The Tribes of Joseph.
"..and he set Ephraim before Manasseh".
The infamous British Israelite Theory has been maligned by many atheist historians throughout history but has survived into modern times. The theory traces the history of the English-speaking people through their Masonic ancestors who built nearly all the great stone monuments of history, including the Great Pyramid, Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, and all the massive Cathedrals of Europe.
The British Israelite Theory traces the route of the blessing bestowed upon Abraham by God, as it was passed from father to son along the bloodline that ends with the tribe of the English-speaking people (Joseph) and his sons Manasseh (Britain) and Ephraim (the United States).
The Bible accurately tracks the blessing of Abraham down to Isaac, then to Jacob, to Joseph, and finally to his youngest son Ephraim. Jacob was called "Israel" (Is-ra-el) (the one/cherished/by God), and his 12 sons formed the original 12 tribes of Israel. The 12 tribes were split into two nations. The two tribes of Judah and Benjamin comprised the southern nation of Judah and the ten remaining tribes formed the northern nation of Israel.
Both nations would eventually offend God and be taken into captivity by the Ishmaelites. When Persia conquered the Babylonians, the emperor Cyrus allowed Judah and Benjamin to return to Jerusalem and rebuild their temple that God destroyed because they had turned from the worship of God to the worship of wealth. The remaining tribes, known as "The Ten Lost Tribes" of Israel, eventually wandered northward into Europe and Asia, and ultimately disappeared from world history.
But it was the whereabouts of the blessed tribe of Joseph that was key to following the people who carried God's blessing. Where did God's blessed people end up in history, and what about God's son? Was he involved with the destiny of the tribe of Joseph? Well it turns out that Jesus disappears in history from his teens until the Bible identifies him at the age of 30 in Judea. But where was Jesus for all those lost years? The British Israelite Theory says that Jesus sailed on the ship of his mother's uncle Joseph of Arimathea who owned a fleet of ships that sailed the global seas. This gave Jesus the opportunity to visit the many seaports of that time. Jesus got to visit the Library of Alexandria Egypt that held all the knowledge gathered by the Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans up to that time. The Library at Alexandria however, would later be destroyed in a great fire.
The ships of Joseph of Arimathea actually traveled to Britain as well since the Romans had recently banned the mining of tin in Italy, and the British mines offered the next best source of tin needed to manufacture the bronze used for weapons. It is rumored that Jesus may have visited southwest Britain and established the Church at Glastonbury. If the British people are descended from the tribe of Joseph, they may represent the biblical tribe of Manasseh (Joseph's eldest son) and the U.S. may be the tribe of Ephraim (Joseph's younger son), the inheritor of God's kingdom.
A parable told to the Jews by Jesus just before they had him crucified warned that when they slew the "son of the Lord of the vineyard", the "Kingdom of God" would be taken away from them and given to a "fruitful" nation (Matt. 21:43). The name Ephraim (the U.S.) means "fruitful". When Jesus visited the Second Temple in Jerusalem he found that once again the Jews had turned it into a mall to sell their merchandise, just as they'd done in the First Temple when they turned away from from God's laws and turned toward the worship wealth and evil (Baal). Jesus threw the merchants out of the temple and told his disciples that before some of them had "tasted of death," he would return to destroy the Second Temple as well, and that he would not leave even a single stone standing upon another on any of the temple walls (Matt. 24:2). The Roman general Titus, leading an army of Arab constriptors, exactly fulfilled this promise in 70 A.D. just as Jesus had promised, and allowed the Arabs to build their temple on the site.
The original temple of worship in NYC still stands directly across the street from the World Trade Center shopping mall, and it did not suffer even a cracked glass during the 9/11 event since it was protected by a large sycamore tree that later was replaced with a conifer tree (Isaiah 9:10). Many prophecy experts now fear the new WTC tower may be in the same prophetic position as the Second Temple was in Jerusalem, and therefore may be destined for destruction. This destruction may have been recorded in a Nostradamus video that was in every video store in America just prior to the 2000 Y2K Millennium. If you want to know more about how modern events may relate to ancient Bible events, just click on one of the secure book links on this webpage to order your book by Edward Oliver.
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