Israel's Finger
Prints
by Rev. Bertrand L.
Comparet, A.B., J.D.
The Bible is written to
God's people ISRAEL. The common misconception, that "the Jews are all that
remains of Israel" makes the Bible seem false to those who hold this mistaken
view. It is just as if you took a good history of the United States and
wherever it said "United States" you wrote in its place "China". As a history
of China, it is clearly false, but applied to the right nation it is true. When
the police have the fingerprints of a wanted man, they know the man whose
prints match those they have is the one they seek. Likewise, when we find the
people to whom all of God's promises to ISRAEL have been fulfilled, we have
found ISRAEL. TODAY, THE ANGLO-SAXON AND SCANDINAVIAN NATIONS HAVE ISRAEL'S
FINGERPRINTS IN EVERY DETAIL.
God first made His great
promises to Abraham and repeated them to Abraham's son Isaac, and Grandson,
Jacob (Whose name God changed to ISRAEL, "A Prince, Ruling With God") ISRAEL
had 12 sons. The descendants of each son became a tribe, so that all the
descendants of Dan became the Tribe of Dan, the descendants of Judah, the tribe
of Judah and so on. After their long captivity in Egypt, they became one nation
of 12 Tribes (Like the one United States of 50 States), which continued until
Solomon's death.
Then the 10 Northern Tribes
revolted and set up their own kingdom, keeping the name ISRAEL, while the old,
southern, two tribed nation was called JUDAH. Thereafter, their histories are
recorded separately, in the Books of Kings and of Chronicles, which, like the
prophets, carefully distinguish between them. About 715 B.C., ISRAEL was
captured by Assyria and deported to the lands around the south end of the
Caspian Sea and they never returned to Palestine.
The Authorized Version of
the Bible doesn't record their further history, but the prophets continued for
several centuries to give further prophecies of ISRAEL'S great future. In the
Apocrypha, I Esdras 13:39-45, records their migration as far as the River
Sereth, a northern tributary of the Danube in Rumania. Other historians of the
time record their migration into Northern and Western Europe and the British
Isles. Over a century later, JUDAH was deported to Babylon, not Assyria, for 70
years as Jeremiah had prophesied. Afterwards, some of them came back to
Palestine.
Neither Bible nor secular
history records any destruction of ISRAEL. To the contrary, it was well known
in Christ's time that they existed in great numbers elsewhere. Jesus Christ
spoke of their continued existence, separate from the Jews, in Matthew 10:5-6,
23. The complete destruction of the Jewish nation by the Romans and their
subsequent troubles as outcasts in every nation, are not a failure of the
prophecies and promises to ISRAEL, but very accurate fulfillment of the
prophecies about the nation of the Jews. With this history in mind, let us
examine the prophecies and promises to ISRAEL. GOD'S PROMISES TO ABRAHAM WERE
UNCONDITIONAL. GOD MUST FULFILL THEM OR BREAK HIS WORD, for He said, "I will
make of thee a great nation; thou shalt be a father of many nations: And I will
establish My covenant between Me and thee and thy seed after thee in their
generations, for AN EVERLASTING COVENANT. They seed shall possess the gate of
his enemies." God did not say He would do this "IF" or "PERHAPS", they were
UNCONDITIONAL promises and had nothing to do with obeying the Law.
They were repeated,
UNCONDITIONALLY to Isaac, in Genesis 26. They were repeated, UNCONDITIONALLY to
ISRAEL, to whom God also said: "thou shall spread abroad to the west and to the
east and to the north and to the south; and in thee and in they seed shall all
the families of the earth be blessed. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a
company of nations shall be of thee". Genesis 28:13-15 & 35:11. There can
be no evasion of these promises and God always honored them even when the
Children of Israel worshiped the golden calf.
In many places the New
Testament recognizes these promises as still in force, for example: In Romans,
Paul states: "I say then, hath God cast away His people? God forbid!! God hath
not cast away His people which He foreknew, who are ISRAELITES: to whom
pertaineth the ADOPTION and the GLORY and the COVENANTS and the Giving of the
Law and the Services of God and the PROMISES: Whose are THE FATHERS.
