WAS SPARTA FROM THE TRIBE OF DAN

[mord]

http://bibleprobe.com/lost.htm 

Zeus was sometimes pictured as an eagle, but at other times he was pictured as a serpent to whom offerings of honey were made.  Here appears yet another clue.  We have the symbol of a snake (the first insignia of Dan) to whom offerings of honey were made!!  The honey could be a reference to the bees in Samson's riddle.  Over the centuries some of the Spartans (earlier populated by Trojans) and Trojans migrated to southern France, and into Germany.  In the Apocryphal book I Maccabees there is an account about the Spartans of southern Greece claiming they were related to the Jewish people and were, in fact, the stock of Abraham. 

A letter from the king of the Spartans to the Jewish high priest in Jerusalem is most revealing:

"Areus, king of the Spartans, to Onias, the high priest, greetings.  It has been discovered in a document concerning the Spartans and Jews that they are brothers, and are of the race of Abraham" (I Maccabees 12:20-21).  The first century Historian Flavius Josephus also records this letter in his writings.  Four symbols are used in the Bible concerning the Danites; a serpent, an eagle, a lion, and the bees.  In the story of Samson we find the famous riddle of the bees who made honey in the carcass of a lion which had been killed by Samson.  The symbolic nature of the bees could represent the concept that the descendents of the tribe of Dan would one day try to bring about the destruction of the tribe of Judah, whose symbol was the lion.  Of interest, throughout the centuries, the Merovingian (European) royalty have for centuries been tied to the symbol of bees.

When Moses gave his prophecies of the 12 tribes, he said that Benjamin would "dwell between the shoulders of Judah" (Deuteronomy 33:12), and that Dan, "as a lion's whelp, would leap from Bashan" (Deuteronomy 33:22).  Bashan was located in ancient Lebanon.  That Mosaic prediction came to pass when the tribe of Dan was deprived of its territory adjacent to Judah, moved north to Lebanon, and established its territory in Bashan.  From there the Danites made a symbolic leap into obscurity (Europe; Germany? Denmark? Danube River? Irish Tuatha de Danann? Rome? Greece?).

In Judges 18 the tribe of Dan established an idolatrous religion - the worship of the sun and moon.

[Lewinsky Stinks, Dr. Brennan Rocks]

I don't buy it. Sparta (the South Africa of the ancient world; I mean that as a compliment, Boere) was a Greek nation and bore no relationship to the Hebrews.

[RationalThought110]

Is this what Sharpton claims?