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  • The Cimbri

    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}.

  • What do you mean “Jews?”

    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/Welsh? Tribe of Levi

    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}.

    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)

  • Why many non-Christian nations and peoples suffer

    Many people of foreign non-Christian lands suffer greatly; why does God allow this? Hasn’t Christianity been the cause of many wars?

    These two particular types of questions are used by many who flat refuse Christ as Savior also. They are also used to try and put Christianity in a bad historical light, as a slur against God and His Christ.
         But no problem, they’re easy to answer.
        
    Eph 6:11   Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
    12    For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

         The whole reason why the flesh age exists which we live in today, is for battle. That’s right, “battle”, a spiritual battle. So where is that battle? Within the mind and heart. Ideas are much more powerful than all the weapons of the world friends. Those who live a ‘carnal’ life of the flesh can’t understand this. Their ‘mind’ is easily swayed by the ideas and thoughts of the flesh world. They haven’t the ‘mind of Christ’, so their faith is misplaced by ideas of men, traditions, old customs handed down by flesh ancestors and not from Yehovah.
         
    2 Cor 4:3   But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
    4    In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, Who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
    5    For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.

         There still may be some small areas of the world which have not yet heard The Gospel of Christ, but in my opinion, the majority have heard, or are now having the opportunity to hear. I believe the communication technology age is bringing the last stages of heralding The Gospel of Christ to those few which missed the chance. Yet in many cases of peoples of foreign lands who accepted Christ after hearing, they began to pollute Christian Doctrine by blending many of their old pagan practices in with Christianity. In one particular case in Africa, taken from a news source recently, blood sacrifice ritual was added with the Communion Table of Christ. The old customs and traditions of those tribal peoples were just too strong in their minds still. So Whom they once received, they polluted among themselves.
         No doubt, some deceiver, pushing ‘ideas’ of Satan is causing many peoples to stray away from Christ after once hearing with ‘faith’. That’s why ‘ideas’ are the most potent weapon, The Word of God being The most Powerful Spiritual Sword. Those who listen to the mind of the world, The Gospel is hidden to them.
         The Western Christian Nations were set up by God for His Gospel to be taught and heard abundantly, with no danger of censorship. That is what our Constitutional right for freedom of religion was purposed for; to keep The Word in the mind of God’s People. In other words, Christ has been a ‘tradition’ and ‘custom’ of the Western Christian nations, much as paganism has been a tradition in other lands. But those whose minds are blinded to Christ who live amongst us today, cannot, and will not be able to see that Truth. Since their minds are carnal, and follow flesh ways, the ideas of flesh are what they must heed. And those ideas today among us are especially against Christ.
         My Lost Tribes studies give reasons by our Father for their split and captivity out the lands He gave them, for the same reasons that non-Christian nations suffer, in that they turned away from our Father, and unto the various systems of false worship in the world. Much of The Old Testament past Moses was about how God’s chosen turned away from Him, even after He promised them good things by following Him only. Leviticus 26, and many other Scriptures, were given as a warning by our Father. His chosen suffered those curses and were scattered. They are still scattered today, the main purpose being, after punishment to return to Him through Christ, and to include the Gentile who accepts Christ as Savior also.
         And today, in the Western Christian nations, Christ is being turned against, even by some teachers in the public school system who throw student’s Bibles in the trash, calling It garbage. This outward war against Christianity, even by some of our own peoples of Christian heritage, is a sign that the ‘fulness of the Gentiles’ is almost complete and the ‘great apostasy’ is well on it’s way (Luke 21:24; Rom.11:25).
         So the reason why many peoples of non-Christian lands suffer, is because of their leaders preventing the learning of God’s Ways through His Word Jesus Christ. It might surprise one in the Western nations that many in foreign lands ruled by atheistic governments have accepted Christ Jesus as their Savior. Christians in America are coming under these atheistic supra-international leaders that want to destroy Christ here also. Even when the Western Christian nations went to war in the past, they were all religious wars if one looks deeply enough. And that is because the ‘real’ battle during this flesh age has been a spiritual battle between the Power of Yehovah and His Christ against the powers of darkness (Lucifer). But those whose minds are ‘blinded’, cannot understand this, thus they wrongly battle against The Word of God.
         This last battle during the flesh time is a spiritual war for control of your mind, through world ideas exercised by the ‘prince of this world’, Satan himself. Your weapon for this ‘last battle’ is not flesh armament, but the ‘whole armour of God’ which is The Gospel of Christ, Salvation, The Word of God (see Ephesians 6).

  • How Christ returns to earth

    How does Jesus return for His second coming? Do we go up in the clouds, or does He come down to earth?

