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out of the /and of the north
to the land that 1 have given
for an inheritance unto your fathers." At the future exo–
dus, at Christ's coming, they are to return to Palestine out
of the land of the NORTH!
After saying, "How shall
1
give thee up, Ephraim?" the
Eterna!, speaking through Hosea, says: "Then the chil–
dren shall tremble from the west" (Hosea 11:8, 10).
Again: " Behold,
I
will bring them from the north coun–
try, and gather them from the coasts of the earth' ' (Jer.
31 :8). This prophecy is for consideration in the "latter
days" (Jer. 30:24; 31:1 ), and is addressed to " Israel"
(verses 2, 4, 9), to "Ephraim" (verses 6, 9), and "Samar–
ia" (verse
5).
Here is added another hint- "the coasts of
the earth" (verse 8)-evidencing they are dominant at sea
and indicating they have spread abroad widely by coloni–
zation.
Referring to the house of ISRAEL, not Judah ( lsaiah
49:3,6), God says: " Behold, these shall come from far:
and, lo, these
from lhe
NORTH
and from the
WEST; and
these from the land of Sinim" (Isa. 49: 12). In the Hebrew,
the)anguage in which this was originally inspired, there is
no word for "northwest," but this term is designated by
the phrase, "the north and the west." l t means, literally,
the northwest! The Vulgate renders
1
' Sinim" as
"Australi," or "Australia." So we now have the location
northwest of Jerusalem
and even spreading around the
world.
Hence, Israel of TODAY-Israel of the day of Jere–
miah's "planting" of David's throne- is located specifi-
Though lost, though supposed to be a
Gentile nation, Israel's people were to
grow into the promised multitude.
cally as northwest of Jerusalem and in the sea! Let us
locate this Iand more specifically!
The same 49th chapter of Isaiah begins with this: ' 'Lis–
ten, O isles, unto me." The people addressed, Israel, are
called "O isles" in the first verse and "O Israel" in the
third verse. This term "isles" or "islands" is sometimes
translated "coastlands."
The 31st chapter of Jeremiah, locating Israel in the
"north country," says: " I am a father to Israel, and
Ephraim is my firstborn. Hear the word of the Lord, O ye
nations [Ephraim, Manasseh]. and declare it
in the isles
afar off ... " (Jer. 31:9-1 0).
Again: "Keep silence before me, O islands.... thou, Is–
rael, art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen" (Jsa.
41:1, 8).
.
1n Jeremiah 31: 1
O,
the message is to be declared "in the
is les afar gfr' and is to be shouted in "the CHIEF OF THE
10
NATJONS" (verse 7). So, finally, today, as in Jeremiah's
day, the house of Israel is in the isles, which are "in the
sea," the chief of the nati'ons, northwest of Jerusalem. A
coast-dwelling, and therefore sea-dominant, people. Cer–
tainly there can be no mistaking that identity!
Take a map of Europe. Lay a line due NORTHWEST of
Jerusalem across the continent of Europe, until you come
to the sea, and then to the islands in the sea! This line
takes you directly to the British lsles!
Of proof that our white, English-speaking peoples to–
da.y-Britain and America- are actually and truly the
birthright tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh of the " lost"
house of Israel tbere is so much we shall have space for
but a small portion in this series.
Britain's Hebrew Names
A most interesting fact is the Hebrew meaning of the
names of the British people. Tbe house of Israel is the
covenant people. Th.e Hebrew word for "covenant" is
ber–
iyth,
or
berith.
After Gideon's death, Israel followed the
false pagan god Baal. In Judges 8:33 and 9:4, the word
"covenant" is used as a proper name coupled with the
name "Baal." This is quoted in the English text, Autho–
rized Version, without being translated, as " Baalberith,"
meaning (margin) "idol of the covenant."
The l-lebrew for "man" is
iysh,
or
ish.
I n English, the
ending "-ish" means
"of
or
belonging to
(a specified na–
tion or person)." In the original Hebrew language vowels
were never given in the spelling. So, omitting the vowel
"e" from
berith,
but retaining the "i' ' in its anglicized
form to preserve the "y"
sound~
we have the anglicized
Hebrew word for covenant,
brith.
The Hebrews, however, never pronounced their "h's."
Many a Jew, even today, in pronouncing the name
"Shem," will call it "Sem." lncidentally, this ancient He–
brew trait is also a modern British trait. So the Hebrew
word for "covenant" would be pronounced, in its angli–
cized form, as
brit.
And the word for "covenant man," or "covenant
people," would therefore be simply "BRIT-JSH." And so, is
it mere coincidence that the true covenant people today
are called the "BRITISH"? And they reside in the "BRITISH
ISLES"!
The house of Israel not only was to lose its identity, but
its name.
lt
was to be called by a new name, since they no
longer were to know their identity as Israel, as God said
plainly in lsaiah 62:2, referring to these latter days, and to
the millennium.
To Abraham God saíd, " In ISAAC shall thy seed be
called," and this name is repeated in Romans 9:7 and
Hebrews 11:18. I n Amos 7:16 the Israelites are called
"the house of ISAAC." They were descended from Isaac,
and therefore are Isaac's sons. Drop the
" 1"
from " Isaac"
(vowels are not used in Hebrew spelling), and we have the
modern name "SAAC's soNs," or, as we spell it in shorter
manner, "SAXONS"!
The
PLAIN TRUHj March 1979