ANY Bible students would find it most useful, because greatly facilitating their reading and understanding of Scripture, if they would underline in red ink all parts of the Bible having a direct reference to Israel only, and to underline, in blue ink, those parts referring to Judah alone, and also, in green ink, those parts that refer directly to the GentileWorld, apart from Israel or Judah.

By doing this they would arrive at the readiest method of ascertaining the positive fact, that seven eighths of the entire Bible have reference only to the literal, social, and historical affairs of Israel and Judah, that only about one-eighth of the whole Bible has any real bearing upon the Gentiles, and that those parts marked red, as referring to Israel, largely predominate.

It follows that, not to understand the distinction of Israel from Judah, is positively to misunderstand seven eighths of the Bible, and yet, it is an undeniable fact, that 99 per cent, of our people do not recognise any difference as existing between Israel and Judah, and that, when you speak to them about Israel, they immediately think you are referring to the Jews, and read their Bible with this same false impression. Nationally, to this day, both Oxford and Cambridge are under this delusion, as well as all the Dissenting Colleges of the land; how, then, can we be surprised at the amount of stupid blundering and erroneous statements issuing from our pulpits, or wonder at the fact, that our pulpit ministrations do not gain the respect of the masses, so that, while the thousands regard the Church as a venerable Institution, the millions are really outside its influence?

Brethren! is it not a lamentable assertion to make in 1876, that seven-eighths of the Bible are misunderstood? yet it is, too truly, a fact. By not distinguishing Israel from Judah, we set all the prophetical books at variance with each other; we make one prophet give the direct falsehood to another; we make Isaiah call into question the prophecies of Jeremiah; and Jeremiah impugn the statements of Hosea. We set Joel against Amos, Zephaniah against Zechariah, and make Ezekiel
contradict them all.

Hundreds of proofs are at hand to substantiate these statements, but a few must suffice. Isaiah, Hosea, and Christ declare Israel to be Lost. Isaiah 7:8; Hosea 1:10;
6:2; Matthew 15:24. Jeremiah and Ezekiel declare Judah to be Known. Jeremiah 24:9; Ezekiel 22:4. Hosea declares Israel to be as the sand for Multitude. Hosea
1:10. Jeremiah declares Judah to be Few in number. Jeremiah 15:7. Isaiah, David, and Micah declare Israel to be the Strongest War Power upon earth. Isaiah 41:11; Psalm 105:24, Micah 7:16. Whereas Jeremiah declares Judah to be Without Might. Jeremiah 19:7. God Almighty, Samuel, David, Isaiah, and Jeremiah declare Israel to be a Monarchy. 2 Samuel 7:12, 13; Psalm 89:4; Isaiah 37:31; 49:23; Jeremiah 33:26. Jeremiah states Judah to be without Government, 17:4. Isaiah and Obadiah state Israel to be an Island Nation with large Colonies, 49:1, 8; Obadiah 17. Jeremiah and Ezekiel state Judah to be strangers in all countries, without geographical inheritance. Jeremiah 24:9; Ezekiel 22:16. Isaiah, Hosea, Micah, Habakkuk and Paul declare Israel to be a Christian People. Isaiah 44:23; Hosea 2:19; Micah 5:7; Habbakuk 3:13; Romans. 6:14. Whereas Ezekiel, Nahum, Zechariah, Christ, and Peter declare Judah to be under the Mosaic Law. Ezekiel 43:18-27; Nahum 1:15; Zech. 9:11; Mark 7:9; Luke 13:35;1 Peter 2:8. Many scores of such illustrations might be given. These statements are, in reality, perfectly harmonious.

It is only when we read Scripture in our blindness, under the impression that each statement refers to one and the same people, that it becomes contradictory; then it is that the whole Bible seems one mass of confusion, defying the genius of man to bring forth a shadow of reconciliation, without doing material damage to other parts of the Book. Tom Paine fell into the common error of looking at the Jews as the House of Israel, and states boldly in his writings that he was led into infidelity because he saw that the Jews could never verify the promises given to Israel; he therefore gave the Bible up as a myth.

Honestly, I cannot blame the man; for he did but exercise an acute judgement; and I frankly avow, that if my eyes had not been opened, and my mind instructed, to see that Israel and Judah are not the same people, I could have come to no other conclusion. I can never be too thankful to the Almighty, that in my youth He used the late Professor Wilson to show me the difference between the two Houses. The very understanding of this difference is the key by which almost the entire Bible becomes intelligible, and I cannot state too strongly, that the man who has not yet seen that the Israel of the Scriptures are totallydistinct from the Jewish people, is yet in the very infancy, the mere alphabet of Biblical study, and that, to this day, the meaning of fully seven-eighths of the Bible is completely shut out to his understanding.

I close this chapter by a short and powerful description of the difference between Israel and Judah, given forth by God Himself:

I again recommend my readers the plan of underlining their Bibles in red, blue, and green inks. If they would try the red and blue in the quotation just given, they would see its service. There are hundreds of verses like the above, that in part refer to Israel, and in part to Judah, and by this method of employing different colours to distinguish the parts, the intellect is immediately instructed, saving an immense strain upon the mind in study. I live in the hope of seeing the day when our Oxford and Cambridge Presses, with the British and Foreign Bible Society, will facilitate study by using different classes of type to discriminate readily these distinctions, and at the same time sponging out the absurd and abominably false Head Lines that both disgrace and disfigure nearly all their Editions.

THE TRUE AND NOBLE ORIGINS OF THE ANGLO-ISRAEL MESSAGE

Alan Campbell B.A.

YOU hear so many strange things about BritishIsraelites. Who are they? where did this Anglo-Israel teaching have its origins? Are they a crazy racist cult, a new American sect? Opponents of Anglo-Israel, having little or no Scriptural evidence to refute our teachings, prefer to frighten sincere seekers for truth by seeking to smear British-Israel with the biggest tar brush possible. A favourite method seems to be that of claiming that the Anglo-Israel teaching originated with the writings of the deranged Richard Brothers, who was for a time confined to a lunatic asylum in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth century.

Now I feel sure that you the reader would prefer the truth, and so we will trace the origins of our message and tell you of the many distinguished clergymen, evangelists and preachers of many diverse Protestant denominations who have held to our beliefs, as well as many members of our own British Royal Family.

