The Saxons
and the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel
The majority of Americans can trace their ancestors to the
early American settlers of the 13 Colonies or to Ellis Island, New York. It’s interesting to look at our family trees
and trace our forefathers in history.
Many of us can trace our family trees back to England, Ireland and
Scotland as well as Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, France etc.
Let’s
go back farther. Where did the people
of England, Ireland and Scotland come from?
When we look at the history of Great Britain we find that the people of
the British Isles are made up of Celts, Welsh, Dannan, Irish, Picts, Scots,
Jutes, Angles, Saxons, Norwegians, Danes, Swedes and Normans. Sounds like quite a mixture doesn’t it? These influxes of peoples in the British
Isles came over many hundreds of years.
The
single most important thing that ties all the above mentioned people together
is that they are really all various related tribes of the “Saxons”. The word “Saxon” is the Latin Roman version
of the German word “Sachsen”. Both
words are pronounced “Sakson”.
Let’s
go back even further. Where did the
Saxons, or “Saksons”, come from?
Historians tell us that the Saxons were called Scythians by the Greeks
and first appeared in Europe about 650 B.C. in the land of Scythia which
included the area north of the Black Sea and stretched east to the Caspian Sea
and south to the Caucasus Mountains, thus the name “Caucasian”.
Again,
let’s go back. Ancient historians tell
us that the Saxons first appear in history about 700 B.C. south of the Caucasus
Mountains, in Armenia and in the land of the Medes. The Medes and Persians called the Saxons the “Sak” or “Saka” and
“Sakasani”. Sakasani translated into
English means “sons of Isaac”.
So
the Saxons first appear in history in the land of the Medes, and at the same
time, 700 B.C., another people, the House of Israel (the 10 lost tribes of
Israel), disappear from history in the land of the Medes. Is there a connection?
The 10 (12) Lost Tribes of Israel
About 931 B.C. the 12 tribe nation of Israel split into 2
separate kingdoms, Israel, the 10 northern tribes, and Judah,
the 2 southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin.
The Jews of today represent the modern nation of Israel, but only
represent the ancient 2 tribe Kingdom of Judah (Judah and Benjamin), thus the
name Jews which is derived from Judah.
The lost tribes of Israel, or the 10 (12) lost tribes of
Israel, have been lost to the world, to
themselves and to historians since about 700 B.C. Most scholars, historians and clergy believe that the “Lost tribes
of Israel” were consumed in the land of their captivity (Assyrian Captivity)
never to be found again. If this were
true, much Bible prophecy would have to be rendered as false. If we are a Bible believing Christian we
believe that God is the ultimate author of the Bible and that God tells us the
truth.
So when God tells us that he has, “not cast his people
away” and “ye sons of Jacob are not
consumed”, we believe Him.
The purpose of this study is to document the existence and
identity of the 10 (12) lost tribes of Israel in the Bible, in history, in
ancient stone writings and with the use of linguistics.
Before starting here I would like to give an opinion. I believe that God has intentionally kept
secret, from the world and from “Lost Israel” themselves, the identity and
existence of the 10 (12) Lost Tribes of Israel, not just for their punishment, but He would still use them for His purposes.
Also it is my firm belief that God will reveal this secret, or “truth”,
to individuals that believe in His word and seek the truth. Remember what Christ told us:
Matt 7: 7 Ask , and it shall be
given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh
receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be
opened.
KJV
I think the best place to start is the beginning.
Abrahamic
Covenant
Almighty God said:
“As for me, behold my covenant is with thee, and thou shall be
a father of many nations.
Neither shall thy name any more be called
Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations
have I made thee.
And I will make thee exceedingly
fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
And I will establish my covenant between
me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting
covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee.”
(Genesis
17: vs 4-7)
The above covenant was an everlasting
binding agreement. There were no
conditions. It didn’t matter what the
people did or didn’t do. The covenant was unconditional. Referencing this covenant it was said (in
Hebrews, Chapter 6. vs 13 to 20) that God had promised Abraham by an oath and
that the oath confirmed that the promise could not be changed.
Since this Covenant was an
everlasting binding contract, which could not be changed and it is impossible
for God to lie, it must still be in effect today.
Also God promised that Abraham’s
seed would be a blessing to the entire world.
Gen
12:2-3
2 And I
will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make
thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I
will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in
thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
The Covenant was continued
through Isaac (Gen. 17: 8-24 and Romans 9: 7-9) and through Isaac’s son, Jacob,
who was renamed Israel by God (Gen. 35: 10-12).
Gen
35:10-11
10 And
God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob,
but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
11 And
God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation
and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of
thy loins; KJV
The Hebrew word for nation
and company of nations is
OT:1471 gowy (go'-ee); rarely (shortened) goy (go'-ee);
apparently from the same root as OT:1465 (in the sense of massing); a
foreign nation; hence, a Gentile. KJV-Gentile, heathen, nation, people.
Ephraim and Manasseh Birthright Blessings
Read Genesis 48 and 49 for a complete listing of the
birthright blessings given by Jacob to his 12 sons, the 12 tribes of Israel.
Chapter 48 is mostly about Jacobs’s blessings to Joseph’s
2 sons, Ephraim and Manasseh.
Gen 48:11-16
11 And Israel said unto Joseph, I
had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.
12 And Joseph brought them out
from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth.
13 And Joseph took them both, Ephraim
in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his
left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.
14 And Israel stretched out his
right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left
hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the
firstborn.
15 And he blessed Joseph, and
said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed
me all my life long unto this day,
16 The Angel which redeemed me
from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them,
and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them
grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. KJV
In verse 16 Jacob has put his name (Israel) on Joseph’s 2
sons thus creating 2 new tribes of Israel in Joseph’s place. So along with the 11 other tribes now there
are actually 13 tribes of Israel. It’s important to note here that Jacob (Israel) also put the
names of Abraham and Isaac on them (on Ephraim and
Manasseh).
Another very important aspect here is that Jacob spent far
more time describing the blessings for Ephraim and Manasseh than he did for the
other 11 tribes. Also, in verse 16 he
foretells of Ephraim and Manasseh becoming great in population….” let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the
earth.”
In the next verses Jacob foretells greatness for Ephraim
and Manasseh.
Gen 48:17-19
17 And when Joseph saw that his
father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he
held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's
head.
18 And Joseph said unto his
father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon
his head.
19 And his father refused, and
said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he
also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than
he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
KJV
It is in these previous verses that the promise is made to
Ephraim of becoming “a multitude of nations” and Manasseh,
“shall become a people, and he also shall be great”.
Again, these promises, to Ephraim and Manasseh, came from
God Himself through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel). There were no conditions. It didn’t matter what the people did or did
not do. Again, the Covenant was an everlasting binding contract, which means it
must exist today.
