PART 7 OF THE SERIES ON THE FULL RESTORATION OF ISRAEL!
True two house restoration of the people of Israel, has almost nothing in common with the historic teachings of Anglo or British Israelism. Two house theologians do not use any Anglo-Israelite resources or materials, as support for the purity of the hope that abides in those of Messianic Nazarene Yisrael. Rather they look forward as did the 12 talmidim, to Israel's full consolation!(1)
The two house restoration of all Israel was expounded, foretold and documented by the Master Yahshua and the prophets of Israel for these last days. The concept is found in scripture as far back as 700BCE with Hosea's pronouncements in chapter one, where both Judah and Israel, will re-unite together again via their choice of Messiah Yahshua, as their leader.
A British man named Richard Brothers on the other hand, started British-Israelism between 1757 and 1824.(2) It later achieved worldwide recognition through the writings and teachings of Herbert W Armstrong. Brothers was quite eccentric and was later not only confined to an insane asylum, but his key prophecy of the Hebrews regaining control of the Temple Mount in 1798 proved false. There are major glaring differences between pure untainted two house restoration views and the elitist and often racist views of British Israelism espoused by these two figures and many others.
First and foremost British Israelism teaches that the Jews are not Israel and have no part in Israel. As the claimants to be the lost House Of Israel, they claim there are no Jews in this house. That is not what scripture teaches. Both houses had a crossover population from the other house of Israel and thus both houses contain a random representation of all 12 tribes, but not the fullness of all 12. British Israel's racist understanding goes on to teach that when it was time for Ephraim's seed to thrive, the Jews were subjugated and made subservient to the Ephraimites or the English-speaking peoples. Thus Anglo-Saxons now rule the globe and the rest of Israel instead of the Jewish nation ruling continually as Yahweh had said. They wrongly teach that as the birthright nation of Joseph (of which they are a part), that they have the authority to rule the 12 tribes due to that same birthright.
Thus in British Israelism the scepter no longer remains in Judah, but now is to be found in Joseph. This is an illegal transference of the scepter of Judah. According to Genesis 49:10 however, the crown or scepter will belong to Judah or be found amongst the Jews until Messiah comes and establishes millennial kingdom glory. Since millennial glory hasn't been as of yet established, the right to rule resides among the Jews and her King Yahshua (Psalm 78:67-68). Not only is this a wicked and absurd form of replacement theology, it literally violates countless scriptures that refer to all Israel. including the Jews, as the head and not the tail. The Jews have not been destined to be Joseph's tail! British Israelism in order to thrive, by definition has to lord it over the Jewish part of Israel. This fallacious reasoning asserts that since Britain is Israel, no other nation can be according to others like E. Odlum in his book God's Covenant Man-British Israel. By their definition, there cannot possibly be two nations of Israelite population and background, let alone two legitimate kingdoms of Israel, according to British Israelism. Therefore Jewish Israel has ceased to exist upon their supposed rejection of Messiah Yahshua in 33AD. This rejection was the cause that moved Yahweh to transfer the scepter to Joseph. The Jews have no part in this new single global nation and have been replaced by a new covenant people of Anglo Israelites.
British Israelism goes on to teach that only Anglo Saxon English peoples are Israel, thus negating the biblical truth that the descendents of the ten tribes are all over the west and even in the east in such nations as Iraq, Iran, Japan and China. It discounts the historical and secular records that many of the non-English speaking peoples have also descended from the ten tribes. History points to both Central and South America as also being filled with the lost sheep of the House of Israel, despite the fact that in many cases these people do not speak any English. The same is true for parts of Russia and Asia home to millions of lost Israelite sheep that are not Anglo-Saxons. The arrogant pronouncement that all of Joseph's children are today exclusively Anglo-Saxons is racist at the core. This racism is practiced against those who are Israelites in other nations including the Jews, and do not fit their mold of being an English speaking member of Great Britain, or one of her colonies or commonwealths. This poison along with the theological elimination of the Jews and their willful ignoring of the end time purpose for the Jews in Yahweh's plans exposes Anglo-Israelism as racist at the core. True two house theology teaches both houses of Israel to love and accept one another and to build bridges of tolerance and understanding, between all those who love Yahshua, not limiting Israelite heritage to a single exclusive group. Two house theology continues to teach that the lost sheep of the House of Israel (10 tribes), may in fact have some connection to the British people, but in fact come in many colors, many tongues and many languages, represented by Joseph's coat of many colors.
One of the major premises of British Israelism is that Yahweh prophesied that Ephraim would be called "great" and that Ephraim would be a commonwealth of nations. Since Great Britain is called "great" and since she was and still is to some extent a commonwealth of colonial nations, therefore Genesis 48:18-20 identifies Great Britain alone as Ephraim. It is on this verse that all of British Israelism stands. If one were to overturn this understanding by simple and correct exegesis, then one could silence British Israel proponents and their racist proclamations. Lets look closely at these verses. Genesis 48:19 does not teach that Ephraim the younger brother will become great or Great Britain. It states that Ephraim will "be greater" not "Great". As a matter of fact, it is Mannasseh who is called "great" and according to British Israelism the United States is Mannasseh. While the USA may well be Manasseh in part, Ephraim is never called great and therefore cannot be limited to the single nation of Great Britain and her colonies.
Perhaps an even more glaring problem, is that British Israel's primary type and anti-type, doesn't square up historically or prophetically. If Great Britain alone is Ephraim and the USA alone is Mannasseh and if Ephraim was prophesied by Israel the patriarch to be greater, historically this has not played out accurately. Since the 1930's when England turned against the Jewish remnant in "Palestine", the USA has become far greater militarily, economically, and in almost every other imaginable way. Thus history teaches that the "greater" nation eventually became the USA. If the USA is exclusively Mannasseh, and the USA became greater than Great Britain or Ephraim ever was, the type and anti-types do not fit. If the types do not fit one must convict!
