPOINT
A PLACE FOR ISRAEL - OBVIOUSLY A NEW PLACE AS IT IS
IN THE FUTURE TENSE, FROM THE LAND THEY WERE IN - THE
HOLY HAND. THIS ONE VERSES PROVES GOD WAS PLANNING TO
MOVE ISRAEL OUT INTO A NEW LAND. THE VERSE IS 2 SAMUEL
7:10 - Keith Hunt
......
by Allen (1917)
A STUDY IN "SCARLET"
In giving further proof concerning that prince of the
scarlet thread, whom historians tell us was married to Tea Tephi,
the Eastern princess, we know of nothing that will be so helpful,
satisfactory and convincing as to give his genealogy; beginning
with his fathers, Juda and Zarah, and come down from father to
son until we reach him. We are able to do this, but only because
Prof. Totten has faithfully scanned the pages of ancient and
modern history, and as a result has compiled and given to the
world the genealogy of the Zarah branch of the royal family,
which was exalted to the throne when the breach was made in the
line of Pharez in the days of Zedekiah.
Culling from a genealogical diagram found in No. 5 of "Our
Race" we have the following: Judah, begat Zarah; Zarah, begat
Ethan; Ethan, begat Mahol; Mahol, begat Calcol; Calcol, begat
Gadhol; Gadhol, begat Easru; "Easru," begat "Sru;" Sru, begat
Heber Scot; Heber Scot, begat Boamhain; Boamhain, begat
Ayhaimhain; Ayhaimhain, begat "Tait;" Tait, begat Aghenoin;
Aghenoin, begat Feabla Glas; Feabla Glas, begat Neanuail;
Neanuail, begat Nuaghadh; Nuaghadh, begat Alloid; Alloid, begat
Earchada, Earchada, begat Deagfatha; Deagfatha, begat Bratha;
Bratha, begat Broegan; Broegan, begat Bille; Bille, begat Gallam
(or William, the conqueror of Ireland); Gallam, begat Herremon,
(who married Tea Tephi) and "Heber" and Amhergin his two
brothers.
Of course, it is impossible to give Prof. Totten's argument
by which this genealogy can be verified, but we can call
attention to a few straws, which, you know, show which way the
wind blows.
First, you will notice that we have italicized some of these
names, two of which are Heber, and one Tait. In giving this
genealogy we have given the direct line from father through only
one son, but some of these men were the fathers of more than one
son. Sru, for instance, the father of Heber Scot, had two other
sons. Tait, who begat Aghenoin, had a son by the name of Heber.
The fact that there are three Hebers in this branch of the royal
family is most significant, for that is the name from which comes
one of the national names of their race, i. e., Hebrews.
Also, we have told our readers of the confusion which most
students of history find in trying to straighten out the history
of Ireland, but it is generally conceded that there are two
distinct phases to the Hebrew story of Ireland. The one is that
concerning Jeremiah and the king's daughters, and the other is
that which is told in the Milesian records, in which we have the
story of the prince who married one of Jeremiah's wards. The
Milesian story takes its rise in Egypt and Palestine amid the
scenes of Israel's infancy.
Now we are ready to call your attention to two other names
in the genealogy of Zarah's royal house, which we have
italicized, i. e., Easru and Sru, for in the Milesian records the
descendants of these men, and some of their predecssors, were
called by a name which to this day means the children of the Red
(or scarlet) Branch.
The prince in the Bible story, as given in Ezekiel's riddle,
is called a young twig, and the highest branch of the high cedar,
and, after Zedekiah's sons were slain, it was not possible to
find a prince who was eligible to sit on that throne unless he
belonged to the line of the scarlet thread, for the other line,
from which Christ came, was with the Jews in Babylon. Hence these
children of the "Red Branch" must have belonged to the
Scarlet-thread branch of the royal family. The Milesian records
also call them "Curaithe na Cruabh ruadh," the "Knights of the
Red Branch."
"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."---Totten.
"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.
One hundred years ago Joseph Ben Jacob, a Gelt, and a
Catholic, in a work called "Precursory Proofs," said: "Among the
five equestrian orders of ancient Ireland was one called
Craobh-ruadh (the Red Branch). The origin of this order was so
very ancient that all attempts at explanation have hitherto
failed. Some suppose that it originated from the Ulster arms,
which are 'luna, a hand sinister, cooped at the wrist, Mars.' But
these admit it should in such case be called crobhruadh, or of
the bloody hand."
This man was really proving the Hebrew and Egyptian origin
of the Irish Celts, but was applying all the evidence that he
found to Joseph, knowing nothing of the story of the breach in
the royal family of Judah, and of the exaltation of the Scarlet
Branch, who landed in the plantation of Ulster. Else he would
have known where to place the meaning of that ensignum of the
red, or bloody, hand "cooped at the wrist" with a scarlet thread
which found its way into the royal arms of Ulster.
The prophet Nahum, while speaking of "the excellency of
Israel," says: "The shield of his mighty men is made red, the
valiant men are in scarlet." Scarlet is the characteristic color
of the English army, and they certainly wore "red coats" during
the Revolutionary War. We were recently in an English city, and
we took particular note of the scarlet thread, or stripe which
ran up the front, around the neck, down the arms and up the
pantaloon legs of the uniform of the post men of the province.
A British consul once told us that every official order he
received was tied with a scarlet thread, and showed us one which
he had just received. This same thing is true also with all
English officials, to whom written orders are sent, and from this
custom comes that well-known political and diplomatical metaphor,
"Red-tape."
We have also learned, from sources which we deem authentic,
that a scarlet thread is woven into the material from which all
ropes are manufactured, which are to be used in the construction
of vessels for the British government, or navy. This is done so
that under and all circumstances these vessels may be identified
as the property of Great Britain, even though they be sunk in
many fathoms of water at the bottom of the sea.
When Jacob blessed the sons of Joseph, he was under the
necessity of crossing his hands in order that he might get his
right hand on the boy that the Holy Spirit was designating as the
one whom God had chosen as the birthright inheritor; and in thus
crossing his hands Jacob necessarily made this sign (X), or the
sign of the cross. This is the pre-Christian cross of which
relics are found along the trail of Israel, as they were being
sifted through the nations to the isles of the Northwest, and
which Ignatius Donnelly finds not only in Egypt and Ireland, but
almost everywhere else. Donnelly's object in discussing the
pre-Christian cross is to prove that the cross has been a sacred
emblem ever since the creation of man, and that it originated in
the garden of Eden, because of the four rivers which parted in
Eden and became four heads. Donnelly finds that in Egypt, Assyria
and the British Isles, the pre-Christian cross was emblematical
of creative power and eternity. He also finds carved on Egyptian
monuments a very ancient sacred emblem, which he says Sir
Gardener Wilkinson says was called "The cross-cake," which is, as
you see, a cake with a cross on it, and as soon as we read this
in Donnelly's "Atlantis," instantly we associated the Egyptian
Crosscake with the following: "Ephraim is a cake not turned."
We know that Ephraim was associated with the cross that
Jacob made, that he came from Egypt, and if he was not in some
way associated with that cake with which are associated both
Egypt and a cross, why should God use the metaphor, "cake," in a
prophecy concerning Ephraim's people? Here is a question for all
grades of skeptics, from the "Higher Critics" up to the honest
infidel, to answer. Thank God, that, when it comes to this
question of critics, there is a superlative degree; i. e.,
Highest Critics.
This sign (X ) has floated in what is known as the "Union
Jack," from the flagstaffs of the United Kingdom, and from the
mast heads of English vessels for as many centuries as the
kingdom has any history. It is also in that which is now accepted
the world over as the national flag of the British people, which
is described as a scarlet field with the union on a field of
blue, to which are now added certain Christian crosses, one of
which is scarlet, and across the others there is a narrow strip
or thread of scarlet.
Ephraim as a cake unturned must mean, whatever else it may
mean, that he has a hidden or unseen side, and that he is not
altogether the fresh young nation that he seems to be. This new
side is the Saxon side, with this sign (SaXon) buried in the very
heart of his name, and the other side is the Ephraim-Israel side,
but it is the same old cake, with its name of Saac's sons burnt
through until it shows on this side.
If it be true that the sign of the cross became sacred in
the garden of Eden, then surely, after the giving of the
birthright, it became doubly so to the house of Joseph; but now
it is thrice sacred to them, for on the cross their Saviour made
full atonement for sin.
