Danes and Jutes: Dan and Judah-Dan

By Mikkel Stjernholm Kragh

The modern Danish people (Danskere) is made up of the proper Danes (Daner) on the numerous islands, and the Jutes (Jyder) on the Jutland peninsula, if recent immigrants, etc., are ignored. The original Danes were a Nordic tribe, while the original Jutes were a Germanic tribe. The Danes are of Dan, and the Jutes are of Judah and Dan.

The deportation of Israel to areas south of the Caucasus

The three northern tribes of Israel – Dan, Asher, and Naphtali – were among the first of the Israelite tribes to be deported out of the land of Canaan, because the invaders who attacked and deported the Israelite tribes – the Assyrians and Babylonians – invaded the land of Canaan from the north. From 734 to 732 BC Tiglath-Pileser III King of Assyria invaded and conquered the northern, eastern, and western parts of the 10 tribed northern kingdom of Israel, as the Holy Scriptures record:

”In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria.” (2 Kings 15:29)

In 724 BC Salmaneser V King of Assyria attacked Samaria, the capital of the northern 10 tribed kingdom of Israel, and in 721 BC his successor, Sargon II, took Samaria, and the rest of the 10 tribes of Israel were deported to areas south of the Caucasus mountains and south of the Caspian Sea, as the Holy Scriptures record:

”In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.” (2 Kings 17:6)

These areas are almost identical to the areas where the oldest Norse chronicles state that the ancestors of the Nordic and Germanic tribes came from, before they trekked over Eastern Europe to Northern Europe.

The Aser and Vaner homeland south and north of the Caucasus

The Icelandic chief and historian Snorre Sturlasson (1179-1241) wrote Heimskringla (app. 1230), of which the first part is called the Ynglinge Saga, wherein Sturlasson describes the homeland of the Nordic and Germanic tribes as the areas south and north of the Caucasus mountains. They were divided into two groups, Aser and Vaner, which obviously are the names of Asher and Dan, two of the Israelite tribes in the camp of Dan.

Snorre Sturlasson describes the homeland of the Vaner, which was the lost Israelite tribe of Dan:

“On the south side of the mountains which lie outside of all inhabited lands runs a river through Swithiod, which is properly called by the name of Tanais, but was formerly called Tanaquisl, or Vanaquisl, and which falls into the Black Sea.  The country of the people on the Vanaquisl was called Vanaland, or Vanaheim; and the river separates the three parts of the world, of which the eastermost part is called Asia, and the westermost Europe.” (Snorre Sturlasson: Ynglinge Saga pt. 1)

The river Tanakvisl/Vanakvisl/Tanais must be the river Don, because its ancient Greek name was Tanaïs. In the Old Testament, the Danites named places after their ancestor Dan (Judges 18:12, 29), and Don also carries the name Dan.

The Vaner lived adjacent to the Aser, whose chief was Odin:

”The country east of the Tanaquisl in Asia was called Asaland, or Asaheim, and the chief city in that land was called Asgaard.  In that city was a chief called Odin, and it was a great place for sacrifice.  It was the custom there that twelve temple priests should both direct the sacrifices, and also judge the people. They were called Diar, or Drotner, and all the people served and obeyed them.  Odin was a great and very far-travelled warrior, who conquered many kingdoms, and so successful was he that in every battle the victory was on his side.” (Snorre Sturlasson: Ynglinge Saga pt. 2)

The lost tribes of Israel’s trek from the Middle East to Northern Europe

After a war between the Aser and Vaner, which ended without anyone of them prevailing, Odin led the tribes to Northern Europe:

”There goes a great mountain barrier from north-east to south-west, which divides the Greater Swithiod from other kingdoms. South of this mountain ridge it is not far to Turkland, where Odin had great possessions.  In those times the Roman chiefs went wide around in the world, subduing to themselves all people; and on this account many chiefs fled from their domains.  But Odin having foreknowledge, and magic-sight, knew that his posterity would come to settle and dwell in the northern half of the world. He therefore set his brothers Ve and Vilje over Asgaard; and he himself, with all the gods and a great many other people, wandered out, first westward to Gardarike [Russia], and then south to Saxland [Saxony].  He had many sons; and after having subdued an extensive kingdom in Saxland, he set his sons to rule the country.  He himself went northwards to the [Baltic] sea, and took up his abode in an island which is called Odin’s Island [Odense] on Funen.” (Snorre Sturlasson: Ynglinge Saga pt. 5, my brackets)

