|   Most Americans have in their homes a  book of 66 books bound in one volume, called simply, "The Bible." This book is  the religious book of 95% of all the churches in the English-speaking nations  such as our own.   Is  the Bible a closed book to you? Or do you understand portions of it, while the  rest remains a mystery? You do want to increase your understanding of the Bible,  do you not? In the next few minutes, I am going to give you a key that will  unlock the mysteries of the Bible. The Bible story begins in Genesis 1:1.-"In  the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." In the rest of chapter 1 we  are told of the creation of the animals and "all living creatures on the earth  and under the sea."   Chapter 2 is of the forming of Adam,  placing him in the garden of Eden, of Eve, their disobedience, and removal from  the Garden. In a few more pages we read of the flood, the saving of Noah and his  household, and the spreading of their descendants across the land.    On  page 9 of my Bible, we learn of the building of the tower of Babel, its destruction, God's confounding  of the people's language, and their dispersion across the earth.    In  only 9 pages. God covers many centuries, including awesome and terrifying  calamities. Then on page 10 God speaks to one man, a man named Abraham, and from  this page on, for over a thousand pages, the Bible is about Abraham and his  descendants.   On  page 10, in Genesis 12, God says to this man:   I will make of thee a great nation,  and I will bless thee and make thy name great, and thou shalt be a blessing, And  I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curseth thee; and in thee  shall all families of the earth be blessed.  Then follows a number of meetings  between God and Abraham. God later meets with Abraham's son, Isaac, and later  with Jacob, the son of Isaac, and repeats the promises (or covenants) made with  Abraham. All of these promises and covenants have to do with the future of  Jacob's children.   The  rest of the Bible deals almost exclusively with these heirs of the covenants and  the promises, called in the Bible, "The children of Israel."    The  Law, the doctrines, the warnings, and admonishments, are addressed to  Israel. All of the Prophets are  Israelites. All of the writers of both the Old Testament and the New Testaments  are Israelites. In Amos 3 God said to Israel, "You only have I known of all  the families of the earth"   Paul said in Romans 9:4 that the  promises and the covenants pertained to Israel:   Who are Israelites; to whom  pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the  law, and the service of God, and the promises.  Abraham, though dead 2,000 years by  the time of Christ, is mentioned 69 times in the New Testament. When Jesus was  born, Zacharias said in Luke 1 that Jesus had come to remember God's covenant  and oath which God had sworn to Father Abraham. And his father Zacharias was  filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,    "Blessed be the Lord God of  Israel; for he hath visited and  redeemed his people! And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the  house of his servant David;" As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets,  which have been since the world began: That we should be saved from our enemies,  and from the hand of all that hate us; To perform the mercy promised to our  fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; The oath which he sware to our  father Abraham... (Luke 1:67- 73).  In Acts 3:13, Peter said the Father  of Jesus was "the God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our  fathers.''   Stephen, the first Christian martyr,  began his sermon in Acts 7: "The God of glory appeared unto our father,  Abraham..."; and then he preached of God and Israel.    Paul wrote in Romans 15:4,  "whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning..."    So  let us consider just that today-that the Bible is the Book of God and of  Abraham's children-of one man's family, if you please-and that the things  written of them aforetime were written for our learning. And let us turn to the  covenants that God made with Abraham, with Isaac, with Jacob, and with the  children of Israel. God appeared again to Abraham  in Genesis 15:   And He brought him forth abroad, and  said, Look now toward heaven and tell the stars if thou be able to number them;  And He said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the Lord, and He  counted it to him for righteousness. (Genesis. 15:5,  6).  This promise of great numbers of  descendants is repeated several times.   