THE CONSPIRACY WAS
STRONG
Part II: BRITISH-ISRAELISM
THE JUDAIZERS
There have been approximately thirty recognized
splinter organizations resulting from Worldwide
Church of God - Organizational Splits, although other sources estimate
that hundreds of groups have formed from the WCG. It is a common practice
of conspiratorial organizations to subdivide and create new fronts with
diverse names in order to diffuse public perception of the greater conspiracy
which is still intact. This plan goes into action especially when the mother
organization is exposed or discredited.
Today, numerous Sabbatarian, Restoration,
British-Israel, Messianic and Sacred Name organizations, which have been
spawned by the WCG, are carrying on the work of the late Herbert W. Armstrong,
indoctrinating new disciples in his British-Israel teachings and worldview.
In June 1998, an Israel Identity Conference held in the United States and
Australia was promoted and attended by numerous Church of God affiliates
and Sabbatarian organizations. These included the Worldwide
Church of God, United Church of God,
British-Israel
World Federation, Global
Church of God,
Christian
Educational Services,
Servant's
News magazine, Faith in Australia magazine, The
Journal newspaper, The Independent Church of God, Perspectives magazine,
Alert newsletter, Sabbath History newsletter, The Shofar newsletter, Origins
of Nations magazine/History Research Projects. [Craig
White, News
of the Israel Identity Conference with Dr Rick Sherrod, The Journal,
8-24-98]
According to Personal
Freedom Outreach, Christian Education Services is a splinter group
of The Way International cult founded in 1985 by Victor Paul Wierwille
who denied the Trinity and divinity of Jesus Christ, used only the Aramaic
version of the Bible, rejected Sunday worship, denied the Holocaust
and, during the late 1960s and 70s, recruited large numbers of young people
from the Jesus Movement.
As well, the Israel Identity Conference was
promoted by James Trimm of the Society
for the Advancement of Nazarene Judaism, which connects through the
Messianic
Friends Network with numerous Messianic organizations such as Jews
for Jesus and Messengers of Messiah. Mention was made in a SANJ message
dated 8/17/98 that an international conference is being planned in Jerusalem
for several reasons, one being that "Jerusalem is destined to be the capital
city of United Israel including both Judah and the Lost Ten Tribes." Another
attraction in Jerusalem is the presence of rabbis such as Yair Davidy of
Brit-Am Israel. The goal is recognition that the "Jews of Judah" and the
Lost Tribes are brothers, to the end they will be reconciled and reunited.
SANJ also hosts the Lost Tribes Forum -- "one of several Rabbinic organizations
(including Yair Davidy of Brit-Am)
which teach that the Lost Tribes migrated to Europe."
(8/28/98)
Yair Davidy, who denies the divinity of Jesus Christ, also teaches that
present day Jews are from the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin and the tribe
of Joseph is divided into Ephraim which is Great Britain, and Mannaseh,
the United States.
Herbert Armstrong's global agenda is also
being fulfilled through organizations like Sir Anthony Buzzard's Restoration
Fellowship and the greater Church of God General Council whose publication,
The
Journal, promotes the Garner Ted Armstrong Evangelistic Association
and the Worldwide Church of God. The Journal also lists the Olive-Hebrew
Roots CDRom Encyclopaedia promoted by HRM organizations and published by
the Saltshakers
Ltd in London. The Olive-Hebrew Roots CD-Rom carries articles written
by Andrew Gould, Jacob Prasch, and acknowledged kabbalist, Avi ben Mordecai,
among other Messianic teachers.
On his Restoration Fellowship web page, Sir
Anthony Buzzard explains the Hebrew
Roots Concept of Christianity.
One issue of the COG
Journal announced a Hebrew Roots conference to be held at the
Atlanta Bible College where Sir Anthony serves on staff:
"The conferees will study the 'Hebrew roots of our faith' [and]
our biblical unitarian heritage as expounded by such distinguished persons
as Sir Isaac Newton and John Milton." [both famous English Rosicrucians-BA]
A pastor of a major Hebrew Roots organization,
Messengers of Messiah, Peter Michas subscribes to the doctrines of the
Jerusalem
School of Synoptic Research, a non-Christian Jesus Seminar-type think
tank which denies the inspiration of the Greek New Testament. The JSSR
is a "consortium of Jewish and Christian scholars" who, like the Unitarian
Anthony Buzzard, deny the deity of Jesus Christ, identifying Him as being
merely "like other Jewish sages of that time."
Having rejected the Greek New Testament, Peter
Michas substitutes rabbinic literature (the Babylonian Talmud, Mishnah,
Midrash) and other Judaic writings as the interpreter of New Testament
doctrine. Notwithstanding this departure from Scripture, The
Christian Conscience maintains a link promoting Messengers of Messiah.
Also, published in their Jan/Feb '98 issue was a favorable review by Lynn
Leslie of Peter Michas' book, The
Rod of an Almond Tree in God's Master Plan, which undermines the doctrines
of the Substitutionary Atonement and the Trinity.
Watch Unto Prayer has posted our own research
of Peter Michas' book, which consists of excerpts from The
Rod of an Almond Tree categorized by doctrine, along
with statements from heretical and occult sources which present identical
doctrines. As I read this book and other writings of Peter Michas, I wondered
at the strange assortment of doctrines expounded as "new revelations" that
the reader is informed have been lost upon the Church for centuries due
to religious tradition. It was upon reading Joseph Hopkins' critique, The
Armstrong Empire, that I would recognize the Hebrew Roots' doctrines
as nearly identical to Herbert Armstrong's teachings some 50 years previous:
"Among these were denial of the Trinity and the personality
of the Holy Spirit, insistence on the seventh-day Sabbath and
compliance with Jewish feasts and dietary laws, denunciation of Christmas
and Easter as pagan holidays, and the belief that the "lost ten tribes"
of Israel have survived to the present day, and that the Anglo-Saxon people
of England and America are the lineal descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh.
(The Armstrong Empire, p.18)
"Armstrong...purports to declare "the astounding, but little
known facts" concerning "the True New Testament Church of Jesus Christ"...through
subsequent centuries to the present day. With the congregation at Pella
as headquarters and those at Antioch
and Ephesus as secondary centers, the authentic Christian witness was preserved.
