By Mikkel Stjernholm Kragh
Prussia has been known for militaristic tendencies because Prussia is the tribe of Gad.
Frederick II “the Great” king of Prussia, during the Seven Years War 1756-63.
(Painting by Richard Knötel. Public domain.)
Gad was the eldest son of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid and Jacob’s concubine. Gad was Jacob’s seventh son. “And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son. And Leah said, A troop cometh: and she called his name Gad.” (Genesis 30:10-11)
Gad shared some, but not many, characteristics with the three other sons of the concubines, Asher, Dan, and Naphtali, which today constitute the Nordic nations.
Gad was Leah’s stepson, and would therefore naturally be attached to the other children of Leah. Leah’s first brood – Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah – plus Gad constitute the German-speaking peoples. Leah’s second brood – Issachar and Zebulun – constitute the Dutch-speaking peoples in Flanders and the Netherlands.
The name Gad (Strong’s no. 1408) means “Fortune, a Babylonian deity: - that troop”.
The Holy Scriptures do not state the nationality of Gad’s wife, but according to the Book of Jasher, her name was Uzith, the great granddaughter of Nahor, Abraham’s brother. (The Book of Jasher is not a part of the Holy Scriptures, but is referred to twice in the Holy Scriptures, in Joshua 10:13 and 2 Samuel 1:18.)
“And Gad and Naphtali went to Haran and took from thence the daughters of Amuram the son of Uz, the son of Nahor, for wives. And these are the names of the daughters of Amuram; the name of the elder was Merimah, and the name of the younger Uzith; and Naphtali took Merimah, and Gad took Uzith; and brought them to the land of Canaan, to their father’s house.” (Book of Jasher 45:9-10)
Since Gad’s wife was of the family of Abraham’s brother, the tribe of Gad would therefore have quite a high racial standard.
Seven sons were born to Gad and Uzith: “And the sons of Gad; Ziphion, and Haggi, Shuni, and Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, and Areli.” (Genesis 46:16)
Their names mean:
Ziphion (Strong’s no. 6837): “watch-tower”.
Haggi (Strong’s no. 2291): “festive”, from a word meaning “to move in a circle, i.e. (spec.) to march in a sacred procession, to observe a festival”.
Shuni (Strong’s no. 7764): “to rest, quiet”.
Ezbon (Strong’s no. 675): this name is of uncertain derivation.
Eri (Strong’s no. 6179): “watchful”.
Arodi (Strong’s no. 722): “an Arvadite or citizen of Arvad”. Arvad was an island-city, which is situated in what today is Syria, 25 km north of the Lebanese border.
Areli (Strong’s no. 692): “heroic”.
The leading German race scientist Dr. Hans F.K. Günther (1891-1968) described eastern Germany’s racial elements in The Racial Elements of European History (1927). These descriptions are, unfortunately, somewhat obsolete, because eastern Germany of that time was annexed by Poland and Soviet Russia in 1945, and the Germans living there were driven out.
Dr. Günther writes that North-west Germany, and especially where the Lower Saxon dialect is spoken, “are seen clearly to be the regions where the Nordic race is most strongly predominant. Starting from here, the Nordic strain grows weaker as we go south, south-west, and east. East of the Oder we can no longer (except for the Baltic coast to about Vistula) speak of a predominance of the Nordic race…”[i]
“North-east Germany, particularly Prussia, shows itself as the region where the East Baltic strain is strongest; but there is nothing like an East Baltic predominance. This race is found entering as an element all over the east of the German-speaking area, and particularly in Saxony and Lower Austria.”[ii]
A Swiss genetic researcher showed in 2008 that the indigenous Germans genetically are 45% Celtic, 35% Germanic, 20% Slavonic, and 10% Jewish.[iii]
In 2008 European geneticists made a “genetic map of Europe”. In this, North Germans (from Kiel in Holstein) were genetically (1) closest to Danes, then (2) to Norwegians, the Dutch, South Germans (Augsburg, Bavaria), Czechs, and Swedes, and then (3) to the British (London), Hungarians, and Poles. With a few exceptions, the genetic map of Europe looked much like the geographical map of Europe.[iv]
Also in 2008, a group of American, Spanish, Italian, and Swedish researchers made a graph illustrating the genes of Europeans and Ashkenazi Jews. This showed that Germans genetically were (1) closest to the Dutch, then (2) to the British and Scandinavians, then (3) to the Irish. This group of North European peoples genetically made up a group. The Germans were genetically farther from (4) the Spanish, and (5) Italians, and (6) Greeks. This group of South European peoples likewise made up a genetical group. The Germans were genetically farthest from (7) Ashkenazi Jews, who genetically made up a separate group distinct from the North European group and the South European group.[v]
Symbol of the tribe of Gad: a Troop
(From W.H. Bennett: Symbols of Our Celto-Saxon Heritage (1976), p. 27)
Jacob’s blessing to his son Gad read: ”Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.” (Genesis 49:19)
The blessing of Moses to the tribe of Gad read: ”And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.” (Deuteronomy 33:20-21)
Gad would therefore be tribe with militaristic tendencies. Gad would also have a tendency to enlarge its territory, because the Scripture says “Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad”. The Germanic tribe of the Goths had these characteristics. Prussia has also had these characteristics.
