COMPENDIUM OF WORLD HISTORY - Vol. 2 - Herman Hoeh PDF
COMPENDIUM OF WORLD HISTORY - Vol. 2 - Herman Hoeh PDF
COMPENDIUM OF WORLD HISTORY - Vol. 2 - Herman Hoeh PDF
VOLUME 2
A Dissertation
Presented to
The Faculty of the Ambassador College
Graduate School of Education
In Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements for the Degree
Doctor of Philosophy
by
Herman L. Hoeh
1963
1966, 1969 Edition
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter I
Early History of Germany
Antiquity of the German Reich
Germans Shape World Affairs
The Answer Found
Did the Assyrians Invade Europe?
What Did Assyrians Look Like?
Why Germans Call Themselves "Deutschen"
What Language Did They Speak?
Semitic by Race, Not Language
Chapter II
The Ancient Kings of the Germans
The Early Settlers of Europe
Kings of Ancient Germany
Chapter III
Abraham in Early European History
Chapter IX
Italy, Home of Pagan Religion
Italy in the Ancient World
What Italian History Reveals
The History of Etruria
The History of the Latins
Chapter X
The Story of the Peruvian Indians
Modern Scholarship Discarded the Facts
What Archaeologists Found
Illustration from Burma
The Inca Rulers
Chapter XI
Ancient Persia and Turkestan
Early Kings of Persia
The Second Race
The First Race
Turkestan, Turks and Mongols
Ogus Khan
The History of Armenia
Chapter XII
Trojan Migration to France
Trojan Kings of Isauria
Trojan Kings of Sicambria and Pannonia
Kings of Agrippina
Princes of Brabant
Dukes of Brabant
Kings of Frisia
Dukes of Frisia
Second Group of Kings of Frisia
Trojan Kings of the Belgians
Kings of the Celts in Gaul
Chapter XII A
Further Migrations to France
Sicambrian Kings
The Kings of the Franks
Dukes of the East Franks
The Hapsburgs Enter
The Dukes of Gaul
Kings of France
In Retrospect
Chapter XIII
History of Sweden and the Saxons
Karkota Dynasty
The Dynasty of Utpala
First Lohara Dynasty
Second Lohara Dynasty
INTRODUCTION
The first volume of the COMPENDIUM OF WORLD HISTORY exposed the radical
new interpretation of history now taught on all levels of modern education. It revealed the
fallacy of the "historical method." It explained WHY God is left out of history.
Volume I restored the history of ancient Egypt, of Assyria and Babylonia, of Media and
India, of Greece, Ireland and Britain. This volume completes that restoration. For the first
time, in this second volume, the early history of Europe will be made plain. Its
connection with the New World, with American Indian civilization, with the early
Biblical heroes is an astounding revelation.
CHAPTER I
EARLY HISTORY OF GERMANY
The time has come to reveal the true history of Europe.
The Germans for centuries have dominated the heartland of Western Europe. Because of
the geographic position Germany's transportation lines constitute the vital arteries of the
continent. Without the beating of the German heart, Europe would lose its economic and
political prominence in world affairs.
Ancient Roman writers would have us believe that the Germans in the Roman heyday
were mere barbarians, an insignificant people roaming the forests of northern Europe.
Was this Roman report the whole truth? Were the ancient Roman writers keeping back
from their people the facts of German history?
Rome conquered Spain, Gaul, Southern Britain, all North Africa to the Sahara, Illyria,
Greece, Asia to the Euphrates. But Rome had to draw its boundary in the north along the
Rhine. Why? Why was Rome not able to subdue all Germany? Why, after centuries of
bloodshed, did Rome finally succumb to the hammer blows of the Germanic Goths and
Vandals? It is high time we were told the true history of early Germany.
The origin of the German people in Europe is rooted in patriarchal times. The history of
early Germany, suppressed by the Romans, was revived briefly in the German-dominated
Middle Ages. But before the close of the seventeenth century not even the Germans
remembered their past. It had been stamped out in the name of education and religion.
But not all was lost. From early documents and local traditions it is still possible to
recover what has, in recent centuries, been buried under the rubble of modern educational
superstition. The Germans themselves are in great part responsible for this condition.
They fostered modern historical concepts. They have tried to hide their past even from
themselves -- just as they did at the close of the Hitler era. If the Germans admitted to
themselves and the world who they really are, all the world would recognize in Imperial
Germany the reconstituted Assyrian Empire -- once the terror of all the civilized world!
to put down the American Revolution which began in 1776. The Hessians were known to
Roman historians by the tribal name "Hatti." Other Germans bore the names "Alemani"
"Suabi," and "Quadi," the "Casuri." The Romans called them collectively Germani,
meaning "War-men" (from the "Encyclopedia Britannica", article, "Germany").
But from where did all these Germanic people come?
Here is the answer of history: "There can be no doubt that they Black and Caspian seas,"
states "Smith's Classical Dictionary", article, "Germania," p. 361. Ancient historical
records confirm this admission.
The Germans can be traced in historical records to the regions surrounding the Black and
Caspian seas, which border on the ancient Biblical Mesopotamia. This is the region
where civilization commenced and from where the patriarchs came!
Only 300 years before Jerome, the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder declared the
"Assyriani" -- the Assyrians -- were dwelling north of the Black Sea ("Natural History",
IV, 12, page 183). But the Assyrians did not remain there. They are not there today. of
course not -- they migrated into Central Europe -- where the Germans live today!
So noted an Assyriologist as Sydney Smith admitted "... that the documents from Asia
Minor and from east of Tigris are couched in Semitic dialects spoken by men unable to
pronounce all the Semitic consonants ..." (p. xi, from "Early History of Assyria to 1000
B.C.").
The same circumstance occurred during the Middle Ages all over Europe. The language
of almost all European scholars -- and even their names -- until the time of the Protestant
Reformation was Latin -- but Latin was not the common tongue of the people! Because
most of the literature of Germany was in Latin during the Middle Ages does not prove
that the common people spoke Latin.
CHAPTER II
THE ANCIENT KINGS OF THE GERMANS
The settlement of the Assyrians and related peoples in early Europe is summarized by
several writers in the early Middle Ages. The list of the early kings presented here is from
the "Bayerische Chronik" and "Deutsche Chronik" by Johannes Turmair, Abensberg,
1526.
The traditional events assigned to each ancient German ruler are confirmed by both
archaeological evidence and the fragmentary comments of classical historians.
The "Bayerische Chronik" is very important for the history of Central Europe. It proves
that German history was correctly preserved in song and poetry and in contemporary
written records down to Roman times. It further proves that the length of time from the
Flood to Roman times was accurately preserved except for an overlooked 24 years. This
period was the 24 years from Abram's year 75 to his year 99. The later chroniclers, who
placed in parallel German and Hebrew history, universally reckoned the 430 years from
the Covenant that was confirmed with Abraham to Sinai as beginning when Abram was
75 years old, instead of 99. They therefore placed the Flood 24 years too late in history.
The German chronicles that were the basis of Turmair's work placed the Flood 131 years
before the coming of the German patriarch Tuisto into Europe. They should have
reckoned 131 plus 24 -- that is, 155 years. With this one exception, all dates from Tuisto
down to the burning of Rome in 390 B.C. need no correction. All that is necessary is to
add the separate lengths of reign. There are no missing lengths of reign.
German history commences with an extensive settlement of farmers in Europe from the
Don River to the Rhine. The date of this migration into Europe from Mesopotamia and
the Near East is placed at 2214 B.C. by German history -- just 155 years after the Flood
and 40 years after the Tower of Babel.
Early Rulers of
Assyria and Babylon
Lengths of Reign
56
Dates
2194-2138
55
2138-2083
52
2100-2048
Semiramis or Ishtar
42
2048-2006
38
2006-1968
5. Tibiscus, late Latin spelling of Tiobo, an settled on the river Theiss or Tibiscus;
descendants migrated into Germany (see
Italian spelling of Jobab (Gen. 10:29)
"Encyclopedia Britannica", article
"Archaeology")
6. Moesa, Mash (Gen. 10:23)
10. Jader, Jerah (v .26), his descendants also founded the port called Jaderia Colonia in
settled in Arabia
Illyria
11. Albanus or Albion, Abimael (v. 28)
settled Pannonia
settled Istria; Hister means same in IndoEuropean tongues that Joktan does in
Hebrew -- water course (Rawlinson,
"Ancient History")
21. Eber
The white descendants of the following patriarchs also colonized parts of Europe:
23. Arcadius, father of the Arkites (Gen.
10:17)
colonized Thrace
his descencants mixed with the Goths -whence Jews who settled in Central Europe
acquired name of Ashkenazim
Lengths of Reign
Dates
176
2214-2038
(236)
(2214-1978)
72
1978-1906
(66)
(1978-1912)
36
1906-1870
(40)
(1912-1872)
50
1870-1820
(52)
(1872-1820)
63
1820-1757
46
1757-1711
44
1711-1667
46
1667-1621
41
1621-1580
the Vandals.
10. Deuto
27
1580-1553
64
1553-1489
60
1489-1429
52
1429-1377
49
1377-1328
51
1328-1277
53
1277-1224
38
1224-1186
31
1186-1155
41
1155-1114
58
1114-1056
50
1056-1006
60
1006-946
62
946-884
70
884-814
100
814-714
70
714-644
55
644-589
110
589-479
80
479-399
38
399-361
year.
31. Schirm
361-263
85
279-194
no length given
194-172
45
172-127
27
127-100
30
100-70
20
70-50
10
50-40
circa 40-13
In 13 B.C. Augustus made an attack against the Germans on the Danube. Later he settled
40,000 Westphalians, Hessians and Schwaben on the west bank of the Rhine.
Virtual anarchy now began to reign among the German tribes. There were anti-Roman
and pro-Roman factions and these split whole tribes and even families. The ruling
families soon killed each other off in family feuds and inter-tribal warfare.
The royal house that next dominated Germany came from the Sicambrian Franks. Their
history appears later in the "Compendium", chapter XII A.
CHAPTER III
ABRAHAM IN EARLY EUROPEAN HISTORY
For centuries students have been taught that Europe was one of late areas of the world to
become civilized. Educational tradition would have us believe that Egyptians were
erecting mighty temples of stone, had wide astronomical knowledge, knew how to write,
thousands of years before Western Europe came to the threshold of civilization.
While Egyptians and Babylonians were arrayed in gorgeous robes and painted with
cosmetics, historians would have Europe's forests sparcely populated with naked white
savages. Europe's dominant place in world affairs is, we are told, a relatively new
phenomenon.
Nothing could be further from the truth!
It was now 1942 -- three years after Abram fled. Abram, according to the Chronicle, took
Achaim and Susanna and went to the land of Judeisapta -- "the Jews' land" -- Palestine,
according to the Bible. (The later scribes who copied the Austrian Chronicle assumed it
was the Danube Valley because Jews were later settled there also.) From Palestine
Abraham sent away eastward to Assyria Susanna and Achaim (in Isaac's second year).
From there they journeyed to the Danubian settlement Abram made years before. The
previous chapter revealed that the Danubian Valley was then under Assyrian hegemony.
The following sequence of landgraves and dukes is taken from the standard text of the
"Oesterreichische Chronik" -- the Austrian Chronicle. Variations in spelling are at times
included. The lengths of reign and dates are in every case those of the Chronicle, which
correctly preserves the chronology beginning three years before the call of Abram.
Rulers
Lengths of Reign
Dates
Abraham
30
1945-1915
19
1915-1896
45
1896-1851
45
1851-1806
1806-1803
49
1803-1754
(6 months)
(1754)
52
1754-1702
32
1702-1670
(3 months)
(1670)
51
1670-1619
1619-1618
(14 days)
(1618)
(6 months)
(1618)
61
1618-1557
67
1557-1490
(1 1/2 months)
(1490)
43
1490-1447
57
1447-1390
57
1390-1333
40
1333-1293
61
1293-1232
49
1232-1183
59
1183-1124
38
1124-1086
46
1086-1040
55
1040-985
67
985-918
51
918-867
(6 months)
(867)
54
867-813
57
813-756
(3 months)
(756)
48
756-708
After the death of Peyman and Lanna, who had both been heathen, the "Oesterreichische
Chronik" records that the whole country accepted the Jewish faith! The next chapter
reveals how and why it happened!
CHAPTER IV
JEWS GAIN POWER IN DANUBE CIVILIZATION
How did this unique influence of the Jews in Eastern Europe begin?
Scholars and historians -- many of them Jews -- have puzzled over the presence of the
huge Jewish population in Eastern Europe. There is no recorded evidence that they
migrated from Babylon after the Babylonian captivity. Nor are they the descendants from
the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus in A.D. 70.
Who, then, brought the Jews into Eastern Europe seven centuries before the birth of
Jesus.
The answer has been in the Bible all these years! It is found in II Kings 18:13-16. "Now
in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against
all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the
king of Assyria to Lachish, saying: 'I have offended; return from me; that which thou
puttest on me will I bear.' And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah
three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. And Hezekiah gave him all the
silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house. At
that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and
from the door-posts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king
of Assyria." A parallel account may be read in either II Chronicles 32 or Isaiah 36.
Notice the dates of this event -- the fourteenth year of Hezekiah -- 711-710. Sennacherib
was at this time associated with his father on the throne of Assyria. A vigorous general,
he captured all the fortified cities of Judah except Jerusalem, enslaved the inhabitants.
Where he carried them had been unknown to historians. But the answer is preserved for
us in the "Austrian Chronicle". He carried them into Eastern Europe along the Danube
River. But how could an Assyrian king of Nineveh plant tens of thousands of Jewish
captives in Europe? -- because Central Europe was then part of the Assyrian Empire.
Lengths of
Reign
Dates
708-704
61
704-643
57
643-586
45
586-541
15
541-526
40
526-486
57
486-429
45
429-384
54
384-330
39
330-291
57
291-234
(6 months)
49
234-185
52
185-133
32
133-101
53
101- 48
41
48- 7
2 1/2
7- 5
(234)
51
5 B.C. to 47
A.D.
34
47- 81
42
81-123
52
123-175
51
175-226
Manton
45
226-271
In his time heathen from Hungary and other lands forced Manton to become a heathen
and to pray to images. "He called himself Manton, a Heathen." He married a heathen
duchess from Hungary, named Signa. They had two sons, Natan (Mathan) and Reptan.
Reptan died young and unmarried.
51
271-322
41
322-363
32
363-395
51
395-446
51
446-497
The Romans established Amman, a noble count, in Corrodancia. He secretly believed and
practiced Catholicism.
Amman, changed the name of the land from Corrodancia
to Avara. He brought along his wife Helena, a secret
Christian. Later known as "St. Amman" and "St.
Helena," they converted much of the population. When
the Romans found it out they slew Amman and many of
the people, but not Helena. They had three sons,
Johanns, Albrecht, and Dietreich. A11 three became
dukes of Avara and changed the name to Osterland.
They split the land and Johanns became the chief over
his two brothers.
43
497-540
32
540-572
31
572-603
32
603-635
30
635-665
18
665-683
50
683-733
49
733-782
32
782-814
49
814-863
31
863-894
28
894-922
42
922-964
28
964-992
28
992-1020
1 1/2
1020-1021
In 976 the chief authority in Austria had passed to the House of Babenberg. The powerful
rule of the Babenbergs -- and the interrelationships of the royal families -- may be found
in any thorough English or German history of Austria. The Babenbergs became extinct in
1246. Thereafter the realm passed into the hands of the famous Hapsburgs.
With this the history of early southeastern Europe, which began in the days of Abraham,
closes.
CHAPTER V
THE CONQUESTS OF ODIN AND DANISH HISTORY
Many a school boy has heard of Odin, the great Norse hero. But how many realize that
Odin was a real king of Denmark? That he founded the kingdom of Denmark in the days
of David, king of Israel? That he visited Solomon's temple? of that Odin was the first
Danish king to cross the Atlantic -- as did Danish Vikings centuries later?
For centuries Danes revered the history of their nation. Not until the atheistic educational
philosophy of German schools permeated their country did the Danes discard the early
history of their nation. Modern historians, imbued with the idea that myth was the only
form in which early man knew how to write, treat all Danish history as myth. They have
never investigated to see whether it were so. of course myth was grafted in the Middle
Ages on the early history of Denmark. That tragedy befell all nations under the sway of
religious superstition in the Middle Ages.
But that does not prove that the essential core of early Danish history is invalid. Today
historians labor under the delusion that history was artificially created after traditional
mythology had long been established. Not so. Recorded and traditional history around the
world was carefully preserved in palaces and royal libraries. Only later did myth embrace
history,
Eighth in descent from Priam was Seskef, who was Danus I or Odin (Votan), first king of
Denmark -- 1040-999. Odin was a Hebrew, of the line of Judah, from whom the chief
rulers were to come. "For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief
ruler" (I Chron. 5:2).
Now consider over whom Odin ruled in Northwest Europe.
A fragmentary Welsh record, called the Welsh Triad, reads as follows: "First was the race
of the Cymry, who came with Hu Gadarn to Ynys Prydain." Hu came from "the land of
summer" -- a land located somewhere in what later constituted the realm of
Constantinople (the capital of the eastern Roman Empire). He journeyed to Ynys Pridain
-- the Welsh name of the Isle of Britain. This first major settlement preceded the
migration in 1149 of Brutus of Troy to Britain.
Who was Hu Gadarn? Gadarn is a Welsh word. It means the "Mighty." Hu was a short
form of the Old Celtic name Hesus ("Origines Celticae", by Edwin Guest, vol. 2, p. 9).
Hesus is the Celtic -- and also the Spanish -- pronunciation of Jesus. Was there a famous
"Jesus" who lived in the balmy summerland of the eastern Mediterranean centuries before
the time of Jesus the Christ? Most certainly! It is found in Hebrews 4:8, "For if Jesus that
is, Joshua) had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another
day."
