LOST TRIBES
RADIO SERIES
PROMISES, ABRAHAM
THE BIRTHRIGHT
Program Number Three
This long involved – what I like to call it a tapestry - involving the historical background and the results of history. Well, not the results of history, but things that have happened throughout history to certain peoples of the Bible. What we’re doing is that we’re tracing the people known as the Lost Tribes. They’re also known as a lot of other names, an awful lot of other names, 20 or 30 names.
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But for our purposes today at least the kingdom of Israel or the house of Israel and we have to be a little bit careful not to be confused when we talk about the ten tribes as Israel because of the present-day modern-day state of Israel we know to be Jewish in origin even though most of the people that populate modern day Israel aren’t true Jews, direct descendants of the line of the tribe of Judah. That’s a quibble to say that they’re not Jews, you know, “Well, they’re not Jews, and they don’t fulfill the promises there. They’re half this, and they’re half that. They’re Khazars and all this, you know.” Well, if you want to quibble that way, then your mind isn’t open enough to listen to any of the evidence that’s going to be presented here so you might as well turn that KHSU and get some classical music or something. The lost tribes of Israel are not Jews. They never were Jews. They are the house or the kingdom of Israel as opposed to the house or the kingdom of Judah, the southern kingdom and the two had nothing to do with each other for a long, long time. In fact they were at war. We’ll talk about that much later too. Excuse me. One of the main things we’re trying to discuss here is how the Celtic nations, all of northwest Europe, the Danes, the Scots, the Irish, the English, the French, the Spanish, all those folks seem to fulfill the prophesies and the blessings that were given to the house of Israel. Well why we’re doing that. So what if they are? So what if there are? Well, you know who populates this country, don’t you? The Celtic nations wave after wave of immigrants from the Celtic nations have populated this country, if you will. The folks that came over on the Mayflower, the pilgrims were of Celtic descendancy. That’s us. I know our history as it pertains to us today is always not only interesting but important. People make lifetime careers out of studying genealogies and so forth and all of that. It’s really interesting stuff and we’re trying to shed some light on one of the most pivotal concepts presented in the Bible. There are a lot of people throughout history who has been recorded as losing their faith, turning their back on the God of the Bible and the Bible and Christianity in general because when a good hard historical look is taken at the things listed in the Bible pertaining to the promises given to certain people which gets passed down to all the descendants of those people, we can’t seem to find in traditional history what happened to the people who are supposed to get those promises, who would be fulfilled, those prophecies be fulfilled and therefore it’s like reading a book this, you see, it’s been made up you know. And I’m sure a lot of people do think or carry the frame of reference around with them that the Bible isn’t factual all through all the translations and the reasons in the first place for writing the things down economic circumstances, things like that. People have turned off to the Bible and said, Oh this isn’t even worth a second look. And this God that’s listed in the Bible is no different that all these other gods that I’ve looked around at, can’t keep his word, you know. He promised all these things to these people and now we can’t even find the people. So like I said the God of the Bible has the promised various people – we’ll look at a few of those people today. All these blessings, there’s prophecies and through the blessings of these pivotal, historical figures like Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Sarah, Rebekah, some of those people, they’re supposed to be fulfilled but, you know, who can find them?
On the other side of the coin, some of the people who have given the thing a good hard study and dismissed it as not true and at least not worthy. there are those who want to it to be true so badly that they come along and twist the facts of history to fit the Bible through misunderstanding of course. And they make the promises fit people that aren’t supposed to get those promises in the first place. For instance, the Jew. Put these promises of God on the Jew, the Jewish people fulfills these promises. Well, there’s a lot of promises and the Jews only fulfill a very small number of those promises.
Another place that people like to lay these promises where they can’t make them fit with the Jew and they can’t make them fit any place in history. So they lay it on the Christian church. And they say, “Well, it’s metaphorical. You see, all of those promises made by God – they’re fulfilled in the church or specifically in Christ.” And that just simply isn’t true either, not according to Scripture. When you do a good study and list of all the promises and blessings and prophecies to the house of Israel, there’s no way that the Christian church can fulfill most of those, and the same goes with Christ.