And Abram fell on his face, and God  talked with him, saying, As for Me. behold. My covenant is with thee, and thou  shalt be. a father of many nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called  Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham: for a father of many nations have I made  thee. And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of  thee, and kings shall come out of thee. And I will establish my covenant  between Me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an  everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and thy seed after thee. (Genesis.  17:3-7).   And  God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name  Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be. And I will bless her, and give thee a son  also of her; yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings  of people shall be of her (Genesis. 17:15, 16).   Now Abraham already had a son,  Ishmael, by Sarai's Egyptian handmaid, Hagar, but this great covenant was not to  be made with Ishmael, but with Isaac. This is made plain in verses 19 thru 21:    And God said, Sarah thy wife shall  bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac; and I will establish  my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after  him. And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and  will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall  he beget, and I will make him a great nation. [These are the 12 Arab nations].  But my covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at  this set time in the next year (Gen. 17:19-2l).  Isaac, the son of Promise, was born  according to God's Word. Isaac later married Rebekah, and she was given a  blessing in Genesis 24:60:   And they blessed Rebekah, and said  unto her, ''Thou. art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions,  and let thy seed possess the gate of those ' which hate them."    To Isaac and Rebekah were born twin  sons, Esau and Jacob. Esau, although the elder, sold his birthright to Jacob,  who then became the rightful inheritor of these covenants. God appeared to Jacob  to confirm these covenants in Genesis 28, including verse 14:    And thy seed shall be as the dust of  the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west and to the east, and to the  north, and to the south; and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of  the earth be blessed.  These and other verses make it plain  that all the covenants pertaining to Abraham's blessings were passed to Jacob,  whose name later was changed to Israel. In Genesis 35 God appeared  again unto Jacob.   And God said unto him, Thy name is  Jacob; thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name; and he called his name  Israel. And God said unto him, I am  God Almighty; be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall  be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins (Gen. 35:10,  11).  Again we see this same thing  repeated over and over again, that. these descendants of the patriarches of  Israel would be a great number of  people and would become a multitude of nations.   While Jacob was yet alive, Joseph  was sold into bondage in Egypt. A few years later the other 11  sons and their families moved to Egypt, where Joseph saved them from  the famine. While still in Egypt, Jacob-Israel adopted the two  sons of Joseph-Ephraim and Manasseh as his firstborn in place of Reuben and  Simeon. This adoption as Israel's firstborn is verified in 1  Chronicles 5:l and 2. In verse 16 of Genesis 48, Israel said,    . . . Let my name be named on them,  and the name of my father Abraham and Isaac; and let them Brow into a multitude  in the midst of the earth.  In verse 19, Jacob prophesied that  Ephraim would become greater than Manasseh and that his seed would become a  fullness of nations.   After Joseph's death,  Israel continued to multiply,  but a new king rose up over Egypt, who put the children of  Israel in cruel bondage. He attempted  to reduce Israel by ordering  all of the male Israelite babies killed in Egypt. Moses was  saved by his mother, raised in Pharaoh's household, but eventually was driven  from Egypt. We read in Exodus 2:23 that  during Moses' absence . . .   And it came to pass in the process  of time, that the king of Egypt died; and the children of  Israel sighed by reason of the  bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the  bondage. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with  Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.   God then sent Moses and brought the  now 2 million or more Israelites out of Egypt with great signs and wonders and brought  them to Mt.  Sinai in the wilderness.  There God made a covenant with these several million descendants of Abraham,  saying to them in Exodus 19:5-8:   Now therefore if ye will obey my  voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me  above all people: for all the earth is mine. And ye shall be unto me a  kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt  speak unto the children of Israel. And Moses came and called  for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which  the Lord commanded him. And all the people answered together and said, All  that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people  unto the Lord.  