"Brit-Am Now"-630
Contents:
1. The Brit-Am Importance of Iraq
2. Churchill Quotation
3. The Philistines Today
1. The Brit-Am Importance of Iraq
Monica Nelson wrote:
I received this email from a friend - is it all true??
Read down to the very bottom, you don't want to miss this!
VERY INTERESTING -
1 The garden of Eden was in <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Iraq.
2. Mesopotamia, which is now Iraq, was the cradle of civilization!
3. Noah built the ark in Iraq.
4 The Tower of Babel was in Iraq.
5. Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq!
6. Isaac's wife Rebekah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq !
7. Jacob met Rachel in Iraq.
8. Jonah preached in Nineveh - which is in Iraq.
9 Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes of Israel.
10. Amos cried out in Iraq!
11. Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem.
12. Daniel was in the lion's den in Iraq!
13. The three Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq
14. Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the "writing on the wall" in Iraq.
15. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq.
16. Ezekiel preached in Iraq.
And you have probably seen this one. Israel is the nation most often mentioned in the Bible. But do you know which nation is second? It is Iraq! However, that is not the name that is used in the Bible. The names used in the Bible are Babylon, Land of Shinar, and Mesopotamia. The word Mesopotamia means between the two rivers, more exactly between the Tigris and ! Euphrates Rivers. The name Iraq, means country with deep roots.
Indeed Iraq is a country with deep roots and is a very significant country in the Bible.
No other nation, except Israel, has more history and prophecy associated with it than Iraq.
And also... This is something to think about! Since America is typically represented by an eagle. Saddam should have read up on his Muslim passages...
Comment:
The thing about Amos (no.10) is new to me.
To the list should be added the possibility that the Lost Ten Tribes will begin to return
via Iraq.
See the Brit-Am Commentary to the Book of Micah:
[Micah 7:12] IN THAT DAY ALSO HE SHALL COME EVEN TO THEE FROM ASSYRIA, AND FROM THE FORTIFIED CITIES, AND FROM THE FORTRESS EVEN TO THE RIVER, AND FROM SEA TO SEA, AND FROM MOUNTAIN TO MOUNTAIN.
<<AND FROM THE FORTIFIED CITIES, AND FROM THE FORTRESS>>: The Hebrew translated as "THE FORTIFIED CITIES" is "ari Matzor" and the word translated as FORTRESS is "Matzor". This word "Matzor" can indeed mean fortress or when used as an adjective "fortifed" but it can also refer to an area in the northwest of present-day Iraq, i.e. Eastern Azerbaijan and Kurdistan.
<<EVEN TO THEE FROM ASSYRIA>>: The Commentaries seem divided on this. ALL AGREE however that FROM ASSYRIA means the return of those exiled to Assyria, i.e. the Lost Ten Tribes.
2. Churchill Quotation
Winston Churchill: If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
3. The Philistines Today
Question:
Vito Procopio wrote:
Yair, I was wondering if you know what present day people are the
descendants of the Philistines today?
GOD BLESS YOU, vito
Answer:
Philistines were to be found in the Adriatic area. This includes possibly Venice
in Northeast Italy, according to a tradition recorded by Isaac Abarbanel who served as a ministerial advisor to Venice. Abarbanel said that the people of Genoa in Northern Italy were also descended from the Philistines.
F. De Rougemont ROUGEMONT ("L'Age du Bronze," Paris 1866)
records customs suggestive of Philistine ancestry in the Adriatic area .
The Adriatic is the Sea between Italy and what was once Yugoslavia.
"A recent book by Trude and Moshe Dothan bears the title of "A People of the Sea: The Search for the Philistines", 1996). They say that Plst/Prst (an Egyptian term for the Peleset/Pelethites = Philistines) may appear in Prstvae (a tribe of the Illyrian/Croatian coast)"
Eduard MEYER, ("Geschichtes DES Altums" , Stuttgart 1931) also saw a linguistic connection between the Philisitnes and the Illyrian (mainly Croatia but also possibly Albania) area.
We therefore have the possibility of Philistines amongst the Croatians and Albanians.
Philistines are also to be found in parts of Slovenia, and Austria, and also amongst
the forebears of the present Palestinians.
In Prophecy references to the Philistines seem to mean
the Palestinian Arabs who are named after them.
"Palestine" was a LATIN form for the name Palestine.
Other possibilities exists but we are still clarifying this subject.
Concerning the Philistine/Palestinians Isaiah says:
[Isaiah 11:14] BUT THEY SHALL SWOOP DOWN UPON THE SHOULDER OF THE PHILISTINES IN THE WEST, AND TOGETHER THEY SHALL PLUNDER THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST. THEY SHALL PUT FORTH THEIR HAND AGAINST EDOM AND MOAB, AND THE AMMONITES SHALL OBEY THEM.
The above verse (Isaiah 11;14) concerning the Philistines as it has been translated (in the KJ and Orthodox Jewish "Koren" translation) is consistent with the simple Hebrew and with the context. Nevertheless, one of the intricacies of Biblical Hebrew is that often words and expressions may intentionally have more than one meaning. In this case the Hebrew may also be understood as saying,
"THEY SHALL FLY THE PHILISTINES AWAY WESTWARD"
i.e. The Palestinians shall be transported elsewhere by air flight "towards the sea", to somewhere in the west, perhaps to North Africa or to South America or Europe.
Not only does Scripture and its connected tradition identify modern nations with their ancestral counterparts, the Bible also indicates the final outcome of ancestral struggles that were begun long ago.