History with Dan Tracing Our IsraeliteAncestors — Part 1 of 2

Norwegian historian/explorer Thor Heyerdahl says:
“Our lack of knowledge about our own past is appalling.”

Part 1: The Migration of the Lost Tribes to Scythia

Did you know? For those of you who have been following the British Israel message, understand the connection between the 10 lost tribes of the northern Israelite nation of Samaria/Israel/Ephriam who become in secular history, the Scythians of the Russian Steppe after the fall of the northern Israelite Empire to the Assyrians. In 721 B.C., some of these Israelites went into Assyrian captivity after the invasion of Israel by the Assyrians, but other Israelites escaped over the Caucasus Mountain range and down into the northside of the Black Sea according to the 2nd Book of Esdras. The southern Israelite nation of Judah would not be taken into their captivity until later in 605 B.C., Judah along with the tribe of Benjamin would be taken into Babylonian captivity. These lost Tribes of Israel would become the Scythians as the Greeks would call them, but the Israelites would call themselves Saka (Saxon) which means Sons of Issac. Also, the Persians called the Scythians “Saka”!

In the following Bible verse, it is clearly stated by the Father, that His people will be known by a name connected to Issac.

Romans 9 verse 7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

Sons of Issac or Saka or Saxon! In recorded history, we have a people who migrated into southern Russia who are known as Saka, from the Middle East or Holy Lands which is backed up by Apocryphal verses and in secular history. We have Biblical verses that have the migration of Israelites from the headwaters of the Euphrates River over the Caucasus mountains and down into today’s Ukraine.

2nd Book of Esdras verse 41 But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt, 42 That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land. 43 And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river. 44 For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over. 45 For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.

These Apocryphal verses had Israelites escaping the grip of the Assyrian army with the help of the Father’s hand in blocking the upper Euphrates River in the Caucasus Mountains to help the multitudes of His people, the Israelites, escape to a new land, and it took a year and a half for this great multitude of Israelites to reach their new homeland of Arsareth on the north coast of the Black Sea.

Eldad, a Jewish writer, writes that many of the Israelites did not go into Assyrian captivity, but evaded the calamity by going off with their flocks. The Chief or Prince, whom they appointed, mustered 120,000 horses and 100,000-foot soldiers. Eldad says that the group that escaped the Assyrian captivity fled and had an Israelite army of 220,000 men guarding this mass migration.,

Diodorus Siculus writes that the “Scythians” (Israelites) had their origins “on the Araxes River”, and the Araxes River is in the exact same area as the upper Euphrates River but flows on the south side of the Caucasus Mountains and eastward into the Caspian Sea. Herodotus says the Scythians moved “across the Araxes into Cimmeria” (the Crimea or today’s Ukraine).

Up until the 1850’s, the Dariel Pass, the main pass over the Caucasus Mountain range, was known as “The Pass of the Israelites” and the pass was also known as the “Gates of Israel” as we shall see. The Georgian and Armenian Chronicles says the Israelites passed through the Caucasus mountains and that the “Gates of Israel” are written on the Caucasus mountains at the top of the Dariel Pass. Russian Archaeologist Daniel Chwolson says the inscription written at the top of the pass says Wrate Isralla meaning “Gates of Israel”. In the 1946 issue of the Cornal Pierce National Message, the article calls the Dariel Pass: “The Pass of Israel” and “The Gates of Israel” and at the top of the pass is Mount Zion and the village of Zion. Josephus says the Israelites used covered wagons to cross over the Pass. This is the pass that the multitudes of Israelites used to cross over the Caucasus Mountain range, escaping the Assyrians. Down the north side of the Caucasus and into today’s Ukraine the Israelites descended into a land to be known as Arsareth (or later to become Scythia) as the Bible describes it, this is the Israelites new home that the Father granted them.

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Most writers think the Scythians who troubled Asia were Sacae from the east of the Caspian”. Herodotus says, “Sacae or Saka is the name the Persians give to all Scythia tribes”. Greek writer Ptolemy (A.D. second century) referred to the Sacae or Saka as “Saxones (or Saxons)”, these terms were often used synonymously. Aeschylus says “The Sacae or Saka were noted for their good laws and were pre-eminently a righteous people. Strabo says, “All the nations toward the northern parts, the ancient Greek writers call Scythians”. Herodotus writes, “They (Scythians) have, in one respect … shown themselves wiser than any other nation upon the face of the earth…. Possessing no houses but wagons, and carrying these about wherever they go, accustomed, one and all, to fight on horseback with bows and arrows, and dependent for their food not upon agriculture but upon their cattle: how can they fail of being unconquerable, and even unassailable!” Icelandic historian Snorri Sturluson says that the Vikings (Tribes of Asher and Dan) originated at the mouth of the Don River and the Sea Azov from a place called Asgard! (Could this mean Arsareth?)

Part 2: Historical Evidence Linking Scythians, Saka, and Saxons coming in the May 2026 edition of the TKC Magazine.