Page Line 29, 35-7 App. I. This prophecy was fulfilled as regards seven tribes, from the time of Odin to the Heptarchy. The Kingdom of Israel.-Later on Israel became a kingdom, and the British Empire has been under the most powerful and lasting monarchy that has ever existed in any age. According to the Bible, P. 893,4, the seed of David was to rule over the Israelites, and it is claimed by those who have been developing the identities that they have been able to trace the genealogy of our present King right back to David. I have had given to me a chart showing details of the direct descent. Hos. 3:5 99 15 5 10 Since writing the above, the following appeared in the "Daily Chronicle" of April 3rd, 1911: "The descent of the British Royal House from David the Psalmist is strongly held by one school of genealogists, as it was also by Queen Victoria. In 1869 an Anglican ̧ clergyman, the Rev. F. R. Glover, M.A., addressed to her Majesty 15 the result of his researches on the subject. So pleased was the Queen that she commanded his attendance at Windsor, and, telling him that the descent was part of the inner history of her house, she showed him the Royal pedigree, with David as its root. The subject is complex, but, on the surface, simple. As Guelphs, our 20 Royal Family trace descent from Roger d'Este, the Saracen hero, who, though a Mohammedan, was nevertheless, through Saladin the Nazarene, descended from the Hebrew Royal House of David." The National Anthem of the British Empire.-A curious instance of the closeness with which the details of our own royal line are 25 associated with those of the kings of Israel are the words with which the first king of Israel was greeted on presentation to his people by Samuel: And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king' (I. Sam. 10, ver. 24). David Always to Rule Israel.-The following verse shows the pro- 30 phecy which has so far been fulfilled, namely, that there would always be a descendant of David as a ruler of the Israelites. "For thus saith the Lord; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel" (Jer. 33, ver. 17). Nathan the prophet had already said to King David: "And thine 35 house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever" (II. Samuel 7, ver. 16). Jacob, blessing his sons, said: "The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come" (Gen. 49, ver. 10). Shiloh here is usually supposed to refer to 40 Jesus the Christ, but this cannot be the true meaning. Shiloh means 'peace, rest," and the reference is to the end of the world. Speaking of the end of the world-the end of all darkness and *The exact translation is "Let the King live." See also I. Kings 1, ver. 25 39; II. Kings 11, ver. 12. 66 5 10 App. I.. Page Line evil-Zechariah says: At evening time it shall be light" (14, ver. Of David's Seed a "Multitude of Kings."-"Kings shall come out of thy loins" (Gen. 35, ver. 11). Nearly all the kings now ruling in Europe, or their direct heirs, are descendants of Queen Victoria. Shakespeare writes: This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings."* David Always to Rule Over One Tribe.-Before the separation of Judah and Israel, Ahijah prophesied to Jeroboam that "he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's 454 sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel 15 [this shows that Jerusalem does not always typify the same city, but is rather the locality wherein will be found certain conditions of spiritual advancement]: . . . And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name 20 there" (I. Kings 11, ver. 32, 36). The line of David ruled first over Judah, then over Dan, until it was restored to the kingdom of Israel, as foretold, when Henry II. ruled tribes. Agnes Strickland, in her "Queens of England," says that the descent of Matilda, his mother, could be traced direct to David, 25 King of Israel. over ten 444 18 17 17 Dan "dwelt apart" until 1603 A.D., when Israel came under one 429 43 king, as prophesied, and James ruled over the eleven tribes in 368 38 Great Britain. King James was the descendant of a series of kings of Scotland named David, and in his opening speech in Parliament 30 boasted of his dynasty being derived from that of Ireland. 35 In the Targum of Onkelos, a writing as old as the time of Jesus, appears the following translation: "Out of Dan [son of Billah] a man shall arise in whose time all Israel will be united, and in whose day righteousness shall be restored." In the reign of James was completed the Authorised Translation of 368 35 the Bible, and the English Prayer Book in its present form was compiled and sealed by Act of Parliament. (A.D. 1611.) The Church no Longer to be a Burial-place for Israel's Kings.— "The place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, 40 shall the house of Israel no more defile, . . . by their kings in their high places" (Ezek. 43, ver. 7). bury their dead in their synagogues. The late * 66 King Richard II.." II., 1. the carcases of The Jews do not Chief Rabbi of Page Line App. I. England was unable to be present at St. Paul's, at one of the thanksgiving services, because his religion prevented him entering the building where dead were buried. Israel has now given up this practice. Neither Queen Victoria nor Edward VII. was buried within the precincts of a church. 5 397 41 THE POWER OF ISRAEL. From Weakness to Strength.-The Bible shows that Israel, after leaving Media, would have troubled times, and would be reduced until arriving in the isles. Perhaps this is why Paul advises them 10 to abstain from marriages, telling them he did not speak from authority, but from his knowledge of times of distress. Isaiah, in the 41st chapter, says: "Keep silence before me, O islands; and let the people renew their strength" (ver. 1). Again, "Fear thou not: . . . I will strengthen thee" (ver. 10). Captain B. de W. Weldon, who is specially fitted to judge 15 of the present military position, speaks most highly of the strength and impregnable position of Israel. He says: "England and America together can still act on interior lines against any possible combination of their enemies. . . geographical conditions have placed an immense advantage in our hands." After 20 dealing with the likely movements in case of war, he says: This short statement of the fighting power of Israel is neither a threat nor a boast; it is a plain statement of fact." Wisely, he ends as follows: "Israel, as of old, must stand ready for battle. Above all, modern Israel must do what ancient Israel neglected to do-must 25 turn with their whole heart and their whole mind to that Lord of Hosts who is the disposer of battles. Therein lies, as of old, the Eccl. 12:13 conclusion of the whole matter,"* and its final solution. 