A GUIDE TO THE MIGRATIONS OF ISRAEL
Artwork bearing the emblems of the tribe of Dan.
The Bible is an outstanding witness to the greatness of Yhwey. It seems odd that there could be confusion about the major points of The Book. It is the purpose of this blog to begin to straighten the path which so many have fractured and obscured. This effort is also a homage to that extraordinary servant of the Most High, Sheldon Emry, whose guideline on this matter will be reproduced herein.
Continuity is key. The Most High had a plan. He shared with special servants the essential features. Their factual realization is more meaningful over thousands of years than the pronouncements of scientists, which change according to transient theories momentarily shining at institutions of “Higher Learning.”
No, sir! Give me the Rock.
The following is a helpful paper by Pastor Emry. Consider:
Gen. 46: 12,27
1 Chron. 2:3-6
When Joseph was a ruler in Egypt and, due to the famine, had his father and brethren brought to Egypt, they are said to have been seventy souls. Judah had twin sons, Pharez and Zarah. It is notable that Zarah’s line is NOT a part of the genealogy of those who went into Egypt, as is the Pharez line.
Gen. 38: 27-30
Zarah, whose name means sprout or seed, was the twin whose hand appeared first, at birth, and on which a scarlet thread was placed. Pharez was born, then Zarah. This hand and the red thread are still a part of the heraldic symbolism of Ulster, Ireland today … the very land Zarah’s descendants peopled. Zarah’s line had wandered away from Judah’s family about 220 years before the Exodus (1480 B.C.), from Egypt.
1 Chron. 2: 6
Darda and Calcol, grandsons of Zarah, are said to have moved westward. Camden’s HISTORIA BRITANNICA tells us Calcol sailed from Egypt to Spain to Ireland where he established Ulster (1600 B.C.). From these men of Israel we have had at least ten American presidents and seven famous inventors, according to the National Geographic Magazine of August, 1964, page 261.
Gen. 10: 1, 21, 25 1 Chron. 1: 24-27
Abraham’s descendants, these Judah sons, were still called Heb(e)rews, being descended from Heber, meaning “colonizer.” Heber was a great great grandson of Noah. Thus we have them naming the places they went … Iberia (Spain), and upon arriving in Ireland, they were known as HIBERNIANS. In Spain we have ZARAgossa on the (H)Ebro River to this day, and for 3600 years Ulster has had the emblem of the red hand.
In the meantime, Zarah’s son, Darda, moved northward into Asia Minor, founding a nation on the shores of the DARDAnelles, and establishing a kingdom, the capitol of which was Troy. Troy was founded (1446 B.C.) 34 years before the Exodus of the rest of Israel from Egypt, as we learned from PITAVIOUS’ HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Josephus, the historian, calls Darda “Dardanus.” Sharon Turner’s HISTORY OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS mentions in the Langfedgatel Dardanus’ descendants from Troy, as does Homer’s ILIAD. Turner further names Troes, a grandson of Dardanus, as having a son whose descendants were Capys, Anchises and Aeneas, the latter a famous hero of Troy.
These sons of Judah through Zarah’s line never entered the land of Palestine.
1 Kings 4: 31
Calcol and Darda were evidently very brilliant men. Solomon is said to have been wiser than all men, even these. They carried the scarlet thread of Zarah,,,the red branch of Irish history. To this day, a red thread runs through every British rope in the Navy; and ecah official British paper is wrapped with a red cord.
Geoffrey of Monmouth (d. 1154) handed down the British version of a Trojan colony, led by one Brutus, the great-great-grandson of Aeneas, thus a descendant of Darda, as settling the British Isles not long after the fall of Troy (1185 B.C.). The stone he is supposed to have stepped on is still marked today in Totnes, in the sound of Dart, in Devon, twelve miles inland from Torbay. The English Chronicles list the kings in Britain along with those who ruled in old Israel. Brutus is said to have ruled when Eli was a priest in Israel (1070 B.C.).
