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ISRAEL'S FINGERPRINTS
By
Bertrand L. Comparet
The Bible is written to Yahweh's people Israel. The common misconception, that the Jews are all that
remains of Israel, makes the Bible seem false to those who hold this mistaken
view. It is just as if you took a good history of the United States and wherever
it said United States, you wrote in its place China. As a history of China it is
clearly false, but applied to the right nation it is true. When the police have
the fingerprints of a wanted man, they know the man whose prints match those
they have is the one they seek. Likewise, when we find the people to whom all of
Yahweh's promises to Israel have been fulfilled, we have found Israel.
Today, the Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian nations have Israel's
fingerprints in every detail.
Yahweh first made His great promises to Abraham and
repeated them to Abraham's son Isaac, and grandson Jacob, whose name Yahweh
changed to Israel, "A Prince, ruling with God". Israel had 12 sons.
The descendants of each son became a tribe, so that all the descendants of Dan
became the tribe of Dan, the descendants of Judah, the tribe of Judah and so on.
After their long captivity in Egypt, they became one nation of 12 tribes, which
continued until Solomon's death. Then the 10 northern tribes revolted and set up
their own kingdom keeping the name Israel, while the old southern two tribed
nation was called Judah. Thereafter their histories are recorded separately in
the books of Kings and Chronicles, which like the prophets, carefully
distinguish between them.
About 715 B.C., Israel was captured by Assyria and
deported to the lands around the south end of the Caspian Sea never to return to
Palestine. The Authorized Version of the Bible doesn't record their further history,
but the prophets continued for several centuries to give further prophecies
of Israel's great future. The Apocrypha II Esdras 13:39-45, records
their migration as far as the Sereth river, a northern tributary of the Danube
in Rumania. Other historians of the time record their migration into northern
and western Europe and the British Isles.
Over a century later Judah was deported to Babylon, not
Assyria, for 70 years as Jeremiah had prophesied. Afterwards, some of them came
back to Palestine. Neither Bible nor secular history records any destruction of
Israel. To the contrary, it was well known in Yahshua's time that they existed
in great numbers elsewhere. Yahshua spoke of their continued existence separate
from the Jews, in Matthew 10:5-6, 23. The complete destruction of the
Jewish nation by the Romans and their subsequent troubles as outcasts in every
nation, are not a failure of the prophecies and promises to Israel, but very
accurate fulfillment of the prophecies about the nation of the Jews. With this
history in mind, let us examine the prophecies and promises to Israel. Yahweh's
promises to Abraham were unconditional. Yahweh must fulfill them or break
His word for He said, "I will make of thee a great nation; thou shalt
be a father of many nations: And
I will establish My covenant between Me and thee and thy
seed after thee in their generations, for an everlasting covenant.
Thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies." Yahweh did not say
He would do this if or perhaps, they were unconditional promises
and had nothing to do with obeying the law.
These covenants were repeated unconditionally to
Isaac in Genesis chapter 28:13-15 & 35:11. They were repeated, unconditionally
to Israel, to whom Yahweh also said, "Thou shall spread abroad to the west
and to the east and to the north and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed
shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of
thee".
There can be no evasion of these promises and Yahweh
always honored them even when the children of Israel worshiped the golden calf.
In many places the New Testament recognizes these promises as being still in
force. In Romans chapter 11 Paul states, "I say then, hath Yahweh
cast away His people? God forbid!! * * Yahweh hath not cast away His people
which He foreknew." In Romans 9:4 Paul states, "Who are Israelites:
to whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory and the covenants
and the giving of the law and the services of God and the promises: whose
are the fathers. Now I say that Yahshua was a minister of the
circumcision for the truth of Yahweh, to confirm the promises made unto the
fathers," If these promises are false, then the Bible is false.
But if they have been fulfilled, the people to whom they were
fulfilled are identified as Israel.
In Hosea 1:10 Yahweh revealed Israel would become
the sons of Yahweh. They would accept Christianity saying, "Yet the number
of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be
measured or numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was
said unto them Ye are not My people (Gentiles), there it shall be said unto
them, Ye are the sons of the living God." Of this Galatians 4:4-5
tells us, "But when the fullness of time was come, Yahweh sent forth His
Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the
law, that we might receive the adoption of sons." These cannot
be Gentiles, for Romans 9:4 tells us that the adoption pertains to
the Israelites. Therefore, we must look for the Israelites among the
Christians. The Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian countries have fulfilled the
prophecies and promises to Israel!
(1) They are
Christians and
have been from early times.
(2) They are
a nation and a company of nations. The United States is the largest civilized nation in the
world. The British commonwealth of nations is legally a company of nations. The
Scandinavian nations, all of the same blood, can be identified by their history
and their heraldry as the tribes of Dan, Benjamin and Issachar.
(3) They are
very numerous.
In the last two centuries, the United States increased from a mere handful to
about 250,000,000 people. In the last 3 centuries, the British Empire increased
from 5,000,000 to over 70,000,000 Anglo-Saxons.
(4) They
expanded in colonies in all directions, as Yahweh prophesied in Genesis 28:14, Deut.
32:8, Isaiah 54:2-3, etc. Their lands are on every continent and in
every sea. No other nations had such colonies.
(5) They
possess the desolate heritages of the earth, as Yahweh prophesied.
In Isaiah 49:8 it is recorded, "Thus saith Yahweh; in an acceptable
time have I heard thee and give thee for a covenant for the people, to establish
the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages." Who else has so
successfully developed the waste places, which were desolate when they first
occupied them?
(6) They are
a seagoing people.
Yahweh said of Israel, "His seed shall be in many waters." Numbers
24:7. "I will set his hand
also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers." Psalm 89:25. The
two greatest navies belong to the United States and Great Britain. The three
greatest Merchant Marines belong to these two and Norway. (Note: This was
written before the U.S. destroyed their Merchant Marine.)
(7) They
possess the gates of their enemies. Clearly Genesis 22:17 refers to the gateways of
hostile nations, the great waterways of the world. The two great Anglo-Saxon
nations alone have power to close every important gate in the world, and have
done it in two world wars.
(8) They
maintain the continuity of the throne of David.
It has been proven that all the kings of England, Ireland and Scotland are
descendants of King David of Israel; fulfilling the prophecy that David shall
never lack a man to reign over the house of Israel.
Time allows me to give only a very few of the many
prophecies about Israel which have been fulfilled by the Anglo Saxon
and Scandinavian people and by no others. At least 100 of them have been
found. When you consider that there are more than 100 recognized nations, the
mathematical odds against all of these being fulfilled by just one small group
of nations, all of the same blood is billions to one. Obviously the Anglo
Saxons are the Israel of today.
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