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A wise gentleman once said, �There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is contempt prior to examination.�

The facts we bring to you in this study are undoubtedly startling in their implications. If you have never really read the Bible, but have allowed some Judeo-Christian minister to do your reading and thinking for you, you may well be astounded by them. But because they are facts you are not accustomed to hearing, do not on that account close your mind to them. If you will check the Bible references given, you will discover that what we say is true. And it is far too important to you to be ignored.

This treatise presents a challenge to you in the light of its position that the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic, Nordic, Slavic and kindred people are the lineal descendants of the House of Jacob. This is not merely a matter of individual belief or unbelief; rather, it involves the necessity for a careful investigation into the actual facts in order that a true answer may be given to the question, �What doth God require of thee, O Israel?�

Since the available evidence warrants the conclusion that the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic, Nordic, Slavic and kindred peoples are Israel in the world today, a responsibility rests upon them which is of equal importance with their glorious heritage. Whether they accept the fact of their identity with Israel of old or not, they will be charged with that responsibility in the light of God.

����������������������������������� A Pattern of History

How much do you know about the fifteenth of June, next year? Nothing? Think a moment! You rally do know; or can find out, many things about that coming date. For any given locality you can tell to the exact second when the sun will rise, how long the day will last, what the moon�s reflected shape will be, what stars will appear directly over head; and many other facts.

You can know all these things for one reason; the earth moves through a definite pattern in relation to the sun, the moon, and the stars. This pattern shows where the earth was, where it is, and where it will be. Since the pattern is well known to scientific investigators, one can easily determine many of the physical facts about any day in the future.

But probably you do not care very much about the things which can be predicted from the pattern of the earth�s movement. In times like these, doubtless you would prefer to know what is going to happen to mankind in the future: to know the pattern of history.

There is such a pattern. Fortunately, by examining and understanding that, you can see what forces have shaped world events of the past, why things today are as they are, and you can see the events which are going to take place in the future. It is in the Bible.

Before reading further, it will be valuable to consider your belief concerning that Book; for an odd idea has sprung up that believing in the God of the Bible does not require believing the Bible.

Surely the idea of an all-seeing, all-powerful God is staggering to the imagination and yet, men who accept the God of the Bible are often unwilling to accept, for example, the miracles the Bible records.

Perhaps much of this peculiar state of affairs stems from the fact that the miracles are contrary to present-day knowledge. To illustrate, if an account of a modern air-plane flight had been published as recently as the year 1900, nearly everyone would have dismissed it as fantastic; yet in this instance, with today�s improved knowledge, the �miraculous� has become commonplace.

As knowledge grows, the day will come when all the Bible�s miracles are accepted by everyone. Another great stumbling block to the acceptance of the miracles has been, as you know, the refusal to believe the possibility of virgin birth. Here it seemed that science and the Bible had parted, bu there was no need for this. Only the imperfection of understanding kept men from seeing and noting the law that governs the apparently inexplicable.

Today science declares the possibility of virgin birth, demonstrates it, name it parthenogenesis; and so recent laboratory experiments (producing a virgin conception in rabbits, and in human women in some instances) nullify the statements of the �scientific� skeptics who have long derided the virgin birth as a myth.

Thus science itself, having demonstrated the error in questioning the possibility of a virgin birth, proves the foolishness of accepting the scientifically pronounced impossible regarding the recorded facts of Scripture; facts which may at present be beyond their comprehension; including the full meaning and import of the birth of Jesus Christ.

So we who write this study have taken a literal belief in the bible and we invite you to take a literal view with us as you continue to read what is written here. If you will do that, it will be your discovery that much of the confusion regarding the plain teaching of Scripture is brought about by �spiritualizing� its meaning.

�All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.� [1]

There is only one successful method of approach to understanding the story the Bible tells. Treat parables as parables, visions as vision; but accept as recorded the plain facts of history and prophecy therein, as well as the law .

�Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.� [2]

�Spiritualization� of these declared facts destroys the obvious, logical meaning and prevents clear understanding. And regardless of translations, there is only one story. The words used to express that story may vary; thus a comparison of alternative translations is valuable toward a fuller understanding of the original text, but the story remains the same!

The Bible is not a book to be read hastily. As it sometimes deals with vast expanses of time in a very short space, being almost telegrammatic in its style, and therefore should be read thoughtfully: word for word! If you will take your own Bible and look at the first verse of Genesis, you will read that �In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.� Verse 2 then starts off, �And the earth was without form and void.� Notice that there is no connection in time between verse 1 and verse 2. God created heaven and earth in the beginning and then, at some later time, began the creation of the earth as we now know it; there being time in between verses 1 and 2 for all the geologic ages! In fact, the prophet Jeremiah tells us that the earth existed, but was ravaged and made desolate by a judgment of God before the renewal of the creation whose story Genesis tells.

�I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light. I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly. I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger. For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end. For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black: because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.� [3]

The story of the renewal states, in some versions, that God accomplished this in six days. A more correct translation from the Hebrew is six periods; not the twenty-four-hour days we know. These periods might be of any length. Anyway, from the Apostle Peter we learn that a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. But of whatever length, they were of sufficient duration for the described events to have occurred.