British Israelism also mistranslates and manipulates the end of Genesis 48:19 to read a commonwealth of nations or a multitude of nations. The Hebrew "melo Hagoyim" means neither commonwealth nor multitude, but rather means a fullness of gentile individuals, or possibly a fullness of nations. Thus British Israel's claims to the exclusivity of being Ephraim and its claims that Genesis 48 calls Ephraim both "great" and a "commonwealth of nations" is erroneous and not in the Hebrew text. It is Manasseh who is in fact refereed to as a "great people" and it is Ephraim who is said the fill the nations (not one nation) with Israelite seed. British Israelism claims that Great Britain is all Israel, containing all the worlds Israelite seed. As outlined in parts one to four of this series, the proper two house understanding of these verses is simple when left in its original context. Namely that Ephraim's sperm or his zera, will fill the nations or the non-Israelite nations with Israel's seed, not limiting this fullness and infilling to one single nation.
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were to physically father many nations not Great Britain alone! Two house truth teaches that the seed of Ephraim, as the promised seed of physical multiplicity to the patriarchs of Israel, was played out in every nation, tribe, kindred and tongue in the known world. This includes Great Britain and America, but is NOT LIMITED TO THESE TWO NATIONS, OR TO ANY OF THE COMMONWEALTH ANGLO-SAXON NATIONS. Two house truth recognizes Great Britain and America along with other places such as Australia, Western Europe, New Zealand and parts of Africa, Asia, Syria and Asia Minor, as all being centers of ten tribe settlement and dwelling. These details are provided and documented in prior parts of this series.
Two house theology by definition denounces racism, by refusing to limit Ephraim's global infilling to one or two English speaking countries. Therefore two house truth is a doctrine of inclusion based on covenant promise to the patriarchs, as opposed to a doctrine of the exclusion of most nations and of the Jewish nation, as British Israelism unashamedly promotes. Genesis 48:16 teaches that these two boys will be a multitude in the midst of all the earth, not in the midst of England only. Thus British Israelism is highly racist, as it refuses to recognize the global dispersion of the lost sheep of both houses of Israel, limiting it to the British Isles and to just one of the two houses. Two house theology places no such limitations.
In Deuteronomy 32:8-10 in one of the clearest and most convincing pronouncements in all of scripture, Yahweh states that He designed and assigned the national boundaries of ALL THE NON-ISRAELITE NATIONS, based upon the number of the children of Israel. Or to put it another way, the numbers of the offspring of the 12 tribes, would be so vast and numerous, that when Yahweh Almighty distributed land inheritance to all non-Israelite nations and designed their geographical boundaries, His determining factor was the number of Israelites, that each nation could reasonably hold! This shows the vastness of Ephraim/Israel's global fullness and contradicts British Israelism's claim to be the only group or nation to house the vast numbers of dispersed Israelites, as well as Messianic Judaism's claim that tiny Judah is reconstituted 12 tribe Israel. Yahweh needs the entire globe to contain Israel's offspring and yet Great Britain claims that the Anglo-Saxon confederated nations alone can hold this vastness. Messianic Judaism claims are equally untenable. Therein lies one of the major flaws in British Israelism. The term "great" is also used for Ishmael or the modern Arabs in Genesis 17:20 and Genesis 21:18. Does that mean that the modern day Ishmaelites alone are the ten lost tribes of Israel? Of course not! They are not although through the vast multiplication of Ephraim's seed, there are no doubt lost Israelites amongst the Ishmaelites as well! Interestingly enough despite Anglo-Israelism's claim to house all the lost sheep of the ten tribes, there is no room there for Jewish exiles or Jewish sheep, that wandered amongst the ten tribes as a result of historical crossover! They are excluded unless they come to "Christ". There is absolutely no room for the wandering unregenerate Jew anywhere in Anglo-Israelism, as a full heir of the united people of Israel. That flies in the face of what scripture actually teaches. Scripture teaches that when Israel is fully restored, it will include Jews from all nations as well. Two house theology in no way shape or form, leaves out or relegates the Jews to being a replaced, neglected or discarded people.
Anglo- Israelism claims that the Anglo-Saxons alone are the pure untainted descendants of ten tribe Israel. The problem with that is these "pure Israelites" have a mixture of Celtic, Norman and Germanic blood(3)(4)! There is more German or Edomite blood in the monarchies of Great Britain, than there is Anglo-Saxon blood. All the kings of England, the supposed only pure Ephraimite nation, actually have come from the intermingling of the House of Hanover and the House of Brunswick(5), both of German genealogy. The current monarchs before being known as the House of Windsor or the Windsors, were known as the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas of German descent. They adopted the family name of Mountbatten-Windsor in 1917, from Windsor Castle during World War One, for obvious reasons.(6) In other words England's monarchs are more German or Edomite, than they are "pure Israelite", even if there really was such a verifiable concept of Israelite purity. The throne of England therefore has more ties to Germany and historical Rome, then to the ten tribes of Ephraim/Israel. Thus the true king over both houses of Israel(7) is a Jew, not an Ephraimite or a German, as much as that may unsettle British Israelites.
Other British Israelites, in an effort to give a degree of plausibility to their absurd claims that the English monarchy directly descends from Judah, actually attempted to juggle the genealogies of Matthew and Luke, according to Foy.(8) They have actually rewritten the genealogies to make some superficial and spurious connections to the royal House of David. These blasphemous genealogies of the alleged Judahite ties to the House of Brunswick, are produced by conveniently taking 32 generations from Luke 3:32-38.Then right in the middle of Luke's genealogy starting with Luke 3:33, they shift to Matthew's genealogy in chapter one verses 7-10! Somehow they count a total of 48 generations. Thus they get a grand total of 48 generations from Abraham to Zedekiah, not from a single line of established ancestry, but by splicing and pasting together two entirely different genealogies, one based on Miriam (Mary), the other based on Joseph, Yahshua's stepfather! This despite the fact that neither original genealogy mentions Zedekiah! In this reconfiguration which stands as a genealogical abortion, they remove the names of Jehoachin or Coniah in Matthew 1:11 and insert Zedekiah in order to justify him as a rightful heir to the throne of David. Thus by inserting Zedekiah and removing Coniah, they are actually shooting themselves in the foot. We are about to learn that Zedekiah was absolutely not a legitimate heir, but rather a puppet governor.