Jesus was merely the Greek form of the Hebrew name Joshua. Hu or Hesus the Mighty
was Joshua the Mighty, the great general who led Israel into Palestine. And the Welsh
Triad records that in his later years he also settled Israel peaceably in the British Isle.
From there, for trading purposes, they spread to the coasts of the continent which were
subject to the German Cymry -- the descendants of the German king Cimbrus (16791635). That is how Israel in Denmark came to be known by the tribal name of Cymry.
As time elapsed the peninsula of Denmark became a chief area of trade and commerce. It
is strategically located to dominate both North and Baltic sea trade. So together with the
original German tribes of the Cymry and Dauciones were migrants from Britain. In 1040
the Hebrew Cymry called for a descendant of Judah, a royal scion of the House of Troy,
to rule over them. Odin answered the call and led a migration out of Thrace into Denmark
and neighboring regions. The deeds of Odin upon becoming king over the Cymry
(sometimes spelled Cymbri) will be included in a later section on the American Indian.
Kings of Denmark
Lengths of
Reign
Dates
41
1040-999
999-991
17
991-974
4. Boghius
974-969
80
969-889
31
889-858
40
858-818
14
832-818
54
818-764
77
764-687
56
687-631
63
631-568
34
628-594
41
568-527
42
527-485
49
485-436
48
436-388
18. Guitalchus
32
388-356
61
356-295
30
295-265
37
265-228
52
228-176
30
176-146
69
146- 77
37
77- 40
54
40- 15
4 years
15- 19
19- 21
12
21- 33
46
33- 79
23
79-102
10
102-112
112-117
19
112-131
10
131-141
15
131-146
146-155
22
155-177
13
177-190
11
190-201
40
201-241
20
241-261
66
261-327
327-331
10
331-341
341-350
350-351
16
351-367
367-369
370-379
22
379-401
The next seven kings lived mostly abroad. They succeeded each other as father and son.
50. Roderic
10
401-411
51. Sueno I
55
411-467
52. Guitlachus
50
467-517
53. Haraldus IV
46
481-527
54. Eschyllus
16
527-543
55. Veremundus
78
543-621
56. Osmund II
75
621-696
57. Biorno
696-701
701-707
707-715
50
715-765
45
765-810
810-811
33
777-810
810-812
812-816
64. Sivard II
816-818
816-818
66. Regner
13
818-831
67. Harald VI
818-821
831-834
Continuing:
834-835
During much of this and the preceding period Denmark was plagued by joint reigns,
disputed succession, and lesser kings who seized on part of the realm. Whole tribes left
the peninsula to settle permanently in England. They were called Danes, but were, in fact,
of Anglo-Saxon stock.
70. Eric II, called Barno, the Child
24
835-859
20
859-879
72. Frotho VI
879-880
13
880-893
893-901
30
901-931
48
931-979
35
979-1014
988-995
21
1014-1035
From this date on any thorough work on Denmark will satisfactorily present its history.
With the death of Canute a period of 2074 years ended since the founding of the
monarchy.
CHAPTER IV
JEWS GAIN POWER IN DANUBE CIVILIZATION
How did this unique influence of the Jews in Eastern Europe begin?
Scholars and historians -- many of them Jews -- have puzzled over the presence of the
huge Jewish population in Eastern Europe. There is no recorded evidence that they
migrated from Babylon after the Babylonian captivity. Nor are they the descendants from
the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus in A.D. 70.
Who, then, brought the Jews into Eastern Europe seven centuries before the birth of
Jesus.
The answer has been in the Bible all these years! It is found in II Kings 18:13-16. "Now
in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against
all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the
king of Assyria to Lachish, saying: 'I have offended; return from me; that which thou
puttest on me will I bear.' And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah
three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. And Hezekiah gave him all the
silver that was found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king's house. At
that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the Lord, and
from the door-posts which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king
of Assyria." A parallel account may be read in either II Chronicles 32 or Isaiah 36.
Notice the dates of this event -- the fourteenth year of Hezekiah -- 711-710. Sennacherib
was at this time associated with his father on the throne of Assyria. A vigorous general,
he captured all the fortified cities of Judah except Jerusalem, enslaved the inhabitants.
Where he carried them had been unknown to historians. But the answer is preserved for
us in the "Austrian Chronicle". He carried them into Eastern Europe along the Danube
River. But how could an Assyrian king of Nineveh plant tens of thousands of Jewish
captives in Europe? -- because Central Europe was then part of the Assyrian Empire.
Lengths of
Reign
Dates
708-704
61
704-643
57
643-586
45
586-541
15
541-526
40
526-486
57
486-429
45
429-384
54
384-330
39
330-291
57
291-234
(6 months)
49
234-185
52
185-133
32
133-101
53
101- 48
41
48- 7
2 1/2
7- 5
(234)
51
5 B.C. to 47
A.D.
34
47- 81
42
81-123
52
123-175
51
175-226
Manton
45
226-271
In his time heathen from Hungary and other lands forced Manton to become a heathen
and to pray to images. "He called himself Manton, a Heathen." He married a heathen
duchess from Hungary, named Signa. They had two sons, Natan (Mathan) and Reptan.
Reptan died young and unmarried.
51
271-322
41
322-363
32
363-395
51
395-446
51
446-497
The Romans established Amman, a noble count, in Corrodancia. He secretly believed and
practiced Catholicism.
Amman, changed the name of the land from Corrodancia
to Avara. He brought along his wife Helena, a secret
Christian. Later known as "St. Amman" and "St.
Helena," they converted much of the population. When
the Romans found it out they slew Amman and many of
the people, but not Helena. They had three sons,
Johanns, Albrecht, and Dietreich. A11 three became
dukes of Avara and changed the name to Osterland.
They split the land and Johanns became the chief over
his two brothers.
43
497-540
32
540-572
31
572-603
32
603-635
30
635-665
18
665-683
50
683-733
49
733-782
32
782-814
49
814-863
31
863-894
28
894-922
42
922-964
28
964-992
28
992-1020
1 1/2
1020-1021
In 976 the chief authority in Austria had passed to the House of Babenberg. The powerful
rule of the Babenbergs -- and the interrelationships of the royal families -- may be found
in any thorough English or German history of Austria. The Babenbergs became extinct in
1246. Thereafter the realm passed into the hands of the famous Hapsburgs.
With this the history of early southeastern Europe, which began in the days of Abraham,
closes.
CHAPTER VI
SCOTLAND -- KEY TO HISTORY OF NEW WORLD
The Key to the history of the New World has been lost. Not a single historian or
archaeologist knows the true origin of American Indian civilization. And no wonder!
They have thrown away the keys to that history. One of those keys will be found in
Danish history. The other -- and most important -- key in the checkered history of rugged
Scotland.
Out of southeastern Europe he marched into Denmark. Coming with him was a mixed
tribe known as the Agathyrsi. Agathirsi was their name, declares an old Scottish
Chronicle. ("Controversial Issues in Scottish History", by W. H. Gregg, p. 125.) Odin
settled them in Scotland under their leader Cruithne -- after whom they were called
Cruithnians or Cruithne. Herodotus, the Greek historian, traces the Agathyrsi to their
origin in the Scythian plains of what is now the southern Ukraine The Agathyrsi were a
mixed race. Various struggles led to a catastrophe among the Agathyrsi who came with
Odin. They found themselves without women!
As a consequence they sought wives among neighboring tribes. They landed in Ireland at
the time of the establishment of the Milesian monarchy under Ghede the Herimon (10161002). Following a few skirmishess an agreement was reached. The Milesians of Ireland
agreed to give wives to the Agathyrsi from their daughters on one condition: that the
Agathyrsi would pass on their inheritance through their daughters, not their sons. This
was to acknowledge that any royalty which might follow derived kingship from their
Milesian wives, not from the Agathyrsi men.
On this condition the Agathyrsi departed again for Scotland.
with Exodus 6:16-20). Notice also that Azariah's descendants did not enter Palestine. His
genealogy is not continued beyond the Exodus. That is significant.
Further, the name Azariah in Hebrew is often shortened to Ezra (see any Biblical
encyclopaedia). Its Old Irish form would be Easru. So here we have an Azariah (or Ezra),
of the same generation as Moses, Living at the time of the Exodus, whose descendants
did not settle in Palestine, and who was of the Crimson Branch. At the same time Irish
history reveals an Easru -- Old Irish for Azariah or Ezra -- living in Moses' day, crossing
the Red Sea, but not settling in Palestine, whose descendants in after generations used the
symbol of the Crimson Branch! Here is the line of Zarah -- Judah! Easru is Azariah,
Judah's great-great-grandson.
In chart form (from the Bible and Stokvis' Manuel) the Milesian princely line appears
thus:
Jacob
Judah
Zarah
Ezra
Ethan
Azariah, who is Easru
Sru
Eibher Scot
Beogamon
Ogamon
Tait
Agnamhan
Lamhfinn
Heber Glunfionn
Agnonfinn
Eimhear Glas
Nenuaill
Nuadhat
Aldoid
Earchada
Deaghata
Bratha
Breogan
Bile
Mileadh
Ghede the Herimon, now gave daughters of the royal family to the Cruithne. From these
noble women sprang a line of kings that finally united with the Scots in the person of
Kenneth Mac Alpin in 843.
In after ages the Cruithne came to be known, falsely, as Picts. The true Picts were another
people altogether -- an uncivilized people who painted themselves. Because the Cruithne
ruled over the Picts who lived in the Scottish highlands, later writers called them both
"Picts." The wild, unsettled Picts later disappeared from Scotland. Where? -- historians
do not know. But Scottish history tells!
But first, to summarize the story of the half-Jewish kings who descended from the
Cruithnians and the Hebrew Milesian women.
King's Names
Cruidne (or Cruithne), son of
Cinge (or Kinne), father of
the Agathyrsi dwelling in
Scotland.
Lengths of Reign
100
Dates
1040- 940
40
Forteim
70
Floclaid
30
Got
12
15
Fibaid
24
The entire period of Cruithne and his seven sons is contained in the 100 years assigned to
Cruithne. None of the sons' reigns can be dated. The kingship after 940 was passed on to
the following:
Gedeolgudach
80
940-860
Denbacan
100
860-760
Finnechta (Olfinecta)
60
760-700
Guididgaedbrecach
50
700-650
Gestgurtich
40
650-610
Wurgest
30
610-580
Brudebout
48
580-532
"From Brudebout descended 30 kings of the name of Brude, who reigned during 150
years in Ireland and in Albany," records the Chronicle. Albany was the seat of authority
in Scotland. The following names indicate that the realm was divided into numerous
principalities -- probably 15 -- over each of which two generations of kinglets reigned.
Thirty kings by name of Brude
Brude Gest
Brude Uleo
Brude Urgest
Brude Gant
Brude Point
Brude Urgant
Brude Urpoint
Brude Gnith
Brude Leo
Brude Urgnith
Brude Feth
Brude Gart
Brude Urfeichir
Brude Urgart
Brude Cal
Brude Clnd
Brude Urcal
Brude Urclnd
Brude Cint
Brude Uip
Brude Urcint
Brude Uruip
Brude Feth
Brude Grith
Brude Urfeth
Brude Urgrith
Brude Ru
Brude Muin
Brude Ero
Brude Urmuin
150
532-382
Gilgidi
101
382-281
Tharan
100
281-181
Morleo
15
181-166
Deocilunan
40
166-126
Cimoiod, son of
Arcois
126-119
Deord
50
119- 69
Bliciblitherth
69- 64
Dectoteric, brother
of Diu
40
64- 24
Usconbuts
30
24 B.C.- 7 A.D.
Carvorst
40
7- 47
Deoartavois
20
47- 67
Uist
50
67-117
Ru
100
117-217
Gartnaithboc
217-221
Vere
221-230
230-237
Vipoignamet
30
237-267
Canutulachma
267-271
Wradech Vechla
271-273
Garnaichdi Uber
60
273-333
Talore, son of
Achivir -(Nectanus, a
75
333-408
contemporary
Pictish king was
slain in 361)
Drust, son of Erp or
Irb
45
408-453
Though the "Pictish Chronicle" continues the history of the Cruithne without interruption,
it is important that the list be stopped here to discover who Drust, the son of Erp, was.
This material is taken from Boethus and Buchanan. The correct outline is that preserved
in Anderson's "Royal Genealogies". Buchanan mistakenly shortens the total of the
dynasty 16 years. But Roman history confirms the longer form preserved by Anderson on
page 753.
Lengths of Reign
Dates
25
330-305
15
305-290
29
290-261
28
261-233
20
233-213
26
213-187
17
187-170
12
170-158
24
158-134
30
134-104
104- 95
19
95- 76
13. Gillus
76- 73
17
73- 56
48
56- 8
8- 1
29
20
29- 49
18
49- 67
67- 71
35
71-106
died at peace.
22. Luctacus
106-109
36
109-145
14
145-159
33
159-192
192-196
27. Donald I.
21
196-217
21
217-238
12
238-250
12
250-262
11
262-273
273-274
12
274-286
24
286-310
47
310-357
357-360
360-361
361-364
12
364-376
The Romans soon turned on the Cruithne -- who were still dwelling in Pictland along
with the wild Picts. The Cruithne were miserably oppressed. After three decades they
came to an agreement with the Scots and promised to restore the Scots to the throne if
they would deliver them from oppression. The son of Erc or Erp returned in 408 at the
head of a Scottish army, delivered the Cruithne and restored the throne. This son of Erc
or Erp was not Ferghus, as later traditions assumed, but Drust, who became the new king
of the Cruithne or Picts. Drust was famous in poetry for having fought 100 battles and
lived 100 years. As he ended his reign in 453, he was born 353. He was therefore only 23
years old at the time of the flight of his grandfather and father.
Before continuing the remarkable history of the wild Picts which culminated in 503 in
Scotland, we should continue with the line of Scottish kings who now sat on the throne
over the Cruithne (or the Agathyrsi Picts).
Lengths of Reign
Dates
45
408-453)
453-457
25
457-482
Drest Gurthinmoth
30
482-512
Galanau Etelich
12
512-524
Dadrest
524-525
525-526
526-531
531-536
536-543
543-544
11
544-555
555-556
556-557
557-558
30
558-588
11
588-599
Nectan
20
599-619
19
619-638
638-642
642-647
12
647-659
659-663
663-669
669-676
21
676-697
697-701
11
701-712
15
712-727
727-732
31
732-763
763-765
12
765-777
777-780
780-784
784-786
786-791
Castantin, or Constantine,
son of Urguist, or Fergus
30
791-821
12
821-833
833-836
836-839
839-842
Bred Brude
842-845
Keneth MacAlpin, first king 16 843-859 of all Scotland, united line of Cruithne (or
"Picts") with the Milesian Scottish line of Ferghus mac Erc.
This completes the history of the Picts who descended from the intermarriage of the
Cruithne and the Judaic Milesian royal house. From the reign of Kenneth MacAlpin the
history of the throne of David has already been presented in volume I.
But what befell those wild, tribal Picts who gave their name to the Cruithne -- and who
painted themselves? Remnants of them continued to be referred to as late as the
seventeenth century. Most of the population, however, suddenly disappeared in 503 upon
the coming of the Milesian Scots out of Ireland under the leadership of Fearghus mac
Erc.
Those wild Picts were the people who left the many strange and intriguing remains in the
Northern Isles of Britain -- the mounds, the flint knives, the stonehewn tombs, the
carvings. The next chapter explains the link between Scotland and the New World.
CHAPTER VII
THEY CROSSED THE ATLANTIC
The origin of the American Indian has puzzled Europeans from the
day Columbus' sailors set foot on the Caribbean isle. Yet, just four
centuries earlier, the New World was common knowledge to the educated
in North Europe and the Iberian Peninsula. Its natives were even
embracing the faith of the Roman Church, which had appointed an
Icelander of noble birth as bishop over Iceland, Greenland and the
lands of the New World! How did these facts all become lost?
THE LITTLE ICE AGE
One is so accustomed to read of "Ice Ages" as events of the remote
past, that it hardly occurs to the mind that thirteenth century
Europeans witnessed a veritable Little Ice Age that completely severed
communications between Europe and the New World. The Baltic froze over.
Vikings ceased to traverse the inhospitable Atlantic. In the New World
the Land of the White Man -- Hvitramanna Land in Icelandic literature
-- lost contact with Europe. Centuries later remnants of their
population were found among the natives which had early traversed the
Atlantic with them.
This chapter unfolds what really happened in Western Europe, and
especially the British Isles and Denmark, from the days of Solomon to
long after the fall of the Roman Empire. It will explain the astounding
chronological connection between the rise of New World civilization and
the sudden flight of tribes out of Northwest Europe.
WHITES DID NOT BECOME INDIANS
First, let us immediately banish a myth. White Europeans did not
become Indians by merely settling in the New World and becoming lost!
The American Indians are not the "Lost Tribes of Israel," or Egyptians.
The American Indian looks as he does because his ancestors appeared
that way before they traversed the waters of the Atlantic.
It may come as a surprise to learn it, but Europe and the
Mediterranean world was early -- and comparatively late -- inhabited by
"Red Men." Everyone has heard of the famous Phoenician sailors of the
ancient Mediterranean world. They are known to have traveled far out
into the Atlantic and to Northwestern Europe. The Greeks called them
Phoenicians because that is what they were -- "Red Men." The word
"Phoenician" is derived from the Greek word for reddish dye. The
142, 143).
In "Pennant's Second Tour", 1772, is a line drawing of the wigwams
of the half-breed natives of the Scottish Island of Jura. Here are
natives, like American Indians, living in the remote islands of Europe,
whose last remnants died out as late as the beginning of the nineteenth
century.
