The Ten 'Lost' Tribes Of Israel Were Never Actually Lost

Read the roll calls in the books of Nehemiah and Ezra. You will find them recorded there naming the families and their tribes that came back to build Jerusalem. They contain the names of Judah and Benjamin. They even had to send out to get Priests because they didn't have any there.

Read Ezekiel chapter 37 about the two sticks becoming one. It is clearly a prophesy about the end of time. It will not be until the end of this age that the two tribes will be united forever.

Read in I Kings how the King of The House of Israel put up two idols to keep the people from going up to Jerusalem to worship. The people from the northern kingdom who were devout were in the habit of going on pilgrimages to Jerusalem to worship The True and Living God. These people went up to Jerusalem, but would then go back to their homes as people did for centuries. They didn't move to Jerusalem. Of course there were a minimal amount of people from different tribes who for one reason or another may have moved their homes between kingdoms, but that was the exception, not the rule.

In the New Testament the Pharisees spoke about the the dispersed who were among the gentiles to the point that they were considered gentiles. When God divorced The House of Israel at that point they were no longer considered Israel but gentiles. God would preserve the tribes even among the gentiles and someday remarry them and then they again would be Israel. This is written about in the book of Hosea.

The whole Bible is to rightly divided. One of the major divides is between the House of Israel and the Judah. When you read the Bible always keep in mind to whom it is referring and understanding will come.

Satan loves to wrap really pertinent truth up in a package of lies. This is a trick so as to get serious minded believers to reject the important truth because of the package of lies it is wrapped in. Beware satan has done this repeatedly. He takes our most precious gifts of truth and causes lunatics and charlatans to wrap them in their vile misrepresentations. That way we throw them out. The story of the two kingdoms is at the heart of The Bible and dear to God's heart. Don't let the British Israelism people's misinterpretations keep you from this important truth.

John 7:34 Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, thither ye cannot come.

John 7:35 Then said the Jews among themselves, Whither will he go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

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