Standards of Israel

By Dr. Wesley Swift

 

The marching standards of Israel and the great na­tions of God's Kingdom, where they are, who they are, and how they are known but a subject of this proportion cannot be handled completely in one message. There are many things that we would have you know, and we will cover as much ground as we can. There are certain things that must be taken in their order. While many things which we will discuss may be known to many of you, the whole pattern of them should fit in one solid mosaic until you can see the great purpose which God has established among you as nations and you in this nation, as God's great instrument for this hour.

We have mentioned in previous messages that the great White race started with Adam. The Scriptural account relates particularly to Seth and his descendants. It is written that Adam begat Seth "in his own image, " free from error or vi­olation of divine law, and selected by the Most High God to carry down the holy seed which He had thus planted. The descendants of Seth are described in the Scriptures, to the time of Noah. As you will recall, Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth. We are interested now in Shem, because it was his lineage and household that suc­ceeded in retaining the spiritual heritage in keeping the blood line pure The Ham and Japheth lines in later generations became largely absorbed by integration with the ancient races. But the Shemetic strain retained almost perfect purity and, today, every White man you see on the face of the earth is a Shemite. There are a few who may be by-passed products of the crossing of the bridge of the races that took place in early mi­gration; from the steppes of the upper Pamir Plateau, but today all the White men of earth are found in the nations of God's Kingdom, all iden­tified with nations that have emerged out of the line of His covenant.

Thus it is that the grandson of Shem, Eber, is the father of all the people called Hebrews, and every White man on .the face of the earth is a Hebrew and a descendant of Eber, as far as the nations of the world go today. I also want to cite, and we will have more to say about it later, that there are millions of Jews in the world who are not Hebrews and, though they use some­times the word Hebrew, they have no partner lot in the history of Eber or his descendants, and every White man of every Christian nation is a Hebrew and a descendant of Eber. And when the Apostle Paul, direct from the revelations of God, writes the Book of Hebrews, the people who re­ceive it are you who are Christians today, and no one else has the Book of Hebrews but you.

When we talk about the people of Israel, it is important for you to know that God placed on your race the name of Israel (which means rulers with Him, His offspring in the earth), even before the calling of Abram who became Abraham, when it was used in the days of Enoch. For Enoch was told that these, his brothers in the earth, were Israel, rulers with God (children, or issue, ruling with God). In fact, this was known even earlier in the history of your race, for Seth, in "The Books of Seth, " says that God said we were His rulers (and the word is Is-ra-el) in the earth .

I now point out a significant thing to you concerning the great nations of the earth. God called Abram out of the land of Ur of the Chaldees to establish the line through which the Kingdom would rise to its administration, to bring in the rule of God in the midst of the earth, to bring in peace and righteousness and justice. He changed his name from Abram to Abraham. Remember the careful selection that was made for a bride for Isaac by his father, Abraham, under spiritual guidance? We see again the same guidance, in the matter of selecting a wife for Isaac's son Jacob, who became the father of twelve sons. With these twelve sons start the great pivotal determination of the Kingdom of God.

Now there is a specific value in the number twelve, because back during the periods of the prophecies which were given unto Enoch, Enoch said that the hour would come when the Kingdom of God would come marching in its order, like the signs of the heavens. That is one of the reasons why the measure is quite significant. There is one son for each month of the year, by measure, and Jacob had twelve sons. I think it is rather significant, as you go into the background of the prophecies of God's Kingdom, that to Abraham were the promises made. A great nation and a company of nations were to come of Abraham, - and God had promised, "I will be a God unto him and his seed after him in all their generations. " As you read through the entire course of Genesis, and especially the thirteenth and seventeenth chap­ters, these patterns of revelation become more clear, as God tells you what He intends to do with the seed of Abraham and what they are to do in the earth.

I want to cite that in no instance do the Jews at any time fulfill these prophecies. They are not a great nation, they are not a company of nations. They have never been a great nation or a company of nations, as such, in the earth. There have been nations that have been identified with them, because of the impact of their religion, but they have not provided the government and the leadership that is referred to in the Scriptures concerning this matter.