God had said to Abraham, "I will be  a God to you and to your seed after you." That covenant was formalized with  Abraham's seed in what we recognize as a marriage ceremony, with the bridegroom  saying, "Will you obey?" and the bride answering, "I will." Israel became  God's wife. That the wife-husband relationship is correct is verified in several  passages, including Isaiah 54:5-   For thy Maker is thine husband; the  Lord of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of  the whole earth shall he be called.  God gave Israel the Ten  Commandments in stone and several hundred other statutes and judgments, usually  called God's Law. The first Commandment began,   I am the Lord thy God, which have  brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage; Thou shalt  have no other gods before Me.  While Israel was in  the wilderness, learning the statutes and judgments, God gave further promise of  future greatness. In Deuteronomy 33 He gave a separate blessing to each of the  tribes, with the greater blessing recorded for Joseph in verses 13-17:    And of Joseph he said, "Blessed of  the Lord be his land. For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for  the deep that coucheth beneath, And for the precious fruits brought forth by  the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, And for the chief  things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting  hills, And for the precious things of the earth and fullness thereof, and for  the good will of him that dwelt in the bush; let the blessing come upon the head  of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his  brethren.  This blessing can only mean that the  descendants of Joseph were to have a land blessed with great agricultural  harvests, wealth from the seas, and ores and minerals from the earth. The  greatest portion of the Israel blessings would he fulfilled  in the two sons of Joseph who had been made the inheritors of the Abrahamic  covenants, as we read in Genesis 48.   After 40 years in the wilderness,  Moses died, and Joshua brought Israel into Canaanland and  established them there as a nation. They had been commanded to observe God's  statutes and judgments and to destroy the Canaanites out of the land, so they  would not be tempted to follow their gods and participate in their abominations.  This Israel did not do, and as a  consequence, they suffered a series of captivities during the 400 years up to  the time of David, as recorded in the book of Judges.       |   David came to the throne in Israel in approximately 1050 B.C., and in 40  years of war enlarged and secured Israel as one nation in Canaanland, ruling them  from Zion and Jerusalem. At one point, according to 1  Chronicles 21 , David had over one million, 500 thousand men under arms, which  would indicate that God's promise of increasing the seed of Abraham was being  fulfilled, with 10 to 15 million people living in Palestine at that time.    When David  died, his son Solomon ruled for another 40 years, establishing an era of peace  and prosperity and building the great temple to Jehovah. The Israel kingdom  was so blessed it became the marvel of that part of the world. It seemed as if  God's promises and prophecies of great increase and material blessings were  being fulfilled.   But after  Solomon's death came a terrible blow. The nation was divided. The 10 northern  tribes established their capital in Samaria. Jerusalem now ruled only the southern half of  Israel. The rivalry between the two  kingdoms, Judah and  Israel, brought wars, corruption, and  sin-even worship of Badl and the other gods of the wicked Canaanites who still  lived among them. God sent prophets to them, warning them he would send alien  nations against them, who would take them captive into other lands.    |           Click to  view     a larger  image  |    God  called Israel's sin adultery and told her  through Jeremiah and Hosea that he was divorcing her:    And I saw, when for all the causes  whereby backsliding Israel committed adultery, I had put  her away, and given her a bill of divorce (Jeremiah. 3:8).    God said to the northern kingdom in  verse 2 of the second chapter of Hosea:   Plead with your mother, plead; for  she is not my wife, neither am I her husband.  The northern house of  Israel, therefore, was divorced and  no longer the wife of Jehovah.   God  sent Assayer to conquer the northern Israel kingdom. The wars and  deportations are recorded in 2 Kings, chapters 16, 17, and 18. Here are a few  pertinent verses;   In the ninth year of Hoshea, the  king of Assayer took Samaria, and carried  Israel away into Assayer, and  placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.    