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More Evidence of True Israel

Additional Jewish Testimonies concerning "Lost" Israel
Found

by Elieser Bassin

with an additional testimonial by Cyril
Leach

Introduction by Charles A.
Jennings

Elieser Bassin, C.M., Ph. B.

An Introduction by Charles A.
Jennings

Elieser Bassin was born in Russia in the nineteenth
century of pious and wealthy Jewish parents. While still a young
man, he moved to Great Britain in 1876. Bassin accepted Jesus Christ
as the true Messiah of Israel and became a most scholarly and
devoted Christian.

In his sincere search for truth, he was confronted
with the mystery of the "lost" ten tribes of Israel. After extensive
research, he became thoroughly convinced that the Anglo-Saxon and
related peoples are the literal descendants of those ancient
Israelites who were taken into Assyrian captivity so long ago. In
his book, "British and Jewish Fraternity" he writes, "The Hebrew
Scriptures point to the British Isles as the home of God’s
firstborn".

Bassin gave a series of lectures entitled, "God’s
Dealings With His Chosen People Israel", in which he presented his
proofs that the Anglo-Saxon and related peoples comprise the true
house of Israel. The following is the text of a lecture given by
Elieser Bassin in Portobello, Scotland in 1884.

(There are additional testimonial comments by
Bassin in Truth In History Tract #52).

Immediately following the text of this lecture is a brief
testimony
concerning this same subject by Cyril
Leach,
entitled "The Acid Test"

The
Lecture
by Elieser
Bassin

DEAR friends, – In compliance with the
request of many Christian friends that I should communicate my views
on the subject of the Identity of the British people with the Lost
Tribes of Israel, and how I came to believe it, I have agreed to
deliver the following lecture, hoping by it, through the blessing of
God, to awaken among the true disciples of Jesus a deeper interest
in searching the Scriptures as to God’s dealing with
Israel.

Before I became a Christian, I believed, as the
most of my Jewish brethren still believe, that the Ten Tribes of
Israel exist, somewhere, as a powerful nation, having a king of
their own, and that they are hidden from the sight of men until the
coming of the expected Messiah.

This tradition is probably founded upon the Second
Book of Esdras 13:10, where we are informed that "the Ten
Tribes were carried away prisoners out of their own land, in the
time of Osea the king, whom Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria, led
away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so they came
into another land. But they took counsel among themselves, that they
would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a
further country, where never mankind dwelt, that they might keep
their statutes, which they never kept in their own land. And they
entered into Euphrates by the narrow passage of the river. For the
Most High then showed signs for them, and held still the flood till
they were passed over. For through that country there was a great
way to go – namely, of a year and a half, and the same region is
called Arsareth. They dwelt there until the latter time, and now,
when they shall begin to come, the Highest shall stay the springs of
the streams again. that they may go through." I believe also another
Jewish tradition, that the Ten Tribes went away West beyond the
river Sabbatyon – i.e., rest.

On my arrival in England, for the first time, in
1876, I heard of the theory that the British people are the
descendants of the Ten Tribes of Israel. Many a time Christian
friends asked me what I thought of that theory, and my answer
generally was, I would gladly accept the British as my brethren, the
children of Abraham, but I do not know how such a theory can be
established. How is it possible that such a mixed race, like the
British, made up of the Welsh Kymry, the Keltic ancient Britons, the
Picts and Scots, and Scythian Angles, the Teutonic or Gothic Saxons,
the Danes and Normans, could ever have been brethren, the children
of one father, Israel? Until the beginning of 1884, I looked upon
the theory as curious, and only a crotchet, although I had never
meditated on the subject for ten minutes, because I thought that it
was not worth while to give the slightest attention to such an
apparently ridiculous theory. But now that I have given great
attention, both in reading and reflection, to the subject of the
Identity of the British nation with the Ten Tribes of Israel, I have
come to the conclusion that the subject is highly interesting, and
of great importance to Christians and to Jews.

I cannot enter fully into the particulars of my
views in the limits of one lecture; but I hope, by the help of God,
to bring them out clearly in my lectures on "God’s Dealings with His
Chosen People Israel," which I intend to deliver by-and-by.
Meanwhile, I will endeavour to give you an outline of the reasons
why I believe that the British nation is identical with the ancient
kingdom of Israel. And I entreat you, dear friends, in the words of
the Right Rev. Dr. Ryle, Bishop of Liverpool, in his tract,
"Scattered and Gathered," "not to dismiss the subject as
speculative, fanciful, and unprofitable." The world is growing old;
the last days are come upon us; the foundations of the earth are out
of course; the ancient institutions of society are wearing out and
going to pieces. The end of all is things at hand. Surely it becomes
a wise man at a time like this, to turn to the pages of prophecy,
and inquire what is yet to come? At a time like this the declaration
of God concerning His people Israel ought to be carefully weighed
and examined. At the time of the end, says Daniel, "the wise shall
understand" (Daniel 12:10).

