Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 551-575
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Research Extracts-9
Research Sources from Brit-Am Now nos. 551-575
1. Order of Return to the Land of Israel
2. Summary of Hosea
3. Orjan Svensson: Scandinavian Mythology
4. Harold Hemenway: Scythian Israelites
5. Ezekiel: Judah needs Ephraim
6. Vision of Cecil Rhodes: British settlers in Israel and the Euphrates Valley
1. Order of Return to the Land of Israel
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2. All Israelites To the USA? and Brit-Am Reply Regarding Return to the Land of Israel
The Sources however indicate:
Judah will precede Joseph into the Land of Israel (Micah 4:8) .
Judah will be initially loathe to recognize Joseph since Judah was alone in its time of exile and persecution (Isaiah 49:21).
Judah will be preparing the way for the rest of the Tribes (Hosea 6:11 see the Brit-Am Commentary) .
Joseph will return to Gilead (Syria and Jordan) and Lebanon (Zechariah 10:10).
The Lost Tribes will return to Bashan (Syria and Iraq) and Gilead (Syria and Jordan) see Micah 7:14.
Jeremiah calls upon Ephraim in Exile to study proofs (such as the historical pathway of "Megalithic" Monuments) of its paths of Exile in order to know the way to come back to its cities in Samaria (Jeremiah 31:19-20).
Eventually the Land of Israel will divided up amongst the Tribes of Israel with a special portion set aside for the Levites, the Temple, and the Ruler (Ezekiel chapter 48) with the non-Israelite stranger who dwells amongst us and identifies with us receiving a portion in whatsoever tribe he is attached to (Ezekiel 47:22).
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2. Summary of Hosea
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3. Hosea: A Message for the Lost Tribes
Hosea is told to take to wife a loose woman named Gomer (1:2-3). He has three children by this woman who represent three parts of the northern Ten Lost Tribes. The name Gomer was also the name given to the Cimmerians, 'Gimeru' in Akkadian. The Cimmerians were a people who first appeared on the fringes of the Assyrian Empire shortly after the Israelites were exiled. From the Cimmerians emerged the Celts, Scythians and Goths. 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. This, together with the Book of Hosea, suggests some kind of combination between the exiles of Israel and the descendants of Gomer.
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). The first child born to Hosea and Gomer is named 'Jezreel' whose name connotes both scattering on one hand and ingathering and sowing on the other. The second child was called 'Lo-Ruhamma' meaning 'Not-Be-Shown-Mercy': "FOR I WILL NO MORE HAVE MERCY UPON THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL; BUT I WILL UTTERLY TAKE THEM AWAY" (Hosea 1:6). Judah was not to be exiled with the Ten Tribes, "BUT I WILL HAVE MERCY UPON THE HOUSE OF JUDAH" [Hosea 1:7]. The third child is called 'Lo-Ammi' meaning 'Not-My-People'. 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 names shall be changed. The meaning of Jezreel becomes understandable as 'ingathered', and as being sewed in the ground in order to give forth manifold (2:22-23). The Ten Tribes shall join with Judah and be ingathered (1:11). 'Lo-Ruhamma' becomes 'Ruhamma' ('She-Who-Is-Shown-Mercy', 2:23) and 'Lo-Ami' becomes 'Ami' meaning 'my people' (2:1, 23). 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 shall worship 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). In the end times, according to the great commentator, Abarbanel, the returnees will come with their non-Israelite women and their children will be recognized as Israelites. Judah will prepare the way for the other tribes Kalischer (Hosea 6:11)
. Ephraim will mistakenly put his trust in Assyria and other 'lovers'.
An attempted placation of the Muslims represented by the mad prophet Machmad (Mohamot) augurs not well for Ephraim (9:1). Ephraim is mostly to the west from the Land of Israel (Hosea 11:10).
Judah will remain faithful (11:14).
Ephraim is rich and a merchant people (12:7).
Israel will return unto God and be reconciled (Hosea chapter 14).
