Are the
Melungeons the Lost Tribes of Israel?
WHO ARE THE DANITES OF ISRAEL?
By Israel Villa
Introduction
There are
12 tribes of Jacob who is Israel. The tribe of
Dan was the fifth child born of
Jacob. Each tribe had certain distinct functions
in the nation;
Judah is the leader and good with hands
Deuteronomy 33:7,
Genesis 49:10,
Issachar knew the times to do things!
Chronicles 12:32, the
Levites were
priests, and so on. The specialty of the
Danites was the building of ships and commerce by sea,
Judges 5:17.
Reading
Greek and
Egyptian history, trade by sea was very profitable.
Egypt made sails for ships and maintained a fleet on the
Nile, and at
Tanis near
Goshen the land of their
Israelite slaves. The Egyptians needed builders,
rowers and navigation for their ships, the tribe of Dan
excelled in this.
Ezekiel 27:7,
Exodus 1:13, 14.
The best Greek traditions relate to an establishment of
Danites in
Athens and
Argos Greece called
Danai, 1556 to 1500 B. C. The leaders were
Cecrops and Danus. These Danites were still loosely
under Egyptian control at this time.
Deuteronomy 28:48. The
Israelites were called Egyptian just like
Moses in
Midian and Joseph with the eleven in
Canaan burying their father Jacob.
Exodus 2:15-19,
Exodus 5:7. 8, 11. After Israel's
exodus from Egypt to the
promise land, the Danites settles land in the south and
the north in Israel. In 1226 they started a large
shipping trade. In history, northern Dan became known
as
Dardan,
Dane, Southern Dan known as
Danaan,
Joshua 19 Chapter. Read old books of history
listed on the
reference page.
A historian named W. E. Gladstone says the siege of
Troy was
Danai against Dardanian, Israel was known to have quite
a few civil wars. The Dardanians were pushed by the
Danai to
Byzantium, and there they divided into two groups.
One went to Europe by the
Danube River they names after themselves. The
other crossed the
Black Sea settling in the region of the great river
Danias or
Tanais (the
Don) in
South Russia. Here they were known as Thyssa
Getae. They pushed westward leaving names like
Danieper (Dnepr),
Danester (Dniestr), Eri Danus (Rhine),
Rhodanus (Rhone).
Then finally settling in
Denmark (Dan mark), or Mark of Dan.
The southern Danites were masters in the west, the
Mediterranean, and Spain's
Iberian Peninsula.
Cyprus,
Rhodes,
Malta,
Crete,
Sicily,
Sardinia,
Corsica,
Carthage,
Elba,
Bulgaria, and finally the
British Isles became occupied by Dan with remnants of
the other eleven tribes of Israel with them. In
Ezekiel 27:19 the Danites have a settlement in
Javan (Greece).
In
Irish documents, Dan and Asher are known as
Phoenicians, they came to
Ireland (Ivermine, Ibernie,
Iberia) out of Spain, from the word
Eber or
Hebrew,
Genesis 10:21,
Luke 3:35, they came sometime before 1000 BC. They
were the old
Scottish kings. The Black
Israelites came to Ireland as the
Celts and
Cimbri circa 550 B. C. they were the Black Irish.
These Black Irish were the great Danish Viking kings and
pirates that harassed their Black English brothers.
As Caucasians began to take over, Black
Israelites clans were broken down to wandering
Gypsy's (meaning
Egypt), Gitan's or
Moors. Many migrated or were sold as slaves in
America's south and some of the
Caribbean Islands. The White
Gypsy's are poor convert (travelers) from Europe.
You have to ask questions when seeking Dan like in the book
of
Jonah 1:8, 9. The curse of Daniel still upon us,
so seek in wisdom, faith, hope and charity,
1 Corinthians 13:9-13.
Part 1
THE STORY OF THE TRIBE OF DAN FROM THE SCRIPTURES
1760 B. C.
(1)
GENESIS 28: 13-15
Yahawah tells Jacob as he promised his father's Abraham
and Isaac, that his seed (descendants) shall inherit the
land of
Canaan and spread to the west, east, north, and
south, and all of the families of the earth, shall be
blessed by their works. This began with
Moses, then the wars of
Joshua, the judges,
King David, and his heir
King Solomon, expanding Israel's dominion by land
and sea, to the four corners of the earth.
Bringing the Lord's divine laws and culture to the pagan
nations. The tribe of Dan was one of the pioneers
of the expansion of the
Israelites influence by sea.
