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Britain and the United States Inherit Joseph's Birthright
After about five centuries of existence on the Eurasian steppes
following
the destruction of the northern kingdom, Israel's nomadic
descendants, now
called Scythians, began another forced migration.
This time their enemies-from Asia and the Near East-and a
dramatic change
of climate on the Eurasian steppes began moving them westward,
just as the
biblical prophets had said would happen (1 Kings 14:15; Isaiah
49:12;
Hosea 12:1). This major westward migration began about 200 B.C.
and
continued into the fifth century A.D.
Yet during this time, in the first century, when Christianity
was in its
infancy, the Jewish historian Josephus confirmed that many
deported
Israelites were still living beyond the Euphrates River.
Joseph wrote that, in his day, "the ten tribes are beyond the
Euphrates
till now [the first century], and are an immense multitude, and
not to be
estimated by numbers" (Antiquities of the Jews, Book XI, Chapter
V,
Section 2).
The apostle James also plainly confirms that the missing tribes
hadn't
been reunited with the tribes of Judah and Benjamin in
Palestine. He
addresses his epistle "to the twelve tribes which are scattered
abroad"
(James 1:1).
Though God had promised that all of the lost 10 tribes of Israel
would
continue to exist, He also promised to sift them among the
nations (Amos
9:9). This He did until He brought them to the land that was
north and
west of ancient Israel, where He had promised to resettle them.
It was as though a powerful, unseen hand inexorably herded them-
with all
their tribes and clans-across the Eurasian plains, the Scythian
steppes,
to Northwest Europe, where the Celts, another group of related
tribes,
were already settling.
Although not as well understood as the great European migrations
beginning
in the 16th century-when emigrants established colonies in North
America,
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa-the earlier migration
was similar
in many respects.
Although many clans from many tribes converged on Europe at the
same time,
most of those that finally settled in Northwest Europe were
related and
shared a culture.
Many historians have acknowledged that the Anglo-Saxon peoples
provided
the racial stock that founded several modern Western nations,
including
Great Britain and the United States. This information can be
found in many
history books.
What isn't widely understood is the Celtic-Scythian link to the
ancient
Israelites. In the previous chapter we briefly discussed this
connection.
Now we turn our attention to God beginning to fulfill His
promises to the
descendants of Israel's presumably lost tribes after they had
migrated to
northwestern Europe and the British Isles and from there to
America and
the other British colonies around the world.
Promises of greatness for Joseph's descendants
Before his death the patriarch Jacob, through God's
inspiration,
prophesied what would happen to the descendants of his 12 sons
in the
"last days" (Genesis 49:1). Our focus in this chapter is on
Jacob's
prophecy concerning Joseph.
Joseph's modern descendants are the easiest to identify of all
the lost
tribes of Israel because the specific blessings they were to
receive stand
out so distinctly from those of the other tribes. God promised
to Joseph's
descendants-through his sons Ephraim and Manasseh -all the
benefits of the
birthright promises of national greatness and overflowing
prosperity.
Notice Jacob's prophecy about Joseph in the last days: "Joseph
is like a
grapevine that produces much fruit, a healthy vine watered by a
spring,
whose branches grow over the wall. Archers attack him violently
and shoot
at him angrily, but he aims his bow well. His arms are made
strong. He
gets his power from the Mighty God of Jacob and his strength
from the
Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.
"Your father's God helps you. God Almighty blesses you. He
blesses you
with rain from above, with water from springs below, with many
babies born
to your wives, and many young ones born to your animals. The
blessings of
your father are greater than the blessings of the oldest
mountains,
greater than the good things of the long-lasting hills. May
these
blessings rest on the head of Joseph, on the forehead of the one
who was
separated from his brothers" (Genesis 49:22-26, New Century
Version).
Joseph's descendants, he said, were to be especially blessed-
like a
fruitful vine with a never-ending supply of water, insuring
their constant
growth. Their populations would multiply rapidly. They would
expand to
lands beyond their original borders, grow militarily strong and
reap the
choicest physical blessings of the earth. They would produce and
prosper.
These were the birthright blessings (1 Chronicles 5:1-2) God
promised to
Joseph's descendants. Because of these divine blessings,
Joseph's
descendants were to stand out among Israel's other tribes
(Genesis
49:22-26).
Before his death Moses repeated the special blessings that would
flow to
Joseph's descendants. "And of Joseph he said: 'Blessed of the
LORD is his
land, with the precious things of heaven, with the dew, and the
deep lying
beneath, with the precious fruits of the sun, with the precious
produce of
the months, with the best things of the ancient mountains, with
the
precious things of the everlasting hills, with the precious
things of the
earth and its fullness, and the favor of Him who dwelt in the
bush. Let
the blessing come 'on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of
the head of
him who was separate from his brothers.'
"His glory is like a firstborn bull, and his horns [military
might] like
the horns of the wild ox; together with them he shall push the
peoples to
the ends of the earth; they are the 10 thousands of Ephraim, and
they are
the thousands of Manasseh'" (Deuteronomy 33:13-17). God had
promised to
take a direct hand in delivering magnificent physical blessings
to
Joseph's descendants.
When we understand that the modern descendants of Joseph are the
people of
the United States and Britain, we see that over the past three
centuries
God has been true to His promises. He has granted the physical
birthright
blessings of Joseph's sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, to their
modern
descendants-the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic people of Britain and the
United
States. The Anglo-Saxon and Celtic descendants have been the
primary
founders and shapers of British and American culture.
God also has made available to them opportunities to shine as
spiritual
beacons within a confused and darkened world. Regrettably, as
with the
ancient Israelites, only a few among them have been willing to
accept
their responsibility and God's calling.
God assigned a role to Joseph's descendants
God's grand purpose-anciently, today and tomorrow-for Abraham's
descendants has never varied. He selected them to be a blessing
to "all
the families of the earth" (Genesis 12:3). To make this possible
He
promised them every material advantage they would ever need.
Yet God did not give them national prominence and prosperity at
the
expense of other peoples and nations. Rather, God's far-reaching
purpose
has always been to lead all people into a permanent relationship
with Him
(Acts 17:30; 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9). Only then can they
receive the
power to change their human nature and receive the ultimate
blessing of
eternal life (Acts 4:12).
God had designated Abraham's descendants-by a promise, long
before they
existed as a people-to be His instruments in accomplishing
important
aspects of His purpose. He has used them in ways even they have
not always
discerned.
At the heart of God's relationship with the ancient Israelites
was His
covenant with them and their descendants. That agreement defined
the rules
and responsibilities of the relationship between God and the
Israelites.
It set forth the obligations God imposed on Himself and His
expectations
of the nation He had created to be His holy people and a model
nation to
the world (Leviticus 20:26; Deuteronomy 4:5-8; 7:6).
God gave the promised birthright blessings to Joseph's modern
descendants
in Britain and America. At the same time He has made available
to Israel's
descendants-and indeed the whole world-the knowledge of what He
expects of
them spiritually. He has accurately preserved this knowledge in
the Bible,
and today that knowledge is available to anyone willing to read
it-whether
ethnically Israelite or gentile.
God makes His Word available
The British and American people have been the instruments used
to spread
God's Word to most of the known world. Although we often take
the Bible
for granted, and many U.S. and British homes now have several
copies, it
wasn't always this way.
For many centuries virtually the only copies available outside
of the
original languages were in Latin, with the Roman Catholic Church
tightly
controlling the common people's access to the Scriptures. "Yet
it was in
England, so long deprived of the living Word, where the battle
was fought
and won for the right of the common man to have his Bible in his
own
language" (Neil Lightfoot, How We Got the Bible, 1986, p. 76).
After several attempts to produce English-language versions in
the 1500s,
in 1611 the king of England officially approved the publication
of what
has become known as the King James Version of the Bible. Its
translators,
by order of King James, produced it from its original languages
by a large
team of Hebrew and Greek scholars. It quickly gained the
reputation of
being the most accurate translation of the Bible ever attempted
up to that
time.
