Date: Sat Aug 10, 2002 1:54 pm
Contents:
1. The early USA and Israel
2. Brit-Am Needs
3. Steven Collins: Javan
4. Welcome Message to the Brit-Am list.
1. The early USA and Israel
From: Moonhorse2@a...
Subject: Excerpts from Enemies or Allies
by David Klinghoffer ( Toward
Tradition )
In North America where Puritans established
their commonwealth as an
experiment in radical Protestantism,
there arose a culture of
philo-Semitism. American has seen in
its own history a replaying of the
sacred history of the people Israel.
This was evident even before the
country was founded. Just as Israel
fled from Egypt to establish a godly
society in Canaan, the first Americans
fled from England to establish a
godly society in Massachusetts. Both
groups were called " separatists" as
the word "Hebrews" ( Ivrim) can fairly
be translated. When they celebrated
Thanksgiving for the first time, in
1621, the Pilgrims imagined it as a
kind of Yom Kippur, a day of repentance,
prayer, and fasting. The legal
codes of colonial Massachusetts and
Connecticut were based explicitly on
the legal framework of the Five Books
of Moses. Sir William Bradford,
second governor of the Plymouth colony,
observing that Hebrew was the
Lord'..........
In the 18th century the great preacher
and revivalist Jonathan Edward
declared that God, true to His word,
would return the Jews to the Land of
Israel.
By 1891 the evangelist William Blackstone
was seeking a way to persuade the
American government to make such a
state a reality.
Im lo achshav, eimatei ? ( if not now, when ? )
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3. Steven Collins: Javan
From: Steven Collins <scollins@l...>
Subject: FW: The ten tribes and modern
Javan
Shalom Yair,
A reader of my book asked me about
my thoughts on the whereabouts and role
of modern Javan. Here is a somewhat
modified version of my answer which I
thought I'd send to you as an example
of my thoughts on this subject.
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In some of my messages, I have pointed
out that the children of Japheth
mostly settled in Asia. As part of
those messages I have pointed out that
the name of one of Japheth's sons,
"Javan," (Genesis 10:2) is closely
replicated in such modern Asian place-names
such as "Java" (an island in
Indonesia) and "Japan." There is additional
biblical evidence that modern
Japan descends from Javan, but I need
to discuss some background
information to place it in proper context.
In Ezekiel 38, there is a prophecy
that a group of Asian nations (Russia,
China, Iran, etc.) will attack the
nations of the tribes of Israel in "the
latter days." Attacking nations named
Gomer, Magog, Meshech, Tubal and
Togarmah are all descendants of Japheth
(Genesis 10:2-3). It is clear that
it is the latter-day descendants of
the house of Israel which are targeted
by this attack as the named alliance
of gentile nations attack "the people
of Israel" (Ezek. 38:14 & 16),
also called "the land of Israel" (Ezek.
38:18). After this attack, the "house
of Israel" buries the bodies of the
dead attackers (Ezek. 39:12), so it
is clearly "Israel" which is attacked.
As we know from Genesis 48:14-16, the
name "Israel" is primarily placed on
the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh,
although the term "the house of
Israel" in Ezek. 39:12 indicates the
attack will be against other Israelite
tribes as well, not just the tribes
of Joseph.
What does this have to do with Javan?
Ezekiel 38:13 lists "the merchants
of Tarshish" and "the young lions thereof"
as gentile nations who do NOT
attack the modern nations of the house
of Israel. Indeed, they question
why the other gentile nations are doing
so.
Tarshish is one of the sons of Javan
(Genesis 10:4), and Tarshish is
prophesied to be a "nation of merchants"
in the latter-days. Japan has
often been called "Japan, Inc." because
of its merchant-based economy which
is tied closely to the USA's and the
Western World's economies (which are
dominated by the modern tribes of Israel).
Tarshish's mercantile example
will be copied by other smaller nations
called "the young lions thereof."
The world's financial press has long
called the nations of South Korea,
Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand,
Taiwan, etc. the "young tiger"
nations. The prophetic descriptions
of Tarshish (a son of Javan) and other
nations as being aggressive, even predatory
marketers--(hence the imagery
of merchant "lions") very closely fits
the real-world realities of Japan
and the young tiger ("young lions thereof")
nations which have
export-driven, mercantile economies.
Because the economies of Japan and
the young tiger nations are utterly
dependent on the Western World's
consumers, they would have every reason
NOT to attack the nations of the
modern house of Israel (who are their
best customers). In this respect,
the modern circumstances fulfill the
prophesied conditions very well!
It should be pointed out that while
"Tarshish," one branch of the
Javanites, is prophesied to be economically
allied to the nations of the
latter-day "house of Israel," this
does not mean all Javanites will be
Israelite allies. Genesis 10:4 indicates
that Javan had three other sons
besides Tarshish, and their whereabouts
and latter-day roles are not
specifically addressed in Ezekiel 38.
Given the fact that many of the
nations named in Ezekiel 38 as anti-Israelite
attackers have descended from
Japheth, it is very possible that the
scriptural exemption of Tarshish from
the list of attackers indicates that
the other sons of Javan will be
enemies of the house of Israel in the
latter days.
Steve Collins
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