LOST TRIBES
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HALSTATT & LATENE
Good morning. It's time to stretch with Jack on history and philosophy of the Bible.
Well, what have we covered so far? In the past few weeks, we've traced and verified —— let me underline “verified” —— the movements of the conquered ten-tribe kingdom of Israel. We traced their movement from Palestine where the Assyrians conquered them and took them away up into northern Mesopotamia, which is the whole area between and below the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea placed them there through archaeological and history and also to the southern steps of Russia, which is the same general area but above the north sea I mean the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus mountains, the steps of Russia, the southern steps, now, from which almost all history books pick them up at that point and take them in great detail and follow them to west and northwest Europe. We've also seen how traditional history books, last week, are frightfully lacking in information dealing with these two main groups of people that fostered all of European peoples. Those northwestern people, namely the Cimmerians and the Scythians.
Now, it's time to now that we've locked down into who they are and where they were and some of the things they did, we want to try and reinstate these people to their rightful place culturally, mainly because they didn't keep records and didn't write, they were thought to be —— well, I don’t know I guess you could technically say they were illiterate, but they certainly weren't a bunch of savages running around that couldn’t learn anything and didn't have any culture, as I quoted earlier. They definitely weren't barbarians, barbarians, Shmarbarians is what I say. Why don't these history book writers do some original research, instead of taking all the other book writers’ word for it. If I can sit down and read Herodotus, for instance. You don't even need any of the other ten or twelve historians, ancient historians. You don't need to read them to find out a lot of stuff about the Samarians and the Celts and several others of these groups of people. If I can do that in my house, why can't a professional historian who writes a 800-page book of history do the same thing and include it as part of the origins of some people. So, you say, “A lot of history starts with the Middle Ages. You know, oh, don’t talk about the Middle Ages.” But okay. That's fine, but if you know the origins of a people, the group of people you're dealing with, it makes sense to me that you would take that group of people as far back as you possibly could and include a paragraph or two or a chapter in an 800-page book about where these people came from. But that doesn't seem to be the case with history writers. I get this picture of people sitting down to put together this big textbook history and all they're doing is reading through and collating main points out of 17 or 18 other history books, instead of going directly to the historians and doing the research, putting down their own notes, collating them and then coming up with that kind of picture, which would have to include the Scythians. We saw last week in some of these history books that I brought, 2600 pages of history books, that in two or three of them, they didn't even mention the name Scythians or Cimmerians. They've got things like the Teutonic peoples or Germanic barbarians. But Herodotus alone has pages and pages on the Scythians. He didn't say anything about Teutonic barbarians. It just —— I don’t know. It's incredible to me I just can't understand how that happens.
Starting as far back as 1840 and even farther, archaeological evidence started to tell the story of the Celts and the Scythians, as far as their culture is concerned. And what we want to do today is look at three archaeological sources, a place called Hallstatt, which gave its name to a group of people called the Hallstatt culture. Another place archaeological find in LaTene, L—A—T—E—N—E, which is generally in the same area a little bit later in history, and also the Russian steps.
But first, we'll go back over a little bit of history. Here we have a book that has over 800 pages long, over 850 pages long. And here's what he has to say. He says "They have their virtues too. They were brave in war, placed a high value on truth and loyalty, and possessed a passion for liberty. Politically --" Get this. He's talking about the Teutons, The Teutonic peoples and the Celts. "Politically, they had not advanced beyond tribal organization." Well, there's a loophole there. That's true. They stayed in tribal organization for a long time, but there's a lot more to politics that just the organization. "Their law was local custom." That's true. Then he goes on to say, "The art of art as recorded earlier of art science and philosophy they knew nothing in the Greek and Roman sense." Oh yeah. I don't think so.