"Rome,"
it is emphasized, "was never the parent or Headquarters church... What
was the "Synagogue of Satan?" The Armstrong history identifies it
as "the great apostate church" of Rome -- adding that Rome's "many Protestant
daughters...are also Satan's churches. All the revered giants of Christendom
-- Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Jonathan Edwards -- were, he would
have us assume, either frauds or fools." (The Armstrong Empire, pp.
56, 57, 100)
"Armstrong argues at great length that Jesus was crucified
on Wednesday and resurrected on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, largely in
order to do away with the basic assumption behind Sunday observance --
that Jesus arose on the first day of the week. His objections to the Good
Friday and Easter observances, almost universal throughout Christendom,
provide added incentive to the effort to establish a different Holy Week
calendar... A more sophisticated and complex version of this argument is
developed by [WCG Ambassador College Dean] Herman Hoeh in a 47-page booklet
published in 1959. Again the reasoning rests on interpretations that have
been discredited by reputable scholars. During the week of the crucifixion,
says Hoeh, there are two Sabbaths, one of which came on Thursday,
the day after the crucifixion...Hoeh takes this as...proof of the Wednesday
crucifixion." (The Armstrong Empire, pp.110-11)
Peter Michas postulates a "three Sabbaths" theory
in his attempt to establish the fact that Jesus was crucified on Wednesday
and arose on Saturday - a new revelation that is calculated to invalidate
Western Christendom which assembles for worship on Sunday. Sabbatarian
cults have missed the fact that the New Testament does not enjoin Christians
to keep the Sabbath. Rather, they meet to worship on the Lord's Day, a
different day of the week with a different observance altogether.
The problems regarding the Sabbath began when
the Roman Catholic Church called Sunday the Sabbath. The first day
of the week is not the Sabbath -- it is the Lord's Day. Sabbatarian
groups use this misnomer to call attention to the fact that Saturday is
the true Sabbath -- which it is. However, they miss the point of
the New Covenant that Christians are not bound to the Sabbath observance
as were the Old Testament Jews. Romans 14 deals with the issue of Christian
liberty, condemning neither those who observe, nor those who do not observe,
one day of the week above another. The Galatians, like the Judaized
Christians of today, were in bondage to observing days, desiring to be
under the law.
"But now, after
that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to
the weak and beggarly elements whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years. I am afraid of you,
lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain." Galatians 4:9-11
The late Charles L. Feinberg, Professor of Semitics
and Old Testament at Talbot Theological Seminary [Los Angeles, CA]wrote,
over fifty years ago, a doctrinal treatise on The
Sabbath and The Lord's Day. Therein, Dr. Feinberg ably refuted
the argument that the third commandment -- "Remember the Sabbath day to
keep it holy" -- is binding upon Christians:
"In writing to the Colossians
Paul says : 'Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in
respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath: Which
are a shadow of things to come; but the body (substance, or reality) is
of Christ' (2:16, 17). That the Sabbath was to be done away was not
a truth foreign to the Old Testament either, for Hosea says: 'I will also
cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths,
and all her solemn feasts' (2:11).
THE LEGALISTS OBJECT
"But our legalists protest that we
must have some law. Surely you cannot expect us to believe that it is not
wrong to steal, kill or commit adultery in this age, they contend. We do
not expect such a thing. God has taken care of this problem also. Every
moral principle contained in the ten commandments has been reiterated under
grace by the Spirit in the form of an exhortation with the single exception,
mirabile dictu, of the commandment to keep the Sabbath. The
commandment to have but one God is reiterated in Paul's statement: 'There
is one God' (I Tim. 2:5). The second commandment is found in the exhortation:
'Neither be ye an idolater' (I Cor. 1:7); the third 'But above all things,
my brethren, swear not' (Jas. 5:12); the fourth is nowhere in the New Testament;
the fifth: 'Honour thy father and mother' (Eph. 6:2); the sixth 'no murderer
hath eternal life abiding in him' (I John 3:i5); the seventh: 'whoremonger
and adulterers God will judge' (Heb. 13:4); the eighth: 'Let him that stole
steal no more' (Eph. 4:28); the ninth: 'Lie not one to another' (Col. 3:9);
the tenth: 'But fornication and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it
not be once named among you' (Eph. 5:3)."
Ignatius, who was the bishop of Antioch subsequent
to the Jerusalem Council [see Acts
15], was forced to deal with the Judaising heresy in the late first
century until his martyrdom in Rome c. 110 A.D. The Encyclopedia Britannica
entry on Ignatius of Antioch states that "Ignatius apparently fought two
groups of heretics: (1) Judaisers, who did not accept the authority of
the New Testament and clung to such Jewish practices as observing the Sabbath,
and (2) the Docetists..." Dr. Feinberg cites this early Church Father's
position on Sabbath-keeping:
"Ignatius, died about A.D.
110, wrote in his Epistle to the Magnesians: 'Be not deceived with heterodox
opinions, nor old unprofitable fables. For if we still live according
to Judaism we confess that we have not received grace. For even the
most holy prophets were persecuted, being inspired by His grace, to assure
the disobedient that there is one God, who is His Eternal Word.... If they
then who were concerned in old things, arrived at a newness of hope, no
longer observing the Sabbath, but living according to the Lord's Day,
by which our life sprung up by Him and by His death (whom certain persons
deny)...how can we live without Him, whose disciples even the prophets
were, and in spirit waited for Him as their Teacher? Wherefore, He whom
they justly waited for, when He came, raised them up from the dead....
We have been made His disciples, let us live according to Christianity.'"
Dr. Feinberg lamented the cause of the Judaizing
mischief: "What floundering in the Scriptures do we find when men are not
anchored to the moorings of grace and dispensational truth." The
Old Testament Sabbath prefigured the Lord Jesus Christ, Who is Himself
the believer's Sabbath (rest) every day of the week. The Judaizing
heresy is based on rejection of the finished work of Jesus Christ in general
and, specifically, the substitutionary aspect of Christ's atonement as
symbolized by the scapegoat in Leviticus 16:10
"But
the goat upon which the lot fell, to be the scapegoat, shall be presented
alive unto the Lord, to make an atonement with him..." Herbert Armstrong
would have his followers believe that Satan is the atonement for sin. Peter
Michas misses the point entirely.
