Abraham’s Home, Our Homeland
It is both interesting and significant that for centuries the original homeland of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples was also said to be in what is now Armenia.
Oh that Canada / USA border closure! We have finally just received the past three months of mail from our Ferndale PO Box, which is now closed, in late January. So as a temporary measure, please direct all mail and correspondence to our Canadian address.
PO Box 31137 RPO Thunderbird
Langley, BC V1M 0A9
Canada
Pastor Jory Brooks is an American and pastor of the oldest Anglo-Israel church in North America, located in Detroit, Michigan. He is also Vice-President of the “The Servant People, Canadian British Israel Association” and together with President Mary Bennett, has been a driving force in that organization. With his keen interest in history and research, he has updated and written many fine publications for CBIA. When you read a Jory Brooks article, you know you are in touch with one of the foremost scholars of the Israel Truth. He is a speed reader so gets the most out of the hours per day he spends in research. His articles in our magazine are invariably fresh and informative and he also writes a quarterly article for a British publication. It is a tribute to his wisdom that his articles are very often picked up and reprinted in other Israel Truth magazines. Jory is also a sought after speaker and has delivered messages throughout the United States, Canada and the British Isles.
It is both interesting and significant that for centuries the original homeland of the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic peoples was also said to be in what is now Armenia.
The word “gate” here is singular in the King James Version, which might lead some to suggest that only one limited gate or conquest is in view.
As you might have already suspected, spring and fall, flowers and fruit, were a metonymy or metaphor, a stand-in for the Holy Days that were honored and celebrated at those times of the year.
The occasion was the birth of John the Baptist to his parents Zacharias and Elizabeth. The babe was of the priestly line of Levi and prepared the way for Christ.
In my now nearly half-century of ministry and close reading of the Scriptures, I have seen far too many prophecies of the end of the age and our Lord’s return that have proven untrue.
Testament. There were 12 Apostles, 12 foundations in New Jerusalem with 12 gates, 12 pearls, and 12 angels.
Ezekiel 46:17 continues, “But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his sons’ for them.” In the Millennium there will be no “Year of Liberty” every 50 years, because the entire thousand years is a Jubilee period of rest from labor and lost inheritances.
To put this into further perspective, if the prophecy referred to the current full number of world Jews, and if you were an Israeli today with a home with 4 individuals living there, in the Dispensationalist conception you might have 120 people crammed living in your house! (30 times more people x4). Or there would need to be a huge amount of New York City style high-rises. That number doesn’t include all of the animals, the lions and snakes and so forth,
Was the return to Zion fulfilled in 539 B.C.? The Pulpit Commentary on Jeremiah 50:4 asserts, “We are by no means to regard it as an idealized picture of the return of the Jews under Zerubbabel, any more than we can suppose the glowing promises in the second part of Isaiah to have their sole fulfilment in that disappointing event.
In Ezekiel’s vision, very close to the middle of the land between the 7 northern and 5 southern tribes, about 30 kilometers north of Jerusalem, is a large complex of sacred buildings called “the Sacred Grant” (Ferrar Fenton), called “the Oblation”