“And after these things [6th seal extinction event] I [John] saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth.” (Revelation 7:1)
In a similar situation described by Daniel, four winds are spirit beings, established by the clue given that they are “of the heaven” and “being caused to fly swiftly“, and confirmed by the account that two of them are Gabriel and Michael who strive with two of the four evil beasts.
“Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold,
- the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
- And four great beasts came up from the sea” (Daniel 7)
In contrast, the four angels in Revelation are on earth, party to the extinction event of the 6th seal and therefore members of the adversary’s army.
“And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
The post on Jeshurun details the hidden identity of the northern ten tribes of Israel as Gentiles. Only God knows their heritage.
The biblical report of the blurring of Jewish ancestry into non-Jewish ethnicities has been validated by recent genetic studies showing that contemporary Jews are not a genetically “pure” ethnic group, but are descendants of globally dispersed Diaspora communities.
Jewish family trees have clearly discernible European/Syrian/North African and Middle Eastern branches, while Turkish, Greek, and Italian Jews shared a common branch. The North African populations added a sub-branch which bifurcated into Moroccan, Algerian and Tunisian, Djerban, Libyan sub-branches.
We can extrapolate from this data that many descendants of these dispersed Jews who lost their Jewish identity in the Diaspora are still genetically as “Jewish” as those who maintained their Jewish faith and practice.
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