Herbert Armstrong: "With the Seventh-Day Adventists,
Herbert W. Armstrong identifies Satan -- not Christ -- as the scapegoat
upon whose head 'the responsibility for sin will be placed.'" (Joseph
Hopkins, The Armstrong Empire, p.143)
[(Armstrong's] Bible Story Vol. III, p. 32, states that
the Scapegoat, as pictured in Leviticus 16th chapter, represented the Devil.
However, Isaiah 53:10-12 and 1 Peter 2:24 state that the Son of God is
the Sin-bearer or the Scapegoat. [WCG
VS. COG (7th day)]
Peter Michas: "The fate of the unrepentant man, represented
by the scapegoat, was to go to a place of desolation and separation from
God." (Rod of an Almond Tree, p. 241)
Having misinterpreted Leviticus 16, Peter Michas
contradicts II Corinthians 5:21:
Peter Michas: "Yeshua did not literally become sin,
but the totality of humanity's sin (both past and future) was imputed to
Him on the tree. Because Yeshua was sinless and could not retain sin, the
authors belief the sin was sent back to Satan by means of the man who chose
Satan as his master." (Rod of an Almond Tree, p. 240)
II Corinthians 5:21:
"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we
might be made the righteousness of God in him."
Other doctrines held in common by Peter Michas
and the late Herbert Armstrong are the Oneness, Unitarian and British-Israel
doctrines.
Herbert W. Armstrong taught: "...like the 'Oneness'
people, that the Jehovah or Yahvah of the Old Testament is the Jesus of
the New. With several exceptions, the YHVH of the Old Testament is the
Father who created everything through His Son, however." [WCG
VS. COG (7th day)]
Peter Michas teaches: ""To understand the true relationship
of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, it is essential
to preserve the concept of oneness . . . In the Old Testament Hebrew,
the Tetragrammaton (YHVH) is translated LORD and refers to Yeshua. Therefore,
'the Lord your God' is a reference to 'YHVH/LORD your Elohim.' This shows
that YHVH is a oneness with the plurality of Elohim." (The Rod
of an Almond Tree, p. 256, 259)
Like Unitarians Herbert Armstrong and Sir Anthony
Buzzard, Peter Michas denies the doctrine of the Trinity. Note the impersonal
terms used by Peter to describe the Holy Spirit as being other than a Person:
"The unity of Yeshua HaMashiach with God the Father and the
Holy Spirit has never been clearly understood from the doctrine of the
Trinity..."
"To understand the true relationship of God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit, it is essential to preserve the concept of oneness..."
"The aspect of the Father may be simply understood as the Will
of God. The aspect of the Son may be understood as the Word of God.
The aspect of the Spirit of the Holy One may be understood as the
Power of God..."
"To say God is three 'persons' opens the door to misunderstanding
God. God is Spirit and cannot be reduced to the concept of a person..."
"The Spirit of the Holy One is the very essence of the
power of God the Father and not some separate entity." (The Rod of an
Almond Tree, pp. 255-57)
The main doctrine of the Worldwide Church
of God, however, maintains
that the Anglo-Saxon races are the lost tribes of Israel. A brief history
of WCG and its doctrine of British-Israelism may be found on the Religious
Tolerance website: Anglo-Israelism;
British-Israelism; Worldwide Church of God.
The chief purveyor of British-Israelism is the
Merovingian Prieuré
de Sion, the central command of all secret societies, which plans to place one of their
Jewish bloodline on the throne of the rebuilt Temple
in Jerusalem. This positioning of a false messiah, whom the world will
worship as Christ, has been carefully planned and executed over many centuries.
The grand scheme of the Prieuré de Sion will culminate, according to former
Grand Master, Sir
Isaac Newton (1691-1727)
when the secret societies "bring Jesus down"
to earth.
"9:26 And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut
off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come
shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be
with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
"...The last missing week: 62+7+1=70 starts in 1996 and runs
for 7 years. Half-way through - in 2000 we bring down Jesus causing
the sacrifice to cease:
"9:27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week:
and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation
to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate,
even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the
desolate."
Isaac Newton's interest in Hebraic studies is
documented in The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by historian Frances
Yates, who confirms Sir Anthony Buzzard's description of this most famous
of the English Rosicrucians:
"Newton's historical attitudes, his intense preoccupation with
apocalyptic prophecy, would have made him intensely aware of the apocalyptic
interpretations of the near extinction of Protestantism in Europe ...The
approach to Newton through Rosicrucian alchemy might help, not only to
unify his physical and alchemical studies, but also to integrate with these
the Hebraic piety behind his historical studies." (p. 205)
The Merovingian legend misrepresents Jesus Christ
as a member of the Essene Community of Qumran (also called Nazarenes),
whose messianic vision was to unite Jew and Gentile in order to deliver
the world from the power of the evil Roman Empire. According to Merovingian
lore, Jesus married Mary Magdalene and fathered children. When Jesus failed
in his mission, Mary and Joseph of Arimethea fled from Israel to Europe.
The royal bloodline of Jesus Christ, claim the Rosicrucians, continued
in Great Britain as the Merovingian dynasty. Another version of the British-Israel
doctrine maintains that the ten northern tribes of Israel migrated from
their captivity in Assyria to the British Isles.
Hebrew Roots leader Michas plainly teaches
the British-Israel doctrine of Yair Davidy and Herbert Armstrong in Chapter
6 of his Study
of Revelation:
A look at several verses in Genesis and other related passages,
will give further insight into the full meaning of verse 6. "Indeed I will
greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of
the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall
possess the gate of their enemies" (Genesis 22:17). The word translated
"gate" means strategic sea gates, the sea lanes of world trade. The countries
that have and do possess these lanes are the United States, Britain,
Canada, and Australia.
"And the L-rd was with Joseph, so he became a successful man.