The Kingdom of Prussia in 1807
The Kingdom of Prussia in 1866
In this article the name Prussia is used liberally to mean German Prussia that eventually was centered around Brandenburg.
Historically, however, the Prussians were a Baltic people related to the Lithuanians and Latvians. In the 13th century the Baltic peoples were conquered and converted to Christianity by the Teutonic Knights, who founded the German state of Old Prussia in 1224 AD. Germans settled in large numbers in Old Prussia, and the Baltic Prussians gradually became Germanized and amalgamated with the German settlers. The region later became known as East Prussia.
The union of Prussia and Brandenburg in 1618 led to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, which became the leading North German state during Frederick II “the Great” king of Prussia (born 1712, ruler 1740-1786). In 1815 Prussia, together with a British-led alliance, defeated Napoleon at Waterloo. In 1864 Prussia and Austria defeated Denmark, and in 1866 Prussia defeated Austria and afterwards annexed several smaller German states which had been Austria’s allies. In 1870 Prussia defeated France. When the German Empire was formed in 1871, Prussia made up 3/5 of Germany’s territory and had 2/3 its population.
During the Weimar Republic, Prussia was a Free State within Germany, but the Nazis dissolved Prussia in 1934. Since then there has not been a state called Prussia.
So which of the Germans today are Prussians? The part of historical Prussia that still is part of Germany would be concentrated in East Germany, as the maps show. But Germans no doubt know best themselves who are Prussians.
East German soldier in the final days of the DDR (Berlin, summer 1990).
During the years when Germany was divided (1949-90), Prussian militarism with goose steps was in perfect health in East Germany (the DDR), but not in West Germany (the BRD). (Private photo)
In Israel of old, Gad’s inheritance was on the east side of Jordan, which meant that it was actually outside the Promised Land Canaan itself. Gad’s lot was not taken from the Canaanites, but from the Ammonites. Likewise, Prussia lies on the other side of the Elbe river, in a territory that was inhabited by Slavs from the 7th to the 11th centuries.
The Slavs can be compared to the Ammonites and the Moabites.
The 12 Tribes of Israel in Canaan. Gad was on the eastern frontier. Likewise, Prussia is on the eastern frontier of the Nordic, Germanic, and Anglo-Saxon nations.
The Gadites and the Reubenites took their territories from the Ammonites and Moabites. Now it is curious that in Prussia there is a location called Moabit.
Moabit is an inner city locality in Berlin with a population of 75,000, known for its Central Criminal Court and detention centre which deals with all criminal cases in Berlin. The name Moabit was given by French Huguenot refugees in 1716, as an analogy to the land of Moab, where the Israelites stayed, and the Reubenites remained, before Israel entered Canaan to possess it.
The French Huguenots would be of Reuben, and Berlin in Prussia would be the modern land of Gad.
These French Huguenots did not, to my knowledge, know with their mind that they were the literal descendants of the tribe of Reuben. But they did know with their spirit!
As the lost tribes of Israel, the Nordic and Germanic tribes had arrived in Scandinavia and North Germany around the birth of Christ. Until 375 AD, Germanic tribes, especially the Goths, were the ruling minority in large parts of East Europe. The East Goths had at this point of time established a huge kingdom in South Russia, but in 375 AD the Huns came from the east and crushed the East Gothic kingdom. This was the event that triggered the Peoples’ Wanderings (app. 400-800 AD), where most of the East Germanic tribes wandered into the West Roman Empire.