That’s the third place that people like to place these promises when they can’t make them fit. “Oh, yeah, well, it says in here that David is going to have a king come out of his descendancy, his bloodline, that will rule forever. And Christ came down to the earth and he was crucified and now he’s ruling forever up in heaven some place. It just doesn’t fit. “Well, Christ was a descendant of David.“ That’s true. That’s true, but Christ does not enter into any of these promises, not the ones we’re talking about. He certainly is involved in a lot of prophecy, but not the prophecies and the blessings that pertain only to the ten tribed kingdom of the house of Israel and to some of the patriarchs before there was such a nation or kingdom as the ten tribe kingdom, specific promises to some of the people already named – Jacob, Moses – gave a whole lot of blessings at the end of the book of Deuteronomy when the whole nation of the Israelites…..
Let me clear a little bit of something up here where we can talk about Israelite. I’m gonna have to say this a lot, I know, because it’s a heavy point of confusion. Jacob, who was the father of the 12 patriarchs of the 12 tribes, his name, very early on, very early on, was changed to Israel. So that’s where we get the name Israel in the first place. And when all of Jacob’s descendants were in Egypt and came out during the exodus they were all Israelites because they were sons of Israel, sons of Jacob, sons of Israel. So every time we say Israel, we have to be real careful who and what Israel we’re talking about, are we talking about Israel, Jacob? Are we talking about Israel the whole nation, all twelve tribes, the nation of Israel or are we talking about the house of Israel which is only the ten tribe kingdom or the kingdom of Israel. Normally, if you understand this split, we you read these accounts in the Bible, you’ll be able it to separate them because the context will let you know whether it’s the house of Israel or the nation of Israel or Israel the man.
Okay. We’ll we get on with this thing. These promises are not fulfilled in the Jew, the church and Christ. Now in our study, we’re mainly interested in verifiable history, so that we won’t go all the way back to Noah. There is a promise that applies to all of the Israelites that’s given by God to Noah in connection with the flood. It’s the rainbow scene after the flood is over with. Noah and all the animals and his family come out of the ark and they build an altar and they do a sacrifice to God and the heavens open up or however it’s described, I don’t remember exactly, but a voice comes down and says “Noah, you’re a good guy and we’re going to start over and of I promise that I’ll never destroy the earth by water again and here’s proof that. I’ll set my rainbow in the sky. And this will be your promise through the ages that the earth will never be destroys by water again.” And that applies to everybody on the earth actually. So it’s very general, but we can’t verify that in history. So what we’re going to do is start with Abraham. Abraham, okay. The birthright is a very important thing. It still is today in our history although in our, culture, in our society, in America, in United States, we don’t place quite as much emphasis on the first-born. Things generally gonna get split up evenly. But back in biblical times, the right of primogenitor was very, very important and the first-born, as a matter of fact, that’s how a lot of different nations got started because the first-born was the inheritor of the birthright. Nobody else got anything normally. There are – there are some exceptions but normally nobody else got anything, just the firstborn and if he died, the next one in line and it went down you know by seniority. And that’s what we’re talking about birthright promises, the law of primo- genitor, and it was very, very strictly obeyed back in biblical times so that’s the frame that we’re in right now. What we want to do is look at the some of these promises in a little more detail.
In Genesis 17:46 we have – wait a minute. There aren’t enough verses in there. Actually it’s 6:16. 17:16 he’s a promise, “I will bless her,” God talking, “and give her (meaning Sarah) and give thee, Abraham, a son, a son of her also. I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations – nations – and kings of people shall be out of her.” These are promises to Abraham and Sarah, right. Verse 19 “Sarah, thy wife, shall bear thee a son.”