In the past I have talked to you about the olive tree. The olive tree was given as a symbol unto the house of Israel. It was a symbol of God's race even before the calling of Abraham, and was recognized as the symbol of your race in the an­cient mystery schools of your people. That is why the Apostle Paul also identified the olive tree with Israel, as it was identified even before the calling of Abram, back in the days of the Prophet Enoch. You remember that Enoch was told that all God’s children who had come down out of the high steppes, were His Israel, but some of them were wild olive branches, others were natural olive branches. Later in the days of Israel, when it was separated into two kingdoms, when the northern kingdom was separated from the southern kingdom, they were called wild olive branches. The Apostle Paul, in the Book of Romans, tells us very clearly that the gathering and the grafting back into God's great racial tree of the olive branches, which was the gathering of the nations, sometimes called Gentiles even in your King James Version, is the gathering together of Is­rael. But in the gathering together of all these nations, blindness in part has happened to Israel, not concerning who God is, but concerning who they were. They even thought they were Gentile, meaning "not My people. " But the Prophet said, even in that place where it was said they were not My people, it shall be revealed that they are My people, like the sand of the sea shore, and like the stars of the heaven. "A great multitude.”

Concerning the writings of the Apostle Paul in Romans about the olive tree, you remember he said, "The gathering in, and grafting of the wild olive branches back into their own tree, is the process by which all Israel shall be saved as it is written. " So the gathering together of the peoples of God's Kingdom and the great national unity of God's Kingdom is a part of that process. They were gathered around the message of the Messiah, and when they came together, they were established back in their own tree. No longer was Jerusalem the live tree, for the very life of the Kingdom was in-the life of the spirit which was now resident throughout the nations of God's Kingdom.

Let us go back for one moment to the testi­mony of the olive trees. We told you last week that the two olive trees in the Book of Zechariah are the two great witnesses that stand by God in the whole earth. The olive trees are the mark of the race or the great divisions of the Kingdom of Israel; the candlesticks were their spiritual worship. The Old Testament church and the New Testament church are the candlesticks, the illu­mination which the spirit gives, as the very life and the very energies of the Kingdom are poured in with vision and understanding into the illumin­ation of the candlesticks, or the centers of wor­ship. In the Book of Revelation, Jesus tells John in the very beginning of the Book of Revelation that the candlesticks are the churches. And thus it is, the Old and New Testament church were candlesticks of light and illumination. The olive tree was God's Kingdom; and the two branches of the olive tree are the two great branches of God's Kingdom which, we will discover, developed in the history of your race.

When Moses was up on the mountain and met with God and the great company of His adminis­tering sons that had come down out of the heavens and settled their great crafts above Mt. Sinai, God met there with Moses and the nobles of Israel; and God gave Moses the order for the building of the tabernacle - and Moses built the tabernacle accordingly, the movable temple of your race. We have previously studied the great significance of the spiritual center of the Holy of Holies, of the great center of the inner court where the con­firmation of God's wisdom came, and the outer court where the service was made to the nations. After the setting up of the tabernacle, God told Moses, then, to gather the children of Israel and to number the children of Israel and to set them in their marching order around the tabernacle of the Most High God.

We turn in the Book of Numbers to the place where this declaration is given and read in the second chapter: "And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron and said, Every man of the chil­dren of Israel shall pitch by his standard, and with the ensign of his father's house, and far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch. And on the east side towards the rising sun shall they plant the standard of the camp of Judah, and they shall pitch round about the armies of his encampment. And those that pitch next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, and next to him shall be the tribe of Zebulun. " So unto Judah on the east, two tribes were set up, one of them was the tribe of Issachar, the other the tribe of Zebulun. 

"On the south side of the tabernacle thou shall set up the standard of the camp of Reuben, and accordingly thou shall add to his captains and his armies, those that pitch by his side shall be the tribe of Simeon and the tribe of Gad. " So on the south we have the household mark of Reuben, Simeon, and Gad.