And he was in the house of his master, the Egyptian" (Genesis 39:2). In
Genesis 39:23, we read that "The chief jailer did not supervise anything
under Joseph's charge because the L-rd was with him; and whatever he did,
the L-rd made to prosper." The covenant blessing was given to Joseph and
then to Ephraim and Manasseh (Genesis 48). This covenant blessing
is also shown in Deuteronomy 33:13-17. In verse 17 of this passage, it
speaks of an ox or wild ox. In Hebrew, the word is unicorn. It also
speaks of the first-born, but it is actually talking about not just the
first-born but includes the offspring of the future. Those who would come
from Joseph, Ephraim, and Manasseh would be the head, not the tail, and
would receive the choicest blessings under the sun from the sea and the
world. Where on the face of this earth has more food produce, minerals,
sea trade, and commerce? The free nations, the Gospel- preaching nations.
Do
any other nations fit the picture of receiving the blessings promised to
Joseph, Ephraim, and Manasseh? China and the nations of South America
and Africa do not fit this picture. NO!
As we mentioned, the word in Deuteronomy 33:17 translated "ox"
is actually "unicorn." This is most important as the symbol of England
is the unicorn. Verse 17 continues with "With them he shall push the peoples."
Who will? The nations of the unicorn. Those are the ten thousands
of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh. There are hundreds
of Biblical references which show us the picture of these nations as the
descendants of these three men.
There are stipulations to the blessing bestowed on these men
and their seed. Leviticus 26:1-18 deals with Israel before the dispersion.
In verse 19, we see the dispersion; this occurred around 700 B.C. when
they were dispersed into Assyria. After the time of the Greek and Roman
Empires during the middle ages, the entire Assyrian Empire moved to France,
Germany, and northern Spain. They were scattered and made a part of these
nations. The teachers and educated ones of ancient Babylon had been brought
to Rome during their occupation by the Greeks. This explains why it can
be read G-d calling certain places Assyria or Babylon in Revelation; He
is referring to the places where these peoples settled. When hearing "Assyria,"
we think of where it used to be. G-d is referring to the places where
these people are today or will be at the end time referred to in Revelation.
According to Peter Michas, the Unicorn, alluded
to in Deuteronomy 13:13-17 by the patriarch Jacob, symbolizes the Anglo-Saxon
nations which would descend from Joseph and become preachers of the Gospel:
"And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land...
let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the
head of him that was separated from his brethren. His glory is like the
firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns:
with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and
they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."
British-Israelites, such as Gene
Scott or Bible Restoration Ministries, ascribe pagan Celtic emblems to the
tribes of Israel:
"Instead of trying to identify each tribe as a specific modern
nation, we note that ancient Israel traveled in four brigades of three
tribes each (see the on-line tract, "What Is The Gospel?" - listed
under Bible Doctrines, and also the reference given there to Alfred
Edersheim's "History of the Old Testament.") Each of these brigades
had a dominant tribe; these were: Judah, Ephraim, Reuben, and Dan. These
four tribes provided four chief emblems: Lion, Ox or
Unicorn, Man, and Eagle or Serpent.
To quote briefly from W.H. Bennett, "Of the twenty-two tribal emblems of
ancient Israel, at least nineteen still are, or until very recently have
been, emblems of one or another section of the Celto-Saxon people. We also
noted that, of the four Brigade emblems, two, the lion and the Eagle, are
the chief emblems of Britain and the United States; that another, the Man,
is a prominent feature of the official Arms of Denmark, Iceland and Greece;
and that the Ox is also common to the heraldry of several sections of the
Celto-Saxons. So all four of Israel's Brigade emblems are in use among
the Celto-Saxons today." (Symbols Of Our Celto-Saxon Heritage, page
89)
According to Bloodline of the Holy Grail,
the
unicorn is a mythological beast typifying the virile Christ. An
entire chapter is devoted to "The House of the Unicorns," which is purported
to be the Sang Raal or sacred bloodline of Jesus Christ, whose bride
was claimed to be Mary Magdalene, here referred to as the Sacred Prostitute.
"We have already seen that the 'Horn' of the Unicorn was equivalent
to the 'Blade' in Grail lore, and both were represented by the male symbol
L . Along with the Davidic Lion of Judah and the Franco-Judaic fleur-de-lys,
the Desposynic Unicorn was incorporated in the Royal Arms of Scotland.
The Unicorn was considered to correspond to the virile Jesus, and was related
to the anointing (Messianic) imagery of Psalm (sacred song) 92:10. The
mystic beast was among the foremost symbols of the
Albigensian
Cathars, who were so hideously persecuted by the Inquisition. In medieval
legend the Unicorn was always associated with fertility and healing, and
Renaissance tapestries portray his head in the lap of the Bride. This alludes
to the ancient ritual text for the Sacred Marriage (the Hieros
Gamos), 'The king goes with lifted head to the holy lap,' as originally
expressed in the poetic rite of old Sumerian Mesopotamia-the land of Noah
and Abraham." (p. 315)
Predictably, we are given to understand that
the House of the Unicorns are the chosen people of God to overthrow the
antichrist Roman Church which, allied with the monarchies of Europe during
the Middle Ages, dealt harshly with the Merovingian lords. That their crimes
were heresy, occult practices, and subversion is not mentioned:
"The Cathars believed that only the Christine horn of the Unicorn
could purify the false doctrines that flowed from the Roman Church, and
in this regard the revered creature was often portrayed with his horn dipped
into a stream or fountain. Other depictions show the Unicorn trapped within
an enclosed garden - confined, but very much alive. The seven tapestry
panels of la Dame a la Licorne at the Cluny Museum in Paris were originally
from medieval Lyon. The seven Flemish Hunt of the Unicorn panels in the
cloisters of the Metropolitan Museum, New York, come from 16th-century
Languedoc, and show the Unicorn being chased and persecuted. When captured,
he is sacrificed, but is then seen alive and well in the garden of the
Bride. This is a direct replication of the story of Jesus.
"The mythological symbolism of the Unicorn was central to the
so-called heresies of Provence that were so brutally condemned by the Church.
