Historic Proof of Israel’s Migration

HISTORIC PROOF OF ISRAEL’S MIGRATIONS

by Bertrand L. Comparet

Taken From Your Heritage

Plus Critical Notes

In my lesson called Israel’s Fingerprints, I have briefly sketched for you some

of the Bible’s evidence that the Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian and Germanic people of

today are the living descendants of the Israel of the Bible. This evidence is in the form

of many Bible prophecies of Israel’s future, which has been accurately fulfilled by

these nations and by no others. If the people who have actually done all the things

which Yahweh said Israel would do, and who have received the exact blessings which

Yahweh said He would give to Israel, if they are not Israel, how could Yahweh be so

greatly mistaken? No, Yahweh was not mistaken, He knew what He would do and for

whom He would do it. By making good all His prophecies and promises, He has

identified these nations as Israel.

There are some people that won’t believe Yahweh and will not accept His

identification of these nations as Israel. In fact, one clergyman with whom I discussed

this, a minister of a church in this country, wrote to me demanding to know what other

historians of the time, in what books, chapters and verses record their migrations into

northern and western Europe and the British Isles? He is only one of many skeptics

who ask this and to these skeptics the answer is yes, various historians of those

centuries have traced many steps of this migration.

What I propose to do for you now is to trace this migration historically.

Remember, within the time limits which must necessarily be fixed on such a lesson as

this, I can only hit the high spots. You know how large a library can be filled with history

books, so I can’t quote them all verbatim. However, I will have time enough to show

you that the historians have traced this migration from Israel’s old Palestinian home

into the European homes as the Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian and Germanic

peoples. Not under their old names of course, but that also is the fulfillment of

Yahweh’s prophesy that He would call His servants by another name. Surely you now

know that the Bible identifies Israel and only Israel, as Yahweh’s servants.

The migration of the Israelites covered about 12 centuries, during which time

they were mentioned by various historians, writing in different languages, during

different centuries so therefore they are mentioned under different names. Even today,

if you were to read a London newspaper, a Paris newspaper and a Berlin newspaper,

all dated about the end of 1940, you would find that the British newspaper said that in

that year France was invaded by the Germans. The French newspaper said that the

invasion was by Les Allemans and the German newspaper said that the invasion was

by der Deutsch. Yet, all three were talking about the same people and the same

invasion. We must not be surprised to find the Israelites were given different names in

the Assyrian, Greek and Latin languages. Even in the same language names change

from century to century, just as today we never speak of Bohemia, as it was called a

century ago, but only of Czechoslovakia.

Remember, the original 12 tribed nation of Israel broke up into two nations upon

the death of King Solomon, about 975 B.C.. The northern 2/3rds of the land, containing

the ten tribes, kept the name Israel, while the southern 1/3rd, containing the tribes of

Benjamin and Judah, with many of the Levites, took the name of Judah after the royal

tribe. From that time on, they kept their separate existence until they were finally

merged into a vast migration, as we will see. Most of the kings of the 10 tribed northern

kingdom of Israel were distinguished more for their wickedness than for any ability.

However Omri, who reigned from 885 B.C. to 874 B.C., was a vigorous and able king.

Although as wicked as the others his reign was considered, among the other nations of

western Asia, as the foundation upon which the national identity thereafter rested. The

language of that day spoke of a family, a tribe, or even a whole nation as a house or

household. If you have read your Bible much, you must surely remember Yahweh’s

many references to the house of Israel or the kingdom of Judah. The phrase was also

used in those days to refer to a nation as the house of a great king who ruled it. The

Assyrians among others, began calling the 10 tribed kingdom of Israel, the house of

Omri. In Hebrew, house was babyith or bayth, in English it was usually spelled beth and

pronounced beth. In the related Semitic languages of Assyrian, this was bit. The

Hebrew Omri, was in Assyrian sometimes written Humari, sometimes Kumri.

