The QUEST for ISRAELITE IDENTITY –
Part 4 - Many Names
"The
Assyrian Captivity of Israel & subsequent migrations to freedom"
~ A CHRISTIAN IDENTITY Series of COMMENTARIES
~
~ Chapter 4 ~
~ The Mystery of the Many Names of Israel ~
Written by Pastor Joe Johnson
AMERICAN REFORMATION MINISTRIES
KELTIC KLAN KIRK
“I am
not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
~ MATTHEW 15:24 ~ HOLY BIBLE ~
THE MYSTERY OF
THE MANY NAMES OF THE ISRAELITES
One of the many
things that confuse a lot of people, thereby preventing a full understanding of
our Israelite Identity is the simple constant changing and transition of names
by which the Israelite people have been known and labeled at different periods
of history. We must pick up the history of the Israelites, where the Bible
leaves off, at this point recorded history and archaeology take up the track,
and the tracks leave a very clear and precise imprint. However, like any good
tracker, you must know how to read the signs. A strange and mysterious lapse of
ability to reason, or correctly understand recorded events and documented
evidence has occurred in regards to the true history of the Israelite people.
For many a year, most archaeologist and antiquarians did not know a track when
they were standing in it. In simple terms, since these learned men could find no
trace of any group of people named Israelites, they deduced (quite logically, or
so they thought) that the Israelites of the Assyrian Captivity must surely have
ceased to exist as a people. This was an ignorant assumption.
It is estimated that the population of “The House of
Israel” and “The House of Judah” at the time of the Captivities numbered
somewhere between 5 million and 30 million people. Such a large number of men
and women, even if we take the lowest estimate, leave a lot of tracks and other
tangible evidence of their existence and passage through time and territory. The
documentation, archaeological evidence, and the Holy Bible prove conclusively
that those who continue to cling to the false assumption that the “Israelites”
have ceased to exist as a people, do so out of willful ignorance! In other
words, they cling to a false understanding of Holy Scripture and or history in
spite of overwhelming facts and proofs that shatter their chosen delusions; and
these delusions can only be maintained by willfully and purposely refusing to
truly examine the evidence and documentation available for their study.
This strange occurrence caused the “Mystery of the Lost
Tribes of Israel” to remain a Mystery much longer than it otherwise would have.
This of course was due to “Divine Providence”, it was foretold in the Holy
Bible, in the book of Isaiah 65: 15-16 that Israel would loose her IDENTITY and
be called by another “name”. In accordance with this prophecy the Mystery has
been solved in due time according to God’s plan. YAHVAH has changed the “name”
of His Chosen people from “Israelite” to “Christian”, and “House of Israel” to
“Western Christendom”. Yet in fulfillment of His divine plan Almighty God has
restored unto us our IDENTITY. Sad to say, but none the less true, most
Israelites remain ignorant of their true Identity as part of YAHVAH’s Chosen
White Race.
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant
of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in
part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written,
There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from
Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take
away their sins.
~ ROMANS 11: 25-27 HOLY BIBLE ~
THE LOST TRACKERS
– IGNORANT OF THIS MYSTERY
Grand theories
and assumptions were put forth as ”gospel”, explaining that the “Lost Ten Tribes
of Israel” had integrated, intermarried, and assimilated into other cultural
groups and races to such an extent that they had indeed ceased to exist as a
distinct group or groups of people. It was written, and continues to be written
despite conclusive evidence to the contrary, that the Israelites were indeed
“Lost” and in essence and actual fact, vanished from off the face of the Earth.
According to this school of thought, the Israelites were long ago assimilated
and absorbed into other cultures and are an extinct people, nevermore to be of
any consequence in the struggles of mankind and nations. The mainstream “Church”
adopted this delusion, encouraged by Jewish scholars and Rabbis, in spite of the
fact this interpretation of history runs contrary to the clear teachings and
prophecies of the Holy Bible. None the less, others, outside the main-stream of
“Orthodoxy” puzzled at the paradox, and reasoned soundly that a true
understanding of history and archaeology must be in agreement with Holy
Scripture. Thus the Israelites must still exist, and a correct understanding of
history and archaeology would bear this out. The adventures in archaeology and
antiquities that were spurred on by this insight have Indiana Jones whipped
hands down; and this my brothers and sisters is no Jewish fairy tale from
Hollywood. Rather it is the true history of our Israelite kinsmen written by the
hand of YAHVAH, in the annals of ancient times long past.