The words just quoted from the Bishop of Liverpool
are of great value to us, although the venerable Bishop applies it
to the Jews, who are only a small part of Israel. The tract is very
interesting, but I am sorry that the author makes no difference in
it between the two Houses of Israel and Judah. We know, from 1
Kings 12, of the separation between Judah and Israel: but we
know of no union that took place between them.

The Lord, for His wise ends, separated and
kept them apart for nearly three thousand years: and during most of
the time Israel was unknown, according to Hosea 1:9, while the Jews
were known as a by-word and reproach, according to Jeremiah 24:9.
One part of the prophecies has been fulfilled in the case of one
section of Israel; and a second part has to be fulfilled in the case
of the other section of Jacob’s descendants.

The time of their union has not yet come; but there
is a glorious and blessed union still in store for Judah and Israel.
According to Zechariah 10:6-12. The House of Israel, which is now
lost and hidden from the sight of men, must be found before the
glorious union of Judah and Israel takes place. Israel will be found
by the world; and it has been found in these latter days by many,
and also by me.

And now, after these few introductory remarks, I
will tell you how and where I found the Lost Tribes of the House of
Israel. Some of you will remember the lecture I had the privilege of
delivering last February in the parish church of this town on behalf
of my persecuted brethren. After that lecture a lady whom I now see
in the hall handed me the Rev. Dr. Poole’s "Fifty Reasons Why the
Anglo-Saxons are Israelites." The Rev. Mr. Jameson, your parish
minister, who presided on that occasion, and my friend, General
Hogan, who is now in the chair, will perhaps recollect my jesting on
the subject of Identity, which I then considered to be an absurdly
extravagant theory.

Next morning I left for Aberdeen, and being about
six hours in the train, I had time to read carefully Dr. Poole’s
pamphlet. I took my Hebrew Bible and began to examine the passages
referred to, and was so intent on studying the subject, that for
some minutes after the train had stopped I did not notice its
arrival in Aberdeen. With all the arguments in that pamphlet I could
not agree, but from that time I began to think over the subject with
an unprejudiced desire to discover the truth in regard to the matter
for its own sake. I was very much encouraged to search for the Lost
Tribes in Britain by the quotation of Rev. Dr. Poole from Dr.
Abbadie, of Amsterdam, who said in 1723, "Unless the Ten
Tribes have flown into the air, or have been plunged to the centres
of the earth, they must be sought for in the North and West and in
the British Isles." For some months I studied the subject carefully
from a Scriptural standpoint, and I found that the predictions of
the Bible are much more easily interpreted on the supposition that
the Identity theory is true than on any other supposition. The great
difficulty to me was, how the theory could be established from
philology, ethnology, and history; and this difficulty still
prevented me becoming a convert to the Anglo-Israel belief.

A few months later I had the honour of making t he
acquaintance of Mrs. Geils, of Ardmore, who is a firm believer in
the Identity and ful1 of zeal in promoting her views. She supplied
me with a large number of books on the subject. I read also
pamphlets written in refutation of the theory, and I found that both
parties run into extremes and equally fall into grievous mistakes!
However, one who wishes to find truth for its own sake will
notice in reading the books written in defense of Anglo-Israelism
that each book throws more or less light on the subject.

I shall now relate how my difficulties about the
various British peoples were removed: I resolved to trace carefully
the various races of Britain from their original habitations.

We have (1) the Keltic Britons; (2) the
Romans; (3) the Picts and Scots; (4) the Angles; (5) the Saxons; (6)
the Frisians; (7) the Danes; (8) the Normans. Now I put aside the
Romans, who never mingled with the Britons. They encamped in the
island, and were the rulers over the country, but left it, after 400
years of occupation, in A.D. 418 in the same manner as they
had entered it, leaving behind them only traces of military camps
and forts, but no colonies.

