THE SIGNS OF JUDAH.
ENGLAND and THE REMNANT OF JUDAH.
CHAPTER 1.
"Judah is a lion's whelp. Thou art he whom thy brethren shall
praise. The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver
from between his feet, until Shiloh come." - Gen. 49:9-10
"Bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him:
and be thou an help from his enemies." - Deut. 33:7
F.R.A. Glover: In
the system of Polity of England there are three prominent and
very important matters:
1. A Material Fact.
2. An Hereditary Descent.
3. An Heraldic Blazon.
If these things exist, - there is no denying them. They do exist.
There is a cause for their existence. These things are all
Eastern:-
The first is, Jacob's Stone.
The second, The Descent of the Monarch enthroned on it.
The third, The Standard of the Lion Rampant.
If these things came from the East, they must have been brought.
Who brought them?
They are all Hebraish.
The first manifestly, as its name implies.
The second, proveably so.
The third, is, The Standard of the Tribe of Judah.
The bringer of them must, therefore, have been a Hebrew; and,
undoubtedly, one of note and power.
Viewed collectively, these things have great significance; and may
have, or exercise, an important influence on present and future
events: the which, indeed, must be the case, if the character, the
power, and the mission, of the bringer of these things from Judea,
be taken into account. For it will be seen, by a variety of
circumstantial evidence, that this bringer was no less a person,
and no other, than the illustrious prophet Jeremiah: the man
destined by God, in his early days, to foretell, and to aid in, the
out-rooting of the polity and kingdom of Judah; as he was equally,
in his latter days, to help " to plant and to build " the same (jer
1:10) elsewhere. (Jer 15:11; 25:11)
And this can be proved. Not because certain traditions affirm that
the Prophet was in Ireland, as the Instructor of one of its
greatest kings; but because, the three premisses admitted, nobody
but Jeremiah could have conveyed them thither; or, bringing them,
have established the Stone so as to accord with the terms of the
tradition concerning it. The Legend of the Stone and that Tradition
is, that, - Wherever that Stone might be, a Sceptre should be with
it, until it returned to the East, whence it came. A tradition
confirmed, as to the eastern origin of the Stone, by the discovery
now, that its name, which was thought to be Irish, is Irish, only
inasmuch as it is adopted from the Hebrew; and, as to its prophetic
aspect, as not contradicted, hitherto, by subsequent events
connected with it, although traversing a strange and chequered
course, for upwards of 2400 years. For, The Stone has still a
Sceptre belonging to it; even that of the mightiest nation on the
earth [JML: 1861]; a "Nation of Nations;" - truly, even so, a
Nation of Nations. And the Ruler who is enthroned thereon, can
claim to descend from the Kings of the Race, then and there set
upon it.
At the Council Table at Whitehall, on the 21st April, 1613, King
James I said, - "There is a double cause why I should be careful of
the welfare of that people [the Irish] : first, as King of England,
by reason of the long possession the Crown of England hath had of
that land : and, also, as King of Scotland; for the ancient kings
of Scotland are descended of the kings of Ireland." - See Cox's
Hibernia Anglicana.
And who shall say that it is not to go back to that East whence it
came, in honour and power, even as it emerged from it, out of
disaster and woe? .. "that those that sowed in tears" (Jer. 15:11;
Zeph. 3:10) shall not have a joyful harvest?
This TRADITION, however, it is to be especially noted, though a
Prophecy, and a Promise requiring the presence of some certain one
to make it of possible performance, is without any allusion to the
most important facts of the case; viz. the identity of the
individuals, in whom the transaction of the setting-up of this
Stone in Ireland originated, with two celebrated persons,
intimately and officially connected with Hebrew history and the
Hebrew polity; viz. one, a Prophet and Priest; the other a Woman,
a Princess: a state of things which is only now, at this moment,
being first exhibited to Man; and which, - the proof being based
upon material and historical facts, (now, first, drawn from the
obscurity of a language which concealed them, and, placed in
juxta-position,) - he is called upon to consider, with relation to
their practical bearing on present and future events: since they
establish, as an historical fact, that, England is the Remnant of
Judah.
For, if this case can be proved, then, this strange fact stands out
upon the canvas of modern history; namely, that England is the
possessor of the Throne of David, and its Representative; and, the
continuator of that Sceptre of Judah, of which the patriarch Jacob
foretold the continuance until the coming Of SHILOH: and that,
coupled with all this, the Standard of Judah is, not only the
Ensign which this Power will have sooner or later to unfurl, as the
Ensign to the Nations, and to which "the dispersed of Judah" will
have to rally; but that her own Scottish Blazon, is, as that
Standard of Judah, the mark, outward and visible, by which the
connexion is established between the dislodged Royalty of Jerusalem
and the rehabilitated Judah of the West: and that she, England, is,
therefore, under this triple manifestation of Hebraical Identity,
the true and proveable and legal representative and essence of "the
remnant of Judah:" that remnant, including "king's daughters,"
(Jer. 41:10, 43:5-7) which was warned to escape from Egypt, in
company with the Prophet Jeremiah, and promised protection if it
did. (Jer. 44:14, 28; 15:11)
That Remnant, making Judea its way to sanctuary, ("The little
sanctuary" here alluded to, is that of the Tribes. And if Joseph
had one, was not one as needful for Judah? - Ezek. 11:16), became,
under the conduct of the prophet,-whose duty it was to provide for
such a restoration of the royal house, wherever he might, in the
providence of God, be directed to go, (and that he went to Ireland
we are able to prove)-the Legal Representative of the House of
David, of the Polity of Judah, and, of the interim state of Entire
Israel. ("Thou art a God that hidest Thyself," - Isa 45:15; Ezek.
11:16)
This, however, will seem to many a relation so strange, as that no
man should be called upon to give it credence without proof. The
first point to establish, will be the Office of the Prophet
Jeremiah in the matter: he being the substratum of foundation upon
which the whole edifice is made to rest.
From:
"England, the Remnant of Judah, and the Israel of Ephraim",
written by F.R.A. Glover, M.A., Chaplain to the Consulate at
Cologne. Published by Rivingtons, London, 1861. Based on research
commenced in 1844.