AMERICAN INDIAN TRADITION
The common idea that American Indians had no means of preserving
their history is a fiction based on the assumption that all Indians
were on the same level of culture. Wild, rude tribes there were. But
civilized nations existed too. They carefully preserved, among other
things, the history of their journeys, and the duration of their
habitation in the New World. When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in
the New World they were amazed to find the Maya and Aztecs using bark
paper to preserve history and daily records. It was obtained from the
FICUS, a tree related to the mulberry. Bark was peeled off, beaten with
a rubber mallet, and folded into sheets to make books. In Moctezuma's
palace Bernal Diaz followed an "accountant" who showed him "all the
revenue that was brought ... (and recorded) in his books which were
made of paper which they call "amatl", and he had a great house full of
these books" (pages 184-185 of "The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the
Americas", by von Hagen). Only a few escaped the book burning of the
Spanish zealots, who sought to wipe out all vestiges of the previous
culture and the lineage of their royal houses.
Some rare codices have been preserved, however. One is the "Popol
Vuh", a sacred book of the ancient Quiche Maya. In it are recorded the
migrations and wanderings of their ancestors. It traces their origin
eastward across the Atlantic Ocean to the Old World. Other Indians had
similar origins of having to cross a great body of water from the
northeast to reach their present land. (Later migrations, once they had
arrived from the east, could take any direction.)
The writer of the Popul Vuh declared: "They also multiplied there
in the East .... All lived together, they existed in great numbers and
walked there in the East .... There they were then, in great numbers,
the black man and the white man, many of many classes, men of many
tongues .... The speech of all was the same. They did not invoke wood
nor stone, and they remembered the word of the Creator and the Maker
The Maya record continues: "... they came from the East ... they left
there, from that great distance .... they crossed the sea" (pp. 181,
183). When they sought to establish their kingdom "they decided to go
to the East .... It had been a long time since their fathers had died
East, there whence came our fathers.' Certainly they crossed the sea
when they came there to the East, when they went to receive the
investiture of the kingdom" (pp. 206-207).
To what line of great kings in the east were these Quiche Maya
journeying? To the successors of the great ruler who conducted them,
about 1000 B.C., to the Usumacinta River in Mexico.
ENTER VOTAN
The Mayas claim that their kingdom was founded by a great eastern
ruler named Votan or Oden or Dan by various tribes. He was a white man
who came by sea from the east and settled them in their new land. The
time of their migration, according to Ordonez, was ten centuries before
the present era. This Votan -- who was also worshipped as a god -- was
famous for having himself journeyed to a land where a great temple was
being built.
Do we have a king in Europe, living at the time Solomon's temple
was being built (around 1000 B.C.), who had dominion over the seas, who
was worshipped as a god, and whose name sounded like Votan? Indeed -Woden or Odin, king of Denmark from 1040-999. He was worshipped later
as a great god. Scandinavian literature is replete with accounts of his
distant journeys which took him away from his homeland for many months,
sometimes years.
Just as king Odin or Danus gave his name to Denmark -- Danmark -so Odin gave his name to the "forest of Dan" in the land of the Quiche
Indians. (See pages 549 and 163 of volume V, "Native Races of the
Pacific States", by Hubert H. Bancroft.) "Dan ... founded a monarchy on
the Guatemalan plateau" (Bancroft, vol. I, p. 789). His capital, built
for the Indians and their white suzerains, was named Amag-Dan.
Here we have the records of Danish kings, as early as 1000 years
before the birth of Christ, sailing to the New World and planting
colonies of Red Men from Europe in the Yucatan and Guatemalan
highlands. Is it any wonder that it was the Danes, of all nations of
Europe, who continued to communicate with the New World in the days of
Eric the Red? It was the king of Denmark who ruled over Iceland in the
days of Christopher Columbus. Before Columbus awakened the sleepy
Mediterranean world by his important journey across the Atlantic, he
first sailed to Iceland where he obtained information for his fateful
voyage.
And is it not significant that it was an Icelandic nobleman, Eric
Gnupson, who was consecrated by Pope Pascal II as Bishop of Greenland
and the neighboring regions ("regionumque finitimarum") in 1112? (See
"Conquest by Man", Paul Herrmann, p. 287.)
"Native Races of the Pacific States", vol. V, p. 209. ) The year of the
flood was 2370-2369. And 520 years AFTER the flood -- that is, after
2369 -- is 1849, the very year a great battle was fought in Spain
during which Gerion was slain and many of the giants were expelled.
Later Indian tradition records the perishing of these giants in the New
World in a struggle with the Indians.
One of the Lomnini in Spain, meanwhile, was given to wife a sister
of Osyris. A son of the union, Norac, settled Sardinia and built the
city of Norca. Sardinia is famous for traditionally being inhabited by
giants who left the megalithic remains and giant tombs. Early British
tradition also assigns to swarthy giants the building of many of the
megalithic monuments or henges.
To avenge the death of their father, the three Lomnini brothers
conspired with Typhon, brother of Osyris. Typhon assassinated his
brother Osyris.
After the death of Osyris, Hercules appears on the scene. Rather
than drench the whole land in a bloodbath, he challenged the three sons
of Gerion to personal combat -- three against one -- and slew them all.
Hercules then turned the government of southern Spain over to Hispal,
his son and one of his generals, and departed with the bulk of his army
to Italy.
Who were Osyris, Typhon and Heracles of Spanish, Italian and North
African tradition?
Note the time setting. These events are long after the death of
Nimrod (2167) or of Miebis (2037), who was the second Osiris. The dates
of these events correspond to the latter half of Dynasty II in Egypt.
It is the period of the patriarch Jacob. The Hercules of these
traditions has already been proved to be Seir the Horite. In Spanish
history Hercules is often referred to as "Oron," meaning the Horite. He
was a king of Egypt -- a descendant of Horus. He slew the giant
Antaeus, another king of Egypt, records Josephus the Jewish historian.
Who are all these supposedly mythological rulers?
The surprising answer is that they have all been listed in Volume
I -- they are kings of the second half of Dynasty II of Egypt. Notice
the parallels.
Antaeus -- an opponent of Osiris -- was a man of giant stature. So
was Sesochris (Neferkaseker), who reigned 1815-1767. Typhon, the slayer
of Osiris, was pictured as a destroyer in the Greek traditions of this
period. King Chaires (Aka) bore the title "Destroyer." His reign began
also in 1815. Following a war in Egypt against the faction of Osiris
III, he temporarily received the "united kingdoms of Upper and Lower
Egypt and the seal of the accursed one" -- Osiris.
Then who was Osiris III -- the Osiris Dionysius of Spanish
history? None other than king Sendi (the Sethenes of Manetho). His
body, according to the tradition, was cast into the Nile. Reports
Weigall of him: "No trace of the king's tomb has been found; and ... he
seems to have met with disaster at the end" ("The History of the
Pharaoh's", page 136).
And now notice Hercules in this same dynasty. Hercules -- the Seir
the Horite of Scripture -- was renowned for having subdued Libya, and
the vast territories that lie west of Egypt. He was called Heracles
Libycus. Did one of the Pharaoh's of this same period conquer Libya?
Certainly -- Necherophes. Manetho records of him: "In his reign Libya
revolted, but, on account of an unexpected increase of the moon, they
submitted through fear."
Now to continue with the outline of Spanish history. Hercules -Seir the Horite -- put Hispal his son over the country. He could be
none other than Shobal of Genesis 36:20. It is common for a silent "h"
to appear before Spanish names. The successor to Hispal or Shobal was
Hispan, a grandson of Hercules.
Is there a grandson of Seir the Horite by that name? See the name
in Genesis 36:26 -- Eshban! He was a son of Dishon, another son of
Seir. Now it ought to be plain why Scripture records the genealogy of
this famous man. Without it, there would be no means of understanding
who the rulers of these times were. When we come to Italian history, we
shall see how they link up with the family of Jacob. Meantime, the
history of Spain in chart form is presented below.
Hispal, son of Hercules. 17 1807-1790
He built the city Hispalis,
later known as Sepila, now
Seville.
Hispanus, grandson of Heracles. 32 1790-1758
Gave his name to Hispania
(Spain) in consequence of
extending his rule (during
his first year 1790-1789)
into central and northern
regions of the peninsula
previously settled only by
wild tribes. He built towers
to control the region of
Gallicia in Spain.
Once again Spanish history has a bearing on the New World. The
attack by Hispanus on these rude tribes in the northern regions on the
shores of the Bay of Biscay is recorded in Toltec history.
Ixtlilxochitl records that a second invasion from the east occurred
2236 years after the creation of man (Bancroft, vol. v, p. 209). Notice
how this figure corresponds with both the Bible and Spanish history.
At the death of Hispanus, Hercules, that is, Seir the Horite,
reappears in Spain and Western Europe in his old age.
Hercules 19 1758-1739
Note that these dates
correspond exactly with
those of his rule in Britain
and Gaul. It is significant
that Hercules' family should
appear so prominently in
Western Europe. They must
already have been driven out
of Mt. Seir by Esau. Hercules
left no heir to the Spanish
throne He was succeeded by
one of his generals.
ABRAHAM'S CHILDREN
Hesperus 11 1739-1728
Spanish records declare
Hesperus to be one of the
two captains (not his sons)
who accompanied Hercules in
his original exploits into
Spain. He gave his name
Hesperus to Spain and Italy
which in early times were
called Hesperia Minor and
Hesperia Major respectively.
He was driven out of Spain
into Italy by his brother,
who succeeded him.
Atlas 12 1728-1716
(10) (1728-1718)
Sometimes called Italus.
A brother of Hesperus, the
other captain of Hercules,
a famous astronomer;
dethroned and exiled
Hesperus.
Josephus, the Jewish historian, also wrote about these two famous
captains of Hercules in "Antiquities", I, xv. Here are his words:
"Abraham after this married Keturah" -- Genesis 25, "by whom six sons
were born to him ..." Then Josephus names Midian, a son of Abraham,
who begat "Ephas and Ophren," called Ephah and Epher in the Bible. "It
is related of this Ophren, that he made war against Libya, and took it;
and that his grandchildren, when they inhabited it, called it (from his
name) Africa; and indeed Alexander Polyhistor gives his attestation to
what I here say; who speaks thus: ' ... from the other two (Apher and
Japhran) the country of Africa took its name; because these men were
auxiliaries to Hercules, when he fought against Libya and Antaeus.' "
Josephus understood that the two famous captains of Hercules were
the grandsons of Abraham.
Hesperus, who was later exiled in a family quarrel, was the
Biblical Ephah. Atlas, the strong man and astronomer, was Epher. It is
his line that continued to control the western Mediterranean for
several generations.
The late Greek writers at times confused this Atlas, who was also
known from Italian history as Atlas Italus Kitim (because he ruled the
land of Kittim), with another Atlas. That other Atlas was surnamed
Maurus and was the descendant, in Greek tradition, of Japetus and Asia.
Japetus or Iapetus was the Japheth of the Bible. Atlas Maurus is
associated with Spain and North Africa because his people were
migrating from the borders of Asia westward to the New World. The only
son of Japheth whose children left Western Asia and Eastern Europe was
Tiras. Atlas Italus Kitim was succeeded by a son -Oris or Sicorus, son of Atlas 44 1716-1672
(or 45) (1718-1673)
Anus or Sicanus, son of Sicorus 31 1672-1641
(or 32) (1673-1641)
Gave his name to people whom
he led through Italy to Sicily.
From these Sicani the island of
Sicily was anciently called
Sicania.
Sicileus or Siculus, son of 45 1641-1596
Sicorus (or 44) (1641-1597)
Crossed into Italy. He changed
the name of Sicania to Sicilia.
Lusus, son of Siculus 29 1596-1567
(or 60) (1567-1507)
He gave his name to Lusitania (now Portugal)
Ulus or Siculus, son of Lusus 64 1567-1503
(or 60) (1567-1507)
He was also known as Neptune.
were the Hebrews of the Kingdom of Israel. The missing item should be
Pelasgians 131 1101-970
This list indicates that the Hebrews became dominant in Spain at
the time the Lydians resettled in the Grecian world in 1101.
The 9 years of Nebuchadnezzar's dominion began in 578 and lasted
until 569, the year his insanity commenced. He gained dominion over the
Mediterranean through the Phocaeian fleets. Nebuchadnezzar established,
as his representative in Spain a long-lived hero named Aganthonius who
ruled 80 years (578-498) to the coming of the Carthaginians in 498.
With this, the early history of the Spanish is restored. Its
important connection with Biblical and secular history is obvious -and especially so when one remembers that Spanish historians also
mention the 26 years' drought in Spain referred to in Irish Annals.
This was the famine in David's time, and precipitated the establishment
of the Hebrew throne in Ireland.
CHAPTER IX
ITALY, HOME OF PAGAN RELIGION
Nearly everyone has heard of the ancient pagan Greek and Roman
gods and goddesses. But almost no one knows that they were originally
great rulers of Italy.
The whole modern Christian world has been influenced by Roman
Catholicism. The story in pre-Roman times was the same. Instead of
paganism spreading to Rome from Greece, it really spread from Italy to
Greece.
It was the vogue of the last century to ridicule the myths of Rome
and of Greece. The gods and goddesses were regarded as mere human
inventions -- rigments of the superstitious madness of the ancients. To
admit that they were originally flesh-and-blood human beings would have
been tantamount to admitting the reality of the Bible. For several of
the heroes-made-god of ancient Italy are characters of the Bible.
ITALY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
There is a very special reason that Italy became the home of
religious apostasy in the West. The pagan mystery religions had a very
special problem confronting them in Italy. They had to counter the
teachings of Noah!
Yes, Noah appears as a ruler in the early history of Italy! Noah
lived both sides of the Flood. He knew what life meant. Apart from him
the whole human family would have been wiped from off the face of the
earth. The world's religious leaders knew that if they were to succeed
they must, in some way, counterfeit, in Italy, the teachings of Noah -just as later they were to counterfeit the teachings of Christ. The
parallel is exact.
To counterfeit Christ, they took Christ's name and labeled their
superstition "Christian." They began to worship Christ. "This people
honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But in
vain worship they me, teaching for doctrines commands of men" (Mark
7:6-7).
To subdue the doctrines Noah preached, they made a pretense of
following him -- claiming they were doing what he commanded them,
claiming to do it by his authority. And when Noah died they began to
worship him! They called him, in their mysteries, Janus -- the one who
could look into both worlds because he experienced the worlds on either
side of the Flood.
WHAT ITALIAN HISTORY REVEALS
The history of Italy was preserved down to Roman times. Not until
the Middle Ages was it allowed to die a natural death. What could not
be disproved was left undiscussed. The scholarly world soon forgot the
records in its possession. Those who did take note of them began
labeling them as recent inventions -- just as they did the history of
every other nation. Now let us open the pages of Italian history and
see what really occurred in ancient Italy.
The history of Italy opens -- as might be expected -- with human
government beginning at the Tower of Babel. Italian history begins
immediately after the Flood -- with the land without inhabitants for
108 years. The first family to settle in Italy, according to ancient
history, was Gomer. But why should this be so unusual, when one
considers the contemporary history of Spain?
Gomer's children generally passed eastward out of Europe into
Asia. Archaeology traces the movements of the earliest cultures of the
children of Gomer from southern Europe into Asia. (See the previous
chapter on the history of Spain under the family of Togarmah.)
Because Gomer was the earliest hero this side the Flood to
populate limited areas of Europe, it became a Middle-Age superstition
to label all the people of Europe the descendants of Gomer. Most Bible
maps are so labeled today. But they are wrong. In the very first
chapter, on the history of Germany, is proof that Shem's descendants
now inhabit Western Europe. The fiction that Gomer was the ancestor of
these people was deliberately, and knowingly, invented to cloak the
identity of the House of Israel and of the Chaldeans and Assyrians. The
Germans do not want their identity known to the world. Nor do the
Chaldeans. And the House of Israel wants to believe it is Gentile.
Now to continue the history of Italy as preserved to us from the
same sources which give us German, Spanish and early British history.
Patriarchs, Rulers and
the possession of the conquerors. The assumption that the Incas knew
only how to tie knots in a string to remind them of the past is absurd.
Granted, the 'quipus' -- or knotted strings -- were used.
The Peruvian Indians also painted records of past events. They had
trained priests whose function was to record and repeat the traditions
of the past. The fact that the Spanish did recover the history of the
Peruvian Indians from the beginning is in itself proof that a great
many records were available. No nation which was able to achieve the
architectural wonders of the Peruvian highlands would lack the means to
preserve its heritage.
The modern view of Peruvian history is that it cannot be
established more than a century before the commencement of the Spanish
colonial period. Archaeologists have done amazingly well in recovering
cultural artifacts buried in the ground, but they have thus far been
unwilling to associate what they find with early Peruvian history found
in the authentic Indian records by the conquerors. The slightest study
of Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa's "History of the Incas" would have
confirmed the accuracy of his outline. Archaeology everywhere
substantiates the written record wherever it has been carefully
preserved.
Sir Clements Markham has contributed heavily toward Inca and
Pre-Inca studies by his two books "The Incas of Peru" and "History of
the Incas." The former contains the list of kings from the beginning as
preserved by Montesinos. It gives just over 100 names out of which
nearly 80% have the lengths of reign preserved. Montesinos did not give
sufficient information to establish every reign, but the list is so
nearly complete that it is not at all difficult to determine
contemporary events between Peru and the rest of the world. The latter
volume preserves an invaluable outline of the Inca period.
WHAT ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND
Archaeologists are not settled on terminology, but they have
described Peruvian remains rather well. The story begins with an
Incipient Era of hunting and early agriculture. There follows a
Developmental Era that is usually not well divided. It ought to be
expressed in two, rather than three phases -- the Formative and the
Cultist -- to use archaeological Jargon. There is great technical
progress and a widespread religious cult. A complete break ends the
Cultist period.