We turn now to the next grouping. "On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim according to his armies, and by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh and the captains of the children of Manasseh, and pitched by their side shall be the tribe of Benjamin and the cap­tains of the sons of Benjamin. "

"The standard of the camp of Dan shall be on the north side, and with Dan shall be also the standard of the tribe of Naphtali, and with the tribe of Naphtali shall go also the encampment of the tribe of Asher. " So on the north side, we have the tribe of Dan, the tribe of Asher, and the tribe of Naphtali.

Now we have the positioning of the tribes of Israel on the four sides of the tabernacle; this is the way they encamped. This is the way they formed their positions, and this is the way they occupied the land of Palestine in relationship to their order. These are great and mighty group­ings of people. By this time, as you can see by the numberings which we have not taken time to read unto you, there are many, many thousands of men in their armies, there are many thousands upon thousands of people that are joined to each one of these tribes. The significant thing about these tribes was that each one of them had a des­tiny and was to make up a nation or to be a part of many nations that these tribes were to be the highest strain of racial purity to be found upon the face of the earth. They were to carry for­ward the destiny of God's Kingdom. They were to be nations that would grow up, which would be the power and the manifestation of God's covenant and wisdom in the earth.

Now listen. There are four basic standards that the Bible tells about, as the symbols of these four encampments. I think that the significance of this is quite unique, because all through the Scriptures we find, and most Masons will remem­ber this too, that the four living creatures are the living standards of God's Kingdom. And so we have the camp of Ephraim in which Manasseh and Benjamin are found, and the standard for the camp of Ephraim was the symbol of the calf, sometimes referred to as the bull or the ox, but it was the symbol of the calf. Upon the side of Judah we have the emblem of a lion, which was the standard that flew the highest over the en­campments of Issachar and Zebulun and Judah.

We turn now to the tribes of Asher, Dan, and Naphtali; and the sign there, while they are sym­bolically in the sign of Scorpio, was interpreted also as the sign of the flying eagle. According to the "Star Gospel, " which Noah and many of your forefathers understood, and was known from the days of the time of Enoch, whereas Scorpio became the satanic symbol in the sign, there was also in Scorpio, the sign of the flying eagle, as you will find in the star map and the flying eagle was to the north parts. So the flying eagle was used by these three tribes as their marching symbol on the standard of the grouping of their house. Now, upon the south side, where Simeon, Reuben and Gad were, was the sign of a man, and of-course the pattern of its measure is the symbol of Aquarius.

In the Book of Isaiah, you will remember, when Isaiah beheld the throne of the Most High, how he was lifted up to the glory and majesty of God's throne in the vision which God gave him. He saw that around the throne were the armies of God's household or family. He saw them iden­tified as four living creatures. The living crea­tures are referred to again, in the Book of Rev­elation, when John enters into the presence of the Most High, beholds the throne of the Most High, and sees around the throne the four living creatures. Now, symbolized around the living creatures is the symbolic significance of the six wings to each creature, and it refers to the fact that each one had six wings.

In the ancient knowledge of the light carriers of ancient Masonry, they knew what the six wings were. The six wings were known in the days of Enoch, even before these marching symbols had been definitely allotted to specific peoples and tribes. In the first place, these are zodiacal signs, and the great central sign which divides the group is the separation into four divisions of the four corners of the measure of the zodiacal progression. These signs represent the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, these are the symbols of the race of God's Kingdom, symbolically written in the "Star Bible. " The astronomical measure, the units of twelve, both among apostles and disciples in the New Testament, as well as patriarchs in the Old Testament, are also geared to this mea­sure. We point out to you that, in looking at these four signs, you may ask, "Where are six wings?" There are three major signs on each side, and each one has two wings. These are the six wings on each of the four creatures - which are the deacons, one on either side of each of the major signs. Every one of the tribes of Israel had a marching emblem of a sign of the zodiac woven into its heraldry, emblazoned into its purpose, and these deacons, one on each side, were the symbols of the constellations of the course through which the Kingdom traveled in the "Star Bible" of destiny. Thus it is, the wings or the deacons are marked by the knowledge and wisdom con­cerning God's spiritual guidance in the measures of prophecy and carries them through the course of heavens. In fact, in the nineteenth chapter of Exodus, you Remember God said, "And howl bore -you on eagle's wings, and I brought you unto Myself. "

