The English Speaking Peoples
In my current copy of “the Ensign Message”, Newton Institute, longs Court, Leicester Square, London, WC2H7EL are 2 articles, both containing paragraphs which, when placed together, explain the origin of the English Speaking Peoples, enabling us to understand so much of the Bible!
“Most Christians are aware that the Israelites were carried into captivity, but many know little about the details. A short synopsis of this story is found in 2 Kings 18. There we read of this deportation of Israel and, a few years later most of Judah. In approximately 730 B.C. Shalmaneser (king of Assyria) invaded Israel and we read in verses 11 and 12:
“And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant…”
When almost the entire population of all twelve tribes of Israel were taken captive by the armies of Assyria they were placed in the area of the Caucasus Mountains to the North of their homeland. There they remained for approximately one hundred years, and became known as Caucasians. The name Caucasian has remained part of their identity ever since that time. Most people have no idea whatsoever of the connection between the Caucasians and the Israelites of Bible history and prophecy.”
In the next paragraphs: “History tells us that our people – the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, Scandinavian and kindred people of the world today, – descend from the Scythians, who in turn descend from the Khumri, who were the Israelites of the Assyrian captivity.
After their captivity they made their way by way of the Dariel Gorge and on to Asareth, as recorded in 2 Esdras 13:40-45,
“Those are the ten tribes [of Israel], which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the King, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came into another land. But they took this 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 places of the river. For the most High then shewed 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 Asareth.” 2 Esdras 13:40-45.
Herodotus confirms this. He writes of this very same migration in chapter twelve of his fourth book, and refers to these same Israelites as Scythians and Cimmerians.
So now when you read of Israel in Biblical prophecy, you can place us in the world Today!