The British Connection 

The British Isles have more than once been linked in prophecy with the re- establishment of the ancient monarchy in the reborn motherland of Australia. One is entitled to ask whether this occurred by chance, or whether there was some compelling historic reason why this link should have been needed. This section will support the contention that historic circumstance demanded the involvement of the British Isles, in order to facilitate the fulfilment of ancient prophecy. Though the corroborative evidence is substantial, the nature and limitations of this booklet permit the presentation of only a basic outline of that evidence. 

A great deal of this matter has been researched and published by Herbert W Armstrong in his "The United States and Britain in Prophecy", While his style of writing may irritate some readers, he nevertheless has a great deal of important information to convey to those with a genuine desire to understand the present state of the world. 

Many have heard of the lost ten tribes of the nation of Israel who were conquered and deported from Samaria while the quite separate nation of Judah (with its three tribes) continued its independent existence. These tribes of Israel were, for all practical purposes, lost to orthodox history, and they certainly never returned to Palestine, as twice now have the Jews. 

A crucial distinguishing feature of all of these thirteen tribes and their two nations is that they were people of n covenant, a covenant made between their forbears and the Lord God. The nation of Israel was traditionally ruled by the house of Ephraim, son of Joseph, son of Israel, while the nation of Judah was traditionally ruled by the descendants of Perez, son of Judah, son of Israel. The nation now known as Israel only has a lawful claim to being the nation of Judah, as a result of the blessing given to his grandsons by Jacob who was renamed Israel by God. Only under three kings; Saul (of the tribe of Benjamin and house of Ephraim), David (of Judah) and Solomon (of Judah); were the two nations historically united under the one king. How a member of the tribe of Benjamin became ruler of the house of Ephraim and the combined tribes of Israel is a separate and convoluted story in its own right and not presently relevant.  

With the ten tribes of the nation of Israel dispersed and lost to history, it is possible to look for traces of them in the modern world, and Herbert Armstrong does exactly this. He points out that the Hebrew word for covenant is beriyth or berith. To now quote Armstrong: 

"The Hebrew for man is iysh or ish. In English the ending "-ish" means "of or belonging to (a specified nation or person)." In the original Hebrew language vowels were never given in the spelling. So, omitting the vowel "e" from berith, but retaining the ""i"" in its anglicised form to preserve the "y" sound, we have the anglicised Hebrew word for covenant, brith. 

The Hebrews, however, never pronounced their "h's". Many a Jew, even today, in pronouncing the name "Shem" will call it "Sem". Incidentally, this ancient Hebrew trait is also a modern British trait. So the Hebrew word for "covenant" would be pronounced, in its anglicised form, as brit. 

And the word for "covenant man," or "covenant people," would therefore be simply "BRIT-ISH." And so, is it mere co-incidence that the true covenant people are called the "BRITISH" and they reside in the "BRITISH ISLES?" 

There is no space here to go fully into Armstrong's arguments and those who want more can read his book. In essence, Armstrong argues that the British are descendants of Israel, and particularly of Ephraim, son of Joseph, son of Israel. Armstrong, for a number of reasons, argues that the Irish are essentially of the tribe of Dan, son of Israel. 

The Bible records the tribe of Dan as being associated with ships and with Tyre. A good case can be made to equate them with the sea-faring Phoenicians who were also associated with Tyre and who certainly reached Ireland, but that too is another story. However, the hidden significance of the native name for Ireland (ie Eire) is indeed relevant. The Hebrews had a word manipulating technique whereby the letters of their alphabet were interchanged, first for last and second for second last etc. By this means, aleph (A or E) is equivalent to Tau (T). In Hebrew, I , Y and J are interchangeable. Hence, a hidden meaning of the word Eire is the name Tyre. Tyre is referred to by the prophet Ezekiel (chapter 28) as having been an Eden with a guardian Cherub [flying device], and the general description seems inapplicable to the Tyre of the Mediterranean. but certainly applicable to Ireland and the valley of the Boyne River. 

We appear to have linked the British Isles with a group of people to whom special promises involving a covenant were made. But, by itself, this does not explain the necessity of a later historic link between the British Isles and Australia. We need to look further into sparsely recorded history. 