Symbolically, in the ancient mystery schools, one of the strongest symbols of the spiritual des­tiny of God's Kingdom, marked only by its com­parison to the lion, was the symbol of the eagle. It was used at all times. The winged symbol of God's guidance through the cycle of heavenly des­tiny was thus measured. So the six wings, or the two deacons on each one of the three major signs, marked each of the four central creatures, which marked the course of the heavens. Each one of the tribes carried its zodiacal mark, and all twelve signs of the zodiac were woven into the heraldry of these tribes of Israel.

Now we are to note this, that as they were thus set up around the tabernacle in that day, so also were their signs inside the temple that Solo­mon built, each according to its marching order. This was not cast aside in the New Testament era, because when we see John taken into the dimension of the spirit when God opened the door in the atmosphere and said, "Come in hither, " and when John went inside, he saw these signs, these creatures and symbols around the throne, and this was the household of God in their King­dom destiny.

Now we point out to you something about God's Kingdom, about its eventual empowering force, the great new world order, the new Jeru­salem. You remember that John is told in Rev­elation by the Spirit, "Come here and I will show you the bride, the Lamb's wife. " I will show you the people to whom God is married, to produce His family, the builders of His Kingdom in His new world order. And he said, "He carried me away in the spirit and He showed me the new Jerusalem that had been descending out of heaven from God, surely from the days of Adam on down to our time. " And he said, "I saw the gates upon this city. " Do you know how many gates there were? There were three gates to each side. There were just as many gates in God's new world order as there were tribes positioned around the tabernacle, and the names on the gates were the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Is­rael.

Remember this now: God's new world order, the administration of the earth is here revealed to be the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel; and God's Kingdom in the earth, the administration of His sheep nations, which must emerge, will be in the hands of the nations and people who have come out of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel, which people will be Chris­tian, which people will be His household and His sons.

I would have you to remember that the disper­sion of these tribes, resulting in many events of history which have taken place, have been in ac­cordance with divine purpose. If you reflect on the early days in the history of the Kingdom of the Most High God, you will remember that these tribes grew and expanded until they were virtually great provinces, with capital cities in those pro­vinces, no mean cities in the land of Palestine. You will remember that from Saul to David to Solomon, the throne of the Lord had increased. And you may remember that God's covenant with David was one showing His great love for this man and the dynasty of this household, and He said that never would there lack, as long as the sun, moon and stars were in the sky, one to sit upon the throne of David. Why? Because David, as we pointed out to you last week, was being told by the Most High, "This is My throne that you sit on; you hold this throne as a vice-regent for Me. " And we read to you how Solomon took the throne of Yahweh and sat upon the throne of his father David.

You may remember also that when the Angel Gabriel tells the Virgin Mary about the birth of Jesus, he said that Yahshua, the incarnate Mes­siah, would sit upon the throne of His father Da­vid. So the throne of the Lord and the throne of David become symbolically the throne or the symbol of God's Kingdom and His administration.

I think it rather significant that you realize that in the days of David and Solomon, all these twelve tribes made up one kingdom. It was not a king­dom of Jews. They didn't have any Jews there, except those that emigrated in and didn't go out when they should have. But there were no Jews in the land of Palestine, from the twelve tribes of the children of Israel, for Israelites were not Jews.

As he aged, Solomon violated some divine laws. I don't know whether senility entered into it, but we have some evidence, out of the records of the ancient Zohar, records which are most significant concerning what happened. It was a violation of divine law when Solomon started to trade with the ends of the earth and started to bring in some of the "outlander" women, referred to as "outlandish women" by the Prophet Ezra. They were not only brought into the country, but many of them were joined to Solomon's household; and the violations of law which he committed are imputed to these people that he brought in, in violation of divine law. God warned the people of Israel that they were not to mix with other races, not to mix their blood, not to bring the strangers in, for as He had told Moses: "If you bring in these strangers, they will find some way to woo and bring pressure on you to worship their gods, and you will adopt their pagan ways and their philosophy. " So God ordained racial self-respect and maintenance of this standard.

