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This episode is number three in our consideration of a special couple whose seed became so abundant that they spilled north, east, south and west, according to God’s Will. In this study I will faithfully follow a report by the late Sheldon Emry. From time to time I may make a comment in the spirit of correctness or elucidation, as no one is perfect. As great an educator as Paul, the Apostle, was, he was not infallible. No one is. As Paul noted: “We see through a glass darkly.” Still, I’ve always been impressed with the work of Sheldon Emry in reaffirming the existence and importance of Israel in God’s plan. Please note: when I reference Israel, I am referencing either the twelve sons of Jacob-Israel or Ten-Tribe Israel. I am not referencing Jewry. Hebrew, Israel, and Jew are not synonyms.

Having issued this introduction, let me now go directly to Pastor Mr. Emry’s report. Please consider it carefully.

“Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac’s twin sons were Esau and Jacob. Jacob, whose name was changed to ‘Israel,’ had twelve sons who are known as the ‘Twelve Tribes of Israel.’

See Gen. 21: 1-8, 25: 23-26, 29: 31-35, 30: 6-24, 35: 10, 35: 16-18, 38: 11 & 29, Judges 5: 17

“Judah, one of Jacob’s sons, had twin sons, Zarah and Pharez. The Zarah line founded Ulster, Ireland in 1600 B.C. They were NEVER in Egypt or Palestine. Another son of Jacob was Dan, whose family and progeny were noted for their navigational skills; they, too, very [early] settled in the British [B(e)rith - covenant, I(y)sh - man] Isles.

“Ten of the tribes of Israel are easily traced from 720 B.C. in their captivity in Assyria, to Europe as Celtic speaking peoples. Further study in this ‘Migrations of Israel’ series finds them in the British Isles, and much later in America…that great nation promised to Abraham wherein they would dwell and ‘move no more.’

See Gen. 12: 2, 2 Sam. 7: 10

“The other two tribes of Israel were taken in captivity to Babylon circa 602 B.C. Only 42,360 of these captives returned to Jerusalem after being in Babylon for 70 years. Cyrus, King of Persia, was the world leader at the time. Cyrus gave the proclamation in 539 B.C. for Judah, at God’s command, to return and build the Lord a house in Jerusalem. Cyrus returned 5,400 silver and gold vessels the Babylonians had removed from the Jerusalem Temple to their temple to their gods. Those of Judah who had been brought into Babylon and who did not return as part of the 42,360 are reputed by both Jewish and Christian scholars to have moved on west into Spain and Portugal.

See Ezra 2:1, Ezra 2:64, 2 Chron. 36: 22-23, Ezra 1:1-2, Ezra 1:11

Gobigfoot Note: The proposition that the Judah-Israelites migrated to Iberia from Babylon seems dubious. There may have been small colonies established, however. Still, the remnant of Judah was able to live in Babylon for 1,100 years approximately, before they were booted out. Great scholarly institutions were established in certain cities in present Iraq-Iran. Jews in Babylon had a generally autonomous control of the territory in which they dwelled. Further, when the Finno-Turkish speaking Chazars of southern Russia converted to Judaism, they turned to the Jews of Babylon and their great scholarly institutions for missionaries who would instruct the people in the tenets of Judaism. It is true also that a king of Chazaria, Joseph, did correspond with an Iberian Jew named Shaput, who held an exalted position within the Muslim territories, which I recall as being near the city of Cordoba. Even so, there is a preponderance of evidence suggesting that the great bulk of remnant Judah in Babylon remained in the large area that included present day Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, and Afghanistan. Of these I believe the greater part was near Greater Babylon. It is also likely that they became a mixed multitude, as time went by. The old Israelitish religion ceased to be practiced, as Temple worship became impossible. It was replaced with something quite different: Rabbinic Talmudism.

“From the return of Judah to Jerusalem under Cyrus, King of Persia, they lived through the period depicted in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream that Daniel interpreted: Babylon (the head of gold) had conquered Assyria; Medo-Persia (the breast and arms of silver) had conquered Babylon during Judah’s captivity; Greco-Macedonia (the belly and thighs of brass) would defeat Persia in 479 B.C.; afterwards, pagan Rome (the legs and feet of iron) would be the world power, and it was when Jesus Christ was born. These changing empirical powers had their effect on the Judahites who were the ‘Two Baskets of Figs’ as they lived side by side in and around Jerusalem.

See Dan. 2:31, 2:38, 2:32, 2:33, Jer. 24

“Leaders in this era, such as Aristobulus II and his brother John Hyrcanus, had a violent quarrel and Pagan Rome had to be called in to arbitrate the dispute. The Encyclopedia Americana calls Hyrcanus a Jewish high priest (135-105 B.C.) who forced the Idumeans to become ‘Jews.’ Idumea is the Greek for Edomites. In the Bible Esau, Edo, Mt. Seir and Idumea are interchangeable for the offspring of ESAU, Jacob’s twin brother.

“Herod the Great (37 B.C. to 4 A.D.), was one of these Edomite-Esau Jews. They ruled under the leadership of the Roman Caesars.

See Matt. 2:16

“God had told Abraham He would not hide from him His plans (nor are they hid from us). Isaac would be born to Abraham and Sarah, and God would establish His Covenant with Isaac and his SEED (race). The Covenant was that Abraham’s seed would become a great and mighty nation. This establishment of GOD’S KINGDOM ON EARTH would not be contingent upon Abraham’s offspring, but upon God Himself. God swore by Himself: ‘When God made promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no greater, he sware by Himself.’

See Gen. 18:17-19, John 14:21, Amos 3:7, Gen. 18:18, Gen, 22:15, Heb. 6:13, Gen. 22:18

“God told Abraham upon his offspring of Isaac, ‘…In thy seed shall all the nations on earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.’ This would have a dual fulfillment. Christ would be born of that seed and WOULD BLESS ALL NATIONS. The seed of Abraham would become the GREAT NATION we have become, blessing all nations, feeding and clothing them, taking them in until Christ would come a second time and take Government on His shoulders.

See Matt 25: 31-46, Isa. 9:6-7

“After Abraham’s children were formed into a nation (the tribes of ‘Israel,’ which means ‘ruling or prevailing with El, with God’ …the same name given to Jacob by God), the Israelites were given the laws of God. Some of these were on two tablets of STONE. The people said ‘All these we will do.’ Hereby, God took the Israelites to be His wife. They conceived their spiritual child, the KINGDOM, but Israel became an adulterous and God removed her out of His sight into Assyrian captivity, giving her a bill of divorce. Israel had gone after other gods and kings (nations) so when God divorced her, He took HIS NAME ‘EL’ from her; hence she could not bring forth their ‘child’ for it would have been a ‘bastard’ nation.

See Gen. 33:28, Ex.20:1-17, Ex. 19:8, Jer. 3:14, Isa. 26:18, 2 Kings 17:20, Jer. 3:8

“NOW, GOD HAD A PROBLEM!

“Or so it would seem to the human mind. Our Heavenly Father, however, had planned for this contingency from the BEGINNING; He had put in the constellations the Gospel of The Kingdom, and in that plan of Salvation ‘He was the Lamb, slain before the foundation of the world.’ He had told the children of Israel in the wilderness that they would be a peculiar treasure (which expression, in 1 Peter 2:9, means a purchased people). He was telling them He would die for them!

See Ex. 19:5, 1 Peter 1: 19-20

Gobigfoot Note: It is this “magical” Biblical concept that probably informed all the legends about an “ever-living, ever-dying” king, such as Amfortas. Bible haters will undoubtedly claim that Biblical writers “borrowed” the idea from more ancient lore. If so, it would come from Adamic descendants who spread out, carrying knowledge given by God to Adam and Eve, Enoch, et al, for if ever there was a real Prometheus, it was Adam himself. It certainly didn’t arise from various, independent tapping into the “collective unconscious.”

