British Israelism

The Anglo-Israelism (also British - Israelism ) is a predominantly used in the U.S. Special theological doctrine that stem from the British and other northern European peoples from the ten lost tribes of Israel.

Content of teaching

The Bible records that the people of Israel, which originally consisted of twelve tribes, after the death of King Solomon in the year 926 BC was divided into two different kingdoms (1 Kings 12,20 EU). The northern kingdom of Israel consisted of ten tribes, the southern kingdom of Judah with its capital in Jerusalem for two. The two tribes of the southern kingdom still exist today as Jews continue, but the ten northern tribes were after the conquest by the Assyrians in 722 BC resettled ( 2 Kgs 17.6 EU) and lost their identity.

The Anglo-Israelism assumes that these lost tribes of the Scythians are identical and moved on to North West Europe and descended the British or Anglo-Saxons directly from them. The first representatives concluded that these peoples together with the Jews inhabit the Promised Land of Israel at the end of the story. Later representatives taught that the Jews have lost their promises and, therefore, the " Anglo-Saxon ", namely "Christian" peoples are the sole heir of all the promises of the Old Testament.

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Has special significance for the Anglo-Israelism, the Scottish coronation stone of Scone, which was from 1296 to 1996 under the coronation throne of the kings of England in Westminster. It is to concern the stone on which rested the head of the biblical Jacob, when he dreamed of the ladder to heaven (Gen. 28:10-22 LUT).

History

For the first time supposed to have been represented in 1649 by the English jurist John Sadler ( 1615-1674 ) his ( "The rights of the kingdom" ) is a British -Israel theory. 1840 published the Irish Reverend John Wilson, a pamphlet entitled Lectures on our Israelitish Origin (about: Lectures on our Israelitish origin ), in which he extended this theory to other " Teutonic " nations, mainly from Germany, Italy, France and the Switzerland. He believed that they were descended from various tribes of the Scythians, who in turn herkämen of the ten lost tribes of Israel.

A larger circle was the Anglo-Israelism in 1874 known as Edward Hine, who had heard a lecture by Wilson in 1840, a book titled "Forty -Seven Identifications of the British Nation with the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel " (about: 47 identifications of the British nation with the lost ten tribes of Israel ) published in which he equated the former British Empire with the biblical Old Testament Israel.

Hine and his followers were not anti-Semitic, but would on the contrary, that the " Anglo-Saxon people" one day the tribes of Judah and Levi in the " Promised Land " followed. He believed that this connection would initiate the return of Christ.

1884 Hine decided to bring the movement to the United States to reveal the European-born Americans their true identity, but had no success with it at first. In the 1920s, Howard Rand turned to Anglo-Israelism, the 1928 National Commissioner of the Anglo - Saxon Federation of America: (about Anglo-Saxon Federation of America) and 1937 the publisher Destiny Publishers ( determination or election) founded, which today some of his works published.

Rand put the Old Testament from so that the Jews were separated not only from ancient Israel, but even the "true" tribes have left and therefore no longer God's chosen people would. The white " Anglo-Saxon people" mostly of European descent is the true chosen people of Israel. This form of election was but still no strict racial traits, but united by their followers only in the belief that God may accept commitments claim for themselves.

The followers of Anglo-Israelism are not organized, but live their faith in their traditional churches. Estimates of the number of followers, therefore, are extremely varied: of 2,000 to 100,000.

A variant of the Anglo-Israelism is the British Israel theory of Herbert W. Armstrong, on which he built his 1934 special community " Worldwide Church of God ", which broke up after his death by his heritage and today is an Evangelical Free Church. In Northern Ireland conflict founded William McGrath, a supporter of Anglo-Israelism, Tara, a loyalist Protestant paramilitary organization.

More extreme views of the lessons of Howard Rand, however, were adopted early by the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi groups ( Nazi supremacist groups) and characterize the racist anti-Semitic Christian Identity movement.