�But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.� [4]

If you have only a nodding acquaintance with the Bible that most people have, you may have these and many other misconceptions about its message; from too hurried reading, or from listening to what Judeo-Christian Clergy tells you about the Bible. You must read the Bible for yourself, carefully, thoroughly, with Bible aids such as a Strong�s Concordance, in order to really understand its message. It is too important to you to do less. Take no one�s word for what the bible says: ours included! Please check all our statements by your own Bible.

The Bible was written by Divine inspiration over a period of 1,500 years, the collection of sixty-six thin pamphlets which we call the bible comprises the world�s greatest one-inch shelf of books! More than that, the Bible is one book and tells a consecutive, unified story from Genesis to Revelation. This tremendous unity of thought and purpose over so long a time is in itself a powerful indication that the bible is Divinely ordained.

�For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.� � [5]

It is a Book which tells the story and gives the history of a people; and it deals with the history of peoples other than the �people of the Book� only when other races come in contact with these people of the Book. In this, the Bible might be compared to a history of the United States of America which deals with our own nation, mentioning other peoples and nations only when they touch us in our activities. Thus the Bible is a record of the history of a people throughout the centuries; tracing this history from it beginning up through the time in which the Bible was written; the, in the prophecies, it gives their future history. As far as the people of the Book are concerned, therefore, the bible is a Pattern of History from the time of creation up to the present, then on to time not yet come.

��������������������������������������������������� Israel

Certainly you will agree that if one would understand the bible, it is immediately essential to know �who�s who.�

�For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people.� [6]

Who are the people of the Book? They are Israel and the Bible has another name for them as well: God�s Chosen People. Now do not misinterpret the meaning of a word here, as altogether too many have done.

�But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.� [7]

Israel was chosen, but not for favoritism. The Israelites were chosen for service! The Bible tells us they were to serve God and to show forth His praise on the earth; and in return for doing God�s will, they were to receive great blessings. But they were to remain separate from the other nations.

�For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O Lord God.� [8]

The reason for this was that they might provide other nations with a convincing demonstration of the benefit to be derived from following Israel�s example. [9]

Let us clarify another common misconception about this nation Israel. The majority of Israelites are not the people we know as Jews. They are the descendants of the Russian Khazars, a pagan tribe of mixed breeds between the Mongols and the Turks; and are said to be descended from Japheth by their historians. [10]

�Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages.� [11]

You may not recall the entire story of the choosing of Israel, and it is important to know the true facts as revealed by the Bible.

��������������������������������������� History of Israel

Almost four thousand years ago there was born in Ur of the Chaldees, on the banks of the Euphrates River in Asia Minor, a boy named Abram. This boy had a long lien of illustrious ancestors going back in a straight line to Shem, a son of Noah. [12] He lived and grew to manhood in the city of Ur and married a girl named Sarai. At the age of seventy-five God directed that he leave Ur, and go west, taking with him his wife, his servants and all his possessions. [13] Abram obeyed that call, departed as the Lord had ordered, and moved on toward Palestine.

A few years later God made a covenant with Abram and through him with his descendants. There are a few historic documents of greater importance than this contract by God with Abram. [14] It is the greatest legal document ever written. Under it, God changed Abram�s name to Abraham; meaning �Father of Many Nations.� this covenant was unconditional and was to operate forever. Abraham�s descendants were to possess the land from the River of Egypt to the River Euphrates. [15] He was to be fruitful and kings were to come from him. [16] His posterity was to be as the sands of the seashore for multitude, and as the stars for number. [17] They were to expand as nations; to the West, and to the East, and to the North, and to the South. [18] They were to be blessed with bountiful inheritance, [19] and have plenty to sustain them as they developed into a nation and a company of nations. [20] Abraham was not a Jew, for at that time there were no Jews.

It was the Lord�s will that the covenant He had made with Abraham should be carried on through Abraham�s son, Isaac;� [21] then through Isaac�s son, Jacob, who was given the name Israel (meaning a �Prince with God� ) by the Lord; [22] and each of his twelve sons became the head of a tribe, constituting the twelve tribes of Israel, later to be thirteen when Jacob/Israel adopted Joseph�s two sons. [23] These twelve sons, heads of te twelve tribes, were named Reuben, Joseph, Judah, Benjamin, Simeon, Levi, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher. [24] Each tribe took the name of its head.� [25]

Joseph, son of Jacob, was sold into slavery in Egypt by his envious brothers. [26] Eventually he became ruler of Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh. Later on, Jacob adopted Joseph�s two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, thus bring them under the covenant as heads of tribes in Israel, thus making the number of tribes 13; in fact, Jacob prophesied that Ephraim and Manasseh would become the leaders of all Israel. [27] Some time after the death of Joseph, the nation of Israel disobeyed the laws which the Lord had set up for them, and in punishment, [28] came under Egyptian bondage. [29]

