THE UNITED STATES AND BRITIAN IN PROPHECY A staggering turn in world events is due to happen shortly. It will involve violently the United States, Britain, Western Europe, and the Middle East. We are now fast approaching the final grand world war that is going to stagger the mind of man beyound the bounds of sanity. However, God will intervene and drastically alter the course of history before mankind blasts itself out of existence. Through his inspired prophets, the great God caused prophecies to be written some 2500 years ago that have been preserved in the Bible to this day. He foretold precisely what would, through the years, happen to every city and every nation! In every instance the prophecies came to pass! What was prophesied actually happened to Babylon, to Tyre, Sidon, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Ekron; to Egypt, Assyria, Cahaldes, Persia, Greece and Rome. There has not been a miss! And now, in other prophecies, God has foretold precisely what is going to happen to the United States, the British nations, Western Europe, the Middle East, and Russia! About one-third of the Bible is devoted to prophecy, writing the history of future events before they occur. The prophecies of the Bible have been grievously misunderstood. And no wonder! For the vital key, needed to unlock prophetic doors to understanding, had become lost. That key is a definite knowledge of the true identity of the American and British peoples in biblical prophecy. Where are the United States and the British nations mentioned in Bible prophecies? Not knowing how and where these nations are specifically mentioned in prophecies, the educated of the world have been utterly blinded to the plain and simple meaning of prophecy. Due to this lost key our peoples, being falsely and deceptively educated from little children, are fatally unaware of the earth shaking catastrophe into which they are being directly plunged. Our people have forgotten and departed far from their Maker. They have shut their eyes and closed their ears to His dynamic revelation to mankind, which, to ears that can hear, thunders out this life and death warning message. The lost master key has been found. That key is knowledge of the astonishing identity of the American and British peoples, as well as the German, in biblical prophecies. This identity is the strongest proof of the inspiration and authority of the Holy Bible, and the very active existence of the living God. We have said that one-third of the Bible is devoted to prophecy. But, did you know that approximately 90 percent of all prophecy pertains to our time, now. It is a warning to us, the English speaking people, today. This book will open wide the here before closed doors of prophecies and they will come alive before your very eyes. Through it God gives important warning. Those who read, and heed the warning, may be spared unprecedented cataclysmic tragedy soon to strike. IF OUR PEOPLE AND THEIR GOVERNMENTS WILL AWAKEN, HEED, AND RETURN TO THEIR LIVING GOD, THEN OUR NATIONS MAY BE SPARED. God help us to understand. Prophecies Closed Until Now! One of the very pivotal books of prophecy is the book of Daniel. The prophet Daniel was not the author of this book, the living God was. The message was transmitted to Daniel by God's angel and Daniel put it into writing, to be preseved until our day. At the very close of the book, Daniel wrote: "And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? And he said, Go they way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end...and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand "(Dan. 12:8- 10). Since, as the angel said and Daniel wrote, the prophecies were closed up and sealed till the time of the end, they contained no message for Daniel's time and for the ancient Israelites of that day. This was not a message for the Old Testament Kingdom of Judah. When Daniel wrote these words the Jews were already slaves in Babylon. Nor could these prophecies have been given to or known by the ancient Kingdom of Israel. The Kingdom of Israel had long before been invaded, conquered, and its people moved out of Palestine, transported as slaves to Assyria, 117 to 133 years before Daniel wrote. Years before the book of Daniel was written, most of the Assyrians, with those Israelite slaves had migrated form ancient Assyria northwest toward Europe. They became known as the Lost Ten Tribes. The whereabouts of the lost ten tribes is one of the ancient mysteries that will be cleared up in this chapter. The plain truth is, these prophecies were written for our people of our time, the time of the end. For the first time in history, the weapons of mass destruction exist which can erase all life from the earth. These prophecies can pertain to no other time but to our time, in this twentieth century! The greatest mystery book of the entire Bible has been the book of Revelation. But the book of Daniel is the key to the book of Revelation. In the book of Revelation, solely and alone, do we fine the world events of all prophecies correlated in order of time sequence. The book of Revelation holds the key for putting together all of the prophecies in proper time order. And Revelation, too, was a closed and sealed book, until our time, now. We realize that Jesus Christ is the Revelator, and that He has stripped off the seals and opened this mystery book to right understanding. Could Prophecy Ignore Them? And where does all this lead us. Britian and the United States became great world powers beginning in the nineteenth century. Between them the British and American peoples had acquired more than three fourths of all the wealth and resources of the world. All other nations combined possessed barely more than a fourth. Could the British and American peoples be ignored in prophecies of world conditions when some 90 percent of all those prophecies pertain to national and international world happenings of our time, now? Think about it. Assuredly they are not ignored in the Bible. The fact is these people are mentioned more often than any other race. Yet their prophetic identity has remained hidden to the many. Modern nations are not spoken of in their modern names, in except a few cases. Usually they are referred to by the names of the anceint ancestor from which they sprang. Thus, the Arabs are spoken of as Ishmael, the Turks as Edom or Esau, the Russians are Magog. Nothing on the world scene is more important than to know where the United States and the British people are identified in scores and hundreds of prophecies. These prophecies describe vividly our sudden rise to national power and greatness, they picture our present situation, and will open your eyes wide when you see what lies ahead for our nations. Nation Greatness Promised Israel Yet the Jews Never Received It Why? Prior to World War II, the American and British peoples had acquired more than two thirds of the cultivated land and three fourths of the wealth of the world. Yet, astonishingly, we acquired nearly all of it rather suddenly, since the year 1800. By the 1800's London had become the financial hub of the world. In 1803 the United States had acquired the expansive Lousianna Purchase. It was fast sprouting up to become the mightiest nation of all time. But Britain burst forth first to greatness, and until the World Wars had become the greatest empire, or commonwealth of nations in all history. Britannia ruled the seas. The sun never set on British possessions. Never did any other two nations spread out and grow so suddenly and rapidly into such magnitude of power. Yet, we are witnessing before our very eyes the diminishing and evaporating of this national greatness, wealth and power. In the case of Great Britian, it is disintegrating even more rapidly than it developed! Britian has been almost overnight stripped of her colonies and her possessions, the sources of her wealth, and reduced to a second rate or third rate power. Why? There is a reason! It is bound up with history and divine promises pertaining to Israel. Promises never yet inherited by the Jewish people. And now, unless the people and the government of the United States will heed and take immediate and drastic action, the American nation is slated to go down even more suddenly to utter ignominy and loss of all national wealth, greatness and power! And for the same reason! Why Do We Have Israel's Bible? Millennia ago, this same national greatness, wealth and power was promised by the Almighty God to Abraham. Yet, few have ever noticed this fact in Scripture: The Holy Bible is the particular Book of a definite nationality, the children of Israel. It is undeniable! Its history, from Genesis to Revelation, is primarily the history of one nation or people, the Israelites. All