Category: Israel

One of the greatest mysteries of all history revolves around the Northern Ten tribed Kingdom of “the House of Israel” and exactly what ever happened to them. The United Kingdom of Israel shortly after the death of King Solomon split into two separate Kingdoms under his son, Rehoboam. Upon his ascent to the throne  all twelve tribes came to him asking for tax relief. His father, Solomon had taxed All Israel heavily to finance his building projects. Even as they requested Rehoboam to give a little relief some of the young men who were on his counsel suggested that he instead raise taxes. His announcement of accepting this bad advice caused the Northern ten tribes to rebel and set up their own Kingdom, The “House of Israel”  with Jeroboam as King. The two remaining tribes of Judah and little Benjamin with a small portion of Levi, continued on as before being now called the Kingdom or “House of Judah.”  This arrangement continued on for some  years until finally between 734 B.C. and 722 B.C., the Assyrian Kingdom carried the Northern Kingdom of Israel into captivity depositing them just South of the Caucasus mountains near present day Turkey.

The House of Israel in spite of being warned never to return to the land chose not to simply remain where they were dropped of by their captors. In stead they “took counsel” among themselves and chose to journey on into a land where they where “not known”. It is this journey that has puzzled so many for centuries now. But God has begun to remove the veil of secrecy  He placed over the nations as a protection for His people .Not only did they begin a journey that  took them far beyond what we now term the “Middle east” but all across Northern Europe eventually leading them throughout the world.. They actually joined forces and served as mercenaries at one time with Babylon and with Medes to destroy the Assyrian Empire that had taken them captive. Guess they learned not to mess with God’s people! The preeminent thing to remember about the split into two kingdoms is they have not as yet rejoined and  according to the Bible will not until Jesus returns and “unto Him will the gathering of the people be”. Many raise conjections that when the House of Israel was taken captive not all were displaced some remained, fled South and became part and parcel with the House of Judah while the remainder simply vanished into whatever. for all time erasing the House of Israel. God however promised the exact opposite would be the case, He would never forget the House of Israel.

Ezekiel 37:15-28 “The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 16 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: 17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. 18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these 19 Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. 20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. 21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: 22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: 23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. 24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. 26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people

28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.”

Gone but not forgotten,

2 Kings 17:23-24 23 Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.  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.

Babylon was a servant state at this time to the Assyrians. Foreigners were placed in the land of Israel which became known as “Samaritans” There is little wonder the New Testament has little use for the “Samaritan dogs” these were not from the House of Israel they replaced it upon the land.

Israel/Ephraim did not repent to be allowed to return after their period of exile was up.

EZEKIEL 4:1-6 4:1 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem :   2 And lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.   3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel .   4 Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.   5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel .   6 And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

God placed it upon Ezekiel’s heart to prophecy the period to be 390 years. Again they did not repent, instead falling deeper into idolatry

³³   They feared the LORD and served their own gods according to the custom of the nations from among whom they had been carried away into exile.
³⁴   To this day they do according to the earlier customs: they do not fear the LORD, nor do they follow their statutes or their ordinances or the law, or the commandments which the LORD commanded the sons of Jacob,  whom He named Israel ; 2 Kings 17:33 ,34

It seems they forgot what Moses had taught them about God’s goodness…

Deuteronomy 30 1-30

30:1 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,

2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity (exile), and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.

KJV

Choosing instead to follow after idols they also forgot, much to their hurt …

Lev 26:14-18

14 But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;

15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:

16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

18 And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

So here we see that the further prophecy of Moses now takes effect. The Northern Kingdom (Ephraim) has not repented and they now have a compounding problem on their hands. Instead of the punishment ending it is multiplied times seven.

EZEKIEL LAYING ON HIS SIDE =390 DAYS =390 YEARS

ASSYRIANS WERE TO TAKE EPHRAIM INTO CAPTIVITY FOR 390 YEARS

MOSES PROPHECIED  SEVEN TIMES MORE IF THEY DID NOT REPENT:

390 YEARS X 7 = 2,730 YEARS

The northern kingdoms exile period equals 2,730 years. They have never really been lost at all just placed in a stealth mode all these years, quietly being mixed among all the nations of the earth. For this reason Jesus states that He came for the lost sheep of the House of Israel (Ephraim). He began the regathering process of his lost sheep which has been going on for 2,000 years. The 2,000 years from Jesus first coming as the Suffering Messiah “Yashua ben Yoshef” (Or Jesus son of Joseph) He is also known as “the son of man”. His second coming as “Yashua ben David” the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and the end of the exile are both corresponding together in a way that only God could pull that off!

Genesis 49:10 “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.”

Shiloh is a Title applied to Jesus. His Shiloh coming is His second coming it is there unto Him shall the House of Israel return.

In 1948 the “Zionist State of Israel was born amidst great difficulties and much argument over what to name the new State. After days of debate Israel was chosen for purely political reasons. The people that reside there now are at best “the house of Judah” and not “the House of Israel” which has yet to be gathered home.

Now let us do the math. Let’s begin by counting 2,730 years from 734 B.C. and 722 B.C. and see where we land. 734-722 B.C. SUBTRACTING THE 2,730 YEARS BRINGS US TO APPROXIMATELY 1996-2008 A.D. Warning! We do not seek to place an exact date for the return of Jesus simply point out our days of captivity and His return are close at hand! We cannot be 100% accurate with these dates; especially since the scriptural ones are in Lunar years not Solar but there is a very small difference so for our reference here we shall deal in years as we calculate them. Scripture points out …

Mark 13:32 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

(Matthew 24:36 also)

Only God alone knows the exact day and hour which is how it must be. If we somehow knew Jesus was returning on January 1, 1775 everyone would go out and “party down” til 11:59 on that day but, even with the day and hour we forgot to specify which time zone is it Jerusalem central time? or what? No best left up to the Father! There was a book that made the rounds titled 1988 reasons why Jesus will return in 1988, of course its sequel 1999 reasons why Jesus will return in 1999 did not fair as well. Come to think of it I haven’t heard any more after that attempt to set a date failed. But we can know the season of the year according to Paul …

1Thessolonians 4:16-5:3 16 “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

1Th 4:18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.

1Th 5:1 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

1Th 5:2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

1Th 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”

Yes you may say ‘wait a minute I have always been taught that the birth of the state of Israel in 1948 was the return of Israel to the land’ … remember Paul wrote in  Romans 11:25 “For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.”

So don’t be surprised as you read on a little further. Oh yeah, by the way that was one of the 1998 reasons why Jesus was to come back in 1998, 40 years after Israel came home! Maybe God’s calendar is a little off? I doubt that!!!

There has been a blindness, never fully but this blindness has been like veil spread over the nations just as Isaiah prophesied it would be.

Isaiah 25:7 “And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the veil that is spread over all nations.”

This shall come to pass just as the fullness or completeness of the Gentiles  shall have been brought into the kingdom. That will be when the Father looks at the Son and says “OK go!”

This blindness has veiled Gods true plan to many. It is sad that many have been lost because of someone’s misinterpretation

This is why blindness in part is coming off the House of Israel (Ephraim) and we are reawakening to our heritage and our roots in a powerful way.  Jesus is preparing His return.

THE 2,730 YEAR WAITING PERIOD FOR THIS REVIVAL IS NOW ENDING. WE ARE NOW BEGINNING TO REPENT AND BEGINNING TO HEARKEN TO HIS VOICE AND BEGINNING TO OBEY HIS COMMANDS AND SEEK OUT HIS WAYS, REVIVAL IS COMING!

The understanding of who The House of Israel really is will open scripture to your understanding especially prophecy as never before. The Bible will seem like a new book to you. In the words of Rev. Charles Fox Parham, the father of the modern day outpouring of the Holy Spirit

As early as 1899 or before, Parham had recognized and was teaching the truth of the Christian Anglo-Israel message of the Bible.

He earnestly contended for this truth until his death in 1929. As late as two years before his death, he published an article in “THE APOSTOLIC FAITH“ magazine of July 1927 affirming his belief in this truth and encouraging his readers to accept it as being a part of the Full-Gospel message. The following are the opening and closing paragraphs of that article entitled, “The Ten Lost Tribes.”

“I want to write a short sketch to introduce to our readers one of the most important topics of the day, commonly known as Anglo-Israel, or The Ten Lost Tribes. I do not think that any Full Gospel preacher ought to longer delay in acquainting himself with this subject as I believe it belongs with the Full Gospel Message and that the message of the last days must include this subject or we are not preaching the Full Gospel.”

“Now, if the reader will carefully read Jacob’s blessings upon his children for the last days, and all the prophecies concerning Israel in the Old Testament, knowing they refer to the above named nations (ie: Anglo-Saxondom) and belong to us as a people, (ie: Protestants) the Old Testament will become a new book to you full of vital importance and interest.”

This short overview is by no means an exhaustive study of this subject just an introduction to it.

http://www.psalmist.biz/Lost%20tribes.htm

There appear to be several unrelated groups of people referred to as Cimbri {KMR} in history.

One of the most notable groups of Cimbri {KMR} is the one that was living on the Jutland {JD} Peninsula (Cymbric {KMR} Penninsula) about 200 years before Christ. Who were they? Where did they come from? Apparently no one really knows. What is known is that the names of their leaders were purely Celtic type names, so we can assume that they were a Celtic tribe. Most likely they were one of the many offshoots of the Cimmeroi {KMR} from 500 years earlier.

At any rate about 115 years before Christ, these Cimbri {KMR} began migrating south into the Danube {DN} Valley, into Gaul {GL}, into Italy, and into Spain. In the process, they came into frequent conflict with the Roman army, usually defeating them. Finally in 101 BC the Roman army defeated these Cimbri {KMR} at Vercellae.

According to Ceasar the Aduatuci of AD 57 were descended from these Cimbri {KMR}. Ceasar wrote, “When the Aduatuci, …” “They (the Aduatuci) were descended from the Cimbri {KMR} and Teutones, who, …” (De Bello Gallico {The Gallic War}, book II, chapter 29)

A second group called Cimbri, appear about the twelfth century in northern Italy. As best that can be determined, this group is of Bavarian origin being brought in as woodcutters (Tzimberers in Bavarian-Tyrolese dialect of the eleventh century) from Bavaria by rich Italians. They were settled in the Italian provinces of Trento, Vicenza, and Verona, where they remain to this day. They speak a Teutonic (German) language relatively unchanged for the last 800 years. Most likely there is no ethnic connection between these Cimbri and the Celtic Cimbri {KMR} above, as the name of these people is probably derived from Tzimberi instead of Cimmeroi {KMR}.

Who are the Jews? Where did they come from?

When you think about the Jews, what comes to mind? Race? Religion? Israel? Or what?

Before we can determine the definition of the word “Jews”, we must first examine some history. Anciently, Abraham had a son whom he named “Isaac.” When Isaac married he had a son he named “Jacob.” Then when Jacob had children, he named one of his sons “Judah” {JD}. As it turns out, the name “Jew” is just a nickname for Judah {JD}, similar to Joe being a nickname for Joseph. So, the name “Jew” comes from Judah {JD}, one of Jacob’s sons, and is applied to all of the descendants of Judah {JD}.

As for Jacob, God gave him the new name “Israel”, which gave rise to the term “Israelite”, a descendant of Israel. Israel had twelve sons, ONLY ONE OF WHICH WAS NAMED “JUDAH” {JD}. Needless to say, all Jews are Israelites, but all Israelites are NOT Jews. For proof of this, note that the very first time the word “Jew” is used in the Bible that the Jews were warring against the Israelites, which would not be possible if the terms were synonymous. A present day example is that all Californians are Americans, but all Americans are NOT Californians.

By the time of Moses and Joshua, the Israelites, including the Jews, became a large multitude. When they settled in the “Promised Land” they divided the land up by the tribes into 12 “states” each named after the tribe living therein. Judah {JD} was the name of the “state” the Jews lived in, Dan {DN} was the name of the “state” the Danites {DN} lived in, etc. Because the Levites {LV} were a priestly tribe and resided in every “state”, they were not allocated any land. Since all twelve tribes (“states”) were named after the twelve sons of Israel, and these “states” were populated by descendants of Israel (Jacob), the nation itself was known as Israel.