God raised up Moses [30] to lead His people out of Egypt [31] and bring them to Mount Sinai where they were organized into a Kingdom, with perfect laws and a system of administration which has never been excelled. After the formation of the Kingdom, two courses were placed before Israel: [32] 1). National blessings and prosperity if they would keep and administer their God-given constitution; [33] 2). Affliction, sorrow, destitution and want; with sickness and suffering, if they refused. Entering the promised land under Joshua, Israel prospered when she observed these laws and suffered when she departed from them. [34]

The twelve tribes were united until the death of King Solomon; then, because of unjust taxation, the northern ten tribes revolted and set up a separate kingdom, known as the Kingdom or House of Israel. [35] The two southern tribes, Judah and Benjamin, became known as the Kingdom or House of Judah. From that time on, the Bible always makes a clear distinction between the House of Israel and the House of Judah. [36] the capital of the house of Israel was Samaria; that of the House of Judah, Jerusalem.

Both Israel and Judah soon became idolatrous and broke the laws set down for them by God. As always they were punished. In the eighth century B.C., the Assyrians invaded the land of Israel and took the people captive to Assyria. [37] Then a few years later they came and took all of House of Judah into the Assyrian captivity with the House of Israel, with the exception of Jerusalem and the cities surrounding it. Then around 600 B.C., Judah was taken into captivity by the Babylonians. [38] After seventy years of captivity, a remnant of Judah returned to its homeland but the northern ten tribes of Israel, and the major portion of the House of Judah never returned. [39] Then, although they were a very numerous people, they apparently vanished from the earth; and a portion of the people of Judah remained in Judea until the birth of Christ.

��������������������������������� Did Israel Disappear?

It is impossible that Israel should have become extinct. [40] Before the time of their captivity, God had promised that the Israelites would grow great in the world, [41] and His promise, as has been shown, was for all eternity. [42] � But He had also promised that Israel would change her name and become lost to herself for a long time. [43] Now if you believe God, it follows that you will believe His promises. [44] Therefore, Israel must be in existence still, [45] though without knowledge of her true identity. [46]

If you have heard the story of the ten lost tribes (but this is a misnomer, as it should be the lost 13 tribes, because all 13 tribes went into Assyrian captivity, although at different times. The 10 tribes, the House of Israel, went first, and then most of the House of Judah went a few years later. Therefore, all 13 tribes went into Assyrian captivity. The problem is that the Judeo-Christian clergy will not teach this because it destroys their worship of the Jews) of Israel, you have probably identified the Jews as Israel. We have already shown, however, that this is impossible, for the Jews are no part of Israel, but are, instead, the descendants of the Khazar tribes of the steeps of Russia. Jewish leaders and scholars recognize this, as shown by the following few quotations:

Under the heading of "A brief History of the Terms for Jew" in the 1980 Jewish Almanac is the following: "Strictly speaking it is incorrect to call an Ancient Israelite a 'Jew' or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or a Hebrew." [47]

�If the ten tribes have disappeared the literal fulfillment of the prophecies would be impossible; if they have not disappeared, obviously they must exist under a different name.� [48]

The Chief rabbi of London stated on November 18, 1918: �The people known at the present as Jews are descendants of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with a certain number of the descendants of the tribe of Levi. (This was/is a bald-faced lie, the people known to the world as Jews are the descendants of the Khazars or Russia, or the descendants of mixed marriages between True Israel and the Canaanites, such as Esau who married a Canaanite wife) So far as is known, there is not any further admixture of other tribes. The ten tribes have been absorbed among the nations of the world. [49] The Jews look forward to the gathering of all the tribes at some future date.� [50]

According to the learned Jew, Dr. Neubauer, in the Jewish Chronicle, �If, as you Christians say, the Christ has come, then the House of Joseph ought to be manifested; and what you have got to do is find the people that represent them.�

The Jewish Chronicle for May 2, 1879, stated; �The Scriptures speak of a future restoration of Israel, which is clearly to include both Judah and Ephraim. The problem, then, is reduced to its simplest form. The ten tribes (here again they use the ten tribes, when they really should have used 13 tribes) are certainly in existence. All that has to be done is to discover which people represent them. �

One of the most dangerous and deceptive doctrine of Roman Catholicism, which has been carried over into our Evangelical and Pentecostal church world, is the theory that the Church is the Bride of Christ. This doctrine can be traced back to the Dark Ages when Roman superstition was growing and developing.

Israel, having become "lost" to many Christians, the theologians of the Papal Church decided to make the bold claim that God had rejected His National People Israel; that He had somehow changed His mind, and that the visible organized church system, headed up by the Bishop of Rome, had become the "New Israel" ; the Bride of Christ. The spiritualizing school of thought can be traced back to Origen, Tichonius and Augustine of Hippo.

Regrettably this teaching was not abandoned at the Reformation, but was carried over with certain variations into reformed theology where it was claimed with equal vehemence that the invisible church made up of so-called "born-again" believers out of all denominations, constitute the bride. Such teaching persists to this day in spite of the vase amount of evidence to prove that the Israel people of the Bible are found today - redeemed and regathered in the United States, as the Nation and Company of Nations promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, married to Almighty God at the foot of Mount Sinai and spoken of continually throughout the Bible prophecy. It is these people who constitute the national bride through the pages of God's infallible book - The Holy Bible.

