Newly Updated: Is The US, And Great Britain, In End-Times Bible Prophecy?

 

When we provoke our holy curiosity and are willing to maintain an open mind and learn, the Biblical record provides us answers. However, in doing so, it is vital that we approach the Biblical record, not as observers, but as participants. While we may be ignorant of the fact at this point, there is no escaping the truth that this is our story, like it or not. Our disadvantage is almost insurmountable when we don't know who we are in the Biblical record. And not to exaggerate the situation, but as we'll read, we are in a life and death struggle as spelled out to us in the Biblical prophecies. We lose when we don't know who we are because we can't make the correct choices. Do we choose to remain in the darkness of death, or make changes and move into the unfamiliar light of life? But don't kid yourself, it's all one or the other. And as we've said before, lip service is a dead end. [Mat. 15:8,9; see the Sneakers article, A Life And Death Pickle Of A Predicament].

Our regular readers know the US in Biblical prophecy is Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the son of Israel, of the “lost sheep of the House of Israel.” Manasseh, through Joseph, is one of the nations of Israel in the last days with a national identity according to the end-time, or last days, prophecy in Genesis 49. Joseph, through his son Ephraim, is the kingly line of the House of Israel, Great Britain, to this day. And after more than seven decades of rule by Queen Elizabeth, for better or worse a king once again is on the throne of Israel. [Again, see the Feature article, Paul Was An Apostle To The House Of Israel, Not The Gentiles]. We'll find out in the very near future what implications this may hold for the House of Israel. [1 Kng. 11:31; 12:20]. [See the Feature article, Obadiah And The Prophetic Parable Of The Tares].

 

It is interesting to note that there are a couple cities in the US with the name Manassas, the Greek form of the Hebrew Manasseh, one of which is in the Commonwealth of Virginia, as is Jamestown, the first English/House of Israel settlement in the US. Manassas is located less than 30 miles southwest of the US capital, Washington, D.C. There is one other, a rather small town with a population of 59 according to the 2020 census in the state of Georgia. And there is a small town in Colorado established in 1879, spelled Manassa, with a population just under 1000, that was named for the son of Joseph. The “Manassa Mauler,” aka Jack Dempsey of boxing fame, was born there. However, from what I have been able to determine, the geographic name Manassas appears no place else in the world except the US.

 

The Confederate ship CSS Manassas was built in 1855 in Medford, Massachusetts before her days, perhaps ironically, as an ironclad in the Civil War. In terms of prophetic consequence for the end-times, the US was to remain as a single great nation as we’ll see. Thus, the US not getting split into two nations as a result of the civil war is prophetically significant. 

 

There are numerous prophecies, both Old and New Testaments that apply to the House of Israel in the end-times. The current Middle Eastern nation-state of Israel, Judah, the House of Judah in the Biblical record, is only one of the ten nations of all Israel with a national identity today, although its government is Zionist, governed by those descended from Edom. This is the exact same situation as existed in first century in Judea and Jerusalem under the Edomite Herods. In both instances, they are anti-Biblical Israel, anti-Christ. [See Zionism Vs. Judaism]. But when we reject Christ’s plain statement in Matthew 15, and the Biblical history that supports it, we deceive ourselves to our detriment. Hence, our current pickle of a predicament. The unwitting, self-inflicted result is that we are fallen prey to the largest identity theft in history. [See the Feature articles, Moving Forward and Revelation 17: Big Brother The Beast Of Babylon].

 

As noted, the US is the Biblical nation of Manasseh, along with his brother Ephraim, are the two sons of Joseph whom his father Jacob/Israel blessed and made firstborn among their brothers of the House of Israel in the last days. The entire chapter of Genesis 48 prophecy is all about the US, a single great nation, and his brother Ephraim, a multitude of nations, the British Commonwealth, the kingly line of the House of Israel in the last days.

A cursory scan of today’s headlines for the US and Great Britain brings this into focus, particularly with recent events of the past couple years, and for decades in the Middle East, although the two brother's keen interest in the Middle East goes back to the discovery of the vast oil reserves there more than 100 years ago. Today, the US, in violation of international law, occupies areas of eastern Syria and is stealing Syria's oil daily, supporting Zionist Israel's Palestinian genocide, while the western Zionist media are virtually silent about this when compared to their petulant squawking about Russia's existential SMO in Ukraine. [See US Oil Looting, also 1908 Oil Discovered In Persia (Iran); the future of the US and Great Britain prophetically is tied to the fate of Syria. As the US has participated in the destruction of Syria in support of the Zionist "Greater Israel Plan," unwittingly they are sealing the fate of the US and the West as well; again see the Feature article, Damascus A Heap Of Ruins].

Please keep in mind, that while both the US and UK were founded as Christian nations, today their governments, both official and "deep state," are controlled by the descendants, the children of Edom, aided and abetted by the children of Dan [Gen. 49:16-17], a brother of Joseph, but who forsook the land given by lot from God when Israel entered into the promised land led by Joshua. They quickly set up graven images to worship in a land of their choosing. This is why the tribe of Dan is omitted from the list in Revelation 7 of the 12 sealed tribes of Israel, the 144,000, "And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed ...." Dan's place is taken by Joseph's birthright son Manasseh. [See Rev. 7:4-8; see the Sneakers article, Who Is Dan, And Where Did He Go?]. Interestingly, Esau/Edom sold his birthright inheritance to his brother Jacob/Israel. [Gen. 25:32, 33]. Both Edom and Dan, Zionists, relinquished their claim over their inheritance given to them by God, and both are working together in the last days to get it back. This is the casus belli of our situation today among the nations of the House of Israel, though we remain clueless. [See The Blind Man's Elephant, Chapter Six; The Genesis Birthright, p. 185].

