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INTRODUCTION TO CHAPTER FIVE
The next chapter will be a message concerning the bride of Christ. In it we will endeavor to show that, as Christ
the Head and Christ the body come from the seed of Abraham, in like manner the bride of Christ, or Christ the
bride, comes of the seed of Abraham. The term, Christ the bride, is doubtless unfamiliar to most of us. Indeed I
have never heard the term used by any other; nevertheless the moment we grasp the significance of the
statement, “For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they two shall
be one flesh,” we grasp the vital unity between the Christ bridegroom and the Christ bride, for they two are also
one in a spiritual union, of which the union of the flesh we now know as marriage can only be a frail type.
We should not deem it strange that we have not heard these truths before because God reveals truth only
when the time is ripe for truth to be revealed. This Peter describes as present truth. 2 Pet. 1:12 It is also stated
by Isaiah, “Behold, the former things are come to pass and new things do I declare: before they spring forth, I
will tell you of them.” Isa. 42:9 It is not strange therefore that practically no one has ever heard teaching
concerning the bride of Christ – who she is, where she comes from, her relationship to the Bridegroom, or the
magnificent purpose to which she is ordained. Should some think this to be an incorrect deduction, then one
might ask himself the questions, “Who is the bride? For what purpose does Christ need a bride? What will be
the glory of her ministry in the ages to come?” Upon asking ourselves these questions, we will realize that the
truth concerning the bride of Christ has never been revealed nor has her existence been more than merely
mentioned. It is deplorable, but true, that in our day, as in centuries past, the teaching has been that the
present day church is the bride of Christ. This is a great error, which purposely hides the true bride and her
ministry from our understanding.
It is necessary that all truth be revealed in its appointed time because, when truth grips our hearts and we
comprehend the magnitude of God’s eternal purposes, we are sanctified by the truth, for “Thy word is truth,”
and laying aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, we press toward the mark for the
prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
It is my earnest and continual prayer that all who read these sacred truths will be seized upon by the spirit of
revelation from on high that all may see the length and breadth and depth and height of God’s grace and know
the love of God, which passeth knowledge, that we may know how long and wide and deep and high God’s
grace and love must be that we, the seed of Abraham by covenant and by faith, should be included in God’s
glorious Christ, the Head and the body together forming one Christ and one anointed. Jesus the first born and
the many sons who follow after, being baptized into one body and one Christ, therefore being one, will hear
again from heaven those same words of adoption, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” This
Christ in His fullness, the Head and the body in one together, will be united to the New Jerusalem bride that the
last Adam in all His magnified and multiplied glory might be after the image of the first Adam before Eve, the
bride, was separated from him. Thus the first man, who was of the earth earthy, is found to be a faint shadow
of the last man, who is the Lord from heaven.
The entire dispensation of grace has been occupied by the ingathering and perfecting of the Christ body, or the
bridegroom. The millennial age is appointed for the ingathering and perfecting of the bride of Christ, the hosts
of the seed of Abraham reserved until now for that purpose. Then follows the dispensation of the fullness of
times when through the twelve gates of the city all nations will enter that they might have the right to the tree of
life, which is in the midst of the New Jerusalem, the city of God. The nations shall walk in the light of it and
shall bring their glory and honor into it until every creature in earth and in Heaven and in the sea will be heard
saying, “Glory and blessing and honor to Him that sitteth upon the throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever.”
CHAPTER FIVE
THY SEED WHICH IS THE BRIDE OF CHRIST
Studying truth so vast in scope as that which we have undertaken, I frankly admit that it is difficult to find either
an appropriate place to begin or a suitable place to end. As God Himself is without beginning or end, so also
His eternal truth must be.
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When the Lord created the animals, the birds, the beasts of the field, and all other life on earth, He made them
male and female; but when He formed Adam from the dust of the ground, this creation was radically different
from all others. Whereas lower forms of animal creation were made male and female separately from the
beginning, man was made male and female, united in one person, and that one person was called Adam. Thus
when the Lord caused every beast of the field and bird of the air to pass before Adam to be named, from all
this great host of created life, the scripture clearly states, “for Adam there was not found an help-meet for him.”
To provide a helpmeet and a wife for Adam the Lord did a wonderful thing. “And the Lord caused a deep sleep
to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the
rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam
said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken
out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be
one flesh.” Gen. 2:21-24 To emphasize a thought, which I wish to introduce later we should remember this
notable scripture: “And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.” Gen. 3:20
In 1 Cor. 11:12 Paul made this interesting statement: “For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also
by the woman: but all things of God.” To the best of my understanding the meaning is this: The first woman
who ever saw the light of day came forth out of man, but thenceforward forever every man who would come
into the world would come by or from the woman. Herein is a most wonderful thing. None can deny the truth of
it. Though the woman at first came forth from the man, yet from that day forth forever all mankind would be
born of and come forth from the woman. The marvelous significance of the fact that Adam’s wife was to
become the mother of all living will never be fully appreciated until generations, dispensations, and ages pass
in their procession and we stand at last on that great and high mountain with John, beholding the Holy City, the
New Jerusalem, descending from heaven as a bride adorned for her husband, to become in truth the mother of
all living. Rev. 21:9-21
Oh the unsearchable riches of Christ! Oh to perceive the irresistible unfolding of His immutable will! Oh to
grasp the revelation of His purpose, the purpose that will never deviate from its original intention until at last all
things return to God who gave them – not empty as they came out from God, but full of wisdom and knowledge
as they will come in! Who hath known the mind of the Lord that he should instruct Him? Or who has been His
counselor? For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things. Glory to His eternal name forevermore! It is
not from the schools of this world’s wisdom that we learn the ways of God. Eternal purposes are not unfolded
by the lettered and polished scholars of this dark age. We do not discover the wisdom of the mind that is
eternal by studying musty old volumes of church tradition, but we learn the purpose of the ages when in spirit
we stand in Eden with the Eternal to look through His eyes down the vista of years to the end of time. Then
and then only do we behold the infinite wisdom of the divine mind, the purpose of Him who worketh all things
according to the counsel of His will.
“Not Athen’s blooms, but those of Calvary
And Gethsemane bring the victory
That causes sinners for home to pine
And turn their backs for aye on husks of swine.”
Our hearts have been thrilled and stirred beyond measure as we have mused concerning the covenant God
made with Abraham. From it we have seen a nation and a company of nations rise, whose seed in our day is
as numberless as the sands of the sea, a people who even in their unregenerate condition have been a
blessing to all other nations on earth because they are the covenant people. From that nation we have seen
the exalted Head come forth, Jesus Christ our Lord, the Son of God, the last man Adam, the seed of Abraham
according to the flesh and that particular seed which we now know to be “thy seed which is Christ.”
Upon a handful of Judean Jews, who were the seed of Abraham, the Holy Ghost was outpoured at Pentecost,
the very beginning and foundation of the Christ body, the temple of the Lord. Then again in the Revelation
John saw at the end of this age one hundred forty-four thousand sons of God of the seed of Abraham sealed in
their foreheads. The sons of God in the extremity of this age complete the fullness of Christ. Wonderful as is
the story of the fullness of Christ, it is by no means the end of the story we have to tell nor is it the climax of the
covenant God made with Abraham. While Adam was complete as a man before Eve stood by his side, no seed
of Adam could possibly have been born until God gave him a bride. Only then did the thousands of millions of
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mankind begin to appear on the face of the earth. My heart sings a thousand hallelujahs when I consider the
antitype of this great mystery. For six thousand years God has been bringing to fullness and completeness the
last man Adam, the fullness of the Christ of God, the Head, which is God’s first Son Jesus, together with the
vast body of sons to follow, that Christ might stand at the end of this age in all His fullness as John beheld Him
in Revelation, chapter one. “Here am I and the sons which God hath given me.” Heb. 2:13 (R.V.) One Lord
and one Christ, all baptized in one Spirit into one body and one Christ. Here am I, the Man Christ Jesus, the
last Adam, made in God’s image, created in His likeness, standing in the end of the sixth day complete in
Myself as Adam stood, but with no bride and no wife by My side!
Up to this present time Christian people have had practically no understanding concerning the bride of Christ.
Of her very little revelation has been given. The bride has not yet appeared on the earth. Though Adam
appeared on the sixth day, Eve did not appear until after the sixth day. How long after we do not know. Adam
was revealed as a son of God at the end of the sixth day, and now at the end of the sixth dispensational day
since man appeared on the earth the Father has brought the sons of God to fullness. By the ministry of these
sons will come forth the many membered New Jerusalem bride of Christ.
During the centuries of the church age many wonderful revivals have taken place. Multitudes of mankind have
wept in repentance and contrition at the feet of the Saviour and, being begotten of Him, they rose to walk in
newness of life, justified by faith in His blood, but up to the present hour all we have seen has been the
gathering of the elect, the sonship company, who at the end of the age stand complete in Christ awaiting only
the redemption of the body before their complete manifestation. While these multitudes were being gathered
into the fold, unnumbered millions, yea, even billions, have walked in outer darkness, living and dying without
even once hearing the message of salvation or ever knowing that the true God existed or that He so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believed on Him should not perish, but have
everlasting life. But was not that to be expected? Most certainly it was, for had God intended to enlighten the
heathen in this age, His omnipotent power could have done so ten thousand times over, opening their blind
eyes and transforming their hearts in a moment of time. It was not until Eve was brought forth to stand by
Adam’s side that the human increase began. From that union billions have been born. Thus will it be in the end
when the bride of Christ is presented to Him at the marriage of the Lamb. Then will the gates of the city be
opened wide and the restitution of all the billions who once walked in darkness will begin. Never will the
blessed program cease until every creature in heaven and earth and in the sea shall be heard saying,
“Blessing, and honor, and glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb
forever and ever.” Rev. 5:13. Rejoice, O my soul, at the wonder of the thing!
Can we not see that all natural things have spiritual counterparts? Could God’s command to Adam to multiply
ever have been fulfilled had He not given Eve to be his bride? The Abrahamic covenant, which promised a
seed as numberless as the stars of heaven, would have been but idle words had God not given Sarah to
Abraham to be his wife. You sit today, oh man, with your children as olive plants about your table, but would
they have been there at all had God not first given you a wife? But for her you would have been a dry and
barren tree. Why then do we find it difficult to see the anti-type in Christ? Glorious as is our wonderful Christ in
His completeness, even He would abide unproductive and alone were it not for the truth most glorious that
from Himself will come forth a spiritual Eve, the bride of Christ, who in her time will be the mother of thousands
of millions of reborn men, numberless as the stars of the universe.
There has been much misunderstanding concerning the sons of God and the bride. The sons of God now
being prepared are the true body of Christ. They must not be confused with the bride. The sons of God
compose the bridegroom. Jesus Christ with all the elect sons who have been prepared in this age constitute
the bridegroom company. This is the fullness of Christ. Adam is the type; the sons of God are the antitype.
Adam was first formed, then Eve. Let us not forget that order. To fulfill the type, Christ, the last Adam, is first
formed in fullness, then the bride by Him. The first Adam was formed on the sixth day. The last man Adam is
formed on the sixth dispensational day, the age of grace. Eve, the bride, was not formed on the sixth day. She
was taken from Adam some time later. How much later I do not know. So also the bride of Christ is not formed
on the sixth dispensational day. She first appears in all her glory descending from God out of heaven at the
end of the millennial kingdom of God. Rev. 21:9-27 Our understanding of the whole plan of God for the
reconciliation of all things becomes clearer once we understand that it is not until the woman, the bride,
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appears that true fruitfulness begins. If through Adam and Eve the billions of natural men have been born, then
the antitype is abundantly clear that through Christ and the bride all those billions who have been born will now
be born again. That is not first which is spiritual but that which is natural, and afterward that which is spiritual.
Once we grasp the significance of the natural, it is not difficult to follow God’s purpose through into the spiritual.
The saints may learn a great lesson by noticing that all God’s works, both natural and spiritual, follow a distinct
pattern. For instance, everything that lives, be it a tree, an insect, an animal, a man or a son of God, grows
from a seed. Again, everything in creation travels in an orbit. “Dust thou art and to dust shalt thou return.” The
wind blows from the north to the south and turns about and blows back to the north again. All the rivers run into
the sea, yet the sea is never full. From the place whence the waters came thither they return again. The sun
rises in the east and sets in the west and hastens to the place where he arose. See Eccles. 1:4-9 Again, in all
forms of life God has made male and female. All living creatures are male and female and not least among
them is mankind. God Himself is male and female in one. He could not be perfect if it were not so. When the
Lord made Adam in His own image, Adam was both male and female in one person. Thus he remained until
the Lord separated the masculine from the feminine, making Adam and Eve, man and woman, to exist
separately for the purpose of procreation. Certain as this is, inspiration declares both in the Old Testament and
in the New that the man and his wife, though separate, are one flesh. Indeed, it was Adam who first uttered
that truth when he said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman
because she was taken out of Man. Therefore shall a man leave his father and mother and shall cleave unto
his wife; and they shall be one flesh.” Gen. 2:23-24 Paul likewise knew this truth and added, “This is a great
mystery; nevertheless, I speak concerning Christ and the church.” Speaking of the church, he was probably
referring to that part of the ecclesia which will eventually form the bride of Christ.
Throughout the works of God the pattern is clearly visible, teaching us that the male is fruitless until the female
appears. The bachelor must abide alone until he receives a bride. Then and only then the increase begins. We
may be reverently assured that this same pattern exists in the spiritual realm. The sons of God, who form the
body of Christ and the bridegroom, will become fully fruitful only after the bride appears and is presented to
Christ. I will deal more fully with this as we proceed and then I trust we will see the universal increase, which
the Word declares with such assurance. Dear reader, I ask this one question of you before we proceed further.
In your meditations concerning the bride of Christ have you discovered the purpose for her existence? Or have
you thought of her as something romantically meaningless? On the other hand, have you seen the bride as
vitally essential to God’s plan for the restitution of all things? To me it seems particularly clear that the
formation of the bride of Christ is a work completely necessary to the final rebirth and reconciliation of all
things. Though God’s word declares with assurance that Christ “hath reconciled all things to Himself, the final
fulfillment of that work must await the sacred hour when the bride of Christ is complete and ready, as I shall
clearly show in the final pages of this chapter.
A BRIDE FOR ISAAC
The Bible is the Word of God. Every jot and tittle of it from Genesis to Revelation is as true as God is true. No
man anywhere has ever proved any of its statements to be in error or any of its history or prophecy inaccurate.
Not only is the Bible the Word of God, but it is also the most intriguing story ever written. It gives the account of
creation and the fall of man. It tells of battles, of shipwrecks, of faithfulness, of murder and betrayal, and it
contains without doubt the most romantic love stories ever recorded.