Thereafter a Florescent Era appears, around 350 B.C., with many
new techniques indicative of a dynamic period. In some ways the level
of the artistic sense, however, does not advance.
Then comes a Climactic Era, commencing shortly after 500 A.D. It
p. 51)
3. Huanacahui Pirua 50 2164-2114
4. Sinchi Cozque 60 2114-2054
5. Inti Capac Yupanqui 50 2054-2004
6. Manco Capac II, is Horus; 20 2004-1984
note that in Inca records
he has same name as Nimrod
does in Inca tradition.
ILLUSTRATION FROM BURMA
The date 2004 is a remarkable parallel for the return to power of
Horus in Mesopotamia in 2006. Clearly the ancestors of the Peruvians
lived outside Mesopotamia, bordering on the River Tyras. As
confirmation of the exactness of Peruvian material, compare the
following figures which have been extracted from the earliest history
of Burma. Notice the same figure 2004 for Maradzi II. The ancestors of
the Burmese Arakan people were at that time also living in the steppes
of Russia.
Early Kings who Ruled Lengths of Reign Dates
Over People who now from Burmese Records
live in Arakan, Burma (Stokvls' "Manuel")
Marayu, is Cush 62 2254-2192
Maradzi I, is Nimrod 32 2192-2160
The name is derived from
the Hebrew root "marad," to
rebel. A Maradzu is a
great rebel.
Maraonleng 53 2160-2107
Mararwayleng 48 2107-2059
Marabheng 55 2059-2004
Maradzi II, is Horus 33 2004-1971,
etc.
Now to continue with the Peruvian Kings.
Figures below
are approximately the
points of reign
since the
lengths of
reign are in
some cases lost.
7. Tupac Capac -- 1950
8. Tini Capac Yupanqui -- 1900
3. Hushang 50 50
4. Tamurash, said to be 30 -grandson of Hushang
5. Giemshid or Giamschid, 30 30
descendant of Kajomaras
6. Dahak or Zahak (Zoak), -- 1000
an Arab
7. Aphridun, or Feridoun, son -- 120
of Giemshid
8. Manugjahr or Manougeher 120 500
surnamed Phirouz; son of
Irege, son of Feridoun
9. Nodar or Nudar, a son 7 7
10. Apherasiab or Afrasiab, 12 12
descendant of Tur, the
son of Feridoun
11. Zaab, Zab, Zoub, or -- 30
Bazab, heir of the house
of Kajomaras
12. Gustasp, or Kischtasp, -- 30 or 20
son of Zaab
Dynasty of Kaianites
1. Kaikobad 100 120
2. Kaikaus 150 150
3. Kaikhosru or Kaihosru 60 60
4. Lohrasp or Lohorasb 120 120
5. Gushtasp, Gustasp or 120 120
Kishtasp, son of Lohrasp
6 Ardshir, surnamed Bahaman, 112 112
grandson of Gustasp
7. Queen Homai 32 32
8. Darab I (Persian spelling 4 14
of Darius)
9. Darab II 14 -After him came Iscander Ben
Filoukous -- Alexander the
son of Philip.
The time element at the close of this list is clear. The days of
Alexander the Great have been reached. Darab II is Persian king Darius
III Codomannus. He was slain in 330, after Alexander overthrew his
empire. But most of the preceding names in the table of kings are not
those found in history books. The answer is that Persia's last king was
not a direct descendant of the great Persian kings of history. This
OGUS KHAN
In the days of Kara Khan, after the Exodus of Israel out of Egypt,
his son Oguz or Ogus Khan revolted against the idolatry of his father
(see the "Universal History", Vol. XX). Later, Ogus, after 72 years of
war, created a vast Mongol Empire. He subjected Cathay (part of China),
Tashkent, Samarkand and all Turkestan, Kashmir, part of Armenia and
Iran. Iran at this time was without unified leadership during the reign
of Giemshid (1391-1361). Oguz Khan carried his conquests (Diodorus of
Sicily II, 43) to Egypt. Interestingly, this is the time of the Hyksos
rule in Egypt. And one of the Hyksos rulers had the name of Khayan or
Khan. This king could be none other than Oguz Khan. His 116 year reign
from Tatar history is therefore 1392-1276.
Ogus Khan was succeeded by Kiun Khan (1276-1206). His name means
the "sun". The history of Persia indicated that hereafter the kings of
Persia dominated the accessible steppes of Turkestan. This would be the
time of Alphidun, who set his son Tur over Turkestan. He was followed
by Apherasiab. In order there followed Juldus Khan, Mengli Khan, Tengis
Khan and Il Khan. In the days of Il Khan (in the 600's B.C.) the
Tatars warred against the Mongols and nearly obliterated them. Il had a
son Kajan who survived the struggle. For 400 years the Mongols
disappear from the pages of Tatar history into the vastnesses of the
mountains of Asia.
Now to return to the time of Alanza Khan and his son Tatar Khan.
The Tatars in the Soviet Union trace their early Khans from Tatar the
brother of Mogul. From Tatar descended Buka, Jalanzak and Ettala Khan.
Ettala's son Attaisis Khan fought bloody wars -- in the days of Ogus
Khan of the Mongols. He was followed by Orda, Baydu and Siuntz Khan.
The latter in a grand alliance destroyed the Mongol power.
After this great victory the Tatars split up under petty rulers
and have left us but few names of their rulers. Based on the number of
generations this victory over the Mongols occurred in the 600's.
After multiplying in the mountains bordering on Mongolia, the
Moguls finally rose to power in the late 200's. In another fifty years
they challenged the Tatars, conquered them and became the masters of
much of eastern Scythia.
The Tatars and Mongols - descendants of Turk whom Japheth adopted
as his son - preserved for posterity the names of over 20 Khans (see
Vol. XX of "Universal History") who ruled Mongolia and adjacent
territory until the twelfth century of the present era, Then it was
that the Mongols burst forth on the world, ravaged Asia and plunged
with terrible swiftness west into the heart of Europe under Jenghis
Khan.
Brabant (an old province embracing parts of modern Belgium and the
Netherlands). From this Assyro-Judaic family came Charlemagne, the
first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.
A complete list of these Trojan rulers, from Hector down to
Charlemagne, is found in the work by Jhr. C. A. Rethaan Macar entitled
"Oude Kronijk van Brabant", in the "Codex Diplomaticus Neerlandicus,"
series 2, part 3, published by Het Historisch Genootschap te Utrecht,
Utrecht, Holland in 1855.
The chronology starts with 1181 and continues right down the line
without complications till Silvius Brabon II, who begins to reign in
732. The beginning and end of each reign is synchronized with
contemporary Biblical history, which, incidentally, is presented in its
correct chronology down to a period long after the dividing of the
monarchy.
Between Silvius Brabon II and Troylus II (370-331) complications
are introduced. The author will state a certain figure for the length
of the reign, yet this will completely disagree with the length of
reign obtained through his cross references to contemporary Roman
history. Silvius Brabon II, for example, is stated to have reigned 60
years. Yet, the cross references of the beginning and end of his reign
in terms of Roman history show that he reigned only 32 years. The
difficulty is readily overcome when we realize that the Trojan rulers
of this period shared the throne jointly with either a successor or a
predecessor. The author preserved the correct lengths of individual
reigns only in the cross references to contemporary Roman history.
Charlemagne, too, it must be remembered, ruled jointly with his
brother.
The recording of joint reigns ceases after Troylus II and the
chronology again becomes uniform. Troylus II ruled jointly with his
successor, Priamus VI. It will be noticed, below, that even in the
figures for his sole reign, the last year overlaps with the first year
of his successor. This is stated in the author's cross references to
contemporary Roman and Greek history.
Under the Princes and Dukes of Brabant there are two short
interregnums which become apparent from the chronology, one in A.D.
456-459 and the other in A.D. 714-715. We must remember that this is
the story of Brabant though the individuals concerned had other
dominions and offices as well. Charlemagne, for example, was a Duke of
Brabant, but he was also King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor at
the same time. The short interregnums therefore mean nothing more than
that the title to the dukedom was vacant for that period of time. The
ruler himself was usually alive, but simply did not claim the dukedom.
This is only a matter of internal politics and does not affect the
Deyphebus went to
Dacia, Parriis to some
islands in the Pontus.
13. Brabon III, had two sons, 57 611- 554
Priam and Dyomedeus. The
latter went to Africa
and built there a
mighty city.
14. Priamus IV 32 554- 522
joint (50) (572- 522)
15. Philymeus,had three 30 552- 522
sons, Priam,
Archadius and Macedo.
From Macedo came the
Macedonii, Archadius
migrated to Arcadia
in Greece and became
the first duke of
that land. Julius
Caesar is descended
from him.
16. Priamus V 20 522- 502
17. Brabon IV 50 502- 452
joint with son (11) (452- 441)
18. Laomedon 24 452- 428
19. Pelius, had two 58 428- 370
sons, Troylus and joint (68) (441- 373)
Hybertius. The
latter sailed with
his followers to
Hybernia (Ireland).
20. Troylus II 39 370- 331
joint (42) (373- 331)
21. Priamus VI 7 332- 325
22. Francio III 9 325- 316
23. Brabon V 4 316- 312
24. Silvius Brabon III 21 312- 291
25. Brabon Troylus VI 33 291- 258
26. Brabon VII 22 258- 236
27. Brabon VIII 16 236- 220
28. Priamus VII 28 220- 192
29. Hector IV 31 192- 161
30. Brabon IX 4 161- 157
PRINCES OF BRABANT
Ruler Length of Reign Dates
1. Brabon I, was made 32 424- 456
prince of Brabant in
the seventh year of
his life. He reigned
for 32 years after the
death of his father.
In his days Clodius,
king of the Franks,
destroyed the kingdoms
of Agrippina and
Thuringia, and annexed
Brabant. Brabon and
his descendants became
loyal servants of the
Frankish kings. (456- 459)
2. Brabon II 60 459- 519
3. Brabon III 51 519- 570
4. Karolomannus, the last 45 570- 615
prince. After his death
Brabant became a dukedom.
DUKES OF BRABANT
Ruler Length of Reign Dates
1. Pippinus of Landen, (35) (612- 647)
ruled three years jointly or 32 615- 647
with his father, becomes
mayor of the palace to
the Frankish king.
2. Grimoaldus, son of Pepin. 13 647- 660
3. Angisus, husband of 25 660- 685
Begga, daughter of Pepin.
This Angisus was son of
Arnulph, Bishop of Metz,
who was the son of
Arnold, the son of
Anselbert. Anselbert
was married to
Blitilda, daughter
of Lothair I (Clothair),
king of Austrasia and
Neustria.
4. Pippinus II, of Heristal. 29 685- 714
(714- 715)
5. Karolus Mertellus 26 715- 741
6. Karolomanus, renounced 6 741- 747
his dukedom, entered a
monastery in 6th year
of reign.
7. Pippinus III "the 21 747- 768
Short," son of joint (27) (741- 768)
Karolus Mertellus.
By the time
Pippinus III came to
power, his inheritance
included not only
Brabant, but also
Austrasia, Thuringia,
Burgundy, Neustria
and Provence. In 752
he was elected King of
the Franks, and
reigned till his death
in 768.
8. Karolomannus, son of 3 768- 771
Pippinus, ruled jointly
with his brother
Karolus Magnus.
9. Karolus Magnus, 43 771- 814
assumed sole rule joint (46) (768- 814)
after his brother's
death, became
Roman Emperor in 800.
KINGS OF FRISIA
In 321 B.C. a line of princes migrated via India to the area of
northern Holland and northwestern Germany under their leader Friso.
Friso descended from Ragan or Reu (Gen. 11:19) according to "La Grande
Chronique ... de Hollande, Zelande" etc., p. 28. Friso was an
adventurer in the service of Alexander the Great. After being released
from service, he came with a group of settlers from the river Indus to
Europe. There he gained power (313) over the local counts by means of
intrigue. A descendant, Friso, became king in 287, commencing a
secondary line of rulers.
Western Europe under his power. The Annals of Hainaut give the
following account of the kings of Belgium from 776-470.
King Length of Reign Dates
Ursus 34 776- 742
Ursa, daughter of Ursus 1 and a half 742- 741
Gurguncius (Gurgust in 28 741- 713
British history).
Sisillius (was made ruler 10 713- 703
over the Belgians while
his father governed the
Britons).
Friscembaldus I 31 703- 672
Friscembaldus II 32 672- 640
Waringerus 15 640- 625
Leonius 10 625- 615
Leopardus I 5 615- 610
Leopardus II 30 610- 580
Leopardinus 32 580- 548
A political struggle for
two years left the
Belgians without a king.
Camber 20 546- 526
Melbrandus 15 526- 511
Blanduinus 6 511- 505
Suardus 15 505- 490
Leo 7 490- 483
Walacrinus 13 483- 470
There followed a number of dukes, annually elected, none of whose
names have come down in history. The last, Missenus, whose son came to
the throne in 386, is the only one whose name has been preserved. The
actual duration of power of the dukes over the provinces of Belgium is
traditionally given as 104 years -- evidently from 490 to 386. It
therefore appears that they came into prominence with the death of
Suardus. The new line of kings which existed until the Roman victory in
52 is as follows:
King Length of Reign Dates
Leo I 60 386- 326
Leo II 56 326- 270
Leo III 76 270- 194
Leo IV 96 194- 98
Leo V 20 98- 78
Goomerus 8 78- 70
Taynardus 14 70- 56
Alexander or Paris.
2. Gentilanor 9. Priam IV
3. Almadius 10. Helenus IV
4. Dilulius 11. Antenor II, who assumed
kingly power among the
5. Helenus III refugees from Troy in
Southeastern Europe
6. Plasserius III
7. Dilulius II 12. Marcomir
But, before we continue with Marcomir, the son of Antenor, another
part of the story should be told. The 8th century anonymous "Frankish
Chronicle" (De Rebus Francorum) states that after the fall of Troy in
1181 about 12,000 Trojans fled by ship across the Black Sea to the
mouth of the Tanais. From there they spread to the Maeotic Swamps and
as far as the borders of Pannonia.
This account agrees very well with the report of Dionysius of
Halicarnassus in his "Roman Antiquities," I, 46, 47, who states that
after the fall of Troy "... a larger number escaped than were taken
prisoner ... the Achaeans, intent on capturing the citadel, were giving
no thought to the pursuit of the multitude who were escaping from the
city .... Aeneas abandoned the palace; and opening the gates he marched
forth with the rest of the fugitives in good order ... they were joined
not only by the inhabitants of Dardanus ... but by the whole populace
of Ophyrnium .... this force of the Trojans became a very large one."
In other words, a large number of people escaped.
Dionysius goes on to state that they obtained permission from the
Greeks to travel about unmolested in order to find a new country in
which to settle. Aeneas headed to the Greek coast near Thessalonika,
and from there southwards to the Mediterranean and Italy. But others
took a different route. "... Ascanius, his eldest son, with some of the
allies, chiefly Phrygians, (went) to the country of Dascylitis (near
the Bosphorus) .... But Ascanius did not tarry there for any length of
time ...." He returned to the site of Troy and tried to reestablish the
city.
Here Dionysius breaks off the account about Ascanius. We know,
however, that Ascanius did not remain at the site of Troy, for Virgil
and others report him as being with his father Aeneas in Italy shortly
afterwards.
But what of the Phrygian army that was with Ascanius? It did not
go with him to Italy. This could be, however, the army of 12,000 which
according to the "Chronicle" settled at the mouth of the Danube.
Fredegarius Scholasticus, claiming Jerome as his authority, says that
the Trojans fled, some to Macedonia, some to the Danube under a king
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Ruler Length of Reign Dates
1. Franco I: he left Troy 10 1181-1171
with Aeneas and Antenor.
They sailed to Sizille
(probably Sicily). Franco
traveled to Italy and
North Africa. Then with
3,000 of his followers he
settled in southern Gaul.
They called the area
Franche. The people were sons
of Franco or Franchois. After
his death they were known as
Gauls.
2. Melus: a son of Franco. 51 1171-1120
He rebuilds Troy in 1145.
His daughter, Odela, married
Silvius the king of Italy.
3. Bosses: a son of Melus. 24 1120-1096
He defeated Ascanius,
king of Italy, in a
battle. Bosses later
married Grata the daughter
of Ascanius. This may
have settled the dispute
between them.
4. Ector I: he was the 16 1096-1080
grandson of Broncus.
Broncus was a son of Silvius
and Odela. Ector founded
Troy in Burgogne.
5. Alemaine: son of Bosses. 22 1080-1058
He conquered all Germany
and fortified many cities.
Allemania, a section of
Germany, derives its name
from him.
6. Castor: founds the city 30 1058-1028
of Castre. Died in a fight
with Silvius, king of
Italy.
7. Ylion I 40 1028- 988
the Biblical record and of the early history of the German and
Mediterranean peoples. It begins with the story of the dispersal of the
families of the earth by Noah. It was this God-decreed event against
which Nimrod rebelled. Why should people not be free to go where they
pleased? After all this was their earth! Or so he thought.
From Persian and Italian history it has already been determined
that the migration to various parts of the world began in 2261. Swedish
chronicles trace the history of this migration and of the peoples who
have since inhabited Scandinavia. The story opens with the migration of
Magog out of the region of Ararat or Armenia.
The family of Magog at first settled in the vast reaches of the
Eurasian steppes. From there most of his descendants spread north and
east through Bactria and Turkestan into Mongolia and China. A few
spread northwest -- by 2260, says Bertius -- into the North Russian
plains and the lands bordering on the Baltic. At this very day may be
found a semi-Mongoloid people -- the Lapps -- inhabiting the
Scandinavian Arctic with their reindeer. Sweden was also inhabited in
early times by Goths -- whom all writers admit were the children of
Gether, the son of Aram. Now notice the chronological record of these
early events from Bertius outlined here:
1. Magog 43 2260-2217
2. Suevus or Sweno, the older 56 2217-2161
brother of Gether. His
Biblical name is Uz, the
father of the Suevonians,
Ausonians and Sitonians
(see Gen. 10:23).
