the ancient world & the Foreign Influx into Israel (Palestine)
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the Foreign Influx into Israel (Palestine)
partially, the:
Hittites {G-42}(See map)
Hurrians (Mitanni Kingdom) {K-59}
Amorites {G-58}
Arameans {J-64}
Philistines {F-65}
Hykos' {C-74}
Egyptians (probably of Ham, Shem's brother by Noah; as well as the aboriginals/slaves) {D-76}
Greeks {B-51}
Romans {B-53}
Edomites-Idumians (of Esau, Jacob's brother) {F-77} (see below map for extent of encroachment)
Ishmaelites (Arabs, of Ishmael, Isaac's brother) {I-77}
We italicize the word Foreign in the above heading because many of these peoples were in Palestine before Israel received the land by covenant from God and drove most of them out. They are however foreign in regards to their bloodlines; and while some of these peoples were of Abraham (the Ishmaelites for instance, are Arabs, of Ishmael, Isaac's brother and Abraham's son by the Egyptian handmaid Hagar), and some were of Isaac (the Edomites-Idumians were of Esau, Jacob's brother and Isaac's son), they were not of Jacob/Israel and were thus not Israelites, God's covenant people. So while they were in the 'Palestine' territory, they were not of Israel and thus not Israelites by blood nor covenant.
Along with the Israel peoples' entry into their promised land (Palestine), there were many incursions and influxes of foreigners both before and after Israel entered the land. These peoples occupied parts of the territory by birth, conquest and/or infusion. Thus all the wars even until today.
Israel Splits Into two Separate kingdoms
Before we go any further here we must lay some groundwork: Judah and Israel became separate Nations in 880*1 b.c. after a rift in the kingdom over taxes after the death of King Solomon. So from henceforth we shall speak of the Israel peoples as two separate Nations of the same stock of Jacob/Israel, by Jacob's father Isaac, by Isaac's father Abraham; all three of whom God made eternal covenants with.
This can be confusing sometimes. At first there was simply Israel, all 12 Tribes were simply called Israel as a Nation, with each being a separate tribal faction. Then, after the Kingdom split, the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and some of the Levite Priests (and perhaps a small contingent of the Tribe of Simeon) merged and became known as the Southern Kingdom called Judah, with their capital at Jerusalem. The rest of the 10 tribes became the Northern Kingdom called Israel with their capital at Samaria.
That's were it gets confusing, Israel was at different times and in different Scriptures the name of the whole 12 tribe Nation of Israel, and, later, Israel was also the name of the separated 10 tribe Kingdom of Israel. This also wreaks havoc on many peoples understanding of Biblical prophecy regarding the two nations. For the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel will not be reunited until the end of this age at the Millennium. Many a Bible expositor or commentator has gone wrong by attributing the prophecies of Judah or Israel one to another. They are separate Nations of separate people with separate prophecies relating to each of them. And then just when you thought it couldn't get any more complicated, some prophecies are to both of them (Judah and Israel). Yes, I do believe that God has a sense of humor. :o)
But now let's deal with Judah, the 2 tribe Southern Kingdom. Before, during and after the Babylonia Captivity of Judah in the 5th century b.c., when a small portion (approx. 50,000) of the Tribe of Judah returned to Jerusalem, they intermarried with many of the foreigners listed above taking strange wives and having children by them who then had children by others and on and on it went until there was very little true Israel stock in Judah. This 'mixture' was not merely by intermarriage, but was also religious, with Judah corrupting herself as her sister nation, the Nation of Israel (10 Tribes) had done over a hundred years prior.
In Israel's case, she did not intermarry (after the Kingdom split), but went after the false gods of the peoples around and amongst them. Because of this, and by prophecy, Israel was taken into Assyrian captivity in the 7th century b.c., their capital city Samaria fell by siege and became an Assyrian province. Israel ceased to be and was lost (hence the name "The 10 Lost Tribes"). But Israel wasn't destroyed nor lost, they just lost their identity, still don't know who they are today. There are many Anglo-Saxons reading this present study who have absolutely no idea that they are Israel! But that was prophesied to happen and thus was unavoidable:
God speaking of Israel:
Deut 32:26
26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men: (KJV)
After the Assyrian captivity, Israel (presumably with a portion of their Judah co-captives) migrated north over the Caucasus Mountains and settled Europe, eventually traveling into the Americas to join their kinsmen who had traveled there by sea (Dan was one seafaring tribe of Israel) to America as early as 1000 b.c. as evidenced by the excavated settlements and unearthed inscriptions (the 10 commandments etc.) carved in stone in Paleo-Hebrew (before the modern 'square' Hebrew writing) in the Americas. If this interests you we have a study on the 10 lost Tribes of Israel: Israel's migrations to "the appointed place." and: The first Christian Church A.D. 37: at Glastonbury; Britain. Founded by Joseph of Arimathaea, Christ's great-uncle. Also: Irish and Scottish Ancestry. Also some good books on the subject are: Jacob's pillar | Stonehenge and Druidism | Traditions of Glastonbury | Celt, Druid and Culdee | Saint Paul in Britain | Discovery of Ancient America|.