 

The two brothers, the US and Great Britain, sons of Joseph, were recipients of the birthright inheritance from their grandfather, our patriarch Israel, passed down from Abraham and Isaac, [1 Chr. 5:1, 2] giving them preeminence over all their brothers of Israel who are nations in the end-times as well, i.e., the Christian nations of Western Europe, and Australia, Canada, New Zealand. Let’s take a look at the then prophetic events of Genesis 48 that took place more than 3000 years ago. Remember the pages worn, for this is your historical Biblical account, and your current events. With this in mind, unseal the gate, and open the covers of our Book to rediscover our Lord's treasure. Let us reclaim the forgotten, the sacred, the bold, understanding our history once again. [See the Sneakers article, Better Than Gold].

Genesis 48

 

In verse one we read, “Now it came to pass after these things that Joseph was told, ‘Indeed your father [Israel] is sick’; and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh [future US] and Ephraim [future Great Britain].”

 

Israel was the father of Joseph, of recent Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat fame. Joseph’s two sons are Manasseh and Ephraim. Manasseh was the elder son. As Israel was near death, Joseph took his sons Manasseh and Ephraim to visit their grandfather Israel. [See the Covenant Flow Chart at the bottom of the Feature article, The Tale Of Two Covenants].

 

Then in verses two through four, “And Jacob was told, ‘Look, your son Joseph is coming to you’; and Israel strengthened himself and sat up on the bed. Then Jacob [the patriarch Israel] said to Joseph: ‘God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me, ‘and said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of people, and give this land to your descendants after you as an everlasting possession.'"

 

It is true that the population of the nations of Israel today number in the one billion range. But, occupying the land as an everlasting possession will come into effect at Christ’s second coming, after the horrendous events of the Apocalypse. “But I will gather the remnant of My flock out of all countries where I have driven them, and bring them back to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase." [Jer. 23:3]. "And it shall come to pass in that day, the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people." [The first time was Egypt, Isa. 11:11; see the Feature article, Christ Against Christians?].

 

In verses five and six, “And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, who were born to you in the land of Egypt before I came to you in Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. Your offspring whom you beget after them shall be yours; they will be called by the name of their brothers [Ephraim and Manasseh] in their inheritance.” [See Heb. 9:14, 15].

 

Reuben and Simeon were the natural born first and second sons of our patriarch Israel. But for the sake of the birthright inheritance and events in Biblical prophecy, Ephraim [Britain] and Manasseh [US] took their place. "Now the sons of Reuben [France] the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, for as much as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph [Ephraim and Manasseh] the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright." [1 Chr. 5:1].

 

Verse seven, “But as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath; and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).” 

 

Israel is telling his son Joseph that he buried his mother Rachel just outside Bethlehem, the birthplace of Christ. Israel had twelve sons that grew to become nations by four different wives, Leah, Zilpah, Bilhah, and Rachel, who was Israel’s first love. Rachel bore Israel two sons, Joseph and Benjamin. The apostle Paul was a descendant of Israel’s son Benjamin. The first king of all Israel was Saul, also a descendant of Benjamin. Benjamin's national identity today comprises Germany.²

 

Verses eight through twelve, “Then Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, ‘Who are these?’ And Joseph said to his father, ‘They are my sons, whom God has given me in this place’ [Egypt]. And he said, ‘Please bring them to me, and I will bless them.’ Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. Then Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them. And Israel said to Joseph, ‘I had not thought to see your face; but in fact, God has also shown me your offspring!’ So Joseph brought them from beside his knees, and he bowed down with his face to the earth.’”

 

In verses thirteen and fourteen we read, “And Joseph took them both, Ephraim with his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh with his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near him. Then Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh's head, guiding his hands knowingly, for Manasseh was the firstborn.”

 

This is the beginning of the significance of the US and Great Britain in Biblical prophecy including events in our current day, the end-times. 

 

Verses fifteen and sixteen, “And he blessed Joseph, and said: ‘God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day, the Angel [Heb. mal'āḵ, messenger] who has redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; let my name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the Earth.” [See Deu. 33:17].

 

As the eldest brothers, and recipients of the birthright inheritance, Ephraim and Manasseh would receive fifty percent of the inheritance. [See Gen. 27:28, 29 for the inheritance given to Israel]. The remainder is divided equally among all other brothers. Interestingly, at the close of WW2, the US controlled about 50 percent of the world's wealth. This economic factor has had implications for us in the end-times. And in these times, which country had the world’s number one economy? However, due to our lack of knowledge and forbearance [See Hosea 4:6, some things never change], the blessings given to Ephraim and Manasseh are falling away as prophesied. The US has become the world's largest debtor nation. China now has surpassed the US as the world's number one economy. And, of course, the Britain has become a faint shadow of its former empire. [See the Feature article, Obadiah And The Prophetic Parable Of The Tares].