With this preface in mind, let’s start tracing the Israelites from their Palestinian

homeland, in the Assyrian conquest and deportation. In II Kings 15:29 we read, “ in the

days of Pekah, king of Israel, came Tiglath-Pileser, king of Assyria, and took Ijon and

Abel-beth-maachah and Janoa and Kedesh and Hazor and Gilead and Galilee, all the

land of Naphtali and carried them captive to Assyria.” Chronicles 5:26 records, “ And

the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul, king of Assyria, and 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, unto this day.”

Confirmation of this is found in inscriptions of Tiglath-Pileser, which

archaeologists have dug up and are in our museums today. One of these says, “ The

cities of Gala’za (probably Assyrian for Galilee), Abilkka (probably Assyrian for Abelbeth

maacha), which are on the border of Bit Humria, the whole land of Naphtali in its

entirety, I brought within the border of Assyria. My official I set over them as governor.

The land of Bit Humria, all of its people, together with all their goods, I carried off to

Assyria. Pahaka their king they deposed and I placed Ausi as king.” In confirmation of

this change in kings, we read in I I Kings 15:30, “ And Hoshea the son of Elah made a

conspiracy against Pekah son of Remaliah and smote him and slew him and reigned in

his stead.”

The conquest thus had begun in the northeastern and northern parts of the

kingdom about 740 B.C.. Then it worked southward, down to the heavily fortified capital

city to Samaria, which was captured about 721 B.C.. Another king of Assyria reigned by

that time, II Kinds 18:9-11 records it as follows. “ And it came to pass in the 4th year of

King Hezekiah (of Judah), which was the 7th year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel,

that Shalmanezer, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria and besieged it. And at

the end of 3 years they took it, even in the 6th year of Hezekiah, that is the 9th year of

Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 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.”

We know King Shalmanezer died toward the latter part of this siege and the final

conquest and deportation was carried on by his successor, King Sargon 11. In

confirmation of this an inscription of Sargon II says, “ In the beginning of my reign, the

city of Samaria I besieged, I captured 27,280 of its inhabitants which I carried away.”

The deportation of a whole nation naturally took a considerable period of time. The

journey had to be organized, with adequate supplies for each convoy on each stage of

the journey and proper organization of the places selected to receive them. We know

that Sargon II did not hold the cities of the Medes east of the Zagros mountains until a

few years after 721 B.C.. So about 715 B.C. to 712 B.C. is the correct date for the

deportation to Media. The places to which Israel was deported by the Assyrians can be

summed up as constituting an arc or semi-circle, around the southern end of the

Caspian Sea.

This deportation took in the entire population of the ten northern tribes

constituting the nation of Israel. From this point on, the separation into tribes is

apparently lost and it is as a nation that the kingdom of Israel moved into its Assyrian

captivity. This left part of the other two tribes still living in the southern kingdom of

Judah. Assyria and Egypt were the two giant empires of that day, each seeking

domination over all the smaller and weaker nations. Assyria had driven Egyptian

influence out of western Asia, back to the continent of Africa and had made all the

smaller nations surrounding Judah into vassal states, paying heavy tribute to Assyria.

The brutal and rapacious character of the Assyrians made them no friends. Their vassal

states were always hopefully looking for any means of escape from Assyrian power.

Egypt kept the hope of revolt alive, by offers of military assistance to those who would

rebel against Assyria. The death of a king seemed the most opportune time for revolt,

since his successor would need time to get his power organized. He might even face

some competition at home for his throne. Therefore, when King Sargon II of Assyria

died about 705 B.C., revolts began in western Asia, the kingdom of Judah under King

Hezekiah taking part in the hope of military aid from Egypt. The prophet Isaiah had

warned the revolt would fail.

The new king of Assyria, Sennacherib, set about recovering his empire. One

rebellious city after another was reconquered, with the hideous cruelty characteristic of

Assyria. In 701 B.C., Sennacherib’s huge army invaded the kingdom of Judah. Midway

through it, they paused briefly to defeat the Egyptian army, then moved on to besiege

Jerusalem. None of the smaller cities of Judah were able to resist. II Kings 18:13 and

Isaiah 36:1 record, “ In the 14th year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib came up against

all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.” Then followed the siege of

Jerusalem, which was ended when the angel of Yahweh killed 185,000 Assyrian

soldiers in one night, and Sennacherib gave up the siege and fled back to his own land.

