Your Heritage
Much is heard in this day of the word ANTI‑ SEMITIC The word is a creation of the modern Pharisees who are anti‑Christian. The purpose of the creation was to "smear" or blacken the name or reputation of Christians seeking to protect and defend their faith from the onslaughts of those who would destroy it.
The word "Semitic" is derived from the patriarch Shem, and is correctly applied to people descended from him. All true Israelites (NOT Jews, as this booklet shows) are therefore Semites; and today these are the great White Christian nations of the Western World. The Jews are not Semitic at all, as their Canaanite and Khazar ancestors were not descendants of Shem. Their smear accusation "anti‑Semitic" against all who oppose Jewish seizure of Palestine is, therefore, false. (Indeed, the Arabs; who are half Semitic, can truthfully accuse the Jews of anti‑ Semitism!)
That fact is quite obvious. It has been said that Communism seeks to make black; white, and white, black. The word anti‑Semitic is just one example of such mis‑use and intended opposite meaning, in an effort to attach an ill‑sounding term which should be self‑applied, to him or them who are actually quite the opposite in viewpoint.
It is one purpose of this study to bring to the reader accurate Biblical and historic proof of the error applied in the use of the term anti‑Semitic.
It is hoped that much confusion, purposely created as camouflage, will be clarified in the minds of Christians by the careful reading and study of the material so excellently presented by the author.
The Bible is written about, and addressed to, God's people, "Israel." It is the history of their past, the prophecy of their future, the law of their relation to their God, and the promise of God's eternal care of them.
The common misconception, that "the Jews are Israel, or all that remains of them," has made the Bible meaningless, and most of it apparently false, to those who hold this mistaken belief. It is just as though you took a good history of the United States, but wherever the name "United States" appeared therein, you erased it and wrote "China" in its place. As a history of China, it would be obviously false; but if you applied it to the right nation, it would be clearly true.
The Bible's history of Israel's past is known to be accurate; and its prophecies of Israel's future have been fulfilled in every detail, down to the present day. When the police have the fingerprints of a wanted man, they know that the man whose fingerprints match those they have is the man they seek. Likewise, when we find the people to whom God has fulfilled all of His promises and prophecies to Israel, we have found Israel! Today, the Anglo‑Saxon‑Scandinavian and Germanic nations have Israel's finger‑prints in every detail.
When we realize that WE ARE ISRAEL, the Bible becomes full of meaning for us: it is our history, it contains God's promises to us. It gives us courage to face the. terrible upheaval into which all the world is being drawn. If you will only read the Bible with an open mind, taking no man's word for it, but proving for yourself what the Bible says, then comparing that with what you know of present‑day history, you will see that WE are God's People Israel, and that, however terrible the trial ahead, we will be brought safely through it when we turn to God.
FIRST: Let us briefly review the ancient history of Israel. God
first made His promises of wonderful blessings to
Abram, changing his name to "Abraham," meaning "Father of
Nations." Note that this is in the plural ‑ nations.
God repeated His promises to Abraham's son, Isaac; and again
to Isaac's son Jacob, whose name God changed
to ''Israel,'' which means ''He will rule with God.''
Israel had twelve sons. The descendants of each son became in
time a Tribe, under its ancestor's name: thus, all
the descendants of Dan became the Tribe of Dan, all the
descendants of Benjamin became the Tribe of Benjamin,
etc. For many centuries, all members of all the twelve tribes
collectively were known as the "children" ‑ that is,
descendants of Israel. However, do not confuse this with the
later "House," or Kingdom, of Israel, about which I
will have more to say later.
��� Israel and his twelve sons, with their families, went into Egypt,
as you will remember; and after about 2 1/2
centuries, their descendants left Egypt in the Exodus, under the
leadership of Moses. For several generations they
were ruled by "Judges" appointed by God. Later, they unwisely
copied the customs of the surrounding nations and
demanded a King; so Saul became their first king, ruling the
twelve tribes as a single nation. This unified nation of
twelve tribes (like the United States of fifty states) continued
until the death of Solomon, in 975 BC., when it
broke into two nations, Israel and Judah.
1st Kings 11‑12 tell us how Solomon finally fell into idolatry,
mis‑governed the people and burdened them with
excessive taxes. (Yes, they babbled about "New Deals" and
"Great Societies" in those days, too!) When his son
Rehoboam succeeded Solomon as King, in 975 B.C., the weary
people petitioned him to ease their burdens; but
being vain and arrogant, and surrounded by a lot of "bright"
young Jewish advisors (even as today!), he threatened
to make their load heavier. The exasperated people of the ten
Northern tribes revolted, and set up their own.
independent kingdom under Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, which
is told in detail in 1st Kings, Chapters 11 and 12
and 2nd Chronicles 10 and 11. Rehoboam, the son of Solomon
had left in his Kingdom only the two Southern
tribes, Judah and Benjamin, with some of the Levites, who were
the priests: and this Southern Kingdom was
never thereafter known as "Israel," but only as the House (or
Kingdom) of Judah. The Northern, ten‑tribed
kingdom was thereafter called the House (or Kingdom) of Israel.
Just as the Southern kingdom Judah, took its
name from the Tribe of Judah. which was the ruling Tribe, so
also the Northern Kingdom of Israel was
sometimes called "Ephraim" in the prophecies, because the
Tribe of Ephraim was the most powerful tribe in it.
The histories and destinies of the two kingdoms were thereafter
separate: they engaged separately in foreign wars
and treaties, and were sometimes at war with each other, as the
Book of Kings and Chronicles record.
From the time of this separation, 975 B.C., the Bible very
carefully distinguished between the Southern, two tribed
nation of Judah and the Northern, ten‑tribed nation of Israel. This
distinction is kept clear, both in the historical
record of what is past and the prophetic record of what is to
come. It would take another volume to cover them
all; but for a few examples, see the following: the distinction is
made historically in 2nd Samuel 19:40‑43; 1st
Kings 14:19‑21; 15:1‑33; 16:2; 2nd Kings 3:1‑9; 2nd� Chronicles
16:1; 25:5‑10; and many others. The distinction
is kept clear in prophecies in Isaiah 7:1‑9; 11:12‑13; Jeremiah
:3:6‑18; 5:11; 11:10‑17; 13:11; 18:l‑6; 19:1‑13;
Ezekiel 37:16‑22; Daniel 9:7; Hosea 1:11; 4:15; 5:9‑15; Amos 1:1;
Micah 1:5; Zechariah 8:13; 10:6‑8; and many others.
Just as we must carefully distinguish between the two nations of
Israel and Judah, so also we must carefully
distinguish between the nation of Judah and the Jews.
Both Israel and Judah were carried into captivity ‑ but
separately, and at different times, by different conquerors,
and taken to different places. Israel was conquered by Assyria
between 740 and 721 BC., and by 715 BC. all of
its people had been deported and resettled in what we now
know as Armenia, northwestern Iran, and the region
near Baku, around the southern end of the Caspian Sea. The
Assyrians brought in other people and settled them
in Samaria, the southern half of Israel's old Palestinian land, to
which the people of Israel never returned. See 2nd
Kings 17. From this time onward, the historical parts of the
"authorized" or King James version of the Bible do not
record the further history of Israel; but in the Apocrypha, 2nd
Esdras 13:39‑46 records their further journey to
"Ar Sereth" (the valley of the River Sereth, a northern tributary
of the Danube River, in modern Romania, which
still bears the name Sereth.") At the conclusion of this
deportation of Israel from its Palestinian home, the Assyrian
king Sennacherib also invaded the southern kingdom of Judah
and captured all the smaller Cities in it, everything
except Jerusalem. The people of these smaller cities were
deported, along with the people of the northern
Kingdom of Israel. Sennacherib's own record of this invasion
says that he deported 200,150 people from the
southern Kingdom of Judah. 2nd Kings 18:13 and Isaiah 36:1
mention his capture of these cities. Thus the
Assyrian deportation of Israel included the entire population of
the northern Kingdom of Israel and a considerable
representative share of the southern Kingdom of Judah. From
this time on, these people became the so‑called
"Lost Ten Tribes of Israel." (As we shall see, God took good care
of them, as he had promised, and you who are
reading this are among their descendants.)
The Kingdom of Judah on the other hand, did not go into
captivity until 606 to 585 BC., and was conquered by
Babylon, not Assyria. They were deported to the City of Babylon
and settled nearby, a little south of Baghdad, in
what is now southern Iraq.
Not quite all of them were deported, a
few of the poor being left behind to cultivate
the land, and no other people were brought in to settle the land.
(See 2nd Kings 24‑25.) This Babylonian captivity
of Judah lasted 70 years, as had been prophesied by Jeremiah
20:4‑5; 25:11‑12; 29:10. After the fall of Babylon,
King Cyrus allowed all who wished to return to Palestine,
beginning in 536 B.C., (See 2nd Chronicles 36:20‑23.)
Ezra 1‑2 records that only 42,360 returned, and their descendants
(who have never been called "Jews" until their
Babylonian conquerors gave them that name) lived in Palestine,
until the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans
under Titus in A.D. 70. This reconstructed nation, sometimes
called "Jewish" was the "70 weeks" nation with the
evil destiny "to finish the transgression," prophesied in Daniel
9:24. In AD. 70, those who had survived the terrible
wars ceased to be a nation at all, and became scattered
wanderers in all lands.
There is not one word in either the Bible or secular history to
suggest that Israel either was destroyed or that they
went down to Babylon and joined Judah in the Babylonian
captivity; and the Jews themselves testify that the
genealogy of those who returned from Babylon shows no one
from any tribe but Judah, Benjamin, and Levi, the
members of the Kingdom of Judah. To the contrary, it was well
known at the beginning of the Christian era that
Israel THEN EXISTED IN GREAT NUMBERS: Josephus' great
history, "Antiquities of the jews" Book 11,
Chapter 5, speaks of them as "an immense multitude, beyond
the Euphrates River."
The prophetic parts of the
Bible still continue to prophecy the great future of Israel several
generations after they had vanished into the
Assyrian captivity: Isaiah prophesied until 698 BC., Jeremiah
until 588 B.C., Ezekiel to 574 B.C., and Daniel to
534 B.C. Jesus Christ was well aware of the existence of Israel,
separate and apart from Judah and the Jews; see
Matthew 10:5‑6. Again, compare John 7:35; 11:49‑52, which
cannot refer to Judah or the Jews, as the Jews
were not yet "dispersed" or "scattered abroad" and would not
be for another 40 years; only Israel was
"dispersed" out of its own land.
The complete and permanent destruction of the Jewish nation
by the Romans under Titus, and their subsequent
troubles as outcasts in every land, are not a failure of the
prophecies and promises to Israel, but an accurate
fulfillment of the prophecies about the Jews. With the history of
these nations in mind, let us examine God's
promises and prophecies about Israel in the Bible.
God's promises to Abraham were unconditional. God must fulfill
them or break His word. Consider what God
said, in Genesis 12:2; 13:16; 15:5; 17:3‑7, 19; and 22:16‑18:
"And
I will make of thee a great nation, and I will
bless thee and make thy name great: and thou shalt be a
blessing: And I will make thy seed as the dust of the
earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then
shall thy seed also be numbered. As for Me, behold,
My covenant is with thee, and 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 EVER‑LASTING COVENANT. Look
now toward heaven, and count the stars, if thou be able to
number them; and He said unto him, so shall thy seed
be. BY MYSELF HAVE I SWORN, saith the Lord . . . that in
blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will
multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand
which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess
the gate of his enemies."
God did not say that He would do this "IF" or "PERHAPS" ‑ these
were all UNCONDITIONAL promises.
Those promises which were made at Mt. Sinai on condition that
men should obey God's laws, were the promises
made through Moses, relating to health, prosperity, peace, etc.
The promises to Abraham were
UNCONDITIONAL and absolute; and in the New Testament, Paul
tells us that these "the law, which was 430
years after, cannot disannul, that It should make the promises of
none effect." (Galatians 3:17.) If the Bible is true,
if God's word is good, then these promises must be good.
God repeated these promises UNCONDITIONALLY to Isaac, in
Genesis 26:3‑5:
"Sojourn in this land and I
will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee and thy seed
I will give all these countries; and I WILL
PERFORM THE OATH WHICH I SWORE UNTO ABRAHAM, THY
FATHER. And I will make thy seed to
multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all of
these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations
of the earth be blessed."