 

Despite China’s trade conflict with the US, Taiwan, and the formation of the AIIB as an alternative to the IMF and World Bank, and concerns raised by many other G20 countries, due to the US lack of concern for “sensible fiscal policy,” primarily the eviscerating military budget, at 54% of the discretionary national budget back about a decade ago, the US dollar is clinging by its fingernails for use as the world’s number one reserve currency. The question is for how much longer?

Russia, India, Iran and China are trading in each others currencies. Russia and Iran only trade in their currencies, bypassing the US dollar altogether. The BRICS+ nations are using a mechanism to trade in each other's currency as well. And increasingly, more countries are opting out of solely using the US petrodollar for trade. [See Yuan Reserve Currency]. The British pound preceded the dollar as the world’s reserve currency beginning in the 19th century. It remained so until the middle of the 20th century. Today, the pound is the world’s third most popular reserve currency behind the euro. All three currencies are of the House of Israel. But the future for all three are looking very precarious at the moment in light of the NWO/West's sanctions on Russia, and the emergence of a multipolar world.

 

It’s also important to note that with Ephraim [Great Britain] and Manasseh [US], Israel’s name was to be named upon them. This is a reference to the blessing and promises of the birthright Israel received from God through his fathers, Abraham and Isaac. And it is Christ who is the Seed of Abraham, to whom the promises were given. As we read in verse one of the New Testament, “The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham ....” And in Gal. 3:16, “Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, 'And to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'And to your Seed,' who is Christ.” And Christ was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. [See the Feature article, The Tale Of Two Covenants].

 

Ephraim and Manasseh, sons of Joseph, were blessed to become the firstborn of all the sons or nations of Israel by birthright through Christ in the end-times. “The oldest son of Israel was Reuben [France]. But since he dishonored his father by sleeping with one of his father's concubines, his birthright was given to the sons of his brother, Joseph. For this reason, Reuben is not listed in the genealogy as the firstborn son. And it was the descendants of Judah that became the most powerful tribe and provided a ruler for the nation [David until the death of Solomon when Jeroboam, a descendant of Joseph became king of Israel excepting for the house of David, i.e., the House of Judah], but the birthright belonged to Joseph.” [1 Chr. 5:1, 2, NLT*; also see 1 Kng. 11:11, 12 ].

In Genesis 49:10, it states, "The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh comes; and to Him shall be the obedience of the people." The scepter, the symbol of sovereignty, was to remain with the House of Judah until Christ's first coming. Shiloh refers to our Savior, Jesus Christ, the king of kings. [See Rev. 22:16]. Recall, the House of Israel was divorced from God, Jer. 3:6-8, until the new covenant came into force in the first century, when Christ broke the old law covenant. [For more details, see the Feature article, Paul Was An Apostle To The House Of Israel, Not The Gentiles; Zec. 11:10].

The House of Judah is blind to Christ's first coming in this age. They are the part of Israel blind to the new covenant. [Rom. 11:25]. As Paul said, preaching the gospel to them was a stumbling block. [1 Cor. 1:23]. Christ is our king. In the Christian age, he is gathering to him his firstfruits. [1 Cor. 15:20-23]. The reference to obedience of the people in this age is through the gift of the Spirit of God. "For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God." [Rom. 8:14]. However, the ultimate fulfilling of this prophecy takes effect at Christ's second coming.

The scepter, the power and sovereign authority, is Christ's as our King and Savior. The birthright remained with Ephraim and Manasseh from the first century. It was made manifest with the initial formation of the nations of the House of Israel, beginning about 800 CE resulting in our current day nation-state configuration, US, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Norway, etc. The goal of seeking to destroy the nations of Israel, nationalism, by the anti-Christian globalists is an attempt to undermine the birthright of Ephraim and Manasseh by the descendants of Edom according to the Genesis 27 birthright inheritance prophecy.

 

As Christ is Abraham’s Seed, Christians have the name of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel upon them, though the descendants of Edom, who sold the birthright to Israel [Gen. 25], love to take the names of Israel to provide the appearance that they are of Israel, i.e., Jews. They're not. [See Rev. 2:9, Rev. 3:9]. They're of Edom. Jacob Rothschild is a prime example. They will have polluted the name of Israel to such an extent that when Christ returns, those of Israel will be given a different name. [Isa. 65:15].

Yet, we just don’t get it even though Christ plainly said he was sent only to the House of Israel, of which both Ephraim and Manasseh are first among their brother's nations today. Our Biblical identity is hiding in plain sight. It’s in our own history books³ and still we don’t see it. 

 

Take a step back and think about it. What two nations, in existence today, have been at the pinnacle of world events for the past 200 years in these end-times, and are considered kin? One caveat. None of these blessings are open-ended in that they are guaranteed to last forever. Our neglect in guarding our inheritance is catching up with us according to prophecies in both the Old and New Testaments. [See the Feature article, Our Corrupted Compass; also Great Britain's Decline To Minor Power, Esau/Edom gaining dominion].

 

Verses seventeen and eighteen, “Now when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him; so he took hold of his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head to Manasseh's head. And Joseph said to his father, ‘Not so, my father, for this one is the firstborn; put your right hand on his head.’”