“By God’s own Law, given to Israel, once there was divorce and the wife took another partner, the prior arrangement by the original two partners could never be re-entered into. So, there was NO WAY that God and Israel could be remarried and fulfill His plans to bring forth THAT GREAT NATION (His Kingdom Place) with the seed (race) of Abraham.

See Deut. 24:4

“Our God, our Husband, would leave His heavenly realm and throne, come to earth and be our Savior. He, the GODHEAD (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) would become flesh. He would not send another to do this…He would come Himself to take our place. ‘Forasmuch as the children (of Israel, as sons of Adam) are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil (adversary).’

See Isa. 45: 21-23, Col.2:9, Heb. 2:14

“Our Maker (Creator – Col. 1:16), our HUSBAND, our REDEEMER, the Holy One of Israel, God of the whole earth…for this woman (Israel), the wife of youth whom He had forsaken, and whom He had wrath toward, He would now show mercy and kindness to, and come to die in her place (the death she deserved), so she could be remarried to Him and bring forth His child, the KINGDOM. For us, He endured the shame of living in this realm the adversary told Christ ‘I own’; our Savior took their stripes for our healing, and our God bore the shame of the Cross, the pain and suffering, and He was in agony, ‘His sweat as it were great drops of blood.’

See Isa. 54:5-8, Luke 4:6, Isa. 53:5, Luke 22:44

“SUCH LOVE ON THE PART OF OUR OMNIPOTENT GOD IS BEYOND OUR COMPREHENSION. Oh, to be more like Him, to lay down our lives for our FRIEND. Abraham was called a FRIEND of God. Yahshua [YAH - God; SHUA - Savior] will be asked when He comes again about the wounds in His hands and He will say, ‘I was wounded in the house of my FRIENDS.’ This is Abraham’s house, the children of Israel. We are the guilty race, the ones who caused those wounds. Jesus said, ‘I AM NOT SENT BUT UNTO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL’…His wife. How grateful we are to our SHEPHERD. Such a sacrifice…such a gift…such love.

See James 2:23, Zech. 13:6, Matt. 15:24, John 10:14

“A scholar who had studied languages called attention to Jesus’ saying, ‘Is it not written in your law, I said YE ARE GODS?’ The linguist realized (Isa. 54:5 tells that God is the Father, Husband, Redeemer, the only God) the Godhead was one person in Jesus Christ (‘I and my Father are one’ – John 14:7, 8:19, 10:30). The scholar wrote that the proper interpretation of Jesus’ statement on the cross should read, ‘My GODS, My GODS, why hast thou forsaken me?’ He, being God, could not forsake Himself. If this scholar is correct (the words are untranslated, being Aramaic), then our heartbreak is even worse, for we did forsake Him as a family, and our forefathers did forsake Him, and our sins nailed Him to the Cross, causing His pain and death.

See John 10:34, Psa.82:6, Isa. 41:23, Matt. 27:46, John 11:49

“Caiaphas, the High Priest of the Jews at the time of Jesus’ trial, said, ‘Consider that it is expedient that one man die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.’ This is exactly what and why Jesus gave His life for us. Our iniquity was laid on Him…the sheep had turned every one to his own way.

See Judges 21:25, Isa. 53:6

“LET US TURN FROM OUR OWN WAYS…TO HIS; ask Him to come and heal us and our nation and to be our God and King. He said we would, in time, ask Him to do it for us. NOW IS THE TIME TO ASK!

See Ezek. 36:37

“Two things were accomplished by our Savior’s choice. He would offer hope and A WAY of escape (from bondage and death-eternally) for Adam’s children. In Adam all die…in Christ are all (of Adam) made alive. Also, Christ would fulfill the requirements of the law for His remarriage to his wife, Israel. One party to the original marriage had to die before there could be a remariage.  He gave Himself to make adulterous Israel a VIRGIN, a bride-to-be, that He–our BRIDEGROOM–could marry and with whiom He could bring forth His child, the KINGDOM OF GOD on earth…it was the wife who NOW made herself ready. Her PAST SINS were forgiven her.

See 1 Cor. 15:22, Luke 16:18, Matt. 25:1-13, Isa. 62:5, Rom. 3:25, Rev. 21:9, Rev, 21:12-14, Rev. 19:7

“Israel was under the Law. God took flesh and was made of a woman–under the Law–toredeem those under the Law. Only Israel was ever given the Law, but God very clearly stressed that He did NOT destroy the Law (by coming in the flesh). ‘Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the prophets; I am not come to destroy but to fulfill,’ He said, ‘…not one jot or one tittle shall pass from the Law, until all be fulfilled.’ A jot and tittle were the most minute marks in Hebrew.

See Gal. 4:4-5, Matt. 5:17-18

“All will be fulfilled…all people will someday obey Him and His laws. The day will come when ‘Every knee shall bow to Him in Heaven, on earth and under the earth.’; ‘…unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear’ (even angels chained under the earth). ‘THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH…AS IT IS IN HEAVEN’ will be realized one day. If our Lord and Master didn’t win every soul, He would not be OMNIPOTENT, but HE IS!

See Phil. 2:10, Isa. 45:23, Jude 6, 1 Pet. 3:19-20, Matt. 6:10

“Paul asks us in Romans…because we are not under the Law (that requires our death, since we were the adulterous wife, Israel) but under grace (the gift of our Master’s life in our place) ‘SHALL WE CONTINUE IN SIN, THAT GRACE MAY ABOUND?’

See Rom. 6:1

“To which Paul replies, ‘GOD FORBID.’

See Rom. 6:2

“Israel was given the law for a blessing and direction to ‘know how’ to live in order to enter the KINGDOM. Making a report card of the sins listed in Gal. 5:19-21. ‘They which do such things shall not inherit the KINGDOM,’ often surprises, when every word is checked in the dictionary. God said, ‘My people (Israel) are destroyed for lack of knowledge.’ We have the BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE, OUR BIBLE.  We need not be ignorant.

See Gal. 5: 19-26, Hosea 4:6

“Today, the disease known as AIDS  is sure evidence that GRACE did not do away with the Law. Sin, we are told, is the transgression of god’s Laws. If one has any doubt…try committing a new sin…?

See 1 John 3:4

“‘We know we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He that saith I know Him and keepeth NOT His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.’ If we keep His WORD, the love of God grows in us; we are given more and more of His Holy Spirit…which is given to those who obey. The spirit was not given to Jesus in measure, as it is to us, because He was completely obedient in all. Jesus is the author of eternal SALVATION to all who obey.

See 1 John 2:3-4, Acts 5:32, John 3:34, Heb. 5:8-9

“Peter asks, ‘What shall be the end of them that OBEY NOT?’ ‘Casting down imaginations and everything that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God’…we are to bring into captivity ‘Every thought to the OBEDIENCE OF GOD.’ ‘Ye, purify your souls in obeying the truth.’ ‘My Word is Truth.’

See 1Pet. 4:17, 2 Cor. 10:5, 1 Pet. 1:22, John 17:17

“Nations, too, are cursed for disobedience, and in reading Deauteronomy 28 we can see our two nations of Britain and America being punished, as promised, for departing from the laws of God. Our public figures will tell us we cannot use the Bible and the laws of God. We are told, ‘You cannot legislate morality.’ Then those same powers proceed to legislate immorality…obscenity thay sat is OK, as is adultery and fornication; ‘blue laws’ are abolished.

See Deut. 28:15-44

“”‘If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honorable and shall honor Him, not doing thine own ways or finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words; Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee wih the heritage of Jacob, thy Father, for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.’

See Isa. 58: 13-14

“Question: How is it ‘Israel’ (sic) doesn’t even allow planes to fly on their sabbath, but Christian America opens all businesses?

“Most people misread, ‘For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth on Him SHOULD not perish, but have everlasting life.’

