This is my forty-fifth monthly teaching letter and continues my fourth year of publication. As I’m preparing this lesson, there are some topics I would like to bring to your attention:

(1) First of all, for those of you who are helping in the support of this ministry, I would like to give you an idea what that assistance is being used for. In my last mailing for December, 2001, when I sent out two Watchman’s Teaching Letters plus nine brochures weighing three ounces total each, the postage alone came to about $318.00. Toner for the copy machine came to $182.84; paper, $64.20; envelopes, $4.20; making a total of about $569.24 in all. Inasmuch as a good portion of my readers are prisoners, you are, in effect helping to “give meat”, “give drink” “clothe”, “visit the sick and in prison” the very Savior Himself, Matthew 25:35-40.

(2)  I got an interesting letter from a supporter telling me he had purchased a Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance with the Greek and Hebrew dictionaries, and informing me he had looked up the Hebrew word #398, akal, and that it didn’t indicate anything sexual about Eve’s seduction by Satan where she said, Genesis 3:13: “The serpent beguiled me and I did eat.” I promptly made him a copy of what the Gesenius’ Hebrew-Chaldee Lexicon to the Old Testament had to say for the word #398, akal. Of the four main meanings, #3 says this: “to enjoy anything, as good fortune, Job. 21:25; the fruit of good or evil, sexual pleasures, Proverbs 30:20 (compare 9:17 ... 5:20).” I would highly recommend that every anti- seedliner who scoffs at Eve’s sexual encounter with the serpent invest in a Gesenius’ Lexicon as all of them who use just Strong’s use the argument that akal can only mean to “eat.” Notice how Gesenius’ uses the phrase “the fruit of good or evil.” Does that remind you of a certain tree?

(3) I have now written 15 Special Notices To All Who Deny Two Seedline of which I have distributed only 10 to date. Through this, I have come to the realization that the subject of the two “seeds” of Genesis 3:15 is even more serious than I formerly adjudged. Let me explain it this way: There are certain basic tenets to our “Christian” faith. These beliefs are as follows: We believe that YHWH created all things, visible and invisible; that He became flesh and dwelt among us; that He was of one substance being both man and YHWH; that He suffered and died at the hands of unrighteous men; that He rose again (Matthew 12:40; 27:63; Mark 8:31); that He ascended into Heaven; that from thence He will return to judge both the living and the dead. Every one of these tenets are essential and indispensable. Anyone who denies that YHWH came in the flesh is an “antichrist”, 1 John 4:3. To deny there were two “seeds” of Genesis 3:15 is equally as wicked, for if there was no “seed” of the serpent to bruise the heel of Messiah (betrayal and Crucifixion), we have no redemption. If He was not bruised for our iniquities, we have nothing to look forward to except the grave. It is blasphemous, therefore, to even infer He was not bruised. It’s every bit as sacrilegious to imply that He was not bruised, as it is to say that the Word was not made flesh, yet that is what the ant-seedliners insist on doing. In short, it’s an antichrist religion! Their shameful position is nearly identical to Gnosticism. If there’s no “seed” of the serpent, there was no bruising. If there was no bruising, there’s no Redemption. Thus, I will repeat again, the anti-seedliners (or whatever you wish to call them) are teaching, wittingly or unwittingly, an anti-Anointed One, anti-Christ, anti-Messiah doctrine by denying “Two Seedline.” Some advocate that we Two Seedliners declare a truce with the anti-seedliners for the good of the Anglo-Israel message. To that I respond: should we also make a truce with those who declare YHWH did not come in the flesh? I will deal with this in greater detail in future Special Notices.

 

FALSE ODINISM

 

As I promised in the last lesson, we are now going to consider original, true “Odinism” as opposed to the present corrupted, false “Odinism.” I should warn you again, there are a lot of half-truths and downright lies on the subject of “Odinism” on the Internet. Much of it is coming from Australia.

From the web site http://www.angelfire.com there was an article posted entitled Odinism vs Nazism, dated 10-28-01. I would state unequivocally that I am opposed to any form of “socialism”, including Nazism, but what this web site is promoting in the name of “Odinism” is absolutely not in line with true “Odinism.” It is quite apparent, from some of the remarks of the writer, that it is written with the object of being “politically correct” according to today’s standard for that term. I hardly believe the Vikings knew anything about political correctness. If anything, the Vikings would have to be considered very “politically incorrect.” Here are some excerpts from that article:

“I write this because the name ‘Odinism’ in [the] USA has been defiled due to the actions of some people who commit terrorism and racism and have become monitored by some hate group monitors ... The Nazi racial teachings center around racial purity and preservation (forgetting that all of us are supposed to belong to Human Race) and are against miscegenation or so-called inter-racial marriage or procreation ... She [Lady Griselda] states: ‘Mainstream Norse Pagans/ Asatruar believe racism is wrong, and point out arguments that the Gods and Goddesses want ‘purity’ of race are off-base since the Gods and Goddesses themselves mated with other races. (The races most often referred to in Norse Lore are the Aesir and the Vanir, two races of Gods; the Jotuns, also known as Giants ... There is much mating between Aesir and Vanir, and there are several Aesir or Vanir and Jotun marriages). One point that is often brought up is that after Ragnarok, when the new Gods start again with the New Midgarth, several of these new Gods will be children of the God/Jotun unions - including Thor’s sons, Magni and Modi ... Lord Odin has also mated with Gods of ... other Tribes or Races if ye prefer ... Then, the nazi (sic) teachings against miscegenation and so-called ‘racial purity’ is completely incompatible, not only with our lore, but with Odinism ... What about Loki? Loki is a Pure Jotun (Giant of Ice) who was not only accepted by the Aesir, but he became The Blood-Brother of the Alfather, Valfather, Sieg Lord Odhinn. Also, Skaoi is still a Jotun, but she was accepted by the Aesir without any problems ... What does the Alfather teach by this? He teaches that a person’s acceptance must be judged by his or her own conduct of behavior and personal values ... Then, there are those who perpetuate racial activities such as the several hate crimes that occur on a daily basis, those who deny the genocidal horrors of the holocaust during World War II, those who destroy and deface places of worship and other property, commit murders and assaults based solely upon racial, ethnic and sexual orientation differences, those who demote woman to the status of breeding machines in order to sire a ‘pure white race’, those who advocate racial segregation and teach their children to hate those who are different in a bastardized and failed Nazi vision of Germanic religion. Such people DON’T DESERVE THE NAME ODDHINISM (sic)! ... Our [Viking] forbears were not racists or racialists. Race was not an issue to them, only culture. The norsemen (sic) practiced so-called inter-racial marriage. As it happened with the inuit (eskimo) people is a good example. Well, if it happens, would the new husband or wife and the ‘half-breed’ children be inuit or heathen? Answer: It depends upon how the new husband/wife and/or his/her children would act ... If they acted as in the norsemen values and culture, they would be accepted in the norse community. And the norsemen had many inter-racial marriages ... we and they must respect the freedom of others ... against asafolks or kindreds that do not adopt these characteristics, rather they accept people, regardless of gender, race or sexual orientation ... evil or dishonorable folks can be found everywhere, irregardless of ethnic origin ... The Odinism is a religion of Balance. A true Odinist recognizes that every aspect of nature, ethnic and cultural is needed to make humankind richful as it is ... prosecution against people or ideas just because they are ethnically, culturally different or think in a different way, don’t deserve the name or label Odinist ...”

I hardly believe I need to explain where such garbage as this might be coming from! If it is not coming from a “Jew”, it surely is from someone who is brainwashed by the them. No thinking person could believe that the lifestyle of the Norse could be so portrayed. Yet, some of the uninformed swallow this refuse hook, line and sinker. Our people are being attacked by the enemy from every conceivable angle. As a matter of fact, the lifestyle of our people was just the opposite to this. To show you a true picture of the high moral fabric of our ancestors and what they were really like, I will now quote from St. Paul in Britain by R. W. Morgan, pages 42-43:

“... In the clan times, however, the preservation of the pedigree meant the preservation of all that was valuable in blood, station, and property. Without it a man was an outlaw; he had no clan, consequently no legal rights or status. Genealogies were guarded, therefore, with extreme jealousy, and recorded with painful exactitude by herald-bards of each clan. On the public reception, at the age of fifteen, of a child into the clan, his family genealogy was proclaimed, and all challengers of it commanded to come forward. Pedigree and inheritance, indeed, were so identified in the ancient British code, that an heir even in the ninth descent could redeem at a Jury valuation any portion of an hereditary estate from which necessity had compelled his forefathers to part ...”

 

From this, it is conspicuously evident these false Odinists don’t know what they are talking about! Not only that, but Scripture informs us we need to observe our genealogy back to at least the tenth generation, Deuteronomy 23:2. Once there has been a race-mixture established, every few generations there will be a throwback to that admixture. Once the DNA has been polluted, there is no recourse of correction to that racial contamination. It is the unforgivable sin. Therefore the utmost caution must be observed to avoid miscegenation. Checking the records back at least ten generations is substantial evidence there was always purity of race. You will notice, in the quotation above, the British required nine generations (or does it mean “to the tenth”?). If so, the British were going by the Law of Yahweh on racial matters. While some may have forgotten many things from their former past before their Captivity and their “seven times punishment” (Leviticus 26:18), they remembered well the importance of their racial purity.

 

PROBLEMATICAL ODINISM

 

Now that we have done some investigation of false Odinism, let’s consider some problematical Odinism. For this I will quote from a book entitled The Story Of Norway by Hjalmar H. Boyesen. This is an old book published in 1886. While some of what we are about to read may be true there are other elements we should question. Much of the Norse mythology here is based on Snorre Surlasson’s writings. Besides the Heimskringla, he also wrote the “Younger” or “Prose Edda.” I believe we will find greater truth in the “Elder Edda.” See if you can detect what some of these problems might be ahead of time, for we will cover them and compare them to “Elder Edda” in greater detail in lesson #46. Now quoting from this book, chapter 2 entitled “The Religion Of The Norsemen”, pages 13-24:

“The Icelander Snorre Sturlasson wrote in the thirteenth century a very remarkable book, called the Heimskringla, or the Sagas of the Kings of Norway. In this book he says that Odin, the highest god of the Norsemen, was the chief who first led the Germanic tribes into Europe. He was a great warrior and was always victorious. Therefore, when he was dead, the people made sacrifices to him and prayed to him for victory. They did not believe, however, that he was actually dead, but that he had returned to his old home in Asia, whence he still watched their fortunes and occasionally visited them in person. Many tales are told in the sagas of people who had seen Odin, particularly when a great battle was to be fought. He was represented as a tall, bearded man with one eye, and clad as a warrior. He had two brothers, Vile and Ve, and many sons and daughters who were worshipped like him and became gods and goddesses. Odin and his children were called Aesir, which Snorre says means Asia-men; and their home Asgard, or Asaheim, likewise indicates their Asiatic origin. During their migrations the Aesir came in contact with another people, called the Vanir, with whom, after an indecisive battle, they formed an alliance. The Vanir then made common cause with the Aesir and were worshipped like them.

“Whether there is any basis of truth in this tradition, is difficult to determine. We know that primitive nations usually make gods of their early kings and chieftains, and worship them after death. Every year that passes makes them look greater and more mysterious. In storms and earthquakes, in thunder and lightning, they hear their voices and see the manifestations of their power. More and more they become identified with the elements, which they are supposed to rule; the mighty attributes of the sun, the sky, and the sea are given to them, and to each is allotted his particular sphere of action. The chieftain who has been a valiant warrior in his life-time is supposed to give victory to those who call upon him. He who has excelled in the art of peace continues to rule over the seasons, and to give good crops and prosperity to those who, by sacrifices, secure his good will. This may have been the origin of the Scandinavian gods; although many scholars maintain that they were from the beginning personifications of the elements, and have never had an actual existence on earth.  But whether they were originally men or sub-myths, interesting legends have been told about them, which may be worth recounting.

“In the beginning of time there were two worlds, Muspelheim, the world of fire, whose king was Surtur, and Niflheim, the world of frost and darkness. In Niflheim was the spring Hvergelmer, where dwelt the terrible dragon Nidhögger. Between these two worlds was the yawning chasm Ginnungagap. The spring Hvergelmer sent forth twelve icy rivers, which were called the Elivagar. These gradually filled up the chasm Ginnungagap. As the wild waters rushed into the abyss, they froze and were again thawed by the sparks that were blown from the fiery Muspelheim. The frozen vapors fell as hoar-frost, and the heat imparted life to them. They took shape and fashioned themselves into the Yotun or giant Ymer, from whom descends the evil race of frost-giants. Simultaneously with Ymer the cow Audhumbla came into being. She licked the briny hoar-frost, and a mighty being appeared with the shape of a man. He was large and beautiful, and was named Bure.  His son was Bör, who married the daughter of a Yotun, and got three sons, Odin, Vile and Ve. These three brothers slew the Yotun Ymer, and in his blood all the race of Yotuns was drowned except one couple, from which a new race of giants descended. Then Odin and his brothers dragged the huge body of Ymer into the middle of Ginnungagap, and fashioned from it the world. Out of the flesh they made the earth, the bones became stones and lofty mountains, and his blood the sea. From his hair they made the trees, and from his skull the great vault of the sky. His brains they scattered in the air, where its fragments yet float about in queer, fantastic shapes, and are called clouds. The flying sparks from Muspelheim they gathered up and fashioned them into sun, moon, and stars, which they flung up against the blue vault of the sky. Then they arranged land and water so that the ocean flowed round about the entire earth, and beyond the watery waste they fixed the abode of the Yotuns. This cold and barren realm beyond the sea is therefore called Utgard, or Yotunheim. From the earth to the sky they suspended a bridge of many colors, which they named Bifrost or the rainbow. The Yotun woman Night married Delling (the Dawn) and became the mother of Day, who rode in his shining chariot across the sky, always followed by his dark mother. The latter drove a huge black horse named Hrimfaxe, from whose foamy bit dropped the dew that refreshed the grass during the hours of darkness, while Day’s horse, Skinfaxe, spread from his radiant mane the glorious light over the earth. It is further told that the heat bred in Ymer’s body a multitude of maggots, which assumed the shapes of tiny men and were called gnomes or dwarves. They live in caves and mountains, and know of all the treasures of gold and silver and precious stones in the secret chambers of the rocks. They also have great skill in the working of metals, but they cannot endure the light of the sun. Last of all man was created. One day when the three gods, Odin, Höner, and Lodur were walking on the shores of the sea they found two trees, and from these they made a man and a woman, named Ask and Embla (ash and elm). Odin gave them the breath of life, Höner, speech and reason, Lodur, blood and fair complexions.

“The old Norsemen conceived of the world as an enormous ash tree, named Ygdrasil, the three roots of which extend, one to the gods in Asgard, another to Yotunheim, the third to Niflheim. On the third gnaws continually the dragon Nidhögger. In the top of the tree sits an eagle; among the branches four stags are running; and up and down on the trunk frisks a squirrel who carries slander and endeavors to make mischief between the eagle and the dragon. Under the root, which stretches to Yotunheim, is the fountain of the wise Yotun Mimer, to whom Odin gave one of his eyes in return for a draught from his fountain. For whoever drank from its water became instantly wise. Under the second root of the ash, which draws its nourishment from heaven, is the sacred fountain of Urd, whither the gods ride daily over the bridge Bifrost. Here they meet the three Norns – Urd, Verdande, and Skuld (Past, Present and Future), the august goddesses of Fate, whose decrees not even the gods are able to change. The Norns pour the water of the fountain over Ygdrasil’s root, and thereby keep the world-tree alive. They govern the fates of gods and men, giving life or death to whomever they please.

“Odin dwells with all the other gods in Asgard, where he receives in his shining hall Valhalla all those who have died by the sword. He is therefore called Valfather [all father], and those fallen warriors whom he chooses to be his guest, are known as cinheriar, i.e., great champions. Valhalla is splendidly decorated with burnished weapons. The ceiling is made of spears, the roof is covered with shining shields, and the walls are adorned with armor and coats of mail. Hence the champions issue forth every day and fight great battles, killing and maiming each other. But every night they wake up whole and unscathed and return to Odin’s hall, where they spend the night in merry carousing. The maidens of Odin — the Valkyries, who, before every battle, select those who are to be slain, wait upon the warriors, fill their great horns with mead, and give them the flesh of swine to eat.

“The great gathering-place of the gods in Asgard is the plains of Ida. Here is Odin’s throne, where he sits looking out over the whole world. At his side sit the two wolves – Gere and Freke, and on his shoulders the ravens, Hugin and Munin, who daily fly forth and bear him tidings from the remotest regions of the earth. If he wishes to travel, he mounts his eight-footed horse Sleipner, which carries him far and wide with wonderful speed. When the father of gods and men rides to battle he wears a helmet of gold and a suit of mail, which shines dazzlingly from afar. He carries also his spear Gungner, which he sends forth whenever he wishes to arouse men to warfare and strife. But, besides being the god of war, Odin also delights in poetry and sage counsel. He is the god of the scalds or poets, for he had drunk of Suttung’s mead, which imparted the gift of song. He is well skilled in sorcery, and has taught men the art of writing runes.

“Thor, the son of Odin, lives in Thrudvang. He is the strongest of all the gods, and has an enormous hammer, Mjolner, with which he carries on a ceaseless warfare against the Yotuns, or mist-giants. He rides in a cart drawn by two rams across the Gjallar bridge (the resounding bridge), which leads to Yotunheim, and the rattling of the cart and the noise of his hammer, as he hurls it at the heads of the fleeing giants, make the vault of the sky tremble. This is what men call thunder. When Thor is hungry, he kills his rams and eats their flesh, but he is always careful to gather up the bones and to throw them back into the skins. Then, the next morning, the rams are as frisky as ever and ready for service. Thor has a wife named Sif, whose hair is of gold.

“Balder, the good and the beautiful, is also the son of Odin. He is wise and gentle, and kindness beams from his countenance. His wife is Nanna, and his dwelling Breidablik.

“Njord is ruler of the sea, and can raise storms and calm the waves at his pleasure. He is of the race of the Vanir, but is yet worshipped as a god. He is the owner of great wealth, and can give prosperity to those who obtain his favor. Njord was married to the Yotun woman, Skade, but was again separated from her. His abode is at Noatun, from which he has wide view of the sea.

“Frey, the son of Njord, rules over the seasons, and gives peace and good crops. Fields and pastures grow, and the cattle thrive in the sunshine of his favor. He lives with his wife Gerd in Alfheim. Tyr is the god of courage, whom menArial call upon, as they are about to go into battle. He has but one hand, having thrust the other into the mouth of the Fenris-wolf, who bit it off. Brage is the god of song, and of vows and pledges. He has a long beard, and is possessed of wisdom and eloquence. When men drained the horn in his honor, they made vows of daring deeds that they would perform, and called the god to witness that they would keep them. Many were those who, while drunk, pledged themselves to foolhardy undertakings, and perished in the attempt to carry them out. Brage’s wife is the ever-young Idun. She has in her keeping the wonderful apples, which the gods eat to preserve the beauty and vigor of an eternal youth.

“The watchman of the gods is named Heimdal. His senses are so keen that nothing can escape him. He can see hundreds of miles, and he can hear the grass grow. When he blows his Gjallar horn (the resounding horn), its rousing call is heard throughout the world. Heimdal’s dwelling is Himinbjarg at the Bifrost Bridge.

“Among gods of less consequence may be mentioned Uller, the stepson of Thor, who is a master in running on snow-shoes; Forsete, the son of Balder, who makes peace between those who have quarreled; Höder, the blind god, who shot Balder; and the silent Vidar.

“Foremost among the goddesses is Frigg, the wife of Odin, who dwells in Fensal. She shields from danger those who call upon her. Freya, the Northern Venus, is the goddess of beauty. She is the daughter of Njord, and was forsaken by her husband Odd, and is ever hoping for his return. She traveled far and wide in search of him, and wept because she could not find him. Her tears turned into gold, and gold is therefore by the poets called the tears of Freya. Her chariot, in which she drives over the sky, is drawn by cats, though at times she flies in the guise of a swan and visits distant lands.  Her necklace, Brising, made by wonder-working gnomes, is of dazzling splendor. The dwelling of Freya is Folkvang, and thither ascend the prayers of lovelorn swains and maidens.  Freya’s daughter, Hnos, is of marvelous beauty and a sweet disposition. Her name is still used in the nursery as a pet-name for babes.

“The domain of the sea does not belong entirely to Njord. The Yotun Aeger rules over the towering waves, and lashes them into fury, until Njord again curbs them and bids them be still. Yet Aeger is the friend of the gods, and is at times visited by them in his magnificent submarine hall, where ale and mead flow abundantly. He is himself peaceably disposed toward men, but is overruled by his terrible wife Ran, who with her nine daughters (the waves), causes shipwrecks and draws the drowned men down to her watery abode.

“One dweller in Asgard is still to be mentioned, and that is the evil Loke [or Loki], who disturbs the peace of the gods, and will work their final ruin. He was born among the Yotuns, but gained the confidence of Odin by his agreeable presence and his fair speech. He delighted in mischief and loved evil-doing. He had three terrible children – the wolf Fenris, the world-serpent, and Hel. As these monsters grew up, the gods foresaw that their presence in Asgard would cause trouble. The wolf Fenris was, therefore, after having broken the strongest chains, tied with a magical cord, made of the noise of cats’-paws, women’s beard, roots of mountains, and other equally intangible things. This cord he could not break. The world-serpent was thrown into the ocean, where it continued to grow until it encircled all the earth and at last bit its own tail. Hel was banished to Helheim, where she became the ruler of the dead, and the goddess of the under-world.”

Now let’s consider various things we have just read, some of which we will postpone and cover in our next lesson. Let’s start with where it speaks of Odin giving one of his eyes at the “fountain of the wise” (Yotun Miner) in exchange for a drink of wisdom. Does this mean that Odin actually, literally had one of his eyes removed in order to gain wisdom? Or does it mean that Odin became single minded in his purpose?  We are told this by our Redeemer in Matthew 6:22-23:

“22 The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. 23 But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”

In Matthew 5:29 our Messiah also instructed us concerning our eye this way: “And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into gehenna.”

Evidently the Almighty, according to Norse Mythology, was also known to them by the name of Odin, for in their version of Creation of man it speaks as follows: “Last of all man was created. One day when the three gods, Odin, Höner, and Lodur were walking on the shores of the sea they found two trees, and from these they made a man and a woman, named Ask and Embla (ash and elm).  Odin gave them the breath of life, Höner, speech and reason, Lodur, blood and fair complexions.” The important elements here are “blood” and “fair complexions.” Here it’s a royal bloodline and a people only with a White complexion. You can see from this that the Norse were very heedful of the importance of their race.

Also the Norse knew Two Seedline and who their perpetual enemy was as recorded at the end of chapter 2: “One dweller in Asgard is still to be mentioned, and that is the evil Loke, who disturbs the peace of the gods, and will work their final ruin. He was born among the Yotuns, but gained the confidence of Odin by his agreeable presence and his fair speech. He delighted in mischief and loved evil-doing. He had three terrible children – the wolf Fenris, the world-serpent, and Hel. As these monsters grew up, the gods fore-saw that their presence in Asgard would cause trouble. The wolf Fenris was, therefore, after having broken the strongest chains, tied with a magical cord, made of the noise of cats’-paws, women’s beard, roots of mountains, and other equally intangible things. This cord he could not break. The world-serpent was thrown into the ocean, where it continued to grow until it encircled all the earth and at last bit its own tail ...”

In chapter 1, page 1, of this same book The Story Of Norway, we read the following: “Who Were The Norsemen? The Norsemen are a Germanic race and belong, accordingly, to the great Aryan family. Their next of kin are the Swedes and Danes. Their original home was Asia, and probably that part of Asia which the ancients called Bactria, near the sources of the rivers Oxus and Jaxartes. Not only the Norsemen are supposed to have come from this region, but the ancestors of all the Aryan nations which now inhabit the greater portion of the civilized world. Among the first to leave this cradle of nations were the tribes which settled upon the eastern islands and peninsulas of the Mediterranean, under the name of Hellenes, developed, long before the Christian era, an art and a literature which are, in some respects, yet unrivalled. The early Italic tribes, from which sprung in time the world-empire of Rome, trace their descent from the same ancestry; as do the Kelts, who in ancient times inhabited England, Ireland, and France ...”

Fortified with this information, we should now be better prepared to recognize original, true Odinism as opposed to current, corrupted, false Odinism. We will attempt to find much more plausible truth on this matter in the next lesson.

This is my forty-sixth monthly teaching letter and continues my fourth year of publication. In the last lesson, we took up the subject of perverted or “false Odinism.” We discovered it was a farce, and just the opposite of what should be expected of authentic or “true Odinism.” I then quoted a chapter out of a book entitled The Story Of Norway by Hjalmar H. Boyeson. This was a very old book being published in 1886. While this book was very informative, it was based mainly on what is considered Younger Edda, which tends to be somewhat problematical in nature. Snorre Sturlasson was the author of a book entitled the Heimskringla; he also wrote the Younger or Prose Edda. With this lesson, we are going to concentrate, for the most part, on what is considered Elder Edda. This should give us a truer view of the lifestyle of the Norse Vikings. We were on the subject of Egypt and got sidetracked by the term “ashet tree” on various Egyptian obelisks which led us in turn to the term “ash tree” in Norse Mythology. 

We are now going to try to make some sense out of Norse Mythology. Don’t let anyone ever tell you any differently, as the Norse people are some of the finest folk to ever set foot on the face of this earth. How could they be otherwise when many of them have Tamar as their great great grandmother, especially Odin? I will now present this subject from the book History Of The Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset, Ph.D., professor of Norwegian language, literature and history in Luther College, Decorah, Iowa. (Little Norway of America). This book was published in 1915. On page 92, he speaks of the temperament of the Norwegian people. I will enclose some comments on the text in brackets [ ]: 

“He [the Norseman] loved the battle and the stormy sea; he admired the strong, the brave, the cunning, the intellectual; for the old and feeble he had no interest, for the suffering no sympathy; the weak he despised. He sang of valor and of heroic deeds; not of love and beauty. [Note: These Norsemen had been fighting for their very lives for several hundreds of years from the time they had left Assyria until they arrived in the Scandinavian part of Europe leaving them hard and heartless.] The sagas of the rich and powerful have been written, the poor and unfortunate classes are passed over in silence. But in the Viking Age the lifegiving spirit of Christianity was breathed gently also upon the pagan North. Unconsciously at first the hard heartstrings were loosened, and the soul was stirred by a new life. Notes of love and sadness steal into their songs, words of affection and sorrow are chiseled on their tombstones, woman gradually rises to new dignity, and the rights of the heart gain recognition. Even religious life is deeply affected by this gentle influence. The Light of the World had cast its first faint glimmer upon the intellectual and moral life of the North, — the Viking expeditions had begun to bear their greatest fruit.

 

“Religion and Literature

 

“Wherever the Vikings settled they established a well-developed social organization, infused new vigor into the peoples with whom they came in contact, and imparted to them ideas which germinated into new cultural growth. [Note: Only among their own kind.] Along practical lines they were often much farther advanced than the nations which were subjected to their attacks. [Note: Being ‘farther advanced’ should come as no surprise.] This was especially manifest in Ireland [also our people], where the people at the time of the Viking inroads yet lived under a tribal organization, amid most primitive economic and social conditions. [While the Irish were not under the Roman yoke, Rome controlled the area’s commerce.]

 

“Not only did they [the Irish] lack a well-organized army, ships, commerce, cities, roads, and bridges, but they paid little attention to agriculture, living for the most part on their herds and flocks, with which they moved from place to place. They [the Irish] were, as a rule, cruel and sensual; their warfare was savage, the position of woman was low and degrading, their houses were usually miserable huts. Yet this people possessed a remarkable intellectual culture, and became in this field the teachers and benefactors of their enemies, the Norsemen.

 

“They had been Christians for many centuries before the Vikings began their conquests. Their missionaries were laboring, not only in Scotland and England, but had penetrated to the remote forest regions of Germany and France, to Switzerland and northern Italy. Even in the solitudes of the Faroe Islands and Iceland pious Irish monks had erected their hermitages. They had great scholars who diligently studied Greek and Latin authors, and profound philosophers like John Scotus Erigena. During the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries the Irish schools became celebrated all over Europe. Not only Greek and Latin, but philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and geography were studied. The Irish cloister schools became the refuge of those who loved intellectual culture in the Dark Ages, and scholars from many countries flocked to them. Alcuin, the great scholar at the court of Charles the Great, corresponded with one of the professors of the Irish school at Clonmacnois, whom he calls his dear master and teacher. Also in their own native tongue they produced a rich literature, both in prose and poetry. Heroic tradition flourished, sagas were written to commemorate the deeds of great chieftains, or to preserve the knowledge of the clan and of family relationship, and songs were composed by scalds in honor of their kings. They sang, too, of love and of the beauty of nature with a sweet tenderness, strange in those days when such poetry was almost unknown. But both their poetry and their prose suffered from an overflow of fancy and feeling, uncontrolled by artistic taste. The wildest exaggerations abound, the characters are grotesque, super-human, and indistinctly drawn. There is an obscurity and lack of form which stand in the sharpest contrast to the brief, lucid style, and psychological character painting in the Norse sagas.

 

“That the religious and literary life so highly developed among the Irish, their love of nature, their lyric sentimentality, and sympathetic and emotional character made a deep impression on the stern Norsemen is certain. They, who came to conquer, were in turn conquered by this new and gentle influence. Long before they were converted to Christianity, their lives and views were deeply affected by ideas acquired in the Christian countries which they visited, and especially through their sojourn in Ireland. It was largely due to this new stimulus that Norse scaldic poetry and the saga literature began to flourish in the Viking period, and that Norse mythology assumes at this time a distinctly new form in which we find embedded in the strata of pagan thought many unmistakable fragments of Christian ideas; as, the conceptions of creation, of righteousness, of good and evil, as well as views of the life hereafter, which can have their origin only in the realm of Christian faith and morality. [But they did have a former lore of creation.]

 

“The scaldic poetry falls into two general groups: the scaldic songs, so called because they are written by scalds whose names and careers are known, and a body of old songs by unknown authors, called the ‘Elder Edda’ or ‘Norrœn Fornkvæði’. The scalds were usually connected with a king’s hird or court, and produced songs to extol the person and achievements of their patrons, on whose munificence they lived.

 

“These songs, which contain much valuable information regarding persons and events of early Norwegian history, are usually composed in a most intricate verse form, the drottkvætt, which abounds in word transpositions, allusions, and metaphoric expressions (kenningar), which offer many difficulties to the modern reader. This verse seems to have been invented by Brage Boddason (Brage the Old), who lived in the first part of the ninth century and is the first Norwegian scald of whom we have any record. There were also scalds who did not stay at the courts, and who composed songs on more varied subjects. Egil Skallagrimsson, one of the great masters in scaldic song, and Ulv Uggason, the author of the  ‘Húsdrápa’, may be mentioned. Egil is well known from his songs ‘Hqfuðlausn’ and ‘Arinbjørnsdrápá’, but especially for his great poem ‘Sonatorrek’, in which he laments the loss of his sons. Noteworthy are also Kormak’s ‘Mansongsvisur’, love songs to the beautiful Steingerd. Many of the saga writers were also scalds, notably Snorre Sturlason [questionable] and Sturla Thordsson. Snorre, the author of the ‘Heimskringla’, has also written the ‘Younger Edda’, a most important work intended as a book of instruction for young scalds. The work has preserved the names of a great number of scalds, together with fragments of their songs, and furnishes a key to the many difficulties in scaldic poesy. It gives a review of mythology (Gylfaginning) which a scald must necessarily know, it explains the poetical and metaphorical expressions (heiti, kenningar) used in scaldic poetry, and a poem written to King Haakon Haakonsson and Skule Jarl illustrates all the verse forms used by the scalds.

 

“The ‘Elder Edda’ consists of two series of songs, the mythological and the heroic, written by scalds whose names are not known. Besides the poems about Helge Hundingsbane and Helge Hiqrvarðsson, the heroic songs deal with the great Nibelungen tradition, and constitute the first literary embodiment known of this great Germanic epic. The Eddic poems have preserved a much older form of this tradition than found in the ‘Nibelungenlied.’ [Please take note of what we are about to read.] In the mythological poems we find clearly set forth in verse of classic simplicity and beauty the Norsemen’s ideas of creation, the lives and character of their gods, the destruction of the world, and of man’s destiny after death. In the ‘Hávamál’ we find outlined also their moral conceptions, and their view of life in general. The grandest of all these old songs is the ‘Voluspá’ (the prophecy of the volva).

 

“This volva can be none other than Urd (Old Norse Urðr), one of the three norns, or goddesses of fate (Urðr, Verðandi, and Skuld). The gods are assembled in council at the Well of Urd. Odin calls the volva from the grave, and the great sibyl comes forth to reveal to the god of wisdom what even he does not know — the mysteries of creation, the destruction of the gods, the end of the world, and the happy existence in the life to come. She commands silent attention, and tells the assembled gods that in the beginning there was neither sand, nor sea, nor cool billows; the earth did not exist, nor the heavens above; there was a yawning abyss, but nowhere grass, before the sons of Bur lifted up the dry land, they who created the beautiful earth. The sun shone from the south on the stones of the hall, and the earth was covered with green herbs. The sun, the moon, and the stars did not know their proper courses, but the mighty gods held council, and gave them their right orbits, dividing time into night, morning, midday, and evening. The ‘Gylfaginning’ presents a more complete account of creation, giving in fuller detail a myth which is outlined also in the ‘Vafþudnismál.’ Here we learn that in the beginning there were two regions, one of fire and heat, called ‘Muspelheim’, ruled over by Surt, who watches the borders of his realm with a glowing sword. When the end of the world comes, he will conquer the gods, and destroy the earth with fire. The other was a cold region, ‘Niflheim’ (Old Norse Niflheimr), from which twelve rivers issue, called ‘Elivágar.’ Between these two regions is the great abyss ‘Ginnungagap.’ The masses of ice which had accumulated on the northern side of this abyss finally caught the spark of life from the heat issuing from Muspelheim, and a great man-shaped being, Yme (Old Norse Ymir), was produced, from whom the Jotuns descended ...”

 

I now wish to draw your attention to what we have just read in the last two paragraphs. The writer here speaks of  the “Elder Edda.” It would appear that if we are going to make any sense out of Norse Mythology, we will have to consider the older writings on the subject. A footnote on page 96 of this book says this concerning the Elder Edda:

 

“The Ms. Codex Regius, which contains the Eddic poems, is no longer complete, some songs dealing with the Nibelungen tradition having been lost. The Volsungasaga, whose author has known the Codex Regius in complete form, gives in prose the contents of all the songs in the Elder Edda, dealing with the Nibelungen tradition. The title Edda is a misnomer. Edda means poetics, or the art and doctrine of poetry. The word is properly used as the title of Snorre’s book, the Younger Edda, but it is in no way applicable to these old songs. It has also been called Sæmundar Edda, owing to an old erroneous belief that Sæmund Frodi was the author.”

 

If you will remember, the text of this quotation said: “The Eddic poems have preserved a much older form of this tradition than that found in the ‘Nibelungenlied.’” Therefore, our purpose is to find the meanings of the “Elder Edda.” The reason for this is because, when the 10 Northern Tribes of Israel broke the yoke of Assyria and headed into Europe, there was a majority of the Tribe of Judah with them, and I am sure they had a good understanding of the Old Testament up until that time. Therefore, we should find much of their understanding of the Scriptures contained within Norse Mythology. For example, the term “Loki” was another name for Satan.

 

In The Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition, volume 1, page 189, we read this about Loki: “After the introduction of Christianity, the attributes and mystic deeds of Loki were transferred to Satan by the people of Scandinavia.”

 

The Norse understood there was a Satan, even though some of the anti-seedliners of today don’t. If we will go to The American Heritage Dictionary (1976) and look up the word “Loki”, it will direct us to “leuk” in the appendix, where under meaning #2 it corresponds to the Latin word “Lucifer.” From this we can see the Scandinavians, upon their conversion to Christianity, got it right. There can be little doubt, then, that they remembered well the story of the serpent since before their captivity. The question is: what are some of the other things they got right? Another question: what other words do we have today which might be derived from “Loki”?

 

From the foregoing, we can also observe that they had their own version of Creation, the end of the world, destiny and death, and their own concepts of morality which would probably put our present morals to shame. It appears they accredited the Creation to more than one El. In our Bibles, in the account of the Creation, the word for “God” is “elohiym” and is also in the plural. Job 38:4-7 says:

 

“4 Where was thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding. 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it? 6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone thereof; 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?”