For almost 400 years it has remained the best-known Bible
translation of
the English-speaking world. It has been the model for Bible
translations
for practically all other languages. No single book has affected
the
history of the English-speaking people like the King James
Bible.
The Bible has since been translated into thousands of languages,
virtually
every tongue, with the British-descended people printing and
distributing
hundreds of millions of copies all over the globe.
The policies and resources of America and Britain have both
encouraged and
enabled the true gospel of the Kingdom of God to be proclaimed
around the
world in recent years. They have provided the climate of
religious
freedom, the financial resources and most of the laborers that
were needed
to disseminate biblical knowledge to all nations.
The Bible's role in society and law
Biblical principles even became the basis for much of English
common law.
English common law in turn heavily influenced American
constitutional and
regional law. In this manner the Bible has had a greater
influence on the
United States and the British Commonwealth nations than on any
other
people in recent centuries.
The Bible formed the foundation of these nations' professed
ethical values
and morality. Laws the nations established on biblical
principles became
the basis of a huge part of their legal judgments. The United
States in
particular became the most biblically oriented nation in the
world (with
the possible exception of the modern state of Israel, founded in
1948).
Through the widespread availability of the Bible, God gave the
English-speaking peoples essential information they needed to
know what
God expected of them. In addition, many were exposed to their
true
identity as descendants of Joseph through his sons Ephraim and
Manasseh
(see "Advocates of British-Israelism," page 38).
However, God has never forced the British and American peoples
to accept
their biblically ordained role. Like ancient Israel, He has
given them a
choice (Deuteronomy 30:15, 19).
Only a small proportion of them have sincerely responded.
Why did all of this happen? What purpose is God working out for
the last
days? How has He been accomplishing the essential elements of
His plan?
Let's review some of the significant international contributions
Britain
and America have made to the modern world. Then let's compare
those to the
promises God made to the descendants of Joseph.
If we find that the British and American people have received
the
biblically predicted benefits and blessings, we then have
further evidence
to substantiate that they are indeed the modern descendants of
Joseph.
Have Britains and Americans perceived the hand of God?
The expression "God is an Englishman" mirrored the views of many
people
both in and outside the British Isles in the 19th century. What
precipitated this startling point of view?
Britain's status in the world is only a shadow of what it was a
century
ago. You might have had difficulty convincing many people who
lived in the
19th and 20th centuries that God was not somehow miraculously
prospering
the politicians, statesmen, diplomats, explorers, generals,
admirals,
soldiers, architects, engineers, scientists, inventors,
bankers,
businessmen, shopkeepers and entrepreneurs of the British Isles.
To many observers, both in and out of Britain, it appeared that
success
came to the British people whether they even pursued it-whether
they made
wise or foolish choices. It was as though certain blessings
were
overtaking them.
It was the perceived inevitability of success that inspired John
Robert
Seeley, Cambridge professor of modern history (1834-1895) and
author of
The Expansion of England (1884), to make the famous quip that
England
acquired her globe-spanning empire "in a fit of absence of
mind."
The 1800s were certainly Britain's century. To their own
astonishment the
people of the relatively tiny British Isles found themselves
ruling over a
mighty empire. As the 19th century drew to a close, the British
Empire was
"the largest empire in the history of the world, comprising
nearly a
quarter of the land mass of the earth, and a quarter of its
population"
(James Morris, Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, 1968, p.
21).
Yet the empire would continue to expand. "It continued to grow
until 1933,
when its area was 13.9 million square miles and its population
493 million
... The Roman Empire in its prime comprised perhaps 120 million
people in
an area of 21/2 million square miles ..." (ibid., pp. 27, 42).
The British Empire, then, spanned 51/2 times the territory of
the Roman
Empire, with more than four times the subjects. British rule
extended over
not just ordinary regions but some of the choicest and most
fertile
territories on earth.
It is hardly surprising that educated people of the day
perceived the hand
of God in the process. To them it seemed too obvious to ignore.
For example, Lord Rosebery, a British foreign secretary (1886,
1892-1894)
and prime minister (1894-1895), spoke in November 1900 to the
students of
Glasgow University about the British Empire:
"How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but by
the work
of men's hands ... and yet not wholly human, for the most
heedless and the
most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.
"Growing as trees grow, while others slept; fed by the faults of
others as
well as the character of our fathers; reaching with a ripple of
a restless
tide over tracts, and islands and continents, until our little
Britain
woke up to find herself the foster-mother of nations and the
source of
united empires. Do we not hail in this less the energy and
fortune of a
race than the supreme direction of the Almighty?"
In those more biblically literate times, people like Lord
Rosebery
perceived the remarkable circumstances of the British people.
God seemed
to be blessing them much as He had promised to bless the ancient
people of
Israel. Therefore, to them it hardly seemed outrageous to regard
the
British people as chosen of God. Was their perception merely an
expression
of human vanity? Or were they truly observing the hand of God
blessing
their people and nation?
The builders of the British Empire aspired to weld together a
peaceful,
productive domain ruling over a quarter of the world's
population. A great
achievement of British administrators was the establishment and
extension
of law and order in Britain's colonial and imperial territories
around the
globe. This alone brought untold blessings to the people of
these
territories.
This Pax Britannica bequeathed peaceful conditions to many
regions
formerly plagued by war and long-term ethnic hostilities. The
British
presence also stimulated territorial economic development and
introduced
many areas to Western technological advances. British
missionaries became
the bearers of biblical literature and knowledge to people from
one end of
the globe to the other. Both physical and spiritual blessings
were freely
distributed around the globe.
The British century
Great Britain had not always been great. Indeed, most of the
rise of both
Britain and the United States came after 1800. Only a couple of
centuries
before becoming the world's premier power, England's status was
similar to
that of all the other nations in Europe.
The Hapsburg Holy Roman emperor, Charles V, characterized the
relative
place of England among European nations on the eve of the 16th
century. He
is said to have remarked, "I speak Latin to God, Italian to
musicians,
Spanish to ladies, French at court, German to servants, and
English to my
horses."
How did such a reversal of fortune and prestige for all things
English
occur over the next 200 years?
The industrial and economic growth of the Anglo-American world
began to
crescendo in the middle to late 18th century. Economic
historians argue
about the point at which the industrialization process reached
critical
mass. But, generally speaking, the earliest dates they suggest
are the
1750s and the latest around 1800.
Britain also experienced a population explosion beginning during
that same
period. Historian Colin Cross notes that "one of the unexplained
mysteries
of social history is the explosion in the size of the population
of Great
Britain between 1750 and 1850. For generations the British
population had
been static, or rising only very slightly. Then in the space of
a century
it almost trebled-from 7.7 million in 1750 to 20.7 million in
1850 ...
Britain was a dynamic country and one of the marks of its
dynamism was the
population explosion" (Fall of the British Empire, 1969, p.
155).
This window of time seems to be directly related to Joseph's
exiled
descendants receiving the promised birthright blessings.
Although
historians have wondered why the industrial revolution didn't
begin at
some earlier point in history, this divine blessing may help
explain why
the gigantic increases in industrial capacity expanded so
dramatically when they did.
The Bible reveals that God is in control of events and works
them out
according to His plan and timetable (Isaiah 46:9-10). He long
ago made
known, through the patriarch Jacob, that Joseph's descendants
would
receive the birthright promises in "the last days" (Genesis
49:1, 22-26).
Other biblically prophesied troubles distinguish our modern age
as the
last days leading into the events prophesied in Matthew 24 and
the book of
Revelation. They confirm that the fulfillment of God's promises
to Abraham
concerning the last days has been taking place.
The year 1776 was a landmark date. By that year the steam engine
was in
practical use, and within another decade-just a few years before
the
French Revolution of 1789 significantly slowed industrial
development in
France-it became a commercial success.
That same year American colonists declared their independence.