This brings us to perhaps the main difference between British Israelism and two house truth. Any cult that is willing to change the genealogies in the Word of Yahweh, in spite of the poignant warnings in Det.12:32 and Rev. 22:18-19, is a dangerous group at best and blasphemous at worst. Thus any one with even an iota of understanding about the erroneous doctrines of British Israelism, that would attempt to paint the prophetic two house truth with the same broad brush, is practicing Lashon Harah (wicked tongue and evil disposition). Only a dark element within Messianic Judaism, with a questionable agenda, would have the chutzpah to make the accusation that two house theology is just a spin off or a takeoff on Anglo-Israelism. The truth of the matter is that these two doctrines are diametrically opposed to each other, in almost every possible form. There is hardly a single area where the two teachings are similar. As outlined in part four of this series "What Judaism Really Says About Joseph's Seed", the only area of agreement is that according to TRADITIONAL JEWISH RABBINICAL THINKING AND TEACHING, a majority (not all) of the ten tribes eventually migrated Northwest to Europe and the Americas. Thus while traditional Judaism and Messianic Nazarene Yisrael agree that the western Anglo-Saxon nations contain millions of Ephraimite individuals, Messianic Nazarene Yisrael does not limit the sperm of Ephraim to a single nation, or single set of nations or races, as does British Israelism.
The understanding of the location and occupant of the throne of David, is perhaps the most striking difference in the two doctrines. The most hellish, demonic and satanic doctrine is the removal of the throne of David from Jerusalem (both earthly and heavenly), to London and the removal of Messiah Yahshua from the throne, in order to establish the German based house of House of Brunswick-House of Hanover- House of Windsor.
Scripture is clear that our Master Yahshua sits on the throne forever after His reign commenced 2000 some years ago! This blatant removal of the Son of Yahweh from the throne of David, in order to seat Queen Elizabeth on it, is blasphemous even at its mere suggestion, even to an unregenerate heart! Any doctrine no matter how sugar coated and superficially beautiful it may appear, that has to remove Messiah Yahshua from the throne, in order to place flesh and blood on the throne, has been birthed in the lowest rung of hell itself. It is this very erroneous teaching of the removal of David's throne to London, that lies at the heart of the disease of British Israelism. For those in Messianic Judaism who practice Lashon Harah, by claiming that Messianic Nazarene Yisrael subscribes to this treph, are insinuating that we also are involved in the changing and rewriting the genealogies in the Word of Yahweh! Messianic Nazarene Yisrael is not willing to dethrone Yahshua as the eternal King the Jews and Master of our lives, so as to place someone else on David's throne! We call those of Messianic Judaism who have been blaspheming against us with these false charges, to repent and to do so in print, or we will do as scripture does and name you publicly.
Let's delve into the means by which scripture is tortured by Anglo-Israelites to get the throne of David away from Yahweh's Son and Yahweh's capital, to their capital in London. The fallacious doctrine begins with a faulty understanding of Jeremiah 33:17, which states that David, shall never want a man to sit upon the throne over the House of Israel. This passage is one of the critical links in British Israelism. In his book, The USA and Britain in Prophecy, Herbert W. Armstrong put it this way "Not only was that throne established forever, it was to exist continually forever through all generations. If the throne of David ceased with Zedekiah, then it does not exist today. And if it does not exist today, how shall Christ sit upon a non existent throne?" Thus British Israelism's proponents teach that Zedekiah the last Jewish king in Judah prior to the 70 year Babylonian exile, must have had descendents, who could qualify to inherit the throne. Jeremiah 52:11 states that Zedekiah died in Babylonian captivity after his eyes were put out. Thus British Israelism reasons that there has to be an available heir of Zedekiah to continue that throne, in order to fulfill Jeremiah 33:17. On the basis of this false understanding, they claim that according to Jeremiah 43:5-7, that Jeremiah went in to Egypt to look for Zedekiah's daughters and to raise up from them a rightful heir to the throne. Thus they reason that Jeremiah would replant Zedekiah's throne elsewhere(9), to insure that every generation had an occupant. This is not what the two house movement believes in any way shape or form.
Those of the prophetic two house movement, know better than to follow this line of reasoning. They know first of all that Jeremiah couldn't have replanted David's throne anywhere; let alone in Ireland with any of Zedekiah's daughters, since Zedekiah himself was not a legitimate heir of the throne on three important accounts. First of all Zedekiah was a political appointment by Nebuchadnezzar over Jerusalem and Judea and was not the son of Jehoacim. The rightful heir to the throne was Jehoacin (Coniah) son of Jehoacim. This is clearly seen in Second Chronicles 36:10. Zedkiah was Jehoacim's brother, not his son. Jehoachim's son was the rightful heir whose name was Jehoaicin or Coniah!(10) Had Jeremiah gone looking for Jehohakin's sons, then the fairy tale of British Israelism might be believable. Why would Yahweh have a Spirit led and directed prophet like Jeremiah, chasing the daughters of a man who was not a rightful heir to the Davidic throne to begin with? He would never re-plant David's throne with Zedekiah's daughters! He knew full well that the true heir of Jehoacim was Jehoaicin (Coniah), not Zedekiah, who was the brother of deposed King Jehoacim. No record has been found, verifying that Jeremiah went looking for Jehoacin's sons either and with good reason. In Jeremiah 22:verses 24-30, Yahweh places an irreversible eternal generational curse, upon the seed or lineage of Coniah son of Jehoacim (Jehoacin is also known as Coniah or Jeconiah). Therefore no descendent of Coniah, could ever sit on the throne of David legally. He would be childless, in the sense that none of his children (due to the generational curse on his descendants) could ever enjoy the blessings of sitting on David's throne. We know that Jeconiah did beget Salathiel, but that was after the curse on the Davidic monarchy of Coniah's lineage and thus rendered all his offspring ineligible! Israel had no monarch on the throne of David, from the time of Jehoacin (Coniah) until the virgin birth of Yahshua.
