THE ANGLO-SAXON PEOPLE – PART ONE
The following article is taken from a book entitled, “Only One Road, ” by the Hon. L.H. Hollins. During the 1940’s he was Minister for Public Instruction and Minister for Labour in Victoria. He was also author of the book “Democracy at the Crossroads.” In future issues of “Look Up” further extracts of “Only One Road” will be printed. This book is one of many examples that show a number of prominent people in the past had an understanding of the Identity Teaching.
TRACING the racial origins of any people is a difficult task at best. It becomes doubly difficult, however, when there is reason to believe, as in the case of the Anglo-Saxons, that somewhere in the distant past, God had punished that people for a long period of time by scattering them among the nations of the earth in such a way that they would lose their identity. Fortunately for those who would trace the migrations of the Anglo-Saxons through Europe, there is now a great mass of evidence to support the claim that all the peoples who came into the British Isles, centuries BC and AD were of the same stock, and had their origin in the Hebrews, especially in the tribes that were deported into the vicinity of Media – the very place where the Bible record leaves the multitudinous House of Israel.
This being so, it is necessary for us to briefly survey the national history of Israel, from where we left them in Egypt until their final dispersion to Media. Now it is generally agreed that Jacob and his family came into Egypt in the year 1701 BC, and that the Israelites remained in that country until 1486 BC – a period of two hundred and fifteen years.* During this time the blessing of fruitfulness so increased their numbers that we read:Â
“The children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceedingly mighty; and the land was filled with them.” (Ex. 1:7)
Fear of this growing might caused the Egyptians to sorely afflict the Israelites with a view to reducing their numbers,
“But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.” (Ex. 1: 1 2)
“And the Egyptians made the Children of Israel to serve with rigour”
The vivid first chapter of Exodus, describes the dramatic
situation in Egypt when the “children of Israel were required to
build the treasure cities of Pithom and Ramases, but the more
they were burdened the more they multiplied.
So bitter, indeed, were their lives with “hard bondage” that the people of Israel prayed that God would deliver them out of the hands of their oppressors.
When God heard their cry and selected Moses to lead them out of Egypt, Pharaoh the king, refused to let them go. Despite repeated demands, and afflictions imposed by God, the Egyptians remained adamant. Finally, Pharaoh did let them go, and Moses, under Divine guidance, began the difficult task of leading his people out of bondage. On the first stage of this perilous journey, Israel was led up to the shores of the Red Sea where a great miracle happened. Pursued as they were by Pharaoh and “all his host,” the position seemed hopeless until God said to Moses: “Lift … up thy rod… over the sea, and divide it.” (Ex. 14:16). “And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the Lord caused the sea to go {back} by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry {land}, and the waters were divided. And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry {ground}; and the waters {were} a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.” (Ex. 14:21-22.)
Not only did God deliver His people on that day, but He wreaked terrible vengeance upon their enemies. Indeed, “all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them” was overwhelmed when God caused the waters to return. With the Red Sea safely behind them, the “chosen race” began their forty years of training in nationhood. Cut off as they were in the wilderness, they received instruction in every phase of national life. In addition, they were given a superlative code of laws to govern their future conduct in the social, political and economic realm. At the same time God, through Moses, entered into a conditional covenant with Israel. After concluding this unique training, and following the death of Moses, Israel was led into Canaan (portion of the promised land) by Joshua.
Now contrary to a widely-held belief, the conditional or Mosaic Covenant mentioned above does not in any way annul the Abrahamic Covenant which was unconditional and everlasting. The Mosaic Covenant, on the other hand, was conditional and temporary, and was dependent on the children of Israel obeying the code of laws given to them at Sinai. It was a contract made between two parties – God and the people of Israel. If they obeyed His Commandments, Statutes and Judgments, God would confer on them many blessings. If they disobeyed, He would punish them. Should they become a sinful people, and fail to respond to chastisements of increasing severity, God would punish them for a period of “seven times,” (2,520 years Ed). After indicating the blessings, and outlining the possible punishments, God said:
“If ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto Me, then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins … I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you; and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.” (Lev. 26:27-33).
