In Arbroath Abbey, following the removal of the "Stone
of Destiny" to Westminster, king Robert "the Bruce" of Scotland was
visited by two emissaries of pope John 22 to whom Edward 2 of England had
appealed for help to compel Scotland to acknowledge England's lordship.
These emissaries bore a message from the pope advising Bruce to submit
to Edward's claims, but Bruce and his nobles drafted a letter which they
addressed to pope John 22 and which can still be seen in Register House
in Edinburgh. It had attached to it coloured ribbons and seals with
the signatures of Robert the Bruce and twenty-five of his nobles. The letter
which is drafted:-
April 6, 1320, read in part:-
"We know Most Holy Father and Lord (blasphemy - Matthew
23:9), and from the chronicles and books of the ancients gather, that
among other illustrious nations, our's, to wit, the nation of the Scots,
has been distinguished by many honours; which passing from the greater
Sythia through the Mediterranean Sea and Pillars of Hercules (Gibraltar)
and sojourning in Spain (Iberia - Heberia - the Hebrew's land) among
most savage tribes through a long course of time, could nowhere be subjugated
by any people however barbarous; and coming thence one thousand two hundred
years after the outgoing of the People of Israel (the Exodus),
they by many victories and infinite toil, acquired for themselves the possessions
in the West which they now hold........In their kingdom one hundred and
thirteen kings of their own royal stock, no stranger intervening, have
reigned...." (Deuteronomy 17:14-20).
For so long as a hundred of us are left alive we will
yield in no least way to English domination. We fight not for glory, nor
for wealth nor honour, but only and alone for freedom, which no man surrenders
but with his life." (Praiseworthy - Matthew 10:28)
This letter thus asserts that the Scots who had the "Stone
of Destiny" ("Lia Fail") were connected with the ancient people of
Israel (the ten so-called Lost Tribes); whom archaeology has established
became the Scythians and the Cimmerians of history, whose origin had been
a mystery. Lost to their true identity as foretold in
The Scriptures,
(Romans 11:25), the Israelites migrated to their appointed place (2 Samuel
7:10); some crossing Europe by land, others by ships through the Mediterranean
to the coast-lands of Europe and the Isles in the West. The Scots claim
ancestry to the branch of the Cimmerians (Celts) that dwelt in Spain for
a period, and eventually came over to the Islands of Britain. They also
claim that their royal line of kings (from Judah/Zarah
of the Red hand - Genesis 38:30) has remained unbroken throughout their
migrations.
Romans 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye
should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own
conceits; that blindness (as to their true identity) is happened to part
of Israel (the ten "lost" tribes - the House of Israel), until the fulness
of the Gentiles be come in.
2 Samuel 7:10 Moreover I will appoint a place for
My people Israel, and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of
their own, and move no more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict
them any more, as beforetime.
Josephus, the historian, writing in A.D. 70, seems to
have had knowledge of the migrations of most of the Israelites from Asia
toward Europe, for, in his "Antiquities of the Jews" he writes: "...wherefore
there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while
the ten tribes are beyond the Euphrates till now (A.D. 70) and are an immense
multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers" (book 11, chap. 5). - JAH