In the aging of Solomon, though he had been one of the wisest men that ever lived, we can well see that by the processes he followed, he had lost some of that wisdom. Surely he had lost much of his peace. One of the things we see transpiring in the days when Solomon violated these laws, the Scripture tells us, was that there were even those who worshipped Ashtoreth, the goddess of the Sidonians; and Chemosh, the god of the Moabites; and Molech, the god of the Ammon children: even this was permitted in Solomon's kingdom, to please some of these pagans he had brought in. Of course the Prophet Ezra, later, had the an­swer for this: for they sent all the outlandish women and all their pagan children out of the land, because that was the law of the Most High God for the preservation of the racial stream.

I point out to you that God spoke, then, to the people, and He said, "This I am going to do. " This is in the thirty-first verse of First Kings, the eleventh chapter. God 'said to Jero­boam through a prophet Ahijah: "Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes unto thee. Howbeit for David his father's sake. Because of My covenant with David, I will not lake the kingdom out of Solomon's hand, for I will let him rule as long as he lives, but I will take the king­dom out of his son's hand, (which was Rehoboam) and I will give it even unto thee, Jerusalem, even ten tribes. But unto the son of Solomon I will give one tribe, beside Judah, for David My ser­vant's sake. " So one tribe was left unto Reho-boam, the son of Solomon, and this one tribe was the tribe of Benjamin. So God permitting the tribe of Benjamin to remain with the tribe of Judah at Jerusalem, and Jeroboam and ten tri!><•:-; departed from the administration of the tribe of Judah in Jerusalem.

Someone once asked,   "Is this an important thing for us to know? " It is a most significant thing, because you will learn that, in his time, Rehoboam was like some of the leadership we have had. When he came to power, instead of turning to the wise heads of his race and following the policies of God, which were the conservative policies, he turned to a group of young liberals, many of whom were strangers who had come into the nation from the outside. He listened to them, we are told, instead of the old men and to the wisdom of his time. The people were already oppressed with great taxation, for all the riches and all the things that had been done in the latter days of Solomon, for his own enhancement, and they were asking for tax relief from their bur­dens.

The moment these strangers come in and start influencing the rulers of your society, al­ways the expenditures will be way out of balance, and the things that are done will not be neces­sarily for the good of the people.

So the people called for tax measure of re­lief; and you will discover that Rehoboam turned and consulted not the wise men and not the elders of the law of God, but he consulted those who were the spendthrifts and those who moved in from the outside, who were the pagan forces and young men who were the liberals. This was his answer: He said, "My father made your yoke heavy; I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips; I will chastise you with scorpions. "

When the representatives of the great city-states of Israel came in, with Jeroboam as their spokesman, they gave Rehoboam the king one more chance to change this position, but Reho­boam became firmer than ever, concerning what he would do. - And so, said Jeroboam, "To thy tents and to thy horses, O Israel! " So it was that Israel, ten tribes of them, revolted and departed, and they formed what was known as the northern kingdom of Israel.

Now this has its importance because we know what happened to that northern kingdom. There came a time, because of violations of divine law and the foolishness of some of its leaders, when they didn't hold their defenses and they permitted their society to be infiltrated by wrong advice and wrong activity. Now we note here - I am reading out of Second Esdras, in the thirteenth chapter and the fortieth verse, where it tells us about these ten tribes: "These are the ten tribes that were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Hoshea the king, whom Shalmaneser the king of Assyria led away captive, and he car­ried them away, over the waters, so they came into another land. Now in a period of time they took counsel together among themselves that they would leave the multitude of the heathen and go forth to a further country where never spiritual mankind had dwelt."