The complete romance of Isaac and Rebekah is a bit too long to write in detail here, but if the reader will
refresh himself by reading Genesis, chapter twenty-four, he will have the beautiful account in its fullness. It will,
however, be necessary to quote some of that narrative here. As you read the tale, you will become aware that
Abraham is a type of God the Father, Isaac is a type of the Son, Eliezer, the servant, represents the Holy Spirit
seeking the bride, and Rebekah herself is the bride.
“And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. And
Abraham said unto his eldest servant of his house, that ruled over all he had, Put, I pray thee, thy hand under
my thigh: and I will make thee swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that thou shalt
not take a wife unto my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell: But thou shalt go unto
my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac. And the servant said unto him,
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Peradventure the woman will not be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again unto
the land from whence thou earnest? And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son
thither again. The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my
kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land: He shall
send His angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.” Gen. 24:1-7
Reading the above passage, we will be impressed by Abraham’s definite command that a bride for Isaac must
under no circumstances be sought from among the Canaanites or from among any of the Gentile people.
Isaac’s bride was not to be a Gentile bride as so many preachers have insisted, but she was to be a girl from
Abraham’s kindred and from his own country. Gen. 24:4 Abraham was not a Jew, because there was no such
person as a Jew until many years after Judah was born. The word Jew derives from the word Judah as Ben is
an abbreviation of Benjamin. Abraham was an Hebrew. He was called a Hebrew because he was a
descendant of the household of Heber or Eber. Gen. 11:14 I wish here to strongly emphasize the fact that
Abraham forbad his servant to seek a bride for Isaac from among any except his own kindred. She was to be
an Hebrew of Abraham’s own people, for Abraham was an Hebrew. Gen. 14:13 Investigation clearly shows
that Rebekah was a second cousin of Isaac or a cousin once removed as some prefer to say.
The genealogy of Abraham is given in Gen. 11:10-30 Briefly stated, starting with Shem, the son of Noah, the
genealogy is Shem, Arphaxad, Salah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah; and Terah begat three sons,
Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran, before he died, left three children – Lot (verse 27), Milcah, a daughter, and
Iscah. Verse 29. Abram married his half-sister Sarah (Gen. 20:12) and Nahor married Milcah (his niece), who
was his brother Haran’s daughter. (Verse 29) Please remember that intermarrying with close relatives was not
forbidden until after the law of Moses.
When Abraham’s servant Eliezer (Gen. 15:2) went seeking a bride for Isaac, he was led by the Holy Spirit to
the house of his master’s brethren. Gen. 24:27 The account of the journey he took to seek a bride for Isaac is
recorded in these words: “And the servant took ten camels of the camels of his master, and departed; for all
the goods of his master were in his hand: and he arose, and went to Mesopotamia, unto the city of Nahor
(Nahor was Abraham’s brother). And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at
the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water. And he said, O Lord God of my
master Abraham, I pray Thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: and
let it come to pass, that the damsel to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink; and
she shall say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: let the same be she that Thou hast appointed for Thy
servant Isaac; and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master. And it came to pass,
before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the
wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher on her shoulder.” Gen. 24:10-15 This fifteenth verse tells us
that Nahor and Milcah his wife had a son whose name was Bethuel, and Rebekah was Bethuel’s daughter.
Bethuel was therefore Issac’s first cousin and Rebekah was Isaac’s second cousin.
I have emphasized this detail to establish the fact that Isaac’s bride was not a Gentile bride, as preachers are
so fond of declaring, She was an Hebrew just as certainly as Isaac was an Hebrew. Furthermore she could not
have been much more closely related to Isaac than she was. This fact is important, because it is through
Abraham and his seed that all other nations of the world are to be blessed. Abraham’s wife was an Hebrew
woman (his half-sister). Isaac’s wife was also an Hebrew, and Jacob’s wives, Rachel and Leah, were also
Hebrew women, daughters of Laban, who himself was a son of Nahor, Abram’s brother. Gen. 29:5 Now, since
Rachel and Leah were the daughters of Laban, the son of Nahor, and Rebekah was the daughter of Bethuel,
the son of Nahor, then Bethuel and Laban were brothers and Rachel and Leah were first cousins of Rebekah. I
do not see any way to avoid this conclusion. Lot was the son of Haran, Abraham’s brother. Therefore Lot was
Abraham’s nephew. How anyone can conclude that Rebekah was a Gentile bride in the face of this close
relationship is more than I can imagine. She was definitely an Hebrew bride.
It is in Abraham and his seed that all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. We have already shown in Vol.
15 No. 3 that Jesus Christ, the Head of the body, was of the seed of Abraham according to His natural
descent. In article four we showed that the body of Christ is of the seed of Abraham and heirs according to the
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promise. Also the one hundred forty-four thousand who were sealed in their foreheads as sons of God were
chosen from the twelve tribes of the children of Israel and every one of these sons is of the seed of Abraham
according to God’s eternal covenant with him. It will be our joy to see presently that the greatest ingathering of
all time will be accomplished when the bride of Christ is complete and has made herself ready, for in that glad
and holy day all the nations will bring their glory and honor into her. Therefore it is important now to show that
the bride of Christ, when she appears in all her celestial glory, will also be of the seed of Abraham. As it i s with
the types, so must it be with the antitypes. Just as the brides of Isaac and Jacob were of the Abrahamic family,
so also will the bride of Christ be of the seed of Abraham. Again we repeat the words of the covenant: “In thee
and thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”
It must be clearly understood that, when God speaks of the seed of Abraham, He is speaking of all the twelve
tribes of the children of Israel and not merely of the Jews, who represent only a very small section of the tribes
of Judah and Benjamin, who formed the house of Judah. Why is it that Christians universally insist that the
Jewish nation, who for two thousand years has been anti-Christ in all its teaching and actions, is predestined to
inherit a wonderful future glory, and at the same time insist that the other ten tribes, to whom Christ is a glory,
(Luke 2:32), are washed up, rejected of God, and completely forgotten? There is something wrong with such
faulty theology as that, for it is certain that far greater promises were given to the ten tribes of the house of
Israel than were given to the two tribes of the house of Judah. We must conclude that these ten tribes are in
the earth today, bringing forth fruit exactly as God determined before hand when Jacob called his sons and
said, “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.” Gen. 49:1
The apostle Paul said, “Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles be come
in.” Now this blindness is twofold. First the house of Judah is partially blind, for while they know they are
Abraham’s seed, they do not know that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God and their promised Messiah. The
house of Israel on the other hand is blind in exactly the opposite way, for they almost to a man know that Jesus
is the Christ; yet they are totally blind as to who they are, supposing all the while that they are Gentiles when
they are in fact the seed of Abraham. As this thought will be dealt with in our final chapter, we will leave it for
the present with the prayer that God will open our eyes, which have suffered this blindness in part for so many
years, that the house of Judah may see her Christ and the house of Israel may see her identity, her birthright
and her calling.
REBEKAH’S BLESSING
The story of Rebekah, the bride of Isaac, is filled with romance and beauty. Read its narrative verse by verse
and consider its progress thought by thought and you will discover a beautiful story full of types and instruction
that will lead to understanding. You will see Abraham as a type of our heavenly Father, sending forth the
servant, who represents the Holy Spirit, to seek out a bride for Isaac, the son. You will see the gifts with which
she is adorned, the consecration she willingly made in response to the proposal,” Wilt thou go with this man,”
and she said, “I will go.” You will hear the prophetic blessing pronounced upon her as she departed: “Thou art
our sister; be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let thy seed possess the gate of those which hate
them.” Gen. 24:60
I trust the reader will not forget that Rebekah is a type of the New Jerusalem bride of Christ. She just may be
the only type of the bride of Christ in all the scripture. Therefore I want to greatly emphasize these words of her
blessing, “Be thou the mother of thousands of millions.” Gen. 24:60 Rebekah has become the mother of
thousands of millions through the centuries, but the wonderful blessing extends far beyond all natural
generation, reaching forward to that glad day when the bride of Christ, the New Jerusalem, Rebekah’s
antitype, will open her twelve gates to become the mother of all the thousands of millions who have ever
existed on the earth. A thousand million is a billion, but the blessing is not to a thousand million, but to
thousands of millions. Numberless billions will enter through her wide open gates to partake of the water of life,
flowing freely in the midst of the city of God. They will bring their glory and honor into her and she will be the
mother of them all, and God Himself will be their Father and dwell among them. “Be thou the mother of
thousands of millions” is a mighty prophetic blessing to be fulfilled in its completeness only in the New
Jerusalem bride. Oh the knowledge of God as He speaks from eternity to eternity! How unsearchable is His
wisdom and His ways past finding out!
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“And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant
(who represents the Holy Spirit) took Rebekah, and went his way. And Isaac came from the way of the well
Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country.” Gen. 24:61-62. Isaac, as you already know, is a type of Christ in
this story, that fullness of Christ of which we have spoken before. Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai
roi, which means, “The well of Him that liveth and seeth me.” This was the well Hagar named before the birth
of Ishmael when the angel of the Lord met her in the wilderness. Gen. 16:1-14. Thou, Lord seest me. “And
Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide; and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the
camels were coming. And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel. For
she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said,
It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself. And the servant told Isaac all things that he had
done. And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he
loved her; and Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.” Gen. 24:63-67.
The story of Isaac abounds in beautiful types. Abraham had waited many long and weary years for the birth of
his promised son. All the promises and covenants God had made with him depended entirely upon the birth of
this one son. Upon the birth of Isaac depended the promise that Abraham’s seed would be as the sand of the
sea shore and as the stars of heaven for number. Upon his birth rested the promise, “In thee and thy seed
shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” If this promised son were not born, then all the promises given
and re-given through the years must fall to the ground and become utterly meaningless. But, blessed be God’s
faithfulness, Isaac was born and with him the promise of all things God had spoken is assured.
In the midst of the gladness this promised son had brought came the command of God that Isaac should be
offered up as a sacrifice, for nothing we possess is of any value at all until it is offered in sacrifice to God. So
Abraham, in obedience to God’s command, took his son to offer him up for a burnt offering on one of the hills
of Moriah. Gen. 22:2. (Possibly Calvary where Jesus died and where also, many believe, Adam had been
buried.) Though God spared Isaac from death, in type he died, the ram caught in the thicket taking his place.
Now, many years after Isaac had been received from death in a figure (Heb. 11:19), he was presented with a
bride, through whom all the promises of God would be completely fulfilled. All else is but preparation for the
bride, who will be the mother of thousands of millions.
There is so much to write and space seems always insufficient, but we must find place here to explain that
man in himself is not complete. When God made man in the beginning, He created him male and female
complete in one person, and that person was Adam. All other creatures were created male and female
separately, but Adam was made male and female in one person. We cannot tell from the Genesis record how
long he remained in that perfect state, but the day came when a deep sleep from God came upon him and
from a part of his body, which the Bible calls a rib, the Lord formed a woman, who was presented to him as his
wife. From that hour onward the man without the woman was incomplete and the woman without the man was
incomplete also, and each without the other remained fruitless. Because both the male and the female are
incomplete and fruitless without each other the apostle Paul in wisdom explained, “For this cause shall a man
leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.” Nothing proves more
conclusively than this passage that the male without the female or the female without the male are both
incomplete and fruitless, but when they two are joined together by the power of God, they two are one. After
Paul explained this mystery, he proceeded to show how this wonder is itself a type of an even greater mystery,
saying, “This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” Eph. 5:32 The true church
consists of the sonship company, which is the fullness of Christ in His many-membered body of sons, but the
church of the millennial kingdom is the Israel bride – the bride of Christ, not a Gentile bride, but an Israelitish
bride as we have before clearly shown.
The book of Hosea will always remain a dark mystery until the reader discovers that the wayward, adulterous,
Baal-loving twelve tribes of the children of Israel, restored, redeemed, washed and cleansed by the blood of
the Lamb, are in truth the bride of Christ. I frankly confess that, until the Spirit made it clear to my own heart
that converted and restored Israel is the bride of Christ, the whole book of Hosea and most of the other
prophetic books as well were a meaningless jumble that made no sense at all.
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The prophet Hosea was told to go and marry two adulterous women (Hos. 1:3 and 3:1) vividly described as “a
wife of whoredoms”, “for the land hath committed great whoredoms in departing from the Lord.” In response to
this strange command Hosea took Gomer, who bore him a son, and the Lord said, “Call his named Jezreel; for
yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the
kingdom of the house of Israel.” Hos. 1:4 (For the sequel of this story of Jezreel please read 2 Kings 10:1-14.)
Then Gomer bare a daughter whom they named Lo-ruhamah, meaning unpitied (verse 6), for God said, “I will
no more have mercy on the house of Israel, (that is, the ten tribes) but / will have mercy upon the house of
Judah (the two tribes).”
When Gomer had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she bore a son and called his name Lo-ammi, which means “not my
people,” for the Lord said, “Ye are not My people and I will not be your God.” Verse 9 Now read verses 10
and 11 and we will discover what the future holds for these people. “Yet the number of the children of Israel
shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered: and it shall come to pass, that in the
place where it was said unto them, Ye are not My people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of
the living God. Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint
themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.”
To me it is a most wonderful thing to hear the Lord in one verse condemn these people to the most awful
judgment, utterly forsaking them, then in the next verse prove that they are still His beloved people by
extending to them the most remarkable and unconditional promises. The day will come, indeed, when the
house of Israel and the house of Judah will appoint themselves one head, and that head will be Christ, and
Israel – all twelve tribes of them – will become the bride of Christ.
Please notice further that in verse 10 the Lord distinctly says that it is during the time of their rejection that they
will become as numberless as the sands of the sea. Furthermore, in the very place where the Lord had said,
“Ye are not MY people,” there shall they be called the sons of the living God.
It is a disconcerting conundrum to me to find that, when some anthropologist discovers a nomadic tribe of
savages whom he foolishly imagines has some relationship to the lost ten tribes of Israel, all the Christians
rejoice and hail his vain notion as a great discovery, though no such prophecy of miserable destitution was
ever made of Israel. But, when the claim is made and backed with abundant scriptural evidence that these ten
tribes are now a multitude in the earth as difficult to number as the sands of the sea and that they are the head
and not the tail among nations and a blessing to all other peoples, having expanded to the north and south and
east and west, then the claimant is regarded as a fanatic and a fool even though his claims are soundly based
on the Word of God. The very fact that Simeon prophesied that Jesus Christ would be the glory of His people
Israel (that is, the ten tribes of the house of Israel) should be enough to identify as Israel those nations who
honor Christ as Lord. Since the one hundred forty-four thousand sons of God are chosen from the twelve tribes
of Israel, and the bride is Israel, then the matter of who Israel is ceases to be a thing of paltry importance, but a
thing of utmost concern, for the word of God still rings loud in our ears, “In thee and thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed.” All blessing to all other nations must come through the seed of Abraham or
not at all. Christ the Head, Christ the body, and Christ the bride must come of the seed of Abraham; otherwise
the covenant is void.