The correct understanding of Jeremiah 33:17, is that David shall never want a man (candidate) to sit on the throne. In every generation there will be a candidate, who is eligible and available from the royal House of David to occupy the throne. However due to the everlasting curse on the lineage, every generation will see that candidate fail to ascend to the throne! Thus from Coniah until the coming of Messiah, the throne was ordained to exist without an occupant! Candidates not withstanding! In Jeremiah 22:4-30, Yahweh in the simplest childlike language ends the mortal Davidic monarchy by this curse! Thus even if Zedekiah was Jehoacian's rightful heir, or even his direct physical son or grandson (which British Israelism tries to prove by splicing and pasting of two different genealogies), he could not legally inherit the throne. Therefore we have two strikes against Zedekiah being a rightful heir. The third, final and most convincing strike against Zedekiah and his offspring is found in Ezekial: 21:25-27. Here Yahweh Himself removes Zedekiah, from Nebuchadnezzar's puppet throne! Thus Zedekiah and his offspring are divinely divested of any further claim to the Davidic throne! In verse 25 of Ezekial 21, Yahweh calls Zedekiah THE WRONG LEADER, OR THE WICKED PRINCE OF ISRAEL! THAT IN ITSELF IS YAHWEH'S RECOGNITION OF ZEDKIAH, AS SITTING ON THE THRONE OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND NOT OF DAVID'S. HE CANNOT SIT ON DAVID'S THRONE, SINCE HE IS THE WRONG ONE AND NOT THE HOLY ONE! THE CONIAH CURSE WOULD SECURE THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL, AS THE NEXT LITERAL OCCUPANT! But it doesn't end there. In verse 26 of Ezekial: 21 Yahweh instructed Ezekial to remove Zedekiah's crown and kingly turban of authority, thereby humbling him off of the throne. Zedekiah is the exalted illegal occupant of David's throne that Ezekial is told is being humbled. The exaltation of the humble or Humble One, is a plain Messianic reference to the exalting of the humble suffering servant Messiah, who would become the FIRST LEGAL OCCUPANT OF DAVID'S THRONE AFTER Jehoacin. Our Master Yahshua would also become its final occupant commencing with His first advent, not with His second advent as British Israelism claims! The pronouncement of Luke 1:32-33 given with a direct connection to His virgin birth in Bethlehem's manger, states that He will sit on that Davidic throne, ruling the House of Jacob (12 tribes) forever. Clearly then His reign over Jacob's children began with His birth, not with His promised return!
Then in Ezekial 21:27 for emphatic emphasis, Yahweh declares three times "overturn, overturn, I will overturn", meaning I am permanently ending any and all occupants from trying to seat themselves on David's throne, as did the illegal wrong prince Zedekiah. Furthermore Yahweh states that this overturning will be so thorough, that no mortal man will be able to reestablish the throne, until the coming of Messiah Yahshua or the One to whom it rightly belongs. To Him alone Yahweh will give it! This pronouncement in Ezekial 21:27, is in stark contrast to the illegal wrong one Zedekaih, who will one day be replaced by the Right One, Messiah the humbled(11) coming One, to whom the everlasting eternal throne of David will always belong! This is the plain and simple teaching of scripture, as well as the plain and simple teaching of the glorious two house restoration movement of Israel.
British Israelism in addition to changing biblical genealogies, takes their fairly tale version of David's throne even further. Zedekiah's daughter had gone into Egypt and thus placed herself under divine punishment not blessing.(12) British Israelism teaches that the small number who escaped Egypt in Jeremiah 44: 28, included the royal seed of Zedekiah's daughters. As shown previously the daughters were not royal in any way, rather they were under a double curse as the inheritors of the generational pronouncement of Jeremiah 22:24-30, as well as the disobedient act of fleeing into Egypt, which was contrary to Yahweh's orders. Therefore Jeremiah being Spirit led and filled, would never attempt a rescue of the royal seed from Egypt, since they were not royal seed to begin with! Rather Jeremiah's mission in Egypt, was to proclaim divine displeasure and warning to the Judahites, who had taken refuge in Egypt, instead of peacefully surrendering and having their lives spared, as Yahweh had pleaded with them to do, through Jeremiah.