After the death of Solomon, things changed again. Because King Rehoboam would not cut taxes, the northern ten tribes split themselves from the southern two tribes (Judah {JD} and Benjamin) and set up a new nation. At that time the northern ten tribes kept the name of Israel while the other two tribes (Judah {JD} and Benjamin) became known as Judah {JD}, and the inhabitants as Jews. Since the capital of Israel in the north became the city of Samaria, quite often the northern ten tribes were referred to as Samaria and the people as Samaritans. Eventually the Assyrians deported Israel (the northern tribes) to Assyria, Media, the Russian Steppes, etc. and then Israel became lost in history. After expelling the Israelites, the Assyrians relocated people from the Assyrian Empire to the vacated land, and by the time of Jesus these people, who were NOT descendants of Israel, became known as Samaritans. Years after the Assyrians conquered Israel, the Babylonians conquered and deported the Jews to Babylonia from where a tiny remnant returned to the Promised Land years later.

While the children of Israel were wandering in the wilderness for those 40 long years before entering the Promised Land, God instructed Moses to teach Israel how to worship Him. This system of worship continued off and on until Solomon died. At that time, the northern tribes of Israel, under King Jehoboam rejected this religion in favor of worshipping Baal {BL} and other false gods. Judah {JD} retained the religion given to Moses, and eventually this religion became known as Judaism {JD} and its adherents as Jews. The Levites {LV} in Israel that were against the religious change fled south to Judah {JD} where they became a major force in religion.

To sum this up we have the following three possibilities:

• RACE: Everyone descended from the patriarch Judah {JD} is a Jew and is also an Israelite, while NONE of the other descendants of Israel are Jews.
• NATIONALITY: Everyone that was a citizen (and all of their descendants) of the ancient nation of Judah {JD} (racial Jews, racial Benjaminites, racial Levites, and any immigrants of other races) is a Jew and is also an Israelite, while NONE of the citizens (nor their descendants) of other nations, whether or not racial Israelites, are Jews.
• RELIGION: Everyone adhering to the Jewish religion is a Jew, while NONE of the other adherants of any other religion are Jews.

As you can see, the word “Jews” can mean THREE different things depending upon whether you are talking about RACE, NATIONALITY, or RELIGION! A Jew can be a RACIAL Jew and a NATIONAL Jew and a RELIGIOUS Jew all at the SAME time! Or a Jew can be only ONE of these, or any TWO. So, be careful how you use the word “Jew”. People throughout history have confused the THREE definitions and as a result thoroughly confused themselves and others.

Who were the Cimmerians {KMR}? Where did they come from? Does anybody know?

The Cimmerians {KMR} SUDDENLY show up in history about 710 BC when they were pushed out of the Russian Steppes by the Scythians {SKD}. Some of them moved into what is now modern day Crimea and in the 5th century BC established the Kingdom of Cimmerian Bosporus. They were there long enough to leave their name there, ‘Crimea,’ which is derived from Cimmeria {KMR}.

The rest of the Cimmerians {KMR} moved south across the Caucasus Mountians first destroying Urartu (near Mt Ararat) and then the kingdom of Phrygia in Anatolia (in modern Turkey). In 705 BC Sargon II, king of Assyria, was killed fighting the Cimmerians {KMR}. Appian writes in Mithridates 114 that east of the Roman province of Pontus et Bythinia (in modern Turkey and about 59 BC) lived the Iberi (Hebrews) {BR} and the Albani (Whites, probably because of white skin, most likely ancestors of modern Albania) {LBN}. This is also one of the areas that the Israelites were deported to and also the area that the Cimmerians {KMR} overran.

Herodotus says, “It is that the wandering Scythians {SKD} once dwelt in Asia, and there warred with the Massagetae {SKD} (descendants of the deported Israelites?), but with ill success; they (the Scythians {SKD}) therefore quitted their homes, crossed the Araxes, and entered the land of Cimmeria {KMR}. For the land which is now (circa 440 BC) inhabited by the Scyths {SKD} was formerly the country of the Cimmerians {KMR}.” He also noted, “Scythia {SKD} still (circa 440 BC) retains traces of the Cimmerians {KMR}; there are Cimmerian {KMR} castles, and a Cimmerian {KMR} ferry (on the Tanais {DN} River (modern day Don River {DN}?)), also a tract called Cimmeria {KMR}, and a Cimmerian {KMR} Bosphorus. It appears likewise that the Cimmerians {KMR}, when they fled into Asia to escape the Scyths {SKD}, made a settlement in the peninsula where the Greek city of Sinope was afterwards built.” (History of Herodotus, book IV)

But WHERE were the Cimmerians {KMR} BEFORE 710 BC? History is totally silent regarding their whereabouts. And WHERE are their descendants TODAY? No one seems to know.

What is known is that the Assyrians called ancient Israel ‘mat-bit-Humria’ {MD BD KMR} (the land of the house of Omri) or ‘Bet Omri’ {BD KMR} (the house of Omri) or ‘Bit Humri’ {BD KMR} (the house of Omri) or simply ‘Khumri {KMR}’, calling Israel after its most famous king, King Omri {KMR} (c885-873 BC). We also know that King Tilgath-Pilser III (King Pul) deported most of Israel in 734-732 BC and King Sargon II of Assyria deported the rest of the people of the kingdom of Israel (NOT to be confused with the kingdom of Judah {JD} to the south) in 721-718 BC. The Isrealites of the first captivity were settled on the fringes of the Assyrian Empire south of the Caspian Sea, and were eventually referred to as Cimmerians. Those Israelites of the second captivity were resettled primarily in the Assyrian controlled province of Medo-Persia which is to the south and east of the first captivity. These people were eventually referred to as Scythians {SKD}. This is exactly the territory in which the Cimmerians {KMR} and Scythians {SKD} FIRST appeared in history a few years LATER.

Could the Cimmerians {KMR} actually be part of the Israelites resettled by Tilgath-Pilser and Sargon II? Yes, for several reasons. First, the Cimmerians {KMR} do NOT appear in history until shortly AFTER the Israelite resettlement. Second, they first appear in exactly the SAME territory. And third, the name ‘Cimmeria {KMR}’ actually derives from ‘Omri {KMR}’ the ancient king of Israel. Some say that the Cimmerians {KMR} were descendants of Gomer {KMR} the son of Japheth, but if so, WHY is history silent about them prior to the deportation of the Israelites?

Since the Cimmerians {KMR} first appeared in history, they have shown up in various parts of Europe, quite often leaving their name behind. For example, the peninsula Denmark {DN} occupies is the Cymbric {KMR} Peninsula. Names like Umbria {KMR}, Cambria {KMR}, Cumberland {KMR}, Crimea {KRM}, etc are also waymarks of the Cimmerians {KMR}. Even today, the official Celtic name of Wales is CYMRU {KMR} and of the Welsh people is CYMRY! {KMR}

Are the Welsh the descendants of the Cimmerians {KMR}? They claim to be. Their name says they are. Samuel Lysons states, “the Cimmerians {KMR} seeming to be the same people (as) the Gauls {KL} or Celts {KLD} under a different name; and it is observable that the Welsh (a Celtic {KLD} people), who are descended from the Gauls {KL}, still call themselves Cymri {KMR} or Kymry {KMR}.” (Our British Ancestors, 1865, pp 23, 27). The time-trail of Cimmerian {KMR} names STARTS in the Russian Steppes about 710 BC and ENDS in modern day Wales! Does this mean that the Welsh are descendants of ancient Israel? Is there ANY other possibility? Not to my knowledge.

Is there anything else that supports the Welsh coming from ancient Israel? Examine the Welsh language. Several studies have been done comparing modern Welsh to ancient Hebrew. What was found? There is an unmistakeable and absolute relationship between them!!! Whole SENTENCES are exactly the same in BOTH languages! Not just one sentence, but hundreds and hundreds. Even more common are exact phraseologies, and more common yet are vocabulary words. Outside of the Celtic {KLD} languages (Welsh, Cornish, Manx, Gaelic, Breton, etc.) NO LANGUAGE ON EARTH (with the possible exception of Basque, which could be derived from Hebrew {BR} when the ancient Danites {DN} inhabited the Iberian {BR} Penninsula before migrating to Hibernia {BR}, now called Ireland) CAN CLAIM to be even REMOTELY related to Hebrew {BR}, as none of them to the best of my knowledge have more than a small smattering of words and phrases ADOPTED from Hebrew {BR}.

Now before you go out on a limb and say that Welsh and Hebrew {BR} don’t look alike, be aware of several things. First, Welsh is written from LEFT to RIGHT, while today Hebrew is written from RIGHT to LEFT, although anciently Hebrew could be written EITHER LEFT to RIGHT OR RIGHT to LEFT. Second, Welsh and Hebrew use DIFFERENT alphabets. Third, written Welsh uses vowels and ancient written Hebrew does NOT use vowels, although modern Hebrew does use ‘vowel points’. Fourth, over time the vocabularies and structures of both have diverged as new things and new ideas needed to be expressed. Fifth, Welsh sometimes uses two or more words to replace the original Hebrew word and vice versa, but when you concatenate all of these words into a single word, this concatenated word is exactly the same as the word in the other language with exactly the same meaning. To compare these languages, one must use sentences and words extant in ancient Hebrew. When one does this, an extremely large number of these sentences have the same exact meaning in modern Welsh and when spoken can be understood by the modern Welsh. Is Welsh (and by extension, other Celtic languages) really a modernized version of ancient Hebrew? In my opinion, absolutely yes! Does this mean that the Celtic {KLD} peoples are DIRECT descendants of the ancient Hebrews {BR}? I see no other alternative.

So, WHICH tribe could the Welsh (Cimmerians {KMR}) be descended from? The Welsh are world famous for their singing and their choirs. Which tribe of Israel contained the cantors of Israel? The tribe of Levi {LV}, whose sole duty was to educate Israel in the ways of God, which included all of the music of the Temple.

What about the names Wales and Welsh? Are they in any way connected to the tribe of Levi {LV}? Possibly, but I know of no way of proving/disproving this conjecture. Hebrew, both ancient and modern, uses ONLY consonants when writing, so the tribe Levi {LV} would be written “VL” in Hebrew which writes from right to left. The letters and sounds of V and W are often interchangeable from language to language, like in Latin and German and others. So, since the Welsh now write from left to right, could the name Wales (VaLes, or VL) be a holdover from when the ancestors of the Welsh were of the tribe of LeVi {LV} and wrote Levi as “VL”? I don’t know, but this seems reasonable given everything else that points to the Welsh being from the tribe of Levi {LV}.

In conclusion, everything points to the people of Wales (Cymry {KMR}) being descendants of ancient lost tribes of Israel, probably from the tribe of Levi {LV}.

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Other names for the Cimmerians:

• Gimirrai {KMR} (Assyrian)
• Gamir {KMR} (Assyrian)
• mat bit-Humri {KMR} (Assyrian)
• bit-Khumri {KMR} (Assyrian)
• Khumri {KMR} (Assyrian)
• Ghomri {KMR} (Assyrian)
• Gamir {KMR} (Babylonian)
• Gimri {KMR} (Babylonian)
• Gimirri {KMR} (Babylonian)
• Gimri {KMR} (Babylonian)
• Kymris {KMR} (Gallic)
• Cymry {KMR} (Greek)
• Kimmerrii {KMR} (Greek)
• Kimmerroi {KMR} (Greek)
• Kimbri {KMR} (Greek)
• Kimbroi {KMR} (Greek)
• Kimbron {KMR} (Greek)
• Cimbres {KMR} (Latin)
• Cimbri {KMR} (Latin)
• Kimbri {KMR} (Latin)
• Kymbrians {KMR} (Latin)
• Tauri (Russian?)
• Cymry {KMR} (Welsh)
• Cumri {KMR} (Welsh)

Known waymarks of the Cimmerians:

• Cymbric Peninsula {KMR} (Denmark)
• Crimea {KRM} (Northern Black Sea Peninsula)
• Cymry {KMR} (Wales)
• Cumberland {KMR} (England & USA)
• Nothumbria {KMR} (England)

Who is the daughter of Pharaoh named Scota? Is she mentioned in The Bible, or is this historical tradition?

