Seven Main Points for Descendants of the Ten Tribes to Consider (February 2, 2020, 7 Shevet 5780)
Contents:
A. The Query. Am I able to obtain Israeli citizenship as I am from the Lost Tribes?
1. BRIT-AM PROOFS ARE PARAMOUNT
2. A HIGH DEGREE OF PROBABILITY IS NOT THE SAME AS ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN!
3. A GROUP MESSAGE
4. THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND PRESENT LANDS TO BECOME PART OF IT!
5. REVELATION STILL TO COME
6 & 7 Eschatological Considerations:
6. OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE TORAH
7. DEFINITE TRIBAL AFFILIATION
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A. The Query. Am I able to obtain Israeli citizenship as I am from the Lost Tribes?
Query: Blue Rainbow
re
Anglos as Israelites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omRkGZJwgHA
So as a UK and Irish citizen, am I able to obtain Israeli citizenship as I am from the Lost Tribes?
This in some form or other is a frequently asked question. We have answered questions like this often.
Nevertheless I am not sure whether we have ever really set the case out in a systematic way so we will use your answer to do so.
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1. BRIT-AM PROOFS ARE PARAMOUNT
First of all,
Brit-Am Findings are not recognized by anybody but ourselves. This may change if we receive more support for what we do.
People who genuinely believe they are from Israel should support Brit-Am if they can.
There is not much point in expecting something to be done unless one is prepared to support it in some way or other.
It may be asserted that,
It is true that our claims are in the Bible and supported by Rabbinical Sources etc over which nobody has a monopoly.
Nevertheless, for better or for worse, we are the ones who have merited to reveal them in their full sense and we are still doing so.
We have a Mandate to do this. We are what there is.
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2. A HIGH DEGREE OF PROBABILITY IS NOT THE SAME AS BEING ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN!
Secondly,
Brit-Am Findings can only say that based on where you come from and other factors that you are more than likely descended from Israel. This does not make it absolutely certain.
The more research we do however and the more we make the results known the closer will we get.
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3. A GROUP MESSAGE
Thirdly,
We understand that the message should go out more as a Generality. The Lost Ten Tribes need to realize that they as a group descend from Israel.
They should therefore:
Believe in God.
Believe in the Bible.
Support the Jews and the State of Israel since these represent Judah with whom the Ten Tribes need to re-connect.
Spread knowledge of Brit-Am Findings.
It happens that individuals hear our message, or a similar one, decide to come to Israel and maybe convert to Judaism.
They are welcome to do so, some of them in individual cases PERHAPS DEFINITELY SHOULD DO SO, but this is NOT what we are about.
KNOWLEDGE CONCERNING WHO THE LOST TEN TRIBES ARE CONCERNS THE WHOLE ISRAELITE PEOPLE AND THE TRIBES AMONG THEM.
We are speaking to the Tribes as a Group and to individuals as part of the group.
Becoming Jewish means in effect merging with Judah. There are some who may feel the need to do this but it is not a collective solution in our time.
See no.6, below.
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4. THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND PRESENT LANDS TO BECOME PART OF IT!
Fourthly,
We do not know how matters will turn out. We do not have to. When the Lost Ten Tribes return ultimately they will return to the Land of Israel in its extended borders.
According to different sources, the Land of Israel may expand to include areas in which the Lost Ten Tribes now dwell.
See:
Predicted Hebrew Islands.
Were the British Isles and North America Promised to Become Israelite?
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/rabbi/sofer.html
They will not have to come to Israel. Israel will come to them!
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5. REVELATION STILL TO COME
Fifthly,
We do what we can according to our understanding.
We understand the Lost Ten Tribes to be in certain areas as outlined by Brit-Am.
We have an obligation to make this known and can do so. Until this knowledge becomes more widely known and more generally accepted by both Judah and the Lost Ten Tribes there is no point in considering anything beyond that. Whatever is to be done must be in accordance with the Bible and with Orthodox Rabbinical agreement.
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6 & 7 Eschatological Considerations.
Eschatology is a part of theology concerned with the final events of history, or the ultimate destiny of humanity. This concept is commonly referred to as the "End of the World" or "The End Times."
The two points below (6 & 7) belong to eschatological considerations. They may be the most important but for the present they are the least relevant to us today.
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6. OBLIGATION TO KEEP THE TORAH
Sixth.
Living in the Land of Israel involves keeping the Commandments.
Deuteronomy (NASB) 11:
31 For you are about to cross the Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God is giving you, and you shall possess it and live in it, 32 and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.
Levitivcus (NASB) 20:
22 You are therefore to keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and do them, so that the land to which I am bringing you to live will not spew you out.
See:
"The Land of Israel" by Yehonatan Davidiy
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/guest/the-land-of-israel-by-yehonatan-davidiy.html
This is not pertinent to most descendants of the Ten Tribes since they are technically "Gentiles."
The Ten Tribes in a spiritual sense were technically "divorced" from belonging to Israel from the Religious point of view.
Jeremiah 3:
8 And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel, I had sent her away and given her a writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.
The Ten Tribes had been "divorced" i. e. they were no longer obligated by the commandments and were to loose awareness of their ancestry and temporarily considered "Not My People" (cf. Hosea 1:6-10, 5:7, Talmud, Yebamot 17).
See:
Divorce
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/quora/tentribes/divorce.html
In the future this will change but we have not yet reached that stage.
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7. DEFINITE TRIBAL AFFILIATION
In the End Times each person will dwell in the Tribal portions of their ancestors. Women will live in the Tribal portion of their husbands. Tribal affiliation follows descent from the father.
cf.
Numbers (NASB) 26:
55 But the land shall be divided by lot. They shall receive their inheritance according to the names of the Tribes of their Fathers.
Non-Israelites who identify with Israel and live among them will live in the Tribal Portion they find themselves living in.
Ezekiel (NASB) 47:
21 So you shall divide this land among yourselves according to the tribes of Israel. 22 You shall divide it by lot for an inheritance among yourselves and among the aliens who stay in your midst, who bring forth sons in your midst. And they shall be to you as the native-born among the sons of Israel; they shall be allotted an inheritance with you among the tribes of Israel. 23 And in the tribe with which the alien stays, there you shall give him his inheritance, declares the LORD God.
Only in the Time of the Messiah son of David will it be possible to know for certain which Tribe each Israelite belongs to.
Maimonides (1135-1204) says:
In the days of the Messianic King: When his kingdom shall be settled and all of Israel gather unto him, he shall then give the Tribal-genealogy of each one. He shall do this through Divine inspiration. As it says, HE SHALL SIT AS A REFINER AND PURIFIER (Malachi 3:3). He will purify the Tribe of Levi first,.as it says, 'till there be stood up a priest with Urim and with Thumim' (Ezra 2;63). .. (Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, The Laws of Kings, ch. 12, no.3).
See: Levi
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/levi.html
See Also: "Christians as Israelites"