Jesus’ Birth & the Christmas Tradition

Overview
When we celebrate Jesus' birth why is there a tree and presents for everyone?  What started these  Christmas traditions?  What prophecies were fulfilled with his birth?  Here are my findings.

  Jesus' Birth was a Fulfillment of Prophecy

Jesus, was born as a fulfillment to Our Father's word documented in the Old Testament.  Reflected below are some of the prophecies Jesus fulfilled:

Prophecy	Fulfillment
Micah 5:2 2 But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler in Israel,  whose coming forth is from of old, from ancient days. Mat 2:6 6 "'And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel. '" Isaiah 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God,  Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore.  The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.	Mat 2:1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem. John 7:42 42 Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" Hebrews 5:5 So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him,  "You are my Son, today I have begotten you"; 6 as he says also in another place,  "You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek." Jesus was born to the line of King David.  David’s line was of rulers and high priest.  See here for his ancestry
Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. [Immanuel means god with us]	Luke 1:34 And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I am a virgin?" 35 And the angel answered her, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy— the Son of God.
First Passover in Exodus 12:3. Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers 'houses, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.	Jesus fulfilled Passover since he was sacrificed on Passover.  He was the lamb without blemish. Mathew 26:2 When Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said to his disciples, 2 "You know that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man will be delivered up to be crucified." John 19:14 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!" 15 They cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar." 16 So he delivered him [Jesus] over to them to be crucified.

Jesus let us know that he came to fulfill the law:

Matt 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

Date of Jesus' Birth

Jesus was born on the Day of Atonement.

Here is a real good newspaper article that explains how early Americans felt about celebrating Christmas. This also discusses the day of his birth. 

So we do know that Jesus was not born on December 25^th.  There is no example of the 12 apostles celebrating Jesus’ birth and there is no example of the 12 apostles performing the pagan things we do today to celebrate Christmas.  So celebrating his birth and putting presents or offerings under a tree would be adding to his commands of us.

Due4:2 You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

Since he was born on the Day of Atonement we should observe that day as instructed in the Laws of Moses.  The apostles did observe fasting day which is the Day of Atonement. 

  Heathen Traditions

Here is a list of heathen things many of us do to celebrate his birth:

·         Christmas Ham:  It should not be considered honoring to Jesus birth by eating an unclean animal.
Deu 15:8 And the pig, because it parts the hoof but does not chew the cud, is unclean for you. Their flesh you shall not eat, and their carcasses you shall not touch.

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·         Merry: The word ‘merry’ is usually associated with being drunk in the Bible:
Genesis 43: 34 Portions were taken to them from Joseph's table, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank and were merry with him.
Judges 19." 6 So the two of them sat and ate and drank together. And the girl's father said to the man, "Be pleased to spend the night, and let your heart be merry."
Ruth 3:7 And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain.
1 Samuel 25: 36 And Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk.

What are we really celebrating?  Maybe we are really celebrating Saturnalia and Yuletide.  We have combined several festivals together.  Update, we are celebrating the Feast of the Dedication, see more information here.  Also see Noah's Festivals of the Seasons.

United States Holiday

According to a report, created for Congress, the Christmas became a holiday as follows:

The act of June 28, 1870, which was apparently prompted by a memorial drafted by local “bankers and business men,” provided that New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Christmas Day, and “any day appointed or recommended by the President of the United States as a day of public fasting or thanksgiving [were] to be holidays within the District.” This legislation was drafted “to correspond with similar laws of States around the District,”3 and “in every State of the Union.”

I have placed a copy of this report here, see page one.

1836 Christmas in America

Overview

Christmas was not originally celebrated here in America by Protestant Christians.  The Puritans were against the celebration of Christmas since a Roman Catholic Pope started the tradition based on the false belief that Jesus Christ was born on December 25th.  The Protestant reformation was about eliminating all observances and traditions that were established by Popes and not based on biblical facts. I do agree with the Puritans that Jesus Christ was born on September 29th and not December 25th.  

The actual problem with the Christmas celebration is that the Puritans forgot the reason behind the celebration since the Pope had actually just changed the reason.  The original Christmas celebration was the anointing of the Second Temple Altar recorded in 1st Maccabees 4:44-59.  The word Christ means anointed and -mas means sacred day.  

 Reflected below is a full transcript of an 1836 newspaper article regarding the history of Christmas and their reasons for thinking it should not be celebrated.  Click here to see original article in column three.

