Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 401-450
Note: We are concentrating on points of possible direct research value or otherwise pertinent. We are emphasizing
points that otherwise may be overlooked. Information that is well presented elsewhere may not necessarily be repeated.
We sometimes give only extracts.
Contents:
The NORTHERN BORDERS of Biblical Israel
Ancient Ireland
Hosea and the Cimmerians
How Can One Be Sure of Israelite Descent?
Ezekiel: Judah Needs to Show the Way.
English Word STOP from Hebrew!
Middle East DNA of Viking Women
DNA Changes After Death Admitted?
Lee M. Spetner: Genetic Change Model
Known Environmental Changes in Animals and Plants
Tarshish and the US
The NORTHERN BORDERS of Biblical Israel
"Brit-Am Now"-402
3. The NORTHERN BORDERS of Biblical Israel
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Ancient Ireland
"Brit-Am Now"- 403
2. Ireland in maps and Brit-Am Identities
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Hosea and the Cimmerians
"Brit-Am Now"- 409
5. Brit-Am and the Prophet HOSEA
The Israelites and the Cimmerians Combine
Hosea was told to take to wife a loose woman named Gomer
(1:2-3). He had three children by this woman who represented three parts of
the northern Ten Lost Tribes. The name Gomer was also the name given to the
Cimmerians. From the Cimmerians emerged the Celts, Scythians and Goths and
peoples who settled in Northern Europe. Gomer was also the name of a son of
Japhet: "And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphah, and Togarmah"
(Genesis 10:3). Places associated by the Rabbis with Gomer of Japhet are
also those to which the Lost Ten Tribes were recorded as having been
exiled. The exiles of Israel and the descendants of Gomer combined or
confederated. The Welsh call themselves "Gomeru". In Welsh tradition, they
(i.e. Cimmerians) were led by Hu from Drephrobane opposite Byzantium across
the sea to Defene in Wales. The name Defene is sometimes rendered as
"Daphne" and there was a port named Daphne opposite Byzantium. Jerome
quoted a Jewish tradition that the Lost Ten Tribes crossed the Bosporus
near Byzantium (now Istanbul in the European section of Turkey) into Europe
and continued northward. Daphne of Antiochea was one of the places to which
the Ten Tribes were taken into exile.
Exile and Reconciliation
The three sons of Gomer (i.e. Cimmerians) in Hosea represent
three sections of the exiled 10 tribes and do not represent Judah who is
separately spoken of (1:7). At first the Ten Tribes will be rejected and
exiled but later God will return and accept them.
[Hosea 1:10] YET THE NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL BE AS THE SAND
OF THE SEA, WHICH CANNOT BE MEASURED NOR NUMBERED; AND IT SHALL COME TO
PASS, THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,
THERE IT SHALL BE SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE THE SONS OF THE LIVING GOD.
The Ten Tribes in the End Times willre-unite with Judah
(1:11). In their place of exile, as well as being extremely numerous, they
shall enjoy great bounty: "CORN, AND WINE, AND OIL, AND MULTIPLIED HER
SILVER AND GOLD" (2:8).
They will have worshiped the "Baal" (2:8, 2:13, 2:16) like the
Celts in Britain and Gaul once did. Redemption will come through
righteousness, judgment, loving-kindness, and mercies (2:19). In the Last
Days they shall Return to God and seek the Kingdom of David (3:5). In their
place of exile Ephraim will have given birth to strange children (5:7).
Some say this indicates intermarriage with other peoples. The Exiles will
return from the west (11:10).
Ephraim is a merchant, and deceitful (12:7-8). Ephraim will be
rich (12:8). Ephraim will return to the God of Israel and know that there
is no other savior but God (13:4).
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How Can One Be Sure of Israelite Descent?
"Brit-Am Now"-410
3. Question: How Can One Be Sure of Israelite Descent?
"Brit-Am Now"-408 #9. Questions about "The Stranger"
On an individual level, You would not know. That is why there is a need for
Brit-Am.
Brit-Am can establish the probability that the Lost Ten Tribes were
concentrated in certain areas.
We can say that in specific regions a good proportion (maybe most) of the
populace were descended
from Israel.