See John 3:16

“God did not say that whoever believeth WOULD NOT perish. He said that He did His part and they SHOULD NOT perish. The illustration was given that if a bomb were detonated and  you were to ask if it would explode, the situation would be quite different if you were told it SHOULD NOT than if you were told it WOULD NOT.

“For the most part, Christianity and our people and nation  are in the situation we find ourselves in because there is little Bible study and understanding of God. We are told to say we want to be a Christian, go to the altar, say you are saved, join the church. Few are really converted (changed about) or have a renewing of their mind. We are told, ‘Be not conformed to this world (system), but be ye transformed (crossed over, changed) by the renewing of your mind” (from the Bible). This will cause you not to serve the princes of this world and the ways of Babylon. You are to prove from THE WORD what is GOOD… ACCEPTABLE…AND THE PERFECT WILL of God. ‘Put on a new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him (Christ) who created him.’ He who obeys shall be able to gain entry into THY KINGDOM COME ON EARTH we have prayed to come, and be one of the ones called GREAT in the Kingdom. Obedience to the laws and commandments, and there are many more than the ten found in Exodus 20, promises prosperity and health, ‘If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land,’ and you will assure your prayers will be answered.

See Rom. 12:2, Col. 3:10, Matt.7:21, Matt.5:19, 3 John 1:2, Isa. 1:19, Prov. 28:9

“‘To whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey–his servant ye are to whom you obey.’ Obey the devil–you lose; obey God and you win! Be servants of doing right by following God’s laws. He that overcometh the ways of Babylonian sin, shall inherit eternal life and all things; I WILL BE HIS GOD AND HE SHALL BE MY SON.

See Rom. 6:16-17, Rev. 21:7, Rom. 8:17

“After Christ Jesus arose from the dead, He was seen by many. Then, there came the day He left the erath and ascended into the heavens in a cloud. The angel said He would return in like manner (nothing said about His returning to the same place).

See Acts 1:11

“Christians at the time of His ascension were adding to His Body–’The Church’–and afterwards. The same church (gahal) that was in the wilderness and had ritual service all pointed to Jesus, The Passover Lamb. It was a natural transition from Temple worship to Christianity. In fulfillment of Christ’s prophecy, Titus of Rome destroyed the Temple completely in 68 A.D. It’s use was over. While the Christians were adding to the Church daily, the other faction, the ‘evil figs,’ who would not return unto the Lord with their whole hearts, were busy persecuting the good figs–the Judahite Christians.

See Eph. 1:22-23, Matt. 24:1-2, Jer. 24

“Paul said he had a thorn (son of Belial) in the flesh (a human), a messenger of Satan buffeting, or persecuting, him. The bad figs were, like Judas the apostle, being used to further ‘The Kingdom of god.’ They were cruel and earnestly attempting to destroy Christianity…even as they are today.

See 2 Sam. 23:6, 2 Cor. 12:7″

This has been a lengthy piece of Biblical discussion by the late Pator Emry. However, as he honed into areas of the Bible which I believe are not often gone near by the great bulk of Christian prelates, as they try to inform their respective congregations on the “Big Picture.” Some of them have Jahshua doing away with the Law – “nailing it to the cross.” It is true that religious ordinances such as “sin offerings” and other such poor substitutes were ended by the Great Sacrifice for all time at The Place of the Skull. The Law was not destroyed, however. I believe that Sheldon Emry’s attempt to put the Biblical marriage metaphor before the people is also important. The relationship of Jahway to Israel can best be suggested in this way. Of course to childish minds the metaphor will miss the mark.

I believe that the Celto-Germanic people are the entirety of extant Israel. These are the ”Children of the Promise.” They are the “Good Figs,” potentially. They have the option of choosing to be. Sadly, not all will choose to fulfill their election prior to The Return. And a saddened Father will be forced to “correct” them.

Gobigfoot, 2009

Keltic warrior prepares to join dead lover.

Although humanity exists in a time when leading elements will do anything to obscure, or even annihilate, undesired historical records, records have been discovered and adduced. Major educational institutions and the major media complexes in the West predictably ignore such matters. Occasionally, one may briefly allude to such records but then he invariably dismisses them as myth – or worse – superstition. These people either don’t believe in God or believe in an “All-Father.” The latter is a Mystery Religion reference, as these people typically use it. The Bible isn’t taken seriously by Jewry or Freemasonry. Since Protestantism is heavily influenced by Freemasonry, as well as Jewish interpretations of all things under the Heavens, their broad errors and general fecklessness is understandable. Contemporary Vaticanism makes one reel back as in the presence of a demon.

However, Jahway has not left His people completely in the dark in the brief Age of the Anti-Christ. He has provided them teachers and preachers. His people have no “ears to hear” presently. Yet, God does not work vain things. He has planted. What He has planted will grow.

One of these teachers which the Most High had provided was Pastor Sheldon Emry. As a young man, he had attended Presbyterian services. However, as he heard more and more aberrant doctrines set forth, he naturally “smelled a rat.” He took his faith down another way and found the manna to sustain himself as he travelled the hitherto hidden path which God has provided to those who seek Him.

Some people believe such information has been made irrelevant by Jahshua. To my mind this constitutes an insult to the Most High and His revelation, which began with a broad sketch of creation.

In this blog I intend to provide the second part of his terse guideline for those who are interested. It is an exact replication. It continues from the previous Immigration guideline with the Assyrian Captivity. Consider:

“The Israelites and the 46 cities of Judah with their 200,000 citizens (of Judah and Benjamin) were taken into Assyrian Captivity because of their idolatry and sin. The Israelites who had gone into Egypt cried out and were rescued from their bondage by God, who led them out through the Red Sea. They wandered 40 years in the wilderness, again due to sin. An entire generation that God felt was unworthy died during this period, with the exception of two overcomers, Caleb and Joshua. Finally, they were allowed to enter Canaan. This could be termed the capital of the devil’s world. In the gospel of Luke, ‘Satan’ did tell Jesus the kingdoms were delivered unto him, and to whomever he chose he would deliver them. In taking their capital, God was pre-figuring his eventual taking of the entire earth.”

[See Num. 14:22-24, Deut. 1:38, and Luke 4:6]

“Canaan at that time consisted of seven nations: Hittites, Girgasites, Hivites, Canaanites, Jebusites, Amorites, and Perizites.”

[See Deut. 7:1-5]

“Israel was told to kill all the men, women and little ones. ‘Thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth, but utterly destroy them,’ and the same list of nations is given as in Deut. 7:1. Instead of obeying, ’stiff-necked’ Israel dwelt among them and ‘took their daughters to be their wives and gave their daughters to their sons, and served other gods.”

[See Deut. 20:14-15, Deut. 20:16-18, and Judges 3:6]

” ‘The children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and forgot the Lord their God’ (Psa.106:34-35; Judges 2:11-15). The divorced wife, Israel, He removed from His sight. Ten-tribed Israel would never have a king in her again, until her seven times punishment was over, and Jesus Christ became her King.”

[See Judges 3:7, Joshua 15:63, and 2 Kings 17:20-21]

Parenthetically, when Israel (meaning all the sons of Jacob-Israel) is metaphorically expressed by God, the term is usually “first son.” When Israel (meaning the House of Israel, or Ephraim) is metaphorically expressed, the term “wife” is usually employed. However, all the tribes entered into a marital type of contract at Mt. Sinai. Also, since Jacob-Israel blessed Ephraim as his “first son” (inheritor of the blessings and promises), he is sometimes also referenced as first son.

“Was Israel punished seven seven times – one for each nation – because she had not destroyed them, as God told her to do?

“So Israel was carried away to Assyria and she began her 2,520-year trek…WEST…to become that ‘Great Nation’ promised to Abraham…the Kingdom of God on Earth which Christ instructed us to pray for.”

[See 2 Kings 17:23]

“To understand the story of these two nations (Israel and Judah) it is advisable to read the entire chapter of Ezekiel 23. Some of Judah was left in the land of Palestine. They committed abominations like the ten northern tribes and God said they had defiled His sanctuary, profaned His sabbaths, and had committed adultery, and that He would bring up a company upon them that they might come to know Him.”

