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From a reader:

Hello,

I really enjoyed your article on the tribe of Gad. I was somewhat shocked to find out you believe that West Germany is Gad. As a child, I always heard that Switzerland was Gad. My Dad’s family was from Stutgart and of the royal family there. I always believed I was an Assyrian. So if West Germany is the Tribe of Gad, and East Germany and Prussia are the Assyrians, what tribe is Switzerland? Also, is Austria part of Assyria as well? I am a History Major myself, so your articles are very Interesting to me. Thank you so much for sharing them. God Bless.

Regards,

Kenneth

My response:

Kenneth Schwab,

I am aware of the teaching by some that Switzerland was the tribe of Gad, but that teaching never had any documentation of much biblical support for it. Genesis 49:19 prophesies that Gad will be “overcome” (defeated) during the latter days but will rise to prominence before the latter days end. That doesn’t fit Switzerland at all, but it does very accurately foretell what happened to Germany in World War II until the present. Also, Deuteronomy 33:20 prophesies that Gad will “be enlarged” (become a nation with a large population) and that it will become aggressively militaristic against its neighboring nations. That describes Germany quite well, but doesn’t describe Switzerland at all; therefore, I think the identification of Germany as the modern Israelite tribe of Gad is a solid one. This information is examined in my book, “Israel’s Tribes Today.”

Switzerland is an amalgamated nation with three language groups: German, Italian and French so I do not regard it as being one single tribe of Israel in the latter days. Austria is a German-speaking nation which was not behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War, so it is more likely to be Gadite than Assyrian. Also, while Gad was promised to have a large population, in future times, no such promise was given to the Assyrians by God. That also argues that the Austrians are more likely to be members of the tribe of Gad than any other Caucasian/Semitic group.

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From a reader:

Hello Mr. Collins,

Great work on the pre history of earth, makes lots of sense.

Question for you, who built the pyramids and how old do you think they are?

They seem to be the enigma in history. If pre flood, then how did they survive, and the earth is full of them now as they have discovered.

Thank you,

Michael

My response:

Michael,

You ask a good question. Without providing a lot of elaboration (which I hope to do in a major article in the future), it is my belief that the sphinx most likely has a pre-Flood origin due to its proven past erosion by huge volumes of water not present in Egypt during recent millennia. The pyramids were, in my judgment, built either in pre-Flood times as well or in the immediate post-Flood time when mankind could still read and speak the pre-Flood language and had access to all the high-tech secrets of that pre-Flood civilization.

Genesis 11:6 cites God himself noting that mankind had reached a technological tipping point at the tower of Babel project that “nothing” would be restrained from them that they imagined to do, so post-Flood mankind was busily recreating the pre-Flood civilization which God had destroyed. This was against God’s will and he confused all their languages so all nations were cut off from the pre-Flood technologies. To learn more about my views on how high-tech the “tower of Babel” project was, I urge readers to listen to my free audio message, “As It Was in the Days of Noah,” available at the “speeches” tab at the top of my website’s home page.

I pay little attention to any age estimates that predate the Flood as God changed the rate at which matter (including the bodies of mankind) ages after the Deluge. This means there has not been a steady rate of decay in C-14 throughout human history so all datings based on that isotope have no accuracy prior to the Flood.

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From a reader:

Steven,

I just recently watched a documentary by Terry Jones entitled ‘The End of The World” and it is like the rest of the series showing how the so called barbarians were much more civilized then Rome. He did a large section on the Huns. I had always thought the Huns were Monglos or Orientals but the video showed Hun Golden ornaments that looked very Parthian /Scythian to me. Do you think the Huns were another wave of Israelite invasion from Parthia/Scythia or do you believe them to be Oriental/Japethites from Mongolia? He also claimed Atilla had a very Parthian like live and let live mentality when he wasn’t raiding. I know the huns chased other Israelite tribes like the Goths and Vandals into western Europe and on into Africa but Israelite tribes fought each other all the time and by now they had probably lost their identity anyway. What do you think? Who were the Huns? I don’t recall the Huns identity being brought up in your books. If so let me know and I’ll reread them for about the eigth time:-)

Al

My response:

Al,

While I do not think that Attila (or the Huns) were Israelite, I have no doubt that Israelites fought in his army as vassals. The Ostrogoths (the eastern Goths) fought on Attila’s side as subjects of his who were compelled to fight for him. The Visigoths, Franks and others who opposed Attila were Israelite tribes in my judgment. One exception to hte Huns’ non-Israelite background were the Nepthalite Huns, who were also called the “White Huns” due to their Caucasian appearances. This group of Huns were the Israelite Tribe of Naphtali, who went into Asian exile in I Kings 15:29, but they were one of the last tribes of Israel to depart Asia into Europe. The tribe of Naphtali stayed in Asia for a long time after the Sassanians overthrew the Parthian empire circa 227 AD—which triggered the migrations of the Parthian and Scythian tribes into Europe.