 

The Norse legend then goes on to describe the earth at Creation as having no “sand, sea or moving cool billows”; that the earth was a “yawning abyss” without grass; that “Bur” lifted up the dry land creating a “beautiful” earth; that the “sun, moon and stars” were placed in their courses, thus dividing “night, morning, midday and evening.” While their account of Creation is not exactly as we have described in our Bibles, it isn’t that far out of reason. It would seem they were better informed on such things than many people are today. Now, continuing to quote from this same book where we left off:

 

“The gods killed Yme, and from his body they created the earth, from his blood the ocean, from his bones the mountains, and from his skull the heavens. From sparks from Muspelheim they made the sun, moon and the stars, and placed them on the heavens. Again the gods assembled in council, says the volva, and created the dwarfs in the earth. From two trees, ash and elm, they created man and woman. Odin gave them the spirit, Honir gave them reason, and Lodur color and warmth of life. The gods were amusing themselves at the gaming tables, and there was no lack of gold until the three powerful maidens came from Jøtunheim. These maidens are the three norns or goddesses of fate, already mentioned, Strife had not yet begun; the gods were happy in this golden age, which lasted until the fates appeared to determine the destiny of gods and men. But the elements of discord had entered the world: gold, woman, and witchcraft. The goddess Gullveig, who seems to be a personification of all three, was killed in Odin’s hall, and this caused the first war, that between Æsir and Vanir, the two tribes of gods, who now contended for supremacy. ‘Odin threw his spear into the throng, this was the first combat in the world.’ A peace was finally concluded, according to which the two tribes were united on equal terms. The personification of evil itself is Loke and his children with the giantess Angerboda (O. N. Angrboða), the three monsters Hel, goddess of the underworld, the wolf Fenre (Old Norse Fenrir), who at the end of the world will kill Odin, and the Miðgarðsormr, or Jørmungand, the world serpent, a personification of the ocean [serpent people] encircling the earth.”

 

This is probably as good a place to break into this story as any. Because we are encountering some various new Norse terms, let’s try to see if we can make some sense of them. First of all, it speaks of “Loke and his children.” I believe we have pretty well established that Loki (two spellings) is none other than Satan himself. If this is true, then the Norse understood the message of Genesis 3:15; that the serpent has literal “seed” or “children.” Again, we confront the “ash tree”, and it might be well if we consider this for a moment. I believe it has some connection with the “flaming sword” of Genesis 3:24:

 

“So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.”

 

The Geneva Bible says: “to guard the way to the tree of life.” Many commentators try to make it appear that the “flaming sword” was for the purpose of keeping Adam-man away from the tree of life. Rather than that, the “flaming sword” was to bring us back to the tree of life (our Messiah), not some wooden tree as the anti-seedliners claim. There is a lot of difference between keeping us away and bringing us back. Also, our Adamic White people are considered as the “children of light.” Therefore, it is very fitting for our people to have as their symbol a flame or sword of fire as being our “light.” The enemy (Satan and his children) can also appear as an “angel of light”, so we have to know the difference between the two, for if the light that is in us be darkness, then how great is that darkness. We know when we burn wood we get ashes, but isn’t it amazing that the ashes we get are named after the ash tree. Evidently, ash wood is very good for the fireplace both for heat and light. These qualities would have been very important before electricity. If we go to The American Heritage Dictionary and look up “ash” as in ashes, it will direct us to “as-” in the appendix, which says:

 

“To burn, glow. 1. Extended form asg- in Germanic askon- in Old English æsce, asce, ash: ASH ... Latin ardere, to burn, be on fire, from aridus, parched ARDENT, ARDOR, ARSON ...”

 

Fire to people in ancient times was highly significant. I could deliberate on this subject in great detail. However, to comprehend one very meaningful factor which the ancients held concerning “fire”, I will quote from The Encyclopedia Britannica ninth edition (1894), volume 9, pages 200-201:

 

“The Vedas taught that the hearth-fire was cosubstantial with the cause of generation. Hence care was taken to preserve the purity of descent in the kin by preserving the flame of the hearth pure and unmingled with fire taken from another house. On this matter the ancient Persians were particularly punctilious, feeding their fires and especially their sacred fires, only with certain kinds of wood, reputed to be cleaner than all others, well dried, and well stripped of the bark. Everywhere and in all countries, it was considered a most fatal omen if the fire died out in the hearth. A family whose fire went out had incurred the ire of the Lares [ancestors], who, if not quickly appeased, would strike the sons with impotence and imbecility. A new fire was to be lit by the friction of two twigs, as to fetch some from a neighbor’s would have been considered an adulterous union of hearths, an undue mingling of two families’ blood.  

 

This is incredible, for we still have an old saying among our people: “keep the home fires burning.” I am sure that it is important to keep our houses warm in the winter, but it is paramount that we keep our family racial fires burning with a pure flame. Take a look around us and observe how many are letting the home fires die out by miscegenation with the strange fire of another race. If our forefathers could observe what is going on today, they would simply be dumbfounded. We can be thankful that our ancestors understood this and were adamant about their racial home fires, for we are the product of their fidelity.

 

Don’t be confused by the term “Vedas” above and associate it with the present-day people of India whose religion is but a corruption of our original ancient truth. They are hardly an appropriate example of racial purity. If you have read Tracing Our Ancestors by Frederick Haberman, then you are aware that our people were in that area in prior times. The emblem of fire/flame became a symbol of our people meaning light and wisdom, and we are not to let that light die out as a result of race-mixing.

 

It seems there is more to this thing about the ash tree than appears on the surface, for we are children of light being guided by the light of our Almighty. We should also notice where it says “Odin gave them the spirit.” Evidently, this is not referring to the historical Odin, but the Almighty Himself. Is it also possible that the name Odin could mean Adam? Further, we are told in Norse Mythology that Balder is Odin’s second son. When we consider that Adam was Yahweh’s first son, it is out of order to refer to Yahshua as the second Adam, which our Scriptures claim. Therefore, Balder fits the bill to be the Messiah. We are told in Norse Mythology that Loki, the evil one, killed Balder. We know from our Bible that the “seed of the serpent”, Genesis 3:15 was indeed, in the person of Judas, who bruised His heel. This last portion quoted above also speaks of  “Æsir and Vanir.” From the best I can ascertain, the “Vanir” were the angels in heaven that rebelled warring against Michael and his angels in Revelation 12:7. If this is true, it is amazing the amount of knowledge which the Norse had. It said in this last portion quoted that this was the “first war.” This also goes along with the Bible story of the battle between Michael and the Serp/spanent as being the first recorded war. Also, we read here about “the world serpent, a personification of the ocean [of a people] encircling the earth.” The Two Seedliners in Identity today know who that serpent is. Let’s continue to quote from this same book from where we left off:

 

“The world, in which there is now continual strife, is represented under the symbol of a giant ash tree, the Yggdrasil, whose top reaches into the heavens, whose branches fill the world, and whose three roots extend into the three important spheres of existence outside the world of man. One root is where the Æsir dwell. Under this root is the Well of Urd, where the gods assemble in council. Another root reaches to the home of the Jøtuns, or Rimthuser (Old Norse Hrímþursar), under which is the Well of Mimer, the fountain of wisdom. The third root is in Niflheim, and under it is the terrible well Hvergelme, by which is found the snake Nidhoggr, which, together with many others, continually gnaws at the roots of the world tree, and seeks to destroy it. Niðhoggr is the symbol of the destructive forces operating in the world.”

 

At this point, this History Of The Norwegian People presents some verse as follows:

 

“An ash tree I know, • Yggdrasil called, • a tall tree • sprinkled with water; • from it comes the dew • that falls in the valleys, • ever green it stands • by the fountain of Urd.

 

“Much do they know • the three maidens • who come from the hall • which stands by the tree; • one is Urd, • the other Verdande, • Skuld is the third; • laws they make, • they determine life • and the fate of men.”

 

After this verse, it continues:

 

“The norns are not only in the world, but they are the real rulers of it; even the gods must submit to their decrees. They rule over life and death, and man’s destiny; no one can escape the calamities which they have preordained. But they have not the absolute power attributed to the fates in Greek and Roman mythology. They are also subject to an ultimate fate. They disappear at Ragnarok (Old Norse Ragnarøkkr) together with this present world.

 

“Again the gods assembled, says the volva, to consider how evil had come into the world. Odin, who is interrogating her, tries to conceal his identity, but she recognizes him, and tells him the great secrets of his life. In Norse mythology Odin is the chief divinity and the father of many of the other gods, but it is evident that in earlier periods other gods have held the highest position. Ty (Old Norse Týr), the god of war (Anglo-Saxon Tius, Old High German Ziu), seems to be the same divinity as the Greek Zeus, and has, no doubt, at one time been the principal god. Thor, the god of thunder and lightning, must also have ranked higher than Odin, but in Norse mythology he has become Odin’s son. He is constantly fighting the wicked Jotuns, at whom he hurls his hammer Mjølner (the thunderbolt). He is the farmer’s special protector and benefactor. He shields them against the hostile forces of nature, and furthers husbandry and all peaceful pursuits. In Norway he was worshiped more extensively than any other god. Odin (Anglo-Saxon Wodan, Old High German Wuotan, German wuthen) seems originally to have been a storm god, but in later periods he becomes so prominent that he pushes the older divinities from their throne. Odin is an embodiment of the spirit of the Viking Age. Even in appearance he is a chieftain; tall, one eyed, graybearded, attired in a blue mantle, carrying a shield and the spear Gungne (Old Norse Gungnir), which never misses its mark. His life is rich in all sorts of adventures. He loves war, and is generally found in the midst of the battle. He is also the god of wisdom, and his desire for knowledge is almost a passion. His two ravens, Hugin and Munin, bring him daily notice of everything that happens in the world. No sacrifice is too great if thereby he can gain more knowledge. How did he lose his eye? It is a great secret, but the volva reveals it. He drank once from the Well of Mimir, the fountain of wisdom, and had to give one of his eyes as a forfeit. Odin is the personification of the heavens; his one eye is the sun, the other, which Mimir took, is the sun’s reflection in the water.”

 

This last item is profoundly outstanding, for Odin is not taken in by the false reflection in the water, but only recognizes the true source of the light. We can liken it to the true knowledge we get from our Almighty as opposed to the false light from Satan who appears as an angel of light (Illuminati). You will also notice that Odin gave one of his eyes to obtain the true knowledge. In other words, Odin became single minded by the removal of the mind’s eye comprehending any false light. Today, the greater part of the world is being manipulated by the false light of Satan, including churchianity. Also, Odin is “attired in a blue mantel” which is significant, for in Israel the color of royal blue indicates royalty. Therefore, we can be quite sure that the historical Odin was of the Tribe of Judah, which is proved by the Royal genealogy of the king-line of Britain. We also see that Odin was graybearded, showing he was mature in judgment and respected his graybearded forefathers before him. As usual, with all the House of David, Odin loved war as did our Messiah, for He was a man after David’s own heart.

 

Odin’s son Thor (who was probably not a real son of the historical Odin) is envisioned as hurling his hammer (thunderbolts) at his enemy. You might remember that Judas Maccabeus, another pureblooded member of the House of Judah, was also called “the hammer” because of the crushing blows inflicted upon his enemies. Now we also notice that Odin had two ravens to keep him informed of the enemy’s movements. This is probably in a figurative sense, but a true leader keeps abreast of his enemy. This can be applied to the Anglo-Israel message today, as there are those anti-seedliners who persist in misrepresenting the true nature of our enemy. You can be sure that Odin had a functioning intelligence system, and that nothing went unnoticed; not even the smallest detail. Something else which might be noted: had we not had men like Odin in our ranks from time to time we should never have survived this long. On one of Bertrand L. Comparet’s audiocassette tapes he mentions that our own George Washington was a descendant of the historical Odin. A fact the modern Odinists would do well to remember. Now if you want to admire George Washington, I would call that an authentic form of Odinism. After all, George Washington, Odin and myself are all physical blood brothers to our Redeemer Himself! And if you are an Anglo-Saxon or related kin, you are a physical blood brother to Him also. I guess I like to boast because I’m German, Scottish and Irish (all related to the Tribe of Judah). Now don’t ever try to tell me that my great — and I don’t know how many times over great grandmother — Tamar was a whore!

 

I will again reiterate the Biblical interpretation of Tamar’s valiant act: for were it not for Tamar there would be no pureblooded Tribe of Judah! And without a pureblooded Tribe of Judah, there would no Redeemer! With that thought in mind, let’s start giving that great lady the honor which she is due — that honor being her critical role in the ancestral seedline of the Messiah Himself. Tamar knew beforehand, that in seducing Judah, she would become a great-grandmother to our Redeemer, for marriage to Er, Onan or Shelah would have made her a grandmother to the tainted Canaanite side of Judah’s line who had absorbed the Kenite seed of Cain, Genesis 15:19-21.

 

This is my forty-seventh monthly teaching letter and continues my fourth year of publication. Since my last mailing in February, I have purchased a new Martin Yale model 1501 automatic paper folder. I had been looking for a good paper folder for nearly three years. It appeared that it might require a $1,500 investment. Then a couple of people searching on the Internet found two different places selling folding machines. I inquired from them, but neither would give me the specifications on what kind of folds they would make, and I wasn’t about to spend that much being in the dark as to their capability. Finally, I noticed a folding machine in an OfficeMax catalogue. I called OfficeMax for its specifications, and they gave me the telephone number of Martin Yale, who in turn confirmed that their folder would do everything I needed. Furthermore, this folder sold for $582.99 including tax and delivery. In my mailing for December, 2001, I had to manually fold 3,600 brochures. It’s impossible to imagine the task of doing this manually unless one has ever done it. This new folder should give me a lot more research time for my writings.

While speaking of my brochures, I use ivory colored paper as that reduces eye fatigue. That can make the difference between a person reading the whole content or not. I have also experimented with various fonts to find the easiest to read, which is important when using small type. The cost of pastel colored paper is about three times that of white. While this is expensive, it’s not nearly as costly as the toner.

In my last mailing for February, when I mailed out my January and February Watchman’s Teaching Letters #45 and #46 along with Special Notice To All Who Deny Two Seedline #11 and #12, I had made a margin setup error on my computer for Special Notice #12 which shifted some words in column 4, paragraph 2 from the end of the line to the middle of the line. I had recently started to break words at the end of the line which generally allows me five or six extra lines on each brochure. Therefore, there were two words which appeared as: “Christianity” and “supreme”. Because of this, I now have one more thing to watch for when I make up my master pages. I wish to apologize for any inconvenience I may have caused you. For anyone who wishes corrected copies of Special Notice #12, please send along an SASE with your request.

I need also to mention that in my last Watchman’s Teaching Letter #46, I had a problem replicating the text exactly from the History Of The Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset, Ph.D., for he used some characters which I was not familiar with. These characters were “ð” and “þ.” I was told to substitute a “d” for “ð”, which I found to be correct. Sometimes the pronunciation for this letter is almost silent. The other letter unfamiliar to me was “þ”, looking somewhat like a cross between a “b” and a “p”, and I am advised is pronounced “th” or “ye.” (Check: Ency. Britannica, ninth ed., vol. 8, page 351 & Collier’s Ency. (1980), vol. 1, page 598.) I recently tried to overstrike the “b” and the “p” which was successful. Then I tried to overstrike an “o” and an “^x” but was unsuccessful. I then went to the character map on my computer to see if I could find a combination of letters that would work. It was then that I discovered I already had these two unusual fonts on the character map. Actually, these letters are Old English. As I will be quoting from this book again in this lesson, I will be able to reproduce these letters correctly. This should also help you in pronouncing any words where these characters are found.

You may recall that we are now on the subject of Norse Mythology. We were on the topic of Egypt until diverted to the present subject when we found that on the Egyptian obelisks, mention was made of an “ashet tree.” Then it was discovered that the Norse had a similar term called the “ash tree.” As we continue studying about Norse Mythology, let’s consider again the terms “Asgard” (also spelled Aasgaard) and “ash tree.” There may be some who still don’t comprehend the connection of these two terms. If one will go to Webster’s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary (an 8 lb. book which retails for $100), and look up “Asgard” it says: “... n. Scand.  Myth. the home of the Aesir and location of Valhalla and the palaces of the individual gods: connected with the earth by the rainbow bridge, Bifrost [<Old Norse Asgarthr, equivalent to as god (c. Old English os) + garthr yard; see garth]” Then looking up “garth” it indicates a “yard” or “garden.” Question: Could it be referring to the Garden of Eden? The key here is the designation “os.” Because this Webster’s doesn’t have a section on Indo-European roots, it was necessary to refer to the The American Heritage Dictionary under “os” which says in part: “Ash tree.” Therefore, the term “Asgard” is synonymous with “ash tree.” With this fact verified, let’s continue where we left off quoting the History Of The Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset, Ph.D. from page 100 in lesson #46:

 

“... He also discovered the runes, but only by making another great sacrifice. The ‘Hávamál’ gives the following account of it:

“‘I know that I hung on the windy tree nine nights together, wounded by a spear, sacrificed to Odin, myself to myself, on the tree which no one knows from what roots it springs. Neither with food nor with drink was I refreshed. I looked carefully down and raised up the runes; crying I raised them up, and fell then down.’

“Even this great pain Odin is willing to undergo to discover the runes, for through them he gains occult knowledge, and becomes the god of sorcery, the wisest and most powerful of all the gods.  From his throne Lidskjalv (Old Norse Hliðskjálf) he overlooks the whole world. He is always thoughtful, and meditates on great problems. Evil and good are equally interesting to him, for both reveal some secret of life.  He contemplates the mystery of existence and the approaching end of things; he is never glad, because he knows too much.”

 

It appears from this there was a deep concern on Odin’s part to acquire knowledge. It says here for “occult knowledge.” While this may be true to some degree, we can be certain his quest for knowledge went far beyond that. It says that he “discovered the runes.” No doubt, the runes contained the wisdom of writers of his past (maybe even sprinklings of Scripture). It also seems that Odin was willing to suffer to great lengths in order to gain such knowledge. Here, Odin is interested in both sides of the story, for it indicates that he is concerned equally with both the “evil” and “good.” Ironically, today we have some in the Anglo-Israel message who proclaim there is no “evil” outside of the “flesh”, thus totally refuting the Cain-Satanic-seedline which Messiah Himself taught. They reduce the two “seeds” of Genesis 3:15 to simplistically mean the so-called dual nature of man.

It seems that Odin realized the importance of learning and gaining wisdom, for it says: “He is always thoughtful, and meditates on great problems.” This is precisely what Scripture instructs us to do, and no leader, such as Odin, could fulfill his duties without knowledge. Proverbs 4:4-7 enjoins us thus:

“4 He [my father] taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine heart retain my words: keep my commandments, and live. 5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth. 6 Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee. 7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”

While we must get understanding, we must acquire true wisdom rather than false. There is without question a counterfeit wisdom masquerading as truth. In order to shun false wisdom, one must always check the premise. If the premise is incorrect, then all conclusions derived from that false presupposition will be flawed. This is spoken of in Psalm 119:104:

“Through thy [Yahweh’s] precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.”

In order to obtain true wisdom, one must endeavor, with great trepidation, to avoid any degree of fallacy. Thus, when one discovers that all wisdom is derived from the Almighty, one will with all humility seek His knowledge. There are already too many going around picking things out of the air and passing them on as fact. Rather, man’s wisdom is spoken of as foolishness in 1 Cor. 3:19:

“For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with Yahweh. For it is written [Job 5:13], He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.”

When one approaches the truth with fear, one must be very prudent. Be that as it may, while we are admonished to tell the truth without any wavering, we are not bound to give vital intelligence to an enemy. In other words, there is a proper time to evade or sidestep the truth. Actually, on one occasion, Yahweh instructed Samuel to act in a deceptive manner. The story is found in 1 Samuel, chapter 16. The story goes that Yahweh had directed Samuel to take his horn containing anointing oil and go to the House of Jesse and anoint David as king in place of Saul. Samuel then told Yahweh he couldn’t do that because Saul would kill him. 1 Samuel 16:2-3 says:

“... And Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me. And Yahweh said, Take an heifer with thee and say, I am come to sacrifice to Yahweh. And call Jesse to the sacrifice ...”

Now Samuel’s primary mission was to anoint David as king, not to make a sacrifice. On another occurrence Rahab, the so-called harlot, lied and it was accounted to her as righteousness. The story is found in Joshua (pronounced Yahshua) chapter 2. It seems that someone reported to the king of Jericho that she was sheltering two Israelite spies. On this news, the king sent his policemen to Rahab’s residence inquiring of these two men. Her answer is recorded in verse 4:

“... There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were ...”

Not only did she know who they were, but she sheltered them; made an agreement in league with them; misdirected their pursuers and gave them aid and comfort. Thus, her lie was increased fourfold. If one were to ask the average preacher of today, he would say that Rahab was a Canaanite and also a whore. If one will read Far Above Rubies by Isabel Hill Elder, one will discover that Rahab was of the Tribe of Ephraim, and that she ran an Embassy, not a whorehouse, (pages 41-51). Interestingly, if true, that would make our Redeemer from both Judah and Joseph, but lineage always follows the father.

For telling this lie and aiding the Israelite spies, we are told the following about Rahab in Hebrews 11:31 & James 2:25:

“By faith the harlot [Embassy keeper] Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace.”

“Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot [Embassy keeper] justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?”

It is apparent that it is not a matter of lying, but who, when, where, why and under what circumstances we are to avoid the truth. It is evident that one is not required to tell an enemy the truth, even sometimes on occasions when they are our kinsmen. Usually, our kinsmen become our enemy when they have been influenced by the Cain-Satanic-seedline. But if one listens to the anti-seedliners, they will indicate one must not be influenced by the flesh. Furthermore, there are times when certain unscrupulous prying people ask questions which are really none of their business, for which one is not obligated to give a true answer. Returning now to the subject of the “fear of Yahweh” being the beginning of wisdom mentioned in Psalm 111:10:

“The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.”

When we consider all these things concerning wisdom, we can begin to comprehend Odin’s quest for “knowledge.” There’s more to this thing of gaining “knowledge” than meets the eye! We also observe that Odin had a long-range view of things; desiring to know how all things will end. Like many of us who are aware of Israel Identity and the great conspiracy, Odin, too, “is never glad, because he knows too much.” Have you ever noticed how the average person today hasn’t the slightest clue as to what is really going on; actually undermining their best interest? Then getting angry if one tries to inform them! Now continuing from the History Of The Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset, Ph.D., page 101:

 

“In Aasgaard (Old Norse Ásgarðr) the gods built a beautiful hall, Gladsheim, for the gods, and another, Vingolv (O.N. Vingólf), for the goddesses, but greater than any of these was Odin’s own hall, Valhal (O.N. Valholl). To this hall the valkyries bring the dead warriors who fall on the field of battle, and they are feasted and entertained by Odin himself. All who die a natural death are excluded. The heroes find their pastime in fighting, and many fall every day, but they rise again unharmed, and return to feast in Valhal as the best of friends.”

 

Again, we must pause to comment. Here we notice that it says: “All who die a natural death are excluded.” At this point we should consider what happened to those Israelites mentioned in the Bible who were killed in battle, for they too were given special status. One of the main focuses in Israel was the family, and every effort was made to preserve it. Therefore, when an Israelite soldier was slain in battle, and had not fathered a child (especially a son), his brother was obligated to father an offspring by his widow, for they both carried identical seed and the sibling was considered the widow’s slain husband’s child. This is similar to Seth taking Abel’s place, for they both were carrying the same seed. That is one of the main indicators that Cain was not Adam’s son. It would be interesting to ascertain whether the Norse still practiced this type of marriage in Odin’s time.

This type of union was considered a Levirate marriage, and is spoken of in Deut. 25:5-10. Not only were there Levirate marriages to preserve that family, but a newly wedded male was given a year of exemption from serving in the military to start a family. According to the way this passage reads, Levirate marriages were also established other than for military men. Now continuing from the History Of The Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset, Ph.D., page 101:  

 

“Another divinity who in the Viking period must have undergone a great change, and who seems to reflect the new spirit of that age, is Balder. The opinions of scholars with regard to the Balder myth are hopelessly at variance. A. Olrik thinks that Balder is an old sun god, that his death signifies the victory of darkness over light, while H. Schück thinks that he was not a real god till shortly before the advent of Christianity.  According to Saxo Grammaticus, he was a young and impetuous warrior who waged many combats with his rival Hother, by whom he is finally slain. He is a son of Odin, but lives on the earth. Sophus Bugge considers this to be the older form of the myth. In the ‘Voluspá’ and the ‘Gylfaginning’ he is pictured as the gentle god of innocence and righteousness, so bright that a light of glory surrounds him. He dwells in the hall Breidablik (the far shining hall), where nothing impure is found. He is wise, kind, and eloquent, and so just that his decrees cannot be altered. His wife is Odin’s granddaughter, the faithful Nanna; his son is Forsete, the god of justice and reconciliation. While Balder lives, evil can gain no real control in the world, but bad dreams begin to trouble him, and as this portends some great misfortune to the Æsir, Odin saddles his eight-legged horse, Sleipne (O.N. Sleipnir), and rides to Niflheim to learn what evil is thus foreboded. He calls the volva from her grave, and asks her for whose reception they are making preparations in Hel’s kingdom, and she answers that it is for Balder, who will soon die. This news causes great consternation among the Æsir, and they assemble in council to discuss the matter. Frigg, Balder’s mother, requires everything in the world to take an oath not to harm her son. The gods now feel secure, and in their joy that the danger is averted, they amuse themselves by throwing all sorts of things at Balder to show that nothing will hurt him. But Loke comes disguised to the assembly, and learns from Frigg that there is a tiny plant, the mistilteinn, which she has not required to take the oath, because it seemed too small. He pulls up the plant, brings it to the assembly, and asks the blind god Hød (Hoðr) to throw it at Balder. Hød does so; the plant pierces him through, and he falls dead. The greatest misfortune has happened; Nanna’s heart breaks of sorrow, and she is buried together with her husband, who is received by Hel in her kingdom. But there is a hope even in this great calamity. While Balder lies on the bier, Odin whispers something in his ear. This episode is mentioned in the ‘Vafþrúdnismál,’ where Odin asks the wise Vafþrudne:

‘What did Odin • Whisper in his son’s ear • before he was laid on the funeral pyre?’

“This is a riddle which even Vafþrudne cannot solve. He answers: ‘No one knows • What, in the beginning of time, • thou didst whisper • in thy son’s ear.’

“No one knows; but it was, no doubt, a promise that he should not remain forever in Hel’s realm, but that he should return when the world of strife had passed away, and the new life of peace and righteousness had begun.

“In Norse mythology, as elsewhere in old religious systems, the ideas of the life hereafter are often vague, even contradictory. Mythology is a growth, a product of long periods of a people’s intellectual development, in which old ideas have constantly been mixed with new conceptions. It represents a march of the human mind forward to new light, rather than a once for all perfected system.  The Hel myth is an illustration.  Hel, the name both of the goddess and of the realm over which she rules, is sometimes thought of as the home of all the departed, where even Balder goes after death. Hence the Norwegian expression at slaa ihjel, i.e. to kill, to deprive one of life so that he goes to Hel. But Hel is also thought of as the place for the wicked. Hel, the goddess, is white on one side and black on the other, and her hall is described as a frightful place.  We have seen that from the earliest times, the Norsemen believed in a life after death, which is shown by many burial customs. In course of time they began to construct large burial chambers where all the members of the family could be interred together. Professor H. Schück thinks that these graves first engendered the idea of the lower world. He says: ‘A primitive people does not think of death as annihilation, but rather as an entrance into new life. Only by premising such a belief can a number of antique burial customs be explained…. At first the dead person lived this new life in the grave itself, and these large family graves gave origin to the idea of the realm of the dead.’  According to the oldest belief, then, all the dead came to this realm where Hel ruled. But it was a shadowy, joyless existence, and the feeling that heroes and good people deserved something better gave rise to new creations; to Valhal, Odin’s hall; Folkvang and Sessrymne (Sessrymnir), where Freyja entertains one half of all the fallen heroes; Vingolv (Vingólf), where all heroes are entertained by the goddesses, and to the idea that all women who die unmarried go to the goddess Gefjon. Hel and her kingdom fell into disfavor, and were painted in ever-darker colors.”

 

We must take into consideration that the author of this book, while very informed on Norse life, customs and religious beliefs, hasn’t the slightest idea that the Norse and related people are the Lost Tribes of the Children of Israel. Thus, when he states “Mythology is a growth, a product of long periods of a people’s intellectual development, in which old ideas have constantly been mixed with new conceptions. It represents a march of the human mind forward to new light, rather than a once for all perfected system.” In actual truth, Norse Mythology has at its base the old Hebrew teachings in an aberrant form. But, it must be remembered that this is the people the Potter was going to rework back into an unmarred vessel, Jeremiah 18:4-6. If you are kinfolk to these people, don’t be surprised if you feel the pressure of the Potter’s hand forcing you into the configuration He wishes.

From the foregoing, we can see the Norse had a special admiration for those who fell in battle. In other words, they were patriotic. Today, there is a big cry about being “patriotic.” It seems that this term includes everyone of every race living in our country. In order to be “patriotic” one must have a “patriarch.” The Indo-European root word is similar to “pater” (fæder) meaning “father.” Our patriarchs are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! How can others claim “patriotism” when only Israelites are instructed to: “...look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and the hole of the pit whence ye are digged”, Isaiah 51:1? Where do all those other races get off claiming they are also “patriotic?” Therefore, “patriotism” = Covenant people!

It should also be noted that the Norse looked toward a resurrection to life after death, as we see this confidence expressed time and time again in their belief system. Therefore, they didn’t hesitate to give their life for their brethren. They seem also to have looked forward to the last great battle which they termed Ragnarok, or the great consummating struggle against the children of darkness.

As for the one the Norse called Balder, I addressed that in a former lesson, and I still believe that Balder could represent our Messiah. Noticeably, this article, as quoted, has several opinions on that matter. At that time, surely our people still had some insight that a Savior for Israel was to come. The general story may have become quite distorted over several hundreds of years, but the fundamental idea is recognizable. It’s similar to the legend of Achilles in Greek mythology who is said to be the son of Peleus and had been a mighty warrior in the Trojan War. One of the stories goes that when Achilles was young, his mother dipped him into the River Styx to protect him in battle, but neglected to wet the heel by which she held him. Therefore, Achilles was vulnerable only at his heel. It is apparent that there is a similarity between Achilles and the prophecy of Genesis 3:15. Also, another similar legend is that of the German Siegfried, who, upon fighting and killing a dragon bathed in its blood; was thus invulnerable except in one spot between the shoulders on which a leaf fell before the blood dried. While these legends are considerably corrupted from the bruising of Yahshua’s heel, they were, no doubt, a dim memory of the prophecy of Genesis 3:15. Therefore, we should not look for perfection in these folklore. We can see, also, with some of these basic views, why they were so ripe for conversion to accept the long awaited Gospel Story of a promised Redeemer. It also appears that today we are fighting that same “dragon” system which Siegfried fought against, which the anti-seedliners deny exists.

Then, we see that Odin speaks something in Balder’s ear as if it were some very important and secret matter. Seemingly, it is something that relates to the very “beginning of time”, and something which is not for everyone to hear. If, in this case, Odin represents the Almighty and Balder our Savior, what kind of a message could this be? Do we have such an example as this in Scripture? Yes there is, and it is found in Psalm 78:2 and Matthew 13:34:

“34 All these things spake Yahshua unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them. 35 That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

Continuing, it speaks of the goddess of Hel thus: “Hel, the goddess, is white on one side and black on the other, and her hall is described as a frightful place.” One might wonder from this if “Hel” is not well “integrated”, and that we are now living in such a state. I am advised that the term “Hel” matches perfectly with the Hebrew concept of the “underworld”, and when Lazarus died, Luke 16, he was taken to the white side, while the rich man went to the black side. Continuing now to quote the History Of The Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset, Ph.D., page 104:

 

“Loke did not escape punishment. He was tied by the Æsir in a rocky cavern where poisonous adders drop venom into his face, and there he will have to lie till Ragnarok, or the end of the world. But his faithful wife, Sigyn, stands always by him, and gathers the dripping venom in a cup. Only when she empties the cup does it drop into Loke’s face, and then he writhes in pain so that the earth quakes.  Hød, the slayer of Balder, is also punished.  With the goddess Rind, Odin has the son Vaale, who kills Hød. But revenge cannot remedy the mischief done. Balder the Good has perished, and evil triumphs. In her hall Fensale Frigg weeps for her son; the end is approaching, Ragnarok, when gods and men must perish, and the present world will be destroyed.”

 

Again Loke (Loki) is mentioned, and we have addressed how, when the Norse were converted to Christianity, they associated him with Satan. It says here that “He was tied by the Æsir in a rocky cavern ...” Are we not told in the book of Revelation that Satan was to be bound for a thousand years (Rev. 20:2)? Further, it continues “and there he will have to lie till Ragnarok, or the end of the world.”

There is a lot of confusion as to the time period when Satan was to be bound. Any thoughtful person with all of his mental faculties knows beyond all doubt that Satan, for the last few hundred years (in the form of the “Jews”) has been fulfilling this prophecy to a tee. Well, maybe anyone except the anti-seedliners. When they were confined to the ghettos, they were bound in the “bottomless pit” from which they could not escape until the Almighty permitted them to. Once they got their filthy hands on our money system, they were released for a season to go forth and deceive the nations. Today that “Jewish” instigated organization is called the United Nations. If Satan (the “Jews”) is going to deceive the nations, they better do it now for they will never have a better chance. The old marginal notes (which offended King James) in the Geneva Bible written by the reformers made these observations on Revelation 20:2. I will first quote from New Geneva Study Bible with KJV Text and then quote from a facsimile of the 1599 edition of the Geneva Bible:

“20:2 bound him. Satan’s power to influence the nations is suppressed. Premillennialists and some postmillennialists associate this event with the beginning of an extraordinary future era of peace and prosperity, contrasting with the present [time of the reformers] (1 Thess. 2:18; 1 Pet. 5:8). Amillennialists think that the binding of Satan has already taken place through Christ’s death and resurrection (12:9; Matt. 12:29; John 12:31; Col. 2:15). The present [time of the reformers] spread of the gospel to the nations, as initiated in Acts, is the result of a restriction on Satan’s power to deceive. Possibly this restriction on Satan’s power is closely associated with the present [time of the reformers] temporary demise of the beast (Rev. 17:8).”

As I quote now from a true Geneva Bible, I will be changing the spelling to our modern-day English, except for a few words, for easy reading:

“This chapter hath two parts, one of the dragon overcome, unto the 10th verse, the other of the resurrection and the last judgment unto the end of the chapter. The history of the dragon is double: First of the first victory after which he is bound by Christ unto the 6th verse. The second is of the last victory, whereby he was thrown down into everlasting punishment, thence unto the 10th verse. This first history happened in the first time of the Christian Church, when the dragon [was] thrown down from heaven by Christ, went about to molest the new birth of the Church in the earth Chaps. 12, 17, 18. For which cause I gave warning, that this story of the Dragon must be annexed unto that place. 2- That is of hell, whither God threw down the Angels which had sinned, and bound them in chains of darkness to be kept unto damnation, 2 Pet. 2:4; Jude v. 6. 3- The first whereof (continuing this history with the end of the 12th chapter) is the 36th year [69 A.D.] from the passion of Christ, when the Church of the Jews being overthrown, Satan assailed to invade the Christian Church gathered of the Gentiles, and to destroy part of her seed. Chap 12:17. The thousandth year falleth precisely upon the time of the wicked Hildebrand, who was called Gregorie the seventh a most damnable Necromancer and sorcerer, whom Satan used as an instrument when he was loosed out of bonds thenceforth to annoy the Saints of God with most cruel persecutions, and the whole world with dissensions, and in all most bloody wars: as Benno the Cardinal reporteth at large. And this is the first victory gotten over the dragon in the earth. 4- Namely, with that public and violent deceit which he attempted before, Chap. 12 and which after a thousand years (a lake for woe) he most mightily procured in the Christian world. 5- Which being once expired, the second battle and victory shall be, of which verses 7 & 8. 6- A description of the common state of the Church of Christ in earth in that space of a thousand years, for which the devil was in bonds: in which first the authority, life, and common honour of the godly, is declared, verse 4. Secondly, newness of life is preached unto others by the Gospel, after that space, verse 5 ...”

You can see by their notes in the Geneva Bible the idea of a future millennium was totally foreign to the reformers way of thinking. With the next lesson, we will go into this topic further and show historical evidence of Satan’s binding and loosening. We will also be continuing the subject of Norse Mythology from the book History Of The Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset, Ph.D.

This is my forty-eighth monthly teaching letter and completes my fourth year of publication. While preparing this letter, I have been following the so-called “War on Terrorism.” I notice this war is taking on unusual proportions. It seems that the powers that be are allying themselves with very unusual regimes in order to gain their objectives. Everything appears to revolve around who does or doesn’t support the Israelis. With this thought in mind, I’m going to make two predictions based on Scripture.