3. Gether, younger son of Aram 60 2161-2101
4. Ubbo, who settled Upsal 101 2101-2000
Significantly, the date
2101 also brings Noah into
Italy again. The year 2000
is the time of the division
of Europe by Tuisto, king
of the Germans.
5. Siggo 10 2000-1990
Danish history declares that from this date -- 1990 -Scandinavia, and in particular Denmark, had Judges, rather than kings,
who governed for the space of 950 years. It was exactly 950 years until
1040 and the coming of king Odin -- Danus I of Denmark (see Danish
history).
Swedish history continues with names of famous Scandinavian Judges
-- in some cases they assumed the royal title. Bertius lists them as
follows:
6. Eric I, began in 1990 11. Biorn I
7. Uddo 12. Gethar II
8. Ale 13. Siggo II
9. Osten I 14. Berich or Eric
10. Karl or Charles I
MIGRATION OUT OF SWEDEN
Berich became king in 1511 according to Bertius. He ruled the
Goths 40 years. According to Jordanus, the historian of the Goths,
Berich led them out of Scandinavia to the Middle East. This is also the
period of the sudden appearance in Mesopotamia of the Gothic people -the Guti. (At that time, as in later days, the Goths were widely
scattered. Many had settled in the regions of Bactria northeast of
Mesopotamia; others had been in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.) Berich
or Eric appears in Greece in the Athenian list of kings. There his name
is Erichthonius He came to power in Athens the year of the Exodus -1487.
After Berich, Bertius' Swedish history preserves only one other
name -- the fifteenth in order -- Humulf. He is called the successor of
Berich. Swedish history does not pick up again until the time of
Humble, son of Danus I of Denmark.
At this point in Swedish history Bertius has placed his list
upwards of between two and three centuries too early. His confusion
arose from misunderstanding who Danus I of Denmark was. There was an
earlier Danus -- in the 1200's. He led the Tuatha De Danaan (who had
come from Greece in the time of Jabin king of Canaan) from Scandinavia
to Scotland and then into Ireland. That Danus was not Danus I of
Denmark.
RENEWED MIGRATION
Swedish history recommences after the period of judges, just after
the time of Danus I. Danus led a Hebrew-Trojan migration to
Northwestern Europe.
Properly restored from a comparison with contemporary Danish
history, Bertius' list of Swedish rulers should appear as follows:
16. Humble, son of Danus I (8) (999- 991)
of Denmark.
The figure and date at
the right are from Danish
history Bertius gives
no figure.
17. Gothlias (40) (991- 951)
the whole of the land. Only the following list of names is recorded for
the intervening period.
33. Tordo I
34. Gotharus
35. Adolphus, son of Gotharus
36. Algodus I
37. Erich II
38. Lindornus, son of Eric II
39. Alrich or Abric
He became king of Sweden
in the days of Augustus
Caesar. Following his
murder Eric III ascended
the throne.
40. Eric III 22 18 B.C. to A.D. 5
Bertius gives the longer (or 79) 75 B.C. to A.D. 5
figure, which must indicate
that a lengthy struggle for
the kingship occurred in
the days of Alrich and Eric.
Hereafter there is a consecutive
list of kings. The political
stability of Sweden returned.
Swedish history now continues to the time of Njord or Nearch -256. The following list of Swedish kings may be readily found in James
Anderson's "Royal Genealogies." Unfortunately the author failed to take
note of no Year 0. Consequently all these Swedish kings are dated one
year too early! The corrected dates are below.
41. Godrich 30 5- 35
42. Haldan I 36 35- 71
43. Filmer 14 71- 85
44. Nordian 16 85- 101
45. Siward I 31 101- 132
46. Charles II 38 132- 170
47. Erich IV 12 170- 182
48, Haldan II (Bergiamus), 13 182- 195
died without heir
49. Unguin 9 195- 204
He ruled Denmark 146-155.
He came to the Swedish
throne in his old age.
50. Ragwald 17 204- 221
to rule.
121. Ragnald, king of the Upper
Swedes during period of
confusion.
122. Mangus I, a Danish prince, 4 1130-1134
king of West Gothland
123. Swecher II, chosen in 1133, began to reign in 1134 (see
"Encyclopaedia Britannica," eleventh edition, art. "Sweden"). Most
thorough histories on Sweden are complete and accurate from this
period. A helpful work to consult is the "History of Sweden" by
Cronholm. Some dates may vary because the end of reign does not always
mark the date of death.
SAXON HISTORY
Saxon history is intimately tied to the history of Denmark and
especially Sweden. The Saxon throne in England today goes back to the
same royal lines that anciently governed Denmark and Sweden. Each
ultimately stems from the Jewish Trojan House of Darda or Dardanus.
Let us pick up our investigation of this Jewish royal family that
came from Troy to Denmark under Odin or Danus I in 1040. In the chapter
on Danish history the records of Iceland and Phoenicia proved that
Jacob or Israel was the ancestor of the ancient Trojan royal house.
From Israel the line descended through Judah and Zarah to Dardanus.
Dardanus carved out an important inheritance for himself at Troy. The
lineage of Dardanus is brought down after the first fall of Troy for
several generations to Sceaf or Odin (Danus) in the Icelandic records.
From the Danish royal house the following branch sprang, giving rise to
the Saxon royal house that today governs England.
This collateral line is preserved in the old "Saxon Chronicle" and
in the Icelandic Langfedgatal. Spellings vary slightly, and not every
generation is recorded in each.
For that matter neither did Matthew record every generation of
Jesus' lineage. This list commences with Shem, son of Noah and
continues with
Sceaf or Odin I (1040-999) Beu
Beadwig Gearwa
Wala Fingondwelf
Hathra Frederewelf
Itermond Freolf
Heremod Fredewald
Celdwa Woden (256-300)
This Odin -- only a part of whose ancestors appear above -- is a
famous hero in all Scandinavian literature His fame rests upon having
led a vast multitude from the Near East, on the borders of the Roman
Empire, to Northwest Europe. The real name of Woden was Bodo. He is
found also listed among the early princes of Saxony The following list
preserves the traditional chronology and genealogy of Bodo's immediate
ancestors who ruled the Saxons to the time of Bodo the Woden.
Kings Over the Saxons Lengths of Reign Dates
1. Harderich 93 90 B.C. to A.D. 4
2. Anserich 4 4- 8
3. Wilke I 22 8- 30
4. Svarticke I 46 30- 76
5. Svarticke II 4 76- 80
6. Sigward 20 80- 100
7. Witekind I 6 100- 106
8. Wilke II 84 106- 190
9. Marbod 66 190- 256
10. Bodo or Woden 44 256- 300
His queen was named Frea.
From Bodo sprang, among many others, the following princes after
300:
11. Witte I 50 300- 350
12. Witte II 50 350- 400
13. Witigislus 34 400- 434
14. Hengist 14 434- 448
Hengist traditionally sailed to England in 449 and established
several sons on thrones over the various divisions of the Anglo-Saxons.
They finally united into the single royal house that now, through many
intermarriages, rules the British Isles. In his continental realm
Hengist left his son Hartwaker who ruled 32 years -- 448-480. The line
continued in Saxony in Germany until Witekind II, the Great -- 768-785.
Witekind was conquered by Charlemagne in 785.
CHAPTER XIV
THE HISTORY OF ARABIA
Arabia may be blanketed by arid plateaus and inhospitable deserts.
But Arabia is also a vast land inhabited by many different tribes. Few
have ever compared it with Europe. Many of the great nations of Europe
would be lost in Arabia's solitudes.
Arabia also has its past history -- one which joins together and
confirms the accounts of neighboring nations. Arabia borders -- by land
and sea -- on Mesopotamia and Persia, on Syria and Palestine and on
Egypt and Ethiopia. Whatever happened in the heartland of the ancient
world inevitably affected the trade routes of Arabia.
Year 40 1881-1880
Tholatsandra Year 1 1881-1880
Year 33 1849-1848
Tsandathuriyatsandra Year 1 1849-1848
Year 37 1813-1812
Kalatsandra Year 1 1813-1812
Year 40 1774-1773
Titsandra Year 1 1774-1773
Year 31 1744-1743
Madhuthatsandra Year 1 1744-1743
Year 20 1725-1724
Dzeyatsandra Year 1 1725-1724
Year 40 1686-1685
Mokkhatsandra Year 1 1686-1685
Year 26 1661-1660
Gunnatsandra Year 1 1661-1660
Year 12 1650-1649
Three Usurpers in one 1650-1649,
calendar year. ending early
Indian
nonaccessionyear reckoning
At this point the names of kings ending in -sandra cease. The
succeeding centuries of Indian history may be found restored in Volume
I of the Compendium. The migration in 1649 of Mongoloid peoples out of
India to Arakan in Burma was a consequence of the war with Assyria in
1649.
CHAPTER XV
THE MIRACLE OF THE RED SEA
Did the children of Israel really cross the Red Sea? We are told
in the Bible that Israel fled Egypt during the Days of Unleavened
Bread. That they were driven out because the Egyptians had been
supernaturally punished by God.
But at the last minute, Pharaoh changed his mind! It took yet
another miracle to deliver the children of Israel out of Egypt, says
the Bible -- the "miracle of the Red Sea."
Did this miracle really happen?
DO MIRACLES HAPPEN TODAY?
It is time Christians recognized it takes a miracle today to
separate from this world, to come out of this world's society, and to
live as God has ordained! Those who say that the miracle of the Red Sea
did not happen are the same people who today say we do not have to rely
on any supernatural power to overcome this world.
The supreme lesson to be learned from the Days of Unleavened Bread
is that, after Christ has passed over our mistakes and overlooks our
past, we have to go through a period of separating from this world -and in this process we cannot extricate ourselves from this world
without a divine miracle. This miracle is something that God, not man,
has to perform -- just as God performed, according to the Scripture,
the miracle of the Red Sea! God told the children of Israel, "Stand
still, and see the salvation of the Lord."
Now consider the story of what really took place during the seven
days of Unleavened Bread -- from the time the children of Israel left
the land where they observed the Passover to the time they crossed he
Red Sea.
Modern critics have all kinds of theories as to the directions the
children of Israel took when they journeyed in Egypt from the city of
Rameses, where they met at the night of the Festival, to the Red Sea.
One sometimes wonders where the children of Israel would have been
taken had all the modern critics instead of Moses led them from
Pharaoh!
What portion of the land of Egypt did Israel journey through upon
leaving? What is the route of the Exodus? Did the crossing of the Red
Sea really occur?
BACKGROUND OF THE STORY
The background of the story is found in Genesis 15:18. "In the
same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed
have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river,
the river Euphrates."
Is this "river of Egypt" the Nile?
Some modern critics tell us "no." They claim it is, instead, a dry
river bed, which flows only in the winter, in midst of the Sinai
peninsula.
But the Bible plainly declares it is the River of Egypt, not the
river of the Sinai peninsula. It is not the river of the Philistines.
It is the river of Egypt!
There is only one river of Egypt -- the Nile.
God gave Abraham's descendants dominion to the river of Egypt, not
a dry river bed in the middle of the Sinai desert. His descendants -the British and other Western Europeans -- built the Suez Canal.
The very fact that God used Israel to bulled the Suez Canal is in
itself proof that the children of Israel should possess the land of
Egypt about Suez to the Nile!
Did you notice that Joseph was not in the land of Goshen? Joseph
dwelt where Pharaoh was. And Pharaoh was at Memphis, the capital of
lower Egypt. "Joseph made ready his chariot, AND WENT UP TO MEET
Israel
his father." He went up to Goshen. He was going NORTH. Therefore, the
land of Goshen was NORTH of the capital of Egypt at this time.
Now verses 33 and 34 of Genesis 46: "And it shall come to pass,
when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation?"
-- Joseph instructs his father to say this -- "That ye shall say, Thy
servants' trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now,
both we, and also our fathers; that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen;
for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians." Egyptians
often hired foreigners to tend to their cattle. So the purpose was to
have the children of Israel dwell in the land of Goshen to tend cattle
there.
Chapter 47, verge 5 continues the story. "And Pharaoh spake unto
Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee: The
land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father
and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if
thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over
my cattle."
Did you notice that Pharaoh said to the children of Israel, "The
land of Egypt is before you, the best of the land, the land of Goshen."
This is the portion of Egypt that Pharaoh is actually turning over to
the children of Israel because of what Joseph did!
Remember, God told Abraham that his descendants were going to
control land to the river of Egypt -- the Nile. This is how God began
to fulfill that promise!
Now to verse 10: "And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from
before Pharaoh. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave
them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the
land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded."
The best of the land, in verse 6, is called "the land of Goshen,"
while in verse 11, it is called "the land of Rameses."
Obviously, then, the land of Goshen and the land of Rameses are
the same! It is the best of all the land of Egypt.
THE LAND OF RAMESES
One of the titles belonging to rulers of Egypt was "Rameses." This
title, one of several applied to the rulers of Egypt, existed from the
beginning of Egyptian history -- long before the Pharaoh "Rameses the
Great" of history, who actually began to reign in 773 (see Vol. I of
the Compendium).
there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there
was not one dead. And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said,
Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the
children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as ye have said. Also take
your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me
also. And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might
send them out of the land in haste; for they said (if they were to stay
there any longer), We be all dead men."
In verses 34 and 35 the story continues. "The children of Israel
next night -- the 15th of Abib -- having "spoiled the Egyptians" and
driven their cattle, the Israelites came to the city of Rameses.
Stop for the moment and consider these facts. God told Moses, "Go
not out of your houses until the morning."
Moses and Aaron naturally would have remained in their house this
night -- all of the night of the 14th. But Pharaoh, who was not a
firstborn son, came out of his house by night to find Moses and urge
him and all Israel to leave.
Modern critics tell us that Pharaoh at this time lived in the city
of Thebes in upper Egypt, the land of ancient Sheba. But they are all
wrong! Pharaoh's headquarters was at the city of Memphis. The ruling
dynasty in Moses' day came from Xois in the Delta, but the capital of
all lower Egypt was at Memphis. This is where the government
administration originated. It was at Memphis that Pharaoh that night
rose up and went to Moses, and said, "Get out of the land and all your
people, and he was urgent on them."
Pharaoh could not have been far from where Moses was. That very
night, he saddled his camel and went to Moses and Aaron! Wherever the
children of Israel observed the Passover was a place very near the city
of Memphis!
Remember, Israel dwelt in all the land of Goshen, but they had
assembled in one particular area to keep the Passover. From this area
they journeyed on the daylight part of the 14th of Abib to the city of
Rameses, and met there the next night, the night of the 15th!
THE NIGHT OF THE EXODUS
"The children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about
six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children. And a
mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even
very much cattle" (Ex. 12:37-38).
From here the children of Israel left on the night of the 15th!
(Deut. 16:1).
Numbers 33:3 makes it even plainer. The children of Israel
"departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the
first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel
went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians."
Between the morning after the Passover and the next night, "the
children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they
borrowed of the Egyptians Jewels of silver, and Jewels of gold, and
raiment: And the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians, so that they lent unto them," that is, paid them, "such
things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians," that is, they
took their wages that the Egyptians withheld from them for nearly two
centuries.
Then they gathered at Rameses. Where was this city?
Let us read what Josephus plainly tells us. Josephus, "Antiquities
of the Jews", Book II, Chapter XV. "So the Hebrews went out of Egypt,
while the Egyptians wept, and repented that they had treated them so
hardly ... Now they took their journey by Letopolis, a place at that
time deserted, but where Babylon was built afterwards, when Cambyses
laid Egypt waste." So Rameses was the city of Letopolis, which later
under Persian rule, was called the city of Babylon. Did you know there
was also a Babylon in Egypt as well as in Mesopotamia where Nimrod
started his kingdom?
(NOTE: To view the chart placed here, see the file CMPDM2F.TIF in the
Images\OtherWCG directory.)
What city is this today? Josephus, writing in Greek, calls this
the city of Letopolis -- a Greek name for Rameses. Polis means city in
Greek. A metropolis is a "mother city." So Letopolis was the city of
Letona -- one of the names of Semiramis or Easter, the Queen of Heaven.
It is the same from which Latin has come. So this was one of the cities
dedicated anciently to the Queen of Heaven. No wonder it was also
called Babylon later!
"Smith's Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography" says
of the city of Babylon in Egypt that it "is in later times called
Fostat OR OLD CAIRO, a fortress in lower Egypt on the right bank of the
Nile exactly opposite to the pyramids of Giza, and at the beginning of
the canal which connected the Nile with the Red Sea.
The city of Rameses, built by the children of Israel in honor of
the Pharaoh, was Letopolis, the very city which today the Mohammedans
call Old Cairo!
Notice the accompanying map. God gave the children of Israel the
land all the way to the Nile River. The land east of the Nile toward
Palestine was the land of Goshen. That's where the cattle of Israel
were grazing.
The capital city of lower Egypt was Memphis. That is where Pharaoh
had his court.
Book I, Chapter 26. Near these quarries on the east of the Nile
opposite Memphis is an area called "Mera-vad-Musa, or the 'Habitation
(or dwelling) of Moses.' " Moses was the leader and as he communicated
back and forth with Pharaoh it is logical that opposite Memphis, where
many of the lesser pyramids were built, Moses should have his
headquarters -- to this day bearing the name, "the Habitation of
Moses."