The Trojan War was a struggle between kindred peoples. Agamemnon, king of the Greek Mycenae, led an expedition against the Trojan DARDAnians to rescue Helen, the wife of his brother Menelaus, King of Sparta. The Spartans in many histories are called the Lacedemonians and brethren of the Israelites, as they are in the Apocrypha in Maccabees 12:2,6. (The books of the Apocrypha were in all ORIGINAL King James Bibles). Josephus records an exchange of letters. The seal affixed to the Lacedemonian letter bore the DANite emblem, the eagle and serpent. Homer, the poet, also described this seal in the Iliad.
Herodotus (1, 56) says the Laceddemonians were of Doric blood, so called from Dorus, son of Helen. The earliest immigrants to Greece, according to Diodorus Siculus, were Lacedemonians. The greater part of Israel followed Moses. Those who left Egypt settled in Argos and Athens, while some sailed to regions of Italy and Greece. Their descendants the Young’s Concordance lists under the word “Gentiles,” from the word Hellenes, from Hellas the Greek city, named for Helen of Troy. These Israelites were known for their heroic endeavors.
Cadmus introduced letters of the alphabet to Greece, according to Herodotus (11, 49). Tyre was close to Dan and provided the mariners, even in Solomon’s time. We know DANites and other Israelites resided in Tyre, which was given to the tribe of Asher but was never occupied by them.
One of the most ancient historians, Sanchoniathon, who lived before the Trojan War, said that the gods, or deities of Greece, etc., were based on ancestor worship and were of Hebrew origin. Cory’s Ancient Fragments, 1876, pp. 21-22, tells us that KNONUS was Jacob (Israel), and he had a son called Judah, Zeus.
Gladstone, in his Juventus Mundi pp. 36-41, traces the origin of the name DANnoe to 200 years before the Trojan War (1300 B.C.). He does not identify the Greeks with Dan, but suggests the original tribe of DANaans may have existed with an Egyptian origin, and why not? DAN was in Egypt. And why DID Dan “remain in ships?”
Gen. 46: 23 Gen. 5: 17
Other writers identify the Danoi as having left Greece and settled in Ireland; these [being] called the “Tuatha De Danaans” (Tribe of Dan). The Irish Chronicles say their coming was opposed by those already in Ireland, which caused a battle to follow. The Danaans were victorious and peace ensued when they found their opponents spoke a language similar to their own.
We have Israelites, then, in Greece, Italy, Spain, Britain, Ireland and Scotland living active lives and having kings over them before the children of Israel ever left Egypt and had their Red Sea Exodus experience. These children of Judah-Israel were never in Egypt or Palestine but God in His wisdom was preparing for those who would eventually be taken in Assyrian and Babylonian captivity, and brought to these places in their movements westward.
2 Sam. 7: 10
From the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were sent east. Cain was sent east to the land of Nod. When Noah was in the ark during the flood, he too was taken east to Ararat. David was told while he stood in Old Jerusalem that God would give His people “a land of their own/; and move them into it. We will see the migrations of Israel well pre-figured in the Tabernacle which one entered from the east and had to work their way west to the Holy Place, and then to the Holy of Holies.
Gen. 35: 11 Gen. 49: 19 Jer. 31: 9 Ezek. 37: 16
These in Ireland, Scotland and Britain were preparing the Holy Place. They, in their lands, were the forerunners of what was promised to Jacob, in that he would become a multitude or commonwealth of nations. Jacob passed this blessing to Joseph’s son Ephraim. He was to be God’s first-born (nation). This is exactly what we see God working out in this research of so long ago. We learn that in our day God would still have His two nations, one the Holy Place and the other the Holy of Holies. They are spoken of as two sticks and such they are today.
1 Kings 12: 20 1 Chron. 28: 5
Two nations ,,, two nations based on the teachings of Jesus Christ. The one stick was to be Ephraim with Judah as we have been reading, and Judah we are told would be with the House of David, or the throne of the Lord that Solomon sat on.