Let me give a short summary to your question, and then I’ve covered some matters below more in depth.

SCOTA
The name ‘Scota’ is not in God’s Word… but she is alluded to as one of the “king’s daughters” of Jeremiah 41:10 & 43:6. (I plan to cover some of this to more depth from The Word with a future Lost Tribe study, so be looking for it.) Zedekiah was the last king over the ‘house of Judah’ in the Holy Land. There were later kings in the Holy Land under Roman control, such as the Herods (of Idumean origin; see Josephus, Ant. 14:1, section 3), but they were not of the seedline of Judah, but became Jews in faith only, which is a very important distinction. Herod and such were no better than Roman appointees. Thus Esau (Idumea) tried to re-acquire the birthright lost to Jacob, setting up a false kingdom of Israel in the Holy Land.

Gen.49:10 says there must always be one of Judah sitting on the throne over Israel, until Shiloh (Jesus) comes, and then that Sceptre will be handed over to our Lord. King Zedekiah had many sons as heir, but they were all killed in front of Zedekiah, ending the chance for his lineage as kings. Zedekiah disobeyed God as to the coming Babylon captivity. But…, according to legend, one of Zedekiahs ‘daughters‘ (3 by tradition) escaped with Jeremiah to Egypt, and that prophet, with his scribe Baruk, then took one of those daughters (Scota), to wed one of the sons of Judah from Tamar (‘scarlet thread’ of Gen.38), in ancient Ireland. Thus the Royal Sceptre of Judah was re-established in ancient Ireland, ruling over the scattered remnants of the ‘house of Israel’ from the Assyrian captivity, and also portions of Judah from the Babylon captivity which didn’t go back to Jerusalem (those of scattered Judah are called the ‘Diaspora‘, or dispersion). And the kingline of Europe was descended mostly from that bloodline, even Empress Alexandra of Russia being a descendant of Queen Victoria of England.

Scota, or ‘Scotia’, is mentioned in the ancient ‘seanachies’ of Ireland (Irish histories kept by Irish scribes, which they called poets). So, yes, it is a type of tradition, but the poets of ancient Ireland were the ones entrusted to keep their archives of history. They just mostly did it in poetic fashion; thus the ‘seanachies’.

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From the work ‘Story of the Irish Race’, author MacManus states, “…our most ancient poets and seanachies claimed that an early name for Eirinn, Scotia, was derived from Scota, queen-mother of the Milesians.”

MacManus continues, “…downward from the days of the Emperor Constantine the Great, when the poet Egesippus tells how ‘Scotia which links itself to no land, trembles at their (the Roman legions) name’ — the term Scotia is, by Continental writers, applied to Ireland more often than any other name.”

And further that, “Orosius, the third century geographer, uses “Hibernia the nation of the Scoti.” (Story of the Irish Race, by Seumas MacManus. (The Devin-Adair Co., Old Greenwich, Connecticut, reprint of 1921 edition, 1990), p.192.
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The word ‘Hibernia’ was an ancient name for today’s Ireland. ‘Hibernia’ means ‘Hebrews’. Ancient Spain, called ‘Iberia’, which also is a name for ‘Hebrew’, was setup by the Hiberni migrating north to the isles. The Cimmerian (Celts or Gauls, Goths, Scythians, Normans, Norse, Germani, Angles, Saxons) peoples are of the ‘house of Israel’ which were captive to ancient Assyria, and they became the founders of the European nations. So the ancient histories of Ireland link one of the “king’s daughters” (Scotia) with Hibernia. Many from Hibernia later moved to Alba (ancient land of Scotland), and that term ‘Scoti’ began to stick there, mixing with the Picts (another migration of Israelites), thus became the later name for today’s nation ‘Scotland’.
     The ‘Milesians’ (Milesus) were a people which migrated to ancient Ireland and began to rule. Tradition has it they had among them of the descendants of the ‘scarlet thread’ of Judah, another seed of Judah by Biblical Tamar (Gen.38). Scota, or her daughter ‘Tea Tephi’ supposedly married a Milesian prince, ‘Eochaidh’ (Heremon or Eremon), a ‘scarlet thread’ branch, which began the Royal dynasty of Kings and Queens of ancient Ireland, Scotland, and Great Britain.
     That tradition connects Scota as being one the “king’s daughters” of Zedekiah, the last king over the ‘house of Judah’ in the Holy Land. God told Jeremiah that He set him up to be a prophet unto “the nations” (Jer.1:5). This mission God gave for Jeremiah to help in was to fulfill the prophecy given back in Gen.48 that the half-tribe of Ephraim, the youngest of Joseph’s two sons, was to become “a multitude of nations”:

Gen 48:19-20
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.”
20    And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, ‘God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh:’ and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
(KJV)

And Jeremiah’s (‘Ollam Fodhla’ of tradition) job was to help fulfill God’s prophecy that He would tear down the high branch (house of Judah in the Holy Land under king Zedekiah), and then plant downward, and build upward, setting up ‘another’ kingline from the seed of Judah in the new lands He gave Israel (see Hosea also). And that kingline is STILL upon the throne even today. The Royal Sceptre of Judah is held today by Queen Elizabeth II in Great Britain, which is symbolic Ephraim, a literal “multitude of nations” with the British Commonwealth of Nations.
     Ephraim’s elder brother, Manessah (means ‘forgetful’), would carry the other part of the ‘double-portion’ Birthright to Israel, and is The United States of America today. All the Western European nations along with the ’13th’ tribe (U.S.), make up the ‘house of Israel’ today, with Ephraim as its Head. Queen Elizabeth II was coronated in 1953 upon the ‘Stone of Scone’, traditionally heralded as the ‘Jacob’s Pillar’ Stone. Her coronation was very close in ceremonial fashion to the very rituals of coronation of ancient kings of Israel, even to the ‘anointing’ with Oil.
     Much of this info, the Kenite does their best to tear down. For this reason, those ‘seanachies’ have no doubt been heavily protected over the centuries, even today. E. Raymond Capt has probably done the best research to date on the Lost Tribes, and he has access to those ancient Irish and Scottish histories. I highly recommend his works. This is a ‘powerful’ teaching, and not that many can handle it. The Kenite will even use ‘racism’ to try and tear it down, but this info has just as much importance to the Gentile believers on Christ as it does for today’s remnants of the ancestral ‘house of Israel’ of Europe and the Americas. It shows God’s Promises to His People are True, and further shows His prophecies come to pass as written! It proves God’s existence and blessings to His. And the Gentile believers on Christ Jesus get to reap in these Blessings from our Heavenly Father, becoming part of Israel also! (see Isaiah 49:6; 11:10; Isa.42; Isa.54; 66).

The scattering by God of the Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel is a very important study from God’s Word. Genesis 49:10 reveals that one from the tribe of Judah would always sit on the throne of Israel until Shiloh (Jesus Christ) come, and then the throne would be handed over to our Lord and Savior Christ.
There is a royal line of Judah sitting upon the throne of Israel today, but that throne of Israel is not in the Holy Land. Zedekiah, who lived and reigned during Jeremiah the prophet’s day, was the last king of the ‘house of Judah’ in the Holy Land. Since Jeremiah’s time, that throne was taken from the land we call Israel today, and no king of Judah has ruled there since then.
For God’s Word to be correct (Gen.49:10), then there must still be one of the tribe of Judah sitting on the throne of Israel. So where is that throne today?
These studies will help you discover this Truth.

The Promise to Abraham

The Birthright goes to Ephraim & Manasseh

The Separation of Israel into Two Kingdoms

The Ten Tribes of Northern Israel scattered to Assyria

The ‘House of Judah’ goes into captivity to Babylon and returns.

The Prophecy of The Ten Tribes Scattered According to Hosea the Prophet

The Ten Tribes Move Westward

The Royal Sceptre: Throne of David

The Royal Sceptre: Tearing Down, Building Up

There seems to be a lot of confusion about God’s coming Kingdom, and especially how our Lord Jesus Christ returns on the future second Advent of Messiah. This confusion about our Savior’s return should not be, because Christ’s disciples understood the events. Are we to think God didn’t tell us? That we are to only have hope in Salvation, and not know what It contains? Our Heavenly Father didn’t leave us guessing. He told us in His Word. He wants His People to know, and that’s why there’s so many examples to His People.
     Let’s begin with a study on Christ’s return in Acts 1. We ask a Word of Wisdom from our Father in Christ’s Name, Amen.

Acts 1:6   When they therefore were come together, they asked of Him, saying, “Lord, wilt Thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?”

     Did you notice that Christ’s disciples ask if Jesus was going to restore the kingdom to Israel ‘again’, meaning at that particular time? At this point in history, Jesus had resurrected and was in His Glorious Body. So His disciples knew His coming Kingdom was the next major event to expect. Why would they ask about Israel being restored? Because God said He would, in The Old Testament, and Christ’s disciples were familiar with It.
     This Scripture about the future restoring of the twelve tribes of Israel in Christ’s future Kingdom, upon earth, is where many believers are stumbling today. Paul’s teaching in Romans Chapters 9 – 12, are specifically about how he was sent by Christ to help fulfill His prophecy through the prophet Isaiah, about the Gentiles who believe on Christ as Savior. The believers on Christ of the Gentiles will be grafted in as part of the future Israel (see Isaiah 42; 49). That is the real meaning of the listing given in Rev.7:1-8 about the 144,000, which are the ‘chosen’ of the twelve tribes of Israel, and the next verse of Rev.7 are the Gentiles, believers on Christ Jesus, also included with future Israel, with Christ as ‘KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS’:   “…a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;” (Rev.7:9).

Jer 23:5   Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.

     This ‘righteous Branch’ is Jesus Christ. He is our Righteous KING.

Jer 23:6   In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is His name whereby He shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

7     Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, ‘The LORD liveth, Which brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;’

It will no longer be a saying about how God delivered His People out of Egypt through Moses. That saying will be old after Christ returns on His second coming to lead the ‘restoring’ of Israel. (Notice the distinction between ‘Judah’ and ‘Israel’ in verse 6.)
     Again, Who is ‘THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS’, our True KING? Jesus Christ. So this event is still yet future to us, for Jesus Christ, our KING, has not returned yet, nor is His ‘judgement’ and ‘justice’ served on this earth.

Jer 23:8   But, ‘The LORD liveth, Which brought up and Which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land.”

    This will be the new ‘saying’ when Christ returns to restore Israel back to the land God gave them.
The future return of Christ and the gathering to Him, the leading of the ‘house of Israel’ back to the land which God promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob’s children as an everlasting possession, is the subject of this verse.
     Well, has Israel’s return happened yet today? Many think so, but they don’t even know who the ‘house of Israel’ is. They think it means all Jews. Not so, as the Ten Tribes of Israel who are still scattered among the various nations of the world after their captivity to Assyria, never returned as a people to the land we call Israel today. Those in the land of Israel today are the ‘house of Judah’, i.e. mainly from the three tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levite. And they are only a small part of the inhabitants of today’s land of Israel. The ‘house of Israel’ are not Jews; but they are Israelites, having Jacob as their father also (see the Ten Lost Tribes study).
     This event is when the ‘two sticks’ of Ezekiel 37, one for the ‘house of Judah’, and the other for the ‘house of Israel’, are put back together, to ‘restore‘ Israel again! That’s when the events in this verse 8 will be said, after Christ’s return. Those two ‘sticks’ God told Ezekiel to label are not put together yet today.
     This is why Christ’s disciples asked Him if it was time to ‘restore’ Israel, meaning all twelve tribes under His reign in the land God promised to them. The Gentiles who accept Jesus Christ as Savior are included also, as Isaiah 54 says that the tent (symbolic for the new Jerusalem) will be enlarged to include them.

