Stone of Destiny

The Stone of Destiny is the stone that Jacob used as a pillow and had a dream in which he saw a stairway to heaven with angels ascending and descending (Genesis 28:10-22). On November 14, 1996, (Also the day Chicago’s Cardinal Joseph Bernardin died. He served as Cardinal in Chicago 14 years and died on the day of his father’s death, which was also his mother’s birthday.) after resting in Westminster Abbey for 700 years underneath the Coronation Chair, the stone was moved back to Edinburgh Scotland.

Why isn’t the history of this stone more widely known among the Christian people? The answer is because of the woman in chapter 17 of the book of Revelation. She wears the clothing of religious royalty and is the whore of Babylon. Babylon means confusion and she has successfully confused the world in regards of the Truth, the Way and the Life of eternity. For this same reason, the information I present to you is controversial.

He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the Lord, and He said: I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying. Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring. (Genesis 28:12-14)

Is there any wonder why the Stone of Destiny is in the British Isles? This is where the house of Israel relocated and it was the tribe of Ephraim who were the caretakers of this anointed stone. This is that stone referred to as The Rock in the Old Testament. Also, this is that stone which was struck by Moses in order to provide water for the Israelites and their livestock while they wandered in the desert those forty years. In J.H. Allen’s book, he describes many parallels and patterns of similarity between The Rock and Jesus Christ. For a deeper understanding of that stone called The Rock, I encourage you to read Mr. Allen’s book.

Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea. (Isaiah 24:15)

And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles. (Isaiah 66:19)

In the Bible, the isles afar off is in reference to the British Isles. Also in God’s Word, ‘isles by the sea’ and ‘the islands’ in many verses of scripture refer to the British Isles.

The Chicago Sun-Times,
World News Section,
Sunday - 11/17/96:

Great Britain
leaves no stone
unreturned

WILLIAM D. MONTALBANO
LOS ANGELES TIMES

LONDON - Ever since King Edward I stole the Stone of Scone from Scotland and put it on display in Westminster Abbey 700 years ago, the chunk of sandstone has been a 336-pound reminder of the history of distrust and suspicion between Scotland and England.

But Friday the pale yellow stone, on which every great king of Scotland was crowned until 1296, was returned home to the squeal of pipes, toasts of whiskey and a school holiday. Although an hour behind schedule, the most controversial lump of stone in the not-so-United Kingdom was driven across the River Tweed in the back of an army jeep and ceremonially returned to the Scottish nation.

Local notables toasted the homecoming liberally with drams of the national drink.

"Thank God it’s back where it belongs," said Andrew McGregor, an Edinburgh, Scotland, office worker.

Amid the celebrants, of course, were the naysayers, who spied, behind the liberation of the stone, just another cynical English scheme.

"This is not a matter for rejoicing. It looks like an event contrived by government to influence opinion in Scotland," said Innes MacLeod, a historian at Glasgow University.

The 336-pound Stone of Scone had been on display at
Westminster Abbey in London

The return of the stone was either:

• A matter of historic justice
• A cheap political ploy
• A coup for Scottish tourism
• All of the above.

Escorted across Coldstream Ford into Scotland by the Coldstream Guards, the stone was piped home by soldiers of the King’s Own Scottish Borders. Their bagpipes sounded a jubilant new tune: "The Return of the Stone."

John Swinton, the lord lieutenant of Berwickshire, observed: "The stone which was pinched by Edward I is now back. It’s very appropriate that it should come back here where Edward took it over the ford."

That is the official story. But there are other views, and that is only fitting, for not even the history of the stone is without dispute.

Supposedly, the Hebrew prophet Jacob used it as a pillow when he dreamed of angels - except that it is almost certainly Scottish sandstone. From the Holy Land, legend says, the stone was reverently carried through Egypt, Sicily and Spain, reaching Ireland around 700 B.C. It rested on the hills of Tara where Irish kings were crowned.

Celtic invaders carried it off around 840, it is said, to a monastery in Scone where it was lugged up to a nearby hill as the coronation seat for Scottish kings.

Since it was spirited south - despite fierce opposition to English rule from nationalists such as William Wallace, a.k.a. Braveheart - the stone, has lived in London.

