Alfred the Great, in the 9th
century, created the basis of what is our common law, which is the foundation
of jurisprudence in Aryan civilization. The 33rd Law of Alfred reads: “Vex
thou not comers from afar and strangers, for remember, ye were once strangers
in Egypt.” (See Exodus 22:21)
· The Scottish Declaration of
Independence of April 6, 1320 states regarding the ancestors of its
creators: “ . . . and coming thence one-thousand two-hundred years after
the outgoing of the people of Israel, they by many victories . . .”
· Alexander Cruden, author of the well-known
Cruden’s Complete Concordance, addressed his preface to King George
III, saying, “. . . May the great God be the guide of your life, and direct
and prosper you, that it may be said by present and future ages, that King
George III hath been sent an Hezekiah to our British Israel . . .”
· Sir Walter Scott, in his novel
Woodstock, has Oliver Cromwell use these words in Chapter 30: “How
as my soul liveth, and as He liveth who hath made me ruler in Israel . .
.”
· William Tyndale, the great English religious
reformer, who translated the Bible into English, announced in 1530 his
discovery of the likeness between the Hebrew and English languages, which made
English the most suitable of any language into which to translate the
Bible.
· In 1590 the French Magistrate Counsellor
LeMoyer wrote a large volume entitled The Lost Ten Tribes Found,
stating that they formed the then English peoples. (Petite Parisien)
· Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), while on the
ship “Bonaventure,” wrote John Fox and besought the prayers of Fox that “.
. . God may be glorified, His church, our Queen and Country preserved, the
enemies of truth vanquished, that we might have continual peace in Israel. Our
enemies are many but our Protector commandeth the whole earth. . .”
· Isaac Watts, composer of over 500 hymns,
revealed his knowledge of true Israel is his poem entitled “Israel’s
Poem.”
· Queen Elizabeth I was known as the “Light
of Israel.”
· Vincenzio Galilei, father of the famous
astronomer, writing in 1581 about the origin of the harp in Ireland, mentions
the native Irish tradition that they had descended from the royal Prophet
David.
· In 1502, Columbus wrote of his voyages to King
Ferdinand of Spain, “. . . Fully accomplished were the words of Isaiah . .
.” (See Isaiah 49:1-12)
· The famed English author, John Lily, in his
Euphes and his England, gives evidence of his knowledge and agreement
with the Israelitish origins of the people of the British Isles.
· King James VI of
Scotland (James I of England) claimed that the Lord had made him king over
Israel, and upon the gold coin of his day, called the “Jacobus,” he had
inscribed in Latin the prophecy of Ezekiel 37:22– “I will make of them one
nation.”
· In the time of
Cromwell (circa 1647) a political reform movement called the “Levellers”
sought reforms which threatened the dictator’s power. Both Everard and
Winstanley, prominent Levellers, are mentioned in connection with the belief
in the Israelitish origin of the Saxon, Cletic and kindred peoples.
· In 1671, a pamphlet
issued in Nether Dutch stated that the English-speaking people were
Israel.
· John Dryden (1681),
in one of his poems, referred to England by the name Israel fourteen
times.
· In 1723 Dr. Abbadie
published, in Amsterdam, Le Triomphe de al Providence et de la
Religion, expressing the view that the Northern European Tribes, from
which the English derive, are the Ten “Lost Tribes” of Israel: “. . .
Unless the Ten Trbes of Israel are flown into the air, or sunk into the earth,
they must be those ten Gothic tribes that entered Europe in the 5th century,
overthrew the Roman Empire and founded the ten nations of modern Europe. .
.”
· In the early 1800's
Thomas Jefferson, recalling the death of George Washington, stated: “I felt
on his death with my countrymen, that verily a great man hath fallen this day
in Israel.”
· Dr. Moses
Margouliouth, a 19th century Jewish scholar, in his History of the Jews,
said, “. . . It may not be out of place to state that the Isles afar off
mentioned in the 31st chapter of Jeremiah were supposed by the ancients to be
Brittania, Scotia and Hibernia (Ireland).”
· “Hibernia”
(Ireland) translates to “Land of the Hebrews.” Likewise, “Iberia”
(Spain) translates to “Land of the Hebrews.”
· Former New York
City Mayor Ed Koch, during the 1987 St. Patrick’s Day parade, told a UPI
reporter, “. . . The ten lost tribes of Israel, we believe, ended up in
Ireland.”
· Sir Oliver J.
Lodge, noted English scientist (1851-1940), stated: “We, too, are a chosen
people. It were blasphemy to deny our birthright and responsibility. Our
destiny in the world is no small one. We are peopling great tracts of the
earth and carrying thither our language and customs. The migrating of that
primitive tribe from Ur of the Chaldees, under the leadership of that splendid
old chief, Abram, into the land of promise, was an event fraught with
stupendous results for the human race.”
· The famed Baptist
evangelist Charles H. Spurgeon, who died in 1892, showed in Volume 2, page 154
of his book The Treasury of the Old Testament that England and America
were Israel.
· The U.S. Supreme
Court case #6914, known as the “Huntress” case of November 5, 1840, in
reference to the neglect of the (U.S.) Constitution for seven years said:
“. . . We may well ask, with some feelings of surprise, where, during these
seven years, were slumbering the watchmen of our American Israel?” (12
Fed. Case page 993)
· From the
declaration of principles given in the United Israel Bulletin of April,
1951, (a non-Christian, Jewish publication): “We believe that the Ten
Tribes of Israel exist within the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Scandinavian, American
people, and that they in fact constitute them and that they are Hebrews. .
.”
· Regarding
contemporary Jews, the 1980 Jewish Almanac states on page 3: “Strictly
speaking, it is incorrect to call a contemporary Jew an ‘Israelite’ or a
‘Hebrew’.”
· An amazing insight
into these facts can be had by dovetailing John 8:1-59 with Revelation 2:9 and
3:9. A more clear understanding may be had by using the King James translation
of the Bible along with Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible.
The Greek Dictionary contained in Strong’s makes clear the meaning
sometimes obscured by the King James translators.
· On January 1, 1773,
the men of Marlborough, Massachusetts proclaimed unanimously: “Death is
more eligible than slavery. A free-born people are not required by the
religion of Jesus Christ to submit to tyranny, but make use of such power as
GOD has given them to recover and support their laws and liberties . .
.(we) implore the Ruler above the skies, that He would make bare His
arm in defense of His Church and people, and let Israel go . .
.”
(by Christian Research
Dispensary 1999-2000 Book & Tape
Catalog)