Now in Hosea, chapter two, the story of Gomer continues. Please read it carefully, bearing these thoughts in
mind. Much of the chapter is taken up with the corrective steps to be taken against the adulterous woman
Israel. God will strip her naked (verse 3), make her a wilderness, set her in a dry land, slay her with thirst,
hedge her about with thorns, make a wall that she shall not find her paths (verse 6) “She shall follow after her
lovers, but shall not overtake them; she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go
and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.” Verse 7. Her first husband is the Lord.
We interrupt the chain of thought here to say that right in our day this same Israel is seeking lovers among the
nations, but cannot find them. Britain goes awhoring after the nations in the Common Market, but the whole
world knows she doesn’t belong there. She is a square plug in a round hole. The more she embraces them the
more they reject her. The whole Anglo-Saxon world joins in with the United Nations, going awhoring after
Russia and China, but all the reward they get is to pay the bills and be kicked in the face by those they try to
help or defend. But the day will come at the end of this age when they will say, “I will return to my first
husband, for then it was better with me than now.”
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Has the Lord forgotten His covenant people? By no means! Listen to what He says: “Behold, I will allure her,
and bring her into the wilderness (cf. Rev. 12:14), and speak comfortably unto her. And I will give her, her
vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there as in the days of
her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.” Verses 14-15 Now comes the most
wonderful verse of all! “And it shall be in that day, saith the Lord, that thou shalt call me Ishi (that is, my
husband); and shall call me no more Baali (my lord).” Verse 16 Then follows verse 19: “And I will betroth thee
unto Me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in loving kindness, and
in mercies. I will even betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the Lord. And it shall come to
pass in that day, I will hear, saith the Lord, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth; and the earth
shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel. And I will sow her unto Me in the
earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which are not My
people, Thou art My people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.” Hosea 2:19-23
The prophecy of Hosea was written principally to the ten tribes of the house of Israel, but as Israel and Judah
are both of the seed of Abraham, it was essential that the prophet speak also of them. This he did, saying,
“The Lord hath also a controversy with Judah, and will punish Jacob according to his ways; according to his
doings will He recompense him.” Hos. 12:2 The punishment of Judah has been very severe all through this
past age. Great blindness and distress have been upon them, first, because of their disobedience and
whoredoms and, above all else, because of their rejection of their Messiah, Jesus Christ. Judah above all
others should have known that Shiloh, the Redeemer, would come through him, but “Who,” said God, “is so
blind as My servant?” We must not forget, however, that Judah’s rejection of Christ and their present blindness
was all part and parcel of the great aionian purpose ordained by God from the beginning. Until mankind is able
to see that before all things God stands omniscient, immutable, almighty and eternal, they will fall far short in
understanding, blundering along in the outer darkness of unbelief.
In the light of these few verses from Hosea the whole book with its curses, its promises and blessings, begins
to unravel and unfold until at last we see the adulterous and repudiated wife of Jehovah return to her faithful
Lord to become the repentant, restored, purified and prepared bride of Christ. The reader will discover to his
delight that this line of thought pervades the messages of the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. All the
prophets concentrate heavily on this line of thought. All foresaw both the house of Judah and the house of
Israel carried away into captivity. All foresaw their whoredoms among the nations and all rejoiced in the
knowledge of their final restoration. It is a beautiful though tragic story with a wonderful end, if indeed it can be
said that there is an end at all. In every book of the Old Testament and almost every book of the New
Testament Israel is always “God’s people”, whether abiding in obedience in the promised land or scattered in
disobedience to the four corners of the earth. Always they are His chosen seed. Always amid their curse and
judgment He blesses them, and always foremost is the final purpose to bring them to perfection that in the
ages to come all nations who know not God will come to the blessedness of that knowledge through the seed
of Abraham.
In the twenty-third chapter of Ezekiel we read the parable of Aholah and Aholibah, daughters of one mother
who committed whoredom in Egypt. Verse 4 says, “Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem
is Aholibah.” Jerusalem, of course, was the capital city of the House of Judah and Samaria was the capital city
of the house of Israel. Both of these women (nations) played the harlot, Aholah going after the Assyrians and
being eventually carried away by them, while Aholibah went after the Babylonians (verses 22, 23) and
eventually was carried away captive by them. But always somewhere in the prophecy is the evidence of
cleansing, repentance, a return, for God has not cast away His people which He foreknew; but in the place
where He said, “Ye are not My people,” there shall they be called the sons of the living God.
We stated before that Israel has always been a woman of the wilderness. As the multitudes of her people
outgrew their surroundings, they moved out into the wilderness of new continents, making the land blossom
and produce abundantly. Even those Jews who this century returned to the land of Israel after an absence of
eighteen centuries found it to be a burning, unproductive wilderness. But today one flying across the country
can see in an instant the boundaries between Israel and the Arab lands, because the Arab side is desert and
the Israel side is a desert blossoming as a rose.
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The end of the age is at hand. The dispensation which Paul calls the dispensation of the grace of God will soon
be history. Not that grace will be history, but the dispensation will be passed away. When this age is complete,
Christ in His body will also be complete. The trumpet will sound and the “in Christ” will rise first. Jesus Christ
the Head will appear with all the sons whom God has given Him, as revealed to John in Rev. 1:9-18. With the
defeat of the armies of the Antichrist the Son of God will begin His reign of righteousness. He will take the
kingdom and that long awaited day of glory, spoken of by all the prophets, will have come. The wilderness and
the solitary place will be glad of them and the desert shall blossom as a rose.
Have you considered how great was the truth Jesus uttered when He said, “Ye which have followed Me, in the
regeneration when the Son of man shall sit in the throne of His glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones,
judging the twelve tribes of Israel?” Matt. 19:28. Judging the twelve tribes of the children of Israel! To what
purpose will God in that wonderful age set His anointed sons to judge the twelve tribes of Israel? His purpose
is to pursue to its ultimate fulfillment that original promise He made to Abraham: ” In thee and thy seed shall all
the families of the earth be blessed.” From Israel He has already perfected Christ the Head. From Israel He
has perfected Christ the body, and through judgment of this same Israel in the kingdom He will perfect Christ
the bride, that she who once languished as the repudiated wife will henceforth call Him, “my husband.” Hos.
2:16.
John on the Isle of Patmos, beholding these glories in the Spirit, wrote: “There came unto me one of the seven
angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will
shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and
shewed me that great city, the Holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God, having the glory of God:
and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal; and had a wall
great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are
the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:” Rev. 21:9-12 Can any picture show more clearly or
words explain more definitely than these that the Bride of Christ is the twelve tribes of the children of Israel?
Just as the sons of God, the one hundred forty-four thousand, are chosen from the twelve tribes of Israel, so
also the bride is the twelve tribes of Israel. The sons of God are the Temple of the Lord, but the bride of Christ
is the city of the Lord. The body of Christ is a temple not made with hands in which every stone is living stone,
a person, a son of God. The same truth applies to the glorious holy city, the bride of Christ. It is not a
metropolis as some evidently imagine, but every gate and wall and foundation in it is a living stone, persons
and tribes blood-washed and redeemed, all of the seed of Abraham. The walls of the city were of jasper and
the city was pure gold. Gold in scripture is symbolic of God and all that is priceless and precious. The gold of
the city was like unto clear glass. “And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of
precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an
emerald; the fifth, a sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz;
the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst. (These same twelve stones
represented the tribes of Israel in the breastplate of the high priest.) And the twelve gates were twelve pearls;
every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass. And
I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city had no need
of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it; for the glory of the Lord did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light
thereof. And the nations of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring
their glory and honor into it. And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.
And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it. And there shall in no wise enter into it anything
that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie; but they which are written in the Lamb’s
book of life.” Rev. 21:19-27
We see here the bride, redeemed Israel, adorned and prepared for her husband. It is not until the bride is
joined to her husband that the Last Adam is complete, male and female in one Spirit as the first Adam was
male and female in one flesh. When the bride appears, then the increase begins. When she is perfected, we
hear the sweet strains of a new message, never heard before in all the history of the world. “The Spirit and the
bride say, Come.” Hitherto the Spirit of Christ has invited the elect to come. Henceforth the glorious New
Jerusalem bride will join with Christ, saying, “Come,” to all the nations of the world, and the restitution of all
things will begin. The twelve gates of the city will be opened by day and never closed, for there is no night
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there. In response to the message, “Come,” proclaimed by the Spirit and the bride, the nations in glad
procession will bring their glory and honor into the city, a procession which will never cease until every man
who has ever lived or died has come in through the gates of the city back to God from whence he came.
No book could ever be written that could fully describe the glory of this thing. Only the Holy Spirit can carry us
away and reveal it to our hearts. The resurrection of the dead will take place in which the millions and billions
who never heard that God had a Son will hearken with awe to this beautiful bride of Christ speaking by the
Spirit to all nations, saying, “Come.” And come they will – by the billions – for the restitution of all things, spoken
of by all the prophets since the world began, is the purpose for that final age, the dispensation of the fullness of
times. Of the dispensation of the fullness of times Paul triumphantly wrote these immortal words: “Having
made known unto us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He hath purposed in
Himself: that in the dispensation of the fullness of times He might gather together in one all things in Christ,
both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in Him: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will.”
Eph. 1:9-10 This great final gathering of all things into Christ will come to pass because centuries before the
Lord made a covenant with Abraham that was to embrace His purpose for all time and eternity. “In thee and
thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.”
I have sought in vain through the works of man to find if any had a spiritual understanding of the Holy City, the
New Jerusalem bride of Christ, but alas, all seem intent upon calculating the expanse of the city in cubic miles
as though it were nothing more than a huge metropolis slightly more wonderful than those at present on earth.
One speaker pictured the New Jerusalem as a twelve-story hotel. Another waxed eloquent about the size of
the mansion each inhabitant would possess, replete with space for lawns and fountains and other such childish
nonsense. Until our spiritual minds are able to grasp the truth that the body of Christ is the temple of God and
that every room or mansion in that temple is a living son of God, a literal habitation for God through the Spirit,
and until we understand that the stones of that building are all living stones as Christ Jesus Himself is a living
stone, we have understood nothing at all. The temple of God is the body of Christ. The temple of God, indeed,
is Christ in all His fullness — the Head and all the many members of the body joined by one Spirit and baptized
into one glorious body. Did not Paul, because of the indolent understanding of his listeners, demand in
amazement, “What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you?” I Cor. 6:19
Oh may the Spirit of God make this a living truth in our hearts! This is the house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens. This is “My Father’s house of many mansions” in which He prepares a place for every one who
by faith has become a son of God. This is what John meant when he said, “As many as received Him, to them
gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name: which were born, not of
blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” John 1:12-13 This is the body of the
Christ. This is the habitation of God. This is the temple of the Lord.
If we will seek God in prayer and ask the Father in heaven for revelation, the Holy Spirit will take the things of
God and show them unto us, and we will rejoice in the blessedness of the understanding He gives. If our
spiritual minds can grasp the truth concerning the temple of God, then it will be much easier to understand why
the bride of Christ is described as the Holy City, the New Jerusalem. In the glory of that wonderful age to come
man has no need of houses to dwell in. God does not dwell in temples made with hands. These are only
figures of the true. The Holy City, the New Jerusalem, is the bride of Christ, magnificent in glory and
indescribable in beauty, and the bride of Christ is the Holy City. The glory of this truth overwhelms me!
Knowing neither where to begin nor where to end, I stumble in words as one whose breath through
amazement has been taken away.
See with me the increasing tempo of glory in heaven and earth when the announcement is made, “His wife
hath made herself ready.” John, lost in spirit at the wonder of the thing, saw the four and twenty elders and the
four beasts fall down and worship God that sat on the throne saying, “Alleluia!” “And a voice came out of the
throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye His servants, and ye that fear Him, both small and great. And I heard as
it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings,
saying Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honor to Him: for the
marriage of the Lamb is come, and His wife hath made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should
be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. And He saith unto
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me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me,
These are the true sayings of God.” Rev. 19:5-9
Is it not a marvelous thing to discover that immediately following the announcement, “His wife hath made
herself ready,” in verse 11 we see “heaven opened, and behold a white horse: and He that sat upon him was
called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire,
and on His head were many crowns; and He had a name written, that no man knew, but He Himself. And he
was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and His name is called the Word of God. And the armies, which
were in heaven followed Him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of His mouth
goeth a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations: and He shall rule them with a rod of iron: and He
treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And He hath on His vesture and on His
thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.”
Following the revelation of the coming Christ and the announcement that the bride has made herself ready, an
angel came to John saying, “Come hither, and I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. And he carried me
away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending
out of heaven from God.” Rev. 21:9,19 John saw her myriad ranks of “thousands of millions” descending from
heaven, a living reflection of the blessing given to Rebekah forty centuries before – “Be thou the mother of
thousands of millions.” And thousands of millions there will be in that New Jerusalem bride of Christ – all the
seed of Abraham, clad in fine linen, for fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. On a great and high
mountain John stood, beholding the unspeakable wonder of the Holy Jerusalem descending from God out of
heaven, having the glory of God; and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone,
clear as crystal. “Having the glory of God,” the word declares, “and her light was like unto a stone most
precious.” We read in Rev. 4:3 that John beheld the throne of God, and Him that sat upon it was to look upon
like a jasper and a sardine stone. This same manifestation of God’s glory is now seen in the bride, for as the
sun lights up the heavens, so the glory of God is the light of the bride, and the city had no need of the sun,
neither the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God did lighten it and the Lamb is the light thereof.
“Thou art our sister: be thou the mother of thousands of millions,” were the words of blessing that fell upon the
beautiful Rebekah long ago, and the mother of thousands of millions she became, but this sweet and humble
girl, the bride of Isaac, so beautiful to behold, was but a frail and fading type of that bride which was to come,
when billions of her progeny would be manifested as the heavenly bride of Christ. Now henceforth the nations
of them that are saved shall walk in the light of it, and kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it.
Now shall the salvation of God be manifest to the nations of earth, who hitherto walked in darkness and the
shadow of death. Henceforth walking in the light of the Holy City, they shall be called the nations of them,
which are saved. Rev. 21:24 In grand procession forever and ever they bring their glory and honor into it, and
the gates shall not be shut at all by day and there is no night there. Each of the twelve gates of that city are
wide enough for a whole regiment to march in abreast. And they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations
into it and there shall in no wise enter into it anything that defileth, neither whatsoever loveth or maketh a lie.
As Rebekah, the bride of Isaac, became the mother of thousands of millions, so shall the New Jerusalem bride
of Christ become the mother of the billions who henceforth will enter her pearly gates.