its prophecy pertains primarily to this people of Israel, and to other nations only insofar as they come into contact with Israel. The Bible tells of these Israelites and their God. In its sacred passages we read that ALL THE PROMISES AND COVENANTS OF GOD, all the sonship and the glory, belong solely to Israel (Rom. 9:4). Yet, we must face the astounding fact that that the English-speaking peoples, not the Jews have inherited the national and physical phases of those promises. Is it not strange that we English-speaking peoples are today the greatest believers in and exponents of this Book of the Hebrew people? That of all nations we are the chief worshipers of Israel's God and Israel's Messiah, in name and in form, if not in truth and in deed. A full knowledge of the history of the Israelites is important if we are to understand the present status of the Ameriacan and British peoples and their relation to world conditions at this fateful hour. We need to review that history and open our eyes to divine promises and warnings almost wholly unrealized by our peoples. The Bible story of the ancestry and the modern prophetic identity of the United States and Britian is the most interesting and fascinating story you will ever read. It is really the story-thread of the Bible itself, from Genesis to Revelation. The Promises Made to Abraham Centuries ago, this same wealth and power and national greatness was promised by the Almighty God to Abraham. "Now the Lord had said to Abram: Get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house,to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Gen. 12: 1-3). Notice the two-fold nature of the promises: 1. "I will make you a great nation" - the national material promise that his flesh born children should become a great nation - a promise of RACE. 2. "And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" - the spiritual promise of GRACE. The promise of the Messiah, and of salvation through him is well known by most Bible students. They know that God gave the spiritual promise to Abraham of Christ to be born as Abraham's descendent and that salvation comes to us through Christ. But, few have ever noticed this promise to make Abraham a great nation, a promise of purely material and national wealth. This promise has been almost entirely overlooked. God repeated this promise in greater detail later. "And when Abram was ninety nine years old, the Lord appeared to Abram, and said to him, I am Almighty God; walk before me, and be blameless, and I will make my covenant between me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly....and you shall be a father of many nations. No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations" (Gen. 17:1-5). It is important to notice that the promise was conditional upon Abraham's obedience. Notice, the "great nation" now becomes many nations. How Much Land and How Large a Nations? God promised Abraham's descendants should become "a great nation" (Gen. 17:2); "I...will mutiply you exceedingly" (Gen. 17:2); "you shall be a father of many nations" (verse 4); "And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you" (verse 6). As we proceed along, we shall see that biblical language describes these as great and large nations. Now, how much land was promised? In Genesis 17:8, God promised "all the land of Canaan." Most theologians believe that the land of Canaan was the fulfillment of Abraham's promise, but in other scriptures, God promised much more. In Genesis 15:18: "On the same day the Lord make a covenant with Abram, saying, To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates." The Euphrates is a considerable distance northeast of the Holy Land, bordering on the ancient Mesopotamia. And the next critical verse is Genesis 28:14 where we read: "Also your descendants shall be as the dust of the earth; you shall spread abroad to the west and the east, to the north and the south; and in you and in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed." Here we have the added detail that these nations shall eventually spread around the world. This is confirmed in Romans 4:13: "For the promise that he (Abraham) would be the heir of the world..." So we see the promise was to become great nations that would spread and occupy certain areas in various parts of the earth. Overlooked Prophecy Indeed these birthright Israelite nations have spread to and occupied various lands or areas in many locations around the world. This occurred after they were in 721-718 B.C. driven in a captivity out of their own promised land of Samaria in Palestine. But there is a phase of this prophecy heretofore utterly overlooked, not before understood. The next verses in Genesis 28 completes this phase of the prophecy. "And, behold," God continued, "I am with you, and will keep you in all places whereever you go [here God is referring to the descendants who were to spread abroad in all directions], and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you until I have done what I have spoken to you" (Genesis 28:15). This generally unnoticed, but significant prophecy will be fulfilled at the second coming of Christ. It is explained further in Jeremiah 23:7-8, and 50:4-6, 19-20, and other prophecies. Never Fulfilled in the Jews This promise was never fulfilled in the Jews. The Jews have never been more than one nation. They are not, and never have been many nations. So here is an amazing prophecy, a solemn promise from God that could not be fulfilled in Christ, in Christians, nor in the Jews. We must look for a number of nations apart from either the Church or the Jews. We must do it or deny God's promise. God put Abraham to the test, and Abraham, through faith, obeyed, even to point of being willing to sacrifice his only son, if need be. And after that the convenant no longer was conditional. Now it became unconditional. Genesis 22:16-18 provides the details: "And [the angel] said: "By myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, you only son, Blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice." These promises cannot be broken or annulled. Now God must perform His part without fail. Notice an additional detail of the promise, the nations who are Abraham's racial descendants are to "possess the gate of their enemies." A gate is a narrow passage or entrance or exit. When speaking nationally, a gate would be such a pass as the Panama Canal, or the Suez Canal, or the Strait of Gibraltar. We must look for a people forming more than one nation, yet all one people, children of Abraham, either now or in history, who possess the gateways of the world, or we must deny the Word of God. It is a test of the inspiration of the Bible and of God's power to rule the world! A Nation and a Company of Nations These tremendous promises were repromised to Isaac and to Jacob. Abraham's other sons were rejected from this Birthright. Esau, Isaac's son and Jacob's twin brother, sold it and was rejected. The promise as confirmed to Isaac is recorded in Genesis 26:1-5; and to Jacob in Genesis 27:26-29, where material blessing of wealth in the ground is added along with a prophecy that heathern nations shall be ruled by the birthright nations of Israel. Still later God appeared to Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel, further defining the makeup of thes many nations thus: "And God said to him, I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body (Gen. 35:11-12). So the many nations are eventually to take shape as a nation, one great, wealthy, powerful nation; and another company of nations, a group, or commonwealth of nations, allied together. This promise was never fulfilled in the Jews. It cannot be spiritualized away by interpreting it as being inheritied only through Christ. It could not pertain to the Church, for their is but one true Church acknowledged in the Bible, and it is not a nation, or a group of nation, but a collection of called-out individuals scattered throughout the nations. Yet, this promise must stand fulfilled if God's Word is true, and it is. The Separation of Birthright and Sceptre Now we come to an important distinction, and a bit of Bible truth know to but a very few. Note it carefully. Very few have ever noticed that the promises to Abraham were twofold. Moreover, the Bible itself makes a sharp distinction between these two phases of the promises. The spiritual and kingly promises, the promise of the "one seed" the Messiah, and of salvation through him, the Bible calls "the sceptre." This promise was handed down through the Jews. Jesus Christ was of the tribe of Judah, and the House of David. "Salvation is of the Jews" Jesus said (John 4:22) This fact is confirmed in Genesis 49:10. "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah." Now the promised kingly line culminates in Christ, and involves grace to all. But the material and national promises relating to many nations, national wealth, prosperity and power, the Bible calls the "birthright." Now the birthright is something which is one's right by birth and has to do with race and not grace. And here is the astonishing fact so few ever seem to have noticed, "but the birthright was Joseph's" (I Chron. 