The account of this trek is confirmed by important historians such as Peter Friderich Suhm (Denmark, 1728-1798) and Olof Rudbeck the Elder (Sweden, 1630-1702). Suhm and Rudbeck did not trace our origins all the way back to the Israelites, but Suhm did write - speaking of the Nordic peoples - that

“the ancestors of us, the Germans, and the Celts lived together in Asia Minor” (P.F. Suhm: Om Odin og den Hedniske Gudelære og Gudstieneste udi Norden (1771), p. 140-141)

The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl also confirmed Snorre Sturlasson’s account in 2002, when he published Jakten på Odin (The Search for Odin), wherein Heyerdahl specifically wrote that the ancestors of the Norsemen came from Azerbaijan.

The many Odins

There were several Odins. Suhm writes of at least three different Odins. Odin was most likely not a name, but a title, which meant something like “lord, chief, no. one or prime minister”.

In Russian, Odin means “one”. I have asked a Russian lady about this, and she confirmed it.

The lost tribes of Israel are divided in two groups

When the lost tribes, led by Odin, came to the Baltic Sea, they divided themselves into two groups. One group went north across the Baltic Sea and became the ancestors of the Nordic tribes, such as the Danes (Daner), Swedes (Svear), Geats (Götar), and Norwegians. The other group went west across what today is Poland and became the ancestors of the Germanic tribes.

Suhm thus writes that it is

“reasonable that our fathers have come here via Russia and the eastern part of Poland. When they came to the Baltic Sea and present-day Livonia, they divided themselves into two great multitudes. The one went north, and our fathers descend from them, and the other went west, and became the ancestors of many German peoples” (P.F. Suhm: Historie af Danmark, Vol. 1 (1782), p. 4-5)

Denmark called Vanaheim

After the tribes had arrived in Northern Europe, Vanaheim - the homeland of the Vaner - was still a geographical place. Suhm mentions a Swedish King Svedger in the 1^st century AD who went to Vanaheim and married a Vaner woman, and then continued to Germany, the Greater Svithjod and Gothheim, to search for the old Odin, who had been missing for five years. (P.F. Suhm: Om Odin og den Hedniske Gudelære og Gudstieneste udi Norden (1771), p. 99)

From the context, it seems that by Vanaheim is meant Denmark.

The original Danes and Jutes

The Gothic historian Jordanes writes in De origine actibusque getarum (The origin and deeds of the Goths, 551 AD) that the Danes came out of the Swedes. (The original Swedes and the Geats later formed Sweden.) The Danes were of the tribe of Dan, who came to the Scandinavian peninsula along with the other tribes of Bilhah and Zilpah, Naphtali, Asher, and Gad.

The original Jutes, on the other hand, were of the tribe of Judah, who along with other tribes of Leah made up the Germanic tribes that settled on the European continent and the Jutland peninsula.

Above: Denmark in the Middle Ages. The two eastern provinces Blekinge and Bornholm are inserted in the upper right corner. (From A. Fabricius: Illustreret Danmarkshistorie for Folket Vol. 1 (1914), p. 539)

Origin of the nation of Denmark

Suhm writes that around 235 AD Dan Mikillati, king of the Danes in Scania and Halland, was also crowned as king of the islands Zealand, Funen, Møn, Falster, and Lolland. When the Jutes and the Angles were invaded by the Saxons, Dan Mikillati succesfully helped them, and for this the Jutes and the Angles also crowned him as king in Viborg in Jutland (P.F. Suhm: Historie af Danmark (1782), p. 103-112).

Denmark, as we know it today, was thus united, even though the three parts – Scania Land, the isles, and Jutland – kept their separate laws. (The four provinces Scania, Halland, Blekinge, and Bornholm were collectively called Scania Land (Terra Scaniæ).)

The name Danmark (Denmark)

Danmark – the Danish name for Denmark - means “the Danes’ borderland”, because “mark” meant borderland. Danmark was originally the name for Dan Mikillati’s kingdom in Scania and Halland, but eventually became the name of the entire kingdom.