Ezek 37:15   The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,

16    “Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:

    Just to make sure you know I’m not stretching the Truth, here’s the ‘two sticks’ which make up all twelve tribes of Israel.
     The ‘children of Israel’ included with the stick of Judah are those under the northern kingdom lands which left Ephraim during the split of both houses (see 1 Kings 12:17). They refused the calf idol which the king Jeroboam of the ‘house of Israel’ setup in northern Israel. But the majority of the ten tribes, with Ephraim being the largest, separated from Judah who dwelt in the south around Jerusalem, i.e. Judea.

Ezek 37:17   And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.

     Remember, these two sticks represent the two ‘houses’ of all Israel which are still separate today. Both ‘houses’ make up the twelve tribes.

Ezek 37:18   And when the children of thy People shall speak unto thee, saying, ‘Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?’

19    Say unto them, ‘Thus saith the Lord GOD; ‘Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in Mine hand.‘ ‘

     This has not happened yet, as those ten tribes are represented by Ephraim, son of Joseph, who the Birthright Blessing Promise went to (1 Chron.5). As they were scattered from the Assyrian captivity, they went over the Caucasus Mountains, became known as Caucasians, and settled in the lands where they are now, Europe and the Americas.
     Many would still rather listen to the world’s lies about the land of Israel being fully established with all twelve tribes today. These verses are linked to Christ as KING, which obviously is not yet fulfilled today on earth. On the contrary, the land of Israel is being chopped up by the United Nations and their false allies. They refuse to even recognize Jerusalem as the Capitol of Israel!
     Let’s now go back to Acts 1:

Acts 1:7   And He said unto them, “It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in His own power.

8    But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.”

9    And when He had spoken these things, while they beheld, He was taken up; and a cloud received Him out of their sight.

Christ answered His disciples’ question about the restoring of Israel as if they were never to know. At least that’s what some teach today. However, verse 8 ties with it, so don’t leave it out. In that next verse 8, Christ is telling them they will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (always ‘spirit’ in the Manuscripts). Christ meant that the Holy Spirit would teach them the answer to their question.
     Then in verse 9 our Lord and Savior is taken up in a cloud. That’s where many stop, but we’re not going to.

Acts 1:10   And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;

11    Which also said, ‘Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, Which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen Him go into heaven.‘

These ‘two men’ in ‘white apparel’ were no doubt angels. Angels have the ‘image’ of man, as that’s the Image of our Father, as He created us in His Likeness, even man in the flesh. That’s also how Satan and his fallen angels look. They have the ‘image’ of man also. The idea of monsters in God’s universe is a big joke!
     Verse 11 tells us that Jesus will return back to earth, ‘in like manner’ as He ascended into Heaven. It’s very plain and simple. A first grader can understand it.
     So where was Jesus and His disciples when this event took place?

Acts 1:12   Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey.

The word ‘Olivet’ is ‘elaion’ in the Greek, meaning ‘an olive-orchard, i.e. (specially) the Mt. of Olives’ (Strong’s no.1638).
     Is there another witness in The Word to this event of Christ’s return upon the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem? Turn with me to Zechariah 14 in The Old Testament minor prophets:

Zech 14:1   Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

2    For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the People shall not be cut off from the city.

We are very near that ‘day of the LORD’ in my opinion based on Scripture and the state of world affairs. All nations are being gathered against Jerusalem as we speak. And their leaders are chopping up the land trying to appease the false peace process being pushed on them. The Palestinians are set to declare a Palestine state all around Jerusalem. Three villages very close to Jerusalem were given away just recently; just like that, and around 70,000 Israeli protested publicly. This ‘day of the LORD’ is God’s thousand year reign of His Son Jesus Christ, on earth. We are still waiting for it.

Zech 14:3   Then shall the LORD go forth, and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the day of battle.

God is going to fight this future battle. Christ’s enemies won’t even have a chance. This event is the coming of Jesus Christ at the second Advent to earth.
     When did God fight this other battle He’s comparing the ‘day of the LORD’ to? You should know if you’ve been studying with me in the Book of Isaiah, for that other battle our LORD fought was against Lucifer in that time ‘of old’. That means at Lucifer’s first rebellion against our Heavenly Father. That old dragon didn’t win then, and he’s not going to win this time in our near future either.

Zech 14:4   And His feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

Here’s our other witness to Acts 1:9-12 and Christ’s return to earth, specifically where He ascended to Heaven from. Acts 1 stated that He would ‘so come in like manner’ as the disciples saw Him go into Heaven, there on the Mount of Olives. Then notice what happens next here in Zech 14:4; a big trembling and a ‘great valley’ appears. This isn’t in the clouds friend. It happens on earth! So what’s that ‘great valley’ for?

Zech 14:5   And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD my God shall come, and all the saints with Thee.

This ‘Azal’ means ‘proximity: he has reserved’ (Brown-Driver & Briggs; Strong’s no.682). Currently, its location is not known today. It represents the ‘new Jerusalem’ of Christ’s Kingdom upon earth in our future.
     The days of Uzziah refers to Amos 1:1 about an earthquake which happened in Israel (aprox.687 B.C.). When Christ returns, there’s going to be another earthquake similar to the one during Uzziah’s day. That event will ‘cleave’ that area in Jerusalem. Remember in Matthew 24:2 that “There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.”
     Just as God paved the way for His People Israel to cross the Red Sea at the time of Moses, this ‘great valley’ is for the ‘gathering’ of God’s People to the land He promised them. Those ‘saints’ who are now with Christ in Paradise (heaven), our Lord and Savior brings with Him there. And those yet alive today at this future event, who are in Christ, will flee through that ‘great valley’ also, to be with our KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, on earth!
     That ‘Highway’ for God’s People to return, which means all those known by His Name (Christ man, or Christian), will pass over It as all Israel did coming out of Egypt in the time of Moses. See my Isaiah Chapter 11 study for even more. Also see Isaiah 19, as Israel shall be a third in inheritance with Egypt and Assyria.

Zech 14:6  And it shall come to pass in that day, that the light shall not be clear, nor dark:

7    But it shall be one day which shall be known to the LORD, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.

It’s true no one knows the day or the hour, but Christ did give us the season, and His seven signs to watch for. I covered those ‘seven signs’ and the ‘parable of the fig tree’ in two studies in my Archive. They fit this subject nicely here.
     These references to ‘that at evening time it shall be light’ are of Christ’s Glorious Light, which overshadows all other light in brightness. We are in Christ’s Millennium age at this verse.

Zech 14:8   And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be.

9    And the LORD shall be King over all the earth: in that day shall there be one LORD, and His name one.

This ‘living waters’ is that River mentioned in Rev.22:1 which proceeds from the Throne of God and of The Lamb. Now where does this verse say those ‘living waters’ go out from? From Jerusalem. The ‘new Jerusalem’ of Rev.3. Some who stay in The New Testament only think that ‘new Jerusalem’ is up in the clouds somewhere, and there is no more earth. It’s clear they haven’t been here and read Zechariah.
     Where is The LORD going to be KING over? ‘Over all the earth’. It just doesn’t get any easier than this friends.

Zech 14:10   All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s winepresses.

11    And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

Revelation 20-22 gives more information on The Holy City coming down out of heaven to the earth. Ezekiel 39-48 are about the thousand year reign of Christ and His elect, to God’s Eternity, on earth. But a regenerated and cleansed earth.
     The word ‘men’ is ‘yashab’ in the Hebrew, meaning ‘to sit down; by implication, to dwell, to remain’ (Strong’s no.3427). So it’s talking about people in general, not just men as in males.
     I could go on and on, giving Scripture examples of this event from both Old and New Testaments. That Holy City with paths of pure gold, like transparent glass (Rev.21:21), will be reality, and from natural materials which God created. Places that are barren and desert are going to be changed, with flowing rivers from One source, our Father and His Son. God is coming to dwell with us, on this beautiful earth He made.

Rev 21:1-3
1    And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
2    And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3    And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people, and God Himself shall be with them, and be their God.

     With this event we should come to understand, that God is not angry with the beautiful earth which He created for His pleasure, and for His children. He is angry at those who intentionally do evil to His children and to His creation. The flesh is sin, and as I said elsewhere, Satan’s rebellion during the first earth age is the cause for God bringing this flesh age into existence. And this Yehovah did so that each could make a choice who they would follow and worship, God through His Son, or the fallen angel Satan. So that’s why the earth’s state today is polluted. Flesh man cannot keep from polluting it, because of man’s flesh nature and flesh needs. That’s why God’s Eternity will not be a flesh existence. And our Father is going to cleanse this polluted state of His earth, as it has become a ‘ruin’ again because of Satan and his followers.
   

Peace be with you in Christ Jesus.
Dave Ramey.

The previous Lost Tribe study revealed from God’s Word our Heavenly Father’s (Yahveh) Promise to His servant David, that one of his seed would always sit upon the throne of Israel, until The Saviour comes to claim it (2 Sam.7; Luke 1:31-33). Genesis 49:10 refers to our Saviour Yashu’a Jesus Christ by the name “Shiloh”, which is from the Hebrew meaning ‘tranquil, or place of rest’ (BDB 7887). For those who believe on The Saviour Jesus Christ, He is our ‘Rest’ (Isa.11:10; Heb.4:10; Matt.11:27-30). The word Shiloh was also the name of an early Israelite city in the land of Ephraim, and was a temporary place where The Ark of The Covenant dwelt. The tabernacle worship was setup in Shiloh after the children of Israel left Egypt and crossed the Jordan river into the land of Canaan (Joshua 18:1;1 Sam.4:3). The Old Testament city of Shiloh being in Ephraim’s land is thus linked to our Savior’s Title of “Shiloh” (Rest), and points to the nations which were to bear fruit of The Gospel in Him. And that especially since Ephraim was to become “a multitude of nations” (Gen.48:14-22). So what am I talking about with all this?
     Because the “house of Judah” at Jerusalem also fell into false worship after the ten tribes were removed out of the northern land, The LORD would end the reign of the house of David in Jerusalem, bringing king Nebuchadnezzar and his host upon Judea to remove Judah to Babylon (Jer.18 forward). That last ‘king of Judah’ to reign in Jerusalem was Zedekiah. It’s very important to note that Zedekiah was not the last king to rule in Jerusalem, but that he was the last king specifically of the seed of the house of David to rule there. And to this day, there still is not one of the ‘house of David’ sitting on a throne… in Jerusalem.
     So did our Heavenly Father keep His Promise He gave to His servant David, that one of his seed of the ‘house of David’ would always sit upon that throne of Israel, “…until Shiloh come”? (see The Royal Sceptre: Throne of David). Our Heavenly Father did not break His Promise to David, for He did bring that throne in Jerusalem down by the king of Babylon, and then began to plant and build up that throne of Israel elsewhere on earth. If we especially stay within God’s Word on this subject, then we will be prepared to recognize where God reestablished that throne of the house of David.
     There exists many different research sources on the subject of discovering what happened to the ten tribes of the “house of Israel” after their captivity to Assyria. Some of them are designed to lead the believer away from what God says, disregarding His Word as The Historical Guide, while trying to rely strictly on pagan history. As with the previous Lost Tribe studies, God’s Word will be the main historical Guide in this study.
     Let us continue, as we ask a Word of Wisdom from our Heavenly Father, in Christ Jesus’ Precious Name, Amen.

Jeremiah’s Commission:
To the “nations“

     God’s prophet Jeremiah was called for a specific Mission in The LORD. Though Jeremiah was sent from The LORD to give a witness to the “house of Judah” of their coming seventy years Babylon captivity, there was still something more he was ordained to do:

Jer 1:3     It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.
4    Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
5    “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.”

     We know from the Old Testament Books of God’s prophets that our Heavenly Father also sent Messages through His servants to non-Israelite nations. But wasn’t this ordaining of Jeremiah to be “a prophet unto the nations” meant also for the house of Israel, specifically under Ephraim who was to become “a multitude of nations”?  In other words, was Jeremiah’s God given Mission as a prophet unto the nations linked to Ephraim also?
     At the start of Jeremiah’s commission God would use him to warn the house of Judah at Jerusalem that He was sending Judah captive to Babylon for seventy years:

Jer 25:1     The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the People of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon;
2    The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying,
3    “From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word of the LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.”

