What makes this country so interesting, from a prophetic point of view, is that this plain, in eastern Europe, is where the fabled Attila the Hun was based in the final days of the Roman Empire. Attila later returned to his homeland in the eastern part of European Russia.
The ancestors of the modern Hungarians are known to have migrated from the eastern part of European Russia to their present homeland, the same plain in eastern Europe that had been occupied by Attila the Hun centuries before.
The Hungarian legend is that seven Magyar chieftains purposely led their people back to reclaim their old homeland. The legend begins with two brothers, Hunor and Magor, who were born in Persia and were the ancestors of the Hungarians and the Magyars.
The legend is described in a medieval Hungarian book, called the "Illuminated Chronicle" and Hunor and Magor are linked to the Table of Nations in the Book of Genesis.
St. Stephen is the much-revered saint and first king of Hungary, who brought Christianity to the country. His right hand has been miraculously preserved, for the millennium since his death, and is in St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest.
What was so significant about the Hungarian monarchy is that it is the crown, the Holy Crown of Hungary, that actually reigns over the country, not the king himself. The Hungarian king is just someone who is worthy to be crowned with the Holy Crown.
The Holy Crown of Hungary is surely one of the few most valuable objects on earth.
The crown has a front and back and, centuries ago, the cross on top of the crown was accidentally knocked so that it leans to the right of the crown, as it remains today.
This was the flag showing the Hungarian Holy Crown, at the top, depicting the cross knocked to the right as the front of the crown is seen.
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Hungary is a small country but gained a lot of influence when it became part of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, which was founded in 1867. Notice, on Hungary's coat of arms, the crown with the cross angled to the right, the Hungarian side of the coat of arms is on the same side as the lean of the cross, which is on the right side if looking forward from the crown's perspective.
The Austrian-Hungarian Empire was founded in the Victorian Era, when secularism was spreading after the introduction of evolutionary theory in 1859.
Could it be that Hungary has a sacred mission? That the ancestors of the Hungarians were led from far away back to the land where Attila the Hun had been based many centuries before?
There they were converted to Christianity by St. Stephen, whose right hand has been miraculously preserved. The cross atop the Holy Crown was accidentally knocked to the right. Then, when Hungary gained a lot of influence as half of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, during the era of increasing secularism, it's banner on the coat of arms was on the same side as the tilt of the cross, the right from the crown's perspective.
That makes it appear that Hungary had been intended for the sacred mission of counteracting the secularism that spread in the late Nineteenth Century.
The Austrian-Hungarian Empire is gone but Hungary's sacred mission is not over yet.
The legendary brothers, Hunor and Magor, were natives of Persia. Just as the Hungarians regained their ancestral homeland so the Jews in the Bible regained theirs, after having been taken captive to Babylon.
Their return to their homeland was facilitated by Cyrus, who was the first king of the Persian Empire, where Hunor and Magor had been born. Cyrus funded the rebuilding of the Jews' Temple.
During the time of Communism in Hungary, it's Holy Crown was safeguarded in the U.S. The crown had been captured by U.S. forces near the end of the Second World War, and taken to Fort Knox for safekeeping.
Early in 1978, U.S. President Jimmy Carter ordered the crown returned to Hungary. Although it seemed very unlikely at the time, this was just as the revolution in Persia (Iran) was beginning that would end the 2500-year old monarchy that was begun by Cyrus.
The crown was personally delivered to Hungary by another Cyrus, U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance.
Cyrus is not exactly a common name. Just as the revolution was beginning that would end the ancient monarchy begun by Cyrus, who facilitated the Jews' return to their homeland and rebuilding of the Temple and in whose land Hunor and Magor had been born, another Cyrus returned the Hungarians' Holy Crown to them.
The crown had the same kind of function to the Hungarians that the Temple had to the Jews and the Hungarian uprising against the Communists in 1956 can be compared to the Jewish uprising against the Babylonians that got the Jews taken into exile and their Temple destroyed.
Doesn't this make it seem that Hungary is on a special mission from God to evangelize the world? I am not Hungarian myself, and have no connections to Hungary, and this makes it possible for me to give an unbiased perspective.
THE GOLDEN FLEECE AND THE HOLY CROWN
Has anyone ever noticed the great similarity between the story of the Golden Fleece, of ancient Greek Mythology, and the Holy Crown of Hungary?
One of the two most popular stories to be adopted from Greek mythology is the voyage of Jason and the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece. A fleece is the fur from around the neck of a sheep or ram.
The Golden Fleece was a very special fleece, being from a divine ram. The Golden Fleece was a symbol of divine authority, and a legitimate king was absolutely required to be crowned with it.
This is one of the two great stories from ancient Greece. The other is the Trojan War, and the two epics that center around it. The first is the Iliad, which takes place during the war. The second is the Odyssey, which tells the story of the journey home of Odysseus after the war. Both epics were written by Homer.
The thing that I find to be just so striking is the resemblance between the story of the Golden Fleece and that of the real-life Holy Crown of Hungary.
Like the Golden Fleece, the Holy Crown of Hungary is linked to a hero. Unlike the mythical Jason, St. Stephen was the real first king of Hungary, who Christianized the country.
Like the Golden Fleece, the Holy Crown of Hungary is considered to be absolutely essential that a legitimate Hungarian king be crowned with it. In fact, the Hungarian monarchy differs from others in that it is the crown itself that rules. The king is just someone deemed worthy to be crowned with it. The Holy Crown of Hungary is a coronation crown, used only for coronations and not worn on a daily basis.
Also like the Golden Fleece, the Holy Crown of Hungary has been lost and regained. The Holy Crown of Hungary has been lost and regained most recently when it was captured by U.S. forces, and taken to Fort Knox for safekeeping, near the end of the Second World War. U.S. President Jimmy Carter had the crown returned to Hungary, where it is prominently displayed today in a glass case in the Parliament Building.
The first question is whether the story of the Golden Fleece directly influenced the Holy Crown of Hungary. The crown was actually made in Byzantium, which was the Greek-speaking former eastern half of the Roman Empire, centered on Constantinople.
But the next question is whether God was involved with the Golden Fleece and the Holy Crown.
We saw in a posting on this blog, "The Wars Of The Gods", October 2022, how the God of the Bible came into conflict with the ancient Greek God Zeus, later called Jupiter by the Romans.
Considering this background, doesn't it look as if the Hungarians are on a special mission from God, being led back to the ancestral homeland once occupied by their ancestor, Attila the Hun, where they would be Christianized by St. Stephen with the Holy Crown of Hungary replacing the Golden Fleece as the sacred sign of leadership?
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