I then began to trace the Keltic Britons, and found
them to be the first Israelitish emigrants, who emigrated from
Palestine to Spain (then called Tarshish) perhaps as early as 1285
BC; for we know from Judges 5: 17, that Dan had ships at that time,
and it is most probable some of the Danites emigrated to another
land, when Israel was under the yoke of Jabin, king of Canaan, of
the king of Moab, the king of Mesopotamia, and of the Philistines.
There can be no doubt that there were Hebrew colonists in Spain
during Solomon’s reign; for we read in 1 Kings 10:22, that
Solomon had at sea a navy of Tarshish, bringing gold and silver,
ivory and apes, and peacocks. I think it is quite reasonable to
suppose that Solomon must have had in that country a colony of
Hebrew merchants and labourers. In confirmation of the fact, that
there were Hebrew colonists in Spain in the reign of Solomon, Bishop
Titcombe tells of an extract he took from a learned Latin commentary
on Ezekiel, by Father Vilalpandus, where, after quoting from Philo,
Josephus, Seneca, and Cicero on the subject of Hebrew colonization
in Spain, he mentions the remarkable fact that a stone had been
found at Saguntum, having an inscription in Hebrew characters
sculptured upon it, running thus: "This is the tomb of Adoniram, the
servant of King Solomon, who came to collect tribute and died here."
(See 1 Kings 4: 6.) From the voyage of Jonah, as we read in
Jonah 1:3, we learn that the ships of commerce traded regularly
between Tarshish and the coast of Palestine, for he found at Joppa a
vessel ready for the voyage at the very moment he wished to set
sail. And why should Jonah flee to Tarshish if no Hebrew
colonists were there? It cannot but be supposed, therefore, that at
the impending invasion from Assyria tribes like those of Dan and
Asher, which were used to navigation, availed themselves of the same
means of escape as Jonah.

Tacitus says that the Silures, or inhabitants of
Wales in his time, resembled the people of Spain, from which he
concluded that they were of Spanish origin (Vit. Agr. § 11).
I was still more confirmed by the assertion of Strabo, who says
of the Aquitani, on the shores opposite to Britain, that they
resembled the Iberi of Spain, more than they did the other
Gauls, in language and appearance (lib. 4 § § 1, 2). There is
a great similarity between the words Iberi and Hebrew, and a still
greater between Iberi and the original [Hebrew] form [of] Ibri,
which is without the aspirate. There is a frequent interchange of
e and i in the spelling of ancient names, and the
prefixing of the aspirate h is quite common: hence we have
Heber for Eber, Hibernian for Ibernian. After collecting all the
information I could get on the subject, I came to the conclusion
that some of the Israelites escaped about BC 720 from the coasts of
Palestine to Spain, where a Hebrew colony already existed, and that
the Spanish Kelts who were Israelites, migrated to Cornwall and
Ireland even before the kingdom of Israel was carried away captive
by Shalmaneser.

Having found who the Keltic Britons were, I
proceeded with my enquiry as to who the Welsh Kymry were, and read
what Thomas Stephans, in his work on "The Literature of the Kymry,"
says: They are the last remnant (he says) of the Kimmerioi, of
Homer, and the Kymry (Cimbri) of Germany. From the Chersonesus
(Jutland) a portion of them landed on the shores of Northumberland,
gave their name to the county of Cumberland, and in process of time
followed the shore to their present resting-place, where they still
call themselves Kymry and give their country a similar name. Their
history, clear, concise, and authentic, ascends to a high antiquity.
Their language was embodied in verse long before the languages now
spoken rose into notice: and their literature, cultivated and
abundant, lays claim to being the most ancient in modern Europe.
Professor Rawlinson, following Sharon Turner, admits that "the
identity of the Cymri of Wales with the Cimbri of the Romans seems
worthy of being accepted as a historical fact, upon the grounds
stated by Niebuhr and Arnold."

Next I sought to discover the origin of the Kymry
of Wales, and from which family of the human race they sprang. But
having no longer the classic historians of Greece and Rome to guide
me, I was obliged to consult the books which existed before the use
of the papyrus was general, and when the sun-dried brick was the
common table and the Imperial Blue-Book. Such books have been
recovered in the mounds of Assyrian ruins, and among other
inscriptions is the "Nimroud Obelisk," now in the British Museum. It
records the annals of Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, whose rule was
between 858 and 823 BC, and one of the items runs thus: –

"The tribute of Jehu, the son of Omri (Jahua
Abil-Khumree), silver, gold, bowls, vessels of gold, &c.,
with sceptres for the king’s hand, all these have I received."

Another set of inscriptions, which tells the story
of Tiglath-Pileser’s reign, gives us the following, unfortunately
broken, record: – "The land of Samaria (Beth Khumree) . . .
the population . . . the goods of its people . . . I sent to
Assyria. As they had slain Pekah, their king, I appointed
Hosea over the kingdom."

The palace walls of Sargon, a successor of
Tiglath-Pileser, display these words: – " By the aid of the sun
I captured the city of Samaria (Khumree), and carried into
captivity 27,280 of its inhabitants."

I believe that you will agree with me that, from
what has already been said, it can be satisfactorily concluded that
the kingdom of Israel, of Scripture, and the Beth Khumree of
the Assyrian inscriptions, are identical. History presents these
people as having been carried captive by the Assyrians at various
periods between the year 740 and 721 BC; and they were
settled in the "cities of the Medes," near the shores of the Caspian
Sea, east of the river Araxes, where, in a Russian fortress termed
"Gumri," their name is to be found on the banks of the Araxes till
the present day.