At Westminster Abbey, it rested for centuries under the Coronation Chair, where the monarchs of England and Scotland are crowned, most recently Queen Elizabeth II.

The stone, with the identifying mark of two iron rings - so it can be carried suspended from a pole - will go back to London temporarily for the coronations of all future British monarchs.

About 1,000 people cheered the stone home at Coldstream, although no one actually saw it inside its steel box in the back of the jeep. Local Scottish kids had the day off, but for the English children on the other side of the border, it was lessons as usual.

Scottish skeptics note that there was no popular demand for the stone’s return, not even after the recent blood-stirring spate of Scottish nationalist movies.

Judah’s Other Firstborn

Going back before the days of Moses and the Israelites entering Egypt.... Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn. Her name was Tamar. Er was wicked in the Lord’s sight so the Lord slew him. Judah told Onan his number two son to take Tamar as his wife, as was the custom of the Kinsman Redeemer. This is where if a man dies while married, the brother or the closest available relative of the man takes the woman into his house to continue the family name. Onan, however wasn’t serious enough about the matter as the Lord wanted him to be, for Onan spilled his seed on the ground. The Lord didn’t like that at all, so he too died. Judah’s third son, Shelah, was still very young so Judah asked Tamar if she would wait at her father’s house until he was old enough to marry. Some time passed and Judah’s wife, Shuah had died.

Meanwhile, Tamar feared that Judah wasn’t serious about waiting for Shelah; she didn’t see it happening. She then disguised herself as a prostitute and went out to where Judah’s sheep-shearing buddies were. When Judah arrived he didn’t recognize her and propositioned her. Afterwards, Judah gave her his signet ring, bracelets and staff until he could give her a goat for payment. He later sent one of his friends with the goat to give her but she could not be found.

Three months later, Tamar is pregnant and being tried as a harlot. When Judah is asked what should be done with his whoring daughter-in-law, he says to burn her. Just then, she presents the signet ring, bracelets and staff and says, "These belong to the father of the child." Judah is overcome with guilt because he didn’t give his son Shelah to her soon enough and says that she is more righteous than he.

She was pregnant with twins and while giving birth, one baby stuck out his arm and the midwife tied a scarlet thread around the baby’s wrist to mark the first-born. However, after she tied the thread around the wrist, the baby pulled his arm back in and the other baby, called Perez, came out first. Zerah was the name of the baby who had the scarlet thread tied to his wrist. (paraphrased Genesis 38)

This story is very important in following Judah’s scepter. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until He come whose right it is; and I will give it Him. (Ezekiel 21:26-27) Three times the scepter of Judah will be overturned, then it will remain until Jesus returns to take His throne. All the while, the scepter never departs from the tribe of Judah. All the while, David never ceases to have a descendant sit on the throne over Israel. The scepter going from King Zedekiah of Judah to Eochaidh, the Heremon, or head king of Ireland is the first overturn. This verse (Ezekiel 17:24) is referring to Perez as the high tree and Zerah as the low tree, "I the Lord have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it." The king of Ireland descended from the scarlet thread bloodline; the line of Zerah, and is joined to the line of Perez by Zedekiah’s daughter.

Eochaidh was a descendant of the Milesian prince Gallam, who, at the head of the Gadelos, overcame the Danaans about 700 B.C. Prof. Totten of Yale in his Irish Genealogies traces Gallam’s descent to Calcol, brother of Darda and son of Zerah. (Tracing Our Ancestors) In his book, Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets, E. Raymond Capt explains the origin of the name Scotia: The ancient poets and seanachies (historians) of Ireland claim the name ‘Scotia’ was derived from ‘Scota,’ queen-mother of the Milesians. (Story of the Irish Race, MacManus pg. 192) Undoubtedly this was Scota, the daughter of Zedekiah, the last king of Judah. Scota married a Milesian prince in Egypt and their son, Eochaidh (Heremon or Eremon) married Tea Tephi and founded a dynasty in Ireland.