[See Esek. 23, Ezek. 23:37-38]

“These are two sisters (Aholah the elder is ISRAEL, and Aholibah is JUDAH), the same two that are in the two sticks of Ezekiel, and the same two families which the Lord hath chosen. Again, we find in our day the enemies of these two countries saying, ’ These two countries shall be mine,’ but the Lord says they are not calculating correctly. ‘Whereas the Lord is there’ and He will protect His Children and Save us…we shall NOT be theirs.” 

[See Ezek.23:4, Ezek.37:16, Jer.33:24, Ezek.35:10, Ezek.36:2]

“God said He Himself broke the BROTHERHOOD between Israel (whom He terms Beauty), and Judah (He calls Bands).

[See Zech. 11:10, 14]

Parenthetically, again note how different prophets are inspired by slightly different imagery, i.e. Sisters and Brotherhood. It is the metaphorical relationship that is important.

“The BROTHERHOOD between Britain and America is still broken. We are still two nations…two sticks…two sisters…for just a little while longer. We already can read the signs that we shall become one nation with one King over us in the land He chose for His Kingdom in America. He will be our KING. Micah describes the destroyer (Russia) coming upon Britain, the Judah House of David, and the Ephraim people making a great deal of noise by the movement of men, and the King goes out the gate, with the Lord at the head of them. all being gathered into the barn…the regathering of all Israel into the land God gave Israel so long ago when He told David He would plant us in a land of our own–AMERICA!”

[See Ezek.37:16-22, Micah 2:12-13, Matt. 13:30, and 2Sam.7:10]

“We hear so much about ‘brotherhood’ today, but if the brotherhood between Israel and Judah is broken, how can we have brotherhood with the other races and nations which are more divergent than we of Israel and Judah are from each other?”

“Jesus said, ‘Whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother.’ The keeping of God’s laws is the basis for brotherhood. The Israel race is the only people to whom the commandments of God were ever given. It was Abraham’s determination to go after the kings of those seven nations, some of whom were taking his nephew Lot captive. No one else would tackle them. After Abraham had overcome them and brought Lot and his wealth back, God – in the person of Melchisidek – came to bless him.”

[See Matt.12:50, Gen.14]

Parenthetically, the same Canaanite people intermarried with Esau, and the descendants of Edom still try to keep “Lot” captive, meaning the righteous Children of the Promise. Secular scholars have proven that the Canaanite people were the most sexually-obsessed of all the known people of the Levant. Their descendants today are also the most sexually-obsessed people, as easily determined by their “works.”

“God felt the faith and obedience seed in Abraham was usable. ‘For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do JUSTICE and JUDGMENT; that the Lord may bring upon Abraham ‘that which He hath spoken of him.’ The ‘that’ was the covenant God had sworn, saying Abraham’s seed (or offspring) would become a GREAT AND MIGHTY NATION that would bless all nations of the earth…just as America has been and is doing,,,foreign aid…rehabilitating our enemies…taking in the outcasts, feeding and clothing the world.”

[See Gen.18:19, Gen.17:1-8]

“Unfortunately, our leaders have not been wise in their JUDGMENTS and we find ourselves helping the ungodly and loving them that hate our Savior…therefore is wrath upon us from before the Lord! If our people would learn who they are and that we as Christians should not allow our tithe and tax dollars to be given in support of the ANTI-CHRIST religion of JUDAISM, we would not have the Lebanese situation, nor the taking of hostages.”

[See 2 Chron. 19:2]

Parenthetically, the correlative situation today is terrorism.

” ‘Many deceivers are entered into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist…Whoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son (Oh, Lord thou art our Father and Redeemer). If any come unto you and bring NOT this doctrine (personal and national), receive him not into your house (or country); neither bid him God speed, for he that biddeth him God speed is a partaker of his evil deeds.’ “

[See 2 John 7:11, Isa. 63:6]

” ‘If my people (Israel) turn from their wicked ways I will HEAR…and forgive…and heal their land.’ We are the same Israel people of old which God sent into captivity for their sin…2,520 years! Let’s be HEARD by Him; let us work more earnestly to educate our people and get our nation turned from its wicked ways (helping the ungodly, etc.) so He can heal our nation. The wife, Israel, must make herself ready for the remarriage, the Wedding.”

[See 2 Chron.7:14, Rev.19:7]

“As soon as Israel of old would repent and cry out, God would hear immediately and help her!

“With the brotherhood broken, Judah as sinful as her sister, God brought Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, to take her captive. The first attack rendered 3,000 men of Judah to him; later, circa 595 B.C., there were 10,832 craftsmen, smiths and the pick of the fighting men led bound to Babylon. The Babylonian army had spent eighteen months laying in siege before Jerusalem. Josephus the historian records a terrible famine at the time, and a pestilence of distemper. Finally, Babylon won. Jerusalem was demolished and left deserted for 70 years. Zedekiah, the king of Israel-Judah, had seen his sons killed, then his own eyes were put out.”

[See Jer.38:6-7, Jer.34:21-22]

“Years later when Christ was on trial in Jerusalem, the people said truthfully, ‘We have no king but Caesar.’ From the removal of Zedekiah as King of Judah, there has never been a king in Old Jerusalem. The Zionists today talk of putting a king in power…NOW!”

[See John 18:15]

“”God had sworn to David in a covenant, ‘Thy seed will I establish forever and build up thy throne to all generations.’ David’s seed would endure forever and his throne as the days of heaven. Even if they sinned, God would keep His covenant (contingent on His Word, not on the party to the covenant beside Himself). He would not lie. ‘His (David’s) seed (offspring, progeny, family) shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. It shall be established forever as the moon, as a faithful witness in heaven.’ (2 Chron. 6:16) ‘David shall never want a man (iysh – Hebrew for man or woman, as in Gen.1:27) to sit on the throne of the house of Israel.’ (Psa.132:11 – of the fruit of David’s body they would sit on the throne…nothing said about male or female.)”

[See Psa.89:3-4; Psa.89:29,34,35,36,37; Jer.33:7]

“We do not want to forget that this is God’s Throne! He abdicated it for Israel to have human kings. Nor should we expect the ruling royal family to be exemplary, for God told us what human kings would be doing to us, AND THEY DO. David and Solomon were sinful men.”

[See 1 Chron.28:5, 1Sam.8:6-18]

“The throne of David was to always have Judah (1 Kings 12:20) cling to her until Christ returned. God had prepared for this happenstance when Zarah-Judah went to Ireland instead of (staying in) Egypt. In Israel there was female inheritance as well as male. Athaliah the evil Queen reigned about six years. There were female judges, such as Deborah. By God’s own laws, he could use the daughters of the king to assure David’s continuity.”

[See Gen.49:10, Gen.46:12, Num.27:8, Joshua 17:6, Judges 4:4-9]

“There were two daughters, Tamar (Tea Tephi) and Scota, for whom Scotland was named, so some historians tell us. Because of a family relationship, the care of the girls fell to Jeremiah the Prophet, and Baruch, his scribe. God told Jeremiah, ‘See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms to root out and to pull down, to destroy and to throw down, to BUILD and to PLANT.’ Ezekiel 17 is about the ‘topmost twig’ of the cedar tree (representative of royalty), and Tea Tephi being the princess through whom the House of David could be carried. Jeremiah and Baruch took her and her sister to Ireland where the other line of Zarah-Judah was already involved in sea traffic and mercantile trade. Tea Tephi married Eochaidh the Heemon, King of Ireland, a descendant of the Zarah line of Judah, thus joining both of Judah’s twin sons in the royal line – from whom have come the kings of Ireland, Scotland and England to this day. The House of David was in the Holy Place. They would stay there awaiting the time when the Holy of Holies could come into existence and our King would return to earth. We are assured Tea Tephi married into the tribe of her fathers, She was of the twin son, Pharez, and her husband of the Zarah line.”