Now, Shalmaneser saw the wisdom and the creative abilities and the initiative of this people and, even though he held them captive, he saw that they were a good people and that their God was powerful. Though from the days of Sennach­erib, the Assyrians had warred against Israel, the fact remains that Shalmaneser said, "These are a good people and I feel impelled to give them their liberty. " He wrote out a liberation chart and he delivered this into the hands of the leaders of Israel] in captivity, and those ten tribes of Is­rael went out of the land of Assyria, through the Caucasian Pass, and into Europe.

This I want you to know: When these Israel­ites came through the Caucasus, people were already living in Greece. They were Scythians, or Danai. You say, "Where did they come from? " Sixteen hundred years before Christ, long before the division which had taken place in the tribes that revolted against Rehoboam, the tribe of Dan went out and went into seafaring missions. They went restlessly to sea in ships.. They became explorers, and they fulfilled the destiny which you read in the forty-nineth chapter of the Book of Genesis. You have the story of some of the things that* were prophetically prophesied as it related to these sons of Jacob which were to be­come great tribes, and some of the things that they were to do. You will note that one of the things that marks Dan, Dan shall be a judge over his people. He shall be one of the first, we are told, among the tribes of Israel, and his trail or path across the earth shall be like the track of a serpent. It shall be a path winding all over, and this was one of the marks of Dan.

We point out to you that Dan went out in 1600 B. C. , and some of the Danites settled in early Greece. They joined themselves with the con­tinual infiltration of Scythians that managed to get away and come through the passes. And when Israel came through, some of them remained with these Scythians and Danai and remained in Greece, while others kept their migrations going. The mark of the tribe of Dan you can find all over the map of Europe. You can see the word Danube, Daniester; and everywhere you will see cities, things and places with Dan's name on them, scat­tered throughout the land of Europe.

One thing that never died out in all the history of Israel was the wisdom schools of Israel, the great schools of the light carriers of the Masonos, later known as Masonry, though the Apostle Paul knew them as Master Builders and Masonos and Masons in his time. The Light Carriers were a people carrying tradition that had remained with Israel at all times. In fact, some of the mem­bers studied under both schools of wisdom, the Rose Cross and the Masonos, which had both come from the days of Enoch to the time of Moses. In the days of Moses, the wisdom was continued among the mystery schools of Levi. These schools were for all of the children of Is­rael who desired wisdom and knowledge of God and the application of His wisdom. That is one of the reasons why in the Temples of Solomon, among the outer courts, there were schools where wise men taught the great wisdom.

When the children of Israel went into their migrations, there were those who carried these truths and this wisdom. Though they were in captivity, they never forgot the symbols, they never forgot the wisdom, they never forgot the significant pattern of the order with which their race was held together. They might at times be affected by pagan philosophies and religions of the countries through which they passed, but never were their mystery schools broken. Always the symbols of their race held together. Always they knew who they were, where they were, and what they were here for. As far as the race was con­cerned, the knowledge was retained in the wisdom schools, by those who were called Light Carriers; and wherever they settled, wherever they went over the continent of Europe, the Light Carriers, and Light Bearers knew who they were.

I think it is most significant, that after com­ing through the passes into Europe, a certain amount of dispersion of all the tribes of Israel, among other tribes of Israel, took place. How­ever, the separation of these tribes according to their specific commands and their background history, was predominate, and the majority of people that would make up the house of Joseph would move together, as the house of Joseph, but there might be some of Asher or some of Dan that would join them, from their connections, as they crossed the continent of Europe. There would be some lands where portions of several tribes would exist, but, predominately, the iden­tification of every tribe is known today. The background of their wisdom has been preserved in the records which still remain from the mys­tery schools that were set up, such as the one in London, from ancient Druid background that car­ries some of the mysteries, and the Masonic foundations that were interwoven with the history of Britain.

The Apostle Paul, who went early to Britain, knew where the tribes were. In the "Apocalypse of Paul" and in the special letters which he wrote, Paul talks about the tribes. We have some of these letters in the Scripture, others we do not have; but he wrote to every tribe of Israel, in its location, by its territory, and that is one of the things which helps us to discover the areas where these letters went, the areas where this message was to go. Some of this message and some of these letters have been the heritage of people from early time, and in some instances we dis­cover that it was long afterwards, as Christendom expanded in these areas, that the letters of Paul became so prized, as important contacts of the first Apostle of Messiah with the tribes of the Kingdom.