THE QUEST FOR THE
“IDENTITY” OF THE CHOSEN RACE
In the early
1800’s it became quite fashionable among the British for wealthy aristocratic
men to take up archaeology as a noble pursuit, scholarly endeavor, and healthy
exercise inducing hobby. A series of lectures in the year 1838, tracing “the
Israelitish origin of the Anglo-Saxons” fueled the movement; the incentive, a
noble quest for more knowledge and evidence in regards to the new school of
thought in Great Britain, a rage commonly known as British-Israelism, or
British-Israelitism. The quest for the “Holy Grail” had given rise amongst the
chivalrous and religious to a quest for the “Holy Race”; the very real
possibility that England, Scotland and Ireland might in actual fact be proven to
be descendants of the ancient Israelites rallied many a nobleman to muster in
with shovel in hand, headed for the holy land, or the dark forest of Germany.
Hence many new discoveries, and much new evidence and proofs of our Israelite
ancestry has come to light, including the understanding that the Brits must
share their Israelite ancestry with the
French, the Germans, the Scandinavians, and in fact all
the nations and white people of Western Christendom.
The spark that lit this torch, illuminating the darkness
of our ancient past was one John Wilson, born in 1779 in Kilmarnock, Scotland.
This intelligent and gifted gentleman began his study and earnest inquiry into
“the Israelitish origins of the Anglo-Saxons” in the year of our Lord 1837. He
studied long hours, day after day in the Library of Trinity College, in Dublin,
Ireland; and was successful in tracking the Anglo-Saxon people as far back in
time and place as ancient Media. Here was a stunning revelation, the Anglo-Saxon
people appeared in history at the exact time and place that the Israelites
disappeared from history. Was this merely a remarkable coincidence or in actual
fact a bit of long overlooked and ignored evidence of Israelite Ancestry? The
quest for evidence and proof was on full tilt! The following year John Wilson
began a series of Lectures, traveling through England, Scotland and Ireland.
These Lectures were extremely popular and were followed by a book in 1840 titled
“OUR ISRAELITISH ORIGIN” in which John Wilson carefully traced the migrations of
the Israelites across the landscape of ancient Europe and thence into the
British Isles. He used the writings of ancient classical writers Diodorus, and
Ptolemy, to bear witness to his carefully compiled evidence. Wilson studied and
quoted extensively the works of Rawlinson, Herodotus, Josephus, and the famous
British antiquarian Sharon Turner. The Lectures and the books on the Israelitish
Origins of the Anglo-Saxons literally began to turn the world upside down. The
attentions of the very brightest and most distinguished men of Great Britain
were focused on this quest for knowledge and understanding of our ancient past.
This thirst for truth has been quenched and sweet water it is, for those with
the eyes to see and the ears to hear; but alas such eyes and ears are only found
on those who have a real and sincere thirst for the truth. Those who love the
darkness, somehow find truth disturbing.
THE NAMES OF THE
ISRAELITES
Understand that
after the time of the Assyrian Captivity the Israelites are no longer referred
to as Israelites, they were a conquered enslaved people; thereby not given the
respect of being called what they themselves wished to be called. For many years
the names they were known by were fixed upon them by their conquerors and other
stronger civilizations, history was being written by non-Israelites using their
peculiar terminology and perspective. The conquerors write the history
books, even today, and it was no different in ancient
times past.
The last recorded instance of the Assyrians referring to
the Israelites by their biblical name is found on a monolith of Shalmaneser III
excavated in 1861 on the Tigris River in southwestern Turkey. The Assyrian king
brags in stone of his victory in 853 B.C. over a coalition of twelve kings, in
the battle of Qarqar (Karkar). The vanquished army is recorded to have included
2,000 chariots and 10,000 foot soldiers of Ahab, the “Israelite, and king of the
northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel.” This is indeed the last record of the
Assyrians referring to the Israelites by their proper biblical God-given name.
Therefore to track the Israelites trek through history we must learn the names
they became known by, a simple but often overlooked, important key to solving
the Mystery of the Lost Tribes of Israel.
THE ASSYRIAN
CONQUEST OF THE ISRAELITES
The Biblical
records of the Assyrian invasion and conquest of the Northern Kingdom of Israel
can be found in II Kings 15:29, II Kings 17:6-18 and in II Kings 18: 11-12.
