Isaiah 43:3-4

³For I am Yahweh your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
your Savior.
I have given Egypt as your ransom,
Kush and Seba in your place.
⁴Since you have been precious and honored in my sight,
and I have loved you,
therefore I will give people in your place,
and nations instead of your life.

In Egyptian record, we read from The Admonitions of Ipu-Wer (believed to date to the period between the Old and Middle Kingdoms, or perhaps from 2300 to 2050 BC), from page 441 of Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, by James B. Pritchard, in part: “A man regards his son as his enemy… A man of character goes in mourning because of what has happened in the land... Foreigners have become people everywhere.[1]” The translator, John Wilson, made a footnote at the word for people here which says: “The term ‘men, humans, people,’ was used by the Egyptians to designate themselves, in contrast to their foreign neighbors, who were not conceded to be real people.”

Moses' Negro Wife?

Detractors of Christianity usually point to Numbers 12 as evidence that God has no qualms with the mixture of races as Moses takes a Kushite wife and Miriam is punished for opposing his choice of wife. Is this really an instance of God permitting miscegenation?

Moses' wife, Zipporah, is from the land of Midian (Exo. 2), and these Midianites are descendants of Abraham through Keturah (Gen. 25:1-2). We won't digress into whether Zipporah is the Kushite wife. Miriam's opposition to Moses is due to him choosing a non-Israelite wife, before she questions his status as prophet (by proxy questioning God). The Kushites are descendants of Ham (Gen. 10:6), hence Adamic [1]. The land of Kush originally was in Mesopotamia (Gen. 2:13, 10:8-12), though they expanded their oikouménē to the Horn of Africa [2] [3] [4]. Given that Moses was wandering in the Levant by this time, he couldn't have found a wife from amongst the 'Ethiopians' in Africa but from those of Kush in the East.

Was the Eunuch of Ethiopia a Negro?

Proponents of racial universalism will commonly direct your attention to the Ethiopian Eunuch who Philip baptized on the road from Gaza to Jerusalem (Acts 8:26-40) as evidence that all of the races can partake in the New Covenant. Of course this all hinges on the assumption that this Eunuch was a negroid, this claim is wrong.

The nuance that is not typically noticed is the fact that the Eunuch was both in possession of a scroll of Isaiah (v30) and was making pilgrimage to Jerusalem for worship (v27). The most obvious inference was that this was a Judaean in the Ethiopian court, and this was indeed a view held by Early Church writers such as Irenaeus (Against Heresies, 4.23.2) and Pontius (Life of Cyprian, 3). This view continues to make sense when you consider the Jerusalem Temple Warning forbidding entrance to aliens as well as the existence of an Israelite temple as far down the Nile as the Elephantine in the 5th Century BC [2].

Genesis 2:7
⁷Yahweh God formed man (adam, H120) from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

John 3:3
Yahshua replied and said to him: “Truly, truly I say to you, unless a man should be born from above, he is not able to see the Kingdom of Yahweh.”

John 3:5-7
⁵Yahshua replied: “Truly, truly I say to you, if one should not be born from water and Spirit, he is not able to enter into the Kingdom of Yahweh! ⁶That which is born from of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born from of the Spirit is Spirit. ⁷You should not wonder that I said to you that it is necessary for you to be born from above.

The Abrahamic Covenant

Following Noah, and the disinheritance of the Adamic nations at the Tower of Babel after the confusion of tongues, the next time God would interact with mankind would be with Abram, a Hebrew (descendent of Eber, the great-grandson of Shem) from the city of Ur in the land of Aram Naharayim (Gen. 12, 24:4,10, 28:5-7). Abram was called out by God to undergo a series of trials and challenges, travelling to Canaan, Egypt, and Canaan again. Eventually, God had revealed His racial covenant He would make to Abraham.

Cont.

Genesis 17:4-7
⁴“As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you shall be a father of many nations. ⁵No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. ⁶I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come from you. ⁷And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your descendants after you in their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and your descendants after you."