In approximately 588 BC, the kingdom of David in Judah came to an end with the sacking of Jerusalem and the deportation of its population. This event leads to a number of important points for consideration. The paramount consideration is the very credibility of the god of Israel, the Lord God himself, in respect to an unconditional promise he is reported to have made. Then, assuming that the Lord God did not break his word, the mechanism by which he kept it needs to be resolved. 

A promise was reputedly made to King David of Israel by God, It is recorded in identical terms in 1 Chronicles 17,11-14 and in 2 Samuel 7,12-16. It is repeated in similar vein in Psalm 89,26-37 and the credibility of God himself is questioned in Psalm 89,38-39. 

Psalm 89, 34-39 is quoted below.

'I will not renounce my covenant
nor change my promised purpose.
I have sworn by my holiness once and for all,
I will not break my word to David;
his posterity shall continue for ever,
his throne before me like the sun;
it shall he sure for ever as the moon's return,
faithful so long as the skies remain.
Yet thou hast rejected thy anointed king,
thou hast spurned him and raged against him,
thou hast denounced the covenant with thy servant,
defiled his crown and flung if to the ground. "

On surface appearances, the God of Israel has broken an unbreakable oath, and, since he traditionally takes a very dim view of perjury, we really should enquire further into his own trustworthiness. The last of the line of David to reign in Judah was king Zedekiah, who lost his throne about 588 BC. At about that time, the prophet Ezekiel was prophesying (refer Ezekiel 21, 25-27) :

"And thou, profane wicked prince of Israel [ie Zedekiah] whose day is come,
when iniquity shall have an end.
Thus saith the Lord God; remove the diadem, and take off the crown [as did happen]:
this [the crown] shall not be the same: exalt him that is low [Zerah line of Judah]
and abase him that is high [Perez line of Judah] .
I will overturn, overturn, overturn, , it: and it shall be no more [overturned], until he
come whose right it is; and I will give it him. "

There is a great deal structured within such a short quotation, and commentaries have been inserted to help clarify it. Zerah and Perez were the twin sons of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar. Armstrong argues that the Zerah line of Judah ended up ruling in Ireland but this, once more, is a separate tale. Both Zerah and Perez figure in the genealogy of Jesus the Christ, so a dynastic link of some sort is indeed implied in the Bible. 

On the basis of this prophecy of Ezekiel, the kingdom of David in Palestine is to be destroyed, and to be raised again somewhere else. It will then be overturned twice more and, after that it will be overturned no more till he come whose right it is, and God himself shall give it to that person. 

The Premol prophecy found at Premol in France during the seventeenth century would seem to shed light on that sack of Jerusalem in about 588 BC. (O.V.Garrison - The Encyclopedia of Prophecy). 

"With a roll of thunder, the clouds parted and I beheld Jerusalem laid low by a frightful tempest; its walls had fallen as from the blows of a battering ram, and blood ran through the streets; the enemy had taken possession of the city. The abomination of desolation ruled the city. 

And it was here that I beheld the Patriarch emerge from the Temple that had been invaded by the sons of Baal. He fled, carrying with him the Ark of the Covenant, and fled towards the sea where the sun sets " [ie he fled to the east coast of the Atlantic] 

The Patriarch would seem to have been Jeremiah. Armstrong produces compelling arguments for the relocation of the throne of David in Ireland, by means of one of Zedekiah's daughters. He claims that she married a male descendant of the line of Zerah, twin son of Tamar, whose hand emerged first from the womb, but whose body emerged second. There is a strange Scottish law which asserts the primacy of the second-born of twins that adds a degree of credence to Armstrong's claims. 

Armstrong notes that God (Jeremiah 1, 10) gave Jeremiah "authority over nations and over kingdoms, to pull down and to uproot, to destroy and demolish, to build and to plant. " The pulling down of the kingdom in Judah is fully documented. The planting and building is not recorded in the Bible. Armstrong demonstrates that the last mention of Jeremiah in the Bible places him in Egypt in the company of the scribe Baruch and king Zedekiah's daughters. 