Do you see them coming, brother,
Thronging up the steeps of light,
Clad in glorious, shining garments,
Blood washed garments pure and white?
Israel, the future bride of Christ, has been described in many ways in scripture. She is seen as a woman in the
wilderness, (Rev. 12:6), after whom the serpent cast floods of water that she should be carried away of the
flood. Then she is pictured as “having a wall great and high, having twelve gates” or portals through which the
billions of the heathen nations shall pass to their reconciliation with God, for long ago Paul proclaimed that God
had reconciled all things to Himself. Col. 1:20, 21
With these blessed thoughts in mind, let us muse in spirit with Solomon as long ago he beheld the glory of the
bride. “Who is this,” he asks, “that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up
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under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee. Set me
as a seal upon thy heart, as a seal upon thine arm.” As the sons of God are sealed, so also must the bride of
Christ be sealed. The next lines bring to remembrance God’s yearning over His people during the time of their
whorish mingling with the nations who knew not God. “Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave:
the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love.” Here
we are reminded of the floods of water sent out to swallow the woman up while she was in the wilderness in
the days of her purification. But the floods cannot drown the love of God for His covenant people. “If a man
would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be utterly condemned.” S.O.S. 7:5-7
Then Solomon in his song of the bride continued: “We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall
we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?” The breasts are for nourishment and
sustenance of babies, but throughout all the centuries of her existence this little sister, Israel, has been a
woman without breasts. I am distressed to tell you that the church system, like Israel, has fed her people on
the skimpiest supply of diluted milk until they are utterly impoverished as far as the knowledge of God and His
purpose is concerned. Week after week they are bored with the same childish sermons they have heard since
their infancy. They never grow, because this woman has no breasts to feed them. This wilderness woman is to
be the bride of Christ, and she has been spoken for. Hence Solomon asks in great concern, “What shall we do
for our sister in the day she shall be spoken for?” The reply from heaven is this: “If she be a wall, (and she is a
wall, for John saw her with a wall great and high, Rev. 21:12), we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if
she be a door (and she is a door, for John beheld in her twelve gates through which the nations would bring
their glory and honor), we will enclose her with boards of cedar.” This rising to maturity is the purpose for which
she is fed in the wilderness. After this the bride speaks out loud and clear with her voice of many waters (Rev.
19:6). In her triumph she declares, “I am a wall, and my breasts like towers.” No longer is this a woman of the
wilderness, scarcely able to sustain herself, for now upon her wall rise palaces of silver (redemption), which
she describes as “breasts like towers.” The nations of them that are saved will walk in the light of her and the
Kings of the earth will bring their glory and honor into her. Song of Solomon 8:5-10
“How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! The joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of
the hands of a cunning workman. Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like a
heap of wheat set about with lilies. Thy two breasts are like young roes that are twins. Thy neck is as a tower
of ivory; thine eyes like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of
Lebanon, which looketh toward Damascus. Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like
purple; the king is held in the galleries. How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights! This thy stature
is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to a cluster of grapes. I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold
of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like
apples; and the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips
of those that are asleep to speak. I am my beloved’s, and his desire is toward me. Come, my beloved, let us go
forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish,
whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: There will I give thee my loves. The
mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up
for thee, O my beloved.” Song of Solomon 7
“For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and they two shall be
one flesh. This is a great mystery; but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” Eph. 5:32 The marriage of a
man to a woman is a union in which the partners become one flesh. This is a precious type of the marriage of
the sons of God to the bride by which they are joined forever in one Spirit. The marriage of the Christ to His
New Jerusalem bride is the signal for the restitution of all things. Then will the Spirit and the bride say, “Come,”
and the nations will enter through the gates that they may partake of the river of life and the leaves of the tree
that are for the healing of the nations. With this celestial fullness of the bride of Christ the promised seed of
Abraham is complete – Christ the Head, Christ the body, and Christ the bride. This is the seed through whom
all nations and families of the earth are to be blessed. When the holy New Jerusalem bride appears in all her
glory, the Lord God Almighty will be the temple thereof. From His exalted throne in her midst the water of life
will ever flow and the ever, green tree of life, bearing its twelve manner of fruits, will flourish on either side of
the river for the healing of the nations who hitherto walked in darkness and the shadow of death. Then shall
her twelve gates be opened, and never shall they be closed by day, and there is no night there. Then shall the
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holy voice of the bride, speaking by the Spirit of God, say to the billions who until now have never heard that
God has a Son or that He died to save them all, “Come, for all things are now ready. Come to the marriage
supper of the Lamb! Come through the gates into the city! Come and partake freely of the water of life! Let him
that is athirst come, and whosoever will, let him come and take of the water of life freely. Ho, every one that
thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and
milk without money and without price!” And come they will by the millions and by the billions, bringing the glory
and honor of the nations into the beautiful city of God. And the nations of them that are saved will walk in the
light of it and there shall be no night there.
“And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the
Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bear twelve
manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the
nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His
servants shall serve Him: and they shall see His face; and His name shall be in their foreheads. And there shall
be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and
they shall reign for ever and ever.” Rev. 22:1-5
With the opening of the gates of the New Jerusalem the restitution of all things will have begun where Christ is
Lord of all. “For He must reign till He hath put all enemies under His feet. The last enemy that shall be
destroyed is death. For He hath put all things under His feet. But when He saith all things are put under Him
(Christ), it is manifest that He (God) is excepted who did put all things under Him. And when all things shall be
subdued unto Him, then shall the Son also Himself be subject unto Him that put all things under Him, that God
may be all in all.” I Cor. 15: 25-28
Oh the victory of those blessed covenant words, “In thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be
blessed!” The covenant made to Abraham so many centuries ago will have been fulfilled and the restitution of
all things accomplished. A devout understanding of the eternal purposes of God stands as a mighty bulwark to
our faith. He who is faithful and true speaks aforetime His words of prophetic wisdom. Never does He retrieve
His statements. Never does He break His covenants or retrace His steps. Well He knows that all things are
working together for good. None can stay His hand or say to Him, “What doest thou?” Through mists and rain,
through cold and heat, through peace and war, through good and evil His eternal purposes move irresistibly
forward to their predestined conclusions and that without let or hindrance till at last all men shall know that
every defiant voice lifted against Him and every mailed fist that resisted His will was only part of the eternal
program to make His name known in the earth.
Centuries ago, in Psalm twenty-two, King David spoke with a bursting heart the Psalm of the crucifixion. This
he followed with the Psalm of the good shepherd. (Psa. 23). Then, lifting his prophetic vision to the distant
horizons of the coming age of the restitution of all things, he beheld that city that hath foundations, the Holy
City, the New Jerusalem. Then from his anointed lips the song of glory and redemption burst forth:
“Lift up your heads, O ye gates;
And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors;
And the King of glory shall come in.
Who is this King of Glory?
The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
Lift up your heads, O ye gates;
Even lift them up, ye everlasting doors;
And the King of Glory shall come in,
Who is this King of Glory?
The Lord of hosts, He is the King of Glory. Selah.
Psa. 24:7-10.
And the gates shall never close
To that city foursquare,
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Where life’s crystal river flows
And there is no night there.
God shall wipe away all tears;
There’s no death, no pain, nor fears,
And they count not time by years,
For there is no night there.
CHAPTER SIX
THE NUMBERLESS MILLIONS OF THE COVENANT WHERE ARE THEY TODAY?
For many years I preached that the fall of man in Eden’s lovely garden was a tragedy of incomparable
magnitude, an error that had, in fact, uprooted and destroyed the whole plan and purpose of God for man. But
one blessed day of revelation the Holy Spirit opened my eyes and showed me that with God there are no
mistakes, errors, or unknowns, but only purposes. The fall of man in Eden’s lovely garden was neither a
mistake nor a tragedy, but a design carefully planned in the wisdom of Him whose mind is infallible and whose
arm is almighty, for said Paul, “The creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him
who hath subjected the same in hope.” Rom. 8:20 As I recovered somewhat from the shock of such a
revelation, the Holy Spirit through the intervening years has unfolded before the wondering eyes of my
understanding the glory embraced in that hope so deeply conceived in the heart of God.
For more than twenty years I preached the Romish doctrine of the eternal damnation of sinners, that merciless
dogma which made no allowance for the fact that eight hundred million Chinese now living and half a billion
Indians, with myriads of other heathen, have never once heard that God had a Son who came to seek and to
save that which was lost. According to the merciless theory I then held, all these were doomed to the fury of
eternal torment, the distressing fact of their ignorance making no difference, even though the Word of God said
it did. O what joy and relief came to my heart one day, as I read Eph. 1:10, to hear the Spirit declare that in the
dispensation of the fullness of times, God would gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in
heaven and which are in earth, even in Him!
What a blessed and thrilling revelation it has been to have the Spirit unfold the wonders of His aionian
covenant with Abraham! Here we see the Lord with one man, and him as good as dead, give birth to a nation
through whom He will bring forth the fullness of His Christ – first, Christ the Head, then Christ the Body, and
finally Christ, the New Jerusalem bride, upon whose lofty gates are emblazoned the names of the twelve tribes
of the children of Israel, and upon whose foundations are inscribed the names of the twelve apostles of the
Lamb. That city for which Abraham looked is a city formed of Christ people, which has no need of the sun, nor
the moon, nor the light of any candle, for the Lord God is the light thereof. Through those open gates no evil
thing will ever enter. Within its precincts stands no temple made with hands, for the Lord God and the Lamb
are the temple of it. Description is far beyond me! Its fame escapes me! Methinks we can but belittle its exalted
glory by our frail attempt to describe it. It will abide forever and through those wide gates that never close the
nations of them that are saved will pass until God has gathered together in one all things in heaven, in earth,
and under the earth.
Now since it is through God’s covenant people, Israel, that Christ, the Saviour of the world, has come, and
since it is principally from these people that the glorious ranks of the church are formed, as we pointed out in
chapter four, and since all Gentile believers become the seed of Abraham through faith, and since the one
hundred and forty-four thousand sons of God are sealed from the twelve tribes of the children of Israel, and
since those twelve tribes, all redeemed, restored, and saved, will form the bride of Christ, the Holy City,
through which all other nations will partake of the water of life, then surely it should be to the interest and
benefit of every reader to search out and discover as nearly as possible who these covenant people are with
whom the Eternal made an everlasting covenant that cannot be revoked while sun and moon and stars still
glide in their courses, and while earth abides and day and night, winter and summer, springtime and harvest do
not fail.
God hath not cast away His people, whom He foreknew. Rom. 11:2 “Have they stumbled that they should fall?
God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come to the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. Now
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if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much
more their fullness?” Rom. 11:11-12 “For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall
the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?” Rom. 11:15 Christians should spend hours of meditation in
the ninth, tenth, and eleventh chapters of Romans. These are key chapters that unlock the door to the whole
plan of God and the understanding of them is a refreshing revelation.
It is a great mistake to imagine that God has altered course in midstream, changed His intention, cast off His
people, broken His covenant with Abraham, and substituted the church in place of Israel in the hope that it
would accomplish what Israel failed to do. Until we can see that the whole program with all the people involved
is part and parcel of one eternal purpose, we have missed even the rudiments of spiritual understanding. God
has neither cast off His people nor changed His purposes in any degree. Who could trust Him if He were not
immutable? The New Testament church with its very elect throng is but one integral part of that original
covenant, “In thee and thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” The restitution of all things is the
final intention of God.
It is impossible to rightly grasp the fullness of this truth until we clearly observe the important distinction
between the two houses of Israel – the house of Judah and the house of Israel. Until we grasp this fact, we will
always remain in darkness, because the promises given to each house were different one from the other, and
unless we distinguish between them, we will always grope in a deepening fog of confusion.
Almost universally among church people we find the erroneous understanding which teaches that Israel is the
Jew and only the Jew. This is a gross error, which can only produce confusion and unbelief. It is true that many
who call themselves Jews are Israelites, yet these Jews represent only a very small part of the house of Judah,
and none of them – and I repeat, none of them – belong to the house of Israel. Until the searcher learns that the
house of Judah and the house of Israel are two distinct and separate parts of one nation, each having different
callings and different promises, he can never hope to understand their separate callings in the world today or
embrace the verities of the covenant God made with them.
Until the end of the reign of king Solomon, the twelve tribes of the children of Israel composed one nation
under God. Immediately following king Solomon’s death, because of his oppressive taxation, the ten tribes
rebelled against the house of David, forming a completely separate nation, thenceforth known as the house of
Israel. These ten tribes crowned as their king the wicked, idolatrous Jereboam, who made Israel to sin. The
tribe of Judah, along with the tribe of Benjamin and much of the priestly tribe of Levi, remained faithful to the
house of David (that is, the Davidic line of kings) and from that day until now they have been known as the
house of Judah. This important distinction is recognized everywhere throughout scripture, and our failure to
understand it will confuse us greatly as to the calling of each nation. Tom Paine became an atheist and lost his
soul because it was very evident to him that the Jew did not and never could possess the promises given to
Israel. Like thousands of others he failed to see this simple, but important, distinction between the two houses
of Israel. This above all else was the cause of his unbelief. Henceforth throughout scripture where mention is
made of the house of Judah, the reference is to Judah and Benjamin, the two tribes of the southern
confederacy; but where mention is made of the house of Israel, the reference is to the ten tribes of the northern
confederacy. This distinction never varies throughout the entire Bible. It should be easy, therefore, to
understand that the future of these two Israelitish nations could be as diverse as that of China and Spain.
Ephraim, the younger son of Joseph, was given the birthright and placed by God as the first born. Jer. 31:9.
Because of this the ten tribes of the house of Israel are sometimes referred to as Ephraim, Ezek. 37:16, and
occasionally as Joseph. Ezek. 37:19. But neither of these terms ever applies to the house of Judah. This
thought is borne out frequently in the book of Hosea. The house of Judah is mentioned thirty-seven times in
the Old Testament and once in the New Testament. The house of Israel is mentioned approximately ninety
four times in the Old Testament and four times in the New. The fact that the house of Judah and the house of
Israel were actually mentioned separately several times before the death of Solomon should add weight to the
thought that the Lord had ordained their separation. See 2 Sam. 21:8.
It is interesting and important to note that, after the house of Israel rebelled against the house of David and
became a separate nation, king Rehoboam of the house of David raised an army, intending to force the
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rebellious house of Israel back into subjection to himself. After the battle preparations were made, however,
Shemaiah, the prophet, forbad him to fight with them. In 1 Kings 12:19-24 the details of the rebellion and the
reason for it are given in the following words: “So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. And
it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the
congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe
of Judah only (and Benjamin, verse 21). And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the
house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were
warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon. But
the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying, Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon,
king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and the remnant of the people, saying, Thus
saith the Lord, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his
house;/e>r this thing is from Me.” In other words, this seemingly tragic division between the house of Israel and
the house of Judah was after all ordained of God, because in His eternal purposes these two brother nations
were to inherit entirely different and distinct callings in their mission of blessing to all the nations and families of
the earth. The division of the twelve tribes of Israel into two kingdoms – the house of Judah and the house of
Israel – was not the work of the devil, as the ignorant would suspect. This seeming calamity was just one more
of God’s mysterious ways by which His wonders are performed, but everything remains within the framework
of the Abrahamic covenant.