    It’s sad that so many Christians today don’t understand from The Word about Christ’s actual coming and God’s future Kingdom. This is such an important matter, that I’m not going to go into depth here; but you’ll find a lengthy study with much Scripture support on this subject by clicking on the study How Does Christ Return?.
         In short, according to Acts 1:11, Micah 1, and Zech.14, Christ is coming back to earth. He may come engulfed in the clouds when returning, if that’s how you wish to interpret 1 Thess.4:17, but His final destination is upon the Mount of Olivet in Jerusalem. The proof that God through His Son is going to reign all nations upon a ‘renewed’ earth, is overwhelming from God’s Word.
         There is so much proof for a Heaven upon earth in God’s Word, that I can’t think of a befitting name which would be suitable for those false ones, who claim to be sent from God and teach otherwise. In other words, I can’t believe they teach otherwise out of ignorance only. I have even had poor deceived members of their congregations tell me that it’s nowhere written in God’s Word that Jesus returns to earth. I’m not only hurt by that level of deception, but I’m sure our Father is hurt by it also. Especially since He created this beautiful earth for His children, whom He loves so much (see Isaiah 45:18; Rev.4:11; Ps.115:16).

  • The term ‘meditation’ in God’s Word, and ‘eastern meditation’

    Does the word ‘meditation’ in The Bible, such as in Psalms 49:3 mean the same thing as the practice of eastern meditation?

    Ps 1:1     Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
    2    But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.

         This word ‘meditate’ is ‘hagah’ in the Hebrew, and is a primitive root meaning ‘to murmur (in pleasure or anger); by implication, to ponder’ (Strong’s no.1897; see also 1901). The words for meditate and meditation in other verses, such as Gen.24:63 (suwach), Ps.119:15 (siyach), all have similar meanings. Some are used more in the ‘poetical’ sense, others as a complaining to God.
         But in each case in God’s Word, where the words meditate or meditation occur, thought is active in the mind of the meditator. That is very important, for the practice of so-called ‘eastern meditation’ is the exact opposite.
         Eastern meditation, such as intoning ‘vowel sounds’ and what not, teaches to clear the mind of ‘all thought’, allowing the universe, gods, or whatever, to communicate, receiving spiritual influences from only God knows where. It’s the practice of eastern mysticism to try to become ‘one’ with the cosmos. This false practice of trying to commune with the universe, which is really an aid for Satan’s negative spiritual influences to make contact, was wholly thrust upon the Western nations during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s with various ‘spiritism’ movements, and again in the 1960’s with the ‘flower power’, or hippie generation (I was born in the latter part of that generation, and saw those things). Even the idea of being ‘hip’, or ‘cool’, was a powerful label in the ’60s to push those fads on an unsuspecting generation. It’s still alive today with the so-called ‘new age’ movement, which is just a new ‘pet name’ for modern occultism. Humanist and earth awareness philosophies are added with it to give it more weight. That ’60s generation is now in power in many governments today (gulp). It’s good to know who the spiritual battle is with, and eastern meditation is one effective means by which Satan controls his workers and influences on earth.
         So if you’re out in the field working, or walking among the woods, and ‘boom’, your tongue starts babeling and there is no mental ‘thought’ process going on, it’s time to boot that evil spirit away. Feeling ‘spiritual joy’ from our Father Jehovah through His Son Jesus Christ, is a mental thought process. Otherwise, how would you know of Whom that joy in The Lord is from?
         When those in Christ pray and ‘ponder’ on His Word, it always involves thought, an active mental process, with understanding, and that’s how The Holy Spirit gives Truth. Those teaching to ‘feel the faith’ without study and the knowledge of Christ, are false prophets. No, our faith in Christ is understood, with ‘confidence’ remember? After all, Truth is the goal isn’t It? Christ gave His Body of believers Power over those evil influences (Luke 10:19), so ‘boot em’ out in the Name of Jesus Christ. They’ll get tired of coming around you when you cast them away from you, back to the ‘pit’! And they must leave when you use Christ’s Name as one of His, claiming that Power He gave us through Him. They have no choice in the matter.

  • Handling grief for others who can’t understand God’s Word

    When someone finally starts to study The Word for themselves, and comes to God’s Truth, and It starts opening up to them, they have a hard time understanding why others can’t understand. How does one deal with this emotion?

