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

Unsealed.org ^ | 5/9/16 | Gary

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Of all the dozens and dozens of signs pointing to the imminent return of Christ, two clearly stand above the rest:

1. In a technical sense the Gospel has now been preached to every nation on earth in fulfillment of Mark 13:10.  Some scholars argue that we must interpret the Greek word for "nation" strictly as an individual ethnic group, but even if that is the correct interpretation, this prophecy was likely fulfilled sometime toward the end of the 20th century or the beginning of this century.  There are certainly still several isolated tribes where the Gospel has not been preached, but the biblical "nation" must necessarily encompass a larger people group than merely a single tribe or else Paul could not have said of the Mediterranean world of his time in Colossians 1:23:

This is the gospel that you heard and that has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven, and of which I, Paul, have become a servant.

Check out this video that shows how the spread of the Gospel to all nations is virtually complete.

2. The return of the twelve tribes of Israel to the land of Israel is on the cusp of completion.  But wait... what about the ten lost tribes?  Isn't the only tribe back in the land the tribe of Judah - the Jews?  

For starters, the return of the Jews from Babylon to Israel included not only the tribe of Judah, but also the tribe of Benjamin.  When Solomon's sons split the Kingdom of Israel between the ten tribes in the north and the Kingdom of Judah in the south, Benjamin remained with Judah as part of the Kingdom of Judah.  In the strictest sense the term Jew is understood to mean someone who is either a Judahite or a Benjaminite as can be seen in the case of the Apostle Paul who was actually from the tribe of Benjamin (see Philippians 3:5), but referred to himself as a Jew (see Acts 21:39).

The Bible is crystal clear that the ten northern tribes of Israel were and are not to this day lost, but are part of the Jewish people.  Before I explain where the Bible tells us this I want to first explain that the myth of the "Ten Lost Tribes" came from the false triple witness of British-Israelism, Mormonism, and the common belief that the northern ten tribes never returned from Assyrian captivity because they eventually intermarried with the nations' Gentiles, gave up their Jewish customs, and in effect ceased to be a unique people.

British-Israelism dates back at least to the 19th century and essentially teaches that the ten northern tribes never returned to Israel and eventually migrated to western and northern Europe, becoming the Anglo-Saxons of today, who in turn colonized North America, Australia, and parts of South Africa.  In modern times this nonsensical belief was popularized by the heretic and false prophet Herbert W. Armstrong.

The Book of Mormon taught a similar belief, the difference being that the ten tribes were said to have migrated to the Americas becoming the Native Americans.

What the Bible actually says about the ten northern tribes is quite clear.  First, they were dispersed to Egypt, Assyria (see Zechariah 10:10) and other surrounding nations.  Second, and most importantly, there was a remnant from the ten northern tribes that had fled the north during the Assyrian invasion and had come to live in the Kingdom of Judah (see 2 Chronicles 34:9 and 2 Chronicles 35:17-18).  Therefore the Jews that were later exiled to Babylon and their children and grandchildren who returned from captivity included those from all twelve tribes.  Third, the New Testament writers wrote to those in the Diaspora with the understanding that those Jewish communities included members from all twelve tribes (e.g. James 1:1, Acts 26:7).

In summary, the Jews are made up of those from all the twelve tribes of Israel and they are now back in the land in fulfillment of a great number of prophecies (e.g. Isaiah 11:10-12, Ezekiel 36:22-28, Ezekiel 37:12, Ezekiel 38:8, Jeremiah 30:3-4, Zechariah 10:10).  Also, many Jews from nations north, south, and east of Israel returned to the land in the 20th and 21st centuries, these likely constituted the bulk of the remaining northern tribes (the Jews from Russia, Iran, Yemen, Egypt, Ethiopia, etc).

For a more detailed analysis of the topic check out this article.

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Especially when they invoked the Mormons!

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Hollow Earth? March 2013 Mormon Chronicle Semi Regular Event Presentation by Abraham Day

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Elsie, you might be interested in this one.

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bump for later (need to leave and I don’t have the web at home).

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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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