In the forty-eighth and forty-ninth chapters of Genesis Jacob by prophecy outlined the future of all his twelve
sons, emphasizing especially their place of greatness in the last days, that is, in our days. The possession of a
birthright, in scripture, is a very important thing, because through the birthright comes the principal blessing of
the entire family. In Gen. 48:13-22 we read the account of Jacob’s blessing the two sons of Joseph, Ephraim
and Manasseh. In the prophetic blessing Ephraim, the younger, was set before Manasseh, the elder. Ephraim
was to become a company (or commonwealth) of nations and Manasseh was to become a great nation. Verse
19 “And he (Jacob) blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as
Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.” That is to say, Jacob made Ephraim the
firstborn and heir of the blessings of the firstborn son. This is God’s doing and not man’s. The prophet
Jeremiah definitely states that Ephraim is the firstborn. Jer. 31:9. Ephraim and Manasseh are the two branches
of Joseph, which are said to “run over the wall.” Gen. 49:22. Upon their heads fell all the wonderful blessings of
their father Joseph, given in such detail in Gen. 49:22-26. These blessings were to prevail to the utmost
bounds of the everlasting hills. Verse 26. Ephraim became the head and often the name of the ten tribes of the
house of Israel; therefore, his blessings fall upon the whole house of Israel.
We are blind readers indeed if we have not already noticed that none of the blessings of greatness and
nationhood, given to the sons of Joseph, fit the Jews in any sense of the word. The royal scepter was given to
Judah, as it is written. “The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until
Shiloh come,” (Gen. 49:10) but the birthright, with all the world-wide blessing it entailed, was given to the sons
of Joseph. Regarding Judah’s scepter, it is of great interest to note that every nation in Europe that has a lion
on its coat of arms can trace its royalty to Judah.
I am aware, as the reader must be, that the fullness of these promises have been realized only in part. Of the
house of Judah Christ came as the suffering rejected Messiah, but He will come again as King of kings and
Lord of lords to take the throne of David, which will be waiting for Him, “for unto Him shall the gathering of the
people be.” Gen. 49:10. Though the nations of the house of Israel are at present the leading nations of the
world, only an elect company is being chosen from among them to form the Christ body of sons, but the day
will come when all Israel shall be saved (Rom. 11:26), and shall be all righteous. Then the stick of Judah and
the stick of Israel will become one in the hand of God, (Ezek. 37:16-19), and they, again united, will become
the New Jerusalem bride of Christ.
Israel has always been “stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears” (Acts 7:51) and ever stubborn and
rebellious, but God has never broken His covenant with them nor forgotten His agreement with Abraham. It
was through the stubbornness and rebellion of the house of Israel that the nation was overrun and carried
away captive to the land of Assyria in the year 721 B.C. The story is told in detail in 2 Kings, chapter 17.
Though it is not generally realized, it is true that at this time a large part of the house of Judah was also carried
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away captive to Assyria with the house of Israel. Other portions of Judah, principally Jerusalem, remained in
Palestine for another one hundred thirty-four years, then, through their evil, they were carried away to Babylon
by Nebuchadnezzar in the years 588 and 587 B.C. There they remained for seventy years, after which forty
thousand of them returned to Palestine and rebuilt Jerusalem and the temple in the days of Nehemiah and
Ezra. It is from this remnant of forty thousand that the present day Jews are descended. The word Jew is an
abbreviation for Judah, as Joe is an abbreviation for Joseph.
From the time of the captivity of the house of Israel in 721 B.C. unto this day, the ten tribes, to whom God
made such wonderful promises, have been known as the lost tribes of the house of Israel. Jesus referred to
them as the lost sheep of the house of Israel. But they are not lost! God would not be God if they were not at
this very moment fulfilling every detail of His covenant with them even though they be blind in part to their own
identity. How pitifully strange it is that, when someone imagines he has discovered Israel in some primitive
nation such as the North American Indians or perhaps a half-savage tribe in Africa or central Asia, all the
Christians hail this as some remarkable discovery, but let it be asserted that Israel is found, not among
primitive tribes, but among the leading nations of the earth as God said they would be, then at once indignation
and anger are aroused and friends become enemies. Yet did not God say that Israel should be the head and
not the tail? Deut. 28:13. Did God not say that Abraham’s seed would be great and their name great? Why
then should we not look for them at the “head” and not at the “tail?” Why should we not find them among the
“great” and not among the small and insignificant?
The following story may be fictitious, but the truth it exemplifies is irrefutable, demonstrating as it does the
great importance of identification marks. (Though the finger prints of every person on earth differ from all
others, in British law six identical marks are sufficient to identify a criminal as separate from all others on
earth.)
A family in England suffered the great misfortune of losing a baby boy by kidnapping. The police were
immediately put on the track of the child, but in spite of the most intensive search no trace of the missing boy
was found. Weeks increased into months and months grew into many years. Finally all hope of finding the child
was abandoned and, except for the heartbreaking memories the parents endured, the tragedy was forgotten.
Twenty years had passed when one day a ray of hope dawned that set the hearts of the parents bounding with
expectation. A letter had arrived from a lawyer in Spain telling of an old gypsy woman who had just passed
away. To ease her troubled conscience as she lay dying, she had confessed that the young man who had
passed for many years as her son was not her son at all, but was a boy she had stolen as a baby from
England many years before and from the very county in which the bereaved family lived. Did the lady think,
questioned the lawyer, that this young man could be her son? If so, could she give any marks of identification
by, which he could be positively identified? Almost beside herself with anticipation, the mother wired back the
following marks of identification:
(1) A birthmark the size of a cherry on the back of the neck.
(2) A double birthmark one inch long on the middle of the back.
(3) A scar on the outside of the left leg, half an inch in length.
(4) A scar over the right ear, half an inch in length.
Immediately a wire was returned from Spain, saying that all the marks had been found, and the woman with
her husband left at once to see for themselves, but, upon arriving in Spain and seeing the young man, their
hearts sank in despair. The young man was not at all what they expected to see. He was tall of stature,
speaking fluently in a foreign language. He was a gypsy. He had gypsy manners, gypsy language, and wore
gypsy clothes. Concealing her disappointment, the mother asked to see the scar over the right ear, and, seeing
it, hope again sprang up in her heart. She turned down his sock and looked for the scar on his left leg and
found it exactly where she knew it to be. With feverish excitement she looked at the back of his neck and there
to her amazement and joy was the birthmark the size of a cherry. Scarcely able to contain herself, she made
the big fellow strip off his shirt, and there, plainly visible, was the double birthmark on his back. Upon seeing it,
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all doubt vanished from her mind. This tall, sun-tanned young man with gypsy bearings could be none other
than her long lost boy. Flinging her arms about him in utter joy, she kissed him repeatedly and claimed him as
her long lost son. Do you not think you would have done the same thing? Is there a possibility in all the world
that this boy was not her lost son? I do not think there is. Yet I am certain that had three of those marks been
present and only one missing, then, indeed, he would not have been her son.
Now here is a lost son. He does not know who he is. He does not know from what country he came, nor
exactly how he came to be where he is. He does not remember his parents. His language and customs are
completely foreign, and yet his identification marks prove beyond any possibility of doubt that he is indeed the
long lost son, who was carried away by a gypsy as Israel was carried away by the Assyrian. If such certainty of
identification can be made through four definite marks of identification, then I invite the reader to follow me
through thirteen marks of identification, and let us see if we can discover this lost house of Israel, to whom
pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God,
and the promises.
Throughout the pages of Holy Scripture, by prophecy and type, our Lord Jesus Christ has been given some
one hundred seventy-five marks of identification. If indeed He is the Christ, then all marks of identification must
be fulfilled in Him that all pretenders to His office may be ashamed. It is impossible within our limited scope to
examine more than one small segment of truth in our search for the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Books
without number have been written on the subject, each one adding point to point, fact to fact, history to history,
prophecy to prophecy, and tradition to tradition, each in some way helping to identify the people who are the
ten lost tribes of the house of Israel, the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. Because of the vastness of
the material available, it is impossible for me in so small a space to give more than the tiniest smattering of
truth. We will therefore leave history to the historians while we search briefly for these people through their
marks of identification as laid down for our instruction in the infallible word of truth. Personally I cannot imagine
how such an honest search could be considered a waste of time, for surely it must be of great importance that
we should identify this house of Israel, to whom pertaineth the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the law, the
service of God, and the promises; through whom Christ came, through whom the sons of God come, through
whom the bride of Christ comes, and through whom, when all are blood-washed and redeemed, the final
restitution of all things will come. By far the greatest promises lie out before us.
Lest I should leave the reader in doubt, I will state first my personal belief in this matter; then through only one
line of reasoning (Israel’s identification marks) I will tell you why I believe it. These reasons are being stated
because the subject is a Bible truth and is, therefore, of great importance. I have no quarrel with any man who
does not see as I do and trust that those who do not see as I do will refrain from quarrelling with me. A sincere
study of the scriptures reveals at least seventy marks of identification, which place the identity of the house of
Israel beyond doubt. Other nations may have one or two of these marks, but only the house of Israel will have
them all. Because of this fact and many other investigations, I have come to firmly believe that the Anglo
Saxon peoples of the world represent the greater part of the house of Israel, together with a portion of the
house of Judah. These include the Anglo-Saxon people of the British Isles and the far flung British,
commonwealth of nations. They include the “great nation”, the United States of America, as well as Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Holland, part of Belgium, and many of the Germanic people, together with the Israelitish
remnants scattered throughout European countries. Let us remember always, as we progress, never to
confuse the house of Judah with the house of Israel or to make the mistake of thinking that the modern Jew is
Israel. The modern Jew is only a very small segment of the house of Judah. They are Israelites, but are not of
the house of Israel.
Before proceeding with the identification marks of the house of Israel, the following observation should be in
order. Speaking of Israel, the apostle Paul made this very revealing remark: “In Isaac shall thy seed be called.”
See Rom. 9:7, Heb. 11:18, and Gen. 21:12. As there are no vowels in Hebrew, the proper name Isaac is
pronounced SAK or Saac. Thus Isaac’s sons would be called Saksons or Saxons. The custom of creating
surnames by adding the word son to a given name is commonly practiced to this day in the Scandinavian
countries. By way of example we might cite such names as Jacobson, Abrahamson, Israelson, Johnson,
Isaacson, from which last comes the name Saxon, or Isaac’s sons. One sage has wisely remarked that a
reference to a Scandinavian telephone directory is enough to assure one that they are Israelites.
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Of the seventy marks of identification we have space to deal with only thirteen in this writing.
Number 1. Israel was to be agreat nation. “And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee. . . .”
Gen. 12:2 “Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation…” Gen. 18:18 There are only
perhaps a score of nations in all the world that could be called great, chief among whom would be the United
States, Great Britain and her world-wide commonwealth, France, Germany, Russia, China, Italy, Spain, and a
few others. We will mention this point later, but the reader will have observed how this one identifying mark – a
great nation — has already eliminated all of the nations of the world except a mere handful, and most certainly
it has eliminated the Jew, for never at any time in history has the Jew been a great nation, and surely no one
would be hardy enough to contend that the present Jewish state in Palestine is a great nation.
Number 2. “I will make thy name great.” Gen. 12:2. It is not generally known that the Lord had said that Israel
was to be called by a new name. This is definitely stated by the prophet Isaiah in these words: “And the
Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which
the mouth of the Lord shall name.” Isa. 62:2. While we do not wish to be unnecessarily dogmatic about this
point, because it is God’s word and therefore not to be contradicted, it is worthy of our consideration that (1)
Isaiah had said, “Thou shalt be called by a new name.” and (2) that the Lord had told Abraham, “I will make thy
name great.” At any rate, we are faced with the indisputable truth that in all the world today there is but one
nation that is called great and that one nation is Great Britain. Furthermore it is certain that among the great
nations of the earth Great Britain is the only one, which has the word great included in its name. We do not
read of Great Russia, Great China, Great France, or any other.
This name, Great Britain, becomes even more significant when we learn that the Hebrew word bereth or bryth
means covenant and the word ish means man. Thus the compound word British must mean covenant man and
the word Britain means covenant land. The only people in the world with whom God made a covenant was
Israel. In the name, Great Britain, we have the fulfillment of Gen. 12:1 – “I will make thy name great,” – and in
the name British we are assured that these are the covenant people, dwelling in a new and covenant land,
Britain, which we will consider under the next proposition.
Number 3. Israel was to have a new homeland. After Israel was firmly established in the land of Canaan and
the great king David had subdued her enemies round about, David purposed to build a magnificent temple of
worship for the Lord. God was not displeased with this plan, but He sent Nathan the prophet to David with this
strange but enlightening message: “I will appoint a place for My people Israel and I will plant them, that they
may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any
more as beforetime.” 2 Sam. 7:10 This planting in a place from which they would not move any more could not
possibly have referred to Palestine for the simple reason that all the twelve tribes of Israel did move from
thence when they were carried captive into Assyria and Babylon. See also 1 Chron. 17:9 Though the Lord
allowed Solomon to build the temple and the nation of Israel to rise to tremendous heights of blessing and
achievement under his reign, the scripture is very clear that immediately following Solomon’s death the nation
was divided in two (1 Kings 12) and later, because of abounding iniquity, was carried away captive, the house
of Israel and part of Judah to Assyria (2 Kings 17 and 2 Kings 18: 13), then later the remainder of the house of
Judah to captivity in Babylon. (2 Kings 25). Of these latter; only forty-two thousand, three hundred sixty ever
returned to Palestine.
The ten tribes of the house of Israel grew mightily in numbers during their captivity in Assyria. Please read the
significant passage Hosea 1:10. The renowned Jewish historian, Josephus, writing in A.D. 70, gave us this
historic record. “The ten tribes are beyond the Euphrates until now and are an immense multitude, not to be
estimated by numbers.” To this statement of Josephus the prophecy of Zechariah is in total agreement: “They
of Ephraim shall be as a mighty man… and they shall increase as they have increased.” Zech. 10:7-8 Israel
has always been noted for a rapid increase. When we realize that the seventy souls who went down to Egypt
with Jacob emerged after two hundred and fifteen years of the rigors of slavery as a nation two and one half
million strong, it is not hard to believe that this same people during the four hundred and ninety years of
prosperity in Palestine had multiplied many times. The renowned evangelist, F. F. Bosworth, states that they
had probably increased to forty or fifty million by the time of the captivity. It is no wonder that Josephus, writing
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almost seven hundred years later, described the ten tribes as an immense multitude not to be numbered. This
testimony of Josephus is also in exact accord with the promise given by the Lord to Abraham – that his seed
would be as the sand of the sea and the stars of heaven for multitude.