Isaiah 8:14 speaks of Jerusalem as being “for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants (riffraff Jews) of Jerusalem.” Under the U.N. Jerusalem became “a burdensome stone for all people”, Zechariah 12:3. In that context, I predict that anyone who supports the Israelis (false Judah) will only be confounded, and their patronage come to naught. Though we pour gigantic sums of money into that rat-hole, it will never, under any circumstance, accomplish “peace.” Hence, we are fighting a stalemate battle in this so-called “War on Terrorism.” This fact brings us to the second reason why a peace treaty between the so-called “Jews” and the Moslem world can never be achieved.

Not only is peace perpetually illusive in that region, but the curse of Cain overshadows those “Jews.” That curse being that they should always be “fugitives” and “vagabonds”, Genesis 4:12. A vagabond is described in any dictionary as: “a worthless person; a wanderer without any home.” For a better description, look up #5110 and #5128 in Gesenius’. That is why you’ll find the “Jews” are scattered among all nations, but not truly citizens of any. The true Jacobite Israelites, on the other hand, became nations, but the “Jews” are only parasite entities within nations. They have never had a permanent home, and they never will! Oh, yes, they are striving for that in Palestine, but try as they might, the curse of Cain by the Almighty will not let that happen either! Their very lifestyle literally screams they are of Cain! Now, if one listens to the anti-seedliners, they will claim the “Jews” are not descendants of Cain, thus making the them exempt from any such curse. Therefore, I challenge any or all the anti-seedliners to prove the “curse of Cain” is not presently upon those “Jews.” Again, based upon this Scriptural premise, I will predict the “Jews” will never on God’s green earth establish Palestine as a permanent home! It’s not in the cards! When this Biblical truth is realized by the political governmental prostitutes of our genuine Israel lands, perhaps we can, at last, acquire some semblance of propriety. Until then, we true Israelites can only bleed and die, as we have done in the past, for an unobtainable cause.

The anti-seedline scandalmongers are now spreading the gossip that I’m “a very confused man.” If anyone is confused, it’s the anti-seedliners who pretend to be “watchmen”! Well, if they’re true “watchmen”, what enemy are they watching for? Biblically, a watchman was posted to warn of an intruding enemy. Can one’s “flesh” be an intruding enemy? In essence, they are claiming the flesh is the devil. Under that premise, when Yahweh came in the flesh, He became half God and half devil. Col. John R. Niemela, Ret. made that “flesh” inference in an E-mail to Willie Martin, which I have in my files. Col. John R. Niemela appears to be an understudy and attack dog for Lt. Col. Jack Mohr.  Furthermore, I am now being condemned by these same people for documenting my materials from the several books in my library. It’s just another rendering of the old adage, “much learning hath made thee mad.” May I pose a question? If all fleshly men are fighting an equal war with the flesh, why are the “Jews” more evil than the rest? Some of the prisons are now confiscating my Special Notices To All Who Deny Two Seedline brochures and keeping them from the inmates. If the truth be unpopular, So be it!

By the way, Col. John R. Niemela, Ret. is incorrect when he claims in his letter to Willie Martin: “No reference to this convoluted [two seedline] doctrine can be found in the early Church ...” According to The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, vol H-L, page 403, “The Protevangelium Of James”, written by the half brother of Yahshua was known to the church-father Origen. Chapter 10, verses 1-10 describe clearly Satan’s physical seduction of Eve. What ever happened to the injunction “study to show thyself approved”?

As I promised in the last lesson, we will now continue with the subject of Norse Mythology. In the course of that discussion the subject of the millennium came to the fore, demanding some commentary as well. You will need that previous lesson to fully grasp this one. As stated therein, confusion abounds on this subject. In order to see the various views on this, I will now quote from the New Geneva Study Bible from the foreword on the book of Revelation, page 2004 under the heading “Interpretive Difficulties”:

“... Interpreters disagree concerning the period of time and the manner in which the visions of 6:1—18:24 are fulfilled. ‘Preterists’ think fulfillment occurred in the fall of Jerusalem (if Revelation was written in A.D. 67-68), the fall of the Roman Empire, or both. ‘Futurists’ think fulfillment will occur in a period of final crisis just before the Second Coming. ‘Historicists’ think [that] 6:1—18:24 offers a basically chronological outline of the course of church history from the first century (6:1) until the Second Coming (19:11). ‘Idealists’ think that the scenes of Revelation depict not specific events but principles of spiritual war. The principles are operative throughout the church age and may have repeated embodiments ...”

Primarily, the Historicists’ view is correct, although the Preterists have many things correct, especially on Matthew 24. If, as stated here, Revelation was written in 67-68 A.D., why did John even waste his time, for under this supposition it was fulfilled two years later in 70 A.D. at the fall of Jerusalem? If, as some think, Revelation was written about 90 A.D., the Preterists have it fulfilled before it was written. Oddly enough, most in Identity take the Furturists view on the millennium which corresponds with the rapture of the Church position. If one projects the millennium a thousand years into the future, as most do, then the attack of Gog and Magog on America is not presently imminent. Therefore, presumption of this could be a most dangerous position. To show you the idea of a future millennium was foreign to the reformers, I will now quote from a facsimile of the original Geneva Bible. Although the New Geneva Study Bible is not the same as the old original Geneva Bible, they have some interesting comments. If you’re thinking of purchasing a Geneva Bible, you may be disappointed if you buy the current one. Now quoting from the original Geneva Bible on the facing page to Revelation entitled “The Order Of Time” (I will substitute to some extent modern spelling):

“THE ORDER OF TIME ... (70 A.D.) When the Church of the Jews was overthrown, the dragon invaded the Catholic Church, all this in the 12th chap. The dragon is bound for a 1000 years, chap 20. The dragon raiseth up the beast with seven heads, and the beast with two heads, which make havoc of the Church Catholic, and her Prophets for 1260 years after the passion of Christ, chaps. 13 & 11. (97 A.D.) The seven Churches are admonished of things present, somewhat before the end of Domitian’s reign, and are forewarned of the persecution to come under Trajan for ten years, chap 2 & 3. God by word and signs provoketh the world, and sealeth the godly, chaps. 6 & 7. He showeth forth examples of his wrath upon all creatures, mankind excepted, chap. 8. (1073 A.D.) The dragon is let loose after 1000 years, and Gregory the VII being Pope, rageth against Henrie the third then Emperor, chap. 20 ...”

While the reformers had a correct historical outlook on this prophecy, they were somewhat blind to the contemporary historical events happening around them. You can plainly see by the notes of the reformers in the Geneva Bible that they indicate the millennium is already past. While lacking insight into prophecy yet unfulfilled in their time, they nevertheless did quite well. Many today project this loosing of Satan a thousand years in the future. My God, don’t tell me we are going to have to go through all this hell we are now experiencing twice! You mean that a thousand years in the future we are going to have to start paying income tax all over again, and all that associated monetary B.S.? Surely, we won’t have to fight and die in “Jewish” planned wars once more at that future date. You mean that after Yahshua returns in triumph, He is going to cave-in to Satan (the “Jews”)?; that somehow, after His final Victory, He is going to allow us to be deceived anew? Are we, after a thousand years, going to have to go through this miscegenation race-mixing thing once more? If that happens, there won’t be any White people left. Are we to believe that after this so-called “future millennium” the Bank of England and the Federal Reserve system will be rechartered so the “Jews” might once more gain a foothold on our finances so they can repurchase all the media and deceive all of us Israelites once more? Does this mean that our Redeemer, after his Second Advent, when He will be with us, is going to sit idly by and let the serpent “Jews” take over again? Some seem to intimate that poor old God can’t do anything right!

This idea of a future millennium is built around a non-biblical theory called “dispensationalism.” It presupposes that after each one thousand years since Adam, the Almighty scrapped His plans and started all over again. This is somehow conjectured to represent a week in God’s calendar. It is hypothesized that the future millennium will represent a Sabbath of rest for the Almighty when He will retire after such a disastrous failure in His program. The only problem is, if we go by the chronological dates of the Septuagint, we are now approximately 7,500 years after Adam. If these dates are correct, it puts us 500 years beyond that so-called millennium period. One of the Scriptures used to reinforce a future millennium is Hosea 6:1-2 which says:

“1 Come and let us return unto Yahweh: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.”

Interestingly, future millennium proponents assign each day as 1000 years, with which I agree. They theorize the “smiting” as the Crucifixion, placing the millennium about 2037 A.D. Rather than speaking the Crucifixion, this passage addresses three campaigns against Israel and Judah (except for Jerusalem) covering a period from 745 to 681 B.C. Two thousand years from this period would be approximately 1255 to 1319 A.D. This passage indicates only “after two days” and the raising up would be in the third day. That brings us up to the date of the great Reformation about 1375 to 1425 A.D.

It appears the Norse, in their unconverted state, had a better handle on this thing than we have now. The amillennialist position (that the millennium is already past) is the only position that makes any sense, for Satan has been loosed from his ghetto and we are now in the era of his great deception. If you don’t believe it, just try telling someone today’s “Jews” are not God’s chosen people! You can’t get anymore deceived than that! Do you think the Almighty, after straightening us out on that one, is going to allow us to fall in that ditch again? If you believe in a future millennium, then you do! To believe in a future one thousand year millennium is at variance with 2 Thes. 2:8 which states unequivocally that Satan will be destroyed at Yahshua’s second coming. If “that Wicked” is going to be destroyed at that point, how is Satan going to raise his head again a second time? That verse reads:

“And then shall that Wicked be revealed whom Yahshua shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming.”

If you will check Adam Clarke’s Commentary on The Bible on Rev. 20:2, you will find it was consultation with the “Jews” that brought about this futurist view. Yes, the idea of a future millennium is a “Jewish” Pharisaically leavened doctrine!

Now let’s take a look at history to see whether or not the 1000 year millennium could be past. If the serpent “Jews” were chained in the bottomless pit when Jerusalem was destroyed by Titus in 70 A.D., then we should look for a significant point in history where they were loosed from the ghettos. At this point, if you’re thinking I’m a preterist, I’m not! Yes, there was an important date in history which can show a connection to such a turning point of events. All this happened in a period from 1066-1146 A.D. I will now quote from A History Of The Jews In England by Albert M. Hyamson, chapter 2 entitled “Under the Normans”, page 7:

 

“Whether Jews were settled in England before the Conquest or not, it is certain that a Jewish immigration into England took place early in the reign of William the Conqueror. The exact date of their settlement is again unknown, but they came from Rouen, and their advent was one of the direct consequences of the conquest.

“England at the period of the Norman invasion was inhabited almost entirely by land-holders of various grades, villeins, and Churchmen. A small proportion of the population was engaged in trades, but the commercial class was unrepresented. The country was divided between the upper and lower classes, while of the middle there was as yet neither representative nor substitute. So long as the English were content to remain at home, either on their estates or in their villages, and took no practical interest in external affairs, the ordinary produce of the soil and district was sufficient to supply their wants, and the baron, his retainers, and villeins lived at home in plenty, and found sufficient to enable them to visit their neighbours on either friendly or hostile errands. When, however, the desire to leave that somewhat narrow sphere arose, other needs came. Payment in kind when attempted beyond the smallest limits becomes so cumbersome as to be hardly practicable, and the wider one’s interest spread the more pressing becomes the necessity for a reliable and convenient means of exchange. To satisfy the requirements of the advance in the state of civilization that marked the advent of the Normans to England, in the first place coin, and in the second the machinery of commerce, were required. Both could be supplied by the Jews. Excluded from almost all other callings in life, the Jews of Europe had perforce to devote themselves more and more to finance and trade. In these twin occupations, reinforced by their sharpened intelligence, due doubtless to the almost continuous persecution that Jewry had even then suffered, the Jews of the Middle Ages excelled. In the economy of Norman England the Jews were well fitted to take the place of the middle class, and in the natural course, whether at the special invitation of the king or their own initiative, the Jews must inevitably have found their way into the country.

“It has been suggested that a large sum of money was paid by the Jews to William for permission to settle in England. To such an extent, however, was it to the interest of the king that they should cross the Channel that it is not likely there was any need to bribe him. William was specially anxious that the feudal dues should be paid him in coin rather than in kind, but without the assistance of the Jews or a similar capitalist element such payment was impossible. The Jews brought with them coin that speedily got into circulation. The king was enabled to purchase luxuries and to satisfy his military requirements; the barons were assisted to pay their dues; suitors who found it necessary to follow the king’s court from one town to another, or to go to Rome to plead their causes before the Papal Curia, found their course rendered easier by Jewish money. Not only were the Jews instrumental in keeping the royal treasury filled, but they also managed to attract some of the odium that would otherwise have fallen upon the king and his more regularly appointed officials, and to a corresponding degree they were instrumental in relieving the latter. A charter, confirmed by John, was granted, at any rate to individual Jews, by Henry I. By this the Jews were given freedom of movement with their goods in the country, and excused from all customs, tolls. &c., just as the king’s goods were. They were given permission to reside wherever they wished. They might claim redress if molested, and hold lands in pledge until redeemed. They were permitted to buy whatever was brought to them, excepting church property and crimson clothe ... to sell their pledges after holding them a year and a day, to be tried by their peers, and to be sworn on the Pentateuch. A Jew’s oath was considered valid against the oaths of twelve Christians. To a considerable extent the Jews’ transactions consisted of loans on the security of land, and they were by law permitted to charge a very high interest. The king levied a tax on those transactions in return for the protection he extended to the Jews, and as he often accepted money from the Jews’ debtors for the use of his influence on their behalf, the transactions of the Jews proved doubly remunerative to the crown.”

 

From this evidence, we can now comprehend that the “Jews” had managed to free themselves from the ghettos at this particular time which figures almost exactly one thousand years after Jerusalem fell to Titus. After this, the “Jews” would manage to infiltrate the Catholic Church via the Jesuit system from which Adam Weishaupt emerged, forming the Illuminati. From the Illuminati eventually came the United Nations, the instrument by which the Nations are being deceived, thus fulfilling Revelation 20:2-3. Isn’t it simply amazing that the Illuminati was formed just a couple of months before our day of Independence; May 1, 1776 as compared to July 4, 1776?

At a later time, we will again address more concerning prophecy. We really need to take a short walk through Daniel and Revelation in order to comprehend where various exegetical misinterpretations have been made. Let’s now continue the History Of The Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset, Ph.D., page 104:

 

“Another divinity which, especially in Sweden, was worshiped more extensively than Odin himself was Frey, the son of Njørd the god of the sea.  He was the god of weather and of harvests, and was regarded as the giver of riches. He became so enamored with the beautiful Jøtun maiden Gerd that he could neither eat nor sleep. One day he sat on Lidskjalv in Aasgaard and saw her far to the north, and so beautiful was she that she made sky and ocean resplendent with light. He sent his servant, Skirne (Skírnir), to woo her, but in order to win her he had to surrender his greatest treasure, his sword, and when Ragnarok comes, he will be slain by Surt, because he has no weapon/emspan style=/spanspan style= with which to defend himself.”

 

It is very essential here to point out the fact the Norse understood the importance of owning a sword and knowing how to use it. In our day, the gun has become our sword, and likewise, we too, should be familiar with its proper use and its dangers. It appears the Norse lesson to be derived here is: not to get so involved in another important phase of life that we forget the consequence of not having our defensive weapons. Yes, there is a time for love, but there also is a time for war. We really need two swords in our battle against the “dragon.” It’s often said: “the pen is mightier than the sword.” We should understand the use of that weapon also, and its dangers. Now continuing to quote again:

 

“Heimdall, one of the oldest deifications of the heavens, is the sentinel of the gods, and lives at Bifrost, the celestial bridge over which gods and men ride to Valhal. Vidar, the silent one, is, next to Thor, the strongest of the gods. Æge (Ægir) is the ocean god, and Brage the god of poesy and eloquence.

“In Norse mythology there are twelve or thirteen principal gods, and an equal number of goddesses (ásynjur). Frigg is Odin’s wife and the queen of heaven, and dwells in Fensale, far to the west where the sun sets in the sea. Freyja, the beautiful goddess of love, lives in Folkvang, where the great hall Sessrymne is found. To her belongs one half of the warriors who fall on the battlefield, and she is accorded the right of first choice. Idun, Brage’s wife, called the good goddess, keeps the apples from which the gods eat to preserve their youth. Thor’s wife is the beautiful Siv (Sif), with hair of gold. Skade, Njørd’s wife, was, like Gerd, of Jøtun race, and Snotra was the goddess of good sense and womanly graces.”

 

With this segment, it is remarkable to notice the Norse had “twelve or thirteen principle gods.” It should be immediately noticeable that this corresponds to the twelve or thirteen tribes of Israel, depending how they are counted. Surely this is more than mere coincidence. We notice, at this juncture, the subject of race is also introduced. To show the Norse were very cognizant of race, I will now quote from the book Northern Antiquities, translated from the French of M. Mallet by Bishop Percy, pages 366-367:

“The Skald describes the thralls as having black hair, an unsightly countenance, an uncouth appearance, and as being of a low and deformed stature; physiological traits, characteristic of the Lapps, who were probably reduced to a state of vassalage by their Scandinavian conquerors. The destiny of the thralls is, of course, to toil incessantly, in order that by their labour, the churls may obtain sufficient produce from the earth to enable the nobles to live with becoming splendour. The Skald shows his contempt for this cast by giving Thræll’s sons such names as Frousy, Stumpy, Plumpy, Sooty-face, Slowpace, Homespun, &c. and calling his daughters Lazybody, Cranefoot, Smokynose Tearclout &c ... But the Skald reserves all his eloquence for the nobles, who, he tells us, ‘have fair hair, a clear complexion and fine piercing eyes, their sole avocations being to wield the sword, dart and javelin, rein the fiery steed, chase the deer, and other elegant amusements, which Jarl’s descendants still delight to astonish the churls with ...  For our own part we are inclined to regard an aristocratic feeling as one of the inherent psychological traits of the Teutonic race, and this trait was unquestionably, in the olden time, more conspicuous among the nations forming the Scandinavian branch of this race, than among those constituting its Germanic branch.”

This book was written in 1859, and is not the original work by Mallet in French. Today, the “Jews” would have a book like this banned as being “politically incorrect”! Continuing now quoting the History Of The Norwegian People by Knut Gjerset, Ph.D., page 105:

 

“Before Ragnarok evil passes all bounds. For three years there is perpetual strife. Brothers fight and kill each other, the ties of blood relationship are broken, morals are corrupted, and one person has no compassion for the other. Then follow three years of constant winter, the Fimbulwinter (the great winter).  Finally Yggdrasil trembles, Fenre breaks his fetters, and the Midgardsorm comes out of the ocean. Surt, the fire demon, comes; Loke is free again and leads the sons of Muspell and other forces of destruction to the final battle with the gods on the plain Vigrid. Fenre kills Odin, but is in turn slain by the powerful Vidar. Thor and the Midgardsorm kill each other; Frey is slain by Surt; Ty fights against Hel’s hound Garm, and both fall. Surt finally hurls fire over the earth; the sun grows dark, and the earth sinks into the ocean, fire consumes all – the world of strife and bloodshed has disappeared.”

 

Are we not told something similar to this in 2 Tim. 3:1-5?: “1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God: 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.”

As we continue from The History Of Norway on page 105, see if you can detect anything analogous to Scripture:

 

“Out of the ocean, says the volva, rises a new green earth, where grain fields grow without being sown, and where no evil exists. Here, on the Fields of Ida, the gods who have survived Ragnarok reassemble. Balder, who has returned from Hel, is there; also Vidar, Hød, Hønir, and Thor’s sons, Mode and Magne.  A new race of men are also born.

“Pursuing her story, the volva says: ‘A hall I see • on the heights of Gimle, • brighter than the sun, • and covered with gold; • righteous men • shall dwell there • in endless happiness.’

“This hall is a perfect contrast to Valhal, where the heroes even after death amuse themselves by fighting and slaying each other; in Gimle the righteous live in peace and happiness.  Gimle is the safe and secure home ornamented with precious stones. Sophus Bugge thinks that the Fields of Ida are in reality the Christian Garden of Eden, and the Gimle is the heavenly Jerusalem described in Revelation 21:10-21: ‘10. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, 11. Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like jasper stone, clear as crystal. 21. And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl; and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.’

“And, says the volva, bringing her narrative to a closing climax: ‘From above comes • to the great judgment • the powerful one, • the ruler of all.’

“This is the ruler of the new world whose name not even the volva knows. In Norse mythology the world is pictured as a scene of perpetual struggle between good and evil, and never-ending combat between the powers of life and the forces of destruction, and it is especially noteworthy that this struggle is a great tragedy in which the gods suffer complete overthrow.  Balder was killed, Loke and Fenre broke their fetters; the struggle against evil has been unsuccessful on every point.  Most of the leading gods themselves are destroyed by the forces of evil in the great final battle at Ragnarok. But evil, too, passes away with the world of strife in which it has existed.  This thought of the overthrow and destruction of the greatest gods seems to be a new feature which could not very well have been developed until the faith in the old divinities was beginning to waver, and people began to feel that there was a heaven higher than Valhal and Vingolv, that true happiness was not to be found in strife, but in peace and righteousness, and that there was a god whom they did not yet know, who was more powerful than the Æsir, and who, in the new world, would establish a reign of justice, peace, and happiness.

“The ‘Hyndluljóð’ says: ‘Then comes another god • still mightier, • but his name • I dare not mention; • few can now • see farther • than to Odin’s • meeting with the wolf.’”

 

From this segment, there can be absolutely no doubt that the Norse knew the tenets of Two Seedline doctrine when it says: “In Norse mythology the world is pictured as a scene of perpetual struggle between good and evil, and never-ending combat between the powers of life and the forces of destruction ...” How much plainer can it be? Where do all these anti-seedliners get-off promoting their twisted form of theology? Does this statement appear like the Norse applied this struggle to the “flesh?” No wonder these anti-seedliners condemn documentation! They continue to go about in their little self-righteous 2x4 world trying to make up their own rules for everyone else to live by, and that without any Biblical, historical or scientific documentation whatsoever. Scripture is replete with examples of false teachers such as these. Now let’s continue on with The History Of Norway:

 

“The worship might be carried on privately in the home, where the head of the family would sacrifice to the gods, and bring offerings to their images, but it was usually conducted in temples, hov (O.N. hof), or in simpler sanctuaries, horg (O.N. horgr), of which no description is given in the old writings.  They seem to have been simple structures, stone altars, or the like, erected in the open, and dedicated especially to the worship of goddesses. In the ‘Hyndluljóð’ Freyja says: ‘Horg he built me, • made of stone, • now the stones have turned to glass; • with fresh blood • of oxen he sprinkled them • Ottar always believed in goddesses.’

“R. Keyser and P.A. Munch are of the opinion that many of the stone circles found in Norway are remnants of this kind of sanctuaries. These circles, which are formed by placing great stones in an upright position, are often very large, and may have had an altar in the center.

“The temple consisted of two parts; the large assembly hall, or nave, and the shrine, a smaller room in the rear end of the building, corresponding to the choir of the Christian churches. The images of the gods were placed in a half-circle in the shrine. At the center stood the altar (stallr), upon which lay a large gold ring (baugr), upon which all solemn oaths were sworn. The bowl containing the blood of the sacrificed animals (hlautbolli) was placed on the altar by the priest (goði), who, with a stick (hlautteinn), sprinkled it on the images of the gods, and on the persons present. The meat of the animals was boiled, and served to the assembled people in the large hall of the temple, where toasts were drunk to the gods for victory and good harvests. The sanctuary and the grounds belonging to it was called vé, a holy or sacred place, and any one who violated its sanctity was called varg i véum (wolf in the sanctuary), and was outlawed. Three religious festivals were held each year: one at the beginning of winter (October 14), the vinternatsblót, or haustblót, to bid winter welcome; another at midwinter (January 14), midvintersblót, for peace and good harvest; and a third, sommerblót, held on the first day of summer (April 14), for victory on military expeditions.

“The temples seem to have been quite numerous, but especially well known were the ones at Sigtuna and Upsala in Sweden, at Leire (Hleidra) in Denmark, and at Skiringssal in Norway. There was in the North no distinct class of priests.  The priestly functions were exercised by the herser and the jarls, and even by the king himself. Women, too, might serve as priestesses (gyðja). In Iceland the gode (O.N. goði) held about the same position as the herse in Norway. He was a chieftain, and the temple in which he served as priest was built on his estates.”

As I’m preparing this forty-ninth monthly teaching letter, starting my fifth year of publication, from the news I notice queen-mother of England is dead. I’m fully persuaded Elizabeth II is the last pureblooded descendant of David left to sit on the throne while Philip Mountbatten is of questionable blood presenting prophecy problems. (Will develop in future lessons.)

In lessons #47 and #48 we inadvertently got onto the topic of the millennium while studying about Norse mythology. I quoted evidence from the Geneva Bible that the reformers didn’t subscribe to the idea that it should transpire after the Messiah’s second coming, but rather had already happened from 70 A.D. to approximately the middle of the 10 hundreds A.D. I am aware there are many in this message who are still embracing the “Futurists” and “Preterists” positions as opposed to the “Historical” perspective of prophecy. The Almighty has already announced His blueprints for the future by His prophets, and it’s going to unfold in His prescribed manner regardless of our personal opinions. Under these circumstances, we should study the origin of our persuasions. If we do, we might be surprised under what conditions these doctrines came into being. We should not go so far as to pronounce the “Preterists’”, “Futurists’” and “Idealists’” views as being entirely incorrect though. We must give them credit where credit is due. Therefore, in order to get a handle on prophecy, I feel it is necessary to take a short walk through Daniel and Revelation.

With this dissertation, we are going to go into areas where few have ever gone. As we start with Daniel, most of us will be somewhat in agreement, but as we progress, complicated problems will arise. Before we consider Revelation, it is imperative we first comprehend Daniel as they cannot be treated separately because Daniel is a foundation for Revelation. As we move along, you will understand why.

We will start with Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream in Daniel 2:31-45. It seems that Nebuchadnezzar had a distressing dream for which his wise men, astrologers, magicians, and soothsayers had no answer. After their failure to make his dream known to him, the Almighty revealed it to Daniel along with its interpretation as follows:

“³¹ Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. ³² This image’s head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, ³³ His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. ³⁴ Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. ³⁵ Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like chaff of the summer threshingfloors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. ³⁶ This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. ³⁷ Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. ³⁸ And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. ³⁹ And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass which shall bear rule over all the earth. ⁴⁰ And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. ⁴¹ And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potter’s clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. ⁴² And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. ⁴³ And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. ⁴⁴ And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. ⁴⁵ Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.”

Basically, Daniel was revealing to Nebuchadnezzar that he represented the first of four kingdoms. Most Bible scholars today recognize these as: (1) Babylonian Empire, (2) Medo-Persian Empire, (3) The Grecian Empire, and, (4) The Roman Empire. Another school of thought proposes they are: (1) Babylon, (2) Media, (3) Persia, and (4) Greece. According to The Jerome Biblical Commentary, page 451, the Babylonian, the Medo-Persian, the Greco-Seleucid, and the Roman were formerly commonly understood, but now “find few modern Catholic exegetes to support it.” In other words, originally Jerome held that Rome was Daniel’s fourth kingdom rather than Greece. If you have a Bible commentary claiming Greece as the fourth kingdom, it’s probably coming from the “modern” Catholic Church. If you have a Bible commentary making such an assertion, don’t discard it as it might have other pertinent information. Be especially careful with The Interpreter’s Bible, both the one and twelve volume editions. Another commentary which puts forth this claim is the Concise Bible Commentary by Rev. W. K. Lowther Clarke and makes this statement about the toes of Daniel’s interpretation on page 582: “... The toes are the natural complement of the feet and no stress is laid on them ...” If one tries to force Greece into Daniel’s fourth kingdom, as the modern Catholic exegetes do, the toes would be quite unimportant, but if applied to Rome, they become very significant.

 

! THE ALL IMPORTANT TOES !  

 

We don’t really get into a lot of difficulty with Nebuchadnezzar’s image until we arrive at its toes. The reason the toes are important is because they represent the ten provinces of the Roman Empire. When we begin to realize this momentous fact, we can start to comprehend the accuracy of Daniel’s interpretation, and it doesn’t stop there. While Daniel does not mention ten individual toes, if the image depicts a normal man, it is implied. I’ve heard a lot of sermons preached on Nebuchadnezzar’s image, but I don’t ever remember anyone explaining the meaning of the toes! This is where it starts to get interesting!

Matthew Henry’s Commentary, volume 6, page 1160, speaks of the ten provinces of Rome in relation to Revelation 12:3, and likens them to the seven heads and ten crowns of the dragon: “... As having ten horns, divided into ten provinces, as the Roman empire was by Augustus Cæsar ...” I’m aware that horns are not toes. As we proceed we will encounter various combinations of seven and ten. While not fully agreeing with Henry and Clarke, presently our only objective is to establish the fact that Rome was indeed divided into ten provinces.

Clarke’s Commentary, volume 6, page 604, names the Roman provinces as follows: “1) The kingdom of the Huns; 2) The kingdom of the Ostrogoths; 3) The kingdom of the Visigoths; 4) The kingdom of the Franks; 5) The kingdom of the Vandals; 6) The kingdom of the Sueves and Alans; 7) The kingdom of the Burgundians; 8) The kingdom of the Heruli, Rugii, Scyrri, and other tribes which composed the Italian kingdom of Odoacer; 9) The kingdom of the Saxons; and 10) The kingdom of the Lombards ...” You will notice several German tribes mentioned among these. Undoubtedly, these Israelite tribes are the toes “partly strong” of iron.

In the book A History Of The Ancient World by Chester G. Starr, page 522, brief mention is made of the ten provinces: “... Partly to provide leaders for these courts the number of praetors was increased from 6 to 8, and each praetor thenceforth normally served 1 year in Rome and a second year as propraetor (commonly called ‘proconsul’) in a province; the other 2 of the 10 provinces were governed by the exconsuls. Besides Cisalpine Gaul, which was finally made into a province, the others at this date [time of Sulla] were Sicily, Sardinia-Corsica, the two Spains, Macedonia, Africa, Asia, Narbonensis Gaul, and Cilicia (Cyrene being not yet fully organized).”

In the 1980 Collier’s Encyclopedia, volume 20, page 187, under the topic “Rome, Ancient”, it addresses the period of Sulla saying: “... Both they and the consuls began more regularly to exercise their functions in Rome before being assigned to governorships in the ten provinces of that period ...” All of this evidence from these various sources should amply verify there were basically ten provinces in the Roman Empire. Further confirmation can be found in Edward Gibbon’s The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, volume 1, pages 241-249. While Gibbon says eleven, one of the eleven provinces never quite got organized. Gibbon says the following on page 241: “We may remark that when Augustus divided Italy into eleven regions the province of Istria was annexed to that seat of Roman sovereignty.” From pages 242 to 248, Gibbon lists the provinces as: “The Danube and Illyrian frontier; Rhætia; Noricum and Pannonia; Dalmatia; Mæsia and Dacia; Thrace, Macedonia, and Greece; Asia Minor; Syria, Phœnicia and Palestine; Egypt; Africa ...” We should thank the Almighty for this testimony for it gives us another witness that our Bible is true.

Now that we have established that the ten toes of Daniel’s interpretation of the image are the ten provinces of the Roman Empire, let’s consider what is meant by the “seven heads.” While Daniel doesn’t allude to this in his image interpretation, we need to consider this in passages where it might apply. Usually, when this subject is brought up, most will refer to the seven physical hills on which Rome sits. While this is true, there is a deeper symbolic meaning for these seven heads. Basically, they are the seven types of government under which Rome was ruled during its long history. This is pointed out by Adam Clarke’s Commentary, volume 6, page 603, as being: “1) The regal power; 2) The consulate; 3) The dictatorship; 4) The decemvirate; 5) The consular power of the military tribunes; 6) The triumvirate; and 7) The imperial government.”

It needs to be pointed out that Sulla or Augustus didn’t sit down one day and decide to divide Rome into ten divisions. As Rome conquered new areas, the newly subdued peoples became provinces. The first Roman province was established 241 B.C. For information concerning this, I will now quote from Rome: Its Rise And Fall by Philip Myers, page 154:

“... The First Roman Province and the Beginning of the Provincial System (241 B.C.). — For the twenty-three years that followed the close of the first struggle between Rome and Carthage, the two rivals strained every power and taxed every resource in preparation for a renewal of the contest.

“The Romans settled the affairs of Sicily, organizing all of it, save the lands in the eastern part belonging to Syracuse, as a province of the republic. This was the first territory beyond the limits of Italy that Rome had conquered, and the Sicilian the first of Roman provinces. But as the imperial city extended her conquests, her provincial possessions increased in number and size until they formed at last a perfect cordon about the Mediterranean. Each province was governed by a magistrate, at first one of the prætors, sent out from the capital. This officer exercised both civil and military authority. Each province also paid an annual tribute, or tax, to Rome, something that had never been exacted of the Italian allies.”

From this same book on page 155, we read of the second Roman province established in 227 B.C.: “Rome acquires Sardinia and Corsica; the Second Province (227 B.C.). — The first acquisition by the Romans of lands beyond the peninsula seems to have created in them an insatiable ambition for foreign conquests. They soon found a pretext for seizing the island of Sardinia, the most ancient, and, after Sicily, the most prized of the possessions of the Carthaginians ...”

This should give us some idea of the process of the formation of the provinces. It was a gradual process, and was in a continual state of flux. There were provinces under the republic; provinces under the empire; and some were known as public provinces. The number of provinces increased and decreased with the continual changes taking place in the political climate and military activities of Rome. On pages 313-314 of Rome: Its Rise And Fall by Myers, forty-four such annexations under both the republic and empire are listed. Later, under Sulla, Julius and Augustus, these forty-four entities were grouped into ten divisions called provinces. Isn’t it simply amazing how accurate Daniel’s prophecies were fulfilled? But this isn’t the end.

 

THE MATERIAL SUBSTANCE OF THE TOES

 

We are told these provinces (or toes) are part iron and part clay. If we could imagine an iron casting with streaks of vitrified clay mixed in with the iron, we might envision the meaning of what Daniel is saying. I am sure if the engine in our automobile were made up of such a casting, we wouldn’t get very far down the road. Daniel 2:43 is the answer to the mystery of the iron mixed with clay: “And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.” The word for “men” in this case is #606 and means enawsh in Chaldee (same as #582 in Hebrew, enowsh; in other words, non-Adamite.). We see then, within the confines of the provinces of Rome, they had their own version of multiculturalism (race mixing). It didn’t work then, and it is still just as destructive today!

In the earlier periods of Rome interracial marriages were, as a rule, not legal. In Sheldon’s General History, page 157 (speaking of the incorporation of the Macedonians about 172 to 168 B.C.) it says this: “Laws are given them by the Romans, and they are divided into four districts, between which there is to be no intermarriage, no free trade in land.”

As time went on, and Rome came under hard financial times, she decided to offer citizenship to more peoples in order to gain additional taxpayers. In the book The Romans by R. H. Barrow, it says this on page 52:

“... Her near neighbours were incorporated as citizens into her body politic, to others she extended a limited citizenship which conferred rights of trade, together with enforcement of those rights at law, the freedom of intermarriage with Roman citizens ...”

In order to fathom Daniel’s prophecy, it is important to understand Roman history. If you are not familiar with Roman history, I would highly recommend you go to some used book stores and buy several old books on that subject. In order to understand Bible prophecy as a whole, you will also have to acquire books of history covering all periods of time. Whether or not you do this depends on how badly you want to comprehend all these things. It seems like it’s always someone who is not willing to research these things who is always voicing the loudest opinions! In order to grasp the toes of Daniel, it is necessary to have some knowledge of slave traffic during those years. I will now quote some passages concerning slavery during the Roman epoch.

From The Story Of Civilization: Part 3, “Caesar And Christ” by Will Durant we read the following: Page 22: “... In the sixth century B.C., when Rome began her career of conquest, war captives were sold in rising number to the aristocracy, the business classes, and even to plebeians; and the status of the slave sank.”

Page 112: “Every week slave dealers brought their human prey from Africa, Spain, Gaul, Germany, the Danube, Russia, Asia, and Greece to the ports of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. It was not unusual for 10,000 slaves to be auctioned off at Delos in a single day. In 177 [B.C.], 40,000 Sardinians, in 167 [B.C.], 150,000 Epirotes, were captured by Roman armies and sold as slaves, in the latter case at approximately a dollar a head. In the city the lot of the slave was mitigated by humanizing contacts with his master and by hope of emancipation; but on the large farms no human relation interfered with exploitation ... The wages of the slave on the great estates were as much food and clothing as would enable him to toil from sunrise to sunset every day ...”

Page 81 speaks of the “ethnic changes” brought about by all this: “... Immigration, the absorption of conquered peoples, the influx, emancipation, and enfranchisement of slaves, were already beginning the ethnic changes that by Nero’s time would make Rome the New York of antiquity, half native and half everything.” [Today New York is more like 10% white and 90% everything else.]