Let us be clear about one thing, there was a knowledge of and writings about the Israel Identity of the Celto-Anglo Saxon and related peoples long before poor Richard Brothers ever stumbled upon this truth. As long ago as the 6th Century A.D.an early British Historian Gildas named "the Wise" wrote at the era when the pagan Saxon's were invading Christian Celtic Britain. He wrote that these events were taking place to the end that our Lord might in this land try after His accustomed manner these His Israelites whether they loved Him or not: In 1314 A.D. the nobility of Scotland signed the Scottish Declaration of Independence at Arbroath Abbey. In it they stated their belief in the Israel identity of their people:-"We know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients gather, that the nation of the Scots passing from the greater Scythia through the Mediterranean Sea and the Pillars of Hercules (Straits of Gibraltar) and sojourning in Spain ... and convey there one thousand two hundred years after the outgoing of the people of Israel".

Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) wrote to Rev. John Foxe,the famous Martyrologist:God may be glorified, His church, our Queen and country preserved, the enemies of truth vanquished; that we might have continued peace in Israel. Our enemies are many but our protector commandeth the whole earth"

French Huguenot Counsellor Le Loyer wrote in his The Ten Lost Tribes Found" (1590)The Israelites came to and founded the English Isles" John Saddler MA, M.P- in 1649 in his learned work Rights of the Kingdom or Customs of our Kings and Parliaments" advocated the Israelitish origins of the English.

A TESTIMONY OF OUR IDENTITY

In 1723, Dr.Jacques Abaddie (1654-1727), Huguenot refugee and Dean of Killaloe, Ireland, in his Le Triomphe de la Providence et de la Religionwrote:" Certainly, unless the Ten Tribes have flown into the air, or been plunged to the earth's centre, they must be sought in that part of the North which, in the time of Constantine, was converted to the Christian Faith - namely among the Iberians, Armenians, and Scythians; for that was the place of their dispersion-the wilderness where God caused them to dwell in tents, as when they came out of the land of Egypt... Perhaps, were the subject carefully examined, it would be found that the nations who in the fifth age made irruption into the Roman Empire, and whom Procopius reduces to ten in number, wer in effect the Ten Tribes,who kept in a state of separation up to that time, then quitted the Euxine and Caspian, the place of their exile, because the country could no longer contain them. Everything fortifies this conjecture; the extraordinary multiplication of this people, marked so precisely by the prophets, the number of the tribes, the custom of those nations to dwell intents, according to the oracles, and many other usages of the Scythians similar to those of the children of Israel." translated from the French by Revd Robert Douglas

Dr Abaddie published his work in Amsterdam and the original four volumes can be seen in the British Museum.

In 176I Alexander Cruden published the first edition of the famous Bible aid, "Crudens Concordance". The dedication page of this original edition contained these words:- that it may be said by the present and future ages, that King George III has been an Hezekiah to our British Israel".

In 1813 RalphWedgwood in his publication The Book of Remembrance" demonstrated that England is Ephraim.

In 1815 Revd James Hartley Frere wrote a book entitled A Combined View of the Prophecies of Daniel, Esdras and St John in which he showed that the British were Israel.

In 1816 Revd B. Murphy published Precursory Proofs that the Israelites came into Egypt and Ireland - he went on to publish The Advocate of Israel and the Isle of Erin.

In 1828 - Revd J. W Brooks wrote an article which he signed Abdul which was published in the Jewish Chronicle and in which he proved the Welsh to be of Israel descent.

In 1840 - Revd John Wilson M.A. a Scottish Presbyterian minister authored the classic book Our Israelitish Origin in which he combined the record of history and Bible Prophecy with the most up to date discoveries of archaeology. His writings and lectures helped to make the Israel Message widely known. The Israel Message was to spread to the United States where one of the leading exponents was Revd Joseph Wild D.D. minister of Union Congregational Church Brooklyn, New York who published many books on Anglo-Israel including The Lost Ten Tribes As the truth of our Israel Identity gained momentum, it would be hard to include them all.

We shall therefore list the best known by their religious denomination which shows how the Anglo-Israel belief took root amongst Christians of diverse backgrounds. Our roll of Honour includes:-

ANGLICAN

Archbishop Bond of Montreal, Revd Titcomb D.D. Bishop of Rangoon, Rt Revd M.S. Alexander -Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem Rt Revd Thornton D.D.- First Anglican Bishop of Ballarat Australia who stated "British Israel truth is most wonderful I wish I had known it twenty five years earlier.It makes clear so many things that have been obscure.

METHODIST

Bishop H.A. Allen of the Wesleyan Methodist Church in California USA who wrote Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright back in 1902. This book is still a B.I. Classic today, a century later and has run into millions of copies. Reviewing the book at the time of publication the Baptist Messenger stated that the arguments produced by Mr Allen seem to be unanswerable."

Dr Dinsdale Young (1861-1938) the famous English Methodist preacher, who pastored Westminster Central Hall and was President of the Wesleyan Conference stated:I increasingly believe that the weight of argument is with the British-Israel position. My heart warms to it, because of its splendid adherence to the Bible. The British Israel Federation has lighted a lamp the golden beauty of which shall never be obscured."

Revd Robert Bradford - Belfast Methodist clergyman, Member of Parliament for South Belfast in the British House of Commons. He spoke extensively on the Message both in the U.K.and in Canada and was to be assassinated by Irish Republican terrorists in 1982.

PRESBYTERIAN

In addition to Revd John Wilson, we have Revd James McGaw, a Reformed Presbyterian minister who authorised "Suppose we are Israel." He testified that:The revelation brought to me through the study of the Israel Truth, has established my faith in the Bible as the Inspired Word of God."

Revd Duncan McDougall- Free Church of Scotland.

BAPTIST

For many years the Woodward Avenue Baptist church in Detroit U.S.A was regarded as the largest Anglo-Israel congregation. Two of its Pastors were leading exponents of Anglo-Israel.

Dr John Wellington Hoag (1915-1947)

Pastor William J Washer (1947-1962)

Dr Mordecai Ham - a convert of the famous evangelist Billy Sunday. Dr Ham led Billy Graham to Christ back in 1934. He held an honorary doctorate from Bob Jones University in Greenville South Carolina, and published a magazine entitled The Kentucky

Revivalist.