[See Ezek.17:3-10, Num.36:6-8]

“We have Tea Tephi’s poems and story of her trip, and she names those with her, and Irish history carries the story of their shipwreck at Carrickfergus, off the coast of northern Ireland. Royal records of the arrival of Jeremiah coincide with the scriptural date of their flight to Egypt, and then West.”

“We can visit Jeremiah’s grave in Loch Erne, a land-locked island in Ireland, and at Meath, north of Dublin, one can visit the spot at TARA where Tea Tephi is interred.”

“Tea Tephi, Scota, JKeremiah and Baruch had taken with them, among other items of interest, the stone on which the kings of Israel had been crowned. Today, this stone is in the throne chair of England, in Westminster Abbey, with a sign that says it is believed to be the stone Jacob slept on! God’s Kingdom is called a stone kingdom. This is perfect symbology. The Bible says the throne would be overturned three times before Christ came for it. Tea Tephi took (the throne and) the stone to Ireland circa 580 B.C., and for 1083 years Irish kings were crowned on this stone. In 503 A.D., Fergus (the Great) crossed from Ulster, Ireland to Iona, Scotland with the stone, and around 563 A.D. Saint Columba had Lia Fail (the name by which you find information in the Encyclopedia about this stone), the stone of Jacob, taken to Scotland.”

[See 2 Kings 11:14, Dan. 2:45, Ezek.21:27]

“In the Scottish National Library there is a Galic manuscript written by Dugaid the Scot, son of McPhail, in 1467, containing the complete genealogy of Scottish kings, showing descent from Irish kings, to Abraham through Judah. The stone stayed in Scone, Scotland until 1296 A.D., when it was transferred to London by Edward I, and a chair was constructed to hold it. All British kings and queens have been crowned upon it.”

“God has verified Ezekiel’s prophecy. The throne did overturn three times, from: 1) Jerusalem to Ireland, 2) Ireland to Scotland, and 3) Scotland to England where it is between Judah’s feet until Christ (Shiloh) comes. AND IT WILL BE GIVEN HIM. The Kingdom (and her King) would come to the daughter of Jerusalem-America. The Lord shall reign over them in Mount Zion-America (Jerusalem is where the church is. Zion is the place from where the laws of God go forth). America is spoken of as New Zion, New Jerusalem and daughter Zion, daughter Jerusalem. The throne will have one more overturn to His Holy of Holies, His Kingdom, when He joins His two sticks into one Kingdom in America.”

[See Gen.49:10; Zech.14:9,14; Micah 4:8, Jer.23:5-6]

“While the royal line of David was being preserved in the WEST, God was preparing Judah in Babylon to return and rebuild Old Jerusalem and the Temple again. The Assyrian Empire had been conquered by the Babylonians. Now the great Babylonian Empire was being overcome by the Medes and Persians (modern-day Iran and Iraq.

“While in Babylon, some of these Israelites of Judah did not practice the segregation required always of Israel. They MINGLED the HOLY SEED with that of the people of the lands of Babylon, taking their sons and daughters to marry. The people of Babylon are as follows: Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, Ammonites, Moabites, Egyptians, Amorites (Neh. 13:1).”

[See Ezra 9:1-2, Ezra 9:1]

“This is almost an identical list of the nations in Deut. 7:1 that God told Israel to kill…wipe out…destroy, even children.

“There were many with no (kept) genealogies (only Israelites have ever kept genealogies as a race). They were polluted, ‘They could not show their father’s house, nor their seed whether they were of Israel.’ They separated from Judah (segregation), all the mixed multitude, when they had heard the LAW OF GOD.”

[Ezra 2:59,62; Neh.7:60-69; Neh. 13:3]

“However, there was a group who did not intermarry with those wicked forbidden races. Zerubbabel, a forefather of Jesus who is found in both the Matthew and Luke genealogy of Jesus, was pure of race, and thus could build the Temple (Matt.1:12; Luke 3:27). Abijah, a forefather of John the Baptist (Luke 1:5) was also pure and qualified to build the Temple. This is very POSITIVE EVIDENCE that neither John nor Jesus – who were cousins – were JEWS.”

[See Ezra 4:1-3, Neh.10:7]

“We have some of the wives of these God-fearing and obedient men raising a great cry against their ‘brethren the Jews,’ Judahites who had married Babylonian seed. They had learned the art of USURY in Babylon, something that the Bible forbids Israelites to have anything to do with. These evil people were ‘Exacting usury, everyone of his brother.’ Nehemiah said for them to leave off the usury, and to return the land, vinyard, olive orchards, houses, corn, wine, oil that they were exacting of them. It sounds much like our modern farm crisis.”

[See Neh.5:1; Neh. 5:7, 10-11; Deut.23:18-19]

“Assyria took Israel and Judah out of the land and brought in their own people, and Sabeans. The poor of Israel who had been left behind intermarried with them and became known as the ‘Samaritans.’ When Babylon moved Judah to Babylon, no people were brought into the land, but it lay idle for 70 years. The Judahites in Babylon did marry the Babylonians and became known as ‘Jews.’ In 1400 B.C. the ten-tribed Israel had married into the same seven forbidden races, much to God’s displeasure. This led to His divorcing them and sending them away into captivity for 2,520 years.”

[See Judges 3:6]

Caveat: There are two areas here that need special attention. One is that the Edomites appeared to migrate into the area from their ancient homeland around Mount Seir. These formed a territory which came to be known as Idumea [Mozart wrote an opera entitled "Idumea," based on these people]. Hence, it isn’t likely that the lands vacated by the Judahites were long unattended to by either farmers and/or herders. Additionally, since the Edomites were great traders, this area may have had significant economic activity. Secondly, we know from 2 kings that a people know as “Jews” existed in the area of Ailat. This is an interesting story. However, in outline, the “Jews of Ailat” appear to be the mixed off-spring of Judah and his Canaanite wife, Sura. They occupied an area just south of the Kingdom of Judah. This makes good Biblical orthodoxy, according to its Law, since a mixed population could not live within the congregation of Israelites of Judah. Being relatives, they abode on the boundary lands to the south. Interestingly, their neighbors were the Edomites about Mount Seir. The Edomites were the mixed descendants of Esau and his Canaanite wives. Although Babylon had a significant population of Amalekites, some of these escaped the sword in the days of Esther by converting or at least prertending to be some other group. Those that did probably ending up intermarrying with the Babylonian Jews. Now, as Amalek appears to be a descendant of Esau and his Canaanite wives, it is their intermarriage with the Judahites that engendered the word “Jew.” Since “Joo” appears to represent the sound of the first syllable of “Judah,” it may have been used as a slang identifier of an individual as “half-Judah” or “part-Judah.” Be that as it may, the term “Jew” appears to have been used long before the Kingdom of Judah collapsed under Babylonian pressure , invasion and siege. However, the term does seem to connote a mix of Judah and another people. Interestingly, the tendency of Jews throughout the post-Jerusalem diaspora to change their names and identities to conceal their true “nationalitiy” may be traced most strongly to the Amalekite bloodline that entered during the long Babylonian residence.

“When Judah returned to Jerusalem from Babylon, they were two very distinct people. They lived side by side for 400 years. The mixed seed known as Jews was one group, and the pure seed group were the ‘good basket of figs’ out of Judah. The one group would kill Jesus, the other would ‘return to Him with their whole heart.’ “

[See Matt.21:38,45; Jer.24:7]

“From A Pictorial History Of The Jewish People we learn the Jews returned with the ’synagogue,’ while the pure devout held to the Temple (God’s House of Prayer). They looked forward to the coming of Christ. The Jews brought back the Babylonian Talmud (‘halacah’ or oral tradition), while the pure-seeded kept the scrolls of THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. Christ read from a scroll of Isaiah 61:2.