We believe that when Jacob said to Joseph: "I know it, my
son, I know it!" he not only knew he had his right hand on
Ephraim's head, which Joseph thought should have been on
Manasseh's, but that he also knew why he blessed the sons of
Joseph with the sign of the cross above their heads. For while he
prayed with his hands thus crossed he said, "God,. . . the Angel,
which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads," and we know
there is no other name given among men whereby we can be saved,
except the name of Him who shed his blood upon the cross to
redeem men.
To us it is indeed significant that the birthright blessing
was given with the sign of the cross. That the cross was sacred
Jacob certainly knew. That God sent his Divine Word unto Jacob,
we Christian Saxons (sons of I-saac) certainly know; and that
Judah rejected that Word made flesh, we also know. That
Ephraim-Israel would receive that Word, divine prophecy declares;
and that the Saxons did receive that rejected One and the word of
his grace, is simply undeniable. Then, surely, that triple cross,
together with one which has a thread of scarlet blood streaming
down its rugged side, must mean more - yea, much more - to the
people of one certain race, than it ever can to some other races.
For He who shed that blood said: "I am not sent but unto the lost
sheep o f the house o f Israel."
Our readers now know that the name "House of Israel" was the
Biblical-historic and the prophetic name of the birthright
people, over and against the name "House of Judah," for the
Jewish people. So, if the people, known as the Jews, and they
only, be national Israel- i. e., "all of it," as has been taught
by Christendom for lo these many centuries - then the coming of
Christ to the seed o f Abraham was a failure in every sense. And
if this be so, why should the angel Gabriel tell Mary, the
daughter of Joseph (Mary's father's name was Joseph, as well as
her husband's), that her divine child should "reign over the
house of Jacob forever"? Or why should Mary, after receiving the
salutation of Elizabeth, say: "He (God) hath holpen his servant
Israel in remembering his mercy, as he spake to our fathers, to
Abraham, and to his seed forever?" Or why should Zacharias, being
filled with the Holy Ghost, say: "Blessed be the Lord God of
Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people, and hath
raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant
David; as he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have
been since the world began; that we should be saved from our
enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us, to perform the
mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
the oath which he sware to our father Abraham, that he would
grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our
enemies might serve him without fear, in holiness and
righteousness before him, ALL THE DAYS OF OUR LIFE"? (Luke 1:
69-75.)
We may also further ask, Why should Isaiah say: "Unto us a
child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall
be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful,
Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of
Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be
no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom to order
it, and establish it with judgment and with justice from
henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will
perform this. The Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it hath
lighted upon Israel. And all the people shall know, even
Ephraim." - Isa.9:6-9.
Mark that! All the people of Israel--Ephraim Israel--shall
know. Yea, they do now know. Whether they be in the "High
Church," or in the "Low;" whether they are Catholic or
Protestant; whether they attend service at a costly cathedral, in
some great palatial church, or in "the little church around the
corner;" whether they pray in the uptown, or in the downtown
church; whether they listen to the preached word in the
independent mission, or in that little mission, the child of some
uptown church, which they are holding off at arm's length;
whether they attend the revival services of the popular
evangelist, or whether they stand on the streets of our
Anglo-Israel cities, and hear all sort of evangelists from very
good to very inferior; yes, surely, whether they listen to any,
all, or none (for they hear it as they go), all the people of
Ephraim do know this one thing, namely: "Unto us a child is
born."
It is conceded by all Christendom that those who accept the
benefits of the new covenant, of which the testator must die
before the testament could be in force, have the law of that
covenant written in their hearts. Indeed, Paul when speaking of
the New Testament covenant, which he says was "established upon
better promises" than the Mosaic covenant, the failure of which
necessitated the making of the new, says: "Because they continued
not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For
this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their
mind, and write them in their hearts; and I will be to them a
God, and they shall be to me a people." --Heb.8:10.
Thus we see that the journey of Israel from Lo-ammi (not my
people) to Ammi (my people), is by the way of the blood-stained
cross. But it is literal, fleshly Israel, that must make this
journey. This is why God, by the mouth of the prophet Isaiah,
says: "Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in
whose heart is my law," "Hearken to me, ye that follow after
righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence
ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that BARE
YOU."--Isa.51:7 and 1-2.
When the house of Judah rejected Jesus, he asked them if
they had read in the Scriptures concerning a stone which was
rejected, and which became the head of the corner; and then he
told them that the kingdom of God should be taken from them and
given to another nation. Israel had been rejected, cast out,
forsaken, divorced; but in order to be consistent with the
prophecies of the Old Testament, and many passages in the New
Testament, we contend that the other nation to which Jesus
referred could have been none other than the house of Israel,
that other nation of the two nations into which the seed of
Abraham were divided.
"But" says one, "Paul said, I turn to the Gentiles, I am the
apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office." True, and in
this he was obeying the order, "To the Jew first," but the Lord
certainly sent him also to the Gentiles. The trouble with this
word Gentiles to the ordinary English reader is, that to his mind
it always excludes God's chosen people; whereas it only excludes
the Jewish portion of the chosen race. There are three Greek
words in the New Testament which are translated Gentile, and
Gentiles. One of them is "Hellen," and its various forms, which
means Greek, Greece, or Grecian, but is sometimes used in the
sense of non-Jewish. The other two words are "Ethnee," and
"Ethnos," from which comes our word ethnology, which is defined
as: "The science which treats of the different races and families
of men." These two words are simply the singular and plural forms
of the same root word. Liddell & Scott's Greek Lexicon defines,
"Ethnos," the singular, as, "A number of people living together,
a company, body of men, a host, a tribe, a people. But, "Ethnee,"
the plural, is, of course, defined by this same authority as,
"The nations, hosts, tribes, and peoples."
God said to Abraham: "Thou shalt be the father of many
nations."
Also, "The father of a multitude of nations have I made
thee."
"I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of
thee."
"She (Sarah) shall be a mother of nations; kings of people
shall be of her."
God also said to Jacob, "That thou mayest be a company of
peoples;" and, also, "A nation and a company o f nations shall be
of thee."
Jacob, by the command of God, said to Joseph "Behold, I will
make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a
multitude of people."
God, in turn, said to Joseph, through Jacob, "He (Manasseh)
also shall become a people, and he shall be great: Howbeit his
younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall
become a multitude o f nations."
Indeed, we have neither time nor space to tell of all the
host and hosts, the people and peoples, the nation and nations,
that are involved in these covenant promises; but, surely, these
will suffice to show that these covenant promises are ethnical in
the fullest and broadest sense. Hence when Jesus sent Saul of
Tarsus to the "Ethnee;" i. e., the nations, we dare to say that
he included, if he did not wholly mean, the nations of the
birthright kingdom of Israel; for he said to Ananias in a vision
concerning this same circumstance of Paul's call and commission:
"He is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the
(Ethnee) Gentiles, and kings, and the Children of ISRAEL." - Acts
9:15.
It was that Paul might go to the children of Israel that the
Holy Ghost hindered him from going into Asia, and sent him into
Macedonia, which included the country once known as Mosei, and
where many of the Saacs still lingered. Then Paul pushed on into
Illyricum, a country which lies still further to the northwest.
This also is Paul's reason for wanting to go into Spain, whither
he finally went. Iraenus, one of the early Church Fathers,
writing concerning the work of Paul, says: "He established many
Christian churches among the Keltoi (Celts)." Also Clement, of
Rome, of whom Paul speaks as having his name in the book of life,
says of Paul, that he was the "Herald (of the Gospel of Christ)
in the West," and that "he had gone to the extremity of the
West." This could not have been said by a writer at Rome without
implying a journey into some countries much further to the West.
Chrysostom, another early Church writer, says "Paul preached in
Spain," and, according to the testimony of several others, Paul
also preached the Gospel to the Britons. At all events, they
received the Gospel, and Jesus Christ, the son of David, became a
"Light to the nations, and became the glory of his people
Israel," who were ruled over by the descendants of the Prince of
the scarlet thread; and who put a bloodstained cross, the cross
of St. George, into the heraldry of their nation. Later they and
their brother nation became the evangelistic nations of the
world. Thus through the many nations of Abraham's seed has the
One Seed, the testator of the new covenant, been a blessing to
all the nations o f the earth.