The meaning of the name Gimiri or Khumree is,
according to Sir Henry Rawlinson, "The Tribes," which was the most
common appellation of the people of Israel.

Being convinced that Welsh Kymry, as well as the
Keltic Britons, belonged to the Hebrew race, I began to consider the
case of the next nation that came to Britain, and found that the
Jutes from Jutland arrived about AD 449, and 98 years afterwards, in
AD 547 came the Angles. This brought me to the great Anglo-Saxon
race. I then turned to Sharon Turner’s celebrated work, on the
"History of the Anglo-Saxons," and I found him saying in book 2,
chapter 1: "The Saxons were a Gothic or Scythian tribe; and of the
various Scythian nations which have been recorded, the Sakai, or
Sacae, are the people from whom the descent of the Saxons may be
inferred with the least violation of probability. Sakaisuna, or the
sons of the Sakai, abbreviated into Saksun, which is the same sound
as Saxon, seems a reasonable etymology of the word Saxon. The Sakai,
who in Latin are called Sacae, were an important branch of the
Scythian race. They were so celebrated, that the Persians called all
the Scythians by the name of Sace; and Pliny, who mentions this,
ranks them as among the most distinguished people of Scythia. Strabo
places them eastward of the Caspian, and states them to have made
many incursions on the Kimmerians and Treres, both far and near.
They seized Bactriana, and the most fertile part of Armenia, which
from them derived the name Sakasina; they defeated Cyrus; and they
reached the Cappadoces on the Euxine. This important fact of a part
of Armenia having been named Sakasina is mentioned by Strabo in
another place; and seems to give a geographical locality to our
primeval ancestors, and to account for the Persian words that occur
in the Saxon language, as they must have come into Armenia from the
Northern regions of Persia.

"That some of the divisions of this people were
really called Sakasuna, is obvious from Pliny; for he says, that the
Sakai, who settled in Armenia, were named Sacassani, which is but
Saka-suna, spelt by a person unacquainted with the meaning of the
combined words. And the name Sacasena, which they gave to the part
of Armenia they occupied, is nearly the same sound as Saxonia. It is
also important to remark, that Ptolemy mentions a Sythian people,
sprung from the Sakai, who reached Armenia, who were called
Sacassani; they may have traversed Europe with the same appellation;
which being pronounced by the Romans from them, and then reduced to
writing from their pronunciation, may have been spelt with the x
instead of the ks, and thus Saxones would not be a
greater variation from Sacassani, or Saksuna, than we find between
French, Francois, Franci, and their Greek name, or between Spain,
Espagne, and Hispania."

In tracing the earliest mention we have of the word
"Saxon," I found it in its first shape, Sakae, in the inscriptions
on the Behistun Rock, which Sir H. Rawlinson concludes must belong
to the date 516 BC. This writing is 300 feet above the level
of the plain, in the face of a precipitous rock, which rises
perpendicular to a height of 1700 feet. Rawlinson first
deciphered the letters by the aid of a telescope. The portion
specially referred to here is a sculpture representing Darius
Hystaspes trampling on the body of one captive, while eight others
are standing before him, tied together by their necks; each one
having his name and his crime recorded on a tablet over his head.
The last figure of the eight is "represented with a high-peaked cap,
exactly like that worn by the ancient Israelites and a cast of
countenance totally unlike the rest," and is described as follows:
"This is Esku-ka, the chief of the Sakae."

It was not the first time that the Hebrews were
called by another name. They were called "Children of Abraham," then
"sons of Jacob" and "children of Israel," then "Beth Omri," or
Khumree, and in Amos 7:16, and Psalm 105:9, they are called [in
Hebrew] "the house of Isaac".

The [Hebrew] name has been undergoing a change in
writing and pronounciation. even in the Bible, for in Amos
7:16, and Psalms 105:9, we see that instead of
(yits-chak) we read (yis-chak), the [Hebrew]
letter (Tsude) being changed into a (sin). It is very
common in the east to drop the letter I and so we have Schaek
for Ischaek, and in dropping the guttural (ch), we have Sak
or Saac; the letter k or c is often changed to
x, and thus we have Saax, and with the termination ons,
which means son, we have Saaexons. Seeing so good historical,
philological, etymological, and ethnological authority for
connecting Israel, after the great captivity and complete
deportation, with a people whom we can trace throughout the later
historical records, I do not hesitate to confess that I firmly
believe that the Anglo-Saxons are of the Lost Tribes of the House of
Israel – the House of Isaac, the children of Abraham, the friend of
God, to whom God has given an unconditional promise that his seed
shall be as the dust of the earth, the stars of heaven, the sands on
the sea shore, and that a nation and a company of nations shall
descend from him.