     The leaders and people of the “house of Judah” at Jerusalem and Judea didn’t only refuse God’s Word through Jeremiah for them to turn from their evil ways, but they refused all of The Lord’s prophets:

Jer 25:4    And the LORD hath sent unto you all His servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
5    They said, ‘Turn ye again now every one from his evil way, and from the evil of your doings, and dwell in the land that the LORD hath given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
6    And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship them, and provoke Me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.’
7    Yet ye have not hearkened unto Me, saith the LORD; that ye might provoke Me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.”

     Because they would not even listen to our Heavenly Father so they might repent of their evil, God promised to bring the area of Jerusalem and the nations around it into a desolation, taking His people of the “house of Judah” captive to Babylon at the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon (Jer.25:8 forward). But was this the only service God’s prophet Jeremiah was ordained for, just to warn the “house of Judah” of God’s punishment upon them? If those in rebellion wouldn’t even listen to God’s other prophets in warning, then how would sending Jeremiah to warn them make any difference? Didn’t God already earlier give Israel a warning through Moses, that the land of Israel would become a desolation with the people being scattered through the nations for following the abominations of the pagans around them? (Deut.4:23-29).
     Jeremiah was indeed sent by The Father to give Judah at Jerusalem a warning of desolation, and also other nations around Judah (Jer.25:17 forward). But that wasn’t all Jeremiah was ordained to do:

Jer 1:9      Then the LORD put forth His hand, and touched my mouth. And the LORD said unto me, “Behold, I have put My words in thy mouth.
10    See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.”

     Jeremiah’s warning to the “house of Judah” of the seventy years Babylon captivity was only one service he was chosen to perform. For Jeremiah was also ordained to be set “…over the nations and over the kingdoms…”, but to do what? To “root out, and to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down…”. That part of Jeremiah’s Mission was God’s declaration of destruction upon the kingline of Judah in Jerusalem, and would conclude when the king of Babylon (Nebuchadnezzar) would come up to Jerusalem, lay siege to it, cause its desolation, and take the house of Judah, the king of Judah, and the king’s sons captive to Babylon.
     Jeremiah saw five kings of Judah from the house of David thrown down during his lifetime. Josiah was the first, having died in his chariot at Megiddo, and truly being the last king of Judah while the house of Judah was still free and independent. Then Josiah’s son Jehoahaz would reign and be carried to Egypt where he died; then Jehoiakim, another son of Josiah would reign and rebel against Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and be carried away captive; then Jehoiakim’s son (Jehoiachin) would reign and also be carried to Babylon by king Nebuchadnezzar. And finally we come to Zedekiah, who reigned in Jerusalem eleven years under Nebuchadnezzar’s authority, and then he also was carried captive to Babylon along with his sons, all royal heirs to the throne. That last king of Judah in Jerusalem would see his sons put to death in Babylon, and then have his own eyes put out and die in Babylon (2 Kings 25; 2 Kings 23 forward). When our Heavenly Father said He would “root out” the kingdom of Judah in Jerusalem for this flesh age, He intended it to be well done. And so it was and still is rooted out of Jerusalem (Jer.52:9 forward).
     But what’s this Jeremiah 1:10 phrase “…to build, and to plant”? That building and planting is declared as part of Jeremiah’s Mission also, and had to have begun during his lifetime. The object that was to be to rooted out, pulled down, destroyed, and thrown down, was the Sceptre of Royal Rule given to the house of David in Jerusalem (specifically of the “house of Judah”). But we must not forget what God promised to His servant David, that one of David’s seed would always sit upon that throne of Israel, even until Shiloh (Christ Jesus) comes. Thus we are given in this same verse of that throne being rooted out, a Message that it was Jeremiah’s chosen duty “…to build, and to plant”; meaning to build and plant that throne of Israel. This would logically mean that Jeremiah had to have escaped that Babylon captivity for it to be fulfilled per God’s Word.
     So did Jeremiah escape the captivity of the king of Babylon to help God establish the re-planting of Israel’s earthly throne? Let’s continue to find out.

Jer 39:9     Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the People that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the People that remained.
10    But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poor of the People, which had nothing, in the land of Judah, and gave them vineyards and fields at the same time.

     At this point, the king of Babylon and his host had burned and destroyed much of Jerusalem. The majority of the ‘house of Judah’ were carried away captive to Babylon, much like the king of Assyria did about 130 years earlier with the ‘house of Israel’ (ten tribes) in the northern land. Only a poor remnant of Judah would be left in Jerusalem, with God still keeping His Promise of 1 Kings 11:36 that His servant David would always have a “light” before Him to dwell in Jerusalem.

Jer 39:11      Now Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon gave charge concerning Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,
12    “Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do unto him even as he shall say unto thee.”
13    So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes;
14    Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the People.

    Isn’t it amazing that even Nebuchadnezzar, king of all the hosts of Babylon which came upon Jerusalem to destroy, was so concerned for Jeremiah’s safety? Well, our Heavenly Father Yahveh is in control, and God even called Nebuchadnezzar “My servant”, as in a ‘rod of correction’ sense upon His People (Jer.25:9). Not only did the king of Babylon make certain Jeremiah was set free, but Jeremiah was given money and food (“victuals” – Jeremiah 40:2-5). We shouldn’t be surprised, for God did promise to take care of Jeremiah all through these events, for He did ordain him to be a “prophet unto the nations” (Jer.1:5).
     Jeremiah’s heart was dreary because of giving God’s Warning to His people while they mocked him, cast him in prison, and essentially tried to silence him out of fear that the people might be weakened in fighting against the king of Babylon. God’s Message to the leaders of Judah was bad politics in their cause to defend Jerusalem.

Jer 15:15    O LORD, Thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in Thy longsuffering: know that for Thy sake I have suffered rebuke.

     At this point Jeremiah had just a little bit of doubt in what God promised him. What did our LORD tell him?:

Jer 15:19     Therefore thus saith the LORD, “If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before Me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.
20    And I will make thee unto this People a fenced brasen wall: and they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee to save thee and to deliver thee,’ saith the LORD.
21    And I will deliver thee out of the hand of the wicked, and I will redeem thee out of the hand of the terrible.”

A Remnant Shall Escape

     Our LORD’s Message to Jeremiah was to ‘stand’ in Him, for Jeremiah had something else to accomplish besides giving God’s Message of desolation upon Jerusalem and the house of David there:

Jer 15:11     The LORD said, “Verily it shall be well with thy remnant; verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.

     God gave Jeremiah another Promise of comfort for his commission he was to accomplish. But who else did our Heavenly Father mean when He said this to Jeremiah, with “it shall be well with thy remnant”? Who else was with Jeremiah after the king of Babylon set him free? When Jeremiah was released from prison at Jerusalem, he was left to the charge of the governor Gedaliah, which was of a very small remnant that remained in Judea. Jeremiah dwelt with that remnant at Mizpah (Jer.40:2-6). Then a certain man named Ishmael would come to Mizpah where Jeremiah was, and slay the governor Gedaliah, also many of the Jews with him, and attempt to carry the residue of the people left in Mizpah to the land of the Ammorites:

Jer 41:10     Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the People that were in Mizpah, even the king’s daughters, and all the People that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

     So this Ishmael started his own captivity scheme, beginning to carry all the people of Mizpah captive, which included Jeremiah and… “even the king’s daughters”? Well which king’s daughters are these? They were Zedekiah’s daughters, the last king of the house of David that Nebuchadnezzar just hauled off to Babylon, remember? Recall king Josiah’s son Jehoahaz who was mentioned earlier in this study. Jehoahaz, a previous king of Judah, was the son of Jeremiah’s daughter Hamutal (2 Kings 23:31). That would make these “king’s daughters” of Zedekiah part of Jeremiah’s kinfolk. So it would make sense that these daughters of Zedekiah were put under Jeremiah’s personal care.
     A man named Johanan then freed this remnant out of Ishmael’s hand, and they all came to a place called Chimham near Bethlehem, to prepare to go into Egypt (Jer.41:17). At this point they asked Jeremiah to inquire of The LORD to discover what to do, which was definitely a good idea. It seemed common sense for them to go into Egypt to escape the hand of the king of Babylon who had just overthrown Jerusalem and Judea. Our LORD told that remnant to stay in the land of Judah, and they would be well taken care of, the king of Babylon even showing them mercy. But fleeing to Egypt would mean to perish (Jer.42:9). Johanan, who had charge over them, decided to go into Egypt anyway:

Jer 43:4    So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the People, obeyed not the voice of the LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.
5    But Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, took all the remnant of Judah, that were returned from all nations, whither they had been driven, to dwell in the land of Judah;
6    Even men, and women, and children, and the king’s daughters, and every person that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had left with Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, and Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch the son of Neriah.
7    So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.

     Now we are given a more detailed list of this group. Johanan took all the remnant of Judah, “the king’s daughters”, “Jeremiah the prophet, and Baruch” the personal secretary of Jeremiah (Jer.36:4). Because Johanan and his captains decided to disobey God’s warning that they were not to go into Egypt to escape, what did that mean for the “king’s daughters” (daughters of king Zedekiah), Jeremiah, and his secretary Baruch who Johanan forced to go also? What did our Heavenly Father warn?…

Jer 44:11     Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; ‘Behold, I will set My face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
12    And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, and fall in the land of Egypt; they shall even be consumed by the sword and by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
13    For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:

     God did give plenty of warning against their going down to Egypt, because He was sending Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to punish Egypt next (Jer.43:10-13). That’s why He told Johanan and the remnant not to go there. Can we just assume that Jeremiah, Baruch, and the ‘king’s daughters’ all perished in the land of Egypt? That’s what some would like us to think…along with the false idea that God broke His Promise to David that one of his seed would always sit upon the throne of Israel. But wait a minute. Was there a consolation to some of that remnant within God’s warning that we might have missed? Yes, it’s in the very next verse of Jeremiah 44:

Jer 44:14    So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.’ “

     Notice the last phrase, “…for none shall return but such as shall escape.” (Jer.44:14). Does that last phrase intend that no matter what, some among that company would escape captivity in one way or another? Yes, for God ordained Jeremiah to be a prophet to the nations, for also “to build, and to plant” (Jer.1:10).