This
separation of the United States from Britain accomplished the
prophecy
that Manasseh and Ephraim would be separate peoples-one a great
nation and
the other "a multitude of nations" (Genesis 48:16, 19).
Another major event occurred about the same time. A Scottish
University of
Glasgow professor of moral philosophy, Adam Smith, published
Wealth of
Nations, which became the intellectual and philosophical support
for
England's developing what has since become known as the
capitalist
economy. The capitalist system soon began to propel the Western
world in
general, and the British economy in particular, to unprecedented
heights.
Though British diplomats and statesmen may have lacked a grand
design for
the construction of their empire, it became the largest and
most
beneficent empire in the history of mankind. Little wonder that
historians
describe the 1800s as the British century.
American nationhood blossoms
The wars between France and England that culminated with the
British
victory over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 had an indirect
influence on
America's rise to greatness. Napoleon's need for ready cash to
pay for the
costs of impending war with England led him to sell France's
vast American
territories to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
The acquisition of the Louisiana territory in 1803 gave the
American
republic instant world-power status. The young country bought
828,000
square miles of the most fertile farmland in the world-the
American
Midwest-for less than 3 cents per acre!
Overnight the size of the United States doubled, immeasurably
strengthening the nation materially and strategically.
After that 1803 transaction the country expanded across the
continent in
less than a generation, adding huge swaths of territory with
vast natural
resources. In 1867 the United States added almost 600,000 more
square
miles when it purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million-
about 2 cents
per acre.
Although no one realized it at the time, these great untapped
blessings
would allow America's citizens to lead the world in per-capita
wealth in
the next century. Though detractors openly ridiculed the
purchase of
Alaska at the time, income from its resources-timber, minerals,
oil and
the like-today amounts to tens of billions of dollars each year.
A commonwealth of nations
The other fulfillment of Jacob's prediction-that Ephraim would
become "a
multitude of nations" (Genesis 48:19) -also slowly but quickly
picked up
steam. It began as a result of Britain's victory over France in
1815. By
the end of the Napoleonic Wars the Royal Navy ruled the oceans.
The British economy, stimulated by this conflict, emerged with
unparalleled economic supremacy. The French bid for world
hegemony-more or
less continual since the days of Louis XIV (1643-1715) and the
opening
rounds of the Second Hundred Years War-had decisively failed.
Britain found herself free and in possession of the necessary
political,
economic and military power to build an empire that soon
extended around
the world. As modern Manasseh (the United States) began to build
a nation
that would soon extend from sea to shining sea, Ephraim
(Britain) fell
heir to lands around the world.
The British built an empire on which the sun never set. Its
imperial
structure was almost infinite in its diversity, comprised as it
was of
people from virtually every ethnic group and governed by means
as
centralized as the raj (British rule) in India or the British
agent-general's office in Egypt or as independent as the
dominion status
granted to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
From a physical point of view, much of the Anglo-American
dominance during
the past two centuries came from the blessing of favorable
geography and
climate and the seemingly endless supply of natural resources
accumulated
during this time.
British territories were concentrated in the most productive
regions of
the temperate zone. An abundant and dependable food supply
enabled them to
support steady population growth from the 18th through much of
the 20th
centuries. Certainly the modern descendants of Joseph have been
a
"fruitful bough" (Genesis 49:22-25; see also Leviticus 26:9;
Deuteronomy
6:3; 7:13-14; 28:4-5).
The British and American peoples inherited a treasure trove of
natural
resources. What the British lacked within their own isles, they
drew from
an empire encircling the globe. Americans found everything
necessary for
national economic greatness-vast expanses of fertile soil;
seemingly
endless forests; gold, silver and other precious metals waiting
to be
mined; and massive iron ore, coal, petroleum and other mineral
deposits-within the confines of the continental United States
and even
more in Alaska.
Both peoples possessed "the best things of the ancient
mountains"-the
"precious things of the everlasting hills" and "the precious
things of the
earth and its fullness" within the territories they exclusively
controlled
(Deuteronomy 8:9; 28:1, 6, 8, 13; 33:13-17).
The world's military and commercial gateways
God's promise to Abraham included another provision: "... Your
descendants
shall possess the gate of their enemies" (Genesis 22:17). In
this context
gate means a strategic passageway controlling commerce or
military access
for a region. Examples of strategic gates are the Straits of
Gibraltar and
the Suez and Panama canals.
It is a fact of history that Great Britain and the United States
gained
control of the majority of the world's most important land and
sea gates
(see map on page 39). These have been critical to their economic
and
military dominance in the 19th and 20th centuries. Let's
consider how
Joseph's descendants acquired the three crucial sea gates
mentioned above.
The first example took place as a result of the War of the
Spanish
Succession (1701-1714). The Spanish king, Charles II
(1661-1700), had no
children. The absence of an heir led to a controversy over
succession to
the Spanish throne. For a time it appeared the matter could be
peaceably
resolved. However, when Charles designated Philippe d'Anjou, the
grandson
of French King Louis XIV, as his successor, he destabilized the
European
balance of power.
Charles' decision confirmed the worst fears of fellow European
statesmen
concerning French intentions. At Versailles the Spanish
ambassador,
kneeling before the new king-now Philip V of Spain-was heard to
murmur,
"Il n'y pas de Pyrenees"-there are no more Pyrenees. He implied
that the
king's ascension amounted to the union of France and Spain. But
England's
growing dominance prevented this from coming to pass.
In 1701 England, at war with France, was determined to restore a
favorable
balance of power in Europe. England succeeded, and the French
bid to
dominate the Continent failed. In fact, England emerged from the
conflict
with the largest European navy and her status as a major power
confirmed.
As a result of the war England acquired Newfoundland, Nova
Scotia, the
Hudson Bay territory, Minorca and, most important, Gibraltar,
an
indispensable international sea gate. Her possession of
Gibraltar meant
that she controlled the entry and exit to the Mediterranean Sea.
These
acquisitions were part of the terms of settlement of the Peace
of Utrecht,
April 11, 1713.
More than a century and a half later the British gained direct
control of
another critical sea gate at the other end of the Mediterranean,
the Suez
Canal. The British remained at Suez for nearly three quarters of
a
century. This 100-mile man-made passage between the
Mediterranean and Red
seas has long been one of the world's most heavily used shipping
lanes,
eliminating the long and arduous trip around the southern tip of
Africa.
In accordance with the biblical prophecy, God gave this sea gate
to the
British people-the modern descendants of Ephraim, son of Joseph.
A third critical sea gate acquired by Joseph's descendants was
the Panama
Canal. Like Thomas Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana
territory or
Benjamin Disraeli's acquisition of Suez Canal stock (see
"Benjamin
Disraeli: Maestro of Empire,"), American president Theodore
Roosevelt took
steps to secure Panama with bold decisiveness but questionable
legality.
About his presumption Roosevelt remarked, "I took the Isthmus,
started the
Canal, and then left Congress -not to debate the Canal, but to
debate me"
(Roger Butterfield, The American Past, 1966, p. 323).
A blessing to other nations
The rise to greatness of Britain and the United States was
nothing short
of astonishing. Says historian James Morris: "During the ...
years of
Queen Victoria's reign [1837-1901] the Empire had grown by more
than ten
times, from a scatter of disregarded possessions to a quarter of
the land
mass of the earth ... It had changed the face of the continents
with its
cities, its railways, its churches, ... and it had changed the
manner of
life of entire peoples, stamping its own values upon
civilizations from
the Cree to the Burmese, besides creating several fully-fledged
new
nations of its own. There had never been such an Empire since
history
began ..." (Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress, 1973, p.
539, emphasis
added).
Morris adds: "It was not merely the right of the British to rule
a quarter
of the world, so the imperialists thought, it was actually their
duty ...
They would so distribute across the earth their own methods,
principles
and liberal traditions that the future of mankind would be
reshaped.
Justice would be established, miseries relieved, ignorant
savages
enlightened, all by the agency of British power and money" (Pax
Britannica, p. 26, emphasis added). God was using the English-
speaking
people to introduce a new set of standards and individual
freedoms to the
rest of mankind.
