"Brit-Am Now"-295
September 17, 2003
Contents:
1. Study Finds Kids Need Authority,
Faith
2. Biblical Proof no. 25 Coasts:
3. Australia and Israel: The Most
Important Cavalry Charge in History
1. Study Finds Kids Need Authority,
Faith
http://www.family.org/cforum/fnif/news/a0027926.cfm
By
Steve Jordahl, correspondent
Kids do best when they are raised in homes
with loving authority and faith.
That's the conclusion of a new
study.
Kids are genetically wired to thrive under loving authority.
That's the
conclusion from the Commission on Children at Risk. The research
means
strong families and religious communities are especially helpful in
keeping
kids from destructive behavior.
The study found that kids do
best when their boundaries are scripted by
caring "authoritative
communities" like family and faith. The study's lead
investigator, Kathleen
Kovner Kline, said the need for authority starts
from the moment the child
is born.
"The basic structure of the infant's brain and emotional system
is set up
to develop together with another person," Kline said.
The
researchers also found that faith communities are especially
well-suited to
keeping children from delinquent behavior.
"They're multigenerational,
they have children and parents and other adults
and elders that share a
common vision and value, that treat children as
ends in and of themselves,"
Kline said.
Youth for Christ President Roger Cross said he has observed
the benefit of
homes of faith and authority in thousands of kids around the
world.
"We've seen the change that happens in their behavior and their
life and
also the purpose that comes when they begin to live their life on a
value
system based on God's principles," Cross said.
The study also
found that the influence of religion on young people is
"grossly
understudied."
For teens, faith is "significantly associated" with
reduced instances of
suicide and crime. In addition, religious teens are
better drivers and are
less prone to substance abuse.
2. Biblical
Proof no. 25 Coasts:
This proof complements and ties in with other proofs
such as ends of the
earth and north country. We consider it a separate proof
since in appears
that the Hebrew word ( yarcetei ) meaning literally
thighs and translated
as coast actually refers to Peninsulas. A peninsula
is a projection (i.e.
a thigh ) of land in to water, connected to the
mainland by a narrow strip
of land, called an isthmus. Major Lost Israelite
Tribal centers such as
Jutland (Denmark), Scandinavia, and North America are
peninsulas.
[Jeremiah 31:8] BEHOLD, I WILL BRING THEM FROM THE NORTH
COUNTRY, AND
GATHER THEM FROM THE COASTS OF THE EARTH, AND WITH THEM THE
BLIND AND THE
LAME, THE WOMAN WITH CHILD AND HER THAT TRAVAILETH WITH CHILD
TOGETHER: A
GREAT COMPANY SHALL RETURN THITHER.
<<FROM THE
NORTH COUNTRY>>: Most of the Lost Ten Tribes will be in the
North,
i.e. BUT, THE LORD LIVETH, THAT BROUGHT UP THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
FROM THE
LAND OF THE NORTH, AND FROM ALL THE LANDS WHITHER HE HAD DRIVEN
THEM: AND I
WILL BRING THEM AGAIN INTO THEIR LAND THAT I GAVE UNTO THEIR
FATHERS [Jeremiah 16:15]. They will be mostly to the North of the Land of
Israel but also in other places. We pointed out that to the north meant
Northern Europe and North America that was referred to as The Great North
Land in Phoenician writings according to Barry Fell. The Lost Ten Tribes
would also be ingathered FROM THE COASTS OF THE EARTH . The word
translated as COASTS in Hebrew is Yarcetei meaning literally thighs.
Buleh (Daat Mikra) says that this word is used synonymously with ends of
the earth . It was prophesied frequently that the Lost Tribes would be in
the ends or geographical extremities of the Continental masses, as indeed
they are in every case, e.g. Western Europe, Scandinavia, Britain, North
America, Australia, South Africa. It may be a bit fanciful to mention but
if you look at a map of North America it does look somewhat similar to a
thigh.
They will return by plane and by ship. It may well be
similar
to how the Ethiopian Jews returned to Israel. We saw pictures of
women who
had given birth in flight: i.e. HER THAT TRAVAILETH WITH CHILD.
This type
of transport in which everybody could be safely conducted was not
possible
until modern times.
North Country and
Coasts of the Earth regarding the Latter
Day Era of our own time refers to
North America, Western Europe, Australia,
New Zealand, South Africa, and
like places. Even in the time of Jeremiah
these expressions could refer to
areas in Northern Europe. A related
expression connected with the Lost Ten
Tribes is ends of the
earth (Genesis 33;13, Isaiah 41;8,9,13). This
expression too in ancient
times could relate to northern
regions:
<In innumerable places Egyptian, Hebrew,
Babylonian, Greek,
and Latin writings refer to the most northerly lands as
the ends of the
earth> (Jurgen Spanuch, Atlantic of the North , p.
28).