In confirmation of this, Sennacherib’s own record of this says, “ I then besieged

Hezekiah of Judah, who had not submitted to my yoke, and I captured 46 of his strong

cities and fortresses and innumerable small cities which were round about them, with

the battering of rams and the assault of engines and the attack of foot soldiers, and by

mines and breaches made in the walls. I brought out there from 200,150 people, both

small and great. Hezekiah himself, like a caged bird, I shut up within Jerusalem his

royal city.” Ancient kings were boastful of their victories, but never of their defeats. King

Sennacherib tactfully fails to state how the siege of Jerusalem ended, but he does

confirm the capture of all the other cities of Judah and the deportation of 200,150

people.

Remember, all the people of the 10 northern tribes, were already settled around

the southern end of the Caspian Sea, in the Assyrian deportation of Israel. To them was

now added a large portion of the 2 southern tribes of Benjamin and Judah. The

Assyrian deportation included all of the ten tribes and a substantial representation from

the other two. These were the people who became your ancestors and mine when

they moved into Europe.

Over the years, the increasing numbers of the Israelite tribes expanded

northward along both sides of the Caspian Sea. They were not basically city builders,

but farmers and herdsmen. Probably in the earlier part of their stay here, the Assyrians

sternly discouraged the building of cities which would naturally be fortified centers of

resistance. As the Israelites were moved into this area, herded along as prisoners,

robbed of all their belongings, they had to make themselves brush shelters or booths

where they stopped for any length of time. Here in the southwest our Indians call such a

brushy shelter a wickiup, the Hebrews called it a soocaw applying the name also to a

tent, it was the only house a nomad owned. The plural of soocaw was succoth,

gradually this was slurred over into south, used of a tent dweller or nomad and finally

became Sythian.

The great carving on the Behistun Rock, made about 516 B.C., carried

inscriptions showing the many different nations who were tributary to King Tarius I of

Persia. These inscriptions were written in old Persian, Median and Assyrian. They

showed that among these were a Sythian nation, called in Assyrian and Babylonian

Gimiri, which means the tribes. From Gimiri was derived the name of the Cimmerians,

who settled somewhat to the north and into the Ukraine. The Behistun inscriptions also

stated that these people were called Sakka in Persian and Median, already the later

names are beginning to evolve.

The great Greek historian Herodotus, who lived from 484 B.C. to 425 B.C., and

was generally called the father of history, speaking of these people says, “ The Sacae,

or Scyths, were clad in trousers and had on their heads tall, still caps rising to a point.

They bore the bow of their country and the dagger, besides which they carried the

battle axe or sagaris. They were in truth Amyrgian Scythians, but the Persians called

them Sacae, since that is the name which they gave to all Scythians.” Incidentally,

some of the magnificent carved walls of the ancient ruins of the Persian palace at

Persepolis show illustrations of those Sacae, in their trousers and pointed caps,

bringing tribute to the Persian king.

We are now getting further clues to these people. Herodotus says that the

Scythians or Sacae, first appeared in that land in the seventh century B.C.. This is the

same period in which the tribes of Israel were settled there by their Assyrian

conquerors. Their use of the battle axe as a weapon is a carry over from their history as

Israel. In Jeremiah 51:20 Yahweh says of Israel, “ Thou art My battle axe and weapons

of war, for with thee will I break in pieces the nations and with thee will I destroy

kingdoms ”. We will see later that the name evolved from Sakke to Saxon. It is

noteworthy that the battle axe was the great weapon of the Saxons.