“Nehemiah calls our attention to what may be the first history of ‘Yiddish.’ Judahites had wed wives of Ashdod, Ammon and Moab. Their children spoke half in the speech of Ashdod and could not speak the Jews’ language, but mixed their tongue according to the language of each people.”

[See Neh.13:23-34]

“Paul asked if God had cast away His people? Then he quoted from 1 Kings 19:18, that God still had 7,000 who had not bowed their knees to Baal. This is how (and why) the writer of Acts could say there were ‘devout men out of every nation’ in Jerusalem at Pentacost. If representatives of ‘every nation under heaven’ were hearing in their own tongue, or language of the country from which they had come, and they were addressed by Peter as ‘ye men of Judea/Israel,’ it is reasonable to believe they had come to the Feast of Pentecost, since it was required of Israel’s males to appear before the Lord three times a year: at Passover, at Pentecost and at the Feast of the Tabernacles. This was Pentecost and these were present local residents and some of the ‘devout’ dispersed of Israel. Many nations are mentioned, the first four being of the Persian Empire. Arabians and those in Asia could have been those of India, which the book of Esther mentions.”

[See Rom.11:1-5; Acts 2:4. ;Acts 2:8, 2:14,22; deut. 16:16; Ex.23:17; Acts 2:9; Esther 8:6]

“Peter addressed the ’strangers scattered abroad’ and in the next verse qualified it by saying they were ELECT (Israel is God’s elect – Isa.45:4).”

[See 1 Pet.1:1-2]

“Our understanding will be enhanced by considering what the Americana Encyclopedia says about Gaul, the land of the Galatians. Caesar, in his Gaelic wars, said all Gaul was divided into three parts, one part called Gallic Transalpina (over the Alps to the east just where ten-tribed Israel had wandered into Romania and Transalpina and on toward Germany). Another part of Gaul was Cisalpina, running along upper Italy to the Adriatic where much of Judah would pass on their way to Italy and Spain. The third part was from the Pyrenees Mountains between Spain and France as we know it, where vast numbers settled. This section of Gaul ran to the Rhine River and Treves (which was settled with Israelites by Assyria. In 307 A.D. this group of Celts seem to have disappeared. Could these be those Anglo-Saxons no one seems to know the origin of? The encyclopedia says their kinsmen were British.”

NOTE: This conjecture is probably incorrect. The city of Augusta Treverorum was founded by an “Assyrian” prince named Trebeta. Why an Assyrian prince of that blood would want to found a city so far away from his ancient homeland is a mystery. However, an Israelite who had achieved a granted status for good work – something akin to a prince – might well want to escape from a place controlled by another people. Such a man might have been of royal blood to begin with – the royal blood of Judah, which surely was possessed by some of the high officials in the outlying cities of the Kingdom of Judah, which were taken, along with the House of Israel by the Assyrians. The ill-will felt toward the citizens of the House of Israel might not be felt as intensely toward the Israelites of Judah. We know from the Bible that Joseph had achieved great estate in Egypt. Moses was a “prince” of Egypt. It was not unheard of for Israelites to achieve a lofty status in a foreign land. Personally, I suspect that “Trebeta” was an Israelite. I believe it accords better with Biblical prophecy. He was a “trail-blazer” for a flood of Israelites interesting in finding a new land away from the bondage and endless warmaking in that area. Furthermore, there is better reason to suppose that these people who “suddenly vanished” were part of the Galatian Kelts, speaking that language. Since the Roman authorities forsook this area about 395 A.D. in a drastic retrenchment, it is reasonable that some of the Galatians in that area saw the “writing on the wall” long before. Since the Franks took this area in the late 5th Century, it is reasonable to assume that they and other “Germanic” tibes were putting pressure on the area of Treves long before the Roman pull-out. Indeed, Angles and/or Saxons tribal elements might have been part of this pressure. However, with a stronger Frank position present, the Angles and Saxons probably began to focus on the Island across the channel. It should be kept in mind that it was primarily the Franks and Burgundians that stopped Attila. They were also the people of Charlemagne. It is very easy to suppose that the fierce Angles and Saxons would view the occupants of the big island across the channel as an easier foe to overcome. Who was on this island? Certainly the middle and lower part were occupied by Briton Kelts. They were probably closely related to the Kelts of Brittany, France. When the Angles and perhaps some Saxons, as well, invaded Britain, they exhibited a savagery that put great pressure on the Kelts. Certainly, some are known to have fled to Brittany. Isn’t it reasonable that the bulk of those British Kelts that fled the Angles were descended from Galatian Kelts who had earlier fled the pressure from the Franks? Therefore, the suddenly missing Galatian Kelts which Pastor Emry conjectured might have become Angles and/or Saxons, probably had sailed across the channel to the lands of the Briton Kelts, whose language and cultural traits they shared. When the Romans left, a new “pecking order” had to be established in that part of Gaul and southwest Germany, including Treves (Trier).

“The Companion Bible, in ‘Introductory Notes to Galatians,’ enlightens us. ‘It may be added that in Galatia proper, the people spoke in Keltic, a language they used unto at least the time of Jerome, who records hearing the same tongue there as he heard in Treves. The Keltic predominated in Galatia.’ Paul went over all the country of Galatia!”

[See Acts 18:23]

“Paul was preaching and telling them of each of the laws which, if they broke, ‘Ye shall NOT inherit the Kingdom of God.’

[See Gal.5:19-21]

“Like Peter told the Israelites on the day of Pentecost, Paul and all the disciples were going to the ‘other sheep’ Christ said He had, not of the fold in Jerusalem. They were telling them to repent, be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and reception of the Holy Ghost. ‘For the promise is to you and your children and all that are afar off (meaning we of 1987) even as many as the Lord our God shall call.’ “

[See Acts 2:38, John 10:16, Acts 2:39]

“Jesus said, ‘Them (the other sheep) I must bring and they shall hear my voice and there shall be ONE FOLD AND ONE SHEPHERD.’ One nation and one King over all twelve tribes of Israel.”

[See John10:16]

“WE PRAY THY KINGDOM COME…and soon!”

We thank the late Sheldon Emry for putting down his thoughts on this matter. There is food for thought here. Happily, he has left quite a lot of his thoughts about Israel with Americans. Most could not avail themselves of his thoughts. Powerful interests always attempt to stifle such messages. Let’s hope that the “Day of the Adversary” draws close to its “Good Night!”

Gobigfoot, 2009.

Rachel lets Chloe say "Good-bye" to Aunt Viv.

This is a rather failed effort at producing a canine comedy of manners blended with an adventure/kidnap/chase flick. Naturally, the “thinking” and personalties of the dog characters are indistinguishable from that of humans. The entirety of the scenes at the outset of the movie represented a characature of the New Money crowd, which is rendered by the humans and echoed by their pooches. Every element of the film is stale. Nevertheless, one may find something humorous along the way. It is directed by Raja Gosnell.

STORYLINE:   While rich patron schmoozed in Europe, her pampered Chihuahua pet went on a “south of the border” trip with her “Mom pro tempore.” The “fun-run” became a nightmare when pooch Chloe was kidnapped by shady hombres operating a dogfight business. A “down-on-his-luck” Rin Tin Tin lookalike proved to be Chloe’s wonder dog. He was not the only one, as the Chuhuahua, Papi, a not-so-secret admirer of Chloe, had joined his master, the young landscaper, Pedro, in a separate rescue effort. Pedro and Rachel joined forces in the chase. Love, danger, and a menagerie mixed it up, as they all converged on Chloe. Guess what? Mom returned from Europe, embraced her “baby” and suddenly discovered a new perfume line for her business. It’s sort of earthy, doncha know?