So
if Ephraim is a multitude of nations and Manasseh is a great nation, where and
who are they?
After
handing down the birthright blessings to Ephraim and Manasseh, Jacob (Israel),
on his deathbed, called for the rest of his sons.
The 12 Tribes Blessings for the "Last Days"
Gen 49:1-28
49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves
together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last
days.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of
Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the
beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of
power:
4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up
to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
5 Simeon and Levi are brethren;
instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly,
mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in
their selfwill they digged down a wall.
7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it
was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise:
thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow
down before thee.
9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son,
thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion;
who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a
lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the
gathering of the people be.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the
choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of
grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and
he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two
burdens:
15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was
pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes
of Israel
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that
biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
18 I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.
19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall
overcome at the last.
20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall
yield royal dainties.
21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly
words.
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough
by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated
him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were
made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the
shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the
Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the
deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings
of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be
on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate
from his brethren.
27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he
shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that
their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his
blessing he blessed them.
It’s
important to note here that Jacob (Israel) called his sons together to hand
down the birthright blessings and said, “Gather
yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in
the last days.”
Also,
Joseph is blessed as being the “Shepherd” and the “Stone
of Israel”. So the two sons (2
tribes) of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, would be the leaders
and the backbone of Israel.
Many
years later (1491 B.C.) Moses brought the people of Israel out of Egypt, by the
hand of God. In the Sinai God gave the
people the 10 Commandments, laws, ordinances, statues and judgments. The people entered into a national covenant
with God. The people at Sinai said,
”All that the Lord hath spoken we will do” (Exodus 24: 7-8).
Blessings and Cursings
In
Deut. 28 God told the people that if they obeyed Him and the
conditions of this National Covenant and His laws, that they would be a
blessed nation; blessed in health, in the fruit of thy ground, in the
fruit of thy cattle, with flocks of sheep, in the overall economy and their
enemies shall be defeated. BUT,
if they did not obey His laws and commandments, then God would
send cursings on the nation.
They would be cursed in the city, in agriculture, in the economy and
they would be cursed by disease. Their
enemies would defeat them and remove them from their land and scatter
them. This punishment would be for 7
times. A time being 360 years, 7 times
would be 2520 years. (Leviticus 26:
27-46)
The Royal Throne
The
nation of Israel prospered for many years, as they obeyed God. God was their King and judges were set up to
lead the nation. Then the people wanted
to be like the other nations around them and have a flesh king of their own to
lead them. Although God said that
Israel having a flesh king was a rejection of Him, He gave permission to do
so. Saul was appointed the first King
of Israel. (I Samuel 8: 7-22) Later,
because of Saul’s sin, Saul was replaced by David who was of the tribe of
Judah. God made an everlasting covenant
with David that David’s seed would be on the throne of Israel forever (II
Samuel 7: 11-17 and Psalm 89: 3-4).
(Jer. 33: 17-26) (Psalm 89: 29-37)
David
was of the House of Judah. This was the fulfillment of the birthright blessings handed down by Jacob (Israel) to
his sons, the 12 tribes of Israel.
Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah….
KJV
So
the Throne of the House of David of the House of Judah would be everlasting and
established as a royal king line over Israel FOREVER. This would be an unbroken line of Kings and/or Queens of the
House of David. (The sceptre shall not depart from Judah)
This
means that the throne of David MUST EXIST TODAY. Of course when Christ (who also is of the
seed line of David) returns he will sit on the throne of David and rule over
Israel forever. This hasn’t happened
yet and until the return of Christ, David’s lineage will be on the throne of
Israel.
So
where is the throne of David and who is sitting on it? Many would say that God broke His promise
when Zedekiah and his sons were removed from power and killed by
Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, during the Babylonian captivity. Also, the kings of Judah, during Christ’s time, Herod the Great’s
family, weren’t even of Judah. They were Idumeaen and appointed to the throne
of Judah by Rome. Shortly after
Christ’s time the Jews were run out of Palestine by the Romans never to have a
nation again until 1948. From the Babylonian captivity to this day the Jews
have not had a King. So, again, the
question is, where is the throne today and who is the King or Queen? Who, of David’s’ lineage have been on the
throne? Remember, God’s promise to
Judah and David: “the septre
shall not depart from Judah” Gen. 49:10. God established the throne of
David forever (II Samuel 7: 11-17 and Psalm 89: 3-4). This was an unconditional
promise and was immutable. Again, this
promise was not conditioned on what David’s descendants did or did not do. So somewhere, since the fall of Zedekiah
(about 586 B.C.) the throne has existed and the seed of David has been on it.
God promised this. Since this has not
been fulfilled in the Jews of today, we must look elsewhere.
Israel? Jews?
So
what about the promises to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Judah and David? How can the promises be fulfilled if they
haven’t been fulfilled in the Jews?
Most
people in the world today consider Israel as meaning the Jews, or the Jews are all that remains of
Israel. Even scholars and clergymen try
to fit all 13 tribes into one tribe, the tribe of Judah, or the Jews. If this were true, then God’s promises to
the 12 sons of Jacob (Israel), i.e. the birthright blessings given in Genesis
49, would have been broken. The
promises made in Genesis 49 were unconditional and God doesn’t break His
promises.
If
today’s Jews were all that was left of Israel, this would also mean that the
promises to Ephraim and Manasseh of becoming a “multitude
of nations” and “a great nation” would
have to be fulfilled in the Jews. This
of course hasn’t happened and besides, these promises were given to Ephraim and
Manasseh, not to Judah.
To
understand the Bible and the prophesies concerning Israel we need to understand
the history of the Jews and Israel as given in the Bible. The word Jew in the Greek is “Ioudaios”
which means “of the tribe of Judah or of the land of Judah.”
Judah
was just one of the 12 tribes (13 if we count Levi) of Israel. The Jews of today only represent a part
of the tribe of Judah. Again, to
really understand this we need to review the history of Israel and Judah.
When
Israel conquered the land of Canaan the land was divided up among the 12
tribes. Levi, not being numbered among the tribes was divided among the twelve
tribes to take care of the priestly duties.
Israel thrived as one nation from about 1451 B.C. to about 931 B.C. They were a blessed and prosperous
nation. They had colonies and trade as
far away as Spain and the British Isles (the Isles afar off). They had one king over them.
Israel Divided
and Scattered
Solomon
fell into sin and caused the 13 tribes also to fall into sin. Because of their sin, God caused the kingdom
to be divided. About 931 B.C. the
Kingdom of Israel was split into 2 kingdoms,
House of Israel and House of Judah, each having their own king. Judah’s capitol was Jerusalem and Israel’s
capital was initially Shechem, then Tirzah, during the reign of King
Baasha. About 878 B.C. King Omri built
a new capitol city, Samaria.