As the Assyrians took over the land of the house of Israel, the people of Israel began to migrate to new lands. For Prince Gallam’s group, one of their first stops while migrating westward was to the twelve Ionic states consisting of the coastlines of Asia Minor (Turkey), the Aegean Islands and Macedonia. According to the Annals of Miletus, Prince Gallam was the leader of these new-comers who made their stop in the state of Miletus. Continuing on, passing through the Straits of Gibraltar, they settled for a while in Spain and founded the city of Brigantia. At this time, Spain was called Iberes which is Gaelic for Hebrews. Motivated by a mysterious purpose to fulfill a destiny, they continued from Spain to Ireland. The name they gave Ireland was very similar to the name they gave Spain or ‘Iberes,’ called Hibernai, the land of the Hebrews.

When they arrived in Ireland they were met by the Danaans, who were against the idea of having new neighbors. Yet the Danaans had faced the same kind opposition against them in their arrival from a tribe of stone builders. As the Danaans had done against the stone builders, Prince Gallam and his men held their ground against the Danaans. Peace came when both sides realized that they were both of Israel. It doesn’t take much of an imagination to guess that these people were from the tribe of Dan. And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan. (Deuteronomy 33:22). The tribe of Dan leapt from Bashan and the tribe of Judah (the Lion) went to fulfill its destiny to rule over Israel From Erin (Ireland).

The Gadelos, the people with prince Gallam, whose flag carried the caduceus (the medical symbol of the snakes wrapped around a pole) was known by several versions of their name, Gadil, Gadelim, Gadelius and Gadelians. The name basically means to become great; fortunate ones. Mixing with the Danaans, the term Gadel evolved to Gaidheil and finally it became the name of their language; Gaelic. The language of not only Ireland and Scotland, but the Welsh also evolved their language from the Phoenician tongue. For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people. To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear. (Isaiah 28:11-12) In the Strong’s Concordance of the Bible, the word ‘stammering’ in this verse is spelled g-a-e-l in the Hebrew. What a coincidence!...?! It’s from the word gael where the Gauls derived their name. Of course if Israel had still spoken the tongue of their homeland, then they wouldn’t really have been lost nor would they have forgotten who they are.

In the book by Edith Hamilton called, Mythology - Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, she describes... the goddess Europa, the daughter of the King of Sidon (the city just along the Mediterranean coast, West of the Northern tribes of Israel; near Lebanon). She says that "Europa was exceedingly fortunate (Gadelius); the Mistress of Zeus. Zeus had changed himself into a bull (Ephraim’s symbol) and she rode on his back while he took her to a place where she could bear him Glorious sons whose sceptres (the tribe of Judah) shall hold sway over all men on earth." She also says that "Her sons were famous men, not only in this world but the next." You see how mythology comes so close to the truth? The truth is there but it’s buried deep beneath the confusion; like trying to find a needle in a haystack.

The Key of David

The following list continues the previous list of kings from Judah and David’s royal lineage after the first overturn. During the time when the Babylonians had taken many of the Jews captive, David’s scepter wastransferred from ancient Israel to ancient Ireland.

In the Scottish Declaration of Independence, the Scots refer to themselves as being of the house of Israel, exiled from their homeland at the time of the Assyrian invasion.

Continuing David’s royal lineage after the third overturn from Scotland to Britain:

Sovereigns Of Great Britain:

115. King James VI & I (of England)	120. Prince Frederick of Wales
116. Princess Elizabeth	121. King George III
117. Princess Sophia	122. Duke Edward of Kent
118. King George I	123. Queen Victoria
119. King George II	124. King Edward VII

125. King George V
126. King George VI
127. Queen Elizabeth II

(This list of David’s royal lineage was taken from J.H. Allen’s book, Judah’s Sceptre and Joseph’s Birthright.)

The thought I find interesting is that when Jesus came the first time, Elizabeth was the wife of a priest. Now, as we get closer to the Day of the Lord, Elizabeth is Queen and what makes it even more interesting is that she’s Elizabeth the second. The British royal family will continue as they have until the day Jesus returns to take His throne on earth. It’s this knowledge of David’s royal lineage which is the key of David, spoken of in the book of Revelation to the church of Philadelphia. And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things says he that is holy, he that is true, he that has the key of David, he that opens, and no man shuts; and shuts, and no man opens. (Revelation 3:7)

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