That God did not intend the Mosaic Covenant to abrogate the Covenant made with Israel’s ancestors, is made clear as we conclude the narrative from which the above extract is taken. God said:
“And yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them; for I {am} the Lord their God. But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I {am} the Lord.” (Lev. 26:44-45)
Again, St Paul the Apostle, writing to the Galatians, about 60 AD, gives proof, if proof be necessary, that Christ’s coming did not in anyway nullify the Abrahamic Covenant. Paul wrote:
“And this I say, {that} the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of no effect, For if the inheritance {be} of the law, {it is} no more of promise, but God gave {it} to Abraham by promise.”         (Gal. 3:17-18.)
 
Beyond any doubt the Abrahamic Covenant is unconditional and everlasting. Obviously, therefore, we cannot help but find, somewhere in the world, God’s “chosen race” under another name. But to return to Israel in the promised land. After crossing over Jordan, the history of the Israelites is one of varied success. So long as they were obedient to their Divine Ruler, they triumphed over their enemies, and prospered exceedingly. As the centuries rolled by, however, there was an increasing tendency to compromise. At first, this took the form of incomplete obedience to instructions, and then, contact with the people round about them led to idolatry and other abominations. Just on four hundred years after Israel left Egypt, the people grew tired of theocratic Government, and asked for a king like other nations. Finding that the people were unmoved by warnings of calamity, God, through His prophet Samuel, selected Saul to reign over them.
As predicted, Saul proved a failure, and David, “a man after God’s own heart,” was chosen. On the death of Saul, David was anointed king first over the tribe of Judah only, and then seven years later over the United Kingdom or twelve tribes of Israel. It was during the reign of this wise and good king that Israel rose to their greatest heights. And moreover, it was at this time that God made an everlasting covenant with David concerning his kingdom and Royal House. He said:
“I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more, as beforetime … And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee; thy throne shall be established forever.” (2 Sam. 7:10, 16. See also Jer. 33:20-2 1)
David ruled over the United Kingdom for thirty-three years, and his son, Solomon, for forty. At Solomon’s death his son, Rehoboam, succeeded to the throne. Then came dissension. Because this unwise young king attempted to increase the grievous burdens which had been imposed by Solomon, his father, ten tribes rebelled, and caused a division of the kingdom. Following the rebellion, these ten tribes set up a separate and distinct kingdom – the Northern Kingdom, or House of Israel. They made Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim king, and later established their capital at Samaria. The remaining tribes, Judah and Benjamin with certain of the Levites, set up the Southern Kingdom, or House of Judah. Rehoboam, was retained as king, as was also Jerusalem for their capital. This division took place in the year 975 BC, and the Bible, from this time forward, never fails to make a clear distinction between the two Houses – Israel and Judah.
Dividing the kingdom seemed, if anything, to hasten the downfall of the Israelitish people. Under the rule of Jeroboam, the House of Israel immediately lapsed into idolatry, while under Rehoboam, the apostasy of the House of Judah was equally rapid. As the years went by, the “chosen race” drifted further and further away from God. Indeed, they became an extremely sinful people, whose practice of every abomination finally forced God to impose the long threatened penalty of banishment for seven times.”
Now although the deportations of the children of Israel began two hundred and thirty-four years after the above division took place, Israel and Judah were taken into captivity at periods, differing in point of time by many decades, and by quite different Empires. The House of Israel was the first to suffer when the king of Assyria struck, in 741 BC. Of the first invasion, we read:
“The God of Israel stirred up … the spirit of Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan” (1 Chron. 5:26).
The Assyrians carry away all of the Northern
ten tribes of Israel and most of the Southern
House of Judah
Further accounts of this partial deportation are found in II Kings 15:29 and in the Assyrian writings of the period. For example, in Tiglath-Pileser’s account of his invasion of Israel we can still discern the following fragmentary lines:
“The land of Bit-Humria … all of its people, together with their goods 1 carried off to Assyria.” (D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia [ 1926] p. 292).