I will now quote from the Cyclopædia Of Universal History by John Clark Ridpath, LL. D., volume 1, pages 752-753:

“One of the most marked results of the great conquests made by the generals and armies of the Republic was to fill Rome and all Italy with multitudes of slaves. The policy of selling into servitude not only the soldier population, but all the inhabitants of conquered countries was universally adopted. The slave-sale was looked for as a matter of course after every victory won by the Roman arms. Among the upper classes of society free labor was almost unknown. The vast landed estates of the nobles were cultivated by a servile race, driven mercilessly to their tasks, punished, whipped, starved, killed, with impunity. Nor was there any badge of nationality, color, or natural inferiority to distinguish the slaves from the other classes of population.”

From the book Rome: Its Rise And Fall by Myers we read this on page 523: “Slavery. — The number of slaves in the Roman state under the later republic and the earlier empire was very great, some estimates making it equal to the number of freemen. Some large proprietors owned as many as twenty thousand. The love of ostentation [pretentious display (or to keep up with the Jones family)] led to the multiplication of offices in the households of the wealthy, and the employment of a special slave for every different kind of work.”

From the book The Romans by R. H. Barrow, page 73, we get the following: “... A great proportion was of foreign birth, for Rome atspan style=text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in; line-height: 105%span style=.”letter-spacing: 1.0pttracted men and women from all countries; and freed slaves swelled the populace. These freedmen were a growing class whose influence was increasing. There were also the slaves. Rome harboured all nationalities, and more were yet to come within the next century, but already by the time of Cicero there were very many — Greeks and Syrians and Egyptians and Jews and Germans and Africans. Of course, not all these had the citizenship ...”

In the course of time, Rome had its preachers of “the brotherhood of man” and that all men were equal. As a result, many slaves were emancipated, and in time became full citizens. One such case is spoken of in The Story Of Civilization: Part 3 “Caesar And Christ” by Will Durant, page 398. Then on page 221 it speaks of the general result:

“... Finally a great jurist of the third century, Ulpian, proclaimed what only a few philosophers had dared suggest — that ‘by the law of Nature all men are equal.’

“... As the sons of freedmen automatically became citizens, the emancipation of slaves and the fertility of aliens combined with the low birth rate of the native stocks to change the ethnic character of Rome ...” [underlining mine]

We find more on the slave reformation movement in Rome from The Encyclopedia Britannica, ninth edition, volume 22, page 142, under the topic of “slavery”:

“In the 2d century of the Christian era we find a marked change with the respect to the institution of slavery, both in the region of thought and in that of law. Already the principles of reason and humanity had been applied to the subject by Seneca who, whatever we may think of him as a man, deserves our gratitude for the just and liberal sentiments he expressed respecting the slaves, who, he says, should be treated as ‘humble friends’, and especially for his energetic reprobation of gladiatorial combats and of the brutality of the public who enjoyed those sanguinary shows. But it was in the 2d century, as we have said, that ‘the victory of moral ideas’ in this, as in other departments of life became ‘decisive ... Dio Chrysostom, the adviser of Trajan, is the first Greek writer who has pronounced the principle of slavery to be contrary to the law of nature’ ...”

While a considerable amount of the slave trade of Rome ended in race-mixing, many of the slaves were actually from the White lost tribes of Israel. As many of the Romans were of the Tribe of Benjamin, any mixing with the other Israelites, like the Germans or Greeks, wouldn’t have constituted a violation of Yahweh’s law of kind after kind.

 

THE TWO SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT

 

Now that we have established the ten toes of Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s image, and that the slave trade of Rome brought on mixing with “the seed of men”, let’s return to the two schools of thought concerning the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. For this we will go to Halley’s Bible Handbook (1965), pages 341-342 under the topic “The Book Of Daniel”:

“The book itself represents Daniel as its author (7:1, 28; 8:2; 9:2; 10:1, 2; 12:4, 5). Its genuineness was sanctioned by Christ (Matthew 24:15). It was so accepted by the Jews and Early Christians. Porphyry, an infidel of the 3rd century A.D. propounded the theory that the book was a forgery of the period of the Maccabean revolt (168-164 B.C.). However, the traditional view that the book is a true historical document dating from the days of Daniel himself persisted unanimously among Christian and Jewish scholars, till the rise of modern criticism. And now the critics, in the name of ‘modern scholarship’, have revived the theory of Porphyry, and put it forth as a settled fact, that the book was written by an unknown author, who, living 400 years after the days of Daniel, assumed Daniel’s name, and palmed off on his own generation his own spurious work as the genuine work of a hero long dead ... We suspect that the real crux of the attempt to discredit the book of Daniel is the unwillingness of intellectual pride to accept the marvelous miracles and amazing prophecies recorded in the book.”

Continuing from this same book on page 342 under the title “The Dream-Image”: “... The four World Empires here predicted are generally understood to have been the Babylonian, Persian, Greek and Roman. From the days of Daniel to the coming of Christ the world was ruled by these Four Empires, exactly as Daniel had predicted ... Critics who assign a Maccabean date to the book of Daniel, in order to explain it as referring to past events instead of being a prediction of the future, find it necessary to place all four empires prior to the date of composition, and so call the Persian Empire two Empires, Median and Persian, in order to make the Greek Empire the Fourth. But as a matter of fact there was not a Median Empire and a Persian Empire following the Fall of Babylon. To make it appear so is only an effort to distort the facts of history to substantiate a theory. Medes and Persians constituted One Empire under the rule of Persian kings. Darius the Mede was only a sub-king, ruling for a little while, under Cyrus the Persian ...”

You may wonder why I am going to this extensive effort to clear up the proper order of Daniel’s four predicted empires. If we don’t get these empires in their proper order, we will not be able to comprehend the rest of Daniel’s prophecies. Before we are finished with this subject, we will see that Daniel’s prophecies go far beyond what we are usually informed by an unwary clergy. For more on these four empires, I will now quote from The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, volume 2, pages 20-21 under the subtitle “Theology and interpretation”:

“The apocalyptic sections of the book have been widely discussed, partly because of the interpretation to be assigned to the four kingdoms of ch. 2, where critics have divided Medo-Persia into two separate empires, making the kingdoms Babylonia, Media, Persia, and Greece respectively. However, the history of  the Median kingdom precludes such a division, so that the order of the empires would be Babylonia, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. The identity of the fourth kingdom is important for later visions of Daniel ...”

In other words, if one cannot get the 2nd chapter of Daniel correct, one cannot understand the rest of his prophesies in the succeeding chapters. One of the arguments used to designate Greece as the fourth kingdom of the image is to inaccurately identify our Savior as the “stone ... cut out of the mountain without hands”, and they will cite 1 Corinthians 10:4 where Paul calls Yahshua a “Rock.” The proponents of this view theorize that because the Messiah was born during the Roman period Daniel’s prophecy must have culminated with Greece. This is a false premise, for the “stone ... cut out of the mountain without hands” represented the German Teutonic tribes which continued to attack and pillage Rome until she collapsed. By assuming this false premise, they come to a dead-end concerning Daniel’s prophecy, and there is much more to be considered. We haven’t, as yet, even elaborated the splitting of the two legs. There again, Greece, after Alexander’s death split into four divisions, not two. To show how impossible the view that Greece was the fourth kingdom is: Greece would have to have had ten provinces, and Yahshua would of necessity had to have destroyed the Grecian Empire during the lifetime of His First Advent.

 

 

THE CRUSHING OF THE TOES

 

There isn’t enough room remaining in this lesson to make a dent in this story. I will try to address it in greater detail in the next lesson. In order to get started with this phase of Daniel’s prophecy, I will quote an interesting incident from the book A Short History of Germany by Mary Platt Parmele, pages 11-16:

“... just such men as were the northern barbarians, who for five hundred years, terrorized Europe; men insensible to fear, terrible, fierce, but with fine instincts for civilization ... It is the Teutonic branch of the Aryan family with which we have to do now, between whom and their Keltic brothers there flowed the River Rhine ... Gigantic in stature, with long yellow, hair, eyes blue but fierce — what wonder that the people thought they were scarcely human, and fled affrighted, leaving them to enjoy the vineyards at their leisure ... At the time of this first invasion the German race was divided into tribes with no affinity for each other, who were indeed much of the time in fierce conflict among themselves. One of these tribes, called the Cherusci, occupied the southern part of what is now Hanover. Their chief, Hermann, had in his youth been taken to Rome as a hostage, and there had been educated ... Hermann was the first to dream of German unity. While the infant Christ was growing into boyhood in Palestine, this Hermann was studying Latin and history at Rome; and as he read he pondered. He found that the Romans had achieved such tremendous power by combination. If his people would unite and stand as one nation before the world, why might not they too become great? These Romans were pleasure-loving and vicious. His Germans in their rude homes were just and true. They did not laugh at vice; they were rough, but simple and sincere; love bound the father and mother and children together. The idea of German unity took possession of Hermann. He resolved to devote his life to the accomplishment, and to return to his country and try to inspire his race with a sense of common brotherhood, and a comprehensive patriotism ... Julius Caesar, the great Roman general, was governor of Gaul, and with one eye fixed on Britain and another on Germany, was steadily bringing Europe into subjection to Rome. The task of subduing the stubborn Teutons was given to Varus, a trusted general ... In the year 9 A.D., Varus had arrived with his great army in the heart of Germany. Little suspecting the plans and purposes surging in the young man’s brain, he leaned upon Hermann as his guide and counselor in a new and strange land ... Unsuspectingly he marched with his heavily-armed legions, as if for a holiday excursion, into the vastnesses of the Teutoberger Forest, into which Hermann led him ... When fairly entangled in the dense wood, surrounded by morasses and wet marshes instead of roads, suddenly there was a thundering war-cry, and barbarians swarmed down upon him from all sides. Hundreds who escaped the rain of arrows were lost in the morasses. It was not a question of victory, but of escape, for the entrapped and heavily-armed legions. Only a handful returned to tell the story, and Varus, unable to bear his disgrace, threw himself upon his sword ... The great Emperor Augustus clothed himself in mourning, let his beard and hair grow, and cried in bitterness of his soul, ‘Varus, Varus, give me back my legions!’”

This is my fiftieth monthly teaching letter and continues my fifth year of publication. In the last lesson, I briefly mentioned that the queen-mother of Britain had died. I believe that this is a major mile-marker in time to where we are today on Yahweh’s time-clock. I would remind you that Scripture says in no uncertain terms that there would always be a descendant of David on a throne somewhere until Messiah’s Second Advent. The implication is: if the present Queen Elizabeth were to have a heart attack and die, and our Redeemer has not returned, the promise to David is a lie and our Bible is untrustworthy. I also pointed out that Queen Elizabeth’s husband was not of pure blood, and because Elizabeth had taken an unsuitable mate, thus violating Yahweh’s Law of kind after kind: her children by that marriage are unfit to take the throne.

There is an interesting passage in the book The Roman And The Teuton by Charles Kingsley, written 111 years ago, which shows an attempt to bring down this Royal line, which says this on page 22:

“[The house of] Lords and Commons have been swept away, though a number of the richest old gentlemen in London meet daily at Westminster to receive orders from Buckingham Palace. But at the palace itself has broken out one of those sanguinary [bloody] conspiracies which have of late become unceasing. The last heir of the house of Brunswick is lying dead with a dagger in his heart, and everything is in frightful confusion. The armed force of the capital are of course ‘masters of the situation’, and the Guards, after a tumultuous meeting at Windsor or Knightsbridge, have sold the throne to Baron Rothschild, for a handsome donation of £25 a-piece ...”

In case you’re wondering about the House of Brunswick, it is referring to an Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick, an Elector of Hanover which house ruled Great Britain during the 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1917, to avoid any peerage with Germany, they adopted the name “Windsor” as the royal family name. In 1947, Queen Elizabeth II married Philip Mountbatten (a Battenburg). [Expand in later WTL, but now another issue.]

Addressing the origins of two false doctrines: Before getting started on our walk through Daniel and Revelation, we should consider how false opinions get started. It’s like the mistaken conclusion by some that Ruth was a Moabite. Today, that untrue concept is being used by the enemy through nominal churchianity to promote multiculturalism. If one will consult Bertrand L. Comparet’s work Ruth Was An Israelite, one will see that the Israelites had driven the Moabites out of the land of Moab 150 years previous to Ruth’s time. Therefore, Ruth was only a Moabite geographically; not genetically.

Another such false teaching being promoted in some circles of Israel Identity is built on 1 Samuel 17:12 which says in part: “Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethleham-judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons ...” They incorrectly conclude from this that our Messiah was from the Tribe of Ephraim rather than Judah. Here again, it is speaking geographically instead of a genetically. This can be corroborated by the Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary, pages 408-409: “EPHRATHAH ... 2. The ancient name of Bethlehem of Judah (Gen. 48:7; Ephrath, NIV) ... EPHRATHITE ... 1. A native or inhabitant of Ephrathah, or Bethlehem (Ruth 1:2; 1 Sam. 17:12) ...” This can also be authenticated by Unger’s Bible Dictionary, page 318; The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, vol. D-G, page 335; The Interpreter’s Dictionary Of The Bible, vol. E-J, page 122; The Popular And Critical Bible Encyclopedia, vol. 1, page 605; Insight On The Scriptures, vol. 1, page 755; New Concise Bible Dictionary, page 150; The Westminster Dictionary Of The Bible, page 169; Peloubet’s Bible Dictionary, page 183; New International Bible Dictionary, page 318; Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible (1890), page 181; Nave’s Topical Bible, page 344; Gesenius’ Hebrew And Chaldee Lexicon under #673, page 73, and Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance under Hebrew #673.

My undated Smith’s Dictionary of the Bible, which has “Miss Lilly Summerskile, St. Mark’s S. S., Christmas 1890” written on the front flyleaf, says this on page 85: “Bethlehem. 1. One of the oldest towns in Palestine, already in existence at the time of Jacob’s return to the country. Its earliest name was Ephrath of Ephratah (see Gen. 35:16, 19; 48:7), and it is not till long after the occupation of the country by the Israelites that we meet with it under its new name of Bethlehem. After the conquest Bethlehem appears under its own name Bethlehem-judah (Judg. 17:7; 1 Sam. 17:12; Ruth 1:1, 2). The book of Ruth is a page from the domestic history of Bethlehem: the names, almost the very persons, of the Bethlehemites are there brought before us ... In the New Testament Bethlehem retains its distinctive title of Bethlehem-judah (Matt 2:1, 5), and once, in the announcement of the Angels, ‘city of David’ (Luke 2:4; comp. John 7:42) ... 2  A town in the portion of Zebulun named nowhere but in Josh. 19:15.”

The next thing these proponents do is point to Genesis 49:24 where it says in part concerning Jacob’s blessing on Joseph: “... (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel) ...” They will imply by this that the “shepherd” or “stone” is Yahshua the “rock”, and that He descended from Joseph rather than Judah. Note: these words are in parentheses, and represent only a notation by some copyists. Believer’s Bible Commentary by William MacDonald makes that same error. Some of these proponents go so far as to claim there was never a David nor a Bethlehem-judah; only Bethlehem of Zebulun. They might have gotten by with this, but in 1993, Seymore Gitin, digging for The W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeology, unearthed a piece of stone at Tel Dan inscribed in Aramaic “King of Israel” and “House of David.” These proponents will also point to the 15th chapter of Joshua claiming Bethlehem is not mentioned among Judah’s cities. They should check the LXX on Joshua, for it is listed at 15:60. The reason 1 Samuel 17:12 designates Bethlehem as “Bethlehem-judah” is to distinguish it from Bethlehem-Zebulun. Had there been only one Bethlehem, it wouldn’t have been necessary to make that distinction. Judges 17:7 speaks of “a Levite” of “Bethlehem-Judah.” Are we also to make him of the Tribe of Ephraim? It seems that if a Scripture can be taken wrongly, there is always going to be someone out there to do it. Again, “Eprathhite” in 1 Samuel 17:12 is not speaking of the Tribe of Ephraim, but of a city.

 

MAKING SOME SEMBLANCE OF ORDER

 

Upon reviewing the first reading of the present teaching letter, I realized I had addressed a wide variety of unrelated subjects and covered a wide spectrum of historical events. Therefore, I have deleted, rearranged and added text in order to avoid confusion for the reader. What I have just presented concerning Queen Elizabeth and the unrelated topic of the false doctrine advocating that Messiah was from the Tribe of Ephraim has little to do with the present topic matter concerning our walk through Daniel and Revelation. Also, don’t become confused inasmuch as I will shortly be presenting two events which happened nearly 950 years apart. The reason for bringing these before you is that they both have something in common. I hope, with this explanation, that you will now comprehend the order in which these topics appear.

We had gotten down to the toes representing the ten provinces of Rome, and began to show how it would be the Teutonic German tribes (“the stone cut out of the mountain”) that would cause the image to start “breaking in pieces.”

I would also point out that the quotes I will be using are biased toward the Romans, as they were the writers. They seem always to badmouth the Teutonic tribes and Celts in every way, calling them “barbarians”, “pirates” etc. It might be interesting, had the Germans written this history, what they might have called the Romans. In spite of this, both the Germans and Romans were Israelites, except for a few of the imported alien slaves, later made Roman citizens.

 

GAULS SACKING OF ROME A PRECURSOR

 

While Rome had not yet established its first province, the sacking of Rome by the Gauls in 390 B.C. was a harbinger of things to come. About six hundred years later the Teutonic German tribes would engage Rome with wave after wave until the western branch of the empire was no more. I will now quote the Cyclopædia Of Universal History by John Ridpath, LL. D., volume 1, pages 689-691:

“In B.C. 390 the Republic suffered an invasion by the Gauls. This ... people was distributed over the greater part of Western Europe. The principal seats of their power were Gaul and Britain; but in their tribal migrations many of the race had crossed the Alps, and settled in the valley of the Po. From this position they advanced to the south until they came into contact with the Romans of Central Italy. The movement of the Gauls was in the nature of a vast marauding expedition; but their numbers were so great that the Roman army sent to oppose them was disastrously defeated in the great battle of Allia, fought in B.C. 390, eleven miles from Rome.

“The remnant of the army of the consuls escaped into the city, and the Gauls swarmed about the ramparts by thousands. The Romans were panic-stricken. The walls were abandoned; and the terrified people flocked to the Capital, carrying with them whatever they could seize. The Gauls poured in like a flood, and the city was taken without resistance ...”

We will now pick up this same story from Rome: Its Rise And Fall by Philip Myers (1902), excerpts from pages 96-100: “Sack Of Rome by the Gauls (390 B.C.). — We have already mentioned how, in very remote times, tribes from Gaul crossed the Alps and established themselves in Northern Italy. While the Romans were conquering the towns of Ethuria, these barbarian[?] hordes were moving southward and overrunning and devastating the countries of Central Italy. In the year 390 B.C. they laid siege to the city of Clusium in Ethuria. The inhabitants of the place sent an embassy to Rome to ask aid. The senate sent to the Gauls three ambassadors, chosen from the Fabian gens, who informed them that if they did not cease molesting the Clusians, the Romans would intervene. The Gauls, who it is said had never before heard of the Romans, replied that the Clusians must give up to them a part of their lands, and that if they did not do so, they would take what they wanted by force of arms. All things, they declared, belonged to the brave.

“So the siege went on. In an engagement beneath the walls of the city the Roman ambassadors, forgetting in what capacity they were present in the place, took part in the fray, and one of them, Quintus Fabius by name, killed a Gallic chieftain and stripped him of his arms in sight of the army. The Gauls were furious, and sent ambassadors to Rome to demand that the Fabii be surrendered into their hands for punishment. The senate referred the matter to the people, who instead of yielding to the demands of the Gauls, made themselves participators in the guilt of the Fabii by electing them as military tribunes for the following year.

“When the Gauls learned that the Fabii, instead of having been punished by the Romans, had been rewarded by them for their gross violation of the law of nations, they raised the siege of Clusium and marched upon Rome.

“A Roman army met them on the banks of the Allia, eleven miles from the capital. But an unaccountable panic seized the Romans, and they fled from the field without exchanging blows with the enemy. The greater part of them hastened across the Tiber and sought safety behind the walls of Veii, which were still standing. The Gauls followed the fugitives closely, and slaughtered great numbers of them at the river bank. The remainder of the Roman army retreated in great disorder to Rome. Reaching there, they crowded through the gates, and without stopping to shut them, hurried to the citadel as the only place of refuge ...

“... When the Gauls entered the city they found everything abandoned to them. The aged senators, so the Romans afterwards proudly related, thinking it unworthy of their office to seek safety in flight, resolved to meet death in a befitting way. Arriving in their splendid robes of office, each with his ivory-headed wand in his hand, they seated themselves in their chairs of state at the doorway of their palaces on and near the forum, and there sat like statues while the barbarians were carrying on their work of sack and pillage about them...”

It’s a pity that the Romans and Gauls didn’t understand they were kin. Julius Caesar may have been one of the few who understood this kinship. Many of the Romans were Benjamites as Rome was founded under the sign of the wolf, Genesis 49:27, and the Romans surely “divided the spoil.” We must remember also that Zarah-Judah had settled early in the area of Rome. No doubt, most, if not all, of the rulers at Rome were of the Royal line of Judah. Inasmuch as Rome used the eagle as an emblem, there must have been a good number of the Tribe of Dan also among them. It must be remembered that many of Dan left Egypt before the time of the crossing of the Red Sea. While we are on the subject of “eagles”, let’s take a look at Matthew 24:28 where it says: “For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.” Futurists view this as some coming event in Palestine. I remember reading an article a few years back which stated that the eagle population was on the increase in that area, intimating that it was a sign of the fulfilling of this passage. Messiah wasn’t speaking of some birds, but the soon-coming of the Romans to destroy Jerusalem in 70 A.D. After the curse of the fig tree, that nation was considered a dead “carcase”, and it is just as dead today, never to be resurrected. Because the eagle is one of the main emblems of America, we must also have a considerable number of the Tribe of Dan among us.

In lesson #49, I presented an occurrence in 9 A.D. in which two Roman legions of soldiers were destroyed by German Teutonic tribes. With the foregoing, I have shown the first conflict of the Gauls against Rome in 390 B.C., which was actually before the first province was established at Carthage, and marked the beginning of the Teutonic pressure on Rome. As Alexander the Great was born in 356 B.C., we can see this pressure on Rome started even before Alexander’s exploits. Many times in prophecy, one period overlaps another which is what we have here. From 390 B.C., we are going to jump 766 years to 376 A.D. As you can begin to see, the pressure applied to Rome by the German Teutonic tribes lasted for a long time. To really get a fuller perspective of this topic requires a lengthy study of which we cannot go into every detail here. The development of the Visigoths against the Roman Empire in 376 A.D. is entirely another story, for it was a different time and circumstance, but nevertheless contributed to Rome’s fall and has a parallel to this last account. This is a very critical phase in history and most chroniclers do not cover it adequately, therefore, I will have to quote from several books to get an overall view. I will start with Rome: Its Rise And Fall by Philip Myers, page 417:

“The Alemanni (Germans) made forays across the Rhine into the Gallic provinces, — sometimes swarming over the river on the winter ice, — and, before pursuit could be made, recrossed the river and escaped with their booty into the depths of the German forests. The Saxons ... who issued from the mouth of the Elbe, ravaged the coasts of Gaul and Britain, even pushing their light skiffs far up the rivers and creeks to those countries, and carrying away spoils from the inland cities. In Britain, the Picks broke through the Hadrian Wall, and wrested almost the entire island from the hands of the Romans. In Africa, the Moorish and other tribes, issuing from the ravines of the Atlas Mountains and swarming from the deserts of the south, threatened to obliterate the last trace of Roman civilization occupying the narrow belt of fertile territory skirting the sea.

“The barbarian[?] tide of invasion seemed thus on the point of overwhelming the empire in the West; but for twelve years Valentinian defended with signal [outstanding] ability and energy, not only his own territories, but aided with arms and counsel his weaker brother Valens in the defence of his [eastern territories]. Upon the death of Valentinian, his son Gratian succeeded to his authority [in the west] (A.D. 375).”

Switching now to the book Early Progress by Willis West (1931), we will continue this story on page 365: “The whole people of the West Goths (Visigoths) appeared on the north bank of the Danube, with flocks and herds and with their women and children in long lines of wooden carts, fleeing from the terrible Huns — wild nomadic horsemen from Tartary. The Goths begged to cross the river into the protection of the Empire, and Valens, one of the shadow-emperors of that period, gave them lands south of the Danube. They were to surrender their arms, while Roman agents were to supply them with food until the harvest. But these agents embezzled the funds, furnished only vile and insufficient food, while, for bribes, they allowed the barbarians to keep their arms.”

For an even better account of this incident, we will now switch to another book entitled The Roman And The Teuton by Charles Kingsley, pages 69-71: “So the Goths were to come over the Danube stream: but they must give up their arms, and deliver their children (those of rank, one supposes), as hostages, to be educated by the Romans, as Romans.

“They crossed the fatal river; they were whole days in crossing; those set to count them gave it up in despair ... And when they were across, they gave up the children. They had not the heart to give up the beloved weapons. The Roman commissioners let them keep the arms, at the price of many Gothic woman’s honour. Ugly and foul things happened, of which we have only hints. Then they had to be fed for the time being, till they could cultivate their land. Lupicinus and Maximus, the two governors of Thrace pocketed the funds which Valens sent, and starved the Goths. The markets were full of carrion and dogs’ flesh. Anything was good enough for a barbarian. Their fringed carpets, their beautiful linens, all went. A little wholesome meat cost 10 pounds of silver. When all was gone, they had to sell their children. To establish a slave-trade in the beautiful boys and girls was just what the wicked Romans wanted.

“At last the end came. They began to rise. Fridigern, their king, kept them quiet till the time was ripe for revenge. The Romans, trying to keep the West Goths down, got so confused, it seems, that they let the whole nation of the East Goths ... dash across the Danube, and establish themselves in the north of the present Turkey, to the east of the West Goths.

“Then at Marcianopolis, the capital of Lower Mœsia, Lupicinus asked Fridigern and his chiefs to a feast. The starving Goths outside were refused supplies from the market, and came to blows with the guards. Lupicinus, half drunk, heard of it, and gave orders for a massacre. Fridigern escaped from the palace, sword in hand. The smoldering embers burst into flame, the war-cry was raised, and the villain Lupicinus fled for his life.

“Then began war south of the Danube. The Roman legions were defeated by the Goths, who armed themselves with the weapons of the dead. Mœsia was overrun with fire and sword. Adrianople was attacked, but in vain. The slaves in the gold mines were freed from their misery, and shewed the Goths the mountain-passes and the stores of grain. As they went on, the Goths recovered their children. The poor things told horrid tales; and the Goths, maddened, avenged themselves on the Romans of every age and sex. ‘They left’, says St. Jerome, ‘nothing alive — not even the beasts of the field; till nothing was left but growing brambles and thick forest’ ...

“... The light Roman cavalry fled before the long lances and the heavy swords of the German knights. The knights turned on the infantry, broke them, hunted them down by charge after charge, and left the footmen to finish the work.

“Two-thirds of the Roman army were destroyed; four Counts of the Empire; generals and officers without number. Valens fled wounded to a cottage. The Goths set it on fire, and burned him and his staff therein, ignorant that they had in their hands the Emperor of Rome. Verily there is a God who judgeth the earth.

“So thought the Catholics of that day, who saw in the fearful death of Valens a punishment for his having forced the Goths to become Arians ...”

Here again, it might appear we are getting far afield from the subject of Daniel’s prophecy of the image, but it is important we cover this conversion of the Goths to Arianism. As we get further into this study, we will see it would be difficult to leave the subject of Arianism out. To understand this “Arian” connection, we must backup to pages 67-69 in this same book:

“In the year 375, the West Goths came down to the Danube-bank and entreated the Romans to let them cross. There was a Christian party among them, persecuted by the heathens, and hoping for protection from Rome. Athanaric had vowed never to set foot on Roman soil, and after defending himself against the Huns, retired into the forests of ‘Caucaland.’ Good Bishop Ulfilas and his converts looked longingly toward the Christian Empire. Surely the Christians would receive them as brothers, welcome them, help them. The simple German fancied a Roman even such a one as themselves.

“Ulfilas went on embassy to Antioch, to Valens the Emperor. Valens, low-born, cruel, and covetous, was an Arian, and could not lose the opportunity of making converts. He sent theologians to meet Ulfilas, and torment him into Arianism. When he arrived, Valens tormented him himself. While the Goths starved he argued, apostasy was the absolute condition of his help, till Ulfilas, in a weak moment, gave his word that the Goths should become Arians, if Valens would give them lands on the South bank of the Danube. Then they would be the Emperor’s men, and guard the marches against all foes. From that time Arianism became the creed, not only of the Goths, but of the Vandals, the Sueves, and almost all the Teutonic tribes ...

“... To the Goths themselves the change must have seemed not only unimportant, but imperceptible. Unaccustomed to that accuracy of thought, which is too often sneered at by Gibbon as ‘metaphysical subtlety’, all of which they would have been aware was the change of a few letters in a creed written in an unknown tongue. They could not know, (Ulfilas himself could not have known, only two years after the death of St. Athanasius at Alexandria; while the Nicæan Creed was as yet received by only half of the Empire; and while he meanwhile had been toiling for years in the Danubian wilds, ignorant perhaps of the controversy which had meanwhile convulsed the Church) — neither the Goths nor he, I say, could have known that the Arianism, which they embraced, was really the last, and as it were apologetic, refuge of dying Polytheism; that it, and not the Catholic Faith, denied the abysmal unity of the Godhead; that by making the Son inferior to the Father, as touching his Godhead, it invented two Gods, a greater and a lesser, thus denying the absoluteness, the infinity, the illimitability, by any category of quantity, of that One Eternal, of whom it is written, that God is a Spirit. Still less could have they guessed that when Arius, the handsome popular preacher (whose very name, perhaps, Ulfilas never heard) asked the fine ladies of Alexandria — ‘Had you a son before that son was born?’ — ‘No.’ ‘Then God could have no son before that son was begotten, &c ...’”

Apart from the last interesting observations concerning Arianism, with which I do not agree, nor do I agree totally with the findings of the Council of Nicaea, we can begin to get an idea of the process which was taking place to crush the toes of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream-image-vision.

While we could go on at length with references to the various Teutonic German tribes which Yahweh used as instruments to bring to naught the “iron” Roman Empire, first we must deal with verses 44-45 of Daniel 2. We are informed that a fifth “stone” kingdom “cut out of the mountain without hands” would “break in pieces” the other four kingdoms which would include the “image’s” toes. As the toes are also made part of “iron”, they also represent Rome.

Because the “image” had two legs and feet along with its “toes”, we must take into account both the western and eastern branches of that empire. As the eastern division of the Roman Empire lasted until the fall of Constantinople in 1453 A.D., the crushing of the image’s toes covered quite a long period of time. When we realize that it was the “Fourth Crusade” which weakened Constantinople (1202-1204) which resulted in ripe picking for Mohammed II the Great (1451-1480). Of course, most all of the Crusaders were our people. Thus, the eastern branch lasted approximately 1,000 years beyond the western branch, and the western division was weakened and finally conquered by the Teutonic tribes a thousand years earlier.

We should also take notice that this fifth “stone kingdom” was to begin during “the days of these kings.” As Daniel’s interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream-image represented Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome, it can hardly be speaking of the future Second Advent of Messiah. If the Teutonic German tribes represent the beginning of that fifth “stone kingdom”, then the toes of that image must depict the eventual breakup of the ten provinces of the Roman Empire. If the time of the “stone kingdom” is placed at the time of “these kings” of Daniel 2:44, it would be difficult to identify the ten toes to be other than the ten provinces of Rome and the Teutonic German tribes to be other than the beginning of that “stone kingdom ... which shall never be destroyed.” Not only that, but that kingdom will not be left to any people other than the related kinfolk of those German Teutonic tribes. We should remember that this “stone” was to fall on the toes of that image. If you have never had a broken toe, you have yet to experience one of life’s possible excruciating events. Without the toes, it’s difficult to stand.

We have now taken into account three encounters of the Teutonic tribes with the Romans. (1) In lesson #49, we covered the story of Hermann and how he led two elite Roman legions, under the command of Varus, into an ambush in the Teutoberger Forest to be annihilated and never return. (2) With this lesson, we have dealt with the confrontation of the Goths and the Romans in 390 B.C., and (3) We also noted the conflict between Rome and the Goths in-and-around Mœsia and Adrianople sometime shortly after 375 A.D. Although these last two encounters were nearly 750 years apart, they were both factors to Rome’s eventual fall. Although we have gotten a good start on the description of the breakup of the image, there remains much more to be covered.

While we can begin to see Daniel’s prophecy being fulfilled to a tee, there is an even greater force at work bringing about these significant events. That war is the never-ending battle for the trade-routes and waterways of the world. Space does not allow us to discuss that here, but we will address that important matter in coming lessons.

Another indication of the accuracy of Daniel’s prophecy is the division of the empire. For documentation concerning this. I will use General History by Philip Myers, page 307:

“Final Division of the Empire (A.D. 395.” — The Roman world was united practically for the last time under Theodosius the Great. From A.D. 392 to 395 he ruled as sole Emperor. Just before his death he divided the Empire between his two sons, Arcadius and Honorius, assigning the former, who was only eighteen years of age, the government of the East, and giving the latter, a mere child of eleven, the sovereignty of the West. This division was not to affect the unity of the Empire. There was to be but one Empire, although there were to be two emperors. But as a matter of fact so different was the course of events in the two halves of the old Empire that from this [time] on we shall find it [more] convenient to trace the history of each division separately.”

From this same book, on the same page, it says this concerning the eastern branch of the Roman Empire: “The Empire in the East. — The story of the fortunes of the Empire in the East need not detain us long here. The line of Eastern emperors lasted over a thousand years, — until the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, A.D. 1453. It will thus be seen that the greater part of its history belongs to the mediæval period. Up to the time of the overthrow of the Empire in the West the emperors of the East were engaged incessantly in suppressing uprisings of their Gothic allies or mercenaries, or in repelling invasions of different barbarian[?] tribes.”

Again, notice the Goths are affecting the outcome here! Remember the Almighty said of Israel. “Thou art my battle ax and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms ...” Jer. 51:20.

This is my fifty-first monthly teaching letter and continues my fifth year of publication. At this point, I am going to repeat a warning. It seems like there is always someone out there teaching a different gospel of the Kingdom. One such person is Garrison R. Russell in his book Son Placing, where he says on page 290: “The Sons of God are not descendants of Abraham, or Israel, or Adam.” If you have this man’s book, I would highly recommend you scrutinize very carefully every word he says. From what I have observed from his book thus far, it is filled with half-truths and downright lies.

You will remember that in the last two Teaching Letters, #49 and #50, I promised to document that Queen Elizabeth II’s husband, Philip, was of questionable blood and how all the children from that union are unfit to take the Throne of David, which the British throne represents. I said the following in lesson #49: “... from the news I notice the queen-mother of England is dead. I’m fully persuaded Elizabeth II is the last pureblooded descendant of David left to sit on the throne, while Philip Mountbatten and his heirs are of questionable blood presenting prophecy problems.” Then again in lesson #50 I reiterated: “In the last lesson, I briefly mentioned that the queen-mother of Britain had died. I believe that this is a major mile-marker in time as to where we are today on Yahweh’s time-clock. I would remind you that Scripture says in no uncertain terms that there would always be a descendant of David on a throne somewhere until Messiah’s Second Advent. Conceivably, this could mean: if the present Queen Elizabeth II were to have a heart attack and die, and our Redeemer has not returned, the promise to David is a lie and our Bible is untrustworthy. I also pointed out that Queen Elizabeth II’s husband was of questionable blood, and because Elizabeth had taken an unsuitable mate, thus violating Yahweh’s Law of kind after kind, her children by that marriage are unfit to take the throne” (i.e., Shuah vs. Tamar, Gen. 38).

Some are of the opinion that if the Queen were to suddenly die, the throne could be transferred to another branch of the family. That would be the usual process, but those who make that statement don’t take into account there were only to be three “overturns”, Ezekiel 21:27, and all three have already happened (i.e., Jerusalem to Ireland, to Scotland, to England). Queen Elizabeth II undoubtedly represents the last surviving pureblooded heir to the throne on behalf of the third “overturn.” Let’s now document why the tainted-blood offspring of Elizabeth by Philip, are unqualified to take that throne.

Philip was of the line of Battenberg until the name was changed to Mountbatten. I will now quote from two encyclopedias on the background of the Battenberg side of Philip’s lineage: The Encyclopedia Britannica (1963), volume 3, page 281:

“Battenberg, the name of a family of German counts, which died out about 1314, whose seat was the castle of Kellerburg, near Battenberg, in Hesse. The title was revived in 1851, when Alexander (1823-88), a younger son of Louis II, grand duke of Hesse, contracted a morganatic marriage with the Polish lady, Countess Julia Theresa von Hauke (1825-95), who was then created countess of Battenberg. In 1858 the countess and her children were raised to the rank of princes and princesses of Battenberg, with the title of Durchlaucht, or serene highness.