We have the following factors:
a. Descendants of The Lost Ten Tribes were concentrated in certain areas
and therefore people who come from those regions may well be descended from
Israel.
b. Even if someone was not descended from Israel but lives in an Israelite
region and identifies with those around him he would be considered part of Israel.
c. People who came from beyond the periphery of Israelite concentration but
moved to Israelite significant areas may also be of Israelite descent.
d. People who instinctively identify as Israelites and feel a pull towards
this message are in effect expressing an arousal of their ancestral calling that will be of import in
the End Times.
NEVERTHELESS, THIS IS NOT ENOUGH!
Researches along the lines that Brit-Am has embarked upon are also required.
e. We do not know what the Messianic Era will bring with it or exactly how
things will turn out.
There are however sources that indicate (1) a renewal of the Covenant in
which ALL present will be accepted as part of Israel and obligated as such,
(2) The Messiah will confirm to each individual what particular tribe
he/she belongs to.
f. PATRIOTISM: One cannot always be sure of many things but one acts
according to the situation one finds oneself in.
Even if someone who lives amongst people of Israelite descent but by some
freak chance of circumstance is not descended from Israelites the person
concerned is placed there for a reason by Divine Providence.
They have an obligation to identify with Israel and to do what they can for
those around them achieve the same awareness.
The Bible speaks mostly of Israel and according to the Bible the good of Israel is the good of the world.
It helps to know the identity of all Israel.
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Ezekiel: Judah Needs to Show the Way.
"Brit-Am Now"-410
4. Question on Ezekiel: The Need of Judah to Show the Way
[Ezekiel 11:20] THAT THEY MAY WALK IN MY STATUTES, AND KEEP MINE
ORDINANCES, AND DO THEM: AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD.
The bottom line is that in order to return and dwell in the Land of Israel
all the statutes, ordinances, and commandments must be kept.
And the falling sentence:
<<Ezekiel says that Judah has an obligation to help the Lost Ten Tribes
return. The complete return of Judah is dependent upon the return of
"Samaria" (16:53, 55, 61)>>
is referring to Ezekiel 16:53, 55, 61
[Ezekiel 16:55] WHEN THY SISTERS, SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS, SHALL RETURN TO THEIR FORMER ESTATE, AND SAMARIA AND HER DAUGHTERS SHALL RETURN TO THEIR FORMER ESTATE, THEN THOU AND THY DAUGHTERS SHALL RETURN TO YOUR FORMER ESTATE. UNTIL NOW THEY ARE STILL OVERTURNED AND HAVE NOT RETURNED UNTO THEIR FORMER STATE.
This is a message for Judah: In order for Judah to realize
herself and to bring back all her exiles and rehabilitate herself Judah
must also seek the Lost Ten Tribes and cause them to return! This is
important to Judah for her own sake! It is also hinting that rehabilitation
of the Land itself is somehow connected with the return of the Lost Ten
Tribes. See our Commentary on Isaiah 56:8 and Hosea chapter six, where we
have explained that according to prophecy: part of Judah would return to
the Land and begin to build it up. Then the Lost Ten Tribes would return in
two stages together with the remnant of Judah. The first part of this
process is well on its way.
SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS, SHALL RETURN TO THEIR FORMER ESTATE, AND SAMARIA AND HER DAUGHTERS SHALL RETURN TO THEIR FORMER ESTATE: Malbim:
[addressing Judah] "For they [the Lost Tribes] shall be the most important
section in the returning and you subservient to them, and you shall return
through them".
Abarbanel: "There is no doubt that this promised ingathering will occur in
the Times of the Messiah. Until now it has never been fulfilled".
The complete return of Judah is dependent upon the return of "Samaria"
(16:53, 55, 61) meaning the Ten Tribes especially Manasseh. Manasseh today is mainly the USA.
Ezekiel (37:15-28) saw the return of the Ten Tribes as an indispensable requirement for the deliverance of Israel and Judah.
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English Word STOP from Hebrew!
"Brit-Am Now"-410
5. LANGUAGE: STOP
[Yair in Jerusalem relates:] The other day I was travelling in a Taxi and I asked the driver to stop
at the end (Hebrew: Be-Sof) of the street. I was mumbling (as I sometimes do)
and the driver thought I was speaking in English and had said "STOP!"
"Stop" means "make an end". In Hebrew "end" is "sof". This is a noun but
there must have been a verbal form since all Hebrew words are based on the verb.