Gen. 49: 19 Ezek. 37: 19 Dan. 2: 44,45 Ezek. 37: 22,21 Gen. 48: 19
The Queen (of England) claims heritage with the Royal Line of David, keeping the throne between Judah’s feet until Shiloh (Jesus Christ) comes in power and glory. We know the other stick is America, the Holy of Holies, His Kingdom place from which He will reign.
We read that the stick of Judah-Ephraim will be joined to our stick and we will become one nation, with Him our one King over us. It will be in the “land of their own” as promised David so long ago. Joseph’s son Manasseh will then have his birthright that was delayed, that his brother Ephraim might fulfill the plan of God in having us reach the Holy Place and in the end, the Holy of Holies, when His throne is brought here and we become one stick, one nation in the Lord’s hand. He is our God and King!
Ex. 3: 9 Ex. 12: 31-33 Ex. 14: 22 Ex. 20 Ex. 19: 8
God heard when the children of Israel cried because of their bondage and slavery in Egypt. Most people know the stories of Moses and Pharaoh, the escape of Israel through the Red Sea, and Israel’s 40 yeears of wandering in the wilderness.
Few, even ministers, know that at the giving of the laws and ordinances, statutes and judgements the Israelites told Moses, “All that the LORD hath spoken, WE WILL DO.” They became husband and wife.
Our Father, the God of Israel, tells:
Isa. 54: 5
“Thy maker is thine HUSBAND: the Lord of hosts is His name; thy REDEEMER the Holy One of Israel. The God of the whole earth shall He be called.”
Isa. 26: 17-18
The plan was that they would conceive a child, THE KINGDOM of God on earth.
Ex. 12: 37 Psl. 105: 37 Ex. 15: 26
The children of Israel had gone into Egypt as 70 souls but came out as 600,000 men, plus women and children (which would total from one to two million people). There were NONE feeble, NONE diseased. Being a husband to Israel, He now took complete care of them. As an example, we have God telling them, “Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee … neither did their foot swell these forty years.”
Deut. 8: 4 Neh. 9: 21 Deut. 29: 5 Deut. 29: 6 Psl. 78: 25 Num. 20: 08
“I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not waxen old upon you and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
“Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink, that ye might KNOW that I am the LORD your God.”
God fed his wife manna and they did not have to work to eat. This is spoken of as angel’s food. They were given water from the rock.
Ex. 11: 4-5
There was a mixed multitude among the Israelites, and these caused Israel to become disgruntled, saying they wanted the cucumbers, leeks and onions, meat and fish they had in Egypt.
Num. 11: 31-35
God became very angry with their lusting. He gave them quail … equal to a day’s journey on each side of them and two cubits high, which is too deep to be happy in. Before they had their meat out from between their teeth and chewed, God caused a plague to hit them. He was really wrathful, and He called the place KIBROTH HATTAAVAH (graves of lust) because the ones who lusted after meat all died and were buried there. God had fed them manna so they would learn, “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD.”
Deut. 8: 3 Deut. 8: 6 Deut. 8: 17-18
He chose these people to walk in His commandments and His ways and to fear Him. It was His plan to greatly bless them and form them into a great Kingdom, and He didn’t want them to say in their hearts “My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.”
Gen. 18: 18 Gen. 35: 11 Deut. 7: 6 Deut. 7: 9
“But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God; for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He sware unto thy fathers as it is this day.” This was the covenant He made with Abraham to bring forth from his SEED a great nation and a commonwealth of nations. They were to be a special Holy people above all the people on the earth. We were to love Him and keep His commandments so He could bless us in every way (Deut. 7: 12-15).
Rom. 10: 17 Deut. 7: 9 1 John 2: 3-5
Israel was to live by every word of God. Paul tells us, “Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.” He wanted our implicit TRUST in all. We shall soon find ourselves in Armageddon (place of no way out); then our people will learn their lesson, for HE SHALL SAVE US.
“Know therefore the LORD thy God. He is God, the faithful God which keepeth His covenants and has mercy on them that love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations (a generation is accepted to be about 40 years), so this means 40,000 years (more or less). From Abraham to Christ was 2,000 years … From Christ to the present is 2,000 years … That means we still have 36,000 years just to fulfill the Abrahamic Covenant!
