Contents:
1. Acknowledgement re William Rufus
in "Brit-Am Now"-110
2. Chris & Wendi Quinn: Re: Ezekiel
22
3. Finland first settled by only 1000
people?
1. Acknowledgement re William Rufus
in "Brit-Am Now"-110
The quotation about William Rufus should
have been ascribed to
"The Jewish Connection", by Philip
Warren
2. Chris & Wendi Quinn: Re: Ezekiel
22
This is great. I don't know about the
part of the present leader of the
U.S.A. as being a God-fearing Israelite.
If someone is God-fearing, and
knows the bible, especially that we
are living in the end times, what on
earth would make a man want to be president?
Is pride like that open to
God's teaching and instruction. I pray
for that, but I think we should be
leery of following him.
3. Finland first settled by only 1000
people?
In "Genes, Peoples, and languages",
by luigi Lucca Cavalli-Sforza
(UK, 2001), it says (p.154):
"there is genetic evidence that
the original farmers who settled in Finland
perhaps 2,000 years ago were a very
small population, perhaps 1,000 or so.
This is inferred from strong evidence
of genetic drift, especially for
certain genetic diseases.
The new settlers probably joined a
good number of native inhabitants, and
peaceful contact
with them helped the immigrants settle
and spread. The process was
facilitated by
learning the natives' language, and
eventually adopting it. Most likely
there was little genetic exchange between
the two".
P.116: "Other European Uralic speakers
(e.g. Finns and Estonians) appear
almost entirely
European genetically."
Implications for Brit-Am studies.
Cavalli-Sforza is saying that the Finns
of Finland are European. That they
originally numbered
maybe only ca 2000 people and since
then have multiplied to their present
numbers.
He says that they learned the language
they now speak from the Lapp (Saami)
people
who lived there before them but with
whom they hardly mixed.
Finland statistics:
Population: 5,167,486 (July 2000 est.)
Religions: Evangelical Lutheran 89%,
Greek Orthodox 1%, none 9%, other 1%
Languages: There are two official languages:
Finnish, spoken by 93.6% of
the population, and Swedish, spoken
by 6% of the population. About 1700
people speak Same (Lapp). English is
taught as the first foreign language.
Brit-Am implications:
we identified Finland as having a large
proportion of Israelites in
its population from the Tribes
of
Issachar, Gad, and Simeon.
The Gad element is to be identified
with the large number of people of
Swedish and Gothic descent who live
in
Finland. 6% of the population now speak
Swedish but the proportion of Gad
elements amongst the people
in our opinion is very much higher.
At all events we suggested that the
population is less homogeneous than
Cavalli-Sforza reports.
We also said that most of the Finns
entered Finland around 700 CE and not
earlier.
Be that, as it may we will tackle the
discrepancies between us and
Cavalli-Sforza somewhere else.
Cavalli-Sforza is expressing the latest
scientific opinion. For the moment,
let us assume that Cavalli-Sforza is
correct:
We therefore have the following admitted
possibilities:
a. A very large population can grow
out of a relatively small number of
people in a period that is not
historically such a long one.
[The Lost Ten Tribes were numerous
at the time of their exile but even if
they were not or even if
only a few of them survived wars and
disasters, etc, very large numbers
could grow out of those
very few.]
b. People can change their languages
altogether. In some circumstances a
relatively advanced community
may adopt the language of a relatively
primitive one with whom it has close
contact.
[Our impression is that "Old English"
differs from Biblical Hebrew to the
same degree
that Modern English differs from "Old
English".
c. Close contact can exist for a long
period of time accompanied by
relatively little mixing.
e. A small number of "founders" can
give rise to large populations. Due to
"genetic drift"
and other factors the type of population
that results could be somewhat
different from
other peoples who also developed from
the original parent body that the
"founding fathers"
came from.