Well, indeed, may Jesus say: "If ye believe not his
(Moses') writings, HOW SHALL YE BELIEVE MY WORDS"
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To be continued
Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright #26Symbols of Britain and the USATHERE IS A PLAIN VERSE IN THE BOOK OF 2 SAMUEL THAT A
CHILD CAN UNDERSTAND. GOD TELLS US THAT HE WOULD APPOINT
A PLACE FOR ISRAEL - OBVIOUSLY A NEW PLACE AS IT IS
IN THE FUTURE TENSE, FROM THE LAND THEY WERE IN - THE
HOLY HAND. THIS ONE VERSES PROVES GOD WAS PLANNING TO
MOVE ISRAEL OUT INTO A NEW LAND. THE VERSE IS 2 SAMUEL
7:10 - Keith Hunt
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by Allen (1917)
EGYPTO-ISRAELITISH AND ANGLO-SAXON EMBLEMS
COAT OF MANY COLORS
"Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he
was the son of his old age, and he made him a coat of many
colors."
A souvenir of this coat of many colors which Jacob made for
Joseph is still found in the many-colored plaid, as worn by the
Scotch Highlanders, not only at home, but by Highlander
societies, which exist in nearly every large AngloSaxon city. The
use of this vari-colored plaid, and the custom of wearing it, can
be traced as far back as the Scottish people have any history,
and yet its origin among them is unknown; that is, it was unknown
until they began to know that they were the descendants of
Joseph.
NOT PRONOUNCING "H"
Also, once upon a time, the Gileadites were at war with
Ephraim-Israel, "and the Gileadites took the passes of Jordan
before the Ephraimites; and it was so, at when those Ephraimites
which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead
said unto them, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; then
said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth, and he said, S-iboleth;
for he could not frame to pronounce it right." The Ephraimites
seem to have had trouble to pronounce the letter h, and many of
Ephraim's people still have trouble with their h's, especially
the modern "Cockney."
(Yes the Emglish are somewhat famous for not pronouncing "h" - so
they say "ouse" and not House; "orse" and not "horse" and etc.
From someone who grew ujp in England I am well aware of the
English not pronouncing "h" - Keith Hunt)
MIGHTY IN BATTLE
The Gileadites seem to have worsted Israel in this war to
which we have referred, but, according to prophecy, there was to
come a time when Ephraim would nevermore be conquered by a
Gentile nation. And it must have been to this end that the Lord
told the islands to keep silent, "until my people renew their
strength." For of this same people, this Israel that is dwelling
in the isles, the Lord says: "Behold, all that were incensed
against thee shall be ashamed and confounded; they that strive
against thee shall perish; they shall be as nothing. Thou shalt
seek them, even them that contended with thee; they that war
against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of naught. For
I, the Lord thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee,
Fear not; I will help thee. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men
of Israel; I will help thee, sai h the Lord." - Isa.41:11-14.
UNICORN AND LION
When Balak, the king of Moab, hired Balaam to curse Israel,
and he could not, but was compelled by the Lord to bless Israel,
he said: "God brought him forth out of Egypt; he (Israel) hath,
as it were, the strength of an UNICORN; he shall eat up the
nations his enemies, and shall break their bones, and pierce them
through with his ARROws. He crouched, he lay down as a lion, and
as a GREAT LION. Who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that
blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee." - Num.24:8-9.
Now, it is a most remarkable fact that two of thee racial
emblems, the LION and the UNICORN, which were given to Israel
with that compulsory blessing, are in the coat-of-arms of Great
Britain. This insignia, or national seal, is, in part, the "Harp
of David," which was brought to the isles by Dan and Simeon, with
the Unicorn reared on one side and the Great Lion on the other.
The Lion is both Judah's and Israel's, so also is the Unicorn not
only Israel's, but Joseph's, and yet in a special sense it
belongs to Ephraim, because he had the precedence in birthright.
Thus Moses, on the day of his death, while he was reiterating and
enlarging upon the prophecies and promises made by Jacob to each
of the tribal heads, said, concerning the blessings of Joseph:
"His glory is like the firstling of his Bullock, and his horns
are like the horns of Unicorns; with them he shall push the
people together to the ends of the earth; and they are the ten
thousands of Ephraim (the thousands of each of the ten tribes)
and the thousands (of the one tribe) of Manasseh."
The English have not only the lion and the unicorn, but they
have also that which to them may mean only a circle divided into
four quarters. Still it is really a reproduction of Ephraim's
cake, for the four quarterings are made by a cross. (See cut.) In
one of these quarterings is David's harp, and in each of the
other three are young lions.
MANASSEH AND #13
That Manasseh was a separate tribe is known from the
following: "There was also a lot of the tribe of Manasseh, for he
was the first-born of Joseph." Joshua 17: 1. Also the following:
"For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and
Ephraim; therefore, they gave no part unto the Levites in the
land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs."Joshua 14:4.
Thus was the land divided by lot as the Lord commanded, "But unto
the tribe of Levi (the priests) Moses gave not any inheritance;
the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance." Thus with Joseph's
two tribes, which was his promised "double portion," there were
thirteen tribes in Israel, and only twelve divisions of the land,
so the Levites could have no land inheritance; but they had the
Lord, which was far better, and they were allowed to eat the meat
of sacrifice from off the holy altar.
But Manasseh was not only a separate tribe, but as a
partaker of the birthright blessing, he and Ephraim were to grow
together until they became a multitude in the midst of the earth;
then he was to be separated from his brethren, and become a great
nation. This is the reason of the prophecy, "Joseph is a fruitful
bough, even a fruitful bough by a well (literally by the water),
whose branches run over the wall." Thus God said: "Let the
blessing come upon the top of the head of him that was separated
from his brethren."
Since there are thirteen tribes in Israel, and since Ephraim
and Manasseh were adopted after all the rest were born, and
Ephraim is counted for Joseph, or rather that they are counted
interchangeably, there is no other chance for Manasseh,
numerically speaking, but that he is number thirteen. Now, it is
a significant
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MANASSEH
"He also shall become a People, and he also shall be Great." Gen.
xlviii. 19.
CUT OF THE OBVERSE SIDE OF OUR NATIONAL SEAL
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fact, that when Manasseh separated from Ephraim-when the people
who have become a great nation separated from those who have
become a company of nations, because their branches have
continued to run over the wall-he, Manasseh, or America, had just
thirteen states, and that thirteen is the prominent number in all
the emblems and heraldry of the land.
THE GREAT SEAL
The first national flag of those original United States had
thirteen Stars and thirteen Bars. The bars symbolize the Union,
and the constellation of thirteen stars was intended to symbolize
the nation formed of thirteen independent states.
In this, the Great Seal of our country, as represented
above, we have the arms and crest of the United States of
America. We would first call your attention to the fact that the
eagle is holding in what is called the "Dexter" talon an Olive
Branch. In the fourteenth chapter of Hosea, that prophet, who has
so much to say about lost Ephraim-Israel, we have the following:
"O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; I will heal their
backslidings; I will love them freely; for mine anger is turned
away from him...I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall grow
like the lily (the national flower of Egypt), and cast forth his
roots as Lebanon (royal cedar). His branches shall spread, and
his beauty shall be as the OLIVE tree. Ephraim will say, What
have I to do any more with idols?" Ephraim is the representative
of the house of Joseph, and we have placed this Scripture before
our readers that they may see that the Olive tree is among the
insignia of the birthright family, and that it is here
represented as belonging to one of the Branches of the birthright
kingdom, and since the birthright is Joseph's, it is the Olive
Branch of Joseph which has been placed in the "Coat of Arms" of
Manasseh, the thirteenth tribe in Israel, who has now fulfilled
the prophecy of becoming a great nation.
Still this fact, if it stood alone, might not mean so much,
but in the other talon, which is called the "Sinister," is a
"Bundle of thirteen Arrows," which represents the nation
individually and collectively prepared for war. It is marvelous
that the Olive Branch should have been made our official insignum
of Peace, and that the Arrows should have been made by law to
represent the War Power of the country, for the Arrows were in
the heraldry of Israel, as well as the Unicorn and Lion, when
Balaam was compelled to bless instead of curse them. Also, the
Josephites were Bow-men, and Jacob, after speaking of Joseph and
his branches, said, "The archers have sorely grieved him, and
shot at him, and hated him. But his Bow (munitions of war) abode
in strength, and the Arms of his hands were made strong by the
hands of the mighty God of Jacob." Gen.49:23-24. It is a
well-known, and much-rejoiced over fact that the Bow of the
United States, which has sent her Arrows into the ranks of her
enemies, has always abode in strength, and that both her chief
men and people have always said: "God has helped us."