5:2). Although both promises were made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, from this point on these two set of promises became separated. Reuben was the legal heir of Jacob but lost it as he defiled his father's bed. His birthright was given to Joseph (I Chron. 5:1-2). The sceptre remained with Judah but the birthright was now Joseph's. The truth is that the birthright promises were never given to the Jews. The Jews consist of only the three tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi. And, as we will see later, neither Joseph nor his descendants were Jews! Astounding as it may be, it's true! This knowledge about the birthright is the pivot of this entire truth which will prove the key to the understanding of all prophecy! It's important that you understand this. Few have understood that these great national and material promises were never given to the Jews. The promises which the Bible terms the "birthright" have not been understood at all. Few have ever noticed that God made any promises to Abraham other than the sceptre. But then, few know what is in the Bible! There is another distinction between a birthright and grace that we need to understand. A birthright is normally passed on from father to eldest son. There are no conditions which the recipient is required to meet, nothing to qualify for, he receives it by right of birth. But the gift of immortality received by grace does have qualifying conditions. Many teachers of "traditional Christianity" say there are no conditions, nothing that we must do to receive God's glorious grace. They deny that God requires obedience to His law! They twist the truth around by saying that would be earning one's salvation. Understand this! Eternal life, is indeed, God's free gift. You can't earn it! But it is not your right! You cannot demand it of God as your right, while you defy God, rebel against His government, refuse to let Him rule your life His way! Therefore God has imposed conditions! Those conditions do not earn you a thing! But God gives His Holy Spirit to those who obey Him (Acts 5:32). The word grace means undeserved pardon. God pardons those who repent and turn from disobedience to obedience to God's law. Obedience does not earn anything, that is only what we owe to God. In contrast, a birthright requires no qualification. It is a right by birth. The Birthright to Joseph's Sons The two phases of the promises to Abraham now are separated into two different tribes of Israel! The interesting story of the passing on of this birthright from the aged Israel to two sons of Joseph is found in Genesis 48. You should read the entire account. Notice, that Ephraim and Manasseh were Joseph's two sons born of his Egyptian wife. Jacob adopted Ephraim and Manesseh as his own legal sons (verse 5). Notice, verse 16 where he says, "let my name be named on them." Hence, they were to be called "Israel." Thus, it was the descendents of Ephraim and Maneasseh, not he descendants of Judah or the Jews, who were named Israel. And Jacob continues in giving the blessing, "...and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth." So, together Ephraim and Manasseh and their descendents were to grow to a multitude. Now Manasseh was the oldest and rightful heir, but Jacob, through divine intervention, in blessing the two lads crossed his hands placing his right hand on the head of Ephraim (verse 14). So, continuing, speaking now of Manasseh, Jacob said, "he also shall become a people, and he also shall become great; but truly his younger brother [Ephraim] shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude [or company or commonwealth] of nations" (verse 19). And so Ephraim, the son of Joseph became the holder of the birthright to be shared jointly with Manasseh. Who, then, according to your Bible, is the real Israel, racially and nationally of today? Ephraim and Manasseh! Ephraim and Manasseh together received the right to the name Israel. It was to become the national name of their descendants. And their descendants were never Jews! Fix this firmly in your mind. Thus it is that many of the prophecies about "Israel" or "Jacob" do not refer to Jews or to any of the nations that are today the descendants of the other tribes of Israel. Mark that well. Few know this today. Now we see that the "nation" to become truly great is to spring from the seed of Manasseh. The "company of nations" is to grow out of Ephraim. Notice that, before dividing the promises, this prophetic blessing indicated that the descendants of these lads should remain together, and together grow into a great multitude, then become separated, Manasseh becoming a great nation, and Ephraim a still greater company of nations. The promise of a future great nation and a company of nation, together great for multitude, rich in national material prosperity, possessing the "gates" of the earth's other nations applies only to these lads and the two tribes which sprang from them. We might add here, that the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh never became such in the times of Bible history. We must look for their fulfillment between the close of Bible history and the present. Children of Israel Becomes Two Nations When Solomon died, his son Rehoboam came to the throne and immediately made a foolish mistake. The people came to him, asking for some relief from the heavy tax burden that Solomon had imposed on them (I Kings 12). The elders advised Rehobaom to make concessions. He chose instead to listen to younger, inexperienced men. On their advice, Rehoboam told his people that far from getting relief, they could expect even more pressure from on high. That did it. The 10 northern tribes broke away and formed their own nation, to be known as the House of Israel or Kingdom of Israel. Only the tribe of Judah, and the small tribe of Benjamin, plus the Levites among them, remained loyal to Rehoboam and became known as the House of Judah or Kingdom of Judah (vs 16-24). The House of Judah kept the city of Jerusalem as its capital, while the House of Israel chose Samaria as its capital. And now for the first time, the birthright goes into one nation, Israel, headed by Ephraim- Manasseh; while the sceptre remains in another nation, called the "House of Judah." Now the story splits into two. The northern kingdom of Israel under their leader, Jeroboam, began to adopt customs of the neighboring Canaanite religions, which God had expressly forbidden. Mystery of the Lost Tribes of Israel The Bible records the record of the fall and captivity of the House of Israel: "For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God,...and they had feared other gods,...Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judah, by all of His prophets,...saying, Turn from your evil ways, and keep My commandments and My statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by My servants the prophets. Nevertheless they would not hear, but stiffenced their necks....until the Lord removed Israel out of His sight, as He had said by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away from their own land to Assyria, as it is to this day" (II Kings 17:7, 13, 14, 23). Whoever the "Lost Ten Tribes" of Israel are today, they are not the Jews. Whenever you see the name "House of Israel" or "Samaria," or "Ephraim," used in Bible prophecy, remember this, it never refers to the Jews, but to the House of Israel. In 721 B.C. the House of Israel was conquered by Assyria and the people of this northern kingdom of Israel were carried as captives to Assyria, on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea! We last hear of them when they are resettled "in Halah and by the Habor...in the cities of the Medes" (II Kings 17:6) And then they are simply LOST FROM VIEW! "Therefore the Eternal was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only" (II Kings 17:18). There you see Israel was removed and driven from God's sight. They became known as the LOST Ten Tribes and are so designated today. Only the tribe of Judah, was left. Only the Jews were left. The "Lost Tribes of Israel" didn't just vanish. They went on to become some of the richest nations in the world today. But just who are they? When the Assyrian Emprire collapsed about 100 years later, the Israelite tribes migrated to the northeat, into the region of the