There is no real word in Hebrew meaning "stop" only words with similar
meanings in effect.
A reflexive imperative of the Hebrew "sof" in vowel form would be "stop".
Our knowledge of Hebrew is based on the Bible, Rabbinical writings, and
other sources. There were probably words in Hebrew used by the Ancient
Israelites that have been lost.
Maybe "STOP" is one of them?
Brit-Am wants you to "stop" doing anything that you should not.
Brit-Am is in need of your support, now.
Incidentally "now" is also of Hebrew origin and is given in the Bible as "na"
or Possibly "naw".
"Brit-Am Now" is the answer and the request.
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Middle East DNA of Viking Women
"Brit-Am Now"- 414
2. Middle East DNA of Vikings?
Quote:
# Our analysis of 1000-year-old mitochondrial DNA from Vikings in England and
elsewhere seemed to show that a third or more of them had Middle Eastern
ancestry. What was going on? As it turns out, our findings have not led us
to rewrite Viking history. Instead, they give exciting new insights into how
DNA changes before and after death. #
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DNA Changes After Death Admitted?
Brit-Am Now"- 431
2. DNA Changes
H said:
<<I find that idea that the DNA mutates after death to resemble other
people groups than the one of the person who died rather farfetched. I can
see it degrading or decomposing, but NOT turning to a Semitic blood type
when before it was something else.>>
That is what the authorities are saying at the moment.
They are saying that DNA inclines to change DURING LIFE but there is an
inbuilt corrective mechanism that corrects
it and prevents the change being "fixed". After death the corrective
mechanism no longer functions
so (they say) a large proportion of samples can show changes all of the
same order.
This causes (they claim) certain categories to be transformed into other ones.
We are "saying" that under (a) certain circumstances the changes can take
place during life without the corrective mechanism functioning.
(b) In the case of the "Semitic" characteristic that such was (perhaps)
the original state
that later changed to the present one.
I understand this is actually quite feasible and scientifically acceptable
though disconcerting.
In the past we described a model for genetic change described by Spetner.
This model also could fit the present proposal.
I was told the model would in theory also be acceptable to conventional
science.
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Lee M. Spetner: Genetic Change Model
Brit-Am Now"- 431
3. The Genetic Change model.
The following model was proposed for genetic change in general as
understand before DNA studies
were publicized. Nevertheless with slight modifications it also seems
pertinent to DNA
conundrums.
A MODEL FOR GENETIC CHANGE
Lee M. Spetner (Not By Chance!: The Fall Of Neo-Darwinian Theory From An
Examination Of Information And Randomness In Evolution, by Lee M. Spetner,
PhD., 1996, Jerusalem, Israel, published by Kest-Lebovits, now re-published
by Judaica Press) explains the Dauer effect first reported by Victor Jollos
in Germany in 1921. The model explained by Lee M. Spetner is consistent
with our claims that racial color and racial physical characteristics are
an outcome of environment acting on an existing Genetic potential of
varying possibility. The said model describes Genetic Switch from one
characteristic to another. The model is described roughly below:
* Genetic Switch: The Model:
This is very simplified (perhaps overly so) but it does present the
principle we need to illustrate.
Suppose that two different alternative genes (A & B) for the same function
(e.g., skin color) are present in an organism: Each gene imparts a quality
as well as having a depressant component against the other gene. This
depressant operates with a delayed reaction.
Say, for example:
(1. At first, there is a barrier against A so that only B expresses itself
and one of the side-effects of B is to produce a deterrent against A. In
other words, the A and B factors are both present but only B reveals itself
while A is turned off.
(2. Something happens (due to environment in the model of Spetner) and the
factor A is triggered off. The barrier is overcome, and A expresses itself
at the expense of B. A comes to expression and produces a deterrent against
B. No new deterrent is being produced against A. There still however
remains deterrent against A due to the former dominance of B in the
organism. This deterrent operates with a delayed reaction. At this stage
the organism though appearing as A can still revert to B.
If A continues to express itself and to reproduce as A-type, the deterrent
remaining from B diminishes while A produces deterrent against B. This
continues until A becomes the "true" permanent factor and the deterrent
against B is dominant. From now on the organism will reproduce only with A
until or unless some other major external influence is interposed. The
organism in question has therefore changed almost permanently from type B
to type A!! In other words at first there was one dominant factor that was
overcome by another one; initially the change may be temporary and
reversible, but eventually it becomes permanent.