The
10 northern tribes under the leadership of the tribe of Ephraim, became
known as Israel and also referred to as Ephraim or Samaria. The 2 southern tribes of Benjamin and
Judah became known as Judah.
They were 2 separate kingdoms and at times battled each other. When scripture refers to the House of Judah
it means Judah and Benjamin. When
scripture refers to the House of Israel it means the 10 northern tribes and
sometimes all of Israel. When scripture
refers to the whole House of Israel, or sometimes as “Jacob”, it means both
houses – Israel and Judah.
10 tribes of Israel (and
most of Judah and Benjamin) Defeated and Removed
The
people of the 10 tribes, House of Israel, fell deeper into sin and their king
even had a golden calf set up for worship so the people wouldn’t have to travel
to the temple in Jerusalem. The warning
that God gave them in Leviticus 26, that if they persisted in sinning he would
invoke the seven times punishment (2520 years) and cause them to be removed
from their land and scatter them among the heathens, was put into effect.
The
Assyrians defeated the 10 northern tribes of Israel and deported them to the
outlying areas of Assyria. They were
put into Halah, and in Habor, by the river Gozan and the cities of the
Medes. This occurred during 745
B.C. to 700 B.C. On our present day map
this would be in northern Iraq and northern Iran, which is just south of the
Caucasus Mountains and the Caspian Sea.
Israel was placed in these areas to be a buffer between the Assyrians
and other nations that were enemies of Assyria. This meant that Israel would live in these areas
semi-independently and would also be required to have weapons and an army to
protect the outer areas of the Assyrian empire from invasion.
2 Kings 17:6 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.
KJV
The
Assyrians then restocked the cities of Israel with captive people from
other
lands (II Kings 17:24). These people became know as the Samaritans.
The
Samaritans were Non-Israelites.
2 Kings 17:24
24 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from
Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in
the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed
Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof.
KJV
Most of Judah Deported by the Assyrians (about 700 BC)
The
King of Assyria also went after Judah but failed to take Jerusalem. However the Assyrians did accomplish
taking MOST of Judah and Benjamin and also deported them to Assyria among the
10 tribes.
2 Kings 18:13
13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king
of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
KJV
Assyrian tablet inscriptions left by Sennacherib say that
the Assyrians took 43 cities of Judah and took captive 200,150 men of Judah and
deported them to the same areas of the 10 tribes. Again, Sennacherib failed to
take Jerusalem and lost 185,000 troops in the process. From this point on the Assyrians were
greatly weakened and would eventually fall with the rise of Babylon.
Isa 37:35-38
35 For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and
for my servant David's sake.
36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in
the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when
they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned,
and dwelt at Nineveh.
38 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of
Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the
sword; and they escaped into the land of Armenia: and Esar-haddon his son
reigned in his stead.
KJV
With
the decline of the Assyrians the exiled people of Israel started migrating away
from Assyria to Asia Minor, through the Caucasus Mountains to the north of the
black Sea and also east past the Caspian.
The Babylonian Captivity
About
150 years after Israel and a large portion of Judah were deported (Assyrian captivity), the people
of Jerusalem, the remnant of Judah, fell even deeper into sin than Israel had,
and the Babylonians took the remainder of Judah and Benjamin captive to
Babylon. 70 years later after the Medes
and Persians had defeated Babylon, the Jews (the remnant of Judah and
Benjamin), from Babylon were allowed to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the
city as well as the temple. Only 42,000
returned with Ezra and Nehemiah.
The 10 tribes (and most of Judah and Benjamin) in
captivity and lost to historians
After
the 12 tribes of Israel were hauled out of their land and deported to
Assyria, 700 B.C., they are lost to historians. These tribes never returned to Israel or
Judea. The Bible tells us that they
were placed into Halah, Habor, by the river Gozan and in the Cities of the
Medes. One commonly held thought by
historians is that they were absorbed into the populations of the areas they
were placed into.
Did
God cast away His people, Israel, or allow them to be absorbed into other
populations? Even for all their sin God
promised that He would not break His covenant with them. In Leviticus 26:44 God said that even when they
were in the hands of their enemies He would NOT cast them away. In Isaiah 41: 8-9 after all Israel had been
scattered, God says He has not cast them away.
In the last book of the Old Testament Malachi 3:6, God says to Israel, “I am the Lord, I change not, therefore ye sons of Jacob are
NOT consumed.”
Christ, Paul and James speak of the "Lost Tribes"
In
Matt. 15:24 Christ says, “I am not sent but unto
the lost sheep of the House of Israel”. By the time of Christ the 12 tribes
of Israel (House of Israel) had been gone and lost even to themselves for over
700 years. However, the Jews of
Christ’s time were quite aware of the Lost 12 tribes of the House of
Israel. Would Christ be sent to a
people that no longer existed?
Note: Jesus told the 12 Disciples to go first to
Lost Israel.
Matt 10:5-6
5 These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not
into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not:
6 But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
KJV
Paul
wrote in Romans 11:1-2
11:1 I say then,
Hath God cast away his people? God forbid…..
Paul answers right away.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
KJV
Also
the Epistle of James is written to the “Twelve tribes
scattered abroad”.
Why
would Christ say that he was sent to the “Lost Sheep of the House of
Israel”? Because it was the “Lost Sheep
of the House of Israel” that would become Christian and they in turn would
bring Christianity to the world.
Why
wouldn’t the Israelites remember their own identity?
It is very easy to see how they would forget if we just look at our American example. In my own example, my mother is a full Norwegian. Both my mother’s parents were born in Norway. From my grand parents to my children anything about Norway, i.e. the country, language or customs has been completely lost.
In
the case of the Israelites, forgetting who they were was part of the
punishment. Deut
32:26
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would
make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
This
prophecy can only refer to the 10 (12) tribes and not to the Jews (who returned
from Babylon). Today’s Jews represent
only a part of the ancient kingdom Judah and the whole world is aware of them
and remembers them.
So God promised to scatter them
and caused them to lose their identity.
And in losing their identity as Israelites, they would become as
“Foreign nations” or “Gentile” nations or in Hebrew, gowy Strong’s OT
1471. Refer back to Gen. 35:11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be
fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee,
and kings shall come out of thy loins;
KJV
(The Hebrew word for nation and company of nations
is OT:1471 gowy (go'-ee);
rarely (shortened) goy (go'-ee); apparently from the same root as OT:1465 (in
the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile. KJV-Gentile, heathen, nation, people.)
Also Hosea prophesied to Israel just prior
to the Assyrian captivity:
Hos 1:9-10
9 Then said God, Call his name Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people ,
and I will not be your God.
10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of
the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered…..
KJV
Here God is divorcing Himself from Israel as He says, “for
ye are not my people , and I will not be your God. “ Yet, God reiterates His promise that, they will still multiply
their population greatly, even though He won’t be their god and they will not
be His people; and they will forget who they are.
