In our previous two Ponderings of "That's Truth -
That's Truth - That's Truth", referring to what
I heard audibly when the tour guide was telling us
about the stone under the coronation chair that is
also known as the "Stone of Scone", upon
which all the Kings and Queens of Ireland, Scotland
and now the Kings and Queens of England have set
upon, and is under the coronation chair when they
have been crowned. The tour guide said,
"Tradition says that this is Jacob's Pillar,
that he slept on when he saw the angels ascending and
descending and that this is the stone that the
children of Israel carried in the wilderness from
which the water came out of when Moses struck it with
his staff." First Corinthians, chapter ten,
verse four, says, "And did all drink the same
spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual
Rock that followed them: and that Rock was
Christ." And he said that Jeremiah, the white
headed prophet brought it with him when he came to
Ireland with his scribe, Baruch and with the King's
daughter, Princess Tea-Tephi.
So, let us continue
our search for "That's Truth", that was
spoken to me three times that day in November of
1965, in Westminster Abbey, and has led me on the
journey to search both Scriptures and history to find
the answer that God told me was truth. And in my
research I have found that both the Scriptures and
history are giving the answers to the ancient
question of who and where are the, "SO CALLED
LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL", that have never been
lost to history.
Jeremiah was
ordained to be a prophet to the nations before he was
born. In Jeremiah, chapter one and verse five it
says, "Before I found thee in the belly I knew
thee: and before thou comest forth out of the womb I
sanctified thee, and I ordained thee, I ordained thee
a prophet unto the nations."
In Jeremiah chapter
forty-three and verses six and seven it says,
"Even men, and women, and children, and the
KING'S DAUGHTERS, (more than one) and every person
that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left
with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan,
and Jeremiah the prophet, and BARUCH the son of
Neriah. So they came into the land of Egypt."
The rest of Jeremiah's life we find in secular
history.
History tells us
that Jeremiah, Baruch and the King's Daughters (that
I believe were his great-grand daughters) traveled to
northeast Spain where a portion of the tribe of
Judah, of the descendants of Zarah, one of the sons
of Judah, had migrated to at the time of departure
out of Egypt under Moses, most of the inhabitants of
northern Spain and southern France are present day
descendants of Judah's son, Zarah. Also at this same
time, a portion of Dan migrated to what we know as
Greece today.
Jeremiah and his
party went up the Ebro River, which is a Hebrew name,
to the town of Zaragoza, which is named after the
twin son of Judah, and is the main town of
northeastern Spain today. Here history records that
Jeremiah married one of the princesses to a prince of
the clan of Zarah, of the tribe of Judah.
Jeremiah then
traveled across what was then known as Gaul (we now
know as France), then by ship to Ireland. And you can
read today in the ancient manuscripts of Ireland, the
coming of Jeremiah and Baruch, with the King's
daughter, (singular) "Princess Tea-Tephi",
meaning violet or beautiful fragrance, in 585 B.C.,
and married her to King Herrenon of Ireland, who was
a descendant of Judah through the twin son of Judah,
Zarah. Princess Tea-Tephi, was a descendant of the
twin son of Judah, Pharez, from whence came King
David and the Kingly line of Israel and Jesus.
How did Jeremiah
know about what was then called the Beautiful Isles
and also the Tin Isles?
Let us rehearse
first Chronicles, chapter twenty-two, and in verse
six, David charges Solomon to build a house for the
Lord God of Israel. And in verse eight, David tells
Solomon that the Lord will not let him build it,
"saying thou hast shed blood abundantly, and
hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house
unto My name." In verses nine and ten, God tells
David that he shall have a son and his name shall be
called Solomon and he shall build an house for My
name. And verse sixteen says that David collected up
gold, silver, brass, iron, materials without number
to build the house of the Lord.
Verse fourteen says
that David, for the house of the Lord, prepared an
hundred thousand talents of gold. A talent of gold is
one hundred twenty-five pounds. That is 12,500,000
pounds of gold. We cannot, in our wildest
imaginations, know how much that is.
Why is this
important to our study of the so called lost tribes
of Israel?
In order for Solomon
to cover the temple and furniture with gold, he had
to have tin - lots of it - for tin is required to
work gold. Where did David get this vast amount of
tin from?
From the Happy Isles
- the Tin Isles - from a part of what we now know as
the British Isles, which means Covenant People - from
an area we know as Wales, with its vast tin and lead
mines which King David owned and had a colony of
Israelites there several hundred years before the
carrying away of the tribes into captivity. And all
the tribes knew of this place. Also, Dan was a
seafaring people, transporting all these materials
that David was collecting up for Solomon to build the
house of the Lord.
There are a couple
of Scriptures that seem to be out of place. One is in
second Samuel, chapter seven and verse ten. Nathan
prophesies to David a strange prophecy.
"Moreover I will appoint a place for my people
Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a
place of their own, and move no more." They are
in the promised land. Everything is wonderful. Why is
it prophesied that they are going to move and be
planted in another place?
And in Isaiah,
forty-nine and verse one, the prophecy says,
"Listen, O Isles, unto ME; and hearken, ye
people from far:" This can only be referring to
one place - what we know today as the British Isles.
There are no other Isles. Oh! The tin mines that
David owned, these were still in the family, owned by
Joseph of Arimathea, who was Jesus' uncle, the
youngest brother of Mary's father, and was one of the
wealthiest men in the world at the time of Jesus.
The more I read and
study, the more truth history reveals. And we have
not followed the Thirteen Tribes in their wandering
across history to the appointed place of second
Samuel, chapter seven and verse ten. So we will have
to take up "That's Truth" in our next
issue.
I am putting
together a list of books that will be on this topic,
and other kingdom subjects, which will be called
"Books of Our Christian Heritage and the
Kingdom".
See other "Notebook" articles.
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