Caucasus Mountains. Eventually they forgot their name. This may sound unlikely, but it need not take long for an exiled people to forget the past, as history shows. The scriptures plainly tell us that Israel was to lose its land, its name, its identity, its language, and its religion. Let's look at the specific scriptures. In Deuteronomy 32:26, God had warned the Israelites through Moses: "I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to ease from among men." That could not have applied to the Jews and the remembrance of the Jews has not ceased. The remembrance of them could not cease unless their identity and name were lost. This applies to the Lost Ten Tribes. Now notice Isaiah 8:17: "And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob." Remember we said Jacob's name was changed to Israel, so this applies to the house of Israel, the ten- tribed kingdom, who were cut off from the presence of God. They consequently lost the knowledge of the true God, and the true religion. The Eternal would cease speaking to them in their own Hebrew tongue, but with "another tongue will he speak to this people" (Isa. 28:11). This cannot apply to the Jews who still read their Bibles in Hebrew. Isaiah 62:2: "And the Gentiles shall see thy righteous, and all kings they glory [after Christ return]: and thou shalt be called by a NEW NAME, which the mouth of the Lord shall name." While this prophecy refers to a time after Christ's return, it has also been fulfilled, typically, foreshadowing that time, by the fact that Israel is known by a different NAME today. That cannot apply to the Jews, for they were known then, and today, as Jews. Gentiles Replace the House of Israel After the removal of the House of Israel the territory of Israel was settled by gentile people from the land of Babylon, who later became known as Samaritans. The general state religion of the Assyrians and Babylonians was the Chaldean mystery religion. This was the religion of Simon the sorcerer (Acts 8) who believed Philip's miracles, appropriated the name "Christian," and started a new conterfeit "Christianity" after the apostle Peter rejected him as being bound in "iniquity" or "lawlessness." He took the name of Christ, rejected God's law, and added licentious false "grace" to the Babylonian mystery religion, calling it "Christianity." This false "Christianity" has deceived millions down to this present generation. House of Israel Never Returned The house of Israel did not return to Palestine with the Jews in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, as some erroneously believe. Those who returned to rebuild the Temple and restore worship in Jerusalem at that time, 70 years after Judah's captivity, were only those of the house of Judah whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried to Babylon. Note these facts: 1. In 721-718 B.C. ISRAEL was carried away out of their own land to Assyria. Only the tribe of Judah remained. 2. More than 130 years later, Judah was carried to Babylon by king Nebuchadnezzar. So none of the house of Israel dwelt in Palestine at the time of this captivity of Judah. 3. Those who returned to Palestine to rebuild the Temple and restore worship there, 70 years after Judah's captivity were all of the house of Judah, all Jews. This is made very plain in Ezra 1:5, "Then the heads of the fathers' houses of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and the Levites,...arose to go up and build the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem." Only those of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi, who constituted the house of Judah returned at that time. Consequently those in Jerusalem in the time of Christ were of these three tribes, not of the House of Israel. Those who refuse this truth turn to Neh. 11:20, "And a residue of Israel, of the priests, and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, every one in his inheritance." Because the word "Israel" is used they claim all twelve of the tribes returned. But it is specifically speaking of priest and Levites and they are of the house of Judah. They were the residue of Israel, the remaining two tribes and the Levites, but not the ten-tribed house of Israel. Now Jews are Israelites, but only part of the Israelites are Jews. Names and genealogies are given in Ezra and Nehemiah of those who went back to Palestine and there was none from any to the Ten Tribes. The house of Israel became known as the Lost Ten Tribes. Now known by another name and speaking another language. It is they, and not the Jewish people, who are the birthright possessors. It is they who must inherit the unbreakable promises to Abraham of national greatness, resources, wealth and power. Israel's New Land The prophet Amos said God would "sift the house of Israel among all nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground" (Amos 9:9). This prophecy says that Israel was to be sifted among other nations, losing their identity, yet God would protect and keep them from loss. But these Israelites were eventually to come to a new land of their own. God says in II Samuel 7:10 and I Chronicles 17:9: "Moreover I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more." We pointed out earlier that other prophecies indicated that Israel was to become a colonizing people, spreading around the world. Prophecies show that the house of Israel is to return at Christ's coming to Palestine, their original country. Prophecies telling where they shall migrate from , in that future day, will reveal the location of the lost ten-tribed Israel! To locate lost Israel, let us look at some of the prophecy pertaining to them. Remember they are distinguished by various names like Ephraim, Joseph, Jacob, Samaria, and Israel. According to Hosea 12:1, "Ephraim followeith after the east wind. Now an east wind travel west so Ephraim must have gone west from Assyria. And when God swore to David to perpetuate his throne, He said: "I will set his hand in the sea" (Ps. 89:25). The throne is to be set in the sea. "Go and proclaim these words to the north and say, Return thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord..." (Jer. 3:12) In these last days messengers are to go north of Jerusalem to locate lost Israel and proclaim this worning. So the location, from these verses is toward the north and west, and in the sea. See also Jer. 3:18 and Hosea 11:8 and 10. Jerimiah 31:8 further shows that they were to come from "the coasts of the earth." Referring to the House of Israel in Isaiah 49:3, 6, God says: "Behold these shall come from far and lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim (Isa. 49:12). In Hebrew there is no word for northwest, but the term north and west designates it. The Vulgate renders Sinim as Australi, meaning the south. So now we have the location as northwest of Jerusalem, as well as southern lands. Hence, Israel of today is located specifically northwest of Jerusalem and in the sea. Now, let us locate this land more specifically. Lost Israel Located The same 49th chapter of Isaiah begins with this: "Listen, O isles, unto me." The people addressed, Israel are called "O isles" in the first verse and "O Israel" in the third verse. Jerimiah 31:10 says "and declare it to the isles afar off." Finally in Isaiah 41 "Keep silence before me, O islands (vs.1)....thou, Israel, art my servant Jacob whom I have chosen (vs.8). Now, take a map of Europe. Lay a line due northwest of Jerusalem across the continent of Europe, until you come to the sea, and then to the islands in the sea. This line takes you directly to the British Isles. The white, English speaking people of Britian and America are actually and truly the birthright tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh of the "lost" house of Israel. A most interesting fact is the Hebrew meaning of the names of the British people. The word "Brit-ish" means in Hebrew "covenant man" or "covenant people." The house of Israel is the covenant people. We all know the Anglo-Saxons migrated to Britian. Dr. W. H. Yates says, "The word "Saxons" is derived from the "sons of Isaac" by dropping the prefix "I"." So, as we see, the house of Israel not only was to lose its identity, but its name. It was to be called by a new name, British. They would no longer know their identity as Israel, as God said plainly in Isaiah 62:2. Apostles to Britain Jesus knew full well where the lost tribes of the House of Israel had migrated. He sent his twelve original apostles to make known to them his gospel of God's Kingdom. It was the apostle Paul who was sent to the Gentiles. The Bible says: "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go NOT into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans [Gentiles] enter ye not: But go rather