So much for the later 10 Tribe Nation of Israel, let's pick back up with Judah (the two tribed Nation). As mentioned above, the mixture of the Tribe of Judah was not merely by intermarriage, but was also religious, with Judah corrupting herself and her religion. To fully understand the corruption of Judah we must look at in two aspects, one physical (genealogy) and the other religious.
This corruption of the covenant peoples of Judah was brought about by intermarriage with the peoples listed above (and others) at the beginning of this article. God had forbade Israel (then only one whole 12 Tribe Nation before the split in the 10th century b.c. immediately following Solomon's reign as king over all of Israel).
God speaking to all of Israel (before there was a Judah and an Israel) :
Deut 7:1-6
1 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;
2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:
3 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy son.
4 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
5 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth. (KJV)
Did Israel listen? Observe: (this is also before there was a Judah and an Israel) :
Judg 3:5-7
5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves (KJV) [groves = Asherah worship, a phallic cult (yes, you read right, a phallic cult! How far really are some churches from that now? See The 'Asherah'].Judg 10:6
6 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him. (KJV)
Now that was all in the Old Testament times when Israel was one Nation of 12 tribes. let's 'fast-forward' to 5th century (489 b.c. 599 b.c. by common reckoning) to a time after the 12 Tribes split into two separate Kingdoms of the 10 tribed Israel and the 2 tribed Judah. After the 10 tribed Nation of Israel was lost, the 2 tribed Nation of Judah was herself taken into captivity. Israel, over a hundred years earlier (122) had fallen into Assyrian captivity (in 611 b.c. 721 b.c. by common reckoning), but Judah was in captivity to the Babylonians and taken out of Palestine into Babylon as prisoners and slaves. The Babylonians had wrested world dominion from the Assyrians. It didn't take long for the Babylonians to be conquered by the great Persian Empire. The Persians, under King Darius, released Judah from captivity. A small portion of Judah (approx. 50,000) returned to Jerusalem and rebuilt the Temple. This can be read of in the Old Testament books of Ezra, and, Nehemiah.
Before, during and after the Babylonia Captivity of Judah, the Tribe of Judah intermarried with many of the foreigners listed at the beginning of this article and shown on the map above. The results were just as God predicted, Judah had given itself wholly over to religious corruption, resulting in what we now know as modern day Judaism.
The chief 'mixture' of Judah was by the Babylonians and the Edomites-Idumiansns (of Esau, Jacob's brother and perennial foe). From the Babylonians Judah got their Jewish Babylonian Talmud (in writing circa 500 b.c. through a.d. 500, and later codified). The Talmud (and the Kabbalah) are the holy books of modern Judaism given rank over the Old Testament!
When the modern Jew speaks of the Torah (technically, the Law) the Talmud is given a high spot of prestige. The Talmud is supposedly the recorded oral traditions of the ancient Rabbis that Christ so often rebuked them for. For instance, in Jesus chastises the Jews for their ritual hand washing during meals. And this they did, but it was nowhere to be found in the Old Testament Law, it was Talmudic:
Mark 7:1-8
1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault.
3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?
