"Brit-Am Now"-209
March 5, 2003

Contents:
1. More on Scotland
2. Question on Ireland, Tea Tephi, Jeremiah, British Monarchs and the House
of David
3. We all need to repent
4. Meaning of terms, "Geul" & "Teshuvah".
5. Satellite Photo reveals Name of God and name of Ephraim written in
Israeli Mountains


1. More on Scotland
See "Brit-Am Now"-205-(206)-207, item no.3: The Scotsman: Scottish forts
were the first frontier of Roman empire
The Scotsman, Wed 26 Feb 2003
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/opinion.cfm?id=238982003
Roman in the gloamin'

SO WHAT happened exactly? Is Scotlands early history as a land of
freedom-fighters as safe as we thought - or perhaps pulp fiction? According
to two archaeologists, not only did the original Roman wall run further
north than generally supposed, but the conquest was also ten years earlier
than previously thought, at around AD 70.

Moreover, it now looks as if the Romans found not hordes of warmongering
Celts but a land of peaceful natives keen to trade their beer for wine,
olive oil, pottery and other luxury goods. Indeed, far from the Roman
invasion triggering war, it seems to have sparked an economic boom that ran
for some 15 years. To the extent there was a conquest, it was bloodless.

But there are some jarring notes to this general picture of Romano-Scottish
fellowship. First there was the need for the Romans to rebuild the
watchtowers along the Gask Ridge. Then there was the lack of coins around
the Roman settlements. Most curious of all is why the Romans should have
abandoned this happy and pacific world to fall back behind Hadrians wall,
much further to the south. Clearly , it could not have been all peace and
harmony - otherwise there would have been no Scotland. Or not as we know it.

2. Question on Ireland, tea Tephi, Jeremiah, British Monarchs and the House
of David
Question:
At 08:04 05/03/2003 +1030, O wrote:
>Dear Mr Davidy
>
>I am a 37 year old female currently living in Australia. I was born in
>England to Irish catholic parents and taken to Ireland where i was raised
>before emmigrating to Australia as a young adult.
>
>My reason for writing to you is to ask your opinion about  a [web-site
>dealing with Celtic and related issues]
>
>In particular i am writing with regard to this persons discussion
>regarding the origins of the Ulster Flag. The Red Hand thereon comes from
>the O'Neill family crest -  it was sold to the English Lords that
>Elizabeth 1st planted in Ireland after she completed her fathers work in
>the mass slaughter and ruin of the Irish people - please refer to "The
>Flight of the Earls". The Red cross on the flag was also stolen from the
>O'Donnell family crest. These were the the last of the Irish nobility and
>they are buried in Rome. Please note that the Red Hand of Ireland is
>supported by two lions.
>
>Anyway .... this  person has really gotten me ruffled and I would very
>much appreciate  your perspective on what they are claiming as I have
>great respect for your writings. Surely if Teia Tephi and Jeremiah are
>buried in Ireland and if TT married into the Irish nobility .. then it is
>not Elizabeth II who is descended from either Judah or Dan..... keeping in
>mind that the Irish nobility DID have some very odd symbols on their heraldry.
>and I hope this email finds you well.
>  Yours sincerely,
>  O'N
>
>
Answer:
I looked at the site in question. Much of it we could not agree with, some
of it is interesting, and on some points (such as the correct dating for
New Grange) there are informational leads that may be worth considering.
You questions involve ideological and philosophical and moral considerations.
One should endeavor to know what the truth is, to believe in true things,
and to tell the truth.
"Keep away from a false matter" (Proverbs).
In endeavoring to promote knowledge and awareness such as Brit-Am has we
run up against prejudice, unjustified resistance,
and even dishonest intellectual bigoted approaches directed against us. We
are fighting an uphill battle and inn it is not always possible to clearly
distinguish between what is definitely fact, what is highly likely, what is
probable, what may well have been, and what is only a mere remote possibility.