Revd T. R. Howlett B.A. minister of Calvary Baptist Church Washington D.C.author of The Ten Lost Tribes of Israel Found and identified in the Anglo-Saxon Race

Pastor James Mountain D.D. leading Baptist Fundamentalist in the United Kingdom. Author of Modernism Refuted and compiler of Hymns of Faith and Consecration He authored British Israel Truth Defended and The Triumph of British Israel

HOLINESS

Revd Maynard James - editor of The Flame magazine.

SALVATIONIST

Major A Smith of the Salvation Army in South Africa.

FULL GOSPEL/PENTECOSTAL

Charles Parnharn pioneer of Pentecost, at whose Topeka Bible College the Pentecostal outpouring began at the turn of the 20th Century.

Pastor Jones and Dan Williams - founders of the Welsh Apostolic Church

Principal George Jeffreys - founder of the Elim Pentecostal Church and the Bible Pattern Church.

Evangelist Stephen Jeffreys - the Principal's brother.

Evangelist E.W Bosworth author of Christ the Healer

Pastor Leo Harris - founder of the Christian Revival Crusade in Australia.

CONGREGATIONAL

Revd Dr Pascoe Goard - a graduate of Wesleyan College in Winnipeg, Canada, he pastored the Knox Congregational Church in Vancouver, going on to be Vice President of the British Israel World Federation and Editor of the National Message magazine. He was author of many Anglo-Israel books, and helped start the Harrow Weald Bible College.

Revd Merton Smith converted in a Moody Revival - he went on to become organising secretary for Moody's campaign in Britain and America. He helped to establish the Moody Bible Institute and was Pastor of the Grandveiw Congregational Church Vancouver, Canada.

OTHER DISTINGUISHED BELIEVERS IN ANGLO-ISRAEL

Professor Charles Totten of Yale University

U.S.A., Professor Piazzi Smith Astronomer Royal of Scotland, Admiral Fisher - First Sea Lord, Hon. W E Massey - Prime Minister of New Zealand,

ROYALTY ALSO

Queen Victoria, King Edward VII, King George V, King George VI, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone

ANGLO-ISRAEL PUBLICATIONS

To further refute those who say Anglo-Israel is some recent cult, we list some of our magazines going back over one hundred years and

more:-

1866 The Watchmen of Ephraim, 1875 Israel's Glory Leader, 1877 The Banner of Israel, 1888 The Two Witnesses, 1890 Our Race, 1922 The National Message 1926 The Watchman of IsraelThese are given as just a random sample.

CONCLUSION

The evidence that we has produced in this small publication gives striking evidence to the historical background of the Anglo-Israel movement, not to mention the wide range of godly and scholarly men out of every Christian denomination who have proclaimed this truth. Let me finish by giving you AN ATHEIST'S TESTIMONY TO THE ANGLO-ISRAEL TRUTH

Charles Bradlaugh K.C. M.P was one of the leading atheists in Britain even being barred from Parliament for a time because of his infidel beliefs. He would address huge atheist meetings in public halls across the country. He would read the promises that God made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and then quite correctly point out that the promises had not been fulfilled in the Jews. He wrongly deduced therefore that the Bible was untrue and there was no God. Late in life he was introduced to the Anglo-Israel message and was a regular attender at meetings. The one time atheist declared I love to come, it is most wonderful what light British-Israel truth throws on the Bible."

THE LORD JESUS CHRIST DIED FOR OUR SINS AND ROSE AGAIN FOR

OUR JUSTIFICATION. YOUR NATIONAL IDENTITY AS THE RACIAL SEED OF ISRAEL WILL NOT

SAVE YOU OTHERWISE CHRIST NEED NOT HAVE COME. WE EXHORT OUR READERS TO REPENT

AND OBEY THE GOSPEL.

THE TWO HOUSES OF ISRAEL

AN INTRODUCTION TO BIBLE PROPHECY

By Pastor J.S. Brooks

AN important key to understanding Israel in prophecy is that after the time of Solomon God's people were split into two nations, the house of Israel (ten tribes), and the house of Judah (two tribes), as related in First Kings, chapter 12. This division continued, for God speaks two families whom He had chosen " Israel and Judah " and declares," thus says the Lord: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth, then I will reject the descendants of Jacob [Israel] and David my servant [Judah] ..." (Jeremiah 33:24-26) These two families are called the two wives (Jeremiah 3:6-14), sisters (Ezekiel 23:2), two nations Ezekiel 37:22), and two kingdoms. (Ezekiel 37:22) They were the two sons of Christ's parables, indicating their continuing separateness in His day. (Matthew 21:28-32; Luke 15:11-32)

In fact, the first Scriptural mention of the Jews is in 2 Kings 16:6 where they were at war with Israel. Letters were written by the chief rabbis of the British Empire in 1918 and 1950, explaining that this division has continued to the present day, and that the Jewish people are descended only from the house of Judah. The house of Israel, sometimes called Ephraim after its leading tribe, instead was conquered by Assyria in the 8th century, B.C. and scattered through the nations of the world.

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 ... So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.

Indeed, there are many clues to the identity of lost Israel from both the Bible and history. The Apocrypha tells us that they were conquered by Assyria and dispersed to an uninhabited land, where never mankind dwelt (2 Esdras 13:40-48), a good description of uninhabited Europe of that day. Isaiah 62:2 says that they would have a new name. They would become a company of nations (Genesis 17:5), many nations Genesis 35:11), and would take the gospel to the ends of the earth (Isaiah 49:6). In fact, Ezekiel tells us that the dispersion of the house of Israel was God's way of purifying this people: I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries: and I will consume your uncleanness out of you. (Ezekiel 22:15, Masoretic Text)

They would have a new land, a new heart, a new Spirit, and a New Covenant. (2 Samuel 7:10, Ezekiel 36:24-26, Jeremiah 31:31) The result would be that God would use them to set right the earth. (Isaiah 42:3-7) Who could this people be in our modern world? The Bible gives us many clues, including the heraldic emblems associated with each of the tribes of Israel in Genesis 48 and Deuteronomy 33.