Therefore the Lord was very angry  with Israel, and removed them out of his  sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only (2 Kings 17:6,  18).  This was bad enough, but the  Israelites in the Judah kingdom were also following the corrupted ways of the  Edomites and Canaanites, so 7 years later, we read in 2 Kings 18:13-    Now in the fourteenth year of king  Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assayer come up against all the fenced cities  of Judah, and took  them.  This would have left only a small  remnant of Israelites in the fortified city of Jerusalem by 700 B.C.    According to both the Bible and  ancient historic accounts, these pagan empires used forcible evacuation as a  means of preventing rebellion at a later date. They moved non-Israelites into  the vacated land of the northern kingdom, according to 2 Kings 17:24    And the king of Assayer brought men  from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and  from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and placed in the  cities thereof.  So the two conquests of Assyria  would have removed the vast majority of the Israelites into Assyria and out of  the land of  Palestine. The number  removed would have been in the millions.   The  prophet Jeremiah continued to prophesy to the tiny remnant in Jerusalem; and in the seventh chapter of Jeremiah, he told  these Judahites that because of their sin, God would abandon Jerusalem.    Therefore will I do unto this house,  which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to  you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh (Jeremiah 7:14).   Shiloh was the place of the Ark of  the Covenant, which God had turned over into the hands of the Philistines,  because of the sin of Israel.   In  Kings and Chronicles we have another 100 years of the history of the  Judah kingdom, a history of  continuance of sin, some revivals, but always turning away from the God of  Israel. During that time, Assyria's power declined, and she lost control over  much of her empire, and Babylon grew. The Judahites remaining at  Jerusalem made a peace treaty with the king of  Babylon, and  they continued to sin against the God of Israel. They also tried to enlist the  help of Egypt.   God  sent Jeremiah to tell Judah  that Babylon  would conquer them. They planned to resist, but Jeremiah told them:    And the Chaldeans shall come again,  and fight against this city, and take it, and burn it with fire. Thus saith  the Lord; Deceive not yourselves, saying, The Chaldeans shall surely depart from  us; for they shall not depart. For though ye had smitten the whole army of  the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among  them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with  fire (Jer. 37:8-10).  And  it came to pass. Jerusalem was destroyed in about  595 B.C. and the Judahites were taken into Babylon for the 70-year captivity prophesied by  Jeremiah.   In the first year of his reign I,  Daniel, understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the  Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the  desolations of Jerusalem (Daniel 9:2).   All seems lost. What has happened to  the covenants? What has become of the great promises of God?    70  years later, Ezra did bring back from Babylon to  Jerusalem a  handful of Judahites to rebuild the city and the temple. In Ezra 2 that number  is given as less than 50,000.   The whole congregation together was  forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,    Beside their servants and their  maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and  there were among them two hundred singing men and singing women (Ezra  2:64-65).  This remnant of Judah and Benjamin  provided the small Israelite community that existed in Jerusalem at the time  Christ was born, 500 years later.   But  what happened to the other tens of millions of Israelites who never returned to  Jerusalem? Are  their descendants lost from the covenant promises of God?    We  must now ask the same question Paul asked 500 years later in Romans 11: "Hath  God cast away his people?" Paul answered,   God forbid; for I also am an  Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast  away His people which He foreknew.  So the question boils down to this:  What did happen to the millions, yes millions, of Israelites who were driven out  of Palestine 700 years before Christ, and where were they, if they existed at  all, at the time Paul uttered his statement of confidence in God's keeping His  promises to Israel?   Can  we find out what happened to them, so that their descendants can be identified  in the world today?   For  an answer to that question, we are going to call upon E. Raymond Capt, a Bible  student and Biblical archaeologist from California. Mr. Capt has traveled and studied  extensively in Europe and the Mideast. He  lectures on the Dead Sea Scrolls, on the pyramids of Egypt and on  other archeological subjects. Mr. Capt is the author of The Great Pyramid  Decoded, The Glory of the Stars, Stonehenge and Druidism, King Solomon's  Temple, Jacob's  Ladder and Abrahamic Covenant.   