Chapter Overview
A New Homeland
Lost Israel Located
Britain's Hebrew Names
Dan a Serpent's Trail
Ancient Annals of Ireland
Queen Elizabeth on David's Throne
The United States Is Manasseh
We are ready now to search out the actual location of
the lost tribes of the outcast house of Israel. We know they exist
today as a nation, and a company of nations, powerful, looked upon as Gentiles.
And when we find them, we shall find the throne of David!
Many passages of prophecy tell of these people
in these latter days. Prophecies not to be understood until this
"time of the end." Prophecies containing a message to be carried
to these people by those to whom God reveals it!
First, fix in mind these facts:
The prophet Amos wrote, in the days of the 13th
of the 19 kings of the house of Israel (Amos 1:1): "Behold, the eyes of
the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom [house of Israel - Judah had not
yet sinned], and I will destroy it [the kingdom, or government, not the
people] from off the face of the earth. . . For, lo, I will command, and
I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted
in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth" (Amos 9:8-9).
This prophecy usually is applied to the scattered
condition of the Jews. But it has nothing to do with the Jews, or
house of Judah, but refers to the ten-tribed house of ISRAEL - driven to
Assyrian captivity, then migrating from there and scattering among other
nations before the Jews were taken to Babylon. This prophecy says
that ISRAEL (not Judah) was to be sifted among other nations - these Israelites
losing their identity - yet God has protected and kept them: "yet shall
not the least grain fall upon the earth."
It was during this time that the children of the house
of Israel were to "abide many days without a king" (Hosea 3:4). That
these people did sift through all nations is clear. Many New Testament
passages indicate this. Although many of them still were scattered
among various nations in the first century A.D., a portion of them had
become established in a definite location of their own by Jeremiah's time
- 140 years after their original captivity.
But these Israelites who possessed the birthright
eventually were to come to a new land of their own. The Eternal says,
in II Samuel 7:10 and I Chronicles 17:9: "Moreover I will appoint a place
for my people Israel, and will PLANT THEM [Jeremiah was commissioned to
do the PLANTING of the throne among them], that they may dwell in a place
of their own, and move no more." The context of the whole passage
shows this refers, not to Palestine, but a different land where these scattered
Israelites were to gather after being removed from the promised land of
Palestine, while that land was lying idle and in possession of the Gentiles.
Notice carefully! After being removed from
Palestine, being sifted among all nations, abiding many days without a
king, losing their identity, they are to be "planted" in a faraway strange
land now to become their own. And, not it, after reaching this place
they are to move no more! That is, of course, during this present
world.
While other prophecies indicate these birthright
holders were to become a colonizing people, spreading around the world,
it is plain that the spreading out must be from this appointed place, which
must remain the "home" seat of government for David's throne.
Mark this clearly! Once this "place of their
own" was reached, and the throne of David planted there, THEY WERE TO MOVE
NO MORE. Therefore, the location of this people today is the place
where Jeremiah planted David's throne more than 2500 years ago!
Therefore prophecies pertaining to this day, or
to the location of this people just prior to Christ's return, will tell
us the location of Jeremiah's planting. The house of Israel is yet
to return, at Christ's coming, to Palestine - yet to plant grapes in Samaria,
their original country. Prophecies telling where they shall, in that
future day, migrate FROM will reveal the location of "lost" ten-tribed
ISRAEL! The two succeeding "overturns" of the throne, too, must be
located in this same general locale.
Without further suspense, let us see where prophecy locates
these birthright holders, now possessing the throne of David and having
received earth's richest national blessings. Remember they are distinguished
from Judah - the Jews - by various names "Ephraim," "Joseph," "Jacob,"
"Rachel" (the mother of Joseph), "Samaria" (their former home), "Israel."
According to Hosea 12:1: "Ephraim . . . followeth
after the east wind." An "east wind" travels west. Ephraim
must have gone west from Assyria. When the Eternal swore to David
that He would perpetuate his throne, He said: "I will set his hand [sceptre]
also in the sea" (Ps. 89:25). The throne is to be "set," planted,
"in the sea."
