TRACING OUR ANCESTORS #19
Continued from the porevious page:
THE NUMBER 13
In America were the thirteen tribes of Israel, reunited;
there were the thirteen colonies that broke away from the mother
country. The number thirteen has been called the unlucky number,
but a little examination will show that it is our national
number, and a very lucky one indeed. Our national emblem, "The
American Eagle," consists of thirteen letters; and that Eagle
holds in its right talon an olive branch with thirteen leaves,
and in the left thirteen arrows. In its beak the Eagle holds a
scroll on which is written in thirteen letters "E Pluribus Unum"
(One out of many), and above this is a cloud in which shine
thirteen stars. Does not that cloud remind us of the cloud of the
Lord that accompanied Israel in all their journeys? (See Exodus
40: 36.) There are also thirteen bars on our flag and thirteen
rods in our National mace. Massachusetts as a colony had an
emblem and a motto. That emblem was a pine tree at the base of
which was coiled a rattlesnake. Above the tree the motto reads,
"An Appeal to God," thirteen letters, beneath the snake another
motto in thirteen letters, "Don't Tread on Me."
All through our history the number thirteen stands out
preeminently. July the Fourth, the birthday of our nation,
contains thirteen letters and our first navy consisted of
thirteen ships. The Conferedate flag held thirteen stars,
although there were only eleven states in the Confederacy. Fort
Sumter was fired upon on the thirteenth day and Dewey took Manila
on the thirteenth. We entered the World War under Woodrow Wilson,
whose name contains thirteen letters. The first expedition to
France sailed in thirteen ships. They left on the thirteenth of
June, 1917, and took just thirteen days to cross. The battle of
Belleau Wood, our troops' first major engagement, took place on
Friday the 13th of June, the birthday of General John J.
Pershing, who has also thirteen letters in his name.
Are all these number thirteens merely a coincidence or do
they constitute mystical symbols, which indicate the Presence and
action of the Unseen Hand of Jehovah?
REVERSE SIDE OF THE GREAT SEAL
On the reverse side of our great seal is shown a symbolical
pyramid and on its suspended apex stone is portrayed the eye of
the Almighty watching over the destiny of our nation. This
Pyramid, shown as standing in the wilderness, also consists of
thirteen courses of stone, representing the thirteen states and
is symbolic of that building erected by the descendants of the
thirteen tribes in the wilderness of the New World. Above it is
written in thirteen letters Annuit Coeptis (He has favored our
beginning). But that Pyramid stands unfinished; its Apex Stone is
suspended above it and symbolizes that our people will yet be
compelled by the conditions of the present crisis to call upon
God to finish the Building for them. Then the New Order referred
to below in the inscription Novus Ordo Seclorum (A new order of
ages has begun) will indeed be with us. To that New Order present
day events are hastening. Writing on this symbolism, Prof. Totten
of Yale in "The Seal of History" writes:
"Now the preliminary date thereof is 1776. It is a type only or
prophecy of the 'Novus Ordo Seclorum' itself, which is yet
future. In that day an elect body, founded on the Apostles ...
its proportions circummetric in every sense of the word, will be
recognized by all mankind, and all nations and tongues shall flow
to it to know the truth which maketh free indeed. The reverse
face (of the Great Seal) is thus preeminently a type of the Body
of Christ, and an En-Sign of the New Covenant yet to be
consummated. (Ephes.1, 10-22)"
(Here we see the true meaning of the "seal" which is way
different than what some try to teach regarding the "masons" and
"secret world order" guys. We need to remember that inspite of
some of the founding fathers being "masons" the nation of the USA
was mainly founded upon "Christian religion" not some "secret
nutty" organization, secretly plotting to take over the world as
some "conspiracy" fanatic-mind-set people want to shout - Keith
Hunt)
In this connection it is important to point to the Great
Pyramid of Gizeh, which was also constructed without an Apex
Stone. As the Great Pyramid represents a structural allegory of
the Kingdom of God, it is only in harmony with that allegory that
its symbolic Apex Stone is missing, for the Kingdom upon earth
will be consummated only under Christ---the Stone which the
Builders rejected. (To understand more fully the reference to
this Pyramid allegory of Scripture the interested reader is
referred to my "Great Pyramid's Message to America.")