After the Saxons came the Danes to Britain in AD
787, and the Normans in AD 1066. In enquiring as to the origin of
those people, who helped to make up the present British nation, I
found that Sharon Turner, who supports his opinions by quotations
from Herodotus, Strabo, Pliny, and Josephus, says: "The
Anglo-Saxons, Lowland Scotch, Danes and Normans, all sprang from the
same stock."

Thierry, in his History of the Norman Conquest,
Book 2, says: – "Such was the first appearance in England of the
Northern pirates, called Danes or Normans, according as they came
from the island in the Baltic Sea, or from the coast of Norway. They
descended from the same primitive race as the Anglo-Saxons."

On these and many other grounds, which I do not now
quote, because it is impossible to do so in the limits of a lecture,
I came to the conclusion that the Keltic ancient Britons, the Picts
and Scots, the Scythian Angles, the Gothic Saxons, the Frisians, the
Danes and the Normans have in truth been brethren, the Lost Ten
Tribes of Israel. But in spite of all that I had discovered, there
remained a dark and insoluble riddle, how they should so nicely and
trimly have been united into one people in Britain in order to
represent the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. This riddle cannot be
solved by the aid of ordinary analogies or of common ethnic
migration. But when I recollected that I was considering the history
of God’s chosen people, who were subjects of divine prophecy, I felt
sure that He who guides the course of Providence would be fully able
to work out His own designs, and bring these masses of Israelites,
who were scattered, into such lines of forward movement as would
place them just where He meant them to be collected together.
Therefore I resolved to study again the Bible carefully to see what
the Scripture indicates concerning the Ten-Tribed kingdom of
Israel.

I began the investigation of the prophecies with
Hosea, who had a special mission to the Ten Tribes of Israel. In the
first chapter the prophet represents the Ten Tribes under the figure
of the children Jezreel, Lo-Ruhama, and Lo-Ammi, being symbolical of
their approaching condition of exile, when they were to be judged,
cast off, and made uncovenanted as Gentiles. Hosea says, further, in
chapter 2:8, that God will hedge up the way of the Ten Tribes with
thorns, and make a wall, so that they shall not find their path.
Again, in chapter 8:8-9, he says: "Israel is swallowed up; now shall
they be among the Gentiles as a vessel wherein is no pleasure"– that
is, they shall be hidden from view, or put out of sight. "For they
are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself." In the book of
Hosea, from beginning to end, we see that Ephraim-Israel were
to be lost to themselves and to other nations.

From Ezekiel 20:32-39 it would seem that the
Israelitish captives in Assyria were anxious to obliterate all mark
of their origin, but God vows to prevent their utter corruption, and
assimilation with the heathen by whom they are surrounded, and
addresses them in the following words: "And that which cometh
into your mind shall not be at all: that ye say, We will be as the
heathen, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.
As I live, saith the Lord God, surely with a mighty hand and a
stretched-out arm, and with fury poured out, will I rule over
you; and I will bring you out from the people, and gather you out of
the countries wherein ye are scattered, with a mighty hand and with
a stretched-out arm, and with fury poured out; and I will bring you
into the wilderness of the people, and there I will plead with you
face to face; like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness
of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God,
and I will cause you to pass under the rod. And I will bring you
into the bond of the covenant."

God has cast Ephraim-Israel away, but their case
was still entirely in His hand. Although divorced, and sent away
from the land which He calls His own, they were not cast out of His
care or beyond His control, and in spite of the enormity of their
wickedness, which caused Him to cast them out of His land, He had
determined to keep a watchful care over them; for "God is not
a man that He should lie," or not fulfill the unconditional
special blessings He promised to Abraham, that his
descendants should become great, mighty and prosperous.

After God had scattered Israel in many countries of
Asia and Europe, the time came that the promise of God in Hosea
2:14 was to be fulfilled: "Therefore I will allure her and
bring her into the wilderness (i.e., the then thinly
inhabited Britain, which was like a wilderness), and (I will)
speak comfortably to her." And again: "Hear the word of the Lord, 0
ye nations, declare it in the isles (of Britain) afar
off (from Palestine), and say, He that scattered Israel will
gather him and keep him" (Jeremiah 31:10).

When the main body of Israel was by the providence
of God gathered to the British Isles, and after a time of fighting
among themselves, they returned unto the Lord, for the time had then
come that the prophecy of Hosea 1:10 should be fulfilled, which
says: "And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was
said unto them, Ye are not My people, there it shall be said unto
them, Ye are the sons of the living God." Through Christ the
British-Israel are the children of the living God, children of
Abraham according to the spirit as well as according to the flesh,
and therefore from that time they began to enjoy all the earthly
blessings promised to Abraham and to his seed for ever, which are
only a shadow of the heavenly blessings.