The Danish historiographer Iver Nielsen Hertzholm (1635-1693) wrote that the Danes’ and Denmark’s name comes “from the Hebrew word Dan: meaning to judge, investigate, and believes that we are called so because of our wisdom” (according to P.F. Suhm: Critisk Historie af Danmark (1774), p. 144).

In the days of the Old Testament, the tribe of Dan had a habit of naming places after their father Dan, the son of Israel. Dan originally lived in a territory next to Ephraim, Benjamin, Judah and the Philistines. In the early 12^th century 600 Danites sought a new territory in the north of Canaan, where there lived Phoenicians, next to Naphtali and the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. On their way, they camped in a place in Judah, which the Danites called Mahaneh-dan, meaning “Camp of Dan”:

“And there went from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men appointed with weapons of war. And they went up and pitched in Kirjath-jearim, in Judah: wherefore they called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this day: behold, it is behind Kirjath-jearim.” (Judges 18:11-12)

After they had smitten the peaceful Phoenicians of Laish with the sword and burned the city, they called the new city Dan:

“And they built a city, and dwelt therein. And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.” (Judges 18:28-29)

When the tribe of Dan, called Vaner and Taner, trekked across Eastern Europe, they likewise seem to have named several major rivers after themselves. The river Don, by the ancient Norsemen called Tanakvisl and Vanakvisl, and by the ancient Greeks called Tanaïs, has already been mentioned. Other major East European rivers with the prefix D-n are: Donets, a tributary to Don. Dnieper, which by late Greek and Roman authors was called Danapris and Danaper respectively. Dniestr, which by the Romans and Jordanes (6^th century AD) was called Danastris and Danastus. The Danube, which in German, Danish, and other languages is called Donau.

In 1219 King Valdemar II of Denmark led a succesfull crusade in Estonia to convert the Estonians to the Christian faith. Besides King Valdemar and the Danish army, the Crusaders also included Archbishop Sunesen of Denmark, Bishop Theodorik of Estonia, a German army, and a Slavonic Sorb army. The Crusaders encamped at Lyndanisse and began to build a castle which they called Dane Castle (Castrum Danorum), which became the city Tallinn, which in Estonian means Dane City, and today is the capital of Estonia. (It was at the battle of Lyndanisse that a flag – which probably had belonged to some of the Crusaders and had gotten hurled up in the air - fell down from the sky, and became Dannebrog, the Danish flag.)

Today Danes likewise have a habit of using the name Dan in their firms. If you type in “Dan” in the Danish online yellow pages (see here), there comes out a long list of firms, such as:

Above: Cable tubes made by Dantex.

Dantex – they make cable tubes and other tubes

Dan-Ejendomme – they rent out apartments

Dan-Glas – there are several firms by this name, they are into car windows

Dan-Tæk – they thatch roofs (with straws)

Rota-Dan – they make different kinds of wheels

Dan-Color – they produce different kinds of paints

Dan Dryer – they produce dryers for bathrooms

Dan-markering – they make road signs and other forms of road markings

Dan Delektron – they produce lightning conductors

Nor-Dan Bus – a Norwegian-Danish bus company

Dan Cargo – a leading Nordic firm within international transport and third-party logistics

Dan-cool – they make vehicles with refrigerators and freezers (for butchers, for example)

Dan-Labels – they make labels

Dan Stål – there are numerous firms by this name that makes products with steel and other metals

Baby Dan – they develop, produce, and sell safety equipment for children age 0-5

Dan Auto Parts – they sell auto parts

Danfoss – they make thermostates and other products

Dan Group Alarm – they set up alarms

Above: a property with alarms from Dan Group Alarm

The Jutes

The Jutes were originally a Germanic tribe which later became Nordic. (See P.F. Suhm: Historie af Danmark, Vol. 1 (1782), p. 26 and 109, and P.F. Suhm: Critisk Historie af Danmark, Vol. 1 (1774), p. 172-173, and here.) The Jutes came to Jutland from Germany, while the Danes came to the isles from the Scandinavian peninsula. The Angles and the Saxons, two other Germanic tribes, settled in the southern parts of the Jutland peninsula.

