Hope of Israel Ministries (Ecclesia of YEHOVAH):
Do We of Israel Have a Heavenly Mandate?
Celto-Saxon leadership in the world is found to have a Heavenly purpose that is firmly based upon Divine decree as confirmed in the pages of Holy Scripture. Christendom has historically been closely associated with the Celto-Saxon peoples of Europe, America, and other lands. This was no accidental happening, for Israel was destined to be Christian in the church age. |
by Jory Steven Brooks
In multiple travels to London, England, an enjoyable side-trip has been a walk down to the River Thames and its many historic sites. Among the things to admire is the beautiful, immense stone monument honoring Boadicea (or Boudicca), the Queen of the lceni, who died A.D. 61 fighting for freedom from Roman invasion. It was designed by Thomas Thornycroft and installed in 1902. The widowed queen is shown roughly riding a chariot with her two daughters, led by two agitated horses rearing violently. On the right, river side, is inscribed a single stanza of an inspiring 1782 poem by poet and hymn writer, William Cowper (1731-1800) which reads, "Regions Caesar never knew, thy posterity shall sway."
The entire poem, entitled Boadicea: An Ode is too long to print in entirety here, but the following relevant stanzas say much about the Celto-Saxon nations in YEHOVAH God's plan and purposes:
'Then the progeny that springs
From the forests of our land,
Armed with thunder, clad with wings,
Shall a wider world command.'Regions Caesar never knew
Thy posterity shall sway,
Where his eagles never flew,
None invincible as they.'Such the bard's prophetic words,
Pregnant with celestial fire,
Bending, as he swept the chords
Of his sweet but awful lyre.'Ruffians, pitiless as proud,
Heaven awards the vengeance due:
Empire is on us bestowed,
Shame and ruin wait for you.'
In these turbulent end-times we witness public monuments and nearly all other signs of Western history and culture coming under attack by misbegotten lawless mobs. There is a loud cry that these symbols of our heritage are an imprudent form of "White supremacy" and "White privilege." The poet Cowper, however, put in the mouth of a religious bard a claim that our ascendency in world affairs was actually due to a heavenly mandate.
In the Bible, the people of Israel were promised just such a bestowal of world leadership. The Believers Bible Commentary on Psalm 114:2 says, "In time the territory assigned to the tribe of Judah became God's sanctuary. The temple was erected there in Jerusalem. And the entire land of [ten-tribe] Israel became His dominion -- an area He tended with unwearied care. What was true in a geographic sense of Judah and Israel then is true in a spiritual sense of the church today."
Yet is it only spiritual or do Abraham's latter-day descendants -- the House of Judah and Ten-Tribe Ephraim-Israel have a literal material Divine appointment as well? It is important to note that Christendom has historically been closely associated with the Celto-Saxon peoples of Europe, America, and other lands. This was no accidental happening, for Israel was destined to be Christian in the church age.
We read about this in Hosea 3:5,
"Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days."
The biblical term, "latter days," refers to the period between the Messiah's two appearances -- the Church Age. Again in Ephesians 1:1-12, we are informed that Israel was predestined to receive adoption to the Messiah, and 1 Peter 2:9-10 explained,
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His marvelous light: Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy."
Yet the Divine Promises were not just spiritual, but literal as well. All nations were to be blessed in Abraham's physical seed (Genesis 12:1-3), civilizing, evangelizing, saving. Biblical commentator, the late Fredrick Meyer, a converted Jew and Vicar of Barnet, stated, "The great design of...Jehovah is to glorify Himself in the recovery of a fallen world by means of Abraham's seed."
The Speaker's Commentary recognizes this fact in its annotation on Isaiah 10:22:
"The prophet being about to utter a divine mystery turns to address God...The verse appears to look back to the similar enigmatical passage Hosea 1:9-10, where the sentence on [Ten-Tribe] Israel, 'Ye are not My people,' is followed immediately by a prediction that 'the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered.' Ephraim was soon to be cut off from being a people (Hosea 7:8). It should lose its name and be scattered across a Gentile world; not, however, to perish, but, in accordance with the mysterious oracle (Gen. 48:16-19), to multiply like fish in the midst of the earth, and to become the fullness of nations (Vol. V, p.106)."
There is no other "fullness of the Gentiles" mentioned in the Bible but that of Ten-Tribe Ephraim-Israel!
Scripture is not silent concerning the exile and dispersion of the Ten Tribes from the scene of their Assyrian captivity. They were to be "wanderers among the nations," as Hosea predicted (9:17), or as Amos (9:9) says, "I will sift the House of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth."
Irish Archdeacon, the late Denis Hanan wrote, "God's election of the seed of Abraham is either a failure or must be sought among the Gentiles." Their descendants today are to be found as the Bible foretold in "the fullness of the Gentiles."
If this be true, do the words of the bard conform to Scripture? Would Israel possess "a wider world
, command"? Genesis 27:29 attests to this: "Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee..." Would Israel's posterity "sway," inherit or have authority over "regions Caesar never knew"? Isaiah 49:8 promised, "I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages." Would latter-day Israel be an "invincible" power? Micah 4:13 declares, "Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the LORD of the whole earth."Would "empire" be bestowed on latter-day Israel? Psalm 2:8 promised, "Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession." Other biblical passages confirm that the promised empire of the seed of Abraham was not just a vision of mere shepherd tents and flocks and herds, but of throne and scepters and peoples and nations originating in himself.