 

Our patriarch, Israel, knew something that his son Joseph did not. And it is in effect to this day for us in Biblical end-time prophecy more than 3000 years later.

 

We read in verses nineteen and twenty, “But his father refused and said, ‘I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people [Heb. ‘am, nation], and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.’ So he blessed them that day, saying, ‘By you Israel will bless, saying, 'May God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh!’ And thus he set Ephraim before Manasseh. Then Israel said to Joseph, ‘Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.'"

 

That day our patriarch Israel made Ephraim the elder son in terms of inheritance. Manasseh became the second born, brother of Ephraim, the sons of Joseph. The birthright resides with them, or correctly, today with us. This is your story, remember. And it is significant for end-time prophecies concerning all the nations of Israel especially Ephraim and Manasseh. As we read above Manasseh would become a great nation. But his brother Ephraim would become a multitude of nations. [See the Feature article, Isaiah 63: Big Brother The Prophetic 21st Century Antichrist].

 

Again, what great professed Christian nation today has an ‘elder’ brother who comprises a multitude of nations? There is only one answer. It is the United States, the most powerful single nation in the world’s history, and the largest empire the world has ever seen, otherwise known as the British Empire, now the Commonwealth of Nations. Currently, there are a multitude of more than 50 member nations of the British Commonwealth stretching around the globe.

 

The last war fought between Manasseh and his brother Ephraim, the War of 1812, officially ended with the Treaty of Ghent in December 1814; the British reached their empire “superpower” status the next year, 1815, the same year future US president, Andrew Jackson was victorious at the Battle of New Orleans. Israel’s blessing upon the lads had come to fruition. This de facto recognition of Great Britain’s standing took place at the Congress of Vienna, guided by British Lord Castlereagh, to reestablish the map of Europe, most likely unknowingly for all his Christian brother’s nations in the aftermath of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic wars. This was the beginning of Pax Britannica. Keep in mind the prophecies of both Daniel and Revelation speak of ten identifiable nations of Israel in the end-times. [See the Feature article, Ten Horns, Ten Nations; also the Sneakers articles, This Old House and His Treasured Possession].

 

In addition to all its other many remarkable world shaping achievements, some of which include jet propulsion, the vulcanizing of rubber, enabling us to ride around on an encapsulated cushion of air whether it is on our bicycles or in F1 race cars or landing in a jumbo jet, the invention of the electric motor, refrigeration, steel, the first programmable computer, the telephone, the internet, cell phones, the discovery of DNA, etc., etc. This doesn't even touch on the contributions made by a fellow named Isaac Newton. And which nation took the lead and gave us the King James Bible four hundred years ago? It was Ephraim, elder birthright brother to Manasseh. The Genesis Birthright resides with these two brothers as prophesied by the blessings of Israel upon his grandchildren. [See British Inventions].

However, our birthright is under attack by Big Brother, aka the real white supremacists, Edom as a prelude to Babylon the Great, the sixth head of the Beast written of in Revelation 17. The attack can be seen throughout the US and Great Britain under the guise of "white privilege." A major US university offered a course on "how educators should face white privilege in their classrooms." Being white, i.e., the House of Israel, is treated like a disease that has to be eradicated. And, of course, that is the goal of Israel's just as white brother Edom. It is the noticeable beginning of the war against the saints we read about in Revelation 13. [See the Feature articles, Is That You, Big Brother?, Isaiah 63: Big Brother, and Obadiah And The Prophetic Parable Of The Tares; also How To Combat Whiteness]. Of those attacking our birthright "white privilege," who would be willing to forego use of all those "white privilege" inventions and discoveries that have blessed the world? [See the Sneakers article, Critical Reasoning And Thinking, What CRT Use To Be].

 

Read chapter five of The Blind Man’s Elephant for a startling detailed look at Daniel’s chapter two prophecy concerning the critical role of Ephraim [Great Britain] and to a lesser extent Manasseh [the US] in fulfilling one of the most significant and important end-time Biblical prophecies less than a century ago, of which we are ignorant. What took place then has lead us into the Blilical prophecies emerging today in the Middle East.

As we read in the last chapter of Daniel, “And he [God] said, "Go, Daniel, for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end.” The US and Great Britain are in end-time Biblical prophecies in a big way. And the fulfillment of Daniel’s prophecy by Great Britain and the US can be verified in our history books and encyclopedias. [See the Sneakers article, Who Inflicted The Beast's Deadly Wound?; also read the answer to the fifth question in The Blind Man’s Elephant menu, Q&A, scroll down].

 

But why is it that we’ve missed seeing this? Our story goes back to the Genesis Birthright, and the struggle between Israel and his brother Edom. Again this is all explained in great detail in chapter six of The Blind Man’s Elephant, a complimentary PDF on our Home page.

 

Perhaps an allegory will help us understand our situation a bit better. Imagine a wealthy heir, who at birth is stolen away. Their most trusted servant tells the parents that their baby has died. All the while, the child who was given away by the servant is completely unaware of his true identity. The couple, dying childless as they understand it, leaves their estate to their most trusted servant instead. In the meantime, the heir grows up thinking he is a just another guy with no inheritance. 

