If anyone wonders what men have endured in order to deliver God’s message he need only look at the lives of Jesus Christ, the apostles and the prophets. One such prophet was Jeremiah who was given the task of removing the Scepter from the Davidic monarchy located in the Holy Land and delivering it to the British Isles. Let us see how he did this.

In Jeremiah 1:4,5,10 we find God ordaining him before he was born to be a prophet to NATIONS AND KINGDOMS (plural). God “set him over” them in order for him to “root out, to pull down and to destroy,” and then to “build and to plant.” Question: What was Jeremiah ordained to pull down, root out and destroy, then to build and plant? Answer: The Scepter of the Davidic monarchy which God promised to the descendants of Joseph’s son Ephraim. See the previous three postings. When God set Jeremiah over the NATIONS AND KINGDOMS he had already spoken and written the Lord’s warnings to the House of Judah. At that time God told him not to fear the Jews who would hate his Words and Jeremiah himself. When he delivered God’s Words in writing to the King of Judah, he burned them. Then God instructed Baruch, Jeremiah’s scribe, to write them again, only this time to make several copies. The Words concerned the future of the House of Judah then, and God would not allow the king to deprive the people of His message. Zedekiah had Jeremiah placed in an isolated court area and fed water and bread until there was no more bread being made by the street peddlers (Jer. 37:15, 20,21).

A while later the king asked him if he had a fresh word from the Lord. Jeremiah did have another Word, resulting in more punishment. Then the king’s counselors urged him to kill Jeremiah for telling the people that Babylon would destroy the nation and take them captive. For this he was thrown into a well and left there to starve. Then one of the king’s eunuchs arranged for Jeremiah to be rescued from the well, thereby saving his life (vss 6-13). Jeremiah stayed in the court until the day Jerusalem was overrun by the Babylonians. Just as he had prophesied, the nation was defeated and enslaved and the king, his sons and the princes of the nation were put to death. Just as God had prophesied, Jeremiah oversaw the rooting out, pulling down and destruction of the Scepter family–David’s family monarchy. But as was pointed out in a previous posting, King Zedekiah’s daughters survived the purge. The family line lived on. Now it was time for Jeremiah to fulfill the second part of God’s commission: to build and to plant the Scepter and the family that possessed it in a different place, far away from the Holy Land.

Now a captive, Jeremiah was to be enslaved like the other Jews. But God arranged for him to have a benefactor who not only set him free, but gave him traveling money so that he could go wherever he wanted to go. After several episodes in which people refused to listen to Jeremiah and paid with their lives, the prophet, Baruch and the daughters of King Zedekiah–“the remnant”–departed from the Holy Land and headed northwest. History records that their journey ended in Ireland. This was in fulfilment of God’s Words to Jeremiah: “… and I will cause you to travel to a land which you do not know” (Jer. 15:11-14). The Prophet Isaiah prophesied about this in 37:31,32: “For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant …. who will take root downward (replant the Scepter) and bear fruit upward (produce future generations of the Davidic line)” which would survive through Tea-Tephi–King Zedekiah’s daughter who married a member of Irish royalty.

There is historical evidence that a remnant of the royal seed (monarchy) did arrive in the British Isles, that a royal wedding took place and that children were born to the royal line, thereby fulfilling God’s promise to David that the Scepter would not depart from Judah (David’s family line). There would always be someone sitting on the family throne. In the annals of Irish history it is recorded that an elderly man, called a “saint,” arrived in Ireland with a small contingent of people, including the daughter of an Eastern king (Zedekiah) and a scribe named Baruch. The royal family that came from Tea-Tephi continues to reign in the British Isles to this day. Queen Elizabeth and the rest of the family know they are Jews of the Davidic family line but are ashamed of this fact. As previously stated, King George, Queen Elizabeth’s father, owned a genealogical chart showing his family going back to David and then on to Adam. As God promised King David, his Scepter family line would always have someone in possession of the Scepter of royal rule. They will continue to rule until One will come to assume that rulership, “Whose right it is.”  L.J.