FOUR CAMP STANDARDS
When Israel marched through the wilderness, s e four
standards that were called "Camp Standards." had of these was on
the north, one on the east, one on the south, and one on the
west. But there were, besides these, a family standard or ensign
for each tribe. Hence the Lord commanded saying: "Every man of
the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the
ensign of their father's house; afar off about the tabernacle
shall they pitch."-Num. 2: 2. The object of the camp standards
was, that when the time came to camp or pitch their tents for the
night, the three tribes which belonged to each of these four camp
standards might gather to them. The compilers of our reference
Bibles understood this, hence they have given the references to
the four living creatures of Ezekiel 1:10 as follows: "As for the
likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a Man (Num.
2:1o) and the face of a Lion (Num.2:3), on the right side; and
they four had the face of an Ox (Num.2:18) on the left side; they
four also had the face of an Eagle. (Num.2:25.)
LION OF JUDAH
The reference to the Lion reads: "And on the east side,
toward the rising of the sun, shall they of the standard of the
camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies." It was dying Jacob
who gave the Lion to Judah as the ensign of his royal house, in
the following: "Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son,
thou art gone tip; he stooped down, he crouched as a lion, and as
an old (Lawbee-old, great, stout) lion, who shall rouse him up?"
Oh! this is truly wonderful, for, mark this, when his race was
young Judah as a Lion's Whelp took a leap with Dan from Palestine
to the isles, and now he is there as an Old Lion, and the
question is, "Who shall rouse him up?"
The fact that we find Judah's Lion with the Unicorn of
Ephraim-Israel in the national seal of the Brith-ish, or
covenant, people is another evidence that the royal remnant of
the Judo-Davidic house found their way to Ephraim-Israel at the
time of the uprooting of the Pharez line, who was then, as now,
living in the isles of the northwest. And it is also another
evidence that the Saxon nations are the nations of Israel upon
whom "lighted" the Divine word, who is also "The Lion of the
Tribe o f Judah."
THE OX OF EPHRAIM
The reference from the Ox in Ezekiel is as follows "On the
west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according
to their armies." Here again we have the representative of
Joseph, the birthright holder, of whom Moses said: "His glory is
like the firstling of his Bullock." The Hebrew word that is here
translated bullock is the same as that in Ezekiel i : io, which
is rendered Ox. In fact, there is but one word in the Hebrew
(shur, or shour) for ox, bull, or cow. But the above shows us
that the family ensign of Joseph was a bovine. This is the reason
for such expressions as, "Ephraim is an heifer that is taught,"
and "Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer." It was also
because of this fact that, when Jeroboam, of the house of Joseph,
wanted to make idols which would be attractive to Ephraim-Israel,
he made two calves; i. e., a bullock and a heifer. The Unicorn of
Israel is now in the national insignia of that people, but the
family ensign still clings to them as a national nick, e; i. e.,
"John Bull."
EAST AND WEST
Thus far it is clear that the Lion of Ezekiel's vision was
the camp standard of Judah, which was on the east; and that the
Ox of his vision was the ensign of the family of Joseph, which
was with Ephraim in the west. As we continue to investigate the
signification of these four living creatures we find that the
reference to the Eagle reads as follows: "The standard of the
camp of Dan shall be on the north side of their armies." We have
already shown, while explaining
Ezekiel's riddle concerning the pulling down of him that was
high, and the exaltation of him that was low, that the Eagle was,
at that time, the ensign of the tribe of Dan; but since that time
they have used the Leaping Lion's Whelp, with the serpent's tail,
and the Eagle, like everything else that pertains to national
Israel, has fallen to the birthright family, and is now the
national ensign of the thirteenth tribe of Israel, the people of
which are not only the descendants of Manasseh, the first-born of
Joseph, but they also compose the firstborn nation out of the
"MANY NATIONS," which were promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and
Joseph, and whose ensign Eagle holds in his beak a scroll upon
which is written their national motto, "E Pluribus Unum," which
has thirteen letters, and means "One Out Of MANY."
Therefore, concerning a certain land which is indwelt by a
portion of Israel, we have the following: "Ho (or Hail, not Woe,
as in the King James version of the Scriptures) to the land
shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
that sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes
upon the waters, saying: Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation
scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning
[note that]; hitherto a nation meted out [measured out by a time
of prophecy, which is called the times o f the Gentiles] and
trodden down, whose [home, or ancient] land the RIVERS [Now,
therefore, behold the Lord bringeth upon them. (Israel) the
WATERS 0 f the RIVER, strong and many, even the king o f Assyria,
and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his (Israel's)
channels, and go over all his banks." - Isa.18:8-7] have spoiled!
All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see
ye, when he (that nation shadowed with wings) lifteth up an
ensign." We have thus parenthesized Isa.18:8-7 with Isa.18:1-3,
that our readers may know that this land which had set up an
ensign of outstretched wings was a land in which Israelites were
dwelling, for it was the king of Assyria, who came up against
Ephraim-Israel, overflowed his land, and led him into captivity.
Prior to this, Moab had once held Israel in derision, and the
Lord, in condemning their arrogance, said: "He (Israel) shall fly
as an Eagle, and spread his wings over Moab."--Jer.48:40. No
wings except those which are spread out can be shadowing wings,
and the Shadowing wings of Israel's Spread Eagle are in the
ensign of the United States of America. Hence, America is the
land shadowed by wings of which Isaiah wrote, whose ambassadors
cross the sea in vessels of bulrushes, or, literally, of caldrons
which absorb water; i. e., the modern steamship.
THE SHIELD
The Shield, or escutcheon, which is borne on the breast of
the Spread Eagle, has thirteen pieces, called pales, or paleways,
which comes from the same word as palings or pickets. These
thirteen paleways are united by one at the top. The Lord said to
Abraham "I am thy Shield."
THE CLOUD OF GLORY
On the national seal of America, the "Great People," above
the shadowing wings and the scroll, is a Cloud emitting rays of
Glory. "Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children
of Israel ... and behold the Glory of the Lord appeared in the
Cloud." To our fathers that glory Cloud was significant of the
presence of Jehovah. That Glory Cloud, which hung over Israel,
guided those who had but just escaped from the Egyptian bondage,
and it stood between them and their enemies. But this is not all,
for this Cloud of our American heraldry surrounds what is called
"The Constellation."
THE REVERSE SIDE OF AMERICA'S NATIONAL SEAL
THIRTEEN STARS
This constellation is a group of thriteen stars, or planets,
on a field of azure sky, which is exactly the same number of
planets that appeared on the azure sky in the dream of Joseph,
which drove him into separation from his brethren.
SIGNS OF EGYPTIAN BLOOD
Any one of these features in the blazonry of our on might
have been a coincidence, but when we see that there is not a
single feature, but that which is Josephic and Israelitish, it is
simply astounding. But when we turn our face upon the reverse
side of that great national seal we are overwhelmed, for there
stands the Great Pyramid of Egypt, which is one of the two great
monuments of Egypt, the birthplace of Ephraim and Manasseh, the
Egypto-Israelitish sons of Joseph, the son of Jacob, the son of
Isaac, the son of Abraham. And, marvel of marvels! The national
Crest of England has that other great monument of Egypt, the
Sphinx, on its reverse side. Thus do the people of Great Britain
and the United States of America, the Brother nations, by that
which speaks louder than words, for signs are arbitrary, say that
they are the offsprings of the Egypto-Israelitish holders of the
Abrahamic birthright.
ANCIENT COEPTIS
The people of the United States made this declaration by
that which was made a law on Thursday, June 20, 1782, for on that
day the ensign which bears those shadowing wings of Israel,
together with the Heraldry of Joseph, became a law among us. Also
over the pyramid on the reverse side of the Great Seal of America
is another thirteen-lettered motto, which, of coursq is not only
lawful, but also national; i. e., "Annuit Coeptis," - "He (the
Lord) hath prospered our undertakings." This also is Josephic,
for we read, "The Lord was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous
man." "The Lord was with him (Joseph), and that which he did the
Lord made it to prosper." - Gen.39:3-23.