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3. Orjan Svensson: Scandinavian Mythology
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1. Orjan Svensson: Scandinavian Mythology
THE GOD TYR
The god Tyr in Scandinavian mythology is identical to the Germanic Tuisto (also known as Tiwaz) who according to Tacitus was the most most ancient of the Germanic gods. According to "Fornnordiskt lexikon" by ke Ohlmarks the name Tuisto means "The twofold." Further he says that Tuisto got his name because of Tyr's two hands which usually are raised in pictures of Tyr, Since Tuisto and Tyr most probably are identical, then the name Tyr probably means "Twofold" analogously to the name Tuisto. This possibility is considerably strengthened by the fact that according to one of my dictionaries the word TYaRa' (T-Y-R-A) meant "pair" in post-biblical Jewish Aramaic! We can therefore conclude that the name of the ancient Scandinavian god Tyr originally was an Aramaic name which meant "two" or "twofold", identical in meaning to the Germanic Tuisto!!
ERMANARIK THE MIGHTY
The word IRMIN meant "mighty" in Old Scandinavian. It is synonymous to the word HEID. Thus the mightiest king of the kingdom of the Goths was known both as Heidrek and as Ermanarik, both words connoting "mighty". I hereby suggest that the Old Scandinavian words IRMIN and HEID could have come from the Hebrew ARMON and HOD respectively, because ARMON means "palace" and is so called from being lofty (from the root ROM or RAM) according to my dictionary and HOD means "majesty" and since the Hebrew vowels are fluid, could have lent itself to a pronunciation similar to "Heid".
ASHER AND GAD: SWEDEN AND SCOTLAND
In "The Tribes" by Yair Davidy it is demonstrated how Sweden was dominated by descendants of the Tribe of Gad while Scotland and Northern England received many from Asher and indeed Scotland appears to be the land allocated to Asher: Asher and Gad were full-brother sons of Jacob by his concubine Zilpa and these were the only two sons Zilpa had. The following extract shows the presence of Scottish settlers in Sweden performing a positive and naturally fraternal role and "both Asher and Gad were sons of Silpa".
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Y Editor's Note: Tuisto was the father of Mannus identified by us as Menasseh. The raising of two hands in Hebrew tradition symbolizes blessing .Jacob blessed the two sons of Joseph Ephraim and Menasseh. We believe there is a connection.
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4. Harold Hemenway: Scythian Israelites
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6. Harold Hemenway: Were SCYTHIANS Israelites?
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When Jacob built shelters for his cattle in Jordan, he called the place "SUCCOTH" (Heb. "Cottages" or "Huts") (Gen. 33:17). When Israel dwelt in Egypt, she named a town "SUCCOTH" (Ex. 12:37). In Palestine, the city of "SUCCOTH" was given to the tribe of Gad (Josh. 13:27). Later, Israel was deported to Media (2 Ki. 18:11) which is the same place that Diodorus Siculus says the "SCYTHIANS" had their origin "on the Araxes" River (2:3). Herodotus then says the SCYTHIANS moved "across the Araxes into Cimmeria" (the Crimea) (4:11). In 2 Esdras 13:40-46 we read that Israelites traveled this same route. Later, Germany was known as "SCYTHIA" (Nennius' History of the Britons 31,37 & 50). Then Scandinavia was anciently called "SCATHAnavia." Ireland was known as "SCOTIA Major" and Scotland was called "SCOTIA Minor" (Venerable Bede & Nennius). Strabo says, "All the nations toward the northern parts, the ancient Greek writers call SCYTHIANS" (11:507). Israelites, Scythians and Saxons Without A King The following facts connect both Saxons and Scythians with Israel. Israel was to be "many days WITHOUT A KING" (Hos. 3:4) "The most ancient account of the Saxon government on the continent exists in this short but expressive passage of Bede: 'The ancient SAXON'S HAVE NO KING, but many chiefs set over their people, who, when war presses, draw lots equally, and whomsoever the chance points out, they all follow as leader, and obey during the war. The war concluded, all the chiefs become again of equal power." In the Lindenb. Gloss. 