Again, in the 28th, and 35th chapters of Genesis, GOD REPEATED HIS PROMISES,
UNCONDITIONALLY, to Jacob, Israel our ancestor;
"I am the
Lord God of Abraham, thy Father, and the God
of Isaac, the land wheren thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to
thy seed; and thy seed shall be as the dust of the
earth; and thou shalt 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. And
Behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all
places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this
land, FOR I WILL NOT LEAVE THEE UNTIL I
HAVE DONE THAT WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN TO THEE OF. Be
fruitful and multiply; a nation and A
COMPANY OF NATIONS shall be of thee, and kings shall come
out of thy loins."
There can't be any evasion of these promises; and God has
always honored them. Even when the children of
Israel worshiped the Golden Calf while Moses was on Mt. Sinai,
receiving the ten Commandments, God did not
destroy them, for the sake of these promises. (See Exodus
32:7‑14.) In many places, the New Testament
recognized these promises as being still in full effect; for
example, in Hebrews 6:13,17,
"For when God made a
promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, He
swore by Himself...Wherein God, being
willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the
immutability of His counsel, confirmed it with an
oath."
Again in Romans 11:1‑2; 9:4‑5; and 15:8 Paul tells us
"I
say then, Hath God cast away his people? God
forbid! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the
Tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away His
people which he foreknew...Who are Israelites, to whom
pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the
covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and
the promises; whose are the Fathers, and of
whom as concerning the flesh Christ...Now I say that Jesus
Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the
truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the fathers.
SO THESE ARE THE PROMISES OF GOD: IF THEY ARE FALSE,
THEN THE BIBLE IS FALSE: BUT
IF THEY HAVE BEEN FULFILLED, THEN THE PEOPLE TO WHOM
THEY WERE FULFILLED ARE
THEREBY IDENTIFIED AS ISRAEL. But the separate, and very
different prophecies relating to the Jews show
that the promises and prophecies to Israel had no reference to
the Jews. Let's look at a few of them.
ISRAEL WAS TO HAVE A CHANGE OF NAME, WHILE THE JEWS'
NAME WAS LEFT TO THEM AS
A CURSE. In Isaiah 65:13‑15, God tells the Jews:
"And ye shall
leave YOUR name FOR A CURSE TO MY
CHOSEN: FOR THE LORD GOD SHALL SLAY THEE, and CALL
HIS SERVANTS BY ANOTHER
NAME."
Who are God's servants? In many places God repeats
this:
"But thou, ISRAEL, are MY servant . . .
Thou art My servant: I have chosen thee, and not cast thee
away."
For example, see Isaiah 41:8‑10; 43:1, and
10; 44:1‑2, 21‑22; etc. This has been fulfilled, ISRAEL is no longer
called by its old name; but the Jews have
retained their name for "a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a
curse," as Jeremiah 24:9 says.
AGAIN, THE JEWS WERE TO BE KNOWN BY THEIR FACES.
Isaiah 3:9 says:
"THE SHOW OF THEIR
COUNTENANCE DOTH WITNESS AGAINST THEM, and they
declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.
Woe unto their soul! For they have rewarded evil unto
themselves."
To this day, the Jew is known by his face,
and even getting his nose bobbed can't always hide it: IT IS A
WITNESS AGAINST HIM; While Israelites are not
so marked.
ISRAEL WAS TO BECOME A GREAT NATION AND ALSO A
COMPANY OF NATIONS, AND TO
BE A NATION FOREVER, AND TO HAVE A KING FOREVER. See
Genesis 35:11; Jeremiah 31:35‑37;
33:17; Psalm 89:3‑4; Isaiah 9:7; Luke 1:32‑33; etc., which say,
"A
nation and a company of nations shall be of
thee...Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by
day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the
stars for a light by night...If those ordinances depart from
before Me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel
shall cease from being a nation before Me forever... For thus
saith the Lord; David shall never lack a man to sit
upon the throne of the House of Israel."
Since the sun, moon and
stars still shine, these promises must be still in
effect; and they cannot possibly apply to the Jews, who never
were "a company of nations" and who ceased to be
a nation at all in AD. 70. On the other hand, Israel has fulfilled all
of this, as we shall see.
GOD SAID THAT THE JEWS WERE TO BE DESTROYED AS A
NATION, AND TO BECOME
SCATTERED OUTCASTS IN ALL LANDS. In the 18th� Chapter of
Jeremiah, God used the parable of the
potter making a clay bottle on the potter's wheel; and on the first
trial, the bottle was spoiled; so the potter
mashed it back into a lump and tried again, and on the second
trial he made a perfect bottle. God said that He
would re‑make Israel into the kind of nation he wanted, just as
the potter had done with the soft clay. But in the
next chapter, Jeremiah 19, God told the prophet to get an
earthen bottle which had been burned hard, and to
assemble the elders and important men of Jerusalem. Then God
said;
"Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight
of the men that go with thee, and shall say to them, Thus saith
the Lord of hosts: Even so will I break this people
and this city, as one breaketh a potter's vessel that cannot be
made whole again."
Again in Jeremiah 15:4 and
24:29, God said of the Jews.
"And I will cause them to be
removed into all the kingdoms of the earth, because of
Manasseh, the son of Hezekiah, the King of Judah, for that which
he did in Jerusalem. And I will deliver them to
be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be
a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse,
in all the places whither I shall drive them."
In fulfillment of this,
after the 70 weeks (or 490 years) of Daniel 9:24
were completed, Titus the Roman General destroyed Jerusalem
in 70 A.D. The Jews were broken as a nation,
and have had no king of their own. In John 19:15 they spoke
truly. "we have no king but Caesar."
Israel was to become a very numerous people: besides the
many statements of this in Genesis chapters 13, 15,
22, 26, and 28, it is repeated in Hosea 1:10: "yet the children of
Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which
cannot be measured or numbered. The Jews on the other hand,
were to be reduced to a remnant.
In Ezekiel 5:11‑12 God said:
"Wherefore, as I live, said the Lord God,
Surely because thou hast defiled My sanctuary with
all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations,
therefore will I also diminish thee: neither shall Mine eyes
spare, neither will I have pity. A third part of thee shall die with
the pestilence, and with famine shall they be
consumed in the midst of thee; and a third shall fall by the sword
round about thee: and I will scatter a third part
into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them."
See
also Jeremiah 15:4‑9, etc. The total Jewish
population of the world is estimated to be about 16 million
people, today ‑ almost exactly what it was estimated to
be just before Hitler's completely MYTHICAL massacre of six
million Jews who were not killed at all. They are not so
prolific that in 20 years they could increase their numbers by
60%, as would have to be the case if the alleged
massacre was true. To conceal this fact, the Jews now seek to
falsify the records: you will remember that in our
1960 census, it was not permitted to ask anyone his religion, so
you couldn't find out that 5,000,000 of the
supposedly dead 6,000,000 had been illegally admitted to the
United States. But this 16 million is certainly NOT
"as the stars of the heaven or as the sand which is upon the
seashore" for numbers.
For another thing, ISRAEL WAS TO BECOME BLIND TO ITS
IDENTITY. In Romans 11:25, Paul
comments that "blindness in part is happened to Israel." This is
fulfillment of Isaiah 42:19‑20,
"Who is blind, but
my servant? Or deaf, as My messenger that I sent?...Seeing
many things, but thou observeth not: opening the
ears, but he heareth not."
You remember that God's servant is
Israel. The Jews, on the other hand, are not blind
to their identity: they know their origin and their history;
although they try to fool you into thinking that they are
Israel, and they generally have succeeded in this deception.
AGAIN, Israel WAS TO RECEIVE THE NEW COVENANT; CHRISTIANITY: Jeremiah 31:33 prophesied
�it, and in Hebrews 8:10 Paul quotes it in proof of this:
"But this
shall be the covenant that I will make with the
House of Israel: after those days, saith the Lord, I will put My law
in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts,
and I will be their God and they shall be My people."
Have the
Jews received the new covenant? Of course not?
As the beloved Apostle John said, in 1 John 2:23,
"Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father."
And in John 15:23, Jesus Christ Himself said,
"He that hateth ME
hateth My Father also."
The Jews DO NOT FULFILL ANY OF THE PRINCIPAL
PROPHECIES CONCERNING ISRAEL.
THEREFORE, THE JEWS ARE NOT ISRAEL.
DOES ISRAEL EXIST TODAY? OR HAS GOD VIOLATED ALL OF
HIS PROMISES?
YES, ISRAEL EXISTS TODAY: FOR THE ANGLO SAXON,
SCANDINAVIAN AND GERMANIC
PEOPLES HAVE RECEIVED THE FULFILLMENT OF GOD'S
PROMISES AND PROPHECIES.
FIRST: THEY ARE A GREAT NATION AND A COMPANY OF
NATIONS, ALL OF THE SAME RACE.
The United States is the largest civilized nation in the world; its
population is exceeded only by China, India, and
Russia; it is the richest, the most advanced, the most
benevolent in its policies, and has the greatest degree of
liberty of any large nation. Between the two world wars, the
former British Empire was officially reorganized into
the "British Commonwealth of Nations;" Canada and Australia
are independent nations. The Scandinavian and
Germanic nations are of the same blood, have largely the same
customs, and can be identified historically as the
peoples who furnished most of the population of the British Isles
and its colonies and the United States.
SECOND: THEY ARE VERY NUMEROUS, as the prophecies said
Israel would be. In the last two centuries,
the population of the United States has increased from a mere
handful to over 200,000,000 of whom about
150,000,000 are WHITE CHRISTIANS of
Anglo‑Saxon‑Scandinavian Germanic stock. In the last three
centuries, the population of the British Isles and their colonies of
Canada and Australia increased from about
5,000,000 to over 70,000,000 Anglo‑Saxons. The nations of
Germany, Austria, Holland, Denmark, Norway,
Sweden, and Finland add about 96,000,000 more. So the total
number of the
Anglo‑Saxon‑Scandinavian‑Germanic peoples is well over 300
million.
THIRD: THEY ARE A MARITIME PEOPLE, Of the descendants of
Israel, Numbers 24:7 prophecies: "His
seed shall be in many waters:" and Psalm 89:25 says: "I will set
his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in the
rivers." The world's greatest navies are those of the United
States and Britain: the greatest merchant marine fleets
are those of Britain, and Norway (and until recently, the United
States.)
FOURTH: THEY ARE THE GREATEST MILITARY POWERS.
Jeremiah 51:20 gives God's word:
"Thou art
my battleaxe and weapons of war: for WITH THEE will I break in
pieces the nations, and WITH THEE will I
destroy kingdoms."
Throughout history this has been true. A
century after being taken captive by Assyria, the
peoples of Israel (then generally known as Scythians) had bled
Assyria white by their constant warfare against it,
so that Assyria was an easy push‑over victory for the Medes and
Persians, just before they turned their attention
to Babylon. It was the Israel tribes on their march to Europe, as
the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, and Vandals who
crushed the Roman Empire. In 713, at Tours, Anglo‑Saxon Israel
destroyed the invading hordes of Muslins, Jews
and Moors. In the 13th Century they defeated the Tartar, Mongol,
"Jewish" Khazar hordes under Genghis Khan.
Later they conquered Turkey and Japan. Not without heavy cost;
for the promises of EASY Victory were made
through Moses and were conditional upon keeping the law. But
the promise of FINAL Victory to shatter the
enemy (even with heavy cost) is unconditional. This has been
fulfilled consistently to only one people, those whom
we identify as Anglo‑Saxon Israel.
FIFTH: "THEY POSSESS THE GATES OF THEIR ENEMIES." You
will remember that this was one of God's
promises we found in Genesis 22:17. Obviously, this doesn't
mean a wooden gate in some person's front yard,
but the "gateways" of hostile nations the great water‑ways of
the world. Consider the fact that the Anglo‑Saxon
nations, and THEY ALONE, have power to close EVERY
important water "gate" in the world. American and
British fleets based at Scotland, the Orkney Islands, Gibraltar,
Malta, Aden, Capetown, Australia, Singapore, the
Philippines, Hawaii, San Francisco and Puget Sound, Panama,
the Falkland Islands, Hampton Roads, and Iceland;
these dominate and can close the Skagerrak and Baltic Sea, the
North Sea, the English Channel, the Straits of
Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal, the Indian Ocean,
the waters around Southeast Asia and the East
Coast of Asia, the coasts of Africa and around the Cape of Good
Hope, the coasts of North and South America,
the Straits of Magellan and around Cape Horn, and all trade
routes across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian
Oceans. They have proved this by actually doing it in two world
wars.
SIXTH: THEY "POSSESS THE DESOLATE HERITAGES" OF THE
EARTH.