Before I published the first edition of my first book ("The Tribes") I
showed the manuscript to a friend.
He said that my approach was too aggressive and too positively affirmative
of matters that I could not be absolutely sure of
and that I should predicate my statements. I therefore changed some of the
passages and inserted numerous phrases such as
"it would seem", "it may well be", "apparently", "probably", etc. I then
published the book. It was reasonably well received
but a major criticism was that there were too many "maybes", etc., in it. I
was told, by people who knew what they were talking about, that I should
declare my views unequivocally and as strongly as possibly. Do not insult
the intelligence of the reader, I was told. The reader is quite capable, on
his/her own, of making an objective judgment of the evidence you present
and wants you to state your case as strongly as you can. The readers will
then decide whether they should agree with you or not.
Anyway, first of all regarding your questions.
We believe in Divine Providence. If a national symbol is chosen then there
may be a higher reason for it than that which those who make the choice are
consciously aware of. It is therefore justifiable to attempt to understand
these symbols in ways contrary to
the official histories but consistent with other knowledge we possess.
[Similarly a man may think he wants to marry a woman because she is pretty
but the physical attraction may be only a veneer for a deeper spiritual
connection that only after years will he ever consciously be aware of, if
at all.]
Regarding the legend of Tea Tephi.
The Tea Tephi legends say that "Tea Tephi"a daughter of King Zedekiah of
Judah of the House of David came to Ireland.
She was brought by Jeremiah or by Baruch ben Neriah the disciple of
Jeremiah.  "Tea Tephi" married the son of the local king and through their
descendants all later kings of Ireland and Scotland and ultimately of
England were descended. The monarchs of Britain are thus through Tea Tephi
descended from the House of David, on the female side, or so the accounts
state. I just received in the mail a geneaoloical chart explaining all
this, generation after generation.

I personally am doubtful about the whole "Tea Tephi" sage but do not rule
out the possibility.
I do not think that Jeremiah ever visited Ireland but for all I know he may
have done. There are details in the various legends that here and there are
consistent with what we now know from other sources to be true .
The legend may not be true (I am not sure) true in itself but it may also
nevertheless reflect or symbolize a higher reality
that is true. The fact is a lot of people are instinctively attracted to
this story and convinced of its truth.
The monarchs of Britain may well be descended from the House of David as we
explained in "Ephraim".
This is not due to Tea Tephi. Before the exile of the Ten Tribes, the
various aristocratic families of the Northern Kingdom already included
descendants of David, some of whom may have had the status of local
princes.  Later in their places of Exile more descendants of David
permeated the ranks of the rulers of the Ten Tribes in their places of Exile.




Adapted from Ephraim, chapter six:


THE HOUSE OF DAVID AND THE LOST TRIBES



             After exhorting the exiled Israelites to leave a traceable
path of "dolmens", Jeremiah (chapter 31) continues and describes how Judah
(i.e. the Jews) will also be reestablished. A New Covenant will be made
between God and the Houses of Israel and Judah. This Covenant will entail a
change of nature and will be set in the heart so that the will of God will
be instinctively known and performed:



             Jeremiah ch.33;14 "..THE DAYS COME.THAT I WILL PERFORM THAT
GOOD THING WHICH I HAVE PROMISED UNTO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AND TO THE HOUSE
OF JUDAH.



             33;15 "IN THOSE DAYS.. WILL I CAUSE THE BRANCH OF
RIGHTEOUSNESS TO GROW UP INTO DAVID; AND HE SHALL EXECUTE JUDGEMENT AND
RIGHTEOUSNESS IN THE LAND.



             33;17 "...DAVID SHALL NEVER WANT A MAN TO SIT UPON THE THRONE
OF ISRAEL.



             DAVID had numerous sons. Solomon the son of David had 300
wives and 700 concubines and children were borne to him. Most of the kings
of the House of David had several children each of whom also would have
raised a family of his own. It follows that numerous offspring on the male
side must have belonged to the House of David. Descent through the male is
what Scripture, strictlyspeaking, requires in order for the descendants to
call themselves by the House of their (male) ancestoreven though, in Jewish
Law, anyone borne of a Jewish mother is considered Jewish. The House of
David reigned in Judah and quite a few families amongst the presentday Jews
trace themselves back to David. The Jewish Biblical Commentators Rashi
(10401105) and Abarbanel (1435-1508), the family of Dayan in Spain and
Syria as well as the Maharal (1512-1609) and many other famous Rabbinical
scholars were descended from King David. A good number of Jews should be
able today to trace themselves back to King David. Apart from descendants
of David who are to be found amongst the modern Jews there are others.
Numerous people from the Tribe of Judah were also exiled together with the
Lost Ten Tribes. The Sons of David had once been appointed as
administrators over all Israel (2-Samuel 8;18). Later members of the House
of David had intermarried with leaders of the Northern Kingdom and passed
over to live in those areas. In this and other ways descendants of David
must have penetrated the ranks of the exiled Israelites.

  [ An Aramaic inscription mentions a "House of David in connection with
Dan in the Galilee, Biran p.277. There was a Judaean entity known as Yadiin
southeast Turkey which was attached to Judah in the south, "he recovered
Damascus, and Hamath, which belonged to Judah, for Israel" (2-Kings 14;28).
The rulers of Yadi had Hebrew names like Gabbar, Bamah, Hayya, Saul,
(Olmstead p.184) and maybe represented a minor branch of the House of
David. Yadi disappeared together with the northern Ten Tribed Kingdom of
Israel.]