Here's another a little bit. This has to do Hallstatt and LaTene in the southern steps of Russia. Now, I went through all four of these history books that he we used last week and looked for these two places. And these are big archaeological finds which open up all kinds of information about the Celtic tribes, Celtic peoples. And not one of those books has anything about LaTene. Only one of them has anything to do about Hallstatt. And listen to what they have to say, "The Hallstatt salt mines were opened around 2500 B.C." And there's like two more paragraphs about the roads and where Hallstatt was located and a lot about the salt itself. And then a little bit later on, it says "And yet, neither song nor story tells of Hallstatt as the little Paris of prehistory and even the bones taken from the graves in the Hallstatt regions do not permit any definite conclusions as to race origin and culture of the men who once laid to rest there. Often, the grave trappings were positively ostentatious." Now, that tells you something about their culture right there, if you consider it ostentatious. That's all.
This is another one of these big volumes. It's got 450 pages, and that's all they have to say about one of the major archaeological finds and that's something I find in the history that I've read in my study, unless it's a book on archaeology. They don’t say very much on archaeology. They don’t say very much on archeology. And how else do you learn about these things?
You have Herodotus and he's got a lot to say about a lot of different people, but unless you cross check that with all the available information and mainly the most important available information is archeological—information and a lot of this archeology is well over 50 years old, 60 years old, before the turn of the century.
Most of the big heavy archaeological digs happened in the 1800s, 1830 to 1880-90. Behistun rock. We talked about that. That was 1847. That wasn't discovered then because it sat in front of everybody for so long, but it was 300 feet in the air. And nobody could decipher the cuneiform writing. It took until 1847 for somebody to do that. In 1840, —— no 1847 —— I'm sorry. 1840 was Behistun rock.
1847 was when Layard dug up Nineveh, one of the greatest archaeological finds of all time. All through the middle 1800s, you find a lot of archaeological finds that are extremely important to our understanding of history itself. I don't know. History books just don't seem to deal with that I don't know.
Now, I've got one history book here that I read out of last week, it's called Western Civilizations. It’s a big heavy duty book. Looks like a college text to me. The edition I got is the seventh edition. Started out in 1941. This latest edition is from 1968, and they don't have a lot to say about these people. But here's something really interesting. They're called barbarians through all these history books, and yet here's something about the laws. "The influence of the Germans ——" which are the Scythians, barbaric Teutons, and all those people. “–upon medieval history, well, not so important as sometimes as imagined was extensive enough to deserve consideration. Above all they were largely responsible for several of the elements of feudalism." ‘Oh well, don't talk to me about feudalism. I want to know about modern history.’ Okay listen to this. Never mind feudalism.
They incorporate some of the basic laws that we have in our country. that we're so proud of. This country is based on these precepts, and we're you know we're the best country in the world you know, we've all heard all that propaganda. Mainly, it's true as far as laws and that kind of thing as far as twisting things out of shape and being selfish and greedy and power hungry. We’re no better than anybody else. I'm not trying to say that we're perfect.
But listen to some of the things these barbarians used as their laws. "The conception that law as an outgrowth of custom.” See. The king doesn't get to make up any laws he wants. “What grows out of the living, the organic population becomes the law.” That's pretty modern thinking. That's what we do. You know. Things pass in and out of our laws because of custom. Here's another good one.
This is the one that founds our whole country see, has nothing to do with philosophy though. No. These people don't know anything about philosophy. This is one of the most philosophical concepts you can hold. “Law as a personal possession.” It has to do with our inalienable rights that we talk about in our constitution. Law as a personal possession of the individual which he can take with him wherever he goes. In contrast to Roman law which is limited to their definite territory. You get outside of the Roman territory. That's tough luck bud. You know. In other words, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is the unwritten word of the person. They had those kind of things. “Law as a personal possession.”
Here's another one. "The contractual relationship between rulers and subjects." The pivotal word here is ‘contractual,’ you know, if you make a contract between the two entities, between the rulers and it is subjects and it's a contract, it becomes the law. Not the king. The king doesn't wander around doing anything he wants. Just leave it to contract. I don’t know. Yes, pretty contemporary thinking. But has nothing to do with philosophy. No, that's not.
