“…Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham,
the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is
my name for ever,
Exodus
3:15
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OUR GOD BLESS US
AND REMEMBER HIS COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB!
“I am the LORD your God, which brought you out of the
land of Egypt,
to be your God:
I am the LORD your God.”
Numbers 15:41
“Can a woman forget her sucking child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb?
yea, they may forget, yet will I not forget thee.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my
hands;
“…thy walls are continually before me. Thy children
shall make haste;
thy destroyers and they that made thee waste shall go forth
of thee.”
Isaiah 49:15 - 17
“Thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I will lift up
mine hand to the Gentiles,
and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring
thy sons in their arms,
and thy daughters shall be carried upon their
shoulders.”
Isaiah 49:22
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Therefore, behold, the days come,
saith the LORD, that they shall no more say, The LORD liveth, which brought up
the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt; But, The LORD liveth, which brought up and
which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from
all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own
land.
Jeremiah 23:7,8
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Exodus 3:15
Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD;
I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy
name's sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye went.
And I will sanctify my great name, which was profaned among the heathen,
which ye have profaned in the midst of them;
and the heathen shall know
that I am the LORD, saith the Lord GOD,
when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.
Ezekiel 36:22,23
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“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand
again
the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be
left,
from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush,
and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from
the islands of the sea. And he
shall set up an ensign for the nations,
and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together
the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.”
Isaiah 11:11,12
“Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more
be said,
The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land
of Egypt;
But, The LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the
land of the north,
and from all the lands whither he had driven them:
and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their
fathers.”
Jeremiah 16:14,15
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THE RECOGNITION, EXALTATION, AND PRAISE OF
THE MOST HIGH GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB
AND HIS EVERLASTING BOOK OF THE LAW
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“Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
and thy law is the truth. Thou art near, O LORD;
and all thy commandments are truth
Concerning thy testimonies,
I have known of old that thou hast founded them for ever.
Thy word is true from the beginning:
and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.”
Psalm 119:142,151,152,160
“Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger,
as for one of your own country:
for I am the LORD your God.”
Leviticus 24:22
“For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them,
as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments
so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?”
Deuteronomy 4:7,8
“Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man,
and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.”
Jeremiah 17:5
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“The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake;
he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.”
Isaiah 42:21
“Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments,
which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might
do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God,
to keep all his statutes and his commandments,
which I command thee, thou, and thy sons and thy son’s son,
all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with
thee,
and that ye may increase mightily,
as the Lord God of thy fathers hath promised thee,
in the land that floweth with milk and honey.”
Deuteronomy 6:1 - 3
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“O earth, Earth, Earth,
HEAR the WORD of the LORD.”
Jeremiah 22:29
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EXALTATION OF THE MOST HIGH GOD OF
ISRAEL:
“I will praise thee; for
I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works;
and that my soul knoweth right well.”
Psalm 139:14
“I remember the days of
old; I meditate on all thy works;
I muse on the work of thy
hands. I stretch forth my hands unto
thee:
my soul thirstethafter
thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Hear me speedily, O LORD:
my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me,
lest I be like unto them
that go down into the pit.
Cause me to hear thy
lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust:
cause me to know the way
wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.
“Teach me to do thy will;
for thou art my God: thy spirit is good;
lead me into the land of
uprightness.”
Psalm 143:5 - 8,10
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ALL PRAISES BE TO THE MOST HIGH YIHOVAH,
ELOHIM OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB
PRAISE HIS HOLY NAME
FOR HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!!!
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:
(Deuteronomy 6:4)
“THE ISLES OF THE GENTILES”
(THE GENTILE NATIONS)
ALL
PRAISES BE TO THE MOST HIGH YIHOVAH,
ELOHIM
OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB
PRAISE
HIS HOLY NAME
FOR
HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!!!
Hear,
O Israel: The LORD our God [is] one LORD:
(Deuteronomy
6:4)
“Now these [are] the generations of
the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after
the flood. The sons of Japheth; Gomer,
and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras. And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath,
and Togarmah. And the sons of Javan;
Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their
lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.” Genesis 10:1-5
The following description of “the
isles of the Gentiles” is taken from “The Table of Nations by Tim
Osterholm. The Gentiles are the
present-day Europeans (white people which also include the so-called jew).
