[patriot_wes]

you wrote..."and he like everyone else at that time believed the 10 Northern Tribes could not be identified and were lost forever, probably "assimilated" for lack of any solid idea."

Given the church/world view that Luther grew up in ( the didache - Edict of Ignatious, etc) I doubt Jewishness or Yeshua's connections to Israel were on his mind. I do agree about the blindness until the time of the Gentiles was complete. I can't wait to know my brothers. Shabat Shalom, Wes