This is the Victor Jollis "Dauer" effect model as presented by Lee M.
Spetner. The model is describing individual genes but genes work in groups
and interact with each other. Considering the model on a group level makes
it even more realistic. Expanding the model to consider the Genetic Pool of
a whole community acting in some way as one co-ordinate organism even
further heightens the realism of the model. People react as groups....
The above model of L.M. Spetner helps explain how 2 groups of people of the
same ancestry could vary in some respects (color or what not) if separated
for some time and subject to different influences.
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Known Environmental Changes in Animals and Plants
4. Genetic Change Curiosities
from "Not by Chance! The Fall of Neo-Darwinian Theory", by Leo M.Spetner
(1996):
For references concerning the following facts (academic papers etc) see
Brit-Am Now"-366
"Food for thought"
or
the book by Spetner
In our opinion the explanation for the phenomenon described below
is due to inbuilt genetic potential being activated.
a. Several species of plants vary their stem height, stem number, and
flowering times as conditions vary from sunshine to shade and from wet to
dry.
Crabs prey on snails with thin shells, but they cannot eat snails with
thick shells. Snails can sometimes tell if crabs are around. In the
presence of crabs they grow a thick shell. This adaptation clearly helps
protect the snails from crabs.
Snails are themselves predators. They prey on barnacles. When the barnacle
senses snails, it protects itself by growing into a bent-over shape that
keeps the snails from eating it. When there are no snails around the
barnacle develops into its normal form.
Wynne Edwards [1986] has suggested that animals generally manage their
food resources by controlling their own numbers. Populations are kept in
check not by the extrinsic forces of mass starvation or disease, but by the
intrinsic forces built into the animals themselves. This phenomenon may be
surprising and even amazing to most people, but biologists studying animals
in the wild have reported this kind of control operating in a variety of
populations
Plants also do not proliferate in a field to the point where
they become crowded. They do not engage in a struggle for existence where
natural selection would preserve the strong and destroy the weak. Plants
tend to control their populations by sensing the density of the planting.
When the growth is dense, plants produce less seeds; when growth is thin,
they produce more seeds [ Bradshaw 1965:
There are some alleles in populations that have proved to be useful in the
past. But you cant expect to find new genes lying around that can play a
useful role they never played before. Alleles that have been useful in the
past do get stored in a population, and are found in large numbers, closer
to thousands than to 1. That may be why, when useful genes are found, there
are so many of them. They might be left over from what was once a large
fraction of the population, and maybe selection pressure has not yet got
rid of them.
Genes that were once useful but are not now, could still sit
in the population. The more there are, the longer they can stay dormant in
the population. Some genes would be adaptive now if they could get put
together right. They may need only a recombination or an inversion to
reawaken them. Others could be in the population in working order, but
would not be adaptive now. They could lurk there, hardly noticed, until
they are needed once more. When they are needed they would be selected ,
and their numbers would grow. Such examples would not demonstrate the
effect of random variation.
Alcohol resistance in vinegar flies is an example of an
allele that lurks in the population in working order. The gene for it
exists in functional form in a small part of the population [McDonald, et
al. 1977:
Some resistant flies are in the population all the time. Their numbers
increase when conditions select for them.
Plants and animals hardly ever increase their numbers so much that they
exhaust their resources. They stop increasing well before they deplete
their habitat. Animals are mobile and can disperse when they are
overcrowded, but plants require other strategies. Some plants
adjust their seed production to their density. It has been discovered
that if plants are set close together, they will produce less seeds than if
they are set further apart. Linseed plants, for example, have been
reported to produce almost sixteen times as many seeds per plant when they
are set far apart as when they are set close together. Other plants react
to variations of density by varying the numbers of their leaves or the
lengths of their stems. [ Bradshaw 1965: A Mediterranean grass
has been reported to increase its flowering by a factor of a hundred when
it was moved from less fertile to more fertile ground
Several species of plants vary their stem height, stem number, and
flowering time as conditions vary from sunshine to shade and from wet to
dry. [ Bradshaw 1965:
In 1967 about a hundred finches from Laysan island were brought to a
small atoll, Southeat Island which belongs to a group of four small
islands all within a radius of about ten miles.