Mr WH. Bennett provides scholarly evidence of the origin of the words, Scythian, Saka, or Saxon in the word, Isaac. . The origin and inspiration of the famous Scottish Tartan patterns may also date back to Joseph. Indeed, the word, tartan, itself was a Semitic term for a military official or captain of a host. (2 Kings 18:17; Isaiah 20:1)

Clearly, the story of Ephraim-Israel did not end with the 8th century, B.C. destruction of the Northern Kingdom and its capital, Samaria, but prophecy was fulfilled in succeeding centuries in the form of ˜Scythian"tribal victories in Asia and Europe.

Mountains in prophecy signify large nations, and hills are small nations. Is there evidence that these Hebrew Saka-Scythians overthrew large kingdoms? In 1923 the British Museum published a newly discovered Babylonian chronicle giving a detailed description of the events which transpired ... [in] Assyria's last days. We learn from it that the Chaldeans were combined with the Medes and with the Scythians, [who were] an important factor in the weakening of Assyria; that ... in 612 proud Nineveh fell before an assault of the Medes, who were aided by Nabopolassar and a contingent of Scythians.Yes, the SAKA-Scythians, or house of Isaac, played a prominent part in the overthrow of the Assyzian Empire, and other kingdoms as well.

Despite such conquests, they found themselves moving ever westward through the centuries, for God foretold that He would, <I><FONT color=#804000>“let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph... his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth. - (Deuteronomy 33:16-17) Joseph is an important tribe of the house of Israel whose heraldry is now found in Britain, and the "ends of the earth" is a fitting symbol for Western Europe at the bounds of the Atlantic Ocean.

Famous respected Bible scholar, Dr James Augustus Strong, compiler of Strong's Concordance and other works, made this statement, "The larger proportion of the Ten Tribes were, in a state more or less pure, propagated to distant regions by the great national migrations proceeding from Central Asia." - (McClintock and Strong"s Cyclopedia, X:545)

These great national migrations were from Asia westward, and included the Mongols, Huns, Slavs, and other tribes who pushed, or were pushed by, the lost tribes of Israel into Europe. Dr. Strong’s comments indicate that the house of Israel fled from Assyria northward through the Caucasus Mountains, where they were caught up in the westward migration of peoples and settled in Europe.

Memories of their former homeland in the Mid-East were not entirely forgotten, for the famous Roman geographer and historian, Pliny (Natural History, book 4) recorded the Saka-Scythian statement that they were descended from slaves.

The Israelites, of course, were slaves in Egypt, and captives in the land of Assyria, as well. If these SAKA were not Israelites, then to what ancestral captivity were they referring? As these tribes migrated across Europe to the Baltic Sea, Pliny records that in their language, the name for it Is Morimarusa, that is, [the] "Dead Sea." [ibid.] The Baltic Sea, being connected with the Atlantic Ocean, is very salty like the Dead Sea of Palestine; but it is teeming with life and far from dead. They obviously carried with them knowledge of an ancestral dwelling near a salty body of water called the Dead Sea. They would not have named the Baltic after the Dead Sea of ancient Israel unless they were Israelites. In fact, early Greek historian, Herodotus, recorded in his History (4:76) that one of the Scythian kings was named Saulius, evidently named after the first Hebrew king, Saul. (I Samuel 9)

Herodotus recorded in his History (7.64) that, The Sacae, who are Scythians, have high caps tapering to a point and stiffly upright." This style of hat is found on the Behistun Rock, where Scythian king Skunka is depicted wearing it. The Cambridge History of Iran, [vol.3:2:913] states,"We furthermore have some stories about Jewish officials bearing Parthian names, Arda, Arta, and Pyl-y Barish who had a mounted retinue of troops and wore high hats. In Europe of later centuries, it became known as a Wizard's Cap, often with the depiction of a half-moon, the symbol of Muhammadism. Far from being of Muslim origin, the moon symbol apparently denotes the eastern origin of this ancestral clothing.

Other distinctive dress of the early European Scythian tribes included polychrome enamelled jewellery, which is known to have originated in Medo-Persia where the Israelite lost tribes were resettled by Assyria. Russian archaeologist, Michael Rostovtzeff said, <I>“The style as such develops in the East, in Iranian lands, as we see from the Oxus and Susa treasures. (Iranians and Greeks in South Russia, pp. 173) A book on Persian art shows an ancient Persian breastpin, displaying the intricate interloped pattern that has come to be associated with the Celtic peoples.

The ancient Greek historian, Herodotus , tells us that the Scythians travelled with their wives, children, and belongings in covered wagons, perhaps presenting a picture reminiscent of the early American pioneers in their famous ˜Conestoga Wagons' on the Western frontier.

The Caucusus Mountains soared thousands of feet above sea level, causing some historians to suppose that they were impassable. To the contrary these peaks were traversed many times by both Scythian and Persian. A "Daryal Pass" valley route sometimes called, "the Pass of Israel; it was a favourite passage-way to Europe from the Mid-East.

There are many evidences of Hebrews in the Caucasus. . It is also significant that the Caucasus Mountain nation we call, Georgia tombstones were discovered, dating from the 4th to 5th centuries, one of them bearing an inscription In Aramaic. Aramaic was the language of the region of Halah and Habor, where Assyria settled many of the captive Israelites. Several of these tombstones, from a Hebrew graveyard in the Crimea, north of the Caucasus, were translated in the <I>Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology</I> in 1874. One read, <I>“This is the tombstone of BUKI, the son of Isaac the priest; may his rest be in Eden, at the time of the salvation of Israel. In the year 702 of the years of our exile. This tombstone dates to 6 A.D., during the time of Christ.

Many of the house of Judah were captured, along with the ten tribes of the house of Israel, at the time of the Assyrian conquest. Second Kings 18:13 records::"Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekilah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them." This conquest included major cities of Judah such as Lachish. - (2 Chronicles 32:9) Only Jerusalem was spared the Assyrian conquest, so members of both houses of Israel and Judah were taken into captivity. Is it coincidence that the royal banner of England shows two symbols, the lion and the stag (or unicorn), the emblems of both of these houses? Yet a significant number of Judah were spared Assyrian conquest, to be used of God as His Sanctuary (Psalm 114:2) and be reunited completely with their brethren of the ten tribes at the end of the age.

