"Brit-Am Now"-383

"Brit-Am Now"-383
Contents:
1. End Times Now?
2. Ulster Roots
3. Question on Cyprus (Repeated from "Brit-Am Now"-275)
4. Amnon Goldberg:
Yishmoel is Chesed Deklippah [Kindness of Evil i.e. Kindness that Backfires]
5. Question on Germany and Israel

1. End Times Now?
Question
From: David McLeod
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-382

Many believe, but what do you believe?

"IN THE LAST DAYS" This prophecy was pertinent to the Latter Time prior to the Messianic Era. Many believe that we are in the times spoken of.

Answer:
I would say that indications are that we are in the End period. This could mean that big changes will take place within 5 (or less?) to 10 years. The whole "End" process may well move very quickly but it could just as conceivably be drawn out for another 3 centuries.
At all events whereas in the past "Brit-Am" Identity knowledge could have been considered a possibility that enhanced awareness and understanding and not necessarily much more that in OUR TIME
it is important on both the personal and national levels.
It has operational aspects.
We are all obligated to do what we can to help spread this knowledge.
Perhaps Brit-Am aware people could insert notices about Brit-Am in their local media outlets?

2. Ulster Roots
From: "Stan St. Clair"
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-382

The following website
http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:_x4pkUAa1QgJ:www.scotchirish.net/US%252 0Presidency.php4+Irwin+Mecklenberg+North+Carolina&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 is very interesting, stating that 1/4 of America's Presidents had Ulster roots.

Stan

3. Question on Cyprus (Repeated from "Brit-Am Now"-275)
From: Shirley Ann Whigham
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-273

Shalom Yair,
Thank you for the work that you are doing towards the reunification of the two houses.

We have been living in Cyprus for the last year and was surprised that you included the Island of Cyprus with the Land of Promise.

Could you please explain your reference point as we have never heard this before.

Thank you.
Frank and Shirlianne Whigham
PS If there are any others from the House of Joseph living in Cyprus, we would like to hear from them.

Answer: Concerning the borders including Cyprus this is admittedly an extreme minority opinion but one that is probably correct. The opinion says that the western border was the western estuary of the Nile Delta in the South (opposite Alexandria) and a line northward into southeast Turkey and encompassing all the Mediterranean Ocean and islands (including Cyprus within that area.

Cyprus was mentioned frequently in our book, "Lost Israelite Identity. The Hebrew Ancestry of Celtic Races", (1996).

WHY WE CONSIDER CYPRUS PART OF ISRAEL
a. Cyprus appears to be within the borders of the Promised Land according to the opinion we consider correct.
b. The Population of Cyprus suffered the same fate as the Canaanites at the time of the Israelite conquest but so did a lot of neighboring areas including Anatolia and Greece. Beginning from around 1200 b.c.e. the well developed warlike states of Mycenean Greece, the powerful empire of Hittite Anatolia, the strong city states in southern Canaan, every important city in northern Syria and Cyprus were all completely destroyed. The population of Greece is conventionally considered to have declined (though the figures given here have since been contested) by 75% and the cultural unity of the Mycenean Age came to an end. Crete suffered a similar fate. There was a population decline of 75% also in northern Mesopotamia and 25% in the south. It is conceivable that the cities of Canaan (that were also once again destroyed) met their end due to a resurge of Israelite conquest. There are grounds to believe that what happened elsewhere in some of the other areas was also due to Hebrew initiative or due to Canaanites fleeing from the Israelites or at least somehow influenced by either one of these factors. Assyria was attacked by semi-Nomadic "Aramaean" tribes who may likewise have actually been Hebrews. The Promised Land included all the area up to the Euphrates River and all along its length reaching far into the north. It also included at the least the region of Cilicia (southeast Turkey), and most probably the Isle of Cyprus. At all events all these regions and more were taken by the Israelites for considerable periods of time even though they did not succeed in permanently holding them. In the Messianic era (cf. Ezekiel ch.48) and in the times leading up to it all of these areas and more will be re-gained by Israel.
c. The Zekaru and Peleset were defeated in Cyprus, or so the Egyptians claimed. The Zekaru were part of the so-called Sea-Peoples who at least in part were Israelites. We identify the Zekaru as belonging to the Tribe of Issakar. We thus find an Israelite Tribe in Cyprus.
d. Cyprus (i.e. "Caphtor" Isle of the Philistines?) in Assyrian inscriptions was later to be called "Yadnana" meaning "ISLE OF THE DANANU", i.e. Isle of the Tribe of Dan.
e. The Egyptians counted the Dananu-Danites amongst the Peoples of the Sea. They connected the Dananu primarily with the areas north of the Orontes River on the north Syrian coast, with Cilicia, and with CYPRUS, and according to Ed.Meier also with Crete.
f. From the 800s b.c.e. a type of pottery called "Samarian" left its remnants all over Cyprus. Samarian pottery is the same as that known from Samaria capital of the northern kingdom of Israel. Cyprus at that time has been described as "very largely a Phoenician island". This means that it used a similar cultural base to that of most of the northern Israelite Tribes. More Phoenician inscriptions have been so far discovered on Cyprus than in Phoenicia itself. Phoenicia encompassed Lebanon and the coastal part of Syria. The northern Israelites of Samaria spoke a dialect of Hebrew considered closer to that of the Phoenicians than to that of the Judaeans of the southern kingdom. In many respects the culture of much of northern Israel was "Phoenician". Alternately, much of what is termed "Phoenician" may actually be "Israelite".
g. Buildings in the Cypriot capital of Kition and in the city of Enkomi are of a standard and type equaled only by that of the palace of Omri (882-871 b.c.e.) in Israelite Samaria9.
h. The physical type of a Cypriot ruler depicted in an Egyptian illustration is described similarly to that pertinent to Israelites of the period, as,
"light red beard, light coloured eye (blue or pink)"..
"pink skin"..
"Traits characteristic of a certain type of Syro-Palestinian which one finds [illustrated] in many Theban [Egyptian] tombs" . JEAN VERCOUTTER,. "L'Egypte et le Monde Egeen Prehellenique (18em et 19em Dynasties)", Le Caire, 1956. p.219

