FROM ISRAELITE TO SAXON
IN speaking of the United States and Britain as modern Israel, it is necessary to remember certain things in order to avoid confusion.
First of all, the people of Israel were no more divided into tribes, but had, centuries before, passed into the more advanced stage of national organization. It is the natural progress of any progressive people. First, it is the family, then the tribes, then the nation embracing the tribes. We must think of Israel as a nation and a company of nations, no more called Israel, for the best of reasons, but called by the name, above all others, of sons or House of Isaac, or Saxons, with many other branch names.
Secondly, we must remember that they were not the original founders of Israel in the Isles – that is to say, in Britain – but they came in very late in British history, even a thousand years after the House of David had arrived and been established there.
We shall, therefore, approach the subject of the ten-tribed House of Israel as being the consideration of a branch of the Israel people which, late in history, arrived in Britain, and added their strength to those who had preceded them.
We begin with the separation of the House of Israel from the House of Judah. Thereafter there were two nations in Palestine of the Israel stock, and their histories are separately recorded, with their separate lines of kings, in the books of Kings and Chronicles. Read them there, and be sure to read them separately.
Thence we find Israel carried captive to Halah, Habor, and the River Gozan. Professor Odlum says of this deportation:
“The distance to which Israel was carried from their own country in about 721 B.C. was not less than seven hundred miles in a north and east direction. The Syrian desert, the River Euphrates, the Mesopotamian region, the Tigris, and three ranges of the Kurdistan mountains intervened between Samaria and the new home of Israel in captivity. In this district were the cities and regions of Halah, Habor, and the River Gozan, which flowed into the Caspian Sea, as it does today. This new home was the high tablelands of Media and Armenia …… “
While settled in this district, they aided the Medes and Persians to break the power of their captors, the Assyrians. Afterwards Babylon went down before their arms.
From this time they were on their way to their new European home. They found unoccupied territory in the neighbourhood of Ar-Sareth in southeast Europe.
Here they occupied the Crimea, and spread up the waterways, passing the watershed and down the waterways to the Baltic and the North Seas.
Sharon Turner says: “The migrating Scythians crossed the Araxes, passed out of Asia, and suddenly appeared in Europe in the sixth century B.C.”
Esdras in the Apocrypha tells us that the Ten Tribes left their exile and moved away across the Euphrates to a place called Arsareth (City or Hill of Sareth) (2 Esdras 13:39-45). To the northwest of the Black Sea is a river called Sareth to this day.
Herodotus, speaking of the same date as Esdras, says: “The Scythians ernerged frorn beyond the Euphrates across the Armenian river Araxes.”
Rev. W. M. H. Milner says: “The fugitive host, starting from upper Media, passed the north end of Lake Umri into the mountain valleys of the Kurds; here some dropped off, and their children became in after ages the Nestorian Church. These were for thirteen centuries the missionaries of Asia.”
Herodotus says the Persians called the Scythians Sakai, and Sharon Turner identifies these very people as the ancestors of the Anglo-Saxons. The old Greek writers spoke often of the valour and the undaunted spirit of these Scythians. They say “No nation on earth can match them. They are unconquerable.”
Professor Odlum continues: “From Josephus, the Jewish historian of the first century, we learn that at A.D. 70 the Ten Tribes were outside the Roman Empire. By other means we learn that they were in the south of Russia in immense multitudes, and known as the Scythians of Herodotus.”
The burial places of the Israel people have furnished ample inscriptions to show clearly that the Crimea was a centre of residence for this people for ages, and that from it they spread up through Europe and eastward as far as China.
Diodorus says: “The Sacae sprang from people in Media who obtained a vast and glorious empire.”
Ptolerny finds the Saxons in “a race of Scythians called Saki, who came from Media.”
Pliny says: “The Sakai were among the most distinguished people of Scythia who settled in Armenia, and were called Sacae-Sani. ”
Albinus says: “The Saxons were descended from the ancient Sacae in Asia.”
Prideaux finds that “the Cimbrians (Kumrii) came from the Black and Caspian Seas, and that with them came the Angli. ”
Sharon Turner, the rnost painstaking Saxon historian says: ‘The Saxons were a Scythian nation, and were called Saca, Sachi, Sach-sen. ”
Colonel Gawler, in Our Scythion Ancestors, says: “The word Sacae is fairly and without straining or imagination translated Israelites.”
The Bible (Amos, chapter seven) solemnly takes cognizance of the change of the name of the nation and people from Israel to “the House of lsaac” (Saxons).
Thus we see these people settled about the Crimea, along the rivers of Europe from the sixth century B.C.
Their migrations to the Baltic and North Seas are well told by Du Chaillu, a scholar of England with a French name.
The militant progress of the Goths, Gotti, “Men of God,” is well known in the history of Europe. The divisional names of Angles, Jutes, and so on, are duplicated today by the names our race now bears as English, Welsh, Scotch, Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, (Anzacs), Americans, and so on.
From the sixth century B.C. to the time of the landing of Hengist and Horsa, these people had been steadily progressing up through Europe, God’s Battle Axe Brigade (see Jer. 51:20). Finally, they came in and occupied the place, which had been made for them in the British Isles by the Roman occupation. Since that time they have been not the least important part of the Israel peoples dwelling in the “appointed place” (the British Isles), and extending to the overseas dominions the strength and energy of their race.
It has been possible only to touch authorities and evidences of the identity of the Anglo-Saxons with ten-tribed Israel. But even so, the array of standard authors who make declarations regarding this matter is startling, and it is clear that the scholar who denies an historic basis to the claim of Saxon identity with Israel speaks rather out of his lack of knowledge of standard literature, than out of his knowledge of the subject.
The identity of the Saxon and Israel is proven, and we are now put in the responsible position of asking what it means in the way of responsibility under God’s plan for His nation, and through them for the world. With Paul we ask, “What shall we say then? Hath God cast away His people whom He foreknew? God forbid … God hath not cast away His people.”