In Isaiah 49:8 God says:
"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."
No one else has so successfully developed the
colonies which were desolate when they first occupied
them. Compare what the United States has done in its
Southwestern States with Mexico, similar land, with fully as
great undeveloped riches, separated from us by only an
imaginary line. Compare British Africa with the African
colonies of all other nations and especially compare it with the
dismal savagery of the Negroes! Compare the
development of Palestine and Iraq while under British rule, with
Turkey, Arabia, Iran, etc.
SEVENTH: THEY HAVE EXPANDED IN COLONIES IN ALL
DIRECTIONS.
Deuteronomy 32:8 says:
��� "When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
when He separated the sons of Adam, He set the
bounds of the people according to the number of the children of
Israel."
Genesis 28:14 says,
"Thou shalt spread
abroad to the west, and to the cast, and to the north, and to the
south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed."
Isaiah 54:2‑3 tells us,
"Enlarge
the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the
curtains of habitation; 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 nations,
and make the desolate cities to be inhabited."
Their
colonies were established in every sea, in Europe, North and
South America, Africa, Australia‑New Zealand, and
Asia. Who else has ever had such colonies? All the ancient
empires were insignificant compared to this. Since we
have allowed the Jews to teach us to turn our backs on God, we
have unwisely abandoned our colonies; and the
chaos in the world today is largely a result of our failure to obey
God's commands to occupy and rule the
uncivilized peoples. However, even this was also prophetic
(though that is another subject.)
EIGHTH: THEY HAVE MAINTAINED THE CONTINUITY OF THE
THRONE OF DAVID.
David's
descendants continued on the throne in Jerusalem until King
Zedekiah was taken prisoner to Babylon, at which
time all his sons were slain. But the prophet Jeremiah took the
king's daughters, first to Egypt (as we read in
Jeremiah 43:6) and from there, by way of Spain to Ireland, where
Zedekiah's daughter, Tea Tephi, was married
to Eochaidh, the Heremon (or Chief King) of Ireland. Eochaidh
was a descendant of Zarah, one of the twin sons
of Judah, while David was a descendant of Pharez, the other
twin.
Killing all of Zedekiah's sons did not end the
dynasty, as it was established law in Israel ever since they first
entered Palestine, that when a man died leaving no
sons, his daughters received the entire inheritance. The two
king lines of the Tribe of Judah were united in this
marriage; and the lineage is clearly traced in the histories of
Ireland, Scotland, and England, unbroken down to the
present British Queen Elizabeth. Thus the prophecy that David's
descendants should always be on the throne over
an Israelite nation has been fulfilled ‑ and by the Anglo‑Saxon
nations ONLY.
This has covered but a tiny fraction of Biblical proof that the
Anglo‑Saxon‑Scandinavian, and Germanic people
are the Israel of the Bible. Scholars have found over 100
prophecies concerning Israel which have been fulfilled
by this one group of, people. When you consider that the United
Nations now recognizes over 100 member
nations, the odds against any one nation fulfilling the first of
these prophecies is obviously 100 to 1. The odds
against that same nation fulfilling both the first and second
prophecies again multiplies this by 100, making ten
thousand to one; and the odds against the same nation fulfilling
the first, second, and third prophecies becomes.
one million to one. Well, you figure it out; keep on multiplying by
100, even 50 more times. But even that isn't
all; a group of nations all the same blood have done this. Not a
random assortment, like China and Spain, or
Egypt and Brazil; but all of the same racial group. So this again
multiplies the odds. Do you think that this could
have happened by mere accident?
And if you do think that this was pure accident, then WHAT HAS
BECOME OF GOD'S PROPHECIES AND
PROMISES? Was he too ignorant to know that he couldn't make
good on His word, that all the things He had
promised to Israel never got there but were all taken by other
people? No, I don't think that God made any
failures or any mistakes. He promised and Prophesied many
things about Israel. They have all come to pass; and
they have all been made good to the same racial group of
nations.
There is also the other line of proof of the identity of these
people, by tracing historically their migration into
Europe, and from there Into their colonies. But that is another
subject, much longer than the one just covered.
��������� WHO ARE THE JEWS?
It is so tiresome to have to repeat over and over again who the Jews are. Because of the false teaching of the Judeo-Christian clergy; the belief that the Jews are God�s people, have been so ingrained in the peoples minds that it is hard to get them to slow down long enough to examine the question without the knee jerk response they have been so well taught, by the false teachers, preachers, ministers and etc. The identification of the Anglo‑Saxon‑Scandinavian Germanic
peoples as the surviving members of the peoples of
Israel, leaves us with two other questions to answer:
1). WHO ARE THE JEWS?
2). WAS JESUS CHRIST A JEW?
��� To answer these questions, we must first define what we mean
by "Jew." The muddled thinking of most people on
this subject is due to the fact that they never know just what
they do mean by "Jew" ‑ sometimes they mean a Jew
by religion, regardless of his race (for Negroes, Chinese and
Japanese have all been converted to Judaism); or
sometimes they mean a Jew by race, regardless' of his religion
(for example, Premier Ben Gurion of the Jewish
nation in Palestine is a Buddhist by religion, though a Jew by
race) ‑ and usually people don't know which of these
they do mean.
Since it can be answered quickest, let us first take the question;
was Jesus Christ a Jew by RELIGION? The
answer is clearly "NO." Jesus had the true religion of the Old
Testament, found in the Law and the prophets: and
He constantly rebuked the Jews for having abandoned this for
Judaism under the Babylonian Talmud (which in
His day was called "The Tradition of the Elders.") In Matthew
5:17‑18, he said:
"Think not that I am come to
destroy the Law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but
to fulfill; for verily I say unto you, till heaven and
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the
Law till all be fulfilled.�
Jesus constantly rebuked the Jews for their apostasy, for setting
aside the Laws of God in favor of the Tradition of
the Elders. This Talmudic Judaism was very different from the
religion which we find in the Old Testament. The
late Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Chief Rabbi of the United States,
expressed it so clearly that I cannot improve on his
words. He said:
"THE RETURN FROM BABYLON, AND THE
ADOPTION OF THE BABYLONIAN
TALMUD, MARKS THE END OF HEBREWISM, AND THE
BEGINNING OF JUDAISM."
Since the true religion of the Old Testament was the religion of
the real Hebrews (NOT JEWS), the learned Rabbi
was quite right in calling it "Hebrewism" and noting that it came
to its end when the Talmud (then called the
Tradition of the Elders) was adopted; and that this WAS THE
BEGINNING OF A NEW RELIGION ‑
"JUDAISM," (or BABYLONIANISM.)
So we read in Matthew 15:1‑9:
"Then came to Jesus Scribes and
Pharisees which were of Jerusalem, saying,
Why do Thy disciples transgress the Tradition of the Elders? For
they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
But he answered and said unto them Why do ye also transgress
the commandment of God by your Tradition? Ye
hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophecy of you, saying this people
draweth nigh unto Me with their mouth, and
honoreth Me with their lips; but their heart is far from Me. But in
vain do they worship Me, teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men."' (The same incident is found also
in Mark 7:5‑13).
In John 5:37‑46, Jesus told the
Jews:
"The Father Himself, which hath sent Me, hath borne
witness of...Search the Scriptures: for in them ye
think ye have eternal life; and it is they which testify of Me...For had ye believed Moses, ye would have
believed Me: for he wrote of Me."
Again, in John 8:54‑55, he
said:
"It is My Father that honoreth Me: of whom ye
��� say that He is your God: yet ye have not known Him."
In John
15:23, Jesus said:
"He that hateth Me hateth My
��� Father also."
In the 21st Chapter of Matthew, Jesus summed up
their position by saying that even the Tax
Collectors and the harlots could enter the Kingdom of God
before the Jews. Surely, Jesus Christ's entire ministry
was a complete demonstration that He was not a Jew by
RELIGION.
Was Jesus a Jew by RACE? To answer this, we must trace the
racial ancestry of both Jesus and the Jews. Jesus
Christ was a pure‑blooded member of the Tribe of Judah; and no
true Judahite was a Jew by race, as we shall
see. Jesus ancestry is given in both Matthew 1 and Luke 3. Both
of them show that He was a descendant of the
Patriarch Judah, through one of his twin son Pharez; by His
mother Mary, He came through the line of David, and
Nathan, the brother of Solomon, as traced in the 3rd� Chapter of
Luke. Jesus Christ was therefore a pureblooded
Israelite, of the Tribe of Judah as Paul says in Romans 9:4‑5.
Now, let us trace the racial descent of the Jews. First, let us note
that the Jews were not ‑ and are NOT ‑
Israelites. Yes, we know that you have been taught that "Jew" and
"Israelite" were the same thing; but no greater falsehood was ever
taught, as we shall see. Let us get the first proof
of this from Jesus Christ himself. He stated plainly, in Matthew
15:24:
�I am not sent but unto the Lost Sheep of
the House of Israel.�
Therefore, He was sent to those who were
of Israel; but not to others. Accordingly, when
he sent his 12 disciples out to preach His gospel, Matthew 10:5‑6
records that He told them this:
"Go not into the
way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye
not; but go rather to the Lost Sheep of the House
of Israel."
And He added,
"Ye shall NOT have gone over the
cities of Israel till the Son of man be come.�
(Matthew 10:23.)
They could have gone over all the cities of
Judea in a month; so it was obvious that the cities of
Israel, to which he referred were the cities of the so‑called Lost
Tribes who had already entered Europe in their
long migration. But take careful note of Jesus Christ's own
words: "I am not sent but unto the Lost Sheep of the
House of Israel." If the Jews were any part of Israel then they
would have been some of His sheep; but He says
that they are not.
In the 10th chapter of John, Jesus says:
"I am the good
shepherd, and KNOW MY SHEEP, AND AM
KNOWN OF MINE."
But he tells the Jews ; and it says "Jews,"
"But ye believe not, BECAUSE YE ARE
��� NOT OF MY SHEEP, as I said unto you. MY SHEEP HEAR MY
VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND
THEY FOLLOW ME."
Note carefully those words: He does NOT
say that the reason that the Jews are not His
sheep is that they don't believe, and that they could become His
sheep just by changing their minds: to the
contrary, He says that the reason they don't believe is that THEY
ARE NOT OF HIS SHEEP: He knows His
sheep, and knows that the Jews are not of His sheep.
Since the Jews are not any part of any Tribe of Israel, then WHO
ARE THE JEWS? Let's trace their ancestry.
We find that the true line of His people must be kept free from
mongrelization with the neighboring Canaanite
Accordingly, Genesis 24:3‑4 records that Abraham took great
pains to see that his son Isaac, should marry of
only a woman of his own people likewise Genesis 27:46 ‑28:1
records that Isaac also required that his son, Jacob
(the father of the Israelites) should also marry only within his
own race line. This law had been obeyed for several
centuries, to keep the race line pure. But one of the sons of
Israel, the patriarch Judah, father of the tribe of Judah,
violated it by marrying a Canaanite woman, who bore him 3
sons, of whom only one, Shelah, survived and left
descendants. (See Genesis 38:1‑5.)
This half‑breed, mongrel line
must be distinguished from Judah's
pure‑blooded descendants by his twin sons Pharez and Zarah.
Judah fathered Pharez and Zarah by his
daughter‑in‑law Tamar; although born out of wedlock, they were
of pure, Israel stock on both sides; and from
one of them, Pharez, Jesus Christ was descended. The
descendants of these twins are the real tribe of Judah.
The half‑breed son, Shelah, accompanied Judah into Egypt, and
in the following centuries left many descendants.
They were in the Exodus, and accompanied the armies of Israel
into the promised land. (See Genesis 46:12 and
Numbers 26:20).
However, they bred true to type: they were
half‑breed Canaanites, lacking the spiritual insight
which God gave to his own people, so they remained idolaters,
Baal‑worshipers, In 1st Chronicles 4:21, you will
find them referred to as "the House of Ashbea." "Ashbea" is a
corruption of "Ishbaal" ‑ "man of Baal" and shows
that they were still idolaters, unable to perceive the God of
Israel. So these Shelanites, half‑breeds, formed one of
the peoples of the land, who made up the Jews in the time of
Jesus Christ.
Another alien racial group who became part of the Jews were
the "mixed multitude" which Exodus 12:38 says left
Egypt along with the children of Israel The Hebrew word here
translated "mixed" is the word "EREB," meaning
half‑breed or mongrel. During the two centuries in Egypt, many
had violated the divine law against race‑mixing,
and these were the result.� During the Exodus, when the going
became hard in the wilderness, the Bible records that
this "mixed multitude" made a lot of trouble, and led some of the
Israelites into rebellion. (See Numbers 11:4‑6.)