Now Abraham is going on 90 here, and Sarah is going on 80 it was about ten years apart from. And Abraham is a hundred before Isaac is even born, and don’t you know that they had the change of life back in those days you know. People stopped being able. And Sarah was one of those at 80 years old. She had stopped being able to have children, but there’s a promise that God has made to Abraham and well, according to the biblical account, that promise was kept. Isaac was born. They did have a son, but what about this “mother of nations, kings of people shall come out of her.” Well, that doesn’t say in a couple of years or over the next 20 years. It just says it’s a blanket statement. You know. Now these – both of these promises, we have to make sure we note that they go through Abraham and Sarah, his legal wife. And then down through the line of primogenitor to Isaac and through his descendants.
But Isaac wasn’t officially the first-born of Abraham because 13 years before Isaac was born, a boy named Ishmael was born to Abraham but not to Sarah. Sarah and Abraham somehow or other decided, I guess, that God wasn’t going to keep his word and give them a son like he promised and Sarah said, “you take my handmaid and have a son by her. And then things will be straight again you know.” I guess they were going to help out God a little bit. I don’t know. But this other kid was born from Ishmael, from the maidservant. Well, God came and later on and he said, “no, that’s not the way it has to be, Abraham. This descendant has to be through Sarah, your legal wife.” So Ishmael was born first from Abraham but he wasn’t born first from Abraham and Sarah. And additionally, after Sarah dies, we have – maybe this is 28, 25 years later, what we have is Abraham marrying again and having 12 more kids by another wife. See.
Take a look at another one of these promises that’s listed in Genesis 22:17 says, “that in blessing I will bless thee, and multiply, I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heavens” – now that means that Abraham’s descendants are going to number like the stars of the hens heavens, have you taken a look up there lately? It goes on – “and as the sand which is upon the seashore.” Have you tried to count a bucketful of sand? “And thy seed”, now this is really something here – “and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies” – whatever that means. We will find out what that means for sure, but what kidney of promise is that? That is very specific you know. “Well your gonna have a lot of kids Abraham and they’re gonna number a great multitude and well you know.” You know you can say, well metaphorically speaking he had twelve kids and they became nations you know.” Well no, this is all through Isaac, remember? Every one of these promises has to go through Isaac and then down from his first-born and go the right of primogenitor. So it says that Abraham’s descendants are going to possess the gates of their enemies. And that’s repeated a couple other places too. “Possess the gates of the – of the people which hate them.” Okay we’ll get back. We mentioned that last time in the over view, but we’ll get into that in a little more detail a little bit later on.
Okay as I mentioned the birthright doesn’t go to all of Abraham’s seed because way down the line, we’ve got, like I said, Ishmael and Keturah, his twelve kids by Keturah and that was his other wife, and they become large nations – the Ishmaelites and the sons of Keturah, they become, all the Arab nations over there in the Middle East. We also have Esau, which is Jacob’s other son. Jacob had two sons, no Isaac’s other son. Isaac had two sons, Jacob and Esau. Jacob was the one that wound up with the birthright and but Esau became a great nation also. Lot of people. A lot of people fought with the kingdoms of Israel and Judah a lot. They were constantly at each other. Well Esau was anyway.
Okay, so here’s basically the line of descendancy of these promises, these over all promises. And there’s a lot of them, we’ll get to a few of them in a minute
First, God gave Abraham a lot of promises. He promised him a whole land, a whole geographical area. The Promised Land. He promised him he was going to have a son which he did. He promised them the stars and sand thing and also that there’s going to be this multitude of nations, this company of nations as it’s listed some other place; world empire, in other words, company of nations. And those promises plus a whole bunch more went from Abraham to Isaac through the law of primogenitor, birthright, and from Isaac they went to Jacob because although Esau was the first-born of Isaac, he gave up his birthright and sold it to Jacob one day. He came in from the field and he was very hungry and very faint and didn’t care about the birthright anyway, not enough and Jacob was sitting around eating some good food and he said, “give me some of that food”, and Jacob said, “no I don’t think I will unless you want to sell your birthright to me.” And so he sold him the birthright for a plate of food and Jacob had it witnessed and everything. So he’s the one even though he was the younger of the two sons of Isaac he came out with all the birthright and got the blessing from Isaac and all of these promises that were passed through Abraham and Isaac came to Jacob.