An Interview with E. Raymond  Capt Emry: As a minister, I know there is an  abundance of prophesy concerning the destiny of Israel. But  there is no Bible history of this portion of Israel referred to in 2 Kings 17:6-  In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel  away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and in Habor by the river of Gozan,  and in the cities of the Medes.   So  Bible history of this major part of Israel ends here. And yet the  prophets and the New Testament promise an increase in numbers, great blessings,  and an eventual restoration.   With the passing of 2,500 years  since this Assyrian captivity, one might think that all' hope of tracing these  Israelites is lost. Ray, can archeology answer this question?    Capt: Yes, Pastor Emry, it has. During  the last hundred years a number of archeological teams have been working in the  Middle East. They have unearthed and published  the original contemporary accounts of the Assyrians, who took the Israelites  captive. It is from these records that vital clues have come to light. In fact,  these records are found in the form of cuneiform tablets. These tablets were  found at Nineveh  in 1900 and published in 1930. However, their relevance to Israel was  overlooked then, because they were found in complete disorder and amongst about  1,400 other texts.       |      Click  to view a larger image  |    The tablets  were Assyrian frontier post reports, dated about 707 B.C.. They describe the  activities of the people called "Gamira," who lived in the land of "Gamir." The  descriptions of Gamir described the area in which the Israelites had been placed  just a few years earlier.   One tablet  stated that when the king of Urartu came into the land of Gamir, his army was routed, as the Gamira  counter-attacked, entered the land of Urartu, and killed their  commanders.  |     Assyrian  Captivities In the ninth year of Hoshea, the  king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried  Israel away into Assyria, and  placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. (2  Kings 17:6)  The first archaeological evidence to  establish a chronological link in the contacts between Assyria and  Israel are found on  inscriptions on the side of a limestone stele found at Nimrud, known as the  "Black Obelisk." The stone was inscribed with the records of Shalmaneser the  third and an illustration of the Israelite king Jehu bringing tribute to the  Assyrian king. An inscription above the illustration says:    "This is Jehu (Iaua), the son of  Khumri (Omri)."   Click  to view a larger image  Omri in Hebrew begins with the  consonant, "Agin," formerly called "Gayin" which was pronounced with a guttural  "H," that is "Gh" or "Kh." The Israelites would have naturally pronounced Omri  as "Ghomri" which became "Khumri" in Assyrian.   As  this inscription was executed nearly a century before the captivity of  Israel, we know now the reason  secular historians found no mention of the exiled Israelites in ancient records.  It was simply because the Assyrians who took the Israelites captive did not call  them by that name. Historians are now aware of the fact that the Gamira were the  same people, who, about 30 years later, during the reign of Esarhaddon, king of  Assyria, again were called Gimira. (Notice the  slight changes in spelling).   We  find in another and later Assyrian tablet that in the second year of the reign  of this same king, which would be about 679 B.C., the Gimira, under a leader  named "Teuspa," sought freedom by moving north; but the Assyrain army pursued  and defeated them in the upper Euphrates  district. Nevertheless, they reported a large number of the lsraelites escaped  to the shores of the Black Sea. The Greeks also  recorded the same activity including an invasion of Sardis, the capital of Lydia, in 645  B.C. In their records they refer to the Gamira as "Kimmerioi," which we  translate into English as "Cimmerian."   About 600 B.C. the Lydians drove the  Gamira, or Cimmerians, out of Asia Minor, where they settled in the Carpathian  regions west of the Black Sea. We find them  called in the second book of Esdras, the people of Ar-Sareth (2 Esdras  13:40-44).   Click  to view a larger image   We  now also know what happened to the larger body of Gamira or Israelites, that did  not escape the Assyrians. They formed an alliance with Esarhaddon, the king,  when he came under attack of the Medes and the Persians.    This treaty allowed the Israelites  to establish colonies in Sacasene in the north and Bactria in the  east. With absolutely no help from the Israelites, Assyria fell in 612 B.C. Soon the Israelites themselves  came under attack by the Medes.   