THE FIGHT FOR THE KINGDOM
AND JUSTICE FOR
ALL
By R. Llewelyn Williams
originally published in 1957
edited & supplemented by JAH in 2001
Foreword
The name Israel (Champion of God, or Ruling with God), is a title
which was specially bestowed by God Himself upon Jacob, the ancestor
of the Israel people.
Jacob-Israel had twelve sons, of whom Judah was the fourth. It is
obvious, therefore, that Judah was one of the children of Israel, and
equally obvious that the other eleven sons could not possibly have
been Judah.
Each of these twelve sons founded a tribe, with the exception of
Joseph, who founded two tribes through his two sons, Ephraim and
Manasseh. There were thus, strictly speaking, thirteen tribes; but,
inasmuch as the tribe of Levi had no territorial status but was
dispersed throughout the other twelve tribes for the performance of
special duties, it became customary to speak of the whole nation as
the twelve tribes of Israel.
These tribes were organized into a kingdom, of which God Himself was
the King: a Theocratic State, which lasted about four hundred years.
At the end of that time they decided to set up a visible and earthly
king, and first Saul, then David, and lastly Rehoboam, reigned over
the original united kingdom of all-Israel.
In the reign of Rehoboam this kingdom was split into two parts: the
tribes of Judah, Benjamin with some of the tribe of Levi scattered
amongst them formed the kingdom of Judah, while the remaining ten
tribes with the remainder of the Levites scattered amongst them formed
the new northern kingdom of Israel. This great division took place
about 975 B.C., and from this time forward the terms Israel and Judah
generally refer to the two separate kingdoms so formed.
Between the dates 741 B.C. and 676 B.C., the people of the kingdom of
Israel were deported by the Assyrians to a district north of Nineveh;
and shortly afterwards their land was handed over to colonists from
the Assyrian Empire.
The main deportations of Judah took place between the dates 606 B.C.
and 587 B.C. when all the inhabitants of that kingdom, with very few
exceptions, were transported by the Chaldaeans to Babylon.
The people of the two kingdoms were thus deported at different times,
by different conquerors, and to different districts.
In 537 B.C., under the decree of Cyrus, a portion of Judah (42,360
souls in all), some of whom had married non-Israelite wives and
fathered children by them, returned to their own land - Judaea, and
became known as Jews.
These Jews, being of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi, were,
therefore, of the race of Israel, but of the kingdom of Judah.
On the other hand, the ten tribes, who never returned home from their
captivity, were not only of the race of Israel, but also of the
kingdom of Israel; they could not, therefore, by any possibility have
been either Judah or the Jews.
Until these facts are clearly understood, much of the Bible must
remain unintelligible.
When we come to the New Testament times, we find that the term 'Jews'
has acquired a two-fold meaning. The same word is used to indicate (1)
the whole body of Jews, and (2) those Jews who were domiciled in
Judaea, many of whom, like king Herod, were Idumaean (Edomite)
converts to Judaism.
During the Roman occupation that part of Palestine, which lay
immediately between the river Jordan and the sea coast, was divided
into three sections: Galilee in the North, Judaea in the South, and
Samaria, which lay between the two.
The Samaritans were the descendants of the Assyrian colonists who have
been mentioned above; they did not go up to Jerusalem to the Feasts,
but worshipped YHWH (Jehovah - the "I AM") in their own fashion (Jonah
1:2; 3:4-5) at their own temple on Mount Gerizim. The Jews were
expressly forbidden by their leaders to have any dealings with the
Samaritans, except in so far as it might be incumbent upon them to buy
food, or other necessities, when passing through their territory.
Thus Galilee and Judaea were separated from each other by a wide tract
of land inhabited by an alien, and hated, people.
This separation resulted in a divergence of manners, customs, speech
and ideals, that caused the Jews of Galilee to fear the Idumaean Jews
of Judaea for their political and religious power, and which led the
Jews of Judaea to despise the Jews of Galilee for their
provincialism.
Thus it came about that the Jews of Galilee called themselves
Galileans, while the Jews of Judaea retained the name of Jews.
We are not surprised, therefore, when we find the Evangelists, who
were Galileans, referring to their fellow-countrymen in Judaea as
Jews, or when we find the Jews of Judaea referring to their
compatriots of Galilee as Galileans.
This distinction between Jews (all Jews) and Jews (Judaeans) should
not be overlooked by students of the New Testament.
The Fight for The Kingdom
It cannot be stated too often, that believers in the Truth, that the
British* and related peoples are Israel, stake all their faith upon
the Bible, because they believe it to be, not only a true Book, but
the inspired Word of God.
* The word Brit-ish is Hebrew and means "Covenant-man", as it does
also in Welsh.
In its pages they find the revelations of the purposes of God for the
liberty, happiness and life of the whole human race; opposed to these
purposes, they find great spiritual forces bent upon their
enslavement, misery and death.
Man, they find, has been given free-will to choose his own destiny. He
has the right to make his choice between freedom and slavery, between
life and death, not only in the spiritual, but also in the material
sphere.
Because our forefathers chose slavery and death we are living today
under systems and organizations of evil which prevent us from enjoying
those blessings which might otherwise be ours.
We have grown so accustomed to the conditions under which we live that
we take them for granted. Unemployment, poverty, disease, insanity and
war, we dismiss with a shrug of the shoulders as being 'normal' and
part of the 'scheme of things'. But let us make no mistake; they are
not in any way part of God's scheme of things. On the contrary, they
are the direct result of our own willful choice of Evil.