Until that day arrives, we have God's sure Promise, "For thus saith the LORD; David shall never wanta man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel" - (Jeremiah 33:17) Somewhere in the world, David's descendants have reigned in an unbroken succession throughout subsequent centuries. The land of Canaan in Palestine became a virtually uninhabited wasteland after the Assyrian and Babylonian conquests, so it is certain that this prophecy was not fulfilled there. Instead, we saw that many of the tribe of Judah were exiled with the house of Israel, so David's descendants may indeed have reigned with the ten tribes in new homelands. The poor rocky soil of the Caucasus would have caused most of them to continue north into lands beyond. Where could David’s descendants have reigned over the house of Israel except in Europe?

THE MIGRATIONS OF THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL (THE CAUCASIANS)

By R.K. Hoskins

THOUGH we are supposed to be living in an enlightened world, and in many ways we are, when it comes to understanding who or where the Twelve Tribes of Israel are in the world today, we find only a limited amount of information, and much of it is conjecture. We pray that the following information, along with the Migration Map on the other side will be helpful in shedding more light and understanding on this most important and timely subject.

We will endeavour to show that the Twelve Tribes of Israel in the world today are none other than the peoples which comprise the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, Scandinavian and kindred peoples. Since they are scattered throughout the world, it is difficult to have an accurate estimate of how many Israelites there are living at this time, but there are some who estimate that there are between six and seven hundred million. The promise which the Lord our God made (some 3800 years ago) to Abraham, Isaac and Isaac's sons (the Sax-sons) as recorded in the book of Genesis, has come to pass. (God reiterated the promise specifically to Jacob, who was given the name Israel.

The first time that Abraham was told that his progeny would be a blessing to all nations of the world, and would be a great host of people, is found in Genesis 12, but for this study we will consider chapter 22 where the Lord appears the second time to Abraham to repeat and confirm what we call today the Abrahamic Covenant.

Let's consider verses 15-18 which state: "And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time and said, 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 in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, Because thou hast obeyed my voice."

It is very evident that for many centuries the peoples which comprise Anglo-Saxondom have not only taken the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every nation and people in the world, but they have also been a blessing in other ways to the "have-not" nations of the world. It is important to notice that the Lord reminds Abraham that the reason why his seed would be a blessing to the other nations was that they have obeyed God's voice and commandments in these last days. The only nations throughout the world today which have made the Holy Bible their National Book of faith are the Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Scandinavian and kindred peoples.

Most Christians are aware that the Israelites were carried into captivity, but many know little about the details. A short synopsis of this story is found in 2 Kings 18. There we read of this deportation of Israel and, a few years later, most of Judah. In approximately 730 B.C. Shalmaneser (king of Assyria) invaded Israel, and we read in verses 11 "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, Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant..." In verse 13 we read where (seven years later) the Assyrian army came up against the remaining cities of Judah and took them. Only Jerusalem remained under King Hezekiah's Eventually the city of Jerusalem was also destroyed as the people continued to sin. In the year 596 B.C., or thereabouts, Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, came and besieged Jerusalem, and took the inhabitants (approx. 22,000) into what we call the Babylonian Captivity.

This is a short history in a nutshell, so to speak, of Israel's deportation and subsequent captivity. However, the important thing that we need to remember is that, when almost the entire population of all Twelve tribes of Israel were taken captive by the armies of Assyria, they were placed in the area of the Caucasus Mountains to the North of their Homeland. There they remained for approximately one hundred years, and became known as Caucasians. The name Caucasian has remained as part of their identity ever since that time. Most people have no idea whatsoever of the connection between the Caucasians and the Israelites of Bible history and prophecy.

In fact, the great majority of the peoples of Anglo-Saxondom today have little, if any, idea as to why they happen to be called Caucasians. When a person seeks employment it is not unusual to find the question asked as to whether they are of Caucasian descent. Most people answer "yes" without thinking of the historic reason for this designation.

Secular history records that the Twelve Tribes were never really lost, but had just taken on a different name. The map above shows the different routes taken by the Israelites when they left the area of the Caucasus mountains and migrated over into Europe during the subsequent years. They were not known as Israelites during this trek Westward, but by the various names as shown on the map. Later, as they settled in various parts of Europe, they took on the names by which we know the countries today. Collectively, we call them the Western Christian nations. As the movement West continued, we find that a representative number of the Twelve tribes gathered here on this great North American Continent.

The prophets Isaiah and Micah prophesied that in the last days a great and mighty nation would arise. It would be a prosperous nation, and be called Jacob, i.e. ISRAEL, and this great prosperous nation and its people would honour the Lord Jesus Christ. We are told that many nations would come there to be taught of our God. Today millions of people from other cultures and races are seeking to migrate to America and Canada to have a share in our material blessings and the freedoms enjoyed here. Many who have already come have learned to know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Saviour.

Micah writes of this thrilling time when we are privileged to live in this great Kingdom nation. In chapter 4:1-2 we read "And it shall come to pass that the mountain (i.e. Kingdom) of the house of the Lord (i.e. the Twelve Tribes of Israel ... or Anglo-Saxondom) shall be established in the top (i.e. the head, the chief or the greatest) of the mountains (Kingdoms) and people shall flow into it. And many nations, or peoples, shall come and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of Jacob; and he shall teach us of his ways."

The prophet Hosea also prophesies about the future restoration of Israel, which has now been fulfilled for the most part. We read of this in Hosea 1:10. "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be like the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, (we are called Gentiles) there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God"(i.e. Christians)

May the Lord help us to realize that the Caucasian Race (the peoples which comprise Anglo-Saxondom) are being judged by Almighty God because we have sinned against Him in not keeping His laws. The prophet Isaiah, speaking to the nations of Israel, states in chapter 42:24: "Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the Lord., he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his laws " Isaiah was speaking of our time, and referring to Jacob-Israel's descendants (as we have mentioned ... the peoples of Anglo-Saxondom). Today America is being spoiled, because we have forsaken the laws of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The only answer to England and America's many problems is for us to turn to the Lord our God, and obey His righteous laws as they relate to society. In 2 Chronicles 7:14 we read: "IF MY PEOPLE, WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME, SHALL HUMBLE THEMSELVES, AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE, AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS, THEN WILL I HEAR FROM HEAVEN, AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN, AND WILL HEAL THEIR LAND."