This mongrelized group was still in the land after the return from
the Babylonian captivity; for we find them listed in
Nehemiah 13:3 as still in the land, and still a source of trouble.
They also were among the Jews in Christ's time.
Then there were the various Canaanite peoples who were still in
the land, chief of whom were the Jebusites, the
Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, and the Amorites When the
Israelites were about to enter the Promised Land,
God gave them specific instructions to completely drive out or
exterminate all of these Canaanites, saying:
"When
the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations
before thee, the Hittites, and the Gergashites, and the Amorites,
and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the
Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier
than thou; and when the Lord thy God shall deliver
them before thee: THOU SHALT SMITE THEM AND UTTERLY
DESTROY THEM; thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor show any mercy unto them...But of
the cities of these people which the Lord thy God
doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing
that breatheth: but thou shalt utterly destroy them;
namely, the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the
Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: as the
Lord thy God hath commanded thee." (See Numbers 33:50‑56; Deuteronomy 7:1‑6; 20:16‑18).
We know that it is fashionable among the "liberal" Judeo-Christian church members
of today to look down their noses at God, and
say, "I just can't believe in that cruel God of the Old Testament."
However, we think He will manage very well
without their belief. He always has a good reason for what He
does or tells us to do. The Bible never argues
with you about the reasons for its rules, it just states the rule:
but there is always a good reason, if you will look for
it, For about 2,000 years, the Canaanites had worshiped Baal and
Ishtar; the most immoral religion in the world,
with the possible exception of some Hindu religions even today.
Part of the worship of Baal and Ishtar consisted
of the compulsory prostitution of all the women. On certain
festival days of the year, all the women of the village
had to sit in the field outside the village gate: and any wandering
camel‑driver who came along could select the
woman of his choice, hand her the coin which she must pay
over to the temple, then take her aside and leave with
her his syphilis or gonorrhea, as the case might be. This
funneled into Palestine the venereal diseases of all western
Asia, Any Doctor can tell you that one infection of syphilis, not
cured, can produce degenerative changes in the
children for as many as four generations. But the Canaanites had
been replenishing the disease with new infections
every generation for 2,000 years; they were not physically,
mentally, morally, or spiritually fit to marry or even
associate with our people.
Therefore, God warned the Israelites
to exterminate them; if you do not, He warned
them, you will have "integration;" your children will grow up
with theirs as playmates, they will intermarry, until you
become as badly polluted as they are, and I will have to destroy
you as I am commanding you to destroy them.
But the Israelites are often soft‑hearted and soft‑headed. While
they did exterminate the people of Jericho and a
couple of other cities, the Bible records that they left most of the
others alive, merely making them pay a heavy
tribute tax. For example, the city of Jerusalem was inhabited by
the Jebusites at the time the Israelites came in.
The Bible records that the Jebusites were neither killed nor
driven out, but continued to live among the people of
the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin. (See Joshua 15:63; Judges
1:21,27‑35; and 19:10‑12; and 2nd Chronicles
8:7‑8).
Even after the people of the southern Kingdom of Judah
returned from the 70 years captivity in Babylon,
the Jebusites were still in the land, and some of the people were
intermarrying among them. (See Ezra 9:1‑2 and
Nehemiah 13:23‑29).
And the Bible records the same thing as to
the other Canaanite peoples, Further proof of
this is found in various places, such as Ezekiel 16:1‑3:
"Again
the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 'Son of
man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, and say thus�
saith the Lord God unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and
thy Nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite.
and thy mother an Hittite."
God could not have
said this truth‑fully to any real Israelites: BUT He was NOT
saying it to Israelites: He said it to the city of
Jerusalem and her people. 'They were in large part Canaanite
Jews: and they had gained power in the manner by
which Jews usually gain it: hence Jerusalem was becoming
more and more corrupt, as most of the prophets
record. They surrounded, and because the influential advisors
of, the Kings of Judah: just as today they surround
and are the principal advisors of our President, We find clear
proof of this in Isaiah 3:8‑9, where he says:
"For
Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongues
and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke
the eyes of His glory. THE SHOW OF THEIR COUNTENANCE
DOTH WITNESS AGAINST THEM; and
they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their
soul! For they have rewarded evil unto themselves."
Now in China, where their rulers were Chinese you couldn't say
that "the show of their countenance doth witness
against them" ‑ their faces would be just like those of the rest of
the Chinese; and in Sweden, where their ruling
class were Swedes, you couldn't say that their faces were
witness against them, for they had the same kind of
Swedish faces as the rest of the people had. But in Jerusalem,
the faces of the Canaanite‑Jebusite Jews identified
them, "were a witness against them."
The true Israelites were
not hook‑nosed. The ancient kings of Egypt,
Assyria, Babylon, and Persia were very vain about their military
conquests, and left carved stone monuments
telling how they captured this city and that one, killed so many
people and enslaved the others, etc.; and on these
monuments they usually had carved in the stone pictures of the
captive people.
Whenever they showed Israelites,
the faces had straight noses and were generally of Anglo‑Saxon
type; but when they showed Canaanites, the
faces were those of typical hook‑nosed Jews. Therefore, the
faces of the Canaanite‑Jebusite Jews who had
gained controlling power as merchants, bankers, advisors of the
King, the wealthy ruling class, identified them as
separate from the real Israelites ‑ "the show of their
countenance doth witness against them." They had brought
ruin upon the Kingdom of Judah. Now go back and read the
many places where Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel
condemn the wickedness which was found in Jerusalem; don't
you find the same conditions existing in New York,
Chicago, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C., where large
numbers of the same people have gained power
through their wealth?
��� So we find that there were still large numbers of Canaanites in
the land, "integrated" with the real Israelites and
��� Judahites, and bringing the lowering of standards which
integration always brings: look at the City of Washington,
��� DC. for example. Besides the Jebusites in Jerusalem, the Bible
records that the other Canaanite peoples ‑ the
��� Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, and the Amorites ‑were not
exterminated or driven out, but merely conquered
��� and made to pay a tribute tax, and left in the land to be
integrated with the people and corrupt them. So these
��� Canaanites were another element of the Jews in the time of
Jesus Christ.
��� You will remember that when the people of Israel left Egypt,
they were accompanied by a "mixed" ‑ mongrel
��� multitude. The same is true of the return of the remnant of the
people of the Kingdom of Judah from their captivity
��� in Babylon. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah record the return.
They show that the total number who returned
��� was 42,360; but they also show that among these were many
who were not Israelites of any tribe; they were
��� Babylonians who had come with them, in order to "get in on the
ground floor" as the saying is; and they had even
��� infiltrated into the priesthood. But it says that "these sought their
register among those that were reckoned by
��� genealogy, but they were not found:" When you add up the total
of all these other elements listed in Ezra and
��� Nehemiah, they equal 8,381 of these alien Babylonians ‑ about
1/5 of all the people who returned from Babylon
��� to Palestine. So they also formed another element of the Jews in
the land of Jesus Christ's time.
��� One more, and we complete the list; that is the Edomites. You
will remember that Esau and Jacob were twin
��� brothers; but Esau was a man of such low character that we
have God's own testimony, in Malachi 1:2‑3: "Was
��� not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: Yet I loved Jacob, and
I hated Esau." Jacob kept the race‑line pure,
��� and God changed his name to Israel and made him the father of
God's own chosen people, Israel. But Esau
��� married two Canaanite wives and one Ishmaelite wife, and left
only half‑breed, mongrel children. (See Genesis
��� 26:34‑35; 27:46; and 36:2.) As his mongrel descendants could
not marry into the true Semitic line, he moved out
��� from among them, and went down to Mount Seir, the rugged
range of mountains south‑east of the Dead Sea, and
��� this land was called "Edom" (or occasionally by the Grecianized
form of the word, "Idumea"); thereafter, his
��� descendants were called "Edomites." (See Genesis 33:16 and
Genesis 36:1‑9.) There they had a long and
��� troublesome history. Esau's grandson was Amalek, father of the
Tribe of Amalek, who were such an evil lot that,
��� in Exodus 17:14‑16, God said that He would have perpetual war
with Amalek until they were all destroyed. The
��� Edomites constantly harassed the southern portion of Israel until
King Saul beat them off, about 1087 BC. But
��� Saul disobeyed God's command to EXTERMINATE them, and for
this disobedience, God deposed him as king,
��� in favor of David. See 1st Samuel 15:1‑26. But even David didn't
exterminate them, and there was a long history
��� of wars between Edom and Israel (later with Judah.) (You will
find It in 2nd Kings, Chapters 8 and 14, and 2nd
��� Chronicles, Chapters 20 and 25.) The whole book of Obadiah is
devoted to God's condemnation of Edom's
��� treacherous attack upon the Kingdom of Judah when Judah was
being conquered by Babylon.
��� During the Babylonian captivity of Judah, the land lay practically
empty; and during this period, the people of
��� Edom, partly from opportunity and partly from pressure against
them from the east, moved into the vacant
��� southern half of the old Kingdom of Judah. (See article
"Edom,"in Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Bible
��� Dictionary, pages 198‑199, and Scribner's Dictionary of the Bible,
Vol. I, pages 644‑646. From this new area,
��� they continued to harass the little nation which returned from
Babylon. By about 142 BC. the returned exiles of
��� Judah won complete independence under the Maccabean line of
Kings; and about 120 BC. John Hyrcanus, one
��� of the Maccabean kings, conquered the Edomites. He, too,
instead of exterminating them, took them into his
��� kingdom, offering them full citizenship if they would give up
their paganism and adopt the religion of Judaism. This
��� they did, and from 120 BC. they were full citizens of the
kingdom. (See Josephus, "Antiquities of the Jews," Book
��� 13, Chapter 9, and see also The Jewish Encyclopedia, article
"Edom," Vol. V, page 41.)
��� By 69 BC. incompetent leadership and intrigue within the
Maccabean monarchy, together with the rising power of
��� Rome in western Asia, gave opportunity to Antipater (also called
Antipas), an Edomite chieftain, founder of the
��� Herodian family, to rise to power. By bribery, boldness, and
military skill, he gained the favor of Rome, and the
��� Romans made him Procurator (Governor) of Judea. His son,
Herod 1st, beginning as Governor of Galilee, used the
��� same methods to secure appointment as King of Judea in 40
BC.; and by 37 BC. he had gained complete control
��� of Judea. He maintained himself in power by extreme
ruthlessness and by bribery, for which he taxed the people
��� very heavily. (The New Deal, Raw Deal and Great Society are not
so new, after all!) This is the same Herod who
��� had all the little male children in Bethlehem murdered, trying to
murder Jesus Christ.
��� His son Herod Archelaus, held the Governorship (the Romans
didn't trust him with the crown) for ten years of
��� astonishingly evil misrule, from 4 BC. to 6 AD.; after which the
Romans convicted him of crimes and removed
���� him: and thereafter Judea was governed by Roman Procurators
(of whom Pontius Pilate was No. 6.)
��� Nevertheless, the Romans left practically complete power of
local government in the hands of the Herodian
��� Edomites, who had complete control of the Temple and power to
enforce all their local laws. (Remember how
��� Pontius Pilate tried to get out of condemning Jesus Christ,
telling the Jews: "Take YE Him, and judge Him
��� according to YOUR law." (John 18:31.)
��� These Edomite Jews could say that Abraham was an ancestor of
theirs, through Esau, as they did in John 8:33;
��� but this Hebrew blood through Esau had been diluted to the
vanishing point by 1700 years of marrying only
��� people of Canaanite racial stocks. Therefore, Jesus Christ
rebuked them for falsely claiming to be still of
��� Abrahamic (and therefore inferentially of Israelite) lineage, for
He told them, in John 8:44: "Ye are of your father
��� the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a
murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth
��� because there is no truth in him." You should very carefully
observe the 8th chapter of John, verses 31‑47. These
��� were Jews to whom Jesus was speaking, and the Bible
identifies them as Jews. In the Jewish Encyclopedia, the
��� article on Edom concludes with the words "The Edomites today
are found in modern Jewry."
Subject:
����� Your Heritage, Part 2 ‑By Bertrand L. Comparet
� Date:
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���������� �����By Bertrand L. Comparet
���� WAS JESUS CHRIST A JEW?