to the LOST sheep of the hous of Israel" (Matt. 10:5-6). Yes! The lost Ten Tribes. Did you ever wonder why after Acts 15, we read no more of the twelve apostles? Except for a trip by Peter to Babylon, they had gone to "lost" Israel! Yes, the British Isles heard Christ's gospel! But Jesus and his apostles never pleaded, or begged anyone to "get saved!" That is a modern Protestant method. They merely proclaimed the truth, leaving it up to every hearer to accept or reject it. The British Isles rejected it, accepting instead, the idolatry of the Druids, pagan worship, and the counterfeit "Christianity" of the Roman Babylonian mystery religion. Signs Along the Way As God intended that "lost" Israel was to be located and found in these last days, we should expect some kind of signs or waymarks to have been left along the trail by which ancient Israel journeyed from Assyria, the land of their original captivity. Speaking to Ephraim, God says in Jerimiah 31:21: "Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way thou wentest." In Scripture we find these waymarks or signs which they set up along the road they traveled. In Genesis 49:17, Jacob, foretelling what should befall each of the tribes, says: "Dan shall be a serpent by the way." Jacob meant that Dan's migration shall be as a serpent's trail, a wandering s-shaped curve. It is a significant fact that the tribe of Dan, one of the Ten Tribes, named every place they went after their father Dan. The tribe of Dan occupied two different provinces, in the Holy Land before the Assyrian captivity. One colony lived on the seacoast of Palestine. They were seamen and it is recorded Dan abode in ships (Judges 5:17). When Assyria captured Israel, these Danites struck out in their ships and sailed west through the Mediterranean and north to Ireland. Along the shores of the Mediterranean they left their trail in "Den," "Don," and "Din." Irish history shows that the new settlers of Ireland, at just this time, were the "Tuatha de Danaans," which means, translated, "Tribe of Dan." They were as called "Tuathe De" which means the "people of God." And in Ireland we find they left these waymarks: Dans-Laugh, Dan-Sower, Dun-dalk, Dun-drum, Don-egal Bay, Don-egal City, Dun-gloe, Din-gle, Dunsmor. But the northern colony of the Danities was taken to Assyria in the captivity along with the rest of the Ten Tribes. After leaving Assyrian captivity, the tribe of Dan inhabited the land just west of the Black Sea for some time. There we find the names of the Dnieper, Dniester, and the Don rivers. From there we find these waymarks: Dan-au, Dan-inn, Dan-aster, Dan-dari, Dan-ez, Don, Dan, U-don, Eri-don. Denmark means "Dans mark." In Scotland the "Dans," "Dons" and "Duns" are as prolific as in Ireland. When the Danites came to the British Isles they set up the waymark names of Dun-dee, and Dun- raven. And so this "serpent's trail" of Dan sets up the waymarks or signs that lead directly to the British Isles. Jeremiah's Trip to Ireland In the ancient annals and history of Ireland is the story of how about 700 B.C. the tribe of Dan ("Tuatha de Danaan") arrived in ships, drove out the other tribes, and settled there. Later, in the days of David, a colony of the line of Zarah arrived in Ireland from the Near East. Then in 569 B.C. an elderly, white-haired partriarch came to Ireland. He was sometimes referred to as a saint. With him was the princess daughter, named Tea-Tephi, of an hebrew king, and a companion called Simon Brach. The royal party included the son of the king of Ireland who had been in Jerusalem at the time of the siege. There he became acquainted with Tea- Tephi, and married her shortly after 585, when the city fell. This elderly patriarch saint brought with him a harp, an ark, and a stone called lia-fail or stone of destiny. Many kings in the history of Ireland, Scotland, and England have been coronated sitting over this stone. The stone rests today in Westmister Abbey in London, and the coronation chair is built over and around it. A sign beside it labels it "Jacob's pillar- stone" (Gen. 28:18). A strange coincidence or is it? The royal husband of the Hebrew princess Tea was given the title Herremon upon ascending to the throne. This king Herremon and hebrew princess continued on the throne of Ireland and this same dynsty continued unbroken through all the kings of Ireland. This dynasty was overturned and transplanted again in Scotland, and again overturned and moved to London, England, where this same dynasty continues today in the reigh of Queen Elizabeth II. Christ to Return to David's Existing Throne In linking this Irish history with biblical history and prophecy, we can ascertain that this Hebrew princess was the daughter of King Zedekiah of Judah and therefore heir to the throne of David. That the aged patriarch saint was Jeremiah, and that his companion was Jeremiah's scribe Baruch. The King Herremon was a descendant of Zarah, and by marrying the Hebrew princess who was of Pharez, healed the ancient breach recorded in Gen: 38:27-30. That when the throne of David was first overturned by Jeremiah, it was replanted in Ireland, later overturned a second time and replanted in Scotland, and overturned a third time and planted in London. God had promised David that his throne would be established forever and there would be an unbroken line of kings ruling over the children of Israel. This is that line of kings. When Christ returns to earth to sit on that throne he will take over a live, existing throne. United States is Manasseh The British Commonwealth of Nations is the only company of nations in all earth's history. Could we so exactly fulfill the specifications of the birthright and not be the birthright people? From the prophecies of Jacob it is apparent the Ephraim and Manasseh were to grow into a multitude, ineriting the promises jointly, and then separate. The tribe of Manasseh separated from England to form the colonies which later became the United States. Of course a lot of people in the United States have come from other countries besides England. But remember, God said our forefathers were to be sifted through many nations, as corn through a sieve, yet nat a grain to fall to the earth or be lost (Amos 9:9). Our people did firter through many nations. This does not mean that all foreigners who have immigrated into this country are of the stock of Manasseh, but many are. Israel, did always absorb Gentiles, who became Israelites through living in Israel's land and intermarrying. Thus we have become known as the melting pot of the world. The proof that we are Manasseh is overwhelming. Manasseh was to separate from Ephraim and become the greatest, wealthiest single nation of earth's history. We alone have fulfilled this prophecy. There were twelve original tribes but when the tribe of Joseph was divided into Ephraim and Manasseh, Manasseh became the thirteenth tribe. Could it be mere conincidence that we started as a nation with thirteen colonies. This is the most remarkable fulfillment of biblical prophecy in modern times. Remember we said there were ten lost tribes in the House of Israel. So what became of the other eight tribes? They too were blessed with a good measure of prosperity, but not the birthright. There is ample evidence that these other eight tribes descended into such nations as Holland, Belgium, Denmark, northern France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway. Birthright Withheld 2520 Years Beginning in about 1800, Great Britian and the United States began to sprout and to grow into vast national riches and power as no other people ever possessed. Soon Britian's empire spread around the world, until the sun never set on her possessions. Canada, Austraila, and South Africa were given dominion status and made free and independent nations. A commonwealth of nations joined together soley by the throne of David in England. The United States expanded rapidly after 1800, but reached world dominance later than Great Britian, and became a great world power by the end of World War I. But why was this birthright, which was promised to Abraham, withheld for 2520 years, until after 1800? To answer that question and understand this miraculous burst into world dominance, it is necessary to examine the pivotal prophecy of Leviticus 26. The Pivital Prophecy This remarkabel prophecy of Leviticus 26 pertains to our time today, as well as to give warning to the people of Israel in Moses' day. This prophecy, though written by Moses before the Israelites had entered the promised land, is one of dual fulfillment, typical of many prophecies. It was a warning to those of Moses' day, but its final fulfillment, as we shall see, has taken place and is now taking place in our time. And because it is a dual