So
to recap here, Israel goes deeply into sin and the punishments begin. They are deported to a foreign country, they
eventually forget their own identity and become pagans. However, their population will be greatly
increased while in captivity. They are
lost to themselves and to the world but not to God. God knows where His sheep are.
And
after they have been punished God promises in the remainder of the verse of
Hosea 1:10:
10 ……….. and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was
said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are
the sons of the living God.
KJV
So,
at some point, God is promising that the punishment will be over and the people
will again be His people and He will again be their god.
Zech 10:6
6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save
the house of Joseph , and I will bring them again to place them; for I
have mercy upon them: and they shall be as though I had not cast them off:
for I am the LORD their God, and will hear them.
KJV
Israel’s
Names in Captivity
What
name did the Israelites go by at the time of the Assyrian captivity? God tells us in Amos 7, 8 and 9 that Israel
will go into captivity because of their sin.
In Amos 7:16 God refers to Israel as the house of Isaac. This is the only time in the Old Testament
that God refers to Israel as the house of Isaac and
it is while He is foretelling of their captivity.
We
know that part of God’s punishment of Israel is that they were not to remember
their identity as Israel. So it would
make sense then that they would stop calling themselves Israel and use another
name. In Amos 7:16 God uses the name
“House of Isaac” as synonymous with “Israel,
so this must be a name for Israel that the people were familiar
with. Also, “In Isaac shall thy seed be called” Romans 9:7,
Hebrews 11:18 and Genesis 21:12;
this documents that Israel would be called by Isaac’s name.
Amos 7:8 And the LORD said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I
said, A plumbline. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the
midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any
more:
9 And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and
the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise
against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
KJV
Note
that in Amos 7:8-9 “the high places of Isaac”
shows that Isaac is synonymous with Israel just as the house of Isaac is
used in Amos 7:16 as synonymous with Israel.
Amos 7:16
16 Now therefore hear thou the word of the LORD: Thou sayest,
Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house
of Isaac.
KJV
Isaac's Name
It’s
important, here, to get into the Hebrew pronunciation of Isaac’s name. Isaac is the English rendition of the Hebrew
name Yishaq or “YSHK”. From Psalm 105:9
through the rest of the Old Testament the word for Isaac is Yishaq (Strong’s
3446). In the manuscript Yishaq is
spelled Yowd (Y, often quiescent), Siyn (s), Het (h or kh gutteral sound) and
Qowph (k). Note that there were no
vowels in the old Hebrew writing so the vowel sounds had to be added when
spoken. The actual Hebrew spelling for Yishaq is YSHK. The pronunciation is: Y or Quiescent (no sound), then sak. So “Yisak” or “Sak” would be the
pronunciation of the Hebrew name, Yishaq or “YSHK”.
It is a
well-known Hebraism, and for some reason it certainly was a very common custom
among the Israelites, to drop the first letter of a proper name. Bible examples
of this custom are: Oshea, otherwise Hoshea; Hagar, otherwise Agar; Jachan,
otherwise Achan; Heber, otherwise Eber, etc. Scholars tell us, if we have
caught their thought, that this Hebrew idiom is peculiar to the possessive
case, and also to allow the introduction of an affix. So the house of Yisak would be Beth-Sak.
The Hebraism of dropping the first letter of a proper
name, to show the possessive, would be the reason for dropping the “Y”.
The
ten tribes then would have called themselves the Beth-Sak (which means House of
Yishak) or just Sak and this name would be synonymous with Israel. And just as “Beth Sak” (house of Sak) was
their name, they would also be know as the sons of Sak or Saksons.
Names Israel was
called by other nations
The
Assyrians referred to Israel as the “Khumri” before the
captivities. Khumri was the Assyrian
name for King “Omri” of Israel. The
Hebrew spelling of Omri is: Ayin (deep
guttural sound like GH or KH), Mem (M), Resh (R), Yowd (Y). So the Hebrew pronunciation of Omri would
be Ghimri or Khimri. After the
reign of Sargon II (721-705 B.C.) that name Khumri is never mentioned
again. Then by 707 B.C. and forward,
“Gimera”, is the Assyrian name for Omri or Samaria (Israel). This is recorded
in ancient Assyrian tablets. The name “Gimera” is easily derived from “Ghimri”
the Hebrew pronunciation of Omri.
The
Greeks called the Gimera the “Kimmerioi” translated to English as
“Cimmerians”. The Medes called the
Gimera the “Saka”. The Babylonians
called the Gimera the “Gimiri” and the
Persians called the Gimera the “Saka”.
The
Medes and Persians lived in close proximity to the 10 tribes that called
themselves Beth Sak (translated into English as House of Isaac) or just
Sak (translated into English as Isaac), so it is easy to see how they would
have called them “Saka”.
Rock of Behistun
The
Sculptures and inscriptions on the Rock of Behistun in present
day Iran, which are still there today, give us the verification of the names
used by others for the Beth Sak or Sak.
Carved and engraved on the perpendicular face of a mountain, about 300
feet above the base, by the order of Darius the Great, about 515 B.C., the
entire memorial is about 150 feet long by about 100 feet high. The sculptures are of King Darius standing
over nine men united by a rope around their necks and their hands tied behind
their backs. A tenth man is lying on
his back with the right foot of the king on top of him. These men are apparently the head chieftains
of the 10 tribes of Israel. Over each
figure is a brief history of the man and the tribe he represents. The Persian text of the tenth panel speaks
of “Skuxa”, the Saka, who has the Hebrew form of head-dress. The cuneiform inscriptions
were in three languages, Babylonian (Accadian), Elamite (Susian) and Persian. The
texts of the three languages are identical. In the inscriptions the words “Scythia”
(Saka), “Media” and “Armenia” occur frequently. These are the areas that the captives in the sculpture were taken
from and is the same place to which the 10 tribes of Israel had been deported
by the Assyrians.
The
inscriptions mention 23 nations ruled by Darius and one of them was the “Sakas”. The Persian and the Elamite versions both use the word “Saka”,
while in the Babylonian version the same people are called Gimiri.
Photo at Behistun from article by Jona Lendering.
Photo at Behistun from article by Jona Lendering.
Behistun
Inscription in the Zagros Mountains in Iran near Iraq border.
Photo at Behistun from article by Jona Lendering.
The Behistun Inscription is to Old Persian Cuneiform as the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
Another
trilingual inscription was found in the tomb of Darius in southwestern Persia
near the ancient city of Persepolis. In
this writing Darius refers to three separate groups of Sakas, the “Amyrgian Sakas”, the Sakas
with the pointed caps and the Sakas who are beyond the sea (the
Black Sea). In this inscription, again
each time the name Gimiri is used in the Babylonian text, the
name, Saka, is used in the Persian text. So Saxon = Scythian = Saka = Gimiri =
Gimera = Ghimri = Khumri = Omri = Israel = Beth-Sak.