Deut. 17: 10 Mat. 21: 41 Luke 19: 27 Ex. 32
He repayeth them that hate Him to their face to destroy them. When He comes He will miserably destroy those wicked men. “Bring those who would not have Me reign over them and slay them before Me.” An entire generation of Israel died in the wilderness because of their disobedience, even to making of a golden calf to worship while Moses was in the Mount with God. They wanted other gods, an abomination to YHVH-God, something He detests!
Joshua
Finally, Joshua led them into the land flowing with milk and honey and, again. most of the stories of the entry into Palestine and their lives there under the judges and finally the kings are known to most people.
1 Sam. 8 Jer. 3: 8
Samuel was made to understand the people wanted other gods and human kings. God told Samuel, ” They have not rejected thee, but they have rejected Me that I should not reign over them.” God told Samuel to “make them a king,” and He then decided that He would DIVORCE His adulterous wife, take His name from her (ISRAEL–ruling with El, God) and so their child could not be born.
ASSYRIAN CAPTIVITY of The Northern Ten Tribes of Israel (740 to 689 B.C.)
2 Kings 17: 5 2 Kings 17: 18 2 Kings 17: 6 2 Kings 17: 21 2 Kings 17: 19 2 Chron. 32 2 Kings 18: 13
Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, besieged Samaria, the capitol of northern Israel, for three years. The story tells how Israel now feared other gods and walked in the statutes of the heathen. God was very angry with Israel and removed them out of his sight. They were placed even among the cities of the Medes and in Assyrian towns. Imagine what the feelings of the people must have been to be moved away from their relatives and country and God. Israel was rent from the House of David and taken into Assyrian captivity. We learn God was very angry with much of Judah as well.
In a few short years, Sennacherib became King of Assyria (702 B.C.) and it was he that came and took 46 fortified cities of Judah and led 200, 150 men of Judah also into this captivity. We can see the six-sided clay prism in the British Museum, and you can study and see that they fought on camel-back as they laid siege to Jerusalem, and the ASSAULT OF ENGINES and the use of mines. They certainly prove the Bible.
As was the custom of his day, Sennacherib deported masses of people to Assyria. The Judah people he took were totally distinct and separate from Judahites taken one hundred years later to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar, 42,000 of whom did return to Jerusalem after 70 years. They were permitted to rebuild the Temple for the coming of Jesus Christ.
The migrations of ten-tribed Israel and Judah are not difficult to trace. Josephus, writing in Antiquities Of The Jews, said, “There are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond the Euphrates until now and are an immense multitude” (Ant. 11, 5, 2). He wrote this around 90 A.D.
2 Esdras 13: 40-43 2 Esdras 13: 45
In 2 Esdras 13: 39 (Apocrypha) we read of Christ coming to (new) Zion and gathering to Himself a peaceful multitude:
“These are the ten tribes which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Hoshea the king, whom Shalmaneser, the King of Assyria, led away captive, and he carried them over the waters and they came into another land.
“But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen and go forth into a further country where never man kind dwelt.
“That they might there keep their statutes, which they had not kept in their own land.
“And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow passage of the river.
“Through that country there was a great way to go, namely a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.”
Arsareth is a region now known as Romania. The river Sareth is still there. They passed through Transylvania east of Hungary. In Treves, Germany, a tourist booklet tells they were settled by people the Assyrians brought in. The Apostles of Christ were instructed to preach to the LOST SHEEP of the HOUSE OF ISRAEL. In Treves they have the crypt of Matthew, and a coat they claim to be Christ’s.
That (lost Israel) would continue westward into Britain, the Holy Place, from where in time a remnant would come to found this great nation America, founded for the unfettered worship of Jesus Christ and Him only. The most convincing point is that we are here, doing and having done to us, the very prophetic appointments the Bible foretold concerning us, His Israel people, in that Great Nation promised to Abraham so long ago.
