[DouglasKC]

More fuel for the fire:

The United States and Britain in Bible Prophecy

It concentrates on the theory that the physical blessings promised by God to Abrahams descendents were to be primarily reaped by the the United States and Great Britain and that the descendent of the tribes that was heir to this promise (Ephraim and Manasseh) are concentrated primarily in these two countries.

[John Leland 1789]

Yeah, this is the old fashioned British Israelism that the editirs of THINGS TO COME were refuting. I’ll archive this info.

[Cronos]

That link is for British-Israelism -- a philosophy thought up by the British when they were late-comers to the Empire game. When the Spanish and Portuguese were the rulers of the sea along with the Dutch, the English desperately needed something to justify their changing the world order. They used this along with another tale about a Welsh prince who went to America in the 12th century....

It's a racial theory that was also used to state the black people were somehow inferior to us Aryanic people