May the Lord Jesus Christ help us to awaken to our Divine Destiny and Birthright, so that we may be about doing the will of the Lord here upon the earth.

SUPPOSE WE ARE ISRAEL: WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT

MAKE?

By James S. McGaw D.D. (UK)

PRACTICALLY every great discovery has had to travel the rocky road to popular recognition. The truth concerning Ten Tribed Israel is no exception to this well nigh general rule. While, ordinarily, that which has been patently revealed cannot he called a discovery, the hiding and bringing to light of what has been revealed can be so classed; especially when it remained hidden from the great body of Bible students and commentators through the centuries. For this reason the discovery of the facts summed up in what is known as "The Israel Truth" ranks among the highest of Biblical attainments in the last one hundred years.

Archeology, Biblical research and modern translations have done wonders in substantiating the validity and in the elucidation of the Word of God. But all of these are subservient to and corroborative of the great discovery that God is a God of order; that He actually devised a plan and program for the redemption of our planet; that, essential to that plan and program, he chose Ten Tribed Israel; and that they are extant on the earth today. But like the prophets of old, this great truth has met with indifference, unbelief and opposition. Even the great evangelistic prophet Isaiah could say of his day "Who hath believed our report?" Jesus knew that the same spirit would be manifested in our day and accordingly presented the Kingdom parable of the sower; in which He cites four kinds of hearers and warned the disciples that the only kind of hearers which could be depended upon to receive the Kingdom message were the "good and honest hearts." He told His disciples just how it would be in our day when

He said: ''As it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man." Noah earnestly proclaimed the coming of the flood but the people of his day "knew not," did not care to know, until the flood came and swept them all away.

The Apostle Peter, also speaking of our day, says: "Know this also that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking in their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the world."

The veteran Paul describes another type as "Ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth,"As Jannes. and Jambres withstood Moses, so also do these resist the truth." Some of them do it by outspoken opposition; some, by seeking to thwart its proclamation; some, by engaging in whisper campaigns of criticism. Of the outspoken opposition, it can be said that they make excellent converts when their spiritual blindness clears away and they see the truth. As for those who devise devious methods and those who work in the dark, Jesus said: "The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household? Fear them not therefore; for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known."

As for the scoffers, multitudes have come to scoff and remained to pray. There is a great host of conscientious Christians who desire to know the truth but are afflicted with the spiritual blindness described by Paul in Romans 11:25:" For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened unto Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in." Regarding the Jews, Paul said: "Their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the veil untaken away in the reading of the Old Testament, which veil is done away in Christ. But even unto this day when Moses is dead, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless when they shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away."

But the blindness in Ten Tribed Israel in reading Moses and the Old Testament, Paul says, was to continue <I><FONT color=#804000>"until the fulness of thGentiles be come in."Times of the Gentiles" closed when General AIlenby took Jerusalemin 1917. The "Fulnessof the Gentiles" is manifest in the enormity of human perfidy now being displayed by the dictator nations as their cup of iniquity rapidly fills to the brim. - (Joel 3:13) The hour is close at hand, when Ten Tribed Israel will experience the great awakening foretold by the prophets. The blindness will pass away in the spiritual light which shall break upon their souls regarding their identity and their responsibilities as the chosen people of God. Multitudes in our own and many other lands are already awake and taking their places among the cohorts of the Almighty for the closing days of the age. In presenting the Israel Truth, it is therefore wise to heed the admonition of Paul to Timothy: "The servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness, instructing those who opposed themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth."

In this spirit we now take up the study of a special type of evasion of the Israel Truth which is very frequently used by some of our fellow professed Christians. When the truth of Israel's identity is presented and can not be gainsaid, they propose to pass it all up by saying "Suppose we are Israel. What of it? If I am saved, what difference does it make?" That reply comes so often that it is worthy of consideration, not only for the good of the cause but for the good of the person who makes it. The spirit in which the statement is made ranges from mere flippancy to sincere declaration.

With regard to the flippant, each case calls for a decision regarding what should be done. Solomon advises us: ''Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be like unto him"; and then in about the same breath he says: ''Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit." Whether coming from the flippant or the conscientious Christian, the statement "Suppose we are Israel; what difference does it make?" assumes a serious aspect. Few, if any,of those who make it have considered for a moment its true import. We, therefore, would analyse the spirit which prompts the statement and the implications involved. At once it is evident that there exists a very shallow knowledge of the Bible and a careless disregard for its sanctity.There is here the manifestation of an egotism unbecoming a child of God. It smacks of the idea that God set in operation all that is revealed in the Scriptures solely to save the individual, and when that is, accomplished, what else is worthy of consideration? There is also present a form of selfishness. If the individual is saved; what difference does anything else make?

Aside from the mental state which the question in each instance, so eloquently portrays, there is an attitude of heart and soul, thus declared, which should be a matter of serious concern to the professed Christian, when weighed in the light of things spiritual and divine. Taking for granted, as is here done, that we really are Israel as revealed in the Word of God, the question "What difference does it make?"! LACKS REVERENCE It discloses the want of due regard for God and His Word. That soul needs to learn what Moses learned that day in the desert when the Voice from the bush told him to remove his shoes for the ground on which he stood was holy ground.

That soul needs to learn the lesson taught by Uzziah's tragedy; realized by Isaiah, when in the temple, he saw the Lord high and lifted up; exemplified by John on the Isle of Patmos when he beheld the divine messenger and fell at His feet as dead; and proclaimed by the angels when they veil their faces and cry "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty!"

The spiritually minded ever remember that God is holy and His Word holy; that man lives by every word which proceedeth out off the mouth of God; and that the words which He speaks "they are Spirit and they are life," whether found in the Old Testament and the New Testament, whether proclaimed by the eminent divine or the humble scrub woman. No one can wave aside the acknowledged truth of God with "What difference does it make?" without irreverence.

PRESUMPTION

"Suppose we are Israel; What difference does it make?" There is here, plainly implied, the fact that the speaker does not intend to accept or live by it anyway. This assumes the right of the individual to look the Word of God over, select what suits his whim or fancy and discard the balance. But Paul made it very plain to Timothy that ''All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works."

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 must be accepted in its entirety. It is not, therefore, within the province of man to go through the book, sorting and picking this and that, which he proposes to accept and say with regard to the remainder <I>"What difference does it make"</I>, To do so is the height of presumption.