Deuteronomy 4: 1-10,
Psalms 147:19-20.
(2) GENESIS
30:1-6
Dan, the fifth son born of Jacob who is Israel,
first born son of Rachel by her handmaid Bilhah, two of
the four wives of Jacob. Dan means "Yahawah has
judged." Daniel - Yahawah's judge.
(3)
GENESIS 49:1, 2, 16, 17
Jacob gathers his 12 sons and their tribes to foretell
their future in these last
days.
Dan shall judge his people; the mighty
Samson of Dan fulfills this prophecy when he single
handedly destroyed the
Philistines Egyptians that oppressed the
Israelites,
judges thirteenth to the sixteenth chapters.
Later in history you will find the Danites applying
colorful titles as a judge. Samson was instructed by the
Lord to never cut his hair, but wear it long as a symbol
of his super human strength. This became a custom
in Israel, especially among Danite men as we will read
later in part two.
The tribal symbol of the Danites is the
adder snake, this was the symbol on their camp
standard beginning in the wilderness, on relics found in
the places where they traveled, and on Israelite
Jewish temples and synagogues like the one on
Central Park, Fifth Avenues and sixty-fifth Street in
New York. Their cunning in war, ambush
tactics, and snake like hunting skills were noted by
Moses. He placed their fighting men in the
rear guard of the judges, six hundred Danites left their
tribe in their land to the south, and became like
roaming thieves and pirates on land, and at sea amongst
Israelites and
Gentiles alike.
Numbers 10:25,
Judges 18 Chapter.
(4)
DEUTERONOMY 33: 22
Dan is like a lions whelp (young lion). Curious,
energetic, restless and adventurous.
When young lions get to that age when they leave their
pride family, they roam in groups of two or more like
bullies, seeking food, territory, and challenges for
mates. They have no problem with taking these
things by force from other other beasts of the earth if
they can, other lions included. In
Jeremiah, 8:16 Dan's name is used to describe the
coming of the gentiles against Israel in war.
Bashan means fertile land,
Laish; Dans northern city is located in
Bashan. The leap of Dan from Bashan pertains
to the distant lands they would travel to in the earth
by land and sea.
-
Joshua gives the Danites the seventh lot of land
consisting of eighteen cities south west in
Canaan. Japho or
Joppa later became a major Israelite seaport. A
group of six hundred unruly Danites felt their lot was
way too small, so they stubbornly traveled north and
took Leshem (Laish)
from the Zidonian Canaanites by war, without council
from the elders of Israel, defying the laws of war,
Deuteronomy 20:10-12,
Proverbs 20:18. They also terrorized the
Ephraimites in their land and took a Levite priest
hostage, and set up graven images. Before the
Danites took
Laish (which means lion), they pitched camp in an
area of
Judah and named it Mahaneh - Dan after their father
Dan. There is no record that they asked Judah's
permission. From there they took
Laish and named it Dan or Dan-Jaan after their
father Dan.
Judges 18:12,
27-31.
2 Samuel 24:6. This custom of naming things
and places after their father Dan will be an occurring
practice to follow their migrations later on in Part
two.
(6)
JUDGES 1:34, 35
(7)
JUDGES 5:7, 14,17
Deborah, the Ephraimite of the tribe of Joseph was a
mother and a guide in Israel against the Canaanites.
She wondered why the Danites remained in their ships at
sea and did not assist them in this particular war
against the Canaanites. For the Danites to remain
in ships, they had to have colonies abroad to supply and
maintain their ships most likely.
(8) 1006 B. C.
I CHRONICLES 12:23-35
(9)
PSALMS 104:24-27,
PSALMS 107: 23 -30
King David writes about his experiences at sea, the
adventurous voyages of merchant ships and crews, the
beasts of the sea, the adventurous voyages of merchant
ships and their crews, the beast of the sea small and
great like the serpent dinosaur leviathan. The
Danites no doubt were among these expert sailors on
David's ship, having knowledge of the sea.
(10)
PSALMS 72: 1, 10, 11
David prophesies the crowning of his son Solomon as king
after him, and how his son would establish diplomatic
ties of tribute with the leaders of many nations by
ships from
Tarshish (Spain),
to Sheba in Africa.
(11) 992 B. C.
I Kings 10:22, 23.
(12)
2 CHRONICLES 2:11-16,
KINGS
7:13,14
Huram the
Canaanite vassal king of
Tyre sends Hiram of Napthali, whose mother was a
Danite, to assist
King Solomon in the building of the Lord's temple at
Jerusalem. Much wood from
Lebanon was shipped down by floats (barges) from the
seaports of Zebulon at
Tyre with the Danites of
Laish, to the seaport at the Danite city of
Joppa (Japho) in the south.