i.The influence of Israelites is evident in archaeological finds concerning the Cypriot life style and values. Cyprus had been known as Yadnana meaning "Isle of the Dananu" from the Israelite Tribe of Dan. An area corresponding in the descriptions to Scandinavia had also been called "Keftiu", or "Kaptara" both meaning Cyprus. Since the Danites were connected with Cyprus of the Mediterranean they may (on that point alone) also have been on Cyprus of the Atlantic Ocean meaning in Scandinavia. Dan was exiled and some Danites may have departed earlier than the others as explained elsewhere. Scandinavian culture at that time reveals the probable presence of a group hailing from the same Middle Eastern areas which the Danites had frequented shortly beforehand. It may be surmised that the Danites (or rather a portion of them) from the Mediterranean had migrated to Scandinavia. Irish legends spoke of the Tribe of Dana (Tuatha De Danaan) who were renowned metallurgists, and scientifically adept. They arrived from the "northern isles" after some disaster32, the only "northern isles" as far as Ireland is concerned are those of Scandinavia. The Tribe of Dana, said the Irish sources had originally come from the region of Mount Lebanon,33 it had sojourned in Greece34, been enslaved, fought with the "Phillistines", and then fled north after which it had come to Ireland. Welsh legends also spoke of the Children of Don who paralleled the Tribe of Dana. Irish legends in effect identify the Children of Dana with the Israelite Tribe of Dan according to the above conclusions. In effect, they say that from Scandinavia the Danites had progressed to the British Isles. The Irish accounts exactly fit what archaeological research has revealed. The Irish records were transmitted orally for generations then written down centuries before archaeology confirmed them. The Dana of Irish (and Welsh) Mythology belonged to the Israelite Tribe of Dan*35 and maybe testify to an early exodus of that Tribe from the Middle east area in accordance with Jewish legends. One legend (quoted by Eldad the Danite) says that in the time of King Jeroboam ben Nebat ( leader of the Ten Tribes who split away from Judah) Dan did not want ot engage in fratricidal strife and so left the land. Indications exist that the Assyrians or their auxiliaries conquered Scandinavia in about 700 b.c.e. and the Danites may have reached Scandinavia after that date. Scandinavian Bronze Age Civilization ended in about 500 b.c.e. about which time the Dana from Scandinavia came to Ireland.

Cyprus is identified with Caphtor. It was one of the places the Philistines came out of.

[Genesis 10:14] AND PATHRUSIM, AND CASLUHIM, (OUT OF WHOM CAME PHILISTIM,) AND CAPHTORIM.

Cyprus remained a base of the Philistines and the struggle against them entailed capturing the island. After that the Danites had taken it over. One version of Scandinavian legend says that their ancestors came from an island named Asgard. Another version says that they came from the Plain of Ida and the Don River area in Scythia (Southern Russia). Both versions are correct and apply to different migrating bodies. The term Asgard however when applied to their ancestral home evidently should apply most strictly to the island. Jurgen Spanuth, Atlantis of the North, identifies Cyrpus with Asgard. He says: (p.211) The name I Kaphtor [Hebrew for Isle of Caphtor] is a literal translation of holmr Asgard; both mean island of the heavenly pillar, or literally, island of the top of the pillar, island of the heaven-bearing beam.