Through natural dispersion, and with some human help, the
finches spread to all four islands of the group. When the birds were
checked in 1984 they were already found to be different from the Laysan
finches By 1987 the population of finches had grown to about 800. When
the birds were first put on Southeast Island in 1967 they were all
alike. But when they were studied twenty years later, finches on different
islands were found to differ from each other. In particular, they were
found to have different bill shapes. The bills on the birds of North
Island, about 10 miles north of Southeat Island, are deeper and shorter
than those on either Southeast or Laysan. The birds on Southeast have
longer bills than those on Laysan.
Thomas Smith, of the University of California at Berkley,
studied an African finch in Cameroon. He found that the finches can produce
offspring having two different bill sizes. He found this to be true in all
three species of finch that he studied. The bill sizes are adaptive, each
in its own niche. The birds with large bills crack large hard seeds
easily, while those with small bills do so only with difficulty. The birds
with small bills, on the other hand, feed more efficiently on small soft
seeds than do those with large bills. These results show that bill size
in finches can change from one adaptive type to another with diet.
There is a cichlid fish, of species alta that preys on large mature
guppies. The killfish preys on small immature guppies. Normally, guppies
that live with the alta mature earlier and produce more ands smaller
offspring than do those that live with killfish. The Aripo River in
Trinidad has guppies together with alta cichlids , and the guppies that
live there follow this rule. Reznick and his team took 200 guppies from
the Arpo and put them in the tributary of the river that is home to the
killfish but has no cichlids and had no guppies. Changes soon appeared in
the newly introduced guppies. The fish population soon changed to what
would normally be found in the presence of the killfish, and Reznick found
the changes to be heritable.
The full change in the guppy population was observed as soon as the first
samples were drawn, which was after only two years. Reznick interpreted
these changes as the result of natural selection acting on variation
already in the population. The presence of the predator induced the changes
in the individual fish.
Limbs that protrude from an animals body have more surface area per unit
mass than the rest of the body. In cold weather the animal loses more heat
per unit mass from these limbs than from other parts of the body. In may
species the tails and legs are shorter for those living in colder climates
and larger for those in warmer climates. Gullswings are shorter in cold
climates than in warm. Hares and foxes also have shorter ears in colder
climates than in warm. Eskimos have shorter arms and legs than do people
living in warmer climates [Collier et al. 1973:
Sumner [1909] found that mice reared at low temperature had shorter legs
and tails than mice reared at higher temperatures [Johnson and Gottlieb 1990:
Glogers rule: Races of birds or mammals living in cool dry regions have
lighter skins than do races of the same species living in a warm humid
area [Schreider 1964: Schreider, E., (1964). Ecological rules, body-heat
regulation, and human evolution,Ecology, vol.18, pp. 1-9.]. This is true of
humans as well.
Jodans rule: Many species of fish tend to have more vertebrae when they
live in cold water than do the same species living in warm water. These
differences have been shown to depend on the temperature at which the fish
have been reared .
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Tarshish and the US
"Brit-Am Now"- 473
7. Is Britain Tarshish?
Tarshish according to our understanding refers to the general
Atlantic Ocean area and could apply to North America and Great Britain. Historically
Tarshish was a polity based on southwest Spain that had connections with France and Britain and possibly ruled over
areas in those countries.
Ezekiel mentions mineral ores supplied by Tarshish to Tyre in Phoenicia.
The metals concerned were available from Britain.
[Ezekiel 27:12] TARSHISH WAS THY MERCHANT BY REASON OF THE MULTITUDE OF
ALL KIND OF RICHES; WITH SILVER, IRON, TIN, AND LEAD, THEY TRADED IN THY
FAIRS.
Tarsis was in Spain possibly centerd on the region of Gibraltar.
Tarshish served as a trading emporium for goods from Spain, Britain, and Gaul.
Tarshish according to a leading French historian, D'Arbois de Jubainville, once controlled most of Gaul.
I saw in an old British Israel publication the statement that Britain
was named "Tarshish" on Ancient maps but no references were given.
Cyrus Gordon (a great scholar) is said to have identified Mexico with
Tarshish and the name may refer to North America.
Tarshish in the Bible is the name given to a son of Javan (Greece) and
a descendant of Benjamin.