British Israelism's fairly tale of David's throne being replanted in London continues as follows: Around 580 BCE, Jeremiah the prophet shows up in Ireland with Tea Tephi Zedekiah's royal daughter, Jacob's so called Pillar Stone, David's Harp and a scribe named Simon Breach, who is supposed to represent Baruch the scribe. In Irish legend, this old man from the east is called Olam Fodlah. According to this fairy tale, Tea Tephi marries a Judahite Irish king named King Eochaidh atop this stone, thus completing Jeremiah's mission of replanting the throne of David in Ireland. The supposed coronation ceremony took place atop this stone (also known as Lia Fail), after Judah was banished from Israel. Archeology paints a different picture of Lia Fail's origin. The Lia Fail never accompanied Tea Tephi from Egypt, rather its color and makeup have most experts believing that is of Scottish origin!(13)
Thus through the supposed marriage of Tea Tephi to a Jewish Irish king (atop the Lia Fail), whose ancestors had lived in Ireland via Spain, for about 500 years before Jeremiah supposedly arrived. Thus the legend goes, Yahweh reunited the Phares line of kings represented by Tea Tephi, with the Zarah line of Judah represented by the Irish king Eochaidh. The resulting reunited and replanted throne in Ireland is thus believed to be David's throne, now uniting both the Phares and Zarah lines of royalty of Judah in Ireland. This action by Jeremiah supposedly preserved the throne in safety, away from conquest and the strife of Nebuchadnezzaer and the upheaval of the 70 years of exile. This fairy tale goes on to say that later the throne was taken to Scotland and later to London in around 1296 AD, thus fulfilling British Israrelism's perversion of the three literal overturns, they claim was prophesied in Ezekial 21:25-27. When understood properly the three overturns mentioned in Ezekial 21, cannot possibly refer to the supposed three transference's of the Lia Fail under the coronation seat from Jerusalem to Ireland, from Ireland to Scotland and from Scotland to London, where it said to remain preserved until Yahshua returns. This three overturn invention was finally laid to rest, when former British Prime Minister John Major, returned the Lia Fail to Scotland in 1996, thus accounting for a sum total of four overturns! With one political decision, Major destroyed one of the basic tenants of Anglo-Israelism forever. It was a "Major" decision. Pun intended!! At a special ceremony former Prime Minister Major said, "I believe that on this, the 700th anniversary of its removal from Scotland, it is appropriate to return it (Lia Fail), to its historic homeland!"(14)
Thus even from a practical historical view, it cannot be argued that David's throne is in London anymore. This fourth overturn has left defenders of this venomous anti-Jewish teaching, hard pressed for answers within their rapidly dwindling ranks. The British Israel fantasy, in it's most basic format, is a series of cerebral hallucinations, accompanied by malfunctions of logic, amongst a people who thrive on wishful thinking! The three-overturn pronouncement taken at face value, shows Yahweh's utter disgust with Zedekiah and his evil reign! Through this pronouncement, Yahweh makes sure that no one will be able to ever practice Zedekiah's evil by supposing to be on David's throne, until Yahshua the Rightful One comes. When He came at His first advent, never again from that time forward would the throne be overturned, since according to Luke 1:32-33, He will reign and occupy that throne forever. Forever means forever!
Despite the intensive historical excavations in search of verifiable facts to collaborate the Tea Tephi nonsense, there is not a single shred of verifiable and reliable historical evidence, that Jeremiah was ever in Ireland, let alone with Zedekiah's daughter a twice cursed false heiress to the throne. In all of Irish history, including the highly reliable "Irish Antiquities" a well respected resource there is not one mention of any such traveling party arriving from the east. Had their been a viable shred of historical evidence to grab hold of, British Israelites would have done so by now, don't you think? Only in Irish legend is this fairly tale recited by schoolchildren. It is useful to remember that most of these well-known legends were written after 600 AD, a thousand years after the purported events of Jeremiah's arrival with Tea Tephi. According to Christian historian Nick Greer "When reading Anglo-Israelite literature, one notices that it generally depends on folklore, legends, quasi historical genealogies and dubious etymologies."(15) It is on this sinking sand that British Israelism stakes its veracity.
As a matter of biblical record those who escaped punishment in Egypt did not go to Ireland. Rather scripture states that they returned to Judah!(16) The scripture is deafly silent about a trip to Ireland. We must be likewise. What is attainable from scripture is that the throne was never moved from Jerusalem to three other locations, rather that is was purposely kept vacant (from Coniah to Messiah), reserved for the Rightful One.
Hosea 3:4-5 completely nullifies British Israelism's claims that every generation has to have a Davidic Judahite ruling and sitting on the throne of David (in order for it to even exist), ruling the House of Ephraim. Hosea 3:4-5 proclaims the historical fact, that the children of Israel or all 12 tribes including Ephraimites, would be without any king for MANY DAYS. This condition of the empty throne would end according to verse 5 of Hosea 3, in the latter days of this age, or at the end of the Olam Hazeh. Only through teshuvah and repentance towards Yahweh, would He allow the children of Israel to have a Davidic king, IN THE LATTER DAYS. The latter days began with Yahshua's first advent and will soon end with the coming of the atid lavoh or millennial age, started by His second advent. Thus from Coniah in circa 600 BCE, until Israel's next legitimate heir, would be about 600 years. This obviously would block Zedekiah's supposed ascension to the Davidic throne. Teshuvah towards, by and through the Greater David (Yahshua), will result in the children of Israel (all 12 tribes) ending many long days (600 years) without a Davidic king. British Israelism continues to hold fast to the false notion, that for those 600 years plus the last 2000 years, the occupant of the throne has been seated in Europe. Scripture teaches that for 600 years, the children of Israel will be without a Davidic king, until He whose right it is comes, according to Ezekial 21:27. This legal one or Holy One will not allow anyone else on the throne after He comes! He will sit on it Himself as Emmanu-El, forever and forever.
Further assurance of Yahshua's abiding permanence upon the throne, saw Him removing it from the realm of the earthly Jerusalem, to the heavenly Jerusalem above, which is free from other claimants and where He sits as undisputed, uncontested Lamb upon the throne. Thus in heaven today you will find David's throne, with the Lamb of Yahweh, forever more upon it. You will not find it London with Queen Elizabeth on it. It has been removed to heaven for preservation and safekeeping from various religionists, who would seek to abuse the visibly empty throne, to their own personal advantage, enrichment or agenda. The throne of David rests planted in the third of the three heavens (out of S.A.-Tan's reach), by the Heavenly Father and not by Jeremiah, according to Psalm 110:1 and numerous other passages in the Book of Hebrews. In the heavens no mortal man can touch the throne or even see it, until Yahweh Himself decides the right time for it to return to Jerusalem! Not London!
When Yahshua returns to Jerusalem(17) as King of Kings, the throne will be with Him as it goes wherever He goes. Upon His return to Jerusalem at the Mt. of Olives, He will visibly set it up again in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount, from whence it originally came. Yahweh in His infinite wisdom has protected the throne, by placing it out of the reach of all those like the British Israelites. Many other groups like the Rastafarians, who have attempted to place Hilie Selasis on the throne via their theology, have thus been thwarted as well. No flesh and blood can share in and thus steal His glory! His throne has been placed out of reach from all, other than born again Israelites and Gerim individuals from all nations and tongues that walk by faith and not by sight.