INSULTS, STULTIFIES ONE'S OWN SPIRITUAL INTELLIGENCE

"What difference does it make?" bespeaks an attenuated idea of the Scriptures and the great purpose of God in furnishing them to mankind; or, a closed mind; or, a spiritual indolence which does not want to be disturbed. However, in the fact that we are Israel, there is opened up a vast field of Biblical knowledge upon which many eminent scholars have bestowed years of careful study and painstaking research. There is presented, for our enlightenment, a great volume of information, involving the origin and history of the various races of the earth, the divine plan for the ages, the division of the world into the Israel and Gentile nations, the marvelous covenants made by God, the exceeding broad sweep of the atonement, the place allotted the Church in God's world program, the meaning and movement of the present world crisis, who constitute the Kingdom of God on earth, what it will be when it comes, Israel's work for the new age, the new order under the reign of Christ and the ultimate restitution of all things which were lost in Eden.

This is but the briefest outline of the great educational field that lies before the student of Israel Truth, and it certainly is no compliment to ones intelligence to flip it aside with "What difference does it make?"

It made a great difference to the scholars who dug deep into the Bible and human history to bring forth the golden nuggets of truth concerning the people God chose for His name. It makes the difference of being informed or ignorant of God's purposes, the place He gave His elect people in His program and His march down the centuries toward fulfilment. It makes the difference of merely being saved by the skin of one's teeth, as Job put it, and being an intelligent student of the Bible and world events, thus being "thoroughly furnished unto all good works" in our day and generation.

What a difference exists between the mental and spiritual appetite of the evader of truth and that of the prophet Jeremiah when he said: "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and the rejoicing of mine heart, for I am called by thy name, 0 Lord God of Hosts!"

DISPARAGES THE WISDOM OF GOD

God, in His wisdom, chose Israel to be used by Him in His great plan for the transformation of a lost world. He also wrote a large portion of the Bible to tell us about Israel's part in that plan. Can we not see that to select only a portion of the Book, and that only the portion which pertains to one's individual salvation, is to simply tell God that He was silly in furnishing any more? Can we not see that it sets up the finite in judgment of the Infinite? It practically declares Him to be foolish in doing any more or revealing any more than would get us saved eternally.

REPUDIATES ABOUT FIVE-SEVENTHS OF THE BIBLE

Allowing ample space in the Bible for the presentation of the Gospel to the individual, God wrote about five sevenths of the Bible as His message to the nations. An important integral part, related to almost every phase of this revelation, is the great nation Israel, promised by God to Abraham. Five sevenths is a lot of Bible to scrap, brother. The hypercritical at their worst do not have the temerity to attempt any more; and they are busy all of the time knifing the Scriptures, cutting out and deleting. One of their modern achievements is called "The Polychrome Bible," in which they have made the book an infidel aurora borealis by printing the words they criticise in the various colours of the rainbow. But the "What difference does it make?" folks throw away five-sevenths of the Bible in one lump. The infidel critics do their work piecemeal, while these believer critics do theirs wholesale. They virtually say: 'This will I accept, enjoy and live; but God's message to the nations -'What difference does it make?.'" That statement - literally - THROWS AWAY THE KEY TO THE BIBLE

Earnest Bible students have found the Israel Truth to be the key which opens up the Bible from the first promise made at the Fall, until Jesus delivers up the finished Kingdom unto God. It may be likened to a spiritual thread which runs through almost every chapter of Bible history, every doctrine, symbol, type, promise, covenant and act of God: The thread which, when found, makes possible the unravelling of most of the mysteries of the Word. This is the reason that everyone who has conscientiously sought and found the Israel Truth has declared the Bible to be a "new book;" consistent, harmonious, symmetrical, progressive and most satisfying to mind and soul.

Without the Israel Truth, as is evidenced in the commentaries and "helps," the Bible becomes the field of conjectures, an array of wonderful, for the most part, disconnected stories; and a grabbag of beautiful texts with out much of any reference to the context, or where the truth of the text fits in the Divine scheme of things. We recently met a Southern mountaineer who in his droll manner said that which every Bible student should note: "A text, without the context, is just a pretext."

Take the whole Gospel of individual salvation wherever presented in the Word of God, and careful study will almost always disclose the fact that the Israel Truth is the context that makes it plain and sets it in its proper spiritual perspective. The story of the birth of Jesus is a sample of how the Israel Truth is woven into the warp and woof of His life as He fulfilled prophecies and types which had long before been established and proclaimed in Israel. It can therefore be positively stated that no man can understand even Jesus, His mission and His message, without the Israel key which opens up the treasures of His marvellous life and teaching.

BELITTLES THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD

If we are Israel, then God has done a stupendous thing. He has kept faith with Abraham. Centuries ago He made an unconditional, irrevocable, covenant with Abraham to increase and preserve his posterity throughout all generations. And now, here we are, many nations of Israel, right here on the planet after almost 4,000 years. What kind or grade of Christianity is it that can see in that nothing to excite gratitude, joy and praise for a covenant keeping God? The Sweet Singer of Israel wrote some of his most wonderful songs in appreciation of that faithfulness. In the metrical version of Psalm 89:1, he sings: The loving kindness of the Lord Forever I will sing; Thy faithfulness to every age My mouth in song will bring."

REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY

David Lodge

Because the church has lost sight of the Ten Tribes of Israel, or at best restricts its thinking to Israel being part of the Jewish diaspora, then a doctrine called 'Replacement Theology' enters the arena' Exodus 24:6-8

"And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that Yahweh hath said will we do, and be obedient.And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which Yahweh hath made with you concerning all these words.

HIS Covenant relationship of Israel with Yahweh reached its zenith under King David when he united the tribes and met all the requirements of a Kingdom i.e. a King, territory, citizens and laws. This constituted the role model and type, which was to be the everlasting kingdom of Yahweh. As the history of the Nation progresses (B.C. 721) a major split occurs which is also part of Yahweh's plan. Due to sin, rebellion and disobedience, the invading armies of the Assyrians remove the Northern House of Israel under King Jeroboam, and Israel, as distinct from the southern House of Judah, is given a bill of divorcement.

Judah is still Yahweh's wife and has not been divorced.