The British proved to be able administrators who dramatically
improved the
infrastructure and standard of living in the countries they
governed.
Although all aspects of their administration were not always
carried out
as justly and equitably as they should have been, God's
prophesied intent
was accomplished. The sons of Joseph led the world into an era
of
unprecedented knowledge, prosperity and technological
advancement. For the
first time the Bible, plus biblically oriented reference works
and
publications, began to be distributed globally.
The United States, after pursuing an isolationist policy for
many years,
was eventually forced by events beyond her control to also take
a larger
role in world affairs-becoming the international model for
freedom and
individual rights. Attacked by Japan in 1941, an ill-prepared
United
States suddenly found itself at war with the Axis powers. It
quickly
geared up its industrial might, already harnessed to some extent
in the
early years of the war to aid Britain.
The United States emerged from World War II as the most powerful
nation in
the world. But, rather than using its strength to dominate and
oppress the
weaker nations of a shattered world, America set out to rebuild
its
defeated enemies-exhibiting a compassion that is indeed rare in
the annals
of international affairs.
From 1945 through 1952 the United States channeled $24 billion
($150
billion in today's dollars) to the cause of rescuing and
rebuilding
Europe, including Germany. In Japan the United States governed
the country
for several years, rebuilding it and setting it back on its
feet. In
recent years both of these former enemy nations have emerged as
global
economic powers.
Since then both the United States and Britain have funneled many
more
billions in foreign aid to other countries. These are some of
the ways
Britain and the United States have been a blessing to the
nations of the
world. Along with those blessings, however, have been some
misguided
efforts and injustices. Such is the legacy of greatly blessed
nations that
have neglected to obey the God who blessed them.
Will Anglo-American dominance continue?
The 19th and 20th centuries saw the Anglo-American peoples
dominate world
affairs. Will this pattern continue into the 21st century?
British world dominance has long since passed. The two great
wars of the
20th century took a terrible toll on Britain and her people. The
conflicts
robbed her of two generations of young men and drained her
economically.
By the end of World War II the British found themselves with
neither the
resources nor the will to preserve their empire.
After Britain gave India its independence in 1947 the British
Empire began
to dissolve with dizzying speed. Britain's supremacy quickly
gave place to
American dominance in the second half of the 20th century.
Although American military, economic, industrial and technical
power still
reigns supreme, the spiraling moral decay of the United States
does not
bode well for the future. The biblically based values on which
the
founding fathers and American people built the United States of
America
have given way to denial of God and the same kind of self-
serving
materialistic orientation that led to the collapse of the
ancient kingdoms
of Israel and Judah.
Without a change in direction and emphasis, will the outcome for
America
be any different?
Far too many Americans and Britons have refused to acknowledge
God and His
blessings. In their intellectual and spiritual arrogance many
have chosen
to deny the existence of a Creator and accept the false religion
of
evolution and its secular-humanist theology.
They prefer to believe that the awesome blessings of national
wealth and
power are happenstance or the result of their own efforts. Like
ancient
Israel they have fallen into a trap of their own making,
choosing to
ignore God's words of warning:
"When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God
for the
good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget
the LORD
your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his
decrees that I
am giving you this day.
"Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine
houses and
settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your
silver and
gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart
will become
proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out
of Egypt,
out of the land of slavery" (Deuteronomy 8:10-14, NIV).
In the next chapter we will see what is in store for the United
States and
Britain. Like it or not, what befalls them will affect all of
humanity.
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History avers the perspicacity of the above analysis and only a fool
denies it - it's sad to see so many fools masquerade as legal
professionals here - but you're the same type that would like
Americans to believe that the vapid rhetoric of Muslim Apostate Obama
is 'intellectually' sound! please feel free to continue in your
pusillanimous policies - my office is only three blocks from ABA HQ
here in the Chicago loop.
The politically correct prevarication and Godless secularism that
seems to dominate this group is disgusting - not at all surprising at
Yahoo that allows Islamofascist Terrorists and Diseased Gays free
reign while censoring and banning Conservative Christian Real
Americans - in 28 years on line I've seen a lot of abuse and nonsense
but seldom have I seen anything as bad as this group - the saddest
part is that you don't even have the balls for a good battle!
Are you liberals crazy? It is a well known fact that chronic drug
abuse and recurrent venereal diseases as a result of dangerous
promiscuity cause cranial atrophy and the same brain damage seen daily
in Islamofascist insanity is sadly in evidence here:
Don't you understand that the most Mexicans are DUMBER than a door
nail (the average level of education is 2nd grade) 1 and are only here
to steal what they can and peddle drugs? If not drive down to
Armitage and Pulaski in the Hermossa area and ask the Spanish Cobras,
Latin Disciples or Insane Unknowns! I lived with the bastards for 20
years and know a lot more than any studies reveal - why can't you libs
get out of the gay bar and examine the facts?
Attorney General Gonzalez announced the indictments against a large
group of MS-13 Gang members just last week but you ignore it
completely - that is not good since it mighty cause the price of your
cocaine at the gay bar to go up!
Do you kiddies really think that some doped up pervert with AIDS is
some sort of hero because the Welfare Cadillac crowd that supports
half of our lazy Negroes pays all his bills? It's sad that this
creature has contacted the virus but I'd bet he did not contact it at
Bible study - the LAW states that there are CONSEQUENCES for breaking
it - but you libs conveniently ignore that and expect ME to pay the
bills.
Do you seriously think that some crazy Injun is a notable savant?
Drive on over to the American-Indian Center at Broadway and Wilson and
take a good look at the Bastards as they suck on a 40 ounce while
waiting for their SSI Check!
All nations set immigration quotas for these reasons: to bring those
who will benefit a nation in and keep the undesirable out - examine
how Mexico handles their southern neighbors - why should we abandon a
historically sound policy? But you can't handle the truth can you?
Apparently not so you'd rather hide in gay liberal la la land while
HIV goes up at the rate of 33% every year in the Windy City and one in
four young Muslims supports SUICIDE BOMBING IN THE USA (see the
recently released Pew Research Poll) - no big deal!
I'm stunned at the dismal level of erudition displayed here - I hold a
Bachelors in Music Composition (De Paul, 1976), Masters of Music
Composition (Roosevelt, 1981), half an MS in Computer Science
(Illinois Institute of Technology, 1981-1984) and after a ten year
nightmare of poverty and homelessness 2 I am now enrolled in the
Paralegal Certificate Program at Roosevelt University so scholarship
matters - but all you infants seem concerned with is Political
Correctness and squelching any opposing views - may God Have Mercy on
your Souls - I hope you feel good! 4
I sincerely doubt that you have the intellectual courage to let this
see the light of day but now that the Shamnesty Bill has been defeated
there's a harsh reality you'd be well advised to remember about
Conservatives 3 -
WE'RE THE GUYS WITH THE GUNS!!!
Praise the Lord and God Bless America,
George M Weinert V
http://www.americanjihad.blogspot.com/
http://www.michaelsavage2008.blogspot.com/
http://illinoisminutemen.com/
http://www.terrorwebs.blogspot.com/
http://www.islamsux.blogspot.com/
http://www.queerjihad.blogspot.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DEPAULUNIVERSITYJIHAD/
1 Yes there are other groups involved that present other issues but
the main problem is with the Mex
2 The full story is available at http://valleyofdeath.blogspot.com/
3 For the record, I am not a Conservative - I AM A PROUD NEOCON!
4 Since you now can throw the smear "Homeless" against this 55 year
old Roman Catholic who attends daily mass and prays three rosaries a
day you ought to know that I AM AN ALCOHOLIC as well - Sober since May
29, 1985 through the Grace of God and the AA Program but you libs
don't care so now you have even more churlish reasons to ban this
scholar
charge here may not allow this to see the light of day:
Britain and the United States Inherit Joseph's Birthright
After about five centuries of existence on the Eurasian steppes
following
the destruction of the northern kingdom, Israel's nomadic
descendants, now
called Scythians, began another forced migration.