6 He [Jesus] answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
8 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. (KJV)Ezra 10:44
44 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children. (KJV)
By Christ's time the Edomites had so thoroughly worked their way into Judah that King Herod, the King of all Judea, was not of Judah (nor Israel) but was Idumian! This mixed group of people became what we now know as Jews. 95% of modern day so-called Jews have very little, if any, Israel blood in their veins, and are hardly Semitic (Semitic = of Shem, Noah's son). They principally are the ancestors of the Idumians, Khazars, Hittites... These so-called self-styled Jews are the ones referred to in prophecy that our Lord warned us would be in power in the latter days persecuting the faithful of God:
Rev 2:9-10
9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
10 Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. (KJV)
Rev 3:9-11
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
10 Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
11 Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown. (KJV)
Perhaps the saddest thing of all is that uninformed Christians call these people the "Apple of God's Eye," and the "Chosen people of God," the chosen race." They are not chosen nor are they a race; never mind that they murdered the only begotten Son of God. They are impostors; they are, among others, the descendants of Esau (who himself took strange wives {Gen 28:6-9; 36:1-3}) trying to steal back the birthright from Jacob's children (Israel). The vast majority of them have absolutely no idea who they are, they themselves are victim. But the hierarchy of them, the Kenites, are the International so-called self-styled Jews whom are the architects of the New World Order, which is spoken of in Scripture as the first beast of Revelation chapter 13. I speak of the puppeteers of the United Nations, the International Bankers, the Rothschild's et al etc... But that would be a different study for a different day.
It should also be noted that a great host of Judah (200,150) was also taken into Assyrian captivity by Sennacherib and placed with the Israel captives in the typical Assyrian deportation programs. This was over one-hundred years before Judah would be taken wholly into captivity by the Babylonians. I point this out because in Rev 7:5 we see that in the end times, 12,000 of true Judah who were not hitherto despoiled by intermarriages and Pagan corruptions of their religion are sealed by an Angel of the Lord (as part of the 144,000). Thus there is to be a remnant of true Judah (represented as the 'good figs' in Jeremiah chapter 24's prophecy.
This taking into captivity of 200,150 men and women of Judah in the Assyrian conquests is apparently little known and certainly little spoken of, and is only vaguely mentioned in Scripture in II Kings 18:13:
II Ki 18:13
13 Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them. (KJV)
While the Scriptures state that Sennacherib "took them", the number of the captives is not given in the Scriptures. However, in the British Museum is a Prism that records this very invasion. It is called the Taylor Prism after the discoverer of it. The Prism (so named for it's shape) are accounts that Sennacherib, King of Assyria himself ordered be made of his conquests. The Prism was probably made in 691 b.c. by common reckoning (581 b.c. by Anno Dei*).
We here at WBSG feel that it is such a wonderful witness to the Scriptures when profane (secular) history confirms the Word of God. Though the Word of God certainly can and does stand on it's own, it is just such an excellent witness to the unbeliever or weak in faith that God's Word is complete, accurate and can be fully trusted. As one famed Assyriologist, who's name escapes me now, stated "The Bible is the one best source of information on the ancient Babylonian Empire." So many of the places and cities recorded in the Bible, and now dead, have been unearth in the last century. See Archaeology.*2 We intend in the future to start supplying more of these 'second witnesses' to the Scriptures for those who are interested in being an informed Christian on such matters.
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The 'Sennacherib Inscriptions' on the Taylor Prism Referring to King Hezekiah of Judah and the event recorded in 2nd Kings 18:13, the prism records: "Like a caged bird...shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city." (a 'spinned' analogy for Sennacherib's being unable to capture Jerusalem). It also describes Sennacherib's capture of: "forty-six strong walled cities." And the taking of many prisoners and much spoil: "Two hundred thousand, one hundred and fifty people, great and small, male and female, horses, mules, asses, camels, cattle and sheep without number." In addition, Sennacherib records annual tributes he claims he was able to exact from Hezekiah, King of Judah. It was also during this period when Israel was taken into Assyrian captivity. Picture at left: The Taylor Prism; Currently located at the British museum. |
We go to such lengths explaining the above (that some of Judah did not go into Babylon and become corrupted as much of Judah did) to be sure to illustrate that not all of Judah has corrupted itself. Sometimes, it seems, we as people tend to 'lump everyone in together,' we didn't want that to appear to be the case regarding this study.
"Novus Ordo Seclorum,*3" i.e., The New World Order
But the vast majority of so-called Jews are not of Judah at all, they are impostors. And those of them, whom along with their deceived 'Gentile' minions that are working to bring the abomination in, have a sad fate in the Scriptures. They shall be destroyed at Christ's coming. And suffice it for now to say that prophecy is marching forward at breakneck speed while the world sleeps; the long-in-coming and well lain plans for world Luceferian domination are in place, the right people are in positions of power, and where positions could not be gained - those in power there have been compromised and rendered to servant status, the organization is set-up and the machinery ready to churn out it's ungodly product - complete and total slavery, not the least of all spirtual, every world government of any consequence has been infiltrated, the whole world is ignorant and asleep and unwittingly ready to bow the knee, the trap is laid, the watch set, and they wait. It only waits for God to release His restraining of it, and then the New World Order Novus Ordo Seclorum shall burst a storm upon the world such as has never been seen before, no, nor not ever again (Mk 13:19).
