"Isles of the Sea" (Isaiah 11:11) Identified as the British Isles (25 September 2015, 12 Tishrei, 5776)
See Also: Isles of the Sea
A passage in Isaiah in the New American Standard Bible (NASB) says:
Isaiah 11:
11 Then it will happen on that day that the LORD
Will again recover the second time with His hand
The remnant of His people, who will remain,
From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath,
And from the Islands of the Sea.
12 And He will lift up a standard for the nations
And assemble the banished ones of Israel,
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.
13 Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart,
And those who harass Judah will be cut off;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
And Judah will not harass Ephraim.
14 They will swoop down on the slopes of the Philistines on the west;
Together they will plunder the sons of the east;
They will possess Edom and Moab,
And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.
Other Translation say more or less the same.
This is how we understand it according to the Hebrew:
Isaiah 11:
11 Then it will happen on that day that Adoni [i.e. the Master]
Will once again take possession with His hand of
The remnant of His people, who will remain,
From having been drawn out of Assyria, out of Mitsraim, out of Pathros, out of Cush, out of Elam, out of Shinar, out of Hamath,
And from out of the Islands of the Sea.12 And He will lift up a standard for the nations
And assemble the banished ones of Israel,
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.13 Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart,
And the oppressors of Judah will be cut off;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
And Judah will not harass Ephraim.14 Together, They shall fly the PALESTINIANS [Philistines] by plane to the west,
Together they will plunder the Sons of Kedem [the east];
Edom and Moab will be for the taking of their hand
And the sons of Ammon will be subject to them.
Note that according to Isaiah 11:13 a certain fiction will have existed between Judah and Ephraim right up to the End Times.
We believe we are helping the eventual reunification by spreading knowledge about it and about the present-day identity of the Lost Ten Tribes.
Concerning the identification of the British Isles as being the Isles of the Sea consider the following extract from Wikipedia:
Oceani insulae[edit]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_naming_dispute#Oceani_insulae
.... islands off the north and west shores of continental Europe were termed (in Latin) the Oceani Insulae or "islands of the Ocean."...
This term was also used by indigenous sources during the post-Roman period, who also used the term Oceani Insulae [Isles of the Sea] as a term for the islands in the Atlantic and elsewhere. One such example is the Life of Saint Columba, a hagiography recording the missionary activities of the 6th century Irish monk Saint Columba among the peoples of modern-day Scotland. It was written in the late 7th century by Adomnan of Iona, an Irish monk living on the Inner Hebridean island.[105] ... Jordanes, writing in his AD 551 Getica, describes the islands (particularly in the Western Ocean) as "islands of the Ocean"; he named various islands in the North Atlantic, and believed Scandinavia to be one of them.
Another native source to use the term is the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum of Bede, written in the early 8th century... As with Jordanes and Columba, he refers to Britain as being Oceani insula or "island of the Ocean".[107]
Isidore of Seville's Etymology, written in the early 7th century and one of the most popular textbooks in Europe during the Middle Ages,[108] similarly lists Britain ("Britannia"), Ireland ("Scotia" or "Hibernia"), Thule, and many other islands simply as "islands" or "islands of the Ocean" and uses no collective term.
In the 17th century, Peter Heylin, in his Microcosmus, described the classical conception of the Ocean and included in the "Iles of the Ocean" all the classically known offshore islands: Zealand, the British Isles, and those in the "Northerne Sea".[109]
Another point we have recently come across is the identification of Shinar as one of the places of exile in the verse above (Isaiah 11:11):
Shinar is conventionally identified with the region of Babylon but the term may also refer to Pontus. Pontus was in what is now northeast Turkey on the southern shores of the Black Sea.
Pontus was the area of Gamir. This was the region the early Cimmerians (otherwise known as "Gomer") appeared in. Exiled Israelites were amongst them. The Cimnmerians moved westwards, into Britain and neighboring areas, and contributed to the rise of Celtic Civilization.
Concerning the Cimmerians from a secular point of view,
See:
Askold Ivantchik
Das Problem der ethnischen Zugehorigkeit der Kimmerier und die kimmerische archaeologische Kultur, Prehistorische Zeitschrift, 72,1, 1997, 12-53.
See Also:
North Gomer
Cimmerians from the Middle East? Summary and notes on an article by Vladimir Eiujj
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/16/nthgomer.html