Since that time the birthright promises began to be
realized, that the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel were to be
more than ever as "the dust of the earth" (Gen. 13:16), and as "the
stars of heaven" (Gen. 15:5) and to become "a company of
nations" (Gen. 35:11).

Israel has been blessed in Britain, so that the
Isles have become too strait for his children, and he required new
territory. This was foretold in Isaiah 49:19, 21, and another
Scripture had to be fulfilled that declares of Israel, "Thou shalt
break forth on the right hand and on the left, and thy seed
shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be
inhabited " (Isaiah 54:3).

Among the many marks which the British people have
to show as proof that they are the lost Israelites, is the
possession of the "Gates" or strongholds of their "enemies,"
according to the promise of God (see Gen. 22:17). When we take the
atlas, we see that Britain possesses, as Philo-Israel describes it,
the grand points all over the world, which give her power and
influence in all the countries. These are:

Gibraltar, in Spain, a true Gate of the Mediterranean.

Malta, which was formerly the property of the French, and is a
sort of door or Gate to the Mediterranean Sea Eastwards.

A large share of the Suez Canal, a Gate of the Red Sea and of
Egypt.

The Island of Perim, a place which is at the South of the Red
Sea, and whoever has that can shut up the road into that sea, or
open up the passage towards Egypt from India as he likes.

Aden, a port in Arabia, which is a Gate of entry into that
country.

The island of Socotra, close to Aden, which is another Gate to
guard the entry into the Red Sea, the road to the land of Israel
from the East and from India.

The seaport town of Bombay, and that Gate gave Britain all
Western India.

Madras, and the possession of it has enabled Britain to take
all South India, and hold Ceylon besides.

The great Gate Calcutta, in North India, which is the chief
city of all those parts.

There is Burma, too, a country of which we have taken a great
portion, because we seized the town of Rangoon some years ago; and
Rangoon is a Gate of the Burmese Empire.

On the other side of India, up to the far North-east you will
see on the maps a town called Peshawur, which is the door of the
road into Afghanistan from India, and this is a Gate also which
God gave to our nation in 1849.

Then in the Straits of Malacca there are three places you will
find—Penang (an island), Malacca and Singapore—all three Gates or
strongholds, giving the owners "command" of that passage; and we
British have been made by God to possess them all three.

Beyond these spots there is the Island of Labuan and the town
of Sarawak, in and off the large continent Island of Borneo; and
these two Gates we hold.

Off the coast of China there is the strong Island of Hong
Kong, which God gave us to possess, and there are many seaport
towns on the East Coasts of China where He has made us very
powerful, because of our Navy, and these places are, I think,
going to be "Gates" for the destruction of the Chinese Empire, and
the transfer of it, perhaps, to the British nation.

Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. and Perth are Gates in
Australia, which God gave to Britain.

The islands of New Zealand are great Gates.

Then there is Tasmania, which is British; and we got that by
having the Gates of Australia.

Going round to Africa we have a large slice of that country to
the South; and we got "possession" because of our hold on "the
Gates," Cape Town and Natal.

Further North-west, there is Cape Coast Castle—a Gate which
enabled us lately to conquer the Ashantee kingdom and destroy
Coomassie.

St. Helena is a true British Gate, because it gives us
influence at sea on the ocean road to India.

And finally, we have Gates in the Falkland Islands, at the
very South of South America, besides Ushuwia, in Tierra del Fuego.
We have also Gates in the West India Islands and in Georgetown,
British Guiana.

It seems to me that in accordance with common sense
and Scripture truth, the British are the main body of Israel indeed,
for if not, why are the blessings promised by God to Abraham and his
seed for ever now inherited by Britain? It is my conviction that
Britain is the nation with whom God has from first to last
identified Himself, in which He has been pleased to show forth the
glory of His divine attributes, and that He is doing so at the
present moment, and will do so until the end of time. "God has not
cast away His people whom He foreknew" (Romans11:1). God has
foreknown Israel and has chosen them as a nation to enjoy supremacy
and preference before all nations in the world, to be a holy nation
unto God, as it is written: "For thou art an holy people unto the
Lord thy God. The Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special
people unto Himself, above all people that are upon the face of the
earth" (Deuteronomy 7:6). No one can deny that Britain, as a nation,
is holier than any nation in the world. I do not say a perfectly
holy nation, but holier in every respect than other nations, a more
special people unto God than any other people on earth, with the
exception of the Jews, who are the brethren of the
British people, with whom God’s dealings are as marvelous as His
dealings with the British. The reason of it we have clearly given to
us in God’s Holy Word, in Deuteronomy 7:8, in order to keep His vow
to the fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Israel.