December 28, 1836 Vermont Telegraph – Christmas

It is known to all that have examined the subject, that we are entirely ignorant of the precise time of our Lord’s nativity.  There is good reason to believe that the Christian era itself is considerably inaccurate; that our Savior’s birth really took place about four years earlier than the time from which it is commonly reckoned; so that we are now in the year 1840, from the true period of his incarnation.  The cause of this error was, that even Christians, to say nothing of others, did not reckon time from the birth of Christ, till about the beginning of the sixth century after his advent; when it was no longer practicable to fix that great epoch with certainty.  The public archives had been destroyed by the burning of the greater part of the city of Rome, in the time of Nero, and probably by his order; and hence, although the empire in the sixth century had long since become Christian, the decree of Augustus for a general taxing which was contemporaneous with our Savior’s birth and the account of his death sent to Rome by Pilate, could not be resorted to in determining the exact time of these interesting and important events.

 The word Christmas is composed of the two words, Christ and Mass, and was first employed to denote the religious service made use of in the Roman Catholic church, in celebrating our Savior’s birth; nor is it improbable, that this very term has increased, if it did not originate the strong dislike, which some Protestants have always entertained and expressed against the performance of any religious service on the day called Christmas.

 There seems to be no probability that the great event which Christmas commemorates, happened on the 25^th of December; and it is wonderful that Pope Julius, by whom that day was fixed for religious observance, should have decided as he did.  Two events, coincident with the incarnation of our Redeemer, are fully known – the resort of the Jews, from the most distance parts of Judea, to the city or place where they were born, that they might be enrolled and taxed – and the watching of their flocks by night, of the shepherds, in the vicinity of Bethlehem.  Now, it is very improbable that the season of the year, the most unfavorable of all for traveling, should have been assigned for the universal attendance of the Jews at the various places of enrolment:  and it is still more improbable, that in a climate not very different from that of the southern part of the United States,* shepherds should be “keeping watch over their flocks by night,” on the 25^th of December – encamped as they clearly were, in the open fields.  Those who have investigated the subject most carefully have placed our Lord’s nativity somewhere between the middle of August, and the middle of November; and the best and prevalent opinion is that it happened in the latter part of September, or in the early part of October.

 We have no evidence that Christmas was ever observed as a religious festival till toward the end of the second century of the Christian era, under the Roman emperor Commodus.  The observance of it, however, soon became general, and continued so till the time of the Protestant reformation.  Neither, indeed, was its observance proscribed or discountenanced by the reformers, otherwise than that this might seem to be implied in the great Protestant principle that the Scriptures alone contain the laws and institutions which are binding on conscience and obligatory on the church, and that in the Scriptures, there is certainly no command, nor any recorded usage of the primitive church, in favor of the observance of Christmas.  The Protestant churches, nevertheless, both Lutheran and Calvinistic, have, in fact, generally observed the day not only as a season of social festivity, but by the performance of some religious service, commemorative of the birth of Christ.  It is believed that the Scotch church and the English puritans, with their descendants, stand alone, among all the reformed churches whose origin is ? with the reformation, in their refusal to celebrate Christmas in a religious manner – esteeming such a celebration as a departure from the fundamental principle of Protestantism, already mentioned and viewing in as dangerous to make any observance habitual, without a clear scriptural warrant; or to act as if any other day than the Sabbath could lawfully be regarded as sacred.  We are now prepared to make the following summary statement.

1.       That the religious observance of the day called Christmas, is not a divine institution, and therefore to represent of regard it as such, is contrary to truth and duty.

2.       That the day of the year, and even the month in which our Savior was born, is not known. – The day of his crucifixion we know exactly.  It is ascertained by the Jewish Passover, the annual return of which is most clearly specified in the Pentateuch, and has been punctually observed by the Jews in every successive age.  But in the providence of God, we are not permitted to know the day on which our blessed Lord became incarnate.

3.       That the incarnation or nativity of the Redeemer of the world, is unquestionably an event which we ought often to recollect, with the deepest admiration and the most lively gratitude, and on suitable occasions to celebrate in social worship.

4.       That since the second century of the Christian era, the great body of Christians, both Catholics and Protestants, have assigned a specific day for the commemoration of the great event by which a Savior was given to the world.

5.       That some Protestant sects notwithstanding, refuse to observe this day, because they have no scriptural warrant for such an observance, and therefore, think that it is wrong in itself, and likely to be followed by very bad consequences.

*Bethlehem, in Judea, is placed on maps in Lat. 33 deg. 36 min north, which is very nearly the latitude of Charleston, S. C.

---Christian Advocate

The Christian Thanksgiving Tradition

Overview

The Thanksgiving holiday or Holy Day is rooted in Christianity.  It is a day to praise our Father in Heaven for the final harvest of the year.  The original Pilgrim celebration of Thanksgiving was called a harvest festival.  The Pilgrims were known for their Christian beliefs and the importance they put on studying the bible, so it is certain that they were aware of the Feast of Tabernacles and the importance of thanksgiving to our Father in Heaven.