(13)
EXODUS 31:1-6
Looking back,
Aholiab the Danite was an expert craftsmen during
the time of
Moses. With
Bezaleel of Judah, Aholiab devised cunning works of
gold, silver, brass, the cutting of stones, and carving
of timber to beautify the ark and the tabernacle
vessels. This skill was passed down through their
children as we read about Hiram the son of a Danite
mother, the fashions and decor of the garments and
cities of Israel, the carved works of stone and timber,
and the artful designed of ships.
(14)
I Chronicles 4:14
(15) 862 B. C.,
JONAH 1: 3-16
Jonah the Zebulonite goes to the Danite city of
Joppa to get aboard a ship to
Tarshish. Who were these mariners in verse
five? Who might the shipmaster be in verse six?
Which God did they cry to that requited sacrifices and
vows, verse sixteen?
Psalms 50-5 By a preponderance of the evidence,
they had to be Danite merchants shipmen with their
wares.
(16)
I KINGS 11:29-32
(17)
2 CHRONICLES 11:13-15
(18)
I KINGS 12: 25-33
Jeroboam divides the tribe of Joseph in two, making ten
tribes in the north instead of nine, as the Lord
prophesied.
JOSHUA 17:17. Ephraim and Dan were already
into idols and graven images from old times, so it is no
coincidence that Jeroboam allied with the Danites to
make their land one of the centers of idol worship.
To seduce the people from worshipping at Jerusalem,
Jeroboam reintroduced the Egyptian cow and calf idols
called
Hathor and Aphis, to cause Israel to sin as they did
in the wilderness.
Hosea 4:17,
Isaiah 30:1-3.
(19)
AMOS 8:14
For hundreds of years it was customary for the ten
tribes of the north to swear by the face of the idols
and graven images of
Samaria in
Mt. Ephraim, and the land of Dan. This is
because the Lord said not to swear on anything
Mathew 5:33-37,
Leviticus 19:12.
(20)
I KINGS 22:48-50
Jehoshaphat, out of line of
King Rehoboam, and
Ahaziah, out of the line of
King Jeroboam, tried to reunify the nation by
attempting to build a navy together at
Ezion-Geber to go to Tharshish. But the Lord
had those ships destroyed. The
Zebulonite ships at Zidon, and the Danite ships at
Joppa, Tharshish, and other colonies abroad were
still operating as we have already read about
Jonah who lived years after these two Kings.
(21)
ISAIAH 2:6-8, 12-8,
Psalm 74:4-10
By the Holy Spirit of the Almighty Lord,
Isaiah and
King David wrote about the fall of the whole nation
of Israel. This must have seemed like the end of
the world for the
Israelites when the
Assyrians in 722 B.C., and the
Babylonians in 586 B.C., destroyed the carved works,
the idols, synagogues, pictures of art, and stole the
treasures of the land. They also destroyed the
forest of
Bashan in Dan's northern land, and the ships of
Tharshish on the coasts.
(22)
2 KINGS 17:3-23, 2 ESTRUS 13:40-45
The Assyrian
King Shalmaneser takes the ten northern tribes into
captivity in Assyria (Iraq), and surrounding cities
around 722 B. C. The Babylonians with Medes and
the Persians take down the Assyrians. 605 B. C.
The ten tribes of
Ephraim,
Manasseh, Rueben,
Simeon,
Dan, Napthali,
Gad,
Asher,
Issachar, and Zebulon escape the multitude of the
heathen and sail by ships to a further country where
mankind never dwelt called Arsareth. Today it is
called
America. The Danites I believe played a major part
in the acquiring of these ships, and navigation of this
fleet around
Africa, and across the
Atlantic Ocean.
(23) So we have at this time four groups of
Danites fanning out to the west, east, north and south of
the
Holy Land of Israel.
1. The southern Danites in their
original lands allotted to them by
Joshua.
2. The six hundred Danites that
left the south and established the northern city of
Laish in
Bashan.
3. The group left
Laish, Bashan in the north, and from the seaport
city of
Joppa in the ship, and in the south by ship, and
settled in
Javan (Greece),
Tarshish (
Spain), and North Africa, and lands abroad in the
ancient world.
4. The group that left Laish,
Bashan, by
King Shalmaneser into
Assyrian captivity, but later broke out with ten
tribes of
Israelites to America by ships.
