In our previous
three 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, when they
were 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.
We know by
scripture, II Kings 18 and verse 9 through 11 in
approximately 720 B.C. that ten and one-half tribes
were carried away into captivity never to return.
Then in verse 13 ten years later the tribe of Judah,
Benjamin, and the other half tribe of Levi were
carried away into captivity never to return, leaving
only a remnant of the lineage of Judah, Benjamin and
Levi in Jerusalem and they were carried away to
Babylon in approximately 585 B.C., one hundred and
twenty years later, then 70 years later the prophesy
of Jeremiah is fulfilled and Ezra returns to rebuild
Jerusalem bringing with him the records of the
genealogy of Judah to verify the lineage of the
Christ child as given both in Matthew chapter 1 verse
1 through 16 and in Luke chapter 3 verses 25 through
38 and in 70 AD. God had these records destroyed for
Jesus was their fulfillment.
The tribes have
disappeared seemingly - but there are many scriptures
that point to their presence - we will begin to
follow them through secular history.
David was made king
over all Israel in 1048 B.C. and during his reign he
owned the tin and lead mines in what we know as Wales
in Southern England today. And he had a large colony
of Israelites living there working the mines - now
the children of Israel are carried away captive
approximately 230 or 240 years later. They all know
of the colony of Israelites living on the Happy Isles
or the tin isles. So they began a migration to the
northwest. And as they went they named rivers and
towns after the names of tribes. Such as the Danube
River, named for the tribe of Dan. The Dan River and
the Dueper River. As the children of Israel migrated
northwest into Western Europe and the Baltic region
through the pass in the caucasian mountains they
become known as Caucasians - and today the white race
is known as Caucasians and are the descendents of the
so called lost tribes of Israel.
Archeological
excavations in the middle east have uncovered vast
graveyards with stone monuments that tell of
dispersed Israel, an example, "This is the grave
of Buki the son of Isaac, the priest, may his rest be
in Eden at the time of the deliverance of
Israel" another says " Teuspa the
Cimmerian, who was the leader of a tribe of Israel,
who loved freedom more than life." Another
Hebrew inscription says, " I am Jehudi, the son
of Moses, the son of Jehuda the mighty, a man of the
tribe of Naphtali of the family of Shimli,"
these ancient head stones have been found from the
crimea across eastern, western Europe and in the
graveyards of Ireland.
As the tribes
traveled westerly and north they tried to retain
their own identity as much as possible. They were
called, Celt, Scythians, Guals, Gads, Gatae's, the
Belgae, the Angles, Jutes, Danes, Saxtons, Normans,
and other Germanic peoples, these were all Israelites
of the so called lost tribes, that became the
progenitors of the Scandinavian countries of Ancient
Norse lands, " Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland
and Iceland, Western Europe, the British Isle, the
British Commonwealth, and America. In a previous
writing we traced the approximate final migration of
ten of the tribes. Now let us look at EPHRAIM - Jacob
(Israel) prophesied to Ephraim in Genesis 48 verse
19B (his younger brother Ephraim who inherited the
double portion birthright) and his seed shall become
a multitude of nations." The British
Commonwealth - upon which the son never sets, South
Africa, Canada, Islands of the Atlantic and the
Pacific, Isaiah chapter 49 verse 6B says, "I
will also give thee for a light to the nations, that
thou mayest by my salvation unto the end of the
earth." Australia and New Zealand are known as
the end of the earth. Truly Ephraim, Great Britain,
the only nation that is a multitude of nations,
therefore she is Ephraim.
Deuteronomy chapter
33 and verse 17 says Jacob, (Israel) said of Manasseh
in Genesis chapter 47 " His glory is like the
firstling of his bullock (and the English native is
known as John Bull) and his horn are like the horn of
unicorns: (the unicorn is part of the Royal Arms of
both Britain and Scotland) with them he shall push
the people together to the end of the earth: and they
are the ten thousands of Ephraim.
MANASSEH: In Genesis
chapter 48 verse 19 Jacob, (Israel) prophesies to
Manasseh and says, "he also shall become a
people, and he also shall be great." So let us
see if we can find this nation that is to be great in
the Bible?
Have you ever read
the little 18th chapter of Isaiah with only 7 verses
and pondered their meanings?
Let us look at it:
(1) "Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which
is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia:
'Woe' - this same word appears in verse 12 of chapter
17, and it means listen up - pay attention, such as a
military commandment, 'attention', so let us pay
attention to what Isaiah tells us in these seven
verses.