These Scythians or Sacae lived up to Yahweh’s description of Israel as His

battle axe and weapons of war. They became a military people of great power, who did

much to break up ancient nations. The Greek geographer and historian Strabo, who

lived between 63 B.C. and about 21 A. D. says, “Most of the Scythians, beginning from

the Caspian Sea, are called Dahae Scythae and those situated more towards the east,

Massagatae and Sacae. The rest have the common name of Scythians, but each tribe

has its own peculiar name. The Sacae had made incursions similar to those of the

Cimmerians and Trares, some near their own country, others at a greater distance.

They occupied Bactriana, and got possession of the most fertile tract in Armenia, which

was called after their own name, Sacasene. They advanced even as far as the

Cappadocians, those particularly situated near the Euxine Sea, today called the Black

Sea. They are now called Pontici.”

This was but the early part of their expansion. When a century had elapsed since

their deportation to this land of Scythia, they had grown strong enough to begin the long

series of harassing wars against their conquerors, the Assyrians. They lacked the

strength to capture the powerfully fortified group of cities about the Assyrian capitol and

in turn, their nomadic habits made it easy for them to retreat before a too powerful

Assyrian army. Generations of this constant warfare wore down the Assyrians and bled

them white, so that when the Medes finally overran Assyria and captured Ninevah in

612 B.C., their victory was a fairly easy one against the exhausted Assyrians.

From this point on, I could refer you to just one historical work which fully traces

the Scythians on to their settlement in England as the Anglo-Saxons. A History of the

Anglo-Saxons by Sharon Turner, does a magnificent job of this. As most of you know,

I am a lawyer by profession. A lawyer soon learns to distinguish between the man who

actually knows the facts and the man who is merely repeating heresay, which is gossip

and rumor he has heard from others. How do we know whether these others actually

know what they are talking about? Unless a man has seen the occurrence with his own

eyes, his ideas on the subject are no better than the accuracy of the information he has

received.

No historian in our times, can have any personal knowledge of what happened

2,000 years ago. His writings can be no better than the source material he has obtained

from people who lived and wrote at a time when accurate information could still be had.

Most modern history books are based on rather scanty documentation from early

sources, as it is so much easier for one historian to copy from another. Sharon Turner’s

A History of the Anglo-Saxons is one of the most thoroughly documented historical

studies ever produced and its reliability is beyond question. He traces the Anglo-Saxons

of Britain back to the Scythians. Unfortunately, he doesn’t go the one step further and

trace the Scythians back to Israel but, we can do that from other sources.

Let’s go back to the Scythians, as the people of Israel became known in the land

to which they were deported. Diodorus Siculus, a Greek historian who lived in the times

of Julius and Augustus Caesar, says this. “ The Scythians anciently enjoyed but a small

tract of ground, but (through their valor) growing stronger by degrees, they enlarged

their dominion far and near and attained at last to a vast and glorious empire. At the

first, a very few of them, and those very despicable for their mean origin, seated

themselves near to the Araxes river. Afterwards, one of their ancient kings, who was a

warlike prince and skillful in arms, captured for their country all the mountainous parts

as far as to Mount Caucasus. Some time afterwards their posterity, becoming famous

and eminent for valor and martial affairs, subdued many territories. Then, turning their

arms the other way, they led their forces as far as to the Nile river, in Egypt.”

Other historians record that blond Scythians made an expedition against

Palestine and Egypt about 626 B.C.. The town of Scythopolis, in the Jordan valley, is

named for a settlement on this raid. To continue with Diodorus Siculus he wrote, “ This

nation prospered more and more and had kings that were very famous, from whom the

Sacans and the Massagetae and the Arimaspians and many others, called by other

names, derive their origin amongst others. There were two remarkable colonies that

were drawn out of the conquered nations by those kings. The one they brought out of

Assyria and settled in the country lying between Paphlagonia and Pontus. The other

was drawn out of Media, which they placed near the river Tanais which people are

called Sauromatians.”

