In the 28th chapter of Genesis is the story of the patriarch Jacob stopping in a certain place for the night. He used a stone for his pillow [Though it seems strange to us, in ancient times, pillows were not fluffy, but were wooden or stone head-rests.] During the night, Jacob had the famous dream of the ladder reaching from earth to Heaven, with Yahweh standing at the top of it, and angels ascending and descending the ladder. In that vision of the night, the Father promised Jacob that his descendants would multiply and spread around the globe.
     Jacob called the place the ‘gate of heaven’. He set up the stone that he had used for a pillow, and anointed it with oil, and called the place Beth-El [House of El] He said: “This stone…shall be God’s house.”
     According to ancient tradition, Jacob and his descendants did not leave the four-hundred pound stone at Bethel, but kept it in their possession. It was retained and revered by the Israelites as a sacred treasure, and was eventually kept in the care and custody of the royal House of David.
     When the Babylonians were invading Jerusalem in the 580s BC, tradition has it that the prophet Jeremiah took King Zedekiah’s daughter, Tamar [also known as Teia Tephi] and her entourage, along with his scribe Baruch, and the Bethel stone, and sailed westward across the Mediterranean, eventually settling in the British Isles. [At the same time, Mulek, one of Zedekiah’s sons, migrated with a small colony of followers to America.] Tamar married the Irish king Eochaid, and became Queen of Ireland a few years after having escaped from Jerusalem. From those two all the kings of Ireland and Scotland, including the present royal family of England, are descended. It became customary that each new king was anointed and crowned while sitting on the stone that had been Jacob’s pillow in times of old.
     Eventually the Bethel stone – known also as the Stone of Destiny or the Lia Fail – was moved to the Scone [pronounced scoon] Abbey in Scotland. For that reason, it is also known as the Stone of Scone.
     The Scottish royal line came through Robert the Bruce, who was a descendant of the House of David, of the tribe of Judah, through Tamar, the daughter of Zedekiah. [Robert the Bruce became well known in modern times because of his mention in the Braveheart movie].  Robert was also a descendant of the Celts. The Celts were a Hebrew people who migrated across Europe to France and the British Isles, particularly. Robert Bruce commissioned the Knights Templar to seek out holy treasures in Jerusalem, and to locate the Ark of the Covenant.
     David Bruce was the son of Robert, and was known as King David II. The line of Scottish kings before Malcolm, David and Robert Bruce included Duncan and Macbeth [who were made famous to later generations through Shakespearean plays].
     Mary, Queen of Scots was a descendant of the House of David, as was King James [the first to be king over both Scotland and England, and the namesake of the King James Bible]. The present Queen Elizabeth, and Prince Charles, and the rest of the current royal family are continuations of that same genetic line.
Although the British monarchy is presently British, the royal line continues through the descendants of
Zedekiah through Tamar, and down to thousands of living descendants of the Bruces, Stewarts [Marjorie
Bruce married Walter Stewart, beginning the Stewart line of kings], Duncans, Sinclairs, and other
families.
     If the extensive, well-documented genealogical records of the royal families of Ireland, Scotland, and
England are as accurate as they seem to be [and there are no more extensive genealogies in existence], then we are assured that literal descendants of King David the Psalmist are living in the modern world. Do they have a special place in prophecy? It would seem so, because Divine prophecy declares that the political Kingdom would be retained within the tribe of Judah, and that there would be Davidic servants and ministries in the End Times – not only in a figurative sense, but also in a genetic sense as well.
     Does this mean that all British people are Hebrews? No; the population of modern Britain is made up of people from several ancient cultures. But many British people do have Hebrew ancestry. A smaller percentage are descendants from the House of Israel. An even smaller percentage have genetic roots within the tribe of Judah. And a very tiny fraction of a fraction are descended from the King David of the Bible.
     Elohim promised that the descendants of Abraham and Israel would eventually be scattered around the globe. The promise was also made that through the offspring of those patriarchs, all the nations of the earth would receive blessings. In the Last Days, some of those descendants will be consecrated and will have a hand in bringing restoration to the tribes of Israel. The Lia Fail stone is a reminder of how Yahweh scattered Israel, including the royal line of David, into the entire world. The Lia Fail is a symbol of the Davidic line and the destiny of the Davidic ministry that will be restored to eminence in the Last Days, as part of the great restoration of Israel.

David Bruce Clark

Lion of God Ministries
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