This time their enemies-from Asia and the Near East-and a
dramatic change
of climate on the Eurasian steppes began moving them westward,
just as the
biblical prophets had said would happen (1 Kings 14:15; Isaiah
49:12;
Hosea 12:1). This major westward migration began about 200 B.C.
and
continued into the fifth century A.D.
Yet during this time, in the first century, when Christianity
was in its
infancy, the Jewish historian Josephus confirmed that many
deported
Israelites were still living beyond the Euphrates River.
Joseph wrote that, in his day, "the ten tribes are beyond the
Euphrates
till now [the first century], and are an immense multitude, and
not to be
estimated by numbers" (Antiquities of the Jews, Book XI, Chapter
V,
Section 2).
The apostle James also plainly confirms that the missing tribes
hadn't
been reunited with the tribes of Judah and Benjamin in
Palestine. He
addresses his epistle "to the twelve tribes which are scattered
abroad"
(James 1:1).
Though God had promised that all of the lost 10 tribes of Israel
would
continue to exist, He also promised to sift them among the
nations (Amos
9:9). This He did until He brought them to the land that was
north and
west of ancient Israel, where He had promised to resettle them.
It was as though a powerful, unseen hand inexorably herded them-
with all
their tribes and clans-across the Eurasian plains, the Scythian
steppes,
to Northwest Europe, where the Celts, another group of related
tribes,
were already settling.
Although not as well understood as the great European migrations
beginning
in the 16th century-when emigrants established colonies in North
America,
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa-the earlier migration
was similar
in many respects.
Although many clans from many tribes converged on Europe at the
same time,
most of those that finally settled in Northwest Europe were
related and
shared a culture.
Many historians have acknowledged that the Anglo-Saxon peoples
provided
the racial stock that founded several modern Western nations,
including
Great Britain and the United States. This information can be
found in many
history books.
What isn't widely understood is the Celtic-Scythian link to the
ancient
Israelites. In the previous chapter we briefly discussed this
connection.
Now we turn our attention to God beginning to fulfill His
promises to the
descendants of Israel's presumably lost tribes after they had
migrated to
northwestern Europe and the British Isles and from there to
America and
the other British colonies around the world.
Promises of greatness for Joseph's descendants
Before his death the patriarch Jacob, through God's
inspiration,
prophesied what would happen to the descendants of his 12 sons
in the
"last days" (Genesis 49:1). Our focus in this chapter is on
Jacob's
prophecy concerning Joseph.
Joseph's modern descendants are the easiest to identify of all
the lost
tribes of Israel because the specific blessings they were to
receive stand
out so distinctly from those of the other tribes. God promised
to Joseph's
descendants-through his sons Ephraim and Manasseh -all the
benefits of the
birthright promises of national greatness and overflowing
prosperity.
Notice Jacob's prophecy about Joseph in the last days: "Joseph
is like a
grapevine that produces much fruit, a healthy vine watered by a
spring,
whose branches grow over the wall. Archers attack him violently
and shoot
at him angrily, but he aims his bow well. His arms are made
strong. He
gets his power from the Mighty God of Jacob and his strength
from the
Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.
"Your father's God helps you. God Almighty blesses you. He
blesses you
with rain from above, with water from springs below, with many
babies born
to your wives, and many young ones born to your animals. The
blessings of
your father are greater than the blessings of the oldest
mountains,
greater than the good things of the long-lasting hills. May
these
blessings rest on the head of Joseph, on the forehead of the one
who was
separated from his brothers" (Genesis 49:22-26, New Century
Version).
Joseph's descendants, he said, were to be especially blessed-
like a
fruitful vine with a never-ending supply of water, insuring
their constant
growth. Their populations would multiply rapidly. They would
expand to
lands beyond their original borders, grow militarily strong and
reap the
choicest physical blessings of the earth. They would produce and
prosper.
These were the birthright blessings (1 Chronicles 5:1-2) God
promised to
Joseph's descendants. Because of these divine blessings,
Joseph's
descendants were to stand out among Israel's other tribes
(Genesis
49:22-26).
Before his death Moses repeated the special blessings that would
flow to
Joseph's descendants. "And of Joseph he said: 'Blessed of the
LORD is his
land, with the precious things of heaven, with the dew, and the
deep lying
beneath, with the precious fruits of the sun, with the precious
produce of
the months, with the best things of the ancient mountains, with
the
precious things of the everlasting hills, with the precious
things of the
earth and its fullness, and the favor of Him who dwelt in the
bush. Let
the blessing come 'on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of
the head of
him who was separate from his brothers.'
"His glory is like a firstborn bull, and his horns [military
might] like
the horns of the wild ox; together with them he shall push the
peoples to
the ends of the earth; they are the 10 thousands of Ephraim, and
they are
the thousands of Manasseh'" (Deuteronomy 33:13-17). God had
promised to
take a direct hand in delivering magnificent physical blessings
to
Joseph's descendants.
When we understand that the modern descendants of Joseph are the
people of
the United States and Britain, we see that over the past three
centuries
God has been true to His promises. He has granted the physical
birthright
blessings of Joseph's sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, to their
modern
descendants-the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic people of Britain and the
United
States. The Anglo-Saxon and Celtic descendants have been the
primary
founders and shapers of British and American culture.
God also has made available to them opportunities to shine as
spiritual
beacons within a confused and darkened world. Regrettably, as
with the
ancient Israelites, only a few among them have been willing to
accept
their responsibility and God's calling.
God assigned a role to Joseph's descendants
God's grand purpose-anciently, today and tomorrow-for Abraham's
descendants has never varied. He selected them to be a blessing
to "all
the families of the earth" (Genesis 12:3). To make this possible
He
promised them every material advantage they would ever need.
Yet God did not give them national prominence and prosperity at
the
expense of other peoples and nations. Rather, God's far-reaching
purpose
has always been to lead all people into a permanent relationship
with Him
(Acts 17:30; 1 Timothy 2:4; 2 Peter 3:9). Only then can they
receive the
power to change their human nature and receive the ultimate
blessing of
eternal life (Acts 4:12).
God had designated Abraham's descendants-by a promise, long
before they
existed as a people-to be His instruments in accomplishing
important
aspects of His purpose. He has used them in ways even they have
not always
discerned.
At the heart of God's relationship with the ancient Israelites
was His
covenant with them and their descendants. That agreement defined
the rules
and responsibilities of the relationship between God and the
Israelites.
It set forth the obligations God imposed on Himself and His
expectations
of the nation He had created to be His holy people and a model
nation to
the world (Leviticus 20:26; Deuteronomy 4:5-8; 7:6).
God gave the promised birthright blessings to Joseph's modern
descendants
in Britain and America. At the same time He has made available
to Israel's
descendants-and indeed the whole world-the knowledge of what He
expects of
them spiritually. He has accurately preserved this knowledge in
the Bible,
and today that knowledge is available to anyone willing to read
it-whether
ethnically Israelite or gentile.
God makes His Word available
The British and American people have been the instruments used
to spread
God's Word to most of the known world. Although we often take
the Bible
for granted, and many U.S. and British homes now have several
copies, it
wasn't always this way.
For many centuries virtually the only copies available outside
of the
original languages were in Latin, with the Roman Catholic Church
tightly
controlling the common people's access to the Scriptures. "Yet
it was in
England, so long deprived of the living Word, where the battle
was fought
and won for the right of the common man to have his Bible in his
own
language" (Neil Lightfoot, How We Got the Bible, 1986, p. 76).
After several attempts to produce English-language versions in
the 1500s,
in 1611 the king of England officially approved the publication
of what
has become known as the King James Version of the Bible. Its
translators,
by order of King James, produced it from its original languages
by a large
team of Hebrew and Greek scholars. It quickly gained the
reputation of
being the most accurate translation of the Bible ever attempted
up to that
time.
