This riddle covers the first half of Jeremiah's commission. Now notice what is revealed concerning the second part, the planting of David's throne! It comes in the parable, verses 22-24. "Thus saith the Lord God; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar." From God's own explanation we have learned that the cedar tree represents the nation of Judah; its highest branch is Judah's king.
The riddle told us Nebuchadnezzar took the highest branch, the king. The parable now tells us God, not Nebuchadnezzar, but God, will take of the highest branch. Not the branch, but of the branch of Zedekiah's children. But Nebuchadnezzar took, and killed, all his sons. God, through his prophet Jeremiah, is now going to take of this highest branch, and "set it" (verse 22). "I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain," continues the Almighty! Ah! "A tender young twig!" The twigs of this highest branch represent the children of King Zedekiah.
Certainly a tender young twig, then, represents a daughter! ..... And will plant it." Could symbolic language say plainer this young Jewish princess is to become the royal seed for planting again of David's throne? Where? ..... Upon a high and lofty mountain," says God! A "mountain" in symbol always represents a nation. But which nation? "In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it," answers God! David's throne now is to be planted in Israel, after being thrown down from Judah! Could language be plainer? ..... And it [the tender young twig, the king's daughter] shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar:"
Did David's throne cease with Zedekiah of Judah? Did God forget his covenant? No! Compare this language with the passage in Isaiah 37:31-32: "the remnant that escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward be planted and bear fruit upward." It was planted in Israel, who removed from Judah.
After this Hebrew princess is "planted" on the throne, which is now in Israel, lost from view; that throne is to bear fruit. She is to marry, have children, and her sons are to continue David's dynasty! And under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell" (verse 23). "Lost" Israel, now having acquired the throne and become again a self-ruling nation, shall, in time, spread around the earth gaining dominance and power. They shall inherit the unconditional promises of the birthright, according to God's covenant with Abraham! "And all the trees of the field…" (verse 24). A "tree" in this riddle and parable is likened to a nation. In other words, "All the nations of the Earth..." ..... Shall know that I, the Lord, have brought down the high tree."
Judah, the high tree, having the throne 130 years after the House of Israel had been taken captive, now is brought down to the low stature of slavery." …… have exalted the low tree." For 130 years the House of Israel had been a "low tree". Now the House of Israel is exalted, becomes again a nation with a king."..... have dried up the green tree" Judah, "and have made the dry tree to flourish." The House of Israel, headed by the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, who possessed the birthright, now shall flourish, become prosperous in due time. "I the Lord have spoken and have done it."
Yes, that birthright is in Israel. Though lost, though supposed to be a Gentile nation, they are the people who were to grow into the promised multitude, the great nation, and the company of nations, possessing the gates of their enemy nations, becoming a colonizing people spreading around the world, being blessed with national resources and wealth. And, when they become thus powerful and nationally dominant, remember David's throne will be found transplanted among them!
But where did Jeremiah, with his royal seed for the transplanting, go to find the lost House of Israel? Where are they today? How was the 'breach" healed, and how did a son of Zarah ascend the throne? Can we tell?
We can! The exact, precise location is revealed in Bible prophecy! We can pick up Jeremiah's trail besides!
We are ready, now, to search out the actual location of the lost tribes of the outcast House of Israel. We know they exist today as a Nation, and a Company of Nations powerful, looked upon as Gentiles. And when we find them we shall find a ruler, still today occupying the throne of David! Many passages of prophecy tell of these people in these latter days. Prophecies not to be understood until this "time of the end." Prophecies containing a Message to be carried to these people by those to whom God reveals it!
First it is necessary to fix in mind these facts:
The prophet Amos wrote, in the days of the 18th of the 19 kings of the House of Israel, (Amos 1:1): "Behold the eyes of the Lord are upon the sinful kingdom [House of Israel, Judah had not yet sinned], and I will destroy it [the kingdom, or government, not the people] from off the face of the earth. For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth" (Amos 9:8-9).
