Ten Tribes Studies (9 June 2017, 15 Sivan, 5777)
Contents:
1. Alistair Williams:Â Barbara's query.
Judah can be counted BUT Ten Tribes are "too numerous to count"?
2. Nick Ashton: Gildas intended Christians as the New Israel in the Religious, not Physical, Sense!
3. New Article. Elisha-2
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1. Alistair Williams:Â Barbara's query.
Judah can be counted BUT Ten Tribes are "too numerous to count"?
Re
Brit-Am Now no. 2753. Ten Tribes Studies
http://hebrewnations.com/features/now14/2753.html
#2. Did all the Tribes return with the Jews from Babylon?
Dear Yair
Barbara asked for help to try to convince her friend that the lost tribes are not with Judah in modern Israel.
Personally I would approach this from another angle.
The Almighty promised Abraham that his descendants would be number as the sand on the sea shore.
The Almighty also tells us Israel is the only people He revealed Himself to.
So the promise of a family tree that would be impossible to calculate passes through Abraham to Isaac to Jacob/Israel.
The tribe of Judah was ultimately scattered among the nations eventually securing it's own land but still with communities in countries around the world.
Nations keep records and it is possible to number the living descendants of Judah to a degree.
As it is possible to number Judah we can safely say that the population of the land of Israel and the Jewish communities around the world, we have to be prepared to broaden our search for a people too numerous to count and their forbears.
Britain, the USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand etc have been identified.
It's possible to also take this even further.
Just before the Exodus on the first passover Israeli test were given instructions and could invite the 'strangers among them to their homes' these people were given the same protection. Israelite by adoption rather than blood.
It is possible that the Almighty might consider all the peoples in the lands that once formed part of the British Empire as Israelite too.Â
If we tried to determine the number of people who have lived in those countries we would soon have to admit defeat, they are as the sand on the sea shore, too numerous to count.
Alistair
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Brit-Am Reply:
The Bible needs to be studied. Biblical answers must be reached.
If the Bible says or indicates an answer it may be considered, otherwise not so.
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2. Nick Ashton: Gildas intended Christians as the New Israel in the Religious, not Physical, Sense!
re
Brit-Am Now no. 2754. Ten Tribes Studies
http://hebrewnations.com/features/now14/2754.html
#3. Gildas (ca. 500 -570 CE) , Celtic Britain equals the modern Israel
Hello Yair,
last October I went to a lecture on Gildas by Rowan Williams, former Archbiship of Canterbury, he is a very scholarly man.
He specifically said that British Bishop Gildas calls the Britons Israel because many had become baptised believers (in Jesus) not because of their ancestry.
He would no doubt have been aware of the New Testament verses:
"in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God" (Galatians 6:15-16).
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Brit-Am Reply:
Substituting Christians for the Jews or for Israel is a know Christian doctrine. It is referred to as Replacement Theology.
Gildas may have believed in this and applied it specifically tot he British Christians of whom he was a part.
Or there may have been a tendency to make a physical identification and the religious theological notions were grafted onto this.
The most important point is to clarify as to whether or not the British Celts were descended PHYSICALLY from Israel or not.
For the moment, assuming Rowan Williams is write and we were wrong, we may say,
Fair enough. We all make mistakes.
We do not believe in Christianity.
Therefore we do not believe that all Christians are Israelites or replacements for them.
We understand that Christianity may be a tool of Divine providence for bringing the Gentiles in general, and the Ten Tribes in particular, closer to the truth.
This approach of ours may be problematic in some ways.
Neither Christians nor Jews feel easy with it.
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3. New Article. Elisha-2
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/elisha2.html
Part 2. 2-Kings chs 6 to 8
Contents:
1. The Floating Axe-Head
2. The Army of Angels
3. The Famine in Samaria
4. The Woman from Shunem Reappears
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