For almost 400 years it has remained the best-known Bible
translation of
the English-speaking world. It has been the model for Bible
translations
for practically all other languages. No single book has affected
the
history of the English-speaking people like the King James
Bible.
The Bible has since been translated into thousands of languages,
virtually
every tongue, with the British-descended people printing and
distributing
hundreds of millions of copies all over the globe.
The policies and resources of America and Britain have both
encouraged and
enabled the true gospel of the Kingdom of God to be proclaimed
around the
world in recent years. They have provided the climate of
religious
freedom, the financial resources and most of the laborers that
were needed
to disseminate biblical knowledge to all nations.
The Bible's role in society and law
Biblical principles even became the basis for much of English
common law.
English common law in turn heavily influenced American
constitutional and
regional law. In this manner the Bible has had a greater
influence on the
United States and the British Commonwealth nations than on any
other
people in recent centuries.
The Bible formed the foundation of these nations' professed
ethical values
and morality. Laws the nations established on biblical
principles became
the basis of a huge part of their legal judgments. The United
States in
particular became the most biblically oriented nation in the
world (with
the possible exception of the modern state of Israel, founded in
1948).
Through the widespread availability of the Bible, God gave the
English-speaking peoples essential information they needed to
know what
God expected of them. In addition, many were exposed to their
true
identity as descendants of Joseph through his sons Ephraim and
Manasseh
(see "Advocates of British-Israelism," page 38).
However, God has never forced the British and American peoples
to accept
their biblically ordained role. Like ancient Israel, He has
given them a
choice (Deuteronomy 30:15, 19).
Only a small proportion of them have sincerely responded.
Why did all of this happen? What purpose is God working out for
the last
days? How has He been accomplishing the essential elements of
His plan?
Let's review some of the significant international contributions
Britain
and America have made to the modern world. Then let's compare
those to the
promises God made to the descendants of Joseph.
If we find that the British and American people have received
the
biblically predicted benefits and blessings, we then have
further evidence
to substantiate that they are indeed the modern descendants of
Joseph.
Have Britains and Americans perceived the hand of God?
The expression "God is an Englishman" mirrored the views of many
people
both in and outside the British Isles in the 19th century. What
precipitated this startling point of view?
Britain's status in the world is only a shadow of what it was a
century
ago. You might have had difficulty convincing many people who
lived in the
19th and 20th centuries that God was not somehow miraculously
prospering
the politicians, statesmen, diplomats, explorers, generals,
admirals,
soldiers, architects, engineers, scientists, inventors,
bankers,
businessmen, shopkeepers and entrepreneurs of the British Isles.
To many observers, both in and out of Britain, it appeared that
success
came to the British people whether they even pursued it-whether
they made
wise or foolish choices. It was as though certain blessings
were
overtaking them.
It was the perceived inevitability of success that inspired John
Robert
Seeley, Cambridge professor of modern history (1834-1895) and
author of
The Expansion of England (1884), to make the famous quip that
England
acquired her globe-spanning empire "in a fit of absence of
mind."
The 1800s were certainly Britain's century. To their own
astonishment the
people of the relatively tiny British Isles found themselves
ruling over a
mighty empire. As the 19th century drew to a close, the British
Empire was
"the largest empire in the history of the world, comprising
nearly a
quarter of the land mass of the earth, and a quarter of its
population"
(James Morris, Pax Britannica: The Climax of an Empire, 1968, p.
21).
Yet the empire would continue to expand. "It continued to grow
until 1933,
when its area was 13.9 million square miles and its population
493 million
... The Roman Empire in its prime comprised perhaps 120 million
people in
an area of 21/2 million square miles ..." (ibid., pp. 27, 42).
The British Empire, then, spanned 51/2 times the territory of
the Roman
Empire, with more than four times the subjects. British rule
extended over
not just ordinary regions but some of the choicest and most
fertile
territories on earth.
It is hardly surprising that educated people of the day
perceived the hand
of God in the process. To them it seemed too obvious to ignore.
For example, Lord Rosebery, a British foreign secretary (1886,
1892-1894)
and prime minister (1894-1895), spoke in November 1900 to the
students of
Glasgow University about the British Empire:
"How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but by
the work
of men's hands ... and yet not wholly human, for the most
heedless and the
most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.
"Growing as trees grow, while others slept; fed by the faults of
others as
well as the character of our fathers; reaching with a ripple of
a restless
tide over tracts, and islands and continents, until our little
Britain
woke up to find herself the foster-mother of nations and the
source of
united empires. Do we not hail in this less the energy and
fortune of a
race than the supreme direction of the Almighty?"
In those more biblically literate times, people like Lord
Rosebery
perceived the remarkable circumstances of the British people.
God seemed
to be blessing them much as He had promised to bless the ancient
people of
Israel. Therefore, to them it hardly seemed outrageous to regard
the
British people as chosen of God. Was their perception merely an
expression
of human vanity? Or were they truly observing the hand of God
blessing
their people and nation?
The builders of the British Empire aspired to weld together a
peaceful,
productive domain ruling over a quarter of the world's
population. A great
achievement of British administrators was the establishment and
extension
of law and order in Britain's colonial and imperial territories
around the
globe. This alone brought untold blessings to the people of
these
territories.
This Pax Britannica bequeathed peaceful conditions to many
regions
formerly plagued by war and long-term ethnic hostilities. The
British
presence also stimulated territorial economic development and
introduced
many areas to Western technological advances. British
missionaries became
the bearers of biblical literature and knowledge to people from
one end of
the globe to the other. Both physical and spiritual blessings
were freely
distributed around the globe.
The British century
Great Britain had not always been great. Indeed, most of the
rise of both
Britain and the United States came after 1800. Only a couple of
centuries
before becoming the world's premier power, England's status was
similar to
that of all the other nations in Europe.
The Hapsburg Holy Roman emperor, Charles V, characterized the
relative
place of England among European nations on the eve of the 16th
century. He
is said to have remarked, "I speak Latin to God, Italian to
musicians,
Spanish to ladies, French at court, German to servants, and
English to my
horses."
How did such a reversal of fortune and prestige for all things
English
occur over the next 200 years?
The industrial and economic growth of the Anglo-American world
began to
crescendo in the middle to late 18th century. Economic
historians argue
about the point at which the industrialization process reached
critical
mass. But, generally speaking, the earliest dates they suggest
are the
1750s and the latest around 1800.
Britain also experienced a population explosion beginning during
that same
period. Historian Colin Cross notes that "one of the unexplained
mysteries
of social history is the explosion in the size of the population
of Great
Britain between 1750 and 1850. For generations the British
population had
been static, or rising only very slightly. Then in the space of
a century
it almost trebled-from 7.7 million in 1750 to 20.7 million in
1850 ...
Britain was a dynamic country and one of the marks of its
dynamism was the
population explosion" (Fall of the British Empire, 1969, p.
155).
This window of time seems to be directly related to Joseph's
exiled
descendants receiving the promised birthright blessings.
Although
historians have wondered why the industrial revolution didn't
begin at
some earlier point in history, this divine blessing may help
explain why
the gigantic increases in industrial capacity expanded so
dramatically when they did.
The Bible reveals that God is in control of events and works
them out
according to His plan and timetable (Isaiah 46:9-10). He long
ago made
known, through the patriarch Jacob, that Joseph's descendants
would
receive the birthright promises in "the last days" (Genesis
49:1, 22-26).
Other biblically prophesied troubles distinguish our modern age
as the
last days leading into the events prophesied in Matthew 24 and
the book of
Revelation. They confirm that the fulfillment of God's promises
to Abraham
concerning the last days has been taking place.
The year 1776 was a landmark date. By that year the steam engine
was in
practical use, and within another decade-just a few years before
the
French Revolution of 1789 significantly slowed industrial
development in
France-it became a commercial success.
That same year American colonists declared their independence.