This prophecy usually is applied to the scattered condition of the Jews. But it has nothing to do with the Jews, or House of Judah, but refers to the ten tribed House of Israel driven to Assyrian captivity, then migrating from there and scattering among other nations. This prophecy says that Israel (not Judah) was to be sifted among other nations where they loose their identity. Yet God has protected and kept them and "not the least grain shall fall upon the earth."
It was during this time that the children of the House of Israel were to "abide many days without a king" (Hosea 3:4). That these people did sift through the nations is clear. Many New Testament passages indicate this. Although many of them still were scattered among various nations in the first century A.D., a portion of them had become established in a definite location of their own by Jeremiah's time, 140 years after their original captivity. But these Israelites who possessed the birthright eventually were to come to a new land of their own.
The Lord says, in II Samuel 7:10 and I Chronicles 17:9: "Moreover, I will appoint a place for my people Israel, and will plant them [Jeremiah was commissioned to do the planting of the throne among them] that they may dwelt in a place of their own and move no more." The context of the whole passage shows this refers, not to the Promised Land of Canaan, but a different land where these scattered Israelites were to gather, after being removed from the promised land of Palestine, and while that land was lying idle and in possession of the Gentiles.
Notice carefully! After being removed from their land, being sifted among all nations, abiding many days without a king, losing their identity, they are to be "planted" in far away strange land, now to become their own. And, note it-after reaching this place, they are to move no more! That is, of course, during this present age. While other prophecies indicate these birthright holders were to become a colonizing people, spreading around the world, it is plain that the spreading out must be from this appointed place, which must remain the "home" seat of government for David's throne.
Mark this clearly! Once this "place of their own" was reached, and the throne of David planted there, they were to move no more. Therefore, the location of this people today is the place where Jeremiah planted David's throne more than 2,500 years ago!
Therefore prophecies pertaining to this day, or to the location of this people just prior to Christ's return, will tell us the location of Jeremiah's planting. The two succeeding "overturns" of the throne, too, must be located in this same place.
Without further suspense, let's see where this prophecy locates these birthright holders who are now possessing the throne of David and earth's richest national blessings. Remember they are distinguished from Judah, the Jews by various names, "Ephraim," "Joseph," "Jacob," "Rachel" (the mother of Joseph), Samaria (the former capital).
According to Hosea 12:1, "Ephraim followeth after the east wind." An "east wind" travels west. Ephraim must have gone west from Assyria. When God swore to David to perpetuate his throne, He said: "I will set his hand [scepter] in the sea" (Psalms 89:25). The throne is to be "set," planted, "in the sea." Through Jeremiah the Eternal said: "Backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah. Go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, Return thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord" (Jeremiah 3:11-12).
Israel is here clearly distinguished from Judah. And in these last days messengers are to go "toward the north" (of Jerusalem) in order to locate lost Israel and proclaim this warning. So the location, we now find, is toward the north, also west, and in the sea.
The 18th verse of the same chapter, says: "In those days the House of Judah shall walk with the House of Israel [margin, to the House of Israel], and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers." At the future Exodus, at Christ's coming, they are to return to the Holy Land out of the land of the north! After saying, "How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?" the Lord, speaking through Hosea, says: "... then the children shall tremble from the west" (Hosea 11:8, 10).
Again, "Behold, I will bring them from the North Country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth" (Jeremiah 31:8). This prophecy is for consideration in the "latter days" (Jeremiah 30:24; 31:1), and is addressed to "Israel" (verses 2, 4, 9,) to "Ephraim" (verses 6, 9,) and "Samaria" (verse 5). Here is added another hint "the coasts of the earth", evidently they are dominant at sea.