“In 1917 the eldest son of this union, Louis Alexander (1854-1921), who had become an admiral in the British navy, was created marquess of Milford Haven ..., and, at the request of King George V, the members of the family who lived in England renounced, in 1917, the German title of prince of Battenberg and adopted the surname of Mountbatten. The second son, Alexander Joseph (1857-93), was elected Prince Alexander I of Bulgaria in 1879 ... Henry Maurice, the third son, married on July 23, 1885, Beatrice, youngest daughter of Victoria, queen of England, became a naturalized Englishman and was appointed captain general and governor of the Isle of Wight and governor of Carisbrooke. He died at sea on Jan. 20, 1896, of a fever contracted on active service with the British troops during the Ashanti War. The fourth son, Francis Joseph (1861-1924), married in 1897 Anna, daughter of Nicholas I, prince of Montenegro, and was the author of Die volkswirtschaftliche Entwicklung Bulgariens von 1879 bis zur Gegenwart (1891).

“The only daughter of the princess of Battenberg, Marie Caroline (1852-1923), married in 1871 Gustavus Ernest, prince of Erbach-Schönberg. Princess Alice of Battenberg (b. 1885), daughter of Prince Louis Alexander, and Victoria Eugénie (Princess Ena of Battenberg; b. 1887), only daughter of Prince Henry Maurice, were both married before 1917, the former to Prince Andrew of Greece and the latter to Alphonso XIII, king of Spain. Prince Henry’s youngest son, Maurice of Battenberg, was killed in action near Ypres on Oct. 27, 1914 ...”

For another witness I will quote from the Encyclopedia Americana (1991), volume 3, page 356: “Battenberg ... is a title of nobility taken from the name of a village near Marburg, West Germany. A family of counts held the title until it died out about 1314. In 1851, upon the morganatic marriage of Prince Alexander of Hesse-Darmstadt to Julia Teresa, countess von Hauke, the latter received the title of countess of Battenberg. The countess and her children were raised to the rank of princes and princesses in 1858. Their descendants retained the title until World War I, when those living in England anglicized it to Mountbatten.”

 

LET’S EXAMINE THE EVIDENCE

 

It seems that we have a castle by the name of Kellerburg, near a town called Battenberg in an area known as Hesse in Germany. It also appears that there was a family of German counts that lived there until they all died out in 1314. That area seems to have been settled mostly by Kelts in early times. Did the family physically die out, or did the succession of royal authority die out? It makes a lot of difference. Be that as it may, it also appears that this heir apparent, Alexander, married a Polish lady. Again, one must ask the question, what kind of ladies might one find in Poland at that time (actually Warsaw)? Then, we are told there was a “morganatic marriage” arranged between this Polish lady named Julia Theresa von Hauke and Alexander. Interestingly, we have another morganatic marriage to compare with that of Alexander to Julia Theresa von Hauke. The party was Constantine Pavlovich (1779-1831) grand-duke and cesarevitch of Russia, born to Paul Petrovich and Mary Feodorovna. His grandmother, empress Catherine II, arranged for his marriage to Juliana of Coburg, which failed miserably. Later, he fell in love with a Polish lady, Johanna Grudzinska, and signed a paper resigning all claim of succession to the throne. Question: Why wasn’t Alexander required to sign a similar paper?, or did he?

Well, let’s investigate what is meant by a “morganatic marriage.” From The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (1969), we read this:

“morganatic ... adj. Of or pertaining to a type of legal marriage between a man or woman of royal or noble birth and a partner of lower rank, in which agreement is made that any titles or estates of the royal or noble partner will not be shared by the commoner or by any of the offspring. [New Latin morganaticus, from Medieval Latin matrimonium ad morganaticam, ‘marriage for (no dowry but) the morning-gift’ (i.e., the husband’s token gift to the wife on the morning after the wedding night), from Old High German morgan, morning ...”

 

ELIZABETH II AND PHILIP MOUNTBATTEN

HAVE SAME GREAT-GREAT-GRANDMOTHER

 

The marriage of Philip Mountbatten to Elizabeth II was a tragedy of the utmost magnitude, and is only part of the story. While they both had a great-great-grandmother in common the bad blood came through Louis Battenberg, and in turn through Julia Theresa von Hauke, not Victoria. Julia Theresa von Hauke (the Polish lady’s) father’s name was Maurice von Hauke who had married Sophia of Lafountaine. Alexander Louis George Frederick Emil contracted a “morganatic” marriage to Julia Theresa von Hauke and had the following children: (1) Mary Battenberg, (2) Louis Alexander Mountbatten, (3) Alexander Joseph Battenberg, (4) Henry Maurice Battenberg, and, (5) Francis Joseph Battenberg. The bad blood followed down from Julia Theresa von Hauke to her son Louis Alexander Mountbatten, to his daughter Victoria Alice of Battenberg, to her son Philip Mountbatten (Queen Elizabeth II’s husband), to his son Charles, Prince of Wales (whose very telltale appearance defies all reasonable doubt of a “Jewish” bloodline connection). Here is what the book Kings & Queens Of England by David Willamson says on page 121:

“Not long after the royal family’s return to England, the princess’s engagement to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, RN. was announced. He was born at Corfu on 10 June 1921, and like her was the great-great-grandchild of Queen Victoria, being the only son of Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Princess Alice of Battenberg.”

 

Because this may be somewhat confusing, I will show you that alleged bad bloodline from a different perspective:

 

Ÿ  Julia Theresa von Hauke.

Ÿ  Louis Alexander Mountbatten.

Ÿ  Victoria Alice of Battenberg.

Ÿ  Philip Mountbatten.

Ÿ  Charles, Prince of Wales.

 

Thus, I will repeat what I said before: The present Queen Elizabeth II is the last pureblooded Israelite of the Tribe of Judah, of the House of David, to sit on David’s throne, and she has no legitimate heirs to take her place. I challenge anyone to prove otherwise without an additional “overturn.”

From the book Mountbatten by Philip Ziegler, ©1985, pages 21-22: “Prince Alexander of Hesse, Mountbatten’s grandfather, was the third son of Grand Duke Louis II and godson to the Tsar of Russia. When his sister married the Tsarevich, the future Tsar Alexander II, it seemed both sensible and in keeping with the national tradition that Alexander of Hesse should take service in the Russian army. He achieved distinction, had a regiment of the Lancers named after him and was awarded the Cross of St George. The Tsar intended him as a husband for his niece and his future in Russia promised to be secure and prosperous. For Alexander, however, at this stage of his life at least, security and prosperity did not count for much. He fell in love with Julia Hauke, one of his sister’s ladies-in-waiting, a Polish girl who, if hardly a nonentity [nobody], was not from a family sufficiently grandiose to justify so princely a match. The Tsar indignantly forbade the marriage. Alexander went to England to forget, remembered, returned to St Petersburg and in 1851 eloped with Julia to Warsaw and thence to Breslau where he married her.

“This impetuous escapade effectively exiled him from Russia. It did little to improve his standing in his native Hesse. His elder brother, now Grand Duke Louis III, was almost as outraged as the Tsar, but felt that he could hardly let Alexander starve. An uneasy settlement was reached. Alexander was allowed to retain his status as a royal prince of Hesse; the defunct title of Battenburg — a pleasant town in the north of the Grand Duchy — and the quality of countess was conferred on his wife; any children of the marriage, though without claim to the throne of Hesse, would at least be of the same rank as their mother. Even this qualified disgrace did not last long. In 1858 Countess Julia of Battenburg was raised to the level of a Serene Highness and four years later the couple returned to Darmstadt. A new house had been born; royal, after a fashion, but bearing about it a faint aura of wildness and irregularity ... There had always been much to-ing and fro-ing between the courts of Great Britain and of Hesse, and this was intensified after the marriage in 1862 of the future Grand Duke Louis IV to Queen Victoria’s daughter Alice.”

From this, we can clearly see that indeed all heirs of Julia Hauke were disqualified as royal members entitled to the throne. The Almighty’s promise to David was a seedline promise. Therefore, take away the element of seedline, and we have nothing. The only way we have access to the Kingdom is through the seedline Promise to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. If one cannot claim that kinsman seedline Promise, there is no Redemption in Messiah’s blood. As Hebrews 12:8 says, we are either “sons” or we are “bastards.”

 

THE KEY OF DAVID

 

It is absolutely impossible to comprehend Yahweh’s promise to David, that he would never lack a man to sit on the throne, unless we understand “the key of David”, (1 Kings 8:25; 2 Chronicles 6:16; Psalm 132:11-12). Because Zedekiah was the last Biblically recorded descendant of David to sit on that throne at Jerusalem, it would appear the Almighty reneged on that promise. Mr. H. Graber (who uses the title of Dr.) in his book How Holy Is Your Bible?, pages 180-181, says the throne of David is no longer “physical” but is now a “spiritual throne.” He summed it up this way: “So since Jehoiakin, the Kingship, the ‘everlasting throne of David’ has been and is SPIRITUAL! (Until the second advent!)” He then quotes several passages out of context in an attempt to prove his point. Had Graber had any understanding of the “key of David” he could not have made such an irrational conclusion.

Before discussing “the key of David”, let’s read the passage where it is first found in Isaiah 22:15-25:

“¹⁵ Thus saith Yahweh El of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say, ¹⁶ What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? ¹⁷ Behold, Yahweh will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. ¹⁸ He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shall thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house. ¹⁹ And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. ²⁰ And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: ²¹ And I will cloth him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. ²² And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. ²³ And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house. ²⁴ And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. ²⁵ In that day, saith Yahweh of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for Yahweh hath spoken it.”

Immediately, we must clear up a misconception many make concerning this passage, as they apply this directly to our Messiah. Yes, it does apply to our Savior, but we need to keep it in its proper context, as the key of David (nail) of verse 25 is to be “removed” ... “cut down” ... and “fall.” That is hardly a picture of our risen victorious Redeemer! Thus, it is vital we discover the identity of “the nail that is fastened in a sure place.” Essentially, this passage is making a contrast of two men diametrically opposite each other. Their names are Shebna and Eliakim. One is like a rolling ball, the other like a very secure peg (or nail). In other words, one is very unreliable, and the other very dependable. Once grasping the extreme differences in character represented here, we can begin to comprehend what is being said. For a commentary on this Scripture, I will now quote from The Book Of Isaiah by Sir George Adam Smith, vol. 1, pages 330-332:

“... If there is any reason, it can only be this, for putting the second section of chap. xxii, which advocates a change of ministry in the city (vv. 15-22), so close to the first, which sees ahead nothing but destruction of the State (vv. 1-14).

“The mayor of the palace at this time was one Shebna, also called minister or deputy (lit. of use to the king). That his father is not named implies perhaps that Shebna was a foreigner; ... and he has been plausibly supposed to be the leader of the party then in power, whose policy was the Egyptian alliance, and whom in these latter years Isaiah had so frequently denounced as the root of Judah’s bitterness. To this unfamilied intruder, who had sought to establish himself in Jerusalem, after the manner of those days, by hewing himself a great sepulchre, Isaiah brought sentence of violent banishment: Behold, Yahweh will be hurling, hurling thee away, thou big man, and crumpling, crumpling thee together. He will roll, roll thee on, thou rolling-stone, like a ball thrown out on broad level ground; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of the house of thy lord. And I thrust thee from thy post, and from thy station pull thee down (18 f.). This vagabond was not to die in his bed, nor to be gathered in his big tomb to the people on whom he had foisted himself. He should continue a rolling-stone. For him, like Cain, there/p class= was a land of Nod [land of wandering]; and upon it he was to find a vagabond’s death.” [brackets & emphasis mine] I would say that George Adam Smith is right on the money! From this we can see the characteristics of Shebna. Continuing, we will observe those of Eliakim:

“To fill this upstart’s place, Isaiah solemnly designated a man with a father: Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah. The formulas he uses are perhaps the official ones customary upon induction to an office. But it may be also, that Isaiah has woven into these expressions of even greater promise than usual. For this change of office-bearers was critical, and the overthrow of the ‘party of action’ meant to Isaiah the beginning of the blessed future. And it shall come to pass in that day that I will call My servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah; and I will clothe him with thy robe, and with thy girdle will I brace him, and thine authority will I give into his hand, and he shall be for a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. And I will set the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shut: and he shall shut, and none open. And I will hammer him in, a peg in a firm place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father’s house (20-23). Thus, to the last, Isaiah will not allow Shebna to forget that he [like Cain] is without root among the people of God, that he has neither father nor family.

“... This very year we find Eliakim in Shebna’s post, and Shebna reduced to be secretary ... Catching at the figure, with which his designation of Eliakim closed, that Eliakim would be a peg in a solid wall, a throne on which the glory of his father’s house might settle, Isaiah reminds the much-encumbered statesman that the firmest peg will give way if you hang too much on it, the strongest man be pulled down by his dependent and indolent family. They shall hang upon him all the weight of his father’s house, the scions and the offspring, ... all the least vessels, from the vessels of cups to all the vessels of flagons. In that day, rede [counsel, advise] of Yahweh of Hosts, shall the peg that was knocked into a firm place give way, and it shall be knocked out and fall, and down shall be cut the burden that was upon it, for Yahweh hath spoken.

“So we have not one, but a couple of tragedies. Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, follows Shebna, the son of Nobody. The fate of the overburdened peg is as grievous as that of the rolling stone. It is easy to pass this prophecy over as a trivial incident; but when we have carefully analyzed each verse, restored to the words their exact shade of signification, and set them in their proper contrasts, we perceive the outlines of two social dramas, which it requires little imagination to invest with engrossing moral interest.”

Yes, we should definitely take much interest in what is being said here. Curiously, the author was supporting Two Seedline doctrine without being aware of it. Inasmuch as the Bible teaches Two Seedline from beginning to end, it would be difficult for anyone to avoid, yet some try. It is noteworthy that Shebna was unable to show his family line. We shouldn’t be surprised at this as nowhere in the chronicles is it recorded who Cain’s father was. Of one thing we can be quite sure, nowhere in all Scripture is Adam recorded as Cain’s father. We are also told that Shebna was like “a ball” or “rolling stone.” Isn’t it amazing that we had a so-called musical group during the hippie revolution by that very same name. That George Adam Smith makes a comparison between Shebna and Cain is simply outstanding. Surely, a better comparison couldn’t be made of a “vagabond” to a “ball” or “rolling stone.” It should be noted also that Shebna was a man of pride which is a common trait among the descendants of Cain.

On the contrary, we see that Eliakim was the very anti-type of Shebna. He knew who his father was. Eliakim, rather than being a rolling-stone was a man of stability; one who could be counted on in time of trouble. Additionally, Eliakim was a humble man without self-glorifying pride. In short, these two men were 180° opposite in nature in every respect. These men were not kings in themselves, but were given the power of the king’s office. One of their responsibilities was to keep track of David’s genealogy to make certain it was kept pure. Because Isa. 22:24 speaks of David’s “offspring” in close relation to “vessels”; no doubt the term “vessels” is referring to David’s descendants. Often people are likened to “vessels”, 2 Cor. 4:7.

 

PROPHECY CONCERNING DAVID’S KEY

 

Now that we understand that the words “peg” and “nail” are other words for “key”, let’s consider the prophecy found in Isa. 22:25: “In that day, saith Yahweh of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for Yahweh hath spoken it.”

It should be immediately evident that this verse is not speaking of Messiah, although we are told (in Rev. 3:7) that He possesses that “key.” Rather, verse 25 is speaking of Eliakim, the chief steward of the king. The next question we must ask is: Where is the “sure place” the “nail” was to be fastened? There are two periods in history which simply don’t fit the criteria. They are the periods from David as king to Zedekiah, and from the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple until the time of our Redeemer. The only other “sure place” would be the British throne from Jeremiah until the present time. Is there, then, any place in history that threatens to weaken the stability of that “nail” that it might be “cut off?”

Yes there is, and it’s as plain as the nose on a “Jew’s” face. To fit that criteria, the situation must return to a king’s advisor similar to Shebna, a “rolling-stone” descendant of Cain. By this yardstick, it can only be Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, sometimes called “Dizzy.” Benjamin was born 1804 and died 1881. He lived during the reign of Queen Victoria, born 1819, death 1901. She took the throne June 28, 1838. She married her first cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, 10 February, 1840. Upon the death of Prince Albert 14 December, 1861, at the age of 42, the serpent in the form of Benjamin Disraeli moved in.

We cannot fully grasp the maneuvering that was developing at that time unless we understand Disraeli’s background. For that, I will give an abridged paraphrase from the book DISRAELI by André Maurois: In the year 1290, on All Saints’ Day, King Edward I expelled the “Jews” from England. It was the time of the Crusades, and the monks were crying, ‘get rid of the Infidels.’ Those “Jews” who survived that onslaught took asylum in France. There in 1306, King Philip the Fair, being pressed for money, confiscated their belongings and thrust them towards Spain. Upon the persecutions in Spain, they moved to Venice and Amsterdam, and back to France once more. After much confusion under Cromwell and the Puritans, at the close of the 17th century, a small community of Portuguese and Spanish Jews was reestablished in London. Among these returnees was the Disraeli family. Benjamin’s father, Isaac, spent most of his time at libraries and the British Museum. Upon the advice of Sharon Turner, the great Anglo-Saxon historian, Isaac and his family were “converted to Christianity”, and “baptized.” After problems with his schoolmates, Benjamin, at the age of 15, returned home to utilize his father’s library, reading a wide variety of subjects. Vigorously, he read details on the secret societies; the Vehmgerichte, the Council of Ten, and the Jesuits, reading and rereading the life of St. Ignatius Loyola. Following a boring attempt at law practice, he reverted to writing and traveling, after which he entered politics, which his “baptism” helped to facilitate.

Upon the death of Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, Disraeli immediately bombarded her with a barrage of flattering letters to which she responded enthusiastically, and that relationship continued to Disraeli’s death. Therefore, in essence, Disraeli (counterpart of Shebna) became the Queen’s chief steward. From the book DISRAELI by André Maurois, pages 288 and 290, we read this:

“... Downstairs he would come, and she would receive him with such delight that for an instant he thought she was going to embrace him. So full of smiles was she that she looked younger, and almost pretty. She twittered and glided about the room like a bird. She was happy. She had recovered her Minister, the only Minister who gave her confidence in herself. For the Queen had had a difficult life. She had been unpopular, very unpopular. She had seen people in London turn their backs on her carriage in the streets. First it was because of Lord Melbourne; and then it had been poor Albert, whom the public would not pardon for being a German; and then the Queen had been reproached for her mourning, and not one of her Ministers had defended her ...

“... Sometimes when they were alone, the Minister’s compliments became flowery and almost direct. But the Queen excused him when she recalled that he had Eastern blood. The Queen loved the East. She delighted to have [him] ... standing behind her chair, and at the head of her Realms this ingenious and sentimental Grand Vizier.

“She invited him everywhere. She asked him to come and see her at Balmoral, where life was simpler and more free. Unfortunately, the guest was often ill. The long journeys fatigued him. The Queen sent her physician, the famous Sir William Jenner, to Mr. Disraeli’s sick-room. Sir William insisted on the Premier keeping his bed. In the morning the Queen came to see him. ‘What do you think’, he wrote Lady Chesterfield, ‘of receiving your Sovereign in slippers and a dressing-gown?’ Seeing him so weak, she became maternal. Their relations became entirely human. She talked to him of Albert; he told her of Mary Anne. Minister and Sovereign had both found happiness in marriage, in the past, and here was one more bond between them.”

A few years ago, the Christian Vanguard of Metairie, Louisiana, published an article showing that Disraeli had gotten to Queen Victoria and convinced her that the Anglo-Saxons and the “Jews” were the same people, and that they were permitted to intermarry. I sure wish I still had that issue. Inasmuch as Sharon Turner was a personal friend to the Disraeli family, it makes sense. The Israel Identity message, through the efforts of John Wilson and Edward Hine, became very popular during that period. Therefore, the Christian Vanguard article is very plausible. Interestingly, Wilson and Hine were also unaware that today’s “Jews” are not Israelites.

 

THE DEMISE OF THE THRONE AS WE KNOW IT

 

In 1948 there was something significant that happened in England which was a catastrophic tragedy of the greatest magnitude. And, once that appalling disaster manifested itself, it could never be corrected, for there simply is no remedy once such a thing takes place. On November 14, 1948, Charles Philip Arthur George (a “Jew”; a descendant of Cain) was born to Queen Elizabeth II by her non-Royal husband, Philip Mountbatten. By that birth, the “nail” of Isaiah 22:25 was “removed”, “cut down” and there was a great “fall.” It marked the end of David’s Monarchy on that Throne until the rightful “Shiloh” comes. Absolutely none of Philip Mountbatten’s issue are Biblically, lawfully qualified to be coronated to that dignity. The day Charles was born brought death to that Great Royal line of kings. With the advent of Julia Theresa von Hauke, the “seed of the serpent” of Genesis 3:15 entered that Royal line. Additionally, it should be noted that Julia Theresa von Hauke’s shield has no Israelite symbols as do other royal members. Hers’ is what appears to be a cartwheel on a red background; indeed, a befitting emblem for a “rolling-stone” upon Satan’s color, RED!

This is my fifty-second monthly teaching letter and continues my fifth year of publication. In the last few lessons, we have been considering the subject of prophecy. In lesson #49 we dwelt on Nebuchadnezzar’s dream-image, interpreted by Daniel. In lesson #50 we studied about how the German Teutonic tribes were instrumental in Rome’s eventual fall, predicted by that interpretation. Though it may not seem like it, lesson #51 also concerned itself with prophecy, inasmuch as Isaiah 22:25 was predicting the eventual downfall of the British Throne as we now know it. In that lesson, we learned the importance of the “key of David.” In this lesson, we will discuss several seemingly unrelated topics, but in one way or another, the subject of prophecy will be involved. Because others have neglected to address this subject, I decided to continue on the topic of the “key of David” from lesson #51. We will now continue probing more commentary on “the key of David” from Isaiah 22:22-23. For this, we will first use Adam Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible, abridged by Ralph Earle, pages 581-582:

“22. And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder. As the robe and the baldric, mentioned in the preceding verse, were the ensigns of power and authority, so likewise was the key the mark of office, either sacred or civil. This mark of office was likewise among the Greeks, as here in Isaiah, borne on the shoulder. In allusion to the image of the key as the ensign of power, the unlimited extent of that power is expressed with great clearness as well as force by the sole and exclusive authority to open and shut. Our Saviour, therefore, has upon a similar occasion made use of a like manner of expression, Matt. 16:19 and in Rev. 3:7 has applied to himself the very words of the prophet.

“23. A nail. In ancient times and in the Eastern countries the houses were much more simple than ours at present. They had not that quantity and variety of furniture, nor those accommodations of all sorts, with which we abound. It was convenient and even necessary for them, and it made an essential part in the building of a house, to furnish the inside of the several apartments with sets of spikes, nails, or large pegs, upon which to dispose of and hang up the several movables and utensils in common use. These spikes they worked into the walls at the first erection of them, the walls being of such materials that they could not bear their being driven in afterwards; and they were contrived so as to strengthen the walls by binding the parts together, as well as to serve for convenience ... upon pins worked into the walls on purpose, as above mentioned, Eliakim is considered as a principal stake of this sort, immovably fastened in the wall for the support of all vessels destined for common or sacred uses; that is, as the principal support of the whole civil and ecclesiastical polity. And the consequence of his continued power will be promotion and flourishing condition of his family and dependents, from the highest to the lowest.”

Amazingly, very few have addressed the subject of “the key of David”; including Identity teachers for the most part. Of all the Identity teachers, one would think that Howard B. Rand would have presented something on it, as he wrote much concerning the importance of the House of David. I have in my library most all of his works, but when checking his Index Of Scriptural Texts, he skips over Isaiah 22 consistently. Therefore, the references which I am quoting are quite rare. The following material on this passage is from the Commentary On The Whole Bible by Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, page 536:

“22. key — emblem of his office over the house to ‘open’ or ‘shut’; access rested with him.  upon ... shoulder — So keys are carried sometimes in the East hanging from the kerchief on the shoulder. But the phrase is rather figurative for sustaining the government on one’s shoulders ... 23. nail ... sure place — Large nails or pegs stood in ancient houses on which were suspended the ornaments of the family. The sense is: all that is valuable to the nation shall rest securely on him. In Ezra 9:8 ‘nail’ is used of the large spike driven into the ground to fasten the cords of the tent to. throne — resting-place to his family, as applied to Messiah, the antitype (Luke 1:32, 33). 24. Same image as in vs. 23. It was customary to ‘hang’ the valuables of the house on nails (1 Kings 10:16, 17, 21; Song of Solomon 4:4). offspring and the issue — rather, ‘the offshoots of the family, high and low’ [Vitringa]. Eliakim would reflect honor even on the latter. vessels of cups — of small capacity: answering to the low and humble offshoots. vessels of flagons — larger vessels: answering to the high offshoots.”

I didn’t finish this quotation, as they only pointed to Shebna as the one to be “cut down.” If one will read Isaiah 22: 15-25 very carefully, one will discover that both Shebna and Eliakim would ultimately fall; Shebna immediately and Eliakim “in that day.” When the phrase “in that day” is used, it is usually speaking far in the future. We cannot compare Eliakim entirely to Messiah, as after His return, He will never fall. Many commentators have problems with the term sure place in verse 25, as they seem to want to apply it to Yahshua rather than the British Throne. Since they are blind to Israel’s identity, their misapplication is understandable. The Wycliffe Bible Commentary, page 625, explains Eliakim’s dignity quite well:

“22, 23. The key of the house of David refers to the position of high trust and influence Eliakim was to enjoy as Hezekiah’s prime minister (Hezekiah being of David’s dynasty). His position would be as secure as that of a nail or large peg built into the wall of a house, and his glory and prosperity would be passed on to his family and descendants.”

From this we see that not only the House of David was to endure, but also the House of Eliakim although Eliakim’s house would eventually, at some future time, fail. It would appear that Eliakim and his house may have endured for nearly 2500 years. That would be an intriguing thing to track down.

For another interesting comment concerning Shebna, I will quote a footnote on page 1045 from The King James Study Bible, published by Thomas Nelson, ©1988: “[Isaiah] 22:15-25. Shebna is referred to as the treasurer and apparently was the leader of the pro-Egyptian faction in Jerusalem. Thinking his position was secure, he had already ordered a large sepulcher (tomb) to be raised in his memory. Instead, Isaiah predicts that he will soon be demoted and will eventually die a pauper in a foreign country. Shebna was replaced by Eliakim during the reign of Hezekiah, as indicated in 2 Kings 18:18. The key of the house of David refers to the responsibility of protecting the Davidic line.” [emphasis. mine]

For an additional witness, we will use The International Bible Commentary, by F. F. Bruce, page 736:

“No doubt this action typified the man’s [Shebna’s] whole attitude in a self-centered heedlessness of the plight of his country and his fellow-citizens. Isaiah only mentions the tomb in order to emphasize how useless it will be; for God’s plan is that Shebna will die in exile, far from his chosen burial place (18). Before his death, he will suffer the indignity of demotion from the high post of being in charge of the palace, i.e. comptroller of the palace.

“The vivid comparison of Shebna to a ball (18) is matched by that of Eliakim (20), his successor, to a peg (23) in a wall; Shebna can swiftly be uprooted, but Eliakim will be firmly established in the same office. The importance of the post is indicated, indeed emphasized, by the description of its authority in v. 22 (a verse which provides the basis for Rev. 3:7).”

 

OPENING AND SHUTTING

 

Revelation 3:7 says: “And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth.”

Above all my various Bible commentaries, The Jamieson, Fausset & Brown Commentary On The Whole Bible has the best interpretation on both this verse and Matt. 16:19 concerning “the key of David.” I like their adeptness in pointing out that after both Shebna and Eliakim have failed, then Yahshua the Messiah will supplant them at their position. Please note this as you carefully read their depiction, page 1538:

“he that hath the key of David — the antitype of Eliakim, to whom the ‘key’, the emblem of authority ‘over the house of David’, was transferred from Shebna, who was removed from office of chamberlain or treasurer, as unworthy of it. Christ, the Heir of the throne of David shall supplant all the less worthy stewards who have abused their trust in God’s spiritual [actually physical] house and ‘shall reign over the house of Jacob’, literal and spiritual (Luke 1:32, 33), ‘forever’, ‘as Sons over His own house’ (Heb. 3:2-6). It rests with Christ to open or shut the heavenly palace, deciding who is, and who is not, to be admitted: as He also opens, or shuts the prison, having the keys of hell (the grave) and death (ch. 1:18) ... Though ‘the synagogue of Satan’ false ‘Jews’ (vs. 9) try to ‘shut’ the ‘door’ which I ‘set open before thee’; ‘no man can shut it’.” [brackets and emphasis mine]

Let’s now see what this same commentary says concerning Matt. 16:19, on page 931: “And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven — the kingdom of God about to be set up on earth — and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven — Whatever this means, it was soon expressly extended to all the apostles (ch. 18:18); so that the claim of supreme authority in the Church, made for Peter by the Church of Rome, and then arrogated to themselves by the popes as the ‘legitimate successors of St. Peter’, is baseless and impudent. As first in confessing Christ, Peter got this commission before the rest; and with these ‘keys’ on the day of Pentecost, he first ‘opened the door of faith’ to the Jews [true Judeans], and then, in the person of Cornelius, he honored to do the same to the Gentiles [Israelite nations]. Hence, in the lists of the apostles, Peter is always first named. See on ch 18:18. One thing is clear, that not in all the New Testament is there the vestige of any authority either claimed or exercised by Peter, or conceded to him, above the rest of the apostles — a thing conclusive against the Romish claims in behalf of that apostle.” [brackets mine]

 

DOOR SLAMMED SHUT ON THE FALSE “JEWS”

 

Messiah really locked the door tight, never to be opened for the impostor “Jews”, Matthew 21:43. I must point out: I am not talking about the pureblooded members of the Tribe of Judah, but the mongrel descendants of Cain and Esau along with other non-Israelite mixtures: “Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.”

Additionally, our Savior placed an everlasting curse on that proselytized, racially-mixed nation, Matthew 21:19: “And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever.”

Furthermore, while Jeremiah prophesied that the House of Israel would be reworked by the “potter” (Jeremiah 18:6), yet he proclaimed that Judah and Jerusalem would become a broken bottle, never to be made whole again, Jeremiah 19:10-11: “10 Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee. 11 And shalt say unto them, Thus saith Yahweh of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaketh a potter’s vessel, that cannot be made whole again ...” Thus, that present-day so-called nation of Israeli will never become a homeland for the Zionist “Jews.” When Yahweh breaks something, it stays broken. It’s like Humpty Dumpty on the wall that had a great fall, and all the king’s horses and all the king’s men will never put that bad-fig cursed nation back together again. And all of those television fundamentalist preachers can proclaim the “Jews are God’s chosen people”, and that the migration of those misfits back into Palestine is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy, until they are blue in the face, and it’s not going to change a thing! The Israelis have tanks costing several million dollars a copy on their side fighting against stone-throwing teenagers and boys, and Israelis can’t win, and they never will.

Messiah proclaimed this against those false “Jews”, Luke 19:27: “But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.” The reason today’s Zionist “Jews” want Palestine and Jerusalem is another attempt , like Shebna, to usurp the throne and the “key of David.”

 

DOOR OPENED ONLY TO THE TRUE ISRAEL SHEEP

 

The false “Jews” are goats and the true Israelites are His sheep. The door has been slammed shut to the “Jews”, and opened wide to His true Israel sheep. No other but the sheep need apply, as it is a closed corporation. Messiah told the false “Jews”, John 10:26-27: “26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you. 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”

In Matthew 15:24, our Savior stipulated the specific purpose of His Mission: “But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”

At Amos 3:2, Yahweh proclaimed to Israel: “You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

Further, we are told in Deuteronomy 7:6: “For thou art an holy [set apart] people into Yahweh thy El: Yahweh thy El hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.”

After the Almighty divorced Israel, putting her away and punishing her, in the New Testament at 1 Peter 2:9 we read: “But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people, that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were no people but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy but now you have received mercy.” RSV

These passages should give us an idea to what doors “the key of David” open and shut. No matter how hard some prostitute churchianity ministers try to open the “door” of Israel’s Redemption to other races, they will fail in their effort.

 

INTERPRETER’S BIBLE ALMOST GETS REV. 3:7-9 CORRECT

 

Because this 12 volume work was put together by many contributors, occasionally someone among them was of considerable ability. Although not entirely accurate, the editor on Rev. 2:9; 3:9 did quite well in commenting on pages 394 & 383:

“The Jews, who are really not Jews [Judah], are condemned again as the synagogue [assembly] of Satan, as in 2:9. For the author, the true Israel are the Christians, whom Paul considered the spiritual descendants of Abraham (Gal. 3:7), and not the Jews, a theme which John develops throughout his book. This came to be a familiar feature of Christian apologetic. The anti-Semitism of this letter is more marked, if possible, than that of the letter to Smyrna, for John adds that Christ will make the Jews come and bow down (RSV) or worship (KJV) at the feet of the Christians. In this context bow down is too weak a translation and worship too strong; ‘do homage’ (Moffatt) is better than either, but possibly ‘prostrate themselves’ is the best rendering here ... In view of the competition between synagogue and church, coupled with the Christian’s claim that they were the true Israel, it is not surprising, even though the Christians slandered them ... Nor is it surprising ... that Christians returned this hostility and developed a considerable amount of anti-Semitism so that the Jews of Smyrna are called a synagogue of Satan. We are reminded of a similar attitude in words ... attributed to Jesus, ‘You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires’ (Jspan style=ohn 8:44). For the author of Revelation there can be no salvation for these Jews who are on Satan’s side in the conflict.”

Had the commentator used both the words “physical” and “spiritual” descendants of Abraham, he would have been more correct. Also, concerning the idea of the Jews “bowing down” to us — it has never happened, and will probably come about only when they are exposed as counterfeit Israelites, just before they are slain. Genetically, all the “Jews” are on Satan’s side.

 

TELEVISION NEWS FLASH

 

As I was in the process of preparing this lesson today, June 26, 2002, there was a special news segment on the Fox News channel at 9:50 A.M. concerning a topic which they dubbed “Wonder Boy.” It was a segment about a boy from Kazakhstan in Russia, a region in central Asia, NE of the Caspian Sea, west of China. If you happened to catch that short portion of news, you can verify what I am about to relate. In my opinion, “Wonder Boy” is an excellent exhibit of a throwback of certain men to the animal stage. In fact the doctor, which the commentator was interviewing called people like him “monkey men.” Further, they used the term “genetic mutation” in describing him. Asked if he would grow out of this condition, the doctor indicated the condition would “persist” throughout adulthood. He mentioned using hair laser treatment to get rid of the excessive amount of hair. The doctor also mentioned there were other examples like him in Mexico; citing a father and son in that category. The best description I could give of what I observed of “Wonder Boy” is that he appeared to be a cross between a Mongolian male and a chimpanzee ape, or possibly a capuchin monkey.

We are told in the Testament of Reuben 2:18-19, in The Lost Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden, page 223: “For thus they allured the Watchers who were before the flood; for as these continually beheld them, they lusted after them, and they conceived the act in their mind; for they changed themselves into the shape of men, and appeared to them when they were with their husbands. And the women lusting in their minds after their forms, gave birth to giants, for the Watchers appeared to them as reaching even unto heaven.”

The Book Of Enoch, 7:1-2 says: “It happened after the sons of men had multiplied in those days, that daughters were born to them, elegant and beautiful (Gen. 6:1-2). And when the angels, the sons of heaven, beheld them, they became enamored of them, saying to each other: Come, let us select for ourselves wives from the progeny of men, and let us beget children.”

In The Book Of Jasher 4:18 it says: “And their judges and rulers went to the daughters of men and took their wives by force from their husbands according to their choice, and the sons of men in those days took from the cattle of the earth, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and taught the mixture of animals of one species with the other, in order therewith to provoke the Lord; and God saw the whole earth and it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its ways upon earth, all men and all animals.”

Enoch 68:5 “The name of the second is Kesabel, who pointed out evil counsel to the sons of the holy angels, and induced them to corrupt their bodies by generating mankind.”

