"Brit-Am Now"-802
Contents:
1. The Brit-Am Commentary to Jeremiah
2. Bronze Age Sicilians in ancient Salcombe [Southwest England]
3. Biblical Brit-Am Identification Prophecies in a Nutshell

1. The Brit-Am Commentary to Jeremiah
http://britam.org/Jeremiah/JeremiahContents.html
http://britam.org/Jeremiah/Jeremiah1to5.html
Previously on the Brit-Am web site we had a feature
on the Highlights of Jeremiah from a Brit-Am perspective.
This feature has now been removed.
It is being replaced by the complete Brit-Am Commentary to Jeremiah
which is being updated.
So far the first instalment dealing with Jeremiah chapters 1 to 5 is available.
The entry consists of two sections:
A very brief Summary of each of the chapters followed by
the  Chapters with Brit-Am Commentary.

2. Bronze Age Sicilians in ancient Salcombe [Southwest England]
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-2451002,00.html
By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent

AN ANCIENT bronze found on the seabed off Devon may be the first clear evidence of long-distance maritime trade between the central Mediterranean and the Channel coast.

Mike Pitts, the editor of British Archaeology, says that the curious object, of a type found otherwise only in Sicily, is unique this far north, and raises the possibility, however remote, of a distant traveller reaching Britain from the Mediterranean.

The bronze is one of 28 potential Bronze Age objects found recently off Salcombe, not far from the earlier Moor Sand finds which included post- medieval Moroccan gold coins and other historic material; both would seem to be from shipwrecks, although no ship remains have been found. The bronzes include 11 complete or fragmentary swords, five axes, three spearheads, and two gold ornaments, all dating to between 1300BC and 1150BC.

Most unusual is the piece which Italian archaeologists call a strumento con immanicatura a cannone literally an implement with cannon-shaped handle, of uncertain function. The British Museum has several examples, and similar objects occur in some hoards in Sicily, where they date to about the 13th century BC.

The Sicilian object from Salcombe is therefore the first secure object of Mediterranean origin and Bronze Age date to be found in northwest Europe, Pitts notes. The presence of this material on Englands south coast would appear to be tangible evidence of cross-Channel connections. Such connections have frequently been deduced from land finds, but are rarely attested directly.

Interlocking maritime networks extended all along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe. There may not have been long-distance voyages spanning this whole chain, but this possibility will have to be reconsidered in the light of the Salcombe discovery, a rare chance to view objects in transit the nearest that archaeology can get to witnessing trade in action.

British Archaeology 91: 42-47.

3. Biblical Brit-Am Identification Prophecies in a Nutshell
http://britam.org/scripture/MainPOINTS.html
This is a new feature that will be added to regularly
from material that has already been prepared in part.

Isaiah:
Judah and Ephraim will no longer be antagonistic towards each other; Together they shall defeat their enemies and expel the Palestinians in planes (11); the exiles will be ingathered (11); Exiles will be in the west (24:3), islands, and at the Ends of the Earth and best locations thereon (49); Cyrus a Prototype of Joseph (44,45); Brit-Am, Australia (42,49); Judah Reluctant to accept Ten Tribes and to believe in their Israelite identity (49).

Jeremiah:
Judah will bring Ten Tribes back from the North and elsewhere (3, 50); Lost Ten Tribes "Divorced"; Christians-Notsrim (31); Aegel, bull-calf (31); Megalithic Migration path (31).

Ezekiel:
First Ingathering, then Reform (11); Judah NEEDS Return of Ten Tribes (16); Two Trees (branches) Re-union (37); Rebuilding of Temple (43); Distribution of Greater Land of Israel amongst the Tribes and to the stranger who dwells with us (47).

Hosea:
Lost Ten Tribes will lose knowledge of own identity and link up with Gomer (1,2); confuse God with Baal (2,13); Numerous and rich (2). Ephraim in the West (11,12). Judah remains faithful with aspects of the Holy whereas Ephraim does not (11).

Joel:
All the nations of the world, especially from the North, shall come against Judah but God will save them. God will put HIS spirit into the Children of Israel and inspire them (2).

Obadiah:
Joseph will suffer from and later take revenge from Edom and other nations; Lost Ten Tribes in Zerefat meaning the West especially France, Britain, Holland, and the North.

Jonah:
The term "Hebrew" is synonymous with Israelite. The British "Celts" called themselves Hebrews and worshipped baal.

Micah:
Ruler from Beth-Lehem (House of David) over Judah; Ephraim a lion devouring the nations and taking revenge from Assyria (5); Inheritance of Bashan and Gilead (7).

Nahum:
Israel will destroy Assyria in revenge for the destruction Assyria wrought in Israel.

Habakkuk:
Babylon is Edom and kinred nations (Europe) who will be destroyed along with the forces of Midian and Cushan (Islam).

Zephaniah:
Judah will inherit the Philistines (Palestinians) of Canaan who will entirely disappear (1,2). The Lost Ten Tribes from beyond the Rivers of Cush (3) meaning South Africa and North America will return.

Haggai:
The Temple will be rebuilt. The heathen will be punished if they do not repent.

Zechariah:
Gentile Enemies and Persecutors of Judah to be punished severely (1); Judah acknowledged by his religion (8,12); Military union of Judah and Ephraim (9,10); Ephraim returns to Lebanon and Gilead (10).

Malachi:
Tribal Identification in latter days and acknowledgement of ancestry, Elijah (3); Law of Moses to be remembered (3).




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