According to Acts 15:16 Yahshua has been rebuilding His Tabernacle of David on earth from heaven and will reset it up visibly on the earth in it's is full and completed form, at His return, when Satan will be bound a thousand years.(18) If Great Britain and the USA are exclusively Ephraim and Manassah, why don't these two nations seek Yahweh, as prophesied that all Israel would in the latter days?(19) Why do these two nations lead the globe in the production and distribution of all kinds of ungodly materials, along with the accompaniment of unclean spirits?
Instead both these nations are moving further and further away from Yahweh, not returning to Him. Thus there must be other Ephraimite and Judahite individuals, outside these two nations, that are returning to Yahweh and to righteousness through His Son, in order that the Hosea chapter 3 prophecy be fulfilled. We know this to be the case in the individual Jewish and non-Jewish believers who are born again and join David's Tabernacle. The Hosea 3:4-5 passage reveals, that in the latter days the lost sheep of both the Houses of Israel will as individuals (not as the two nations of Britain and USA), return in repentance and teshuvah from global Diaspora.
This is not to contradict earlier writings, where we used many ancient and modern Jewish sources to reveal that both Great Britain and especially the USA,(20) both contain multitudes of vast Israelite populations from both houses. Thus the migration patterns of the ten tribes as well as Judah in Diaspora, were biblically and historically verified and easily traced.(21) Yet the same cannot be said regarding the supposed tracing and replanting of the Davidic throne in Ireland by Jeremiah the prophet, thus debunking a major pillar of Anglo-Israelite theology!
Messianic Nazarene Yisraelites are able to accept the westward migration patterns as taught by some British Israelites as factual, since our confirmation sources are Jewish and historical. We cannot however condone Anglo-Israel's other teachings, because of other numerous problematic areas outlined earlier. Yet there are those who ignorantly and often willingly accuse Messianic Nazarene Yisrael theology of being a synonymous carbon copy, to that of British Israelism. That is a most absurd accusation, since all Messianic Nazarene Yisraelites love their Jewish brethren and are willing to stand with them in life and in death. Messianic Nazarene Yisraelites by definition have placed Yahshua on the throne of David, in both a historical and in a personal and spiritual relationship. Not a single Messianic Nazarene Yisraelite would ever dream of even suggesting that somehow Yahshua is not on David's throne, but that Elizabeth is.
I caution all those, who use this sole jointly held belief of British Israel and two house theology, on this one single issue of the verifiable historical migratory patterns of the ten tribes, as some kind of two house endorsement of Anglo-Israel's theology, to discontinue their Lashon Harah (evil tongue)! Their white papers have become instruments of unrighteousness and slander. They have need of repentance in a spirit of meekness. These messengers have purposely misrepresented two house theology, to make them appear to be carbon copies of British Israel's distorted theological views. To broad brush all of Messianic Nazarene Yisrael, by pinning British Israel's anti Semitic heresy and blasphemy on our Torah based Zionistic movement, is to engage in slander. Neither Batya Wootten nor this author has ever once used or desired to use any source or research materials from any British Israelite, to establish two house truth. We not only have refused to do so, but have until now refused to deal with the topic, due to what we thought were the obvious nature of the differences in the movements. Unfortunately due to the devil's success in stirring up the flesh of some our Messianic Jewish and Christian brethren, this clarification is now being presented.
British Israelism also teaches that the Anglo-Saxon white Protestant "Christians", are the only legitimate Israelites. Yet Messianic Nazarene Yisrael acknowledged that permanent and abiding status in the Commonwealth of Israel, is sealed and ultimately determined by biblical saving faith, not just pedigree. Anglo-Israelism is an outright call to pedigree alone, as the sole basis of acceptance into their teachings. Messianic Nazarene Yisrael recognizes that as a redeemed faith filled remnant of both houses, plus faith filled non Israelites who may not have Israelite pedigree, all make up the Israel of Yahweh in Galatians 6:16! That Israel is a manifestation of Yahshua's ministry of inclusion not exclusion. British Israelism makes no room in their warped theology for the faith filled Jew, unsaved Jews, or the faith filled non-Israelite. Thus they dismiss as legitimate, two out of the three people groups, that make up Yahshua's body! This is a glaring difference between the two movements. One group is scriptural and all-inclusive and one unashamedly racist!
British Israelism is also one of the main driving forces behind the King James Only controversy, teaching well meaning Protestants everywhere, that the King James Version is the only reliable English translation. British Israelism has fueled the hatred and intolerance that has led to the burning of other editions of the scriptures in times past. It labels as heretics those who would dare carry or study other bibles for edification or clarification. Where does this arrogance come from? Why from their warped doctrine about the throne of David of course! Since according to their fallacious reasoning the throne of England is David's throne, who better than a descendent of the royal house of David but King James himself, to author a English authorized version? The Authorized Version is authorized by British Israelites! British Israel believes that King James, being a direct descendent of David through Zedekiah, was chosen by Yahweh to produce the gift of an inerrant English translation. Thus anyone who rejected the King James-Davidic Bible, as the only authoritative translation of Yahweh's Word in the English language, was not subject to David's throne (King James), the Church of England (their perversion of the Jewish Sanhedrin) and the British-Israelite people. Historically the King James Bible became a litmus test, between true Israelites and the imposter "Christ killing Jews", posing as Israelites. Only true Israelites who were fully submitted to the false throne of David in London and the Church of England, would carry and swear by the King James Bible. Does this sound like the teaching of the two house movement?
In the truthful and pure two house movement one can find all kinds of bibles and all kinds of translations, to fancy all kinds of diverse tastes. Does that sound like two house proponents are really Anglo-Israelites in new costumes? It is time for the critics of two house theology, to stop lying and falsifying their so called white papers and repent before Almighty Yahweh, for a judgmental and deceitful tongue. The historical truth of the compilation of the King James Bible is quite different than British Israelism pretends it to be. It is based on the Greek New Testament published by Roman Catholic Robert Estenne, (also called Stephanus for short), in 1550. Stephanus's manuscript is based on Byzantine fragments pieced together, none of which predated 1200 AD. This manuscript had the Book Of Revelation in Latin, not Greek. Thus the manuscripts used for production of the King James Bible are fragmented, linguistically mixed and includes forged Roman Catholic additions, such as 1 John 5:7, and other questionable verses like Matthew 28:18-20. These and other King James texts are not found anywhere in any of the older manuscripts, dating as far back as the 5th century AD (such as the respected Sinaitic Manuscripts)!
