And this is the Tribe that Mormons claim their spiritual heritage descends from??? They need to wake up!!!
I just posted an article from the official LDS site named "The Ancient Covenant Restored" from which this was taken. (Note: I am one of those "anti" mormons.)
From The Ancient Covenant Restored.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2279170/posts?page=1
In a revelation received on 6 December 1832, the Savior said: “Thus saith the Lord unto you, with whom the priesthood hath continued through the lineage of your fathers—for ye are lawful heirs, according to the flesh, and have been hid from the world with Christ in God—therefore your life and the priesthood have remained, and must needs remain through you and your lineage until the restoration of all things spoken by the mouths of all the holy prophets since the world began” (D&C 86:8–10).
The Prophet Joseph Smith was a descendant of Abraham, a “pure Ephraimite.” 16 By actual lineage he had a right to the gospel, the priesthood, and eternal life (see Abr. 2:8–11).
President Brigham Young declared on one occasion: “You have heard Joseph say that the people did not know him; he had his eyes on … blood-relations. … His descent from Joseph that was sold into Egypt was direct, and the blood was pure in him. … He had the sole right and lawful power, as he was the legal heir to the blood that has been on the earth and has come down through a pure lineage. The union of various ancestors kept that blood pure. There is a great deal the people do not understand, and many of the Latter-day Saints have to learn all about it.” 17 President Young also taught: “It was decreed in the counsels of eternity, long before the foundations of the earth were laid, that he, Joseph Smith, should be the man, in the last dispensation of this world, to bring forth the word of God to the people, and receive the fulness of the keys and power of the Priesthood of the Son of God. The Lord had his eyes upon their progenitors clear back to Abraham, and from Abraham to the flood, from the flood to Enoch, and from Enoch to Adam. He has watched that family and that blood as it has circulated from its fountain to the birth of that man. He was foreordained in eternity to preside over this last dispensation.” 18
Through the Prophet Joseph Smith—the latter-day descendant of Joseph and Ephraim—the Lord has made available all of the blessings of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to all who will join the Church and prove worthy of the blessings of the temple. In November 1831, the Lord referred to a significant “blessing upon the head of Ephraim and his fellows” (D&C 133:34). Remember that Ephraim received the birthright over the tribes of Israel. In the last days it has been the leadership responsibility of the tribe of Ephraim to take the message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. Thus, in compliance with the Lord’s covenants and promises made to the fathers Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, and in compliance with the birthright blessing given to Ephraim to preside in Israel, the gospel and all of its covenantal powers were literally restored to a literal descendant of Ephraim, one who by right and covenant then could begin the dispersal of that gospel and its priesthood powers, ordinances, and covenants to the ends of the earth.
The actual story of the bulk of the people of Israel who the Assyrians carried away in biblical times is here. Again, these people left real traces and real evidence, dres, names, culture in the later Khazer kingdom, a city named Samara on the Volga river etc. etc. etc.
If you care anything about Mormons or the Mormon church you need to work towards getting rid of the bom, "Kolob(TM)", and the rest of the sci-fi theology, ASAP.