I have several discussions of Attila, the Huns and the tribes who opposed their invasion of Europe in my book, “Israel’s Tribes Today.”

Steve

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From a reader:

Rev 20:7-9 mentions Gog and Magog war, how does this relate to what is spoken of in Ezekiel 38?

Ron

My response:

Dear Ron,

The Gog-Magog wars of Ezekiel 38-39 and Revelation 20 are two different wars. The Ezekiel 38-39 war occurs in the “latter days” prior to the millennium/ Messianic Age, while the Revelation 20 war occurs at the very end of the millennium. The Ezekiel 38-39 war states the Gog-Magog alliance attacks the nations of the house of Israel while the Gog-Magog alliance attacks a city of righteous saints at the end of the millennium. These are clearly two different wars fought against two different targets approximately 1000 years apart from each other.

Steve

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From a reader:

Dear Mr. Collins-

I just had to contact you. For the past few months I have been asking the Holy Spirit to show me the truth of end time prophecy. He had begun to show me the very scriptures you pointed out in Ezekiel, Joel, Isaiah, and Jeremiah. Also leading me to the notion of Ephraim and Menassah,the lost tribes of Israel.

I was very unsure of what this all meant, and what specifically Yeshuah was trying to show me. I am far from scholarly, in the study of God’s word. But have been brought out of much wrong teaching, and have asked the Holy Spirit to bring me fully out of deception, that I might know the truth.

I asked many specific questions about Ephraim and Mannasah. Being a regular listener of trunews, I was beyond blessed when I heard your interview with Rick, and so much of what the Holy Spirit has eluded to me, had been made clear.

After going to your website and reading more in depth your articles, I felt the Holy Spirit upon me as my eyes were opened completely, and I knew I was reading the truth of God’s word, interpreted correctly, for the first time. The Lord had answered my request to be shown the truth.

May the Lord bless you as you use the gifts and knowledge He has given you to open the eyes of many. May He give you many more opportunities to share these truths with others. For the first time in my 15 year walk with Yehshua, I now see the scriptures in the way they should be understood. Some of what you teach concerning the churches and Yehshuas’s warning to all christians, had already been revealed to me. Yet I have never seen it presented in any other church, by any other teacher, as the Holy Spirit showed it to me personally, except by you.

I pray you continue in what the Lord has called you to, and I want you to know I stayed up til 5am, devouring your website. I have always watched and prayed,but a new fire has been lit in my heart tonight because of the clarity the Lord has given me through you.

I want you to know i will be praying for you.

In His Love-

Cheryl

My response:

Cheryl,

Thank you very much for your email which expressed such positive benefits from listening to my interview on TruNews.com and by reading the materials at my website. It is remarkable that someone would stay up till 5 AM reading the material at my website to absorb it all!

Steve

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From a reader:

While I commend your effort to attempt to trace cultures through historical documents, I have some major issues with describing the Scythians as a Semetic group. They were a matriarchal society with a known pantheon of gods and goddesses. Cultures and cultural traditions do change over time, but it is hard to imagine that in the course of a “diaspora” these people transformed the fundamental structure of their religion and society. Also, the rich archeological record shows a much stronger link to nomadic herders of the Eurasian steppes. It is disturbing to me as a researcher to read works that willfully ignore information which does not conform to preconceived notions.

Sarah

My response:

Sarah,

I think I understand where our perceptual differences about the Scythians lie. Herodotus wrote that there were two kinds of “Scythians.” There were the very uncivilized Turanian Scythians and the Sacae Scythians which the Greeks regarded as very civilized and refined. Indeed, Herodotus calls the Turanian Scyths “the stupidest of men.” The “Sace-ae” Scythians had upon them the name of Issac, as Genesis 21:12 prophesied would always be affixed upon the birthright descendants of Abraham. I think you were referring to the Turanian Scythians and my books discuss the Sacae Scythians.

There is a second difference. The Scythians by the Black Sea were Israelites who evaded the Assyrian captivity and God sent a favorable message to them in Jeremiah 3:11-12. These Scythians, located straight “north” of Jerusalem, scrupulously avoided idolatry and swine, a fact attested to by Greek historians. II Esdras 13 also discusses these Israelites who escaped the Assyrian captivity and traveled north of the Euphrates River toward the Black Sea. However, the Israelites who did go into the Assyrian captivity were sun-worshipers and had idolatrous customs. They still had those customs when the fall of the Assyrian Empire allowed them to migrate to a new location east of the Caspian Sea. These sun-worshiping Scythians were the ones who annihilated the Persian army under Persian King Cyrus the Great in 530 B.C.

