Plucking the Eagle's Wings

Plucking the Eagle's Wings

supports the claim that Tarshish is Britain.

Judges 5:17 informs us that the tribe of Dan owned ships. Because they lived on the Mediterranean coast, the Danites were likely expert mariners. Dan's tribal inheritance included the port city Joppa. The Danites were later forced to migrate north, where they occupied Bashan, or the Golan Heights, as we know it today. Moses prophesied that "Dan is a lion's whelp—he shall leap from Bashan" (Deuteronomy 33:22). The word leap can mean to gush out. Irish history refers to a group of people known as the Tuatha de Danaan. Tuatha means People of God. Dunn in the Irish language means judge . Coincidentally, this also is the meaning of the name Dan. Scholars speculate that, during the Assyrian invasion of the northern kingdom, a small group of people from the tribe of Dan fled in boats (leapt from Bashan) and landed in Britain. If Britain was the Biblical Tarshish, then the Danites would have known this escape journey to be possible, and Britain would have become a safe haven for God's people. This could explain why God selected Britain to be a great power and the mother of America. I am not saying that this migration story is undeniably true, but in light of this book, it becomes an interesting piece of the puzzle. The Hebrew Meaning of Britain The Israelites were known to be covenant people. The Hebrew word brit means covenant . In Hebrew ish means man . Therefore, the word British means covenant man in Hebrew. This may be more than a coincidence. Many British, especially in the area of England, believe that their nation was settled by some of the lost tribes. This idea may not be too far fetched. According to early Jewish American history, after the Jewish expulsion from Spain on March 31, 1492 many Jews fled to Britain. In 1502, a Jewish man named Juan Sanchez de Saragossa was awarded a royal trading license to promote trade and settlement in the New World. Research indicates that some of those who followed Cortez to Mexico were converted Jews seeking freedom in the New World. Some fled to current day Texas and New Mexico, areas that were to become part of America. So Jews had settled on American soil over 100 years before the landing at New Amsterdam in 1654. Interestingly, there would have been no Jews in the early English

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