Now  those that had settled in Sacasene moved north through the Dariel Pass  into the steppe regions of south Russia. There they became known by  the Greek name, "Scythians."   The  Israelites that had settled in Bactria were forced north and east,  and in the records of the Persians they were called Massagetae and Sakka.    Archeology has solved two of the  greatest archeological problems: First, what happened to the hundreds of  thousands of Israelites who disappeared south of the Caucasus; and second, what  was the origin of the Cimmerians and the mysterious nomadic tribes, known as  Scythians, who suddenly appeared north of the Caucasus - both at the same time in history. They were one  and the same people. They were Israelites. Now may I point out what the Bible  has to say concerning these same people:   "For lo, I will command, and I will  sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve,  yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth" (Amos  9:9).  Our history books pick up the story  at this point, recording the westward migrations of the Scythians, as they came  into collision with the Cimmerians, who had earlier settled west of the  Black Sea. Their kinship lost over the  centuries, the ensuing battles forced the Cimmerians west and north to become  the Celts, Gauls, and Cimbri. By the end of the fourth century B.C., the  Scythians had established themselves as the great and prosperous kingdom of Scythia.   Later, the Sarmatians, these were a  mixed, non- Israelitish people of Iranian origin. They in turn drove the  Scythians northwest to the shores of the Baltic  Sea. At this time in history, we find the Romans introduced the name  "Germans" in place of the name Scythians, in order not to confuse the Scythians  with the Sarmatians, who now occupied Scythia.  Germanus, being the Latin name for "genuine," indicates the Germans were the  genuine Scythians.   During this time the Celts were  expanding in all directions from central Europe. Some of the Celts invaded Italy and sacked Rome in 390 B.C. Another group moved back into  Asia Minor, in 280 B.C., and the Greeks called them "Galatians," as they did  another group of Celts that had settled in Gaul, or modern France. This  also indicates that Paul's letters to the Galatians were written to his kinsmen  Israelites, or at least descendants of the earlier Galatians.    Some of the Celts moved into  Spain and became known as Iberes, the  Gaelic name for "Hebrews." Others poured into Britain to form  the bedrock of the British race. Later, the Iberes moved into  Ireland as Scots, and later  into Northern Britain to establish the nation of Scotland.    Your history books also record the  Germanic tribes breaking up into many divisions - the Angles, Saxons, Jutes,  Danes, and Vikings, to name just a few. Other Germanic tribes later poured into  the lands vacated by the Celts and established the Gothic nations of the  Vandals, Lombards, Franks, Burgundians, and others.    The  so-called "lost tribes of Israel" really, were never lost. They  only lost their identity as they migrated westward over the centuries from the  land of their captivity.   (End of interview with Capt)     Click  to view a larger image   Pastor  Emry: And  there you have it, my friends. Mr. Capt has given us an answer to our question:  "What happened to the millions of Israelites who were dispersed out of old  Canaanland 7 centuries before Christ, and who never returned?    They migrated onto the continent of  Europe and were the ancestors of the white,  European race. And in answering our one question about Israel's  disappearance, Mr. Capt has given us the key to several other mysteries of world  history.   Mr.  Capt has revealed to us why it was these people of Europe who became the great nations, and who were blessed  by God above all other nations, not only with fertile land and abundance from  the seas, but with arts, science, literature, inventions. and discovery.    God  bestowed upon that one race almost every invention and discovery that has  improved man's condition and lot upon the earth. Certainly. God made these  offspring of Abraham a blessing to all the families of the earth.    Mr.  Capt has answered another question which is often asked of ministers, but seldom  answered:   "Why, of all the people of the  earth, has it been only this white Caucasian race, these so-called 'Gentiles,'  who have claimed Jesus Christ as their God, and who have taken the Bible as the  foundation of their religion?"  The answer:    the truth which is avoided and even  denied by the clergy is simple. These people are the Israelites, the children of  Abraham, God's chosen people. And that explains why every true gospel preacher  and missionary for Jesus Christ for over 1,900 years has been of this one race.  