Abram became Abraham, and the unconditional Abrahamic Covenant declared that from his loins would spawn a multitude of nations and kings. With any shred of intellectual honesty, one can easily understand that only one race of people have truthfully fulfilled such a promise, the White race. The Abrahamic Covenant is the beginning of the covenant faith of Israel, and the backbone of the promises of Christianity.

Epistle to the Galatians 3:15-17
¹⁵Brethren, (I speak as befits a man,) even a validated covenant of man no one sets aside, or makes additions to for himself. ¹⁶Now to Abraham the promises have been spoken, and to his seed. It does not say “and to seeds”, as of many; but as of one: “and to your seed,” which is anointed. ¹⁷Now this I say, a covenant validated beforehand by God, the law which arrived after four hundred and thirty years does not invalidate, by which the promise is left idle.

From Abraham to Israel

Abraham would have many nations and kings spawn from him. However, it can be noted that Abraham had eight children in total. Ishmael was the first, born of Sarai's (Abram's wife) handmaiden Hagar. Followed of course by Isaac when God made the barren Sarah fertile. Following the death of Sarah, Abraham had six children with the concubine Keturah, including Midian, Zimran and Medan, among others.

Despite all of these children, the heirs of the promise would only be called through one (Rom. 9:7). The children of Hagar and Keturah were sent away (Gen. 21:12-13, 25:1-6) and only in Isaac was Abraham's seed called (Gen. 21:12).

Cont.

Isaac would proceed to take a wife of the Arameans, Rebecca, sister of Laban (whose name coincidentally means 'white'). In her womb would be two children, both interlocked in a struggle, an enmity which would last the generations. The first child came out "red and hairy all over", named Esau (Gen. 25:25). And after him followed Jacob. Later on in their lives, Esau would forsake his birthright and sell it for a bowl of pottage to Jacob (Gen. 25:29-34) and would take wives of the Canaanitic daughters of Heth (Gen. 36), hence bastardizing his birthright into oblivion. For this reason he had not the inheritance of the promise and was a vain fornicator (Heb. 12:16)

It was left up to Jacob as the sole inheritor of the elect seed. His mother implored that if he follows Esau's example and breeds with the daughters of Heth, "what good shall my life do me?" (Gen. 27:46)

Should Jacob adulterate the bloodline like Esau, she'd have no reason to live. In response, Jacob was sent to Aram to find a daughter of Laban to marry. He'd take Rachel and Leah both as his wives, and with them he would bare twelve children. Later on, Jacob would wrestle with an angel who'd spare his life. In honor he'd be renamed as Israel — "And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel. And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you. The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.” (Gen. 35:10-12). Isra'El meaning 'he struggles with god'.

Jacob is Israel, and his 12 children would be the patriarchs of the 12 tribes of Israel. Now, not only was Israel to become a nation, but afterwards a company of nations (Heb. goyim). If the jews really are of Israel, then how come the only nation they have been able to 'build' is a parasitic crime-ring in the Middle East? Beyond that, they have spent the past two millennia skulking around in the ghettos of Europe as usurers, murderers, and as thorns in our side. Will your church, pastors or priests ever tell you where these nations of Israel are today?

If not, will the true nations of Israel please stand up?

1 Kings 4:30-31
³⁰The wisdom of Solomon was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the east and more than all the wisdom of Egypt. ³¹He was wiser than all the men: Ethan the Ezrahite; Heman, Calcol, and Darda the children of Mahol; and he was very well known.

We later read in 1 Chronicles 2:5-6 that these were all children of Zarah-Judah. When Moses comes to take the census following the Exodus from Egypt, we see that no individual sons of Zarah are named, whereas the children of Pharez are (Num. 26:20-21). If these people are used as a comparison in order to display the Wisdom of Solomon, and if they were neither in the east country, in Egypt nor in the horde migrating with Moses, then where could they have been? Let us take two examples, that of Darda and Chalcol. These men appear nowhere else in scripture besides the verses above in Kings and Chronicles, so to find them we must look to the secular records of history.

We see from the Greek texts that Dardanus is the founder of the Trojan royal dynasty, and a certain royal house of the Trojans are known as the Dardanians, including Aeneas. Of Aeneas, Homer's Iliad says...