COMMENTARY:     As her wealthy owner-”Mom” prepared for a business trip in Europe to promote her company’s new cosmetic line, she consigned her “little treasure” to the care of her niece, Rachel (Perabo), who wasn’t overjoyed at the burden but who knew who controlled the big bucks. The little treasure has the name Chloe, and she was a Chihuahua diva of Rodeo Drive. The pampered pooch has a set of canine “beautiful people” pals, affording all who noticed them the opportunity to consider the vacuity of folks unable to, or unwilling to, utilize excess wealth for the general good. Tellingly, Aunt Viv (Curtis) has made her big bucks in cosmetics, where she assisted “stinking people” to hide their “crimes” from the nose of the World Community.

Yet, the little Eden of Aunt Viv and Chloe is not entirely posh. There are hired people there to play the valet, landscaper, and the like. The landscaper, Pedro, is young, assured, and confident in his professional abilities. However, he is usually referenced as “gardener.” As an attraction can be detected between Pedro and Rachel, Aunt Viv’s niece, as the film progressed, there is an element of Lady Chatterly’s Lover hinted at but not developed.

This film is like that. Thematic snippets from other films were introduced suddenly then allowed to quickly fade away, as the body of the action plowed through it, episode after episode plodding toward the film’s appointed climax. Can you say, “Walkies!”

All of this is preparation for a “consciousness-raising” experience by Chloe. The little white canine Chihuahua experienced an abrupt alteration of her surroundings, forcing her to rely on the kindnesses of stray dogs ( rat & iguana, too). Further, though  these were mostly “right on” dogs, not every dog wagged an honest tail.

How did this come about? Rachel took her “ward for the week” on a fun weekend in Mexico, and Chloe got nabbed by shady hombres in the dog-fighting racket. Now Chloe, still mostly dressed like “Bride of Chuckie in Vegas,” found herself in a dirty underground chamber filled with big, rough-looking dogs. Naturally, she got teased a bit. In a cage nearby lurked a big German Shepherd with an ominously deep, yet world-weary voice. It’s Delgado (Garcia). He put her down, too, but you correctly got the feeling he’s going to be her guardian bowzer. The king of the fighting dogs was El Diablo, a mean-looking Doberman. Every experienced moviegoer expected that Delgado and El Diablo must have a tousle at or near the climax of the film. As the story progressed, Delgado was revealed to be a former canine cop, who had had issues with El Diablo from the old days.

Promptly, Chloe was released into the pit that was walled and overlooked by a crowd of dog-fight enthusiasts. She was hooted at, as she was dressed like a slightly soiled, Vegas showgirl. Across from her was the dark, menacing El Diablo. By now, Delgado, emoting like a reluctant William Holden-character, has, with a “I-could-kick-myself” attitude, set forth to rescue the “fair damsel.” He did, in fact, save Chloe from El Diablo by briefly opening the escape gate, allowing her slip out, and then closing it on El Diablo before he could enter.

There followed a Spartacus homage, as the canine exodus by all the “gladiator” dogs penned in the chamber beneath the fight facility occurred pell-mell, compliments of Delgado. Into the streets the revolting gladiator-dogs charged, and then the romance of it all was dashed by Delgado telling Chloe that she was on her own. “It’s a dog-eat-dog world,” he advised her. She pled with him not to leave her all alone, and with loathing and dread, the German Shepherd stopped, turned to take a last look at the “little white missy,” and, grumbling to himself, returned to help her. He mentioned a hotel that Chloe remembered having stayed at with her biped “Mom.” It was settled; Delgado would escort her there.

It was a good thing, as the shady operator of the dogfighting facility had commanded El Diablo to get the little white Chihuahua. From this point a secondary chase plot is inaugerated, more or less counterpointing and paralleling the chase effort of Rachel, Pedro, Papi, and the police. Count the weak and brief chase effort of Manuel, the rat, and his iguana pal, pursuing the diamond-necklace/dog-collar once occupying the neck of Chloe, and you can say three.

This episodic film allowed the Disney people to render life in Mexico in a way that is comprehensible to American tourists. However, there is an entirely curious and quazi-”racist” episode with Montezuma, the leader of a tribe of Chihuahuas that called an Aztec ruin, including sacrificial, step-pyramid temple, their “home.” Why the Disney people went this route is not easily understood. Since all the dogs were, for the most part, disguised humans, the Montezuma-led clan’s assertion of a special Chihuahua “soul” which the Chihuahuas of the world must perceive and embrace, saying “No mas” to any forms that profaned this ideal, seemed consistent with some of the blowsy postulations of the Nazis. Or La Raza, for that matter. It jarred with the social “education” afforded Chloe by the stray dogs she had encountered during her adventure in Mexico.

All in all, this is an uneven adventure. If you choose to go, dress accordingly. Cologne/perfume anyone?

Cast Voices: Chloe-Drew Barrymore, Papi-George Lopez, Delgado-Andy Garcia, Manuel-Cheech Marin, Montezuma-Placido Domingo, El Diablo-Edward James Olmos

Cast: Aunt Viv-Jamie Lee Curtis, Rachel-Piper Perabo, Pedro-Axel Alba

All rights reserved. Gobigfoot, 2009

Today, a mood came over me that required an uncommon culinery approach to my evening meal. My mind became attached to the idea of eating sweet potato, as the center element of my meal. There can be nothing gained by speculating on why this situation manifested itself. I certainly don’t know. Yet, I believe that it is somehow connected to my childhood and my Mom’s cooking. What I saw, smelled or heard that may have touched the dormant stone of memory that centered on sweet potatoes cannot be fingered. Yet, touched my memory was, and I was impelled toward a new culinery adventure. I thought I’d share it with you, as it was quite a success.

In the South the sweet potato is often called a “yam.” However, overwhelmingly what is referenced as “yam” is, in fact, a sweet potato. As a matter of fact the yam family ( Dioscoreaceae) is far removed from the sweet potato family (Convolvulaceae), which is part of the Morning Glory family. Sweet potato is a shorter, blockier vegetable than yam, which may grow several feet in length and around 150 pounds. The skin of a sweet potato is thin and smooth, while a yam is dark, rough and scaley. As a matter of fact the yam on its outside resembles the bark of a tree. However, it has a higher natural sugar content than sweet potato. Hence, I suspect that it has been brewed into an intoxicating drink or porridge on occasion in its long relationship with man.

The fact that sweet potato was often dubbed “yam” in the South indicates the African influence, I believe, as well as that of the early Spanish explorers and colonizers. The yam is native to West Africa and New Guinea, too, it seems. The West African Wolof people called it “nyam” which means “taste,” “eat” or “sample.” The Portuguese termed it “inhamo” and the Spanish “name.” The yam has been dated by modern methods to several thousands of years B.C. However accurate that is, it does clearly mean it is a staple item of food for some people since the origins of cultural groups. That usually means that a certain reverence has been attached to it as a “life sustainer” in difficult times.

Due to the fact that sweet potatoes are tubers, when they were freshly dug from the ground, they must have provoked thoughts of the sweet, starchy nyam amongst African slaves. If the European-derived Southerners referred to these tubers as “sweet potatoes” and the African-derived people referred to them as “yams,” then it is not surprising that these two terms became interchangeable for the same foodstuff, although technically incorrect. Certainly, I grew into adulthood using them in this fashion.

This adventure began at a Harris Teeter supermarket in McLean, Virginia. Looking for inspiration in the Produce department, I found myself nearly overwhelmed by tempting fruits and vegetables. Then, suddenly, across an expanse of counters and shelves, I saw a reddish-orange, ovate “charmer.” It was a sweet potato. I was drawn to it by a strange and strong force of the mind.

In the shelving that contained these potatoes there were several varieties and shapes. However, I was drawn to the more typically shaped potato, as opposed to the elongated ones. As it happened, there was a Produce associate nearby, and we fell into a conversation about “yams.”

Initially, I had “toyed” with the idea of trying to make a potato salad, using yams. Trying to imagine how mayonnaise might work with sweet potato, I was sensing that this might not be a really workable combination. I was fully committed to a sweet/tart experience. This Produce associate suggested that I use creme fraiche rather than mayonnaise. I perceived the merit of this plan and went with it. I thanked him for this suggestion and went forth to buy the ingredients that were coming to my mind as participants in my evening meal.