Here's another one. There's six or seven of these things here. The idea of elective kingship, elective kingship. Most all of those people of northwest Europe–or the countries that wound up northwest Europe -- had this elective quality. England elected their kings and when they had a war to go to,. You know, you had petty kings in these city states. They'd all get together and they'd elect an overseer king, coordinator or whatever you want to call them. They were elected. Elected the kings, you know. That's barbaric philosophy for you. I don't want anything to do with that. Too barbaric. Crazy.
HALLSTATT and LATENE
Well, I'm finally gonna get into E. Raymond Capt to outline a little bit more about the culture, the actual culture about these people. Okay. E. Raymond Capt —— this book that I love so much is called The Missing Links Discovered in the Assyrian Tablets. And he goes way beyond the Assyrian tablets and lays down the whole picture that's involved in this study of the lost ten-tribed kingdom of Israel after the Assyrian conquering. Here we're starting to talk about Hallstatt again where the salt mines were. Right.
"Between the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.,” -- B.C. I remind you. "martial groups of Celtic tribes had settled in Bohemia and Bulgaria. They buried their warriors accompanied with their iron weapons, although examples of bronze ones have been found of the same period. Their greater chieftains were entombed ——" and this is an important point here. —— "entombed in wood-built chambers under great mounds." (p.142) And he's quoting a man named Tumulus, T—U—M—U—L—U—S. You can look him up on your own if you want.
Now, before we go any further, I want to outline where Hallstatt and LaTene are. If you've —— I know you're familiar with a map of Europe enough to imagine in your mind the boot of Italy. Okay. If you start at the bottom of the boot of Italy and go straight up, which is a little bit of an angle going northwest, straight up, both coasts, the east coast and the west coast of Italy and draw those lines, straight up, into the heart of Europe, you'll particularly, you'll practically hit Hallstatt on the east and LaTene on the west. So we're talking about the area just north of the Alps and straight up above, northwest above Italy. It's up in that central Europe an area. Okay.
To go on. “Material from these tombs has been given the name ‘Hallstatt Culture,” so-called because of the place of that name in the Salzkammrtgut area of upper Austria. It was there, in the nineteenth century A.D.," 1800’s again. See. 1800’s. “--that a very rich cemetery was excavated. It yielded iron weapons, quantities of fine bronze vessels, bronze harnesses for horses, and decorated pottery of Greek and Etruscan workmanship... Modern archaeology has identified such settlements as ‘Celtic’” —— and he's got Celtic in quotes here “—— and existing some centuries before the Cimmerians migrated from Asia Minor." (p. 142-143) See.
After the ten tribe kingdom was replaced, was relocated in that area below the Caucasus mountains from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea, the people way in the west, became known as the Cimmerians. The Gimira to the Assyrians, but the Cimmerians to the Greeks. And then some of them moved out early and were, well, what he calls them. He calls them a little bit later, he calls them the “Proto-Celts,” which is an understandable way to figure them. They were all the same group of people, but the earlier settlers. You know, the proto-Americans were the people in the 13 colonies, so to speak. Well, and later on they became Americans. They weren't the colonists anymore.
“This has called somewhat...” -- the initial movement of the Cimmerians – “...has caused somewhat of an archaeological problem. However, the problem is solved when one understands that these earlier settlers from Western Europe and the British Isles were, in fact, the vanguard of the Cimmerian Celts." (P. 143) Just like we saw last couple weeks that the people underneath the Caspian Sea —— the people that moved out early were called by the Persians, Saka, and they’re listed in their writings as Saka. The main group, the big hoard—of—Saka became known by a different name, the Massagetae, but they were all Saka.
“Excavations of houses of the Hallstatt period revealed that some were huts of the crudest kind but that others compare well with the houses of prosperous farmers of today." (p. 143) Now, he didn't write this thing in 1720 or something. You know this is a fairly modern book. Okay. A little bit more that has to do with the Hallstatt
Let's take a look at LaTene here. LaTene is the one that's a little bit farther west, right, but still a little bit above Italy. "One notable example of Celtic ritualistic culture is found in the votive deposits that excavated at LaTene, at the northeastern end of Lake of Neuchatel...” -- I am not sure if I pronounce that right– “..north of the Alps. During the nineteenth century the lowering of the lake level revealed timber posts and a great quantity of iron weapons, but relatively few other objects. It is now considered that this was a votive deposit on a large scale. Subsequent discoveries...” That wasn't the only one they discovered. "Subsequent discoveries of other such tombs yielding ritual offerings bear out the testimony of Classical writers who ascribe this kind of practice to the Celts." (P. 147) So now, in other words, they lock down these people as being Celtic tribes in both Hallstatt and LaTene.