 

When the false new heir gains the inheritance, will the true heir oppose it? No, because he believes he is not the rightful heir. He thinks he’s a “gentile” because his true identity has been stolen. Is it in the interest of the deceitful servant to make known to the legitimate heir, his true identity? No, of course not. It’s the same for the Antichrist, the false prophet of Revelation. So then, which brother nations are the true heirs to the birthright according to the Biblical record?

 

For Christians, the House of Israel including Manasseh, it is vital that we are aware of our true identity. We are not some group of “gentiles,” or many seeds, who happened to believe in Christ, the very same Christ who said, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.” Who is the liar? Christ or the Antichrist? Yet do Christians believe we are the lost sheep of the House of Israel as Christ clearly said? Then, who is it we are following? It doesn't get any simpler than this. [John 8:44, 45].

 

While our ignorance comes with great peril, the greater sin is refusing the truth. Not knowing we are Manasseh or Ephraim, of the House of Israel, or any of the other nations of the House of israel, we are deceived. “For those who are such do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly, and by smooth words and flattering speech deceive the hearts of those without guile.” [Rom. 16:18]. As it is quoted from the Old Testament prophesy of Isaiah, "He answered and said to them, 'Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.'" [Mark 7:6].

 

This deception has caused us to walk away from the words of Christ. “But they [House of Israel] rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit [Pentecost, Acts 2:36-38]; so He turned Himself against them as an enemy, and He [Christ] fought against them” [Isa. 63:10], which leads us right back to Revelation 13. The fact that Christ is fighting against us, not someone else, is hardly the mindset of Christianity today. With "smooth words and flattering speech," we are led to believe we are not in the end-time Biblical prophecies. Ignorant of our heritage, we are walking down the wrong paths. How stupid must we be to ignore this?

 

It is the soon to be emergence of Babylon the Great, in these end-times that “… is granted to him [by Christ] to make war with the saints and to overcome them,” exactly for this reason. [Rev. 13:7]. But when the day of reckoning comes about due to our ignorance, we will be asked, “Why do you cry about your affliction? Your sorrow is incurable. Because of the multitude of your iniquities, because your sins have increased, I [our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ] have done these things to you.” [Jer. 30:12-15]. This is a prophetic reference to our forsaking the truth and the emerging sixth empire that God will use to punish us. It is the time of Jacob’s or Israel’s trouble, aka, the events we commonly refer to as the Apocalypse. [See the Feature article, Easter, Babylon And The Antichrist].

 

In our ignorance, we will ask, “What did we do?” We are deceived daily by the Antichrist into rebellion against Christ and our Father in heaven with severe consequences. [See the Feature article, Why Do We Believe The Lies?]. We are blindly led astray thinking we are on the right track. “For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if possible, they shall deceive the very elect.” [Mat. 24:24]. It is a great wonder that we have been deceived about our truthful Biblical identity and inheritance in light of plain statements made by Christ. We have turned to become anti-Christian Christians.

 

Therefore in our apathetic ignorance, we don’t know our place in Biblical history, and we don’t know our place in Biblical prophecy. Instead we need to renew ourselves in the knowledge of the truth that we “… should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ .…” [Eph. 4:14,15; see the Feature articles, The Love Of The Truth and The War Dispatches].

 

Knowing our true Biblical identity is foreign to our current understanding. And not without reason, for the spirit of the Antichrist has been at work since Christ’s first coming. This is why Paul, the apostle to the nations [Greek, ethnos], the House of Israel, warned the Christians at Ephesus to put on the whole armor of God for “we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” 

 

Knowing who we are is a vital piece of armor. Lacking this, we are vulnerable to every deceit and lie that comes our way. We need to heed the apostle James’ advice, “… be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.” [James 1:22].

 

Instead of having a holy curiosity and walking the path Christ set before us 2000 years ago in the first century, we are foolish to follow spiritual detours guided by the false light of the Antichrist, Babylon the Great. And major among these detours is the belief that “The United States and the United Kingdom are absent from end-times Bible prophecy.”

We will never get right with God as a Christian people until we know who we are, and come to the understanding of our Biblical history just as Orwell pointed out. It's only then that we can understand the word of God given to, and for us. It's only then that the path to righteousness before God will be become clear to us. And it's only then that we can get on track with the love of the truth of the word of God that we might be saved from the evil that is befalling us. Therefore, let us be wise, and clasp redemptive hands, so we “will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path,” for God's Spirit is true. [Pro. 2:9; see the Feature article, You Know You're A Christian When ...].

¹ There are two similar English words in the Biblical record, Sion and Zion. The first use of the term Sion is in Deu. 4:48, "From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto mount Sion, which is Hermon ...." This refers to Mount Hermon as Sion. It is located on the border between Syria and Lebanon, in the Golan Heights area. The first Biblical use of the term Zion is in 2 Sam. 5:7, "Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David." This refers to Jerusalem. 2 Samuel is the second book of Kings before Jerome's Latin Vulgate translation broke up the Book of Kings into Samuel and Kings. The books of Samuel were written between 931-877 BCE. Thus even the use of the Biblical term Zion did not occur until about 3000 years ago, well after the death of our patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel.

As we can see the use of the terms Sion and Zion refer to a specific mountain, and to the ancient city of Jerusalem, which David took during his kingship. See 2 Sam. 5:6-16. The word Zion occurs in 152 verses in the KJV of the Biblical record, and refers to Jerusalem. Therefore, the term Zion relates Biblically more to David, and specifically Jerusalem, and not the land promises given to Abraham. [See Zec. 9:9; and Mat. 21:5]. 