First, I took possession of a large sweet potato, followed by a small container of Alouette Creme Fraiche. It costs about $7, which is relatively expensive. Then I collected apples, bananas, pears, and two Italian sweet sausages, which were made by Harris Teeter workers and which would be witnesses to my triumph or folly. I paid for my “raw” ingredients and headed home.

Arriving at my culinery laboratory, I set out at once to prepare the sweet potato. Having washed it, I peeled the potato, which was about five inches long and about three inches in diameter at the center. The peeled potato had a light orange color, but if you went a tad deeper, you would encounter a lovely, deeper orange. As there were plenty of things to do, I did not linger over esthetic considerations. I diced the potato into five medallions. I found the raw texture quite firm. Each of these medallions was then cut into four parts, leaving a total of twenty sections.

I then sprinkled to my taste these shards of yam with cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg. As I had sliced the potato into a microwavable container, I sealed the lid and placed the dish into the microwave. I set the device at seven minutes.

As this microwave was cooking the sweet potato, I placed the sausage links into another microwavable container, sliced half an onion and diced two cloves of garlic into the container, sprinkled pepper and Italian seasonings to taste, sealed the container and placed it into a separate, smaller microwave. I set the gauge to four minutes.

Then, reaching for a Gala apple, I quartered it, gutted it,  and peeled it in preparation for its future wedding with the sweet potato. At this point I thought that I might use the whole apple, but at the point of decision, I decide upon only half an apple.

Additionally, I reached for a small box of Sunshine raisins, which I had decided would fit the cuisine being prepared, as well as my taste. This proved to be a fine addition to the finished production.

I had to forego my vision of a Bartlett pear as an ingredient. While it may have worked well in the dish being prepared, the selected pears were just not quite ripe enough. I’m curious how the sweet, golden-ripe pear might work, perhaps using a diced half. Still, there were already plenty of sweet ingredients.

I was called back to the task by the beeping of my microwave. My model is damnably insistent when done with a cycle.

I carefully removed the lid, allowing a bellow of steam to escape. After making a quick scan, I knew I was on the right track. I turned the orange rhomboidal shards and then introduced the raisins, apple rhomboids, and slices of one banana. Replacing the lid, I returned the container to the microwave, set the dial at four minutes, and “fired it up.”

Just about then, I turned to the other microwave to remove the container with the sausages. I carefully opened the lid. Immediately I perceived that a drain-off of “juices” was required. This done with due caution, I turned the links, replaced the lid, and returned it to its microwave. I set the gauge at two minutes or so.

About this time, my “sweet potato ragout” was ready to inspect. Carefully lifting the lid, I rejoiced at the pleasant odor. Additionally, it rested in a very comely fashion. It wasn’t nervous. There was a majesty about it. Yet, the proof of the pudding had yet to be made. I stirred the ingredients gently, allowing the pieces to resituate themselves. I decided that another two minutes in the microwave would suit me, although, in retrospect, I believe I could have successfully proceeded to the next step without the additional two minutes. Here, then, one deals with the issue of texture and personal taste. Do, then, what is good for you.

After the next two minute process, I removed the container reeking with “ooo-la-la” promise. Dash it all! This was going to be good. Yet, I had already succombed to a radical urge: I would sprinkle a modest “dusting” of Cheerios on my sweet potato ragout. Additionally, and radically, I decided to also sprinkle a tablespoon of chocolate-flavored Carb-Fit Shake Mix on the top. I don’t recommend such bold aberration to the novice.

I allowed the dish to sit a minute or two. At this point both my dishes were sitting.

Then I reached for my container of Alouette Creme Fraiche. When I had finished emptying the small container of jello-like cream into the container bearing the sweet potato mix, I commenced to blending it together, as I would any other potato salad. The container of creme fraiche proved to be the perfect size for my mixture. It came together beautifully. Parenthetically, although the Cheerios seemed to dissolve, they did introduce a slight roasted-oat strain. The chocolate mix I had added was insufficient to overwhelm; it could only add a note of curious flavor.

I let the mixture sit a minute.

Then I added the last master-stroke. I added a tablespoon of Smuckers Natural Crunchy Peanut Butter. This large gout of peanut butter was centered. I then let it sit a couple of minutes.

During this time I ate my sausage dish. Very tasty it was.

Now, my appetite “tweaked,” I turned to my wonderful combination of veggie-dessert. The peanut butter proved a smashing addition, and the whole dish a marvel of flavor and texture. I do believe that less cooking time would result in better diversity of texture. As always, stay true to your taste in food. This dish could be a welcome addition to your household. It lends itself well to variation. For me I’ll stick to the key ingredients of sweet potato and creme fraiche, then let my imagination be my guide.

All rights reserved. Gobigfoot, 2009.

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.                                                                                                          

Uncle Wayne salutes the "Good Life."

Conner Mead and aide, Sandra

This movie faithfully followed the storyline of Mr. Charles Dickens’ A CHRISTMAS CAROL. It was so blantant that protagonist Conner Mead, toward the film’s end leaned out a second floor window and in the best of spirits yelled to a passerby, “Is It Christmas?” Well, it’s not “Merry Christmas” exactly, but the sound pattern is close. In this retelling of Dickens’ tale the vice to consider is hedonism rather than miserliness. To be more focused sexual libertinism is the fault.

The film opened with famed photographer, Conner Mead (McConaughey) demonstrating his skills with a camera and at the same time with beautiful women. [This film gave minor roles to a large number of pretty women.] He was enjoying himself. Then, here came a downer. He was obliged to attend a weekend wedding rehearsal, as the groom was his brother Paul (Meyer), and Conner had agreed to be best man. His self-centered ways came close to spoiling the wedding plans of Paul and Vonda. She was given to “spells,” anyway, and her father, the sergeant, is both granite-faced and a bit weird. There was an old untouched flame attending by the name of Jenny Perotti (Garner). Throwing everything out of Earthly orbit was the appearance in this film of a Marley correlative, Uncle Wayne (Douglas). He had been Conner’s mentor in the “love ‘em & leave ‘em” school of wooing. “Enjoy yourself, Conner, because you’ve got only one ride through the park” being a reasonable interpretation of his playboy philosophy. Since Uncle Wayne was dead, his appearance to Conner at the old Mead Estate in Rhode Island was an unexpected event. Death hadn’t changed him much. He warns Conner that he will be visited by a “Ghost of Girlfriends Past” and also by a Ghostly Gal of the Future. At the rehearsal Conner tried to rekindle something with his childhood girlfriend, Jenny, who, after all, had not been conquered by him. There is potential competition from Brad, who is a doctor. She’s a medical doctor now also, certainly was no fool, but, yes, still had a place in her heart for Conner, if he’d just change. She had been his past, was now free in his present, but would she be his future? The combination of ghostly re-introductions to his past, a better understanding of Uncle Wayne’s life, and a ghostly revelation of his likely end, given his past and present, had a way of opening Conner’s eyes. He saw that a life full of love-making was not the same as a life full of love. As with A CHRISTMAS CAROL, this is a film with a positive conclusion.

The film attempted a variety of comedic moments from very witty (Barnard College) to slapstick (wedding cake disaster) with better than anticipated results. However, humor is  subjective. Yet, this light romantic comedy should appeal to many. Don’t expect any of the actors to be nominated for an Academy Award. The film was directed by Mark Waters.

Players: Matthew McConaughey as Conner, Jennifer Garner as Jeremy Perotti, Michael Douglas as Uncle Wayne, Breckin Meyer as Paul Mead, Lacey Chabert as Sandra, Robert Forster as Sergeant Volkom, Anne Archer as Vonda Volkom, and Daniel Sunjata as Brad.

All rights reserved. Gobigfoot, 2009
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