Let's see. I think I skipped a page here 30, 33, 44. Here's one more thing here about gold ornaments. And this is at Hallstatt. "Gold ornaments, and cups of native manufacture...” Now, the reason why we underline native manufacture. That was the Celtic tribes themselves manufacturing these things. They weren't brought in from the outside, because anybody’s who’s really up on this Hallstatt culture will know that they were very wealthy people. They had the salt. Right? And salt is not a delicacy. It's a necessity. People who study the civil war will tell you that salt was more important than all the weapons and arms and things they transported around. Okay. Salt won the war for the North. That’s another story.
These chieftains, these tribes, that were located in the Hallstatt area were in control of the salt mines. And they sold it. And they became very rich. “Gold ornaments, and cups through native manufacturer,...” – native manufacture, not the ones that they imported. “...bear witness to an accumulation of wealth among their chieftains which they had not previously enjoyed." (p. 144) I wish we were on TV because I could show you some of the things that they dug up -- the fine intricate gold work that they did, combs for ladies’ hair. There's one here, and the stick can't be very big you know three or four inches at the largest and they got this big war seen. This is all the gold work, hand stuff. And there's another one of them -- a couple of warriors that are on each side and their swords and their shields are held up high. And there's one that's on a horse another warrior, and another horse is down next to them. And it's very finely wrought stuff, beautiful stuff, you know. And well let's go on here. Don't let me get sidetracked here.
Okay. We talked about LaTene just a little bit, just north of the Alps. Let's go on with that. "The votive deposits at LaTene was made in the second century B.C., however, the term ‘LaTene culture’ has been applied to similar deposits found to be of earlier periods (going back to about 500 B.C.) from chieftains’ tombs,...” --that we already talked about chieftains’ tomb in Hallstatt -- "...from Hallstatt tombs “mainly in the vicinity of Koblenz, have been found some of the earliest and finest examples of metal work, gold and bronze, in the LaTene style. Drinking vessels, helmets, and chariot fittings were among the principle fields for this new artistry in brass, while gold was rendered into neck ornaments, the torc, and bracelets.” (p. 149) A torc is an open—ended bracelet kind of look thing. And a lot them wore them around their neck, especially princesses, and the hire nobility. T-O-R-C is the way you spell it.
“It is by means of such art craft that the Celtic tribes are traced into Britain and Ireland.” (p. 149) Okay. This is one of the main ways they traced the Celtic tribes, okay, into where they ended up. And all the history books will say it the Celts being in Ireland, Scotland and so forth.
“The houses of the LaTene period had much the same construction as those of today." Today. They weren't backward at all, were they. Oh no, we’re backward today. I don't know. “Wood was primarily a primary building material and in the better houses iron clamps that were used to bind the wooden posts to stone foundations. The style of architecture differed from place to place. The method of heating the houses had improved from the Hallstatt period, which utilized small hearth fires. The LaTene people had primitive fireplaces with chimneys." (P. 149) And it goes on to say a little bit about their housing there.
So, there's two very important archaeological discoveries or areas of discovers, LaTene and Hallstatt, which showed that these people were not barbarians after all. See. The fine gold work and the laws that we mentioned earlier. How can you say those were barbarians? Okay.