Zechariah, writing two hundred years after the captivity of the house of Israel, makes this subtle prediction of
their emergence from captivity as they made their way from Asia Minor toward their appointed place in the
west: “I will sow them among the people: and they shall remember Me in far countries; and they shall live with
their children and turn again. I will bring them again also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of
Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not be found for them. And
he shall pass through the sea (possibly the Mediterranean or Black Sea) with affliction, and shall smite the
waves of the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down,
and the scepter of Egypt shall depart away. And I will strengthen them in the Lord; and they shall walk up and
down in His name, saith the Lord.” Zech. 10:9-12 This scripture definitely shows that, when Israel left her
Assyrian captivity, she journeyed west, for all these places are west of Assyria. This is also in exact accord
with the statement in Hosea 12:1 “Ephraim (which is another name for the house of Israel) followeth after the
east wind.” It goes without saying that an east wind blows toward the west and anyone following the east wind
is certainly journeying toward the west. Thus did Ephraim, when he left Assyria, follow the east wind on his
journey across Europe toward the British Isles.
Furthermore this is in total agreement with the prophecy given in the apocryphal book of Second Esdras. The
Esdras of the Apocrypha is the same man as the Ezra of the Bible. In second Esdras we read this very definite
statement concerning the way by which the ten tribes left the land of Assyria: “And whereas thou sawest that
he gathered a peaceable multitude unto him; those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of
their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he
carried them over the waters, and so they came into another land. But they took this counsel among
themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never
mankind dwelt, that they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land. And they
entered the Euphrates by the narrow passages of the river (going west). For the most High then showed signs
for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over. For through that country (Europe) there was a
great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth. Then dwelt they there
until the latter time…” 2 Esdras 13:30; 46. Arsareth is the territory to the west of the Black Sea. Surely, if we
can believe Josephus, we should be able to believe this prophecy of the godly Esdras!
The latter time, referred to here by Esdras, must mean the end of the dispensation of law rather than the end of
the present dispensation. The first epistle of Peter, written about A.D. 60, was addressed to the strangers who
were at that time scattered through Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. A glance at a Bible atlas
will show that these countries are all in southern Europe and the region of the Black Sea. The epistle of James
was addressed to the twelve tribes scattered abroad and undoubtedly took in a much greater territory than that
named by Peter. Likewise our Lord Jesus, after He had called His twelve apostles and given them power, sent
them forth and commanded them to go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Matt. 10:6. Jeremiah 50:4-6
says that both the house of Israel and the house of Judah are lost sheep. It is evident that our Lord sent the
twelve apostles on a very long journey and that He did not go with them. We may be sure that after His
resurrection the twelve apostles continued in this command, because Jesus had said, “Ye shall not have gone
over all the cities of Israel until the Son of man be come.” Matt 10:23 Well did Jesus know that even then Israel
was as numberless as the sand of the sea and her cities were scattered far and wide beyond Palestine.
I shall not hide the fact from those who seek for light and understanding that the smug, cosy, cut and dried
teachings of the church system have blinded our eyes to ninety percent of the glorious revelation of truth
awaiting those who search it out. The absurd notion that the handful of subjugated Jews who dwelt in Palestine
in Jesus’ day embraced the numberless millions of both the house of Judah and the house of Israel is as
ridiculous as to imagine that all Americans live in New Mexico.
Though we dare not investigate the thought now, there is abundant evidence to show that even in Solomon’s
day the vast increase of Israel’s population, finding Palestine far too small, was expanding out and colonizing
all along the shores of the Mediterranean and into Iberia, which is modern Spain, crossing the Dardanelles into
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Europe where they are referred to by Roman writers as Cimmerians, Gauls, and Senones. Senones were men
of the tribe of Simeon. The possession of the tribes of Simeon and Dan was cut off from the other eight tribes
of the house of Israel when the nation was divided, and there is good reason to believe that thousands of these
men had left Palestine long before the Assyrian captivity and had made their way both by land and by sea to
the coasts and isles of the west. Roman writers speak of Cimmerians who, coming from the Black or
Cimmerian Sea, roamed over Europe for centuries. The Cimmerians were Israelites. It is a Latin named
derived from the Hebrew Chemarim. The name of the Crimea is derived from this source.
Every person who has read the Bible has certainly read this passage concerning the sea-faring activities of
Solomon’s day: “All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest
of Lebanon were of pure gold… for the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in
three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks. So king
Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom.” 1 Kings 10:21-23 All the earth sought
Solomon. They brought every man his present. This one passage shows clearly that Solomon’s navy sailed the
seas and made regular trips to Tharshish (Britain) one thousand years before Christ. Israelitish people have
always been seafaring people and tremendous colonizers, as God said they would be, extending to the north
and south and east and west, inhabiting the desolate places of the earth and making them blossom as a rose.
Does anyone imagine that Solomon, who exceeded all men both before and after him in wisdom, was so dull
witted that he could not build a navy to exploit the riches of England and Ireland and begin the colonization of
those islands? He most certainly did. But I will go one step further and say that, almost one hundred years
before the reign of Solomon began, Israelitish people had already begun to colonize the British Isles. The old
British Chronicles gives the name of one, Brutus, as the first king of England, beginning his reign in 1103 B.C.
He was therefore a contemporary of King Saul of Israel. David and Solomon, kings of Israel, were descended
directly from Judah’s son Pharez, and Brutus of England was directly descended from Judah’s son Zarah, the
twin brother of Pharez. Seventy-three kings are listed in the old British Chronicles, covering the period from
1103 B.C. to 35 A.D.
It is not true that, when Caesar came to England, he found painted savages inhabiting the island. That is just
wishful thinking, for never in history has a tribe of white savages been discovered. The kind of people who
could build Stonehenge and the Avebury Circle must have been possessed of the Wisdom of Solomon. It
would be extremely difficult for modern engineers to duplicate such a remarkable feat. Strabo, the Greek
geographer, writing in 29 B.C., describes the Briton of his time in these words: “He came, not clad in skins like
a Scythian, but with a bow in his hand, a quiver hanging from his shoulder, a plaid wrapped around his body, a
gilded belt encircling his loins, and trousers reaching from the waist down to the soles of his feet. He was easy
in address, agreeable in conversation, active in dispatch, and secret in management of great affairs; quick in
judging of present accuracies, and ready to take his part in sudden emergency; provident withal in guarding
against futurity; diligent in the quest of wisdom; fond of friendships, trusting very little to fortune, yet having the
entire confidence of others, and trusted with everything for his prudence. He spoke Greek with fluency and you
would have thought he had been bred up in Lyceum and conversant all his life with the Academy at Athens.” If
this is the testimony of a Greek, speaking in 29 B.C., then anyone who can imagine such a man as a painted
savage has a vivid imagination, indeed.
The great truth missed by almost all is that a large portion of the house of Israel had already moved into the
British Isles centuries before the Assyrian captivity began, and that captivity affected only that part of the ten
tribes who still remained in Palestine. After their captivity of several hundred years was ended, they also began
moving toward their brethren who already were in the British Isles and the coasts of Europe, Holland,
Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The sudden appearance of the fair-skinned, highly cultured Etruscans in
northern Italy about the year 700 B.C. would certain ly indicate that these were Israelites who had left Palestine
en masse rather than be captured by the Assyrians. A very interesting account of these people is contained in
the National Geographic Magazine publication, Greece and Rome, beginning on page 250.
Though the Bible does not speak in detail of the vast efforts of colonization carried on by Israel, it does speak
definitely of their moving to the north and south and east and west, inhabiting the isles and desolate places of
the earth. In the excellent work, Tracing Our Ancestors, by Frederick Haberman, he makes this remarkable
statement: “At the very time the Lord made promise to David, about 1040 B.C., ‘I will appoint a place for My
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people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own,’ (2 Sam. 7:10), that promise was
being executed. In fact, sixty years before the promise was made, Brutus (a descendant of the royal line of
Judah through his son, Zarah) had arrived in the isles of the west in 1100 B.C. and had named them BRITH
AIN, the covenant land. Until this day the only name in the Hebrew for Britain is Ai-Ha-im, the isles of the west,
Ai or Hy being the origin of isle. In earlier days the Isle of lona was called the Hy of lona.”
We pointed out before that Israel, during the five hundred years of their sojourn in Palestine, increased by
many millions, and during those five hundred prosperous years they left Palestine to settle in distant lands.
They left, family after family, boat load after boat load, for their far off western colonies just as centuries later
English, Irish, Dutch, Norwegian, and many others left Europe to find new homes in America, and with no
better ships than they had in Solomon’s day. After five centuries of such emigration there were still over five
million in Palestine at the time of the captivity. Many times this number, however, had already left the country
and were therefore not affected by the captivity at all. It is evident that a constant traffic between Israel and her
colonies in the west had been in progress for centuries, and Solomon’s navies roamed all over the known
world. A. D. Eldud, a Jewish historian of the ninth century B.C., wrote: “In Jereboam’s time (970-900 B.C.) the
tribe of Dan, being unwilling to shed their brethren’s blood, took a resolve to leave the country.” Moses
prophesied of Dan in these words: “Dan is a lion’s whelp; he shall leap from Bashan.” Deut. 33:22. What did
Moses mean? Well, Dan did leap from Bashan and leave the country, and the tribe of Dan appears in the Irish
Chronicles, Tuatha de Danaan, which means The Tribe of Dan. The Irish Chronicles tell us that the landing of
the tribe of Dan in Ireland was opposed by the inhabitants, but in the ensuing battle the Danaan (Danites) were
victorious. But, finding that the inhabitants spoke a language similar to their own, peace was made by which it
was agreed that the Danaan would occupy the northern part of Ireland, called Eldh – now Ulster. A. B. Grimaldi,
quoting an early Jewish rabbi, states that the early Irish were men of the tribe of Ephraim who left Egypt before
the exodus. To this the Book of Jasher (chapter 75) agrees, though it appears that most of those who left were
slain in battle with the Philistines.
At Loughguir, near Limerick, and elsewhere in Ireland, there are today ancient stone circles, consisting of
twelve stones, one large stone in the center and eleven smaller ones standing in a bowing attitude around it.
Irish antiquaries tell us that those circles perpetuate the dream of Joseph as recorded in Genesis, Chapter 37,
in which Joseph dreamed that the eleven sheaves of his brethren did obeisance to his sheaf.
There is voluminous literature in existence, which indicates that up to the end of the eighteenth century the
scholars of Britain knew that their people descended from the sea-going Hebrew-Phoenicians and from the
Anglo-Saxons, who came from the shores of Summerland on the Black Sea. But since the nineteenth century
the trend of thought has been to follow the scepticism of Voltaire, Thomas Paine, and the German school of
higher critics.
The Scottish Declaration of Independence of the year 1320 A.D., a much prized national archive attested to by
Robert the Bruce’s barons in parliament, asserts that the more ancient portion of the Scottish nation came first
from Scythia by way of Spain. Scythia lies to the north of the Black Sea and is, of course, in the vicinity of
Israel’s Assyrian captivity and was without doubt the route they traveled in their journey to the western isles.
The wonderful romance of the arrival of the Israelitish tribes in the British Isles at different times and from
different directions, some by land and some by sea, is beautifully portrayed by the Bard of Erin, Sir Thomas
More, in these lines:
They came from a land beyond the sea,
And now o’er the western main
Set sail in their good ships gallantly
From the sunny land of Spain.
“Oh where’s the land we’ve seen in dreams,
Our destined home or grave?”
Thus sang they as by the morning’s beams
They swept the Atlantic wave.
And, lo, where afar o’er the ocean shines
A sparkle of radiant green,
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As though in that deep lay emerald mines
Whose light through the waves was seen.
” ‘Tis Innisfail! ‘Tis Innisfail!” (Beautiful Isle)
Rings o’er the echoing sea,
While, bending to heaven, the warriors hail
That home of the brave and free.
Then turned they unto the eastern wave,
Where now their Day God’s eye
A look of such sunny omen gave
As lighted up sea and sky.
Nor frown was seen through sky or sea,
No tear o’er leaf or sod,
When first on that isle of destiny
Our great forefathers trod.
Tracing our Ancestors. Page 119.
Surely in all these things we can hear the ringing voice of Isaiah, the prophet, as he speaks to the covenant
people in the isles afar off! “Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, ye people, from far; The Lord hath called
me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath He made mention of my name. And He hath made my
mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of His hand hath He hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in His
quiver hath He hid me; and said unto me, Thou art My servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.” Isa. 49:1
- Please notice that in verse three the people of the isles are called Israel.
Notice again that in Isa. 51:4, 5 Isaiah speaks to God’s people Israel in the isles. “Hearken unto Me, My
people; and give ear unto Me, O My nation: For a law shall proceed from Me, and I will make My judgment to
rest for a light of the people. My righteousness is near; My salvation is gone forth, and Mine arms shall judge
the people; the isles shall wait upon Me, and on Mine arm shall they trust.”
Number 4 Israel was to be exceedingly fruitful and very populous. See Gen. 28:14; 49:22,26; Isa. 27:6; Num.
23:10; Hosea 1:10. The increase of the Saxon race is nothing short of phenomenal. National statistics show
that Russia doubles her population every one hundred and forty years. Spain doubles in one hundred and
forty-two years, France in one hundred and fifty years, and Turkey in five hundred and fifty-five years, but
England doubles her population every forty-five years, and the United States doubles her population every
twenty-five years. Is it any wonder the prophet said, “Thou hast increased the nation, O Lord, Thou hast
increased the nation . . . Thou hadst removed it far unto all the ends of the earth.” Isa. 26:15 Nothing could be
more true than this, since the sun never sets on the British Commonwealth or the Anglo-Saxon peoples of the
earth. Of Joseph Moses spoke, saying, “His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the
horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten
thousands of Ephraim (Great Britain), and they are the thousands of Manasseh.” (Undoubtedly the United
States). Deut. 33:17 To see a true picture of the future blessings and fruitfulness of the tribes of Israel, please
read for yourself the wonderful account given in Deuteronomy, chapter 33.
