THE UNITED STATES IN PROPHECY 

 King George of the British Commonwealth possesses a chart showing his ancestry, every generation, back to Herremon and Tephi, to Zedekiah, on back to David, and through the scriptural genealogy clear to Adam! The writer has a copy of this chart, and also his own genealogy for each generation back into the line of ancient British kings, and therefore has the complete record of his genealogy through the House of David clear to Adam -- believe it or not!

Spiritual Gifts Revelation 1: Charismata Theory, Assessment, Problem-solving
Spiritual Gifts Revelation 2: Miracles by the Book Both by Jack Snyder 2008

Early Writings of Herbert W. Armstrong
edited by Jackson Snyder, 12/29/00

PART SIX - David's Throne Today  

The "Serpent's Trail" OF PROOF

 that our white, English-speaking peoples of today -- Britain and America -- are actually and truly the Birthright tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh of the "lost" House of Israel, there is so much, we shall have space for but a small portion of that proof in this booklet. A most interesting fact is the Hebrew meaning of the names of the British people.

Britain's Hebrew Names

 The House of Israel is the Covenant people. The Hebrew word for "covenant" is "beriyth," or "berith." After Gideon's death, Israel followed the false pagan god Baal. In Judges 8:33, and 9:4, the word "covenant" is used as a proper name coupled with the name "Baal." This is quoted in the English text, Authorized Version, without being translated, as "Baalberith," meaning (margin) "idol of the covenant." The Hebrew for "man" is "iysh," or "ish." In the original Hebrew language vowels were never given in the spelling. So, omitting the vowel "e" from berith, but retaining the "i" in its Anglicized form to preserve the "y" sound, we have the Anglicized Hebrew word for covenant, "Brith." The Hebrews, however, never pronounced their "h's." A Jew, even today, in pronouncing the name "Shem," will call it "Sem." Incidentally this ancient Hebrew trait is also a modern British trait. They leave off their "h's" where they belong, and often put them in where they do not belong -- and this very habit comes from their ancient Hebrew ancestry. So the Hebrew word for "covenant" would be pronounced, in its Anglicized form, as "Brit." And the word for "Covenant man," or "covenant people," would, therefore, be simply, "BRIT-ISH." And so, the true covenant people today are called the "BRITISH." And they reside in the "BRITISH ISLES!"

 The House of Israel not only was to lose its identity, but its name. It was to be called by a new name, since they no longer were to know their identity as Israel, as Elohim said plainly in Isaiah 62:2, referring to these latter days. To Abraham, Elohim said, "In ISAAC shall thy seed be called," Genesis 21:12, and this name is repeated in Romans 9:7 and Hebrews 11:18. In Amos 7:16 they are called "The House of ISAAC." They were descended from Isaac, and therefore are Isaac's sons. Drop the "I" from "Isaac" (vowels are not used in Hebrew spelling), and we have the modern name "SAAC'S SONS," or, as we spell it in shorter manner, "SAXONS." Dr. W. Holt Yates, Yale University, says, "The word Saxons' is derived from sons of Isaac, 'by dropping the prefix I'."

Dan a Serpent's Trail

 If the Eternal intended that "lost" Israel was to be located and found in these last days, we should expect some kind of signs or waymarks to have been left along the trail by which ancient Israel journeyed from Assyria, the land of their original captivity. Speaking to Ephraim, Jeremiah 31:20, the Eternal says in verse 21: "Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest." In Scripture we find the "waymarks," or highway signs, which they set up along the road they traveled.

 In Genesis 49:17, Jacob, foretelling what should befall each of the tribes, says: "Dan shall be a serpent by the way." Another and better translation of the original Hebrew is: "Dan shall be a serpent's trail." It is a significant fact that the tribe of Dan, one of the Ten Tribes, named every place they went after their father, Dan. The tribe of Dan originally occupied a strip of Coast country on the Mediterranean, west of Jerusalem. "And the coast of the children of Dan," we read in Joshua 19:47,

"went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it and called Leshem, DAN, after the name of Dan their father."

In Judges 18:11-12, it is recorded that Danites took Kirjathjearim, and "called that place Mahaneh-dan unto this day." A little later the same company of 600 armed Danites came to Laish, captured it, and "they called the name of the city DAN, after the name of Dan their father," verse 29. So notice how these Danites left their "serpent's trail" by the way -- set up waymarks by which they may be traced today. Remember, in the Hebrew, vowels were not written. The sound of the vowels had to be supplied in speaking. Thus, the word "Dan" in its English equivalent could be spelled, simply, "Dn." It might be pronounced as "Dan," or "Den," or "Din," or "Don," or "Dun" -- and still could be the same original Hebrew name.