Now continuing with the "Imperial Bible Dictionary": "From thence
(that is, Mera-vad-Musa or the "Habitation of Moses") they moved
northward, passing, as Josephus says, by ancient Babylon or Old Cairo,
and then by or over the city of modern Cairo, proceeding along the
direct route to the land of Canaan, as far as Succoth, or Berket el
Hadj, the 'Pool of the Pilgrims' ..." "Succoth" merely means booths
-- or an encampment. It was there Moslem pilgrims, to this day, can go
from Egypt over to Mecca, the holy city of the Mohammedan religion.
It is on the way that led out of Egypt to the wilderness of the
Red Sea.
But let us go on to Numbers 33 and read the rest of the account.
"And they departed from Rameses (Old Cairo) in the first month, on the
fifteenth day of the first month ... and went out with a high hand in
the sight of all the Egyptians. For the Egyptians buried all their
firstborn, which the Lord had smitten among them: upon their gods also
the Lord executed judgments. And the children of Israel removed from
Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
"And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in
the edge of the wilderness. And they removed from Etham, and turned
again (literally turned back) unto Pihahiroth, which is before
Baalzephon: and they pitched before Migdol. And they departed from
before Pihahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the
wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham,
and pitched in Marah."
The miracle of the Red Sea! Did it really happen?
WHAT ROAD DID ISRAEL TAKE?
Now let us pick up the story with Exodus 13:17: "And it came to
pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through
the way of the land of the Philistines." Here we have the first of
several highways named.
In ancient Egypt there were major roads which went out of Egypt.
One was "the way of the Red Sea" which was southeast from the Delta.
Another was "the way of Etham," or "the wilderness of Shur" which went
from Egypt through Beersheba. It was the road by which Jacob came down
into Egypt. The third is "the way of the land of the Philistines" which
went up from the coast through Gaza by the Mediterranean. See the
accompanying map.
As Israel was proceeding north through Old Cairo, they could have
easily taken the way, or the highway of the Philistines -- the
Philistine highway.
Many assume that this road must have been by the Mediterranean.
They are wrong! The way of the land of the Philistines extended far
into Egypt.
While the Israelites were still in Egypt, they could have traveled
by the road that led northward to the land of the Philistines. But,
instead of taking that, near as it was, God said, "Lest peradventure
the people repent when they see war, and return to Egypt," God led the
people about through the way of the wilderness of the Red Sea.
This is another road. This is the most southerly of the three
major roads in Egypt. Instead of taking the northerly route which would
have taken them through the land of the Philistines, or the middle
route in an easterly direction through Beersheba, they took the road
leading southeast into Sinai and Arabia. God led them, not straight
north, but through the way of the Red Sea.
This is the common road that even to this day the Moslem pilgrims
take to the holy city of Mecca in Arabia. It is a road that has been
used from the very beginning of time when human beings have dwelt in
the land of Egypt.
Continuing: "And the children of Israel went up harnessed (or, in
ranks of five) out of the land of Egypt" marching up the road. "And
Moses took the bones of Joseph (perhaps from the Great Pyramid just
west of Old Cairo?) with him: for he had straightly sworn the children
of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my
bones away hence with you. And they took their journey from Succoth,"
the first stopping point on this road which went toward the Red Sea.
And from there, they took their journey "and encamped in Etham, in the
edge of the wilderness (of Sinai)."
At this point, they could have gone straight out of Egypt into
Sinai, and Pharaoh never could have caught them! All they had to do was
to follow the road just as the Arabs do today -- out of Egypt through
the Sinai peninsula down through Arabia to Mecca.
Here they were at the border of Egypt, just north of the Red Sea,
not by the Mediterranean. What happened next?
Now "the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to
lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them
light; to go by day and night" (Ex. 13:21). It took them the seven days
of Unleavened Bread to leave Egypt altogether.
God "took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar
of fire by night, from before the people" (verse 22). "And the Lord
spake unto Moses (Ex. 14:1-2), saying, Speak unto the children of
Israel, that they turn (don't continue, but turn sharply to the right)
and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against
Baalzephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea." They now camp by the
seashore.
WHERE ARE THESE PLACES?
The "Imperial Bible Dictionary" tells us again.
"Pihahiroth, therefore, must have been the name of some natural
locality, such as a mountain, or a range of mountains, a cliff,
precipice, cape or promontory. It is said of the children of Israel,
when (they were) overtaken by Pharaoh at the Red Sea, that they were
entangled in the land, being shut in by the 'wilderness' or mountains
(Ex. 14:3)."
Israel could not have gone farther in its line of march. Pharaoh
had them bottled up in front of the Pihahiroth range of mountains! Did
God make a mistake in leading them by the hand of Moses?
Israel ended up on an area at the upper portion of the Red Sea by
the Gulf of Suez where there is a huge mountain range that comes right
down to the sea. When they got into this area, it was like entering a
bag. They could not go any farther by land. The only place they could
go was out into the water because the mountain range comes right down
to the seashore.
Opposite Pihahiroth was Baalzephon. This must have been a city
where Baal was worshipped. Zephon means "the north." This was "Baal of
the North" -- the Baal that comes down from the north pole, clad in red
and white every December 25! This was the ancient seat of Santa Claus
worship.
They also camped near Migdol. Where was it?
Trumbull, in his book called "Kadesh-Barnea", page 377, reveals
something about the city of Migdol: "A short distance to the northwest
of Suez ... there is a station, or a pass, known as El Maktal" -- the
Migdol. "It is directly on the line of the Hajj, route." The Hajj is a
modern Arabic term for "the way of the Red Sea." The modern El Maktal
is "near the track noted ... as the 'Way of the Bed'ween into Ancient
Egypt.' " "Wilkinson judged 'from its name and position,' that this
represents 'the Migdol of the Bible.' "
As they encamped before Pihahiroth, which is a mountain range, and
Baalzephon, then Baalzephon was on the north, and Pihahiroth was the
mountain range on the south. Then between Migdol, in the west, and the
Red Sea, in the east, there is an area large enough for the children of
Israel to be bottled up.
their horsemen. And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and
the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the
Egyptians fled against it."
Here was an area wide enough for 600 chosen chariots of the
Egyptians to race through, beside a great many troops in order to
capture the nearly 2,000,000 Israelite men, women and children. Verse
28, the waters "returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen,
and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there
remained not so much as one of them. But the children of Israel walked
upon dry land in the midst of the sea ... Thus the Lord saved Israel
that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians
dead upon the sea shore. And Israel saw that great work which the Lord
did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed
the Lord, and his servant Moses."
EGYPT LEFT DESOLATE
Pharaoh was dead. His army was slain. There was not one left.
There was not even a solitary messenger to tell the Egyptians what
happened (Ps. 106:11).
Read Exodus 15:4: "Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast
into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea. The
depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone. Thy
right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O
Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy."
God won the battle for the children of Israel. They were delivered
out of the land of Egypt. They now rested on the peaceful shores of
Sinai, where even today such names as "Ayn Musa" and "Ras Musa" testify
to the Exodus. (See the map.) Not one of the Israelites perished, but
all the Egyptians who pursued were overthrown.
Josephus adds some vivid details to the same story! "The number
that pursued after them was six hundred chariots, with fifty thousand
horsemen, and two hundred thousand footmen, all armed. They also seized
on the passages by which they imagined the Hebrews might fly, shutting
them up between inaccessible precipices and the sea; for there was ...
a (ridge of) mountains that terminated at the sea, which were
impassable by reason of their roughness, and obstructed their flight;
wherefore they there pressed upon the Hebrews with their army"
("Antiquities of the Jews", Josephus, Book III, ch. xv, sec. 3).
A few verses in Psalm 77 are worth reading at this point. "I will
remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of
old. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings"
(verse 11). What were God's doings?
We find them in verse 16: "The waters saw thee, O God, the waters
saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. The clouds
poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went
abroad. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings
lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Thy way is in the
sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron."
Thunder and rain and great lightning shook the land that night. In
early morning the waters just poured in on Pharaoh as his chariot
became stuck in the mud at the bottom of the sea -- and he is there to
this day!
Psalm 78 also tells us a little about it. Verse 12: "Marvellous
things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in
the field of Zoan." The word "field" here is properly translated
elsewhere as "country" or "kingdom."
The "land of Egypt" is "the field," or "the country," or "the
kingdom of Zoan." Zoan gave its name to Egypt because it was the
earliest city built in Egypt (Numbers 13:22 says that it was built 7
years after Hebron and was apparently the first city built in
post-flood Egypt).
The country of Egypt was named after Zoan just as Israel was often
named after Samaria, or Judah was named after Jerusalem.
The miracles that God wrought were in the land of Egypt -- in the
land of Zoan. They mean the same thing! These miracles did not occur in
some obscure field outside the city of Zoan near the Mediterranean!
EGYPT'S HISTORIANS ADMIT WHAT HAPPENED
That is the story of the miracle of the Red Sea. And it is
corroborated from the Egyptians' own record of history!
From the Exodus forward, Egypt was for almost four centuries
overrun by Amalekites (or Hyksos, the Egyptian word for "shepherds")
and punished for having enslaved the Israelites. Even as late as the
days of Saul and David the Amalekites dominated Egypt.
In I Samuel 30 David meets an Egyptian slave led by his Amalekite
master to die in the wilderness. "And David said to him, To whom
belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of
Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me ..." (verse
13).
The ancient Egyptian historian Manetho admits all this: "There was
a king of ours whose name was Timaus (a petty dynast) at the time of
the Exodus. Under him it came to pass, I know not how, that God was
averse to us, and there came after a surprising manner, men of ignoble
birth out of the eastern parts (the Amalekites), and had boldness
enough to make an expedition into our country, and with ease subdued it
by force, yet without our hazarding a battle with them ..." ("Against
Apion" by Josephus, Book I, Part 14).
So the historical record of Egypt, when rightly understood,
confirms the Bible. There was neither Pharaoh nor army left to defend
the country! They disappeared in the Red Sea without leaving a trace.
Not until the days of King Saul did Egypt recover her former power.
The miracle of the Red Sea did happen! The Bible is true!
CHAPTER XVI
JOURNEY TO PETRA
Why should the valley through Petra be named after Moses -- if
Moses was never there? Could it be that Moses and the children of
Israel actually assembled in Petra before entering the Promised Land?
Why are so many chapters in the Bible devoted to the minute
details of the journey of Israel from Egypt to Palestine? Have these
chapters hitherto undisclosed historical meaning?
AFTER MOUNT SINAI -- WHERE?
Today, almost no one supposes Israel ever saw Petra. Yet not more
than two centuries ago it was common knowledge among scholars that
Moses, Aaron, Miriam and the children of Israel journeyed through
Petra!
Now notice what really happened when Israel was about to leave
Mount Sinai. It is found in Numbers 10:11-12. "And it came to pass on
the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year (after the
Exodus), that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle .... And
the children took their journeys" -- the original Hebrew reads "set
forward by stages" (Jewish translation) -- "out of the wilderness of
Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran."
From Numbers 9:15 to 23, we learn that the encampments of Israel
were determined by the movement of the cloud above the tabernacle. When
the cloud was stationary, the people abode in their tents. When the
cloud ascended and moved forward, the people followed it. The Eternal
-- the God of Israel, who later came in the flesh as Christ -- was in
that cloud! He was leading Israel. He determined their movements. Where
did He take them? To "the wilderness of Paran," says Numbers 10:12.
But where is Paran?
Men assume it may mean the Sinai Peninsula, southwest of
Palestine. They are only guessing! They don't really know! Where does
the Bible say it is?
First, let's understand what the word "Paran" means. "Young's
Concordance" gives the surprising definition: "Full of caverns." Paran
comes from the Hebrew root meaning "to dig out," or "to cut out,"
the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil
in the sight of the Lord was consumed" (Numbers 32:13).
Kadesh was never referred to as Kadesh-barnea until after the
Israelites wavered in their faith and had to wander as a punishment
(Numbers 32:8). The significance of the name barnea, then, is "the
wandering sons."
Observe, now, in what mountain range Kadesh is to be found.
LOCATED IN MOUNT SEIR!
"And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and
dreadful wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill country of the
Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us: and we came to
Kadesh-barnea" (Deuteronomy 1:19).
The "hill country of the Amorites" is defined by Moffatt in Judges
1:36 as extending "from the Scorpion Pass ("Akrabbim" in King James
Version) to Sela and beyond it." Sela is Petra!
Consider another vital point. To reach Kadesh from Horeb or Sinai
(Horeb is another name for Sinai -- Malachi 4:4 and Deuteronomy
4:10-13), the usual eleven-day route went "by the way of Mount Seir"!
Or, in other words, Israel journeyed by the Mount Seir road! But where
is Mount Seir?
Mount Seir is that chain of mountains between Arabia and the
Arabah or "plain" mentioned so often in the Bible. It lies east of the
Arabah and extends from the Gulf of Aqaba north to near the Dead Sea.
Most maps in the back of a Bible will have these places located
correctly. These maps, however, misplace Kadesh. The "Kadesh" usually
located in the Sinai Peninsula is not the city Moses describes, but is
the "Kedesh" of Joshua 15:23 instead -- another place altogether.
Now consider this: if the wilderness of Paran and Kadesh were in
the Sinai Peninsula southwest of Palestine, there would be no reason
for traveling by the way of Mount Seir!
The only reason one would have to travel by the Way of Mount Seir
-- or by the Mount Seir Road -- is that Paran and Kadesh lay east of
the Sinai Peninsula -- in other words, in the vicinity of Petra!
Take another scripture -- Deuteronomy 1:6-7: "The Lord our God
spoke unto us in Horeb, saying: 'Ye have dwelt long enough in this
mountain; turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country
of the Amorites and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah
(in the King James Version it is called "the plain"), in the
hill-country, in the Lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore of
the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river
Euphrates' " (Jewish translation).
Did you notice that? Israel was to journey to the Amorite
hill-country, where Kadesh was located. From there they were to enter
the promised land from the east, to proceed westward to the shore of
the Mediterranean, and then go north to Lebanon and the Euphrates
(verse 21). The first part of the promised land they would enter was
the Arabah -- the wilderness just west of Petra in Mount Seir!
Here is just one more proof that Kadesh and the wilderness of
Paran were east of the Arabah -- east of the Sinai Peninsula -- in
Mount Seir, in the vicinity of Petra!
ISRAEL WHIPPED IN SEIR
But this is not all the evidence. Notice! When Israel refused to
trust God, He sternly told them: "Surely they shall not see the land
which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them see it"
(Numbers 14:23). Upon receiving this rebuke, they imperiously said:
"Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath
promised: for we have sinned. And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye
transgress the commandment of the Lord .... Go not up, for the Lord is
not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies .... But they
presumed to go up unto the hill top: ... Then the Amalekites came down,
and the Canaanites which dwelt in that hill, and smote them, and
discomfited them, even unto Hormah" (Numbers 14:40-45).
Notice where this disaster befell Israel. The people were defeated
even to Hormah. Where is Hormah?
"And the Amorites" -- who were Canaanites -- "came out against
you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto Hormah"!
(Deuteronomy 1:42-45.)
It was in Seir -- in the mountain range where Petra is located -that Israel was handed this severe defeat. This was not somewhere in
the Sinai wilderness. This was in Seir. The Bible says so!
YET ANOTHER PROOF!
Kadesh is also said to be located in "the Wilderness of Zin." "For
ye rebelled," God told Moses, "against my commandment in the desert of
Zin, in the strife of the congregation, to sanctify me at the water
before their eyes: that is the water of Meribah in Kadesh in the
wilderness of Zin" (Numbers 27:14).
Since Kadesh is located in the wilderness of Paran and in the
wilderness or Zin, it certainly appears that Zin and Paran are two
different names for the same wilderness, doesn't it? What does "Zin"
mean? Here is the answer!
The spies began to search the promised land from the city of
Kadesh-barnea. That is recorded in Deuteronomy 1:19-23. Kadesh was
their starting point. It was an important city on the border of the
(Deuteronomy 1:45-46).
God would not let them remain in Kadesh any longer. He was
determined that they were to leave that day for the wilderness, rather
than enter Palestine. They did not deserve the promised land. They
despised it. The many days of waiting, in which they dwelled in Kadesh,
comprised over forty long days. When the spies returned, they rebelled.
Thus, instead of entering the land of Canaan, Moses wrote: "Then we
turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red
sea, as the Lord spake unto me" (Deuteronomy 2:1).
The children of Israel now move southwest from Kadesh. They take
the road that leads to the Red Sea in order to journey into the
wilderness. This is the wilderness which they had asked to die in
(Numbers 14:2) -- and in it they were going to die! Moses called it
"that great and dreadful wilderness" -- the edge of which they passed
through when journeying from Sinai to Mount Seir (Deuteronomy 1:19).
This wilderness in the Sinai Peninsula has been called throughout
history simply Et Tih -- meaning "the Wilderness"; or Badiyat et-Tih
Beni Israel -- meaning "the Wilderness of the Wanderings of the
Children of Israel." This designation runs back in the Arabian
historians as far back as we have any track of their name for this
desert," says Trumbull, on page 67 of "Kadesh-barnea".
Nowhere in all the Bible is this area ever called Zin or Paran! It
is entirely mislabeled on most Bible maps today. Nearly thirty-seven
and one-half years were spent wandering in this desolate, arid region.
No notice is taken of any wilderness encampments during those years.
Only a few major events occurring during the period are recorded in
Numbers 15 through 19.
ENCAMPMENTS LISTED IN ORDER
Before we proceed further, let's consider Numbers 33. This entire
chapter is devoted to the encampments of the children of Israel. This
list of seemingly unimportant encampments may have far more importance
for us today than we dream! Everything is placed in the Bible for a
purpose!
Turn now to Numbers 33. Beginning with verse 1: "These are the
journeys of the children of Israel .... And Moses wrote their goings
out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord." Then
Moses lists the stopovers to Sinai (verse 15).
