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The House of Israel 63

The House of Israel

“Hail, Denmark!” A Mother Nation tration below, two men form the supporters of the present
of Modern Israel Danish arms. It should also be remembered that a large
part of England, traditionally Ephraim in origin, has been
settled by people who at least came from Denmark.
THE NORTHERN EUROPEAN Kingdom of
Denmark comprises the peninsula of Jutland; an archi-
The very close ties which have, for centuries,
pelago which includes Zealand and various islands; the
connected Denmark with the rest of the Celto-Saxon
outlying islands of Borholm and the Faroes and the de-
world are too obvious to call for
pendency of Greenland. Denmark was
emphasis here. In Denmark,a
separated from Sweden in 1523 and
guide book written for English
from Norway in 1815.
tourists, Clive Holland has very
aptly pointed out that “Probably no
Danmark, as it is known to
other country in Europe will im-
its own people, appears to have been
press the English visitor more
the first settled by a branch of the tribe
markedly than does Denmark with
of Dan who reached the islands of
the things we have in common
Denmark by sea, apparently from
rather than the things in which we
Greece. Eldad, the Jewish historian,
differ.”
tells us that during the reign of Jero-
boam, or about 970 B.C., “Dan refused to shed his
In a modern political sense, Denmark is a
brother’s blood, and rather than go to war with Judah, he
crowned democracy, and it may be worth pointing out
left the country and went in a body to Javan (Greece) and
that Iceland, a one-time Danish dependency, was given
to Danmark.” These people named their new home
in 1918 a free and sovereign status identical with that of a
Danmares, meaning Dan’s country.
British Dominion or an American Commonwealth. In-
deed, it is reasonably safe to assume that the five million
The modern Danes, however, are unlikely to
Danes can be identified with the Protestant remnant of
have descended purely from Danite stock, for there is
the woman (Israel’s) seed referred to in the twelfth chap-
considerable traditional evidence to suggest that Den-
ter of Revelation. Like their kinsfolk in Holland and Brit-
mark was a popular base for other Israel peoples. The
ain, the Danes are at present enmeshed in the Babylonian
Normans, for example, who are believed to have been
web of Europe, but we may be reasonably sure that Den-
largely of Benjamite stock, were domiciled for some
mark will, at no far distant date, be able to throw off this
time in Denmark before taking possession of Normandy.
incubus and to join in full communion with its compan-
The Norman invasion of Britain is, even today, described
ions, the whole House of Israel.
in Danish history books as a civil war between two
branches of the Danish people. A man was, again, the he-
-- H. Hartland Schooling
raldic sign of Reuben and, as will be seen from the illus-

The Berean Voice September-October 2002