British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 6:
British Israel Becomes A Faith Message
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 2: - Israel DEMANDS A King!
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 3: - God Tells David His Long Term BIG PLAN
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 4: - Confirmation in Prophecy Of David’s Continuous Royal Line
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 5: - The Decline Of David’s Line
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 6: - British Israel Becomes A Faith Message
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 7: - Melchizedek And Jesus
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 8: - The Eternal Role Of Christ
British Israel - David’s Royal Line Parts 1-8
In Part 1, I looked at the covenant promise to Abraham of an everlasting throne and royal line from his seed, and the Promised Land. Part 2, we saw that Israel ‘Demanded’ God to give them a king, with first Saul the ‘rotten egg', and then finally how David comes to power. Part 3, we focused on what I called ‘God’s BIG Plan’, and the promise of an everlasting family lineage of David to rule over Israel. BUT Israel will be permanently moved to a new location? Part 4, we did a quick search for scriptural conformation of the promises to David. Part 5 we looked at The Decline Of David’s Line.
Aim
I hope you will stay with me as we explore Myths, Legends, Prophecies and the Internet. To try to find some breadcrumb trail that God may have left us in order to guess at where the throne of David could be today.
At this point in scripture we have NO HARD evidence in scripture or history to say definitively, “This is what happened to the daughters!” So this British Israel message then has to go by faith. And it really is a faith message in the same way as the salvation message is accepted by faith. You come to the Lord Jesus Christ by faith and accept that your sins are forgiven, then something deep inside of you melts and you crumble in the presents of Christ. Why? You have NO HARD evidence but you know that you know you know! You are saved, BY FAITH in Jesus Christ! So what happened to the daughters? I believe BY FAITH that God has kept His promises to David and somewhere in the world one of the girls continued the royal line. And GOD must have given us some kind of breadcrumb trial in scripture to show us He knew the end from the beginning, or vice-versa.
Myths Legend Prophecies and Faith
Ok so we are clutching at straws now. We know from scripture that God would NOT permit the line of David to fail! We know from scripture that the line must continue through the Kings daughters! And if so then what breadcrumb trail can we find in myths, legend, prophecies, scriptures or history, to piece together what God MIGHT have done? Have you ever heard the phrase, ‘where there is smoke there is fire’? Then Myths are much the same. You couldn’t come up with the story or legend, unless there was some idea or ‘seed’ to grow the Myth to become the legend? Do a deep dive into some of the Old English nursery rhymes, ‘Ring a Ring a Rosy’ and others etc. And you will find that those nursery rhymes have some basic of truth hidden in time. So lets just look at some of the myths and legends and then look at some prophecies to see if we can fug up a feasible scenario.
Myth
The story goes something like this, or if you like; “Once upon a Time in a Land Far Far away the Kingdom of Judah fell and the Babylonians slaughtered king Zedekiah and his entire male lineage. Jeremiah and the kings’ daughters were safely carried away by force to Egypt under the command of Johanan the military leader of the remnant of all Judah. Miraculously Jeremiah escaped by ship to Ireland with the daughters and ‘the stone of destiny’! There were numerous Israelite colonies and trading post throughout the Mediterranean which had been established as far back as King Solomon, refer 2Ch 9:21 “the ships of Tarshish”. On reaching Ireland Jeremiah presented the kings’ daughter, Tea Tephi to the Irish King Eochaidh II. They fell in love! And were happily married and had a son Irial I. From then on all the kings’ coronations were conducted in the presents of, ‘the stone of destiny’. Thus blessing the continuation of the royal line of David forever and ever. And the kingdom ‘lived happily ever after’.” Ha ha ha! You might well laugh, but I did say it was a myth. And are there perhaps some legends that it might be based upon?
Legend
You can then turn to legends and there are a host of articles you can search through the likes of: - Did The Prophet Jeremiah Go To Ireland or Jeremiah And The Stone Of Destiny or Tea Tephi in the bible or Exploration Mysteries Tea Tephi. Or Tea Tephi Queen of Ireland! Some are very interesting and informative. Some are just trying to poke fun at what they call, “British Iraelisum”! And anyone who calls that understanding an, ‘isum’ is derogatively inferring it is a religion. That’s like speaking of, ‘evolutionisum’! [And even my auto-spell check doesn’t recognize that!] All British Israel believers that I know are committed Christians who believe in our Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit! And that God made outstanding promises to David and the Nation of Israel and those promises MUST be fulfilled in the world somewhere somehow! Anyway I’ll get off my soapbox. The point being is some of these links will make reference to other links and you can have a field day clicking through from site to site and find more and more bread-crumbs! Which in turn help to substantiate the ‘Myth!
Scriptures
So this brings us back to searching through the scriptures. Lets see what we can find.