Japheth. Also Diphath. Literal meanings
are opened, enlarged, fair or light (father of the
Caucasoid/Indo-Europoid, Indo-European, Indo-Germanic, or Indo-Aryan races
- Japhethites). Japheth is
the progenitor of seven sons:
Tubal - "brought" (sons
were Ariphi, Kesed and Taari) - also Tabal, Tabali, Tubalu, Tbilisi,
Tibarenoi, Tibareni, Tibar, Tibor, Sabir, Sapir, Sabarda, Subar, Subartu,
Thobal, Thobel, Tobol, Tobolsk (Georgians, Albanians, other related groups);
Gomer - "complete" (sons
were Ashkenaz, Riphath and Togarmah) - also Gamir, Gommer, Gomeri, Gomeria,
Gomery, Goth, Guth, Gutar, Götar, Gadelas, Galic, Gallic, Galicia, Galica,
Galatia, Gael, Getae, Galatae, Galatoi, Gaul, Galls, Goar, Celt, Celtae, Celticae,
Kelt, Keltoi, Gimmer, Gimmerai, Gimirra, Gimirrai, Gimirraya, Kimmer, Kimmeroi,
Kimirraa, Kumri, Umbri, Cimmer, Cimmeria, Cimbri, Cimbris, Crimea, Chomari,
Cymric, Cymry, Cymru, Cymbry, Cumber (Caledonians, Picts, Milesians,
Umbrians, Helvetians, Celts1, Galatians, Ostrogoths, Visigoths,
Goths, Vandals, Scandinavians, Jutes, Teutons, Franks, Burgundians, Alemanni,
Armenians, Germans2, Belgians, Dutch, Luxembourgers,
Liechensteiners, Austrians, Swiss, Angles, Saxons, Britons, English, Cornish,
Irish, Welsh, French, and other related groups)
Tiras - "desire" (sons
were Benib, Gera, Lupirion and Gilak) - also Tiracian, Thracian, Thirasian,
Thuras, Troas, Tros, Troia, Troi, Troy, Trajan, Trojan, Taunrus, Tyrsen,
Tyrrhena, Rasenna, Tursha, Tusci, Tuscany, Etruria, Etruschi, Etruscan,
Eturscan, Euskadi, Euskara (Basque7), Erul, Herul, Heruli,
Erilar, Vanir, Danir, Daner, Aesar, Aesir, Asir, Svear, Svea, Svie, Svioner,
Svenonian, Urmane, Norge (Pelasgians, Scandinavians8,
Varangians, Vikings, Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Icelandics, other related
groups)
Magog - "land of Gog" (sons were Elichanaf,
Lubal, Baath, Jobhath and Fathochta) - also Gog, Gogh, Jagog, Agag, Magug,
Magogae, Mugogh, Mat Gugi, Gugu, Gyges, Bedwig, Moghef, Magogian, Massagetae,
Dacae, Sacae, Scyth, Scythi, Scythii, Scythia, Scythae, Sythia, Scythes,
Skuthai, Skythai, Cathaia, Scythia, Skythia, Scynthia, Scynthius, Sclaveni,
Samartian, Scoloti, Skodiai, Scotti, Skoloti, Skoth-ai, Skoth, Skuthes, Skuth-a,
Askuza, Askuasa, Alani, Alans, Alanic, Ulan, Uhlan (Scythians, Scots,
Irish); also Rasapu, Rashu, Rukhs, Rukhs-As, Rhos, Ros, Rosh, Rox, Roxolani,
Rhoxolani, Ruskolan, Rosichi, Rhossi, Rusichi, Rus, Ruska, Rossiya, Rusian (Russians3,
Belarusians, Ukrainians); also Mas-ar, Mas-gar, Masgar, Mazar, Madj, Madjar,
Makr-on, Makar, Makaroi, Merkar, Magor, Magar, Magyar (Hungarians - also Hungar,
Hunugur, Hurri, Gurri, Onogur, Ugor, Ungar, Uhor, Venger); Finns, Lapps,
Estonians, Siberians, Yugoslavians, Croatians, Bosnians, Montenegrins,
Serbians, Slovenians, Slovakians, Bulgarians, Poles, Czechs, and other related
groups)
Javan - "miry" (sons were Elishah,
Tarshish, Kittim and Dodanim) - also Jevanim, Iewanim, Iawan, Iawon, Iamanu,
Iones, Ionians, Ellas, Ellines, El-li-ness, Hellas, Hellenes, Yavan, Yavanas,
Yawan, Yuban, Yauna, Uinivu, Xuthus (Grecians, Greeks, Elysians, Spartans,
Dorians, Britons5, Aeolians, Achaeans, Myceneans, Macedonians,
Carthaginians, Cyprians, Cretans, Latins, Venetians, Sicanians, Italics, Romans6,
Valentians, Sicilians, Italians, Spaniards, Portugese, other related groups)
Madai "middle land" (sons
were Achon, Zeelo, Chazoni and Lotalso) - also Mada, Amada, Madae, Madea,
Manda, Maday, Media, Madaean, Mata, Matiene, Mitani, Mitanni, Megala (Medes4,
Aryans, Persians, Parsa, Parsees, Achaemenians, Manneans, Caspians,
Kassites, Iranians, Kurds, Turks, East Indians, Romani, Pathans, Hazaras),