They are dispersed Israel, fulfilling Bible prophecy  even while blindness in part is upon them, blindness of their own identity as  the Chosen of God.  Biblical promises have become  historical facts. In the Old Testament God had promised to regather divorced  Israel unto Himself:    My sheep wandered through all the  mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the  face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them. For thus saith the  Lord God; Behold I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out  (Ezekiel 34:6,11).   Jesus made it plain He was the  instrument of Israel's return to God:    For the Son of man is come to seek  and to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10).   But  he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of  Israel (Matthew 15:24).    The word "lost" appears 13 times in  the New Testament in relation to Israel. The Greek word means "put  away and punished." So Jesus was saying in Matthew 15:24, "I am not sent but  unto the put away and punished house of Israel." In Matthew 10:6, Jesus  instructed His disciples to go to "the lost sheep of the house of  Israel."    In  Luke 1, Zacharias the priest, who was John the Baptist's father, said that Jesus  came to redeem His people and . . . To  perform the mercy promised to our [Israel] fathers, and to remember his holy covenant; The oath  which he sware to our father Abraham (Luke 1:72, 73).    Paul, an Israelite, wrote to  Israelites in the dispersion in Galatia:    When the fullness of the time was  come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem  them that were under the law... (Galatians 4:4, 5).  Only the Israelites had been under  the law. Romans 15 and verse 8 says:   "...Jesus Christ was a minister for  the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the  fathers." (Romans 15:8).  These promises, as we have seen,  were of great national development, a great increase in numbers, blessings of  the earth and of the sea, that God would be their God, and they would be His  people.   After the death and resurrection of  Jesus Christ, His disciples carried the good news to dispersed  Israel in Europe, beginning what we know as the Christian era. For  1500 more years Israel  remained in Europe, continuing to grow in  numbers as God had promised their Fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.     Click  to view a larger image The New World   Then God began to give them  inventions, one of which was the printing press, which made the Bible available  to all of the people, bringing with it the Age of Enlightenment, the  Reformation, and the Age of Discovery.   A  new continent to the west, a New World, was  discovered by Columbus and other explorers. Persecution of Christians in Europe  began a migration to the New World, that began  as a trickle and later became a flood.   2,5OO years before that, while  Israel was still in Palestine, God had told  King David in 2 Samuel 7:10:   "Moreover I will appoint a place for  my people Israel, and will plant them, that  they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the  children of wickedness afflict them any more, as before  time".  The prophet Isaiah and others who  had written of Israel's  regathering made it plain Israel would be regathered into a new  land as Christian believers. In Isaiah 11:12 we read,    "And he shall set up an ensign for  the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of  Judah from the four corners of the  earth."  Verses one through ten identify that  Ensign as Jesus Christ, and verse 14 indicates their regathering would be toward  the west.   "But they shall fly upon the  shoulders of the Philistines toward the west".  Psalm 72 and Zechariah 9 describe  that land of Israel's regathering as a land between two seas, and one that would  run to the ends of the earth.   In  Hosea 2:14, God had prophesied to cast-off Israel,    "Behold, I will allure her, and  bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto  her".  Our pilgrim fathers, who were  Christian Israelites from Europe and knew God's  promises, called this North American continent "The Wilderness" and "New  Canaanland." They said they had come hither to establish the Kingdom of God.   God  turned Israel from  Antichrists in Europe, and God took them one of a city and two of a family, and  He brought them to Zion.   Turn, O backsliding children, saith  the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two  of a family, and I will bring you to Zion: And I will give you pastors according to  mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge and understanding (Jeremiah  3:14, 15).  He gave them Christian pastors who  fed them with knowledge and understanding. In the early histories, they called  themselves, "this wandering race of Jacobites, "a vine out of  Egypt", and "the seed of Abraham."  They named their children with Israel names, and God blessed them above their  fathers in Europe.    