1347, the following occurs: 'TWELVE Ethelings governed over the land of the Saxons; and whenever war arose in that land, the Saxons chose one of the TWELVE to be king while the war lasted; when the war was finished, the TWELVE became alike.'" (Sharon Turner's Anglo-Saxons 1:207) Israelites, Scythians and Saxons Had Divining Rods. The SAXON custom of DIVINING by RODS or "AUGURY by WANDS" (Tacitus' Germania 9:10) can be traced to the Israelite practice mentioned in Hosea 4:12 which says, "My people ask counsel of their STOCKS, and their STAFF declareth unto them." "They cut a small branch of a fruit-tree into TWIGS, marked them, and scattered them at random on a white vest. The priest, if it were a public COUNCIL, or the father, at a private CONSULTATION, prayed, gazed at heaven, drew each three times, and interpreted according to the mark previously impressed. Alfred also says they cast lots with TWIGS (Sharon Turner's Anglo Saxons 1:223). Herodotus says, "SCYTHIA has an abundance of soothsayers who foretell the future by means of a number of WILLOW WANDS. A large bundle of these WANDS is brought and laid on the ground. The soothsayer unties the bundle, and places each wand by itself, at the same time uttering his prophecy" (Herod. 4:67). Israelites, Scythians and Saxons Had Similar Religions The religion of Odin included the belief in a beneficent ALL-FATHER in HEAVEN, who made the heaven, and earth, and air out of nothing; in the future purifying the world by FIRE, a catastrophe connected with the embodiment of evil., who is frequently described as a SERPENT or a DRAGON; in a NEW WORLD that is TO COME, and in the advent of "the POWERFUL ONE" for JUDGMENT.
Israelites and Scythians Had Groves But No Images
A German (Scythian) custom mentioned in Tacitus' Germania 9:10 that seems to be Israelite is as follows:"The deities of the Germans are NOT confined WITHIN WALLS, nor FASHIONED INTO any mortal SHAPES; they hallow GROVES and WOODS, and call by the name of gods that hidden presence which is felt by reverence alone." Many passages in the Bible mention "GROVES" as places of Israelite worship (1 Kings 14:15) and the biblical command to "not make unto thee any GRAVEN IMAGE or any LIKENESS of ANYTHING" is also well known. Immediately before the captivity, "Ephraim was joined to IDOLS," but neither in Scythia nor in Germany did they have IMAGES so they must have repented somewhat. Neither did they have kings for "the children of Israel shall abide many days WITHOUT A KING, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and WITHOUT AN IMAGE, and without an ephod, and without teraphim" (Hos. 3:4). Scythians made no idols (Herodotus 4:59). Israelites-Scythians-Saxons Were Civilized, Wise and Unconquerable
... Thucydides says, "In respect of MILITARY STRENGTH and NUMBER of SOLDIERS, NO single NATION, either in Europe or Asia, could MATCH the SCUTHS" (Thuc. 2:97 spoken about 420 B.C.). As Psalm 105:20 says, "He INCREASED his people Israel greatly, and made them STRONGER than their enemies." Herodotus adds, "They have, in one respect ... shown themselves WISER than any other nation upon the face of the earth.... Possessing no houses but waggons, and carrying these about wherever they go, accustomed, one and all, to fight on horseback with bows and arrows, and dependent for their food not upon agriculture but upon their cattle: how can they fail of being UNCONQUERABLE, and even UNASSAILABLE?" (4:46). "NO WEAPON that is formed AGAINST THEE shall PROSPER" (Isa. 54:17).
Their oaths were accompanied by CEREMONIES IDENTICAL WITH those of the MEDES; they used skulls as drinking cups, like the Northmen of later years; their weapons were the spear, the battle-axe and the bow; they made BOOTHES like the Israelites; they had fables of GRIFFINS, the representations of which on the Scythian tombs are almost exactly like the WINGED LIONS of the Assyrians.