The Tender Twig
You might find this whole chapter is quit revealing. It speaks of two great eagles. And you may recall in Revelation chapter 12 verse 14 “And two wings of a great eagle were given to the woman, so that she might fly into the wilderness"? WOW! And I have spoken of this in another talk entitled, REVELATION - What Might God DO Next. I suggested that the woman was Israel, ALL 12 Tribes! The Northern Kingdom moving into the wilderness, was the British Isles recently vacated by the Romans, leaving all the Roman roads and the infrastructure etc. ready for the early Britain's to occupy. Example “the appointed place”! 2Sa 7:10 “And I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more.” Have a read of this whole chapter in Ezekiel 17. I have divided it into three sections. God in his typical rhyming way, Makes a Statement! Then He goes into why He has done it. Then He goes back to His original statement and elaborates. I will give you some notes with my thoughts as we read.
Section 1
Eze 17:1 “And the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying, :2 Son of man, put out a riddle and speak a parable to the house of Israel. [We need to stop hear and have a GOOD Think! The House of Israel is the northern kingdom! Ezekiel is writing in about the time of 580 BC! In 720 BC, about 140 years earlier the house of Israel became the Lost 10 Tribes! Refer 2Ki 17:23 "So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria until this day.” So Ezekiel is told to write to this bunch of people, (house of Israel), and tell them about the fall of the line of David in the Southern kingdom of Judah! Why?] Verse:3 And say, So says the Lord Jehovah: A great eagle with great wings, long of pinion, full of feathers, who had different colors, came to Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar. [the cedars of Lebanon is symbolic of the royal line of David] Verse :4 He plucked off the top of its young twigs and carried it into a land of traders. He set it in a city of merchants. :5 He also took of the seed of the land and planted it in a fruitful field. He placed it by great waters and set it as a willow tree. [“by GREAT Waters”, has to be a reference to a sea and the British Isles were referred to as the "Tin Islands" or a place for traders]. Verse: 6 “And it grew and became a spreading low vine, whose branches turned toward him. And its roots were under him. So it became a vine and brought out branches and shot out boughs.” [‘Shot out boughs’, could be an inference ‘branching out into colonies’]
Section 2
God’s Account of The Kings Treachery
Refer to Ezekiel chapter 17 verses 7 to 21 below. You can read this second section if you like, but it is a brief summary of the treachery of King Zedekiah for despising the oath that Nebuchadnezzar made him take in the name of Jehovah, refer 2Ch 36:13. So God wiped the slate of the Kingdom in the location of Judah altogether! In the last verses it says it all, Eze 17:21 “And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward all winds. And you shall know that I Jehovah have spoken.”
Eze 17:7 “There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. And behold, this vine bent its roots toward him and shot out its branches toward him, that he might water it, away from the beds of its planting. :8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring out branches, and that it might bear fruit, to be a splendid vine. :9 Say, So says the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? Shall he not pull up its roots and cut off its fruit, and wither it? All the leaves of its sprouting shall wither, and not with great arm, nor by many people shall any raise it by its roots. :10 And behold, being planted, shall it prosper? Shall it not utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It shall wither in the beds where it sprouted. :11 And the Word of Jehovah came to me, saying, :12 Say now to the rebellious house: Do you not know what these things mean? Tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon has come to Jerusalem and has taken its king and its rulers, and brings them to himself to Babylon. :13 And he has taken of the king's seed and has made a covenant with him, and has taken an oath from him. He has also taken the mighty of the land, :14 so that the kingdom might be low, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand. :15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadors into Egypt, to give him horses and many people. Shall he be blessed? Shall he who does such things escape? Or shall he break the covenant and be delivered? :16 As I live, says the Lord Jehovah, surely in the place of the king who made him king, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke, even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die. :17 Nor shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company work for him in the war, by pouring out siege mounds and building forts, to cut off many persons. :18 And he has despised the oath by breaking the covenant. And, behold, he had given his hand, and has done all these, he shall not escape. :19 Therefore so says the Lord Jehovah: As I live, surely My oath that he has despised, and My covenant that he has broken, I will even repay it on his own head. :20 And I will spread My net on him, and he shall be taken in My snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and I will judge him there with his sin which he has sinned against Me. :21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and those who remain shall be scattered toward all winds. And you shall know that I Jehovah have spoken.
Section 3
Eze 17:22 “So says the Lord Jehovah: I, even I, will also take of the top of the highest cedar and will set it; I will crop off from the first of its young twigs a tender one, and will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.” [young tender twig? Symbolic of a female of the line of the ‘cedar’] [And ‘a mountain of Israel’ is symbolic of a part of the Northern Kingdom of Israel] Verse :23 “In a mountain, in a high place of Israel, I will plant it. And it shall bear boughs, and bear fruit, and be a majestic cedar. And under it shall dwell every bird of every wing; in the shadow of its branches they shall dwell. :24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I Jehovah have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish. I Jehovah have spoken and acted.”
The symbolism of the two trees is speaking of two Kingdoms. The Kingdom of Judah, ‘the high, green tree’. And the Kingdom of the Lost Ten Tribes scattered north then west from the Caucasus Mountains, i.e. The low dry tree’. There is a really good book entitled: - The Post Captivity Names of Israel. And it will shed a ‘SEARCH LIGHT’ on a vast wealth of information on “who’s who” in the world and where they came from. And it will help to explain all of this Lost Ten Tribe business. I suggest you get a copy.