"Let us rescue him, and avoid Zeus’s anger were Achilles to kill him, for Aeneas is destined to live on, so that Dardanus’ race itself might survive, Dardanus whom Zeus loved above all his children by mortal women. The Son of Cronos has come to hate Priam’s line, and mighty Aeneas will be the Trojan king, as his descendants will in time to come." ~ Homer, Iliad Book XX

Here we see something reminiscent to the promise made to Judah regarding kingship.

Of course, this would be fulfilled by the legendary Aeneas, when he would flee Troy's destruction to eventually settle in the Italian peninsula, founding a colony of Latinium with a local princess. The inhabitants of this town would go on to be the founding members of Rome, according to Virgil's Aeneid, as well as Strabo's Geographica (3.2.13, 6.1.12, 14; 13.1.52, 53 et al.).

Of course, Paul's epistle to the Romans even makes this very observation when Paul called Abraham their "forefather according to the flesh" (4:1).

Of course, there also exists folklore throughout the early middle ages with regards to European royal dynasties being founded by the children of the Trojan refugees. One such example would by that of Brutus of Britain, according to historians Nennius and Geoffrey of Monmouth, was the great-grandson of Aeneas that killed his own father in a hunting accident and was exiled. He would band up with other colonies of Trojans along the western Mediterranean coast and would eventually lead his kinsmen into the shores of Albion where they'd find a mythical race of giants that they'd slay, and end up establishing a kingdom after his name, Britain. His capital would be named Trinovantum, or Nova Troia (the Trinovantes being a tribe seen in Caesar's Commentaries), later renamed Caer Lud by one of his descendants, King Lud, and eventually renamed by the Romans as Londinium, or London as we know it. Brutus is the legendary ancestor of all of Britain's monarchs.

Considering that from the time of the Babylonian sacking of Jerusalem in the 6th Century BC and the life of Christ there has been no Judahite king, the Christian should expect Judah's sceptre to have existed elsewhere in the meantime.

Genesis 49:10
The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.

Following consistent pressure from the Philistines, the tribe decided they'd relocate their territory and moved to the northeast reaches of the Israelite oikumene, conquering the city of Laish and taking it for their own (renaming it as Dan; Tel-Dan of archaeology). The rest of their fate parallels that of the rest of the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

This is the core narrative of Dan's story in the Scriptures. Now let us see what blanks can be filled in from other contemporary historical records. If Dan is seafaring, then what sea should we look to other than that of the Mediterranean spanning the west coast of Canaan? From the Iliad of Homer, we have a great war between the Pan-Hellenic Achaeans and the Trojans towards the end of the Bronze Age. Over 138 times in the Iliad, the Achaeans are referred to as the Danaans (Δαναοί, Danaoi), and are one of the four major tribes which into which the Greeks divided themselves (along with Aeolians, Ionians and Dorians).

In Egyptian sources, these Achaean Greeks are either referred to as the Denyen or the Ekwesh, both constituting the 'Sea Peoples' (a confederation of seafaring tribes that invaded Egypt in the Late Bronze Age). The Karnak Temple inscription records how Pharaoh Merneptah defeated several tribes in battle, one of whom being the Ekwesh. It is noted that when they were castrating the dead to record the numbers of the slain, the Ekwesh were found to have been in fact circumcised, a practise adhered to by the Israelites (though apparently later lost during their time in Greece.

Greco-Roman record even documents the origins of these Danaan Greeks, with their legendary patriarch known as Danaus. Greek mythology has Danaus flee from his brother, Aegyptus, who sought to marry Danaus' daughters to his own sons. After Danaus fled Egypt he travelled with his daughters to Argos. Though mythological, there seems to be some underlying truth to this narrative of migration of Danaus' progeny across the Mediterranean to Egypt. Recorded in Diodorus Siculus' Library of History (40.3.2) is a fragment of the Aegyptiaca by Hecataeus of Abdera. In it we find...