It was by no chance that the fabulous beast of the Grail bloodline found
in his place as guardian of the Lion in the Arms of Scotland, along with
the early Christian sign of male and female unity (L +V=X) - the well-
known Saltire, popularly identified as the cross of St Andrew." (pp. 315-16)
King David, from whom the British-Israelites
claim direct descent, made reference to the lions and the unicorns in Psalm
22. In this prophecy of Jesus Christ's most bitter and yet finest
hour of shedding His precious blood for sin, David records Christ's petition
of the Father for deliverance from the violence of the lion and the unicorn:
But you, O
Lord, do not withdraw your help from me: look towards my defense. Rescue
my soul, O Lord, from the spear, my only soul from the hand of the dog.
Save me from the lion's mouth, and my lowliness from the unicorn's
horns. Psalm 22:19-21
The Pharisees who demanded the crucifixion of
our Lord were the teachers whose oral traditions made the Word of God of
none effect. As the Lions and Unicorns, these Kabbalists would have been
the spiritual forefathers of the Merovingians. Considering their ancient
heritage, it is no surprise to find favorable references to the Pharisees
in Merovingian, Kabbalistic and Hebrew Roots literature.
The Scottish Stewarts claim to be the sacred
Merovingian dynasty, rightful heirs of the thrones of Scotland, England
and, therefore, of the lineage of Jesus Christ. The Stewart genealogy,
however, is currently contested by other claimants to the dynastic line.
The
Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland lists other "sacred families" which
were related to Scotland's contender and king, Robert the Bruce.
"...Robert the Bruce succeeded not only as King, but
also as a hereditary priest of the royal line. From the time of King Duncan
I, son of Archpriest Crinan MacDonachadh, the concept of the monarch's
dual priest-kingly role (both as sovereign and religious patriarch) had
remained at the root of Scottish culture... Conventional history ignores
the fact that Bruce was not only the Patriot King of his people, but was
also Head of the Columban Kindred of their ancient Church. This inheritance
was passed down to his Stewart grandson Robert II when he succeeded
in 1371. At that time, others belonging to the sacred family included
the
McNabs, Rosses, Sinclairs, Robertsons, Dunbars, Dundasses, Wemysses,
Abernethys, MacDuffs, Leslies, and Mackenzies, along with the Chiefs
of Clan Chattan, the Cummings of Altyre, the Celtic Earls of Atholl, the
Mackays of Strathnaver, and the Lindsays of Crawford." (Element Books,
p. 79; also p. 35)
Recently, James Trimm of the Society for the
Advancement of Nazarene Judaism, posted the Scottish Declaration of Independence,
which was Scotland's Written Constitution of 1320 established at the time
of Robert the Bruce. According to the Declaration
of Arbroath, posted also by the Constitution Society, the "sacred families"
who were among its signatories believed that they were the Israelites who
were previously in bondage in Egypt. Several of the surnames of signatories
of the Declaration of Arbroath are the sacred families also mentioned in
The
Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland:
"Written in fluent Latin, the Declaration of Arbroath reads
in English as follows: To the Most Holy Father in Christ and Lord, the
Lord John, by divine providence Supreme Pontiff of the Holy Roman and Universal
Church, his humble and devout sons Duncan, Earl of Fife, Thomas
Randolph,
Earl of Moray, Lord of Man and of Annandale, Patrick Dunbar, Earl
of March, Malise, Earl of Strathearn, Macolm, Earl of Lennos, William,
Earl of Ross, Magnus, Earl of Caithness and Orkney, and William,
Earl of Sutherland; Walter, Stewart of Scotland, William Soules,
Butler of Scotland, James, Lord of Douglas, Roger Mowbray, David, Lord
of Brechin, David Graham, Ingram Umfraville, John Menteith,
guardian of the earldom of Menteith, Alexander Fraser, Gilbert Hay,
Constable of Scotland, Robert Keith, Marischal of Scotland, Henry St.
Clair, John Graham, David Lindsay, William Oliphant, Patrick
Graham,
John Fenton, William Abernathy, David Wemyss, William Mushet,
Fergus of Ardrossan, Eustace Maxwell, William Ramsay, William Mowat, Alan
Murray, Donald Campbell, John Cameron, Reginald Cheyne, Alexander Seton,
Andrew Leslie, and Alexander Straiton, and the other barons and
freeholders and the whole community of the realm of Scotland send all manner
of filial reverence, with devout kisses of his blessed feet.
"Most Holy Father and Lord, we know and from the chronicles
and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own,
the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. They journeyed from
Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules,
and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage tribes,
but nowhere could they be subdued by any race, however barbarous. Thence
they came twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red
Sea, to their home in the west where they still live today. The Britons
they first drove out, the Picts they utterly destroyed, and even though
very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, they
took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and,
as the historians of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all
bondage ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and
thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken by a single
foreigner.
"The high qualities and deserts of these people, were they
not otherwise manifest, gain glory enough from this: that the King of kings
and Lord of lords, our Lord Jesus Christ, after His Passion and Resurrection,
called them, even though settled in the uttermost parts of the earth, almost
the first to His most holy faith. Nor would He have them confirmed in that
faith by merely anyone but by the first of His Apostles by calling, though
second or third in rank, the most gentle Saint Andrew, the Blessed Peter's
brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their patron
for ever..."
Of the sacred families of Scotland, the Leslie
Clan is of unique interest to our inquiry. The Clan Leslie Society presents
the following
Brief
History Of Clan Leslie:
"All Leslies, regardless from where in Europe they came
to America, descended from the same Scottish Clan and Great Family, one
of the very oldest. It began in 1069 when the Saxon claimant to the throne
of England, defeated by William the Conqueror, fled to Scotland. Edward,
the Aetheling as he was called, arrived there with his mother, an Hungarian
Princess, and his two sisters. They were cordially received by the King,
Malcolm III Canmore. A year later the King married Margaret, one of the
sisters, who became a great Queen of Scotland and a saint of the Christian
Church. Her Chamberlain, Bartholomew, an Hungarian nobleman, an
extremely capable and physically powerful man, had much impressed King
Malcolm who made him commander of Edinburgh Castle. He married Beatrix,
the King's sister in 1070 and thus the family and Clan of Leslie
was founded. Granted lands in the Garioch, the Parish of Leslie not far
from Aberdeen, became the first family seat and it is from there that Clan
Leslie obtained its name. The present Leslie Castle, built on the site
of the first stronghold, recently was completely rebuilt and restored by
Baron David Leslie who lives there with his family.