Through Jeremiah the Eternal said: "Backsliding
Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Go and
proclaim these words toward the NORTH, and say, Return, thou backsliding
Israel, saith the Lord" (Jer. 3:11-12). Israel is clearly distinguished
from Judah. Of course Israel was north of Judah while still in Palestine
- but when these words were written by Jeremiah, Israel had been removed
from Palestine more than 130 years and had long since migrated, with the
Assyrians, north (and west) of Assyria's original location.
And in these last days messengers are to go "toward
the NORTH" (of Jerusalem) in order to locate lost Israel and proclaim this
warning. So the location, we now find, is toward the north, also
west, and in the sea.
The 18th verse, same chapter, says: "In those days
the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel [margin, to the
house of Israel], and they shall come together out of the land of the north
to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers."
At the future exodus, at Christ's coming, they are to return to Palestine
out of the land of the NORTH!
After saying, "How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?"
the Eternal, speaking through Hosea, says: "Then the children shall tremble
from the west" (Hosea 11:8, 10).
Again: "Behold, I will bring them from the north
country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth" (Jer. 31:8).
This prophecy is for consideration in the "latter days" (Jer. 30:24; 31:1),
and is addressed to "Israel" (verses 2, 4, 9), to "Ephraim" (verses 6,
9), and "Samaria" (verse 5). Here is added another hint - "the coasts
of the earth" (verse 8) - evidencing they are dominant at sea and indicating
they have spread abroad widely by colonization.
Referring to the house of ISRAEL, not Judah (Isaiah
49:3, 6), God says: "Behold, these shall come from far: and, lo, these
from the NORTH and from the WEST; and these from the land of Sinim" (Isa.
49:12). In the Hebrew, the language in which this was originally
inspired, there is no word for "northwest," but this term is designated
by the phrase, "the north and the west." "It means, literally, the
northwest! The Vulgate renders "Sinim" as "Australi," or "Australia."
So we now have the location northwest of Jerusalem and even spreading around
the world.
Hence, Israel of TODAY - Israel of the day of Jeremiah's
"planting" of David's throne - is located specifically as northwest of
Jerusalem and in the sea! Let us locate this land more specifically!
The same 49th chapter of Isaiah begins with this:
"Listen, O isles, unto me." The people addressed, Israel, are called
"O isles" in the first verse and "O Israel" in the third verse. This
term "isles" or "islands" is sometimes translated "coastlands."
The 31st chapter of Jeremiah, locating Israel in
the "north country," says: "I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my
firstborn. Hear the word of the Lord, O ye nations [Ephraim, Manasseh],
and declare it in the isles afar off . . ." (Jer. 31:9-10).
Again: "Keep silence before me, O islands. . .
thou, Israel, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen" (Isa. 41:1, 8).
In Jeremiah 31:10, the message is to be declared
"in the isles afar off" and is to be shouted in "the CHIEF OF THE NATIONS"
(verse 7). So, finally, today, as in Jeremiah's day, the house of
Israel is in the isles, which are "in the sea," the chief of the nations,
northwest of Jerusalem. A coast-dwelling, and therefore sea-dominant,
people. Certainly there can be no mistaking that identity!
Take a map of Europe. Lay a line due NORTHWEST
of Jerusalem across the continent of Europe, until you come to the sea,
and then to the islands in the sea! This line takes you directly
to the British Isles!
Of proof that our white, English-speaking peoples
today - Britain and America - are actually and truly the birthright tribes
of Ephraim and Manasseh of the "lost" house of Israel there is so much
we shall have space for but a small portion in this book.
A most interesting fact is the Hebrew meaning of the names
of the British people. The house of Israel is the covenant people.
The Hebrew word for "covenant" is Beriyth, or berith. After Gideon's
death, Israel followed the false pagan god Baal. In Judges 8:33 and
9:4, the word "covenant" is used as a proper name coupled with the name
"Baal." This is quoted in the English text, Authorized Version, without
being translated, as "Baalberith," meaning (margin) "idol of the covenant."