Let me cite unto you, that at no time was the tribe of Levi mentioned, in the numbering of the tribes of Israel. Someone asked, "What happened to the tribe of Levi?" Because God had called the tribe of Levi to be a ministry unto Him, to establish the holy order, to follow through as his ministers for the worship of God, God told Moses that when he numbered the tribes of Israel ac­cording to their armies and according to their strength, he was not to number the tribe of Levi, for He had given of Levi to the whole house of Israel, to be spiritual guides and to be teachers before them, and to be His ministers to all gener­ations. And so the house of Levi was a ministry, scattered among all the tribes.

This I want you to know: When the division occurred in the twelve-tribed Kingdom of Israel and the ten northern tribes set up their own in­dependent kingdom, the Scripture tells us that some  of Judah, as well as  some of Benjamin, went out with the  ten-tribe Israel. In fact…there, was some of Judah that returned, but great numbers of them did not return and went out with, Israel, not only in the hours of the kingdom sep­aration, but later going into Assyrian captivity with the ten northern tribes. So we have the ef­fected measure.

We discover that the house of Joseph is re­ferred to in the Scripture with added significance. Going back to the forty nineth chapter of the Book of Genesis, you will see that God gives through the lips of the man Jacob, as the patriarch blesses his children, a special blessing as it relates to the house of Joseph, his children, a special blessing as it relates to the house of Joseph. You will note here in the forty-eighth chapter, that before a blessing was placed upon any of the sons of Israel, that Joseph brought his two sons Ephraim and Manasseh be -fore his father Jacob.

These are the two sons born in Egypt. They were the two sons who were born of the Princess Asenath, who was the daugh­ter of Potipherah, high priest of the Temple of On, a White priesthood since the time of Enoch and Job - and Israel they were, because God had told Enoch that these people were Israel. So God recognized the union of the Sethite house with the house of Joseph through Abraham, and the two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, were White men of the purest line; and this is proved by the fact that Jacob the grandfather placed his hands upon Ephraim and Manasseh, and he said, "Let my name be named on these two lads; let Israel, the name Israel, pass on these two lads." And he said, concerning these things, one of them was to be a great nation, and the other was to be a company of nations. This was a part of their destiny.

Joseph had placed his sons before Jacob Israel, Manasseh the older near Israel's right hand, and Ephraim the younger near Israel's left hand. Then Israel blessed Joseph and Joseph's two sons. But when Israel placed his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, Joseph said unto his father, "Not so, my father; for this is the first­born; put thy right hand upon his head. " But his father refused and said, "I know it, my son, I know it. He shall be great and become a great nation: but truly his younger brother shall be greater and become a multitude of nations.

In that prophecy it was here declared, "I know concerning these sons, so he placed his "hands in a different order than expected. He laid his-right hand on the head of Ephraim and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, and in the instance of this he said that Manasseh shall be a great people; his younger brother shall be a multitude or a great number of peoples by their size, by their numbers in the earth, and in the latter days the nations of Israel are going to say, God make us like these two great nations of the house of Joseph. In the marching signs of Israel, not the tribe of Joseph, but the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh are numbered. So Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin are on the west.

We know, of course, that Levi is scattered throughout all the tribes of Israel. It is my be­lief, today, that the called ministry which the holy spirit calls into the ministry of God's King­dom, scattered throughout the tribes, is pre­dominately the carrying forward of the sowed seed of Levi, because this is God's covenant even forever. But I think we have a lot of professional clergy who do not have the inspiration that God covenanted with His priesthood, and such clergy­men would not be of the house of Levi.

We point out to you that the kingdom, which had been thus established, was now in two divi­sions, after the separation of Judah and Israel. Judah and Benjamin were one group, and we have the ten tribes of Israel as another group. We