According to Armstrong, "in 569 BC, an elderly, white-haired patriarch, sometimes referred to as a 'saint:' came to Ireland. With him was the princess daughter of an eastern king and a companion called 'Simon Brach' spelled in different histories as Brech, Berech, Brach or Berach. The princess had a Hebrew name Tephi - a pet name - her full name being Tea-Tephi. - - - This royal party, included the son of the king of Ireland who had been at Jerusalem at the time of the siege, There he had become acquainted with Tea-Tephi. He married her shortly after 585 BC - - Their young son, now twelve years of age, accompanied them to Ireland. Besides the royal family, Jeremiah brought an ark, a harp, and a wonderful stone called liafail, or 'stone of destiny:' 

The kingdom established at Tara in Ireland by this dynasty endured for a thousand years, before it and the stone of destiny were transferred to Scotland, where it endured for another thousand years before being transferred to England where it and perhaps the stone of destiny endure to this very day. Thus, it would appear that the throne of David endured according to God's promise, and that it awaits merely the appearance of he whose right it is. It would seem that all is in readiness to return the throne of David back to the motherland in which it began some two million years ago and from which it departed about fifty thousand years ago. 

It is likely that the throne is intended to be transferred once more by a princess royal, and the princess royal of England has elsewhere been demonstrated to be the lawful heir to the Australian throne, a throne which her mother has forfeited by failing to keep her legally binding contract with the Australian people. That contract is our Constitution, a legally binding agreement with our Queen which specifies the terms under which we have agreed to be governed. Genesis 49, 10 promises: 

"The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the peoples be. " 

The term Shiloh indicates the blood of Joseph and Ephraim, and this link was forged through the offspring of Jesus (Judah and Levi) and Mary of Magdala (Benjamin / Ephraim), a bloodline leading to the Merovingian dynasty of France and beyond. The apparently destined mate for princess Anne is of very royal blood, but this too is another tale. The final transfer of the British throne of God's covenant with David is not exactly unanticipated. John Wesley White ( "Re-Entry" ) states: 

"At the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, I happened to be in London. It was an unforgettable moment when the Archbishop of Cantebury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, extended to Her Majesty the crown in the historic ceremony which states, 'I give thee, O Sovereign Lady, this crown to wear, until He who reserves the right to wear it shall return. " 

Bearing in mind the fact that this Shiloh is the rightful king of the Merovingian dynasty of France, as well as a descendant of Jesus the Christ, and that the French word for says is dit, then the following anagram from the words "Australia and Tasmania" is not without interest. Given that the Hebrew aleph is A or E and that the Hebrew yod is I or J, then the above phrase is equivalent to : EL, Ra, dit: Jesus, Anne mate. 

In other words, the Holy Spirit and the Lord God both say that Jesus and Anne will mate. Of course, if this anagram is accurate, it may still refer to a different Anne to the British princess royal. Only time will tell. It is possible that Psalm 45 speaks of this union, in the very words of King David.

"My heart is stirred by a noble theme,
in a King's honour I utter the song I have made,
and my tongue runs like the pen of an expert scribe.
You surpass all mankind in beauty, your lips are moulded in grace,
so you are blessed by God for ever.
With your sword ready at your side, warrior King,
your limbs resplendent in their royal armour,
ride on to execute true sentence and just judgement.
Your right hand shall show you a scene of terror: your sharp arrows flying,
nations beneath your feet, the courage of the King's foes melting away.
Your throne is like God's throne,
eternal, your royal sceptre a sceptre of righteousness.
You have loved right and hated wrong;
so God, your God, has anointed you
above your fellows with oil, the token of joy,
Your robes are all fragrant with myrhh and powder of aloes,
and the music of strings greets you from a palace panelled with ivory.
A princess takes her place amongst the noblest of your women
a royal lady at your side in gold of Ophir.
Listen, my daughter, hear my words and consider them,
forget your own people and your father 's house
and when the King desires your beauty, remember that he is your lord.
Do him obeisance, daughter of Tyre,
and the richest in the land will court you with gifts.
In the palace honour awaits her; she is a king's daughter,
arrayed in cloth - of gold richly embroidered
Virgins shall follow her into the presence of the King
Her companions shall be brought to her,
escorted with the noise of revels and rejoicing
as they enter the King's palace.
You shall have sons, 0 King, in [the] place of your forefathers
and you will make them rulers over all the land
I will declare your fame to all generations,
therefore the nations will praise you for ever and ever.