The Hebrew for "man" is iysh, or ish. In
English, the ending "-ish" means "of or belonging to (a specified nation
or person)." In the original Hebrew language vowels were never given
in the spelling. So, omitting the vowel "e" from berith, but retaining
the "i" in its anglicized form to preserve the "y" sound, we have the anglicized
Hebrew word for covenant, brith.
The Hebrews, however, never pronounced their "h's."
Many a Jew, even today, in pronouncing the name "Shem," will call it "Sem."
Incidentally, this ancient Hebrew trait is also a modern British trait.
So the Hebrew word for "covenant" would be pronounced, in its anglicized
form, as brit.
And the word for "covenant man," or "covenant people,"
would therefore be simply "BRIT-ISH." And so, is it mere coincidence
that the true covenant people today are called the "BRITISH"? And
they reside in the "BRITISH ISLES"!
The house of Israel not only was to lose its identity,
but its name. It was to be called by a new name, since they no longer
were to know their identity as Israel, as God said plainly in Isaiah 62:2,
referring to these latter days, and to the millennium.
To Abraham God said, "In ISAAC shall thy seed be
called," and this name is repeated in Romans 9:7 and Hebrews 11:18.
In Amos 7:16 the Israelites are called "the house ISAAC". They were
descended from Isaac, and therefore are Isaac's sons. Drop the "I"
from "Isaac" (vowels are not used in Hebrew spelling), and we have the
modern name "SAAC'S SONS," or, as we spell it in shorter manner, "SAXONS"!
Dr. W. Holt Yates says, "The word 'Saxons' is derived
from the 'sons of Isaac,' by dropping the prefix 'I.'"
Many confuse the Anglo-Saxons with the German or
Old Saxons who still live in Germany. The German Saxons derive their
name from an Old High German word, Sahs, meaning "sword" or "knife."
These sword-carrying Germans are an entirely different people from the
Anglo-Saxons who migrated to Britain.
As the Eternal intended that "lost" Israel was to be located
and found in these last days, we should expect some kinds of signs or waymarks
to have been left along the trail by which ancient Israel journeyed from
Assyria, the land of their original captivity.
Speaking to Ephraim (verse 20), the Eternal says
in Jeremiah 31:21: "Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine
heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest." In Scripture
we find the "waymarks," or highway signs, which they set up along the road
they traveled.
In Genesis 49:17, Jacob, foretelling what should
befall each of the tribes, says: "Dan shall be a serpent by the way."
Another translation of the original Hebrew is: "Dan shall be a serpent's
trail." It is a significant fact that the tribe of Dan, one of the
Ten Tribes, named every place they went after their father Dan.
The tribe of Dan originally occupied a strip of
coast country on the Mediterranean, west of Jerusalem. "And the coast
of the children of Dan," we read in Joshua 19:47, "went out too little
for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem,
and took it. . .and called Leshen, DAN, after the name of Dan their father."
In Judges 18:11-12, it is recorded that Danites
took Kirjath-jearim, and "called that place Mahanehdan unto this day."
A little later the same company of 600 armed Danites came to Laish, captured
it, and "they called the name of the city DAN, after the name of Dan their
father" (verse 29). So notice how these Danites left their "serpent's
trail" by the way - set up waymarks by which they may be traced today.
Remember, in the Hebrew, vowels were not written.
The sound of the vowels had to be supplied in speaking. Thus, the
word "Dan" in its English equivalent could be spelled, simply, "Dn."
It might be pronounced as "Dan," or "Den," or "Din," or "Don," or "Dun"
- and still could be the same original Hebrew name.
The tribe of Dan occupied two different districts,
or provinces, in the Holy Land before the Assyrian captivity. One
colony lived on the seacoast of Palestine. They were principally
seamen, and it is recorded Dan abode in ships (Judges 5:17).
When Assyria captured Israel, these Danites struck
out in their ships and sailed west through the Mediterranean and north
to Ireland. Just before his death, Moses prophesied of Dan: "Dan
is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan" (Deut. 33:22). Along
the shores of the Mediterranean they left their trail in "Den," "Don,"
and "Din."