 The tribe of Dan occupied two different districts, or provinces, in the Holy Land before the Assyrian captivity. One colony lived on the seacoast of Palestine. They were principally seamen, and it is recorded "Dan abode in ships," Judges 5:17. When Assyria captured Israel, these Danites struck out in their ships and sailed west through the Mediterranean, and north to Ireland. Just before his death, Moses prophesied of Dan: "Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan" (Deuteronomy 33:22). And David declared of Dan, "He breaketh [driveth] the ships of Tarshish with an east wind." An east wind travels west. Along the shores of the Mediterranean they left their trail in "Dens," "Don," and "Din." In the Peninsula of Spain their "waymark" name "Me-din-a Si-don-ia" remains to this day. Irish annals and history show that the first settlers of Ireland, at just this time, were the "Tuatha de Danaans," which means, translated, "Tribe of Dan." And in Ireland we find they left these "waymarks": "Dans-Laugh," "Dan-Sower," "Dundalk," "Dun-drum," "Don-egal Bay," "Don-egal City," "Dun-glow," "Lon-don-derry," "Dingle," "Dunsmore," (meaning "more Dans"), etc. etc. The name "Dunn" in the Irish language means the same as Dan in the Hebrew: "Judge."

The Overland Trail

 But the northern colony of Danites was taken to Assyria in the captivity, and thence with the rest of the ten tribes they traveled from Assyria by the overland route. After leaving Assyrian captivity, they inhabited for some time the land just west of the Black Sea. This we know from the fact this land is bounded on the south by Mace-don-ia and the Dar-dan-ells, and on the north by the river Dan-ube. Then we find the rivers Dnieper, Dnister, and the Don. Then, in either ancient or later geography, we find these waymarks: Dan-au, the Dan-inn, the Dan-aster, the Dan-dari, the Danez, the Don, the Dan, and the U-Don; the Eri-don, down to the Danes, and the Scan-din-navians. "Denmark" means "Dan's mark." When they came to the British Isles, they set up the "waymark" names of Dun-dee, Dun-kirk, Dun-bar, Dun-raven; in Scotland, and E-din-burgh is its capital. The British capital is Lon-don, and the "Dans," "Dons," and "Duns," are as prolific as in Ireland. And so the "serpent's trail" of Dan sets up waymarks that lead directly to the British Isles!

Ancient Annals of Ireland

 Now briefly let us consider what is found in the ancient annals, legends, and history of Ireland, and we shall have the scene of Jeremiah's "planting," and the present location of "lost" Israel. The real ancient history of Ireland is rather vague, now colored with some legend. But with the facts of biblical history and prophecy in mind, one can easily sift out the legend from the true history in studying ancient Irish annals. Throwing out that which is obviously legendary, we glean from various histories of Ireland the following:

 About, or prior to 700 B.C., a strong colony called "Tuatha de Danaan" (tribe of Dan) arrived in ships, drove out other tribes, and settled there. Later, about 585 B.C., (date of Jeremiah's transplanting), an elderly, white-haired patriarch, sometimes referred to as a "saint," came to the most northern province of Ireland, Ulster. With him was the princess daughter of an eastern king and a companion called "Simon Brach," spelled in different histories as "Breck," "Barech," "Brach," or "Berach," etc. The princess had a Hebrew name "Tephi," -- a pet name -- her full name being "Tea-Tephi." This royal party brought with them some remarkable things, including the harp, an ark, and a wonderful stone called "Lia-Fail," or "stone of destiny." A peculiar coincidence (?) is that Hebrew reads from right to left, while English reads from left to right. Read this name either way -- and it still is "lia-fail."

 Another strange coincidence -- or is it just coincidence? -- is that every king in the history of Ireland, Scotland, and England has been coronated sitting over this stone -- including the present king [and queen]. The stone rests, today, in Westminster Abbey in London, and the Coronation Chair is built over and around it. A sign beside it labels it "Jacob's pillar-stone," Genesis 28:18.

 The Hebrew princess was married to a young prince named Herremon, after which he became King Herremon, of ancient Ireland. The son of this king and Hebrew princess continued on the throne of Ireland, and this same dynasty has continued unbroken, through all the kings of Ireland; was overturned and transplanted again in Scotland; again overturned and moved to London, England, where this same dynasty continues today in the reign of King George of Great Britain [and today, Queen Elizabeth II]! The present king was crowned, in the coronation ceremony, broadcast to the whole world, as "KING OF ISRAEL" by the Archbishop of Canterbury! WHY? The crown worn by King Herremon and the sovereigns of ancient Ireland had TWELVE POINTS!

King George on David's Throne

 In view of the linking together of biblical history, prophecy, and Irish history, can anyone deny that this Hebrew princess was the daughter of King Zedekiah of Judah, and therefore heir to the throne of David? -- That the aged patriarch was, in fact, Jeremiah, and his companion Jeremiah's scribe, or secretary, Baruch? -- And that King Herremon was a descendant of Zarah, here married to the daughter of Pharez, healing the ancient breach? -- That when the throne of David was first overturned by Jeremiah, it was rePLANTED in Ireland, later overturned a second time and replanted in Scotland, overturned a third time and planted in London, from where it cannot be overturned or moved again UNTIL THE COMING OF MESSIAH, when it once again shall be overturned and transplanted back in Jerusalem?

 King George of the British Commonwealth possesses a chart showing his ancestry, every generation, back to Herremon and Tephi, to Zedekiah, on back to David, and through the scriptural genealogy clear to Adam! The writer has a copy of this chart, and also his own genealogy for each generation back into the line of ancient British kings, and therefore has the complete record of his genealogy through the House of David clear to Adam -- believe it or not!

David's Throne Still Lives

 When Messiah returns to earth to sit on that throne, He shall take over a LIVE, existing throne, not a nonexistent one. Elohim's Word still stands! Almighty Elohim has kept all His promises!