Genealogical charts of Edward
The Exile Atheling document that the offspring of Edward included Margaret
who married Malcolm III, King of Scots. They produced Mary of Scotland
who married Eustace III of Boulogne, the brother of Godfrey de Bouillon
who with the Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099. Because Godfrey de Bouillon
and his brother, King Baldwin I of Jerusalem, lacked children, the descendants
of Eustache are considered rightful claimants of the throne of Jerusalem
and the Davidic Bloodline.
Contrary to the Leslie Clan account, the Hungarian
nobleman who accompanied Margaret, was in fact named Bartholomew Ladislaus
Leslyn and the Leslie Clan derived its name directly from Bartholomew.
Furthermore, according to a recent New Age book, Rosslyn: Guardian of
the Secrets of the Holy Grail, William the Conqueror, who led the Norman
conquest of England in 1066, was William St Clair -- which explains why
the "Lordly line of the High St Clairs" became the first family of the
"sacred" Merovingian dynasty of Great Britain. The following history of
the St Clairs shows the origins and early prominence of the Leslie clan,
their kinship to the St Clairs and their significance in the tradition
of the Knights Templar.
The St Clairs of Roslin
can trace an unbroken ancestry back to Rognvald the Mighty, Earl of More,
an area on the north-west of Norway. . .It was Rognvald's second son, Hrolf,
or Rollo, who provides the direct biological link with the dynasty whose
exploits form such an unbroken record of service, loyalty and courage that
they became known to later generations as "Lordly line of the High St Clairs".
Rollo invaded the north-west of what
is now France and established his own personal fiefdom in Nuestria [Normandy].
. .
The new duke, like all his ancestors,
was warlike, prolific in breeding and, above all, shrewd in the way of
the world. He extended his lands by conquest and his influence by alliance
and marriage with the leading aristocratic families of the time, including
those of Chaumont, Gisors, d'Evreaux, and Blois, the family of the Counts
of Champagne. William the Conqueror who seized the throne of England
in 1066, was a direct descendant of Rollo, and many of the knights who
accompanied him across the Channel were members of the wider St Clair family.
The first member of the family to
come to Roslin, William the Seemly St Clair, came by a rather strange route,
from Normandy via Hungary, to Scotland in 1057. He arrived there with the
knight Bartholomew Ladislaus Leslyn as escort to Princess Margaret,
who was to marry King Malcolm of Scotland. As a mark of the king's appreciation,
William was granted lands at Roslin and also became the queen's cupbearer.
This event is commemorated at Roslyn Chapel by the carving on the south
wall often referred to as "two brothers on one horse". This shows the
knight Leslyn, the ancestor of the Leslie family, on horseback with the
future queen riding pillion. The queen is carrying a symbolic representation
of the relic known as the Holy Rood, which was part of her dowry. Thus
the carving celebrates the arrival of the Holy Rood in Scotland, . . .and
also provides an acceptable vehicle for the heretical Templar emblem of
two brothers on one horse.
The first of the St Clairs to be
born in Scotland, a certain Henri de St Clair, accompanied Godfroi de Bouillon
to the Holy Land in 1096 and was present at the fall of Jerusalem. He was
accompanied by knights from eleven other leading Scottish aristocratic
families. Representatives of all twelve families met regularly at Roslin
prior to that crusade and for many centuries afterward. The meetings originally
took place at the [Roslin] castle and later, after 1490, at the chapel.
They continued on a regular basis until the late eighteenth century, when
all hopes of a Stuart had died. The group included ancestors of the Stuarts,
with whom the St Clairs made marital alliances: the Montgomerys, the Setons,
the Douglasses, the Dalhausies, the Ramsays, the Leslies, the Lindsays,
and the St Clairs. A group of families linked by marriage, blood
and shared loyalties and beliefs who were involved with the Templars throughout
their history, with the propagation of their traditions after the suppression,
with early Freemasonry in Scotland and with support for the Stuart cause.
Recent studies of the Rex Deus legend have suggested that the Stuarts were
actually descended from leading families among the hierarchy in Biblical
Israel at the time of Jesus, and even that the Stuart dynasty is still
extant to this day. It is reasonable, therefore, to presume that these
beliefs in their biblical dynastic roots were shared by these twelve families
who were so committed to both the Templars and the Stuarts. [Timothy Wallace-Murphy
and Marylyn Hopkins, Rosslyn: Guardian of the Secrets of the Holy Grail,
Element Books, 1999, pp. 198-200]
The mysterious "Holy Rood" mentioned in this
excerpt is claimed by the Merovingians to be a piece of the Cross of Christ.
Apparently, the Leslie Clan were guardians of this Holy Rood, which may
explain why Lynn Leslie wrote favorable review of Peter Michas' book, The
Rod of an Almond Tree in God's Master Plan (based on the Cross relic
superstition) in The Christian Conscience magazine.
Lynn Leslie's book review was posted on the Messengers
of Messiah website, which is now defunct; Leslie wrote also wrote a short review
for Amazon
Books.
The flattering account of "Lordly line of the
High St Clairs" (above) is put into perspective by a more objective history
of William
the Conqueror by D.C. Douglas. It seems that William was the
illegitimate son of Robert II, who was called "the Devil of Normandy",
apparently because he murdered his elder brother -- Richard II the Good,
the 4th Duke of Normany -- in order to obtain his title:
"Rolf [Rollo], was the leader
of a band of Viking raiders who, for many years, pillaged Scotland, Ireland,
and Gaul. . . [William's father] Robert became Duke of Normandy after the
sudden and suspicious death of his older brother Richard in early August
1027. His illegitimate son, William, by Herleve of Falais, was probably
born in the autumn of 1028. William succeeded his father as Duke William
II of Normandy, when Robert died in early July 1035 at Bythinian Nicaea
in Asia Minor while returning from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Thirty years
later, when Edward the Confessor died, William claimed that Edward had
promised him the succession to the throne of England. When his claim was
rejected, he obtained papal approval for an invasion of England and defeated
King Harold at the Battle of Hastings on Saturday 14 October 1066."