YAHVAH had warned His chosen people, the Israelites that if they persisted in
idolatry, sin and wickedness that a “seven times punishment” would be inflicted
upon them, (Leviticus 26) resulting in their removal from the land of Israel and
subsequent scattering among the heathens. The Assyrians were chosen as the
instrument of God’s judgment upon the Northern Kingdom of Israel and also a part
of the Southern Kingdom of Judah, (II Kings 18:13); therefore keep in mind that
the largest part of Judah was also taken in the Assyrian Captivity. On account
of this fact, the so-called “LOST TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL” actually included all
thirteen tribes of Israel, and not just the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom
of Israel. Even so, YAHVAH spared Jerusalem at this time, and a large remnant of
the Southern Kingdom of Judah, at least until the time of the Babylonian
Captivity.
The captive Israelites were led away humiliated,
vanquished and enslaved; their promised land torn from them and resettled by
other Assyrian captives from Babylon, Cuthath, Ava, Mamath and Sepharvaim (II
Kings 15:29). The Israelite slaves were driven on a long trek into Assyria;
where they were resettled in Halah, and in Habor, by the river Gozan and in the
cities of Medes.
The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser (also known as the “Jehu
Stele”), documents in stone that the Israelites of the “ten-tribes” of the House
of Israel were known to the Assyrians as the Kuhmri. The inscriptions tell us
that the Assyrian name for the “House of Israel” was “Beth-Khumri”, or “the
House of Omri”, so named after the Israelite King Omri recorded in I Kings
16:16. The Israelite pronunciation of Omri would have been “Ghomri”; since the
word in Hebrew begins with a consonant “y”, called “Ayin”, this was pronounced
with a guttural “h”. Assyrian transliteration changed this to “Gh” or “Kh”
thereby becoming “Khumri” in Assyrian.
ISRAELITE
CAPTIVITY AND THE FIRST ESCAPEES
Between 732 B.C.
and 700 B.C. the Northern Kingdom of Israel was taken captive by the Assyrian
Empire. The Assyrians called the Israelites Khumri, this was eventually
corrupted or changed to Gimira. This is recorded on clay tablets with cuneiform
lettering found by archaeologists, after uncovering the Royal Assyrian Archives
among the newly discovered ruins of the ancient Assyrian capital city of
Neneveh. With this astounding discovery by Austin Henry Layard, an English
archaeologist in 1847, the positive proof of our Israelite heritage was at hand.
The migrations of the ancient “Gimira” (Israelites) out of Asia Minor are
thoroughly documented in the clay tablets of the Royal Assyrian Archives. These
Assyrian documents record that one large group of Gimira (Israelites) escaped
captivity and fled to the shore of the Black Sea. This occurrence, it is
written, happened in the second year of Esarhaddon, that being the year 679 B.C.
just 21 years after the final conquest of the Northern Kingdom of Israel. These
warlike wandering Israelites raided Lydia and settled there for a while; then
they crossed the Black Sea to the Carpathians, a region known as “Ar-sareth” or
“Mountains of Sereth”. This is recorded in 2nd. Esdras. The two apocryphal books
of Esdras are not considered by most of Christendom to be inspired by the Holy
Spirit, in other words they are not accepted Canon of Holy Scripture. First and
Second Esdras are none the less important valid books of antiquity, and are
looked upon as being dependable historical documents by most antiquarians and
scholars of Western Christendom.
The Greeks wrote of the Gimira, and called them the
“Kimmerioi”, from which we get our English translation “Cimmerians” or
“Kimmerians”. In addition it is recorded in 2nd. Esdras 13: 40-44 that some of
the Israelites escaped their Assyrian captors and fled into the mountains of
Asia Minor, through the upper Euphrates gorge.
Thus it is recorded that the warlike, aggressive,
independent nature of the Israelite people, though traumatized and severely
chastised by the Almighty hand of YHVH, did not take overly long in seeking an
avenue of escape to freedom. At least this holds true for a small remnant of the
captured Israelites, those who sought and found freedom after only 26 years of
captivity were indeed the minority. Most Israelites would suffer under the yoke
of Assyrian bondage for a much longer span of time, before YAHVAH saw fit to
release them from servitude.