Well, Jacob had 12 sons. He had 12 sons by four different women. His first-born son was called Reuben. Reuben. But we’ll get to Reuben after a little bit.
What I’d like to do – I don’t know if you have a Bible handy, whether you even have one in the house, but if you have, you might want to check some of these versus out. There’s Genesis 12:7 is one of the major promises. Here’s what it says, “And the Lord appeared to Abraham” – or Abram his name got changed also, but before this happened, his name was Abram – “the Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto thy seed, will I give this land and there he built an altar unto the Lord who appeared to him.” He was standing around in the Promised Land see. And God said you know I am going to give this land to your descendants. All right.
There’s another one in Genesis 16: 10 Genesis 16: 10 and that says “and the angel of the Lord said unto her, I will multiply thy seed.” He’s talking to Sarah here. “I will multiply thy seed exceedingly that it shall not be numbered for the multitude.” And that’s pretty much the same as that stars and sand thing just another way of saying it. You won’t be able to number them. There’ll be so many of them.
How about another one? Genesis 15: 4 pertains to the birth of Isaac. Abraham gets this, gets a couple of these promises that he’s going to be given the land forever. And he’s going to have a multitude of descendants and there’ll be a great nation and great blessing and all that stuff and he hasn’t got a kid yet. So he says to God, hey I guess this main servant of mine Eleazar, is going to be my heir; is that right?” And God says no in verse 4 of 15, he says “and behold the Word of the Lord came unto him says, this shall not be thine heir but he that – shall come forth out of your own bowels shall be thine heir.” Now that was before even Ishmael was born. So this was kind of what allowed Sarah and Abraham to do this thing with Hagar, the maid servant because Ishmael is out of his own loins, out of Abraham’s own loins, but then Abraham later on has to be told that no, it’s not of just his loins, it’s Abraham and Sarah. That’s where the legal heir has to come from.
Okay. How about another pro– here’s a real interesting prophecy. It’s on the same page with that last promise it’s Genesis 15, verse 13; a little bit of background on this. He goes through some of the promises and tells Abraham that these things are going to happen. And then Abraham says, “Well, wait a minute God, how am I going to know for sure that this is really going to happen. I mean how can we really tell.” So the account as given in the Bible says that God set up this set of circumstances, which is well it’s really statistically impossible for this to happen without being made to happen, for it to just kind of fall out of history. It is statistically impossible. Here’s what God says to Abraham. “And he said to Abram.” – his name still hasn’t been changed yet – “know of as surety that thy seed,” – your descendants, “shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs.” Secondly, “and shall serve them.” Thirdly, “and they shall afflict them 400 years.” Okay the next verse goes on. “And also that nation.” – whom they shall serve “will I judge.” He’s going to judge that nation that they spend all this time with. “And afterward they shall come out.” – come out of that nation – “with great substance,” – rich. Okay. Abraham, here’s what’s going to happen. Your family, your descendants are all going to go to a place and they’re going to be strangers in that land. They’re going to live there for 400 years. Eventually these people are going to enslave your descendants and I will come along and judge those people and take your descendants out of that land with great substance. They’ll be all rich. That’s a 400 year prophecy, which is kind of sense of humor, I think, too. Abraham is trying to get some kind of confirmation, some kind of reassurance about this prophecy of land and his descendants when he hasn’t got any kids yet and don’t have any land yet. And the God of the Bible, well here’s what’s going to happen, but you won’t see it because he’s going to be long dead before 400 years goes by.