Note how Yahweh’s destiny for these people worked, they would not leave

behind any pockets of their people in the lands where their conquerors had settled

them. When they had gained great power, they came back and picked up any who

remained, taking them into the migrating mass. Likewise, history records that they

raided Babylon, after its overthrow by the Medes and Persians, carrying off with

them such of the people of Judah and Benjamin as were not going back to

Jerusalem.

Even in early times, before the final mass movement into Europe, the Scythians

had begun their march to their new homelands, where some of them had already

arrived before the beginning of the Christian era. Pliny the Elder, a Roman historian

who lived from 23 to 79 A.D., says this. “ The name Scythian has extended in every

direction, even to the Sarmatae and the Germans. But this ancient name is now only

given to those who dwell beyond those nations and live unknown to nearly all the rest of

the world. Beyond the Danube, are the peoples of Scythia. The Persians have called

them by the general name of Sacae, which properly belongs only to the nearest nation

of them. The more ancient writers give them the name of Aramii (Arameans). The

multitude of these Scythians is quite innumerable. In their life and their habits they

much resemble the people of Parthia (Persia). The tribes among them that are better

known are the Sacae, the Massagetae, the Dahae, etc.”

Others have noted this early migration into Germany. For example, Herodotus

mentions a migration and settlement of a people he calls the Sigynoe, who themselves

claimed to be colonists from Media and who migrated as far as the Rhine river.

Remember that among the places the Israelites were resettled were in the cities of the

Medes.

Also note that Pliny the Elder said, “ The more ancient writers give them the

name of Aramii ”, – an Aramean, in modern language called Syrian. In Deuteronomy

26:5, every Israelite was commanded to confess, “ A Syrian ready to perish was my

father, and he went down into Egypt and sojourned there with a few and became a

nation, great, mighty and populous.” Hence, such ancient writers could correctly identify

the Israelite Scythians as Arameans, for they had come from a land which was part of

Syria.

Among the tribes of the Scythians, the Massagetae attracted the notice of all the

ancient historians by their numbers and warlike ability. Those who described them in

more detail, divided them into the Massagetae and Thyssagetae. The Getae part of the

name soon evolved into Goth. The Massagetae were the Greater Goths and the

Thyssagetae were the Lesser Goths. Thus we already find among the Scythians names

we can identify as the people who later conducted the great migrations into Europe.

The Goths as we know, were later called Ostrogoths, meaning East Goths and

Visigoths, meaning West Goths.

Now to go back a few centuries, the Sacae were allies of the Medes and

Persians in the attack upon Babylon in 536 B.C. Remember that Yahweh had said that

Israel was, “My battle axe and weapons of war; for with thee will I break in pieces the

nations and with thee will I destroy kingdoms.” Yahweh had used Scythian Israel to

maintain constant war against Assyria for nearly a century, until Assyria was too

weakened to resist the Medes and Persians. Then Yahweh used Scythian Israel, the

Sacae, to help in the conquest of Babylon when its time had come. Later, King Cyrus of

Persia was foolish enough to try to conquer his former allies the Sacae, but he was

killed in the battle. King Darius also tried to conquer them, but they being a nomadic

people, retreated before his massive armies until he gave up and retired.

Professor George Rawlinson says that the original development of the Indo-

European language took place in Armenia which you will remember, was at that time

occupied by Scythian Israel. Certainly from these people we can trace the introduction

of this language into Europe.

This powerful and increasingly numerous people thereafter spread farther north,

both east and west of the Caspian Sea. To the west of it, they penetrated into the Volga

and Don River valleys as the Sauromatians and the Royal Scyths, nomadic peoples. To

reach these lands, they had come up through the Caucasus mountains by a great pass

which is today occupied by the Georgian military road. Perhaps the communists have

changed the name of this pass in recent years, but from ancient times, until within our

own life times, this pass was known as the Pass of Israel. The white race of Europe is

often called Caucasian because the ancestors of many of them did come out of the

Caucasus mountains.