including the peoples of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Khazachstan,
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikstan and Kyrgyzstan, and other related groups
Meshech - "drawing out" (sons were Dedon,
Zaron and Shebashnialso) - Me'shech, Mes'ek, Meshekh, Meshwesh, Meskhi,
Mushch, Muschki, Mushki, Mishi, Muski, Mushku, Musku, Muskeva, Muska, Muskaa,
Muskai, Maskali, Machar, Maskouci, Mazakha, Mazaca, Massagatae, Mtskhetos,
Modar-es, Moskhi, Moshkhi, Mosah, Mosher, Moshch, Moschis, Mosoch, Moschi,
Moschian, Moshakian, Mo'skhoi, Moschoi, Mosochenu, Mosochean, Mossynes,
Mosynoeci, Moskva, Moscovy, Moscow (Muscovites, Latvians, Lithuanians,
Romanians, other related groups)
The Japhetic people are, in general, the peoples of India
and Europe (Indo-European stock), with which any demographer is familiar9.
1The whole Celtic race has been regarded as descended from
Gomer, though history suggests modern Celts are descended from both Gomer and
Magog. Archaeologists and ethnologists agree that the first Indo-European
group to spread across Europe were Celts. The Irish Celts claim to be to
the descendants of Magog, while the Welsh Celts claim to be to the descendants
of Gomer. Irish chronicles, genealogies, plus an extensive number of
manuscripts which have survived from ancient times, reveal their roots.
The Irish were descendants of Scythians, also known as Magogians, which is
strongly supported by etymological evidence. Archaeological evidence
shows that both the Celts (from Gomer) and Scythians (from Magog) freely shared
and mingled cultures at their earliest stages. Russian and eastern
European excavations plainly reveal the blending of these two groups.
Their geographical locations (what is now eastern Europe, southern Russia and
Asia Minor) were referred to by the Greeks under the name of Celto-Scythae, which
was populated by the Celts to the south and west, and the Scythians to the
north. The ancient Greeks first called the northern peoples by the
general name of Scythae; but when they became acquainted with the nations in
the west, they began to call them by the different names of Celts, including
the Celto-Scythae. Celts and Scythians were considered essentially the
same peoples, based on geography, though many independent tribes of Celts and
Scythians existed. The Latins called them "Galli," and the
Romans referred to them as "Gauls." Later names used by Greeks
were the Galatai or Galatae, Getae, Celtae and Keltoi. In the third
century before Christ (about 280 B.C.), the Gauls invaded Rome and were
ultimately repelled into Greece, where they migrated into the north-central
part of Asia Minor (Anatolia). Known as fiercely independent peoples,
they conquered the indigenous peoples of that region and established their own
independent kingdom. The land became known as Galatia.
Early Celtic tribes (from Gomer) settled much of the
European theater, including present-day Spain, France, England and Germany,
prior to contact with Scythians. For many centuries France was called
Gaul, after the Celtic descendants of Gomer, whom ceded the territory to Romans
and Germanic/Teutonic Franks (whence France) in the 4th century
A.D. Northwest Spain is called Galicia to this day. Some of the
Gomerites migrated further to what is now called Wales. The Welsh claim
their ancestors "first landed on the Isle of Britain from France, about
three hundred years after the flood." The Celtic language survives
intact today mainly in the two variants of Welsh and Irish/Scottish
Gaelic. The Welsh call their language Gomeraeg (after Gomer). The
Celts of today are descendants of Gomer, and of the blended tribes of Magog and
Gomer.