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From a reader:

The Psalm 83 alliance is taking shape now.
http://www.debka.com/article/20480/

My response:

Brian,

I realize a number of people perceive Psalm 83 to be a prophecy about the latter days, but there is no language in that chapter which indicates that it is a prophecy. I think it is a Psalm which David wrote about the war that he fought in I Chronicles 19 against the Assyrians, Mesopotamians and their allies when they came to “help the children of Lot” (the Ammonites of I Chronicles 19).

Steve

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From a reader:

Steven

I have just read your article A Captivity to Babylon the Great’s Financial System, it is an excellent and clear explanation of a lot of things.

It makes more sense than most everything else I have read about the end of time.

The parable of the ten virgins is a great tie between Revelation and the signs we may or may not see, or may not want to see.

Regards and Thanks

Willie

My response:

Dear Willie,

Thank you for your very positive comments on my article about Babylon the Great at my website. I would also suggest that you read the article: What Kind of Captivity?, which documents how the modern banking system of our world originated in ancient Babylon. Your comment on the parable of the ten virgins is also apropos as Christians are not really aware that that parable indicates Christ is coming sooner than anyone in the latter days expects him.

Steve

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From a reader:

Hi Stephen,

I just recently came across your site and I’m wondering, what are your thoughts on the possibilities that men had the capacity for electricity during the time in Noah’s day? I’m intrigued.

Christopher

My response:

Dear Christopher,

There is no doubt in mind whatsoever that the pre-Flood civilization on earth had electricity. Matthew 24:37 prophesies the latter-day society would mirror the pre-Flood world. Since ours is a high-tech society with electricity, it follows the pre-Flood world had the same technologies. Jasher 4:18 (a book not canonized but mentioned in the Bible as being an inspired book in ancient biblical times) states that mankind in pre-Flood times had learned the secret of mixing species together.  In order to do that, they had to have the same genome-mapping technologies we have today which require high-tech labs, electron microscopes, in-vitro technologies, etc. They had to have electricity to do this.

Also, my book, Parthia–The Forgotten Ancient Superpower, documents that the Parthian Empire, an empire of Israelites that fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah 14:2 and dominated South-Central Asia from 250 BC to 227 AD, produced DC electric batteries in considerable quantities.

Steve Collins

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From a reader:

Hello Mr. Collins,

I’ve enjoyed your interviews on Trunews with Rick Wiles and wanted to ask you if you know who the black Africans and particularly African Americans are descended from in connection to the table of nations in Genesis? Any thoughts to why God allowed Israel/America to bring over thousands of black Africans over as slaves and for the majority of America’s history, African Americans have been the dominant minority in America (I think now Latinos may be numerically more in the U.S., though that may entail illegals too). I know many racists have used the curse of Canaan to justify African enslavement here in America and have stated that blacks are inferior, both mentally and socially, due to this curse. Of course, I reject that theory, but I really want to know the truth, if you have researched it, if black Africans/African Americans are really descended from Canaan or are they descended from Phut or Mizraim or Cush? It is clear that Ethiopians are different than the typical black African…Ethiopians, Somalis, some Sudanese have “straight” hair like Caucasians while they typical black African and African American have tight, curly hair. I assume the Ethiopians and Somalis are of Cush.

I know many African Americans, like myself, are of mixed blood due to interracial marriages and rapes by white slaveowners and white taskmasters in the South…it’s a fact in our national history and was curious if African Americans that are born and bred here are considered Israel too, just like an English American or Irish American?

I am looking forward to your answers to these questions. Thanks for taking the time to answer and keep up the good work.

May God bless you and yours!

H.K.

My response:

Hello Haile,

I’m delighted that you enjoyed my interviews with Rick Wiles on TruNews.com, and I thank you for your inquiry. While it would have been easy to simply reply to you privately, I felt very strongly led by the Holy Spirit to post our exchange for all readers to consider. Your email asks questions re: sensitive issues.  However emails posing difficult and sensitive issues also need to be openly addressed. Your email asks very valid questions, and I will do my best to respond to them.

To begin with, many who have heard me speak in live audiences in the past (when I had better health and could travel) have heard me state that the modern Israelite nations have enjoyed their national blessings not because they are “better” or “superior,” but rather because God has been faithful to the promises made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (“Israel”) and to their “birthright” descendants who eventually became the modern western nations of the western world. I have also stated that “Jesus Christ is an equal opportunity savior” and that people of any race or ethnic group can come to him and be saved. All believers are “brothers and sisters” in Jesus Christ/Yahshua regardless of our race or ethnicity! With that preface made plain, I will respond to your questions.