The word Palestine [Heb., pᵊlešeṯ] occurs in the KJV Old Testament in the Book of Joel, 3:4, "Yea, and what have you to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will you render me a recompence? and if you recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head ...." Scholars believe Joel wrote his book about the time of the prophets Hosea and Amos, placing it about 790 BCE. However, the Hebrew pᵊlešeṯ occurs in the Book of Exodus, in chapter 15:14 as Palestina. The King James translators published the KJV in 1611. 

The region known as Judaea, including Jerusalem, came under direct Roman Empire rule in 6 CE. Prior to this Jerusalem and its environs were under the direct control of the Greek Empire until from 323 to 63 BCE, when Pompey, of the Roman Republic, took the region of Judaea. Prior to the Greek Empire, Jerusalem/Judaea was territory of the Persian and Babylonian Empires. It was in 587 BCE that Babylon destroyed the city of Jerusalem, in the process of conquering Syria and Palestine. 

Keep in mind the Romans completely destroyed Jerusalem in the latter part of the first century, c. 70 CE, leaving behind only barren land devoid of all buildings and walls according to the first century historian Josephus. Then, after the Bar Kokhba revolt of 135 CE, the Roman Empire renamed its province Syria Palaestina. They built a Roman city on the former site of Jerusalem, naming it Aelia Capitolina. Jews were not allowed into the city under penalty of death, excepting Yom Kippur, and then they had to be out of town by sundown to avoid death. It remained a Roman city until 638 CE when taken by Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab, and was renamed Jerusalem. It is the third holiest city in Islam behind Mecca and Medina. And for seven centuries up until 1918 and WW1, it was a key center of Islamic [Palestinian] culture. Jerusalem then became a city of the British Mandate for Palestine as established by the League of Nations in 1920. Thus, the modern day secular use of the terms Zionists and Zionism only have to do with the political organization started by Herzl in 1897. It is a term that has been misappropriated recently for political purposes of the Israeli Zionists and their "Greater Israel Plan." See the article, The Zionist Plan For Greater Israel, aka The "Oded Yinon Plan."

There is no "Greater Israel Plan" in the Biblical record. It is a modern man-made Zionist construct whose idea erroneously is a very loose predication based on the promises given to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob/Israel. As the current day Zionist Israeli government is controlled by the descendants of Esau/Edom, none of the land in this "Greater Israel Plan" ever was intended for Edom. [See the map for Edom's land in relation to the land of Israel, 2 Kingdoms: Israel And Judah]. Edom has taken on the appearance of being Jewish [Rev. 3:9], and therefore claiming something that the Biblical prophecies make clear is not meant for them. "They [Edom] carved out large possessions to themselves ... out of God's land ... it was the holy land which they [Edom] laid their sacrilegious hands upon. They did not own any dependence upon God, as the God of that land, nor acknowledge any remaining interest that Israel [in this case the descendants of Judah] had in it, but cast it out for a prey, as if they had won it in a lawful war. And this they did without any dread of God and his judgments and without any compassion for Israel [Jews] and their calamities ... Increasing wealth, by right or wrong, is all the joy of a worldly heart; and the calamities of God's people are all the joy of a despiteful mind." Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary, 1706, Vol. 4, Book of Ezekiel, p. 586ff, Eze. 36:5.

The modern day struggle we are experiencing now in the Middle East/West Asia, according to the prophecies, is Esau/Edom's attempt to regain the birthright from the House of Israel, and the House of Judah, i.e., the House of Jacob, prior to the return of Christ, and all that goes with it, that they sold to Jacob/Israel millennia ago. See Gen. 25:29-34, Heb. 12:16, 17, and Gen. 27. They will fail in this pursuit, but not without great destruction on the nations, Houses of Israel and Judah as we read in the end-times prophecies in the Book of Ezekiel. As noted above. "Surely I [our LORD] have spoken in My burning jealousy [Heb. qin'â, ardor, zeal] against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who gave My land to themselves as a possession ["... as if they had won it in a lawful war" see My land; see Eze. 47 for the borders of Israel after the return of Christ], with wholehearted joy and spiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey,” that is, "to take the land for a prey, its inhabitants being cast out." Sound familiar? Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory On The Whole Bible, 1871, Eze. 36:5.

From our footnote in Nope To Pope, "On December 10, 2015, the Vatican’s COMMISSION FOR RELIGIOUS RELATIONS WITH THE JEWS [those of Edom in this case, not those descended from Judah, Rev. 2:9, Rev. 3:9] published a remarkable document in which they proclaimed Catholicism [the church of Rome] to be a child of Judaism, praying to the same god and casually rejecting Jesus as living God, but talking about Him as a Talmudic teacher. They branded millions of Catholics as lesser Jews who reject the divinity of Christ." [Note: The Babylonian & Jerusalem Talmuds are comprised of non-Biblical, non-Old Testament Jewish, anti-Christian writings, Satanic Talmud, two to five hundred years after Christ, see Talmud, also see Dan. 11:37; also the Feature article, The Tie That Binds. The Roman church is denying that Jesus Christ was Jehovah, the anointed one is salvation, as does Edom, that is, he was the son of God in the flesh. They are buying into the Zionist lies saying he's just another guy. This is the Antichrist, or those not of God, that the apostle John warns us about in 1 John 4:1-3, 15]. 