(2) That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in
vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, saying,
"Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered
and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose
land the rivers have spoiled."
(3) All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on
the earth, see ye, when he lifts up an ensign on the
mountains; and when he bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
(4) For so the LORD said unto me, "I will take
My rest, and I will consider in My dwelling place
like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a cloud of dew
in the heat of harvest."
(5) For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect
and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he
shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and
take away and cut down the branches.
(6) They shall be left together unto the fowls of the
mountains, and to the beasts of the earth: and the
fowl shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of
the earth shall winter on them.
(7) In that time shall the present be brought unto
the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled,
and from a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot,
whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of
the name of the LORD of hosts, the Mount Zion."
Now let us explain
these seven verses. We have looked at the word 'Woe',
which means, listen up or pay attention. The land
shadowed with wings is where? Beyond the rivers of
Ethiopia, or the Nile river. Beyond the Nile river
across Northern Africa, we find only desert and waste
land, the great Sahara desert. The verse says,
"land shadowing with wings, beyond the Nile
river". So where is this land? If you look at a
world map, you will find that the 30th parallel is
just south of Jerusalem. If you draw a line from
Jerusalem to the west you cross the worthless desert
of Northern Africa and will come ashore in northern
Florida and southern Georgia, the first land of any
value west of the Nile. The verse says, "to the
land shadowing with wings". No other nation has
for its national emblem an eagle with outreached
wings, except the United States of America.
Here are some
different translations of these verses:
Verse one - The New King James says, "Land
shadowed with buzzing wings" The New American
Standard translates this as, "land of whirring
wings". The American Standard translation says,
"land of rustling wings". In the Revised
Standard translation, it says, "land of whirring
wings". The Young's translation says, "land
of shadowed wings". The Webster's translation
says, "the land shadowing with wings".
Verse two -
"That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in
vessels of bulrushes upon the water, saying go ye
swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled,
to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a
nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the
rivers have spoiled." Let us dissect this verse.
First it says, "that sendeth ambassadors by the
sea". No African country west of the Nile has
ever sent ambassadors by sea, but America has sent
ambassadors to all the nations by boat. The verse
says, "even in vessels of bulrushes upon the
waters, go ye swift messengers,". Now when the
Scriptures were translated into English in the 1611,
the only boats known on the Nile river were made of
bulrushes, so that was the word that was used. But
the original Hebrew word implied a 'water drinking
vessel', that meant nothing to the translators back
then. What is a water-drinking vessel? It is a steam
ship, invented by Fulton and had its trial run on the
Hudson River. Today, we have the atomic
water-drinking vessel. Soon, our ambassadors were
swift messengers to all the nations by steam ship.
Verse two goes on to say, "a nation scattered
and peeled to a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto;". The New King James translation says,
"To a nation tall and smooth of skin". The
New American Standard, American Standard, and Revised
Standard all say, "To a nation tall and
smooth". The Young's translation says, "a
nation drawn out and peeled". The Webster's
translation is the same as the King James. Four
translations say, "a nation tall and
smooth". The American soldiers are the tallest
in the world, and basically, Americans are
clean-shaven, smooth-faced men. "Terrible from
their beginning" - America was the most feared
and revered nation on the earth until the Korean War.
Verse two continues on to say, "a nation meted
and trodden down, whose land the rivers have
spoiled." The New King James, the New American
Standard, and the American Standard all translates
this as, "Whose land the rivers divide". It
said, "a nation meted and trodden down".
Did you ever read in history of the Meets and Bounds
Act of 1800? It was a law that required every section
(640 acres) to be surveyed and a brass marker put at
each corner of the sections. The United States was
meted out, measured, trodden down by the surveyors as
they walked every section of the nation. Abraham
Lincoln worked as a surveyor for a while on this
project, which was not finished until the 1890's. No
other nation has been meted out (measured) trodden
down (walked from shore to shore and boundary to
boundary) but the United States of America. Finally,
verse two says, "whose land the rivers have
spoiled", but three translations say, "the
rivers divide". The Amazon River runs through
Brazil, but no other nation on the earth but America
is divided by first the mighty Mississippi, which
starts in Canada, then quartered by the Ohio River
that reaches from the Atlantic to the Mississippi,
and by the mighty Missouri, that begins at the
continental divide in the great Rocky Mountains of
the Northwest.
On to verse three:
"All the inhabitants of the world, dwellers on
the earth, pay attention when his ensign is lifted
up." The Star Spangled Banner is that ensign -
and almost all the inhabitants of the world want to
come to America.