REBELLION AND NUMBER 13
To those who understand the Cabala and the arithmography of
the Scriptures, it is known that the number thirteen is
significant of Rebellion, but all that we can say about it here
is that the first time this number occurs in the Bible it is with
reference to Rebellion (Gen.14:4). Surely that people whose
characteristic number is thirteen did rebel in 1776, and
prospered in it, too. They also prospered in 1814, in another
little affair concerning the acquisition of a vast stretch of
territory known as Louisiana.
This people have also had rebellion within their own
borders, and it is a remarkable fact that, although thirteen was
not the number of states in the Confederacy, the Confederate
Congress, in 1863, formally adopted a battle flag for the
Confederacy, and also a Confederate flag. The Battle Flag was a
white field with a blue cross of this (X) shape, in which there
were thirteen stars. The flag for the Confederacy was white, with
a red field in the Dexter chief corner, bearing this same ( X)
cross with its thirteen stars. Here again is both rebellion and
the birthright cross of the house of Joseph. In this struggle the
government also prospered, and it was essential that it should
thus prosper, not only in this case, but also in the others of
which we have spoken, in order to fulfill a prophecy concerning
one feature of their history, namely: "Shew my people their
transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. Is not this the
fast that I have chosen? to undo the heavy burdens, and let the
OPPRESSED GO FREE, and that YE break every yoke?" These are the
reasons for which Our Race go to war. England freed her slaves in
1838 and America freed hers in 1861.
It has often been said that brothers would quarrel. Judah
and Ephraim did, and so have Ephraim and Manasseh; and the
troubles to which we have thus far alluded have been family
affairs. When it comes to these family difficulties, that one
will always conquer which must do so in order to fulfill the word
of God. But when it comes to war with non-Israelitish nations,
whether it be to undo heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go
free, to break the yoke of slavery, or for whatever reason, then
the Israel of which we speak will always succeed. For it is of
literal, fleshly, Joseph Israel, of whom also is spiritual
Israel, of whom it is said: "No weapon that is formed against
thee shall prosper." And also the following: "The remnant of
Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as
a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the
sheep (marg. goats); who, if he go through, both treadeth down,
and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver. Thine hand shall be
lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be
cut off." - Mich.5:8-9.
It was in fulfillment of these promises that Napoleon, the
hitherto victor, bit the dust at Waterloo. It was in fulfillment
of these promises that the American fleet entered Manila Bay, and
destroyed the enemy's fleet with the loss of only seven men.
It was in fulfillment of these words of Divine truth that the
American fleet destroyed the Spanish fleet in Cuban waters and
lost only one man. It was that these promises might be fulfilled
that Sam Houston, with only seven hundred and fifty raw recruits,
fought the decisive battle against the Mexican army at San
Jacinto, April 21st, 1836, in which he annihilated the Mexicans
at one blow, killing six hundred and fifty, capturing three
hundred and fifty, and putting the rest to flight, and yet losing
only eight men and twenty-five wounded. But space forbias to tell
of the many similar cases.
THE WATERS OF GOD
When the children of Israel were singing unto the Lord over
the victory he had given them by destroying the armies of
Pharaoh, they said: "Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea
covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters. Who is like
unto thee, O Lord, among the mighty ones? Who is like thee,
glorious in holiness, fearful in praise, doing wonders?" In the
forty-first chapter of Isaiah, where the Lord says to Israel in
the isles, "They that WAR against thee shall be as nothing, and
as a thing of naught," he also says "Thou shalt fan them, and the
wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter
them." One fulfillment of this promise was the destruction of the
"Invincible Spanish Armada," when they went against the English
in 1588, concerning which the American Cyclopedia gives the
following: "The Spanish Armada sailed May 29, but a storm
compelled it to return; and it was not till the end of July that
the two fleets met and joined in battle near the English coast.
After a series of actions that lasted several days, the Spaniards
were utterly routed, the elements assisting the English." The
underscores are ours, as we wish to call your attention to how
the Lord helped. This Armada consisted of 130 vessels all told,
and was unequaled in its time. Israel in the isles had not yet
fully renewed their strength. The history continues, "Having left
Lisbon for Corunna for stores, May 29, 1588, the fleet was
dispersed by a violent storm, and, though all the ships joined at
Corunna with the exception of four, they were considerably
shattered, and had to be repaired. Reports having reached England
that the armament was completely disabled, the government ordered
its own ships to be laid up; but Lord Howard, the admiral,
opposed this order, set sail for Corunna, learned the truth, and
on his return continued warlike preparations. Soon after, being
informed that the Armada had hove in sight, he weighed anchor,
and as it passed Plymouth, July 31, stood out in its rear and
opened a destructive fire. Having the windward position, and
being greatly superior in speed, he was able to inflict serious
damage without loss to himself. All the way along the channel the
English followed the Armada with the same tactics, taking
advantage of the changing winds, harassing the Spaniards,
capturing two or three of their best vessels, and yet keeping all
the while virtually out of reach. The Spaniards proceeded toward
the coast of Flanders, keeping as close together as possible ...
Off Calais the Armada cast anchor, waiting for the Duke of
Parma's fleet to come out of the Flemish harbors; but Parma had
nothing but unarmed barges, and could not come out until the
Armada had beaten off the Anglo-Dutch blockading squadron.
Driving the Spaniards out of Calais roads by means of fire ships,
Aug. 8, Howard and Drake now forced them toward the Flemish
coast, with the purpose of getting them into the North Sea and
cutting off their communications with Dunkirk. The battle began
at daybreak off Gravelines, and lasted till dark. The Spaniards
were completely defeated. Several of their largest ships were
lost, and 40,000 men were killed, and probably at least as many
were wounded. It was impossible either to return to Calais or to
reach the Duke of Parma. Their provisions were nearly exhausted,
and the English fleet, apparently little injured, still hovered
on their weather beam. It was imperative that they should return
to Spain for fresh stores. The passage through the channel being
closed by the English fleet, the Spaniards, now counting 120
vessels, undertook to round Scotland and Ireland. But in the
neighborhood of the Orkneys they were dispersed by a storm. Some
of them foundered. About thirty were afterward wrecked on the
west coast o f Ireland. Those o f the crews who escaped to shore
were generally killed, and it was calculated that about 14,000
thus perished."
Remember, these historic and cyclopaedic writers are not
supposed to know that God has said that, in order to defend his
birthright people, he would send a wind to carry away this
so-called "Invincible Armada," and a whirlwind to scatter them.
Hence their testimony is all the more striking. Surely the people
of modern Israel, who dwell in the Isles, might also sing unto
the Lord, saying: "Thou didst blow with thy wind, and carried
them (their enemies) away, and the whirlwind did scatter them.
Who is like the Lord, glorious in holiness, fearful in praise,
doing wonders?" Truly, Jesus has well said: "If I have told you o
f earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe if I
tell you o f heavenly (spiritual) things ?"
CONCESSIONAL
Still we call to our God of old;
God of the "far off" Isaac line;
Our God, whose word doth make us bold
To claim our heritage divine.
The Lord of hosts is with us yet,
Doth He forget? Doth He forget?
It cannot be that Isaac dies;
His people and his kings depart;
Before his God the Saxon lies,
Glad and brave, but with contrite heart.
The Lord of hosts is with him yet,
Doth He forget? Doth He forget?
Called in Him we are today
No longer passing through the fire;
Altho' we were but yesterday
As one of Nineveh and Tyre.
The Lord of nations guides us yet.
Doth He forget? Doth He forget?
When battles rage we cannot lose,
God makes all men to stand in awe
Of Saxons, now that He doth use
The race to whom He gave his law.
His "Battle ax" we are, as yet,
Doth He forget? Doth He forget?
Our fathers once did idols trust,
Also their strength and iron shard;
Now, though we number as the dust,
We call on thee, Lord God, to guard!
For Thou hast proved Thy holy word,
Shown mercy to Thy people, Lord !
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NOTE:
Is all this just happen-stance? When we take all the prophecies
regarding Israel and Judah from the books of Moses, and we see
them all fulfilled in peoples from the Christian age - during the
many centuries A.D. and especially in the last 3 and 4 houndred
years in the British Commonwealth and the United States of
America, do we just say it is happen-stance?
Can all the prophecies and symbols and a mighty throne coming
through Ireland, Scotland, and into England, just be happen-
stance, like throwing a dice, and having it all come out as
written in the prophecies of the Bible; all come out in a people
that grew together in Briatin and then separated, from the rise
of the British Commonwealth, to be brother peoples of the
greatest single nation the world has ever seen - the United
States of America. Can it all just be happen-stance?