Number 5. Israel was to be the first among the nations and to spread abroad to the north and south and east
and west. Gen. 28:14 and Isa. 43:5,6. Abraham and his seed were to be the heirs of the whole earth. The
British Commonwealth is a free association of sovereign, independent states and embraces the United
Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Ceylon, Gambia, Ghana, Malaysia, Nigeria, Sierra
Leone, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Kenya, Malta, Zambia, together with some fifty
dependencies including Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Guyana, Honduras, Solomon Islands,
Virgin Islands, Fiji, Gibralter, Ellice Islands, Grenada, Hong Kong, New Hebrides, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, The
Seychelles, Rhodesia, Tonga, and many others too numerous to mention here. This vast list does not, of
course, include the United States of America, which, like South Africa, is a separate Israel nation that at the
present time represents the greatest single concentration of Anglo-Saxon, Israelitish people on earth. It can be
shown beyond any reasonable doubt that the two sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, have become the
two great brother nations of the earth. The United States of America, the great nation, and Great Britain, the
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company of nations, strictly in accord with the prophecy of Jacob (Gen. 48:16-19) and Joseph’s blessings
(Gen. 49:22-26), fall to his sons Ephraim and Manasseh. When the patriarch Jacob blessed the two sons of
Joseph, as recorded in Genesis, chapters 48 and 49, he said that Ephraim would become a multitude (that is,
a commonwealth) of nations and that Manasseh would become a great nation. See also Gen. 35:11. InEph.
2:12 Paul speaks of Israel as a commonwealth. In all the world today there is only one commonwealth of
nations, and that is the British Commonwealth of nations, which is a world wide community of English speaking
nations. Not only is Britain the only Commonwealth of Nations, but it is a fact that no other Commonwealth of
Nations has ever existed in history. No previous empire was a commonwealth of free nations. Furthermore,
this Commonwealth of Nations is very distinguished in that we have a brother nation who is a great nation, and
that big, brother nation is the United States of America. It is significant that on the beautiful Peace Arch
standing on the Canadian-United States border at Blaine, Washington, the following inscriptions are found: On
the Canadian side are the significant words; BRETHREN DWELLING TOGETHER IN UNITY, and on the
United States side the equally significant inscription, CHILDREN OF A COMMON MOTHER. Nothing could be
more correct than this, for Ephraim and Manasseh were indeed the children of a common mother, and that
mother was Joseph’s wife (Gen. 46:20) the daughter of the prince of On. (The Hebrew word kohen may be
rendered either priest or prince – see Young’s Concordance. I do not believe that Joseph’s wife was an
Egyptian, as some suppose, but a daughter of the prince of On. Egypt in Joseph’s day was ruled by Hyksos
Dynasty, which was Syrian and therefore Semitic, not Egyptian.)
If we are convinced that Ephraim became a company of nations, or a commonwealth, then certainly we must
be correct in saying that Manasseh has become a great nation. The United States is without doubt the greatest
individual nation ever to exist on the earth. Her greatness is not in numbers or in military power alone, but in
every form of useful industry, production, and ingenuity she is definitely a leader. Her wealth is beyond belief.
Her resourcefulness knows no bounds. Her helpfulness and beneficence is of world wide renown. Any nation
in distress can depend upon her aid. Her missionaries are known all over the earth. Her Bible Societies have
translated and given the Word of God to millions. The American-Canadian border, almost four thousand miles
long, is unfortified. Why would brethren, dwelling together in unity, need to fortify their borders? In two world
wars the Anglo-Saxon nations have delivered Europe from tyrants and the countries thus delivered were
immediately returned to their rightful owners while our enemies were given billions of dollars in aid to help them
recover from their losses. Russia or China may be great nations in power and population, but what light has
China given to the world or where are the Russian missionaries or Bible Societies, or wherein do they minister
to the poor and needy of the earth? We hear of no philanthropic acts or oppressed nations being set free by
them. Thus, while Ephraim England has become a world wide commonwealth, Manasseh, his brother, has
become the greatest nation on earth.
I am sure that every sincere student of scripture and prophecy must realize that that greatness prophesied to
the brothers Ephraim and Manasseh is fulfilled to the letter in the two great brother nations, the United States
of America and the Anglo-Saxon people of the British Commonwealth. Indeed, all the fabulous promises of
blessing so freely given to Joseph (Deut. 33:13-17) were to find their fulfillment in his two sons, the ten
thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh. “Joseph is a fruitful bough . . . whose branches run
over the wall . . . His bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the
mighty God of Jacob; (from thence (Jacob) is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) Even by the God of thy Father,
who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, blessings
of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. The blessings of thy father have
prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on
the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.” Gen. 49:22-26
Any thinking person must surely know that the Saxon nations have been and still are the recipients of all these
blessings of heaven and earth and the wealth that lies under the earth. Why then should students of scripture
waste their valuable time searching for Israel among the primitive and poverty-stricken tribes and nations when
God’s word declares that His covenant people are to be the leading nations of the world and this is especially
so in the last day. Gen. 49:1.
The great American industrialist, Henry Ford, Sr., wrote the following remarkable words, which seem so fitting
here that I must quote them. “The fathers of our nation were men of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic race. The men
who came from Europe with civilization in their blood and in their destiny; the men who crossed the Atlantic
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and set up civilization on a bleak and rock-bound coast; the men who drove north to Alaska and West to
California; the men who opened the tropics and subdued the Arctic’s; the men who mastered the African veldt;
the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar, and Panama; men who
have given government and livelihood to every people and an ideal to every century. They got neither their
God nor their religion from Judah, nor their ruling speech nor their creative genius. They are the ruling people,
chosen through the centuries to master the world by building it better and better and not by breaking it down.”
To enlarge upon the abundance of information at our disposal would be merely to quickly run out of space. I
will therefore confine myself to a few more of Israel’s identification marks and trust that the reader will search
out the scripture for himself.
Number 6. Israel’s throne and nation was to continue forever, and not disappear with the captivity of the house
of Judah. 2 Sam. 7:16, 24,29. 1 Chron. 17:21-24. Jer. 31:35-40. The method by which the royal seed was
transferred to the isles of the west is one of the marvels of the ages.
Number 7. Israel’s home was to be north and west of Palestine. Isa. 49:12 and Jer. 3:18. These passages
speak of Israel returning to Palestine/rom the north and the west at the end of this age. The British Isles lie in a
straight line north-west of Palestine. Though the oft-mentioned isles were to be the home of Israel until they
had renewed their strength, (Isa. 41:1), we must not forget that Abraham and his seed were the heirs of the
whole world. “When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of
Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.” Deut. 31:8. All history
has proved that, when Israel needed more territory, the aboriginal people had their borders adjusted to
accommodate the need. See also Exod. 34:23-24
Number 8. Israel was to have many colonies. Gen. 17:4, 6, 16; 35:11; 48:19
Number 9. Israel, after expanding from her new home, was to lose a colony of her children, and then expand
again into new realms. Isa. 49:20 This is obviously a prophecy of the American War of Independence, at which
time the thirteen New England states were separated from the main body of Israel that Manasseh might
become a great nation separate from Ephraim. But after this separation the expansion continued until the
commonwealth embraced the vast regions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and islands and territories too
numerous to mention.
Number 10. Israel shall reign over many nations, but none shall rule over her, and shall lend to many, but not
borrow. Deut. 15:6
Number 11. Israel was to possess the gates of her enemies. Gen. 22:17 There are certain strategic places in
the world that can correctly be termed gates. These gates through which the commerce of the world passes
are Gibraltar, Hong Kong, Aden, Suez, the Panama Canal, Cape Horn and the Cape of Good Hope. All these
strategic gates have for many years been controlled by the British Commonwealth or the United States of
America, and Suez since 1967 has been controlled by the State of Israel now in Palestine.
Number 12. Israel was to have a new covenant. Jer. 31:31-34 This new covenant found the beginning of its
fulfillment in the born again believers of the Christian church, when God began to write His law on the fleshly
tables of their hearts. Gentile nations were not excluded from the blessedness, but the new covenant was
made with Israel.
Number 13. Israel was to be a people glorying in Christ. This thirteenth mark is one of very great importance.
Though the Jew has always been an enemy of Christ and as a people has maintained her anti-Christ attitude
for two thousand years, the exact opposite is true of the house of Israel, for Jesus Christ was to be “the glory of
Thy people Israel.” This fact was stated in the most unmistakable terms by the anointed Simeon, when he
prophesied that Jesus would be “a light to lighten the Gentiles and the glory of Thy people Israel.” Luke 2:29
32 It is clearly evident here that Israel does not refer to the anti-Christian Jew, but to the house of Israel, for the
Jew has never honored Christ. Though the mass of Anglo-Saxon nations are only nominally Christian,
throughout all their nations Jesus Christ is honored as the Son of God and the Saviour of the world. Church
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denominations, worldly as they may be, preach that Jesus is the Saviour of the world. Congregations fulfill
Simeon’s prophecy in such beautiful songs as
“In the cross of Christ I glory,
Towering o’er the wrecks of time.
All the light of sacred story
Gathers ’round the head sublime.”
And unknowingly they confess their Israelitish identity as they fervently sing,
“Ye chosen seed of Israel’s race,
Ye ransomed from the fall,
Hail Him who saves you by His grace
And crown Him Lord of all.”
With many other such magnificent hymns do these people testify that Christ is the glory of His people Israel.
Every man on our streets knows who Jesus is and every lawyer, be he Jew or Mohammedan, must date his
documents by the year of our Lord.
Though we have written at some length concerning Britain and the United States and their relationship to
Ephraim and Manasseh, the story of the house of Israel has scarcely begun. It is a tremendous revelation to
follow the exploits of other Israelitish nations such as the Danes – or more correctly, the Dans – the Dutch, the
Norwegians, and the Swedes. The Norwegian Vikings are known to have roamed far and wide over the oceans
of the earth, reaching America some six hundred years before the arrival of Columbus. According to
Landnamobok, eighty-four per cent of the Icelandic colonizers came from Norway, three per cent from
Sweden, and twelve per cent from the British Isles. The Vikings flew the wolf banner on all their ships. The wolf
was the banner of Benjamin and it is reasonable to believe that the tribe of Benjamin is strongly represented in
Norway. “Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at evening he shall divide
the spoil.” Gen. 49:27 How accurate this prophecy has been! Sweden (South Dan) and Denmark (Dansmark)
are evidently of the tribe of Dan. Dan has the custom of naming his conquests after himself, and by this
method it is easy to see his serpent’s trail all across Europe and into the British Isles. There are no vowels in
the Hebrew language; therefore Dan is spelled Dn. Consequently Dan may be spelled Dan, or Don, or Den, or
Din, or Dun, and, when a place name includes this syllable, it is reasonable to believe that Dan, or Dn, was
there. Bible examples of this custom are found in Joshua 19:47, where Dan captured Leshem and changed the
name to Dan, and again in Judges 18:11-12, where the Danites changed Mahaneh to Mahanehdan. Again,
when they captured Laish, they changed the name of the city to Dan. The path Dan took across Europe is
traceable in the following place names – Jordan, Dardanelles, Macedonia, the Danube, the Dneiper, the
Dneister, and the Don. Professor Totten says: “There is no grander theme upon the scrolls of history than the
story of the struggle of the Anglo-Saxons westward. The very streams of Europe mark their resting places and
the root of nearly all the ancient names (Dan and Don) recall the sacred stream, the Jordan, from whose banks
so far away the exiles set out.” The naming of these places serves to trace these wanderers like a trail. The
Danube, the Dneiper, theDneister, theDanau, theDaninn, the Danast, the Dandari, the Danez, the Vdon, the
Eridon, and many others right down to the Dans and Denmark, the very word Scand/navia encompasses the
name of Dan.
Should some think this to be unsound reasoning, would they not concede that the numerous cities and places
in New England bearing English names would certainly indicate that early settlers of New England came from
England? Those states abound with such names as Norfolk, Portsmouth, Wilmington, Hampton, Gloucester,
Dover, Aberdeen, York, Lancaster, Reading and many others. Is there not plenty of evidence that
Pennsylvania was settled by the Dutch and that Louisiana and Quebec were settled by the French? This is
sound reasoning and a fact of history. This being so, would we not agree that Ireland, England, and Scotland
must have had a strong representation of Danites, since the country abounds with such names as Danslough,
Dan Sower, Dan Monism, Dwndalke, Dwndrum, Donegal, Dwnglow, Londonderry; Dwngarven and Dunsmore
(meaning more Dans). Dan shall judge his people. Gen. 48:16. In Irish dunn means judge. In Scotland and
England there is also an abundance of Dans, Dons, and Dins, such as Dundee, Dunkirk, Dunbar, Dunraven.
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And the name Dan lies hidden in both the capital cities, London and Edinborough. The house of Israel under
Jeroboam became idolatrous worshippers of Baal, and because of this the Israelites attached the name of Baal
to many places in Palestine, such as Baal-Peor, Baal-Hazor, Baal Zephon, Mt. Baalah, Baal-Gad and others. If
these are the same people who migrated to the isles of the west, then it is most significant that the name of
Baal is found in many places in Ireland, such as Baal-y-bai, Baal-y-Gowan, Baal-y-Nahinsh, Baal-y-Castel,
Baal-Moni, Baal-y-Ner, Baal-y-Garai, Baal-y-Nah and many others.
There is far too much evidence to sort through here, but surely the thirteen identification marks we have given
should serve to identify these Israel nations and separate them from all others even as the scars and
birthmarks identified the gypsy boy at the beginning of our story. Furthermore, we will all agree that the marks
of identification I have given from the Bible do not apply in any degree to the other great nations of the earth,
such as China, Russia, or Japan, but they apply only to the Anglo-Saxon peoples and in particular to Ephraim
and Manasseh, the two sons of Joseph – Ephraim the commonwealth and Manasseh the great nation. The
enormous wealth, power, world-wide influence and blessing of these two great brother nations bring vividly to
our minds the words spoken by Jacob as he blessed Ephraim and Manasseh, saying, “In thee shall Israel
bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and Manasseh.” Gen. 48:20 Joseph, because he was separate (or
separated) from his brethren (Gen. 49:26), was given a double portion in Israel. Henceforth the tribe of Joseph
was to become two branches, Ephraim the first born and therefore head of the tribes, and Manasseh the
thirteenth, but both enjoying the blessing of Joseph to the fullest possible extent. Thus the tribes were Ephraim,
Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Issachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Benjamin, and Manasseh.
The heraldry of any nation is an extremely important thing, for in heraldic symbols the history and principles
which surround the origin and destiny of the nation are emblazoned for all to read. Benjamin Jonson, in the
following verse, gives voice to his truth.
“Was not all the knowledge
Of the Egyptians writ in mystic symbols?
Speak not the scriptures oft in parables?
Are not the choicest fables of the poets
That were the fountains and first springs of wisdom
Wrapped in perplexed allegories?”
