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Please forgive my delay in responding to you. Sadly, my grandchildren left yesterday to get back to school in Texas after a 3 week Christmas vacation. I have more time now for a response (without a video game going on in the same room).

I am just beginning to find my way around a computer so I don't know what BUMP means and I don't know how to supply a link, other than to tell you, so here goes.

The 12 tribes separated after King Solomon's death into the House of Judah (which included the tribes of Levi and Benjamine) and the House of Israel, the 10 northern tribes. (This is not to be confused with the Nation of Israel which only became a nation in 1948). Only the tribe of Judah are properly called Jews while the others are Hebrew. All, of course, are Adamic. Only 3 kings, Saul, David and Solomon ruled over all Israel, in one united kingdom.

God scattered His children, because of the idolatry they practiced, the 10 tribes to Samaria and 200 years later, Judah to Babylon. References to the 2 houses throughout the Bible are very clear. Hosea declares that Israel is to be as "the sands for multitude" while Jeremiah tell us that Judah is "few in number" and a remnant. David, Micah, Jeremiah and others declare that Israel is the strongest war power on earth, never to be conquered by a Gentile power; and yet Jeremiah declares that Judah is "without might".

It is prophesied concerning Israel (the 10 tribes) that they shall obtain possession of "great possessions," inheriting and establishing the desolate places of the earth, rule many heathen nations, have a great revenue and become the "mart of nations," hold the keys of commerce, be "exalted above their neighbors," and become "the chief of nations."

When God made His covenant with Abraham, He said, "My covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.......And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee." (Gen.17:4-7)

And God said unto Isaac,"...I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed....."(Gen. 22:15-18)

And God said unto Jacob/Israel, "......I am the Lord God of Abraham, thy father, and the God of Isaac.....Thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed" (Gen. 28:13-14)

God again appeared before Jacob/Israel and said...."be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins." (Gen.35:11) In (Gen.24:60) He said they should "possess the gate of those which hate them."

God, speaking of Israel, said, "And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and my whole soul." (Jer.32:40-41. "For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself, and Israel for his peculiar treasure." (Ps.135:4).

After dispersing the House of Israel God said, "I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord. For, lo, I will sift the house of Israel among the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth." (Amos 9:8-9)

(Jacob, Israel, Ephraim "the largest of the tribes" and Samaria are all references to the House of Israel)

In the New Testament when Christ came to earth He declared, "I am not sent, but unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel." (Matt.15:24) He came to "confirm the promises made unto the fathers." (Rom.15:8). Also, James wrote "to the 12 tribes which are scattered abroad". (James 1:1. In fulfilling God's plan they became "many nations" and a "company of nations" (the commonwealth of Great Britain) with colonies and daughter nations. America, possessing the "birthright marks" of Joseph, can be identified as modern Manasseh (the thirteenth tribe). However, it is today, peopled by a representation of all the other tribes of Israel.

The House of Israel, the 10 lost tribes, have faded away to many but not to God. One reason may be that it was His will and purpose to hide them. God could work unhindered with and in "Lost Israel" until He had finished His work and without them knowing they were the people of the Book until, "For I would not, brethern, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in." (Rom.11:25)

Once we realize that we are not Gentiles, that we are of the House of Israel, the above verse really takes on meaning. I believe it is time for that fullness now. Gentile means ethnos, ethnic nations. Almost all ethnic nations are in turmoil and hate Christian nations, especially the United States and Great Britain.

As we know God does not lie, does not break His covenant so then we know there is still a House of Israel. If we are not that House of Israel, where are they? Who else is as numerous as the sands of the sea and stars of the sky? What other nation is so blessed and shares those blessings with others? Why are we "One Nation Under God"? How could this country become what it is without God's intervention in such a short time?

I hope this answers the questions you have, at least some of them. Again, my apologies for taking so long to respond.

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