Many would like you to believe it is all just happen-stance. They
would like you to believe it is, and not want you to look at
those prophecies. They would like you to not read them. They
would like you to not read much of the Old Testament period. They
would like you to not read much of the Bible period; so they can
continue to feed you sweet dreams, fancy fluffy theology, so they
can continue to get your money, and a pay-check. They would like
you to be fall asleep in their constant talk about "Christ as
Savior" and not even bother to bring your Bible to church, but be
entertained by their singers and bands, and all the other
theatrics that they produce on stage for you. Sad to say, but
God's word tells you, shouts out to you, that YOU, the mass of
"Christian" people ***LOVE TO HAVE IT SO***
IT IS TIME FOR YOU DEAR READER TO WAKE OUT OF YOUR
SLEEP, TO OPEN UP YOUR BIBLE, TO STUDY IT WITH
ENTHUSIASM AND ZEAL. IT IS TIME TO GET YOUR MIND INTO
GEAR AND FIND THE REAL TRUTHS OF THE WORD OF GOD.
AT ONE TIME GOD WINKED AT ALL THIS LAZINESS OF NOT
KNOWING WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES. BUT NOW HE CALLS
ALL TO REPENTANCE!!
CALLING ALL MEN TO REPENTANCE WAS SAID BY THE APOSTLE PAUL IN THE BOOK OF ACTS.
Keith Hunt
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To be continued
Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright #27Two-fold Aspect of Israel
by J. H. Allen (published in 1917)
THE TWO-FOLD ASPECT OF PROPHETIC ISRAEL
The multitude of people which was predicted for the house of
Joseph never was realized while they dwelt in Samaria, their
Palestinean home; but the increase of the Saxon race is
acknowledged to be phenomenal. National statistics show that
Russia doubles her population in 140 years, Spain in 142 years,
France in 150 years, Turkey in 555 years; but that England
doubles her population every 45 years, and that the United States
doubles theirs in 25 years. This is a wonderful vindication of
the truth which we are bringing, for the word of truth declares:
"Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, thou hast increased the
nation: thou hast removed it far unto all the ends of the
earth."--Isa.26:15. The fulfillment of this prophecy is today
called "Imperialism."
(Remember when Allen was writing was in 1917- Keith Hunt)
One of the first national characteristics mentioned in
prophecy concerning Isaac's seed is, that they shall possess the
gates of those that hate them. Gates are entrances. National
gates are now called "ports." Since the acquisition of the
Sandwich Isles, Porto Rico and the Philippines by the United
States, the Saxons control nearly all the national gateways of
the world. For, prior to that time, England and America
controlled all the ports of the North American continent, and
England possessed, not only all the ports of the British Isles
and those in Australian waters, but also Gibraltar, Suez Canal,
Malta, Alexandria, Cyprus Wand, gates into China, the German
Ocean, the Cape gate into the Indian Ocean, and all the gates of
India, gates along the east and west coasts of Africa, and the
Cape Horn gate from the Atlantic into the Pacific Ocean. In the
face of such foretold facts as these for the house of Joseph,
need we be surprised that God, who declareth the end from the
beginning, should include in the blessings of his birthright man,
"the deep that croucheth beneath" his vessels ?
The Lord also says of Joseph, "He shall push the people
together, to the ends of the earth: and they (who together are
doing the pushing) are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are
the thousands of Manasseh." This seems to imply an alliance,
offensive and defensive, on the part of these brother nations,
the outcome of which will be that they together shall push the
rest of the nations to the ends of the earth. This alliance would
be but natural, for while it is true that brothers are apt to
quarrel and fight among themselves, it is also true that one of
these brothers is not going to stand by and allow a stranger to
jump on his brother and thresh him. And while we write, the talk
of just such an alliance is in the air, and we are sure the
result will be as God hath said.
God also further says, "Behold, the people of Israel shall
rise up as a great Lion, and lift himself as a young lion; he
shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink of the
blood of the slain. He hath as it were the strength of an
Unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and shall break
their bones, and pierce them through with his ARROWS." We have
requoted this Scripture, concerning the eating up of the nations,
so that our readers may see that, when this time of the
destruction of the nations comes, the Lion of Judah, which is
with Ephraim, the Unicorn of Ephraim, and the Arrows of Manasseh
are together, i. e., England and America.
The Lord also says of this same people, "The portion of
Jacob is not like them (destroyed); for he (God) is the former of
all things: Israel is the rod of his inheritance: the Lord of
hosts is his name. Thou art my BATTLE AX and WEAPONS OF WAR: for
with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will
I destroy kingdoms."--Jer.51:19-20. "There is none like unto the
God of Jeshurun (symbol name for Israel), who rideth upon the
heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. The eternal
God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and
he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee ; and shall say,
Destroy them. Israel then shall dwell in safety alone."--Deut.
33: 26-27.
This is undoubtedly to be the final outcome of Israel's
history, and yet, prior to this, and while they are dwelling in
the midst of other nations, it is said of them: "The remnant of
Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the
Lord, as the showers upon the grass." And yet it is in the very
next verse that the prophet says of this same people, that they
are the strongest power on earth, "Who, if he go through, both
treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver."--
Micah 5:7-8.
Here, to say the least, is a two-fold aspect, or two
characteristics of the same race; that is, a people who are as
the refreshing and fruitful showers, and as dew from the Lord to
the nations around them; and yet they are a people whom none of
those nations who go to war with them can conquer. This double
phase of character is due to the fact that they are that portion
of the elect race with whom are those who also belong to the
election o f grace. This is both the national and the spiritual
character of the Christianized house of Joseph, for the Lord does
say of Ephraim-Israel, whom he says is in the isles afar off,
whom he also calls the nations, of whom he says, "Thou shalt yet
plant vines upon the mountains o f Samaria," that they "FOUND
GRACE in the wilderness; even Israel."--Jer.31. We are told that
the law was given by Moses, but that grace and truth came by
Jesus Christ, and since the Divine word which was sent to Jacob
lighted upon Israel, even Ephraim, we know that the grace which
they received in their far away home was the Grace of the Gospel
of the Son of God. The wilderness where these people received the
grace of God is that country whither they went when they were
cast out of the land of their fathers, which at that time was
unknown and uninhabited, hence a wilderness. The fact that this
people received the Gospel, while cast out and lost, is also a
fulfillment of the prophecy by Jeremiah in which the Lord says
that he will send many fishers, Gospel fishers, and they shall
fish them. This is also why we are told that "Ephraim shall say,
What have I to do any more with idols?"
"But," questions one, "are there no Gentiles who have become
Christians except these nations which are of the birthright
kingdom of Israel?" Our answer is, Yes; but each of these also,
like Ephraim and Manasseh, needed to be adopted. This is why we
are told, "As many of you as have been baptized into Christ have
put on Christ. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed,
and heirs according t0 THE PROMISE." This adoption is necessary
in all cases where the persons are of non-Israelitish nations,
for the covenants, the promises, and the adoption are
Israelitish, and belong to none who are not of the seed of
Abraham. Those who are thus adopted become flesh of his flesh and
bone of his bone. It is for this reason that Jesus took on
himself the seed of Abraham, for it behooved him to be made like
unto his brethren. This involves many questions which cannot be
discussed here, but we take time to say that, in order to belong
to the election of grace, the adopted son is BORN of the spirit,
and the home-born must also be born of the spirit. It is the
conquering, literal, fleshly Israel that is a type of the
conquering, literal, spiritual Israel. It is the literal, fleshly
adoption into national Israel, which is the earthly family of
God, that is a type of the literal spiritual adoption into the
heavenly family of God, of whom Jesus Christ was the first-born
among many brethren, both in the flesh and in the spirit, and who
is also the first-born among many brethren in a two-fold sense,
for he was not only the first among those who are both sons of
God and sons of Abraham, but he was also the first out of the
many who shall yet be "the children of the resurrection."
The fact that Joseph-Israel becomes Christianized while cast
out of their land is the reason for the following: "Loose thyself
from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. For thus
saith the Lord, Ye sold yourselves for naught, and ye shall be
redeemed without money. For thus saith the Lord God, My people
went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there, and then
Assyrian oppressed them without cause." To be redeemed without
money is certainly a new covenant truth, and one that is heralded
from our pulpits every where. On Mt. Zion, inside the walls of
Jerusalem, the city of David, were the royal dwellings; hence,
Zion becomes one of the generic names for the seed of Abraham,
Isaac, Jacob, Joseph or Judah. This captive daughter of Zion, who
the Lord declares shall be redeemed without money, went first to
Egypt, and was also oppressed by the Assyrian. It was the
Birthright people who were led captive into Assyria.