A more complete list of over 100 similar Israel prophecies fulfilled in the Celto-Saxon nations is given in the appendix to The Story of Celto-Saxon Israel by W. H. Bennett.
The late Dr. Horatio Bonar gave confirmation to a Celto-Saxon mandate in these words:
"Let all the world know that there is a nation whom God delights to honour; and whom He honours by making use of her gold and her power to transmit His Book, and the Gospel which that Book contains, to all kindreds of the earth."
And the late Charles Haddon Spurgeon agreed saying, "Our nation has been as much under the peculiar and special providence of God as were the descendants of Jacob themselves, and therefore God deals with us as He does not deal with other nations."
Celto-Saxon leadership in the world is thus found to have a Heavenly purpose that is firmly based upon Divine decree as confirmed in the pages of Holy Scripture.
Understanding who we are is key to finding the truth out about history and the relevance Christianity has to it. All the blessings and curses for the Israelites in the Bible apply to us. Our oldest law systems were derived from the original laws we used to follow that were passed down from Adam through Seth, Noah, Shem and Abraham and on to Moses. The ancient laws that Alfred the Great recorded in 890 A.D. are the same laws that the Biblical Israelites kept and his laws are acknowledged as having the same source as the Brehon laws of Ireland and Scotland.
Our nations are much like individual people, forgetting their childhood in the mists of time and fighting among one another like brothers do. Christianity reminded us of our history and our unique place among the tribes of the world. The remnant that was saved from the ten tribes of Israel and dispersed into the lands of the Gentiles (nations) went on to become the great nations of Europe. Paul’s epistles were written to them, to the Galatians (Celts), to the Corinthians and Ephesians (Greeks), to the Hebrews (Europeans who had remembered who they were), and to the Romans.
In the epistle to the Romans Paul makes explicit reference to the Romans being the wild olives that through the Messiah will be grafted back onto the tree, the tree being Israel. He is identifying the Romans as being descended from Jacob Israel and fulfilling the promises made to him about his posterity. He makes it clear that all that Rome achieved was through them being these wild olives and that now is the time of their fullness.
The first church building above ground was built by Joseph of Arimathea in Glastonbury Britain, and both Gildas and John Chrysostom record this as being in 36 A.D. Romans 1:16 tells us that the gospel went first to the Judahites and then to the Greeks, meaning the small amount of Judahites left in Jerusalem and the entire country of them residing in Britain. The Antiquities of Glastonbury also confirm that Joseph was commissioned by the Apostle Philip to bring the faith to Britain in the reign of Tiberius.
There were Anchorites/Hermits here at that time that they joined up with, who lived an ascetic lifestyle similar to the Brahmins of the ancient Aryan Hindu culture. The Bishop of Rome that gets spoken of then was actually the Bishop of the British church at Rome. The first pope was British and this probably played a large part in Emperor Claudius edict to exterminate Britain in 43 A.D. Archbishop Ussher also tells us that the first nation to proclaim themselves Christian were the British in 156 A.D., a long time before the Roman empire adopted and distorted it.
After the Romans were finally expelled for good around 400 A.D., the Angles and the Saxons invaded Britain pushing the Celtic Church west, concentrating it in Wales and Ireland where they held out until the Anglo Saxons had settled down and started building communities, before heading back into Albion with their genealogies and manuscripts, converting them all to the orthodox faith.
The country wasn’t finally united as one again like in Brutus’ day until the Sainted King, Alfred the Great succeeded in repelling the Viking hordes in 880 A.D. All this time Britain was Anglo-Orthodox and it wasn’t until 1066 and the invasion of William the Conqueror that the faith was forcibly changed to that of apostate Rome. Since Roman Catholicism is a universalist creed and sought to gain primary rights as the first church, much of Britain’s early recorded Christian history was burnt or destroyed in William’s invasion and after. However traces of our Israelite heritage can still be found; in the original dedication in the King James Bible it makes reference to England being Sion and in the 1933 version it has maps at the back showing where the sons of Shem settled.
There is also the reference to the covenant between YEHOVAH God and man claimed by the nation of Ireland in the Irish constitution, and of course there is our heraldry, which has its origin in symbolized prophecies for the twelve tribes of Israel as given by Jacob-Israel to his sons. The basic heraldry of the nations and families of Europe is identical to those of ancient Israel as outlined in the Bible.
It saddens me to hear British people disregarding and defaming the Bible. It is like seeing someone urinating on their fathers grave. There is a lot more to it than the apostate church would have us believe and the people it was all written and recorded for are the European people. Christianity is our heritage, not Judeo-Christianity, and our relatively comfortable place in the world today is not through our own actions but through YEHOVAH God’s promise to our fathers and his covenant with us. If we obey his law, which is just the natural order codified, we will prosper. If we go against it, then we will suffer, as we see happening all around us now.
-- Edited by John D. Keyser.
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