When Alexander the Great began his great marauding expedition across western

Asia and as far as India, he had to skirt the edge of the lands held by the Scythians. In

his limitless vanity and ambition, he wanted to conquer them also. It is recorded that

their ambassadors said that they would never surrender to him, that they were nomadic

peoples who, if they could not resist, could retreat indefinitely before his armies. They

had no wealthy cities for him to conquer and loot. Alexander invaded their lands long

enough to fight one severe battle with them, defeating the Scythian forces he met. This

was evidently just a lesson to them not to attack the flanks of his forces, for he led his

forces out of their territory and never returned to the attack.

Remember, Israel is Yahweh’s battle axe and weapons of war. They had

already weakened Assyria and as allies of the Medes and Persians, had helped

overthrow Assyria and Babylon. They had beaten off attempts of the Persians to

conquer them. The article “ Scythians ”, Chambers Encyclopedia (1927) records, “ The

Scythians, after about 128 B.C. overran Persia, routed several Persian armies and

levied tribute from the Persian kings. During the first century before and the first century

after Christ, hordes of Scythians, having overthrown the Bactrian and Indo-Greek

dynasties of Afghanistan and India, invaded northern India and there they maintained

themselves with varying fortune for five centuries longer. The Jats of India and the

Rajputs have both been assigned the Scythian ancestry.”

Madison Grant writes, “ Ancient Bactria maintained its Nordic and Aryan aspect

long after Alexander’s time and did not become Mongolized and receive the sinister

name of Turkestan until the seventh century A.D.. The Sakke were the blond peoples

who carried the Aryan language to India.”

A land so vast and not the original home of the Israelite Scythians, but already

having some inhabitants when they were settled there, must of course show varying

types of people. The Nordic, or Aryan Israelite Scythians, conquered these other races.

While some speak of a Mongoloid type found in some parts of Scythia, ancient writers

pretty well agree that the dominant Sakka or Massagetae Scythians were a Nordic

people. Dr. Hans Gunther, professor at Berlin University, in his Racial Elements of

European History, published in the 1920s writes, “ The investigations into the traces left

behind them by that wide spread Nordic people, the Sacae (Scythians), with its many

tribes, are well worthy of attention. They had been living on the steppes of southeastern

Europe and spread as far as Turkestan and Afghanistan and even to the Indus.”

The ancient writers such as Polemon of Ilium, Galionos, Clement of Alexandria,

and Adamantios, state that the Sacae were like the Celts and Germans and describe

them as ruddy-fair. The Scythian tribe of the Alans are also described as having a

Nordic appearance. Ammianus, about 300-400 A. D., calls them “ almost all tall and

handsome, with their hair almost yellow and a fierce look.”

We have seen that the names of the Massagetae and the Thyssagetae evolved

into Goths, the Ostrogoths (or east Goths) and Visigoths (or west Goths). The historian

Ptolemy, who died about 150 A.D., mentions a Scythian people descended from the

Sakae, called Saxons who had come from Media. Albinus, who lived in the first century

B.C., also says, “ The Saxons were descended from the ancient Sacae in Asia and in

the process of time they came to be called Saxons,” Prideaux reports that the

Cimbrians came from between the Black and Caspian Seas and that with them came

the Angli.

We are now well into established European history. By the beginning of the 4th

century A.D., many of the Goths were already Christians. In the 4th century, there were

several collisions between Visigoths and Rome and in 410 A.D., the Visigoths became

the masters of Italy and captured Rome. Later, they moved on into southern France

and northern Spain where they settled permanently. The Ostrogoths settled in what is

modern Hungary about 455 A. D., under Theodoric the Great. They conquered Italy

about 493 A.D. and set up an Ostrogoth kingdom in Italy which however, was short

lived. Their descendants are the fair skinned, blond Italians of northern Italy. However,

the Goths had ended the Roman Empire, Yahweh’s battle axe again destroying the

kingdoms of the Babylonian order of empires.

The Angli and the Saxons moved up the Danube valley and settled in Germany

and along the Baltic shores, as is well known. From there the Jutes, Angles and Saxons

colonized England after the Roman legions were withdrawn in 408 A. D..