4. Amnon Goldberg:
Yishmoel is Chesed Deklippah [Kindness of Evil i.e. Kindness that Backfires]
Nothing exemplifies the chesed deklippah of Yishmoel more than the Erez Crossing bombing in Aza (Gaza) three months ago, where a female homicide bomber pleaded for mercy and then blew up the very Jews offering her mercy.
In the Kabboloh the manifestation of chesed deklippah is the nation of Yishmoel where, counterintuitively, the more chesed [KIndness] shown them, the worse they become. Thus, financial inducements, soft pedaling, backing down, negotiating, mollycoddling, bargaining for hostages, "Land for Peace" etc. only serves to exacerbate their wickedness!
Soroh Imeinu warned "Expel this bondwoman (Hagar) and her son (Yishmoel), for the son of this bondwoman must not inherit (Eretz Yisroel) [Land of Israel] with my son Yitzchok" (Bereishis 17). "Four things Hashem regretted having created . . . the Yishmoelim" (Succa 52). By Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan's folly of rushing to prevent the Arabs from fleeing in toto of their own accord in 1967, a stone for the Israelis' own head was being prepared: "those that you let remain will be as thorns in your eyes, and as pricks in your sides, and they will harass you in your land; and I will do unto you as I thought to do unto them" (Bamidbar 33). It is said that after the encirclement and investment of Cairo and Damascus in 1973, of Tyre in 1978, and of Beirut in 1982, misguided Israeli leaders repeatedly let them off the hook e.g. the freeing of the Third Army, the escape of the PLO, and the reinvigoration and reinstatement of a moribund Yasser Arafat. In Bilom's final prophecy (Bamidbar [Numbers] 24) he lamented: "Woe! Who will survive when G-d does this?" which the Zohar frighteningly interpolates as: "Who will survive the Yishmoelim at the End of Days?"
Yours Truly,
Amnon Goldberg

5. Question on Germany and Israel
At 17:40 03/04/2004, A wrote:
Hello,

after reading your book "origins" which explained in detail what I've been studying since June 2003
I would like to ask you some new arising questions:

Firstly I am german, and of course, I firstly wondered, where are all the germans in this your reconnings?! They can't be left out simply because what happend in WWII - I have this same strange thing about Israel which you explained, not knowing why one feels a 'pull' or a 'connection' with that people. I am a so-called Christian.

I would imagine quite a proportion of 'Germans' could claim hebrew ancestry for all sorts of reasons....... and this is actually what I am trying to 'proove', specially to my family (7 brothers and sisters(!) over in Germany - and me being the only one to live in ENGLAND ?!?
- I always felt my life strangely connected with the Joseph-story in the Old Test.)
. I have recently been told by someone, that I am too of the House of Joseph, but to me it's not good enough until I have the geneological proove....do you think that is impossible to bring?

My problem is how do I go about it. I have a complete family history in form of a book going back to 1563 AD (I am born in1963) so 400 years back lead me to my first known ancestor - what I am trying to achieve is going back another 400 years 1163, 763 and so on leading to the 'Skythen' after the exile. My family is of the tribe of Suebes (Schwaben) it seems ........ but I am stuck in the 'dark ages' - do you know of any website that could be of any assistance in this because somehow I think I should concentrate on our family name, FODE (from FAUDIN, FADIN, FADE in 16th cent.) , which doesn't sound very hebrew to me, first of all?!?!

I dream that if EVERY PERSON does a family tree on the internet and we could all soon complete the 'circle', I would imagine, and find common ancestors/clans/tribes and thus have the 'proove'!!! Do you think that is an impossible undertaking?
I also ALWAYS WANTED to live in the physical land of Israel and didn't even know why......? Do you think EVERY HEBREW, once identified, should live out there????

Appreciate your answers/views.

Shalom
A

Answer:
Shalom,
First of all judging by the names quite a few of our subscribers and supporters in the USA had ancestors in Germany. In every one of our publications we discuss Germany.
The Lost Ten Tribes did pass through Germany and sojourned there for some time and later moved out. The large-scale migrations to the USA from Germany that culminated in the 1800s represented movements of Israelites separating themselves from their non-Israelite neighbors. History admittedly is open to interpretation.
At all events one can say that Germany was populated by people of different origins from the very beginning, then came the "Classical Germans" from ca. 500 BCE to 400 CE who were also of different origins and forbade intermarriage with the "other" Germans. Most of these moved out at an early stage. Then came more peoples from the east who were Germanized.
Within Germany there were many Jews, and people of Jewish descent and also Israelites and several subgroups of peoples who existed alongside each other and did not intermix so much.
Finally the Great Migrations to North America caused most of those of Israelite descent to move out. We have discussed this at some length in our work "Joseph" but the subject deserves much additional study. In our book "Ephraim" we discussed criteria for determining who was of Israelite origin and who was not.