Today the descendants of the ancient Germanic tribes are dispersed throughout both Germanic speaking and non-Germanic speaking peoples, though. The following European nations are in the following percentages genetically descended from the ancient Germanic tribes:

Germany: 25% Germanic, 45% Celtic, 20% Slavonic, 10% Jewish

Austria: 35% Germanic, 30% Slavonic, 10% Finno-Ugric, 10% Phoenician, 10% Jewish, 5% Celtic

Switzerland: 30% Germanic, 55% Celtic, 10% Jewish, 5% Slavonic

Netherlands: 40% Germanic, 50% Celtic, 10% Viking

Belgium: 20% Germanic, 80% Celtic

UK: 13% Germanic, 75% Celtic, 12% Viking

France: 20% Germanic, 70% Celtic, 10% Phoenician

Czech Republic: 50% Germanic, 42% Slavonic, 8% Jewish

Spain: 15% Germanic, 40% Celtic, 30% Iberian, 7% Phoenician, 7% “special case” (?), 1% Arab

Sweden and Norway: 12% Germanic, 88% Viking

Denmark: 40% Germanic, 60% Viking

(See the entire list here.)

When Denmark today genetically is 60% similar to the ancient Vikings and 40% similar to the ancient Germanic tribes, the Israelite tribe of Dan must make up the 60% Viking part and the Judah-Jutes must make up the 40% Germanic part.

Jutes invade England

Even though the Jutes had become a part of Denmark under King Dan Mikillati app. 235 AD, Jutland remained the apple of discord between Danes and Saxons, and to such an extent that the Jutes often were reckoned as belonging to the latter rather than the former. (P.F. Suhm: Historie af Danmark, Vol. 1 (1782), p. 109)

In the 5^th century AD, when the earth in Jutland was exhausted and could not support the population, the Jutes invaded England along with the Angles and the Saxons. In these invasion are not mentioned any Danes. The Danes and the Norwegians only invaded the British Isles in the later Viking Era (8^th to 11^th century).

The tribe of Dan in the book of Revelation

The tribe of Dan’s future is shrouded in mystery.

The tribe of Dan is, as the only tribe of Israel, not among the sealed 144,000 male Israelites(Rev. 7:4-8) that are going to reign with the Lamb and God. Revelation does simply not state why the tribe of Dan is not among the 144,000.

The 144,000 are the co-rulers and are compared with the fruitsfruits (Rev. 14:4). The firstfruits was a small ceremonial offering at Pentecost (Ex. 34:22, Lev. 23:15-17). All the inhabitants of the coming Kingdom of God are, on the other hand, compared with the normal harvest (Luke 10:2). The normal harvest takes place in the autumn, and is immensely larger than the firstfruits in size.

That the tribe of Dan is not among the 144,000 does therefore not mean that the tribe of Dan is going to perish.

May 2009

Bibliography

Authorized King James Version of the Bible

Adam Fabricius: Illustreret Danmarkshistorie for Folket, Vol. 1 (Copenhagen and Oslo: Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag, 1914)

Snorri Sturlasson: Heimskringla or the Chronicles of the Kings of Norway translated by Samuel Laing (London, 1844) Mikkel Stjernholm Kragh has made a few corrections to the English translation. (Online version here.)

Peter Friderich Suhm: Critisk Historie af Danmark, udi den Hedenske Tid, fra Odin til Gorm den Gamle, Vol. 1(Critical History of Denmark, out in the Heathen Times, from Odin until Gorm the Old)(Copenhagen: Brødrene Johann Christian & Georg Christopher Berling, 1774) (Online here.)

Peter Friderich Suhm: Historie af Danmark, Vol. 1 (Copenhagen: Brødrene Berling, 1782) (Online here.)

Peter Friderich Suhm: Om Odin og den Hedniske Gudelære og Gudstieneste udi Norden (Copenhagen: Brødrene Berling, 1771)

Denmark's Christian Heritage

 

Denmark is the smallest of the three Scandinavian kingdoms, and is located on numerous islands and the mainland peninsula of Jutland. Though Denmark is small, it is one of the very oldest continually existing national states, tracing its kings and queens back to before the 9th century. The name “Denmark” is called “Danmark” in the Danish tongue, and means “the border district of the Danes". It was used from sometime earlier than the 10th century by the dominating tribe of the Danes.