Referring to the House of Israel (not Judah) in Isaiah 49:3, 6, God says: "Behold these shall come from far: and lo, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim" (Isaiah 49:12). In the Hebrew, the language in which this was originally inspired, there is no word for "northwest," but the phrase, "the north and the west" designate this term. It means, literally, the northwest! The Vulgate renders "Sinim" as Australi" meaning the south. So we now have the location northwest of Jerusalem, as well as southern lands. Hence, Israel of today, Israel of the day of Jeremiah's "planting" of David's throne, is located specifically northwest of Jerusalem, and in the sea!
Let us locate this land more specifically! The same 49th chapter of Isaiah begins with this: "Listen, 0 isles, unto me." The people addressed, Israel, are called "0 Isles" in the first verse and "0 Israel" in the third verse. The 31st chapter of Jeremiah, locating Israel in the "north country," says: "I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first born... Hear the word of the Lord, 0 ye nations "Ephraim, Manasseh" and declare it in the isles afar off' (Jeremiah 31:9-10).
Again: "Keep silence before me, 0 islands. .. thou, Israel, art my servant Jacob whom I have chosen" (Isaiah. 41:1).
In Jeremiah 31:7, the message to be declared "In the isles afar off" (verse 10) is to be shouted in "the chief of the nations." So, finally, today, as in Jeremiah's day, the House of Israel is in the isles, which are "in the sea" the chief of the nations, northwest of Jerusalem! A Coast-dwelling, and therefore sea dominant people. Certainly there can be no mistaking that identity! Take a map of Europe. Lay a line due northwest of Jerusalem across the continent of Europe, until you come to the sea, and then to the islands in the sea! This line takes you direct to the British Isles! This is proof that the white English speaking peoples today, Britain and America, are actually and truly the birthright tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh of the "lost" House of Israel.
Jeremiah’s Voyage
An old man arrives on an Island with a small group of people in 583 BC. He brings the daughter of a King, a scribe named Simon Brug and some relics. The powerful Milesian High King of all Ireland allows the old man complete control. Instituting laws, schools and congresses, the old man forever changes the face of the Island's history, and subsequently the history of the entire world. Apparently incidental to all this, is the fulfilling of a 500 year old prophecy.
Few people know that Jeremiah was much more than a prophet. He tends to get lumped in with Isaiah, Ezekiel and the others. Jeremiah did more than go around speaking doom and gloom. He held a high level position in the kingdom of Judah. He was the grandfather of King Zedekiah. II Kings 24:18. Most importantly, Jeremiah was God's Trustee of the Bloodline and the Throne of David.
Jeremiah's commission has always puzzled scholars. One can find where Jeremiah rooted out, pulled down, destroyed, and threw down kingdoms. History shows that his prophecies about the destruction of kingdoms came true. The mystery is, where did Jeremiah "build and plant?" The scriptural account doesn't contain any building and planting. There is also some confusion about Jeremiah's being put "over the nations." It would appear at first glance that this meant his prophesying against them. This is not the case. First, Jer 1:10 says that God set him "over the nations, not nations (in general). This is repeated with the word kingdoms; the kingdoms. The bible is concerned with only one people, the twelve tribes of Israel. Jeremiah was to "throw down" AND "build and plant" the Israelite nations. We'll have to follow his trail to find where he accomplished his mission.
First we'll look at the Biblical account. Jer 15:11-14 which tells us Jerry is going to a brand new place he "knowest not." Isaiah fills out the picture a bit. Isaiah 41:1-3
“Be silent before me, you islands!
Let the nations renew their strength!
Let them come forward and speak;
let us meet together at the place of judgment.
“Who has stirred up one from the east,
calling him in righteousness to his service?
He hands nations over to him
and subdues kings before him.
He turns them to dust with his sword,
to windblown chaff with his bow.
He pursues them and moves on unscathed,
by a path his feet have not traveled before.