The Legend of ‘Ollam Fodhla’

     There are various legends within Ireland’s ancient history, that Jeremiah the prophet came there with his scribe secretary Baruch, and at least one of the “king’s daughters” of Zedekiah. Possibly the greatest archaeological evidence pointing to the legend, are the stones with ancient hieroglyphs (picture inscriptions) found in a sepulchral chamber near Oldcastle County, Meath, Ireland near the ancient hill of Tara (called ‘Teamhair‘ in The Annals Of The Four Masters ¹). The hill of Tara is where the ancient kings of Ireland were coronated. One translation of the stones refers to a Lunar eclipse in the constellation Taurus joining with the planets Saturn and Jupiter in Virgo. By stellar calculation, this gave the date of Thursday, October 16, 583 B.C. The inscriptions form a type of symbol map, which tells a story of the travels of a ship on a journey. The first ship with five lines in it may symbolize passengers, Jeremiah, his scribe Baruch, two of the “king’s daughters” (of Zedekiah), and the last passenger possibly Ebed-Melech, the Ethiopian who helped deliver Jeremiah out of prison, and whom God promised to save from the king of Babylon (Jer.38:7 forward; Jer.39:16-18).²
     The name Ollam Fodhla is given in The Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters, stating that Eochaidl was the first Ollamh at Teamhair (Tara). The title of Ollam, or Ollav, refers to a learned doctor of wisdom, and Fodhla indicates a king.³ Yet the same Annals also refer to the title of Ollav much earlier in Ireland’s history, when one Tighernmas established the wearing of different colors according to class and profession. A poet or Ollam was assigned six colors, with the highest of seven assigned to a King or Queen.⁴ The point with all this, is that Jeremiah could well have been an early Ollam in Ireland’s history. MacManus makes remark of Ollam Fodla in his work The Story of The Irish Race,

“His title, Ollam Fodla, Doctor of Wisdom, has preserved his memory down the ages. The legends indicate that he was a true father to his people, and an able statesman. He organised (sic) the nation for efficiency– divided it into cantreds, appointed a chief over every cantred, a brugaid (magistrate) over every territory, and a steward over every townland. Some traditions say that he established a School of Learning. And as crowning glory he established a School Feis of Tara, the great triennial Parliament of the chiefs, the nobles, and the scholars of the nation, which assembled on Tara Hill once every three years to settle the nation’s affairs.”⁵

     If some have noticed that I haven’t offered many dates within this, it is because of some doubt of the preservation of proper dates in Ireland’s history before the reign of the king of Ireland named Cimbaoth. His reign was contemporary with the time of Alexander The Great.⁶ Thus we are left with looking at major historical events within Ireland’s ancient history. The historical link of Ireland’s Hill of Tara (Teamhair) with one Tea Tephi is another major event.  E.Raymond Capt. quotes a source from the Chronicles of Eri by Milner which links Tara, and the Lia Fail Stone (i.e. Jacob’s Pillar in my strong opinion):

In the “Chronicles of Eri”, by Milner, we find Eochaidh, the husband of Tea Tephi, associated with the Stone Lia Fail. The account is titled, “The Story of Lia Fail”, and states: “In the early days it was carried about by priests on the march in the wilderness (hence the much-worn rings still attached to it, one at each end). Later it was borne by the sea from East to West-‘to the extremity of the world of the sun’s going’ (an expression used by the Romans to describe Britain). Its bearers had resolved, at starting, to ‘move on the face of the waters, in search of their brethren.’ Shipwrecked on the coast of Ireland, they yet came safe with Lia Fail…Eachaidh ‘sent a car for Lia Fail, and he himself was placed thereon.”  The story of the Stone was then repeated by his order, “And Erimionn (Heremon) was seated on Lia Fail, and the crown was placed upon his head, and the mantle upon his shoulders, and all clapped and shouted.” And the name of that place, from that day forward, was called “Tara” (spelled “Tamhra” in the Irish language).⁷

     The important matter as stated before, are the events of this history, as Capt. rightly remarks: “There are many other variations of the story of the Stone being brought from Egypt to Ireland, which when added together present us with a rather confused story. This is understandable when it is realized that the Irish records are compilations at a late date of very early tribal histories. Each of these, written in a tongue difficult to translate, gives its own aspect of the one great story. However, they all agree in the following: The Stone, known as the ‘Stone of Destiny’, came from Spain, and before that, from Egypt. It came in the company of an aged guardian, who was called ‘Ollam Folla (Hebrew words that mean ‘revealer’, or ‘prophet’). Eochaidh (Eremhon) with his Queen Tea Tephi was crowned King of Ireland upon the Stone which remained at the Palace of Team-hair Breagh. It was the Coronation Stone of every ‘Ard-Righ’ (High King) of ‘Eireann’ for a period of about 1040 years; from King Eremhon (The Heremon) to the 131st Ard-Righ, named ‘Murcheartach.” ⁸

     The subject of God preserving Jeremiah for his ordaining as “a prophet to the nations”, and “to build, and to plant”, and the Lia Fail Stone being brought to ancient Ireland, is linked with God’s prophecy to Joseph for the latter days:

Gen 49:22      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🙂

     Joseph’s seed would indeed be “a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well” (symbolic of great waters), and the “branches” of his two sons Ephraim and Manasseh would indeed “run over the wall”, founding the nations of western Europe and Asia Minor joined along with the remainder of the ten tribes of the “house of Israel”. And “from thence is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel:” (Lia Fail Stone – Jacob’s Pillar, also known as The Shepherd’s Stone symbolizing The House of God per Genesis 28:10-22).
     Next, the Scarlet Thread of Tamar (Gen.38).

Peace be with you in Christ Jesus,
Dave Ramey

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Footnotes:

¹ Jacob’s Pillar: A Biblical Historical Study, by E. Raymond Capt. (Hoffman Printing Co., Muskogee, Ok., 1996), p. 41.

² Ibid., p.40.

³ Ibid., p. 41.

⁴ The Story of the Irish Race, by Seumas MacManus (Wings Books, New York, NY, 1966), p. 15.

⁵ Ibid., p.15.

⁶ Ibid., p.16.

⁷ Jacob’s Pillar: A Biblical Historical Study, by E. Raymond Capt. (Hoffman Printing Co., Muskogee, Ok., 1996), p.32.

⁸ Ibid., p. 32-33.

All references to “Strong’s nos.” are from Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance, PC Study Bible, Biblesoft, 1993-1996.

All references to “BDB” are from The Online Bible Thayer’s Greek Lexicon And Brown Driver & Briggs’ Hebrew Lexicon, PC Study Bible, Biblesoft, 1993-1996.

Many Christians today who have not been properly taught all of God’s Word, are not familiar with the True meaning of the Kingline of David as given in Scripture. We all know the Biblical story of how David slew the giant Goliath, and how he was anointed King over Israel. And supposedly that king line of Judah ended with Zedekiah during Jeremiah’s day. But God’s Message for That Kingline does not stop there by any means. No… that Message continues even down to our time today, and yet future, as Christ Jesus is Who That Throne is reserved for, forever and ever. Jesus Christ our Lord will be known as ‘KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.’ Many have read that Title of Christ from Revelation 19:16, but have not understood Its full meaning for us today. This is a beautiful Message from our Father’s Word, and it lets us know that our Salvation in Christ Jesus actually has ‘substance’ and real Value which we can relate to, even while this flesh time still exists. It shows that God’s Promises from His Holy Word are True and everlasting. Let’s discover more about that Eternal Throne, as we ask a Word of Wisdom from our Father, in Christ Jesus’ Name, Amen.
     On the topic outline page of these Lost Tribe Studies, you will find a reference to Genesis 49:10. It is one of many verses given to us in God’s Word about The Everlasting Throne of Christ:

Gen 49:10   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:

     Genesis 49:10 is very specific that the Sceptre Rule would never depart from the tribe of Judah, nor would God’s Law ever depart from Judah’s responsibility of protecting It. Then we are given this big word ‘until‘, as a condition, and that it would all change, at Shiloh’s coming. That word ‘Shiloh’ is another figurative Title for Jesus Christ, and the geographical location of Shiloh was where the first Tabernacle worship was setup in the Holy Land in Israel (Joshua 18:1). Then we are also told in this verse that “…unto Him shall the gathering of the people be.” Just who might “the people” be in that verse? (Those of Rev.7). That ‘gathering’ is specifically what Paul was speaking of in 2 Thessalonians 2:1, and 1 Thess.4:17 (also see Matt.24:31; 25:32; Mark 13:27; Eph.1:10; Ps.50; Luke 19:11). God’s Heavenly Cube of Rev.21:16 will be established on earth, at Zion; not in the polluted state this earth is in now, but on a renewed earth (Rev.21:1; 2 Peter 3:13; Isaiah 65:17; 66:22). And all those in Christ will be ‘gathered’ to our Lord Jesus Christ there, to Zion, The New Jerusalem, on a rebuilt earth (see Zech.14).

The Throne of David

     God established that Throne of Sceptre Royal Rule on earth, as an everlasting Covenant, the Promise being first given to Abraham (as ‘Abram‘; Gen.17). That Covenant originally included the Birthright Blessings of wealth and resources along with it, but eventually the Birthright ‘double-portion’ was given to the ‘sons of Joseph’ (1 Chronicles 5:1-2; Gen.48:22). But the Royal Sceptre of Ruler was to go to Judah.
     GOD gave His Promise of establishing that Throne to David, through God’s prophet Nathan:

2 Sam 7:8    Now therefore so shalt thou say unto My servant David, ‘Thus saith the LORD of hosts, ‘I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, to be ruler over My People, over Israel:
9    And I was with thee whithersoever thou wentest, and have cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight, and have made thee a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in the earth.
10    Moreover I will appoint a place for My People Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime,

     God is telling David that He is going to establish a place for His People Israel, and David, a descendent of Judah, is given to rule over them, meaning all twelve tribes.
     The final fulfillment of verse 10 is not yet… as “the children of wickedness” still ‘afflict‘ God’s Israel even today, and the great tribulation is yet future to us, when Satan will cause the greatest affliction upon God’s Israel. So this prophetic event will be accomplished when our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ reigns with His elect, over a returned People of Israel, to the land God first promised them (see Ezek.37; Zech.14).

2 Sam 7:11   And as since the time that I commanded judges to be over My People Israel, and have caused thee to rest from all thine enemies. Also the LORD telleth thee that He will make thee an house.
12    And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
13    He shall build an house for My name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

     David wanted to build God a House, i.e. Temple, but David’s son Solomon was to build It. Notice this last verse 13.  Did you catch what God said here with, “and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever”? Just how long is “for ever”? Does ‘forever’ mean only when Christ returns to claim that Throne, and then eternally forward? Are there ‘any’ cessations of that Throne allowed in ‘forever’?  What I mean by this is, that since there is no one from the tribe of Judah sitting on the Throne over in the Holy Land today, as ‘king’, then it appears that this Promise from God has pauses in it. And thus the majority interpret this verse of 2 Samuel 7:13 to mean, that Throne begins with Christ’s reign at His second Advent. But we are going to discover there are no pauses, nor has there ever been a pause in God’s establishing of that Throne of Royal Rule by one of Judah, “for ever”. It is still setup on earth, even today! (Whoops! I ‘let the cat out of the bag’!).

2 Sam 7:14   I will be his father, and he shall be My son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
15    But My mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee.
16    And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.””
17   According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

     Take a real good look at Verse 16. The phrase “and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee:” has a particular condition. “Before thee” means before David’s presence, and in presence of his seed after him, on earth! No? Still don’t believe it yet? Well, did David understand what God promised here in the same way, as a ‘continuous’ kingdom, everlasting, once it was first started long ago?

2 Sam 7:18   Then went king David in, and sat before the LORD, and he said, “Who am I, O Lord GOD? and what is my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto?
19    And this was yet a small thing in Thy sight, O Lord GOD; but Thou hast spoken also of Thy servant’s house for a great while to come. And is this the manner of man, O Lord GOD?

     That’s exactly how David understood this also, as a kingdom which would ‘never’ fail to end, and would continue even past Zedekiah, the last king of the ‘house of Judah’ in the Holy Land. (Notice I said ‘in the Holy Land’. That means it might still continue elsewhere outside of the land we call Israel today.) David well understood what our Father meant with ‘for ever’, because he even asked God how can this happen with man? David knew with all of man’s flesh ways, that Throne could never exist for long on earth. But with God, it’s a totally different story!
     Once God’s Temple was finished, Solomon then thanked our Father, and remembered God’s Promise to his father David, of establishing the throne of Israel everlasting:

I Kings 8:25   Therefore now, LORD God of Israel, keep with Thy servant David my father that Thou promisedst him, saying, ‘There shall not fail thee a man in My sight to sit on the throne of Israel;” so that thy children take heed to their way, that they walk before Me as thou hast walked before Me.’

     Did you notice Solomon also understood God’s Promise to David, as our Heavenly Father said that ‘in My sight’, there should never fail a man to sit on the throne of Israel? Just how long is that then?
     The Kingdom of Israel was divided after Solomon’s days, with the ten tribes being taken away to Assyria, and never returned to the Holy Land as a people; all that we’ve covered in the past Lost Tribe studies. And even the ‘house of Judah’ went in captivity to Babylon about 130 years after the ‘house of Israel’, but a remnant of Judah did return to Jerusalem, to re-build a second Temple. That second Temple was destroyed by the Roman general Titus in 70 A.D., even while Judea (house of Judah) was held captive during the Roman Empire. So… the historians think the Nation of Israel just ended, and ceased as a Nation through all of that. What do you think? Moreover, what do you think our Heavenly Father thought about His Promise concerning that Throne? He just told us, right here in I Kings 8:25; He even gave us the clue of “in My sight”, meaning the throne of Israel would never cease to exist, and that there would never “fail thee a man” to sit on that Throne, in God’s Sight, not man’s sight. So just because the majority of the world has failed to understand that It did continue, and even still exists today on earth, our Father knows better, for He gave that Promise of the earthly Throne of Israel to David and his seed forever. The ‘evil one’ thinks he’s going to get that Throne, but he never will (2 Thess.2). The throne Satan and his workers will set up in Jerusalem in our near future, during the tribulation, will be a false throne.
     The ‘present‘ of Isaiah 18:7 is where Christ’s True Throne will be brought to Zion from. Do you remember the people ‘beyond the rivers of Ethiopia’? (see Isaiah 18).

