Comment on Isaiah chapter 41:

The Coming English Revolution and the Rider on the White Horse. Who is a Jew?

Old Testament prophets, usually write about Jerusalem, Zion, Israel or Judah in their predictions, which means they talk about the future of the Jews. The Jews however have emigrated all over the Middle East and Europe, when their country was repeatedly struck by wars between about 950 B C and 100 A D Then they married locally and most descendants of these people have nowadays lost trace of their ancestors some 2000 years ago. Today there is probably no member of the so-called "Caucasian" race or Arab, who did not have Jewish ancestors living in Palestine in Biblical time, which means we are all ethnic Jews.

This confusion is further complicated by the fact that Jesus and Mohammed founded, what is generally believed to be separate religions, when in fact they mainly continued the tradition of Isaiah, Jeremiah and the like, which means we are also religious Jews.

It is therefore not difficult to figure out, which area Jeremiah (23:8 ; 31:8) and Zechariah (2:6) referred to, when they talked about the "Land of the North", where the Jews would be living until the "End of the Age". From their point of view in Palestine, they meant the whole of Europe.

And it seems logic to conclude that "The Islands" repeatedly mentioned by Isaiah between 41:1 and 59:18 are also part of this "Land of the North". He probably talked about the only Islands, which have had a crucial influence on the rest of the world in the last 300 years and an outstanding importance for the last 2000 years of Jewish-Christian history. Some translators have even found the expression "Islands" too embarrassing and replaced it with "distant lands". In chapter 41, verse 1 and 25 Isaiah predicts 2 people, one from the east and one from the north who will have a crucial influence on the history of "the Islands". This theme can be recognized in Revelation 11 and Zechariah 4:14. If we use the capital of the Islands as a point of reference, the one "from the north" has to be British, because there is only water and ice north of Scotland.

In some Bible translations you will find a reference to the Persian king Cyrus in the title to this text. This is a forgery. Apart from chapter 45 Isaiah does not mention him. It has been a favourite trick of Bible prophets to mix historical accounts with predictions about our time, in order to avoid censorship.