fulfillment, it is also a warning to the American and British peoples of impending events. It contains a vital, tremendous message and warning for our people today! In this central prophecy of Leviticus 26, God reaffirmed the birthright promise to the people of Moses' day, but with certain conditions. God mentions two of the Ten Commandments as specific conditions for emphasis. These were the main test commandments. They were the test of obedience and of faith in and loyalty to God. God said: "Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image...to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God. Ye shall keep my sabbaths..." (Lev. 26:1-2). Now, there was a condition, a great big "IF", to their receiving the actual fulfillment of this great birthright promise in their time. God said: If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase..." (verse 3-4). All wealth comes out of the ground. They would enjoy bumper crops the year round, with one harvest on the heels of another (verse 5). And God promised them peace and military superiority to defeat all enemies. "Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight; your enemies shall fall by the sword before you" (verse 8). And now God confirms his covenant and promises to the people of Israel. "For I will look on you favorably and make you fruitful, multiply you and confirm My covenant with you" (verse 9). "I will walk among you and be your God, and you shall be My people" (verse 12). Now, here comes the alternative, if the conditions are not met: "If you do not obey Me, and do not observe all these commandments, And if you despise My statutes, or if your soul abhors My judgments, so that you do not perform all My commandments, but break My covenant, I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint terror over you, wasting disease and fever which shall consume the eyes and cause sorrow of heart. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat of it. I will set my face against you, and you shall be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you shall reign over you, and you shall flee when no one pursues you" (verses 14-17). They would be invaded, conquered, and once again become slaves under cruel taskmasters as they had been in Egypt, before God freed them. Israel did not obey God. They rebelled in the wilderness of Sinai. Have you ever wondered why these Israelites were 40 years in this desolate wilderness before getting to the promised land? It was not because it required 40 years of travel. The 12 men sent to spy out the promised land and bring a report back walked all over it from one end to the other in 40 days! (Num. 13: 1-2). The men returned and brought a false report, and the people griped, disbelieved God, disobeyed, and refused to go forth to possess it. And God punished them by making them wander for 40 years in the wilderness (Num. 14:34-35). Later they turned to idolatry. And in the days of Samuel they rejecting God as their king (I Sam. 8:1-7). God gave them every chance, and pleaded with them through his prophets. But, this rebellious nation showed no disposition to turn to God's ways. They had been punished repeatedly, but refused to learn the lesson that experience should have taught them. Seven Times Punishment Now continue in Leviticus 26: "And after all this, if you do not obey Me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins" (verse 18). It is important to understand this verse. The phrase "seven times" conveys the sense of increasing intensity of punishment much like in Daniel 3:19 where King Nebuchadnezzar commanded that the furnace, where Daniel's three friends were thrown into, should be make seven times hotter. So if the Israelites did not obey that could expect a great increase in the intensity of punishment. In prophecy, a "time" is a prophetic 360 day year. Each day of a prophetic year represents a year being fulfilled. This "day for a year" principle is expalaind in two other passages, in Exekiel 4:4-6 and Numbers 14:34. God had punished that generation of Israelites which Moses had led out of Egypt by withholding from them entry into the promised land for forty years. The promised land was a beginning part of the birthright. God punished them on the principle of a year for every day the 12 men spyed out the promised land, 40 years punishment for forty days. So seven prophetic years of punishment must be 7 X 360 or 2520 literal years of punishment. And 2520 years from Israel's siege and captivity in 720 B.C. brings us to the year 1800 A.D. The Birthright Conferred These Israelites had not listened to God, and had not qualified to become recipients of the birthright blessing. They had broken the two test commandments of God not to worship idols and to keep the sabbath days. God did punish them as he said he would. God took this opportunity to reap such vast material prosperity and power completely away from them. The birthright was withheld precisely 2520 years. But when that 2520 year withholding of the birthright had expired, God was faithful to His unconditional promise to Abraham. Not because of any British, or American goodness, superiority, or worthiness, but because of God's faithfulness to His promise. Beginning in 1800 these two birthright peoples suddenly burst forth as the greatest world powers in all history! This national wealth and power came not because our peoples in any manner qualified for it. They never did! God was bound by His promise to confer this stupendous national blessing regardless of the righteousness or wickedness of the descendants. So beginning in A.D. 1800-1803, after 2520 years, God did cause the birthright nations, a national wealth, greatness and power as no nation or empire ever before has acquired. Together they came into possession of more than two thirds, almost three fourths, of all the cultivated resources and wealth of the whole world. Incredible! More amazing still are the unbelievably shocking facts of the present. The United States and Great Britain are losing the birthright blessings faster than they came. The incredible facts, the reasons why, and what's now ahead will follow. Why Israel Lost Its Identity Just why did the Ten Tribes of Israel lose their identity? Was it merely because they migrated to different parts of the earth, or was it because they rejected the one and only sign tht would show they were God's people? And what does it all have to do with your life today? The 10 Lost Tribes of Israel became a nation lost in all history. They were utterly gone. How do historians and theologians explain this? Not knowing the true answer that you have just been given, they explain it erroneously. They assume in error that all Israelites were Jews, and that the 15 million Jews in the world today constitute the entire population of Israelites remaining alive at this time. Some theologians falsely claim that all of the "lost ten tribes" returned to Jerusalem with the Jews to build the temple there 70 years after Judah's captivity, 604-585 B.C. But that is in total error. Those who returned were all of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi. Check the genealogies in Ezra and Nehemiah. The Jews are falsely supposed to be Israel, and all of Israel, because they never lost their identity! There is a reason why the Jews did not lose their identity, while the 10-tribe house of Israel did! The people of Israel were the only people on earth with whom God then dealt with personally. They were His people to whom He revealed His Truth. God had given them a very special everlasting covenant containing a SIGN OF IDENTITY. This covenant is found in Exodus 31:12-17. It has to do with one of those two test commandments, which we saw earlier, that Israel was driven out and deprived of its birthright for violating. That commandment was to keep the Sabbath, and it was to be a sign to identify the true God. God's TRUTH and God's WAY revealed to these Israelites is simply God's truth and His way for all peoples in all times and ages! Israel, had they followed God's ways, was intended to be a living example to all nations. True, Old Testament Israel was given centain sacrificial rites and rituals which served merely as a reminder of sin and as a temporary substitute for Christ until He should come. Jesus came, not to do away with God's truth or God's way, not to bring a new religion, but to reveal additional truth about the coming Kingdom of God and how we may be born into it. But God's truth and way remain eternally! Therefore God was revealing to Israel what His way is for all people of all time, including today! This special identifying sabbath covenant, then, ordained forever, applies to Christians today, to all who are reconciled to God as His people. The Sabbaths