Also Cimmerian = Kimmerioi = Gimiri = Gimera = Ghimri =
Khumri = Omri = Israel = Beth-Sak.
By the time of Darius the 10 (12) tribes, Saka, had had
plenty of time (200 years) to multiply their population and expand their
territory. Some were still in Armenia
(south of the Caucasus Mtns.), some had
gone to Asia Minor, some to Arsareth (west of the Black Sea), a large group
went through the Caucasus Mountains to the north of the Black Sea and in the
Crimea, while others had gone east past the Caspian even as far as India. This
is confirmed by the Rock at Behistun and the tablet in King Darius’ tomb as
well as other tablet writings.
In Armenia by the Aras River the Saka were also known as
the Sak-Geloths. Sak-Geloth translated
into English means Captives of Isaac.
The
“Cimmerians”, as the Greeks called the Gimiri, were located in Asia Minor and
in Arsareth (in the area of present day Romania). The Saka north of the Black
Sea (present day Ukraine and Russia) were called Scythians or Skuths by the
Greeks and their land was called “Scythia” by the Greeks.
Scythians
The
1895 Encyclopedia Britannica states that the Greeks met a nomadic race on the
northern coast of the Black Sea and the southern steppes of Russia about 650
B.C., whom the Greeks called Scythians. This is the first mention in history of
the Scythians in Europe.
Herodotus,
the famous Geek historian who lived from 484 B.C. to 425 B.C., said that the
Scythians, who are called Sakai, were Aryans and, that according to the
ancients, came from the land of the Medes.
Hippocrates
(460 B.C to 360 B.C.) said of the Scythians, “their countenance was
ruddy”. Wherever the Saka lived (north
of the Black Sea, south of the Caucuses Mts. in Armenia, or east of the
Caspian), they were called Scythians (Sakai) by the Greeks.
Herodotus
said that the Scolots, or Scoloti, were true Scythians or Royal Scythians.
Herodotus
cites a Median source that the Scythians invaded and defeated the Medes and
held a large portion of the Assyrian Empire for 28 years, 634 B.C. to 606 B.C.
The
Scythians told Herodotus that their nation, the youngest of all nations, had
been in existence for 1000 years prior to the invasion by Darius. If we take 1000 years before the time of
Darius, 515 B.C. we come to about the time of the Exodus, 1491 B.C., when Israel became a nation.
About
330 B.C. Alexander the Great, the Greek conqueror, came up against the Angli
Scythians near the south side of the Caspian (present day Iran). The Angli Scythians offered fierce
resistance but Alexander was victorious; and the main body of the Angli escaped
around the east of the Caspian, went north, and then west to Scythia where
their brethren Scythians lived, north of the Black Sea and the Caucasus
Mountains.
The
main group of Scythians (Beth-Sak or Saksons) and the Angli (Angles) were driven north and west out of Scythia by
the Sarmatians from 300 B.C. to 100 A.D.
The Sarmatians became the new inhabitants of Scythia. While the Scythians
were being pushed out of Scythia by the Sarmations, they in turn pushed out their
cousins, the Cimmerians, in the Romania-Arsareth region. So the Cimmerians went west across Europe,
while the Scythians went west and north.
As the Cimmerians went west all the way to Spain they became known as
Celts to the Greeks and Gauls to the Romans.
The Scythians then migrated to what would later be called Germany. The Romans gave the Scythians the name,
“Germani” meaning the “genuine”
Scythians to differentiate them from the Sarmatians.
“Pliny
the Elder”, a Roman historian that lived from 23 – 79 A.D. referred to the German
coast (before the name German existed) by the North Sea and Baltic Sea as
the coast of Scythia. Scythia
and the Scythians were well known by the Greeks and Romans and they were well
aware of the original Scythians being driven from Scythia (north of the Black
Sea) by the Sarmations. They also knew
that the Scythians had gone north as far as the North Sea and Baltic Sea. For a time the Romans referred to both areas
as Scythia.
According
to Pliny, in order to differentiate between the Sarmation inhabitants and the
true Scythians, the Romans dropped the name Scythian and substituted Sarmatae
and Germani.
According
to Tacitus, b. 56 A.D. d. 117 A.D., and Ptolemy the Angles and the Saxons
inhabited Germania in the region by the Elbe River and the base of the Jutland
peninsula, which is by the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, the same area that
Pliny (at roughly the same time) referred to as the Coast of Scythia.
Jutland Peninsula above.
The migration routes of Israel.
After
Rome withdrew from Britain, 410 A.D., the Briton’s were at war with the Picts.
The Britons asked the two Saxon warriors, Hengist and Horsa and
their army to help the Britons drive the Picts back to Scotland. The Saxons,
though, liked the land and wanted it for themselves. They killed and/or pushed the Picts back to Scotland and then
turned on the Britons. From 449 A.D. to
557 A.D. the Saxons along with the Angles and Jutes poured into Britain killing
many of the Britons and driving the rest into Wales. The land of Britain had
become the land of the Angles (Engel) and this is how England got its new name.
The
British historian, Nennius, in his account of the arrival of Hengist and
Horsa , says that, “messengers were sent to Scythia”, for
reinforcements. To the Romans this area
was called Germania. But the British
historian, Nennius, using the name “Scythia”, here being applied to northern
Germany, shows that the ancient name, Scythia, persisted long in Northern
Europe.
Next,
let’s look at the word “Saxon”. This
word is still in use today and really identifies the people. In English we use the Roman version of the
word. Saxon is Latin for the German
word Sachsen, both words pronounced:
Sak-son.
The
Angles, Jutes and Saksons were different tribes of the same people and were all
Saksons. Remember earlier in this study
we saw that Ephraim was the leader of the 10 Northern tribes of Israel. In History the primary emblem of Ephraim was
the “bull” and the secondary emblem was the “unicorn”. Deut. 33:17 documents
this. The “Bull” emblem is
significant. It was Ephraim’s emblem
and also the emblem of the Angles as “Engel” means “Bull” in Hebrew. “John
Bull” is another name for England.
Let’s
recap a little bit here. The Israelites
taken into captivity called themselves the “Beth Sak”, or House of Isaac, or
just “Sak”, during and after the captivity,
and later the “Saksons” or sons of Isaac.
Other nations called the Israelites:
Khumri -
Assyrian name for Israel, for (King) Omri of Israel, 10 tribes,before the
captivity. Pronounced “Ghimri” in Hebrew.
Ghimri -
Hebrew pronunciation of Omri
Gimera
- Assyrian name for the 10
tribes during the captivity.