An Everlasting Kingdom

     Many have a difficult time grasping this, that the Throne of Israel has always been established, even upon earth; i.e. “as in heaven, so in earth” (Luke 11:2). And also, that Throne is the property of, and always has belonged, to God. That is the meaning of rule by Divine Decree when flesh kings and queens have sat on that Throne of Israel, because that Throne has ever been our LORD’s ownership, even as with all things:

Ps 89:3    I have made a covenant with My chosen, I have sworn unto David My servant,
4    Thy seed will I establish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Selah.

     ‘All generations’ means even to TODAY’s time. Remember back to Gen.49:10 which stated that one from Judah would always have that sceptre Rule of Divine Kingship of the Throne of Israel, all the way to Christ Jesus’ second coming? Our Lord Jesus Christ is very close to re-claiming His Everlasting Throne on earth.
     The word ‘Selah‘ is ‘Celah‘ in Hebrew, and means a ‘suspension (of music), i.e., pause’ (Strong’s no. 5542). It means to stop and think, ponder on what was just said!

2 Chr 21:7   Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and as He promised to give a light to him and to his sons for ever.

Ps 89:34   My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of My lips.
35    Once have I sworn by My holiness that I will not lie unto David.
36    His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before Me.

     God’s Word is sure, as He never goes back on His Covenant Promises; absolutely ‘never’. His may see punishment when getting out of line, but His Promises are True and stable, just as He is still in control today. Man can’t be that firmly established in himself; but our Father can.
     This Message here in Ps.89 is about Christ Jesus, our KING Who will rule upon that everlasting Throne. But it also includes the seed of David ‘until‘ Shiloh comes on the Second Advent of our Savior.
     I realize the great lengths I’ve gone to in trying to help others to understand the true meaning of this Throne everlasting, promised by God to David. Because of this Covenant Promise first given to Abraham all the way to David, the ‘house of David’ is still established upon the Throne of Israel, even today. Just because Its earthly manifestation is a little abased right now, does not mean It is no more. The Kenites have tried to totally exterminate It upon earth, and they think they’ve even succeeded today. But wait… all will see when The True Christ Jesus Messiah comes to claim that Throne everlasting, as many will be amazed to discover which land It departs, in order to go to Zion, The New Jerusalem!

Jer 33:23   Moreover the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
24    “Considerest thou not what this People have spoken, saying, ‘The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off’? thus they have despised My People, that they should be no more a nation before them.

     Jeremiah the prophet was in prison when God spoke this matter to him. The last king of Judah, i.e. Zedekiah, would be thrown down during Jeremiah’s days, and Jeremiah being one of God’s prophets, knew it was coming. Also, he and the people were kind of worried about it.
     These ‘two families’ mean the ‘house of Judah’, and the ‘house of Israel'(ten tribes). The ‘house of Israel’ was already gone captive out of the Holy land to Assyria during Jeremiah’s day. And now, it appeared that it was the ‘house of Judah’s’ turn to be made a waste.

Jer. 33:25    Thus saith the LORD; ‘If My covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth;
26    Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David My servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them.’”

    This is God swearing by Himself. What He said here was something like “if I didn’t set the sun and moon, and the laws of all things in motion and in perfect order, then My Covenant with the seed of David is meaningless.” And further, “if you don’t believe that I Jehovah created all things, and set them in motion, then you can believe I will break My Covenant with David’s seed, to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob until Christ comes.” Our Father is basically telling Jeremiah not to worry about the coming destruction and captivity of Jerusalem, and the ‘house of David’. It would be well established; even forever! Moreover, Jeremiah would soon have a hand in helping to maintain the establishing of the seed of David, but elsewhere, outside the Holy Land.
     Christ Jesus is The Son of David, and He is The Branch of David Who will reign Israel forever. So seeing David’s lineage in trouble was a big matter. That’s where many teachers of God’s Word have left off with the ‘house of David’. The majority are taught that Throne is gone on earth, and will not be established until Christ Jesus comes. It’s true, the Throne of David belongs to our Lord and Savior at His return, but don’t forget that the Promise by God to David, also includes that Royal lineage of Judah, sitting upon that Throne of Israel, all the way up to Shiloh’s return (Gen.49:10). Even though historically David’s earthly Throne ceased to exist in Judea, with Zedekiah being the last king of Judah there, God’s Word never says It totally ceased to exist on earth, meaning somewhere else on earth. Anyone who has ever read I and II Kings, surely they remember two kings in the Holy Land at the same time, one over the ‘house of Judah’ in Jerusalem, and one over the ‘house of Israel’ in Samaria (see I Kings 11>).

     These previous examples from God’s Word show the Throne of Israel still must be in effect today upon earth, otherwise what our Father promised David would not be True. One of the goals the children of iniquity have almost completely pulled off, is that of brainwashing the majority of the ‘house of Israel’ and the ‘house of Judah’ into thinking that Throne ended on earth long ago with Zedekiah. The attack against that Throne throughout centuries of war, lies, and propaganda, has removed much of its true meaning and history from people’s minds today. But never forget, as our Father YHVH did swear by Himself in Jeremiah 33:25-26, if one from the ‘house of David’ ever failed to sit upon that Throne of Israel, then God didn’t create the heavens and the earth. For those in Christ then, we know His Throne everlasting, is still here with us on earth, and our Lord Jesus Christ is coming to claim It.
     I’m well aware of Mark 16:19 where our Lord and Savior ascended to Heaven to take His Place on the Right Hand of GOD. Heb.10:12 gives a little more info, and it’s about how Christ while now on our Father’s Right Hand in Heaven, is “…henceforth expecting till His enemies be made His footstool.” Christ’s full Kingdom Rule is still ‘expecting‘, for He is not returned yet (see Rev.11:15). Because many of my confused Christian brethren have been listening to false prophets, instead of our Father’s Word, they think Christ has already come into His Kingdom, and they await to be ‘caught up’ to Heaven, thinking The Kingdom Everlasting to be a ‘cotton-candy’ floating ether space beyond the stars. Do you remember I said Christ’s future Kingdom on a renewed earth has ‘substance’? God’s Word declares it! (see the study How Does Christ Return?)
     The next study will follow the ‘overturns’ God prophesied through Jeremiah, of His earthly Throne being removed from Jerusalem, and then becoming established elsewhere.

Peace be with you in Christ Jesus,
Dave Ramey.

The last Ten Tribes study revealed from God’s Word in Hosea, our Father’s intent to scatter the ‘house of Israel’, causing them to forget their heritage as part of God’s People, taking on new names and customs and “…hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.” (Hosea 2:6). This ‘wall’ or hedged up way was to bring about the moving of the ten tribes to the lands our Father intended. It was done in similar manner that Rehoboam’s heart was hardened towards the ten tribes after his father Solomon’s death, to cause God’s prophecy of the split of both ‘houses’ to come true (I Kings 12). The ten tribes had ‘forgotten’ their knowledge as God’s People, similar to the forty years in the wilderness of being led by Jehovah out of Egypt through Moses until the time when they were to come to the promised land. Through generations this migration of the ten tribes came about. It didn’t happen all at once. And it happened in stages, just as their captivity to Assyria was in stages (II Kings).
     My plan with this particular study is not to document totally this migration through historical means. I only propose to call attention to a previously missing archaeological link to the lost ten tribe’s migrations. In this, others will have reference to some valuable information and resources for their further study on the ten tribes of Israel, i.e. the ‘house of Israel’.
     And we ask our Father to give us a Word of Wisdom in this study, in Christ’s Precious Name, Amen.

The Ten Tribes Scattered Further

     Hosea the prophet revealed a summary of God’s intent to scatter the ten tribes of Israel in all countries. Just to make sure that was no fairy tale from God’s Word, and that we will know ‘who’ was to be scattered, let’s cover a little from the Book of Ezekiel:

Ezek 1:3    The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.

     Ezekiel the prophet was in captivity to Babylon at this verse. This Chebar of Ezek.1:3 was in Babylon at his captivity home.

Ezek 3:4   And He said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with My words unto them.
5    For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel;

     God sent Ezekiel to give a Message to both ‘houses’. Here He is telling Ezekiel specifically to “…get thee unto the house of Israel”. If you’ll remember from the past studies, the ‘house of Israel’, i.e. the ten lost tribes, were taken captive by the Assyrian to Halah, Habor by the river Gozan, and to the cities of the Medes (II Kings 17 & 18). These areas of Assyria, were to the north of Babylon (modern day Iraq) where the ‘house of Judah’ went captive later. The house of Judah’s captivity to Babylon came 130 years after Israel’s, so the ten tribes were captive in ‘the land of the Chaldeans’ first. They were just a little farther north than Judah.

Ezek 3:15   Then I came to them of the captivity at Telabib, that dwelt by the river of Chebar, and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.
16    And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
17    “Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at My mouth, and give them warning from Me.”

     This ‘Chebar‘ here in verse 15 is not the same place where Ezekiel lived in Babylon. This area is where God sent him to give prophesy to the ‘house of Israel’, as evidenced by these verses. That means to Assyria where the ten tribes were. This is very important, because many think Ezekiel was talking to his Jewish brethren in Babylon only, and not to the ‘house of Israel’ or ten tribes. This Chebar in Ezek.3:15 is modern Khabour, a tributary of the Euphrates, forty-five miles from Babylon.¹
     Ezekiel is then brought to those of the ‘house of Israel’, and is told by God to make a drawing on a tile of Jerusalem, showing what God would do to it. And this Message was all to the ‘house of Israel’ even though Judah is mentioned along with it (Ezek.4 – 6). Part of God’s Message in Ezekiel to the ‘house of Israel’, or the ten tribes, reveals they were to be further scattered after their Assyrian captivity:

Ezek 6:8   Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
9    And they that escape of you shall remember Me among the nations whither they shall be carried captives, because I am broken with their whorish heart, which hath departed from Me, and with their eyes, which go a whoring after their idols: and they shall lothe themselves for the evils which they have committed in all their abominations.
10   And they shall know that I am the LORD, and that I have not said in vain that I would do this evil unto them.
11    Thus saith the Lord GOD; “Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, ‘Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

     We know the ‘house of Israel’ was still being held captive in Assyria during Ezekiel’s time of Babylon captivity. Even those of the ‘house of Judah’ had not returned to Jerusalem at this point, and were still in Babylon. And yet, God through Ezekiel is telling the ten tribes that there would be a ‘remnant’ which will escape the sword of captivity, when they are scattered through the countries (Ezek.6:8). That means the ‘house of Israel’ or ten tribes were to be further ‘scattered’ from Assyria, not back to the Holy Land, but ‘through the countries’.

E. Raymond Capt and Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets

     Biblical historian, archaeologist, and educator E. Raymond Capt has provided us a very important archaeological link for the lost ten tribes of Israel in his excellent work Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets. He has joined many ‘links’ together about the ‘house of Israel’ from hard work done by researchers, historians, and archaeologists of the past. In my opinion, the conclusions Capt arrives at from his research and of others, concerning the Behistun and Assyrian Tablet artifacts, is possibly the single most important work on the ‘Ten Lost Tribes of Israel’, from the scientific aspect. There is ‘hard’ evidence in stone, not just from The Bible standpoint. Our Father has ensured His People would find His Truth, even to our day and time.