The Divine Choice : It is always hard to tell what is the deciding factor in the choice of a marriage partner, for love is indefinable, and this is no less true in the choice that Almighty God made of the people who were to constitute His National Bride. He chose them, not because they were a great or a powerful people, nor even because they were a rich and prosperous people, nor even because they were a particularly good or righteous people. In fact, the Scriptures express it this way: "The Lord did not set His love upon you or choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people that are upon the face of the earth, but because the Lord loved you, and because He would keep the oath sworn unto our fathers..." [51]

Almighty God, who knows the end from the beginning, and who had promised our forefathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that their descendants would become a great and mighty nation, and a blessing to all the earth, looked down upon a race of slaves in Egypt, saw the potential that was in them, freed them from bondage and led them into the wilderness of Sinai to become His Divine Partner.

His purpose in doing so is clearly expressed in these words: "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God...This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise." [52]

The Divine Marriage : Following the miraculous deliverance of the Children of Israel from slavery in Egypt, and the crossing of the Red Sea having been accomplished, Moses led the people to the slopes of Mount Sinai, where, what we might well term the marriage ceremony, was to be performed.

We find these events outlined for us in Exodus chapter nineteen. Having rescued the people and brought them safely thus far, God is ready to take them as His very own: "And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel; Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself." [53]

The conditions for the marriage contract or agreement are then clearly stated: "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine: And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel." [54]

Just as the modern bride at her wedding ceremony gives her assent with the simple words "I do," so the people of National Israel responded to the Divine Bridegroom: "And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord." [55]

The ceremony was concluded some three days later when the Israelites, having observed a period of cleansing and sanctification, the Lord came down upon the mountain in a display of awe-inspiring splendor.

Lest there be any doubt that the relationship existing between Israel and their God was that of husband and wife, we shall quote some other vital scriptures which settle the matter once and for all: "For thy Maker is thine husband; the Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called." [56] ; "But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine." [57] ; "...yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not." [58] ; "Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord" [59]

The descendants of the patriarchs were now truly IS-RA-EL, a people ruling with God. But even at the time of this Divine marriage a warning was given against unfaithfulness and taking His name in vain. This we find recorded in the third commandment which is more than just an injunction against swearing profane language.

The Divorce : For a short period after their entry into the Promised Land of Canaan (Palestine) the people of Israel were faithful to God. But during the days of the Judges and of the Kings we find an increasing trend to apostasy and unfaithfulness. Repeatedly we find Israel rebuked for the worship of the gods and goddesses of the heathen nations round about them; Baal, Milcom, Chemosh and Ashtaroth the Queen of Heaven.

The prophets of God compared this falling away into idolatry to the behavior of an unfaithful wife committing adultery with many lovers. Time and time again throughout the Old Testament idolatry is called spiritual adultery and religious whoredom. We find the prophets giving warning on numerous occasions that such conduce can result in one thing only - Divorce, the annulment of the Covenant or Marriage Contract agreed at Sinai. Look carefully at these words from the prophet Jeremiah: "The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot...And I saw, when for all the causes whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery I had put her away, and given her a bill of divorce; yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not, but went and played the harlot also. And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks...Surely as a wife treacherously departeth from her husband, so have ye dealt treacherously with me, O house of Israel, saith the Lord." [60]

The law of God laid down very strictly the penalty for such adulterous behavior and the rules governing marriage and divorce are given to us in the Book of Deuteronomy: "When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house." [61]

The refusal of Israel to repent of her wicked ways made just such a punishment inevitable. The final stages of the drama are vividly recorded for us in the Book of Hosea. This prophet was himself commanded by God to marry an unfaithful wife called Gomer. Her subsequent adultery, the names given to her children, her divorce and eventual restoration because of the undying love her husband bore her, were all meant to typify God's love for, and dealings with His own unfaithful wife - Israel. Thus we read: "The beginning of the word of the Lord by Hosea. And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the Lord. So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son." [62]

Concerning the children of their union, we read: "Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God." [63] This speaks to us of the divine divorce decree, the breaking of the Covenant relationship between God and Israel. Again we read Israel being addressed under the type of Gomer the adulteress: "Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts." [64]

So it was that God divorced Israel, cast her out of His house - the land of Palestine - never to return! The ultimate penalty was to be loss of, and blindness to their identity, for we read: "Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths." [65]

Sure enough, when Israel's cup of abominable idolatry and spiritual fornication was at last full to the brim, God permitted the armies of the Assyrian Empire to conquer the Northern Kingdom of Israel, capturing its chief city Samaria in 721 B.C. and deporting the Ten Tribes and some 200,000 from the fenced cities of Judah, into exile by the Rivers of Halath and Harbor, near to the modern Caspian Sea.

Scripture faithfully records that these people never returned to the land of Canaan. Israel, dispersed, rejected, divorced from their God and blind to her true identity, migrated across Europe, coming to the British Isles, North and West of Palestine, and continued on to the west when by the making of the New Covenant their process of restoration could begin.