1. Blessings: Economic and Physical Blessings as promised to Israel in Scripture.
2. Indications of Scripture: Biblical Evidence predicting whereto the Lost Ten Tribes would go, what type of religion and government they would have, etc.
3. Groundwork: Historical, Archaeological, and Related Proofs showing paths of migration.
4. Judah: This entails proven feelings of kinship and sympathy with the Jews and a Relative Lack of Anti-Semitism when compared with others.
5. Originality: Innovation and Intellect: A minimal degree of national Intellectual Wisdom and Honesty.
6. Bravery: Proven Military Prowess in the past at least and at present in potential
7. Empathy: The Doing of Social Justice.

Of these criteria Germany fits some.
However:
There are no Scriptural indications that the Lost Tribes would be in Germany in the end times.
Criteria nos 2, and 4, are not pertinent and no.7 is open to debate.

We did identify part of the Suebi as from Joseph and another part from Issachar but the name was eventually applied to a lot of different groups.

We identified elements of Esau-Edom who settled in Europe including Germany and Ancient Italy.
Esau had been blessed with a blessing similar to Jacob:

[Genesis 27:39] AND ISAAC HIS FATHER ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HIM, BEHOLD, THY DWELLING SHALL BE THE FATNESS OF THE EARTH, AND OF THE DEW OF HEAVEN FROM ABOVE;

[Genesis 27:40] AND BY THY SWORD SHALT THOU LIVE, AND SHALT SERVE THY BROTHER; AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS WHEN THOU SHALT HAVE THE DOMINION, THAT THOU SHALT BREAK HIS YOKE FROM OFF THY NECK.

On a personal level since you have this identification with Israel and have moved to Britain you are probably of Israelite origin.
In such a case your family (in Germany) would also be Israelite but I cannot give you any special advice on the matter.

[AMOS 9:8] BEHOLD, THE EYES OF THE LORD GOD ARE UPON THE SINFUL KINGDOM, AND I WILL DESTROY IT FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH; SAVING THAT I WILL NOT UTTERLY DESTROY THE HOUSE OF JACOB, SAITH THE LORD.

[AMOS 9:9] FOR, LO, I WILL COMMAND, AND I WILL SIFT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AMONG ALL NATIONS, LIKE AS CORN IS SIFTED IN A SIEVE, YET SHALL NOT THE LEAST GRAIN FALL UPON THE EARTH.

[AMOS 9:10] ALL THE SINNERS OF MY PEOPLE SHALL DIE BY THE SWORD, WHICH SAY, THE EVIL SHALL NOT OVERTAKE NOR PREVENT US.

[AMOS 9:11] IN THAT DAY WILL I RAISE UP THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID THAT IS FALLEN, AND CLOSE UP THE BREACHES THEREOF; AND I WILL RAISE UP HIS RUINS, AND I WILL BUILD IT AS IN THE DAYS OF OLD:

[AMOS 9:12] THAT THEY MAY POSSESS THE REMNANT OF EDOM, AND OF ALL THE HEATHEN, WHICH ARE CALLED BY MY NAME, SAITH THE LORD THAT DOETH THIS.

[Jeremiah 3:14] TURN, O BACKSLIDING CHILDREN, SAITH THE LORD; FOR I AM MARRIED UNTO YOU: AND I WILL TAKE YOU ONE OF A CITY, AND TWO OF A FAMILY, AND I WILL BRING YOU TO ZION: This could mean several things: It could be that only a minority will return. Zechariah 13;8 indicates that there will be some kind of calamity and that only a third will survive: "AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT IN ALL THE LAND, SAITH THE LORD, TWO PARTS THEREIN SHALL BE CUT OFF AND DIE; BUT THE THIRD SHALL BE LEFT THEREIN" [Zechariah 13:8]. It could mean something else. Jeremiah is speaking of a return to Zion. "Zion" according to the simple meaning is another term for Jerusalem meaning Judah in the religious sense. It could be that a relatively small portion ("ONE OF A CITY, AND TWO OF A FAMILY") will be called upon to return in the religious sense prior to the Messianic Era.

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