OVERTURN OVERTURN OVERTURN
First off the MKJV which says “Ruin, ruin, ruin”, doesn’t supply the meaning as does the KJV.
Eze 21:26-27 “So says the Lord Jehovah: Remove the diadem, and take off the crown. This shall not be as it was. Lift up the low one, and put down the high one. :27 Ruin, ruin, ruin, I will appoint it. Also this shall not be until the coming of Him whose is the right. And I will give it to Him.” Now the KJV. Eze 21:26-27 KJV 26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.”
If we look at the line of David as being transferred to Ireland, then what is the meaning of, “overturn, overturn, overturn"? Well the throne was removed from Judah and went to Ireland, then it was transferred by Fergus 1 to Scotland. Then the throne was transferred to England via King James VI of Scotland who became James I of England at the death of Elizabeth I. So? Well the throne was overturned and went to Ireland, overturned and went to Scotland, then overturned and went to England! That sort of fits the prophecy quite well!
The Pillar Or ‘Stone of Destiny’?
The Stone of Destiny also know as the Stone of Scone, or also known as An Lia Fàil. Those links are like Myths and legends, now let’s look at scripture. I have collected a list of commentary notes using eSword, and most of them are in reference to the passage in 2 Kings chapter 11 verse 14. It is also in 2Ch 23:13. The story is about the young seven-year-old surviving true prince of Israel, Joash the son of Ahaziah. He was hidden for seven years. When he was crowned king there is the mention of a “pillar”! WHAT was it? I have underlined some parts of their notes to bring out some key points. These notes give us some interesting thoughts. Or are these references to the ‘Stone of Destiny’? You be the judge.
CN from Pulpit on 2Ki 11:14 “And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar; rather, on the pillar, or on the raised platform. The king’s proper place in the temple seems to have been a raised standing-place (הָעַמּוּד, from עָמֹד, to stand)” ….[Also in Pulpit this is in reference to Genesis 28:20 re Jacob] "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go … so that I come again to my father’s house in peace; then shall the Lord be my God; and this stone, which I have set for a pillar,”
CN by Keil & Delitzsch on 2 Kings 11:4-20 “The עַמּוּד, upon which the king stood, was not a pillar, but an elevated standing-place”
CN by John Gill on 2 Kings 11:14 “Of kings, when they came into the temple on any occasion, civil or religious, therefore it is called his pillar, 2Ch 23:13, ..according to Jacob Leo (f), this was the royal throne in the court of the Israelites, near the high or upper gate, on a marble pillar, where the kings of the house of David sat,”
CN by Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 11:13-16 “She saw the king's place by the pillar possessed by one to whom the princes and people did homage”
CN by Joseph Benson on 2 Kings 11:14 “Behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was — It is generally supposed that the royal throne was erected near one of the pillars,”
CN by Cambridge Bible on 2 Kings 11:14 “stood by a [R.V. the] pillar] By this word is clearly designated some spot which was the special position of the king on such occasions.”
CN by Adam Clarke on 2 Kings 11:14 “The king stood by a pillar - Stood On a pillar or tribunal; the place or throne on which they were accustomed to put the kings when they proclaimed them.”
CN by Albert Barnes on 2 Kings 11:14 “By a pillar - Rather, “upon the pillar” probably a sort of stand, or pulpit, raised on a pillar.”
CN from Expositor’s Bible on 2 Kings 22:1-23:37 “Thereupon the king summoned to the Temple a great assembly of priests, prophets, and all the people, and, standing by the pillar (or "on the platform") in the entrance of the inner court,”
Whatever this ‘pillar’ was it was an important and crucial part of the process for the coronation of the kings of Israel. Without that ‘pillar’ the king perhaps may note be a legitimate king? So when Jeremiah escaped with the king’s daughters’, did he also grab that ‘pillar’ and kart it off to Egypt. Then later transport it to Ireland?
Faith
I said at the start of this Part 6, “British Israel becomes a faith message”. You can search through dozens of books, chronicles and web sites and all the information is so far back in history that people just seem to ‘fob’ it off as, out of date, irrelevant or ancient history. So we can’t seem to be able to find any hard evidence. Look up Isaiah 54:8 and Ezekiel 39:23. It makes you wonder what God meant when He says, ‘He will hide His face from Israel’? I think He means He will sever physical or obvious contact with Israel and just watch over us at a distance. Finally after all this, I hope you can now see that although I have NO hard evidence, there seems to be enough bread crumbs to feed the five thousand.
You can only accept this by faith. And if someone wants to laugh at you about it, then so be it! But you could in turn ask them, “How do you make sense of when Gabriel said to Mary, God shall give unto Him the throne of His father David?” Then you could say, If the throne of David cessed to exist as of Zedekiah, refer Jer 52:10-11. Then Gabriel was an idiot to tell Mary; in Luke 1:32 “And the Lord God shall give Him the throne of His father David.”
Let’s go on to a slightly different subject. In Part 7; British Israel - David’s Royal Line Part 7: - Melchizedek And Jesus. We search through the scripture to find any reference comparing Melchizedek and Jesus. Then we look at Just the gospels to see what the world was expecting to see happen during the time Christ was on earth.
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