2Present-day Germanic people groups are descendants of both
Japheth and Shem, and there are several references from recent and ancient
history. Recent history records the descendants of Gomer migrated and
settled in the region that is now northern Europe (Germany and
Scandinavia). These tribes became the Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths,
Teutons and Burgundians, descendants of some of the first peoples to migrate to
northern Europe from ancient times—the Askaeni. The Askaeni were
descendants of Ashkenaz, son of Gomer, son of Japheth. When the Askaeni
arrived in northern Europe, they named the land Ascania after themselves, which
later translated Scandia, then Scandinavia. Later in history, we find the
Askaeni being referred to as Sakasenoi, which became Sachsen, and finally
Saxon. The Saxons played an large part in European and English
history. Ashkenaz has been one of the most well preserved names
throughout European history.
The earliest known name of the German language was called
"Diutisc," which later becomes Dietsch, Deutsch or
Deutsche (what Germans call themselves today). Deutschland (land of the
Deutsch) could be called Asshurland. The Romans referred to the Deutschen
as Teutons or Teutones. The Teutons were a tribe of Germans nearly
wiped out by Romans in the second century B.C.
The term "German" comes from Latin (Roman)
sources. The Assyrians occupied a Mesopotamian city on the lower Tigris River
called "Kir" and placed captive slaves there (also referenced in 2
Kings 16:9, Isaiah 22:5-6, Amos 1:5, 9:7). The city was populated by the
Assyrians for many years, and the inhabitants became known as
"Kir-man." The Assyrians (Kerman) were driven from their land
shortly after their fall about 610 B.C. They migrated into central Europe
where they were called "German" or "Germanni," a general
name used by the Romans to represent all Assyrian tribes. The known
Assyrian tribes were the Khatti (also Hatti, Hessians)—Chatti is still the
Hebrew term for German, and Khatti was also used by the Romans to represent
various Germanic tribes; the Akkadians (Latins called them Quadians); the
Kassites (or Cossaei); and the Almani (or Halmani, Allemani was the Latin
name). Almani or Almain were historical terms for Germans living in
southern Germany.
3Ancient peoples known as the Sarmatians (not to be confused
with the Samaritans) and Alans lived in the area around the Caspian Sea from
about 900 B.C. Sarmatian and Alani tribes were later called Scythians
(Slavs of today), who were also known as the Rukhs-As, Rashu, Rasapu, Rosh,
Ros, and Rus. There is no debate that they were the inhabitants of
southern Russia, and the existence of the names of rivers, such as the
"Ros," refer to Rus populations. Much later, about 739 A.D.,
the word Rus appears again in eastern Europe, interestingly, from a different
source. Finnish peoples referred to Swedes as "Ruotsi,"
"Rotsi" or "Rus" in contrast with Slavic peoples, which was
derived from the name of the Swedish maritime district in Uppland,
"Roslagen," and its inhabitants, called "Rodskarlar."
Rodskarlar or Rothskarlar meant "rowers" or "seamen."
Those Swedish conquerers (called Varangians [Vikings] by the Slavs),
settled in eastern Europe, adopted the names of local tribes, integrated with
the Slavs, and eventually the word "Rusi," "Rhos" or
"Rus" came to refer to the inhabitants. Russia means "land
of the Rus." Scholars continue to debate the origin of the word Rus,
which has derived from two sources: the Ruotsi or Rhos, the
Finnish names for the Swedes, and earlier from the Scythians known as Rashu
or Rosh in southern Russia.
4The Aryans first come into historical view about a thousand
years before Christ, invading India and threatening Babylonia. Historians
of old reference an Aryan chief called Cyaxeres, king of the Medes and
Persians. The Medes and Persians seem to have been tribes of one nation,
more or less united under the rule of Cyaxeres. Elam (son of Shem) is the
ancient name for Persia. Elamites are synonymous with Persians. The
Persians are thus descended from both Elam, the son of Shem, and from Madai,
the son of Japheth. The Medes and Persians had settled in what is now
modern Persia, the Medes in the north, the Persians in the south. The
most notable Persians of today are the Iranians. Interestingly, the word Iran
is a derivative of Aryan. The Medo-Persian people groups are
divided into hundreds of clans, some sedentary and others nomadic. All
speak Indo-European languages, and some groups have pronounced Mongoloid
physical characteristics and cultural traits, derived from Mongolian invasions
and subsequent cultural integration. An example today would be the Uzbeks
of Uzbekistan, and remnant groups living in Afghanistan and parts of Central
Asia.