"All the foreigners were forthwith expelled, and the most valiant and noble among them, under some notable leaders, were brought to Greece and other places, as some relate; the most famous of their leaders were Danaus and Cadmus. But the majority of the people descended into a country not far from Egypt, which is now called Judaea and at that time was altogether uninhabited."

Following this we find a rather respectable description of Moses as the leader of this Exodus, even if from a Greek perspective (40.3.3-7). What we can deduce from this account by Hecataeus on the origins of the Danaan/Achaean Greeks, as well as their early observance of circumcision and seafaring nature, is that the biblical Danites and Danaan are either two coincidentally similar peoples both occupying the Eastern Mediterranean at the exact same time with near identical origin stories, or they are simply the same people who went two separate ways.

Due to the maritime ways of the Danites, it can also be speculated that they are the namesake of many of Europe's waterways, especially those connected to the Black Sea: Danube, Don, Dnieper, Dniester, etc. It should also be noted that in Irish legend there was a mythical race known as the Tuatha Dé Danann (Tribe of Dan) who invaded the island in ancient time. The 12th Century Danish historian, Saxo Grammaticus, in his Gesta Danorum documents how the Danes owe their lineage to their eponymous patriarch, King Dan.

One way or another, the seas and rivers were the highways of the ancient world, and the Danites truly stayed in their ships.

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Spartan and Judaean Kinship [audio]

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1 Maccabees 12:20-23
²⁰“King Arius of the Spartans, to the high priest Onias, greetings. ²¹It has been found in writing concerning the Spartans and the Judaeans that they are brethren and are of the stock of Abraham.”

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Josephus, Antiquities 12.4.10
“Areus, King of the Lacedemonians, To Onias, Sendeth Greeting. We have met with a certain writing, whereby we have discovered that both the Judaeans and the Lacedemonians are of one stock, and are derived from the kindred of Abraham. It is but just, therefore, that you, who are our brethren, should send to us about any of your concern as you please. We will also do the same thing, and esteem your concerns as our own, and will look upon our concerns as in common with yours.”

Assyrian Archaeology and the Lost Tribes [PDF]

In the biblical record we are informed that from c.740BC onward, the Assyrian Empire began conquering the Northern Kingdom of Israel while taking the Israelite inhabitants off into captivity in cities of the Assyrians and of the Medes (2 Kings 17:6). However, beyond their settlement we are told nothing of their fate.

For that, we ought to look to the records of contemporary cultures, namely the Assyrians in Mesopotamia. At the time, Israel is commonly referred to as Bit-Khumri (House of [King] Omri, the Omrides), see the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III (841BC). In the Assyrian annals of 714BC, we hear of an ally of Sargon II known as the Gimirri who aid the Assyrians in their war against Urartu. The trilingual Behistun Inscription (515BC) mentions this same people as the Gimirrai (Kimmerians, Gr. Κιμμέριοι) in Babylonian and the Saka (Scythians) in Old Persian, indicating the shared origins of these steppe nomads who'd expand across Eurasia.

What Happened to the 12 Tribes of Israel? by E. Raymond Capt [YouTube]

Video presentation outlining the migrations of the Israelites after the Assyrian Captivity (c.740BC). Disclaimer: the notion that Saka has any connection to Isaac (Yishaq) is a flawed and baseless etymology.

Royal Israelite Complex Discovered [link to article]

The emergency excavation of the ancient site at Horvat Tevet has revealed a magnificent administrative complex from the era of Israel’s King Omri. The richness of its construction, and kinds artifacts discovered, provide clues as to the form, function, and strength of the Israelite monarchy of the period.

"These Phoenicians who came with Cadmus and of whom the Gephyraeans were a part brought with them to Hellas, among many other kinds of learning, the alphabet, which had been unknown before this, I think, to the Greeks. As time went on the sound and the form of the letters were changed. At this time the Greeks who were settled around them were for the most part Ionians, and after being taught the letters by the Phoenicians, they used them with a few changes of form. In so doing, they gave to these characters the name of Phoenician, as was quite fair seeing that the Phoenicians had brought them into Greece." ~ Herodotus, Histories 5.58