THE 2520 YEAR PUNISHMENT - BEGINNINGS AND ENDINGS
In my book, "The Seven Times of Prophecy," I have
demonstrated the course of the prophetic cycles of Israel's 2520
year punishment and have shown that the first series, beginning
in 970 B. C., the year of the breaking up of Solomon's kingdom,
terminated in 1551 A.D., marking the middle of that great century
of Reformation; and that Reformation took place primarily among
the Anglo-Saxon nations. The time had then arrived for Israel,
regathered in the Isles and Coastlands of the West, to shake off
their age-old enemy - Rome. The story of that Reformation is too
well known to repeat it here, but few have observed its real
setting, its national and racial significance. With only isolated
exceptions, it was the Saxon or Nordic race, the people of the
British Isles, northwestern Germany, Holland, the Scandinavian
countries, and the Hugueots of France, who protested against
Papal doctrines and domination and went back to the open Bible.
Assyria, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, and the revived Roman
Empire--the Papacy - had ruled over Israel, as the prophets had
declared; but now the time of Israel's rebirth had come, and they
began to carry out their appointed mission with the Bible as
their text book, to become the pioneers of the Christian
civilization.
In 1558 Elizabeth became the queen of England. During her
long reign the people of England developed that marked character
of the Anglo-Saxons, of giving fair play to their fellow men;
religion became a matter of the individual's choice and right,
and each man's home became his castle. Despite the many attempts
of Papists to foment religious trouble and despite several
uprisings of Catholic nobles against the Queen, the attempted
invasion of the Spanish Armada cemented Protestants and Catholics
into one nation. English seadogs, like Hawkins, Cavendish,
Frobisher, and Drake, impudently dared the might of Spain and in
small vessels attacked the big Spanish galleons wherever they
found them. Of Philip's proud Armada of 140 ships, manned with
thirty thousand men and three thousand guns, not one ship nor
even a boat ever landed on the shores of Britain. Only
fifty-three ships returned to the ports of Spain, after being
driven around the north of Scotland. The vessels that had escaped
the little ships of the English navy were destroyed by the storms
of the northern ocean. Surely this was "the Lord's doing," and
the people of England knew it and praised God for it.
With Elizabeth's reign began the British sea power and the
Freedom of the Seas that guaranteed protection for all who were
engaged in peaceful enterprise. If it had not been for that
little English navy that broke the power of Spain and the Papacy,
no Bible nor a single Protestant missionary would have ever
reached the shores of America. In fact, it is very doubtful
whether English settlement on our shores would have been possible
at all.
Before Elizabeth, Enland was a weak and divided nation and
Catholic Spain the mighty power and mistress of the sea; but when
Elizabeth died in 1603 a new power had a risen out of the sea -
Great Britain. The ancient Barati of the Phoenician sailors had
at last awakened from her age-old sleep; the Phoenix of Israel
that had sunken in the East with the demise of Solomon had risen
again to greater glory in the West, in preparation for its
appointed destiny.
That destiny was to be the great protective power of
civilization, as spoken of in the Vishnu Purana Epic: His (Barat
Phoenician) sources of subsistence are Arms and the Protection of
the Earth ... The Guardianship of the Earth is his special
province ..."
According to Genesis that destiny was to be "a great and
mighty nation" and "a company o nations," and according to
Isaiah: "Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lors, and my servant
whom I have chosen."
It is to this period of Israel's rebirth, beginning with the
Great Reformation, that Isaiah's Message is addressed as set
forth in Chapters forty to sixty-six. (Maybe in type fulfilled,
but the prophecy is yet to fully be realized at the end of this
age - Kieth Hunt). This is that portion of Isaiah which Prof.
Breasted and his friends the critics say was writtten by another,
but unknown, Hebrew prophet who lived after the Babylonian
captivity. The critics are trying to tell us that this portion of
Isaiah was fulfilled during the Jews' return to Palestine, but no
Jews are mentioned in these chapters of Isaiah; neither were the
Jews located in the Isles of the West to which these messages
are addressed.
"Listen, O isles, unfo me; hearken, Ye people, from far, the Lord
hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath
he made mention of my name. And he hath made my mouth like a
sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me; and said
unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be
glorified. Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my
strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with
the Lord, and my work with my God. And now, saith the Lord that
formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again
to him. Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in
the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength. And he
said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to
raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of
Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that
thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth. Thus saith
the Lord, In an acceptable time I have heard thee, and in a day
of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and
give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth,
to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; that thou mayest say
to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew
yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall
be in all high places."--Isaiah 40:1-10.