We have read in Deuteronomy 1:2 that the trip could be made from
Sinai to Kadesh in eleven days of normal travel. The Israelites took
longer, of course. Sometimes they remained a week (Numbers 12:15) or a
month (Numbers 11:20) in one location before moving.
In the list in Numbers 33, the name "Kadesh" appears only once as
The few children of Jaakan at Kadesh did not resist the Israelites
when Israel came to Kadesh the first time, or else they would not have
been there to meet the Israelites nearly forty years later! It appears
also that a few of the Kenites dwelt around Petra and dominated the
region. The Kenites had their strong dwelling place "in a rock" -- "in
Sela" according to the original Hebrew (Numbers 24:21). Sela is Petra.
Moses' father-in-law -- a priest himself -- was a Kenite (Judges 1:16)
probably from Sela, where the children of Jaakan also dwelt.
And is not this also an indication that Moses' experiences in the
wilderness for forty years prior to the exodus were to train him to
lead the nation Israel through Sinai to the safety of Kadesh on the
borders of Canaan?
But to return to Numbers 33 . After leaving Kadesh the first time,
the children of Israel did not need to stop at Mount Hor. They
proceeded southwest into the Arabah and came to Horhagidgad, then to
Jotbathah, then to Ebronah (verses 32-34), This took them into the
Sinaitic wilderness where no further encampments are recorded for about
thirty-seven years!
God saw no need to take out time with the route of their miserable
wanderings.
The account in Numbers 33 next picks up the journey of Israel from
Eziongeber to Kadesh again (verses 35, 36) about the beginning of the
fortieth year after the exodus.
THE RETURN TO KADESH
Thirty-nine years have now elapsed since the Exodus from Egypt.
"Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, to the
desert of Zin in the first month (of the fortieth year, according to
Josephus): and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam (the sister of
Moses) died there, and was buried there" (Numbers 20:1).
The Bible records that Miriam was buried in Kadesh. In William
Whiston's footnote in Josephus' "Antiquities of the Jews," Book IV,
Chapter IV, Section 7, we read that "her sepulchre is still extant near
Petra, the old capital city of Arabia Petraea, at this day; as also
that of Aaron, not far off"!
Now notice what happened next. "And there was no water for the
congregation: and they gathered themselves together against Moses and
against Aaron .... And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Take the rod,
and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and
speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his
water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so
thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts to drink."
Then "Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before
the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; must we fetch you
water out of this rock? And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod
he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the
congregation drank, and their beasts also."
"And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron. Because ye believed Me
not, to sanctify Me in the eyes of the children of Israel" -- God had
ordered Moses to speak to the rock, not to strike it, to show that it
was God alone who could produce the water at the precise moment -"therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I
have given them" (Numbers 20:2, 7-8, 10-12).
What rock is it that Moses struck?
It is SELA in Hebrew!
"SELA" ANOTHER NAME FOR PETRA
There are two Hebrew words commonly rendered rock. One is "sela,"
the other is "tsur." The word "tsur" may mean "a cliff, a rock, a
boulder."
When Moses struck "the rock in Horeb," thirty-nine years before,
he did not strike Sela or Petra. He struck "tsur"! Observe: "Behold,
I," spoke God to Moses, "I will stand before thee there upon the rock
(tsur) in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock (tsur), and there shall
come water out of it .... And he called the name of the place Massah
(meaning "temptation"), and Meribah (meaning "strife"), because of the
chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord
saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?" (Exodus 17:6-7).
This rock -- "tsur" -- is referred to spiritually in I Corinthians
10:4: "And they did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank
of that spiritual Rock that followed them (a better translation is
"went with them"): and that Rock was Christ."
The waters which sprang from the two different rocks, nearly
thirty-nine years apart, were both called "Meribah" (Exodus 17:7;
Numbers 20:13, 24). That has led some to confuse the events. Meribah
means "strife." In both instances the children of Israel strove with
God. To distinguish between the two, Moses was inspired to use the
expression "Meribah in Kadesh" (Numbers 27:14), or "Meribah-Kadesh"
(Deuteronomy 32:51), for the later strife over water at Sela.
About four months have now elapsed since Israel came to Kadesh the
second time. "And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation,
journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto Mount Hor. And the Lord spake unto
Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people" (Numbers 20:22-24).
WHERE DID AARON DIE?
Kadesh-barnea.
Surely Petra and Kadesh are the same from these verses!
Years later Judah had to recapture Petra after the Edomites
rebelled (II Kings 8:20; 14:7). Petra belonged to Israel. The capital
of Edom was not Petra, but Bozrah (Amos 1:12; Jeremiah 49:13, 22).
Petra was the gate by which Israel controlled their Edomite enemies.
Consider another important fact. Josephus, Eusebius and Jerome
wrote that the Aramaic, Assyrian and Arabic name for Petra was Rekem
("Antiquities", Book IV, Chapter VII, Section 1). Rekem comes from the
Arabic word for "rock." "But in the Aramaic versions Rekem is the name
of Kadesh," according to the "Encyclopaedia Britannica"! This
authority, under article "Petra," further states: "Sometimes the
Aramaic versions give the form Rekem-Geya (for Kadesh), which recalls
the name of the village El-ji, southeast of Petra."
So Petra is mentioned literally dozens of places in Scripture
after all!
CHAPTER XVII
WHERE DID THE TWELVE APOSTLES GO?
Why has the truth about the journeys of the twelve apostles been
kept from public knowledge?
We read plainly of Paul's travels through Cyprus, Asia Minor,
Greece, Italy. But the movements of the original twelve apostles are
cloaked in mystery.
Why?
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD!
Did it ever seem strange that most of the New Testament, following
the book of Acts, was written by Paul, and not by Peter?
Why, after Peter initiated the preaching of the gospel to the
Gentiles at the house of Cornelius (Acts 10 and 11), did he and others
of the twelve apostles suddenly vanish from view? And why only Peter
and John reappear, for a fleeting moment, in Jerusalem at the inspired
conference recorded in Acts 15?
We read, after Acts 15, only of Paul's ministry to the Gentiles.
Why? What happened to the twelve apostles? Let's understand!
There is a reason why the journeys of the twelve apostles have
been cloaked in mystery -- until now!
You probably have been told that Jesus chose the twelve disciples,
ordained them apostles, sent them, first to preach to the Jews. When
the Jews, as a nation, rejected that message, you probably have
supposed that they turned to the Gentiles. Nothing could be further
from the truth.
lands to which the twelve apostles journeyed. James wrote his book
about A.D. 60 (he was martyred about two years later according to
Josephus) The world was temporarily at peace -- cowed by the fear of
Roman military might. just prior to A.D. 60 only two areas of the world
were torn by wars and civil fightings. When you discover which areas
these were, you will have located where the Lost Ten Tribes, addressed
by James, were then living! All one need do is search the records of
military history for the period immediately before and up to the year
A.D. 60! The results will shock you! Those two lands were the British
Isles and the Parthian Empire! (See the accompanying map for the
location of Parthia.)
But these were not the only lands to which the exiled House of
Israel journeyed. Turn, in your Bible, to I Peter.
TO WHOM DID PETER WRITE?
To whom did Peter address his letters?
Here it is. "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers
scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia"
(I Peter 1:1).
These were not Gentiles. Peter was not the apostle to the Gentiles
(Galatians 2:8). Paul was. Peter was chief apostle to the lost sheep of
the House of Israel.
Notice the word "strangers." It does not mean Gentiles. The
original Greek is parepidemos. It means "a resident foreigner,"
literally, "an alien alongside." It refers not to Gentiles, but to
non-Gentiles who dwelt among Gentiles, as foreigners and aliens.
Abraham, for example, was a stranger, an alien, when he lived among the
Canaanite Gentiles in Palestine.
Peter was addressing part of the lost ten tribes who dwelt among
the Gentiles as aliens or strangers. He was not writing primarily to
Jews. He would not have addressed them as "strangers," for he himself
was a Jew.
Now notice the regions to which Peter addressed his letter. You
may have to look at a Bible map to locate them. They are all located in
the northern half of Asia Minor, modern Turkey. These lands lay
immediately west of the Parthian Empire!
Paul did not preach in these districts. Paul spent his years in
Asia Minor in the southern, or Greek half. "Yea, so have I strived,"
said Paul, "to preach the gospel, not where Christ was named, lest I
should build upon another man's foundation" (Romans 15:20). Paul did
not preach in the areas where Peter and others of the twelve apostles
had carried the gospel.
Nowhere in your New Testament can you find Paul preaching in
Syrians. Who were these so-called "White Syrians"? None other than the
House of Israel which had been carried into Assyrian captivity.
"Syria" was the Greek name for the whole eastern Mediterranean
coastal strip north of Judea. Because the House of Israel lived in
Palestine -- southern Syria in Greek terminology -- the Greeks called
them "White Syrians." By contrast, the dark-complexioned Arameans
remained in Syria and dwell there to this day.
When the Assyrians were compelled to migrate to Northern Asia
Minor, their former slaves -- the "White Syrians" or ten-tribed House
of Israel -- migrated with them! We find them still there in New
Testament times. To these people -- the lost sheep of the House of
Israel -- the strangers among the Assyrians (I Peter 1:1) -- the
apostle Peter addresses his first letter! Could anything be plainer?
The chief apostle to the House of Israel writing to a part of the ten
lost tribes dwelling among the Assyrians who originally carried them
captive!
We shall see later when and where these "lost sheep" migrated from
Asia Minor to Northwest Europe.
Now to draw back the curtain of history. See where each of the
twelve apostles preached. You'll be amazed at the revelation.
then buried on the Ostian Way. But are his remains still there?
Granted, too, that universal tradition declared the apostle Peter
was also brought to Rome in Nero's reign and martyred about the same
time.
Many pieces of ancient literature -- some spurious, some factual
-- confirm that Simon Magus, the false apostle, who masqueraded as
Peter, also died at Rome. The question is -- which Simon is buried
today under the Vatican? Is there proof that the bones of the apostles
Peter and Paul were moved from Rome, and are not there now?
Yes!
There is a reason the Vatican has been hesitant to claim the
apostle Peter's tomb has been found! They know that it is Simon Magus,
the false Peter, who is buried there, not Simon Peter the apostle. Here
is what happened In the year 656 Pope Vitalian decided the Catholic
Church was not interested in the remains of the apostles Peter and
Paul. The Pope therefore ordered them sent to Oswy, King of Britain!
Here is part of his letter to the British king:
"However, we have ordered the blessed gifts of the holy martyrs,
that is, the relics of the blessed apostles, Peter and Paul, and of the
holy martyrs Laurentius, John, and Paul, and Gregory, and Pancratius,
to be delivered to the bearers of these our letters, to be by them
delivered to you" (Bede's "Ecclesiastical History", bk. III, ch. 29).
Could anything be more astounding? The bones of Peter and Paul
(termed "relics" in the Pope's letter) sent by the Pope from Rome to
Britain -- to the land of Israel!
About a century and a half earlier Constantius of Lyons took the
relics of all the apostles and martyrs from Gaul and buried them in a
special tomb at St. Albans in Britain. (Life of St. Germanus.) Is it
significant that the work of God and God's College in Britain are in
St. Albans? Think that over.
AND ANDREW HIS BROTHER
Britain, after A.D. 449, was settled by hundreds of thousands of
new people not there in Peter's day. History knows them as Angles and
Saxons. They came originally from the shores of the Black Sea -- where
the House of Israel dwelt! In A.D. 256 they began to migrate from
northern Asia Minor along the shores of the Black Sea to the Cymbric
Peninsula (Denmark) opposite Britain. These were the people to whose
ancestors Peter wrote his epistles.
Which one of the twelve apostles preached to their ancestors -the so-called "White Syrians" -- while they abode by the Bosporus and
on the Black Sea? Listen to the answer from Greek historians:
"In this division Andrew had Scythia, and the neighboring
work)
Note it. Yet another apostle sent to the lost sheep of the House
of Israel ends in the British Isles -- in Ireland as well as in
Britain!
Eusebius, in his third book of "Evangelical Demonstrations",
chapter 7, admitted that the apostles "passed over to those which are
called the British Isles." Again he wrote: "Some of the Apostles
preached the Gospel in the British Isles." Could anything be plainer?
Even in Spain James spent some time. Why Spain? From ancient times
Spain was the high road of migration from the eastern Mediterranean Sea
to the British Isles. The ancient royal House of Ireland for a time
dwelt in Spain. The prophet Jeremiah passed through Spain into Ireland
with Zedekiah's daughters (Jeremiah 41:10; 43:6). Even today a vital
part of the Iberian Peninsula -Gibraltar -- belongs to the birthright
tribe of Ephraim -- the British!
PAUL IN BRITAIN, TOO?
Turn, now, to added proof of the apostles' mission to the lost
sheep of the House of Israel in the British Isles. From an old volume,
published in 1674, by William Camden, we read: "The true Christian
Religion was planted here most anciently by Joseph of Arimathea, Simon
Zelotes, Aristobulus, by St. Peter, and St. Paul, as may be proved by
Dorotheus, Theodoretus and Sophronius." ("Remains of Britain," page 5)
Paul is now included! Had Paul planned to go from Italy into Spain
and then Britain? ... Here is his answer: "... I will come by you into
Spain" (Rom. 15:28). Clement of Rome, in his letter to the Corinthians,
confirms Paul's journey to the West. But did that include Britain?
Listen to the words of the Greek church historian Theodoret. He
reports: "That St. Paul brought salvation to the isles that lie in the
ocean" (book i, on Psalm cxvi. p. 870). The British Isles.
But was that merely to preach to the Gentiles? Not at all.
Remember that the third and last part of Paul's commission, after he
revealed Christ to the kings and rulers at Rome, was to bear the name
of Jesus to the "children of Israel" (Acts 9:15) -- the Lost Ten
Tribes. This is not a prophecy concerning Jews, whom Paul had
previously reached in the Greek world of the eastern Mediterranean.
This is a prophecy of Paul's mission to the British Isles! Could
anything be more astounding?
ON THE SHORES OF THE CASPIAN SEA
James referred to Israel as scattered abroad. We have found them
in Northwest Europe. And in North Africa, from whence they migrated
into Britain in the fifth century And in northern Asia Minor,
associated with the Assyrians. In 256 they began to migrate from the
regions of the Black Sea to Denmark, thence into the British Isles in
449.
But remnants of the Ten Lost Tribes were yet in another vast
region beyond the confines of the Roman Empire. That region was known
as the Kingdom of Parthia.
Who the Parthians were has long remained a mystery. They suddenly
appear near the Caspian Sea around 700 B C. as slaves of the Assyrians.
"According to Diodorus, who probably followed Ctesias, they passed from
the dominion of the Assyrians to that of the Medes, and from dependence
upon the Medes to a similar position under the Persians." (Rawlinson's
"Monarchies," Vol. IV, p. 26, quoted from Diod. Sic., ii 2, 3; 34, 1
and 6.)
The Parthians rose to power around 250 B.C. in the lands along the
southern shores of the Caspian Sea. That was the very land into which
Israel was exiled! What puzzles historians is that the Parthians were
neither Persians, nor Medes, nor Assyrians or any other known people.
Even their name breathes mystery -- until you understand the Bible.
The word Parthian means exile! (See Rawlinson's "The Sixth
Monarchy," page 19.) The only exiles in this land were the ten tribes
of Israel! The Parthians included none other than the exiled Lost Ten
Tribes who remained In the land of their captivity until A D. 226.
That's when the Persians drove them into Europe.
Now consider this. James addressed his letter to the twelve tribes
of Israel scattered abroad. He warns the Israelites against the wars
being waged among themselves. When James wrote his letter about A.D. 60
the world was at peace except for two regions -- Britain and Parthia!
There is no mistaking this. Parthia and Britain were Israelite.
Which of the twelve apostles carried the gospel to the Parthian
Israelites?
The Greek historians reveal that Thomas brought the gospel to
"Parthia, after which Sophornius and others inform us, that he preached
the gospel to the Medes, Persians, Carmans, Hyrcani, Bactrians, and the
neighbor nations" (Cave's "Antiq. Apost.", p. 189).
These strange sounding names are the lands we know today as Iran
(or Persia) and Afghanistan. In apostolic days the whole region was
subject to the Parthians.
Though many Israelites had left the region already, multitudes
remained behind, spread over adjoining territory. They lost their
identity and became identified with the names of the districts in which
they lived.
Josephus, the Jewish historian, was familiar with Parthia as a
major dwelling place of the Ten Tribes. He declares: "But then the
entire body of the people of Israel (the Ten Tribes) remained in that
country (they did not return to Palestine); wherefore there are but two
tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes
are beyond Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to
be estimated by numbers" ("Antiq. of the Jews", bk. xi, ch. v, 2).
There it is! The very area to which Thomas sojourned was, reports
Josephus, filled with uncounted multitudes of the Ten Tribes! Josephus
was, apparently, unaware of those who had already migrated westward.
But he does make it plain that only the House of Judah ever returned to
Palestine. The House of Israel was "beyond Euphrates till now"!
Parthia was defeated by Persia in 226 A.D. Expelled from Parthia,
the Ten Tribes and the Medes moved north of the Black Sea, into
Scythia. (See R. G. Latham's "The Native Races of the Russian Empire,"
page 216.) From there, around A.D. 256, the Ten Tribes migrated with
their brethren from Asia Minor into Northwest Europe. This migration
was occasioned by a concerted Roman attack in the east. It backfired on
the Romans, for hordes of Israelites and Assyrians suddenly broke
through the Roman defenses in the West that same year!
Thomas also journeyed into Northwest India, east of Persia, where
the "White Indians" dwelt. These "White Indians" -- that is, whites
living in India -- were also known as "Nephthalite Huns," in later
Greek records. Any connection with the tribe of Naphtali? They were
overthrown in the sixth century and migrated into Scandinavia. The
archaeology of Scandinavia confirms this event.
