Willie Martin
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 Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 11:31 am Post subject: Japheth and Ham - 8 |
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Pastor Margoliouth avers that,
"The prophet seems to behold Britain in his vision. There can be no doubt
that Britain is now the chief of the nations. Her monarch's territory is one
upon which the sun never sets."
Yet a third Biblical term is also tied to the British isles.
"The expression, 'The end of the world,' mentioned in Isaiah 62:11, is also
supposed to mean Britain, which was a common appellation for this island in
remote ages."
In the year 1670, a contractor digging the basement for a house in
Mark-lane, London, came across an old underground Roman-era vault beneath
the pavement.
The vault was sealed with a large old Roman-style brick "of curious red
clay, and in bas-relief on the front hath the figure of Samson putting fire
to the foxes' tails, and driving them into a field of corn." An antiquarian
of the time, writing about the find, asked,
"How the story of Samson should be known to the Romans, much less to the
Britains, so early after the propagation of the gospel, seems to be a great
doubt, except, it should be said, that some Jews, after the final
destruction of Jerusalem, should wander into Britain..."
Lastly, the spread of the Gospel into Britain during the time of the
Apostles, is a matter of historical record.
"As to St. Paul's being one of the first heralds of salvation in this
island, there can scarcely be any doubt on the subject. Indeed, if we do not
believe it we must make up our minds to reject all the hitherto authentic
historians."
Dr. Burgess, late Bishop of Sarum, has shown that St. Paul laid the
foundation of Britain's national church. Clemens Romanus,
"who was an intimate friend and fellow-laborer of St. Paul, declares in his
Epistle to the Corinthians, that 'St. Paul having been a herald of the
Gospel both in the east and in the west, he received the noble crown of
faith, after teaching righteousness to the whole world, and gone even. to
the utmost bounds of the west'; an expression, well-known to every scholar,
that always designated, or at least included, the British Islands."
Theodoret, a learned church historian of the fourth century, 'mentions
Britain among the nations which had received the Gospel.' He states that
"Paul carried salvation to the islands which lie in the ocean."
Jerome soon after said that "St. Paul's diligence in preaching extended as
far as the earth itself." Venentius Fortunatus, fifth century Bishop of
Poitiers, said,
"Paul having crossed the ocean, landed and preached in the countries which
the Britons inhabit."
Pastor Margoliouth observes that
"the greatest men...who spent a great part of their lives in such
researches... the learned Ussher, Parker, Stillingfleet, Cave, Camden,
Gibson, Godwin, Rapin, and a great many others - have clearly shown that St.
Paul was the founder of the British church...yea, the government of the
British Christian Church was established and set in proper scriptural order
by [Israelites] themselves, be they who they may - Peter, Paul, Simon
Zealotes, Joseph of Arimathea."
However, Daniel told us that knowledge would increase in the latter days:
"But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time
of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased."
(Daniel 12:4)
Also, Daniel tells us that many things will be kept secret until the latter
days:
"And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed
till the time of the end." (Daniel 12:9)
Many of these recent archeological discoveries combined with secular and
Biblical history give us a shockingly different perspective of the ancient
world in general and ancient Israel in particular.
Following we will attempt to show you evidence which will prove ancient
Israel was an empire. It had a homeland in Palestine, and a far-flung empire
much the same as Britain did until just a few decades ago. Britain once
ruled over a far-flung empire from a small homeland, located in the British
Isles.
In the years from about 1050-850 B.C. Israel was the dominant power of the
world with an empire that rivaled and perhaps exceeded that of the Caesars.
The empire included areas of the world now inhabited by the Israelite people
and that included portions of North America.
We full well understand this is a bold statement, but the evidence will
follow. In this study we will examine the real extent of Israel's power and
empire in the ancient world; the Israelite presence in North America with
considerable specifics.
The impact of the drought of Elijah's day on the weakening of Israel and the
rise of Cartage, which we will show was an Israelite colony. Cartage
continued Israel's presence in the New World, very possibly even during
Christ's lifetime here on earth.
The time of Israel's greatness really began with King David and its rise to
empire status. This happened in about the year 1050 B.C. 2 Samuel 8
discusses David's defeat of the Philistines, Moab, Amalek, Edom, and the
Syrians for example lost more than 80,000 men in just three battles. (2
Samuel 8:5, 13, 10:18)
That is more men than the United States lost in the 14 years of the Vietnam
War. To give you a perspective of the ferocity of the battles.
1 Chronicles 21 shows that David could mobilize over 1˝ million men. With an
army of that size you are not insignificant, not even in this age, this day
and time.
In 1 Chronicles 18:3 it states the border of his dominion went to the
Euphrates River which bordered the area of Assyria and Babylon; or
Mesopotamia who viewed David as an upstart rival. |
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