This is His "covenant of the people," the Brith-am that
Jehovah has made with us, to proclaim His salvation to the ends
of the earth, to set the prisoners free and prepare for the
Kingdom of Heaven upon earth. These passages and man of those
other beautiful chapters of his portion of Isaiah starting with
the 40th chap chapter, have comforted many hearts but they would
mean much more to us if we realized that they have a national as
well as individual meaning. From thousands of _pulpits these
portions of Isaiah have been read without the listeners knowing
that they actually belong to us and to our race. The churches
which have proclaimed those messages and God's salvation are in
Israel, not among the Jews, nor among the heathen; that was our
mission and responsibility to preach salvation to the ends of the
earth. It was our mission to print the Word and our race has done
what has been done; the British and Foreign Bible Society,
several American Bible Societies, and the German Society have
printed the Bible in eight hundred different languages and sown
the seed throughout the world through thirty thousand
missionaries.
"Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see. Who is
blind, but my servant, or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who
is as blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's
servant? Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the
ears, but he heareth not. The Lord is well pleased for his
righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it
honourable. But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all
of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they
are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith,
Restore. Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken
and hear for the time is come?"--Isaiah 42:18-23.
When the Pilgrim Fathers landed on the shores of New England
over three centuries ago, they and their successors, the
pioneers, brought the Bible with them and depended upon the God
of our fathers, the God of Israel, to guide them in conquering
the American wilderness. Exactly seven Prophetic Times, or 2520
years, from the beginning of the end of the kingdom of Israel in
745 B.C. our Republic began in 1776 A.D. when the descendants of
the thirteen tribes had regathered on our shores and started to
build a new structure, a new Pyramid; but that Pyramid is still
unfinished, in fact, it was in grave danger during the last few
years because some of its foundations were built upon "shifting
sand," upon gold and greed; and it began to sink.
(In an overall way 1776 A.D. was the beginning of the pouring out
of the physical blessing of the earth upon the people of Joseph
and to a lesser degree the people of the other Ten tribes of
Israel, now settled in Europe. Many were Bible "religious" yet
there was also great sins done by the tribes of Israel as they
came to might and power in the Western world. Despite that, truly
the Bible was printed and sent around the world by the "bible
societies" of the nations of Israel, especially the tribe of
Joseph - Keith Hunt)
OUR FALL - OUR UPLIFTING
Mr.D.Davidson in his work, "The Great Pyramid's Prophecy
Concerning the British Empire and America," has shown the Great
Pyramid's chronology fixed the 10th of January, 1776, an epoch
making date in the history of Israel in America. It was on the
10th of January, 1776, that Thomas Paine published his pamphlet
"Common Sense," in which he called upon the people of the
colonies to rebel against the mother land. (Refer also to Kingdom
Bulletin No.2.) It was also Thomas Paine who started in America
the era of rational criticism of the Bible, which paved the road
for the doctrine of evolution in our colleges and ushered in our
modern era of materialism that almost overwhelmed the spiritual
teachings of the Bible. Orthodox theology was helpless to stem
that tide of rationalism and was rapidly evercome, until it is
doubtful whether today one-third of our churches are still loyal
to the Fundamentals of Scripture. It is also evident that most
of our college-bred classes have inhaled the iconoclasm of the
critics and philosophers, and today most of them feel like lost
sheep in a wilderness of diverse thoughts.
The school of Athens and its philosophers have displaced in
our educational system the Hebrew school of the Apostles and
Prophets, for our people never knew that they were Hebrews
themselves, the great colonizing race. And now after
experimenting for ages with Babylonian systems of statecraft and
economics, and Athenian as well as every other heathen form of
philosophy, our leaders are going back to the teachings of the
Hebrew Scriptures and realize that there is no other hope for our
nation and the world than to follow Jesus Christ and adopt and
practice the principles of His Kingdom, which Kingdom is now
imminent.
(Indeed it was so, during the middle 1930s - the Great Depression
and then World War Two - the churches were full - faith in THE
God of Israel and His Word, gave strength and hope to Britain,
the USA and her freinds standing by their side against the
Satanic evil of Hitler and his Germany. That was then, today tghe
nations of Israel have forgotten their God, they have cast him
and His word out of their places of education; they have a form
of religion [if they have any] but deny the power thereof - Keith
Hunt)
God has kept His Covenant with Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and
Joseph, but we, are unmindful of our Heritage and of the Rock
that begat us. If my friends the Fundamentalists had had more
knowledge of the Old Testament and could have demonstrated to an
unbelieving world that our Anglo-Saxon supremacy and civilization
is a verification of God's Covenant with Abraham and his seed,
then the theory of man's evolution from primates could never have
received the general acceptance it has. If we are not the
descendants of Abraham of four thousand years ago, then how can
we be the sons of Adam of six thousand years ago? And if we are
not Hebrews then we must have grown like the evolutionists tell
us we did; we just happened this way, and just grew like Topsy
thought she did.