Thus being loyal to the King James Bible only, reveals that British Israelites are actually more loyal to the Roman Catholic Church and her spiritual harlot practices of popery, than to just some supposed London based throne of David. Most British Israelites would likely rollover in their graves, if they discovered the true background of the "original" manuscript, used for their hallowed King Jimmy Bible! A leading Roman Catholic theologian and churchman, who pieced it together! Let these facts stated here serve as a caution to any Messianic Rabbi, who knowingly on one hand gives a new Jewish believer a King James Bible, propagated and distributed originally by Jew haters, then turns right around and equates Jewish loving Messianic Nazarene Yisrael with Anglo-Israelism. It is the shepherd's job to know and research these things, so as to protect the sheep from the religious replacement theological wolves that pieced it together. The King James Bible is a legitimate translation, but it is not superior to other translations and carries with it the stigma of an Anglo-Israelite agenda, along with several texts added just 500 years ago! British Israelites and fundamental Christians are also not in any hurry to expose the little known but well documented homosexual and pedophile practices of the same King James!
Historic British colonialism in the 1900's, with its stifling gag on human freedoms, was also a byproduct of a theology that claimed that since Israel was prophesied to be a possessor of the gates of all her enemies, that therefore world domination was their birthright as Joseph. Thus whenever Great Britain flexed its military might in unwarranted fashion by policing the world through imperialism, they would when called to task, merely recite the biblical doctrines of Israel's biblical promised territorial abundance, as they plowed innocent human beings into slavery and bondage. Many in governmental positions of authority used the tenants of British Israelism to justify unbridled colonialism and imperialism. As one British Israelist put it "We must rule all nations, for He who has so decreed says-'For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee (Israel-Britain) shall perish, yea those nations shall be utterly wasted'." Henceforth there are no nations, no peoples, but one indivisible will be the world and the world will be one Britain."(22) Thus the natural racist and colonial aggressive outgrowth of British Israelite theology is global militaristic conquest, since no other nation is even recognized outside of their colonial absorption into Great Britain's rule.
Messianic Nazarene Yisrael on the other hand, follows the simple biblical pattern of building Yahshua's Kingdom which is not of this world. Rather it is a Kingdom to be set up via the Great Commission and played out in the millennial age or the Atid Lavoh, the age to come. Messianic Nazarene Yisrael's goals are seeing Yahshua gather and draw Israel by the Ruach (Spirit) and not by might, or power, so as to be a bride prepared for Kingdom duties and assignment. The last thing that Messianic Nazarene Yisrael would be engaged with, is the physical conquering of territory that does not belong to Israel, just for territory's sake. Thus to equate a colonial aggressive theology, with a pacifist one that proclaims Israel's restoration by Yahweh's Messiah, is blatant slander and nefarious behavior.
British Israelites also have a penchant for date setting. Many falsely claimed that the 1991 Gulf War was the Armageddon of Revelation 16:16 and have in the past set 1917 as the original date for Yahshua's secret return(23). This kind of date setting has even caused leading spokespersons for Anglo-Israelism like Dr. John Matthews in 1945 to refer to Anglo-Israelism as a theory!(24) Having been embarrassed many times, this still has not slowed down this movement's attraction to date setting. Those of Messianic Nazarene Yisrael in contrast follow their Master's admonition in Acts 1:7, that it is not for us to know the times and seasons that relate to Israel's soon full restoration. The Master Yahshua did tell us how to rebuild Israel though, by leaving us the Great Commission in Acts 1:8.
In practice British Israelism is far closer to Roman Catholicism then it is to two house theology. Roman popery has Pope John Paul as the vicar of Messiah in Rome on Yahshua's Davidic throne. Thus British Israelism in its most vulnerable form, is actually quite similar to popery, in that it features a human being claiming to represent Messiah, comfortably seated on Messiah's Davidic throne, rather than Messiah Himself sitting upon His own throne. This puts British Israelism in the same category as the Jehovah Witnesses or the Russellites, who claim that the throne of David was materialized here on earth back in 1914 only to a select few. British Israelism has far more in common with the Russellites and the papists, then with those of Messianic Nazarene Yisrael, who would never have the chutzpah to displace Yahshua as Messiah and Master over all of New Covenant Israel. Messianic Nazarene Yisrael and two house truth, deems these secret advents of Yahshua and David's throne, as outright heresy and an extreme example of the private interpretation of scripture, of which Shimon Keepha (Peter) warned us to avoid!(25)
Regarding language there is another major discrepancy between the two house scriptural language of Hebrew and that of British Israelists and their language English. According to Herbert W Armstrong, in his book, The United States and Britain In Prophecy, he says that "the scriptures plainly tell us that Israelites would change their native language from Hebrew into English (Isaiah 28:11). The Eternal would cease speaking to them in their own Hebrew tongue, but with another tongue will he speak to this people-Israelites. This cannot apply to the Jews who still read their Bibles in the Hebrew tongue." Those of the two house movement do not seek to study the new mother tongue of Anglo-Israelism or English, but rather are experiencing a purposeful return to Hebrew, their ancestral language. Hebrew classes abound throughout the Messianic Nazarene Yisrael movement. Most of the two house movement, rightly believes that Isaiah 28:11 and First Corinthians 14:21, refer to the sign gift of tongues being manifest in the ekklesia. Two house proponents do not accept that Isaiah 28:11 promises a new national language only to Anglo-Saxon Ephraimites, in effect replacing Hebrew as the mother tongue of Israel. The verses quoted by Armstrong, are merely a promise of the dialektos that was given in Acts chapter two in 33 AD, for the teaching and proclamation of the gospel to various parts of the globe.