Jude 6 says: “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” [cross-referenced to 1 Enoch 53]

The reason I quoted all these passages is to show you, if an angel can change himself into the shape of men and procreate with Adamite women, undoubtedly he could also change his shape into an ape or monkey and procreate with them. The passage from Jasher almost spells that out; especially the last phrase. I lean to the idea that Yahweh never created the other races, but they are the result of angel-animal unions. I know there are many in Identity teaching a sixth and eighth day creation, of which I will not be contentious. They suggest the other races were created during the sixth eon, and Adam during eighth eon. My own personal feeling is: the other races are genetic misfits never created by Yahweh. If what I surmise is correct, Yahweh never classified them as “kind after kind”, and that they were “good.” Presently, I hope they will publish this “monkey-man” in color and very sharp focus, perhaps in the National Geographic, so you may view him also. Should they do so, their angle will probably be to promote evolution.

CORRECTION: I must also point out that my mind played a trick on me when I was putting together Special Notice To All Who Deny Two Seedline, #16. In the last column, I indicated that Nebuchadnezzar had killed Zedekiah’s seventy sons. I had inadvertently recalled the incident of Jehu killing Ahab’s seventy sons. How many sons Zedekiah had, I am not certain. On your copy, you might cross out the word “seventy.” Also, since doing Special Notice #16, I have discovered more information on the Elephantine papyri, and have rewritten the last paragraph in #16. In Special Notice #17, I will rectify certain elements concerning the Elephantine colony of “Jews.” If you would like some reworked #16s, please send a SASE.

 

BEWARE OF DECEPTION!

 

I must again repeat the warning concerning the book Son Placing, by Garrison R. Russell. This man’s entire thesis is based on John 3:3. By establishing a faulty premise on that verse, he fabricates many erroneous conclusions. On pages 28-29 he says the following:

“The process of spiritual birth takes place in two steps. The first step is your physical, Adamic birth. After your physical conception, gestation, and birth, you become a son of Adam. After this first step, you must complete a second step. This second step is a spiritual birth. Verly, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

How then, does Russell sidestep Luke 3:38 which says: “... Adam, which was the son of God.” His false premise is, at birth, we are only sons of Adam. Surely, if Adam was the “son of God”, we being sons of Adam would make us “sons of Yahweh” also. What kind of hocus-pocus slight-of-hand is Russell trying to contrive here? With this inaccurate statement, one can begin to see that Garrison R. Russell hasn’t the slightest clue what John 3:3 is all about. From this point on, his book goes from bad to worse. The word translated “again” (#509), in the KJV, should have been “above.” This is indisputable proof showing Russell never checked the Greek meanings. As Emmanuel was also “born from above” (John 3:31) when He was born in the flesh, it is not a “two step process.” In other words, there are some born from above (like we White people) and others who are born of the “earth, earthy” (like the “Jews” and the other races). That is what Yahshua meant when He told the impostor “Jews”, John 8:23: “Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.” And, if you’re a pureblooded Adamite, you are not of this world either.

Let’s now take a look to see what Yahshua was really telling Nicodemus. The word “born”, as used in John 3:3, is #1080 in the Strong’s Greek dictionary. The Complete Word Study Dictionary New Testament, by Spiros Zodhiates, on #1080 says: “... gennáo, ... from génos (1085), generation, kind, offspring. To beget as spoken of men; to bear as spoken of women; pass., to be begotten or be born.” As we are directed to #1085, Zodhiates says: “... génos; neut. noun from ... (1096), to become ... Offspring, posterity ... Family, lineage, stock ...” One can also verify this with Strong’s, but it is necessary to follow-through from #1080 to 1085. Therefore, the main thrust of John 3:3 is: you must be born of the correct race; the heavenly White race. If we are a descendant of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, we are a “son/daughter” and under that Covenant. Russell entirely dismisses the Biblical fact of the Covenant and brushes it aside as meaning nothing.

 

RUSSELL  CLAIMS  MESSIAH  WAS  BORN  SPIRITUALLY  DEAD

 

This is what he said on page 288: “At the end of his gestation, Jesus Christ was ready for his spiritual birth. Spiritual birth involves the death of the physical body and the resurrection of the spirit ... Jesus Christ accomplished this at Calvary’s cross.” This is sheer blasphemy and tantamount to the congenital lying impostor “Jews.”

Today it is quite well known that conception requires 46 chromosomes. As Mary could by nature supply only 23 chromosomes, the other 23 chromosomes for the conception of Emmanuel would of necessity have come from the Almighty. Further, every cell that developed making up this Man was divided half and half in that manner. By this criteria, every cell in Yahshua’s body was half Yahweh El and half Adam man. Russell is implying that the half that belonged to Yahweh was “spiritually dead.” In other words, Russell, like the “Jews”, is proclaiming: “God Is dead”! To deny that Yahshua was Yahweh in the flesh is “antichrist”, 1 John 4:3; 2 John 7. Russell claims unreservedly that when Messiah was born He was “spiritually dead”, and needed to be born of the Spirit, page 643:

“Jesus became the physical Son of God when he was born from Mary. But he did not become a ‘spiritually begotten’ Son until his resurrection.”

What is Russell going to do with John 1:14? That verse says: “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us ... full of grace and truth.” Thus, Russell, wittingly or unwittingly, makes himself a deceiving “antichrist.” It’s your prerogative should you follow his teachings, but Galatians 1:9 says: “As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.”

In prophecy, Russell teaches a “future” Millennium. On page 717, in a time chart, he has the attack of Gog and Magog on America a thousand years beyond our time, while we are now in immediate danger. The timing of that attack is revealed to us, for in Ezekiel 39:7 we read: “So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.”

If the attack of Gog and Magog is a thousand years distant, then according to the context of this passage, so, too, is the Second Advent. Are we to believe our Savior will not make Himself and His name known until a thousand years after His Second Advent? If such a thing is true, how much more hell must we endure ahead of us. If we have to wait another thousand years, there won’t be any White Israelite people left for Him to come back to. Again, if such a scenario is correct, then we are going to have to put up with all these foreigners in our Israel-lands for another thousand years. I would highly recommend that Russell scrap his Son Placing book and find another field of endeavor! Reportedly, when Russell was faced up with the two seeds of Genesis 3:15, he replied: “Oh, we’re beyond that!”

Garrison R. Russell’s book Son Placing has a date of 1998. Then, in 1999 he wrote another entitled The Book Of Isaiah, continuing more of his convoluted disarray of Scripture. Russell’s doctrines have C. I. Scofield written all over them. He uses the same theory of dispensationalism as that of the futurists, dividing the time since Adam into six equal 1000 year periods. Had he checked the Patriarchal chronology in the Septuagint text (LXX), he would have found an additional 1468 years to account for, bringing us approximately to 7473 since Adam. If Russell’s supposition is true, and the LXX chronology is correct, we are now already 473 years past such a Millennium. According to that theory, the Millennium should have started in 473 A.D., and ended 1473 A.D. In his book on Isaiah, he speaks of “The Coming of Christ; The Battle of Armageddon; The Millennium; and The Battle of Gog and Magog.” If Ezekiel 39:7 is correct, that Messiah is not going to reveal Himself until the battle of Gog and Magog, how does one squeeze 1000 years between those two events? It is very difficult to believe that we could live 1000 years with Him and He wouldn’t reveal to us His true name. Additionally, that condemns us to have to contend with the heathen races for another 1000 years. If one observes the last 50 years of multiculturalism, how are we going to survive another 1000 years? Yet this is what Russell would like us to believe. I still contend the threat of Gog and Magog is now, not a thousand years from now!!! Most people believing in a future Millennium, when confronted with this fact, will usually retort: “Oh, it’s going to happen two times.” That position is also very difficult to confirm by Scripture, and insinuates the Almighty can’t do it right the first time.

The Book of Enoch prophesied there would be people like this writing books; Enoch 104:7-9: “7 Now will I point out a mystery: Many sinners shall turn and transgress against the word of uprightness. 8 They shall speak evil things; they shall utter falsehood; create a great creation; and compose books in their own words. But when they shall write all my words correctly in their own languages, 9 They shall neither change nor diminish them; but shall write them all correctly; all which from the first I have uttered concerning them.” It’s not a matter of quoting correctly, but how they are manipulated and twisted out of shape after they are quoted.

This is my fifty-third monthly teaching letter and continues my fifth year of publication. In Watchman’s Teaching Letters #49 and #50, we started a walk-through of Daniel’s prophecies. The purpose for doing that was to counter many of the irrational ideas some have concerning both the book of Daniel and Revelation. Many in the past have tried to push all these prophecies either into the far distant future or into the remote past for various religious, political or monetary reasons. Those who project these prophecies into the future are termed “Futurists”, and those who contrive them to be in the past are dubbed “Preterists.” While there are some prophecies yet to be fulfilled in the future, and many already fulfilled in the past, the proper interpretation for these books should be “Historical.” There is little disagreement that Daniel’s prophecies were “Historical” in nature. Therefore, the prophecies of Daniel, which overlap Revelation, must also be “Historical.” Once we comprehensively cover Daniel’s prophecies, we will discover that “overlap” is greater than we might have anticipated. As we explore Daniel ch. 7, we will see it is much the same as ch. 2, as we covered in lessons #49 & #50, except toward the final phase, where it will open into an entirely different and important area of study. At the beginning of ch. 7, we will be dealing again with the same empires that we considered in ch. 2: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece & Rome. But instead of an image of diminishing metals, the empires will be depicted as animals. The important subject we are going to encounter in ch. 7 is the much disputed “little horn”, which in fact is only one of two. With this lesson, we will examine Daniel chapter 7, and in future lessons, we will need to deliberate on chapters 8 and 9. To get started with this one, we will look into an aspect of Daniel which is rarely adequately addressed:

 

THE TWO “LITTLE HORNS” OF DANIEL

 

The two “little horns” of Daniel are the source of much confusion in interpreting his prophecies. The “little horn” of Dan. 7:8 is not the same “little horn” of Dan. 8:9. Some say the “little horn” of Dan. 8:9 is Antiochus Epiphanes, but we will save that misguided assumption until we consider Daniel chapter 8. With this presentation we will deal only with the “little horn” of Dan. 7:8. Actually, Daniel chapter 7 is parallel to chapter 2, which we have already covered. And like chapter 2, chapter 7 addresses the four empires of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome, but from a different perspective. With this presentation, we will read a few verses at a time and then make comment. I will be using the following Bible commentaries: 1.- Bible Knowledge Com. 2.- Believer’s Bib. Com. 3.- Clarke’s Bib. Com. 4.- Wycliffe Bib. Com. 5.- Jamieson, Fausset & Brown Bib. Com. 6.- International Bib. Com., and 7.- Matthew Poole’s Bib. Com.

Daniel 7:1-4: “1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. 2 Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.”

Bible Knowledge, vol. 1, p. 1349: The vision recorded by the Prophet Daniel in this chapter was revealed to him in the first year of Belshazzar’s reign, 553 B.C., when Belshazzar was made co-regent with Nabonidus. Daniel’s dream predated by 14 years his experience in the lions’ den (chap. 6) which occurred in or soon after 539. When the dream came Daniel was about 68 years of age, for he was taken captive (at about the age of 16) 52 years earlier in 605 B.C.

Bible Knowledge, vol. 1 p. 1350: Throughout the Old Testament, the Mediterranean Sea is referred to as the Great Sea, (Num. 34:6-7; Josh, 1:4; 9:1; 15:12, 47; 23:4; Ezek. 47:10, 15, 20; 48:28). This vision then relates specifically to the Mediterranean world. Wycliffe, p. 789: Four great beasts came up from the sea. Hence, the beasts, later described, are connected with the Mediterranean area. Likewise, as the prophetic symbolical use of “sea” indicates, they arise with turmoil, unrest, boisterous talk, etc. Jamieson, et al, p. 746: Tregelles takes “the great sea” to mean as always elsewhere in Scripture (Josh. 1:4; 9:1), the Mediterranean, the center territorially of the four kingdoms of the vision, which all border on it, and have Jerusalem subject to them. Babylon did not border on the Mediterranean, nor rule Jerusalem, till Nebuchadnezzar’s time, when both things took place simultaneously. Persia encircled more of the sea, viz., from the Hellespont to Cyene. Greece did not become a monarchy before Alexander’s time, but then, succeeding to Persia, it became mistress of Jerusalem. It surrounded still more of the Mediterranean, adding the coasts of Greece to the part held by Persia. Rome, under Augustus, realized three things at once — it became a monarchy; it became mistress of the last of the four parts of Alexander’s empire (symbolized by the four heads of the third beast), and of Jerusalem; it surrounded all the Mediterranean.

Wycliffe, p. 789: The lion symbolizes Babylon here and also in Jer. 4:6, 7. The eagle’s wings speak of swiftness, as the lion of strength. These are natural symbols scarcely needing explanation (cf. 2 Sam. 1:23; Jer. 49:19-22; Ezk. 17:3-24). Poole’s, vol. 2, p. 830: Lion and eagle; one the king of beasts, the other the king of birds, for which he is called the golden head, as Dan. 2:32, 38. This was the Chaldean or Assyrian; whose seat was first at Babylon, after Nineveh, and then at Babylon again. Poole’s, vol. 2, p. 830: The wings thereof were plucked; which was first in stopping the career of their victories, and after in casting them out of their kingdom, the nation was not destroyed, but their monarchy. Jamieson et al, p. 746: But after he learned by this sore discipline that “the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men” (ch. 4:35, 36), the change took place in him, “a man’s heart is given him; instead of his former beast’s heart, he attains man’s true position.” Bible Knowledge, vol. 1, p. 1350: The lion’s rising up on two feet (its hind legs) made it look more like a man. The fact that it got a man’s heart suggests that the animal lost its beastly nature and showed compassion. [here man = enash, #606]

“5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.”

Believer’s, p. 1083: The bear pictures Medo-Persia. The Persian section was raised up to greater importance than the Median. The three ribs which it held in its mouth perhaps represent the three sections of the Babylonian Empire which were sacked by the Medes and Persians under Cyrus — Babylon in the east; Egypt in the south; and the Lydian kingdom in Asia Minor. Poole’s, vol. 2, p. 831: Another beast, viz. the Medes and Persians, a fierce, grim ravenous creature, and barbarously cruel, especially the mountainous part, as of Caucasus, Armenia, and Media by the Caspian Sea near the Tartars, and that which borders upon the Mogul, the Usbecks, and the Sasbuts; read Isa. 13:17, 18; Jer. 51:48, 53, called spoilers. See Jer. 51:11 &c. Thus God sent in the northern bears upon Babylon to devour flesh. See how God calls them against Babylon, Jer. 51:20-23, 27, 28; he reckons Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenaz, and the Medes, i.e. Armenia, Parthia, Hyrcania &c., the rough northern hungry bears. On one side, i.e. the north side; for the Medes first arose and sent to Cyrus the Persian to come in and assist him against the Assyrian, and made him general. It had three ribs in the mouth of it: several of the Babylonian subjects revolted from the Babylonian, (and all these made the three ribs,) as the Hyrcanians, and Gobrias. Wycliffe, p. 789: The bear is an apt symbol of the Medo-Persian kingdom. Strength and ferocity figure in almost every Biblical use of the bear. The ponderous bulk fits the massive Persian armies. Xerxes is said to have moved two and one-half million men to attack Greece. Jamieson et al, p. 746: bear — symbolizing the austere life of the Persians in their mountains, also their cruelty (Isa. 13:17, 18; Cambyses, Ochus, and other of the Persian princes were notoriously cruel; the Persian laws involved for one man’s offense, the whole kindred and neighbor hood in destruction, ch 6:24) and rapacity. “A bear is an all-devouring animal” ... raised ... itself on one side — but the Hebrew, “It raised up one dominion.” The Medes, an ancient people, and the Persians, a modern tribe, formed one united sovereignty in contrast to the third and fourth kingdoms, each originally one, afterwards divided. English Version is the result of a slight change of a Hebrew letter. The idea then would be, “It lay on one of its fore feet, and stood on the other”; a figure still to be seen on one of the stones of Babylon (Munter, Relig. Babyl., 112); denoting a kingdom that had been at rest, but is now rousing itself for conquest. Media is the lower side, passiveness; Persia, the upper active element [Auberlen].

“6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.”

Believer’s, p.1083: The leopard is a type of Greece. Its four wings of a bird speak of the rapid expansion of the Grecian Empire. Four is the number of the world. Wings speak of speed. Within thirteen years Alexander conquered the world, marching as far east as India. Then died at thirty-three — empty handed. The leopard’s four heads apparently set forth the division of the empire to four of Alexander’s generals after his death.

Clarke’s, p. 698:  Another, like a leopard ... four wings ... four heads. This was the Macedonian or Greek empire, and Alexander the Great its king. Four wings of a fowl. The Babylonian empire was represented with two wings; and they sufficiently marked the rapidity of Nebuchadnezzar’s conquests. But the Macedonian has here four wings; for nothing in the history of the world, was equal to the conquests of Alexander, who ran through all the countries from Illyricum and the Adriatic Sea to the Indian Ocean and the River Ganges; and in twelve years subdued part of Europe and all Asia. The beast had also four heads. Signifying the empire after the death of Alexander, divided between his four generals: Cassander reigning over Macedon and Greece; Lysimachus, over Thrace and Bithynia; Ptolemy, over Egypt; and Seleucus, over Syria. Dominion was given to it. It was not owing to the skill, courage, or valor of Alexander and his troops that he made those wondrous conquests; the nations were given to him. For, as Bishop Newton says, had he not been assisted by the mighty power of God, how could he, with only 30,000 men, have overcome Darius with 600,000; and in so short a time have brought the countries from Greece as far as India into subjection?

“7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns. 8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots: and behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.”

 

IT’S AT THIS POINT THE COMMENTARIES GO ASTRAY

 

In the mainstream, most commentaries identify the “fourth beast” as being the Roman Empire. Because they are blind to the fact that the Israelites are the Anglo-Saxon and related peoples, they depart from their well-founded understanding of Daniel’s prophecy, and venture into several confused directions. Other than his incorrect remark about Antiochus Epiphanes, Matthew Poole, vol. 2, page 831, is less biased:

“Daniel considered, and this calls upon us to consider the matter. Another little horn: some will have the Turk meant; others, before him, Antiochus Epiphanes; others Julius Cæsar; others antichrist. It is certain the horn that riseth out of the he-goat is Antiochus, Dan. 8:9-12, but the horn here mentioned riseth out of the fourth beast, or under him ...”

With this in mind, I will use such commentary as I can without getting on the subject of the “little horn.”

Poole’s, vol. 2, p. 831: A fourth beast: this was the Roman empire; for that followed the Grecian, and was monstrous as to his rise and progress. Stamped the residue with the feet of it. As to the variety and cruelty of the government, it made use not only of Italians, but Spaniards, Gauls, Germans, Britons, which made their armies hardy and hard as iron, which broke in pieces the gold, silver, and brass. But it is plain this is the last kingdom of the four, that was to be destroyed by Christ’s kingdom ...

Bible Knowledge, vol. 1, p. 1350: Daniel now described a fourth beast. Instead of likening it to some known animal Daniel simply called it a beast. Apparently it was a mongrel composed of parts of a lion, bear, and leopard ... This fourth beast was more terrifying and powerful than the three preceding beasts, which were all ferocious and destructive. This beast had large iron teeth with which it was able to crush and devour its prey. The empire represented by this mongrel beast had crushed and assimilated into itself the three previous empires by the lion, the bear, and the leopard (it trampled underfoot whatever was left; cf. Dan. 7:19).

To sum up what we have learned from these Bible commentaries, we have found the four beast-empires which Daniel was prophesying about centered around the Mediterranean Sea. Therefore, chapters 2 and 7 can only primarily be: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece & Rome. But, in a secondary sense, they can represent the religious, political, monetary & racial aspects those empires projected, in some cases up to our present day. That being said, the Roman Empire will never be reestablished as many “Futurists” claim. The Futurists’ problem is, they are unable or unwilling to see that many of the primary aspects of Daniel’s prophecies have already “Historically” happened.

 

ADAM CLARK GETS THE “10 HORNS” RIGHT

 

Out of all my Bible commentaries, only Adam Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible interprets the ten horns of Daniel 7:7 in a correct manner, though he fails to identify them properly and doesn’t do well on the “little horn” of Daniel 7:8, page 698:

“I saw ... a fourth beast ... it had great iron teeth. This is allowed, on all hands, to be the Roman empire. It was dreadful, terrible, and exceeding strong; it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue, that is, the remains of the former kingdoms, with its feet. It reduced Macedon into a Roman province about one hundred and sixty-eight years before Christ; the kingdom of Pergamos, about one hundred and thirty-three years; Syria, about sixty-five; and Egypt, about thirty years before Christ. And, besides the remains of the Macedonian empire, it subdued many other provinces and kingdoms; so that it might, by a very usual figure, be said to devour the whole earth, to tread it down, and break it to pieces; and become in effect, what the Roman writers delight to call it, ‘the empire of the whole world.’ It had ten horns. The ten kingdoms into which the Roman empire was afterwards divided.”

In Watchman’s Teaching Letter #12 for April, 1999, there was presented substantial evidence about the “little horn” of Daniel 7:8. Because about 75% of those on my present mailing list of about 460 never received that lesson, I will repeat 22 paragraphs of that Teaching Letter here. There is a lot of speculation on Daniel 7:8, but we will dispel most of that errant supposition with that previously presented evidence:

With this lesson (#12), we are going to continue the study of Judah. In this study, we will consider a passage that was prophesied by Daniel during the Judean capti/pspan style=letter-spacing: 2.0ptspan style= in contrast to the third and fourth kingdoms, each originally one, afterwards divided. vity in Babylon and see how it affected Judah when it was fulfilled about 1100 years later. This passage is Daniel 7:24-25, which we will read at this time:

24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. 25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”

 

BEFORE WE GET DONE WITH THIS LESSON, WE WILL FIND

WHAT THIS PASSAGE IS, AND WHAT IT IS NOT!

 

First of all, we are going to skip the subject of, “And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise”, as it is a subject all in itself. It would take an entire lesson just to cover it. (As of lessons #49, #50 and the present lesson #53, that “subject” is now being addressed.) The part we are going to concentrate on is: “... and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”

To start this discussion on this passage, I am  going to quote from William V. Fowler’s book, End Time Revelation, page 127:

“To identify the ten horns of the fourth beast which was the Roman Empire, one has but to examine history which records that ten kingdoms arose after A.D. 476 in the western half of the Roman Empire, while the eastern half continued to flourish. History also reveals that Justinian at the head of the Eastern (Roman) Empire at Constantinople subdued three of the ten kingdoms which were established in the western half of the Roman Empire after the fall of Imperial Rome. These were the Vandals whose kingdom had been established in north Africa, the Ostrogoths who had established a kingdom in Italy, and the Alemanian kingdom north of Italy. ‘And he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings’ (verse 24). Justinian, as head of the civil government, united the interest of the church and established the Temporal Power of the Papacy which clearly fulfilled the prophetic little horn by dominating Europe for 1,260 years until curtailed by Napoleon, (538 A.D. to 1,798 A.D.).

“And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws (verse 25). Justinian’s best known work was as a codifier and legislator. He greatly stimulated legal studies, and set up a commission under Tribonian which issued the codex, the digest, and the institutes. (Originally introduced in Dec. 534 A.D., and completed in 538 A.D.). The second edition of the codex contained Justinian’s own laws known as the Novels (Novellae Constitutions). One need only read the utterances of Pope Innocent III in the thirteenth century and his immediate successors to recognize the fulfillment of speaking ‘great words against the Most High.’ Study the history of the Inquisition with its massacres, martyrdoms and every kind of persecution to substantiate this interpretation. (See Halley’s Bible Handbook, chapter on Church History.)”

This is one of the key passages “futurists” use to prove a future so-called Antichrist and a three and one half year period of tribulation, along with the so-called mark of the beast. If our people understood history, they wouldn’t be falling for such nonsense. All that futurist bunk was dreamed up by a Spanish Jesuit by the name of Ribera about 1580 A.D., and no one before that time ever heard of such a doctrine.

The important thing to notice with this passage, is that we are looking for a king of a kingdom who subdued three other kingdoms of our people during his reign. You will also notice we are looking for a king, who, during his reign had a very strong impact upon writing and managing laws. You will notice Justinian fits both of these qualifications. As we go along, the picture of the fulfillment of this passage will start to come into focus. I will now quote from The World Book Encyclopedia, volume 11, page 168 to get further insight on this subject:

“JUSTINIAN I, jus TIN ih un (A.D. 482-565), was the Byzantine (East Roman) emperor from A.D. 527 until his death. He collected Roman laws under one code, the Corpus Juris Civilis (Body of Civil Law). This code, also known as the Justinian Code, is the basis of the legal systems in many nations today ... Justinian was called The Great. He recaptured many parts of what had been the West Roman Empire from barbarians. He built fortresses, harbors, monasteries, and the famous church of Saint Sophia in what is now Istanbul, Turkey.

“Justinian was born in a part of Macedonia that is now in Yugoslavia. His uncle, Emperor Justin I, made him co-ruler in 527. Justin died a few months later, and Justinian became sole emperor. During Justinian’s reign, his wife, Theodora, tried to influence his politics ... Justinian was an orthodox Christian, and tried to unify his empire under one Christian faith. He persecuted Christian heretics (those who opposed church teachings), Jews, and pagans (non-Christians). In 529, he closed the schools of philosophy in Athens, Greece, because he felt they taught paganism.

“In the early 530’s, Justinian began a series of wars against the Vandals, Ostrogoths, and Visigoths, who had conquered most of the West Roman Empire in the 400’s. By the mid-550’s his armies had taken northern Africa, Italy, and parts of Spain ...

“JUSTINIAN CODE. Justinian I, ruler of the eastern Roman Empire from 527 to 565, commanded 10 of the wisest men in his realm to draw up a collection of the Roman laws. This collection is known as the Corpus Juris Civilis, which means Body of Civil Law. Also called the Justinian Code, this body of law is recognized as one of the greatest Roman contributions to civilization. It was a compilation of early Roman laws and legal principles, illustrated by cases, and combined with an explanation of new laws, and future legislation. The code clarified the laws of those times, and has since been a basis for law codes of many countries.

“The scholars who compiled the Justinian Code divided it into four parts. The Institutes served as a textbook in law for students and lawyers. The Digest was a casebook covering many trials and decisions. The Codex was a collection of statutes and principles. The Novels contained proposed new laws.”

You will notice in both of these quotes, three kingdoms were taken by Justinian. William V. Fowler records them the same as The World Book Encyclopedia except for the Alemanian which The World Book Encyclopedia calls the Visigoths. The Alemanni and Visigoths are different tribes of the same people, so there is no problem here. Justinian was corrupting the church and the state with his law code, so we will not completely understand this passage unless we look further. To see how all of this happened, I will quote from the book, Study in Daniel, by Howard B. Rand, pages 182 and 183:

“Having discovered the identity of the four beasts; let us now note the meaning of the little horn which Daniel saw arise from among the ten horns on the fourth beast. The ten horns represent subdivisions in the Roman Empire:

“The little horn that arose among the ten, which was diversified from them, pulling up three, is none other than Justinian at the head of the Eastern [Roman] Empire at Constantinople. History reveals that he subdued three of the ten kingdoms which were established in the Roman Empire after the fall of Imperial Rome. These were the Vandals whose kingdom had been established in north Africa, The Ostrogoths who had established a kingdom in Italy and the Alemannian Kingdom north of Italy. In the eyes and the mouth that appear in this little horn we have a new power associated with the rule of the little horn. In fact, this power became the eyes and mouth of the civil and economic activities of the government represented in the little horn. Justinian, as head of the civil government, and the Pope, as the head of the Church, united their interest and Church and State became one. Finally the Pope became the director of both Church and State and ruled as a great politico-ecclesiastical potentate. One needs but read the utterances of past Popes to recognize the fulfillment of speaking ‘great words against the most High’ as prophesied by Daniel.” [emphasis mine]

Again, I will take you to Watchman’s Teaching Letter #12 of April, 1999 to show you the connection between Justinian and the popes of the Roman Catholic Church. This is an interesting perception, for the popes gained their state-political authority by Justinian’s Law Code.

What we are talking about here is an ecclesiastical-political power with the combination of Justinian and the Pope. That is why this new ecclesiastic-political beast is diverse from all the beasts that were before it, Daniel 7:7. I will now quote from Howard B. Rand’s book, Study In Revelation, page 44:

“Upon the ruins of the ancient Roman Empire there arose, gradually, a new and different type of Empire, which became all the more powerful because it claimed control over the souls of men as well as their bodies, and extended its dominion beyond this life into the grave. History has amply verified these facts and that the Popes claimed the right to temporal power, taking the place of the Caesars, while the Eternal City under pagan Rome became the Eternal City under Papal control. How apt is the description of her supporter as named by John, Hell. This is Hades or the abode of the dead, for through the doctrine of Purgatory, the church was able to hold supremacy and exercise tremendous power over her followers not only in this life, but beyond through the fear of future suffering in Purgatory.”

Then quoting on page 49 from this same book: “CHURCH OVER STATE: Pope Agapetus, in a dispute with Justinian the Emperor of the East, won his point and the Emperor yielded to the Pope. The head of the Church had triumphed over the head of the government. This was 536 A.D. A Church council assembled at Constantinople this same year and informed the government, as a servant of the Church, that an edict be issued ordering a decision of the council executed. This was done and thus Church and State became united. Persecutions followed, which the Church dictated and the State supported. One thousand two hundred and sixty years of cruel torture and destruction now followed, resulting in nearly a hundred million dying violent deaths.”

 

538 A.D. TO 1798 A.D. = 1,260 YEARS, NOT 3½ YEARS

 

Let’s go back to our original Scripture of Daniel 7:24-25 and pick up the sentence concerning this period of time: “and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.”

This sentence is used by futurists as a basis for their postulation of a future three and one half year tribulation period, when a so-called Antichrist will set up his kingdom after a so-called rapture. Some futurists call for a seven year tribulation period. As I told you before, the futurist theory was dreamed up by a Spanish Jesuit priest by the name of Ribera, about 1580 A.D., and the teaching had never been heard of before that time. It has a long and sordid history, and I don’t have space here to go into much detail on the subject. But this portion of Scripture quoted immediately above is one of the basic passages they use, out of context, to support their theory. By showing you the true historical meaning of this passage, I hope to drive a nail into the coffin of this doctrine so it will stay dead for a long time. What could be more of a tribulation than 1,260 years and 100,000,000 violent deaths, mostly of our people? Some estimate as low as 60 million, but it is still a lot of people. This is the legacy of Justinian and his law code, along with the Universal Church. [This concludes that portion of Lesson # 12.]

 

EXAMPLE OF LACK OF INSIGHT ON DANIEL 7:20-26

 

Now that we have covered this prophecy of Daniel 7, let’s take a look at some comments from The Bible Knowledge Commentary on this passage found in vol. 1, page 1355. While there are some positive remarks by this source, other statements are deficient, lacking any understanding. As I quote an example here, compare it with the evidence:

“The amillenarian view that the ‘little horn’ has already appeared sometime in the past (but since Christ’s First Advent) is wrong because: (a) no such ruler has attained worldwide status (7:23), (b) no such ruler has subdued 3 of 10 kings who were ruling at once (v. 24), (c) no such ruler has persecuted Israel (v. 21) for three and one-half years (v. 25), and (d) no such ruler has been destroyed forever (v. 26) by Christ’s return. Nor could this ‘little horn’ be the Roman Catholic papacy because: (a) the ‘little horn’ is a king, not a pope, (b) the papacy’s power has not been limited to three and one-half years, (c) the papacy has not concentrated on persecuting the nation Israel, and (d) the papacy has not been destroyed by the return of Christ to the earth.”

The answers to these blatantly false statements by The Bible Knowledge Commentary, edited by John F. Walvoord and Roy B. Zuck of the Dallas Seminary Faculty are: Yes, the “little horn” of Daniel 7:8 did appear in the past, represented by Justinian, and continued through the Roman Catholic papal system! Yes, the “little horn” did attain worldwide status in the prophesied Roman world! Yes, Justinian did subdue 3 out of 10 kings! Yes, the Roman Catholic papal system did persecute Israelites of Anglo-Saxon and European descent! Yes, that prophecy was for a prophetic 3 ½ years, or 1260 actual years! Yes, that papal ruler lost his power in 1798 A.D., and will be totally destroyed at the Second Advent! Yes, the papacy represents the “little horn” of Daniel 7:8! Yes, the papacy’s power did continue for a prophetic 3 ½ years or 1260 actual years! Yes, the papacy did concentrate on persecuting European, Anglo-Saxon and related “Israelites” during that period! And, Yes, while the papacy did lose its ruling power, it will finally be totally destroyed at Messiah’s Second Advent!

How true is Matthew 15:14 and Luke 6:39, that if the blind lead the blind, both will fall in the proverbial ditch. Not only are there blind leaders of the blind in the Jew-deo-unchristian churches, but there are blind leaders of the blind in the Israel Identity movement. A good example of blind leaders leading the blind in Israel Identity are those who deny the Two Seedline message of Genesis 3:15. That puts the responsibility for the truth squarely upon ourselves, for Scripture implores us to “... study to show thyself approved ...”, 2 Timothy 2:15.

This is my fifty-fourth monthly teaching letter and continues my fifth year of publication. In lessons #49 and #50 we studied about Nebuchadnezzar’s dream-image, interpreted by Daniel, concerning the four beast empires of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome. We saw how the great amount of slave-trade caused a mixture of non-assimilable people in the Roman Empire; how the Teutonic German tribes wore down and eventually destroyed Rome; and, the destiny of the two-legged image which represented the western and eastern branches of the Roman Empire. In lesson #53, we discovered the “little horn” of Daniel 7:8 was the Roman papacy. In this lesson we will investigate the “little horn” of Daniel 8:9. To begin, we will read each verse followed by commentary by Adam Clarke. I prefer Clarke, as his comments are somewhat better than the other commentaries on this passage:

Daniel 8:1: “In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.”

“In the third year of the reign of ... Belshazzar. We now come once more to the Hebrew; the Chaldee part of the book being finished. As the Chaldeans had a particular interest in both the history and prophecies from chap. 2:4 to the end of chap. 7, the whole is written in Chaldee. But as the prophecies which remain concern times posterior to the Chaldean monarchy, and principally relate to the church [called-out Assembly; the people of Yahweh specifically], they are written in the Hebrew language, this being the tongue in which God chose to reveal all His counsels given under the Old Testament relative to the New.”

“2 And I saw in a vision; and it came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shushan in the palace, which is in the province of Elam; and I saw in a vision, and I was by the river of Ulai.”

“I saw in a vision. Daniel was at this time in Shushan, which appears to have been a strong place, where the kings of Persia had their summer residence. It was the capital of the province of Elam, which was most probably added to the Chaldean territories by Nebuchadnezzar; see Jer. 49:34-35. Here was Daniel’s ordinary residence; and though here at this time, he, in vision saw himself on the banks of the river Ulai. This is the same as the River Euleus, which divided Shushan or Susiana from Elymais.”

“3 Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.”

“A ram which had two horns. In the former vision there were four beasts, pointing out four empires; in this we have but two, as only two empires are concerned here, viz., the Grecian and the Persian. The Babylonish empire is not mentioned; its fate was before decided, and it was now at its close. By the ram, the empire of the Medes and Persians was pointed out, as explained by the angel Gabriel, v. 20; and particularly Cyrus, who was the founder of that empire. A ram was the symbol of the Persians; and a ram’s head with two horns, one higher than the other, appears as such in different parts of the ruins of Persepolis. This ram had two horns; that is, two kingdoms, viz., Media and Persia; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last. Media, signified by the shorter horn, was the more ancient of the two kingdoms. Persia, the higher horn, had come up but lately, and was of little historic or political consequence till the time of Cyrus. But in the reigns of this prince and his immediate successors, Persia attained a political consequence greatly superior to that possessed at any time by the kingdom of Media; therefore it is said to have been higher, and to have come up last.”

“4 I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great.”

“I saw a ram pushing westward. The Persians, who are signified by the ram, as well as their founder, Cyrus, pushed their conquests west, north, and south. The principal theatre of their wars, says Calmet, was against the Scythians, northward; against the Greeks, westward; and against the Egyptians, southward, He did according to his will. There was no other nation at that time that could stay the progress of the Persian arms.”

“5 And as I was considering, behold, an he goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, and touched not the ground: and the goat had a notable horn between his eyes.”

“Behold an he goat. This was Alexander the Great; and a goat was a very proper symbol of the Grecian or Macedonian people. Came from the west. Europe lies westward of Asia. On the face of the whole earth. Carrying everything before him. Touched not the ground. Seemed to fly from conquest to conquest. By the time Alexander was thirty years of age he had conquered all Asia: and, because of the rapidity of his conquests, he is represented as a leopard with four wings, in the preceding vision.”

“6 And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river, and ran unto him in the fury of his power.”

“And he came to the ram. This and the following verse give an account of the overthrow of the Persian empire by Alexander [who] ran unto him in the fury of his power. The conflicts between the Greeks and the Persians were excessively severe. Alexander first vanquished the generals of Darius, at the river Granicus, in Phrygia; he next attacked and totally routed Darius, at the straits of Issus, in Cilicia; and afterwards at the plains of Arbela, in Assyria.”