are God's days (Exodus 20:8), they did not belong to Israel. And the sabbath applies the same to us today as to our forefathers then. God gave man the sabbath for the purpose of keeping man in the true knowledge and true worship of the true God. The sabbath also identifies who are the people of God and who are not. Does this world's "Christianity" really know the TRUE God? It is deceived into believing that it does, and the world may be sincere in that false belief. This world is not taught to obey God. It teaches that God's law is done away with. It actually puts human conscience in place of God's law. It does not teach, as did Christ, that we must actually live by every word of God, all of the Bible! As we have shown, the peoples of the United States and Britain and the nations of northwestern Europe are in fact the peoples of the Ten Tribes of the House of Israel. Now, since the sabbath is God's sign to identify His people Israel, then why don't our nations keep it today? Why do our nations think they are Gentiles, and why don't they know their true identity? The kingdom of Israel was invaded and taken captive because their King Jeroboam had set up two great idols for his people to worship (I Kings 12). Jeroboam changed the fall festivals of God, and changed the Sabbath day from the seventh day to Sunday. All succeeding kings followed these practices. The House of Israel, lost their identifying tag, God's Sabbath. That is why they lost their national identity. Sabbath-breaking was the prime cause of Judah's captivity too (Neh. 13:15-18). However, even though Judah did not keep the Sabbath God's way or keep it holy, they did continue to keep it and observe it to this day. That is why the world looks on them as the chosen people of God. The world thinks they are Israel. Yet, they are merely Judah. The Jews' identity has not been lost. And since the identity of the far more numerous "Lost Ten Tribes" is not known, the world supposes that the Jews are ISRAEL, instead of JUDAH. So, the whole world is deceived as to the true identity of who really are the chosen birthright, people of God. But now, you know the real truth! So you see both houses of Israel were sent into national punishment and banishment from Palestine because they broke God's Sabbath. Does it make any difference? It certainly made a lot of difference to God! And He says He has not changed, He is the same yesterday, today, and forever! (Heb. 13:8). Ezekiel 20:10-24 shows how God pleaded with ancient Israel to keep His statutes, judgments, and hallow his sabbaths. Now this is also a prophecy for our time. Every prophecy in the Bible shows that our people (Israel) will be in captivity and slavery once again before the second coming of Christ. And that God will deliver the remnant of his people and gather them back to the wilderness in Israel. Look at Ezekiel 20:34-36 which says, "And I will bring you out from the people, and will gather you out of the countries wherein ye are scattered...with fury poured out. And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people [coming exodus of Jer. 23:7-8], and there I plead with you face to face like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you." And how did God plead with them? "Hallow My Sabbaths...so that you may know that I am the Lord" (Ezek. 20:20). God says to modern Israel today, the American and British peoples, "Turn back to My Word and My Ways and Keep My Sabbaths." The Birthright Wealth Just how great was the blessings God bestowed on America and Britain? We have looked at the promises made to Abraham. Let's look at the parting blessing upon on Rebekah, leaving her family to become the wife of Issac: "And they blessed Rebekah, and said unto her, Thou art our sister, be thou the mother of thousands of millions, and let they seed possess the gates of those who hate them" (Gen 24:60). As explained before, since the birthright pertains to nation, the "gates" of our enemies would be such passes as Gibralter, Suez, Singapore, the Panama Canal, etc. Britain and America came into possession of every such major gate in this world! So we must be modern Israel. World War II hinged on those gates. They had become strategic passes and the world's greatest fortifications. But today, we have lost most of the, most recently, the Panama Canal. Now, consider Moses' dying prophetic blessing, where he foretold of what would happen to each of the tribes in the latter days. "And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, and for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon, and for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precous things of the lasting hills, and for the precous things of the earth and fulness thereof... let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph [Ephraim and Manasseh both]...His glory is like the firstling horns of unicorns [Great Britains national seal today]: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh" (Deut. 33:13- 17). Whoever is Ephraim and Manasseh today must have been in possession of the earth's choicest agricultural land, minerals, the great gold and silver mines, iron, oil, coal, timber, and other wealth. What nations fulfill these propecies? Why, only Great Britain and America. More than half of all tillable, cultivated, temperate-zone lands of this earth came after 1800 A.D. into the possession of these two great powers alone. The rich agricultural lands of the Mississippi Valley; the vast wheat and grain fields of the Midwest, of Canada and Australia; the great forest lands of the Pacific Northwest and many other parts of the world; the gold field of South Africa, Australia, Alaska and the United States; the great coal mines of the United States and the British Isles; the natural waterfalls and means of power and consequent prosperous indrustrial and manufacturing districts of England and the eastern United States; the choicest fruit lands of Florida and the Pacific Coast. What other nations combined ever possessed such material wealth? And nearly all this wealth came to us after A.D. 1800. If we are not national Israel, the actual inheritors of the birthright, then who else can be? Do you know of stronger proof of the divine inspiration of the Bible as the Word of the living God? Could mortal men have written these prophecies we have considered in this chapter, made those promises to Abraham, Joseph, and Israel, and after 2520 years, beginning in 1800-1803, have had the power to bring them about in fulfillment, without divine inspiration? America and Britain Today Yes, America and Britain, did become the most powerful and wealthy nations on this earth. But, what is happening to us today? Why has Britain already lost most of her colonies, her possessions, her resources, her wealth, her power, and her influece in the world? Why is Britain no lonber considered Great Britain, a great world power? Why is the United States now discredited, despised, and hated throughout so much of the world? Why could we not win the Korean War, and the Vietnam War? Why couldn't we defeat these small countries. Yes, America and Britain are going down, but why? Why are we losing our strengh, our will, and our prestige? Is it just due to the natural flow of world history, or is it because they have rejected the source of all the blessings that have been showered upon them? Few realze just how great, rich and powerful our countries did become. People are prone to take their status for granted. The average American, or Briton has not observed the squalor, the poverty, and wretchedness in which the largest part of mankind lives. No, our people have not realized that these blessings were bestowed upon us by God. They have not been grateful, nor have they given God thanks, nor accepted the responsiblity that comes with such lavish blessings. How Did We Get It How did we come into possession of all this vast wealth? Did we acquire it through our own human wisdom, foresight, energy, ability and power? Let Abraham Lincoln answer: "We find ourseves in the peaceful possessionof the fairest portion of the earth, as regards fertility of soil, extent of territory, and salubrity of climate...We...find ourselves the legal inheritors of thes fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the acquirement or the establishment of them." Again, in his proclamation of April 30, 1863, for a nationwide day of fasting and prayer, this great President said: "It is the duty of nation, as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God...and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord...We have been the recipients of the choicest blessings of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has grown ; but WE HAVE FORGOTTEN GOD! We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us: