So called “Christian Identity” misidentifies the white “race” as being offspring of the “lost tribes” of Israel. This claim is coupled with the claim that there is a difference between Jews and Israelites. Some Identity preachers incorporate the serpent seed of Satan theory into their systemization of Identity.
Christian Identity traces its conceptual history to British Israelism which sprung up in the 19th century AD.
Following is a rough sketch of key personages, beginning with a man who is generally pointed to as the originator of British Israelism.
Richard Brothers (1759-1824 AD) was a millenarian prophet active in the 1790s AD who published “A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times” (1794-95 AD) which is a two-part book that claims that Britons and other Northern Europeans are “invisible” Jews of the lost tribes of Israel. He was eventually confined to an asylum.
Daniel Parker (1781-1844 AD) was a preacher who published the pamphlet “View of the Two Seeds” according to which the two seed—God’s and Satan’s—are the elect and the non-elect who are “enemies to God, from the nature of their father the Devil, pursing his lusts with enmity against the Elect seed.” He did not specify that the Jews, in general are the non-elect seed of Satan.
John Wilson (1788-1870 AD) was a Scotsman who was a phrenologist: a psychological theory or analytical method based on the belief that certain mental faculties and character traits are indicated by the configurations of the skull. He wrote the “first coherent exposition” about the Anglo-Saxons being the offspring of lost tribes of Israel. He published his ideas in “Our Israelitish Origin” (1840 AD).
Edward Hine (1825-1891 AD) once managed a penny bank in London and became a publisher of pamphlets that promulgated British Israelism. He also published a book titled, “Forty-seven Identifications of the British Nation with the Lost Tribes of Israel” (1874 AD)
Joseph Williams (1826-1882 AD) was a Briton who preached in America who edited the (short-lived) publications “The Trio” and “The Trumpet of Israel.”
Joseph Wild (1834-1908 AD) was another Briton who preached in America where he preached some 130 sermons at the Union Congregational Church of Brooklyn.
George W Greenwood (1836-1898 AD) took over for Wild and edited a monthly publication titled, “Heir of the World.” He also found the Church of the Brethren.
Other preachers who published books on the subject were William H. Poole, Elihu P. Ingersoll, George 0. Barnes and Matthew M. Eshelman.
Russell Kelso Carter (1849-1928 AD) has been identified as the first Anglo-Israelite in the USA to speculate that Cain was Satan’s son as elucidated by him in “The Tree of Knowledge” wherein he wrote that Eve’ sin was brought about by “the tremendous pull of the sexual appetite, aroused by the excited state of the woman.”
Charles A. L. Totten (1851-1908 AD) was a military science professor at Yale University and was viewed as the most influential Anglo-Israelism expositor by combining it with Anglo-Saxonism which was a secular theory premised upon the idea that Anglo-Saxons were to rule the world.
His works influenced John H. Allen (founder of the Church of God-Holiness), Charles Parham (founder of the Apostolic Faith Movement), Victor Morris Tyler (industrialist editor of “Our Race Quarterly”), Reuben H. Sawyer (preacher with the Christian Church who recruited for the Ku Klux Klan) and Alan A. Beauchamp (publisher of the “Watchman of Israel”).
William J. Cameron (1879-1953 AD) became editor of Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent. He also published a series of anti-Jewish articles came to be titled The International Jew. Eventually, Rand appointed Cameron to head the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America.
Conrad Gaard (1892-1969 AD) pastored the Christian Chapel Church, wrote “Spotlight on the Great Conspiracy.”
Howard B. Rand (1899-1991 AD) founded the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America. With backing from William J. Cameron and Clarence Warner (1882-1949 AD), Rand published a monthly titled “Destiny.”
Bertrand Lewis Comparet (1901-1983 AD) founded the Identity organization Your Heritage and preached a sermon titled “What Happened to Cain?” another titled “The Cain-Satanic Seed Line” and authored the book “Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ.”
William M. Branhan (1909-1965 AD, about who I wrote in the article On William Branham’s sermon “The Serpent’s Seed”) developed the “two seed-in-the-spirit predestination doctrine” which claims that the “humanoid, pre-reptilian” “missing link” was possessed by Satan and that Satan had sex with Eve via the missing link.
Braham identified Satan’s seed in very general terms as being various leaders, intellectuals and establishers of corrupt Christian denominations.
Charles Conley Lynch (aka Connie and Conrad, 1912-1972 AD) was an instigator for the KKK and recruiter for the National States Rights Party-NSRP.
Wesley A. Swift (1913-1970 AD) was a preacher, Ku Klux Klan recruiter who became the “best known advocate” of Christian Identity and founded the Church of Jesus Christ Christian.
See my separate article, Wesley A. Swift – Jews as serpent seed of Satan, the KKK and pre-Adamic race.
William Potter Gale (1917-1988 AD) headed Posse Comitatus and wrote of the serpent seed of Satan in the booklet “The Faith of Our Fathers.”
Oren Polito was a neo-Nazi Identity preacher.
Neuman Britton was an NSPR recruiter.
Richard G. Butler (1918-2004 AD) was the National Director of the Christian Defense League, leader of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian and founded the Aryan Nations and emphasized the bloodline / seedline concept within their statement of beliefs.
Nord W. Davis, Jr. (1931-1997 AD) headed Northpoint Tactical Teams and wrote a book titled “Star Wars.”
James Konrad Warner (aka Jim Warner born 1939 AD) directed the Christian Defense League, served as an officer for the George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi Party-ANP, edited the official (racist) National States Rights Party publication, the “Thunderbolt,” ran the anti-Jewish and racist literature mail order Sons of Liberty, founded the New Christian Crusade Church, founded the “Christian Vanguard” which was an anti-Semitic periodical, he worked with David Duke’s sect of the KKK, organized the Christian Defense League’s “action arm” and edited the CDL’s “Report” which was yet another anti-Semitic publication.
As noted; in one way or another, British Israelism, Anglo-Israelism, Anglo-Saxonism and the serpent seed of Satan theory have influenced the KKK, neo-Nazis, racist Skinheads and various groups such as Posse Comitatus and Aryan Nations.
Dan Gayman was a high school principal who now heads the Church of Israel. He had previously founded the Church of Our Christian Heritage which was affiliated with the National Emancipation of Our White Seed group that is headed by Buddy Tucker.
See my separate article, Dan Gayman – Jews as serpent seed of Satan.
Philip E. J. Monson, headed the Anglo-Saxon Federation of America and is credited as having incorporated the serpent seed of Satan theory into the modern Christian Identity movement—beginning in the 1930s AD, he published “Satan’s Seat: The Enemy of Our Race” and correlated the serpent seed of Satan with the actions of the Catholic Church with the Pope being the “Prime Minister of the Devil.”
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Historical info gleaned from Jon F. Schamber and Scott R. Stroud paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, “Mystical Anti-Semitism and the Christian Identity Movement: A Narrative Criticism of Dan Gayman’s ‘The Two Seeds of Genesis 3:15,’” November 9, 2000 AD