    The two previous questions gave some Scriptural answers to help ease this feeling of why others don’t or can’t ‘rightly divided’ The Word of Truth. Furthermore, none that do understand the deeper Word in Scripture know it all either. It’s continually unfolding. I’ve referred to the state of ‘flesh thinking’ as compared to ‘spiritual thinking’ many times on this Website to help those in Christ understand how a ‘world view’ can hinder The Holy Spirit’s workings in us. Holding to man’s view will cause ‘unbelief’.
         Begin studying at Psalms 78, down through to the end of Psalms 82. You have there beginning at Ps.78 a short history of Israel’s ‘unbelief’ in the One True God Jehovah and His proposed Salvation. And much there in those Psalms, especially towards the end of Ps.82, is not fulfilled yet, for God has not yet come down out of heaven to ‘inherit all nations’ (Ps.82:8). That verse is talking about Christ’s (Immanuel – ‘God with us’) return in our future, when all the kingdoms of this world, will become His (Rev.11:15).
         Joseph, Ephraim, and Manasseh are alluded to there in those Psalms also, which represent the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. That means the founders of the Western Christian Nations of today, i.e. those who passed over the Caucasus Mountains, becoming known as ‘Caucasians’, coming to the ‘isles’, and settling in Western Europe and the Americas.
         Most of true Israel (Europe and America) do not know who they are today, and many of the ‘crept in unawares’ of Jude 1, i.e. the Kenite, who sit in ‘Moses’ seat’ (Matt.23:2), will tell you it is not true. Those ‘false Jews’, who are not of true bloodline Judah, don’t want us to know that revelation within God’s Word. But when the Psalms I referenced are read in that light, that we are Israel today, according to God’s Birthright Promise to Joseph (1 Chron.5), and the election of ‘grace’ to the Gentile, then our ‘faith’ in God and His Salvation Jesus Christ, should take on new meaning. (see Lost Tribes studies for more).
         For those of the ethnic peoples who have accepted Christ as Savior, they are also included as Israel. As much as the Body of Christ is not a particular Church building or geographic spot, or just one race, today God’s Israel is scattered also. But those who came to the isles, forming the Western nations, are descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel, separated from the Promise Land by captivity to Assyria. Those in past times suffered punishment for their ‘disbelief’, and were cut off, and are for an example to us today who have accepted Christ.
         If we don’t understand how God’s Plan of Salvation is worked from times old down to today and yet future, how can our ‘belief’ in Him be sure? And when our ‘faith in Christ’ is sure, it is very blessed with our Father, because we haven’t seen today those miracles written of in times past during the forty years in the ‘wilderness’, having direct proof of God with us through flesh eyes. Having faith in Christ with confidence doesn’t require a show of miracles. Those who must see a miraculous ‘sign’ to believe, shun their Salvation through Jesus Christ. Those not confident in their faith, looking for miracles and wonders today, also set themselves up for deception, as God has given Satan and his fallen angels power to do miracles and wonders in these latter days (Rev.13:13).
         (Don’t get me wrong about the subject of ‘miracles’. God still works miracles through His Body of believers today. But one who ‘must’ see a miraculous sign from Heaven before they can believe on Christ, fits the Message our Savior gave us concerning ‘doubting’ Thomas in John 20:24-29.)
         Study The Scriptures for yourself and you’ll get that foundation of confidence in Christ, and you won’t be caught in unbelief when the false ones practice their deceptions ‘in the sight of men’.

    Rom 11:20-23
    20    Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
    21    For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest He also spare not thee.
    22    Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in His goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
    23    And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.

  • Sabbath and Saturday for the Christian

    Are Christians today to worship God on Saturday, holding to the original Sabbath, as our Rest?

    There’s been a lot of concern lately about the Christian day of worship, once observed on Saturday, but having been changed in previous centuries to Sunday. God commanded His People to observe the Sabbath as a Holy Day, which is our Saturday (Exod.20).

    Col 2:14   Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to His cross;
    15    And having spoiled principalities and powers, He made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
    16    Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
    17    Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
    (KJV)

    Bondage is being proposed by those who teach damnation because of not holding Church service on Saturday, instead of Sunday. Christ nailed portions of His Law on the cross, the Saturday sabbath day dogma was one of those ‘ordinances’. Being ‘nailed on the cross’ means those ordinances became part of Christ. That means ‘fulfillment’ in Christ, not done away with. That’s where many Christians are being misled, and trapped back into bondage of ordinances in The Law. This means Christ became our True Rest, for that’s what the word ‘Sabbath’ means, i.e. ‘rest’. Hebrews 3-4 tells us about That Rest, Who is now Jesus Christ.

    Heb 3:14  For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

    Confidence means believing on God’s Savior Jesus Christ, that our Father’s Promises of Salvation are true, and having ‘faith’ in those things unseen concerning that Promise.

    Heb 3:15  While it is said, “To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.”