5 The history of Britain can be traced back to the sons of
Japheth. Historical evidence strongly suggests the first inhabitants of
the British isles were the descendants of Javan (from his sons Elishah and
Tarshish), and of Gomer and Magog. Gomerites are today's modern
Welsh. Traditional Welsh belief is that the descendants of Gomer arrived
about three hundred years after the flood, and the Welsh language was once
called Gomeraeg. The Welsh (Celts) are thought to have created Stonehenge.
Additionally, the descendants of Tarshish (Elishah's brother) apprear to have
settled on the British Isles in various migrations about the same time.
Genesis 10:4 refers to Tarshish as those of "the isles of the
Gentiles." The Phoenicians traded silver, iron, tin and lead with
them (Ezekiel 27:7,12), and even mention the incredible stone monuments at
Stonehenge. Around 450 B.C., ancient historian Herodotus wrote about
shipments of tin coming from the "Tin Isles" far to the north and
west. There is no question that the British isles, including the northern
coast of Spain, were the seat of the tin trade. King Solomon acquired
precious metals from Tarshish (1 Kings 10:22). English historians assert
that British mines mainly supplied the glorious adornment of Solomon's Temple,
and in those days the mines of southwestern Britain were the source of the
world's supply of tin.
The name Briton originated from Brutus (a descendant
of Elishah), the first king on Britain's mainland, arriving about 1100
B.C. Two sons of Brutus, Kamber and Albanactus, are
referenced in English pre-history. From Kamber came Cambaria and the Cambrians
(who integrated with the Gomerites [mostly Celts] and became the present-day Welsh).
The descendants of Albanactus were known as the Albans (or the Albanach
whom the Irish commonly called them). Geographers would later call the
land Albion. The Britons, Cambrians and Albans populated the
British Isles, which later endured multiple invasions, beginning with
successive waves of Celts about 700 B.C. The Celts (or Gaels)
called the land Prydain, their name for Briton. Those Celts
(descendants of Gomer) integrated with the descendants of Elishah and Tarshish
(sons of Javan), creating what some scholars called "a Celticized
aboriginal population" in the British Isles. Some of the invading
people groups were Scythians, descended from Magog, who became known as the
Skoths or Scots. The name for the Celts or Cymru was "Weahlas,"
from Anglo-Saxon origins, meaning "land of foreigners"—Wales.
The Welsh still call themselves Cymru, pronounced "Coomry."
Later the Romans referred to the land as Britannia, invading there about
50 years before the birth of Christ. By the third century A.D., Jutes,
Franks, Picts, Moors, Angles, Saxons and other groups were invading from
surrounding Europe. In the sixth century A.D., Saxons called the land
Kemr (Cymru), and the language Brithenig (Breton). The Angles
eventually conquered Britannia, renaming the territory Angleland, which
became England. Vikings invaded in the 9th century, and the
Normans (or Northmen—former Danish Vikings) conquered England in 1066.
Today, the British isles are settled by the ancestors of those people groups,
which included Gomer and Javan (first inhabitants), plus Magog (later invasions
by various people groups).
6What of Romans and pre-Roman peoples? Migrating
nomadic peoples came from across the Alps and across the Adriatic Sea to the
east of the Italian peninsula. They were primarily herdsmen, and were
technologically advanced. They worked bronze, used horses, and had
wheeled carts. They were a war-like people and began to settle the
mountainous areas of the Italian peninsula. Historians called these
people Italic, and they include several ethnic groups: the
Sabines, the Umbrians and the Latins, amongst others. Rome was, in part,
founded by these agrarian Italic peoples living south of the Tiber river.
They were a tribal people, and thus tribal organization dominated Roman society
in both its early and late histories.
The date of the founding of Rome is uncertain, but
archaeologists estimate its founding to around 753 B.C., although it existed as
a village or group of villages long before then. As the Romans steadily
developed their city, government and culture, they imitated the neighboring
civilization to the north, the Etruscans (former Trojans). Romans are
sometimes referred to as "Etruscanized Latins." Roman legend
states that Aeneas, founder of the Roman race, was a prince of Troy who was
forced to flee that city at the close of the Trojan war against Greece.