The Egyptians saw the world as divided into nine bows
which
correspond roughly to the modern concept of meridians of
latitude&. Pliny
the Elder said that the ninth division of the world
goes across the
Hyperboreans (i.e. the Cimbrian peninsula present-day
Jutland [in
Denmark]).. with a seventeen hour day(at its longest). F.A.
Ukert pointed
out long ago that this method of dividing the world was taken
from the
Egyptians and that the ninth bow corresponds to the area between
latitudes 52 and 57& Between these latitudes lie north Germany, Denmark,
and southern Scandinavia (Jurgen Spanuch, Atlantic of the
North ,
p.29). Spanuch is saying that by ends of the earth the ancients
specifically meant what later became Israelite centers in Northern Europe.
This is a further point justifying our understanding of the term as used by
the prophets concerning the Lost Ten Tribes to refer to those same
regions.
3. Australia and Israel: The Most Important Cavalry Charge in
History
Dear Yair,
You have mentioned the role Australian troops
played in the liberation of
Jerusalem in recent issues of "Brit-Am Now". The
central role the
Australians played was in the capture of Beersheba on the
31st October 1917,
which opened the way for the advance on Jerusalem from the
south.
Two very important events occurred on that date, the capture of
Beersheba
opened the road to Jerusalem, and the Balfour Declaration was
drafted in the
British Parliament. "Co-incidences" of that nature indicate a
move by God in
my opinion.
The Turkish, German & Austrian
defenders of Beersheba had repulsed an attack
by 50,000 (some sources say
55,000) British soldiers equipped with tanks
earlier in the day. As the sun
was about to set, the Australian mounted
infantry were ordered in.
The
Australian contingent was from the Light Horse brigade, hard riding,
hard
living mounted infantry troops who were modelled on similar forces used
by
the Confederate Army in the American Civil War. These troops were young
men
in their late teens, drawn mainly from the rural communities
around
Australia. They were expert horsemen and crack shots, and their
familiar
slouch hat was adorned by two emu feathers (emus are large ostrich
type
birds native to Australia). They had a brown feather from the back of
the
emu, and a white feather from the chest of the emu. These feathers were
a
sign of the trooper's equestrian skills as they had to take them from an
emu
while mounted on their horses at full gallop.
The Australian Light
Horse troops sent to Beersheba were to play a minor
role in guarding the
flanks of the advancing British Army. When the British
were repulsed, an
Australian officer who was watching the battle sent a
message to his
commander, General Chauvel, which simply stated "Sir, I think
we can take
this town". It was now late in the afternoon, and the men and
horses needed
water after a 48 hour advance from Gaza, so the town had to be
taken before
nightfall.
The Australians were given an order to take the town, so 800
mounted
soldiers, armed only with their bayonets, were sent in. They had to
cross
about five kilometres of rocky plain to reach the town, and had to ride
into
artillery and machine gun fire from the defenders who outnumbered them
by
six to one. It was, by any measure, an act of suicidal lunacy, how
could
this small band of ill-equipped attackers possibly succeed.
But
they did succeed, and after capturing the town they managed to save most
of
the wells which were essential for the advancing Allied Army.
Two strange
things happened after their success. A large number of the
Turkish defenders,
who significantly outnumbered the Australians, gave up
the fight and cheered
these gallant young men. They had been moved by the
sheer audacity and raw
courage of these young Australians. The second
strange occurrence was that a
large proportion of these hard living young
soldiers fell on their knees when
they entered Beersheba and offered prayers
of thanks to God for the victory -
they saw it as God's victory, not theirs.
With the fall of Beersheba, the
road to Jerusalem was open and it soon fell
without any major military
engagement. The allied forces were led by a
British General, Allenby, who was
by all accounts a devout and pious man. He
prayed continually that he could
take Jerusalem without causing any damage
to the city, God granted him his
wish.
Allenby gave the Australian Light Horse the honour of being the
first troops
to enter the city, and Allenby, in an act of piety, entered
after them on
foot. The Australian troops who fell in the battle of Beersheba
are buried
in an Australian War Graves site on the Mount of Olives in
Jerusalem.
For more information, visit these sites...
http://www.bfpnatloff.com/index.asp?cat=41550
http://www.bluestarbase.org/anzacs1.htm
http://colstringer.server101.com/fromcol.htm
http://www.keepersofhisgates.com/lighthorse.htm
The
Australian Light Horse went on to fight the retreating Turkish / German
army
in Megido, and took Damascus from the Turkish defenders.
A precedent,
Australian military assistance to Israel, was established with
the capture of
Beersheba. In the last Gulf War, another specialised highly
mobile Australian
army contingent was given control of Iraq's western
deserts, and they
operated from the Jordanian border to the western
outskirts of Baghdad. They
were very successful, not a single Scud missile
was launched at Israel during
Gulf War II, and P.M. Sharon praised Australia
for their
assistance.
Best wishes
Dafydd Cotter
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