SCYTHIANS
Let's take a look at some of the same people except they're called the Scythians, Scythians, from the southern steps of Russia. "In the fifth century B.C, Herodotus reported the Scythians as occupying South Russia from the Carpatians to the Don River. In the Fourth Book of his Histories, he provides..." – and I just read all this stuff just recently. It's real fascinating stuff. "...in the Fourth Book of his Histories, he provides us with a detailed account of them. Undoubtedly, the Scythians migrated northwards through the Caucasus mountains." We'll get to that reason in a minute for that. "Archaeological evidence of the Scythians occupation of South Russia, starting about 575 B.C., has confirmed Herodotus's writings. The evidence is in the form of Scythian burial mounds scattered all over the Russian Steppes.” (P. 159)
And he's got a small diagram here on one of these pages where they've uncovered tombs, and he sure isn't lying when he says or exaggerating when he says, they're all over the Steppes. There's these deposits all over the place.
And one interesting side note about these grave sites in Herodotus, it's a wonderful story. I love it. Darius the emperor of the Medo-Persian empire, just around this time, the early 6th century, 600 to 550 B.C., around in there. Darius comes up and he's going make war. He's been conquering everybody he can find so he comes up and he's gonna take on the Scythians. He goes up to the southern steps of Russia, and see the Scythians means “nomads.” That's all that means. Nomad. Well, these nomads who carry their things around in wagons like the early settlers coming across our country, they wouldn’t fight with him. They stayed one day's march away from his encampments. He'd moved a little bit, they’d move a little bit. He'd move a little bit. They'd move a little bit.
Well, what they had done – before the Medo-Persians got there, before they got there, they called the other groups of people together around in that area, and say, "Hey look. Darius is coming, and he's not going to spare anybody. He may be coming after us and one or two others, but he's going to get all you guys too. So why don't we band together and kick him in the slats and tell him to go home." Well, a few of them said, well, okay. We'll do that. But a majority of them said, no. See. There were about six or seven of these different groups of people that got involved and two or three of them said okay. We'll do that." And a majority of them said no, we'll take our chances.
So what the Scythians did when the Darius got there with his army, they led him around their territory which is very extensive, they head him around the territory for a long time not fighting. See. And you know where they led them? They'd go through an area —— these people one of these people who said we won't ally with you against him, and they'd pillage and loot a little bit. And then Darius followed through with his army and decimate the place. So they got even with the guys that would not help them out. And of course, their main strategy as far as Darius is concerned was to lead him around the countryside forever, you know, till he ran out of supplies and then they'd fight with him you see.
Well, Darius after a while says, Hey, you guys, he sends a messenger, Hey, you guys, how come you won't fight? No way, we fight when we feel like it much the you know. I tell you what though, if you really want to make us fight, we'll go on around and discover the sights where we've buried our chieftains, discovered our tombs, and then you'll see some action, brother.
Well, the story goes on, and there's nor funny parts than that but that's what was happening. Darius comes around, and they lead him on a wild goose case all the time. It was real good. But these are barbarians. They don't, you know; they don't know what they're doing. They're just illiterate savages, running around, cutting off the heads of their enemies. Doesn't make sense, does it?
"The kings and chieftains of...” We're back to E. Raymond Capt now. “...of the Scythians were given elaborate burials. These royal and semi~royal tombs contained splendorous relics buried with their dead. Diverse in style, with elements adapted from Greece, Iran and the Near East, these artifacts were created or bought like the salt mines to decorate themselves, their horses, their weapons and their dwellings. From the lively intricacies of the animal style to the...” They did a lot of animal stuff, these Celts and Scythians. “...from the lively intricacies of the animal style to the serenely balanced naturalism of the works... the objects found give us a glimpse of the nomadic life of the Scythians.” (P. 159)
“Of special interest is the craftsmanship of the Scythian artisans in gold castings. Most notable in their art is the recurring appearances of stags, felines, griffins and birds of prey.” (P. 159-161) Scythian art.
“Another characteristic of Scythian art style is the incorporation of many smaller animals within the body of a larger one." (P. 161) They got one broach here. It's a gold pin, pictured in E. Raymond Capt's book and it's a stag that is his legs doubled up underneath him and on his side, there's three other animals. There's a lion. There's a rabbit, and there's a griffin. A griffin is a kind of like a feline looking thing that has wings in it and it's got a almost kind of like a gargoyle kind of head. Maybe you remember seeing those on the tops of castles and things like that. Let's see.