Tarshish was the name given to an area (near Gades) in Southwest Spain
with which the ancient Israelites and Phoenicians traded. Later Phoenicians from Tyre fled to Tarshish
and apparently conquered it and made it a base of their own. Israelites were also settled in the area by the
Assyrians who transferred them there using Phoenician and Philistine ships.
Details and references may be found in our past articles posted on our web site and in our work "Lost Israelite Identity".
'Tarshish' can refer to the Atlantic Ocean area and to the USA as
explained in 'The Tribes'. Historically Tarshish was centered in Spain with
colonies in Gaul and Britain. It was just past the Straits of Gibraltar and so
the name (in Biblical exegesis) came to represent the whole Atlantic Ocean
area and in a future sense North America.
The symbol of Tarshish became the Dollar sign representing the US.
An article from Gunnar Jeremia Gishron of Jerusalem (in our magazine
'BRIT-AM') traces the dollar to a coin issued by a Swedish monarch. The original
coin included the name of God in Hebrew and the motto in Swedish 'In God WE
Trust'!
Later the Spanish adapted the coin and the USA took it from the
Spanish.
The Spanish version bore the Heraldric sign of the Spanish Royal
family.
This represented the two pillars of Hercules at Gibraltar. These
pillars gave rise to the dollar '$' symbol (with two strokes not one)! The
ancient northern Israelites (LTTS) wrote Hebrew interspersed with Egyptian-like
hieroglyphics. Where we to use the hieroglyphic system today instead of
writing 'AMERICA' or the USA all the time we would substitute '$' as a
hieroglyph representing the USA. This one sign ($) could only in the
context stand for the USA. This is the sign of Gibraltar, i.e. the sign
of Tarshish. Isaiah (60;9) says that ships of Tarshish will be the leaders
in returning the exiles.
[Isaiah 60:9] SURELY THE ISLES SHALL WAIT FOR ME, AND THE SHIPS OF
TARSHISH FIRST, TO BRING THY SONS FROM FAR, THEIR SILVER AND THEIR GOLD
WITH THEM, UNTO THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD, AND TO THE HOLY ONE OF
ISRAEL, BECAUSE HE HATH GLORIFIED THEE.
'SURELY THE ISLES SHALL WAIT FOR ME' Iben Ezra Commentary: 'For I will
give them a good reward.'
'THE SHIPS OF TARSHISH FIRST': Ships that plough the Atlantic Ocean
bringing people back from America, Britain, and Western Europe.
In one of the Psalms, it says "The kings of Tarshish and of the isles
shall bring presents" (Psalm 72;10): The Aramaic Targum translates this
expression to say, "The Kings of Tarsis and of the Isles in the Oceanic
Sea shall bring offerings" and by Oceanic Sea (i.e."Yam Okyanus") it is
generally understood that the Atlantic Ocean is intended.
Rabbinical Exegesis generally understood future references to Tarshish
as referring to the Atlantic Ocean region in general. Ships of Tarshish
would mean ships coming from the Atlantic Ocean region in which Britain
and the USA are dominant.
[Isaiah 60:8] WHO ARE THESE THAT FLY AS A CLOUD, AND AS THE DOVES TO
THEIR WINDOWS?
[Isaiah 60:9] SURELY THE ISLES SHALL WAIT FOR ME, AND THE SHIPS OF
TARSHISH
FIRST, TO BRING THY SONS FROM FAR, THEIR SILVER AND THEIR GOLD WITH
THEM, UNTO THE NAME OF THE LORD THY GOD, AND TO THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL,
BECAUSE HE HATH GLORIFIED THEE.
They will fly on the clouds in Aeroplanes. When was it possible for
this prophecy to be literally fulfilled before our times?
The Talmud (Baba Batra 75;b) says: <<When Israel sins somewhat, they
are brought down like a fowl [flying away], as it says, 'AS FOR EPHRAIM,
THEIR GLORY SHALL FLY AWAY LIKE A BIRD' [Hosea 9:11]. When they gain merit,
they are elevated like a cloud, as it says,'WHO ARE THESE THAT FLY AS A
CLOUD' [Isaiah 60:8].>>
The Israelites will return (with great wealth) from the Isles and
Atlantic Ocean area in aeroplanes and in ships of Tarshish.