The only Way to Restoration : The God whom we love and serve is not a God of unswerving justice, but of unlimited mercy and grace. Thus even in their downfall, disgrace, and divorce, the Lord's purposes for Israel could not be frustrated, and so we find within a century of the Assyrian captivity the prophet Isaiah beginning to speak of, and look forward to, the day of their forgiveness and restoration. "Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst." [66]

Here the prophet is looking ahead to a future time of redemption and deliverance, but under the Law of God, Israel, once divorced and having embraced heathen gods and idolatry, it was impossible to return to God again as long as the husband who wrote the bill of divorcement lived. Only by his death could the divorced wife be released from the penalty of the Law: "For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband." [67]

Thus it become crystal clear that the redemption and restoration to favor of the House of Israel, spoken of by Israel, could only come about by the death of Him who wrote the Bill of Divorce.

This brings us to Calvary, the greatest act of love that the world has ever witnessed, for there upon that cruel tree the Lord Jesus Christ, perfect God, yet a man, in whom the scriptures declare "dwelt all the fullness of the Godhead bodily," our Kinsman Redeemer, poured out the life that was in His Blood to annul the bill of divorce, to purchase redemption for Israel, and salvation and healing for the "whosoever will."

He died that Israel might go free , His matchless atonement procured pardon and release, He initiated a New Covenant by His death at Calvary. Hence the writer to the Hebrews could declare: "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission." [68]

The Process of Restoration : Centuries before the atoning act of love on Calvary, the prophets had looked forward to a day when in the providential will of a sovereign God, Israel would come into a new land described at a wilderness, where she would repent of her sin and spiritual adultery and be reconciled and rebetrothed to the divine Bridegroom by the terms of a hew covenant or marriage contract.

This is what the prophets declared: "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God...And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now...Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt...And I will betroth thee unto me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord...And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God." [69] ; "The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it...At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus saith the Lord, The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest...Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with� the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord." [70] ; "Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you. A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them." [71]

So it was that the woman Israel was indeed allured by the hand of God to these islands and beyond, the wilderness of the prophecies, the "Appointed place" spoken about by Nathan the prophet to King David. [72]

Here over the centuries by different names and at different times, the people of Israel were regathered as Celts, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings and Normans and welded again into one people.

The Coming Glory : In closing this study, we turn to the final chapters of the Apocalypse to view Israel's ultimate destiny, and there we read these words: "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints...And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." [73]

Soon our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will return in great power and glory to establish His Kingdom here upon the earth, to take the government upon His shoulder and rule the nations with a rod of iron.

In that day Israel, brought under the New Covenant spoken of by the prophets and apostles, written in the blood of Jesus at Calvary, witnessed to by the Resurrection and sealed by the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, will take up their rightful place at last. In that day they shall be, "Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God." [74]

We could do no better in concluding our study, than declare concerning Israel, as did the prophet: "For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee." [75]

�������������������������������������������� The Church

It is sometimes said that the present Christian Church is Israel, and the Bride of Christ. Those who advance this idea say that the Church may be considered as the spiritual heir of the lost tribes of Israel. But obviously, this idea does not fit the facts. It invalidates the Word of God, Who said that Israel; liberal, lineal Israel, was to endure forever. [76] Thus such a theory makes His solemn promises to Abraham worthless because to any reasonable person who reads the Bible, the promises that Israel was to become a nation, a company of nations, and a great people immediately excludes the possibility that the Church is Israel. [77] without even going to the many other significant marks of the identity of these people, a glance at which further excludes the possibility that the Church is Israel. Therefore, we have still not found Israel; but we know that Israel is not the Jews, nor the Church

������������������������������������������ Finding Israel

Surely Israel should not be hard to find; and it seems logical that she can be found by the same method which proved that neither the Jews nor the Church are Israel. That is, God made solemn promises as to what was going to happen to Israel. Thus all we need do is find the present-day nations, or race, in whom the promises have been fulfilled; for to do so will be to find Israel!

Or, we might choose another method. We might race, through the distant years of history, what actually happened to the lost tribes who apparently disappeared in Assyria.

Both methods have been tried and both lead to the same answer; and this, in itself, is convincing proof that the answer found by either method is correct. To show and prove what has been discovered concerning Israel is a long task and requires considerable specialized knowledge on the part of the reader. We therefore present only a mere fragment of what has been found on this historical basis, with no attempt here to present documented proof.

����������������������������������� What History Shows

The Hittite and Assyrian monuments, as well as the findings of archaeology, plus historical records, clearly indicate that the greater portion of the Israelites left Assyria. From there they moved north and west under different names. Some of these names were Getae, Massagetae, Scythians, Khumri, Sakai, Goths.

In the Crimean region today there are ancient Scythian graveyards. Upon the stones in these graveyards, in old Hebrew characters, will be found the names of the deceased, and under the name of each the tribe from which he came. In every instance these monuments bear testimony that the deceased is from one of the tribes of Israel. Among these records we find no record of any of the tribe of Judah. Thus we have evidence demonstrating that the Scythians and the House of Israel were one and the same people.