Seventeen years after the first invasion the Assyrians, under king Shalmaneser struck again and brought to an end the kingdom of the House of Israel exactly as Hosea had prophesied some fifty years before. The first account of this calamitous event reads:
“Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor{by} the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.” (II Kings 17:5-6. See also II Kings 18:9-11).
During the third year of this siege, Shalmaneser died, and Sargon, his chief captain, ascended the throne of Assyria. After bringing the campaign to a successful conclusion, in 741 BC, Sargon, in the Assyrian Monuments, wrote:
“In the beginning of my reign the city of Samaria I besieged, I captured … 27,290 of its inhabitants I carried away.”
The importance of this second invasion is found, not so much in the number of captives here indicated (they were from the City of Samaria only), but in the fact that “the kingdom of the House of Israel” was brought to a complete end. Then we have Sargon’s son Sennacherib who attacked the southern kingdom of Judah during Hezekiah’s reign. Sennacherib swept through Judah conquering 46 cities, but never took Jerusalem. So as well as all of the northern ten-tribed House of Israel a large proportion of the House of Judah was also taken captive into Assyria. In 676 BC, the next king of Assyria, Esar-Haddon, was responsible for a fourth invasion of Palestine. On this occasion Assyria did not annex territory, or carry away any great number of prisoners. In this case the Bible record is meagre. It reads:
“Wherefore, the Lord brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh (king of Judah) among the thorns (in chains), and bound him with fetters, and carried him to Babylon.” (II Chron. 33:11).
Thus was prophecy fulfilled. “Within threescore and five years, “ said Isaiah, “shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.” (Isa. 7:8). In this exact period of time the whole House of Israel was carried away captive by the Assyrians, and placed “in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.”
Unquestionably, the whole House of Israel was carried away to Assyria, and “there was none left but the tribe of Judah (House of Judah) only.” (II Kings 17: 18). Israel did not return from this captivity and their history, so far as the Bible is concerned, terminates in Media, ie., northern Assyria. To be more precise, the Bible story leaves the House of Israel as far north as the shores of the Caspian Sea. This is the region in which we now find the Persian province of Azerbaijan, together with the district farther east where the Persian city of Tehran now stands. Although the Bible record ends here, the Apocrypha takes it a long step further. Indeed, it gives an account of a journey, lasting eighteen months, which took Israel out of Asia into Europe. It reads:
“These are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea (Hoshea) the king, whom Shalmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they 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 there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land. And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow passages 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. Then dwelt they there until the latter time… “ (2 Esdras 13:40-46).
Significantly enough Herodotus, the so-called father of history, records a migration of Scythian peoples from Asia into Europe, along what may have been the same route, and at the very time (about 650 BC) that the Lost Tribes of Israel made this great trek to the land of Arsareth, ie., the Ukraine of today. Furthermore, this epic journey assumes even greater importance if we remember that a large proportion of the House of Judah was still in Palestine. Some fifty years had yet to elapse before they too suffered banishment at the hands of the Babylonian king. Like the House of Israel, Judah was carried away in successive waves. In the years 606-604 BC, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, struck. He despoiled the temple and carried Jehoiakim, the king, into captivity. (See II Kings 24:1; also II Chron. 36:6-7.) Five years later, in 599 BC, the same Babylonian king carried out a second invasion. This time also he looted the temple, and carried the young king, Jehoiachin, the Princes and other leaders to Babylon. (See II Kings 24:11-16; also II Chron. 36:10.) Nebuchadnezzar, invaded for the third time when Zedekiah king of Judah, rebelled. After a siege Jerusalem was captured, the walls broken down and the temple utterly destroyed. As a judgment, Zedekiah had his eyes put out, after being forced to witness the slaughter of his sons. The blind king and his retainers, together with a great host of his subjects, were carried off to Babylon. (See II Kings 25: 1-11; also II Chron. 36:17-20) Providentially, the king’s daughters with the prophet Jeremiah were left behind with a small remnant, most of whom were poor and indigent persons. In this manner was the House of Judah brought to a complete, even if temporary, end.
To be continued
Editor’s Note:
*When evidence from ancient records and the Bible are correlated the Israelites were in Egypt from 1853 to 1453 BC.
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