How did the term "Union Jack" come to be used in the place of the more correct term "Union Flag"? The Union Jack was literally the small Union flag flown from the jackstaff, that is the upright spar on a ship's bow. It replaced what had been known as the St. George's Jack, flown in a similar position. The term Union Flag was somehow not quite what the sailors wanted and gradually the term Union Flag Jack became just Union Jack and spread quickly throughout the Navy. It was not long before this term became the name used throughout Great Britain.
Here we should like to point out that this well-known flag is traced back to Jacob-Israel. Its name is derived from Jacob thus - Jack, English; Jacques, French; Jacobus, Latin; Jacob, Hebrew and would symbolise the union of the sons of Jacob.
It is not without significance, at least to British Israel believers, that the Union Jack flies over the "Isles of the Sea", north-west from Palestine, to which the main tribes of the House of Israel foregathered preparatory to their expansion into a "Company of Nations" as foretold to Jacob. (Gen. 35: 11.
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