Judah-Israel, or as they are better known now,
the Jews, are a special people unto the Lord, who have
their part in being God’s witness on earth, in the same manner as
Ephraim-Israel or Britain; but they cannot inherit the
"unconditional" temporal blessings unless united with
Ephraim, as they cannot be partakers of the spiritual blessings
unless they accept Jesus as their Messiah.

The birthright of the blessings was bequeathed by
Abraham to his son Isaac, and the bequest was confirmed by
God, as we see from Genesis 26:2-5, 24. Isaac bequeathed the
inherited blessings to one of his sons, to Jacob (Genesis 28:3-4),
which were confirmed by God, and even increased (Genesis 28:13-14).
Jacob, who had twelve sons, bequeathed the spiritual blessing, which
is the Messiah, to Judah, and with the blessing the sceptre was
given to Judah, with the promise that it shall not depart from the
seed of Judah for ever (Gen. 49:10).

So, accordingly, "Judah prevailed above his
brethren, and of him came the chief Ruler, but the birthright
belonged to Joseph" (1 Chronicles 5:2). Reuben was the
first-born, but his birthright was taken away from him and given
unto the sons of Joseph.

Now, what was the birthright that Jacob bequeathed
to the sons of Joseph? We read of it in Genesis 48:3-5, 15, 16,
& 20, where Jacob hands down the temporal blessings, and
the name Israel, which God had given him, to Ephraim and
Manasseh, and ". . . set Ephraim before Manasseh." That God has
confirmed the bequest Jacob made to Ephraim we see from Jeremiah
31:8, "Ephraim is My first-born," and as such he was the national
representative, both in history and prophecy, from the time Israel
became a nation, and especially since the disruption of Judah and
Israel.

No tribe can inherit the "unconditional temporal
blessings," unless united with Ephraim. Is it, then, not
reasonable to assert that, as the British Empire is in possession of
all the grand promises given to "Abraham and to his seed for ever,"
it is Ephraim-Israel, the promised "nation" in Britain, and
the "company of nations" in the colonies?

And now, in conclusion, dear friends, I, an
Israelite of the House of Judah, claim you as my brethren, as
Israelites of the House of Ephraim, and ask you to remember your
brethren, the Jews, more earnestly in your prayers before the Lord,
that the time may soon come when "The House of Judah shall walk to
the House of Israel and they shall come together out of the land of
the North to the land that 1 have given for an inheritance unto your
fathers" (Jeremiah 3:18). Yes, dear brethren, I firmly believe that
the Jews, who are called by Jeremiah the House of Judah, will in due
time recognize the British people as their own kindred of the House
of Israel; and in joy at seeing their lost brother Ephraim raised in
the marvelous providence of God to a position of such preeminence in
the world, will come and ask Britain to restore them to the land of
promise. At that time the Lord will order events, so that Palestine,
with the Euphrates as a boundary, will come into British possession,
and the land will become inhabited by Britons who are of
Ephraim-Israel, and by Jews who are Judah-Israel.

The Jews, in uniting themselves with their brother
Ephraim, will get a share in the temporal blessings, and through
Christ they will become partakers of the spiritual blessings.
Through the instrumentality of the British people the Jews will
recognize in Jesus the Messiah of Israel, the Son of David,
the Son of God, Jehovah their Righteousness. The Jews, in
recognizing the Britons as their brethren, will gain confidence in
them, and listen to their teaching. But while Judah and Israel are
in the land of promise, the great trouble of Jacob will come, of
which we read in Zechariah 13:9, "And I will bring the third
part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined,
and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My name, and
I will hear them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say,
The Lord is my God." When the refining is over, "then shall the Lord
go forth and fight against those nations, as when He fought in the
day of battle. And His feet shall stand on that day on the Mount of
Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the East" (Zechariah 14:
3, 4). "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek
to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I will
pour upon the House of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
the spirit of grace and supplications, and they shall look upon Me
whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourneth
for his only son" (Zechariah 12:9, 10). Then will Judah and Israel
join in one harmonious " Hosannah! Blessed be He that cometh in the
Name of the Lord." Christ will then re-establish the theocracy which
was once the glory of Israel, and that in a much more glorious form
than Israel ever saw under any of its kings, and the people will
enjoy fully all the blessings promised to the fathers and revealed
by the prophets.