Irish annals and history show that the new settlers
of Ireland, at just this time, were the "Tuatha de Danaans," which means,
translated, "Tribe of Dan." Sometimes the same appears simply as
"Tuatha De," meaning the "people of God." And in Ireland we find
they left these "waymarks": Dans-Laugh, Dan-Sower, Dun-dalk, Dun-drum,
Don-egal Bay, Don-egal City, Dun-gloe, Din-gle, Dunsmor (meaning "more
Dans"). Moreover, the name Dunn in the Irish language means the same
as Dan in the Hebrew: judge.
But the northern colony of Danites was taken to
Assyria in the captivity, and thence with the rest of the Ten Tribes they
traveled from Assyria by the overland route.
After leaving Assyrian captivity, they inhabited
for some time the land just west of the Black Sea. There we find
the rivers Dnieper, Dniester, and the Don.
Then, in either ancient or later geography, we
find these waymarks: Dan-au, the Dan-inn, the Dan-aster, the Dan-dari,
the Dan-ez, the Don, the Dan, and the U-don; the Eri-don, down to the Danes.
Denmark means "Dan's mark."
When they came to the British Isles, they set up
the "waymark" names of Dun-dee, Dun-raven; in Scotland the "Dans," "Dons"
and "Duns" are as prolific as in Ireland. And so the "serpent's trail"
of Dan sets up waymarks that lead directly to the British Isles!
Now briefly let us consider what is found in the ancient
annals, legends, and history of Ireland, and we shall have the scene of
Jeremiah's "planting" and the present location of "lost" Israel.
The real ancient history of Ireland is very extensive,
though colored with some legend. But with the facts of biblical history
and prophecy in mind, one can easily sift out the legend from the true
history in studying ancient Irish annals. Throwing out that which
is obviously legendary, we glean from various histories of Ireland the
following: Long prior to 700 B.C. a strong colony called "Tuatha de Danaan"
(tribe of Dan) arrived in ships, drove out other tribes, and settled there.
Later, in the days of David, a colony of the line of Zarah arrived in Ireland
from the Near East.
Then, in 569 B.C. (date of Jeremiah's transplanting),
an elderly, white-haired patriarch, sometimes referred to as a "saint,"
came to Ireland. With him was the princess daughter of an eastern
king and a companion called "Simon Brach," spelled in different histories
as Breck, Berech, Brach, or Berach. The princess had a Hebrew name
Tephi - a pet name - her full name being Tea-Tephi.
Modern literature of those who recognize our national
identity has confused this Tea-Tephi, a daughter of Zedekiah, with an earlier
Tea, a daughter of Ith, who lived in the days of David.
This royal party included the son of the king of
Ireland who had been in Jerusalem at the time of the siege. There
he had become acquainted with Tea-Tephi. He married her shortly after
585 - when the city fell. Their young son, now about 12 years of
age, accompanied them to Ireland. Besides the royal family, Jeremiah
brought with them some remarkable things, including a harp, an ark, and
a wonderful stone called "lia-fail," or "stone of destiny." A peculiar
coincidence (?) is that Hebrew reads from right to left, while English
reads from left to right. Read this name either way - and it still
is "lia-fail."
Another strange coincidence - or is it just coincidence?
- is that many kings in the history of Ireland, Scotland, and England have
been coronated sitting over this stone - including the present queen.
The stone rests today in Westminster Abbey in London, and the coronation
chair is built over and around it. A sign beside it labels it "Jacob's
pillar-stone" (Gen. 28:18).
The royal husband of the Hebrew princess Tea was
given the title Herremon upon ascending the throne of his father.
This Herremon has usually been confused with a much earlier Gede the Herremon
in David's day - who married his uncle Ith's daughter Tea. The son
of this later king Herremon and Hebrew princess continued on the throne
of Ireland and this same dynasty continued unbroken through all the kings
of Ireland; was overturned and transplanted again in Scotland; again overturned
and moved to London, England, where this same dynasty continues today in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Another interesting fact is that the crown worn
by the kings of the line of Herremon and the other sovereigns of ancient
Ireland had twelve points!