“7 And I saw him come close unto the ram, and he was moved with choler against him, and smote the ram, and brake his two horns: and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground and stamped upon him: and there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.”

“And brake his two horns. Subdued Persia and Media; sacked and burnt the royal city of Persepolis, the capital of the Persian empire and, even in its ruins, one of the wonders of the world to the present day. This he did because ‘he was moved with choler’ against Darius, who had endeavored to draw off his captains with bribes, and had labored to induce some of his friends to assassinate him. Alexander, finding this, would listen to no proposal of peace, and was determined never to rest till he had destroyed Darius and his whole empire. In Media, Darius was seized and made prisoner by some of his own treacherous subjects, and afterwards basely murdered. He cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon him. Totally destroyed the family, and overturned the whole monarchy.”

“8 Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.”

“The he goat waxed very ... strong. He had subdued nearly the whole of the then known world. The great horn was broken. Alexander died in the height of his conquests, when he was but about thirty-three years of age. His natural brother, Philip Aridaeus, and his two sons, Alexander Aegus and Heracles, kept up the show and name of the Macedonian kingdom for a time, but they were all murdered within fifteen years; and thus the great horn, the Macedonian kingdom, was broken, Alexander’s family being now cut off. And for it came up four notable ones. The regal family being all dead, the governors of provinces usurped the title of kings; and Antigonus, one of them, being slain at the battle of Ipsus, they were reduced to four, as we have already seen: (1) Seleucus, who had Syria and Babylon, from whom came the Seleucidae, famous in history; (2) Lysimachus, who had Asia Minor; (3) Ptolemy, son of Lagus, who had Egypt; and (4) Cassander, who had Greece and the neighboring countries. These held dominion towards the four winds of heaven. Cassander had the western parts, Lysimachus had the northern regions, Ptolemy possessed the southern countries, and Seleucus had the eastern provinces.”

“9 And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.”

“Out of one of them came forth a little horn. Some think that Antiochus Epiphanes is meant. Toward the pleasant land. Judea, so called in Ps. 106:24; Jer. 3:19; Dan. 11:16, 41.”

It’s with this verse that Adam Clarke loses his insight on this passage. To his credit, he does point out that “some think that Antiochus Epiphanes is meant.” Evidently, he didn’t necessarily agree. As to the comment about the “pleasant land”, we will examine that, before we are through.

“10 And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.”

“The host of heaven. The Jewish hierarchy. The Stars, the priests and Levites. The powers or host of heaven are probably intended by our Lord, Matt. 24:29, to signify the whole Jewish hierarchy.”

Here again, Adam Clarke goes wide of the mark. Rather than being the “whole Jewish hierarchy” when it is speaking of the host of heaven, it is speaking of all the Lost Tribes of Israel. That is the main reason the “little horn” of Daniel 8:9 cannot be Antiochus Epiphanes. This vision of Daniel is much greater, and doesn’t even compare with the incident with him and the Maccabees over the desecration of the Temple.

“11 Yea , he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. 12 And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered. 13 Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How long shall be the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and the host to be trodden under foot? 14 And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.”

“Unto two thousand and three hundred days. Though literally it be 2,300 evenings and mornings, yet I think the prophetic day should be understood here, as in other parts of this prophet, and must signify so many years. If we date these years from the vision of the he-goat (Alexander’s invading Asia) this was 334 B.C.; and 2,300 years from that time will reach to A.D. 1966.”

While Adam Clarke isn’t getting the whole picture, we must give him credit where credit is due. At least, in his purview, he understood Daniel’s days to mean prophetic years, not literal days. Many clergy and laity alike are still making that same error. When we properly understand the time element, we can see how difficult it is to fit Antiochus Epiphanes into the equation. Yet, almost every Bible commentary attempts to do this, and being in the majority doesn’t necessarily make it right.

 

THE “LITTLE HORN” OF DANIEL 8:9 IS MOHAMMED

 

The Identity author William V. Fowler was aware that Mohammed was the “little horn” of Daniel 8:9, and said this on page 131 of his book End Time Revelation:

“In his vision Daniel saw that the little horn ‘waxed exceedingly great toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land’ (v. 9). Arising south of Palestine from beginnings in Arabia, the followers of Mahomet (Mohammed), immediately after his death in 632 A.D. attacked the Persians in the east before entering Palestine and capturing Jerusalem in 637 A.D. Subsequent expansion was rapid, and within a hundred years, the Saracens, as they were called, had acquired an empire extending from India to the Atlantic, including all territories south of [the] Mediterranean and east of Palestine as far as central Asia.

“‘And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them’ (v. 10). As we have seen, the Prince of the host is to be identified with Jesus Christ, so the stars must be the children of Yahvah.

“This prophecy accurately describes the attitude of the Moslems to the Christian communities that remained within their territories. During the ten-year rule of Omar, the second Caliph (634-644), four thousand churches were destroyed, and the Christians were humiliated. As a sign of the degradation they were made to wear clothes of less honorable color, and instead of horses they were made to ride on asses, and while on the streets to give way or bow down before the meanest of people.

“‘He magnified himself even to the prince of the host’ As we have seen, the Prince of the host is Jesus Christ, and this is confirmed by the interpretation which calls Him ‘the Prince of Princes’, a title that can only be given to Jesus Christ. Although Moslems claim to worship the same God as Christians, the Koran ... says that they are infidels who say that Christ is God. Jesus is said to be no more than a servant who was favored with a gift of prophecy, while the Moslem creed declared a belief in God and in Mahomet next after God, as superior to Jesus Christ. The Moslems have clearly magnified themselves against Jesus Christ, the Prince of the Host.

“The time of this king’s appearance was to be during the Christian era ‘when the transgressors are come to the full.’ This prophecy means the transgressions within the Roman church which were predicted of the little horn in chapter 7. Since horns, in prophecy signify kingdoms rather than individual kings, ‘the king of fierce countenance’ probably meant Mahomet and his successors who were called Caliphs. Mahomet gave his followers instructions to propagate his religion by the sword.

“Understanding ‘Dark Sentences’ (v. 23), doubtless refers to the mysteries of the Koran. ‘And his power shall be mighty, but not his own power’ (v. 24) As we saw in the case of Alexander the Great, this expression indicates that his own children would not inherit his power and, in fact, the first Caliphs were elected rulers.

“The last prediction that Daniel makes about the king of fierce countenance is that ‘he shall be broken without hand’ (v. 25). Although many Arab empires, including the vast Ottoman empire, have inexplicably collapsed, this prophecy may still have its ultimate fulfillment at the Second Advent ... because the sanctuary, or temple site at Jerusalem, is still defiled by a Moslem mosque, known as the Dome of the Rock.

“Probably the most important prophecy of this chapter is the time period, 2,300 days (or years) given in verse 14. This prophecy is a future event. It terminates with the climax of the cleansing of the sanctuary, (v. 14), with which the end of this present world order begins and gives way to the New Order of the ages, the Kingdom of Yahveh. ...”

Fowler made a prediction of 1978, but I believe Howard B. Rand has a somewhat better handle on some of the numbers. Rand also identifies the “little horn” of Daniel 8:9 as Mohammed. From Rand’s book Study in Daniel, I will quote segments from pages 200-209:

“Eastern Little Horn. Following all this, Daniel was shown in vision a little horn which arose out of one of the four divisions of the Grecian Empire. There has been considerable confusion among prophetic students concerning the identification of this little horn. Some have pointed to the acts of Antiochus Epiphanes as being a fulfillment but, though he did profane the Temple and persecute the Jews, his army was conquered by Judas in 165 B.C., whereupon the sanctuary was cleansed and the worship restored. In trying to make the proper identification of this little horn, it should be carefully noted that Daniel was not informed as to when the little horn would arise; he was only told that it would come up in the territory of one of the four divisions of the Grecian Empire. It could arise before Rome conquered Greece or it could arise after that conquest, as long as the geographical location of its origin was in the territory of one of the four subdivisions of the Grecian Empire. The vision of the little horn was as follows:

“‘And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasant land. And it waxed great, even to [against] the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. Yea, he magnified himself even to [against] the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered.’ Dan. 8:9-12.)

“Let us compare translations so that we may have as clear a picture of this vision as possible. Moffatt translates this as follows:

“‘From one of these emerged a small horn which grew to a great size in the direction of the south, the east, and the fair land of Palestine. It swelled high as the starry host; indeed, it flung some of the stars on high down to the ground and tramped upon them. It even magnified itself to match the Prince of the starry host, and deprive him of the daily sacrifice, demolishing the place of the sanctuary. Thus was the daily sacrifice profanely treated, the true religion was beaten down, and the horn prospered in its career.’

“Ferrar Fenton renders it: ‘And from one of them came out a Single Horn, which became splendidly great against the South, and against the East, and against the Splendor. Then it exalted itself to fight with the Heavens! And threw down some of its Army, and some of the Stars, and trod on them! It even stood up against the Commander of That Army! And took from him the Perpetual Offerings, and threw down his Holy Dwelling! And an army was given to it against the Perpetual, for wrongdoing, and it threw down Truth to the ground; — yet it was active and prospered ...

“... All those who have tried to confine the activity of the little horn seen by Daniel in this vision to the few years during which Antiochus Epiphanes was active have completely overlooked the significance of the chronological factors involved and have also failed to note the instructions given Daniel that the events related to the ‘far future’ ...

“Little Horn Identified. The little horn seen by Daniel in his vision, therefore, depicted the rise of the power of Mohammedanism, and this identification is further confirmed by the fact that the little horn was to rise out of the territory of one of the four subdivisions of the Grecian Empire. Mohammedanism did arise in the Eastern Empire of Rome prior to the fall of Constantinople and extended its conquests to the south (Egypt and northern Africa), and toward the east (into Arabia and eastward to Persia), and toward the land of Palestine, which came under the full domination of the Ottoman Empire. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 A.D. brought the Eastern Roman Empire to an end and completed the establishment of the Empire of the Ottomans.

“Sanctuary Demolished. During the 2,300 years from the time the Edict was issued sending Ezra back to Jerusalem, the Temple was built and later destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. Mohammed’s flight dates from 622 A.D., the beginning of the Hegira or Mohammedan Era. In 634 A.D. Omar came to power and with an army of fanatics began building his Empire. Jerusalem was taken in 637 A.D. and the Mosque of Omar was built upon the Temple site, thus fully establishing the ‘abomination that maketh desolate’, fulfilling the prophecy as rendered in Moffatt’s translation: ‘Deprived him of the daily sacrifice, demolishing the place of his sanctuary.

“Period of Great Fury. History reveals the extent of the destroying power of this scourge for the followers of Mohammed did prosper and destroy many people in their ravages and the conquests of Christian peoples:

“‘Othman had established himself as chief in the north of Asia Minor. He invaded Nicomedia and founded the Ottoman Empire in 1299 A.D. By 1353 A.D. the Ottomans were established in Europe. ... The city of Constantinople was besieged and captured in 1453 A.D. This ended the Greek Empire when this eastern seat of Imperial Rome was taken by the Ottomans. ... All Asia Minor had been subjected by the Caliphs and now the eastern seat of Imperial Rome was infested by Mohammed II on the 6th of March 1453 A.D. and fell to him on May 29th of that same year. With the fall of the Eastern Empire, which the Saracens could only torment, but not destroy, begins the period of great fury and bloodshed as the Ottomans established themselves in Europe and Africa.

“Daniel saw all this in his vision as he witnessed the power and aggressiveness of the little horn which, like the little horn seen in the first vision, was also emblematical of an ecclesiastical-political power. In the first vision it was the Papacy that rose to power, but now the little horn represented Mohammedanism and the line of the Caliphs. Full and unrestrained aggression was assigned to the leaders of the Mohammedans whose understanding of dark sentences refers to the type of revelation their leaders secured and the inspiration he received ...”

In order to avoid confusion, I will discontinue quoting Rand any further. If we will take a good look around us, we can see this thing concerning Mohammedaism is not completely dead. It would seem the Almighty is using the antichrist “Jews” to fight against the antichrist Moslems, and the other way around. It would also appear it is time for us to step aside and let them annihilate each other.

 

CONCLUSION

 

Daniel chapter 8 is one the main passages Futurists use in their attempt to prove a forthcoming so-called super-duper-pooper colossal “antichrist.” With what we have studied so far, it would be very difficult to fit such a personage into Daniel’s prophecies, yet they continue to try. I will cite some examples: Commentary On The Whole Bible by Jamieson, Fausett & Brown says this on Daniel 8, page 751: “He [Antiochus Epiphanes] is the forerunner of the final Antichrist, standing in the same relation to the first advent of Christ that Antichrist does to His second coming. The sins in Israel which gave rise to the Greek Antichrist were that some Jews adopted Hellenic customs ... erecting theaters, and regarding all religions alike, sacrificing to Jehovah, but at the same time sending money for sacrifices to Hercules. Such shall be the state of the world when ripe for Antichrist. At vs. 9 and vs. 23 the description passes from the literal Antiochus to features which, though partially attributed to him, hold good in their fullest sense only of his antitype, the New Testament Antichrist.” The Bible Knowledge Commentary says, vol. 1, page 1359: “There is no question among expositors that Antiochus is in view in this prophecy. What was prophesied was fulfilled literally through him. However, the prophecy looks beyond Antiochus to a future person (the Antichrist) of whom Antiochus is only a foreshadowing. This coming one is said to ‘stand against the Prince of princes’ (v.25). This can be none other than the Lord Jesus Christ. Thus the prophecy must go beyond Antiochus and look forward to the coming of one whose ministry will parallel that of Antiochus.” The Believer’s Bible Commentary, by William MacDonald, says this on page 1084: “... The explanation of the vision begins in verses 19-22, but at verse 23 we seem to see beyond Antiochus Epiphanes to his future counterpart — a king with fierce features who will ruthlessly persecute the holy people in the Tribulation  Period.” These references are wrong on both counts, for Daniel 8 speaks neither of Antiochus or a so-called future “antichrist.” While these commentaries err on this passage, sometimes they do extraordinarily well on other passages.

The problem of misapplying the “little horn” of both Daniel 7:8 and 8:9 to Antiochus Epiphanes originated with the Maccabees themselves. Their disastrous mistake in interpreting Daniel was figuring his prophecy in literal days rather than in prophetic year-days. Many today are making that same error, including some in Israel Identity. Inasmuch as it was three and one half years from the time that Antiochus profaned the Temple until it was cleansed, the Maccabees thought they had their man. Many still go through all kinds of mathematical gymnastics to reconcile both Daniel chapters 7 and 8 in order to make Antiochus fit. Once one comes to realize that the “little horn” of Daniel 7 is the Roman papacy, and the “little horn” of Daniel 8 is Mohammed, all difficulties disappear. After all, Antiochus Epiphanes was only a small, insignificant pip-squeak in comparison to Mohammed. While Antiochus Epiphanes dealt harshly with a few Jews, Mohammed’s Moslem religion grievously affected all of the tribes of Israel, and continues to date.

Should one check with some sources, one will find they go to excess to make all kinds of explanations and show all kinds of charts in an attempt to prove that Antiochus Epiphanes was the “little horn” of both Daniel chapters 7 and 8. Don’t be misled. They will try to place all the importance on Judah, who they falsely think are “Jews”, while forgetting the rest of Israel. Don’t be deceived by such people, as most of them, like the Jew-deo-unchristian preachers of today, usually don’t know the difference between a “Jew” and an Israelite.

 

BRINGING THIS SUBJECT UP-TO-DATE & IN PERSPECTIVE

 

I shall now attempt to show you the significance of Daniel’s prophecy of 1335 days (12:12), and what is called, in Luke 21:24, “the times of the Gentiles”, of which both were fulfilled in 1917. But, however, I need to explain how I came to that realization.

In the mid 1980s, I was learning all about Israel’s seven times punishment. I had occasion to attend an Identity meeting at Detroit where Sheldon Emry, E. Raymond Capt and Paul Johnson, a former Mormon from Red Oak, Iowa, were guest speakers. Paul addressed Matthew 24 in one of his messages. I kept in touch with Paul for about 4 years, and purchased many of his video tapes, another of which was on Matthew 24. I still don’t agree with everything he presented along that line, but I learned much from him.

Near that time, as I was conversing with one of my regular customers at my place of business, he seemed amazed at some of the various subjects I was able to refer to. He being a Jehovah’s Witness, thought I was ripe to become a proselyte. I then received two books through the mail which he evidently had them send me. Scanning one book, I saw several items which caught my eye, giving me cause to read it. Much of the book was just plain bull-crap, but the subject that interested me was “the times of the gentiles.” It was beginning to dawn on me that the area of Jerusalem was also under the “seven times punishment.” Upon mentioning that to Paul, he couldn’t comprehend how that area could be subject to that punishment, as the “Jews” and other people occupying Jerusalem were not true Israelites, which you may concur. Most of us are familiar with how the Tribes didn’t all go into captivity at the same time, and therefore didn’t come out from under the seven times punishment period at the same time.

That Jehovah Witnesses’ book, Babylon The Great Has Fallen!, had some things correct on pages 179-180: “But in a symbolic or prophetic year, the number of days is fixed at the unchanging number of 360, and each day thereof stands for a whole year. ‘A day for a year, a day for a year.’ — Numbers 14:34; Ezekiel 4:6.

“In the prophetic book of Revelation a thousand two hundred and sixty days are spoken of as being equal to a ‘time and times and half a time’, or three and a half times. (Revelation 12:6, 14) If we divide three and a half (3.5) into a thousand two hundred and sixty days, it gives us three hundred and sixty (360) days to a ‘time.’

“Accordingly, a symbolic or prophetic ‘time’ would Scripturally equal three hundred and sixty (360) years. If, now, three and a half symbolic ‘times’ amounted to 1,260 symbolic days, that is to say, 1,260 years, then twice three and a half (or seven) symbolic ‘times’ would be twice 1,260 years, that is to say, 2,520 years. Thus the ‘seven times’ that are mentioned in Daniel 4:16, 23, 25, 32 in connection with the tree dream would stand for two thousand five hundred and twenty literal years ... In the fulfillment of the greater prophetic meaning, the ‘seven times’ of 2,520 years began to count when Jehovah God let go the world domination as represented by his typical kingdom on earth ... By count, then, those Gentile Times, those ‘appointed times of the [non-Israel] nations’ ... would end 2,520 years ... about ... 1914.”

They’re three years off on their arithmetic, but one can see what is meant by the “times of the gentiles”, as for 2,520 years Judaea was ruled by foreign powers. Then, something interesting happened in 1917, when Jerusalem was delivered to the British. After “seven times” it again came under the authority of King George VI, a bona fide descendant of David. King George VI lived until 1952; long enough to decree that the “Jews” and Palestinians would have to settle their differences by blood, There is no evidence that Queen Elizabeth has ever countermanded that decree, so it is still in effect, and the “Jews” and Palestinians are still Lawfully under that King in Yahweh’s sight. Therefore, that unlawful United Nations’ recognition of Israeli in 1948 is null and void. They still have the mark of a vagabond, with no legitimate place to call home.

Documentation on King George VI’s decision concerning Palestine is found in Understanding The Dead Sea Scrolls, edited by Hershel Shanks, chapter by Harry Thomas Frank, page 8: “His Majesty’s Foreign Office had somewhat irresponsibly decided that since the problem of Palestine could not be solved by reason they would withdraw, leaving the two sides to decide the issue by blood.” So that is where we are today. As a second witness to Daniel 12:12, in 1917, an Egyptian coin that year was inscribed 1335 in Arabic. Thus we have two types of people occupying Palestine today, squatters and trespassers.

Though I don’t agree entirely with the book Testimony In Stone by J. Bernard Nicklin, yet his explanation of “the times of the Gentiles” is supportive of this thesis on pages 70, 72, 75, 106, 109, and 129.

On pages 78-80, Nicklin points to the date September 17, 2001 as the beginning of a period of “cleansing.” That date is too close to September 11, 2001 to be coincidental. We have already witnessed the exposure of fraud in the money markets, and the age-old secret sexual practices of the Roman Catholic clergy. If Nicklin is correct, we are in for some very startling revelations. Scripture says this cleansing will start first with the House of Yahweh. I, for one, am going to enjoy every minute of it. Moreover, many in Israel Identity have the need of being cleansed of the anti-seedline and universalism doctrines!!!

This is my fifty-fifth monthly teaching letter and continues my fifth year of publication. This lesson will be a continuation of a series in a walk-through of Daniel. The object of this walk- through is to show there is an overlap of Daniel’s prophecy into the book of Revelation. Inasmuch as most Bible students recognize Daniel’s prophecy as being “Historical” in nature, it is only reasonable to conclude that the overlapped prophecy from Daniel into the book of Revelation is also “Historical” in nature.

In lesson # 54 for October, 2002, we discussed the “little horn” of Daniel 8:9. As I had pointed out, the “little horn” in that passage is not the same as the “little horn” of Daniel 7:8. How often have you read or heard someone referring to the “little horn” of Daniel, and they never indicate which “little horn” of Daniel they are talking about. To many, both “little horns” are the same entity in their reasoning, and that simply is not true. To comprehend where we are on our walk through Daniel, you will need back issues #49, #53 & #54. In the last lesson (#54) we established that the “little horn” of Daniel 8:9 was Mohammed. Because Mohammed played such a key part in Daniel chapter 8, it will be necessary for us to spend an entire lesson on him.

Probably one of the more important aspects we should consider about Mohammed is that, reportedly among some authors, his mother was a “Jewess.” If that account is true, apparently we have an added element to the equation. Once that added detail is brought to light, we can better understand his satanic motivated aspirations. Conceivably, he had the “seed of the serpent” flowing in his veins. With this added data, we can begin to acquire an idea of what Mohammed was all about. Before we get into the story of his escapades, let’s document this apparent “Jewish” connection. For this, we will use Alzog’s Universal Church History, ©1902, volume 2, page 192:

 

“Mohammed, who was the only son of Abdallah, a Pagan, and Amina, a Jewess, and was descended from the noble but impoverished family of Hashim, of the priestly tribe of Koreish, who were the chiefs and keepers of the national sanctuary of the Kaaba, and pretended to trace their origin to Ismael, the son of Abraham and Hagar, was born at Mecca, August 20, A.D. 570 ...”

 

The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, vol. 5, p. 205 (speaking of his grandfather and father), although debated, also witnesses to this:

 

“The glory of Abdol Motalleb was crowned with domestic happiness; his life was prolonged to the age of one hundred and ten years; and he became the father of six daughters and thirteen sons. His best beloved Abdallah was the most beautiful and modest of the Arabian youth; and in the first night, when he consummated his marriage with Amina, of the noble race of the Zahrites, two hundred virgins are said to have expired of jealousy and despair. Mahomet, or more properly Mohammed, the only son of Abdallah and Amina, was born at Mecca, four years after the death of Justinian, and two months after the defeat of the Abyssinians, whose victory would have introduced into the Caaba the religion of the Christians ...”

 

Then, in a footnote on page 205 we read this: “Amina was of Jewish birth. Von Hammer, Geschichte der Assass. p. 10 ...”

 

At that period, there were many “Jews” in that area. Again from The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, volume 5, page 202:

 

“Seven hundred years before the death of Mahomet the Jews were settled in Arabia; and a far greater multitude was expelled from the Holy Land in the wars of Titus and Hadrian. The industrious exiles aspired to liberty and power: they erected synagogues in the cities, and castles in the wilderness; and their Gentile converts were confounded with the children of Israel [Jews]  ...”

 

Apparently, not only was Mohammed partly of “Jewish” descent, but he got the idea for his new religion from Judaism. For documentation on this, I will again quote from Alzog’s Universal Church History, ©1902, volume 2, page 195-197:

 

“The religious belief of Mohammed, which he professed to have received from time to time, either directly from God or through the Angel Gabriel, and which, after his death, had been collected from the palm-leaves, bits of leather, stones, mutton-bones, and other materials on which the several revelations had been written, and arranged into one book, known as the Koran, is little more than an incongruous mixture of Parseeism [sic.], Judaism, and Christianity.

“Mohammed’s knowledge of the two last does not appear to have been derived from the Old and New Testaments, but rather from apocryphal Jewish and Christian legends. It was said, even by the contemporaries of Mohammed, that Abdallah Ebn Salam, a Jew; Salam, a convert from Parseeism to Christianity, and Sergius, a Nestorian monk, had aided him in compiling his religious system. Such were the heterogeneous constituents of Islam (Submission to God) — a simple, but incomplete system, the one essential element of which is hatred and execration of every other religion.”

 

For further documentation that Mohammed used Judaism as a basis for his new religion, I will quote from The World’s Great Events, published by P. F. Collier & Son, volume 2, page 581 (by Edward Henry Palmer):

 

“At the outset of his career he turned to the Jews, imagining that, as he claimed to restore the original religion of Abraham, and appealed to the Jewish scriptures for confirmation of his teachings, they would support him. Disappointed in this quarter, he treated them with more bitter hostility than any other of his opponents.

“In the latter part of his career he took but little notice either of the Jews or Christians, and when he does mention the latter, it is without any of the conciliatory spirit which he first displayed to them, and they are not only sharply reproved for their errors, but are included in the general mass of infidels against whom the true believers are to fight.” [Later the “Jews” claimed Islam as their “Golden Age.”]

 

Again, pages 582-583 (by Edward Gibbon): “In the ten years of the administration of Omar, the Saracens reduced to his obedience thirty-six thousand cities or castles, destroyed four thousand churches and temples of the unbelievers, and edified fourteen hundred mosques for the exercise of the religion of Mahomet. One hundred years after his flight from Mecca, the arms and the reign of his successors extended from India to the Atlantic ocean, over the various and distant provinces, which may be comprised under the names of; 1 Persia; 2 Syria; 3 Egypt; 4 Africa; and, 5 Spain.”

 

More evidence can be found in the History Of The Jews by Heinrich Graetz that Mohammed used Judaism as a foundation for Islam, volume 3, excerpts from pages 71-73:

 

“Judaism not only won over to its side many tribes in Arabia, and taught the sons of the desert certain indispensable arts, but it also inspired the founder of a religion, who played an important part in the great drama of the world’s history, and whose influence survives to this day. Mahomet, the prophet of Mecca and Yathrib, was, it is true, not a loyal son of Judaism, but he appreciated its highest aims, and was induced by it to give to the world a new faith, known as Islam, founded on a lofty basis. This religion has exercised a wonderful influence on the course of Jewish history and on the evolution of Judaism. In the peaceful meetings in Mecca, his birthplace, at the public markets, and on his travels, Abdallah’s son heard much spoken of the religion which acknowledges the belief in one God, who rules the world. He heard much of Abraham, who devoted himself to the service of God, and of religion and morality, which gave the disciples of Judaism the advantage over infidels, Mahomet’s mind at once original and receptive, was powerfully impressed by all this. Waraka Ibn-Naufal, a celebrated Meccan, and a descendant of the noble Khoraish race, was a cousin of Chadija, Mahomet’s wife, and he had embraced Judaism and knew Hebrew well. He certainly imbued Mahomet with a love for religion of Abraham. Mahomet’s first doctrines were strongly tinged with Jewish coloring ...

“The best teachings in the Koran are borrowed from the Bible or the Talmud ... Mahomet’s connection with the Jews of Arabia assisted not a little in determining and modifying the teachings of Islam ... When Mahomet failed in obtaining a hearing in Mecca, the seat of idolatrous worship in Arabia, and even ran the risk of losing his life there, he addressed himself to some men from Yathrib, and urged them to accept his doctrines. These men were more familiar with Jewish doctrines than the Meccans; they found in Mahomet’s revelations a close analogy to what they had often heard from their Jewish neighbors ... Mahomet took care to win over the Jews of Yathrib and to set forth his aims, as though he desired to bring about the universal recognition of Judaism in Arabia ... Mahomet entered into a formal alliance for mutual defense with the Jewish tribes, and instituted the custom of turning towards Jerusalem in prayer (Kiblah) ... Mahomet for a long time employed a Jewish scribe to do his correspondence, he himself being unable to write. These advances on the part of a man of so much promise were very flattering to the Jews of Medina. They looked upon him to some extent as a Jewish proselyte, and expected to see Judaism through him attain to power in Arabia ... Some of them followed him devotedly and were his faithful allies (Ansar); amongst them was a learned youth, Abdallah Ibn-Salam, of the race of Kainukaa. Abdallah and other Jews assisted Mahomet in propagating the Koran.”

 

We need to go back over this last quotation and pick up part of it and repeat it again:

 

“Waraka Ibn-Naufal, a celebrated Meccan, and a descendant of the noble Khoraish race, was a cousin of Chadija, Mahomet’s wife, and he had embraced Judaism and knew Hebrew well.”

 

From this, it would appear that not only was Mohammed half Jew, but also his wife. We should also notice that this “Waraka Ibn-Naufal” was of the “noble Khoraish race.” I believe that this is the same family spoken of as Abdallah, the father of Mohammed. I will quote again that excerpt from Alzog.

 

“Mohammed, who was the only son of Abdallah, a Pagan, and Amina, a Jewess, and was descended from the noble but impoverished family of Hashim, of the priestly tribe of Koreish, who were the chiefs and keepers of the national sanctuary ...”

 

Apparently, “Koreish” and “Khoraish” are variant spellings for the same family of people. Edward Gibbon, in his The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire, volume 5, page 204 mentions this same name in relation to the pedigree of Mohammed and his father: “... he sprung from the tribe of Koreish and the family of Hashem, the most illustrious of the Arabs, the princes of Mecca, and the hereditary guardians of the Caaba ...”

 

From this it would appear that many of the Arabs of the Khoraish family were being proselyted and mixing with the “Jews” by marriage. How else could Waraka Ibn-Naufal, cousin to Chadija, Mohammed’s wife, “embrace Judaism” and know “Hebrew well”?

ARAB PROSELYTES TO JUDAISM

 

The main index of the History Of The Jews by Heinrich Graetz is found in volume 6, and on page 512 are listed the various peoples proselyted by the “Jews” during their extended history. The list is too extensive to elaborate on here, except it includes “Koraishites of Mecca, and several other families of the tribes Aus and Chazaraj in Yathrib.” We will key in on volume 3, pages 60-62 concerning the subtitle “Arabs Become Converted To Judaism” (approximately 450-500 A.D.) You will notice that this is well ahead of Mohammed’s birth, estimated to have been approximately 570 A.D.:

 

“Happily, the Arabian Jews bethought them of the genealogy of the Arabs as set forth in the first book of the Pentateuch, and seized upon it as the instrument by which to prove their kinship with them. The Jews were convinced that they were related to the Arabs on two sides, through Yoktan and through Ishmael. Under their instruction, therefore, the two principal Arabian tribes traced back the line of ancestors to these two progenitors, the real Arabs (the Himyarites) supposing themselves to be the descendants from Yoktan; the pseudo-Arabs in the north, on the other hand, deriving their origin from Ishmael. These points of contact granted, the Jews had ample opportunity to multiply the proofs of their relationship. The Arabs loved genealogical tables, and were delighted to be able to follow their descent and history so far into hoary antiquity; accordingly, all this appeared to them both evident and flattering. They consequently exerted themselves to bring their genealogical records and traditions into unison with the Biblical accounts. Although their traditions extended over less than six centuries on the one side to their progenitor Yarob and his sons or grandsons Himyar and Kachtan, and on the other, to Adnan, yet in their utter disregard of historical accuracy, this fact constituted no obstacle. Without a scruple, the southern Arabians called themselves Kachtanites, and the northern Arabians Ishmaelites. They readily accorded the Jews the rights of relationship, that is to say, equality and all the advantages attending it.

“The Arabs were thus in intimate intercourse with the Jews, and the sons of the desert whose unpoetical mythology afforded them no matter for inspiration, derived much instruction from Judaism. Under these circumstances many Arabs could not fail to develop peculiar affection for Judaism, and some embraced this religion, though their conversion had not been thought of by the Jews. As they had practiced circumcision while heathen, their conversion to Judaism was particularly easy. The members of a family among the Arabs were indissolubly bound to one another, and, according to their phylarchic constitution, the individuals identified themselves with the tribe. This brought about, that when a chieftain became a Jew, his whole clan at once followed him, the wisest, into the fold of Judaism. It is expressly recorded about several Arabian tribes that they were converted to Judaism; such were the Benu-Kinanah, a warlike, quarrelsome clan, related to the most respected Koraishites of Mecca, and several other families of the tribes Aus and Chazaraj in Yathrib.

“Especially memorable, however, in the history of the Arabs is the conversion of the powerful king of Yemen. The princes or kings of Yemen bore the name of Tobba, and at times ruled over the whole of Arabia; they traced their historical origin back to Himyar, their legendary origin to Kachtan ...”

 

If there was any doubt in your mind that Mohammed’s mother and wife were part “Jewish”, this last piece of evidence should leave little doubt. Abba Eban, in his Heritage, Civilization and the Jews, mentions 42,200 Yemenite Arab “Jews” on page 329, but carefully avoids any mention of the “Koraishites.” The important thing we should understand from this is the fact that Cain’s satanic-genetic-seed spread throughout all these Arab proselytes as they intermarried. There is an abundance of evidence concerning the proselytism of Arabs to Judaism! You will notice here that the evidence of Mohammed having a “Jewish” connection by blood is building, contrary to those who want to bring in conflicting ideas.

 

LOOKING AT THE WORLD THROUGH JEWISH EYES

 

We really can’t understand Mohammedanism unless we take a look at it from a “Jewish” point-of-view. To accomplish that, I will do a running commentary and paraphrase on portions of the book Jews, God And History by Max I. Dimont. On page 17, he gives his brethren, the “Jews”, full credit for establishing Mohammedanism when he said this:

 

“In the seventh century, Judaism gave birth to yet another religion — Islam, founded by Mohammed ...”

 

Dimont points out on page 14 that of the three billion people on the earth [in 1962], less than one half of one percent (or about twelve million) were “Jews.” When we consider that acknowledgment, it hardly fits the promise by the Almighty to Abraham to be as numerous as the “stars.” Either the “Jews” aren’t who they say they are, or the Almighty is quite negligent about his promises. Dimont further makes the statement that “they should hardly be heard of” (meaning they were becoming few in number). Again, substantial evidence that they are not children of the Promise. Then, Dimont points out that they are conspicuous, totally out of proportion to their numbers. Then Dimont brags how they have contributed a list of great names in religion, science, literature, music, finance, and philosophy. At this particular point, we are interested how they contributed to Mohammedanism!

Then Dimont points out how ancient Greece, after five hundred years, lapsed into a people of herdsmen, but not so with the “Jews.” We must ask the question: Did they contribute to that also? Then he boasts that the “Jews” had a creative period for four thousand years, which is a lie. Dimont is attempting to apply to those proselyted Canaanites the heritage that belongs to true Israel, thereby corrupting it to Babylonian-Judaism! Those vagabond descendants of Cain have never had a heritage or a homeland to call their own in recorded history. Their heritage has been “a land of wandering.” I just purchased a book from a used book store entitled Wanderings, Chaim Potok’s History of the Jews. This “Jew” is literally screaming, “I’m a descendant of Cain!” And the anti-seedliners are screaming back: “Oh no he isn’t!” Now back to Dimont:

Then he claims they have contributed both east and west, though many are not aware of it nor willing to admit it. I believe it is about time to give the “Jew” full credit for all his crimes. After this, he points out that from the Greeks sprang 850 million Christians, the largest religious body in the world. That sounds like the Christians are the “many-star-seed” fulfillment of the Abrahamic Promise to me. Isn’t it simply amazing how they continually cry out to us that they are not Israelites? Then, Dimont makes mention how the religion of the “Jews” influenced the Mohammedan, the second largest religious organization in the world with over 400 million adherents, and that they also claim Abraham and Ishmael. Then he lauds “Jews” like Karl Marx, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Baruch Spinoza for great achievements.

Dimont then gives the “Jews” credit for introducing concepts such as prayer, church, redemption, universal education and charity hundreds of years before anyone else did so. This surely demonstrates the audacious insolence of the children of Cain! Then he makes a true statement similar to that of Chaim Potok:

 

“And yet, up until 1948, for close to three thousand years, the Jews did not even have a country of their own.”

 

Here again, Cain’s curse to be a vagabond shows itself as Max I. Dimont, like Chaim Potok, is screaming, “I’m a child of Cain.” And again, the anti-seedliners are screaming back, “Oh no you’re not — you can’t be — it doesn’t fit our seminary theology!” If one will check history since 1948, the “Jews” still haven’t secured a homeland, and they never will! This alone should prove, beyond all doubt, that the impostor so-called “Jews” are not true Israel. Yahweh’s promise to true Israel was they would not only become a nation, but a company of nations, Genesis 35:11. (Fulfilled only with the British Empire.)