The Mayflower Compact stated their mission was for the glory of God:

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_Compact [note:  I am a descendant of Degory Priest, a signer of the compact.]

Edward Winslow, in Mourt's Relation, documented their first Thanksgiving as follows:

Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together after we had gathered the fruits of our labor. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five deer, which we brought to the plantation and bestowed on our governor, and upon the captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.  

The time of the festival:

The Pilgrims celebrated at Plymouth for three days after their first harvest in 1621. The exact time is unknown, but James Baker, then Plimoth Plantation vice president of research, stated in 1996, "The event occurred between Sept. 21 and Nov. 11, 1621, with the most likely time being around Michaelmas (Sept. 29, Day of Atonement), the traditional time."

Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)#Harvest_festival_observed_by_the_Pilgrims_at_Plymouth

Feast of Tabernacles

Based on Edward Winslow’s writings above, their harvest festival was celebrated just like the Israelite Feast of Tabernacles.  The Israelite Thanksgiving celebration was called the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths or Ingatherings.  Based on the solar calendar, the Feast of Tabernacles is typically celebrated from about October 2nd  to 10th which is 5 days after the Day of Atonement that is also known as Michaelmas.  In Canada their Thanksgiving holiday is observed during the time of the Feast of Tabernacles.  It was commanded that we celebrate this, as follows:

Exodus 23: 14 Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year. 15 Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread:(thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:) 16 And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

1851 Septuagint Exodus 23:16 And thou shalt keep the feast of the harvest of first fruits of thy labors, whatsoever thou shalt have sown in thy field, and the feast of completion at the end of the year in the gathering in of thy fruits out of thy field.

Exodus 34: 22 You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end.

Deu 16:13 "You shall keep the Feast of Booths seven days, when you have gathered in the produce from your threshing floor and your winepress. 14 You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns. 15 For seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

Thanksgiving

The Pilgrims studied the bible, therefore knew the importance of thanksgiving or praise to our Father in Heaven.  The word ‘thanksgiving’ appears in the bible many times.  It appears in the World English Bible 33 times, as follows:

Lev 7:11-15 "'This is the law of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which one shall offer to Yahweh.  If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mixed with oil.  With cakes of leavened bread he shall offer his offering with the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving.  Of it he shall offer one out of each offering for a heave offering to Yahweh. It shall be the priest's who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings.  The flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering.

Lev 22:29 "When you sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Yahweh, you shall sacrifice it so that you may be accepted.

2 Chron 33:16 He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace- offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

Neh 11:17 and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, who was the chief to begin the thanksgiving in prayer,

Neh 12:8 Moreover the Levites:Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, [and] Mattaniah, who was over the thanksgiving, he and his brothers.

Neh 12:46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

Psalm 26:7 That I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, And tell of all your wondrous works.

Psalm 50:14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.

Psalm 50:23 Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, And prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him. "

Psalm 69:30 I will praise the name of God with a song, And will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Psalm 95:2 Let's come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let's extol him with songs!

Psalm 100:1 ((A Psalm of thanksgiving.)) Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! 2 Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. 3 Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, Into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name. 5 For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, His faithfulness to all generations.

Psalm 107:22 Let them offer the sacrifices of thanksgiving, And declare his works with singing.

Psalm 116:17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call on the name of Yahweh.

Psalm 147:7 Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God, 8 Who covers the sky with clouds, Who prepares rain for the earth, Who makes grass grow on the mountains.

Isaiah 51: 3 For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Jer 17:26 They shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill- country, and from the South, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meal- offerings, and frankincense, and bringing [sacrifices of] thanksgiving, to the house of Yahweh. 27 But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

Jer 30:19 Out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of those who make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

Jer 33: 11 the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voice of those who say, Give thanks to Yahweh of Hosts, for Yahweh is good, for his loving kindness endures forever; [and of them] who bring [sacrifices of] thanksgiving into the house of Yahweh. For I will cause the captivity of the land to return as at the first, says Yahweh.

Amos 4:5 Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, And proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: For this pleases you, you children of Israel, "says the Lord Yahweh.

Jonah 2:9 But I will sacrifice to you with the voice of thanksgiving. I will pay that which I have vowed. Salvation belongs to Yahweh. "

2 Cor 4:15 For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

2 Cor 9:10 Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness; 11 you being enriched in everything to all liberality, which works through us thanksgiving to God. 12 For this service of giving that you perform not only makes up for lack among the saints, but abounds also through many givings of thanks to God;

Phi 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, Rejoice! 5 Let your gentleness be known to all men. The Lord is at hand. 6 In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Col 2:6 As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him, 7 rooted and built up in him, and established in the faith, even as you were taught, abounding in it in thanksgiving.