There are many artifacts in the British Museum and others that give the names of Israel as she was called by each country through which God passed her. She was to pass through Assyria and was there known as “Bet Khumri.” Jehu was king of ten-tribed Israel and he was known as the Son of Omri” (Khumri). There is a black alabaster obelisk in the British Museum that depicts all this. The same folk in Babylon were known as Ghimri or Gamir, and as Sacae in Persia. The historian Herodotus (500 B.C.) said the Sakae were led by Darius who married the daughter of Cyrus. The early Greek writers call the Scythians the Sacae, and Ptolomy links the Persian Sakae to the Saxons. So, we have the movement of the Israelite people through the nations they were to pass through in their 2520 years of captivity and punishment. We have the names they were known by in each nation.
There is so much proof on the historical stones, obelisks, rocks and clay tablets that it is not hard to locate Israel in her migration west. She had not really been lost, nor had she ever completely given up the religion of the Temple. We have at Pentecost those who had come back to keep feasts:
Acts 2: 5 Acts 2: 9-11 Acts 2: 41
“,,,devout men out of every nation under heaven…” Parthians (north of Persia), Medes (Iraq of today), Phrygia and other Asia Minor cities, Egypt, Northern Africa (Libya), Rome, Crete, Arabs,,,all called men of Israel, men of Judah (Acts 2: 14, 22).
After Peter preached, the people that were added to the Church that had been in the wilderness (Acts 7: 38) were 3,000…They understood it was for them He (Jesus Christ) had died, the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, and they gladly accepted His gift.
[THE MIGRATIONS OF ISRAEL, Sheldon Emry, America's Promise Ministries, P.O. Box 157, Sandpoint, ID 83864]
Throughout the era of Roman power strong, enemy states arose and warred with Rome. a number of these appear to be Israelites, or led by dominant Israelite components, or were colonies of Hebrews/Israelites. One such was Carthage. Another was Britain. Another was the remnant of the Judahite kingdom in what came to be called Judaea and which gained a moment of independence between the demise of Greek power and the rise of Roman power in that land. Greece, itself, was at least partially an Israelite colony. Yet, none of these nations could withstand the martial power of Rome over time. They succombed. It might be argued that the Germanic tribes forced Rome into a stalemate which was fairly viable until perhaps the third century A.D., when the Western Roman Empire began to crumble and the power of Rome was mostly consolidated in Constantinople, Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. The Germanic tribes were migrant Scythian tribes, and, hence, they were Israelites. Still, only one major power was never defeated by the Romans, although numerous great battles were fought, and that power was the Parthian Empire. At its most powerful point the Parthians were led by Israelites. They were closely allied with their Israelite cousins, the Scythians, who were to the north and west of Parthia at that time. However, Israelites were not the only members of the Parthian Empire. These Israelite Parthians seemed to conquer and then grant autonomy to the conquered, so long as certain conditions were met. Their relationship with these conquered nations was feudal. Not surprisingly, this very system was brought into Europe by the Scythians and Parthians that later went into Europe under pressure from the east and, also, internally, as Persia once again was on the rise. Interestingly, these Parthians who went into Europe were viewed by some scholars of today as Assyrians!!!
Unbeknowst to them, they were being used as God’s battle axe to create the conditions required to realise and fulfill God’s plan. This plan – over time – would witness the massive migration into the European lands, Britain, and then to the Promised Land, America.
Wonderfully, this is just one key element in the most extraordinary drama ever conceived and put into its one and only presentation. of which we are – for the most part – minor players who are nevertheless essential elements. Why? God isn’t foolish to create a character without function in this masterpiece. We count.
While all that was going on, the great theme of this masterpiece was being prepared and brought into being in the person of Yhshua, son of Joseph and Mary of Nazereth, through the power and will and grace and mercy of the Most High. It is all so fascinating that one can imagine God Himself, its author, sort of on the “edge of His chair” as He watches a crucial player confront an exacting moment and make the right decision. Hurrah! Bravo! Right On!
And guess who wins in the end? We do! Isn’t it great?
Gobigfoot, 2009.