This
separation of the United States from Britain accomplished the
prophecy
that Manasseh and Ephraim would be separate peoples-one a great
nation and
the other "a multitude of nations" (Genesis 48:16, 19).
Another major event occurred about the same time. A Scottish
University of
Glasgow professor of moral philosophy, Adam Smith, published
Wealth of
Nations, which became the intellectual and philosophical support
for
England's developing what has since become known as the
capitalist
economy. The capitalist system soon began to propel the Western
world in
general, and the British economy in particular, to unprecedented
heights.
Though British diplomats and statesmen may have lacked a grand
design for
the construction of their empire, it became the largest and
most
beneficent empire in the history of mankind. Little wonder that
historians
describe the 1800s as the British century.
American nationhood blossoms
The wars between France and England that culminated with the
British
victory over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815 had an indirect
influence on
America's rise to greatness. Napoleon's need for ready cash to
pay for the
costs of impending war with England led him to sell France's
vast American
territories to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.
The acquisition of the Louisiana territory in 1803 gave the
American
republic instant world-power status. The young country bought
828,000
square miles of the most fertile farmland in the world-the
American
Midwest-for less than 3 cents per acre!
Overnight the size of the United States doubled, immeasurably
strengthening the nation materially and strategically.
After that 1803 transaction the country expanded across the
continent in
less than a generation, adding huge swaths of territory with
vast natural
resources. In 1867 the United States added almost 600,000 more
square
miles when it purchased Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million-
about 2 cents
per acre.
Although no one realized it at the time, these great untapped
blessings
would allow America's citizens to lead the world in per-capita
wealth in
the next century. Though detractors openly ridiculed the
purchase of
Alaska at the time, income from its resources-timber, minerals,
oil and
the like-today amounts to tens of billions of dollars each year.
A commonwealth of nations
The other fulfillment of Jacob's prediction-that Ephraim would
become "a
multitude of nations" (Genesis 48:19) -also slowly but quickly
picked up
steam. It began as a result of Britain's victory over France in
1815. By
the end of the Napoleonic Wars the Royal Navy ruled the oceans.
The British economy, stimulated by this conflict, emerged with
unparalleled economic supremacy. The French bid for world
hegemony-more or
less continual since the days of Louis XIV (1643-1715) and the
opening
rounds of the Second Hundred Years War-had decisively failed.
Britain found herself free and in possession of the necessary
political,
economic and military power to build an empire that soon
extended around
the world. As modern Manasseh (the United States) began to build
a nation
that would soon extend from sea to shining sea, Ephraim
(Britain) fell
heir to lands around the world.
The British built an empire on which the sun never set. Its
imperial
structure was almost infinite in its diversity, comprised as it
was of
people from virtually every ethnic group and governed by means
as
centralized as the raj (British rule) in India or the British
agent-general's office in Egypt or as independent as the
dominion status
granted to Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
From a physical point of view, much of the Anglo-American
dominance during
the past two centuries came from the blessing of favorable
geography and
climate and the seemingly endless supply of natural resources
accumulated
during this time.
British territories were concentrated in the most productive
regions of
the temperate zone. An abundant and dependable food supply
enabled them to
support steady population growth from the 18th through much of
the 20th
centuries. Certainly the modern descendants of Joseph have been
a
"fruitful bough" (Genesis 49:22-25; see also Leviticus 26:9;
Deuteronomy
6:3; 7:13-14; 28:4-5).
The British and American peoples inherited a treasure trove of
natural
resources. What the British lacked within their own isles, they
drew from
an empire encircling the globe. Americans found everything
necessary for
national economic greatness-vast expanses of fertile soil;
seemingly
endless forests; gold, silver and other precious metals waiting
to be
mined; and massive iron ore, coal, petroleum and other mineral
deposits-within the confines of the continental United States
and even
more in Alaska.
Both peoples possessed "the best things of the ancient
mountains"-the
"precious things of the everlasting hills" and "the precious
things of the
earth and its fullness" within the territories they exclusively
controlled
(Deuteronomy 8:9; 28:1, 6, 8, 13; 33:13-17).
The world's military and commercial gateways
God's promise to Abraham included another provision: "... Your
descendants
shall possess the gate of their enemies" (Genesis 22:17). In
this context
gate means a strategic passageway controlling commerce or
military access
for a region. Examples of strategic gates are the Straits of
Gibraltar and
the Suez and Panama canals.
It is a fact of history that Great Britain and the United States
gained
control of the majority of the world's most important land and
sea gates
(see map on page 39). These have been critical to their economic
and
military dominance in the 19th and 20th centuries. Let's
consider how
Joseph's descendants acquired the three crucial sea gates
mentioned above.
The first example took place as a result of the War of the
Spanish
Succession (1701-1714). The Spanish king, Charles II
(1661-1700), had no
children. The absence of an heir led to a controversy over
succession to
the Spanish throne. For a time it appeared the matter could be
peaceably
resolved. However, when Charles designated Philippe d'Anjou, the
grandson
of French King Louis XIV, as his successor, he destabilized the
European
balance of power.
Charles' decision confirmed the worst fears of fellow European
statesmen
concerning French intentions. At Versailles the Spanish
ambassador,
kneeling before the new king-now Philip V of Spain-was heard to
murmur,
"Il n'y pas de Pyrenees"-there are no more Pyrenees. He implied
that the
king's ascension amounted to the union of France and Spain. But
England's
growing dominance prevented this from coming to pass.
In 1701 England, at war with France, was determined to restore a
favorable
balance of power in Europe. England succeeded, and the French
bid to
dominate the Continent failed. In fact, England emerged from the
conflict
with the largest European navy and her status as a major power
confirmed.
As a result of the war England acquired Newfoundland, Nova
Scotia, the
Hudson Bay territory, Minorca and, most important, Gibraltar,
an
indispensable international sea gate. Her possession of
Gibraltar meant
that she controlled the entry and exit to the Mediterranean Sea.
These
acquisitions were part of the terms of settlement of the Peace
of Utrecht,
April 11, 1713.
More than a century and a half later the British gained direct
control of
another critical sea gate at the other end of the Mediterranean,
the Suez
Canal. The British remained at Suez for nearly three quarters of
a
century. This 100-mile man-made passage between the
Mediterranean and Red
seas has long been one of the world's most heavily used shipping
lanes,
eliminating the long and arduous trip around the southern tip of
Africa.
In accordance with the biblical prophecy, God gave this sea gate
to the
British people-the modern descendants of Ephraim, son of Joseph.
A third critical sea gate acquired by Joseph's descendants was
the Panama
Canal. Like Thomas Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana
territory or
Benjamin Disraeli's acquisition of Suez Canal stock (see
"Benjamin
Disraeli: Maestro of Empire,"), American president Theodore
Roosevelt took
steps to secure Panama with bold decisiveness but questionable
legality.
About his presumption Roosevelt remarked, "I took the Isthmus,
started the
Canal, and then left Congress -not to debate the Canal, but to
debate me"
(Roger Butterfield, The American Past, 1966, p. 323).
A blessing to other nations
The rise to greatness of Britain and the United States was
nothing short
of astonishing. Says historian James Morris: "During the ...
years of
Queen Victoria's reign [1837-1901] the Empire had grown by more
than ten
times, from a scatter of disregarded possessions to a quarter of
the land
mass of the earth ... It had changed the face of the continents
with its
cities, its railways, its churches, ... and it had changed the
manner of
life of entire peoples, stamping its own values upon
civilizations from
the Cree to the Burmese, besides creating several fully-fledged
new
nations of its own. There had never been such an Empire since
history
began ..." (Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress, 1973, p.
539, emphasis
added).
Morris adds: "It was not merely the right of the British to rule
a quarter
of the world, so the imperialists thought, it was actually their
duty ...
They would so distribute across the earth their own methods,
principles
and liberal traditions that the future of mankind would be
reshaped.