So if that turns out then, 400 years later, the people who are the descendants of Abraham, will remember that. They’ll have it written down some place, for instance, and when it comes true, then they will know this is God’s plan to make this prophecy known to these people. They’ll know when all of this history happens that it was the God of the Bible and he predicted all of this stuff. And according to historical study, that’s, that’s pretty much what happens. These guys all went, the descendants all went to Egypt and they spent a long time there – 2- to 300 years before this affliction even started to happen. They weren’t enslaved and didn’t have to work for the Egyptians until way down until the very last hundred years of their stay, which was actually about [through] 430 years. And then the ten-plague thing happened and the pass over and the exodus and they came out rich. And the prophecy was fulfilled. Boy, pretty good.
Well, you might say, why Abraham? Well, I don’t know. Why Abraham? Was this a random choice? This Abraham is the guy that happened to come up with the lucky number or what was it? God’s lottery and he chose Abraham. No I don’t think so. I think what we need to do to understand this a little better is to give a little bit of Abraham’s background, right. His background. He started out living in the area of Babylon, down in for you history students the, down where the Sumerians started out, the S-U-M-E-R-, Sumerians started out. That’s one of the very earliest people that we can find on the earth. They’re down in Mesopotamia over in the Middle East area down there. So that’s where Abraham lived, the land of Ur,-U-R. The original Babylonian empire, not the Babylon of Nebuchadnezzer and those guys. That came hundreds of years later. Maybe even a thousand, well 15 hundred years later. Abraham is born near 2,000 B. C. There’s a little bit of controversy about the actual date. Some people say that it was 2008 or 6 and some people say it was 1948 B. C. Regardless of that, he lived in lower Mesopotamia. To begin with, his father was named Terah, T-E-R-A-H. And he happened to be at court in the Babylonian empire. He was an idol maker for the king or the emperor of Babylon.
The Babylonian empire. The first Babylonian emperor’s name was Nimrod, Nimrod. Nimrod was – he was a pretty heavy-duty guy. He was one of the first men to build cities with walls around them. He went out and scourged the countryside from wild animals to help protect the people. He was the first one to build lots of cities. There’s at least maybe I think four or five cities listed in the Bible, seven or eight cities listed if you take all the sources, that are available, that Nimrod built. So he was e a builder, protector of the people and eventually he was so popular and liked so much that they deified him you know. He became actually he became the sun god. The God of the sun, the sun god and incarnated into the sun and that’s a long story that doesn’t pertain to here.
But he was ruling Babylon at the time, and Terah, Abraham’s father, was an idol maker in the court of Nimrod. His father was named Terah, and he happened to be at court in the Babylonian court. He was an idol maker for the king or the emperor of Babylon, the Babylonian empire. Well, it so happens that on the day that Abram was born, there were some prophets and so forth who were wandering around, and they see some events in the sky, astrologers and that kind of thing. And they said, “Uh-huh. This means whatever.” And they go, and they tell Nimrod that this baby that’s born is going to cause a lot of trouble for his kingdom.
Well, you Ed Denson fans will be happy o know that Ed’s just pulling up now.
We’ll go to a book called Jasher, an ancient writing, and in chapter 8 verses 1 to 4, if you want to look at “And it was in the night that Abram was born that all the servants of Terah and all the wise men of Nimrod and his conjurors came and ate and drank at the house of Terah, and they rejoiced with him that night. “He has a son, oh, rejoicing.“
“And when all the wise men and conjurers went out from the house of Terah, they lifted their eyes toward the heaven that night to look at the stars and they saw and behold one very large star came from the east and ran in the heavens and he swallowed up the four stars from the four sides of the heavens. And all the wise men and the kings and his conjurors were astonished at the sight and the sages understood this matter and they knew its import. And they said to each other, this only be tokens the child that has been born to Terah this night who will grow up and be fruitful and multiply and possess all the earth and he and his children forever and he and his seed will slay great kings and inherit their lands.” Now, when they went and told Nimrod that, he said “oh, no. Not on your tintype.” He calls in Abram and he says, “Abram, wait a minute. We’re gonna – I want you to bring me your kid.” Now, let’s see.