Almost a hundred years ago, Sharon Turner, one of England�s great historians, traced the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and Celtic people back through the centuries to the year 700 B.C. He showed that the ancient Scythians were part of the progenitors of the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Celtic peoples; the same Scythians that the monuments show were Israelites, and he proved that Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Celtic origin to be in the regions south of the Caspian Sea. It is in this same Assyrian section, at about the same time, that the Bible record leaves the millions of the House of Israel which were taken captive at the fall of Samaria in 721 B.C.

Now is this possible that Israel disappeared in one section of the world and the progenitors of the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Celtic people appeared in the same place a few years later, without the two peoples being in any way related: possible, but hardly probable! The overwhelming mass of circumstantial evidence makes it appear that the lost House of Israel and the progenitors of the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and Celtic people were one and the same. And when, in addition to this circumstantial evidence, cognizance is taken that these people have fulfilled what the prophets wrote of Israel, the probability becomes a certainty.

��������������������������������� What the Bible Shows

Let us now turn to the other method of identifying present-day Israel; that is, by seeing which nation or race fulfills God�s promises regarding the future of Israel. There are many such promises. We shall give eight of them here to show that they indicate.

1). Israel was to be a powerful nation.[78]

2). Israel would be living northwest of Palestine. [79]

3). Israel to be mistress of the ends, sides, and uttermost parts of the earth. [80]

4). Israel to hold a great heathen empire in dominion. [81]

5). Israel to be the chief missionary power of the earth, carrying the gospel everywhere. [82]

6). Israel to become a nation and a company of nations. [83]

7). Israel o be immune from defeat in war. [84]

8). Part of Israel to have split off from the mother country and have become a great people in their own right. [85]

Even without the many other unmistakable and significant marks, these eight are really enough in themselves to show who present-day Israel must be; for remember, all these must apply to Israel today!

������������������������������������������� The Answer!

How many great nations living northwest of Palestine have never known defeat in war? There are only two: The United States of America and the British Commonwealth of Nations; the nations which are considered Anglo-Saxon! A civil war cannot, of course, be considered war in the sense that it is used here; naturally, when one part of Israel fights another, one or the other must be defeated. The United States has never lost a war; and the only nations which have defeated Britain were themselves of Israel descent.

Notice these marks carefully! Note number eight, which predicted the separation of the United States from England. Can� you doubt that the modern Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Celtic nations; the United States and the British Commonwealth, are today fulfilling each and every one of the prophecies made about present-day Israel? One of these marks might mean nothing; eight are strong evidence; one hundred and one (and that is not all of them, its just all we can find at the present time) as given in our book �In Search of Isaac�s Children� are overwhelming proof! Yet even these are not all the marks, there are many others direct form the Scriptures which are definite in their description of Israel in the world today!

This is important to you, tremendously important. Be not hasty in your judgment. Let the overwhelming evidence prove to you that the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic, Nordic, Slavic and kindred peoples of today are the Israelites; and that their nations form the nation of Israel. Then if you are not of Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic and kindred people you are an Israelites; or if you are not, but are a Christian, then you are an Israelite by adoption! You are one of God�s Chosen Race; the Bible gives the story of your ancestors and, importantly, the Bible shows the present, predicts the future and declares the coming greatness of the Israel Kingdom. The Bible is, in fact, your pattern of history!

We have heard sermons by� Judeo-Christian preachers, one in particular, which would have you believe that the Blacks, Jews, Mexicans and all the other races are God�s Chosen people;� who were crying out that there is no Chosen Race, or People. This is a damnable, and provable lie. There is a Chosen Race and People in the Scriptures. The following very clearly shows this, and there are many more that I could have listed, but these should suffice.

Chosen People:

�For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: but because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers...� [86]

My People Israel:

�Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying, To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me. And when Samuel saw Saul, the LORD said unto him, behold the man whom I spake to thee of this same shall reign over my people.� [87]

My Chosen:

�I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant.� [88]

I Have Chosen:

�But thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend. Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, thou art my servant I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away. Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all they that were incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing; and they that strive with thee shall perish. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought. 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, saith the Lord, and thy redeemer, the holy one of Israel.� [89]

Thou Art My Servant:

�Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, thou art my servant I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.� [90]

His Chosen Ones:

�O ye seed of Israel his servant, ye children of Jacob, his chosen ones.� .[91]

The People whom God has Chosen for His Inheritance:

�Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.� [92]

I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.

�But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine...For I am the LORD thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.� [93]

God chose Abraham alone.

�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: for I called him (Abraham) alone, and blessed him, and increased him.� [94]

Pay close attention to �ye that follow after righteousness, ye� that seek the Lord.� This shows you that those who follow or seek righteousness, and that seek the Lord; are the House of Jacob and not some alien race. This is very important, yet the Judeo-Christian Clergy will not preach on this, nor explain it to their congregations.

Follow: Strong�s Concordance: #7291� radaph (raw‑daf'); a primitive root; to run after (usually with hostile intent; figuratively [of time] gone by): KJV ‑‑ chase, put to flight, follow (after, on), hunt, (be under) persecute (‑ion, ‑or), pursue (‑r).