Actually, the earliest waves of migration penetrated to the farthest edges of the

European continent, partly because they could move through nearly empty lands,

without meeting any people strong enough to effectively resist them. It was partly

because they were pushed farther by the later waves of Israelite migration coming

behind them. Hence, we find the settlement of the Scandinavian peninsula pretty well

completed before the arrival of the Jutes, Angles and Saxons along the southern shore

of the Baltic Sea.

The tribes that settled along the shores of the Baltic were a great maritime

people, as some of the Israelites had been even when still in Palestine, as Yahweh had

prophesied. The Jutes, Angles and Saxons came from within the Baltic Sea, but their

ocean borne raids on England were heavy and continuous. Later, by invitation of the

British, they settled along the eastern shores, in East Anglia, Mercia, Northunbria,

Sussex, Wessex, Essex and Kent.

The first century before and the first century after Yahshua, hordes of Scythians,

having overthrown the Bactrian and Indo-Greek dynasties of Afghanistan and India,

invaded northern India and there they maintained themselves with varying fortune for

five centuries longer. The Jats of India and the Rajputs have both been assigned the

Scythian ancestry.

William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066 A.D., with the Normans. They

were actually Vikings who had settled on the coast of France in the province of

Normandy, Norman really being derived from Norseman. So we see that the migrations

of Israel, first into Scythia, expanding there, then gaining the names of Goths, Angli and

Saxons. Under those names moving into their present European homelands, is a well

established historical fact. There is also the fascinating story of the early migrations by

sea, but that is another subject in itself.

Critical note by Clifton A. Emahiser: This has been an excellent historical

presentation by Bertrand L. Comparet that I would rate nearly 100%. This demonstrates

why it is so important to study history in unison with the Bible. This subject has been so

well covered by Comparet that I can only amplify on certain portions. Much of this

history has been repudiated as it flies-in-the face of the faulty premises of nominal

churchianity. The rediscovery of the Identity of Israel was the enlightenment brought

forward by John Wilson and Edward Hine in the second half of the 1800s. The Israel

message then spread worldwide with Wilson and Hine receiving large quantities of mail.

But because it went against the flawed teachings of the “ church ”, it was soon

suppressed and almost died out being labeled a cult. In spite of all of the resistance to

the message, it has survived, and represents the only authentic narrative.

Comparet made the statement: “ There are some people that won’t believe

Yahweh …” which is true. I could cite numerous examples where once brought face-toface

with a Bible passage, they will simply say, “ I don’t believe that.” It is like where

Daniel said at 2:44, “… and the kingdom shall not be left to other people ”, yet nearly all

of churchianity will insist we must take the gospel to everyone. There’s only one

gospel, and that’s the gospel of the kingdom.

I will here repeat Comparet where he said: “Note how Yahweh’s destiny for

these people worked, they would not leave behind any pockets of their people in the

lands where their conquerors had settled them. When they had gained great power,

they came back and picked up any who remained, taking them into the migrating mass.

Likewise, history records that they raided Babylon, after its overthrow by the Medes and

Persians, carrying off with them such of the people of Judah and Benjamin as were not

going back to Jerusalem.” This being so, the greater part of good-fig members of

Judah, rather than returning to Jerusalem after the 70 years of captivity, joined the 10

tribes in their migrations.

At another place, Comparet commented: “Now to go back a few centuries, the

Sacae were allies of the Medes and Persians in the attack upon Babylon in 536 B.C. …

Later, King Cyrus of Persia was foolish enough to try to conquer his former allies the

Sacae, but he was killed in the battle.” The story of how Cyrus was killed is found in

Herodotus 1.205 through end of book 1. I don’t know if you have ever heard of Queen

Tomyris or not, but she was of the tribe of Massagetae (of Royal blood), and after her

husband the King had died, she had to take charge of their army, and she outmaneuvered

and outwitted the Biblical Cyrus who was killed in battle when he tried to

subdue her and her tribe.