Rome's founder, Romulus, had a latinized Etruscan name. The Etruscans
dominated central Italy, and had already founded many cities, having arrived
some 500 years earlier after leaving the city of Troy around 1260 B.C.
The Etruscans were greatly influenced by the Greeks, and the Etruscans brought
that influence to the city of Rome. The Romans called Etruscans the Tusci,
and Tuscany still bears the name. The Etruscan language, once thought
lost, is still spoken by the Basques, called Euskara. The first
two centuries of Rome's growth was dominated by the Etruscans. The Romans
were first a subject people of the Etruscans, but the Romans would later be
their conquerors. After many battles with the Etruscans, the city of Rome
identified itself as Latin, eventually integrating the Estruscans and remaining
peoples in the region. Rome became a kingdom, then an empire.
7The Etruscans are controversial in history. Their
language, culture, and apparent departure from history are debated amongst
scholars. Descendants of Tiras, the Etruscans did not disappear entirely
from history. Their language and people, though a remnant, are the Basques
of today. Though the Basques mixed with local populations over the past
few millennia, their language didn't die. A number of scholars consider
Euskara (Basque language) the closest living relative to ancient
Etruscan. Euskara is an isolate language, meaning it did not descend from
an ancestor common to any other language family known today. The original
Etruscan language (from ancient Etruscans in northwestern Italy) is thought to
be an extinct isolate language, and there is agreement that the current Euskara
language was already present in Western Europe before the arrival of other
Indo-European languages. Another interesting connection is to Georgian
(language of Georgians in southern Russia), each of which have linguistic
commonalities, prompting scholars to hypothesize Euskara has a relationship to
a lost Eurasian superfamily of languages. This further supports the
suggestion that Etruscans were originally Trojans. After a succession of
wars with the Greeks, around 1260 B.C. thousands of Trojans (speaking an
ancient Thracian language) resettled abroad, which included Trojan warriors and
families who sailed across the Black Sea to the Caucasus region in southern
Russia, and also those who sailed to present-day northwest Italy. Their
descendants, the Basques, would eventually migrate into what is present-day
southeast France and northeast Spain.
DNA (R1b Y-DNA haplogroup) findings also support a
connection between Basques and peoples of Georgia. Haplogroups (i.e.,
R1b) are used in DNA tests for markers that give a broad or regional picture;
haplotypes are one person's results on various DNA tests. Y-DNA is the
theoretical most recent common male-lineage. The greatest concentration
of the R1b haplogroup maps found a heightened incidence in the Basque region of
Spain and in the region east of the Black Sea in southern Russia
(present-day Georgia). Both DNA research and language commonalities
provide a link to the history of the Basques, and thus the Etruscans.
8Scandinavian predecessors have a unique history.
Scholars agree that Scandinavians (Danes, Norwegians, Swedes) came from early
Germanic people groups, including the Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths, Teutons and
Burgundians (descendants of Gomer). Ashkenaz, son of Gomer, is ancestor
of those Germanic peoples. The descendants of Ashkenaz have many
historical references. Known as the Askaeni, they were some of the first
peoples to migrate to northern Europe, naming the land Ascania. Latin
writers and Greeks called the land Scandza or Scandia (now Scandinavia).
Roman records describe a large city on the southern shore of the Caspian Sea
(about 350 A.D.) where a chain of mountains begins, and runs eastward along the
shore and beyond it, forming a natural boundary. Those mountains were
called the Ascanimians, the region was called Sakasene (a form of
Ashkenaz), and the dwellers of the city were the Saki. The Saki
tribes had been migrating north to Europe for some time. The Saki called
themselves the Sakasenoi, which we know as the Sachsens or Saxons.
Around 280 A.D. the Romans tell of the employment of Saxons to guard the
eastern British coasts against barbarians. About 565 A.D., the Saxons
battled over territory in the Baltic region with another powerful people, the Svear.
Historical records indicate that descendants of Tiras also settled in
Scandinavia, a people called the Svear. The Svear are descendants of the
first inhabitants of the ancient city of Troy, a people then known as the
Tiracians (also Thracians, Trajans or Trojans). They were described as a
"ruddy and blue-eyed people." The city of Troy was destroyed
around 1260 B.C. after a succession of wars with the Greeks. Thousands of
Trojans resettled abroad, which included Trojan warriors who sailed across the
Black Sea to the Caucasus region in southern Russia. One of the most
documented of Trojan settlements is along the mouth of the River Don on the
Black Sea. The locals (Scythians) named those Trojan settlers the
"Aes," meaning "Iron" for their superior weaponry.
