British Israelism is a theory of a master race comparable to the Aryan supremacy propaganda of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. Unlike the Nazi ideology, British Israelists declare their theory discovers assistance in the Bible and is, for that reason, God's own discovery. Among its very first advocates was a psychologically outrageous previous British Navy lieutenant called Richard Brothers, who was eventually sent out to an asylum. After that, the concept was gotten by John Wilson in his book Our Israelitish Origins
The motion made its method to the United States, where its most popular representative was Herbert W. Armstrong, who composed The United States and Britain in ProphecyHis now-defunct Worldwide Church of God has actually considering that deserted his racial theories.
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The fundamental teaching of British Israelism, upon which all other claims are based, is that the American and British individuals are straight come down from ancient Israelites. In 922 BC, the Hebrews separated into 2 different kingdoms– the Kingdom of Judah and, to the north, the Kingdom of Israel. In 721 BC, the Assyrians got into the northern kingdom, beat it, and brought its individuals away into slavery.
The theory declares that these servants, consisting of 10 people, were eventually spread, never ever to go back to their homeland. They ended up being lost to history– the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. These groups apparently moved into Northern Europe and, from there, the British Isles. Other people inhabited Northern and Western Europe. English inhabitants then brought the Israelite race to the New World, ultimately developing the United States of America. The British are traced to the particular people of Ephraim, and white Americans to the people of Manasseh.
A basic reading of the Bible suffices to refute this idea. In Luke 2:36, we discover Anna, an Asherite serving in the Jerusalem Temple long after the expected impressive migration of the lost people (the people Asher is supposedly Belgium today). Peter addresses his audience on Pentecost as “all your house of Israel” (Acts 2:36). Paul, a Benjamite (the people that stuck with Judah), called himself an Israelite (Romans 11:1).
Aside from the Bible, the contemporary science of genes has actually conclusively shown that Americans, the British, and West Europeans do not have the exact same forefather as Jews. The secret is mitochondrial DNA, a specific hair of DNA that passes unbroken through the maternal line. This makes it possible for researchers to trace the origins of any specific or group of individuals back, even to ancient times. The findings are common-sensical and simply what we need to anticipate: Middle Eastern individuals (like Jews and Arabs) are carefully associated, and their Y-chromosome swimming pool is various from white Europeans.[1]
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The corollary to the very first claim is that the Jews these days are not,