It is the barren woman, the desolate, the woman forsaken,
the one who knew the reproach o f widowhood, the wife o f youth,
who had been divorced, of whom the Lord declares, that she had
more children than when married, and to whom the Lord says:
"Enlarge the place of thy tent (dwelling) and let them stretch
forth the curtains of thine habitations, spare not, lengthen thy
cords, and strengthen thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on
the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the
Gentiles." "Imperialism" again. But it is this same woman to whom
the Lord says, "Thy maker is thine husband ... for a small moment
have I forsaken thee; ... In a little wrath I hid my face from
thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have
mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer ... In righteousness
shalt thou be established; and great shall be the peace of thy
children ... Whosoever shall gather against thee shall fall for
thy sake ... No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper
(be this weapon against either the election of grace or against
their nation); and every tongue that shall rise against thee in
judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage (national and
spiritual) of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness
is o f me, saith the Lord."--Isa.54th chapter. "For the
transgressions of MY PEOPLE was he (he is brought as a LAMB to
the slaughter) stricken."
Jesus said, concerning his Church, "I will never leave thee
nor forsake thee"; and concerning this one-time cast-off and
forsaken people, this promise is given "Thou shalt no more be
termed forsaken." Why? Because "the Redeemer shall come to Zion,
and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the
Lord. As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord;
My spirit that is upon thee, and the words which I have put in
thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the
mouth of thy seed, not out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith
the Lord, from henceforth and forever."--Isa.59:20-21.
The failure, hitherto, to identify the Gospel promise! as
belonging to that branch of the Abrahamic posterity which has the
accompanying national characteristics, has been the cause of
untold confusion, untold harm, untold skepticism, as well as much
loudly-told infidelity, both within the pale of Christian
denominations and out of them.
Tom Paine boldly asserted that he was led into infidelity
because he saw that the Jewish people never had fulfilled and
never could fulfill the prophecies of the Old Testament. In 1898
B. Fay Mills, the one-time Spirit-filled evangelist, said, "In
the fourth place, the prophecies of the Old Testament (to Israel)
have not been realized. Today," he says, "the Bible is no more
inspired than the Koran."
"The Lord of Hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have
thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have proposed, so
shall it stand."--Isa.14:24.
Prof. Rawlinson, in his "Homiletics" on the above text,
says: "It is weakness on the part of man to need any confirmation
of a promise which God makes. When He condescends to swear that
his promise shall hold good, it does not really add to the
certainty of the thing promised, since the certainty was absolute
from the first. But man is so accustomed to mistrust his fellows
that he will even mistrust God, as though with him were
'variableness or shadow of turning.'" And yet this same Prof.
Rawlinson when writing of the ten-tribed Kingdom of Israel, says:
"They ceased to exist." It is painful to find men who will speak
so highly of God at one time and so belittle him in regard to his
promises to Israel. Well may the Lord say, "Thus have they
despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before
them."
The Rev. Baring Gould tells us that "God's first purpose has
been partially frustrated. The church has taken Israel's place as
the body."
Dr. Ladd, in "The Doctrine of Scripture," Vol. 1, page 442,
says: "The Christian church has taken the place of the Jew to
receive in different form the substance of the salvation which
they expected for themselves. The Christian church is the true
Israel, the seed of Abraham, the inheritor and recipient of the
Messianic prophecies."
Opinions, similar to these, are held generally throughout
the Christian church; while others hold that we are a sort of
modern Israel of whom the Bible is silent, and yet both schools
appropriate to Christianity all the good things which are
promised to the Lord's chosen people, and pile all the evil
things upon the Jews. As if the Lord were guilty of making
promises to one people and fulfilling them to another.
To be in harmony with the facts, Dr. Ladd should have
defined the situation as follows: "The Christian church is the
true Israel of God which has received, in the same form and
substance, that salvation which the Jews refused, for it is
composed of men who are born of the spirit and who belong to the
material Israel, the seed of Abraham, the inheritors and
recipients of the Messianic prophecies, upon whom lighted the
Divine word-he whom the Jews rejected."
In the chapter on the heraldry of Israel and the Saxons, we
explained that the Lion, the young Ox, and the Eagle were the
camp standards of Israel. But we gave no explanation concerning
"The Man," which was also one of these four camp standards. The
reference to the man in Ezekiel 1:10 cites us to Numbers, 2:10,
which reads: "On the south side shall be the standard of the camp
of Reuben." Concerning these symbols, Dr. Seiss says: "Jewish
writers tell us that the standard of each tribe of Israel took
the color of the stone which represented it in the High Priest's
breastplate, and that there was wrought upon each a particular
figure-a lion for Judah, a young ox for Ephraim, a man for
Reuben, and an eagle for Dan. These were the representative
tribes, and all the rest were marshaled under these four
standards (Num. ii); --Judah, on the east, with Issachar and
Zebulon; Reuben, on the south, with Simeon and Gad; Ephraim on
the west, with Manasseh and Benjamin; and Dan, on the north, with
Asher and Naphtali. In the center of this quadrangular encampment
was the tabernacle of God, with four divisions of Levites forming
an inner encampment around it. It was thus that Israel was
marched through the wilderness, under the four banners of the
lion, the young ox, the man, and the flying eagle. These were
their ensigns, their guards, their coverings, the symbols of
power by which they were protected and guided. They were parts of
that divine and heavenly administration which led them forth from
bondage, preserved them in the wilderness, and finally settled
them in the promised land."
These facts were undoubtedly known to the compilers of our
reference Bibles, hence the references from Ezekiel's vision to
the outward, material and earthly aspect of the people to whom
Ezekiel was sent, for he was sent to the ten-tribed kingdom, and
remained among them seven days. (See former chapter.)
We know of no Old Testament Scriptures which will show why
the ensign of Reuben was a man except that the name Reuben means
"Behold a son," or "See ye a son." Genesis 29:32 settles that
forever. A son presupposes a man. The sons of Benjamin were the
men of Benjamin, as we have shown. Also, a son of Israel
is a man of Israel. It is certainly fitting that the ensign of
Reuben should have been a man, for he was the firstborn of
Israel. An expression like this: "Who raised up this righteous
man from the east?" as applied to the nation of Israel, may have
had some reference to the ensign of the man of Reuben. But, if
this be so, it would be next to an impossibility to trace it
positively, for the word man is in such general use that, should
we undertake it, we should soon get lost in the mazes.
But we are sure of this one thing, namely: that the ensign
of that first-born of Israel was a type of another first-born, of
whom the prophet declares, "Unto US A SON is born, and my people
Israel, even Ephraim, shall know." Also, when this son of Abraham
was led out to be slain for the sins of that people, Pilate said:
"Behold the MAN."
Joseph inherited the first-born blessing which Reuben
forfeited and the ensign of the cross in the hands of the people
who are the inheritors of the blessings of the Gospel of the
grace of the Son of God, declared, in the arbitrary language of
signs, "Behold the man." Thus it seems that the "Double Portion"
of Joseph was a type of his double blessing, i. e., the blessing
of the Abrahamic Birthright and the Gospel of Grace, for they
certainly are the recipients of both.
It is for this reason that the Lord says: "They,"
Joseph-Israel, "shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in
their land they shall possess the Double (i. e., two portions in
the land): everlasting joy shall be unto them ... And their seed
shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the
people; all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are
the seed which the Lord hath blessed."--Isa.61:7-9.
This word double gives that whole prophecy in the context to
Joseph. The next verse is as follows: "I will greatly rejoice in
the Lord; my soul shall be joyful in my God for he hath clothed
me with the garments o f salvation, he hath covered me with the
robe o f righteousness, and as a bridegroom decketh himself with
ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels."
Truly "God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean
heart." Among that people who received "grace in the wilderness"
none may have a clean heart except those who trust the blood of
atonement; i. e., the blood of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who
taketh away the sin of the world.