In ancient times, all the Norse peoples, kingdoms and tongues, referred to themselves as “The Danes”, as the chronicle writer of Norse mythology, Snorre Sturlasson of Iceland (12th century), writes in the history of the Norsemen, The Younger Edda. In these ancient chronicles of the Norse peoples, Snorre writes that the Norsemen came to Scandinavia as the twin-people of the Aser and the Vaner, led by the chieftain with the name (or rather title) Odin, who ruled in a kingdom at the Black Sea in Eastern Europe. In the Norse tongue, this distant eastern homeland of the Norseman was called Svithjod the Great: which is equivalent to Scythia the Great. It is here that we find the connection of the Danish people with the Israelites of the Bible. After their deportation by Assyria, the Israelites took on various names, one of them being Scythians, who moved from their original place of exile around the Caspian Sea to the Northwest (see 2 KINGS 17:6), eventually arriving in Scandinavia.

According to biblical prophecy, the tribe of Dan, one of the ten Israelite tribes, left its mark wherever it went (see GENESIS 49:17 and JUDGES 18:29). Thus, the present day Russian river Dniepr, which was originally called Danapir; the Danube; and, of course, Danmark are other geographic names named after Dan. (see ‘What Does the Topic of National Israel Mean?’)

Across the Danish landscape are more than 5,000 dolmens: ancient graves for noblemen consisting of huge rocks. When the dolmens were erected is uncertain, but they are also found across Western Europe, the Western Mediterranean, and in Palestine. Everywhere Israelite people went, these dolmens can be found. The national song of Denmark mentions them in one verse, as being built in very ancient days.

The Vikings

Over time, the Danes didn’t lose their sense of adventure. As Vikings in their longboats they set about pillaging many monasteries and settlements along the coasts of England and the continent and were dreaded by the Catholic monks. During and after the Viking age, most of Scandinavia and the main part of England were under the Danish Crown.

Catholic Conversion

In the year 1000 AD under King Harald the Blue Tooth, the Danes (as we know them today) converted to Catholicism, as witnessed by the so-called “baptismal stone of Denmark”, which Harald erected near the southern Jutland town of Jelling.

From the 10th century to the 16th century, Denmark was the predominant power in northern Europe. Queen Margrethe I of Denmark (1387-1412) at one time united all of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Finland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland under her Crown in the Kalmar Union.

1536 - The Danish Reformation

When the German monk Martin Luther began Northern Europe’s spiritual revolt against the bondage of Rome (see the German Christian history page;), Luther’s German pupils had a great impact on the Danish clergymen. In particular, he influenced Hans Tausen, who preached Luther’s teachings openly in Viborg, and who was defended by the local populace against the guards of the bishop of Viborg. In 1536, Denmark was one of the first nations to formally convert to the teachings of Martin Luther’s Protestant Christianity. In contrast to what occurred in Germany and England, there was no shedding of blood. Subsequently, Lutheranism became the country's official religion and remains so to this day.

King Christian III locked up the Catholic bishops, banned all Catholic monk orders, and put all of the property of the wealthy Catholic Church under State control. Christian III was himself a preacher, and gained much help for the Reformation of the Church from Peter Palladius, who made the Lutheran theology understandable for common people.

One of the godliest kings of Denmark was Christian VI, although he was not very popular with his subjects as he tried to impart his biblical beliefs on them. As a friend of Count Zinzendorf (see the German Christian history page;), he opened the Danish colonies in the West Indies and Greenland as missionary fields for the Moravian brethren. Politically, King Christian VI remained neutral and didn’t involve Denmark in any of the wars of his time.

Unfortunately, not too many Danish kings were as God-fearing as Christian VI. Neither did they possess his good political judgment. In the following centuries, there was constant conflict between Sweden, who was rising in power and Denmark, whose power was receding. In the infamous Thirty Years War (1618-1648) which tore Germany apart, the Swedish King Gustav Adolph proved to be a champion of the Protestant Faith in the Protestant-Catholic struggle in Germany (see the Swedish Christian history page;). The Danish King Christian IV, however, chose to attack Sweden, and Gustav Adolph turned against Denmark. The Swedish siege of Copenhagen remains a fearful memory even today in the minds of Copenhageners. It ended in capitulation with Denmark seceding its eastern third: and this southern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, the Skåneland, is still a part of Sweden today.