Israelites and Scythians Boiled Meat By Burning Bones
Describing their sacrifices, Herodotus says, "After flaying the beasts, they take out all the bones, and put the flesh into BOILERS or cauldrons of a large size, then placing the BONES of the animals beneath the cauldron, they set them ALIGHT, and so BOIL the meat." (Her. 4:61) In Ezekiel 24:5 we read, "take the choice of the flock, and BURN also the BONES under it, and make it BOIL well." Professor Rawlinson thinks both these passages refer to the same custom.
Israelites and Scythians Didn't Eat Pigs
Finally Herodotus says regarding sacrifices,"they NEVER USE SWINE; nor, indeed, is it their wont to breed them in any part of their country" (Her. 4:63). Yes "the SWINE ... IS UNCLEAN to you" (Lev. 11:7). Strabo says of the Dacians "that the care of WORSHIPPING the Supreme Being is GREAT among this nation, is not to be doubted, after what Posidonius has related, 'and they even ABSTAIN FROM ANIMAL FOOD from religious motives,' as likewise on account of the testimony of other historians" (Strabo 7:3:4).
Tacitus says the Kimbri were Germans and "the Germans never to have intermarried with other nations; but to be a Race, Pure, Unmixed, and stamped with a distinct character. Hence a family likeness pervades the whole though their numbers are so great" (Tacitus de Morib. Ger. c.v.). Thus was Israel sifted through a sieve, but not one grain was allowed to fall to the ground (Amos 9:9). "SCYTHIANS are dead-set AGAINST FOREIGN WAYS" (Her. 4:75). Their destiny was to "DWELL ALONE." (Num. 23:9)
Israelites and Scythians Were Known As Arians
Reuben, Gad and half-Manasseh were placed by Tiglath-Pileser in the mountain district of Great MEDIA, a region expressly called HARA (1 Chr. 5:26; Ar being a mountain). In fact all ten tribes of Israel were placed in the "cities of the MEDES" (2 Ki. 17:6). Herodotus 7:62 says, "The Medes were once universally known as ARIANS." HARA was named ARIA, ARIANA and ARACHOSIA by the Greeks (see Ptolemy). It contains the city of HARAT. According to the black obelisk discovered in the ruins of the palace of Nimrod which is now in the British Museum, the people or leader of the ARIANS was called ESAKSKA (Isaac) and their principal cities were "Beth-Telabon, Beth-Everak and Beth-Tsida" in 670 B.C.
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5. Ezekiel: Judah needs Ephraim
"Brit-Am Now"-555: Judah needs Ephraim (see also previous posting"555-556)
4. Ezekiel: Judah Needs Ephraim
The Extracts below show that according to Ezekiel the Lost Ten Tribes will return to the Land of Israel and after that the religious problem will be solved, Joseph will help Judah heal the land of Arab ecological misuse.
Judah and Joseph need each other.
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" () meaning the Ten Tribes especially Manasseh. Manasseh today is mainly the USA. God will renew His covenant with Judah and with Israel (see Ezekiel 16:53, 55, 6116:62, all these verses are quoted below).
[Ezekiel 11:17] THEREFORE SAY, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; I WILL EVEN GATHER YOU FROM THE PEOPLE, AND ASSEMBLE YOU OUT OF THE COUNTRIES WHERE YE HAVE BEEN SCATTERED, AND I WILL GIVE YOU THE LAND OF ISRAEL.
Eisemann understands this following passage to be referring to all of Israel, including the Lost Ten Tribes.
Malbim: "In the future God will ingather the Ten Tribes who were in faraway lands and did not return in the time of the Second Temple".