Later, the inner part of the Black Sea was named after them, called the
"Iron Sea" or "Sea of Aesov" in the local tongue.
Today, the name continues as the "Sea of Azov."
The Aes or Aesir, traveled from the Caucasus region
to the Baltic Sea in Scandinavia around 90 B.C., which is supported by
scholars, modern archaeological evidence, and DNA. A tribe that migrated
with them were the Vanir. The Aesir clans traded with local Germanic
tribes, including the Gutar. Romans called the Gutar "Goths,"
the Aesir "Svear"—Swedes, and the Vanir
"Danir/Daner"—Danes. The Svear and Daner populations were
described specifically as taller and fairer (blonde) than other people groups
in the Baltic region. The Svear population flourished, and with the Goths
they formed a powerful military alliance of well-known seafarers. The
Romans noted that Svear people together with the Goths were, from the 3rd
century A.D., ravaging the Black Sea, Asia Minor and the Mediterranean, using
the same type of weapons as their Trojan ancestors. The Svear and Goths
dominated the Russian waterways, and by 739 A.D. together they were called Varyagans
or Varangians (from the Swedish Vaeringar), according to written
records of the Slavs near the Sea of Azov. Like their ancestors,
Scandinavians lived in large communities where their chieftains would send out
maritime warriors to trade and plunder. Those fierce warriors were called
the Vaeringar, which literally meant "men who offer their service
to another master." We later know them by their popularized name,
the Vikings. Further evidence of Aesir (Asir) settlements in the
Baltic region came from their Thracian language, which not only influenced, but
is very close to the Baltic and Slavic (Balto-Slavic) languages of today.
By the 9th century A.D., the Svear state had emerged as the major power in
Scandinavia. The Svear, Daner and Goths, along with other Germanic
tribes, settled in what is now present-day Sweden, Norway, Denmark and other
parts of the Baltic region. They were forefathers of the Scandinavians—the
descendants of both Gomer and Tiras. Y-DNA (the most recent common
male-lineage) in Scandinavians was found to be grouped with the Basques
mentioned above.
9Early history shows the Japhethites
split into two groups. One group settled in the region of present-day
India and Central Asia, and the other group in the European theater.
Indo-European languages originate from those people groups who migrated
throughout western Eurasia (Europe, the Near East, Anatolia, and the Caucasus).
Together they form what is known as the "Indo-European" family of
nations. Both of these divisions trace their ancestry back to
Japheth. For example, early Aryans knew him as Djapatischta (chief of
the race), Greeks referred to Japheth as Iapetos or Japetos, East
Indians called him Jyapeti or Pra-Japati, Romans used Ju-Pater
or Jupiter, the Saxons perpetuated his name as Iafeth,
subsequently transliterated as Sceaf (pronounced "sheef" or
"shaif"—and recorded his name in their early genealogies as the son
of Noah, the forebear of their various peoples), and the variant Seskef
was used by early Scandinavians. All of these peoples, we must remember,
were pagans whose knowledge or even awareness of the book of Genesis had been
lost, or was non-existent.
Make no mistake about it; a jew is
not a “Shemite” but rather Japhetic.
There is a reason why the majority of the present day jews in the world
today are Ashkenazi jews.
Rosh
Chodesh !!!
ALL
PRAISES BE TO THE MOST HIGH YIHOVAH,
ELOHIM
OF ABRAHAM, ISSAC, AND JACOB!
PRAISE
HIS HOLY NAME
FOR
HE IS WORTHY TO BE PRAISED!!!
Halleluyah!!
Halleluyah!! Halleluyah!!
Shalom
and Shalom,
Yehudah
ben Yacob,
President
The
LawKeepers Co.
*****
Tribute to the New Moon Revised:
The
service of this solar/lunar calendar of TORAH READINGS is by definition using the “LIGHTS” of the sun and
moon, according to Genesis 1:14, to number the “days” of each month. And the dark phases of the moon cooperatively
and conveniently provide a break between the months. If there were no dark phases of the moon, we
would have a tough time determining when
one month ended and when another would begin.