(24) 586 B.C.
EZEKIEL 27:17-19
This book of Ezekiel is being written during the period
of the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi's captivity
in Babylon, (today's Kuwait), by the hand of the
Ethiopians
King Nebuchadnezzar. Despite these massive
deportations of the
Israelites, remnants of them always remained in
their homeland, even up until this present day in
Dimona, Israel.
2 CHRONICLES 30:1-6, 10, 11, 18,
LUKE 2:36,
ISAIAH 1:9. During
Ezekiel's time, remnants of Judah and Israel that
escaped the captives continued business of trade in the
land, and from colonies abroad. The
Danites especially sailed to and fro with Javan of
Japheth from their base in
Greece. Exploring and trading their exotic
wares of jewelry, pottery, tools, weapons of
iron...carved works of stone and timber, spices and idol
trinkets of divination at fairs and markets.
(25)
JEREMIAH 15:1-7
The blessings and the curses never left the
Israelites as they spread throughout the earth.
Just as great they became, their gradual decline by
death, sword, famine, and captivity was even greater.
Due to their sins against the Lord's convent he made
with their father's at Mt. Sinai, even their greater
victories in battle eventually ended in their
destruction as a nation in 70 A.D.
(26) 165 B. C.
I MACCABEES 12:1-3,
14:16-23,
15:22-24
Judas Maccabees
the Levite priest king of Israel at this time fights
valiant wars against the heathen to preserve sovereign
freedom of the land of Israel. Letters were sent
to specific cities of
Israelites throughout the ancient world to renew
alliances for the defense of the
Holy Land. One of these cities was called
Lacedaemon (Lacedemon) in southern
Greece. In
I Maccabees 12:20, 21 it is found in writing, that
the Lacedemonias and the Jews are brethren, and that
they are of the stock of
Abraham. Lacedemon,
Greece and
Javan are on the same land. The Lacedemonias
were a colony of
Danites. Study the maps and put the pieces
together for yourself.
JOHN 5:39,
ISAIAH 65:15.
(27)
ACTS 2:1-11
The feast if the first fruits or pentacost as it is
called here in Acts, was one of the holy days when
Israelite Jews came to Jerusalem out of every nation to
celebrate. Some of the same lands where these
devout Jews came from are the same areas in and around
Greece, Africa and Asia minor where Judas and his
brothers wrote letters to the Lacedemonians and other
Israelite colonies
I Maccabees 15:22-24 -
Cyprus,
Lycia,
Cnidus,
Crete -
Acts 27:4,5,7.
(28) 33 A.D.
(29) 62 A. D. -
ACTS CHAPTERS
27,
28
The
Apostle Paul
was on a Roman prison ship bound for Italy, to be tried
by Cesar. Paul mentions many Roman lands and
islands in habited by
Israelites with Roman names. The vessel Paul
was on became shipwrecked on the island of Melita
(Malta), they were received not too kindly by the people
they called Barbarians. When Paul was bitten by a
snake and survived, the Barbarians called him God.
Paul healed the sick and the people honored him and
supplied him and the others on the ship with goods for
their journey. How did these Barbarians get to
this island? Why would they call Paul a God? Why
did Paul heal them? Could these Barbarians have
been a remnant of the twelve tribes of Israel?
Could these have been a colony of
Danites? Let the scriptures speaks...Psalms
82:6,
Luke 10:34,
Mark 16:17, 18,
Matthew 10:10:5-8,
Deuteronomy 32:26.
(30)
ROMANS 1:14-16,
GALATIANS 3:28, 29
In these verses we can now get a clear perspective on
why Paul was a debtor to the Greeks and the Barbarians.
These were
Israelites Jews living in these lands, being called
by these Greco - Roman names.
2 Maccabees 4:7-17,
Acts 6:1. Only
Israelites are the chosen seed of Abraham, heirs to
the kingdom of Yahawah according to promise. They
are the Christians anointed...Romans
9:14,
Deuteronomy 4:26-31,
1 Corinthians 12:2,
John 7:33-35. Other names the Greco-Romans
called the
Israelites were called
Scythians,
Celts,
Germanic tribes,
Danes,
Angle,
Anglo Saxons,
Moors, Negroes Mennonites, Hispanics, Indians
Latino, and many more.
Colossians 3:11,
Isaiah 65:15.