Gimiri - Babylonian name for Gimera on Behistun inscription
Saka - Persian name for Gimiri on Behistun and other
inscriptions
inscriptions
Sakasuna -
Persian for sons of the Saka or Saksons
Sacae - Latin and English for Saka
Sak-Geloths -
Hebrew, prisoners of Isaac
Goths - Latin, prob. from Sak-Geloth, tribes of Scythians
Beth-Sak -
Hebrew, House of Isaac
Scythians - (Latin and English for the Greek words – Skuthes or
Sakai)
Sakai)
Skuthes - Greek (Skoo-thace) for Scythian or
Saka, prob. of
foreign origin
foreign origin
Sakai - Greek for the Persian word Saka
Scolots
& Scoloti - The Greeks said they
were Royal Scythians
Cimmerians - Greek, (actually the Latin word for the Greek -
Kimmerioi) derived from Ghimri (King Omri of Israel)
Cimmerians - Greek, (actually the Latin word for the Greek -
Kimmerioi) derived from Ghimri (King Omri of Israel)
Celts - English for the Greek word – (Keltoi)
Gauls - Latin for Celts (Keltoi)
Germans -
Latin for Genuine or original Scythians
Saxons -
Latin and English for Saksons
Angli - Greek. A large tribe of the Saka (Ephraim)
Angles -
English for Angli. Engel means “bull” in Hebrew.
The primary emblem
for Ephraim was the “bull”.
Jutes - A Saxon tribe from Jutland (Denmark). Invaded
Britain with the Angles and Saxons 449 to 557 A.D.
Jutes - A Saxon tribe from Jutland (Denmark). Invaded
Britain with the Angles and Saxons 449 to 557 A.D.
Again
Herodotus said that the Scolots, as the Greeks called them, were true Scythians
or Royal Scythians and their location was given as the Crimea and the northern
coasts of the Black Sea. It seems that
Herodotus’ Scolots are the same people that we know today as the Scots of
Scotland.
King
Robert the Bruce
In
the year 1320 A.D. King Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland, sent a letter to
Pope John XXII known today as the “Declaration of Arbroath” or “The Scottish
Declaration of Independence”. Kept in a
glass case in the Register House of Edinbourgh, this letter is a parchment to
which are attached twenty five red and green seals, the seals of twenty five
Scottish nobles. This letter gives a
record of the origin of the Scottish people and also the route of their
previous migrations.
The
Scottish Declaration says, “…and from the chronicles and books of the
ancients, we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots,
has been graced with widespread renown.”
It goes on to say that they came from Scythia and traveled
through the Mediterranean Sea and through the Pillars of Hercules (Strait of
Gibraltar) and settled for a long time in Spain. They left Spain for Ireland 1200 years after the
people of Israel crossed the Red Sea (about 285 B.C.) Isn’t it interesting that the ancient
Scots dated themselves from 1200 years after the Exodus. This was also how the 10 tribes dated their
tombstones in Scythia. They dated the
tombstones from so many years after the Exodus or from so many years
after the Assyrian Captivity.
This
letter also declares, “In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and
thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken by a single
foreigner.”
Another thing declared in the Scottish Declaration
was,”…Our Lord Jesus Christ, after His Passion and Resurrection, called them,
even though settled in the uttermost parts of the earth, almost the first to
His holy faith. Nor would He have them
confirmed in that faith by merely anyone but by the first of His Apostles by
calling – though second or third in rank – the most gentle Saint Andrew, the blessed
Peter’s brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their
patron forever.”
Again, Jesus told his apostles to first go to the “Lost
sheep of the House of Israel”. Would Jesus tell his apostles to
spread Christianity to a people that didn’t exist?
So
the Scots, according to the “Chronicles and Books of the ancients”, came from
Scythia and dated themselves from when the people of Israel crossed the Red
Sea, just as their ancestors did north of the Black Sea in Scythia.. So the Scots were also of Scythian, or Saka,
origin and arrived in the British Isles some 700 years before the Angles, Jutes
and Saxons.
What
about the Irish and the Britons (Welsh)?
What was their origin? Also, how
about the Danes, Norwegians and Swedes?
After the invasion of Hengist and Horsa, there were many invasions by the Danes, Norwegians and Swedes
(Vikings), over a few hundred years of both Britain and Ireland. Many of the Vikings stayed and became
inhabitants. What were the origins of
the Danes, Norwegians and Swedes? All
of the above peoples make up the population of today’s British Isles. This is another whole study but, in short,
the Danes, Norwegians and Swedes (and the Normans in 1066 A.D.) were of the
same stock of people, being Germanic or, “Saxon”.
The
Irish and Britons were made up of a few migrations of Celtic people and earlier
Israelite people. This is another whole
study that we aren’t going to do now.
However, a little should be said here.
With
the split of Israel into two kingdoms, there were battles between Israel and
Judah. Eldud, a 9th century
Jewish writer, tells us: “In Jeroboam’s
time (about 931 B.C.) the tribe of Dan being unwilling to shed their brethren’s
blood, took a resolve to leave the country.”
The people of Dan were well known for being a seafaring and exploring
people. Israel had traded with and had
colonies in Spain and the Isles afar off, Britain and Ireland. In the Irish Chronicles the “Tuatha de
Danaan”, meaning “the tribe of Dan”, landed in Ireland and were opposed by the
people already there. A battle ensued
and the Danaan were victorious. After
discovering that their opponents spoke a similar language, peace was made and
it was agreed that the Danaan would occupy the northern part of the Island.
Pliny,
the Roman historian b. 23 A.D d. 79A.D.
says, “The whole of the Roman Empire was supplied with metals and tin
from Britannia…..Greece, too with tin and sundry metals from the same source as
early as 907 B.C.”
Ptolemy, the Greek historian,
concerning the British Isles says, “They were peopled by
descendents of the Hebrew race, who were skilled in smelting operations
and excelled in working metals.”
Hibernia,
or land of the Hebrews, is the Roman Latin name for the Island of Ireland.
The
ancient Welch, of Britain, called their land “Cymru” (Wales). They called themselves “Cymry”, the
same word that the Welch call themselves today, in the Welch language, and is
pronounced, kim-ree. Again, an early
name for the northern 10 tribes of Israel was Gimiri, as called by the
Babylonians. The name, Gimiri, was for
King Omri of Israel. The Hebrew
spelling for Omri is OMRY: O
(Ayin, GH or KH - deep gutteral sound – not as O is in English), M
(Mem), R (Resh), Y (Yowd) and is pronounced Ghimri or Khimri, or
for the English speaker, “kim-ree”.
Although there is some speculation no one knows when the Welch first
arrived in Britain. Certainly they were
present well before the Roman occupation in 43 A.D.,
possibly
as far back as the days of Omri (880 B.C.).