Next reference here is in 8:35, 8:35 and Terah and took Abraham, his son, secretly, together with his mother and nurse and he concealed him in a cave and brought them their provisions monthly because Nimrod had ordered him to bring in Abram so he could kill him. So, I will give you money for him. “ I’ll give you enemy for him.” Well, Terah wasn’t going to have any of that so he got the kid from one of his servants and he brought it to Nimrod and the Lord was with Terah in this matter. This is verse 34 and that Nimrod might not cause Abram’s death, the king took the child from Terah and with all his might dashed his head to the ground. Pretty good, huh? This was Terah servant’s now. So Nimrod didn’t kill Abram. Abram. Abram is okay. It’s the other servant’s kid who gets killed. They didn’t think much of life in those days I think.
Now we go over here to chapter 11 , no, not 11, but chapter nine, versus 5 and 6 tells us what happens after Abram is in the cave. So they hide him in this cave away from the king, the emperor, Nimrod for about ten years. He stays in the cave. And when Abram came out of the cave, he went to Noah and his son, Shem, and remained with them. Well, there’s something that we don’t usually hear about in history and, especially, in the history as presented in the Bible, in Christianity. Noah and Shem if you check the Genealogies Noah lived 300 years after the flood. He lived longer after the flood that America has been in existence. And Shem, his son, lived 500 years after the flood. Now, the flood, supposedly according to the dating system in the Bible, happened somewhere around 2600 B.C., somewhere around there. Abram I think was 26, something like that. Well, Abram was born – he has plenty of time to go and spend time with these people. See, Noah is still going to be alive. And so, this is what Jasher says about that. See.
And then in the next verse it says Abram was in Noah’s house 39 years and Abram knew the Lord from 3 years old, and he went in the ways of the Lord until day of his death. .” He spent 39 years with Noah. Now, keep that fact in mind.
There’s more evidence here to pile up. The 11th chapter, 28th verse starts a little story about Abram. This is all background about Abram now – why he’s the one that gets chosen for all these promises and this wonderful, wonderful stuff that God says is gonna happen. Well, Abram’s father, like I said, is still an idol maker. Well, Abram has spent time with Noah; he’s come back home. Here’s what it says, “It was on the next day that Abram directed his mother concerning a savory meat, and his mother rose and fetched three fine kids from the flock and she made of them an excellent savory meat, such as her son was fond of.” Now her son, Abram, is 50 years old now. Okay. He’s 50 years old. Remember that. “And she gave it to her son Abram and Terah, his father, did not know of it. And Abram took of the savory meat from his mother and brought it before his father’s gods into the chamber.” There’s this room where all these different gods are up there, the idols and so forth okay. Brings it into that chamber. “And he came nigh unto them that they might eat, and he placed it before them and Abram sat before them all day thinking perhaps they might eat. And Abram viewed them and behold, they had neither voice nor hearing nor did one of them stretch forth his hand to eat the meat.” Okay. So he sat there all day. He’s proving it to himself, see. I’m going to sit here and prove that these guys are just stone and wood and gold and whatever, whatever they’re made on. While he does that, then a little bit later, he gives up and he says, “When he had done breaking the images – broke em all up, took a hatchet and broke em all up. “He placed the hatchet in the hand of the great God, which was there before him and he went out. And Terah his father came home for he had heard at the door the sound of the striking of a hatchet. So Terah came into the house to know what it was all about.”