Where were we here? "Such images may have been designed to indicate the combined powers of all the creatures portrayed. The tombs --" Listen. Another interesting part. And it reads real well in Herodotus. "The tombs of the Scythians were covered with mounds of earth and stone." (p. 161) You mean they had the same exact kind of mounds and tombs as the Cimmerians? I wonder how that happened? Because they're all the same people, that's why.
"Herodotus, who visited the Scythians, gives us a vivid description of the burial of the Scythian ruler. The chieftain’s body was embalmed..." Barbarians don't embalm people, you know. "--and placed on a wagon, and carried around to visit the various tribes over whom he had ruled in life. When this ceremony was over, the king's body was brought to the grave that had been dug for it."
And here he quotes Herodotus, "’In the open space around the body of the king they bury one of his concubines first, killing her by strangling.” Well, that's kind of barbaric, maybe. "and also one of his cupbearer, his cook, his groom, his lackey, his messenger and some of his horses, firstlings of all his possessions, and some golden cups... After this they set to work, and raise a vast mound above the grave, all the vying with each other and seeking to make it as tall as possible.’" (p. 161-162)
That's not the end of it. "A year later, the grisly burial ceremony was continued. Fifty young men and fifty horses were killed, then placed around the royal tomb as a final token of the late king's power over his people." (p. 162) The way they did this -- they set up these posts all around the tomb, probably 51 posts. They got 50 horses so they set up 51 posts, and they string this pole between the two posts, but before they put the pole between the two posts, they kill the horse. and they run it through the horse down his backbone so that the horse is resting on the pole with his feet off the ground, so it looks like he's standing up. Then they take these 50 young warriors, they kill them, and they put another pole down through their backbone, and stick them in their horse and when you come upon this mound, you see this mound these 50 horses and riders upright as though they were alive. Really interesting. Okay.
A little bit more. "Royal tombs have been found both south and north of the Caucasus mountains." South being the most important place there, because south of the Caucasus mountains is exactly where the ten tribed kingdom of Israel was placed by the Assyrians after they got conquered.
"Just as described by Herodotus, horses and grooms were interred along with the main burial. While the form of burials often varied from site to site, the tombs were always large underground structures of wood and stone, lavishly furnished with royal possessions, and covered with mounds of earth and stone. The objects found in the royal tombs were always things used in every day life —— clothing, cooking, pots, weapons, and jewelry.” (P. 163) That kind of stuff.
Now, I don't know where this is irony or not, but there's a really interesting point having to do with the Scythians. If you remember a week or two ago, we discussed the fact that a lot of the Scythians and the Cimmerians —— all these ten-tribes Israelite people —— a lot of them became roving bands of robbers and mercenaries and at one time one group of people, the Scythians allied themselves with the Assyrians, their conquerors, against the Cimmerians, their own tribal people.
Another time, the Scythians allied themselves with the Persians and the Medes against the Assyrians. So they were running around doing their own thing with whoever happened to be there at the moment and could for their own purposes. Well, “Greek history records Scythian bowmen were employed as ‘policemen’ in classical Athens.” (p. 167)
Now, the Scythians had a really distinctive arrow head. It was a three sided triangular shaped. Now, those guys, were the only people who used that kind of thing. Okay. And that's one of the ways that they can trace these Scythians through the different areas when they dig up a city, and they find that all these three-sided arrow heads. They know that these people were there. Well, here's the really good part. “Scythian arrowheads, uncovered from the Babylonian attack on Jerusalem, suggests that Scythian mercenaries may have been used as a van guard in the Chaldean assault.” (P. 167) Oh, you might say, so what?
Now, but here's the background on that. The Babylonians, the Chaldeans came and conquered Jerusalem, and carried away the southern kingdom of Judah, just the way the Assyrians came and carried away the northern kingdom, (Ah. There’s Ed, now.) Just like the Assyrian kingdom came down and carried away the ten tribes of the northern kingdom of Israel.