Prior to the crucifixion of this man, this first-born Son of
God, Caiaphas, in the heat of discussion concerning the interests
of their nation, said: "Ye know nothing at all, nor consider that
it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people,
and that the whole nation perish not. And thus spake he not o f
himself: but being high priest that year, he (unconsciously)
prophesied that Jesus should die for that nation; and not for
that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one
the children o f God that were scattered abroad."
The children of God that were scattered abroad at that time
were the ten tribes of the Birthright kingdom of Israel, and we
say, without the possibility of being successfully contradicted,
that the restoration o f Israel is in the atonement, and that
Jesus not only died to fulfill Isa.53:8, but also that he might
perform that good thing which he had promised unto the house of
Israel and to the house of Judah; i. e., the gathering, the
return, the restoration of his chosen people, with all its
glorious results.
This is why Paul said, "And now I stand and am judged for
the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers: unto which
promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night,
HOPE TO COME. For which hope's sake, King Agrippa, I am accused
of the Jews." (Acts 26:6-7.) This is also why he says, "Now we
beseech you, brethren, by the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ,
and by our gathering together unto Him." It was because this
restoration is all through the words of Moses and the prophets,
and because Jesus had died to accomplish it, that, after his
resurrection, and just before his ascension, the last question
which his apostles ask is, "Lord, wilt thou at this time restore
again the kingdom to Israel?" He did not tell them that there was
to be no restoration. He simply told them that they were not to
know the times or seasons which the Father hath put in his own
power. Later they understood that it was to come, with the second
coming of Christ, at which time he is to gather Israel, and reign
over the house of Jacob forever.
Thus, on the day of Pentecost, when men out of every nation
under heaven were assembled together, Peter said: "Men and
brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David,
that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us
unto this day. Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God
had sworn with an oath unto him that of the fruit of his loins,
according to the flesh, he would RAISE UP Christ. to sit on his
throne; he, seeing this before, spake of the resurrection o f
Christ." (Acts 2:29-31.)
According to this reasoning, David did not expect Christ to
sit on his throne until after he shall have been raised from the
dead, and we know that he is not on David's throne now. He is
sitting at the right hand of God on his throne, for "Him hath God
exalted with his right hand to be a Prince (a Prince is a coming
king) and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and
forgiveness of sins." (Acts 5:30) Hence, Peter, after telling the
Jews that this Prince whom they had killed, was both Lord and
Christ, very kindly says, "And now, brethren, I wot that through
ignorance ye did it (God help Christians of today to be thus, or
even more charitable), as did also your rulers. But those things,
which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets,
that Christ should SUFFER, he hath so fulfilled." Thus we see,
that the apostles only claimed, for others of them were with
Peter, that those things which were written concerning the
sufferings of Christ were fulfilled. So, Peter continues his
discourse, saying, "And he (God) shall send Jesus Christ, which
before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must retain until
the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by
the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began." (Acts
3:17-2I.)
Mark that, please! "All things which God hath spoken by the
mouth of all his holy prophets," and nothing else, but surely
all that which God hath spoken. Just that, nothing more, nothing
less, can vindicate. Nothing more is necessary, but it is
absolutely essential for the complete vindication of God and his
Christ that all which God hath spoken be so fulfilled.
All the suffering phases concerning this rejected one, as
recorded by all the prophets, have in like manner been fulfilled.
The despised and rejected Man of Sorrows came. The oppressed,
afflicted and grief-stricken man with the marred visage has been
smitten. The stripe-beaten back has been bared and has borne its
heavy load. The prison, the judgment hall, the trial, the
mocking, jeering, insulting, spitting, raging mob are come and
gone. The dumb Lamb, whose heart broke and melted like wax within
him, has been led to the slaughter. In company with criminals, he
has poured out his soul unto death, and the mutilated body has
been laid away in its foretold rich man's grave. But that grave
could not hold its holy treasure, for his prophet Father had
said, "Neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see
corruption."
These and many other things which were foretold by the
prophets he hath so fulfilled; but Jesus, himself, said: "Think
not that I am come to destroy the law (word), or the prophets: I
am not come to destroy, but to fulfill (these). For verily I say
unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall
in no wise pass from the law ("to the law and to the testimony,
if they speak not according to thy word, it is because there is
no light in them"), till all be fulfilled."
The heaven and the earth are still held in their places, all
that is written in the prophets has not yet been fulfilled, but
IT SHALL BE. For Gabriel said to Mary, "Thou shalt conceive in
thy womb (she did), and bring forth A SoN (she did), and shalt
call his name JESUS (that was his name). He shall be great
(Prophet, High Priest, Prince, and Saviour), and shall be called
the Son of the Highest (God, himself, opened heaven, and said,
"This is my beloved Son"); and the Lord God shall give unto him
the throne of his father David [that throne has not yet been
given to him], and he shall reign ["Upon the throne of David, and
upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment
and justice (elements which it now lacks) from henceforth even
forever (the zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this) over
the house of Jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no
end." Thus we see that these promises concerning David's greater
Son were fulfilled only in part at his first coming. When Jesus
comes the second time, he will come as SHILOH. Unto him shall the
people gather, and he will then sit on the throne of his father
David, and reign over the house of Jacob forever. For it is
written: "Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will
raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and
prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in THE EARTH."
It is of the fact of this coming King for the kingdom of
David that, when the apostles and elders of the newly founded
church were in counsel, James spoke "Men and brethren, hearken
unto me: Simeon hath declared how God at first did visit the
Gentiles, to take out of them a people (the remnant of grace) for
his name (i. e., that they might become his bride). And to this
agree the words of the prophets; as it is written, After this I
will return, and will build again the tabernacle (royal
dwellings, and palaces) of David, which are fallen down (those on
Mt. Zion); and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will
set it up." (Acts 15:13-16.)
Jesus died to confirm the promises made to the fathers, not
to transfer them. "He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold,
he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep." (Ps.121:
3-4.)
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NOTE:
AND SO IT IS AND SO IT SHALL BE. THE PROPHECIES OF
YOUR BIBLE ARE COMING TO PASS RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES.
THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
ARE MENTIONED MORE OFTEN IN YOUR BIBLE THAN ANY OTHER
PEOPLE. WITHOUT THIS KEY IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND
BIBLE PROPHECY. THE FUNDAMENTAL PROPHETS OF FUNDAMENTAL
CHRISTIANITY DO NOT UNDERSTAND BIBLE PROPHECY. THEY CANNOT
UNDERSTAND, FOR THEY DO NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THIS KEY WE HAVE
SEEN EXPOUNDED BY ALLEN. THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND BECAUSE
THEY WILL NOT KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. ALL THEIR
BOOKS ON PROPHECY ARE USELESS. RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES
THE PROMISES TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, JOSEPH, HAVE BEEN
FULFILLED.
THE PROPHETS OF YOUR BIBLE FOR TODAY I HAVE EXPOUNDED
FOR YOU ON MY WEBSITE. THE BEAST OF REVELATION IN
EUROPE IS TAKING SHAPE. THE KING OF THE SOUTH - A UNION
OF ARAB NATIONS IS TAKING SHAPE. THE BEAST OF EUROPE
WILL DEFEAT THE ARAB UNION, IT WILL MARCH INTO JERUSALEM,
AND THEN IT WILL TURN ON THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH AND
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE NATIONS OF ISRAEL AND
THE JEWS WILL GO INTO THE LAST END TIME GREAT TRIBULATION.
THE BEAST OF EUROPE WILL RULE THE WESTERN WORLD. THEN THAT
BEAST WILL TRY TO CONQUER THE EASTERN WORLD. THERE WILL
BE A MIGHTY BATTLE, IF NOT STOPPED, NO FLESH WILL
SURVIVE. BUT JESUS WILL COME, THE RESURRECTION OF THE
SAINTS WILL TAKE PLACE. THEY WITH CHRIST AND THE HOLY
ANGELS WILL DESTROY THOSE WHO ARE DESTRYING THE EARTH.
JESUS WILL SET UP THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH AS HE SITS
ON DAVID'S THRONE.
THEN WILL COME THE AGE TO COME AND THE RESTITUTION OF
ALL THINGS.
YES AMAZING PROPHECIES FROM THE BOOK OF GENESIS HAVE AND ARE BEING FULFILLED BEFORE YOUR EYES. WHO BUT AN ETERNAL MIGHTY GOD COULD GIVE PROMISES SO FAR BACK AND BRING THEM TO PASS IN THE LAST 300 YEARS OR SO. Keith Hunt
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