This left many of the areas where the East Germanic tribes had lived depopulated. Around 600 AD the Slavonic tribes, which originally lived in what today is Belarus and North-west Ukraine, began wandering, too. The Slavs settled as far west as what today is East Germany, the Czech Republic, and East Austria.
Germanic rule in East Europe was thus overcome, and the first part of Jacob’s prophecy of Gad was thus fulfilled: ”Gad, a troop shall overcome him”. (Genesis 49:19)
Starting in the 12th century, German tribes began settling to the east again. Bavarians began settling in central and eastern Austria, and Saxons and other German tribes began settling in what today is East Germany. Germans continued gradually settling further to the east until the 18th century. At that point of time, (today’s) East Germany, Pommerania, Silesia, East Prussia, and the Sudetenland had become entirely Germanized. There also lived large German minorities in more distant parts of East Europe.
The German tribes had thus regained much of the land which they had lost after 375 AD, and the second part of Jacob’s prophecy of Gad was thus fulfilled: ”but he shall overcome at the last.” (Genesis 49:19)
When Germany under Hitler tried to conquer East Europe, Soviet Russia instead ended up taking from Germany almost exactly the same areas which the Germanic tribes had lost to the Huns and Slavs after 375 AD. Millions of Germans were deported from what had become eastern Germany and from East Europe in general, and Middle Germany (the DDR) became a Soviet Russian, and thus Slavonic, satellite state. (What today is known as East Germany was Middle Germany prior to 1945.)
German rule in East Europe had been overcome again, and the first part of Jacob’s prophecy of Gad was again fulfilled: ”Gad, a troop shall overcome him”. (Genesis 49:19)
In 1990, East Germany (the former Middle Germany) was released from Russian control, and was united with West Germany, and the second part of Jacob’s prophecy of Gad was fulfilled again: ”but he shall overcome at the last.” (Genesis 49:19)
Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor of the German Empire in 1871. (Public domain)
The great Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898) was a Gadite lion in the truest sense of the word. As Prime Minister of Prussia, Bismarck’s Prussia together with Austria – the other leading German state - defeated Denmark in 1864 and annexed Schleswig-Holstein. In 1866, Bismarck’s Prussia defeated Austria, and Prussia became the leading German state. After the Prussian army with some German allies had defeated the French army in 1870, Bismarck oversaw the unification of Germany in 1871, where he became Chancellor of the German Empire and got the nickname ”the Iron Chancellor”.
Martin Luther. (Painted in 1529 by Lucas Cranach. Public domain.)
Martin Luther (1483-1546) started the Reformation. Luther was a true Gadite lion. Due to his bravery and courage did all of North Europe secede from the Roman Catholic Church. The Reformation of the Christian Church was also a Re-formation of Israel. By and large, the nations of Israelite descent broke with the Roman Catholic Church and became Protestant states, and individuals of Israelite descent were sieved out of Catholic territories into Protestant territories.
Although Eisleben, where Luther was born, and Wittenberg, where he worked, were parts of Saxony at his time, both towns were annexed by Prussia in 1815.
The concubine tribes are all Lutheran tribes
As one of the four tribes of the sons of the concubines, Gad would share some characteristics with the other three. The descendants of the four concubine tribes are thus virtually all-Lutheran tribes. East Germany (or Prussia, Gad) is virtually all-Lutheran area. Sweden (Asher), Denmark (Dan), and Norway, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands (Naphtali) are also virtually all-Lutheran nations, if one ignores recent atheism and recent immigrants.
December 2008
The Authorized King James Version
The Book of Jasher (J.H. Parry & Company: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, 1887)
[i] Hans F.K. Günther: The Racial Elements of European History (Methuen and Co.: London, UK, 1927), Chapter VI Part One. Found on http://www.white-history.com/earlson/hfk/reoehcover.htm
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[ii] ibid.
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[iii] iGENEA DNA Genealogy found on https://www.igenea.com/index.php?content=132&st=296
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[iv] Sybille Hildebrandt: Genetisk Europakort: finner og italienere er outsidere (3 September, 2008) found on http://www.videnskab.dk/composite-986.htm
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[v] Jonathan K. Pritchard (ed.): Analysis and Application of European Genetic Substructure Using 300 K SNP Information (University of Chicago, USA, 18 January, 2008) found on http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pgen.0040004
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