and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own." Abraham Lincoln knew these great material blessings had not been earned, but had been given to our people by God through Abraham. Lincoln saw a nation that had forgotten God. Lincoln called the nation to a day of fasting and prayer to confess this national sin before God. God heard and answered that national prayer and the nation was then preserved. Today, we need to face the facts as in Lincoln's address. The threat to our fate is a thousand times more serious. Today we do not have a President with the vision, understanding, and the courage to bring the nation to its knees. God promised this vast material wealth to Abraham because Abraham obeyed God, and kept God's laws and commandments. This birthright blessing was denied to our forefathers after Moses' day because they refused to live by God's laws. Today, the British and American peoples, the "lost Israelites", supposing themselves to be gentiles, find themselves basking in the pleasant sunshine of such wealth and power, that they are even less willing than the ancient Israelites to yield to God and His ways. It seems few ever turn to God until they find themselves in desperate need or trouble. Today, God warns us, through many prophecies in Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Micah, and many otehrs, that unless we of this presenct generation repent of our sin, and turn to Him with fasting, and with weeping, and earnest prayer, He will destroy our cities, we will be invaded, defeated, and reduced to slaves! God help us to heed this warning! Do not carelessly ignore God's warning. Prophecies for the Immediate Future God had withheld the birthright from Israel for 2520 years, then all of a sudden he bestowed on us such national blessings unparalled in history. We did nothing to deserve it. God was keeping his promise to Abraham. But once God had bestowed it, God would be no longer obligated to continue our undeserving peoples in world prestige, wealth, and greatness. Once we had been given such unrivaled position, it WAS UP TO US WHETHER WE SHOULD KEEP IT. God Breaks American Pride Now let's go back to the prophecies in Leviticus 26. If, after that 2520 years of withholding the birthright, our people, possessing the birthright now, still rebell, God says, verse 19: "And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass." God has already begun that. God could not speak of breaking the pride of our national power until after the birthright had been bestowed. We had great pride in that national power, in our national prestige. The last President who could stand up against other countries and use Americas strength behind his demands was John F. Kennedy (1961- 1964). Since that time the United States power and image in the world has declined. Today, even little nations dare to insult, trample on, or burn the United States flag. Britain's sun already has set. The U.S. still possessing power, is afraid to use it. The United States has stopped winning wars. The United States is fast riding to the greatest fall that ever befell any nation. God said, "I wil break the pride of your power." And He did! Will We Heed These Warnings? Other prophecies reveal that we are to soon have such drought and famine that disease epidemics will follow taking millions of lives. When our heaven is as iron, and our earth as brass, we will realize that rain does not come down from iron, and an earth as hard as brass is not getting rain and yielding food. "And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield ther fruits" (Lev. 26:20). Will America and Britain head these warnings? They never have. We need to get this message to everyone in America. If they don't heed, what is to happen after that? "And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not harken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins" (Lev. 26:21). So now, if twentieth century Ephraim and Manasseh, Britain and America, refuse to turn to God in obedience, refuse to live the way that causes, retains, and increases blessings, God will punish them in a manner far more intense, and even strip entirely from them this colossal blessing, returning them to captivity and slavery, as continuing verses of this prophecy show. Do you think so great a fall could never come to so great powers as the United States and Britain? Do you say, "It can't happen here?" Do you think the great God who was able to give them is not able to take it away from them and throw them, like the ancient Israelites, back into slavery? God determines the outcome of wars (Ps. 33:10-19). The handwriting is on the wall! Sevenfold More Plagues We have just show above in Leviticus 26 and verse 21 that God said, "I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins." Why this punishment from God, a loving God? The punishment implies correction. Correction is applied to turn us around to the right ways of God. God punishes every son He loves (Heb. 12:6). God's punishment only reflects God's love. It will break our spirit of rebellion. It will teach us the way to peace, prosperity, happiness, and abundant well-being. Notice verses 23-25: "And if by this discipline you are not turned to me, but walk contrary to me, then I also will walk contrary to you, and I mayself will smite you sevenfold for your sins. And I will bring a sword upon you...and you shal be delivered into the hand of the enemy." Slavery once again. Now read on to verse 27: "And if in spite of this you will not hearken to me, but walk contrary to me, then I will walk contraty to you in fury, and chastise you myself sevenfold for your sins...And I will lay your cities waste...And I will scatter you among the nations." God is going to keep multiplying chastening, correction, upon our peoples until they do turn from their evil ways, until they turn to God's ways. Repentance When God does add these repeated sevenfold- intensity of corrective punishment on our peoples, when they have had their wealth, prosperity, their land, and everything they possessed and set their hearts on taken away from them, at last, they will be humbled and will cry out to God for mercy and deliverance. And God will have mercy on them and God will say: "Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God" (Hosea 2:23). God's Message to Us Today The fourth chapter of Hosea contain God's message to our peoples today. "Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel [you people of America and Britain], for the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "There is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land. By swearing and lying, killing and stealing and committing adultery, they break all restraint, with bloodshed upon bloodshed. Therefore the land [America and Britain] will mourn, and everyone sho dwells therin shall waste away..." (Hosea 4:1-3). To the modern ministers in the churches of America and Britain, God says: "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you from being a priest for Me; because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. The more they increased, the more they sinned against Me; I will change their glory into shame. They eat up the sins of My people...So I will punish them for their ways..." (verses 6-9). You Can Escape This Punishment Yes, we are God's chosen people Israel! We should shout for joy at the discovery of our true identity, and we should be brought to repent and to turn to God, and to get back of this crusade and warn our poeple by radio, TV, and the books, to call upon God in real heartrendering prayer for divine deliverance. God is warning us through the prophecies in Leviticus, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Micah, Hosea, and in the other prophecies that our sins are fast increasing, and the day of reckoning is here. The sevenfold intensity of punishment now soon strike America and Britain is simply the prophesied Great Tribulation. It will be the most frightning, intense punishment, and time of trouble, ever suffered by any people! As God lives, this punishment is soon to strike. This book has given you warning from God and His Word. The U.S. and British nations could avert this colossal national tradegy, if they would. Like most, they may not heed. But you need not suffer in it. If you as an individual will be corrected, before God lets this strike, and come to real repentance, and turn to living and keeping God's ways and commandments, then no plague shall come near you! (Ps. 91:8-11), and you shall be accounted worthy to escape all these frightful things and to stand before Christ at His return (Luke 21:35-36). Those in the true Body of Christ shall be taken to a place of safety, until this Tribulation is over (Rev. 3:10-11).