Well it’s a pretty good story because – let me see, wait a couple – one more verse here to read out of this; 11:34 okay we read that one already. The 40th verse tells about what Abram tells his father okay. His father comes in, seas all these idols all broken you know. And the big one’s standing there with the hatchet in his hand. He says “hey Abram, what’s going on here.” He says “ I don’t know. I didn’t do anything.” Normal kid’s story, right? “Not me. I wasn’t here. I wasn’t here. It wasn’t me. It wasn’t me. It was somebody else.” Well, here’s what he told help him. He says, “I brought this meat for them and they all at once stretched forth their hands to eat before the great one had put forth his hand to eat. And the large one saw their works that they did before him and his anger was violently kindled against them and he went and took the hatchet that was in the house and came to them and broke them all. And behold the hatchet is still in his hands, as you can see.” What he’s trying to do of course is prove to his father that these gods that he not only makes, but worships, are just useless pieces of stone and wood and idols, see, that’s a pretty good story. He breaks up all the idols and then puts the hatchet in the hand of the biggest idol and says, “he did it.” I love that part.
One last bit of background which corroborates the, or reinforces the story of Abram going to Noah. Verse 12 ah, 13 and 14 of 11. Chapter 11 says in the 50th year of Abram, the son of Terah, Abram came forth from the house of Noah and went to his father’s house. Okay. We said that already. Well, what else is happening at this time?
More background. Ham, one of the other sons of Noah is in Egypt, and he’s driven back the waters of the Nile, I mean of the ocean down in Nile Delta and has made himself a nice little kingdom down there. Turned the Nile delta into a viable agricultural area, has a good thing going. Well, Shem, Noah’s other son, the one who got all the blessings, who just so happens to be one of the grandfathers way down the line of Abram because Noah and Shem and Abram are all from the same line of descendancy. Ham is over there in Egypt. And Shem goes over and conquers him. And in Egyptian history, you’ll find these people listed as the Hyksos, H-Y-K-S-O-S, Hyksos kings. Hyksos means nothing more than shepherd. So these were the “shepherd kings.” There were two waves of Hyksos rulers in Egypt. The first one like I said is Shem who conquers Ham. The second one is much later on.
Well, after a while, Shem leaves Egypt and goes and builds Jerusalem. And there’s an account in the Bible, which we can check, which has Shem, I mean, not Shem, but Abram going to war with some kings. The main king was walled Chedorlaomer and went and warred with him and beat him and came back with a whole bunch of good stuff from the battle. And he meets this person on the road – there’s a lot of people who meet him on the road. The kings of Sodom and Gomorrah which were the people he was defending, so to speak, this Chedorlaomer and his cohorts came down and conquered Sodom and Gomorrah and took away Abram’s brother, Lot, so that’s why he went to fight in the first place. Well, those kings are meeting him on the road and also the king of Salem – is how it’s listed in the Bible. Let me read to you in Jasher what it says about that. “And when he returned from smiting these kings” – Abram “he and his men passed the valley of Siddim where the kings were, had made war together. And Bera, the king of Sodom, and the rest of his men that were with him went out from the lime pits into which they had fallen to meet Abram and his men and Adno – mispronounce this – Adonizedek, boy that’s a hard one. Adonizedek, king of Jerusalem, the same was Shem, went out with his men to meet Abram and his people with bread and wine and they remained together in the valley of Melech. So Jasher says, it was Shem, the king of Jerusalem, who went out.
Now, if we go to the account in the Bible, let’s see it’s – I think what I’ve got listed here is chapter 14 yeah, 14 verse 18 through 20 is the same account but different names. And Melchizedek, the king of Salem, JERU-SALEM, the king of Salem brought forth bread and wine and he was the priest of most high God. Well not only was this guy the king of Jerusalem but he was the priest of the most high God and he blessed him. He blessed Abram and said, “blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth.” And in verse 20, it says, “and blessed with the most high God which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand and he” Abram– – “gave him tithes” – more than one tithe -- “of all.” He gave him tithes. He gave him a couple of different ten percent of all the stuff that Abram had got from the kings, Chedorlaomer, in the battle. He gave this all to Shem or Melchizedek, as listed in the Bible.