Col 4:1 Masters, give to your servants that which is just and equal, knowing that you also have a Master in heaven. 2 Continue steadfastly in prayer, watching therein with thanksgiving; 3 praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;

1 Thes 3:9 For what thanksgiving can we render again to God for you, for all the joy with which we rejoice for your sakes before our God;

1 Tim 4:1 But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons, 2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron; 3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with thanksgiving. 5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

Rev 7:10 They cried with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation be to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!" 11 All the angels were standing around the throne, the elders, and the four living creatures; and they fell on their faces before his throne, and worshiped God, 12 saying, "Amen! Blessing, glory, wisdom, thanksgiving, honor, power, and might, be to our God forever and ever! Amen."

It is no coincidence that the US Pilgrims and the Israelites both celebrated the final harvest, at the same time of the year, for a week of giving thanks to our Father in Heaven!

History of Thanksgiving: The Pilgrims to "Franksgiving"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daQj3GDnb-4

Ben Shapiro: The Truth About Thanksgiving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNL-cpbGygg

Plymouth Colony: "The Pilgrims" 1955 Encyclopaedia Britannica Films American History 22min

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYNTtJbsRMk

12 Tribes of Israel Migration & yDNA

Below is the Israelite migration map below.

For a more detailed and larger map, click here.

This Israelite migration map above shows the same migration as the yDNA haplogroups R and I in the map below.

(Ignore the 'Thousands of Years Ago' since they add time using a chimp calculation based on evolution theories.)

Haplogroup I represents the Israelites earliest migration out of the Mesopotamia area.  Haplogroup R is the later migrations.  See this site for more information.  mtDNA & Y-DNA of the British Isles

The British Monarchy is descendant of the House of David and some of the branches of this monarchy yDNA has been tested.  Their yDNA results prove that they are all Haplogroup R1b.  This includes the Tsar Nicholas II of the Mountbatten dynasty, King Charles II of the Stuart dynasty, and Prince Albert of the Windsor dynasty. 

These links provide more information:

• yDNA of the British Monarchy 
• Flow chart showing Queen Victoria's descendants that includes Prince Albert and Tsar Nicholas II that married into the family Queen Victoria Descendants and Ancestors 
• Information about Queen Elizabeth & Jacob's Pillow 

Haplogroups I, R and Q are the Israelites of the bible!

The Scots are Israelites according to their Declaration of Independence from Rome

The National Archives of Scotland holds a document called the Declaration of Arbroath that was written to the Pope in 1320 A.D.  It is the Scottish Declaration of Independence from Rome.  This document was written in support of King Robert Bruce (Robert I) and an independent Scotland, declaring that Robert I was their rightful monarch and asserting Scotland’s status as an independent kingdom.

 

The first paragraph, from the Declaration of Arbroath, reflects they are the people from the Bible and from the book of Chronicles.  It also reflects they are the people of Israel that crossed the Red Sea and their home is in the west today. 

 

"Most Holy Father, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread renown. It journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage peoples, but nowhere could it be subdued by any people, however barbarous. Thence it came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to its home in the west where it still lives today. The Britons it first drove out, the Picts it utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes and the English, it took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts; and, as the histories of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all servitude ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of their own royal stock, the line unbroken by a single foreigner."

 

 

To see the full copy of the Declaration of Arbroath click here.

 

For more information, see these pages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_Arbroath

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_the_Bruce

 

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files/research/NRS_DoA_English_booklet_700_Spreads_WEB.pdf  

 

The Bible reflects that the Israelites would have a new home.  As prophesied, our Father in Heaven gave the Israelites a highway so that they could leave their captivity.

 

Isaiah 11:16 "And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt."

 

More Biblical proof regarding their migration:

 

Amos 9:9 "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth."

 

2 Esdras 13:40-45 "these are the ten tribes which were led away from their own land into captivity in the days of King Hoshea [Hosea], whom Shalmaneser the king of the Assyrians led captive; he took them across the river, and they were taken into another land.  But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where mankind had never lived, that there at least they might keep their statutes which they had not kept in their own land.  And they went in by the narrow passages of the Euphrates river. For at that time the Most High performed signs for them, and stopped the channels of the river until they had passed over.  Through that region there was a long way to go, a journey of a year and a half; and that country is called Arzareth."

 

 

The Scottish Declaration of Independence reflects the Scottish people are descendants of the 10 northern tribes of Israel with a ruling tribe of Judah.

 

For more migration information, please see this page.

 

Scotland had possession of the coronation stone (Jacob’s pillow) for many years (see this page).

 

Scotland’s Royal Standard reflects the bible heraldry of the tribe of Judah which is a lion with it's right hand raised (see this page).

 

For information about the Scottish queen Scotia, please see this page.