Satan & his fallen angels are prophesied to be released in Rev 12:9 to take the reigns of the New World Order from the reprobate men that are setting it up even as we speak:
"For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way." (II Th 2:7).
Then, God help us, for the world will be impotent to the spiritual onslaught, and as it is recorded, the peoples of the earth shall muse:
"...Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" (Rev 13:4).
Answer:
God is and He shall!
FOOTNOTES
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Ap.50.
vii (11) The "LO-AMMI"
("Not My people") Periods (explains the 110 year '
inconsistency') Ap. 50 (1.6, & 11) Chronological Charts; Introduction & Explanation. Ap. 50. viii TIMELINE Summary of principle biblical Events, timeline, with dates; 4004 b.c. to a.d.69. *2 Archaeology Oftentimes people are not told about the archaeological discoveries that document the truths written in the Bible. We are told that science and the Bible disagree. But as is really the case: True science and the Bible do not contradict each other. We supply 21 short articles which show that archaeology confirms God's Written Word, The Bible. *3 "Novus Ordo Seclorum" The "New Order of the Ages"; see the back of any one-dollar bill for this phrase. It is under, and caps the unfinished pyramid under the all seeing eye of Lucifer (Horus to the Egyptians). This "eye" is on the front facade of the time-Warner Corporate World Headquarters Building. To enter the building one must pass directly beneath it.
The name "Horus" is a general catchall for multiple deities, the most famous of whom is Harseisis (Heru-sa-Aset) or Horus-son-of-Isis (sometimes called Horus the Younger) who was conceived after the death of his father, Osiris, and who later avenged him. In all the Horus deities the traits of kingship, sky and solar symbology, and victory reoccur. As the prototype of the earthly king, there were as many Horus gods as there were rulers of Egypt, if not more.The oldest of the Horus gods is appropriately named Horus the Elder (Heru-ur), and was especially venerated in pre-Dynastic Upper Egypt along with Hathor. In this very ancient form, Horus is also a creator god, the falcon who flew up at the beginning of time. The pre-Pharaohnic rulers of Upper Egypt were considered "shemsu-Heru" or "followers of Horus", and the original Horus is himself considered in some myths to be the brother of Seth and Osiris, second-born of the five children of Geb and Nut (Osiris, Horus, Seth, Isis, Nephthys). Horus the Elder's city was Letopolis, and his eyes were thought to be the sun and moon. When these two heavenly bodies are invisible (as on the night of the new moon) he goes blind and takes the name Mekhenty-er-irty, "He who has no eyes". When he recovers them, he becomes Khenty-irty, "He who has eyes". A warrior-god armed with a sword, Horus could be especially dangerous to those around him in his vision-deprived state, and during one battle in particular he managed to not only knock off the heads of his enemies but of the other deities fighting alongside him, thus plunging the world into immediate confusion that was only relieved when his eyes returned. Other notable Horus gods are the previously mentioned Harseisis, as well as Horus of Behdet (sometimes called simply Behdety) who was represented as a winged sun disk, Anhur (a form of Horus the Elder and Shu), Horakhety (Ra-Heru-akhety) who was a syncretism of Ra and Horus, and Harpokrates (Heru-pa-khered) or Horus the Child. In the form of Harpokrates, Horus is the danger-beset son of Isis with one finger to his lips, signifying his childish nature (also evident in his princely sidelock and naked status). Harpokrates represented not only the royal heir, but also the newborn sun. Horus deities are frequently depicted as hawks or hawk-headed men, though some are represented as fully human. The pharaoh was considered to be the Living Horus, the temporal stand-in for Horus in the earthly domain. As the opponent of Seth (who, though initially an Upper Egyptian deity himself, later came to represent not only Lower Egypt but the desert surrounding Egypt), Horus is alternately a brother vying for the throne and unification of Egypt (Horus the Elder), or a royal heir come to reclaim his inheritance (Horus the Younger). Horus can be seen at the top of the serekh of early kings, though in very rare cases his place was usurped by Set (Peribsen, Dynasty 2) or even shared with him (Khasekhemwy, Dynasty 2). Horus is also depicted on the famous Narmer palette along with Bat, an earlier form of Hathor. A passage from the Coffin Texts (passage 148) sums up Horus in his own words:
"Myth and Symbol in Ancient Egypt" by R.T. Rundle Clark, p. 216 |
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