(31)
EZEKIEL 48:1-9, 22-27
Starting from the most northern border of Israel to the
southern border, Ezekiel writes a list of the future
lands of the twelve tribes of Israel upon their return
to the land. The tribe of Dan is listed first,
they will keep their northern city of
Laish in Bashan which they took when six hundred of
them left the southern land allotted to them by
Joshua.
(32)
EZEKIEL 48:30 -32
These are the names if the twelve tribes if Israel that
will be on the gates of the new city of Jerusalem,
compare this to
Revelation 21:10-14. Even though the tribe of
Dan isn't mentioned in
Revelation 7:3-8, this is just a list of 144,000 men
that will be the judgment body of the nation under the
twelve Apostles and Christ. Revelation 7:3-8 is
not to be used to determine the list of tribes that will
be saved, this is 144,000 men, not the whole nation.
We either list them by their birth in Genesis, or even
place Judah first, then list them by birth, being that
Judah is the head tribe,
I Chronicles 5:12.
(33)
ISAIAH 60:9-12
In the new kingdom of Yahawah and Yahawasi, the ships of
Tarshish will be rebuilt to again carry the
Israelites to and fro in the earth. The
gentiles shall bring their kings and their riches to the
gates of Jerusalem, to the holy one of Israel and his
people. I don't think I would be too mistaken in
assuming that the
Danites once again will be the chief mariners of the
ships of Tharshish.
*GENESIS
49:17, 18
CONCLUSION -
I KINGS 8:46-53,
JOHN 10:14-16
Jesus Christ spoke of how he would gather the lost sheep
of the house of Israel by the powers of The Almighty
Father in Heaven. When the captive children of
Israel face Jerusalem, pray in the name of Yahawah, and
repent their sins. He will hear from the heaven
and save them from all lands where he has scattered
them. Praise the Lord.
Matthew 15:24,
25:31-34
Ephesians 2:11-22,
Isaiah 43:5-15.
(IN THE ORDER OF BIRTH) GENESIS 45:9
1. JUDAH
- The Black Americans, & the
Sephardim
2.
REUBEN-The Black South Americans, & the Melanesian
Australian Aborigines
(the
Olmecs)
3.
SIMEON-The Black Hispanics of the Dominican Republic,
Cuba and some in
Brazil (the
Yoruba /
Zealots)
4.
LEVI-The Haitians & the
Maroons of the Caribbean Islands (The
Ashanti /
Zealots)
5.
DAN -The Latin Moors, Gypsies, Black Irish "Melungeons"
& the
Garifunas
(the
Ancient Danes / Danaans)
6.
NAPHTALI-The Chile &
Polynesian Islanders
(the
Araucanians / Samoans)
7.
GAD-The
North American & Canadian Indians
(the
Apache,
Lakota,
Seminoles etc.)
8.
ASHER-The
South American Indians
(the
Inca /
Amazons)
9.
ISSACHAR- The Mexicans,
Pueblo & California Indians
(the
Aztecs)
10.
ZEBULON-The
Central
American Indians
(the
Maya /
Cuna)
11.
JOSEPH-The
Puerto Ricans, Cubans & the Caribbean Indians
(the
Arawak /
Caribs)
12.
BENJAMIN-The Black West Indians &
Geechies of the south
(the Black
Fulani /
Zealots)
GENESIS 29:32-35,
30:1-24, 35:17-19,
GENESIS 49:1-28,
DEUTERONOMY 33:4-25,
1CHRONICLES 5:1-2,
ZECHARIAH 12:7,
JUDGES 5:17-18,
EZEKIEL 27:17-19,
HOSEA 8:8,
1CHRONICLES 5:18-20,
12:8*32,
GENESIS 46:20,
JOSHUA 17:17,
14:4,
16:4,
EZEKIEL 47:13,
DEUTERONOMY 32:26,
AMOS 3:1-2,GALATIANS
3:13,
ISAIAH 22:17-18,
2ESDRAS 13:40-45,
ACTS 7:6-7,
AMOS 7:7,
ISAIAH 29:22,JEREMIAH
14:2,
JOB 30:30,
ACTS 13:1,
ISAIAH 11:11-12,
ROMANS 10:1-2,
ISAIAH 14:1-3,
MATTHEW 15:24,
1 KINGS 8:46-61,
1 JOHN 3:12,
DEUTERONOMY 28 CHAPTER
JUDAH IS FIRST BECAUSE OF
1CHRONICLES 5:1-2
GENESIS 49:10, AND JESUS OUR KING IS FROM THE “BLACK”
TRIBE OF JUDAH (THE REAL JEWS).
HEBREWS 7:14,
MATHEW 2:1
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