Nebuchadnezzar, remember him? He's the guy that finally did in Jerusalem and if archaeological evidence is correct, he had Scythian mercenaries, which means that the northern tribes, a group of people out of the northern tribes who had been carried away a hundred years earlier, allied themselves as mercenaries with Nebuchadnezzar and attacked their own brothers down their in the southern kingdom of Judah. Pretty good. Their history goes around and around and comes right back to where it started. I love it.
Okay. Now, I promised that's all we're go going to do about the culture. All we're trying to do with all of this stuff is to show that these people weren't barbarians. They were war like, tribal people that had a very extensive and beautiful culture and rooted in some of the most profound, philosophical concepts that we can figure out with their laws, like their inalienable rights and so forth.
FULFILLED PROPHECIES
But I did promise – I didn’t promise, but I did say we were going to, so. I wanted to go through a few of these fulfilled prophecies.
This is going to be an ongoing kind of thing as we go through this study but here's some of the things that are prophesied for the ten tribe northern kingdom of Israel, not the Jews. The Jews have no place in any of these prophecies. Absolutely no place. These prophecies and promises were all passed down to the house of Israel, the kingdom of Israel, Ephraim, Samaria, house of Joseph, house of Jacob, house of Isaac, all those 250,000 names that we already talked about.
Israel was supposed to live in the islands and the coasts of the earth. Now, here's if your into taking some of these Scriptures references down you’ll find these promised or prophecies whatever you want to call them are talked about in the Bible. So don't try to get your Bible and look these things up. I'm just going to go too fast, and there's too many of them.
But where it talks about the islands in the coast of the earth is in Isaiah 41:1. Isaiah 41:1. Also, Isaiah 49:1 through 3. Let me see, I know I do have to look up one or two of these for you just so you know I'm not making this up on the spot. Isaiah 41:1 says "Keep silence before me, oh isles." Now, if you know the context, he's talking about Great Britain here, British Isles. "Oh islands, let the people renew their strength. Let them come near and let them speak. Let us come near the judgment together."
In Jeremiah, Jeremiah 31:7—10 is another place you'll find some of this stuff about the coasts in the islands. Jeremiah 31:7 through 10. Where is that here? Verse 7, "For thus saith the Lord, sing with gladness for Jacob" – it could be Israel, right? Jacob is Israel, that's his name. It was changed from Jacob to Israel. "...and shout among the chief of the nations. Publish ye, praise ye, and say, oh Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel." The lost tribes of Israel. "Behold, I will bring them forth from the north country." That's where they went, the north country. "and gather them from the coasts of the earth." Down a little bit farther in verse 10, he says, "Hear the Word of the Lord oh yes nations and declare it unto the isles afar off.” Isaiah and Jeremiah talk a lot about the isles afar off, the distant isles. Those are the British Isles they're talking about the whole time.
Another prophecy or promise as regard to the house of Israel is that they'll become a world empire. We talked a lot about those so we're not going to read those verses to you. You can find the prophecy that say they'll become a world empire, a multitude of nations, in other words. It doesn't say world empire in the Bible. If said somebody said, no, it doesn't say that. It talks about becoming a multitude of nations, a company of nations, which can only be a world empire, a conglomerate of nations that will rule together. You'll find three reference good references for that: Genesis 17:4. These are all in Genesis. The second one is Genesis 35:11.
And the last one is Genesis 49:19 which we talked about at length. That's the blessing of Jacob to Ephraim, Joseph's son. Ephraim is the guy who gets the birthright after Joseph. And he's the guy who Jacob tells him specifically that he's going to be a company of nations. Ephraim will be a world empire, world empire being the British empire, the greatest empire of world history. Further, Roman empire was nothing compared to oh not nothing sure. They were great, but weren't what the British empire was.