Hence, because the Commandment is to use the “Lights” in the Heavens for
“Signs” for seasons, days, and years, the New Moon Crescent is what provides us
with our first lights of each new month and these lights continue waxing and
waning until they are diminished to the dark phases. And then in two to three days, the New Moon
Crescent reappears again starting the First Day of another new month.
Realizing
that even some Israelites use the dark phase of the moon to call the new month,
I would like to add one obvious fact. By definition, there can only be a “New Moon,”
per se, after the dark phase interval and when the New Moon Crescent reappears,
thus, we understand the concept of having a “New” moon.
If the
dark phase of the moon begins the First Day of the month, then when the New
Moon Crescent is “Sighted” that could approximately be as far into the month as
the Fourth Day, i.e., the appearance of the “Light” in the Heavens could
possibly fall on the Fourth Day. It
makes no sense to start to count the first dark phase of the moon as being the
First Day of the month, as this process disregards the use of the “Light” in
the Heavens to determine our “days,” as we are Commanded to do in Genesis
1:14. Consider what King David said in I
Samuel 20:24: “…when the New Moon was
come…” He had to be speaking
about the New Moon Crescent, as we are unable to “Sight” the appearance of the
dark phase or rather see it “come.”
It’s
the absence of seeing the moon for forty-eight or more hours that enables us to
identify the approaching Crescent “Sign” in the Heavens (mentioned in Genesis
1:14) that recognizes the moon as being “New.” And upon “Sighting” this “New” Crescent” we
distinguish it as being the “New Moon” and the time of the New Month, as well.
PLEASE
NOTE: The Hebrew New Year is also determined
by the “LIGHTS” in the Heavens and not by the “sighting of barley,” as some
Black Hebrew Israelites and European “Jews” advocate.
***
“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make,
shall remain before me, saith the LORD,
so shall your seed and your name remain.
“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another,
and from one sabbath to another,
shall all flesh come to worship before me,
saith the LORD.”
Isaiah 66:22,23
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BY LOOKING IN THE “WEST” JUST ABOVE THE HORIZON.
“He appointed the moon for seasons…”
Psalm 104:19
The
first “Sign” in the Heavens to provide the start of days, years and “seasons”
can only begin with the “Sighting” of the New Moon Crescent - that which we can
“see” in order for it to serve as a “Sign” and enable us to begin counting our
days and months. Just imagine not being
able to “see” the moon at all. How then
could it be appointed for a “Sign” or for “seasons”?
“The
natural thought might be that the moon is like a living being. It is born, grows, reaches maximum size, then
fades and dies, going through all these stages in one month. Even today, we still talk of the thin
crescent in the western sky as a new moon and the thin crescent
in the eastern sky a month later as the old moon. Half way between is the full moon. As I explained earlier, this cycle of phases
of the moon established the month as a unit of time, and the first calendars
were based on this.” ISAAC ASIMOV’S
GUIDE TO EARTH AND SPACE, pages 79 and 80
In that
the King of Israel is supposed to be a “Righteous Judge” (II Chronicles
1:11), it stands to reason that he is also supposed to be a “Righteous Role
Model.” Thus, if the King that GOD
appoints over Israel observes a “feast” on the day of the New Moon, then
wisdom tells the Nation of Israel to do likewise. King Saul and the anointed David observed
this service (I Samuel 20th Chapter).
To
their and our hurt our forefathers worshipped all manner of symbols: the sun, moon, stars, and images of gold and
silver. To observe the “Sign” in the
heavens as being the New Moon “Sighting” is NOT worshipping the moon, but
rather it is doing as we are COMMANDED in Genesis 1:14:
“And
God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide
the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for
days, and years:”
Some
people feel that the moon has no “light,” but according to GOD’s WORD to HIS
Prophets, it most certainly does: Isaiah 13:10; Isaiah
30:26; Jeremiah 31:35; Ezekiel 32:7.
***
“Sing aloud unto God our strength:
make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
“Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the
psaltery.
“Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed,
on our solemn feast day.
“For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.”
Psalm 81:1 – 4
(A Psalm of Asaph, the Seer –
one who should be well informed about GOD’s Ways)
“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in
the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt
offerings,
and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you
for a memorial before your God: I am
the LORD your God.”
Numbers 10:10
Contrary to the belief of some Israelites, the moon does indeed shine