"They reminded that 'The permanence of Israel is to be perceived as an 'historic' fact and a sign to be interpreted within God’s design.' [This is the core of the false Zionist's claim and their "Greater Israel Plan"]. They said that Judaism is not to be considered simply as another religion; the Jews are instead our “elder brothers” (Saint Pope John Paul II), our "fathers in faith." ... I have no doubts that this hastily and poorly written document was published by the Vatican, two months after the [Eastern Orthodox] Russians coming to the Middle East, with one aim, to place on the millions of deceived papists an unduly burden to defend “The permanence of [the Zionist Greater Israel Plan] Israel” as a part of “God’s design,” and how exactly should we count Jesus’ promise “You see all of these things, do you not? Truly I say unto you, there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down” [Mat. 24:2] into this “design of the permanence of Israel?” [thesaker.is, June 30, 2017].

The Matthew 24 quote refers to the Roman's first century destruction of Jerusalem that was under the rule of the Herods, who were Edomites, as noted by Josephus. For the end-times 21st century destruction of Jerusalem, Babylon the Great, the Beast, also ruled over by Edomites, and the False Prophet, read Rev. 18:9-24 and Rev. 19:20. This takes place immediately preceding the return of Christ. During the millennial time of peace, Jerusalem will be given a new name. As we read in Ezekiel 48:35, the city of Jerusalem , yᵊrûšālam, will be named, Jehovah Shammah,"The Lord is there." [Heb. יְהוָה שָׁם, yᵊhōvâ šāmâ].

See chapter 35, God's judgement on Edom. [Also the article, Trump Is From Edom, in reality, under the dominion of, Gen. 27:40]. It's an interesting interpretation from the Judah side of the coin, though Christianity is not descended from Rome, only the Roman Catholic church. The Roman church was not in existence when the Christian church began in Jerusalem in the early part of the first century on that Pentecost day. And Peter never was pope. [See the Sneakers article, Nope To Pope].

At the time of Christ in the first century, Rome was the fourth head of the Beast, the Great Image, in Daniel 2. The Ottoman Empire was the fifth head of the Great Image in Daniel. The next head, number six, is that of Edom, not Rome. See Rev. 13; also The Blind Man's Elephant, The Genesis Birthright p. 185ff]. Mt. Seir is Idumea, Edom. v. 35:10, "these two nations, these two countries" are a reference to the House of Israel and the House of Judah. As Matthew Henry stated in his commentary, "The restoration of God's Israel [the House of Israel and the House Of Judah] and the re-establishment of their city and temple are foretold in chapters 36 to the end." [See Eze. 37:15-28]. None of this includes the current Zionists of Edom. 

² "Jacob [the patriarch Israel] was guided in what he said by a spirit of prophecy, and not by natural affection; else he would have spoken with more tenderness of his beloved son Benjamin, concerning whom he only foresees and foretells this, that his posterity [Germany in the last days] should be a warlike tribe, strong and daring, and that they should enrich themselves with the spoils of their enemies-- that they should be active and busy in the world, and a tribe as much feared by their neighbours ...." Think WW1 and WW2. Matthew Henry Commentary, 1706, Genesis 49:27. 

³ For a look at the history of Great Britain, read the excellent book by Arthur Herman, To Rule The Waves, How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World. It is an exceptional, and no doubt unintended, account of Ephraim fulfilling the prophecy of Genesis 48. As Herman notes in the book, John Foxe, author of Foxe's Book of Martyrs, 1563, which chronicles the executions of Protestants, most notably during the reign of the Catholic Queen Mary, "set in motion the idea of England as God's Elect Nation." [Chapter 3, p.47]. While Foxe may not have been familiar with the prophecy in Genesis 48 pertaining to England in the personage of the Biblical Ephraim, his point was spot on ... "Bless the lads; let my name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth ... his [Ephraim's] descendants shall become a multitude of nations." God, through our patriarch Israel, chose Ephraim and made him the firstborn of the House of Israel, those to whom Christ was sent to redeem. [Mat. 15:24]. For any Englishman wishing to test the veracity of Genesis 48, Herman's book is a must read.

 

Of interest, Herman quotes US Senator Henry Cabot Lodge in a meeting with his congressional colleagues regarding Lodge’s observations of Britain’s dominant sea power, its role in the world, and its implications for Manasseh, the US: “We are a great people; we control this continent, we are dominant in this hemisphere: we have too great an inheritance to be trifled with … It is ours to guard and extend.” [Page 472; also Speeches and Addresses 1884-1909, Henry Cabot Lodge]. Lodge is acknowledging the divine origin of the United States as the predestined beneficiary of a great inheritance to be guarded. [See Eph. 1:11].

Yet, we should not confuse the current day wars and destruction caused by the US, especially in the Middle East, and most recently Ukraine, as extending our inheritance. Rather, the inheritance, the birthright has been usurped by Edom exactly as the Genesis 27:40, 41 prophesy says, "And Esau [Edom] hated Jacob [Israel] because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then will I slay my brother Jacob. And by your sword shall you live [MIC], and shall serve your brother; and it shall come to pass when you shall have the dominion, that you shall break his yoke from off your neck."