It is at this point in history that the house of Israel disappears and becomes what is commonly called the lost ten tribes. Tragically, they are still lost in church theology and play little part in church teaching. Because the church has lost sight of the Ten Tribes of Israel, or at best restricts its thinking to Israel being part of the Jewish diaspora, then a doctrine called 'Replacement Theology' enters the arena. This simply means that many theologians see the vast bulk of the northern ten tribes who were driven out of the land at the tirne of Jeroboam as "Jews", who are scattered throughout all the nations. Therefore, they incorrectly assume that as the Jews are out of covenant relationship with Yahweh, a new vessel was created at Pentecost to which Yahweh has transferred authority, and that He is now working through the Church to expand the Kingdom. It is this gentile church, promoting a gentile 'gentle Jesus', that wrongly sees itself as the agency upon which all the blessings are conferred, and which replaces the two houses of Israel comprising the essential nucleus of the Kingdom on earth. </FONT><FONT size=+0></P>

The Kingdom of Satan

Luke 4:5-6 "And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever will I give it. Satan is the God of this world and he has set up powers and principalities over the areas of his jurisdiction, both politically and theologically. The kingdom of Satan has at its head in the ecclesiastical sphere a large universal establishment with millions of followers, whose aim is to convert and bring into subjection all people and tongues so that she sits as Queen over her dominion:

" How much she hath glorified herself and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her.. for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. "

As was mentioned earlier in the article Yahweh's kingdom reached its zenith under king David and was a type of a greater fulfilment yet to come; On a similar basis Satan's kingdom also has its own models so I suggest, and history has indeed shown, that a large territorial area of Europe was a domain over which this universal body had political and religious jurisdiction. A typical example of one of its risings is found in Charlemagne, otherwise known as Charles the Great, (742-814) who revived the holy Roman Empire and who was crowned by the head of this church. At the moment, similar moves are afoot to bring together other aspects of this same Kingdom, which is still very much apparent both in political and religious activities taking place today.

The present drive to unite the nations of Europe into surrendering their national boundaries, the right to govern themselves and the use of their own currency, are modern political examples of this. Churches together, under the leadership of this Romish system, where biblical truths are watered down in the rush to be one, are another example of these attempts to merge together and repair the damage inflicted by Yahweh when He came down and hindered this drive for world unity, depicted in man's efforts to build the tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9). Such as 'New World Order, 'Dominionism' and 'Kingdom Now', are all terms which can be used to define a battle that is being waged against Yahweh's order here on the earth.

The following scriptures represent the scenario where rulers bestow their authority to this universal church depicted as a whore in the book of Revelation. Revelation 17.1-6 "And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Yahshua: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

Ezekiel 16:44 "Behold, everyone that useth, proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter "

So far, we have established the fact that because Israel has broken her marriage vows and Judah has not accepted Yahshua as the Messiah, then as a nation they are unable to function to their fullest capacity in their ordained role of<B> </B>demonstrating Kingdom authority, although many individuals within Israel and Judah have become believers. A gentile church headed by a woman depicted as a whore and who birthed many daughters calls itself the Kingdom. Heads of nations have given their authority to this whore; her daughters and political leaders strive for unity in an attempt to strengthen themselves and crush any opposition to this position of power. Any expansion whether political or ecclesiastical is seen as "One World" or "kingdom now."

When Yahshua defeated Satan at Calvary it allowed those who accepted His atoning sacrifice and who believed the gospel of salvation to become citizens of His Kingdom, hence, the term "the Kingdom of Yahweh is within you". Luke 17:21. In addition, Yahshua's resurrection put the believer above the powers and principalities that had been set by Satan. The believer is also equipped with mighty weapons of warfare that can engage and pull down these strongholds. 2 Corinthians 10:4.

What then of following instruction? Romans 13:1-3 "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers for there is no power but of Yahweh: the powers that be are ordained of Yahweh Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of Yahweh: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: This scripture clearly states that authorities, whether in the physical or in the spiritual are permitted by Yahweh to oversee areas and territory on earth and that to act against them individually or as a corporate body without authority is dangerous indeed. A typical example of this type of warfare, which was practiced unwisely and without authority, is given in the book of Acts.

Acts 19:13-16 "Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of Yahshua, saying, We adjure you by Yahshua whom Paul preacheth. And there were seven sons of one Sceva, a Jew, and chief of the priests, which did so. And the evil spirit answered and said, Yahshua I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye? And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Yahshua told us to occupy until He comes. Therefore, to defend one's culture, traditions or territory, if it falls within Yahweh's order, and even to repulse Satan's attacks upon it, is lawful. The misguided notion that the Church can tear down strongholds to expand the Kingdom for Yahshua to take up <B>on earth </B>is not scriptural. This comes under 'Kingdom Now' theology, and is mainly sought by adherents and followers of the system that has set itself up in direct opposition to Yahweh; the whore of Babylon. Peter asked Yahshua whether He would at that time restore the Kingdom to Israel, only to be told it was not for him to know the time. A time was obviously set for some date in the future.

Conclusion

It is my personal belief that the promises and Covenants are to the literal seed of Jacob and for those joined to them who are at present divided into three houses; the house of David, the House of Israel, and the House of Judah. To get a clearer picture of Yahweh's purpose this distinction must be acknowledged. Just as Britain is not Welsh, yet the Welsh are part of Britain, so Israel is not Judah, yet the Jews are part of Israel; each has a separate identity and destiny and they will be re-united at some future date. The Church is not Israel. Believers of all nations who accept the atoning blood of Yahshua are saved, but this does not make them Israel. A set time for the full operation of the kingdom has yet to be fulfilled and it will be in the regeneration. To tear down principalities unless authorized to do so in the mistaken idea that it expands the kingdom is foolish.

Matthew 19:28 "And Yahshua said unto them, Verily I say unto you, That ye which have followed me, in the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Daniel 7:21-22"I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them; Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.

Revelation 11:15"And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of Yahweh, and of his Messiah; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Isaiah 54:1-8 "Sing, 0 barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Yahweh. Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: 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 Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed.. neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame.. for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. For thy Maker is thine husband; Yahweh of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The Elohim of the whole earth shall he be called. For Yahweh hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith Yahweh. For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will 1 have mercy on thee, saith Yahweh thy Redeemer.