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“... Homer relates that Troy reached its greatest splendor in the reign of King Priam. Its destruction was caused by Paris, a son of Priam, who abducted Helen, the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta, and carried her off to the Trojan capital. The Greeks spent 10 years in collecting an army to avenge this outrage, and, under the leadership of Agamemnon, who had 1,186 ships and 100,000 men drove the Trojans within the walls of Troy ... It is related that the Greeks were unable to capture the city by direct assault.

A TRUTH HIDDEN FOR 2,700 YEARS

[Originally distributed by Sheldon Emry’s AMERICA’S PROMISE, with IMPORTANT CORRECTIONS]:

There are two main racial branches of modern Jewry: the Sephardic Jews of Western Europe and the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe.

THE SEPHARDIM: After Israel and Judah went into captivity in Assyria and Babylon, less than 50,000 of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi returned to Jerusalem 5 centuries before Christ. This was made possible by the edict of Cyrus, and later an epistle from king Xerxes to Ezra. Josephus tells us of this later epistle:

“So he (Ezra) read the epistle at Babylon to those Judeans that were there; but he kept the epistle itself, and sent a copy of it to all those of his own nation that were in Media; and when these Judeans had understood what piety the king had towards God, and what kindness he had for Ezra, they were all greatly pleased; nay, many of them took their effects with them, and came to Babylon, as very desirous of going down to Jerusalem; but then the entire body of the people of Israel remained in that country; wherefore there are but 2 tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the 10 tribes are beyond Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers” (Josephus’ Antiq., 11.5.2).

Ezra and Nehemiah both had a hard time keeping the Judeans from intermarrying with the heathen. Often they had to institute reforms, showing that this was a problem right from the beginning (Ezra 2:62; 9:1; 2; Nehemiah 7:64; 12:23-30).

A few centuries later this problem of intermarriage became greatly aggravated when John Hyrcanus conquered the heathen cities in Palestine and forced the Canaanites to become Jews. After conquering a number of other cities ...

That the Waldenses sect of Christians were derived and formed into a religious group by Peter Waldo is probably among one of the biggest lies ever told. It is absolutely not true. Their very name screams “it’s a lie”. My purpose here is to clear up this odious lie that many people pass along as being the truth. I know you have been told this lie, but the Waldenses existed hundreds of years before Waldo ever came on the scene. As we shall see, Waldo was only a late comer in the game.

If you are among the many who never realized there are three different tribes of Judah, don’t feel bad for most of the clergy are not aware of that fact either! Strange that such should be the case, for it’s their responsibility to understand, and teach such things! By accepting compensation under such false pretense, they fall under a most dishonorable Biblical category of “hireling.” One may not realize it, but our Bibles don’t speak very highly of those who identify themselves as “pastor” or “shepherd” under such circumstances. Isaiah 56:10 exposes them thusly:

“10 His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.”

One may very quickly detect whether or not a pastor or priest is qualified for his office when, for instance, he makes the statement “Abraham the Jew.” This type of verbalization is preposterous, for Abraham was the great-grandfather of Judah! The next time you hear a so-called minister make such an unqualified remark, you can mark it down in your book that he isn’t the Bible scholar he pretends to be! It then becomes your Biblical duty to muzzle that “dumb dog” and challenge him to explain how such a thing could be! After all, he, by accepting your money (your life’s blood), is using you to proliferate his false statements. Not only that, but by declining to reprove him, you become part and parcel of his untruthfulness and become as guilty as he.

Another situation that should start waving red flags in one’s mind is when a minister or priest starts using the terms “Jew” and “Israel” interchangeably! The “House of Judah” is not the “House of Israel”, and the “House of Israel” is not the “House of Judah”, but must be differentiated! Such unqualified verbiage exposes either their ignorance or subversion concerning Biblical matters! The object of this paper is to show what the clergy has failed to reveal: namely that there are three different houses within the Tribe of Judah.

This is a sequel to my exposé Following The Trail Of the “Scarlet-Thread”. In that paper, I traced the Scarlet Thread from the birth of Zerah-Judah in old Canaan to Egypt, and then through Troy, then Rome, Greece, and finally to Britain. With this paper we shall concentrate on the Trojan-Roman connection. It is paramount that we understand this correlation or a good portion of our Bible will continue to remain a mystery. To understand this Trojan-Roman connection it is imperative that one have in his possession a copy of the works of Virgil containing the Aeneid, Eclogues and Georgics. There are many scholarly editions to select from. As we go along, it will become apparent why Virgil’s works are so important, especially his Aeneid. It will also become manifest why we need to consult other sources than the Bible alone. We will start by examining, as described in various encyclopedias, Virgil’s background and what he achieved.

From the World Book Encyclopedia, vol. 19, page 304 we read: “VIRGIL, or Vergil (70-19 b.c.), was the greatest Roman poet. His Aeneid, the national epic of Rome, is a masterpiece of world literature. It was read all through the centuries when other pagan writings were ignored.

“His Works. The Aeneid is almost a Roman Bible. Its object was to show that Rome was founded and became great in accordance with a divine plan, that Augustus, like Aeneas before him, was a divinely appointed leader, and that Rome’s mission was to bring peace and civilization to the world. The first six of its 12 books are modeled on Homer’s Odyssey and the rest on Homer’s Iliad. There are also touches from other Greek poems, especially the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes. But Virgil fused his literary borrowings and influences into a new creation that is as original and powerful as it is profound.

This is the third in a series on the “Scarlet-Thread”. My former articles were entitled Following The Trail Of the “Scarlet-Thread” and The Roman Branch of the “Scarlet-Thread”. The Scarlet-Thread we are speaking of is found first at Genesis 38:27-30:

“²⁷ And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. ²⁸ And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. ²⁹ And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez. ³⁰ And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.”

At this point we must ask the question: Why did the midwife use a scarlet thread to identify the firstborn of the twin sons born to Judah by Tamar? This is unusual, inasmuch as Judah previously had three sons by the Canaanite woman, daughter of Shua. Why were not Pharez and Zarah counted as numbers four and five? To comprehend all of this, we need to go to Genesis 49:8-12:

“⁸ Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee. ⁹ Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? ¹⁰ The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. ¹¹ Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: ¹² His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.”

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Many have heard, and are very familiar with, the terms “Irish” and “Scottish”, and really don’t know the difference between the two. The Irish and Scots are really the same people except they arrived in Britain two thousand years apart. The ancestors of the Irish arrived in Britain about 1600 B.C., while the Scots arrived about 501 A.D. It is simply amazing that two groups of the same people would wander through the earth and end up locating within a few miles from each other two thousand years later in Britain. Because there are two different groups of the same peoples concerned here, we will have to treat them separately even though they came from the same family. We will first investigate the background of the Irish.

The Irish are a very ancient people, and their history covers a large span of time. If we will take the time to do a little arithmetic, we will soon see we are talking about approximately 3,500 years or better. With the United States being 223 years old (1999), you can see the Irish history is about 18 times as old as we are. When one considers all the things that have happened since 1776, it is staggering to imagine what has happened to the Irish people over a period of 3,500 years.

The beginning of our story starts at Gen. 38:27-30 with the births of Pharez and Zerah to the patriarch Judah, mothered by Tamar, but with this exposé we are interested in Zerah’s line alone. When Judah’s twin sons were about to be born, it appeared to the midwife that Zerah (Zarah) would be born first, so she placed a scarlet thread upon his hand. It is significant that a “scarlet thread” was used, as it was an insignia of royalty.

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