ISRAELITE
COLONIES IN MEDIA
The bulk of the
Israelites remained captive to the Assyrians in Media and established colonies
under their supervision in Sacasene and Bactria. These Israelite colonists were
initially called “Gimira” by the Assyrians, but eventually became known as the
“Iskuza”. Remember the captive Israelite colonies of Sacasene and Bactria, we
will learn more of them later in this Commentary.
The Behistun Rock in North Persia bears noteworthy rock
hewn inscriptions of Darius the Great; these inscriptions record that “Sacae”
was the Persian name for a people known by the Babylonians as the “Gi-mi-ri”
meaning “the tribes”. This Persian equivalent for “Gimira”, aka “Sacae” is no
doubt derived from “Isaaca”, or “House of Isaac”. The Israelites, cast off and
forsaken, none the less clung to at least a part of their heritage and continued
to identify themselves as the “House of Isaac”; they were still clinging
tenaciously to their biblical identity, (Amos 7: 9 & 16), or at least to the
tattered memories of past glory and fame.
The ancient classical historians write that the people
called “Scythians” by the Greeks, were known as “Sacae” or “Sakka” to the
Persians. The Greeks corrupted the word “Iskuza” an earlier Assyrian corruption
of “Isaac”, to come up with the word and label “Scythian”. The Israelite
colonist of Sacasene and Bactria were to become known as “Scythians” in our
history books.
In ancient times there were three major successive waves
of people across what is now known as Europe, these people supplanted existing
peoples and populated the European Continent. The first of the three waves was
the Kimmerian (Cimmerian), second came the Scythians, and then the “Gothic” or
Germanic migrations. These Caucasian people of the White Race were known to have
come from the very region and time period that last saw evidence of the ancient
Israelites of the Bible. Yet scholars and Churchmen insisted there was no link,
that it was mere coincidence, in spite of the fact they could not explain where
the multitudes of Caucasians had suddenly come from; nor could they adequately
explain where the Israelites had gone, only that they had disappeared. This
bears ample evidence as to the stupidity and ignorance of man, not until YHVH
chose to reveal their IDENTITY to ISRAEL were the Israelites to once again a
have correct understanding of what had indeed happened. Yet YAHVAH has seen fit
to bring us to a time and place where we once again know and understand who we
are and who where our forefathers; God’s Chosen Race; that Holy Race, the chosen
seed-line of the White Adamic Race. We are Israelites!
* * * * * * *
THE FALL OF THE
ASSYRIAN EMPIRE
The Assyrian
capital city of Nineveh was captured by the Medes and Babylonians in 612 B.C.,
YAHVAH had used the Assyrians to judge the Israelites, now 88 years later He was
bringing judgment down upon them. The Assyrian vassal colonies of “Gimira”
Israelites were thrown into a precarious set of circumstances bordering on
chaos. Many of the “Gimira/Israelites” were driven out of media, others
willingly fled, sensing that the collapse of the Assyrian Empire was prime time
to regain lost freedom and independence. Pioneering Gimira/Israelites had
already scouted ahead in preparation for eventual mass migrations; ancient
frontiersmen explored the vast sparsely populated wilderness regions in and
beyond the Caucasus Mountains. The Sacasene colony migrated through the Dariel
Pass in the Caucasus Mountains and settled for a time in the steppe regions of
what is now South Russia. They became known only as Scythians.
The Bactria colony pushed across the Jaxartes River
eastward into Central Asia. Some of the advance pioneer elements of this branch
of Israelites going as far east as the borders of modern day China. These were
also known as Scythians.
* * * * * * *
Scythian Israelites began mass migrations across the Don
and Dnieper Rivers in the fifth century B.C. This put them on a collision course
with the Cimmerian Israelites who had migrated around the western shores of the
Black Sea into the Arsareth region around 675 B.C. With the long separation it
seems all knowledge of kinship was lost, and both groups being warlike and
aggressive they promptly began to battle over territory and plunder. The
Cimmerians were forced to migrate to the West, some moved into the Baltic
regions, and became known to the Romans as “Cimbri” However the majority of the
Cimmerians migrated up the Danube River, many settling near its source in south
Germany somewhere between 600 and 500 B.C. The migration was not made in mass by
one or even two large groups, but rather by scattered bands constantly pushing
north and west, guided by the hand of YAHVAH and His preordained plan. These
groups of Cimmerian Israelites became known as “Celts” and “Guals”. The lower
Danube River was given the Celtic name “Ister”, which means in ancient Celtic,
“lowness”. Please take note of the fact, that an alternate spelling and
pronunciation of “Celts” or “Celtic” is “Kelt” or “Keltic”, in fact many will
argue that the more correct form is with the letter K. Also note the continual
reoccurrences of the letter K in words and names having close association with
the Israelites: for example, “House of Kuhmri”, Kimmerioi, Kimmerians, “Battle
of Karkar”, Kelts, Keltic, Kinsmen, and Ku Klux Klan. Also take special notice
of the fact that the letter "K" and the letter "C" are often interchangeable, as
in the word "Clan" or "Klan", and the word “Cimmerians” or “Kimmerians”; a
subtle sign indicating the Israelite influence or presence. Indeed and truth,
the Circle is unbroken!