Heraldry is a parabolic language. Jesus, the greatest of all teachers, taught the people in parables. Those
among His listeners who understood the symbols also understood the parable. When Joseph told Jacob that in
his dream the sun and the moon and the eleven stars bowed down to him, Jacob was quick to grasp the
symbols and understood exactly what they meant. The Great Seal of the United States, seen on every dollar
bill, is replete with significant heraldry. I trust I will not be misunderstood when I say that in my opinion
practically every symbol in this undoubtedly inspired work of art depicts as nothing else can the origin of the
United States of America. It will probably be noticed at once how prominent is the number thirteen. Manasseh
was the thirteenth tribe. There are thirteen stars, thirteen stripes, thirteen arrows in the eagle’s left claw,
thirteen olive leaves and thirteen olive berries in its right claw, Written on the scroll fluttering from the eagle’s
beak is the inscription with thirteen letters, “E PLURIBUS UNUM,” meaning, ONE OUT OF MANY. This nation
is not only the thirteenth tribe, but it is as well the great gathering place of all thirteen tribes. Thus the
significance of E Pluribus Unum.
It will be noticed that the thirteen stars are set in a glory cloud above the eagle’s head, that the eagle’s wings
are spread, and that it is facing toward the west, which is the continual direction of all Israelitish migrations. For
the sake of brevity we shall state that the thirteen stars represent the thirteen tribes of Israel, of which tribes
Manasseh himself is the thirteenth. The glory cloud in which the stars are set represents the glory cloud that
led Israel all through the wilderness journey, covering and protecting them from all enemies, guiding them
through the trackless future, (Psa. 105:39; Num. 10:34; Exod. 14:19-20), sheltering them from the heat by day
and the frost by night, standing between them and their enemies, and directing them in all their wanderings.
The eagle itself is always associated with the heraldry of Israel. Ezek. 17:3-5 It is one of the loftiest of scriptural
emblems. Her courage and farsightedness is stated in Job 39:28-30 Her swiftness is alluded to in Deut. 28:49
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The remarkable phenomenon of the renewal of its youth is mentioned by David. Psa. 103:5 The likeness of
one of the beasts about the throne was the likeness of an eagle. Rev. 4:7 The eagle was the standard of the
camp of Dan, which included Asher, Dan, and Naphtali. “He bore them on eagles’ wings” (Exod. 19:4) is the
symbolism used to represent the escape of Israel from bondage to freedom. The eagle is not a bird of carrion
and is not a menace to smaller birds. This, I think, is not only an excellent symbol of Israel, but that part of
Israel which is the United States of America. No small nation need fear her and she is the defense of all her
community. As Shakespeare said most impressively, “The eagle suffers little birds to sing.”
The olive branch, upon which cluster thirteen berries and thirteen leaves, is also a symbol of Israel, who is
referred to in scripture as an olive tree. Jeremiah 11:16 says, “The Lord called thy name, A green olive tree,”
and Paul in his warning to the Gentiles speaks of Israel as an olive tree. Rom. 11:17-24 It is most significant
that the dexter talon holds the olive branch with its thirteen olive berries and its thirteen leaves, the symbol of
peace, but the sinister talon holds the thirteen arrows of war. Israel, when she went against a city in battle, was
commanded to follow these instructions. “When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then proclaim
peace unto it… and if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shall besiege
it.” Deut. 20:10-12 First the enemy is offered the olive branch of peace and, if this is refused, then comes the
arrows of war. The arrow had a special place in the heraldry of Manasseh, since he is Joseph’s son, for unto
Joseph the Lord had said, “His bow abode in strength and the arms of his hands were made strong by the
hands of the mighty God of Jacob.” Gen, 49:24 Well might we ask what all these thirteen’s represent if they do
not represent the thirteen tribes of Israel, of which Manasseh was the thirteenth tribe.
The Great Seal of the United States is the only seal that has both an obverse and a reverse side. The reverse
side of the seal is a pyramid with thirteen courses of masonry. Floating above the pyramid is the capstone or
chief corner stone surrounded by a glory cloud. In the midst of the stone, watching over the nation, is the great,
all-seeing eye of God, indicating most explicitly the long-standing mottoes of America. ONE NATION UNDER
GOD and IN GOD WE TRUST. As the capstone of the Great Egyptian Pyramid is missing, because it was
rejected by its builders, so in the Great Seal the capstone is not yet in its place. It must remain in glory above
until Christ, the chief corner stone, comes to take His place at the head of His covenant people and the Head
of His true church, which is His body. Why should a pyramid find prominence on the Great Seal of the United
States? There are no pyramids in America. Surely this wonder of heraldry reminds us, not of America, but of
Egypt, the land were Manasseh and Ephraim his brother were born. The thirteen courses of masonry represent
not only the thirteen original American colonies, but the fact that Manasseh himself is the thirteenth tribe and
also the gathering place of all thirteen of the tribes of Israel. The whole display is nothing short of an
inspirational marvel. Little did the men who designed it realize how much inspiration they enjoyed.
Looking still further, we find the reverse side displays the thirteen-lettered inscription, ANNUIT COEPTIS,
meaning, HE HATH PROSPERED OUR BEGINNINGS, which truth applies not only to the United States, but
to the Israel nations as a whole. At the bottom of the reverse side are the beautifully significant words, NOVUS
ORDO SECLORUM, meaning THE NEW ORDER OF THE AGES. These words are more prophetic than
historic, because they speak of an age to come when the Head Stone of the corner takes His rightful place.
Then in Israel, the seed of Abraham, all the nations of the world will be blessed. Surely a Bible reading saint in
a far distant land, having never heard of the United States of America, would, upon seeing these symbols,
proclaim. “These are the emblems of Israel!”
As the double-sided Great Seal of the United States magnificently displays the Israelitish ancestry of that
nation, the tribe of Manasseh in particular, no less forcefully does the British COAT OF ARMS display the
Israelitish ancestry of Britain, the tribe of Ephraim in particular.
When Israel camped in the wilderness, they camped beneath four standards. On the north side was the Camp
of Dan, consisting of Asher, Dan, and Naphtali. Their standard was the eagle. To the east was the camp of
Judah, consisting of Is-sachar, Judah, and Zebulun. Their standard was the lion. To the south was the camp of
Reuben, consisting of Gad, Reuben, and Simeon. Their standard was a man. To the west was the camp of
Ephraim, consisting of Manasseh, Ephraim, and Benjamin. Their standard was the ox, or unicorn. See
Numbers chapter 2. The prophet Ezekiel received a great vision of God which he describes in these words:
“As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion on the right side: and
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they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.” Ezek. 1:10 Now,
reading this remarkable passage, could anyone possibly doubt that the man, the lion, the ox, and the eagle
seen by Ezekiel were in some vital way connected with the twelve tribes of Israel, whose camp emblems were
the man, the lion, the ox, and the eagle? No reasonable, thinking person could possibly conceive that these
emblems of heraldry apply to any other than the nation Israel!
With this thought in mind we notice that nothing in the heraldry of the British Coat of Arms is English, but
everything is Israelitish. On the dexter side of the Coat of Arms is the rampant lion with a crown upon his head,
representing England.
Is it not a fact that the lion is Israelitish rather than English? This king of beasts is the emblem of Judah (Gen.
49:9) and wears the crown because God said, “The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a lawgiver from
between his feet until Shiloh come.” On the sinister side stands the unicorn, representing Scotland. Is it not
also a fact that the unicorn is the personal emblem of the tribe of Ephraim? Deut. 33:17 Its prominence bears
witness that England is the new home of Ephraim, to whom the promise was given that he would become a
company, or commonwealth, of nations, pushing the people together to the ends of the earth. Most certainly
Ephraim England has been and still is the mother country to the entire commonwealth, or company of nations.
In the lower dexter corner may be seen the harp of David, representing Ireland. But what connection has
Ireland with a harp? For two thousand years Ireland had no other emblem than the harp. Irish tradition still
insists that Tamar Tephi, daughter of Zedekiah of the seed of David, arrived in Ireland with the prophet
Jeremiah about the time of the Babylonian captivity and was married to Eochaidh, who was of the seed of
Zarah, the son of Judah, thus uniting the seed of Zarah-Judah with the seed of Pharez-Judah. From the union
of Tamar Tephi of the Judah-Pharez line with Eochaidh, the prince of the scarlet thread of the Judah-Zarah line
(see Gen. chapter 48) sprang the long list of Irish overlords who for one thousand years were crowned upon
the Stone of Scone (now in the British Coronation chair) and wielded the sceptre of Judah over the whole of
Ireland. It has been stated that every nation in Europe, which has a lion in its coat of arms can trace its royalty
back to Zarah, the son of Judah. In the midst of the Great Shield may be found the figures of seven lions. I
cannot tell what such heraldry can possibly represent unless it represents the young lions of the British
Commonweatlh.
In the beautiful crown may be seen a diadem of twelve precious stones. It is more than coincidence that these
twelve stones in the British crown are the same twelve stones that are found in the breastplate of the Israelitish
high priest, namely, a sardius, a topaz, a carbuncle, an emerald, a sapphire, a diamond, aligure, an agate, an
amethyst, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. See Exod. 28:17-20 These are the same as the foundations of the
Holy City, (Rev. 21:19-21), though five of the stones have a different name here. Above the crown, barely seen
in the picture, is the orb, representing the entire earth, and upon the orb is the cross, indicating the day when
the Christ of the cross will take the throne of David and reign over the world. Above the crown may be seen
another lion, not the rampant lion of Judah, but a standing lion with a crown on his head, representing the
house of David, to whom the Lord swore, saying, “Thus saith the Lord; David shall never want a man to sit
upon the throne of the house of Israel.” Jer. 33:17 Please note that the reference here is to the house of Israel
rather than the house of Judah. Beautifully engraved below the shield are the words DIEU ET MON DROIT,
meaning GOD AND MY RIGHT, and on the device surrounding the shield are the very significant words, HONI
SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, meaning literally, SHAME ON HIM WHO THINKS EVIL OF IT.
Dieu et mon droit (or God and my right)! To what right do these words refer? It was Ephraim, the “firstborn”,
(Jer. 31:9), who received the birthright and all the blessing of heaven and earth and seas. How much more
significant then are the words, HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE, which literally mean, SHAME ON HIM WHO
THINKS EVIL OF IT. What other meaning can we find than this: God has given the birthright to Ephraim, and
shame on him who thinks otherwise. “Dieu et mon droit” and “Honi soit qui mal y pense.”
I have touched all too briefly on the magnificent heraldry in the British Coat of Arms, every item of which is
deep rooted in the heraldry of Israel, bearing little or no significance to England apart from her connections with
the seed of Abraham. Space will not permit me to speak of the significance of the Stone of Scone, which rests
in the coronation chair and whose history dates back to the captivity of Judah, nor of the orb and the scepter,
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nor the fact that the British monarchs are anointed with oil at their coronation, compounded from the same
properties as that used to anoint the kings of Israel. Nor can I tell of the magnificent west window of
Westminster Abbey, bearing the figures of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the twelve patriarchs, and Moses,
under which every British monarch passes on his way to coronation.
We must now close this all too brief message on the Abrahamic covenant. It is my earnest prayer that those
who have read this humble effort will realize that for many years our eyes have gazed upon truth that shouts
aloud of our Israelitish heritage, though our eyes have been closed and our ears stopped because blindness in
part has happened to us. These great nations, so richly blessed with blessings temporal and blessings
spiritual, are the descendants of that great man to whom God swore, saying, “In thee and thy seed shall all the
families of the earth be blessed.” These are the people who have become as numberless as the stars, through
whom Christ came, through whom the body of Christ has come, and who, when their repentance and
cleansing is complete, will be the New Jerusalem bride of Christ, and through her twelve gates will enter the
countless billions of human kind, billions who hitherto never knew that God had a Son, or a body of sons, or a
bride. The endless billions of earth will enter through those holy gates into the city of God that they might be
partakers of the Tree of Life. At the beginning of his journey Abraham looked for a city that had foundations,
whose builder and maker is God. Heb. 11:10 He shall see that city in all her magnificent glory with her twelve
glittering foundations and her twelve pearly gates opened wide, never to close. Then shall her charming voice,
joined in sweet harmony with the Spirit, speak to every creature in the universe, saying, “Come! Come, take of
the water of life freely, without money and without price. Let him that heareth say, Come; and let him that is
athirst come; and whosoever will let him come and take of the water of life freely.” “I, Jesus, have sent Mine
angel to testify unto you these things. I am the root and the offspring of David and the bright and morning star.”
Even so, come, Lord Jesus! Amen!
APPENDIX.
In a writing of this nature there is such a vast wealth of material from which truth should be gathered that the
effort at best is very limited in scope. Many subjects upon which I have touched should have been more fully
developed, but for want of space in so small a booklet it was necessary to strictly limit each one. Much more
history should have been explored to show how the royal lines of Pharez and Zarah, the two sons of Judah,
were united about the time of the captivity of the house of Judah, from which union the British royal family is
descended. Queen Victoria of England paid three hundred thousand pounds to have her genealogy traced.
This genealogy, tracing her ancestry back to King David of Israel, now hangs worked in tapestry in the great
hall of Windsor Castle and may be seen by any visitor when the Queen is not in residence.
The existing church has for centuries vainly endeavored to make the world wide promises of God for the house
of Israel fit the Jewish people and, finding this impossible, many have turned skeptics and unbelievers. The
Jew cannot possibly fulfill the world wide promises given to the house of Israel. The Jew himself would be the
first to admit that from the manger of Bethlehem until now his whole attitude has been anti-Christ. How then
could the promise made of Jesus, “He shall be the glory of Thy people Israel,” be made applicable to them?
Among the many promises concerning the whole house of Israel and all their world wide power there is one
special prophecy that has to do with the moment in which we live. It is this: “… and when he shall have
accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.” Dan. 12:7 The present
crumbling of the British Commonwealth and Empire, together with the dreadful weakening of the power of the
United States of America, is definitely foretold in scripture and is one the principal signs that we are at the end
of the age when all things shall be finished.
If the reader will glance at a map of the world, he will notice that in our day the only nations of the world that
are yet free from the dominion of tyrants are the Israel nations and those vitally connected with them, such as
France and Germany, many of whose people are also of Israelitish stock.
I have dealt with the great covenant God made with Abraham because the Bible deals solely with the seed of
Abraham from Genesis, chapter twelve, to the last chapters of Revelation. Therefore we should readily receive
that no man can properly understand the plans and purposes of God nor the great prophetic utterances of the
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Old and New Testaments until he can see that Israel is God’s elect, through whom all nations are to be
blessed. God has not cast away His people, which He foreknew, but the sun, the moon, the stars, the heaven,
the earth, the seasons, and day and night still testify that God remembers His ancient covenant, “In thee and
thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” Slowly but surely from the covenant seed comes Christ
the Head, Christ the Body, and Christ the bride, the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, through whose lofty gates
all nations will pass to partake of the tree of life in the midst of the city.
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