Follow: Brown-Driver-Briggs� Definition: #7291� radaph‑to be behind, to follow after, to pursue, to persecute, to run after

a) (Qal)

1) to pursue, to put to flight, to chase, to dog, to attend closely upon

2) to persecute, to harass (figurative)

3) to follow after, to aim to secure (figurative)

4) to run after (a bribe) (figurative)

b) (Niphal)

1) to be pursued

2) one pursued (participle)

c) (Piel) to pursue ardently, to aim eagerly to secure, to pursue

d) (Pual) to be pursued, to be chased away

e) (Hiphil) to pursue, to chase

��������������������������������������� Pockets of Israel

Be certain you understand the meaning of Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic, Nordic, Slavic, descent. It does not necessarily mean that your ancestors must have come from the British Isles. As you saw, the forefathers of the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic peoples spread slowly across Europe, starting from Asia Minor. Many of them stopped on the way, forming �pockets� of Israel in Europe. The general characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic type are easy to recognize; and such types can be found in every European country today. Russia, Poland, the Balkan countries, Italy, France, Germany, all have recognizable vestiges of the great migration. Switzerland is predominantly Anglo-Saxon-Celtic. So are the Scandinavian Countries.

Most of the tribes of Israel worked their way across Europe and into the British Isles. Part then went into America. But all Americans did not come from Britain. Many another country has contributed some of her finest stock. In particular, wherever men have loved liberty, and wherever that liberty has been denied them, from that place have come immigrants to America. The love of liberty is an Anglo-Saxon trait, and the Bible shows us that it was also a trait of ancient Israel.

�Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.� [95]

It may well be, then, that you as an American are of Anglo-Saxon, Germanic origin; even though your ancestors never went to the British Isles; they may have remained behind on the Continent during the great migration, and from there come directly to America. That they came to America at all, especially if they came because of religious or political persecution at home, is in itself indicative that they may have been part of the pocket of Israel in their homeland. If you have the inclinations and ideals which have made America, England and Canada great today, no matter in what country your immediate forefathers were born, it may well be that in your ancestry you are derived from one of the lost tribes of Israel.

��������������������������������������� Christ and Israel

There is more to be said here to prevent a grave misunderstanding. The Bible is clear in the fact that Israel was chosen; set apart by God as His own people to administer His Laws, Statutes and Judgments and set an example for the world to follow. You may object that Christ is for all men; that acceptance of Him entitles any man or woman to his or her place in the Kingdom of God. This is absolutely true. Whether you are of Israel descent or not, so long as you are a Christian (which means one who follows Christ) you have Christ�s Great Promise held out to you.

Christian: Strong�s Concordance: #5546 Christianos (khris‑ tee‑an‑os'); from 5547; a Christian, i.e. follower of Christ: KJV ‑‑ Christian.

Christian: Thayer�s Definition: #5546� Christianos‑a Christian, a follower of Christ

Thus the lack of racial descent from the Israel stock is no barrier to the person who has accepted Christ as their Savior. Rather, that acceptance guarantees any individual his right to inherit with Israel. But, by the same token, one must show that they are truly followers of Christ by their works.

�If ye love me, keep my commandments.� [96]

This in no way affects the fact of Israel being the chosen people; as we said before, the Chosen were not selected to be God�s� favorites, they were chosen to be His servants. They were to demonstrate in their national life the benefits that come to any people who perform God�s will in order that all peoples might see these benefits; be convinced, and follow Israel�s example.

You wonder; you look at the many black pages of America�s and Britain�s history and say �Surely these people have not always performed God�s will!� You are correct. The Israel nations, in many respects, have broken and are continuing to ignore the laws laid down by God.

But you will notice that, in spite of many previous instances of this disregard of God�s will, the Israel nations have on the whole become more and more enlightened; become more and more just, become more and more according tot he pattern God has laid down for them. Therefore the United States of America and the British Commonwealth of Nations have on the whole prospered. It has only been since 1948, when the United States and Britain began worshiping the Jews, in stead of Almighty God, that they have began receiving the curses listed in Deuteronomy.

You will remember that this is according to the cotenant God made with Israel at Mt. Sinai. When Israel followed the Divine Law, Israel was to prosper; when Israel blackslid, Israel was to suffer. America and Great Britain have grown great in spite of the times they have broken God�s Laws, and because of the times they have kept it. If they had always followed the Divine Laws, imagine how much greater they would be today!

������������������ How The Bible Reveals The Future

We have told you that the Bible is your pattern of history, assuming you are an Israelite. It shows for your nation what has been and what will be. The past is interesting, particularly since it furnishes the proof of who Israel is today; but the future is of far more importance. And now, you would probably like to know just what that future is and where it is described.

The future of Israel and the Israelites, and through them the future of the entire world; your future, is shown in the prophecies of the Bible. Here perhaps it will be wise to assume again that yours is a nodding acquaintance with the Bible, and explain just what the prophecies are.