* * *
KIMMERIANS,
KELTS, and GALATIANS
Somewhere around
390 B.C. some of our Cimmerian Israelite kinsmen did a very noteworthy thing, of
which I am certain most of them were exceedingly proud; they invaded Italy and
sacked the city of Rome. Then about 100 years later, somewhere around 280 B.C.
another large group of Kimmerian Israelites invaded Greece in consequence of it
being on their path of migration back into Asia Minor. They where known as the
“Galatians” according to the Greeks. These Israelites settled in an area that
became known as Galatia; and now you know who the letter to the “Galatians” was
written to, none other than some of “the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel”.
The Celtic Israelites continued to push back the
frontiers of ancient Europe, migrating ever westward and northward; they fanned
out across France and crossed the English Channel settling in the British Isles.
The Scythian Israelites responsible for spurring their
“lost” kinsmen westward and northward firmly established themselves in south
Russia, from the fifth through the fourth century B.C., becoming known far and
wide as the Kingdom of Scythia.
Although the IDENTITY of the ISRAELITE people was lost to
us modern men for a time, and has remained a great unknowable mystery to most
men today, it was not totally and completely lost to the cast off Israelite
people. It is evident that some knowledge and understanding of who they were
remained among the widely dispersed Israelites, especially among their scholars
and wise men. This becomes clear with a careful reading and true understanding
of the Holy Bible; from such passages as the following, just to mention a few.
JAMES, A servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to
the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. ~
JAMES 1: 1 ~ HOLY BIBLE ~
JESUS is recorded as saying the following:
24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the
lost sheep of the house of Israel.
~
MATTHEW 15:24 ~ HOLY BIBLE ~
In the final book of the Old Testament YAHVAH says to
Israel,
THE BURDEN of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.
2 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein
hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved
Jacob,
3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his
heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. ~
MALACHI 1: 1-3 ~ HOLY BIBLE ~
“I am the Lord, I change not, therefore ye sons of Jacob
are NOT *consumed.”
~ MALACHI 3:6 ~ HOLY BIBLE ~
The word *consumed, in Malachi 3:6 means destroyed
utterly, complete destruction of, make clean riddance of: YAHVAH promised Israel
he would not utterly destroy them. Yet the main-line “Churches” and the
Universities and Colleges of “Higher Learning” will all teach you that the
Israelites referred to here in MALACHI have indeed been destroyed and ceased to
exist as a people, many, many long years ago in the distant past. This amounts
to a blatant attack on the veracity of the Word of God, the Holy Bible. Whom do
you believe? The Word of God is true, and no lie can stand against it. Take a
stand with your kinsmen, take a bold stand fellow Israelites, join the American
Reformation Ministries / Keltic Klan Kirk; or if you are already a Church member or
Kirk Knight take on a more active and energetic role within your State or
Nation. The Christian Identity Churches are an important part of Western
Christendom, may YHVH help us do our duty and bring glory to Almighty God, whose
Name is YaHVaH. A part and parcel of this duty is to share this “Mystery of the
True Israelites” with our fellow kinsmen, Klansmen, Kirkmen (Churchmen) and
countrymen; therefore share this truth with your fellow Israelite kinsmen, for
many yet remain ignorant of this Mystery.
For Christ's Crown and Covenants!
9 But you are A CHOSEN RACE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY
NATION, A PEOPLE FOR God’s OWN POSSESSION,
that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has
called you out of darkness into His marvelous light:
I PETER 2:9 HOLY BIBLE (New American Standard Version)
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