 

Dimont then relates how the “Jews” flourished during the Mohammedan civilization, emerging from twelve hundred years of darkness into the Middle Ages. Then, on page 17, Dimont discloses how, during the period of time that the forces of Islam hated and persecuted the Christians, the “Jews” reached their “greatest literary, scientific, and intellectual peaks” and became “statesmen, philosophers, physicians, scientists, tradesmen and cosmopolitan capitalists”, and how, in the process, they picked up the Arabic tongue.

Then Dimont divulges how, when the walls of the ghettos fell in the 1800s, that within one generation they became “prime ministers, captains of industry, military leaders and charter members in an intellectual avant-garde which was to reshape the thinking of Europe.”

 

“LITTLE HORN” OF DAN. 8:9 PARALLEL TO REV. 9:1-11

 

There are very few who understand the historical meaning of Revelation 9:1-11. One exception is Henry H. Halley in his Bible Handbook. It is rather comical on one hand, but very serious on the other, how the Futurists interpret this passage. Since establishing that Mohammed’s mother was a “Jewess”, the following quotation from pages 716-717 will clear its significance:

 

“The fifth Trumpet, The army of Demon Locusts. This host of Horrible Monsters, with complex appearance of Locusts, Horses, Scorpions, Lions and Humans, came out of the Abyss (9:1, 2, 11), (‘Bottomless Pit,’ AV), led by Abaddon, or Apollyon who was the Devil, or one of his Angels. This indicates the Hellish Origin of the Woes to follow. Satan has already been mentioned as Persecuting and Corrupting the Churches in Smyrna, Pergamum and Thyatira (2:9, 10, 13, 14, 24); and is named as instigator of Rome’s Imperial Persecutions of the Church (12:13-16). Of what he is now about to do in the Locust Plague, we are warned, ‘Woe, woe, woe’, hinting its Frightfulness.

“These Demon Locusts are thought, by commentators, to be a predictive picture of the Rise and Spread of Mohammedanism; or the Tribulation Period of the Last Days or Both. [I agree only to the ‘Mohammedan period.’]

“Mohammedanism. In the Seventh century A.D., Mohammedanism swept the Eastern World like a tidal wave, and Blotted out Christianity in Southwest Asia and North Africa: the Euphrates and Nile Valleys: the Eastern and Southern Borders of the Mediterranean: lands of the Bible Story: lands in which the Bible originated and grew: lands in which God’s Revelation of Himself to Mankind was nurtured and brought to completion: lands in which God formed and trained the nation Israel, for two thousand years, to pave the way for the coming of Christ; lands hallowed forever as the scene of Christ’s Life and Death and Resurrection and His Redemptive Work for Mankind; lands which were the Cradle of Christianity, and which were for 600 years Christian; the Original Christian World; in these lands, by one fell blow of the Mohammedan Sword, CHRISTIANITY WAS BLOTTED OUT, and Mohammedanism was Established. And they HAVE BEEN MOHAMMEDAN EVER SINCE.

“600 years Christian. Now, for 1300 years, Mohammedan. More Mohammedans now in the world than Protestant Christians.

“Mohammed (A.D. 570-632), in Mecca, Arabia, declared himself to be The Prophet of God, and set out, at the head of an army, to propagate his religion by the Sword. Soon the world of Arabia was conquered. Mohammedan armies, under successive leaders, swept on in their conquest. Syria fell (A.D. 634), Jerusalem (A.D. 637) Egypt (A.D. 638), Persia (A.D. 640), North Africa (A.D. 689).

“Asian and African Christianity, thus swept away, Mohammedans moved into Europe. Spain fell (A.D. 711). Then they headed on into France, where, at Tours, the Mohammedan Army was met and defeated (A.D. 732), by Charles Martel, grandfather of Charlemagne. EXCEPT FOR THAT VICTORY, CHRISTIANITY MIGHT HAVE BEEN ENTIRELY EXTERMINATED FROM THE EARTH,

“Here are some of the things that make it look like this Fifth Trumpet might refer to Mohammedanism.

“‘Locusts’ (9:3). Arabia, preeminently, was a land of Locusts. It was in Arabia that Mohammedanism originated.

“‘Shapes of Locusts like War-Horses, with Scorpion-like Tails, Crowns like Gold, Faces like Men’s Faces, Hair like Women’s Hair, Teeth like Lion’s Teeth, Breastplates as of Iron, and Wings that sounded like Chariots and Horses rushing to War’ (9:7-10).

“This is indeed a very good description of Mohammedan Armies, composed of Fierce Relentless Horsemen, famous for their Beards, with Long Hair like Women’s Hair, with Yellow Turbans on their Heads that looked like Gold, and they had Iron Coats of Armor.

“‘Smoke from the Abyss’ (9:2, 3). It was out of this Smoke that the Locusts came. The Smoke had Darkened the Sun and the Air. This may refer to the False Teachings, which Clouded and Corrupted the Church of Mohammed’s day, in its Worship of Images, Relics and Saints. It was IDOLATRY of the Degenerate and Apostate Church that gave Mohammed his chance. Destruction of the Idols and his slogan.

“‘Hurt Not the Grass, nor any Green thing’ (9:4). Mohammedans spared Trees, Grass and All Vegetation, because Mohammed had so commanded; for, to those living in the wastes of Arabian deserts, Trees and Vegetation were blessings.

“‘Torment Men Five Months’ (9:5). 5 months, the normal stay of Locusts, May to September, is about 150 days; which, on the Year-Day interpretation (Ezekiel 4:6), would be 150 Years. That was, approximately, the period (A.D. 630 to A.D. 786), in which Mohammedanism continued its effort at World Conquest, With Haroun-Al-Raschid (A.D. 786-809), at the height of Mohammedan Power and Glory, they abandoned the idea of Conquest, and began to cultivate peaceful relations with other nation.”

 

Another good source to check is Adam Clarke’s Commentary on the Bible. Many of Clarke’s comments on this chapter are parallel to Halley’s. With both Daniel 8:9 and Revelation 9:1-11 pointing to Mohammedanism proves, beyond all doubt, both the Preterists’ and Futurists’ positions are untenable. It is ludicrous to saw seven years off of Daniel’s seventy weeks prophecy and project them 2000 years in the future. It is just as ludicrous to proclaim that all prophecy was fulfilled by 70 A.D. Once it is shown that the Futurists’ so-called “tribulation” is a spurious doctrine, it leaves no time-frame for a “future” so-called super-duper-pooper antichrist. We have all the antichrists we need already. Many in Israel Identity have already thrown out the “rapture” doctrine. Why not throw out all the rest of the Futurists’ false teachings? After all, both the Preterists’ and Futurists’ positions were invented by the descendants of Cain, and they fall into the category “the leaven of the Pharisees” in our Bible. Not only does Daniel 8:9 and Revelation 9:1-11 predict the rise of Mohammedanism, but the rest of Revelation 9 foretells of the Islamic Ottoman Turks and their use of gunpowder.

I don’t know what your Bible tells you, but my Bible indicates to me that Mohammed was a devil — a walking, talking, breathing, Cain-Satanic-genetic in-the-flesh devil. Not only was Mohammed an antichrist, denying that Yahweh came in the flesh, but today we have many antichrists. Some are in politics — some are bankers — some are behind the pulpits — and some are in Israel Identity as anti-seedliners denying the seed (genetic children) who were to bruise Messiah’s heel. Now quoting again from Halley’s Bible Handbook in reference to Revelation 9:12-21 on page 718:

 

“The Sixth Trumpet, The Army of 200,000,000 Euphratean Horsemen. Horrible looking Monsters, of complex appearance of Men, Horses, Lions and Serpents belching Fire, Smoke and Brimstone. They also may be a predictive picture of Mohammedanism ...

 

“ARABIANS ruled [the] Mohammedan World [for] 400 years (A.D. 630-1058). TURKS then took over, and have been in control almost till now. This Trumpet seems to point to Turkish Mohammedanism.

 

“‘Euphrates’ (9-14), from whence the Sixth Trumpet Armies of Horsemen were loosed. In A.D. 1057 a vast horde of Turks, from central Asia, appeared on the banks of the Euphrates. In their westward march they replaced the Arabians as rulers of Mohammedan lands.

 

“The Turks were more cruel and intolerant than the Arabians had been. Their barbarous treatment of Christians in Palestine led to the Crusades (A.D. 1095-1272), almost 300 years of intermittent War in which European Christians tried to regain the Holy Land from Mohammedans.

 

“‘Out of the Horses’ Mouths proceeded Fire, Smoke, Brimstone’ (9:17). The Eastern Roman Empire (A.D. 395-1453), its capital, Constantinople, had for centuries (A.D. 630-1453) been the bulwark of Europe against Mohammedanism. But in A.D. 1453 it fell to the Turks.

 

“It was at the battle of Constantinople (A.D. 1453), that Artillery with GUNPOWDER was First Used [sic. one of the first]; which gave victory to the Turks; the ‘Fire, Smoke and Brimstone’ of 9:17.

 

“Then followed another threat to European Christianity. The victorious Turks marched on in toward central Europe. But met their defeat in Vienna (A.D. 1683), at the hands of a Polish army under John Sobieski. As in the Battle of Tours (A.D. 732), so here, a second time, after almost 1000 years, Europe was again saved from Mohammedans.

 

“‘Hour, Day, Month, Year’ (9:15), may mean at an exact appointed time. Or, on the Year-Day interpretation (Ezekiel 4:6), 365 plus 30 plus 1, [or] 396 days, that is 396 years, From A.D. 1057, when the Turks crossed the Euphrates, to the Fall of Constantinople (A.D. 1453), was 396 years.

 

“‘Third Part of Men Killed’ (9:18). This may refer to the Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire (A.D. 1453), the last remaining ‘Third’ of the original Roman Empire, at the hands of the Turks ...

 

“Antichrist. The word ‘Antichrist’ is nowhere used in the book of Revelation; which is rather surprising, in view of its very abundant use in books about Revelation. It occurs in 1 John 2:18, 22; 4:3 and 2 John 7; where it is said that there were already many Antichrists.”

 

What all this boils down to is, there are not three major religious thought systems, Christianity, Judaism and Mohammedanism, but two; they being: (1) Yahweh and His Laws for His children, vs. (2) Satan and his rules for his children. There are not three opposing seedlines, but two, and they are identified in Genesis 3:15. If there were only one seedline, as the antichrist, anti-seedliners claim, there would be no conflicts on religion, politics, ECONOMICS and race today.

Today, everything rotates around RACE. Then around RACE revolves POLITICS, RELIGION and ECONOMICS. Satan and his children are using every one of these four tools to destroy the WHITE ISRAEL people. Any other MESSAGE is ANTICHRIST! The anti-seedliners are antagonistic to this MESSAGE! And until we resolve and identify who our enemies are, there is no solution to OUR ever-present RACE MIXING PROBLEMS!!! Therefore, of necessity, those PURVEYORS of the lies of single seedline and universalism, must continually be reproved.

 

 

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This is my fifty-sixth monthly teaching letter and continues my fifth year of publication. With this Teaching Letter, we will continue our walk-through series in the Book of Daniel. One very important element we should understand about Mohammedanism is the fact that they don’t worship the same god as the Christians. Before Mohammed came along, Mecca was a center of the worship of many false gods. All Mohammed did was to reduce their pantheon of approximately ten false gods down to one false god, Allah. In Judaism, Mohammedanism and Christianity there are three different deities. For Christianity it is the Mighty One of the Hebrews; for the Mohammedans it is the false god Allah; and the “Jews” actually worship Lucifer.

It might be well to show the variant pronunciations and spellings of the name of Mohammed. For this, I will quote from the 1980 Collier’s Encyclopedia, volume 16, page 405: 

“MOHAMMED ..., an English form of one of the commonest Muslim names, first borne by the founder of the Muslim religion (which is sometimes called Mohammedanism after him). The name has had various forms and spellings in the West: Mohammed, Mohamed, Mahomet, Mahound, and even Baphomet. All these forms derive from the Arabic Muhammad ... A Turkish form of the name, Mehmed, is used for several sultans of the Ottoman Empire; and a modern spelling that has come into English through French, Mehemet, is frequently used in the name of Mehemet Ali, the Ottoman viceroy who founded modern Egypt.

“The name Muhammad is ultimately derived from the verb hamada, ‘to praise’; it is actually a verbal noun meaning ‘the one worthy of praise.’ Other derivatives of hamada are also used as proper names Mahmud (‘the one who is praised’), Ahmed or Ahmad (‘I praise’), and Hamid (‘praised’); the first two have occasionally been used to refer to the Prophet Mohammed.”

Then, from the book Secret Societies, edited by Norman MacKenzie, from a depiction on page 126 we read: “A medieval French representation of Baphomet, the ‘devil’ or foreign god the Templars were accused of worshiping. His name derives from medieval Christian forms of the name Mohammed, which became Mafomat in Spanish, Bafomet in Provencal. (Sculpture at Saint-Merri church, Paris.)”  

 

From the 1910 Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 26, page 596: “Baphomet was a common medieval corruption of Mahomet (Maphomet, Mahom, &c.), who was regarded, not as a false prophet only, but as a demon, a false god to whom human sacrifices were offered. Hence any unholy or fantastic rites came to be called baffumerie, mahomerie, momerie, i.e. ‘mummery’.”

 

If you follow and are in agreement with what the current clergy-diviners and “mainstream” purveyors of fallacies are fostering and vomiting out behind their pulpits and on the airwaves, with their theological system of eschatological [end-time] prophecy, you may not appreciate what is taught in this series on Daniel, which in turn reflects on John’s Revelation. On the other hand, should you be searching for fidelity on Scripture, possibly you will find this series interesting. With what I am continuing to present along this line, you really need to analyze and prove these things for yourself. In the end, it is each individual’s responsibility to arrive at the truth.

In lesson #55 we saw how the “little horn” in Daniel 8:9 was a prophecy foreseeing the period of the development of Mohammedanism. It was also explained that the fifth trump of Revelation 9 was a parallel passage about the Mohammedan Saracens, very fittingly describing them. We discovered further that, after describing the Saracens up to verse 12, the rest of chapter 9 related itself with the Turkish period of Mohammedanism. It was pointed out that the Turks used gun-powder firing cannon in their siege at Constantinople in 1453 A.D. On the front cover of a book entitled Marvels of Prophecy published by Howard Rand, there is a picture of one of those cannons. It is evidently made of brass, and is molded into the shape of a lion in a sitting position. There is a large cap over the barrel, and they molded teeth around the lion’s mouth which is always in a wide-open position. From the buttocks to the lion’s head along the vertebra column is the tail of the lion. To fire the cannon, a wick was lighted with fire at the end of the tail just behind the head which travels down to the rump and ignited the powder charge to propel the cannon balls. Revelation 9:18-19 describes this type of cannon quite well when it says:

 

“... by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouths. For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.”

 

If one could see a picture of this old cannon shaped like a lion, he could clearly understand the meaning of that passage in Revelation predicting the uprising of the Turkish Mohammedans. When Futurists make commentary on this passage, they come up with some of the most outlandish, damnable statements one could imagine. People like Tim LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins, Thomas Ice, John Hagee among many others are selling books by the millions in which they make such utterances. Should one want to go around repeating and spreading some of that Futurist garbage, making a fool of himself in the process, that’s up to each individual. But if you are in the Israel Identity Message, it would be better “to study to show yourself approved.”

In the book by Tim LaHaye and Thomas Ice, entitled Charting The End Times, on page 57 they have a chart of the so-called seven years of “The Tribulation.” Under the heading “The Seven Trumps” they show trumpet five and six in the future. If you have followed us with this series on Daniel, then you are aware these two trumpets are already past by many hundreds of years. In his book Revelation Unveiled, Tim LaHaye claims these cannons just described are “evil spirits” when he says on page 174:

 

“It is obvious that these are not to be taken as humans, for horsemen do not wear breastplates that are ‘fiery red, dark blue, and yellow as sulfur’, nor do horses have mouths that emit ‘fire and smoke and sulfur,’ Instead, this is a literal description of unnatural, demonlike evil spirits that come out of the Abyss, advancing under the leadership of the four bound angels.”

 

This is a good example of the bull manure, (defecation which the Bible terms “dung”), the Futurists are spreading around with their pitchforks. Not only that, but LaHaye is getting the sixth trumpet mixed-up with the fifth.

With this lesson, we are going to deal with Daniel’s seventy-weeks prophecy. For anyone who is interested in that period of time, I have a book entitled An Outline History Of The Seventy Weeks Nation on my Supplementary Teaching Aids List. This book was originally published by The Covenant Publishing Co., Ltd., 6 Buckingham Gate, London S.W.I, and the author was the Rev. Alban Heath. This is a very good book to have in one’s reference library, but as usual in British Israel, they have difficulty in distinguishing the impostor “Jews” from the true Tribe of Judah. Unless one can comprehend the history during this 490 years of Daniel’s prophecy, one cannot fully understand the New Testament! There are a lot of Jew-deo-unChristian clergy out there spouting the New Testament and haven’t the slightest idea of the five hundred year history between the testaments. And, sorry to say, we also have some in the Israel Identity Message. Like I have commented before, we need a Bible in one hand and a history book in the other.

 

DANIEL CHAPTER 9

 

Chapter 9 brings us to Daniel’s prophecy of the Seventy Weeks of Weeks, or 490 years. Daniel, understanding that Jeremiah’s literal Seventy Weeks prophecy concerning Jerusalem was quickly coming to an end, agonized what the future of the Holy City might be. The Darius spoken of in verse 1 is the same as mentioned before, and is dated from his first year, or about 539/538 B.C. Being greatly afflicted about the future, Daniel earnestly sought guidance through fasting, meditation and fervent prayer to the Almighty, recorded from verse 4 to 21. In his prayer, Daniel didn’t make any excuses for our people, but spelled everything out exactly as it was. One must remember that before those Judahites were taken captive into Babylon, they had incorporated many of the religious practices brought into Israel by Solomon’s foreign wives, which hurried their process into paganism. Though afterward many of those Judahites reformed, that fraction of the original nation of Judah was doomed to final extinction in 70 A.D., and they never became an enduring self-governing sovereign nation after their Exile. They were the cursed-fig tree, broken-bottle nation, never to be put back together again. Though being doomed as a nation, nevertheless there was still some good seed among them. Surely, Daniel, with his copy of Jeremiah, knew the prophecy of the “broken bottle”, Jeremiah 19:10-11.

When we consider these things, we can begin to see why Daniel was so anxious of what Jerusalem’s fate might be. Understanding this, we can see that Daniel’s prayer and supplications were not just the ordinary run-of-the-mill kind of prayer. We cannot help but believe that Daniel already understood Jerusalem’s fate. What he didn’t know was when.

It is simply amazing today that nearly all the “mainstream” clergy try to imply that the present-day “Jews” gathering in Palestine, and especially Jerusalem, is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Yes, they are fulfilling prophecy, but not in the manner they suggest. When Scripture proclaims that that remnant nation is like a broken bottle, “that cannot be made whole again”, how can they sidestep and reconcile that inalterable fact? Yet they try! Again, how can they remove the curse of the fig tree of Matthew 21:19 which our Redeemer placed on them when he said: “Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever.” Both of these passages totally eliminate any such future (so-called) fulfillment. Therefore, Daniel’s prophecy in chapter 9 concerns itself with the sum and substance of how long, and under what conditions, that post-exilic remnant, non-sovereign nation would last.

 

THE SEVENTY WEEKS OF SEVEN-YEAR-WEEKS

 

Many commentators make mention along this line. But to saw seven years off this prophecy and project them 2000 years in the future is preposterous. Nowhere did Daniel even remotely suggest such a thing. Verse 24, in no uncertain terms, points out that the seventy weeks of seven-year-weeks were “determined” upon thy people and upon thy holy city.  All the rest of this prophecy revolves around a specified “people” and “holy city.” Shortly after this point in history, Jerusalem would become, and remain to be, until 70 A.D., essentially a subservient city-state. Therefore, this prophecy by Daniel must include, in some way, the final fall in 70 A.D. of Jerusalem to Rome. Again, Daniel’s prophecy is predictive of events surrounding the Mediterranean Sea area.

In order to acquire a concept of the thrust of this topic, we will first read it from verses 24 through 27. For this, I am going to weave portions of the Septuagint text in with the Masoretic text in a lighter font in italics, and in brackets:

 

“24 Seventy weeks are determined [set apart] upon [for] thy people and upon [for] thy [the] holy city, to finish the transgression [for finishing sin offerings], and to make an end of sins [and for sealing up sin offerings], and to make reconciliation for iniquity [and blotting out iniquities, and making atonement for iniquities], and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy [and for sealing vision and prophet], and to anoint the most Holy [and for anointing the Holy of Holies]. 25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks [Therefore thou art to know and understand, that from the going forth of a word for returning an answer and for building Jerusalem until an Anointed ruler are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks]: the street shall be built again, and the wall [They shall indeed return and a street shall be built and a wall, and these times shall be emptied out], even in troublous times. 26 And after threescore and two weeks [and after sixty-two weeks], shall Messiah be cut off [though there is no crime in him], but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and sanctuary [and he, with the ruler who is coming, will destroy the city and sanctuary]; and the end thereof shall be with a flood [They shall be destroyed with a deluge], and unto the end of the war desolations are determined [and even to the end of the war determined on in course, with desolations]. 27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week [Now one week shall confirm a covenant for many]: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease [and in the half of that week My sacrifice and libation shall be taken away], and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate [And upon the temple shall be an abomination of the desolations], even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate [and at the end of time, an end shall be put to that desolation].”

 

For some, this passage is somewhat confusing for they do not take the time to determine who the major players are. By weaving in portions of the Septuagint, it will help clear up some of the essential particulars. Because many jump to conclusions before ascertaining the facts, they arrive at some very bizarre opinions. One thing that most commentaries do agree on is that these seventy weeks of seven-year-weeks, or 490 years, are broken down into 7 + 62 + 1 = 70 weeks of years. But from that point on, it’s a hodgepodge, conglomeration of confused concepts.

 

SAME OLD PROBLEM

 

As I pointed out in lesson #49, there are two schools of thought on Daniel’s prophecy. One places the fourth empire of Daniel’s dream-image of iron, in chapter 2, as Greece rather than Rome. By this spurious interpretation of making Greece the “iron” part of that image, they attempt to place the “Jews” under the rule of the Seleucid dynasty of Syria, and tie the prophecy in Daniel 2:40-43 with Antiochus Epiphanes. Then, again, this school of thought attempts to make the “little horn” of Daniel 7:8 Antiochus Epiphanes. Then, again on the “little horn” of Daniel 8:9 — you guessed it — they say Antiochus Epiphanes. Now we come to Daniel 9:24-27, and according to this same fraudulent school of thought on Daniel’s seventy weeks of seven-year-weeks, again they make the claim that it involves Antiochus Epiphanes. All this makes one wonder if Daniel prophesied anything else other than Antiochus Epiphanes!

One of the reference commentaries we must be especially careful with on this school of thought is The Interpreter’s Bible, both the one and twelve volume editions. Some other commentaries which put forth this same claim are the Concise Bible Commentary by Rev. W. K. Lowther Clarke; A Commentary On The Holy Bible, edited by Rev. J. R. Dummelow; The Jerome Biblical Commentary, edited by Raymond E. Brown et. al., and I am sure there are many more. To give you an example of how they falsely tie in Antiochus Epiphanes with the seventy weeks of seven-year-weeks of Daniel 9, I will quote from the Concise Bible Commentary by Rev. W. K. Lowther Clarke, page 586. What I like about this commentary is the fact that it is “concise.” While we are critiquing this book, consider that you’re reading very similar comments from other commentaries who have adopted this same concept:

 

“These verses are very difficult, and the interpretation here given is not universally accepted. The new clue is that the seventy years mean seventy weeks (of years), i.e. 490 years; cp. 2 Chr. 36:21 and Lev. 25. This is split up into 62 x 7 (434), 7 x 7 (49). The first period ends at 538, the return from exile; this takes us back to 588, instead of 586, when the sacrifice ceased. the anointed one. Joshua, the High-priest, Hag. 1:1. A period of 434 years follows, ending with the assassination of Onias, the High-priest (2 Mac. 4:34). Then comes a final period of seven years, when Antiochus Epiphanes dletter-spacing: 2.5pt/spanesecrated the sanctuary. The desecration actually lasted three and a half years. (In 1 Maccabees the period is three years; perhaps the figure three and a half was substituted for the sake of symbolism.) The many of are the Jewish aristocracy at Jerusalem, who took the side of the Syrians. wing. The destroyer comes as a flying monster. The objection to this explanation is that a much longer period is needed than the time which elapsed between 586 and 167-164; but, as the historical errors elsewhere in the book prove, the writer had no reliable sources for his chronology.”

 

At this juncture, you may be beginning to see what I mean about this particular Concise Bible Commentary by Rev. W. K. Lowther Clarke. You may be wondering: why even give a book like this shelf-space in your library? The reason is: while this is a very poor insight on the book of Daniel, a few comments made on other subject material is outstanding. For example, I will quote a segment about the Hittites on pages 24-25. Although they don’t get it entirely correct, nevertheless this material is remarkable:

 

“Hittites.— A people which by 1600 [B.C.] formed a powerful State centered in eastern Asia Minor. Representations on the monuments show them to have been of a strongly ‘Armenoid’ type; the Jew of today resembles the ancient Hittites more than the pure Semites (Arabs). Khatti, as the Hittite kingdom was called, penetrated as far as Babylon c. 1550; also into N. Syria. In 1370 it conquered Mitanni, the N. Mesopotamian kingdom, and for a long period faced the Egyptian empire in central and southern Syria. In the 14th and 13th centuries Khatti probably profited by the weakness of Egypt and pushed into Palestine. About 1200 the Hittite empire collapsed before the attacks of invaders from the north, though Hittite States seem to have continued in the Carchemish district. Hittites occur regularly among the lists of nations to be driven out from Palestine. We read of Ephron the Hittite in Gen. 23, of Uriah the [supposed] Hittite in David’s reign, even (in 2 K. 7:6) of the Syrian conviction that ‘the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites.’ It seems as if the word is used loosely in the sense of Canaanites and in 2 Kings of petty States to the N. of Damascus. Also we may suppose that pockets of genuine Hittites created by the great expansion of their empire remained where they were when it collapsed and were eventually absorbed into the population of Syria and Palestine. Cp. Ezek. 16:3, ‘thy mother was an Hittite’ (of Jerusalem). It is permissible to hold that the sturdy Anatolian stock from Asia Minor contributed to the formation of the tenacious Jewish race. Comparison of the Hittite Code of Laws with Hammurabi’s and the Hebrew Codes show that there was a common basis of law throughout the ancient Near East.” [ ] mine

 

The writer here is mostly correct if we apply it to the “Jew” rather than to the Israelite. Once properly directed, it is correct to show the “Jews” to be of an “Armenoid” type. Incidentally, the Armenoid is the Ashkenazic “Jew.” This shows that the Jews of Khazaria had the same genetics which Esau married into. The author here calls the Arabs “pure Semites.” This is a serious error, for the pure Semites would appear like the Anglo-Saxons. He is correct when he says: “It is permissible to hold that the sturdy Anatolian stock from Asia Minor contributed to the formation of the ... Jewish race!” Other than these things, the article is quite well written. It would be great if the antichrist, anti-seedliners were as competent on the subject of the background of the “Jews” as is W. K. Lowther Clarke.

But, back to the commentaries on Daniel which foster this false position. On the protective dust cover of The (One-Volume) Interpreters Commentary On The Bible, edited by Charles M. Laymon, there is a note which says: “Seventy scholars — Protestant, Roman Catholic, and Jewish — have contributed fresh, new interpretations of the ageless truths of the Bible.” Need I say more? The bottom line is, it is imperative we be very discriminative of every bit of evidence we research. With that thought in mind, let’s see what we can determine with Daniel 9:24-27.

First of all, you will notice that the Concise Bible Commentary by Rev. W. K. Lowther Clarke couldn’t justify his timeline with Scripture for his theory. The book An Outline History Of The Seventy Weeks Nation by Alban Heath has a better explanation for fitting the predicted time into the equation on page 82:

 

“God had declared through Daniel: ‘From the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be ‘seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks’ (Daniel 9:25), ‘weeks of years’, as Moffatt renders it. Sixty-nine weeks of years is 483 years. From the decree of Artaxerxes to the Baptism of our Lord is exactly 483 years. This was a prophecy definitely related to the Jews. ‘Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city’ ... At the end of the sixty-ninth week Messiah was to appear. The time allotted had expired. Messiah appeared saying, ‘The kingdom of God is at hand.’ Immediately after His Baptism Jesus began to gather around Him those with whom He would establish on earth the abiding Kingdom. One of the first was Andrew, who communicated to his brother Peter the glad tidings: ‘We have found the Messias’ (John 1:41). The Messiah, on whom their hopes had been so long set, was here, in their midst.”

 

We have now cleared one major hurdle. The “Messiah of Daniel 9:25” is our Redeemer, Yahshua the Messiah, not Antiochus Epiphanes! W. K. Lowther Clarke, in his Concise Bible Commentary, identifies the first “seven weeks” in this same verse as the seventy years Judah was to be captive in Babylon. By doing that, he is claiming that that part of Daniel’s prophecy concerning the seventy weeks of seven-year-weeks was retroactive; that being the first seven weeks (7 x 7), or forty-nine years. No wonder he suggests that “these verses are very difficult” and cannot get his arithmetic to conform to the text. It is my opinion that the reason for trying to force Daniel’s prophesies to fit Antiochus Epiphanes in chapters 2, 7, 8, and 9 is to avoid the Pope as being the “little horn” antichrist of Daniel 7:8. In other words, there is evidently a Catholic influence in some of these Bible commentaries. I can see where the fake-Judahite (Jews) might also want to take that same position in order to avoid recognition of the True Messiah. Surely, we don’t want to be influenced by either of these sources, but avoid them at all cost. Additionally, I might point out that both the Futurists’ and Preterists’ interpretations on both Daniel and Revelation were invented by “Jewish” Jesuit Catholic priests.

When we once understand that Daniel was prophesying to all of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, and not just that remnant Judahite nation alone, that was slated for extinction (which came to represent less than 1% of the original Southern King dom), we can begin to reconcile some of his predictions. Of course, because Daniel was a citizen of that remnant nation, he was quite concerned about its future. Therefore, it is a serious mistake to concentrate only on that remnant entity, which most commentaries do.

Another very serious error is not to identify “the people of the prince” in verse 26. Some commentaries state the “prince” was Titus, who as a young man he accompanied his father, Vespasian, to Palestine at the time of the “Jewish” revolt, being a “prince” at the time, and later became emperor. Of one thing we can be quite certain, it was not Antiochus Epiphanes, as W. K. Lowther declares. The “people” of the “prince” were the Roman soldiers made-up of Benjamites, true Judahites known as Germans, and probably many other Israelites from the various tribes. The answer to whom the “prince” is can be found in Romans 16:20: “And the Elohim of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly ...” Therefore, the “Prince” was Yahshua the Messiah, and “the people of the Prince” were the Roman soldiers. Thus, Titus was only part of “the people of the Prince.” The Roman seed of the woman bruised the “Jewish” seed of the serpent under Titus in 70 A.D. (Genesis 3:15).

While we are speaking of errors, we need to repeat again that the so-called scholars of the Futurists’ school of interpretation, by their failure to recognize the RACE of the BOOK, resort to what is known as the “parenthesis” or “gap” postulation (assumed as true). Then, in order to reconcile their beliefs with Scripture, they chronologically detach the 70th week-of-years from the preceding 69 weeks-of-years. They then place 2000 years in-between and label it the “Christian Dispensation.” The proponents of that theory infer Daniel’s prophecy came to a stop and is only marking time, which they say will continue with what they fallaciously dub the “rapture.” This has to be the most harebrained theorization of prophecy ever fabricated.

Of all their serious blunders, their view on verse 27 has to be the greatest. Let’s take a second look at it:

 

“And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate.”

 

In this verse, when speaking of confirming a covenant with many for one week, it is prophesying that Yahshua would make a New Covenant of His Body and His Blood, represented by the bread and wine, to the House of Israel and the House of Judah. You will notice that it says “many” rather than “all.” The Futurists view this verse as “the reign of the Antichrist”, but it is quite the opposite. Therefore, the Futurists assign to the Antichrist (Satan) that which belongs to our Messiah. In the Baker Commentary On The Bible (based on the NIV), edited by Walter A. Elwell, on verse 27 it is put very correctly: “According to another [Futurists’] view, the last ‘seven’ pertains to the Jewish people and marks the period of great tribulation before the millennial kingdom.” The way the author states this, it is apparent he is not in agreement with that view.

This same Bible commentary does a better job on the Seventy Weeks of Daniel than most, and is worth quoting:

 

“Building on the seventy-years motif, the angel reveals that the Lord has decreed ‘seventy sevens’ (v. 24) The purpose of the ‘seventy sevens’ is to finalize judgment on sin, to atone for sin and transgression, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to fulfill all the prophetic word, and to anoint the most holy (v. 24) ... The first period of seven ‘sevens’ pertains to the return of the people from exile and the rebuilding of the temple and Jerusalem (ca. 536-445 B.C.). This period begins with the issuing of the decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, but opinions differ on when this took place: 538 B.C. (Cyrus’s decree to restore the temple in Jerusalem) or 445 B.C. (Nehemiah’s permission to restore the walls of Jerusalem). There is little disagreement on the identification of ‘the Anointed One, the ruler’ with our Lord Jesus ... A longer period of ‘sixty-two ‘sevens’ brings us to the crucifixion of the Messiah. The last ‘seven’ will witness the confirmation (renewal) of the covenant by the Messiah and the desecration of the temple. Gabriel promises that ‘he will confirm a covenant with many for one ‘seven’’ (v. 27), but our problem is the identity of the ‘he.’ Some hold that the Messiah is the subject of the sentence, but others see here a reference to Titus and the Antichrist. Indeed, Titus brought an end to sacrifices and offerings and set up pagan symbols in the temple court. This is the ‘abomination that causes desolation’ (v. 27). On the other hand, the confirmation of the covenant could be reference to the Anointed, whereas the abomination of desolation is an allusion to Titus. These events are associated with the Romans, who destroyed the city and the sanctuary.”

 

If there is any question of whether or not the Futurists base what they call “the tribulation period” on verse 27, all one need do is go to Tim LaHaye’s book Revelation Unveiled, page 132, where he uses Daniel 9:24-27, the passage we are now addressing, to attempt to prove his thesis.

 

A PROBLEM STILL REMAINS

 

It might appear that because verse 27 indicates that the “sacrifice” and the “oblation” would “cease” in the “midst of the week”, that there might be a period of three and a half of Daniel’s 490 years that were never used. But, if we examine the text thoroughly, we will see that the time element depends “unto the Messiah” (v. 25), rather than the destruction of Jerusalem. Many use the forty years from the crucifixion until Titus to prove their theory for a “gap.” If we analyze verse 26, that Messiah would be cut off after the sixty two week of years period, thus, 7 + 62 = 69, and after would put it into the 70th week of seven years. In other words, Messiah came upon the completion of 69 weeks of seven-year-weeks. The first three and a half years of the seventieth prophetic week would then represent the ministry of Messiah.

That still leaves us with the word “midst” in verse 27. The Hebrew word “midst” is #2677 in the Strong’s or Gesenius’ and means: a half; our half; or middle. This seems to confirm that Messiah was crucified in the middle of Daniel’s 70th prophetic week. But, we must remember that Yahshua continued to confirm His covenant after His Resurrection. This could have included His Ascension; the Advent of the Holy Spirit; the very beginnings of the origination of the Church, along with many dreams, visions and personal appearances, such as like with Saul, later called Paul.

Scripture doesn’t seem to give us a sharp cutoff point for the end of the 70th week, but we can be sure it was exactly three and a half years after His crucifixion. As you can plainly see, there isn’t any time left over for a future seven years of tribulation or the coming of a super-duper-pooper Antichrist.

Much of the error concerning Daniel’s prophecies is a misunderstanding of Matthew 24. There is not enough space here to get involved in that study, but one must know the historical background of that period. Some may not be aware of it, but the complete works of Josephus supply much of that information. If you don’t have one already, I recommend the one translated by William Whiston. Please don’t take me wrongly though, I am not implying that Josephus is a perfect source of information, but he supplies much of what we need to know in order to understand Matthew 24. The secret to understanding Matthew 24 is to be able to separate the short, medium, and long-range predictions Messiah instructed us to look for, and most of His predictions were of a short-range nature. But, as usual, the Futurists take Matthew 24 and try to fit most of it into a so-called “future seven years of tribulation.” The “tribulation” of Matthew 24:29 was the ordeal through which Jerusalem would suffer at the hands of the Romans. There is much more, but this will have to suffice for now. It is of the utmost importance that we interpret Daniel and Revelation correctly!