         Paul is quoting from Psalms 95 here. He’s talking about how Israel hardened their hearts coming out of Egypt by God’s deliverance. They had direct experience of God’s Holy Presence among them, with the Pillar of Fire, yet they hardened their hearts, and had little ‘faith’.

    Heb 3:16  For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

         Not all made it out of the wilderness, because of their lack of faith, even within direct eyesight of God’s Presence.

    Heb 3:17  But with whom was He grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?
    18    And to whom sware He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that believed not?

         So who finally was led out of the wilderness through Moses? Was it not those who believed? That word ‘rest’ is referring to God’s Sabbath.

    Heb 3:19  So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

         If we don’t believe in our Salvation through Christ, having confidence, then we can’t enter into His Rest. If one thinks that by not holding Church service on a particular day will keep them from that Salvation, or ‘His Rest’, then that’s using The Law to be justified by, and not by ‘faith in Christ’.

    Heb 4:1  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
    2    For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

         If you accept Christ as Savior, as your Salvation, “today”… you have ‘entered into His Rest’.

    Heb 4:3  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as He said, “As I have sworn in My wrath, if they shall enter into My rest:” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.”

         The words in bold above was Paul quoting from Psalms 95:11. That ‘rest’ is His abode, but It’s not for unbelievers, but for those who believe.

    Heb 4:4  For He spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, “And God did rest the seventh day from all His works.”
    5    And in this place again, “If they shall enter into My rest.”
    6    Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:

         Christ became that Sabbath, and means Rest from our ‘work’ today, and with Him in the future eternal peace. That Old Testament Sabbath was a shadow of this Rest which all believers on Christ have today, if you’ll have confidence in Him.
    But for those who have not believed, and to whom Christ was first preached (the Jews), many of them have not entered in That Rest ‘because of unbelief’, and they are no better off than those whose ‘carcases fell in the wilderness.’

    Heb 4:7  Again, He limiteth a certain day, saying in David, “To day,” after so long a time; as it is said, “To day if ye will hear His voice, harden not your hearts.”

    This word ‘limiteth’ means ‘declare, appoint, determined’ (Strong’s no.3724). There should be no doubt that Paul is talking about the Sabbath here, as all along in these verses. “Today” means we don’t need any other Mediator than Christ to pray to Jehovah, our Father, and follow Him. If you believe that you must hold Church service on Saturday to have Salvation, then you might as well hire you some Levites and start animal sacrifice again. And make sure you do it right…according to The Law, and don’t slip up and fail in it one iota!

    Heb 4:8   For if Jesus had given them rest, then would He not afterward have spoken of another day.
    9     There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

        This word ‘Jesus’ in Hebrew is the equivalent of the Hebrew word ‘Joshua’. This verse 8 goes with the previous verse 7 about David’s time. This refers to Joshua’s eventual leading of the Israelites into the ‘promise land’ (see Joshua 1-2). So this verse is not referring to Jesus Christ, but Joshua the prophet who entered into the promise land. If he led the Israelites out of the wilderness to the promise land, then wouldn’t he have told them about another day of Rest? Yet future?
    The word ‘rest’ in verse 9 is ‘sabbatismos’ in the Greek, from the root ‘sabbaton’, a word of Hebrew origin (Strong’s nos.7676; 4520).

    10    For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.
    11    Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

    So Christ is our Sabbath today, for those who believe. That means if you’re not in His Rest everyday, especially during these endtimes, you have little ‘Rest’ in Him. Just as Christ also became our ‘Passover’ sacrificed for us on the cross, we are to worship God through Christ today (1 Cor.5:7). That is our ‘labour’ today, working for Christ Jesus. Believers hold to Him in faith everyday now, in hope of entering into His Rest Which is The Eternal Sabbath of His future Kingdom upon this ancient earth.

  • Why many Jews still refuse Jesus of Nazareth as Christ Messiah

    The Old Testament Hebrew Manuscripts foretold of the ‘first’ coming of Messiah Jesus Christ; His birth, His Mission, and how He would suffer on the cross. So why don’t the majority of Jews believe that Christ came and fulfilled that Mission as Savior, especially since those Jews are in possession of The Hebrew Manuscripts?