Language Connection
There is a connection between Hebrew and the European
languages. Many of our English and
Gaelic words are directly or indirectly rooted in Hebrew. As many as 6000
English words are pure Hebrew. While
this is significant the Welsh language, of the original Britons, is
extraordinarily close to the Hebrew language.
Of course the languages of the tribes, that migrated over hundreds of
years through Asia and Europe, had changed greatly. But the Welch came directly from Israel in ships so the Welsh language
has a remarkably close resemblance to Hebrew.
Here are some examples:
Taken from E. Ramond Capt's book Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets.
Taken from E. Ramond Capt's book Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets.
Welsh English Hebrew
Anafu To wound, to
cut Anaf
Annos To drive Anas
Alaf Treasure Aluph
Bara Bread Barah
Bu It came to
pass Bou
Boten Belly Betten
Breg Breaking Berek
Bwth Booth Buth
Cas Hatred Cass
Cell A cellar Cele (prison)
Coler A collar Kolar
Coron A crown Keren
Dagr A dagger Daker
Badad A troop cometh Bagad
Anudon Without God Aen Adon
Ochoren
balloddi After I am waxed
old Acharei belothi hedenah
hocdena shall
I have pleasure
Angheni
a gowan Thy terrors have
cut Angini eu gouan
me off
An
annos None did
compel Aen aones
As
chwimwth An angry man Aischemouth
Yni
all sydda I am Almighty
God Aniael saddai
Iachadd ni Thou hast healed me Ichiiathni
Examples of English
and Hebrew words:
Taken from E. Ramond Capt's book Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets.
English Hebrew Varied Meanings
Bashful, abash
Baash Abashed,
uncomfortable, abhorred.
Rabble
Rab Rabble,
rout, multitude.
Cipher
Saphar To count
or cipher, as in arithmetic.
Sore
Tsur
Distress, soreness.
Sorrow
Tsarar Sorrow,
inflicted with trouble.
Shiver
Sheber Shiver,
break, shiver my timbers.
Puke
Pook To puke, put out.
Rash
Raash To be
angry, to rage.
Ahah
Ahah Ahah, an
exclamation of surprise.
Bad
Bad Alone,
cut off from others, separate.
bad in state.
Hollow
Holhul Empty,
hollow.
Cane
Cana Cane,
reed, coarse grass.
Direct
Derek Right,
straight, direct.
Call
Kol
Voice, shout, call.
Room
Rum Make
tall, a space, enlargement.
Shame Shamen Amazed, astounded, shamed
Char
Charah To burn
char, as in charcoal.
Suck
Suk To
draw out, as to suck.
Cover
Kaphar, Kafar To cover.
Sum
Sum
Total, count, as to sum.
Calamity
Kalam
Agitation, calamity, excite.
Dumb
Dahm, Dohm Dumb, silent.
In
In In, within, inside.
Sure
Shur To
see, examine, make sure, be sure.
Nod
Nud To
nod, to approve.
Holiday
Hulledeth A holiday, or birthday.
Amass
Amas To
amass, or increase.
No
No
Disallow, annul, to say no.
Horrid
Orits, or arats Terrify,
make terrible, or horrid.
Ore
Or
Horizon, light, shining metal as zinc,
ore, orange.
Ad
Ad
Till, until, up to, as in adjoin, attain,
adept.
Soothe
Suth To
persuade, soothe.
Chore
Chor Work, as do the chores.
Cave
Kaph
Hollow, as a cave.
English Hebrew Varied Meanings
Oath
Oth An
oath, a sign, a testimony,
An
agreement.
Perish
Parash
Scattered, routed, lost, perished.
Broth
Baroth
Food, broth, or soup.
Clad Galad To cover, as clad.
Gargle
Gargareth
Throat, gullet, to gargle the throat.
Crash
Garash To
crush, or to crash.
Door
Dor To swing to and fro, hence the
thing that swings.
Thrash
Darash To
beat, or thrash.
Grab
Karab To
grab, grip, grasp.
Gnaw
Knaw To
bite, sting, gnaw.
Cotton
Kuttoneth
Cotton, flax, linen.
Some quotes
by historians
Strabo (64 B.C. to 24 A.D.) – Said that the most ancient
Greek historians knew the Sacae (Saka) as a people who lived beyond the Caspian
Sea.
Diodorus
(1st Cent. B.C.) – “The Sacae (Saka) sprung from a people in Media
who obtained a vast and glorious empire.”
Ptolemy
(85 A.D. Egypt) – finds the Saxons in a race of Scythians, called
Sakai (Saka), who came from Media.
Pliny
(23 to 79 A.D.) – “The Sakai were among
the most distinguished people of Scythia, who settled in Armenia (south of the
Caucasus Mtns,), and were called Sacae-Sani.”
Prof.
Totten (1851 to 1908) says, “In most of the Eastern languages, sons of,
is written “sunnia” or “sani”.
It is equivalent to the Scottish “Mac” and the English and Irish
“Fitz”. So Sacae-Sani means
Sak’s sons.
Albinus
(147 to 197 A.D.) – “The Saxons were descended from the ancient
Sacae (Saka) of Asia.
Prideaux
(1845) – Says the Cimbrians came from between the Black and Euxine (Caspian)
seas, and that with them came the Angli. (Both the Cimbrians and
the Angli settled in the Jutland Peninsula.)
Sharon Turner - (great Saxon historian 1768 to 1847) "The Saxons were a Scythian nation and were called Saca (Saka), Sacki, Sachsen."
Herodotus (Greek Historian 484 to 425 B.C.) He said that the Skuthes (Scythians) were called Sakai (Greek form of the Persian Saka) by the Persians.
King
James I of
England was King James VI of Scotland and was the King James of the 1611 King
James Bible. In 1567 James became king
of Scotland and king of England starting in 1603 with both reigns ending in
1625. He claimed that the Lord made
him King over Israel. King James
had a coin minted that was called the Jacobus. (James is another form of
Jacob) On the coin inscribed in Latin
is, “I will make of them one nation.” Ezekiel 37:22, joining of the 2 sticks, meaning the joining of Israel and Judah.
Ephraim and
Manasseh
The
blessing given to Ephraim of becoming a multitude of nations is clearly seen in
Great Britain, and their commonwealth, as well as in many of the nations of
northern Europe. But what about
Joseph’s older son, Manasseh, and the blessing of becoming a great nation?
In
Genesis 49 the birthright blessings for Joseph included:
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough
by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated
him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were
made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the
shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
Of
course the blessings given to Joseph would be divided between Ephraim and
Manasseh. Note that Joseph would be “the shepherd, the stone of Israel”. We already
know about Ephraim, so where is this great nation? The primary emblem of Manasseh is the
“Olive Branch”, which stands for peace. Manasseh’s secondary emblem is the “Bundle of Arrows”,
which stands for war. It would stand to
reason then that this “Great Nation” would stand for peace but would also be
strong militarily and make war when necessary.