During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon was able to get Denmark, with its great navy, second in might only to that of Great Britain, on his side. The British Admiral Nelson bombarded Copenhagen twice (1801 and 1807), and razed half of Copenhagen to the ground. Nelson sailed away with the entire Danish Navy, the pride of Denmark. The Danish state became bankrupt in 1813 and, after Napoleon’s fall, Denmark eventually lost Norway, which until then had been under the Danish Crown. Denmark was now a small and poor country.

Religious Movements in the 19th Century

Religious movements were an important part of these developments. In the 1820’s, many of those who lived in the countryside, particularly in Funen and Zealand, became involved in the religious revival which, through widespread lay preaching, urged followers towards personal acceptance of Christian principles.

During the 19th century, two movements originated that influence Danish thinking even today: Grundtvigianism with a moderate, compromise-seeking view on life; and the Home Mission, a revival movement based on fundamental biblical beliefs.

Pastor N.F.S. Grundtvig combined Christianity with the national love of the history of the Danes. Grundtvig wrote prolifically on Christian and Danish history and on the peculiar national spirit of the Danes. Even today, more than one third of the 700 psalms in the Hymn Book of the Lutheran Danish People’s Church, are written by him. As Grundtvigianism spread, free schools and folk high schools were established and a number of elective congregations (which chose their own minister), as well as independent congregations, began to appear. All these had a lasting effect on the culture of the rural population.

Having originally been established as a layman’s association in 1853, the Home Mission became a strong revival movement within the Danish National Church during the 1860’s. The Home Mission had its roots in Evangelicalism, and was characterised by the demand for personal conversion. It became particularly popular during the 1890’s. The movement has a conservative approach to the Bible. In public debate, the Home Mission often speaks critically about the church. The Home Mission is opposed, among other things, to the ordination of women as ministers and to the benediction of homosexual couples.

On 13th September, 1861, the Church Association for the Inner Mission in Denmark (Danish: Kirkelig Forening for den Indre Mission Danmark), commonly called the Inner Mission, was founded. The Inner Mission has its historical roots in the Reformation period and the revivals of the 1800's. It is a fundamentalist Lutheran Christian Church and is believed to be the largest revival movement within the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church. From its very beginning, the movement has emphasised two important aspects of its work. Firstly, the movement is a church-based movement, where believing pastors and lay people work together. Secondly, the movement aims to bring about a revival in the Christian faith and create a fellowship of believers in the Communion of Saints.

The Inner Mission has, as its basis, the Bible and the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church's articles of confession. The movement stresses the importance of the Bible as the Word of God and a clear Lutheran understanding of the Sacraments. The Inner Mission is therefore a non-ecumenical movement, and has the twin objectives of reviving and preserving faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.

Pentecostal Revival in Denmark

One of the people who experienced the new “Pentecostal Revival” was the Norwegian Methodist Pastor, Thomas Ball Barratt. He was in the USA collecting funds for a church building in Norway, and by chance heard about the happenings in Azusa Street (where the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that began in Los Angeles, California in April 1906). He was in contact with people from Azusa Street and experienced the baptism of the Holy Spirit for himself. Barratt took his experience back to Norway (see the History of Norway) and with the aid of Revival Meetings was instrumental in the Revival that spread throughout Scandinavia. The Pentecostal Revival in Denmark started in Copenhagen in 1907-09, through Barratt’s meetings. The first Danish Pentecostal Church was established in 1908.

During the 2nd World War

On 9th April, 1940, Denmark was occupied by the German Army. This five-year occupation was the first real occupation of Denmark since time immemorial, though casualties were very small compared to the rest of Europe. The five years of foreign rule were unlike anything else in the history of the Danes. One of the greatest events was the fact that the Danes saved almost all the Jews and managed to get them to Sweden where they were safe.

Denmark Today

Recently Denmark, especially in the larger towns, has become more international and is losing its national identity: partly as a result of the large influx of immigrants from Muslim countries. Denmark has also become very liberal; among other things allowing the civil and church marriage of homosexuals. Although the general view of the people appears to be more conservative, there is too much apathy and political correctness to become involved in such issues.

Throughout history, GOD has chosen men and women to bring His people back to the truth, and when there was a longing for more of GOD, HE heard the prayer of HIS people and fulfilled their longing. GOD can bring revival to Denmark in these latter days if there are people who are prepared to become HIS instruments.

PSALM 85:6 “Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?”

LUKE 11:9 “And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”