This is the process we see daily in our nations, especially with the covid scam designed to kill us as well as the CO2 climate hoax. The Jews we know as Zionists, those who push all things war, "living by the sword," are descendants of Esau/Edom, as was King Herod in the first century. [See Mat. 2:16-18]. They are not descendants of Judah despite their claims. See  Rev. 2:9 and 3:9. Also Gen. 27:38-40, Gen. 25:23-26. This is where we are today in prophecy. This is why the US no longer is the country founded on the rule of law, the Constitution, and respect for our inalienable rights from God. The descendants of Edom have broken our yoke from off their neck, and inflict their rules based order on us and the world, casting aside any respect for international law. [2 Ths. 2:8-10].

 

For a fascinating look at how Manasseh, the US emerged to become a separate great nation from his 'elder' brother Ephraim, Great Britain, read David McCullough’s 1776 and his insightful book, John Adams.  

 

McCullough makes a poignant statement about John Adams that is so apropos here. “There’s a line in one of the letters written by John Adams where he’s telling his wife Abigail at home, 'We can’t guarantee success in this war [of independence from Great Britain], but we can do something better. We can deserve it.' Think how different that is from the attitude today when all that matters is success, being number one, getting ahead, getting to the top. However you betray or gouge or claw or do whatever awful thing is immaterial if you get to the top. That line in the Adams letter is saying that how the war turns out is in the hands of God. We can’t control that, but we can control how we behave.” 

 

And when the United States fought this war with their brother England, a commonwealth of nations, to become that single great nation prophesied in Genesis, who was it that led them? George Washington. Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Dr. Walter Jones in January 1814, "I felt on his death [George Washington], with my countrymen, that 'verily a great man has fallen this day in Israel.'" [Reference 2 Sam. 3:38]. And indeed, that was the case as Washington was point man fulfilling the Genesis 48 prophesy that Manasseh shall become a separate nation, a great people. Perhaps the Founding Fathers of the US knew more about Biblical history and prophecy than we give them credit.

Traditionally, Washington and Lincoln are considered the top two presidents in US history. As the prophecy in Genesis 48 states, Manasseh was to become a single great nation. George Washington led the colonies to that status in their breaking away from their brother Ephraim. Then as civil war threatened to split this single great nation in two, Abraham Lincoln was at the helm of the ship of state. The Union remained secure as the prophecy in Genesis 48 held true. In the case of President Lincoln, it was literally true. " ... let my name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac ...." At two critical junctures, the argument could be made that both were civil wars, the Genesis 48 prophecy remained steadfast. Scripture cannot be broken. [John 10:35].
 

The first time the United States joined forces with Great Britain as a military ally they defeated Germany [Benjamin, Gen. 49] and the Ottoman Empire in WW1, the 5th head of the Beast in Daniel 2. [For the prophetic significance of this, see chapter five, The Blind Man's Elephant, now a complimentary PDF at the bottom of the Home page]. In the aftermath of World War 1, the US four star Admiral Hugh Rodman characterized the relationship between the US and Great Britain as one of “brotherhood” and “national kinship.” [The United States in the First World War: an encyclopedia, p. 758, Venson and Miles]. The second time they joined forces, during WW2, the United States strength as a naval power emerged to replace Great Britain. Pax Americana replaced Pax Britannica by war’s end. Now with Edom's having gained dominion over his brother Jacob/Israel, the US is at the forefront of Bellum Americana, with Britain at its side. [See the Feature article, Damascus A Heap Of Ruins].

The British historian and professor of English Literature, Robert Payne, was quoted in one of David McCullough's other works, Truman, "She [the US] bestrides the world like a Colossus; no other power at any time in the world's history has possessed so varied or so great an influence on other nations ... It is already an axiom that the decisions of the American government affect the lives and livelihood of the remotest people. Half the wealth of the world, more than half the productivity, nearly two-thirds of the world's machines are concentrated in American hands ...." [p. 733]. Though today, this diminishing power resides in the hands of Edom rather than Manasseh and Ephraim, which is why the world has seen a change in US character and policies since the end of WW2 and Truman's tenure in office.

Prophetically, however, it’s all in the family as Joseph’s sons exactly as it says in Genesis 48.

 

What other nations, much less Christian nations, in world history perfectly fits the description of Israel’s laying his hands on the two brother’s heads saying, "Let my name be named upon them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac," regarding the prophecy of God’s promises of inheritance? None. It all goes back to the Genesis 48 prophecy regarding these two brothers, national kin of Israel in the end-times. That would be us.



If you read chapters five and six of The Blind Man’s Elephant, now a complimentary PDF at the bottom of the Home page, the answer to the US and Great Britain's Biblical ancestry, our heritage and our current circumstances are readily apparent. Also see the Feature article, Paul Was An Apostle To The House Of Israel, Not The Gentiles. If you read any number of the articles on this site, the answer is provided within them as well. In fact, a collective reading of these articles should paint a very good big picture for you. See the Feature article, Damascus A Heap Of Ruins for its implications concerning the near future of the US and Great Britain as well as the nations of the Christian West.

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