That glorious time, dear brethren, I believe near
at hand, and therefore the Lord has ordained in these latter days
the movement which teaches the Identity of the British people with
the Tribes of Israel, and we are called upon to help onward this
movement to its consummation in these days. Depend upon it, God’s
purposes will be accomplished in spite of all opposition. Let us
also remember that God is independent of human agency; but He has
bestowed grand privileges on men in permitting them to work with Him
in bringing about the results that He has decreed. Let us thank God
that to our lot has fallen the high honour of aiding in the
fulfilling of God’s great and glorious purpose in bringing to light
the Ten Tribed Kingdom of Israel, which has been hidden so long from
the sight of men, in order to enable "the House of Judah to walk to
the House of Israel," and help them to "return and seek the Lord
their God and David their King" (Hosea 3:5).

As believers in the faithfulness of our
covenant-keeping God, I call to you to awake from your sleep. The
coming of our Lord bids you rise up from your slumber, listen for
the sound of His feet, watch for Him, have all things ready, and to
"watch and pray." Let us make our whole life an advent, a season of
preparation for the Lord’s coming; and may God help us, through His
Holy Spirit, in this wise and blessed work of godly preparation to
meet the King of glory, when He comes to "restore again the kingdom
to Israel."

"And He shall judge among the nations, and
shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into
plowshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks; nation shall not
lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
O House of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah"
(Isaiah 2: 4, 5). And let us say; "For Zion’s sake I will not hold
my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the
righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation
thereof as a lamp that burneth" (Isaiah 62:1).

With such a resolution I close my first lecture on
the Identity of the British people with the Ten Tribes of Israel,
and may the God of our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, be our
help to carry out our resolution to His glory. Amen.

"THE ACID
TEST"
by Cyril
Leach

"I, Cyril Leach, a Jew
of pure extraction, write testifying to the great light given me by
British-Israel Truth, and how through this wonderful key to the
Bible, I came to the belief that Jesus Christ is of a truth the Son
of God and the Redeemer of Israel . . . I come from a line of Rabbis
on both my father’s and my mother’s side known far and wide in
Palestine for their piety, charity and wide learning. Indeed to this
day one of my great grandfathers has a synagogue dedicated to his
name in the Holy City . . . it was not until I reached the age of
sixteen that I began to reflect at all seriously or deeply about
religion. One of the first things that sorely perplexed me was the
position of my own people in the world . . . I began to wonder if
the words ‘God’s chosen people’ were not mere platitudes . . . why
had our people no King when God had sworn to David "Thy throne shall
be established for ever"? God said to Abraham "Behold my Covenant is
with thee and thou shall be the father of many nations." These and
other points let me to doubt whether the Bible was after all God’s
Word . . . I was assured that the Saxon people were a Gentile
people, inferior as regards race to the Jews, and I remember asking
my father "If the Jews are God’s chosen people, why is such a
wonderful Empire (Britain) . . . doing the very work the Jews should
be doing" . . . One day a book was lent me, setting out what
appeared to me at the time a preposterous idea, that the Saxon race
is the continuation of the Northern Kingdom of Israel carried into
captivity in 721 B.C. a long time before the Southern Kingdom of
Judea was shattered by Babylon. I laughed at the notion that an
uncircumcised people who believed in an imposter called Christ who
set Himself up as the Son of God, could be the Seed of Abraham. For
the first time in my life I began a most careful search of the Word
of God - the acid test of all religious movements to see if there
was any truth in this astounding assertion. To my intense surprise I
found that prophecy after prophecy had materialized and was in the
process of materializing in the Saxon people. I now saw quite
clearly that it is discrediting God’s Holy Name, and His reputation
as a God who fulfils His promises, to assert that the Jews form the
whole Seed of Israel."

Additional Reading concerning
This Subject:
The following tracts are
available by request from
Truth In History
Ministries:
(order by
number)

#52

"In Their Own Words: Jewish Testimonies
Concerning The Ten ‘Lost’ Tribes of Israel"

Each of the following
tracts contains testimonies of some of the greatest Christian
leaders of our time:

#41

"The Bible Distinction Between The House of
Israel and the House of Judah" . . .
by F. F. Bosworth

#43

"Three
Schools of Thought on The Israel Question" . . . by
George
Jeffreys

#45

"The Need of The
Anglo-Israel Truth" . . .
by Dr. Mordecai Ham

#48

"Joseph Is Yet
Alive" . . . by Charles O.
Benham

#51

"Controversy
In Zion: For The Sake of Our Pentecostal
Brethren" . . . by George W. Southwick, D.D.

#54

"Queen
Victoria: Heir to King David’s Royal
Throne" . . . by Charles Fox Parham

#55

"In The
Cool of The Day" and "From Israel to Saxon" . . . by Dr.
William Pascoe Goard

#56

"The ‘Lost’
Tribes of Israel: Where Are They?" . . . by
Richard Reader Harris

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Tract
#53
November 2003

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