British Israelism has a convoluted twist on just what or rather who is the tender young twig in Ezekial 17:22. They claim that this young twig is the female daughter of Zedekiah. She being the young and innocent twig. If she (Tea Tephi) was so innocent, why was she hanging out in Egypt defying Yahweh's specific warning to the remnant of Judah, not to flee there for protection in 586 BCE? The tender twig is not a female king's daughter (Tea Tephi), but rather YAHSHUA THE MESSIAH, the same tender shoot spoken of in the suffering servant passage of Isaiah 53:2. Messianic Nazarene Yisrael holds to the classic interpretation of Ezekial 17 being strictly a messianic prophecy.
Two house proponents in their desire to be great in the kingdom of restored millennial Israel, practice and teach Torah, thus establishing special kinship with all segments of Torah based Judaism including Messianic. British Israelism on the other hand sees Torah as the marriage certificate of a cursed rejected and despised people of long ago i.e. the Jews. (Only Herbert W. Armstrong much to his credit, deviated from the English based Church of England, on the question of the perpetuity of Torah validity!) Does this sound like two house truth and British Israelism are parallel theologies? Only the highly deceived or those with a controlling spirit in Messianism, would dare make such a railing accusation!
To parallel British Israelism alongside two house theology as a parallel racist theology, is a manifest token of one's ignorance and lack of education in this particular field. Facts are facts. Historical, geographical and etymological studies from all kinds of diverse theological camps including mainstream Judaism, have offered overwhelming proofs, that most of the English speaking peoples of the west and specifically of Europe and the USA are ten tribe descended. Thus all footnotes offered in part four of this restoration series remain valid. In addition to the Anglo Saxon English speaking peoples of the west,(26) other Israelites did migrate and assimilate in such areas as Asia Minor (Antioch), southern Russia, Macedonia (southern Europe), Africa both north and south, and the former areas of the Medo-Persian and Chaldean Empires, (modern day Iraq, Iran) and Syria. That is what separates two house truth from Anglo-Israelism. Messianic Nazarene Yisrael does not limit Ephraimite immigration patterns to a single nation, or a single commonwealth of nations like Great Britain, though admittedly numerous peoples in Great Britain have descended from Ephraim's seed.
Messianic Nazarene Yisrael proclaims what scripture does! That the House of Israel (ten tribes) was swallowed up or became one flesh with all the pagan nations(27) while not limiting it to the Anglo-Saxon or the Jewish peoples. This two house position is fully supported by the Chabad Lubavitch Orthodox Jews, one of the strictest traditional Messianic Torah sects, as can be seen firsthand at their website http://moshiach.com/tribes. They trace their ten tribes findings, with modern eyewitness reports of verification and rightly refer to these lost sheep as Josephites and not as Jews.
Thus as has been proven historically, most of the British peoples are a large part of those whom are ten tribe descended. However unlike Anglo-Israelites, Messianic Nazarene Yisrael does not limit that offspring to a handful of English speaking nations only. After all it was not this author, who traced the ten tribes to the Isles of Tarshish(28) as Spain and England in Europe. Rather it was well respected scholars such as Abrabanel and Raschi.(29) Thus the identification of the ten tribes being primarily in the west, has absolutely nothing to do with reliance on Anglo-Israelite sources for two house conclusions. Rather as a Jewish rabbi, my conclusions are heavily based on my traditional Jewish predecessors, who are leading experts in this field, with no nefarious agenda. When their conclusions, alongside those of well respected historians such as Ptolemy, Homer and Edersheim validate scripture we have the two or more witnesses needed according to Torah. Edersheim's quotes alone prove that in Yahshua's time, the ten tribes were considered absent from Israel, wandering the nations (pagans)! They are not mentioned as wandering on the Temple Mount!(30)
Thus while one can maintain a blanket condemnation of British Israelite theology, one cannot deny the historicity of the documented patterns of westward migration, just because Messianic Judaism has thus requested. Nevertheless despite a correct understanding of the huge migratory patterns into England itself, British Israelism must still be categorized as a doctrine of demons, displaying a 180 degree difference from two house theology, in it's most unorthodox teachings.
1. Acts1:6, Luke 24:212. Wallace, Foy E., Jr. (1945) Utterly Refuted! God's Prophetic Word, Ch. 11, [On-line]. Available: http://www.bible.ca/pre-british-israelism-foy-wallace.htm, p. 38.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Ibid.
6. 1991 World Book Encyclopedia Vol. 21, p.336
7. Isaiah 8:14
8. Wallace, Ibid., p. 20.
9. Jeremiah 1:10
10 Jeremiah 22:24
11 Phil. 2:8-11
12 Jerem.43: 17
13 Greer, N., British-Israelism and the Revival Centres. [On-line]. Available: http://www.preteristarchive.com/MistakenID/mi-brit.html, p. 4.
14. Ibid, p. 4.
15. Ibid, p. 3.
16. Jeremiah 44:14, 28
17. Zachariah 14: 1-5
18. Rev.20: 2-3
19. Hosea 3:4-5
20. Koniuchowsky, M. (November, 1999). Part 6: Another Appointed Place. Your Arms To Israel Newsletter. Vol. 10, No.5.
21. Koniuchowsky, M. (Summer, 1999). Part 4: What Judaism Really Says About Joseph's Seed. Your Arms To Israel Newsletter. Vol. 10, No.3.
22. Professor E Odlum, God's Covenant Man-British Israel p.30 & p.32
23. Dr. John Matthews, Morning Cometh p. 25, p. 56
24. ibid, p.57
25. 2nd Keepha 1:20
26. Koniuchowsky, Ibid., Part 4.
27. Hosea 8:8 and 10, Hosea 9:17
28. Psalm 72:10
29. Psalm 72:10
30. Edershiem, The Life And Times Of Jesus The Messiah 1973 pp.15-16