Now I say that Jesus Christ
was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, TO CONFIRM THE
PROMISES MADE UNTO THE FATHERS." IF THESE PROMISES ARE FALSE, THEN THE BIBLE IS
FALSE: BUT IF THEY HAVE BEEN FULFILLED, THE PEOPLE TO WHOM THEY WERE FULFILLED
ARE IDENTIFIED AS ISRAEL. In Hosea 1:10, God revealed that ISRAEL would become
THE Sons of God", that is, accept Christianity, saying: "Yet THE number of THE
Children of ISRAEL shall be as THE sand of THE sea, which cannot be measured or
numbered; and it shall come to pass that, in THE place where it was said unto
them 'Ye are not My people' (that is Gentiles), there it shall be said unto
them, "Ye are THE Sons of THE Living God.'" Of this, Galatians 4:4-5, tells us,
"But when THE fulness of time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a
woman, made under THE Law, to redeem THEM THAT WERE UNDER THE LAW, that we
might receive THE ADOPTION OF SONS." But these cannot be Gentiles, for Romans
9:4 tells us that THE ADOPTION pertains to THE ISRAELITES. THEREFORE, WE MUST
LOOK FOR ISRAELITES AMONG THE CHRISTIANS. THE PROPHECIES AND PROMISES TO ISRAEL
HAVE BEEN FULFILLED TO THE ANGLO-SAXON AND SCANDINAVIAN NATIONS!
FIRST They are Christians
and have been from early times.
SECOND THEY ARE A GREAT
NATION AND A COMPANY OF NATIONS: The United States is the largest civilized
nation in the world; the British commonwealth of Nations is legally "a company
of nations". The Scandinavian nations, all of the same blood, can be identified
by their history and their heraldry as the Tribes of Dan, Benjamin and
Issachar.
THIRD THEY ARE VERY
NUMEROUS: In the last two centuries, the United States increased from a mere
handful to about 200,000,000 people; in the last 3 centuries, the British
Empire increased from 5,000,000 to over 70,000,000 Anglo-Saxons.
FOURTH THEY EXPANDED IN
COLONIES IN ALL DIRECTIONS, as God prophesied in Genesis 28:14, Deut. 32:8,
Isaiah 54:2-3, etc.. Their lands are on every continent and in every sea. No
other nations had such colonies.
FIFTH THEY "POSSESS THE
DESOLATE HERITAGES" OF THE EARTH, AS GOD PROPHESIED. In Isaiah 49:8, "thus
saith the Lord: in an acceptable time have I heard thee and give thee for a
covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the
desolate heritages." Who else has so successfully developed the waste places
which were desolate when they first occupied them? Compare our own Southwestern
States with what any other nation has done with similar deserts; compare the
British colonies with those of nations of other races.
SIXTH THEY ARE A SEAGOING
PEOPLE: God said of ISRAEL, "His seed shall be in many waters." Numbers 24:7
and "I will set his hand also in the sea and his right hand in the rivers."
Psalm 89:25. The two greatest navies belong to the United States and Great
Britain; the three greatest Merchant Marines to these two and Norway. (Note:
This was written before the U. S. destroyed their Merchant Marine.)
SEVENTH THEY "POSSESS THE
GATES OF THEIR ENEMIES". Clearly, Genesis 22:17, refers to the "gateways" of
hostile nations, the great waterways of the world. The two great Anglo-Saxon
nations alone, have power to close every important "gate" in the world and have
done it in two World Wars.
EIGHTH THEY MAINTAINED THE
CONTINUITY OF THE THRONE OF DAVID: It has been proved that all the Kings of
England, Ireland and Scotland are descendants of King David of ISRAEL,
fulfilling the prophecy that "David shall never lack a man to reign over the
House of Israel." Time allows me to give only a very few of the many prophecies
about ISRAEL which have been fulfilled by the ANGLO-SAXON-SCANDINAVIAN people
and by no others. At least 100 of them have been found. When you consider that
there are more than 100 recognized nations, the mathematical odds against all
of these being fulfilled by just one small group of nations, all of the same
blood, is billions to one. Do you think this happened by mere accident?
IF WE ARE NOT ISRAEL, THEN
WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO ALL OF GOD'S PROPHECIES? THE BIBLE UNMISTAKABLY IDENTIFIES
THE ANGLO-SAXON-SCANDINAVIAN PEOPLE AS ISRAEL, FOR THEY ALONE HAVE ISRAEL'S
FINGERPRINTS.