The “Jehu Stele” or “Black Obelisk”

     Sir Austin Henry Layard of England, found a stele in Kurkh on the Tigris river in A.D. 1846, which depicts Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, in triumph over Syria and portions of the Northern Kingdom of Israel (II Kings 17 & 18). It shows one of Western Semitic dress bowing on all fours to Shalmaneser. The text inscription above the scene states:

The tribute of Jehu (Iaua) son of Khumri (Omri): I received from him silver, gold, a golden bowl, a golden vase with pointed bottom, golden tumblers, golden buckets, tin, a staff for a king, purukhti fruits.²

     This ‘Jehu’ was the son of Jehoshaphat and one of the anointed kings over the ‘house of Israel’ (1 Kings 19:16). The word ‘Khumri’ in the “Jehu Stele” is the Assyria name for Omri. Thus the Assyrians called the kings of the ‘house of Israel’ at that time ‘son of Omri’. This ‘Omri’ was a captain of Northern Kingdom Israel (ten tribes) which the people appointed their king (1 Kings 16:16).
     Therefore, the word Khumri, which refers to Omri king of northern Israel, is the first name used by Assyria for the ten tribes, or ‘house of Israel’. More evidence coming up…

The Assyrian Tablets

     English archaeologist Sir Austin Henry Layard also discovered, later at Kiyunjik in 1847, stores of clay tablets with Assyrian cuneiform writing along with Sennacherib’s palace, and the ancient capitol city of Nineveh. An Assyrian text translated from 1,471 of these 23,000 clay tablets discovered by Sir Austin Henry Layard, was published by R.F. Harper, and an English translation made available in 1930 by Leroy Waterman at the University of Michigan.³
     These tablets cover a period of Assyrian history at the time of the captivity to Assyria of the ‘house of Israel’, i.e. ten tribes.
     The Assyrian name of Khumri for the ‘sons of Omri’ taken from the Jehu Stele mentioned above, was a pre-captivity name for the Israelites. These Assyrian Tablets further link the later Assyrian names for the ‘house of Israel’. According to translations from these Assyrian Tablets, Khumri became changed to ‘Gamir’ and ‘Gamera’, during the house of Israel’s captivity in Assyria. The Assyrian name “ga-me-ra-a-a” is translated to ‘Cimmerian’ by Prof. Leroy Waterman in Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire, published by the University of Michigan in 1930.⁴ Thus, the word Cimmerian became one of the identifiers for those of the ‘house of Israel’.
     The Assyrian tablet gives proof for this Cimmerian marker in “Letter 112 – Arad-Sin to the Overseer of the Palace”, by connecting the Cimmerians with those of Gamir and Gamera.⁵  These Assyrian Tablets have provided a strong archaeological missing link to the ‘ten tribes of Israel’ which have been searched for many years. As several ancient histories, such as by Herodotus, Strabo, etc., mention the Cimmerians, their origins have been hard to determine without any archaeological foundation. The discovery of the Assyrian Tablets and their translation bridges the missing link in the gap.
     The Greek geographer Strabo states this about the Cimmerians:

Those Cimmerians whom they also call Trerans, or some tribe of the Cimmerians, often overran the countries on the right of the Pontu (south of the Black Sea) and those adjacent to them, at one time have invaded Paphlagnia, and at another time Phrygia even, at which time Midas drank bull’s blood, they say, and thus went down to his doom. ⁶

  Strabo also goes further about where these Cimmerians migrated:

Lygdamis (Tugdamme in Assyrian records) king of the Cimmerians, at the head of his own soldiers, marched as far as Lydia and Ionia, and captured Sardis (capitol of Lydia) but lost his life in Cilicia.⁷

     Interestingly enough, these areas where Strabo said these Cimmerians migrated to, are all regions where Paul and the Apostles went to preach The Gospel of Christ. Paul himself was from Tarsus, in Cilicia (Acts 9:11; 22:3). And Christ told the Apostles in Matthew 10:5: “…Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of Samaritans enter ye not: 6:But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” Paul’s commission in Acts 9:15 was to preach Christ to the Gentile, kings, and children of Israel. With Christ’s command to go to the lost sheep, these nation links and migrations of the Cimmerians should become apparent. The seven Churches of Revelation were also in these areas of Asia Minor where Strabo says the Cimmerians migrated to.
     This link Strabo and other ancient and modern histories cited by Capt in Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets, joins many peoples of seemingly separate tribal names into the majority of one peoples, which went north, and west, northwest and southwest, from Assyria.
     Another branch of the Israelites which can be traced to the Scythians are the ‘Iskuza’, mentioned also in the Assyrian Tablets. As the term ‘house of Isaac’ is used to refer to the ‘house of Israel’ in Amos 7:16, this word ‘Iskuza’ was a natural Assyrian corruption of ‘Isaac’. This label further grew into the labels of ‘Shuthae’ by the Greeks and the word ‘Sacae’ by the Persians, which refer to the Scythians.⁸
     By these two groups, one called Cimmerians, which migrated west to Asia Minor and Western Europe from Assyria first, and the second group of Scythians who later migrated west to take over many of the Cimmerians’ lands, the ancestry of the peoples of Europe and Asia Minor can be traced to modern times. These would later form the Celts (Cimmerians), the Gauls, Normans, Norsk or Norse, Goths, and Germani peoples. A migration to ancient Britain by the Angles and Saxons (Isaac’s sons), would also form the several Welsh, English, Scots, and Irish peoples. These various peoples, of seemingly different ancestry, have mixed to make up the founding ancestral nations of today’s Europe. And those peoples who formed Europe all have one major trait in common. Though they had different names, and languages, they made up the Caucasian race which settled in Europe, having migrated from Assyria of Israelite origins. As can be discovered by Britain’s history especially, the various conquests of Britain by supposedly different nations of heritage, such as the Anglo-Saxons from Germany, the Danish and Norse, and then lastly the Normans of France, it should have been made up of many different races. All these various peoples which invaded Britain were of one common stock, either descendents of the Cimmerians, or of the Scythians. And they all have a heritage as being part of the ‘house of Israel’.

The Behistun Rock

On an old caravan road from Babylon to Ecbatana, the ancient capitol of Median, there is a carving on a mountain side made by Darius the Mede dated at 515 B.C. An English officer named Henry C. Rawlinson deciphered the cuneiform inscriptions on this carved mountain side, called the Behistun Rock. The inscriptions on the Behistun Rock were in three languages, Babylonian (Accadian), Elamite (Susian), and Persian.⁹

There are 20 panels of carvings. In the center is a depiction of King Darius with his foot over one captive chief, and 9 other captives all bound together.

Each captive chief is dressed differently, some with short tunics, others with long robes, and still others with the characteristic Hebrew cap.

Each paragraph of each inscription panel begins with the following: “I am Darius, the king of kings, the king of Persia.” And the 10th panel mentions “Sarocus“, the Sacan, one in Hebrew attire.¹⁰

     The word Armenia is mentioned also, as this was the area where these captives were taken and placed by the Assyrians. The word Sakkas is named in these inscriptions also. In the Elamite and Persian language inscriptions, the word Sakka is used to name some of these ‘chieftans’ in captivity to Assyria, but in the Babylonian inscription version, the word employed is Gimiri (verified for the British Museum by L.W. King and R.C. Thomson – Sculptures and Inscriptions of Behistun, pg.161).¹¹ That word Gimiri links back to what the Assyrians called the sons of Omri of the ‘house of Israel’, that is Khumri, and Cimri, or Cimmerian.

The Greek historian Herodotus gives an account of the Scyths (Sythians) in pursuit of the Cimmerians following a small passage known as the Dariel Pass, through the Caucasus Mountains northeast of the Black Sea.

     Herodotus states:

Scythia still retains traces of the Cimmerians; there are Cimmerian castles, and a Cimmerian ferry, also a tract called Cimmeria, and a Cimmerian Bosphorus. It appears likewise that the Cimmerians, when they fled into Asia (Asia Minor) to escape the Scyths, made a settlement in the peninsula where the Greek city of Sinope was afterwards built. The Scyths, it is plain, pursued them, and missing their road, poured into Media. For the Cimmerians kept the line which led along the sea-shore, but the Scyths in their pursuit held the Caucasus upon their right, thus proceeding inland, and falling upon Media. This account is one which is common both to Greeks and barbarians.¹²

     The name of Caucasian was derived from those peoples who once held and migrated through the Caucasus Mountains, east of the Black Sea. These would then further migrate west to the isles in Europe. II Esdras 13 in the Apocrypha is possibly another reference to this Passage in the Caucasus by the Cimmerians and Scythians.
     The Scythian migrations also went further east, to the Orient. These ‘Sok-wang’, meaning ‘Sakka princes’, fled to a valley of the upper Indus with Kashmir and Afghanistan as borders.¹³

     The historic traces of the Sacae, the Scythians, and the Cimmerians, have been written of by many historians, both ancient and modern. The evidence for their later migrations to Europe is plentiful. The only ‘link’ missing was that of the lost ten tribe’s captivity while in Assyria, and just how their identity as Israel was lost. Truly as our Heavenly Father said through Hosea:

Hosea 2:13    And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat Me, saith the LORD.

     He would hedge up their paths so they could not be found, and visit upon them the full Baalim of pagan idolatry which caused their falling away. And the very Baalism which the ‘house of Israel’ coveted became the system which gave them new names (khumri), losing their original heritage as God’s People ‘Ammi’. They became ‘Lo-Ammi’, not God’s People.

Hosea 2:14    Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
15    And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.

     Then when it was time, they would be lured through the ‘wilderness’ and scattered through the countries, until… they came to new lands, and new vineyards, and Israel began to remember GOD through His Son Jesus Christ.

Hosea 2:16  And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call Me Ishi; and shalt call Me no more Baali.
17    For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.
18    And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.

     And when they finally migrated to their new lands, and Christ our New Covenant was offered, GOD took away their ‘names of Baalim’ out of their mouths which Assyria gave them, becoming again ‘Ammi’, God’s People.
     Yet, paganism and worship of false gods, which are no gods, is still with His People of the ‘house of Israel’. Once again God’s People of the ‘house of Israel’ are becoming lost and again ‘Lo-Ammi’ (not My People). And another cycle of the same false Babylon World Order system is taking God’s People into another captivity. This time that bondage is not of geographical paths to Babylon and Assyria, but enslavement of our hearts and minds away from GOD and Christ, a spiritual captivity. Only through deception can one go into captivity again today. Understanding The Knowledge of Christ is the only Way to prevent that slavery of deception upon us today. Our founding fathers of the Western Christian Nations suffered that captivity and battled for our freedoms we have been so accustomed to. Let us not go into bondage again, for we are ‘Ammi’, His People, GOD’s People. And ‘Ammi’ includes all believers on Christ Jesus, a spiritual and a physical Israel.

Blessings to you in Christ Jesus,
Dave Ramey.

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Footnotes:

¹ The Companion Bible, (Kregel Publishing, Grand Rapids, MI., 1990), margin note, p.1109.

² Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets. E. Raymond Capt, M.A., A.I.A., F.S.A. Scot. (Artisan Sales, Muskogee, OK, 1985), p. 97-99.

³ Ibid., pp. 100-101.
⁴ Ibid., pp. 122-123.
⁵ Ibid., p. 115.
⁶ Ibid., p. 125.
⁷ Ibid., pp. 135-126.
⁸ Ibid., pp. 120-123.
⁹ Ibid., p. 137.
¹⁰ Ibid., p. 139.
¹¹ Ibid., pp. 139-140.

¹² The Histories of Herodotus, Book IV.12. Translated by George Rawlinson, (Everyman’s Library, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997), p.308.

¹³ Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets. E. Raymond Capt, M.A., A.I.A., F.S.A. Scot. (Artisan Sales, Muskogee, OK, 1985), p. 157.

Original source of all Behistun images from either Wonders of The Past, Vol.2 (1937), J.A. Hammerton, Wise & Compton; or History of The World. Vol.I (1909), J.C. Ridpath (Jones Brothers Publishing), as presented through Art Today.