By Liaf
I know I haven't been contributing as many messages lately, but as the most recent messages indicated, I am busier than normal. I must also admit, I am running out of ideas of topics to talk about. More likely, I probably am not thinking of too many subjects these days because my mind has been elsewhere the last three months. Be that as it may, many of you know (or should know) that I like to tinker with mathematics. This is another one of those interesting phenomenon that I "accidentally" stumbled on relating to Israel. "Mathematics and Israel?" you may ask. I'll explain in a moment. But at least I have some pictures, or I should say, maps to show later in this message. However, when we talk about the "lost tribes", I found this interesting mathematical "coincidence" which is one of the many subtle hints I've been talking about throughout all my messages that show who the lost tribes of Israel are. As I mentioned many times before, when we have a bunch of seemingly insignificant coincidences mount up, we have to ask ourselves the statistical significance of them--- maybe they are not coincidental and the sum total of all these little indicators force us to take a look at the data.
Before I state my observation, however, I wanted to let you all know that I cleaned one of my old bookcases lately. Buried therein was an old book from an evangelist dating sometime in the mid-70's. The subject of the book dealt with Romans. Actually, the explanation of Romans 4:13 was typical of most evangelists--- that the promise of Abraham becoming the heir of the world and the father of many nations was fulfilled in Gentile Christians. The control of the whole world will be fulfilled in the millennium. I like books like these even though I believe the interpretation of Biblical texts by Christendom is quite impotent. It keeps one (as myself) on their toes and gives an angle to approach this subject regarding Israel. The first thing I noticed is that this book (and many Bible footnotes) generally agree that Abraham is the father of many nations now and can have a fulfillment now albeit in an unexpected fashion (so they say). The Gentile's faith makes these people true spiritual descendants of Abraham thus fulfilling these promises spiritually without the need for an actual physical fulfillment of a multitude of nations from a tribe such as Ephraim. Do you follow me (or I should say them) so far? In other words, Jews failed Christ, so the faith of Jesus enabled Gentiles to become spiritual descendants of Abraham so that they took the place of what the "Jew" could have had. So as not to seem too anti-Semitic, they assure us the "Jew" will enjoy millennial blessings so they are not forgotten in the Abrahamic covenant.
I want you to know this is a crock of doo-doo. For starters, why would Ephraim be promised to become many nations only for that promise to be switched to a spiritual fulfillment in Gentiles? Yet... Jesus actually came (literally) from the tribe of Judah as the scepter was promised them. See my point? Why is the birthright spiritually fulfilled but the King must actually come from the tribe of Judah as both the Bible indicates in genealogies and as Evangelists agree? That is not good exegesis to make one spiritual and the other literal.
On this same line, the other thing I noticed is if these promises can be fulfilled now, then so can the promise of Ephraim becoming a multitude of nations before the millennium. In other words, if I proven to your satisfaction that Gentile Christians do not take the place of Ephraim, but yet most agree that that the promises and blessings of Abraham can have its fulfillment in this age, then it stands to reason that Ephraim's fulfillment can be applicable today.
"What about the millennium?" you may ask. Again, Ezekiel 37 talks about the "two sticks", one of which is with Ephraim, being joined together again at Christ's return in the end times. Israel will be ONE NATION again IN THE LAND promised to the forefathers. If they are one nation again, and they all exist somewhere today, then it stands to reason they must be MORE THAN ONE today and the promise of many nations are to take place before the end of days. The promise of many nations implies either exile or colonization or both. Nevertheless, whether Israel would have been forced to become many nations due to exile from their land because of disobedience or merely colonization had they been faithful to the Law, either way this implies separateness. Whether separate on hostile or friendly terms, they must be separate enough to be recognized politically as separate nations (whatever definition that entails for the age they are in). However, Ezekiel 37 portrays them as ONE nation in the end. Even if they leave again and colonize (with the land of Israel being their home base) as heirs of the world, they will still be recognized as ONE people (whatever definition that will entail in the end times).
Now for the mathematical discovery I made. Actually I knew about this for some time and may have made passing mention of it before, but not in this detail. I call it the "Line of Israel". I do not know what to make of it and it deserves more study. However, I took notice that the birthright tribes of Israel lay on the same straight line on the Earth. Of course when we say straight line, we mean a "great circle arc". "What do you mean by a great circle arc?" A great circle arc is the largest possible circle that can encompass a sphere. The equator and longitude lines are great circle arcs and they entail the entire circumference. The 45-degree North latitude line is NOT a great circle arc. When we walk or travel "straight ahead" without turning, the tendency will be to follow a great circle arc. The nations I have in mind are land of Israel, the British Isles, the United States (and Canada too) and finally Australia and New Zealand.
Of course other nations lay on this line, but the "heavyweight" nations that consist of Ephraim and Manasseh also lay on this line and many nations lying on this line originated from Israel. This brings to my mind another subject of "ley" lines in Britain, some which seemingly point toward the direction of Israel or Egypt. These are lines defined by such objects as dolmens, stone circles, old churches and the like from past civilizations. Odd things occur where these lines intersect (such as ghost sightings, UFOs, etc.).
Now, if we start our trek from the land of Israel toward the British Isles, we see that the Isles are Northwest of Israel. This is no surprise. I quoted Isaiah 49:12 in other messages pertaining to the lost tribes coming back from that direction. But if you start in a STRAIGHT LINE toward Britain (which as the Bible says, means you do not 'turn to the right hand nor to the left') and keep going straight ahead past Britain, you will come across the globe down to the Eastern United States and also Canada! Therefore, the United States, Canada and Britain is NORTHWEST of Israel.
OK. Now that we arrived in the USA, if we do an ABOUT FACE we will be heading back toward Britain in the NORTHEAST. If we continue on in a straight line, we will eventually come back to Israel. Hence both Britain and Israel are in the Northeast direction as shown.
If we continue in either direction to the OPPOSITE side of the globe (with respect to a point between Britain and the US), this same straight line passes just South of both Australia and New Zealand. I must admit that while the line does not pass directly over these nations, these nations are the largest habitable landmasses in that area. Israel could not settle permanently in the ocean! But these are the largest regions God provided nearest to this line. I find that "point" between Britain and the United States where the line reaches its maximum Northern latitude to be an interesting phenomenon in itself.
As I always say, "Mathematics says it all." This indisputable observation, whether one wants to think it is coincidence or not, cannot be denied. That's why I believe that the truth we teach on this site about the lost tribes is as evident and solidly established as the mathematics I've done to show the "Line of Israel".