Bartholomew shared, with Thomas, the same vast plains, according
to Nicephorus. Bartholomew also spent part of his time in neighboring
Armenia and a portion of Upper Phrygia in Asia Minor. Nicephorus termed
the area, in his history, the "Western and Northern parts of Asia," by
which he meant Upper Asia Minor, modern Turkey today. This was the same
district to which Andrew carried the gospel, and to which Peter sent
two of his letters.
Jude, also named Libbaeus Thaddaeus, had part in the ministry in
Assyria and Mesopotamia. That is part of Parthia which Josephus
designated as still inhabited by the Ten Tribes. The Parthian kingdom,
which was composed of the Ten Tribes ruling over Gentiles, possessed
Assyria and Mesopotamia during most of the New Testament period. From
the famous city Babylon, in Mesopotamia, Peter directed the work of all
the apostles in the East (Parthia).
Scythia and Upper Asia (meaning Asia Minor) were the regions
assigned to Philip. (See Cave's "Antiq. Apost.", p. 168). Scythia was
the name of the vast plain north of the Black and the Caspian Seas. To
this region a great colony of Israelites migrated after the fall of the
Persian Empire in 331. From Scythia migrated the Scots. The word Scot
WHY HYPOTHESES?
Can the facts of geology, of archaeology, of human history and the
Bible be reconciled? Not if the method of study now in vogue in the
educational world is used! Crowning the heap of discarded theories with
another hypothesis will not resolve the problems.
Yet a solution is possible. The facts of geology, of archaeology,
of human history and the Bible are reconcilable. It is the hypotheses
and theories of Science and Theology that are not! No one, caught up in
the vicious cycle of intellectual guessing, finds it easy to divorce
facts from hypotheses.
But once one is willing to do that, the gnawing questions of
science and history find answers.
Why haven't men been willing to face facts, and forget
the geologist does not know the age of fossil strata until he goes to
the paleontologist who studies the fossils!! Then how does the
paleontologist discover how old fossils are?
Simple! He turns to the evolution theory!
Life, the paleontologist tells the geologist, developed from the
very simplest cell into the varied complex creatures that inhabit the
earth today. "But what is the age of the fossils?" asks the geologist.
"Let me explain that," replies the paleontologist. "Evolution is a
very slow process. It may take millions of years for one species of
life to slowly develop into another totally different species. The age
of your strata are determined by how long we think it took that
particular species of fossils to develop. of course, we paleontologists
don't all agree on these details. You might get a different answer from
another paleontologist! After all, even though we all believe evolution
is a fact, we do not know exactly how it occurs -- or even the exact
order in which various species of life evolved."
And that, in simple language, is what happens!
The age of the fossils is guessed at by the paleontologist. The
source of his knowledge (or misknowledge) is not geology, but the
evolution theory. He takes it for granted. He assumes the theory is a
fact -- or reasons as if it were a fact. The geologist then deduces the
age of the strata from the assumed age of the fossils.
DISCARDING THE FACTS
All too often the geologist discovers that, according to the
assumed age of the fossils, "younger strata" are below "older strata"
-- in the wrong order -- reversed! "Oh, that's all right," the
paleontologist will conclude. "just consider that the strata were laid
in the right order and that later a fracture in the earth's crust
occurred which placed them in the wrong order."
"But there was no fracture or fault line in the deposits. The
strata were laid down exactly as I found them."
"Don't let that concern you," the paleontologist might tell the
geologist. "You are at liberty to insert fracture or fault lines where
there were none, and to remove them where you plainly saw them. After
all, the evolution theory explains what happened even if you did not
find the evidence!"
That is THE WAY evolutionary science is practiced.
This illustration was in fact presented in a public lecture in one
of the most famous institutions of higher learning in Southern
California.
The geologist giving the lecture added this word of advice: "It is
better not to go to different paleontologists. Otherwise there will be
and flowering trees. Why the sudden appearance of new kinds of life?
What is the meaning of this break in the geological horizon? Is it
mentioned in the Bible?
Most scientists and historians never looked to see. The
theologians never stopped to investigate. But the facts are plain for
all to see. There has been no past evolution of living matter.
CONFIRMATION OF GENESIS ONE
Genesis 1 has been woefully misunderstood. "Creation Week" is not
the record of the original creation of matter, but an account of
re-creation!
The first chapter of Genesis contains two distinct accounts.
The first two verses are a brief account of the creation of matter
and physical energy -- of a beautiful earth fit for habitation -- "in
the beginning." The second account is about the work of re-creation
following a frightful catastrophe which befell the first world. That
catastrophe is briefly summarized in verse 2 of Genesis 1. These
verses, according to the original inspired Hebrew text, read: "In the
beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth had
become without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the
deep."
God created the world fit for habitation. It was not created a
waste. Isaiah 45:18 reveals: "... God himself that formed the earth ...
he created it not in vain (the original Hebrew is the same as in
Genesis 1:2 -- meaning "not a waste"), he formed it to be inhabited."
The first or pre-Adamic creation was turned into a chaotic wreck.
Virtually all life perished. (Psalm 104: 28-29.) The whole face of the
earth was covered with water.
The Biblical record of Genesis 1:2 is confirmed by the enigmatic
break which scientists have found in the geological strata. The strata
below the break are the remains of the pre-Adamic world!
WHAT INTERNATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL YEAR REVEALED
For scores of years geologists assumed the ocean floors were the
quiet resting places of thousands of feet of mud and slime. Then came
the shocking truth. Those thousands of feet of mud were not there. The
geologists could hardly believe their eyes.
An immense catastrophe had befallen the earth.
Everywhere men sent down into the oceans their coring devices they
discovered the ocean depths had suffered a tremendous volcanic
upheaval.
To heighten the shock of the discovery, scientists found the
catastrophe had struck the ocean depths at the same moment in
geological history that it had struck the land masses. On land it had
been recognized as a worldwide break in the geological strata. To this
upheaval geologists assign the label "Cretaceous" -- meaning "chalky"
-- because of the nature of the chalky deposits in England where the
strata were first studied.
Geologists thought they would find strata in the sea below the
so-called "Cretaceous" deposits -- just as they find them on the
continents. They didn't. Reported Ericson and Wollin: "... no sediment
older than Upper Cretaceous time has been found in the ocean basins
because there is none there to find" ("The Deep and the Past", p. 266).
None to find? of course! On the ocean floors the world before man
has been buried under tremendous volcanic eruptions.
The authors continue:
"The paleontological and geophysical evidence tells in clear
enough language that some sort of drastic reorganization of the floors
of the oceans must have taken place toward the end of the Lower
Cretaceous Period .... We can be sure (that is usually a sure sign that
scholars, historians, and scientists are guessing) that this volcanic
transformation did not take place within the span of a few years; if it
had, all marine life would have come to a sudden end as a gargantuan
bouillabaisse of boiled fish. To avoid catastrophe of this sort, we
need only be more liberal with time; we have plenty of it at our
disposal ....
"Whence came the energy and why should its effect have been
concentrated at the beginning of the Upper Cretaceous?" (Pages
267-268.)
Read that astounding quote again!
The facts are plain! There was a singular catastrophe which
virtually ended all life between what geologists call the "Lower" and
"Upper Cretaceous" -- that is, the dividing line between the world
before Adam and the world since the creation of man.
Geologists throw around time as though it were a mere toy! By
giving themselves time enough they hope to alleviate the necessity of
accepting the truth of Genesis 1:2.
THE WORLD OF ADAM
To continue picking up the highlights of geology which confirm the
Biblical record -The second chapter of Genesis, verses 8 to 15, preserves a
remarkable account of the geography of the land of Eden where Man first
dwelt. Many Scripture passages indicate it was the land of Palestine,
with the Garden lying eastward in the vicinity of Jerusalem. Josephus,
the Jewish historian, confirms this picture in "Antiquities of the
Jews," I, i, 3.
In Eden sprang forth a vast stream of water that flowed eastward
through the Garden. It divided into four parts, three of which flowed
toward the north and east -- the other southward.
Where, in geological history, would one find this geographical
description of the river system of Palestine and the environs of
Jerusalem?
In the strata that geologists label "Upper Cretaceous"! In
Palestine it is the next geological event which follows the geological
break previously referred to. Jewish geologists, unaware of what they
have discovered, have even presented a simple sketch of this astounding
evidence. On page 35 of E. A. Speiser's "At the Dawn of Civilization"
is a geologic map of Palestine in the so-called "Upper Cretaceous."
Immediately to the east of Jerusalem may be seen in outline the area
through which the waters from the Garden flowed. The present Jordan
Valley and Dead Sea were not then formed.
With these geological points established in brief, it is not
difficult to place the subsequent geological and archaeological
deposits in their Biblical background.
The first few centuries of human life on earth are consequently
parallel with the "Upper Cretaceous" and "Tertiary" deposits of
geological science. These deposits are of course dated by evolutionary
scientists as millions of years old. Time, to them, means nothing.
Geologists have no means of dating accurately these deposits. They
assume their extreme antiquity because they first assumed the
evolutionary hypothesis to be a fact!
The Evolutionary hypothesis is not a fact. It has never been
proven and by its very nature can never be proven. Once evolution is
recognized for what it is -- a mere figment of human imagination -- the
whole geological timetable collapses!
THE SIN OF CAIN AND GEOLOGY
Cain is an important figure in theology. He is equally important
to history and geology. Geology? Indeed! As a result of the sin of Cain
the entire history of human society -- and the earth's surface -changed. Notice the Biblical record: "And now art thou cursed from the
earth ... when thou tillest the ground" -- Cain, says Josephus, sought
to gain his livelihood by farming methods which depleted the soil -"It shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive (or
wanderer) and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth" (Gen. 4:11-12).
God put a stop to Cain's way -- the way of getting. If Cain and
his heirs had been allowed to continue their agricultural pursuits,
soils all over the world would long ago have been rendered unfit for
cultivation. Human life might well have been snuffed out by mass
starvation.
The geological record tells us what God did to save the soil from
utter depletion. Mountain chains arose where there were none before.
Seas dried up. The balmy semi-tropical climate of the world rapidly
shifted into torrid and frigid zones. Wherever Cain wandered his
agricultural pursuits came to naught. When it should have rained, the
weather turned dry. Just as he was about to reap the ripening crop, a
storm blew in. Nothing turned out right. Cain was forced to turn to
hunting and gathering the sparse wild fruits and berries. He and the
generations who followed him eked out a wretched living. All this is
recorded in geology and archaeology.
In the so-called "Tertiary" geological deposits, which follow the
"Upper Cretaceous," immense surface changes are recorded. The climate
began to turn cooler. Desert regions developed in the wake of mountain
building. Pluvial and arid periods fluctuated.
"Tertiary" deposits are overlain by what geologists call
"Quarternary" or "Pleistocene" deposits. The climate in the northern
hemisphere became even colder. Vast snowfalls engulfed the regions now
labeled Canada and Europe on our maps. The Arctic zone expanded.
Fluctuations in sea level occurred. All along the continental shore
lines the changing beach levels left their mark. Many may still be seen
today. Geologists mislabel this pre-Flood period "Ice Ages."
This period witnessed the spread of human habitation around the
world. Giants appeared according to Genesis. Fossil remains of giant
human beings of this period have been found by geologists. This is the
time of so-called "Paleolithic Man," or "Neanderthal Man" and the
"Mousterian Culture," of the mammoth and reindeer hunters of the "Upper
Paleolithic." Their culture exactly fits the curse that befell Cain.
Cain and his descendants became wanderers and vagabonds over the face
of their earth. They were reduced to hunting and gathering because the
soil would not yield normal crops. These ancient changes in the weather
are a type of the changes of the weather now beginning to hit the earth
in this twentieth century!
With an increase in human population over the centuries, Cain saw
a way around his punishment. He reasoned that if he could monopolize
the salt trade, he could become rich. Every human being needs salt to
live. He headed for the region of the Dead Sea. There he built an
important city and surrounded it with walls. Josephus describes it in
detail. The Bible refers to it as the city of Enoch, which Cain built
and named in honor of his son (Gen. 4:17). Archaeologists have found it
-- the first walled city built before the Flood. On its site was later
built the post-Flood city of Jericho. The British archaeologist Miss
Kenyon has devoted much time and patience to the excavation of this
important discovery (see her book Digging Up Jericho).
At Jericho and all over the eastern Mediterranean lands rapid
changes in culture developed. Population increased. Many village sites
dot the countryside. Intermarriage of races was a consequence of the
family of Cain settling among the family of Seth in the Middle East.
Numerous fossil skeletons attest to this fact mentioned in Gen. 6:1-2.
The complete story of culture changes before the Flood may be
easily pieced together from Emmanuel Anati's "Palestine Before the
Hebrews," F. C. Hibben's "Prehistoric Man in Europe" and Speiser's
afore-quoted book. "The Bible and the Ancient Near East" provides the
proper sequence of cultures in its fourth chapter, "The Archaeology of
Palestine," by G. E. Wright. These and other studies make it clear that
the Flood occurred at the end of the geological epoch called the
"Pleistocene." The "Recent" which follows geologically is the
post-Flood world. This event is also marked in geological records by
the sudden disappearance of many forms of animal life -- especially the
mammoths.
EARLY POST-FLOOD WORLD
In archaeological parlance the pre-Flood world in the Middle East
drew to a close with the "Natufian," the "Tahunian," pre-pottery and
pottery Neolithic and related cultures.
As this dissertation is being written, important new discoveries
in Anatolia and Southeast Europe are adding to our knowledge of
so-called "Neolithic" culture just prior to the Flood. Already
archaeologists are aware that their designation "Neolithic" is a
misnomer. It was not a complex of cultures based on polished stone
without metals. Everywhere copper artifacts are, turning up in the
Middle East -- in Persia, in Greece and along the Danube, in Anatolia
and the fringes of Mesopotamian plains. Scripture makes plain that the
knowledge and use of copper alloys and iron characterized the closing
stages of the pre-Flood world (see Genesis 4:22).
These so-called Early Neolithic cultures are mistakenly dated (by
radio-carbon) to the last half of the sixth millennium and to the
fifth. Radio-carbon dates that are earlier than the 4300's 300 B.C.
generally belong to Pre-Flood societies. Those sites and artifacts
dated by archaeologists to the 4300's 300 and later appear in every
known instance to be of the post-Flood world. This indicates that
radio-carbon dates for the time of the Flood are about 2000 300 years
off!
The immediate post-Flood world is, in Mesopotamia and Palestine,
labeled by archeologists as a transitional "Neolithic-Chalcolithic"
7. Advenz 20 611-631
8. Akala Wedem 8 631-639
9. Germa Asafar 15 639-654
10. Zergaz 10 654-664
11. Dagena Mikael 26 664-690
12. Bahr Ekla 19 690-709
13. Gum 24 709-733
14. Asguagum 5 733-738
15. Latem 16 738-754
16. Talatam 21 754-775
17. Gadagosh 13 775-788
18. Aizar Eskakatir 1/2 day 788
19. Dedem 5 788-793
20, Wededem 10 793-803
21. Wudme Asfare 30 803-833
22. Armah 5 833-838
23. Degennajan 19 838-857
24. Gedajan 1 857-858
25. Gudit 40 858-898
26. Anbase Wedem 20 898-918
27. Del Naad 10 918-928
Twenty-seven sovereigns of the posterity of Kaleb
SOVEREIGNS ISSUED FROM ZAGWE
Ruler Length of Reign Dates
1. Mara Takla Haymanot, his 13 928- 941
regnal name was Zagwe.
2. Tatawdem 40 941- 981
3. Jan Seyum 40 981-1021
4. Germa Seyum 40 1021-1061
5. Yermrhana Kristos 40 1061-1101
6. Kedus Arbe (Samt) 40 1101-1141
7. Lalibala 40 1141-1181
8. Nacuto Laab 40 1181-1221
9. Yatbarak 17 1221-1238
10. Mayari 15 1238-1253
11. Harbay 8 1253-1261
Of the posterity of Mara Takla Haymanot (whose regnal name was
Zagwe) until the reign of Harbay eleven sovereigns reigned over
Ethiopia.
A JEWISH DYNASTY, WHICH WAS NOT RAISED
TO THE THRONE, DURING THE PERIOD
by others.
The names of all these kings (who were actually raised to the
throne) are, however, given below in order to maintain continuity,
together with the dates (according to our calendar) of their chequered
reigns.
Ruler Length of Reign Dates
1. Yasus 1 1787-1788
2. Takla Haymanot 1 1788-1789
3. Iskias 6 1789-1795
4. Baeda Maryam 2 1795-1797
5. Junus -- 1797
6. Adimo 2 1797-1799
7. Egwala Sion 19 1799-1818
8. Joas 3 1818-1821
9 Gigar 5 1821-1826
10. Baeda Maryam III -- 1826
11. Gigar (again) 4 1826-1830
12. Iyasu IV 2 1830-1832
13. Gabra Kristos -- 1832
14. Sahala Dengel 8 1832-1840
15. Johannes III 1 1840-1841
16. Sahala Dengel (again) 14 1841-1855
At this time the empire was re-established by Theodore.
17. Theodore 13 1855-1868
18. John IV 21 1868-1889
19. Menelik II 24 1889-1913
20. Le; Yasu 3 1913-1916
21. Zauditu, empress, and 14 1916-1930
Tafari Makonnen, regent
and heir.
22. Haile Selassie I, is the -- 1930
title of Tafari Makonnen
after Zauditu's death.
Except for period of
Italian annexation (1936
1942) he has ruled to the
present time.
For purposes of comparison, it should be remembered that the
present Abyssinian autumn-to-autumn calendar is seven or eight years
behind ours, according to the period of the year. That is, the
Ethiopian date differs by eight years from 1st January to 10th
September. It differs by seven years from 11th September to 31st
December.