             Part of the Lost Ten Tribes became known as the Sakae or
Scythians. The Sacae-Scythians once had an independent kingdom named
"Sakastanin eastern Iran. The ruling dynasty of Sakastan believed itself
descended from King Solomon the son of David. In Iberia (Georgia in the
Caucasus in southern Russia), which also once belonged to the Scythians
there was too, a dynasty (related to the Arsacid Kings of Parthia) that
traced itself back to David26 as well as to a mythical "AnglTork". The
ruling houses of the SakaeScythians in Sakastan and Scythia appear to have
been interrelated and had familial connections with the monarchs of the
Guti (Goths) and Parthians and they with each other27.  It follows that
these too at least in part may well have been descended from David28. From
these monarchic and aristocratic lines came the early kings of Scandinavia,
of the Franks, and of the AngloSaxons.

             Enthusiasts in the past have adduced all kinds of genealogical
permutations in order to prove that the reigning house of Britain is
descended from an eastern princess named Tea Tephi (presumed daughter of
Zedekiah, king of Judah of the House of David) who married an Irish king,
whose descendants moved to Scotland and from there they eventually
inherited the English Throne. It may not be necessary to go back so far in
such an involved way to make the same point, and anyway the male line is
what counts.

             Another fount of the Davidic line may have penetrated West
European nobility via France! There was once a semi-autonomous Principality
in Narbonne (southern France) described by Arthur J. Zuckerman (A Jewish
Princedom in Feudal France, 768-900, New York, 1972). It was ruled by a
Jewish Prince of the House of David whose offspring intermarried with the
aristocracy and Royal Line of France and these with that of Normandy,
Scotland, and England. Amongst the Welsh, Scottish, English, and other
groups in Europe there were families who believed they descended from King
David of Judah.

             It therefore follows, that (theoretically at least)
present-day descendants of David may be extremely numerous. Compare this
possibility with the following verse:

             Jeremiah 33;22 "AS THE HOST OF HEAVEN CANNOT BE NUMBERED,
NEITHER THE SAND OF THE SEA MEASURED: SO WILL I MULTIPLY THE SEED OF DAVID
MY SERVANT, AND THE LEVITES THAT MINISTER UNTO ME.....



             David was promised that the Rulership over Israel (or at least
part of it) would come from him:



             JEREMIAH 33;25 "....IF MY COVENANT BE NOT WITH DAY AND NIGHT,
IF I HAVE NOT APPOINTED THE ORDINANCES OF HEAVEN AND EARTH;



             33;26 "THEN WILL I CAST AWAY THE SEED OF JACOB, AND DAVID MY
SERVANT, SO THAT I WILL NOT TAKE OF HIS SEED TO BE RULERS OVER THE SEED OF
ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB: FOR I WILL CAUSE THEIR CAPTIVITY TO RETURN, AND
HAVE MERCY ON THEM.



             Literally speaking, the promises to David and to the Levites
do not necessarily mean that they will always have rulers and ministers
over the Houses of Israel. Rather, the Biblical promises may be understood
to state that descendants of David and Levi will always be available to
fulfill their ancestral functions whenever the Promised Messianic Order
shall be instituted or whenever the Children of Israel are worthy.

             Even so, it may be that many of the Rulers over the exiled
Israelites and those who ministered to them in Britain, America, and
elsewhere are (and were) descended from the Houses of David and Levi.

  3. We all need to repent
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-208
Shalom Yair

It goes without saying, every one needs to repent.  First the Jew and the
Church then the Gentile.

2Ch 7:13  If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the
locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
2Ch 7:14  If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;
then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal
their land.

There are those who are now asking Joseph for forgiveness for taking him for
granted, expecting Aid.  I have found that much of the hatred towards
America is really jealousy.

Shalom

Craig

4. Meaning of terms, "Geul" & "Teshuvah".
From: D
Subject: Re: "Brit-Am Now"-208
re 2. Joseph Needs to Repent
Question: For those of us who are not members of the above name
club/cult/whatever-
could you please translate. What is Geul?? What is Teshuvah.

Answer: "Geul" should be rendered "Geulah" and it means Redemption
especially in connection with  the final Redemption of the Last days.
"Teshuvah" literally means "Returning" but it is usually used in the sense
of Repentance.
When we repent we "return" to God. We return to what we should have been
all along.

5. Satellite Photo reveals Name of God and name of Ephraim written in
Israeli Mountains
Just to remind you all that the four-lettered name of God in Hebrew and the
name of Ephraim
appear in the mountain formations of Israel on the west bank as shown by
satellite photo.
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