As earlier discussed, God had imposed the 7 times punishment on
Israel. Again a time is 360 years and 7
times is 2520 years. So after going
into captivity in Assyria, Manasseh would emerge 2520 years later as a nation
and become a great nation. For those of
you who are into Biblical numerics 2520 is a special number and is the number
of chronological perfection (7 x 360) according to E.W. Bullinger. In addition to this it is the least common
multiple of the ten digits governing all enumeration. (This means you can divide any of the 9 digits into 2520 and not
have a remainder.) Another quite
interesting feature of 2520 is that it is the product of the 4 perfection
numbers, in Biblical numerics. (3,7,10,12)
I believe that God picked this number 2520 to tell us that His hand was
on all of these events (concerning Israel) and that He has been in control the
whole time.
The
Assyrian captivities began in 745 B.C. and Manasseh, occupying the land closest
to Assyria, would have been the first ones the Assyrians came up against and
the first taken into captivity. When we
add 2520 years to 745 B.C. (add one year because there is no year zero) we come
to the year 1776 A.D., the same year that the 13 American Colonies declared
independence from Britain. Is it merely
a coincidence that the United States of America began with the 13 colonies just
as Israel had 13 tribes? Is it merely a
coincidence that for the last 60 years the United States of America has been
the most powerful nation, militarily and economically, the world has ever known? Is it just a coincidence that the people of
the United States of America have created the greatest industrial nation and
highest standard of living the world has ever known? Coincidence? I don’t think so.
The
marks of Israel and the blessings of Manasseh are everywhere staring us
straight in the face. Look at the back side of a dollar bill and what do we
see? On the right hand side we see the
“Great Seal of the United States of America”.
This includes the “Eagle” which was one of the emblems for Israel.
The eagle is holding the “Olive Branch and the Bundle of Arrows”, the
emblems of Manasseh. Above the eagle is
written in Latin “E Pluribus Unum”, translated “out of many, one”. So the eagle represents all Israel and it
holds, in it’s talons, the birthright blessings handed down by Jacob to
Manasseh.
Again,
the purpose of this study is to document the existence and identity of the 10
lost tribes of Israel in the Bible, in history, in ancient stone writings and
the use of linguistics. I think we’ve
successfully done that here, although there are mountains of even more evidence
not presented here for the sake of time.
The USA, Great Britain and other northern European countries are the
only nations in the world that bear the marks and names of Israel and are the
only nations to fulfill all of the birthright blessings handed down by
Jacob. America bears all the marks and
names of Israel.
Gen 12:2-3
2 And I
will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee,
and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth
thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Has
the world ever known a nation that has been as much of a blessing to the rest
of the world as America has been? Has
any nation ever been as blessed as America has been blessed? Where would this world be if America had
never existed?
Speaking of Israel God said through Jeremiah:
Jer 51:20
20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I
break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms; KJV
This
verse in Jeremiah was prophesy for the future as Israel had not performed this
duty as “God’s battle axe” before the captivities.
Starting
with the Scythians (Beth-Sak), God did use Israel many times throughout history
as “His battle axe”. In modern times
America and Great Britain (Manasseh and Ephraim) have certainly been God’s
battle axe.
Some
questions asked earlier in this study have remained unanswered here, i.e.
“Where is the throne of David? And who is sitting on it?” This is another whole study and I can assure
you that the answers are out there for you to find if you haven’t already
studied this.
After
reading this study some people may say, “If all these things about the identity
of Israel are true, why don’t more people know about it?” If you will remember, part of the punishment
of Israel was to forget their identity.
Again, I believe that God will open the truth to those who have faith
and today many thousands of people know the truth. There has always been a remnant that carried the truth. After George Washington died, Thomas
Jefferson said that, “a great man in Israel had fallen”.
Some
people, after reading this study, may say, “So if we are Israel, so what? What does it matter to me?” It mattered big time to God. When his people Israel rejected his laws and
showed indifference to their own heritage, worshipped golden calves and
worshipped other gods, God followed through with his promise of the 7 times
punishment. Remember what God said to
Israel just before the Assyrian captivity?
Hos 4:6
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast
rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to
me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy
children.
KJV
Does
this mean that God has still forgotten the descendants of Israel even unto
today? No, the 7 times (2520 years)
punishment is over. The people were
re-covenanted as Christians even during the punishment. However, God will curse or bless the people
and their nations today based on their actions.
2 Chron 7:14
14 If my people, which 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.
KJV
Note: “If my people, which are called by my
name….” What name? Christians, or people of Christ, the
Christian nations.
What’s
in a name? Have you ever broken down a
word or name to find the meaning behind the word or name? Let’s take an easy one, British, and find
the etymology of the name. Brit
and ish. Bryth in Hebrew means covenant. iysh in Hebrew means man. So British in Hebrew literally means
Covenant man.
Where did the name America come from? In the 1961 edition of the Encyclopedia
Americana in the article on “America”, the origins of the word, America, are
given. The German map maker, Martin Waldseemuller, had read about Italian Amerigo
Vespucci’s travels to the new world.
Waldseemuller named the new world America on his map, in honor of
Amerigo, and the name stuck. (Note: The only country called “America” from
either North America or South America is the United Sates of America.) The
Italian name, Amerigo, actually comes from the old Saxon Gothic name Amelrich
or Amelric. The “L” was dropped in the
Italian version because it was difficult for the Italians to pronounce the word
with the L and the R together. So
America = Amerigo = Amelric.
Let’s
do an etymology of Amelric: Am - el -
ric. In Hebrew “am”, Strong’s OT: 5971,
means people or nation. In Hebrew “el”, Strong’s OT: 410, means God. “Ric”, in the old Sachsen Gothic
means “powerful” or “mighty”. So America then would mean “the People
of God Almighty”.
The
people of God, or the people of the lost tribes of Israel, have been lost to
the world and to themselves for a very long time. God has always known where they were and God kept his promises to
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and made them numerous and made them a great
nation. While most consider Israel lost
in antiquity, I say that without any doubt they are found.
In
closing, this study gives us a part of the “Key of David”. What is the “Key of David”? It’s the key to the House of David. It’s the key that opens the doors of
knowledge and unlocks the scriptures.
It’s the key to the ancestors of a people and their descendents. It’s the key to truth. It is not a thing of racism. No, it is the key that opens the truth to
anyone of any race if one has faith, reveres God and searches for wisdom. That being said always remember that the
truth is valuable and to guard the truth.
What did Christ say? “Don’t cast
your pearls before swine.”
Matt 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither
cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their
feet, and turn again and rend you.
7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall
find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth;
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
I
hope you have enjoyed this study.
May
God Bless all of you,
Don
Heath