Genesis 10:6 records that Ham had four sons: Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. Mizraim has long been identified with the Egyptians, Phut with the North African nations such as Libya, Algeria, etc., Cush has been identified with both the region of the Horn of Africa and in the region of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, etc. The Bible states that the Canaanites once lived in the Promised Land, but Genesis 10:18 also states the Canaanites “spread abroad” to other locations. By the process of elimination, it is logical that sub-Saharan, black Africans descended from Canaan. The “curse of Canaan” in Genesis 9:25 is only vaguely described in the Bible, but the phrase “servant of servants” does infer that many of Canaan’s descendants would be in servitude to other nations. Indeed, in the modern slave trade where many black Africans were brought to the New World on the slave ships of several European nations, it was often rival black tribes or Arab slavers who sold other Africans into slavery. I highly recommend that readers watch the movie, Amazing Grace, which portrays the efforts of William Wilberforce to abolish the slave trade and shows the anguish of guilt suffered by John Newton (the author of the hymn by the same name) who had previously captained slave ships which caused the deaths and extreme sufferings of many black Africans.

Unfortunately, all races have done evil things to other races. In the time of the Exodus, the Israelite tribes (the forbears of many of the modern Caucasian nations) were oppressed in hard bondage by the Egyptians, who were Hamites descended from Mizraim. In pre-Civil War America, it was the members of the tribes of Israel who oppressed Black Africans in the American/Caribbean slave trade. Every race is made “in the image of God” as all of us have descended from Adam and Eve and, later, from Noah’s family. Acts 17:26 states that all nations were made by God “of one blood.” Different nations have different strengths and weaknesses and have various dispensations given by the sovereign Creator.

When the Israelites were freed from Egyptian slavery, a “mixed multitude” of slaves from non-Israelite nations accompanied the Israelites out of Egypt (Exodus 12:38, Numbers 11:4). Undoubtedly, the Egyptians had taken slaves in wars against their fellow Hamitic nations of Phut, Canaan and Cush. Leviticus 19:33-34 and Ezekiel 47:22-23 both state that it was possible for people from other nations to assimilate into the Israelite tribes even in Old Testament times! If a “stranger” (someone from a non-Israelite nation) adopted the customs of the Israelite tribes and served the God of Israel, the Israelites were to accept such people as “one born among you” and they were to be given an inheritance amongst the tribes of Israel. The word “sojourn” means much more than just take up a physical residence. It would mean having the attitude that Ruth the Moabitess (a non-Israelite) had in Ruth 1:16 when she said to Naomi “Your people shall be my people and your God my God.” In other words, she fully assimilated into the Israelite nation. Since the above scriptures clearly show that non-Israelites could be assimilated into the Israelite tribes in Old Testament times, and since God says he does not change (Malachi 43:6), I think it is obvious that non-Israelites can be assimilated into the Israelite nations (tribes) today as well. There is a specific example of this in the Old Testament. When Jeremiah was being persecuted by many in his own Israelite nation, it was an Ethiopian (a Cushite) who had mercy on him and was directed by the King of Judah to lead a rescue mission for Jeremiah (Jeremiah 38:7-13), and he was specifically blessed by God for doing so (Jeremiah 19:6). This Ethiopian was obviously close to the king of Judah and had assimilated into the tribe of Judah. As an “Ethiopian,” he was of the same stock of the Ethiopians of today.

In New Testament times, God sent Philip to convert an Ethiopian eunuch who was a very high-ranking official to the Queen of Ethiopia to bring Christianity deep into the African continent so it is clear that God is “not a respecter of persons.”

Let me conclude this by putting all of this in a modern context. My books also assert that Americans of any race are all Americans! I have written about the Ezekiel 38-39 Gog-Magog war in which Russia, China, Iran and their allies will invade the USA, Canada, the UK, Scandinavia, Europe, Australia, and their western allies. When that war occurs, the invaders will not care what race each American is that they are attacking. They will mean to annihilate or enslave all Americans (Europeans, Australians, etc.) All Americans of all races will need to band together by state, city and even neighborhood to fight the invaders (which God says they should do in Ezekiel 38:21) until God sends Divine rescue and victory to them against their invaders (Ezekiel 38:20-39:29). Since we will all need each other for our mutual survival at that time, I think it is very important for us to start regarding each other as allies and fellow Americans now.

I hope that this response is satisfactory to you. Your email likely expressed questions thought by many non-Caucasian readers of my blog so it was important to give this inclusive message to all readers of this blog. For further reading against racism, I urge you (and all readers) to read my article, The Serpent Seed Heresy, available at the Article link at my website, which opposes racism and which I co-authored over 20 years ago.

May God bless you and yours as well!

Steve Collins

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