Justice would be established, miseries relieved, ignorant
savages
enlightened, all by the agency of British power and money" (Pax
Britannica, p. 26, emphasis added). God was using the English-
speaking
people to introduce a new set of standards and individual
freedoms to the
rest of mankind.
The British proved to be able administrators who dramatically
improved the
infrastructure and standard of living in the countries they
governed.
Although all aspects of their administration were not always
carried out
as justly and equitably as they should have been, God's
prophesied intent
was accomplished. The sons of Joseph led the world into an era
of
unprecedented knowledge, prosperity and technological
advancement. For the
first time the Bible, plus biblically oriented reference works
and
publications, began to be distributed globally.
The United States, after pursuing an isolationist policy for
many years,
was eventually forced by events beyond her control to also take
a larger
role in world affairs-becoming the international model for
freedom and
individual rights. Attacked by Japan in 1941, an ill-prepared
United
States suddenly found itself at war with the Axis powers. It
quickly
geared up its industrial might, already harnessed to some extent
in the
early years of the war to aid Britain.
The United States emerged from World War II as the most powerful
nation in
the world. But, rather than using its strength to dominate and
oppress the
weaker nations of a shattered world, America set out to rebuild
its
defeated enemies-exhibiting a compassion that is indeed rare in
the annals
of international affairs.
From 1945 through 1952 the United States channeled $24 billion
($150
billion in today's dollars) to the cause of rescuing and
rebuilding
Europe, including Germany. In Japan the United States governed
the country
for several years, rebuilding it and setting it back on its
feet. In
recent years both of these former enemy nations have emerged as
global
economic powers.
Since then both the United States and Britain have funneled many
more
billions in foreign aid to other countries. These are some of
the ways
Britain and the United States have been a blessing to the
nations of the
world. Along with those blessings, however, have been some
misguided
efforts and injustices. Such is the legacy of greatly blessed
nations that
have neglected to obey the God who blessed them.
Will Anglo-American dominance continue?
The 19th and 20th centuries saw the Anglo-American peoples
dominate world
affairs. Will this pattern continue into the 21st century?
British world dominance has long since passed. The two great
wars of the
20th century took a terrible toll on Britain and her people. The
conflicts
robbed her of two generations of young men and drained her
economically.
By the end of World War II the British found themselves with
neither the
resources nor the will to preserve their empire.
After Britain gave India its independence in 1947 the British
Empire began
to dissolve with dizzying speed. Britain's supremacy quickly
gave place to
American dominance in the second half of the 20th century.
Although American military, economic, industrial and technical
power still
reigns supreme, the spiraling moral decay of the United States
does not
bode well for the future. The biblically based values on which
the
founding fathers and American people built the United States of
America
have given way to denial of God and the same kind of self-
serving
materialistic orientation that led to the collapse of the
ancient kingdoms
of Israel and Judah.
Without a change in direction and emphasis, will the outcome for
America
be any different?
Far too many Americans and Britons have refused to acknowledge
God and His
blessings. In their intellectual and spiritual arrogance many
have chosen
to deny the existence of a Creator and accept the false religion
of
evolution and its secular-humanist theology.
They prefer to believe that the awesome blessings of national
wealth and
power are happenstance or the result of their own efforts. Like
ancient
Israel they have fallen into a trap of their own making,
choosing to
ignore God's words of warning:
"When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the LORD your God
for the
good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget
the LORD
your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his
decrees that I
am giving you this day.
"Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine
houses and
settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your
silver and
gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart
will become
proud and you will forget the LORD your God, who brought you out
of Egypt,
out of the land of slavery" (Deuteronomy 8:10-14, NIV).
In the next chapter we will see what is in store for the United
States and
Britain. Like it or not, what befalls them will affect all of
humanity.
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History avers the perspicacity of the above analysis and only a fool
denies it - it's sad to see so many fools masquerade as legal
professionals here - but you're the same type that would like
Americans to believe that the vapid rhetoric of Muslim Apostate Obama
is 'intellectually' sound! please feel free to continue in your
pusillanimous policies - my office is only three blocks from ABA HQ
here in the Chicago loop.
The politically correct prevarication and Godless secularism that
seems to dominate this group is disgusting - not at all surprising at
Yahoo that allows Islamofascist Terrorists and Diseased Gays free
reign while censoring and banning Conservative Christian Real
Americans - in 28 years on line I've seen a lot of abuse and nonsense
but seldom have I seen anything as bad as this group - the saddest
part is that you don't even have the balls for a good battle!
Are you liberals crazy? It is a well known fact that chronic drug
abuse and recurrent venereal diseases as a result of dangerous
promiscuity cause cranial atrophy and the same brain damage seen daily
in Islamofascist insanity is sadly in evidence here:
Don't you understand that the most Mexicans are DUMBER than a door
nail (the average level of education is 2nd grade) 1 and are only here
to steal what they can and peddle drugs? If not drive down to
Armitage and Pulaski in the Hermossa area and ask the Spanish Cobras,
Latin Disciples or Insane Unknowns! I lived with the bastards for 20
years and know a lot more than any studies reveal - why can't you libs
get out of the gay bar and examine the facts?
Attorney General Gonzalez announced the indictments against a large
group of MS-13 Gang members just last week but you ignore it
completely - that is not good since it mighty cause the price of your
cocaine at the gay bar to go up!
Do you kiddies really think that some doped up pervert with AIDS is
some sort of hero because the Welfare Cadillac crowd that supports
half of our lazy Negroes pays all his bills? It's sad that this
creature has contacted the virus but I'd bet he did not contact it at
Bible study - the LAW states that there are CONSEQUENCES for breaking
it - but you libs conveniently ignore that and expect ME to pay the
bills.
Do you seriously think that some crazy Injun is a notable savant?
Drive on over to the American-Indian Center at Broadway and Wilson and
take a good look at the Bastards as they suck on a 40 ounce while
waiting for their SSI Check!
All nations set immigration quotas for these reasons: to bring those
who will benefit a nation in and keep the undesirable out - examine
how Mexico handles their southern neighbors - why should we abandon a
historically sound policy? But you can't handle the truth can you?
Apparently not so you'd rather hide in gay liberal la la land while
HIV goes up at the rate of 33% every year in the Windy City and one in
four young Muslims supports SUICIDE BOMBING IN THE USA (see the
recently released Pew Research Poll) - no big deal!
I'm stunned at the dismal level of erudition displayed here - I hold a
Bachelors in Music Composition (De Paul, 1976), Masters of Music
Composition (Roosevelt, 1981), half an MS in Computer Science
(Illinois Institute of Technology, 1981-1984) and after a ten year
nightmare of poverty and homelessness 2 I am now enrolled in the
Paralegal Certificate Program at Roosevelt University so scholarship
matters - but all you infants seem concerned with is Political
Correctness and squelching any opposing views - may God Have Mercy on
your Souls - I hope you feel good! 4
I sincerely doubt that you have the intellectual courage to let this
see the light of day but now that the Shamnesty Bill has been defeated
there's a harsh reality you'd be well advised to remember about
Conservatives 3 -
WE'RE THE GUYS WITH THE GUNS!!!
Praise the Lord and God Bless America,
George M Weinert V
http://www.americanjihad.blogspot.com/
http://www.michaelsavage2008.blogspot.com/
http://illinoisminutemen.com/
http://www.terrorwebs.blogspot.com/
http://www.islamsux.blogspot.com/
http://www.queerjihad.blogspot.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DEPAULUNIVERSITYJIHAD/
1 Yes there are other groups involved that present other issues but
the main problem is with the Mex
2 The full story is available at http://valleyofdeath.blogspot.com/
3 For the record, I am not a Conservative - I AM A PROUD NEOCON!
4 Since you now can throw the smear "Homeless" against this 55 year
old Roman Catholic who attends daily mass and prays three rosaries a
day you ought to know that I AM AN ALCOHOLIC as well - Sober since May
29, 1985 through the Grace of God and the AA Program but you libs
don't care so now you have even more churlish reasons to ban this
scholar