��� Now, let us review for a moment what we have covered. We
have seen that Jesus Christ was NOT a Jew by
��� religion, for the Jews based their religion on the Babylonian
Talmud, which was at that time called "The Tradition
��� of the Elders," and Jesus Christ's whole ministry was one
constant battle against the evils of Judaism. We have
��� seen that Jesus Christ was a TRUE ISRAELITE, of the Tribe of
Judah, BY RACE. And we have seen that the
��� Jews of His time included the mongrel descendants of Shelah,
the mongrel "mixed multitude" which followed the
��� Israelites out of Egypt, the various Cananite peoples in
Palestine, including the Jebusites, the Hittites, the Hivites,
��� the Perizzites and the Amorites, NOW do you understand why
Jesus Christ, who said that He was sent only to
��� "the lost sheep of the House of Israel" told the Jews that "I know
My sheep, and they know Me. BUT YE (the
��� Jews) BELIEVE NOT BECAUSE YE ARE NOT OF MY SHEEP, AS I
SAID UNTO YOU. MY SHEEP
��� HEAR MY VOICE, AND I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME"
in the 10th chapter of John?
��� The tiny remnant of Judah and Benjamin which came back to
Palestine from the Babylonian Captivity did leave
��� some descendants in Palestine; but THESE were Jesus Christ's
sheep, and He himself said He knew them, they
��� knew Him, and they followed Him. All those in Palestine who
became Christians were true members of the Tribe
��� of Judah or the Tribe of Benjamin, but they were NOT Jews. And
the Jews were not members of Judah,
��� Benjamin, or any other Israelite tribe, for Jesus Christ Himself
said they were NOT of his sheep.
��� Now we know who it was who constituted the Jews in Jesus
Christ's time. If you want to bring it down to date,
��� and find out who are the Jews in our own day, we must add one
more racial element. Of course, the descendants
��� of the Jews of Jesus Christ's day are among them: but there is
also another element: the KHAZARS. These make
���� up the Slavic Jews of today.
��� Meanwhile, we must return to the Jews of Palestine for a few
words. As you know, by AD. 68, the Romans had
��� found the rascality of the Palestinian Jews so intolerable that
they began the campaign which resulted in the fall of
��� Jerusalem in AD. 70. The Jews were then expelled from
Palestine, and most of them migrated in large numbers to
��� what was then called Byzantium, later called Constantinople, and
today is known as Istanbul, facing the
��� Bosphorus, outlet of the Black Sea. Here, they again
demonstrated the truth of the Bible's lesson, that
��� CONDUCT IS THE PRODUCT OF CHARACTER: or in Jesus
Christ's own words, "Ye are of your father the
��� devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do." By about the year
300 AD. their rascality had again become so
��� intolerable that they were again expelled; and they moved
northeast, into the Khazar kingdom.
��� About the year 150 AD. the Khazars, an Asiatic people related to
the Turks, migrated westward from Central
��� Asia, and established a great empire which covered what is
today southwestern Russia, north of the Aral Sea, the
��� Caspian Sea, and the Black Sea, including the Don and Dnieper
Valleys and the Crimea. About 740 AD. Bulan,
��� the Kagan or King of the Khazars, was converted to the religion
of Judaism, together with some 4,000 of the
��� most powerful nobility of the kingdom. In those days, it was not
healthful for a subject to be in a religion in conflict
��� with that of the king or with the baron on whose land he lived; so
in due course, most of the Khazars became
��� Jews by religion. In fact, it became part of the kingdom's
constitution that no one but a Jew by religion could be
��� king. The principal languages spoken were the Khazar (called
"Yiddish" today) and Turkish. During the great
��� invasion by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, many of the
Judaized Khazars were dispersed into what is now
��� Poland and Lithuania. These Khazars, Jews by religion,
constitute the Slavic Jews of today, those with names
��� such as Minsky and Baranov and Moscowitz; (the latter often
shortened to "Mosk") also, since much of the
��� western part of this area has been at one time or another ruled
by Austrian or Germanic peoples who brought in
��� their own language, these Khazars also took Germanic names,
such as Gold or Goldberg, Rosenberg, Eisler, and
��� so forth. if you are wondering how they can be so much like the
other Jews, historical documents written at the
��� time the Khazar empire was at its greatest height refer to their
tradition that their ancestors originally came from
��� the region of Mt. Seir, which is Edom, the home of the Edomite
Jews.
��� If you wish to look up further details, you will find brief articles
on the Khazars in various encyclopedias such as
��� the Britannica, the Jewish Encyclopedia has 6 pages on it In
some it is spelled "Khazar" and in other Chazar and
��� even other variations. It is also discussed in "A History of the
Jews", by Solomon Grayzel, and "A History of the
��� Jews," by Prof. H. Graetz, both works being published by the
Jewish Publication Society of America. The most
��� thorough discussion of the whole problem is found in that
magnificent bit of historical research, "The Iron Curtain
���� Over America," by Col. John Beatty. Col Beatty is an Historian
and Professor of History, whose works are used
��� as text books in more than 700 colleges and universities. "Iron
Curtain Over America" is one of the most
��� thoroughly documented and accurate works ever put in print. It
should be in the library of every patriotic
��� American and good Christian.
��� Perhaps you are wondering, "Why does my Bible sometimes
speak well of the Jews? Such as Paul saying in
��� Romans that "the gospel of Christ . . . is the power of God unto
salvation to everyone that believeth; to the Jew
��� first, and also to the Greek:" and in Acts, Paul saying that he was
"a Jew of Tarsus.'' If you will look up these few
��� instances in a good concordance, such as Strong's you will find
that in each instance the translators have written
��� the word "Jew" in English, where it was not used in the original
Greek from which they MIS‑translated it. In such
��� instances, in the original Greek, the word used was "Ioudaios'
which does not mean "Jew," but simply a "Judean,"
��� a person whose home is in the land of Judea, or southern
Palestine. It has no religious connotation, and it has no
��� racial connotation either; it is purely a geographic term, like
"Californian." A "Californian" could be white, black,
��� brown or yellow by race; and he could be Christian, Jew,
Buddhist or atheist. So also a "Ioudaios" was merely a
��� person who lived in Judea, where, as we saw, there were some
few Israelites of the tribe of Judah and Benjamin;
��� but there were far more Canaanite Jews, and also a general
mixture of Romans, Greeks, Syrians, Egyptians, etc.
��� It is true that Christian salvation was first offered in the land of
Judea, hence to those who were living there, the
��� Ioudaios; and later, as the Apostles traveled from city to city; it
was soon offered to the Greeks. But it was never
��� offered to the Jews as a preferred class, for you will remember
that Jesus Christ taught only in
��� hard to understand parables when there were Jews around, and
explained them privately to His Disciples,
��� explaining that He spoke among the Jews ONLY in parables
"Lest at any time they should be converted, and their
��� sins should be forgiven them." Both Matthew 13:10‑15 and Mark
4:10‑12 record this. Jesus was taking great
��� pains to see that the Jews could not understand Christianity and
be converted. He was preaching only "to the lost
��� sheep of the House of Israel" the members of the Tribes of
Judah and Benjamin, which He said were his sheep,
��� who knew His voice, and followed Him. The Jews He rejected as
the children of "their father, the devil."
��� Now to sum it up; the Jews are not, and never were any part of
any tribe of Israel; they include various mixtures
��� of Egyptians, Babylonians and Canaanites, the Edomites, and
later the Khazars. Christ was a pure‑blooded
��� Israelite of the Tribe of Judah, without any Jewish ancestry; and
He was NOT a Jew by religion.
��� Now think this over carefully; the group of nations which we
loosely group under the term "Anglo Saxon,"
��� (including the people of the British Isles, the Scandinavian
nations, nearly all of Germany, Holland and some few
��� of the people of France and Belgium, with the closely‑related
people found in Austria, some of the Swiss, Czechs,
��� some of the Hungarians, North Italians, and Spanish, and their
descendants now living in the United States,
��� Canada, Australia, and South Africa) are the living descendants
of the Israel of the Bible, blood brothers of our
��� Saviour, Jesus Christ!
��� If you are descended from these, the true "people of the Book," ‑
"the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel" ‑
��� accept gladly the Salvation and Leadership of your Risen
Saviour and King, the Lord Jesus Christ. You are called
��� as Israelite Christians to stand up for righteousness and decency
in the home, the church, the community, the
��� nation, and the world, as Jesus directed, ". . . teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
��� you . . ." Don't you appreciate your Ancestry, your Salvation, and
your Calling? That truly is YOUR HERITAGE.
������ WHO ARE THE GENTILES?
��� It is unfortunate that most people have so many mistaken ideas
about their religion, due largely to the many
��� mistranslations of words in the commonly used King James
Version of the Bible. One of these mistaken ideas is
��� that most of the people of the United States and Western
Europe in fact, nearly all the Christians in the world
��� are "Gentiles". You hear many of them ‑ even clergymen, who
should know better say, "I'm just a Gentile, saved
��� by grace." I think it is high time that we learned something about
one of the most mis‑used words, "Gentile."
��� First, you might be surprised to know that there is no such word
in the Bible, in its original languages. Oh yes, I
��� know that you are now riffling the pages of your King James'
Version, looking for some of the many places you
��� will find "Gentile" in it. But I said that there is no such word in
the Bible IN ITS ORIGINAL LANGUAGES. The
��� word was put into it by translators, who changed the wording of
the Bible centuries after the last book in the Bible
��� was written. If you are a good Christian, you will surely agree
with me that what the prophets originally wrote in
��� the books which make up our Bible was inspired by God. It was
correct as the prophets wrote it. But not one of
��� them wrote in English, remember, because no such language as
English existed until many centuries after the
��� prophets lived. It was written in Hebrew, as to the Old
Testament; and the New Testament was originally written
��� in the language which Jesus Christ spoke, Aramaic, a Semitic
dialect somewhat similar to, but not the same as,
��� Hebrew. But Aramaic was not generally understood outside of
Western Asia; so when Christianity began to
��� spread into southern and southeastern Europe, the New
Testament had to be translated into a language which was
��� widely used in Europe. Greek served this purpose nicely, for it
was understood by well‑educated men over nearly
��� all of Europe. Therefore, the New Testament was first translated
into Greek. Protestant English language
��� translations of the Bible, today, are nearly all translated from
Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament and
��� Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. So, let's start at the
beginning, with the Old Testament.
��� The word "Gentile" is not even once used in any Hebrew
manuscript of the Old Testament, for the good reason
��� that there is no such word in Hebrew, nor any word which
corresponds to it. Everywhere you find the word
��� "Gentile" used in the Old Testament, it is a mistranslation of the
Hebrew word "Goi," which means "NATION".
��� The plural form of it is "GOYIM". Since it means "nation," why
didn't they translate it correctly? Sometimes they
��� did; but for the most part, they translated it to fit the official
doctrines of the church of their day, no matter what
���violence that did to the true meaning of the word. The church
hierarchy had long since determined what its
��� doctrines should be: and if the Bible didn't agree with them, so
much the worse for the Bible. Men were still being
��� burned at the stake for heresy, in those days: and "heresy"
meant any religious idea which differed from the official
��� doctrines proclaimed by the Bishops. So the translators did the
best the Church would allow them to. Let's take
��� some examples.
��� In Genesis 12:2, God said to Abram, "I will make of thee a great
nation". In Hebrew, God said "I will make of
��� thee a great GOI." It would have been too silly to translate this "I
will make a Gentile of you," so they correctly
��� translated it "nation". Again Genesis 25:23. Rebekah was
pregnant with the twins, Esau and Jacob; and while still
��� in her womb, the unborn children were struggling against each
other; so she wondered at this, and asked of God
��� what was the meaning of this? God said to her, "Two GOYIM are
in thy womb." Certainly God was not telling
��� her, "You are an adulteress, pregnant with two Gentile children,
when your husband is not a Gentile." God said
��� "Two NATIONS are in thy womb," and that is the way it was
translated: but it is that same word, "GOYIM",
��� which elsewhere they generally translate as "Gentiles."