403 31 305 32 Israelitish Prowess.-The military power of the Israelites was foretold in the Bible in many places. For instance, "The remnant 30 of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion . . . who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver " (Micah 5, ver. 8, 9). : It was prophesied: "Ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword. And five of you shall 35 chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword" (Lev. 26, ver. 7, 8). "Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee" (Is. 25, ver. 3); "They that strive with thee shall perish" (Is. 41, ver. 11); "God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and 40 shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and * "The Evolution of Israel," p. 381-383. Lord Kitchener's telegram to our troops, after the first battle fought on European soil by them for sixty years, was: “ We are all proud of you." App. I. Page Line like a rolling thing before the whirlwind. And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us" (Is. 17, ver. 13, 14). Every combination against Israel has, as Isaiah prophesied, 5 failed. Associate yourselves, O ye people, . . and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves and ye shall be broken in pieces; for God is with us" (Is. 8, ver. 9, 10). "The nations [Gentiles] shall see and be confounded at all their [Israel's] might" (Micah 7, ver. 16). We have been victorious in over 280 battles over 10 European nations. We rule over millions in India with a few men. When Pharaoh was destroyed, the Israelites said: "Thou didst blow with thy wind, the sea covered them: they sank as lead in the mighty waters" (Ex. 15, ver. 10). Isaiah, speaking of the Israelites, said: They that war against 15 thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought" (41, ver. 12). He also says, in verse 16: "Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them." In 1588 the Spanish Armada was practically destroyed 531 33 by storms; the largest ships were lost and many thousands of 20 men killed and wounded. About 30 out of 129 vessels were wrecked on the West Coast of Ireland alone--the English fleet being apparently little injured. The relation of conscious mental power to atmospheric 461 conditions will soon be generally recognised. "Queen's weather" is by 140 16 no means a mere figure of speech. 25 23 We have met with checks and small local defeats, but throughout European history we have eventually emerged victorious from every great war in which we have been nationally engaged. We have professedly fought for British interests" alone; yet we have ground into powder every opponent, both great and small, who has 30 ventured to withstand the great onward movement of Israel's civilisation. We have led kings of France captive through the London streets; we broke the heart of the successor of the mighty Charles V. of Spain, and "left the remnant of all that great Is. 16: 14 multitude very small and feeble"; we destroyed the power of Louis 397 35 of France upon the sea, and sent Napoleon to St. Helena. Always 531 says: Mr. Vernadsky, a Russian and avowed "Britain is a menace to the safety of Europe. She is the most * In the final battle of Armageddon, which was taking place at the moment of writing, we had the same position again. The Austrian Emperor was the head of the temporal Roman Catholic power. The German Emperor was tending towards Roman Catholicism, and the head of the Jesuits, called the Black Pope, was his nomination. 19 33 Page Line App. I. aggressive Power of modern times. There is no part of the world 394 1 where she has not established her garrisons or her colonies. Her fleet dominates every sea. What power is there that has not suffered from her ambition? She has torn Gibraltar from Spain, Malta and Canada from France, Heligoland from Denmark, the 5 Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch, the Gold Coast from the Portuguese, and Hong Kong from China. She has built up by the sword a military power in Asia which secures her government over 200 millions in India. At Aden she holds the gate of the Red Sea; at Singapore she commands the road to China. From Fiji 10 she dominates the Pacific. Her territory is vaster than that of Russia, and greater in extent than all Europe, without Russia." Israel Never to be Defeated.-"Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off" (Micah 5, ver. 9). "Thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not 15 reign over thee" (Deut. 15, ver. 6). "No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper" (Is. 54, ver. 17). The Germans, French, Russians, Spanish, Dutch, Austrians, and Italians have all been defeated. The British and Americans as nations have alone never been defeated. 20 The following prophecy of Israel has been fulfilled: "Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms " (Jer. 51, ver. 20); and again: "He shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them. Israel then shall dwell in safety 25 alone" (Deut. 33, ver. 27, 28). This has been the fate of those who have attacked England. In Bell's "Compendious View of Universal History," the battle of Waterloo is thus referred to: "Ever-memorable battle of Waterloo over Bonaparte, his most experienced marshals, and his veteran 30 legions; his vaunted Imperial Guard is annihilated, his power dissipated, and his throne crumbled into dust." These are almost the words used by Isaiah in several places, "he bringeth it even to the dust" (26, ver. 5). Montalembert writes: "Busied more than any other in all the arts of peace, yet invincible 35 in war, and sometimes rushing into it with frantic passion; too often destitute of enthusiasm, but incapable of failure, it ignores the very idea of discouragement or effeminacy." Marshal Bugeaud is reported to have said: "The English infantry is the finest in the world; but then, thank God, there is so little 40 of it." Abbé Milot, in his "Elements of the History of England," says: "No modern history, it must be confessed, presents to our view so great a number of striking pictures as England. We see here a people, free, warlike, unconquerable, and a long time ferocious, 45 |