Verses four, five
and six I believe are an account of the Civil War.
Verse seven says, "In that time shall a present
be brought unto the LORD of hosts by the people that
are tall and clean-shaven." The American
Standard and the Revised Standard say, "Gifts or
presents will be brought to the LORD of hosts from a
people tall and smooth." The rest of the verse
we have already discussed and it concludes by saying
that these people bring their gift to the place of
the name of the LORD of hosts, Mount Zion, the place
of praise.
Remember Jacob's
(Israel' s) blessing to Joseph in Genesis chapter 49
and verse 22 through 26 Joseph is given the wealth of
the world through Ephraim and Manasseh.
There is a prophesy
through Moses in chapter 15 of Deuteronomy and verse
6 that reads, " for the LORD your God will bless
you just as He promised you; you shall LEND TO MANY
NATIONS, but you shall not BORROW; you shall reign
over many nations, but they shall not reign over
you."
The original
thirteen colonies represent the thirteen tribes, and
no other nation on the earth can or has fulfilled
verses 8 through 12 of Deuteronomy chapter 28, but
America. Those verses are as follows; "And it
shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently
unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to
do all his commandments which I command thee this
day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high
above all nations of the earth: (2) And all these
blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy
God. (3) Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and
blessed shalt thou be in the field. (4) Blessed shalt
be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of
thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep. (5) Blessed
shalt be thy basket and thy store. (6) Blessed shalt
thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou
be when thou goest out. (7) The LORD shall cause
thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten
before thy face: they shall come out against thee one
way, and flee before thee seven ways. (8)The LORD
shall command the blessing upon thee in thy
storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand
unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee. (9) The LORD shall
establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he
hath sworn unto thee if thou shalt keep the
commandments of the LORD thy God and walk in His
ways. (10) And all people of the earth shall see that
thou art called by the name of the LORD; and they
shall be afraid of thee. (11) And the LORD shall make
thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body,
and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of
thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy
fathers to give thee. (12) The LORD shall open unto
thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain
unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the
work of thine hand: and thou SHALT LEND TO MANY
NATIONS, and thou SHALT NOT BORROW. (13) And the LORD
shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou
shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath;
if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the
LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to
observe and to do them.
These prophesies
were never fulfilled by Israel, and the people that
call themselves Jews today can not fulfill them -
because they are barrowing billions each year and the
scripture says, "It is written" that God's
people will loan to many nations and not borrow.
America has made
financial loans to every nation, and borrowed from
none, and the only nation that has ever repaid us is
little Finland. If another nation is God's chosen
nation, and can fulfill these verses, then they
should be loaning money to America. What other nation
on earth's national anthems are about the LORD?
"In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born
across the sea."
Remember Jacob,
(Israel's) prophesying the future to Joseph in
Genesis, chapter 48 about his two sons Ephraim and
Manasseh? Jacob has laid his right hand on the head
of the younger and his left on the older, and Joseph
has asked him to change, and verse 19 says, "And
his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I
know it: he also shall become a people, and he also
shall be great: (the United States of America) but
truly his younger brother shall be greater than he,
and his seed shall become a multitude of
nations." (The Commonwealth of Great Britain).
God has blessed America!
This is just a small
sample of the vast historical records that are
available of the so called "lost tribes of
Israel" that have, and are, and yet, will
fulfill the words of the prophets as recorded, and
the kingdom shall be come the Lords and His Christ
and His glory shall fill all the earth for HIS TRUTH
IS MARCHING ON - GLORY - GLORY- HALLALUJAH
Read the vision of
Columbus. He said God told him to find the new world.
The Pilgrims said they were coming to the great
wilderness and called it the Promise Lend. Every
American, and especially every Christian should read
the Mayflower Compact and the Virginia Charter,
" For the Glory of God." They said they
came to the new world, the Promised Land.
One more issue, one
more writing, JUDAH, Genesis chapter 49 and verse 10
says " the scepter shall not depart from Judah,
nor a lawgiver from between His feet, until SHILO
comes." And SHILOH - the LORD JESUS CHRIST has
not come - so there has to be a ruling monarch today
setting on David's throne. Awake, Oh Israel, put on
thy garments of praise!
I highly recommend
the books From Sea to Shining Sea and The Light and
the Glory, both by Peter Marshall and David Manuel
for further study on this subject. They are available
from our bookstore by calling 501-525-8204.
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