��� Now let's take some examples from the New Testament. Here
the word mistranslated "Gentile" is nearly always
��� the Greek word, "ETHNOS" which means just exactly "NATION",
the same as the Hebrew word "GOY". Luke
��� 7 begins with the incident of a Roman Centurion who appealed
to Jesus Christ to heal his servant who was sick
��� unto death. The Elders of the Jews praised him to Jesus, saying
"He loveth our ETHNOS, and hath built us a
��� synagogue". These Jews would never praise anyone for loving
the Gentiles; and the Centurion would not have
��� built a synagogue for Gentiles. So, to avoid complete absurdity,
the translators were forced to translate
��� "ETHNOS" correctly, as "NATION". Again, in John 11:50, we find
that the Jewish High Priest, Caiaphas, was
��� plotting with the chief priests and Pharisees, to murder Jesus
Christ; and Caiaphas told them, "it is expedient for us
��� that one man should die for the people, and that the whole
ETHNOS perish not." Nothing could have pleased this
��� evil Jew more than for all the Gentiles to perish ‑ using the word
"Gentile" as we do today. Therefore, the
��� translators had to translate "ETHNOS" correctly, as "nation." Yet
in many other places they mistranslate it "Gentile".
��� The Greek word "ETHNOS"means simply "nation", nothing more
or less. It has no pagan, or non‑Israel, or even
��� non‑Greek connotation. The Greeks distinguished between
Greeks and all non‑Greek peoples, whom they called
��� "Barbarians". All educated men of that day knew this, and the
Apostle Paul was a very well‑educated man, who
��� was quite familiar with the Greek language and its idioms. He
recognized this distinction in Romans 1:14, where he
��� said, "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to the Barbarians".
Paul, therefore, never wrote the word "Gentile" in
��� any of his Epistles.
��� What does this word "Gentile" mean, and from what is it
derived? It is derived from the Latin word "GENTILIS",
��� which means "ONE WHO IS NOT A ROMAN CITIZEN." If you use
the word correctly, then you would have
��� to say that Jesus Christ and his twelve disciples were all
Gentiles, because none of them was a Roman Citizen.
��� Only Paul could say that he was not a "Gentile," because in the
22nd chapter of Acts, Paul says that he was a
��� Roman citizen by birth.
��� How, then, is it used at present when The speaker means to say
that someone is non‑Jewish? About the fourth
��� century AD., its use was loosely extended to cover more than its
original meaning. It was applied especially to
��� those who were heathen, pagan; it became a term for those who
were neither Christian nor Jewish, for Christians
��� and Jews were generally called just that, (Christian; or Jew). But
this was centuries after the last book in the New
��� Testament had been written.
��� The word "Gentile" was never used by the writer of any book of
the Old Testament, because none of them had
��� ever heard it, as they had never come in contact with Rome. It
was not used by the writer of any book of the
��� New Testament, for there is no such word in the Hebrew,
Aramaic or Greek languages. They did not borrow the
��� word from the Latin, for if you will look up every place it is used
in your King James' Version, you will see that it
��� is never used in the correct sense, to say that someone is not a
Roman citizen; and that is the only meaning it had,
��� the only way anybody used it, in those days. It was put in by the
translators in an effort to make the Bible say
��� what the Translators thought it should have said. Therefore, it
has no authority at all.
��� In short, wherever you see the word "Gentile" in the Bible,
remember that the correct word is "nation," "race," or
��� "people". Sometimes it is used when speaking of ISRAEL
nations or the ISRAELITE race, as we have seen in the
��� examples I have given you in other instances, the context will
show that it is being used of a nation which is
��� non‑Israelite. Only the context in which it is used will show you
which meaning to give it. When used of
��� non‑Israelite race perhaps "Gentile is as good a word as any, for
we seam to have no other in general use. But
��� never be deceived by reading the word "Gentile" in your Bible,
for its only correct meaning is "nation" or "race."
SUPPOSE WE ARE ISRAEL,WHAT DIFFERENCE
DOES IT MAKE?
��� What would you say to me, or of me, if you knew I had
discovered that I was the heir to vast estates, great
��� wealth, power and responsibility, and that, instead of rejoicing in
the great privilege and turning to the work with
��� all its great issues, I simply said "Well, and what if I am the heir;
what difference does it make?" I know what
��� you'd think, even if you didn't say it.
��� Yet, when we show from the Bible, and from history and
archaeology that the Anglo‑Saxon and kindred peoples
��� are the modern descendants of the House of Israel, to whom
God has pledged with His oath so many great
��� privileges and blessings, many say indifferently "what
difference does it make?"
��� They want only personal salvation. Now the man who has the
blessing of personal salvation is the recipient of a
��� marvelous gift of God in Jesus Christ. But that doesn't warrant
his despising and rejecting the other God given
��� birthright ‑ the birthright of race.
��� The Bible, as given by God, is a complete whole. It stands or
falls in one piece. It declares the whole counsel of
��� God and it required nothing short of the whole book to declare it.
Otherwise, much of it would not have been
��� written. It is not for man to go through the Book sorting and
picking, deciding what he wishes to accept and then
��� say about the rest, "what difference does it make?" To do so is
the height of presumption.
��� God, in His wisdom, chose Israel to be used by Him in His great
plan for the transformation of a lost world. He
��� wrote a large portion of the Bible to tell us about Israel's part in
that plan. Allowing ample space in the Bible for
��� the presentation of the Gospel to the individual, God wrote about
five‑sevenths of the Book as his message to the
��� nations. And related to almost every phase of this revelation, is
the great nation Israel, promised by God to Abraham.
��� Infidel critics are busy all the time knifing the Scriptures, cutting
out a bit here and a bit there ‑ but the "what
��� difference does it make" folks throw away five sevenths of the
Bible in one lump. Five‑sevenths is a lot of Bible to scrap!
��� Actually the Israel Truth is the key which opens up the Bible
from the first promise made at the Fall, until Jesus
��� delivers up the finished Kingdom to the Father. It may be likened
to a spiritual thread which runs through almost
��� every chapter of Bible history, every doctrine, symbol, promise
and covenant. The thread which, when found,
��� makes possible the unraveling of most of the mysteries of the
Word. This is why the people who see this truth
��� have declared the Bible to be a "new book;" consistent,
harmonious and satisfying to mind and soul.
��� Centuries ago God made an unconditional, irrevocable, covenant
with Abraham to increase and preserve his
��� posterity throughout all generations. And now, here we are, the
many nations of Israel, right here on the planet
��� after almost 4,000 years, doing the work he said Israel would do.
Psalm 105:8 says: "He remembers his
��� covenant forever, the word he has commanded, to a thousand
generations: The covenant he made with Abraham,
��� and his oath to Isaac. For he confirmed it to Jacob as a statute,
To Israel as an eternal covenant."
��� The writers of the four Gospels constantly call attention to God's
faithfulness to Abraham. The Apostles, every
��� one of them, gloried in it: but you say "what difference does it
make?"
��� It made quite a difference to Esau who despised his birthright of
race. Afterwards he found no place for
��� repentance, though he sought it with tears. The birthright of race
made quite a difference to Ishmael, the son of the
��� bond woman, Hagar. The birthright of race also make quite a
difference to the sons of Keturah.
��� "Suppose we are Israel", then we are the descendants of
Abraham through Sarah, Isaac and Jacob. There is a
��� world of difference in the blessings of race, country,
enlightenment and opportunity bestowed upon the
��� descendants of these than that which was bestowed upon the
others. Does the fact that a man is saved eternally,
��� preclude the possibility of his appreciating the civil blessings
which he enjoys under the Abrahamic covenant in
��� these Israel countries? A short stay in the lands of the dictators
would show the difference and be quite convincing.
��� In Isaiah 51:2, God says "Hearken unto 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 alone, and blessed
him, and increased him." "Ye that follow after
��� righteousness", are certainly the Christians and we see that God
wants them to see that they are Abraham's seed.
��� In Genesis 17:7, God says, "I will establish my covenant
between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their
��� generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee,
and to thy seed after thee." Can it be possible that
��� it means nothing to the believer to be chosen of God as an heir
of that covenant, which in all of its ramifications,
��� God unfolds through the remainder of the Scriptures?
��� "Suppose we are Israel", then we are members of the Kingdom
of God on earth. He established that Kingdom at
��� Sinai. Constituting that Kingdom was twelve tribed Israel.
Matthew 21:43 tells us plainly that He took the
��� Kingdom from the Jews and turned it over to a "nation." The
Greek word is "ethnos". Don't tell me it was given to
��� a church for the Greek word for church is "ekklesia". That nation
was to bring forth the fruits of the Kingdom.
��� Those fruits are both political and religious.
��� True to Christ's assignment, the Israel nations lead the world in
evangelistic work, missionary work, Bible
��� translation, publication and distribution. The United States and
the British Commonwealth holds the record for
��� 90% of this work.
��� It is not good Bible Christianity to hug the covenant of grace so
close to our heart and that we have no room for
��� God's covenant of race. That spurns the honors conferred by
God. It does not require much research to find
��� many texts in which God reveals the exalted position given to
his chosen race. A few of them are:
��������� "But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and
He that formed thee, O Israel, for I
��������� have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name, thou art
mine . . . Since thou wast precious in
��������� my sight, thou hast been honorable and I have loved thee."
Isaiah 43:1,4
��������� "Thou didst separate them from among all the people of the
earth, to be thine inheritance." 1st Kings 8:53
��������� "For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for a
peculiar treasure." Psalm 135:4
��������� "For thou art a holy people (meaning set apart), the Lord thy
God hath chosen thee to be a peculiar
��������� people unto himself above all the nations that are upon the
earth." Deuteronomy 7:6
��� Note the honors conferred: He chose them, redeemed them,
claimed them for his own, separated them, calls them
��� precious, his peculiar treasure, his special people, his
inheritance above all the peoples on the earth. Think of any
��� believer reading all of that and then turning upon his heel and
saying "suppose we are Israel: what difference does it make?"
��� It rejects God's comfort for the last days. God was anxious that
His Israel people should have a clear vision of all
��� that was to come to pass in these trying times, and
consequently, sent prophet after prophet, telling of world
��� conditions which we would experience in our day. But right
along with the cataclysmic upheavals foretold, there is
��� always a word of cheer, consolation and encouragement to his
people Israel. He wanted us to have the benefit of
��� knowing what He is doing in the world, what the world events
actually mean, how He is going to make it all work
��� out to the good of His people Israel, and through all that is
happening bring in the Kingdom of God on earth. The
��� Kingdom of God on earth is the one theme of the Bible. It is the
theme Jesus preached. In Romans 15:8 Paul tells
��� us that Jesus Christ came to confirm the promises made unto
the fathers.
��� What is the worth of our identity with Israel? It proves God to be
unchangeably faithful. It proves the Bible to be
��� literally and historically true. It proves that God is working today,
as the prophets have all foretold he would, in
��� and through and for his people Israel ‑ who are the Anglo Saxon,
Scandinavian and Germanic peoples. Lastly, but
��� by no means least, it proves that Jesus Christ did what he came
to do, confirm the promises made to the fathers.
�������������� HISTORIC PROOF OF
��������� ISRAEL'S MIGRATIONS
��� In my lecture called "ISRAEL'S FINGERPRINTS", I have sketched
briefly for you some of the Bible's evidence
��� that the Anglo‑Saxon, Scandinavian and Germanic people of
today are the living descendants of the ISRAEL of
��� the Bible. This evidence was in the form of many Bible
prophecies of Israel's future which have been accurately
��� fulfilled by these nations, and by no others. If the people who
have actually done all the things which God said
��� Israel would do, and who have received the exact blessings
which God said He would give to Israel ‑ if they are
��� not Israel, how could God be so greatly mistaken? No, God was
not mistaken: He knew what He would do, and
��� for whom He would do it; and by making good all His prophecies
and promises, He has identified these nations as
��� Israel.
��� But there are some people who won't believe God, and will not
accept His identification of these nations. In fact,
��� one clergyman with whom I discussed this, minister of a church
in this county, wrote to me demanding to know
��� "what other historians of the time, in what books, chapters and
verses, record their migration into Northern and
��� Western Europe and the British Isles?" He is but one of many
skeptics who ask this; and to these skeptics, the
��� answer is, "Yes, various historians of those centuries have
traced various steps of this migration." What I propose
��� to do for you now is to race this migration historically.
Remember that, within the time limits which must
��� necessarily be fixed on such a talk as this, I can only "hit the
high spots" ‑ you know how large a library can be
��� filled with history books, so I can't quote them all verbatim. But I
will have time enough to show you that the
��� historians have traced this migration from Israel's old Palestinian
home into their European homes as the
��� Anglo‑Saxon, Scandinavian and Germanic peoples. Not under
their old names, of course but that, also is the
��� fulfillment of God's prophecy that He would "call His servants by
another name," and surely you now know that
���the Bible identifies Israel ‑ and only Israel ‑ as God's servants.