Andrew Leslie, the great grandson of Bartholomew
Ladislaus Leslyn
and
Beatrix, the sister of Edward Atheling, was a signatory of the Scottish
Declaration of Independence and another famous ancestor of the sacred Leslie
clan:
"Bartholomew's son Malcolm was knighted by King David and had
the Leslie lands confirmed to him by royal charter, the oldest personal
land charter in Aberdeenshire. He also was appointed Commander of the Castle
of Inverurie, a position held by several of his successors. His grandson,
Sir Norman, was the first to have the family name recorded in a charter.
He was one of the magnates of Scotland who sat in the parliament called
by King Robert the Bruce in 1314. His son Andrew, the 6th Lord Leslie,
was one of the great barons of Scotland who, in 1320, signed the Declaration
of Arbroath, a call to freedom not to be equaled again anywhere until the
American Declaration of Independence. With his sons begins the spread of
the family through several branches."
We do not know if Sarah and Lynn Leslie subscribe
to this sort of elitism based on "sacred bloodlines", however, we do lack
a better explanation for their affiliation with prominent individuals who
advocate British-Israelism, such as Peter Michas and Sir Anthony Buzzard.
Also a member of the "sacred bloodline" is Phyllis Schlafly, whose Eagle
Forum Alerts are circulated throughout the Discernment network. Prior to
her marriage to Fred Schlafly, Phyllis Schlafly was Phyllis Bruce Stewart,
making her a blueblood of both the Bruce and Stewart lineages. This information
was documented at the Parsons
Technology Genealogy Online, but is no longer available online:
9656. Phyllis
Bruce STEWART (15)
was born on 15 Aug 1924 in ST. LOUIS, MO..(15)
She resided Fairmount in ALTON, IL..(15)
She received a degree in Bach. of Arts, Washington Univ in ST. LOUIS, MO..
(15) She received a degree in Master of Arts, Harvard Univ..(15)
Very active in all levels of political life and womens rights. Author of
many books concerning National defense.
She was married to John Frederic SCHLAFLY II (son of John Frederic
SCHLAFLY I and Eleanor LYONS) on 30 Oct 1949 in ST. LOUIS, MO..(15)John
Frederic SCHLAFLY II was an Attorney in ST. LOUIS, MO..
(15) Phyllis Bruce STEWART and John Frederic SCHLAFLY II had
the following children:
10538 i. John Frederic SCHLAFLY was born on 25
Nov 1950 in ALTON, IL..
(15)
10539 ii. Bruce Stewart SCHLAFLY was born on 7
Mar 1955 in ALTON, IL..
(15)
10540 iii. Roger Sherwood SCHLAFLY was born on
16 Oct 1956 in ALTON, IL.. (15)
10541 iv. Phyllis Stewart SCHLAFLY was born on
11 Jun 1958 in ALTON, IL..
(15)
10542 v. Andrew Layton SCHLAFLY was born on 27
Apr 1961 in ALTON, IL..
(15)
10543 vi. Anne Valle SCHLAFLY was born on 16 Nov
1964 in ALTON, IL..
(15)
Although there is no minor contention as to whether
the Stewart bloodline later became the Stuart dynasty, it is well known
that Robert the Bruce was in the royal bloodline of Scotland. After the
death of William
Wallace (Braveheart) in 1305, Robert Bruce contended for Scottish independence
with King Edward I of England. Robert's son, Robert I Bruce, was crowned
king of Scots in 1314 and he declared Scottish independence after defeating
Edward II at Bannockburn. Robert the Bruce was not only the liberator of
Scotland but also Priest-King of the Celtic Church, Sovereign Grand Master of
the Order of the Knights Templar and the founder of the Order of the Rosy Cross:
“When
Hugues de Payens and the Knights Templar had first returned from
Jerusalem in 1128, they brought with them the secrets of the Master
Mason, Hiram Abiff, the builder of Solomon's Temple. However, their
Jerusalem excavations had also led to other important discoveries,
including some ancient documentation which enabled them to challenge certain Roman Church doctrine and New
Testament interpretations, particularly in relation to the
Crucifixion and the Resurrection. For this reason, the
Knights Templar refused to bear the upright
Latin Cross, and wore an eight-pointed, centered cross as their
emblem...
"In 1307...Under the auspices of Robert the
Bruce and the excommuncated clergy, the Order
was restructured into a Church, with a hierarchy quite
independent of Rome. The Templar Church had abbots, priests, and
even bishops... The Knights began to train the army of Robert the
Bruce in the hit-and-run tactics of warfare established in the
Crusades... The Roman Church may have betrayed the Templars, but in
Scotland they found something far more trustworthy and tangible: a
sacred royal house and a Priest-King of the Celtic Church
succession...
"...The King of Scots was
installed as the hereditary Sovereign Grand Master, and from
that time, whichever descending King held that office, he was to be
known as 'Saint Germain.' A new Order was then
formed, called the Elder Brothers of the Rosy Cross, and
several of the Rosy Cross Knights then sailed to France for a
meeting with Pope John XXII at Avignon...
"Many historians have presumed therefore that
the Knights Templars must have disbanded in Scotland, but this was
not the case; it was simply that Bruce had contrived the secret
Order to become even more secretive. Indeed, the
Order of the Knights of the Rosy Cross had been established by Bruce
for Templars who had been valiant at Bannockburn, and this was a
very successful cover." (Prince Michael Stewart, The
Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland, pp. 60-1, 63-65)
Another prominent Evangelical leader of dual
pedigree found among the sacred families of Scotland is Pat Robertson (see
list of sacred families in Forgotten Monarchy, p. 79). Anton Chaitkin's
outstanding article exposing the British
Subversion of America: Militias and Pentecostalism mentions Pat Robertson's
descent also from Winston Churchill, who was a member of the Ancient Order
of Druids.
"Observe the Pat Robertson empire. Robertson writes that his
family's aristocratic lineage, linking it to the British Churchill family,
gave his mother, Gladys Churchill Robertson, confidence that Pat
would succeed. His father, Sen. A. Willis Robertson, was London's
and Wall Street's chairman of the Senate Finance Committee."