Here's another one. That they were supposed to spread borrowed, be a colonizing force. You can find that in three different places, at least, Genesis 27:14 takes about that. Also Deuteronomy 33:17. Let me look that one up for you. Deuteronomy 33:17 "He shall push" this is taking about Joseph. This is a blessing by Moses to all of the tribes before he dies, before they go into the Promised Land and as concerns Joseph, he tells him that, “He shall push the people together to the ends of the earth." They are the ten thousands of Ephraim and they are the thousands of Manasseh, a colonizing force.
There's one more reference in Isaiah, Isaiah 27:6 which talks about that. And here's a really interesting one. They'd be undefeated. Undefeatable, actually. Let's see where it says a little bit. Let's go to an odd reference. In other words, they'd never be totally conquered. And if you know your history, you'll know that England was never totally conquered. The Roman empire over a long, long period of war made war with the people there in England, and they finally just gave up and build a wall because they couldn’t conquer. They couldn’t conquer. They had control over a lot of the country, but they never fully conquered those people.
And Micah 5:8—9 talks a little bit about that. Micah chapter 5:8 and 9 "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles." The house of Israel, in other words, will be among the Gentiles “in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest. As a young lion among the flocks of sheep, who if he go through both treadeth down and teareth in pieces and none can deliver." He's gonna beat everybody. If he goes through these people, they going to lose whatever war it is. "thine hand shall be lifted up upon thy add adversaries, and thine enemies shall be cut off."
The other reference here about that. The undefeated —— that's Isaiah 54:17. Also in Isaiah 41:15—17. And you'll also find in the 89th psalm where it says that
no weapon will formed against you will prevail." But that's kind of confusing if you don't know the background and the context because it seems like he's talk to David, King David, and it's not about David. It's about Israel. That's why I didn't include that.
Destroyers of evil. Destroyers, they will be destroyers of evil. Okay. There's a good one in Jeremiah for that. Jeremiah 51:20. Jeremiah 51:20 "Thou art my battleaxe.” And he's talking to Israel. That's very plain. He's talking to Israel, not Judah. He's talking to the house of Israel, the ten tribed kingdom. “Thou art my battleaxe and weapons of war."
Now, get this part. If the Celtic nations are the ten tribes of Israel, and who won first world war, the second world war. Who put down the Japs? Who put down the Germans? In both those wars, who were the main force that won that war? Britain and the United States, see. And it doesn't make any sense at all when you figure a guy like Hitler with all the power he had so early didn't get after England. He didn't beat England. He never beat England. I mean he had buzz bombs and all that stuff. And he could not beat England. Okay. The Celtic tribes, the Celtic nations won that war.
“They're supposed to possess the gates of their enemies,
is another one. And we talked about this one before. Who controlled the Panama canal till just recently. The Straits of Gibraltar, the Suez canal, Cape of Good Hope, all the gateways of the earth. All right. Those same people. Those same people. And another one. Let's see. “Gates of enemies” can be found in Genesis 22:17 and 24:60. Genesis 22:17 and 24:60.
They are supposed to control the sea. You find that in
Numbers 24:7. Well, who controls the seas? The British empire controls the seas forever. And then the United States took over. Who else fits these prophesies? Now, don't just dismiss this as Bible talk, right? Archeology and history has proved that the very people of these prophecies are the Celts and backdoor logic says that if you find the people who fit the prophecies, you'll find the lost tribes.
Now, we're going to be dealing right along as I said before about the all these prophecies as we go along. And we'll do this in a lot more detail at Straight Talk every Monday night. You all come and study with us. It's a whole lot better to do this one to one anyway.
Now, remember the split in the birthright, we talked a few weeks ago, Judah got the rulership right? Well, so what. Well, some descendant of Judah must be ruling over the house of Israel, over these Celtic tribes. Well, they've been carried away. And they moved over hundreds of years into northwest Europe into the British Isles. Now, you're telling me that somebody from the tribe of Judah has to rule over these people. That's right, because that's what the promise is. Judah gets the scepter and the law making. Looks impossible. Looks like a dilemma but it's not because you wait and see the intricacies of the historical events that fulfill that prophecy. They're fantastic, but in order to do that, you'll have to tune in next week to history and philosophy of the Bible with Jack.
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