The last sixteen books of the Old Testament, beginning with Isaiah and ending with Malachi (but excluding the Lamentations of Jeremiah) are almost entirely prophetic. For this reason, they are usually called the books of the prophets. The Book of Psalms is also frequently prophetic in character. The Book of Revelation; the last in the Bible, is entirely prophecy. And, scattered throughout the other books of the Bible are many individual passages of prophetic utterances.

These prophecies are events which God Himself has promised will occur, transmitted to our race through prophets inspired by Him. This the Bible tells us time and again. Sometimes the prophets received their knowledge from the Words of God; more often, through prophetic visions in which they were allowed to see actual events of the future as they were to occur. [97]

Does this idea of men actually seeing future events astound you? It is one of the most easily demonstrated truths in the Bible! For, if you read the prophecies with care, you will see that the prophets have described many things which we of today recognize; but which did not exist until centuries after the prophecies were written!

For example, the Prophet Daniel describes this scene: �I see winged things passing overhead, pouring down desolation upon the people below.� [98]

The New American Standard renders it this way: �And he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations {will come} one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate. "

Have you any doubt, with your present knowledge of aircraft, about what Daniel actually saw? There has been nothing in all history which could possibly be described as �winged things� ... �pouring down desolation� except modern bombers in the midst of an air raid.

The prophet Joel likewise witnessed the devastation of horsemen as they whirled and turned and dived. He heard the deafening roar of their exhausts and exclaims: �A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them. The appearance of them is as the appearance of horses; and as horsemen, so shall they run. Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array. Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.� [99]

One, therefore, could render these verses as:

Before them a fire consumes;

And after them bright flames are blazing!

The land like a Garden of Eden before,

And after, a desolate desert!

And there is no refuge against them.

What terrible horsemen they seem.

Like chariots onward fierce rushing

with a crash on the top of the mountains.

They crackle like roaring of flame,

Like fire devouring the stubble.

Like a powerful army when charging in war

The Nations before them all quiver,

���������������������������� All faces before them are livid. [100]

Remember, Joel lived approximately 2,700 years ago. He could describe machines he saw in his vision only in terms of things he himself knew; and to him, of course, any vehicle in which men rode was a chariot. Certainly his description of the effect of an air raid is clearly recognizable.

There are many other such evidences that the prophets actually did see machines and other things in their visions which had no existence at the time they lived. Gunpowder, for example, is described; so are tanks. Read the prophecies for yourself; you will soon be convinced that the prophets were Divinely inspired.

The prophets do not concern themselves much with the details of future history until a certain time in world affairs is reached. Then, for that time, the Bible gives copious details of what is to occur; and the events described are certainly tremendous.

The time these events are so fully described is the time toward which the whole Bible is pointed. It is the time of fulfillment of the Bible�s greatest promises; to Israel, and through Israel, to all the world.

When is this time of fulfillment? The Bible gives many distinguishing marks, so that men shall know when the time has come. And the answer to the question of �When� is; during the lifetime of the generation following the close of World War II.

Every indication in the Bible points to the fact that you are now living in the years when the greatest Biblical prophecies are to be fulfilled. And these prophecies tell of events which will have powerful effects on your life, and on the life of every other person in the world.

Naturally, you want absolute proof of any statement so startling in its implications as this. All the proof would be impossible to present here without greatly expanding the size of this work. Later, we shall tell you where you may find it, but here we shall give you one important section of it.

According to the Bible, these prophecies are to be fulfilled within a 35-year period after the end of the war in which Israel recaptures the Holy City; Jerusalem. [101] At the time this prophecy was made, Jerusalem was under the domination of a non-Israel nation. [102] Nations other than Israel continued to hold Jerusalem, almost to the present time. But the prophecy of the return of the Holy City to Israel�s control was exactly fulfilled on December 11, 1917, when General Allenby and the British Army; of modern Israel, captured Jerusalem from the Turks. World War I was, therefore, the period during which, as predicted in the Bible, Jerusalem was to be freed from the domination of the Turks.

���������������������������������������������� Tomorrow

What are these events? Where can one find out about them? The answer lies in your Bible. The prophecies tell you everything that anyone knows about the immediate, tremendous future. And you already know the key fact to be remembered in studying the prophecies; the real identity of Israel. This is the key fact because the prophecies were written about and for Israel. A wrong identification of Israel makes understanding of the prophecies impossible. Identify Israel with the Church, or the Jews, or anyone but the true people, and the prophecies are absolutely meaningless; identify Israel with the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian, Celtic, Nordic, Slavic and kindred peoples, and the prophecies take on an overwhelming and immediate significance. In itself, this is clear proof of who Israel is today.

Corroborative evidence is furnished in that remarkable monument of which Isaiah speaks in the following terms: �In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the Lord. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt.� [103]

There is only one building upon the face of the earth which complies with all these requirements. It is the Great Pyramid of Gizeh; a study of which has revealed it to be the literal witness and confirmation of the story the Bible tells; a scientific demonstration of the accuracy of Scriptural prophecy and chronological evidence of the identity of the race of the Book.

By all means, if you find it possible, study your own bible and discover for yourself the facts about the future. It is a task you will find most thoroughly worth all the time and effort you give it. But you should know; it is a task, it does take time and effort, more, usually, than most people can or will give it today.