��� The migration of the Israelites covered about 12 centuries,
during which time they were mentioned by various
��� historians, writing in different languages, during different
centuries ‑ and therefore mentioned under different
��� names. Even today, if you were to read a London newspaper
�a Paris newspaper, and a Berlin newspaper, all
��� dated about the end of 1940, you would find that the British
newspaper said that in that year France was invaded
��� by "the Germans," the French newspaper said that the invasion
was by "les Allemans;" and the German
��� newspaper said that the invasion was by "der Deutsch" ‑ yet all
three were talking about the same people and the
��� same invasion. Likewise, we must not be surprised to find that
the Israelites were given different names in the
��� Assyrian, Greek and Latin languages. Likewise, even in the
same language, names change from century to
��� century, just as today we never speak of "Bohemia", as it was
called only a century ago, but only of "Czechoslovakia."
��� You remember that the original 12 ‑ tribed nation of Israel broke
up into two nations upon the death of king
��� Solomon, about 975 BC. The northern 2/3 of the land, containing
ten Tribes, kept the name "Israel," while the
��� southern 1/3, containing the Tribes of Benjamin and Judah, with
many of the Levites, took the name of "Judah"
��� after the royal Tribe. From that time on, they kept their separate
existence until they were finally merged into a
��� vast migration, as we will see.
��� Most of the kings of the 10 tribed northern kingdom of Israel
were distinguished more for their wickedness than
��� for any ability. However, OMRI, who reigned from 885 to 874 BC.,
was a vigorous and able king ‑ although as
��� wicked as the others ‑ and his reign was regarded among the
other nations of western Asia as the foundation upon
��� which the national identity thereafter rested. The languages of
that day spoke of a family, a Tribe, or even a whole
��� nation as a "house" or household. If you have read your Bible
much, you must surely remember God's many
��� references to the "House of Israel" or "House of Judah" ‑
meaning, in each case, the Kingdom of Israel or the
��� Kingdom of Judah. But the phrase was also used in those days
to refer to a nation as the "House" of a great king
��� who ruled it. The Assyrians, among others, began calling the 10
tribed Kingdom of Israel "the House of Omri". In
��� Hebrew, "house" was "bahyith" or "bayth" ‑ in English usually
spelled BETH and pronounced "BETH". In the
��� related Semitic language of Assyrian, this was "BIT". The
Hebrew "OMRI" was in Assyrian sometimes written
��� "HUMRI", sometimes "KUMRI."
��� With this preface in mind, let's start tracing the Israelites from
their Palestinian homeland, in the Assyrian conquest
��� and deportation. In 2nd Kings 15:29 we read, "In the days of
Pekah, king of Israel, came Tiglath‑Pileser, king of
��� Assyria, and took Ijon and Bel‑beth‑maachah and Janoa and
Kedesh and Razor and Gilead and Galilee, all the
��� land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria." In 1st
Chronicles 5:26 it says, "And the God of Israel
��� stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and the spirit of
Tiglath‑Pileser, king of Assyria, and he carried them
��� away, even the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half‑tribe of
Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah and
��� Habor and Hara and to the River Gozan, unto this day."
��� Confirmation of this is found in inscriptions of Tiglath‑Pileser
which archaeologists have dug up and are in our
��� museums today. One of these says: "The cities of Gala'za
(probably Assyrian for Galilee), Abilkka (probably
��� Assyrian for Abel‑beth maacha), which are on the border of
Bit‑Humna"� the whole land of Naphtali in its
��� entirety, I brought within the border of Assyria. My official I set
over them as governor. "The land of Bit Humna"
���� all of its people, together with all their goods, I carried off to
Assyria. Pahaka their king they deposed, and I
��� placed Ausi as king." In confirmation of this change of kings, we
read in 2nd Kings 15:30, "And Hoshea the son of
��� Elah made a conspiracy against PEKAR son of Remaliah and
smote him and slew him, and reigned in his stead."
��� The conquest thus begun in the northeastern and northern parts
of the kingdom about 740 BC. worked
��� southward, down to the heavily‑fortified capital city of Samaria,
which was captured about 721 BC. Another king
��� of Assyria reigned, by that time. 2nd Kings 18:9‑11 records it as
follows: "And it came to pass in the 4th year of
��� King Hezekiah (of Judah), which was the 7th year of Hoshea, son
of Elah, King of Israel, that Shalmanezer, King
��� of Assyria, came up against Samaria and besieged it. And at the
end of 3 years they took it, even in the 6th year
��� of Hezekiah, that is the 9th year of Hoshea, King of Israel,
Samaria was taken. And the King of Assyria did carry
��� away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by
the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the
��� Medes." We know that king Shalmanezer died toward the latter
part of this siege, and the final conquest and
��� deportation were carried on by his successor, King Sargon 2nd.
In confirmation of this, an inscription of Sargon 2nd
��� says, "In the beginning of my reign, the City of Samaria I
besieged, I captured. "27,280 of its inhabitants I carried away."
��� The deportation of a whole nation naturally took a considerable
period of time. The journey had to be organized,
��� with adequate supplies for each convoy on each stage of the
journey, and proper organization of the places
��� selected to receive them. We know that Sargon 2nd did not hold
"the cities of the Medes" east of the Zagros
��� mountains until a few years after 721 BC., so about 715 to 712
BC. is the correct date for the deportation to
��� Media. The places to which Israel was deported by the Assyrians
can be summed up in brief as constituting an
��� arc or semi‑circle around the southern end of the Caspian Sea.
��� This deportation took in the entire population of the ten northern
Tribes constituting the nation of Israel. From this
��� point on, the separation into Tribes is apparently most, and it is
as a nation that the Kingdom of Israel moved into
��� its Assyrian captivity.
��� This left the other 2 tribes still living in the southern Kingdom of
Judah. Assyria and Egypt were the two giant
��� empires of that day, each seeking domination over all the
smaller and weaker nations. Assyria had driven Egyptian
��� influence out of western Asia, back to the continent of Arica, and
had made all the smaller nations surrounding
��� Judah into vassal states paying heavy tribute to Assyria. The
brutal arid rapacious character of the Assyrians made
��� them no friends, and their vassal states were always hopefully
looking for any means of escape from Assyrian
��� power. Egypt kept the hope of revolt alive by offers of military
assistance to those who would rebel against
��� Assyria. The death of a king seemed the most opportune time
for revolt, since his successor would need time to
��� get his power organized, and might even face some competition
at home for his throne, Therefore, when king
��� Sargon 2nd of Assyria died, about 705 BC., revolts began in
western Asia, the Kingdom of Judah under king
��� Hezekiah taking part in it, in the hope of military aid from Egypt
(although the prophet Isaiah warned that the
��� revolt would fail).
��� The new king of Assyria, Sennacherib, set about recovering his
empire; one rebellious city after another was
��� reconquered, with the hideous cruelty characteristic of Assyria;
and in 701 BC., Sennachenib's huge army invaded
��� the kingdom of Judah; midway through it, they paused briefly to
defeat the Egyptian army, then moved on to
��� besiege Jerusalem. None of the smaller cities of Judah were
able to resist. 2nd Kings 18:13 and Isaiah 36:1 say
��� that "In the 14th year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib came up
against all the fortified cities of Judah, and captured
��� them." Then followed the siege of Jerusalem, which was ended
when the angel of the Lord killed 185,000
��� Assyrian soldiers in one night, and Sennacherib gave up the
siege and fled back to his own land. In confirmation
��� of this, Sennacherib's own record of this says, "I then besieged
Hezekiah of Judah, who had not submitted to my
��� yoke, and I captured 46 of his strong cities and fortresses, and
innumerable small cities which were round about
��� them. with the battering of rams and the assault of engines, and
the attack of foot soldiers, and by mines and
��� breaches made in the walls. I brought out there from 200,150
people, both small and great. "Hezekiah himself,
��� like a caged bird, I shut up within Jerusalem his royal city."
Ancient kings were boastful of their victories,but never
��� of their defeats: so king Sennacherib tactfully fails to state how
the siege of Jerusalem ended. But he does confirm
��� the capture of all the other cities of Judah, and the deportation
therefrom of 200,150 people.
��� Remember that all the people of the 10 northern tribes were
already settled around the south end of the Caspian
��� Sea, in the Assyrian deportation of Israel; now to them was
added a large portion of the 2 southern Tribes of
��� Benjamin and Judah; so that the Assyrian deportation included
all of the ten Tribes and a substantial
��� representation from the other 2. These were the people who
became your ancestors and mine, when they moved into Europe.
��� Over the years, the increasing numbers of the Israelite tribes
expanded northward along both sides of the Caspian
��� Sea. They were not basically city‑builders but farmers and
herdsmen. Probably in the earlier part of their stay
��� here,the Assyrians sternly discouraged the building of cities,
which would naturally be fortified centers of
��� resistance. As they were moved into this area, herded along as
prisoners, robbed of all their belongings, they had
���to make themselves brush shelters or booths where they
stopped for any length of time, Here in the southwest our
��� Indians call such a brush shelter a "wickiup''; the Hebrews called
it a "soocaw'' ‑ applying the name also to a tent.
��� It was the only house a nomad owned. The plural of "soocaw"
was "succoth". Gradually this was slurred over into
��� "Scuth", used of a ten‑dweller or nomad, and finally became
"Scythian."
��� The great carving on the Behistun Rock made about 516 BC.
carried inscriptions showing the many different
��� nations who were tributary to King Tarius 1st of Persia. These
inscriptions were written in Old Persian. in Median,
��� and in Assyrian. They showed that among these were a Scythian
nation called in Assyrian and Babylonian
��� "Gimiri", which means "The Tribes From "Gimiri" was derived
the name of the "Cimmerians", who settled
��� somewhat to the north and into the Ukraine. But the Behistun
Inscriptions also stated that these people were
��� called "Sakka" in Persian and Median. Already the later names
are beginning to evolve.
��� The great Greek historian HERODOTUS, who lived from 484 to
425 BC., and who is generally called "The
��� Father of History", speaking of these people, says, "The Sacae,
or Scyths, were clad in trousers, and had on their
��� heads tall, stiff caps, rising to a point. They bore the bow of their
country and the dagger; besides which they
��� carried the battle‑axe or sagaris. They were in truth Amyrgian
Scythians, but the Persians called them Sacae, since
��� that is the name which they give to all Scythians." Incidentally,
some of the magnificent carved walls of the ancient
��� ruins of the Persian palace at Persepolis show illustrations of
those Sacae, in their trousers and pointed caps,
��� bringing tribute to the Persian king.
��� We are now getting further clues to these people. Herodotus
says that the Scythians or Sacae first appeared in
��� that land in the seventh century BC., which is the same period in
which the Tribes of Israel were settled there by
��� their Assyrian conquerors. Their use of the battle‑axe as a
weapon is a carry‑over from their history as Israel. In
��� Jeremiah 51:20 God says of Israel, "Thou art My battleaxe and
weapons of war, for with thee will I break in
��� pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms". We
will see later that the name evolved from SAKKE
��� to SAXON; and it is noteworthy that the battle‑axe was the great
weapon of the Saxons.
��� These Scythians or Sacae lived up to God's description of Israel
as His battleaxe and weapons of war. They
��� became a military people of great power, who did much to break
up ancient nations. The Greek geographer and
��� historian, STRABO, who lived between 63 BC. and about 21
AD.,says: "Mostof the Scythians, beginning from
��� the Caspian Sea, are called 'Dahae Scythae' and those situated
more towards the east, 'Massagatae' and 'Sacae';
��� the rest have the common name of 'Scythians', but each tribe
has its own peculiar name. The Sacae had made
��� incursions similar to those of the Cimmenans and Treres, some
near their own country, others at a greater
��� distance. They occupied Bactriana, and got possession of the
most fertile tract in Armenia, which was called after
��� their own name, Sacasene. They advanced even as far as the
Cappadocians, those particularly situated near the
��� Euxine Sea (Today called the Black Sea), who are now called
'Pontici.'"
��� This was but the early part of their expansion, however. when a
century had elapsed since their deportation to this
��� land of Scythia, they had grown strong enough to begin the long
series of harassing wars against their conquerors,
��� the Assyrians. They lacked the strength to capture the
powerfully fortified group of cities about the Assyrian
��� capitol; and in turn, their nomadic habits made it easy for them
to retreat before a too‑powerful Assyrian army.
��� But generations of this constant warfare wore down the
Assyrians, "bled them white", so that when the Medes
��� finally overran Assyria and captured Nineveh in 612 BC., their
victory was a fairly easy one against the exhausted
��� Assyrians.