America is that new land, New Israel.  America is the nation born in  a day on July 4, 1776, exactly the prophesied 2520 years after Israel  had gone into the Assyrian captivity. In America God made a little one a  thousand, and a small a strong nation:   A little one shall become a  thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the Lord will hasten it in his time  (Isaiah 60:22).   It is here that is fulfilled the  promise to Joseph, "blessed of the Lord be his land . . ." (Deuteronomy 33:13).  It is in America that the wilderness and the  solitary place was glad for them, and the desert has rejoiced and blossomed as  the rose (Isaiah 35:1). It is in the North American wilderness that waters have  broken out, and streams in the desert (Isaiah 35:6). America is Hepzibah and Beulah land (Isaiah  62:4); America truly is God's Country.    The  heathen look at America and say, "Certainly they are  the seed which the Lord hath blessed" (Isaiah 49:6). America is the  nation from which the light of God's Word has gone to the ends of the earth  (Isaiah 49:6).   You  who are descendants of the people we have traced in the Bible and in history are  Israelites, heirs according to the promise, and the Bible is about you and your  race. Do not take what you have read lightly. True to His promise to our  fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel has redeemed us with His  own blood. He has kept His Word to our fathers. He will most certainly keep His  promise with us. their children, of the Kingdom of Christ upon the earth.    I  believe the time has come when God is casting down all lies, exposing the false  prophets, and revealing the Truth to His Israel people. The key to understanding  the Bible is the truth that we are Israelites, redeemed by Jesus Christ, heirs  of the promise. Abraham's children.            |   Addendum    |     
  |     Today the great Israel nation of America is  surrounded and invaded by the socialist-Humanist Antichrist forces. The wicked  of the earth, who are the enemies of Jesus Christ, have grown strong and  arrogant in our land. They have infiltrated our schools, the news media, even  churches and government in their attempt to keep you in ignorance of your  identity as Israelites. They are attempting to steal your heritage that they may  conquer America and take rule over the whole  earth.   But  God Almighty has decreed the destruction of those who hate Jesus Christ and His  true lsrael People. In a last battle they shall be defeated, we shall be  delivered, and the earth will be prepared for the return of Jesus Christ and the  great Kingdom Age. Even so, come, Lord Jesus. Amen.          Click  to view a larger image  God's children are like stars that  shine brightest in the dark skies; lke the chamomile, which, the more it is  trodden down, the faster it spreads and grows.  "The glories of Christianity in  England are to be traced in the sufferings of confessors and martyrs in the  sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; and it was under the influence of Christian  principles, imbibed at this very period, that the Mayflower brought over the  band of Pilgrims to Plymouth...We should never forget that the prison, the  scaffold, and the stake were stages in the march of civil and religious liberty  which our forefathers had to travel, in order that we might attain our present  liberty...  "Before our children remove their  religious connections...before they leave the old paths of God's Word...before  they barter their birthright for a mess of pottage - let us place in their hands  this chronicle of the glorious days of the suffering Churches, and let them know  that they are the sons of the men 'of whom the world was not worthy', and whose  sufferings for conscience' sake are here monumentally  recorded."  - John Overton Choules, August 12,  1843  Preface to the 1844 reprint of  Neal's "History of the Puritans",  1731  The historic moment so dramatically  illustrated above was the beginning of the fullfillment of the Lord's promise,  "I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to  Zion; And I will  give you pastors according to mine heart, which shall feed you with knowledge  and understanding." (Jeremiah 3 vs 14-15) Between 1620 and 1870 over 45 million Anglo-Saxon,  Scandinavian, Germanic, and other Israelites emigrated to America. God gave them Christian  Pastors. God keeps His promises to Israel.  TO THE  READER  What you have just read is a brief  summary of the Bible and the history of Israel. Except for the very end,  it is also the narrative of a 40 minute sound  and color movie produced by America's  Promise.  The movie, of course, has more  evidence of the truth of our Israelitish origin and much more visual impact upon  its viewers than does the text alone which you have just  read.  The movie, Heirs of the Promise: Abraham's Children,    |