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Gathering the People

History clearly reveals that after their royal line had passed on before them to the Isles of Brit-
ain, the House of Israel left the land of their Assyrian captors, moving through the "gates" of the Cauca-
sus Mountains as they migrated from Asia into central and southern Europe. By the end of the third
century B.C. the Celts, or "Gauls" as the Romans called them, filled the whole of Central Europe and
North Italy -- from the Apennines to Brittany. It is about this period that they first came under the scru-
tiny of the historians, for so greatly had the Celtic tribes increased in number, that their migrations to
more extensive lands caused a general commotion. They crossed the Alps and Apennines, overrunning
Central and Southern Italy. In the process they overthrew and absorbed the fellow Israelite Etruscan
states -- a civilization that exceeded that of Rome both in civilization and extent.

Rome was sacked and burned (390 B.C.) by the Gaulish leader Brennus, and Rome continued
to be harassed by the Gauls for almost 200 years. Previous to the battle of Sentinum, the Gauls had
never lost a battle against the Roman legions. In the century before Caesar, the Gauls again attacked the
Romans, joining forces with their kinsmen, the Teutons from the north. In five battles they defeated five
Roman consuls. For many years they ravaged all the country from the Rhine to the Pyrenees. Then they
spread into Spain, where they were repulsed by a mingled branch of their own Israelitish stock -- the
Iberians. The Celts and Gauls eventually expanded into Britain and Ireland, where they created individ-
ual rural communities. Writes E. Raymond Capt --

The name "Iberes" (the Gaelic name for Hebrews) was carried by Celtic peoples from
Spain to Ireland. They named their new island home, "Hibernai," a name that still exists.
However, the name "Scotia" is, by ancient historians, applied to Ireland more often than
any other name. Orosius, a third century geographer, used the term "Hibernia, the nation
of the Scoti." The ancient poets and seanachies (historians) of Ireland claim the name
"Scotia" was derived from "Scota," queen-mother of the Milesians (Missing Links Dis-
covered in Assyrian Tablets, p. 150).

Continues Capt:

During this time, it appears the general term "Celt" comprised the Cimmerii or Cymry;
the Gael or Gauls; the Belgae and several minor tribes, all being the primitive inhabitants
of Gaul, Belgium, the British Isles and probably parts of Spain and Portugal. Descendants
of these people now inhabit Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, the Isle of Man, France,
and to a lesser degree, Spain, Portugal and Italy. Perhaps the closest living representatives
of the ancient Celts are those who retreated to the fastness of Wales. To this day, they
cling to their ancient language and traditions with patient tenacity (ibid., p. 151).

The next to arrive in the "appointed place" were the Anglo-Saxons. Tacitus and Ptolemy both
name the region of the River Elbe and the base of the Jutland Peninsula as the places inhabited by the
Angles and the Saxons (Isaac's sons) before they came to Britain. Bede, the English historian in the 8th
century wrote an account of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain --
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