Queen Elizabeth on David's Throne
In view of the linking together of biblical history, prophecy,
and Irish history, can anyone deny that this Hebrew princess was the daughter
of King Zedekiah of Judah and therefore heir to the throne of David?
That the aged patriarch was in fact Jeremiah, and his companion was Jeremiah's
scribe, or secretary, Baruch? That King Herremon was a descendant
of Zarah, here married to the daughter of Pharez, healing the ancient breach?
That when the throne of David was first overturned by Jeremiah, it was
REPLANTED in Ireland, later overturned a second time and replanted in Scotland,
overturned a third time and planted in London? When Christ returns
to earth to sit on that throne, He shall take over a LIVE, existing throne,
not a nonexistent one (Luke 1:32).
And the British Commonwealth of Nations is the
only COMPANY OF NATIONS in all earth's history. Could we so exactly
fulfill the specifications of the birthright, and not be the birthright
people?
The United States expanded rapidly in national
resources and wealth after 1800, but reached world dominance among nations
later than the British Commonwealth. It became a giant world power
by the end of World War I.
From the prophetic blessings passed on by the dying Jacob,
it is apparent that Ephraim and Manasseh were in a large measure to inherit
the birthright jointly; to remain together for a long time, finally separating.
In Genesis 48 Jacob first passed the birthright
on to the two sons of Joseph jointly, speaking of them both together.
Then, finally, he spoke of them separately - Manasseh was to become the
single GREAT nation; Ephraim, the COMPANY of nations.
And in his prophecy for these latter days Jacob
said, "Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose
branches run over the wall" (Gen. 49:22). In other words, Joseph
- Ephraim and Manasseh jointly and together - was to be a colonizing people
in this latter day, their colonies branching out from the British Isles
around the earth.
Together Ephraim and Manasseh grew into a multitude,
then separated, according to Jacob's prophetic blessing of Genesis 48.
Our people have fulfilled this prophecy.
But how can we be Manasseh when a large part of
our people have come from many nations besides England? The answer
is this: A large part of Manasseh remained with Ephraim until the separation
of NEW England. But our forefathers were to be sifted through many
nations, as corn through a sieve, yet not a grain to fall to the earth
or be lost (Amos 9:9). Our people did filter through many nations.
Ephraim and much of Manasseh finally immigrated to England together, but
many others of Manasseh who had filtered into and through other nations
did not leave them until the came, as immigrants, to the United States
AFTER the New England colony had become the separate nation. This
does not mean that all foreigners who have immigrated into this country
are of the stock of Manasseh, but undoubtedly many are. Israel, however,
always did absorb Gentiles, who became Israelites through living in Israel's
land and intermarrying.
Thus we have become known as the "melting pot"
of the world. Instead of refuting our Manasseh ancestry, this fact
actually confirms it. The proof that we are Manasseh is overwhelming.
Manasseh was to separate from Ephraim and become the greatest, wealthiest
single nation of earth's history. We alone have fulfilled this prophecy.
Manasseh was in fact a thirteenth tribe. There were twelve original
tribes. Joseph was one of these twelve. But when Joseph divided
into two tribes and Manasseh separated into an independent nation,
it became a thirteenth tribe.
Could it be mere coincidence that it started, as
a nation, with thirteen colonies?
But what about the other tribes of the so-called
"Lost Ten Tribes"? While the birthright was Joseph's, and its blessings
have come to the British Commonwealth of Nations and the United States
of America, yet the other eight tribes of Israel were also God's chosen
people. They, too, have been blessed with a good measure of material
prosperity - but not the dominance of the birthright.
We lack space for a detailed explanation of the
specific identity of all of these other tribes in the nations of our twentieth
century. Suffice it to say here that there is ample evidence that
these other eight tribes have descended into such northwestern European
nations as Holland, Belgium, Denmark, northern France, Luxembourg, Switzerland,
Sweden, Norway. The people of Iceland are also of Viking stock.
The political boundaries of Europe, as they exist today, do not necessarily
show lines of division between descendants of these original tribes of
Israel.