Now, Melchizedek is also to be found in the book of Hebrews 7:2 where Paul goes over the same account, see. “To whom also Abram gave a tenth part of all. First being interpreted as the king of righteousness Melchizedek is what he’s trying to define and also the king of Salem, which is the king of peace. Okay so we got a few accounts that way.
We also can cross-reference this in the historian Josephus’ works, and here’s what he has to say about that. And I’ll just read a few little excerpts here, “The King – in the King’s, which they call the king’s Dale, the king’s valley, where Melchizedek, the King of the city Salem received him. That name signifies righteous king and such he was without dispute in so much that on this account he was made the priest of God. However, they afterward called Salem, Jerusalem.” Now there’s a historian that isn’t in the Bible saying that Salem was really Jerusalem. That kind of ties the whole thing together.
So now, we’ve got, we’ve got Abram. Why Abram? We’re still asking the question, why Abram was chosen to do all this stuff? Well, he grew up with Noah and Shem. Shem turns out to be a priest of God. Then he goes and builds Jerusalem. He meets Abram on the road. See. So this is not an accidental choice of Abram. Abram was well known to the God of the Bible.
I’m gonna try and show over a 2500-year period that these promises – some of the ones we’ve listed today, there’s a bunch more promises and prophecies and blessings, if you will, that these promises were fulfilled in the Celtic nations.
First of all, a multitude of people that you can’t number has to be one of like four population groups in the world – the black people are a large enough population group to fulfill that prophecy; the Slavs are a large enough population group; the Chinese, all the mongoloid races of the world; and then you have the Celts. And nobody else comes close. The Aztecs you know, oh well they were the Aztecs you know. They’re gone. These are forever promises. We don’t know where the Aztecs are. The Incas, the Mayas and all of those – it doesn’t pertain to them, these promises. The Celts. See, after the split of the two Kingdoms, because they were at war, maybe not at war for 200 years, but they were split apart. The southern kingdom of Judah and the northern kingdom of Israel were split apart for more than 200 years and they went to war during that time here and there. So after that split happens, then Assyria comes along and conquers the whole nation of the house of Israel, the northern kingdom of the house of Israel and takes them away. They go north. They’re gone. They deport everybody from the geographical area and import a whole bunch of other people that they’ve conquered so that they can take the territory and they move this house of Israel, these ten tribes, move them out completely and they’re gone as far as the biblical account is concerned. They leave history at that point and we never hear of them again. Well, what happens to them is that they go north and become the Scythians and the Cimmerians.
How do we know this? “Oh, you’re just making this stuff up.” 23,000 tablets were uncovered by Layard down there in Nineveh. The royal Assyrian library, the palace was uncovered in, this happened in 1847 at the digs there, archaeological find. And there’s border reports that show that these Israelites weren’t called Israelites. That’s why they disappeared from history see. The people don’t get lost. I mean, there’s probably over five million of them. The people don’t get lost, but their names get lost. See. Now, it just so happens that the main tribe Ephraim became a world empire, company of nations multitude of nations, but the point of the confusion lies in not recognizing the split in the birthright. That’s listed in genesis 49. We’ll get to that soon. Now, this birthright division gives all those promises to none Jews. Non Jews. There’s two little things that come out of the birthright that don’t get passed down to non- Jews, to the house of Israel, to the kingdom of Israel, the northern kingdom of the ten tribes. The only thing that doesn’t go to them is the right to have a king over Israel and the right to make the laws. They get all the land. They get all the money. They get all the possessions. They get all the blessings to come forever.
Next week, we’re going to try to document that division of the birthright and I don’t know whether we can say this on television or not sorry about that, but we’re gonna tell a very dirty story from the book of Ezekiel. It’s about two women called Aholah and Aholibah okay
Ezekiel, we will you can look it up if you want. But tune in next Saturday morning and stretch with Jack on history and philosophy of the Bible.
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