Ramban (Nachmanides) holds the same view we have been quoting that the prophecies are understandable on two levels:
1. The message potentially could have been fulfilled partly in the very time of Ezekiel if the people would have repented; and
2. The complete fulfillment of the Prophecy of reconciliation will only happen in the time of the Messiah.
Ezekiel (11:18 below) indicates that first the exiles will return to the Land of Israel
[Ezekiel 11:18] AND THEY SHALL COME THITHER, AND THEY SHALL TAKE AWAY ALL THE DETESTABLE THINGS THEREOF AND ALL THE ABOMINATIONS THEREOF FROM THENCE.
- after that they shall put away their idols and keep the Law (Ezekiel 11:20).
The options appear to be:
(a) The exiles (from the Ten Tribes) will remove their idols and cease their paganism in their places of exile. OR ELSE:
(b) They shall first come back to the land and then they shall cast aside their idols, as Scripture appears to indicate?
[Ezekiel 16:53] WHEN I SHALL BRING AGAIN THEIR CAPTIVITY, THE CAPTIVITY OF SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS, AND THE CAPTIVITY OF SAMARIA AND HER DAUGHTERS, THEN WILL I BRING AGAIN THE CAPTIVITY OF THY CAPTIVES IN THE MIDST OF THEM:
"THE CAPTIVITY OF SODOM AND HER DAUGHTERS": Moshkovitz (Daat Mikra) suggests that this refers to the revival of the Land of Canaan. Sodom was overturned and all the area around destroyed. So too, after the Roman conquest and the Arab and Turkish occupation was most of the Land turned into a wasteland without trees or greenery. The British and the Jews restored it in part. The State of Israel is continuing to do so but not as much nor as well as it should be. We have also been responsible for ecological abuses that should be corrected. There is much that could and should be done.
The Lost Ten Tribes will return. Manasseh will return. The exiles of Judah who remained in exile will return together with the Lost Ten Tribes.
Abarbanel (1435-1509): "The Ten Tribes will return to Samaria and its daughter-regions and so will the scattered dispersion of Judah be gathered in from the four corners of the earth".
Malbim says here that at the return "Samaria" and "Sodom" (?) will be the most important section of the Israelite nation whereas Judah will be pulled after them and returned through them. He repeats this message in 16:55.
[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".
[Ezekiel 16:61] THEN THOU SHALT REMEMBER THY WAYS, AND BE ASHAMED, WHEN THOU SHALT RECEIVE THY SISTERS, THINE ELDER AND THY YOUNGER: AND I WILL GIVE THEM UNTO THEE FOR DAUGHTERS, BUT NOT BY THY COVENANT. Judah must seek to bring the Lost Ten Tribes back. God makes the participation of Judah in the process of returning the Lost Ten Tribes a prior condition for the rehabilitation of Judah herself!
"I WILL GIVE THEM UNTO THEE FOR DAUGHTERS": Judah will have some degree of directional task to play in helping the Ten Tribes return and showing them the way in which they should go. Judah however is also obligated to get his own act together or else (God forbid) be punished. "BUT NOT BY THY COVENANT": The Lost Ten Tribes will not necessarily have to convert to Judaism in our sense of the word though they will renew the covenant between Israel and the Almighty and Judah is obligated to assist them.
[Ezekiel 16:62] AND I WILL ESTABLISH MY COVENANT WITH THEE; AND THOU SHALT KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD:
God will once again accept Judah and all Israel.
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6. Vision of Cecil Rhodes: British settlers in Israel and the Euphrates Valley
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1. L: Cecil Rhodes Vision of British settlers in Israel and the Euphrates Valley
Will Ephraim Intercede for Judah?
Subject: Joseph selling Judah down the river
Shalom Yair,
Furthermore, the great English diamond magnate Cecil Rhodes of the late 19th to early 20th Century had a vision of English settlers settling in Palestine and the Euphrates River valley. Could the War in Iraq (fought almost exclusively by Joseph) in fact be a prelude to the return of Joseph to this region? Could it be that Rhodes' vision may yet be fulfilled?
Bless you,
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