��� From this point on, I could refer you to just one historical work
which fully traces the Scythians on to their
��� settlement in England as the Anglo‑Saxons. "A History of the
Anglo‑ Saxons", by Sharon Turner does a
��� magnificent job of this. As most of you know, I am a lawyer by
profession: and a lawyer soon learns to distinguish
��� between the man who actually knows the facts and the man who
is merely repeating hearsay ‑ that is, gossip and
��� rumor he has heard from others ‑ and how do we know whether
these others actually know what they are talking
��� about? Unless a man has seen the occurrence with his own
eyes, his ideas on the subject are no better than the
��� accuracy of the information he has received. Now no historian
living in our times can have any personal
��� knowledge of what happened 2,000 years ago, so his writings
can be no better than the source material he has
��� obtained from people who lived and wrote at a time when
accurate information could still be had. Most modern
��� history books are based on rather scanty documentation from
many sources, as it is so much easier for one historian
��� to copy from another. But Sharon Turner's "History of The
Anglo‑Saxons" is one of the most thoroughly
��� documented historical studies ever produced, and its reliability
is beyond question. He traces the Anglo‑Saxons of
��� Britain back to the Scythians; unfortunately, he doesn't go the
one step further and trace the Scythians back to
��� Israel; but we can do that from other sources.
��� But let us go back to the Scythians, as the people of Israel
became known in the land to which they were
��� deported. Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian who lived in the
times of Julius and Augustus Caesar, says this:
��� "The Scythians anciently enjoyed but a small tract of ground, but
(through their valor) growing stronger by
��� degrees, they enlarged their dominion far and near, and attained
at last to a vast and glorious empire, At the first, a
��� very few of them, and those very despicable for their mean
origin, seated themselves near to the River Araxes.
��� Afterwards, one of their ancient kings, who was a warlike prince
and skillful in arms, gained to their country all the
��� mountainous parts as far as to Mount Caucasus. "Sometime
afterwards, their posterity, becoming famous and
��� eminent for valor and martial affairs, subdued many territories."
"Then they turn their arms the other way, they led
��� their forces as far as to the River Nile, in Egypt."
��� Other historians record that BLOND SCYTHIANS made an
expedition against Palestine and Egypt about 626
��� BC. The town of Scythopolis, in the Jordan valley, is named for a
settlement made on this raid. But to continue
��� with Diodorus Siculus, he says, "This nation prospered more and
more, and had kings that were very famous;
��� from whom the SACANS and the Massagetae and the
Arimaspians, and many others called by other names
��� derive their origin. Amongst others, there were two remarkable
colonies that were drawn out of the conquered
��� nations by those kings the one they brought out of Assyria and
settled in the country lying between Paphlagonia
��� and Pontus; the other out of Media, which they placed near the
River Tanais which people are called Sauromatians."
��� Note how God's destiny for these people worked. They would
not leave behind any pockets of their people in the
��� lands where their conquerors had settled them; but when they
had gained great power, they came back and
��� picked up any who remained, taking them into the migrating
mass. Likewise, history records that they raided
��� Babylon, after its overthrow by the Medes and Persians, carrying
off with them such of the people of Judah and
��� Benjamin as were not going back to Jerusalem.
��� Even in early times, before the final mass movement into
Europe, the Scythians had begun their march to their new
��� homelands, where some of them had already arrived before the
beginning of the Christian Era. Pliny the Elder, a
��� Roman historian who lived from 23 to 79 AD., says this: "The
name 'Scythian' has extended in every direction,
��� even to the Sarmatae and the GERMANS; but this ancient name
is now only given to those who dwell beyond
��� those nations, and live unknown to nearly all the rest of the
world. "Beyond (the Danube) are the peoples of
��� Scythia. The Persians have called them by the general name of
Sacae, which properly belongs only to the nearest
��� nation of them. The more ancient writers give them the name of
Aramii (Arameans). The multitude of these
��� Scythians is quite innumerable; in their life and their habits they
much resemble the people of Parthia (Persia). The
��� Tribes among them that are better known are the Sacae, the
Massagetae, the Dahae," etc.
��� Others have noted this early migration into Germany. For
example, Herodotus mentions a migration and
��� settlement of a people he calls the Sigynnoe, who themselves
claimed to be colonists from Media, and who
��� migrated as far as the River Rhine. (Remember that among the
places the Israelites were resettled were "the cities
��� of the Medes"?)
��� Also note that Pliny the Elder said that "The more ancient writers
give them the name of Aramii" ‑ that is,
��� "Aramean", in modern language called "Syrian." In
Deuteronomy 26:5, every Israelite was commanded to confess
��� and sojourned there with a few, and became a nation, great,
mighty and populous." Hence, such ancient writers
��� could correctly identify the Israelite Scythians as "Arameans",
for they had come from a land which was part of Syria.
��� Among the Tribes of the Scythians, the Massagetac attracted the
notice of all the ancient historians, by their
��� numbers and warlike ability. Those who described them in more
detail divided them into the Massagetac and
��� Thyssagetae; and the "getae" part of the name soon evolved
into "Goth"; the Massagetae were the Greater Goths
��� and the Thyssagetae were the Lesser Goths. Thus we already
find among the Scythians names we can identify as
��� the people who later conducted the great migrations into
Europe. The Goths, as we know, were later called
��� "Ostrogoths," meaning "East Goths," and "Visigoths," meaning
"West Goths."
��� But to go back a few centuries, the Sacae were allies of the
Medes and Persians in the attack upon Babylon, in
��� 536 BC. Remember that God had said that Israel was "My
Battleaxe and weapons of war; for with thee will I
��� break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy
kingdoms." So God had used Scythian Israel to maintain
��� constant war against Assyria for nearly a century, until Assyria
was too weakened to resist the Medes and
��� Persians; then God used Scythian Israel, the Sacae, to help in
the conquest of Babylon, when its time had come.
��� Later, King Cyrus of Persia was foolish enough to try to conquer
his former allies, the Sacac; but he was killed in
��� the battle. King Darius also tried to conquer them, but they being
a nomadic people, retreated before his massive
��� armies until he gave up and retired.
��� Professor George Rawlinson says that the original development
of the Indo‑European language took place in
��� Armenia ‑ which, you will remember, was at that time occupied
by "Scythian" Israel. Certainly from these people
��� we can trace the introduction of this language into Europe.
��� This powerful and increasingly numerous people thereafter
spread further north, both east and west of the Caspian
��� Sea. To the west of it, they penetrated into the Volga and Don
River Valleys as the Sauromatians and the Royal
��� Scyths, nomadic peoples. To reach these lands, they had come
up through the Caucasus Mountains by a great
��� pass which is today occupied by the Georgian Military Road.
Perhaps the Communists have changed the name of
��� this pass in recent years, but from ancient times until without
our own lifetimes this pass was known as "The Pass
��� of Israel." The white Race of Europe is often called "Caucasian"
because the ancestors of many of them did thus
��� come out of the Caucasus Mountains.
��� When Alexander the Great began his great marauding
expedition across western Asia and as far as India, he had
��� to skirt the edge of the lands held by the Scythians. In his
limitless vanity and ambition, he wanted also to conquer
��� them; but it is recorded that their ambassadors said that they
would never surrender to him; that they were
��� nomadic peoples who, if they could not resist, could retreat
indefinitely before his armies; and they had no wealthy
��� cities for him to occupy and loot. Alexander invaded their lands
long enough to fight one severe battle with them,
��� defeating the Scythians forces he met; but this was evidently
just as a lesson to them not to attack the flanks of his
��� forces, for he led his forces out of their territory and never
returned to the attack.
��� Remember that Israel is "God's battleaxe and weapons of war."
They had already weakened Assyria, and as allies
��� of the Medes and Persians had helped overthrow Assyria and
Babylon. They had beaten off attempts of the
��� Persians to conquer them. In the article "Scythians", Chambers
Encyclopedia (1927) records that "The Scythians,
��� after about 128 B.C. overran Persia, routed several Persian
armies, and levied tribute from the Persian kings.
��� During the first century before and the first century after Christ,
hordes of Scythians, having overthrown the
��� Bactrian and Indo‑Greek dynasties of Afghanistan and India,
invaded northern India: and there they maintained
��� themselves with varying fortune for five centuries longer. "The
Jats of India and the Rajputs have both been
��� assigned the Scythian ancestry." Madison Grant writes that
"Ancient Bactria maintained its Nordic and Aryan
��� aspect long after Alexander's time, and did not become
Mongolized and receive the sinister name of Turkestan
��� until the seventh century (AD.). The Saka were the blond
peoples who carried the Aryan language to India."
��� A land so vast, and not the original home of the Israelite
Scythians, but already having some inhabitants when they
��� were settled there, must of course show varying types of
people. The Nordic or Aryan Israelite Scythians
��� conquered these other races. while some speak of a Mongoloid
type found in some parts of Scythia, ancient
��� writers pretty well agree that the dominant Sakka or Massagetae
Scythians were a Nordic people. Dr. Hans
��� Gunther, professor at Berlin University, in his "Racial Elements
of European History," published in the 1920s, says:
��� "The investigations into the traces left behind them by that
wide‑spread Nordic people, the Sacae (Scythians),
��� with its many tribes, are well worthy of attention. It had been
living on the steppes of southeastern Europe, and
��� spread as far as Turkestan and Afghanistan, and even to the
Indus. The ancient writers, such as Polemon of
��� Ilium, Galienos, Clement of Alexandria, and Adamantios, state
that the Sacae were like the Kelts and Germans,
��� and describe them as ruddy‑fair. The Scythian tribe of the Alans
are also described as having a Nordic
��� appearance. Ammianus (About A.D. 330‑400) calls them, almost
all tall and handsome, with hair almost yellow,
��� and a fierce look.'"
��� We have seen that the names of the Massagetae and the
Thyssagetae evolved into Goths, the Ostrogoths (or East
��� Goths) and Visigoths (or West Goths). The historian Ptolemy,
who died about 150 AD., mentions a Scythian
��� people, descended from the Sakae, by the name of SAXONS,
who had come from Media. Albinus, who lived in
��� the first century BC., also says, "The SAXONS were descended
from the ancient Sacae in Asia, and in process
��� of time they came to be called SAXONS." Prideaux reports that
the Cimbrians came from between the Black and
��� Caspian Seas, and that with them came the ANGLI.
��� We are now well into established European history. By the
beginning of the 4th century AD., many of the Goths
��� were already Christians. In the 4th century there were several
collisions between Visigoths and Rome, and in 410
��� the Visigoths became the masters of Italy and captured Rome.
Later, they moved on into Southern France and
��� northern Spain where they settled permanently. The Ostrogoths
settled in what is modern Hungary about 455
��� AD.; under Theodoric the Great, they conquered Italy about 493,
and set up an Ostrogoth kingdom in Italy,
��� which, however, was short‑lived. Their descendants are the
fair‑skinned and blond Italians of northern Italy. But
��� the Goths had ended the Roman Empire: "God's battleaxe"
again destroying the kingdoms of the Babylonian order
���of empires.
��� The Angli and the Saxons moved up the Danube Valley and
settled in Germany and along the Baltic shores, as is
��� well known; and from there, the Jutes, Angles and Saxons
colonized England after the Roman legions were
��� withdrawn in AD. 408.
��� Actually, the earliest waves of migration penetrated to the
farthest edges of the European continent ‑ partly
��� because they could move through nearly empty lands, without
meeting any peoples strong enough to effectively
��� resist them, partly because they were pushed farther by the
later waves of Israelite migration coming behind them.
��� Hence, we find the settlement of the Scandinavian Peninsula
pretty well completed before the arrival of the Jutes,
��� Angles and Saxons along the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.
��� The Tribes which settled along the shores of the Baltic were a
great maritime people ‑ as some of the Israelites
��� had been even when still in Palestine, and as God had
prophesied. The Jutes, Angles and Saxons came from
��� within the Baltic Sea, but their ocean‑borne raids on England
were heavy and continuous; later, by invitation of the
��� British, they settled along the eastern shores, in East Anglia,
Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex, Wessex, Essex, and Kent.
��� William the Conqueror invaded England in 1056, with the
Normans; they were actually Norse Vikings who had
��� settled on the coast of France in the province of Normandy:
"Norman" being really derived from "Norseman."
��� So we see that the migrations of Israel, first into Scythia,
expanding there, then gaining the names of Goths, Angli
��� and Saxons, and under those names moving into their present
European homelands, is a well established historical
��� fact. There is also the fascinating story of the early migrations by
sea, but that is another subject in itself.
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