This tells us that a "righteous man from the east" was put over nations and kings. This man would not travel by foot (on land). Jer 41:10 establishes the presence of the "king's daughters" in the group with Jeremiah. Jeremiah, as their great-grandfather, would certainly have assumed the position of Guardian. Then we find Jeremiah and the girls going to the Egyptian city of Tahpanhes. In fact, there is an ancient structure there that bears the name, "Palace of the Jew's daughters." Isaiah helps us again with a last bit of confirmation, in chapter 37:31, telling us that a "remnant of Judah" shall escape and "take root downward."
Before going on, we must take notice of what God had promised Jeremiah and his fellow travelers. God told Jeremiah that he'd be treated kindly by the Babylonians and die a natural death. Baruch, Jeremiah's scribe and Ebed-Melech, the Ethiopian, are also told they'd be spared. The probable number in Jeremiah's traveling band was five: Jeremiah, Baruch, Ebed-Melech Tea Tephi and her sister.
It's not so hard to trace the migration of large groups of people. Not so with small groups. But God knows this too, and has left evidence that we may overcome our doubts about Jeremiah's destination. But we have to go the history books. Only one place in the world claims to have the grave of the prophet Jeremiah. Only one country's history tells of an old man, and his scribe Brug bringing a king's daughter from Egypt. Only one country claims the Harp of David for its Arms. Only one country has Jerrys coming out of its ears.
That Country is Ireland.
Although, due to the Bards embellishing the story, accounts of Jeremiah's arrival and work in Ireland differ in some details, however, the basic elements of each tale are the same.
* The Stone, known as the "Stone of Destiny" came from Spain,
* and before that, from Egypt
* It came in the company of an aged guardian, who was called "Ollam Folla", (Hebrew for revealer or prophet)
* Accompanying the man was an eastern king's daughter
* Eochaidh (Eremhon) married the daughter, Tea Tephi
* The aged guardian became the most influential Statesman and Spiritual leader of Ireland.
Remember the evidence I mentioned, that God would supply us to confirm Jeremiah's trip? The following picture is of an inscription found in a tomb located in Schiabhla-Cailliche, near Oldcastle, County, Meath, Ireland, not far from Tara. Thirty-some stones with strange markings upon them, lie in the sepulchral chamber within the huge cairn of stones which make up the tomb. A large carved stone outside the tomb is still pointed out as Jeremiah's judicial seat. Our confirmation lies on those thirty stones in the cairn.
One interpretation, by George Dansie of Bristol, says the stones show a Lunar Eclipse, in the constellation of Taurus and a conjunction of the planets Saturn and Jupiter in Virgo. The prow of a ship is shown in the center, with five lines indicating the number of passengers it carries. On the left, a part of the ship, perhaps the stern, is shown with only four passengers, one having been left behind, as indicated by the line falling away from the ship. The wavy line indicates the passage of the ship across the ocean, terminating at a central point on an island.
The stellar and planetary alignment of the inscription gives a date of 583 BC. This date allows just the right amount of time for our little band to go to Egypt, and return to Palestine briefly before making their way to Spain, then Ireland.
THE VOYAGE OF THE TRAVELLING TRUSTEE TEA TEPHI
Buried ineradicably in the poetry and folklore of Ireland is the tale of a Prophet, an Egyptian Princess and Simon Brug (Baruch) a Scribe. They Landed in Ireland about the same time that the destruction of Jerusalem took place, bearing with them a great chest and a stone wrapped on a banner. The Princess married the Zarahite King, Eochaidh II. Ard-dath, Ard-righ, or Heremon (horse man of all Ireland), and their son was Irial. I, (M.R. Munro Faure) give quotations from old Irish verse:
The praises of Tea Tephi, daughter of Lughaidh (equivalent in Erse of Bethel) are sung as:
"The Beautiful One with a Royal Prosperous Smile."
"Tephi (Hebrew beautiful) the most beautiful that traversed the Plain."
"Temor of Bregia, whence so called."
Relate to me O learned Sages,
When was the place called Temor?
Was it in the time of Parthalon of battles?
Or at the first arrival of Caesaire?
Tell me in which of these invasions
Did the place have the name of Tea-mor?
O Tuan,
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