And what is Evil? Where may it be found, and how is it to be fought?
For the answers to these questions we must study that great Guide-Book
which God has provided for this very purpose. Here, and here only, can
we discover, not only the cause of all our troubles, but also the
remedy for them.
Among others there is one great organization of Evil which menaces our
liberty, our prosperity, and our happiness today, which has
undermined, and is still undermining our social, political and
spiritual life. If we are not to be further enslaved we must have a
clear understanding of its origin, its aims, and its methods, and for
this we must turn first to the record of the life of our Lord Christ
Jesus.
It is perhaps natural that some of us should assume that the Jews put
Jesus to death in ignorance of his identity. We know that on the Cross
he prayed, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they
do' (i.e. they are insane); but it must be remembered that Jesus
himself blamed no one for his death. He said, 'No man taketh (my life)
from me, but I lay it down of myself' (John 10:18). And while we may
be sure that he prayed for all those who were in any way responsible
for the death of the body he was using, the last part of his prayer
surely applies to those who were subjecting him to the awful agony of
crucifixion.
As we read the story of the life of Jesus it is impossible not to
realize that there was, from the first, some sinister force at work
which denied his claims, derided his teaching, and poisoned the mind
of the people against him.
It was, moreover, a powerful force, for again and again we read that
many believed him, but did not confess him openly for fear of the Jews
(Judaeans). Even the members of the Sanhedrin, the national council,
did not dare to incur the displeasure of this force. 'Nevertheless',
we read, 'among the chief rulers also many believed him; but because
of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out
of the synagogue' (John 12:42).
What was this force which possessed such power and could inspire such
fear? What was this satanic agency which permeated and influenced the
Priesthood, the Scribes, the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin alike?
In our search for an answer to these questions, let us turn first to
the eleventh chapter of Ezekiel, where we shall be brought face to
face with a certain caucus of highly placed individuals who had banded
themselves together to secure the inheritance of the Kingdom of God
for a small section of the tribe of Judah, to the exclusion of all the
rest of the whole house of Israel.
In later years it would seem that this caucus developed into a highly
organized secret society with ambitious designs for the world
domination by subversive means. So widely extended was the growth of
its activities, and so powerful the influence which it exerted over
men and nations, that it became known in some quarters as the
Brotherhood of the Hidden Hand (a.k.a. the Synagogue of Satan).
At the time of the incident, which is recorded in the chapter which
has just been mentioned, the greater part of the kingdom of Judah had
been deported to Babylon, but the city of Jerusalem had not yet been
captured by the Chaldeans. The members of the Hidden Hand thought the
city was impregnable, and ridiculed the warnings which had been given
to them by the prophet Jeremiah. They likened Jerusalem to a cauldron,
and themselves to the flesh within it.
Ezekiel had been taken captive with king Jehoiachin in 597 B.C., and
was living near Babylon at Tel Abib on the river Chebar. For the
incident which follows he was transported by the Spirit of the Lord to
Jerusalem.
'Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate
of the Lord's House, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of
the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of
Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
'Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise
mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city: which say, It is not
near; let us build houses: this city is the caldron, and we be the
flesh.
'Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.
'And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak;
Thus saith the Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know
the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
'Ye have multiplied your slain in this city, and ye have filled the
streets thereof with the slain.
'Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Your slain whom ye have laid in
the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron: but
I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
'Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith
the Lord God.
'And I will bring you out of the midst thereof, and deliver you into
the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you. . . .
'And ye shall know that I am the Lord: for ye have not walked in My
statutes, neither executed My judgments, but have done after the
manners of the heathen that are around about you.
'And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of
Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud
voice, and said, Ah Lord God! wilt Thou make a full end of the remnant
of Israel?
'Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, thy
brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house
of Israel wholly (the whole thirteen tribed nation of Israel), are
they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem (the Jews) have said, Get
you far from the Lord: unto us (the Jews) is this land given in
possession.'*
That was the plot of the Hidden Hand, as revealed by the Lord to
Ezekiel, and it still is today.
* This came to its fulfillment in 1948 when the Zionist Jews got the
U.N.O. to take the land of Israel from its rightful owners, the
British peoples and give it to them.
Not long afterwards, in 588 B.C., Jerusalem was attacked and captured;
the city was sacked and gutted; The Temple razed to the ground; and
those of its inhabitants who escaped the sword were herded together by
their conquerors, and urged with whip and spear upon their weary march
of five hundred miles to Babylon.
Seventy years later, when a portion of the tribe of Judah, 42,360 in
all, returned to Palestine, the Hidden Hand went with them, more
determined than ever to put its plans into operation.
Obviously such a plot could not hope to succeed if the people believed
implicitly the words of the Scriptures. It was necessary to twist and
misinterpret their meaning. And so cleverly and subtly was this
accomplished that, by the time of the incarnation of our Lord, all
sections of the Jewish community were expecting a military leader, who
should expel the Roman invaders and establish the kingdom of Israel,
with all its material blessings (but without its responsibilities),
for the benefit of the Jews, and of the Jews alone.
We are now asking ourselves the same question about Jesus the Nazarite
(Numbers ch. 6) which the Jews asked each other in the streets of
Jerusalem, 'Do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ?'
Let us then examine the evidence a little more closely.
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