Pat Robertson's religious profiteering is legendary,
from his use of Operation Blessing airplanes to transport equipment to
his diamond mine in the Congo, to support for violent dictators such as
President Mobuto of Zaire and Rios Montt of Guatemala, to the sale of his
Family Channel to Rupert Murdoch for $1.9 billion. The latest capitalist
venture on the money trail of Pat Robertson was the reinvestment of his
profit from selling the Family Channel in an aborted deal with the Bank
of Scotland to make use of his financial services company to enter
the American market. Prior to his career as a televangelist, Pat Robertson
worked for two years as financial analyst and management trainee at W.R.
Grace Co., which employed emigre Nazis after WWII. Robertson was also godfather
of the child of company president J.
Peter Grace, who was head of the Knights of Malta in the United States
and a key figure in the CIA's Operation Paperclip to remove classified
information from dossiers on Nazi war criminals.
Pat Robertson's ancestor, Winston Churchill,
known among European scholars as the Godfather of the United States of
Europe (a term he is said to have coined), spoke of his vision for world
government in an address to Zurich University in 1946:
"I have always believed, as I declared in the war, that a Council
of Europe was a subordinate but necessary part of the world organization.
I thought at that time, when I had great responsibility, that there should
be several regional councils, august but subordinate, that these should
form the massive pillars upon which the world organization would be founded
in majesty and calm. This was the direction in which my hopes and thought
lay three or four years ago. To take an example from the military sphere,
with which our hard experiences have made us all familiar, the design
for world government might have followed the system of three or more
groups of armies--in this case armies of peace--under one supreme headquarters.
Thus I saw the vast Soviet Union forming one of these great groups. The
Council of Europe, including Great Britain linked with her Empire and Commonwealth,
would be another. Thirdly, there was the United States and her sister republics
in the Western Hemisphere with all their great spheres of interest and
influence..."
The Ambassador Report which included the aforementioned
excerpt commented upon the singular esteem of Winston Churchill by the
Worldwide Church of God:
"...for so many years Churchill was not only portrayed by WCG
ministers as the greatest of all twentieth century British leaders (which
he probably was), but one who represented, not liberal Internationalist
ideas, but the kind of British spirit that stood for God, country, empire--'Anglo-Israel'
values to Worldwiders. Yet, it seems, the real Churchill was a far more
complex man and a far greater visionary than he has been portrayed by the
likes of Herbert Armstrong..." [Ambassador Report, Sept. 1977]
Great Britain's subversion of America depends
upon the use of religion as a cover, and specifically the Pentecostal Movement
of which Robertson is a leading figure and many Discernment leaders, such
as Jewel van der Merwe who is an ordained minister in the Assemblies of
God. It is noteworthy that Pat Robertson's diamond mine ventures have their
precedent in Cecil Rhodes' exploitation of the diamond and gold fields
of South Africa underwritten by Lord Rothschild. Of interest, Robertson
studied for a time at the London School of Economics, founded by the Fabian
Society and took his ordination at the Freemason Baptist Church in Norfolk,
VA (1987 Current Biography Yearbook, p. 477; Sara Diamond,
Spiritual Warfare, p. 13)
The London School of Economics was and is
funded by the Ford Foundation, "...[for] the training of the superior manpower
needed to carry out schemes of reform... [Founder and president Sidney]
Webb who could not wait until a new race of supermen had been bred up to
establish the millennium, felt that improved education and intelligent
politics would at least start the necessary process of regeneration."
(MacKenzie,
The Fabians, Simon & Schuster, 1977, p. 291]
Under the LSE directorship of Sidney and Beatrice
Webb, an elite group of Twelve Wise Men, which included Bertrand Russell
and H.G. Wells, were selected as the "Co-Efficients" who met to discuss
and formulate:
"Ideas about racial improvement by selecting out the efficient…and
[George Bernard] Shaw was working on these 'eugenic' notions in his new
play Man and Superman. Beatrice Webb called it 'the most important of all
questions, the breeding of the right sort of man.'" (Ibid., p. 291)
Anton Chaitkin's groundbreaking article on the
British Intelligence creation of Pentecostalism traces the current religious
operation in the United States to the Rhodes eugenics operation through
Oxford University's Rhodes Scholarship program. Yes, there is a fifth column
of British elite in America who are still loyal to the dominionist and
eugenics ambitions of Great Britain.
The Round Table group had been organized by South Africa's
British governor, Lord Alfred Milner, to fulfill the strategy of British
South Africa leader Cecil Rhodes for a new-style white racialist world
empire, in which the annoying independence of the republican United States,
in particular, was to be extinguished. The core of the Round Table group
was assembled from among the aides to Lord Milner in South Africa. Lord
Lothian was the first editor of the Round Table quarterly, and was the
chief executive of the Rhodes Trust, administering the Rhodes Scholarships
to bring Americans and other "colonial" students to Oxford University...The
danger involved in this British initiative is not a matter of wrong or
heretical religious beliefs. At issue is the buildup of a hostile. irrational,
foreign-directed network within our military and civilian political life.
Two documents on our website present evidence
of the continued work in our century of the Milner Round Table. Mystery
Man: George Louis Beer served from 1915-18 as American correspondent
for The Round Table and one of the originators of the Royal Institute of
International Affairs in London and its American branch, The Council on
Foreign Relations. The Belmont
Brotherhood, an expose of the conspiratorial foundations of the John
Birch Society, includes a section on the Pilgrim
Society and English-Speaking Union from a speech presented to the U.S.
House of Representatives.
Application of the Duck Rule would include
in this British-Israel imperialist network such as Sir Anthony Buzzard,
whose Oxford education, nomination for the Oxford-based Templeton Prize,
not to mention his Restoration Fellowship based on Unitarian British-Israel
Replacement Theology, connections with the Worldwide Church of God and
family connections with the Bilderbergers, Fabian Society and RIIA, are
credentials worthy of Cecil Rhodes' Society of the Elect!
PART
III: A REVIVED BRITISH EMPIRE