    The reason many of the ‘house of Judah’ today, i.e. Jews, still haven’t accepted Jesus Christ as Messiah, believe it or not, was and is part of God’s Plan. Well why would God do that to His People? Consider what Peter says:

    1 Pet 2:7-10
    7    Unto you therefore which believe He is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the Stone Which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,
    8    And a Stone of stumbling, and a Rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
    9    But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him Who hath called you out of darkness into His marvellous light:
    10    Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
    (KJV)

         Peter is letting us know that the ‘nations’ who accepted Christ as Savior, at one time ‘were not a people’ of God. This has much to do with the ‘house of Israel’, i.e. the Ten Tribes (remember Loammi=not My People), being scattered among the Gentiles, and both accepting Christ Jesus as Savior when they heard Him preached by the Apostles of Christ.
         The ‘house of Judah’ stumbled at The Cornerstone (Christ) Which they rejected. In 1 Peter 2:7-8 he says the Jews were ‘appointed’ to this stumbling at Christ’s Word, but not the Jews only. Paul in Romans Chapters 9 through 11 tells us why – so that many of the Gentiles who believe, which “were not a people”, might be ‘grafted’ into the same ‘tree’ of God’s People. The Jews are blinded so that Salvation through Jesus Christ would be full and more complete. Paul also tells us in Romans 11 that any of the Jews who now accept Christ Jesus, are grafted in now; but the majority of Jews will not be joined with Christ until the ‘fullness of the Gentiles’ is whole (Rom.11:23-28). That means there is still yet hope for them.
         God is causing that ‘slumber’ of not having ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’. We Gentiles should not get too cocky about having accepted Jesus as Savior over those of the ‘house of Judah’ which haven’t. You know why?

    Isa 8:13-15
    13    Sanctify the LORD of hosts Himself; and let Him be your fear, and let Him be your dread.
    14    And He shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
    15    And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.
    (KJV)

         The Cornerstone (Jesus Christ) is “…a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel…”. That’s talking about those of the ‘house of Israel’ today also, the Western Christian Nations, who have received Jesus Christ as Messiah. It applies to both Judah and Israel (Ten Tribes). “How could they ‘stumble’ if they’ve already accepted Christ,” one might ask? By worshipping the wrong messiah of our near future, that’s how! Satan is coming first as a ‘false Messiah’, claiming to be Christ (Immanuel–‘God with us’), sitting in the Temple of God (II Thess.2; Ezek.28;31; Isa.14). Our True Savior Jesus Christ will return on the ‘last trump’ to defeat Satan, all in our near future.
         Which is worse; to seek Salvation through following God’s Law without faith in Christ, still waiting for His first coming, as the majority of the Jews do; or to accept and believe on Jesus Christ, yet mess up later when Satan comes, and worship him as a fake Messiah, thinking he’s Christ? That’s what Isaiah 8:15 means with being ‘snared’ and ‘taken’! The first one ‘taken’ in the field is by Antichrist (compare Luke 17:36-37 with Matthew 24:28). So the deception is not only ‘appointed’ to many of Judah, no…but to many who once believed on Christ also, who will become ‘apostate’, falling away by worshipping a false Messiah.
         So why can’t both the Jew and Gentile who stumble, just wake up, out of their spiritual slumber? Because God is allowing the deception by the ‘workers of iniquity’, i.e. the sons of Cain or Kenites, who are so…strong today, that many don’t even have a chance. Satan and his children are God’s ‘rod’ of correction to His People. Once the Christian starts to understand God’s Message through His Old Testament prophets, about Satan being controlled by God, then our Father’s greater Plan begins to unfold, and an understanding that He is in charge is revealed. Until that Truth is grasped, the elect may find it difficult to deal with the sorrow we feel for our lost brethren who stumble (from both ‘houses’). Those who remain ignorant of that Plan fight against each other. 
         So why is God allowing all this ‘deception’, even towards ‘both’ houses of Israel? Our Father is going to show His Power and Supreme Authority to us, while revealing how silly, ignorant, and uncaring about Him, His children can be. No other Glory anywhere, will compare with this future event of Christ’s coming. The ‘shock value’ will be enormous! But not for those who are watching, as our Savior commanded.
         But God has preserved a ‘remnant’ who shall know His Truth, and will not be swayed from Christ by accepting the false Messiah. Even His preservation of His elect is by ‘appointment’! Our Father is in control, guiding the ‘helm’ with utmost sureness. I have total confidence in God and His Son, and as to the directions of His Plan He has given us, all according to His Word. Give thanks and praise to Him through Christ if you know what I’m talking about, for we are as ‘filthy rags’.
         So what do we do in the meantime? Teach, teach, teach God’s Word. Drop a ‘seed’ of our Father’s Truth to those who stumble. Be bold when given the chance. Learn The Word using common sense, and teach It using common sense in ‘plain’ language. Good honest folk exist everywhere in the world, and they live plainly by common sense.

  • Who is the daughter of Pharaoh, the one called Scota? Is she mentioned in God’s Word?

    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).