It is time for orthodoxy to awake and stand for the whole-
Bible, for God is marching on.
No doubt millions were thrilled when they listened over the
radio one Sunday afternoon in June of 1933 to that wonderful
oratorio, Handel's Messiah, sung by seven thousand voices at the
Century of Progress Exposition. But unfortunately they were
unconscious of the fact that those glorious words, found in the
fortieth chapter of Isaiah, were Jehovah's own words to our race
and to our day.
"Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye
comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is
accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath
received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. The voice of
him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every
valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be
made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
places plain: and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and
all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath
spoken it. The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry?
All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the
flower of the field: the grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people
is grass. The grass withereth: the flower fadeth: but the word of
our God shall stand for ever. O Zion, that bringeth good tidings,
lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say
unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! Behold, the Lord God
will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: and
behold his reward is with him, and his work before him. He shall
feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with
his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those
that are with young. Who hath measured the waters in the hollow
of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended
the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in
scales, and the hills in a balance? Who hath directed the Spirit
of the Lord, or being his counsellor hath taught him?" --Isaiah
40:1-13.
"The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness" is not
merely the voice of John the Baptist, who prepared for the
Messiah's coming, but looks forward to the time that we are
living in, when a new spirit arising amidst the ruins of a dying
system and is preparing us for the New Age and the return of the
Messiah, to occupy the Throne of His father David.
(Yes, the great fulfilment of this prophecy is yet to take place
when the Lord shall come, in strength, to rule the world, and to
lead the weak and the humble, to bring RESTITUTION of all things
to all nations - Keith Hunt)
"Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you
from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations
of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,
and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth
out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to
dwell in: that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the
judges of the earth as vanity ...
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid
from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Hast
thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God,
the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not,
neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he
increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
and the young men shall utterly fail: But they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings
as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk,
and not faint." --Isaiah 40: 21-23, 27-31.
It seems that our shepherds have missed much when they tell
their flocks that the Old Testament belongs to the Jews and at
the same time derive spiritual messages from its pages. A great
awakening has begun in our land, and a still greater one is in
store for the lost sheep of the house of Israel, It is character-
istic of our age that many of our people are looking so solely to
science to bring about the New Age and leave God out of the
equation entirely; they appear to be through with God, but they
will yet find that God is not through with them. These are
strange days and stranger things are yet o follow.
Serious trouble is in our land today, because we have
foraken the God of our fathers an worshipped other gods. It is of
this time that Jeremiah is speaking in his 30th chapter, verses
4-8:
"And these are the words that the Lord spake concerning Israel
and concerning Judah. For thus saith the Lord; We have heard a
voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace. Ask ye now, and
see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see
every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and
all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that day is great,
so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob's trouble;
but he shall be saved out of it. For it shall come to pass in
that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will break his yoke
from off thy neck, and will burst thy bonds, and strangers shall
no more serve themselves of him."
Jacob, our people, God's people, "shall be saved out of it,"
or as the marginal reading has it, "may be saved out of it."
America and Great Britain have lost their way but are now finding
it again in this valley of disappointment and tears; and through
this present collapse of the Babylonian economic system which we
have followed all these centuries, our people will find their way
to Jehovah their God, and to His Kingdom.
(Well the West - the nations of Israel, the house of Judah, and
the people of Russia, were yet, at the writing of this book, to
go through a time of trouble not seen the like of up to that time
in history. And it will all be repeated again, for the THIRD
(first and second World Wars being the first two times) TIME
around, and it will be a time of trouble such as never before and
never will be again. Then Jesus will come and put a stop to
mankind blowing themselves to oblivion. Israel and Judah will be
saved out of it, brought back to the Promised Land, restored, and
Christ will reign as King of kings and Lord of lords from
Jerusalem, sitting on the throne of David - Keith Hunt)
"Who bath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall
the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be
born at once? for as soon as Zion, travailed, she brought forth
her children."--Isaiah 66:8.
In closing I wish to quote these immortal lines of Rudyard
Kipling, who evidently was conscious of our origin and our
calling:
God of our fathers, known of old,
Lord of our far-flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold,
Dominion over palm and pine.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget - lest we forget!
Far-called our navies melt away,
On dune and headland sinks the fire,
All our pomp of yesterday,
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget - lest we forget!
For heathen heart that puts her trust,
In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding calls not Thee to guard.
For frantic boast and foolish word,
Thy Mercy on Thy People, Lord!
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