Biblical Understandings Concerning the Ten Tribes and their Future
[This is an adapted expansion on a notice we recently sent to our e-mail list.]
Contents:
1. Personal.
2. Verification versus Conciliation. Research Goals.
Bible. Dolmans, History. DNA.
3. Specification. Individualization versus Imposition. Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan first.
4. The Ten Tribes in the Future.
(a) Kurdistan (Northern Syria), Carmel (Northern Israel), Bashan (Syria), Gilead (Southern Syria - Jordan).
(b) Lebanon and Jordan.
(c) The West Bank, Samaria; and/or the West In General?
5. Division of the Land.
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1. Personal.
Some background information concerning Yair Davidiy may be found here.
'Yair Davidiy. A Brief Introduction to the Founder of Brit-Am and a History of Brit-Am,"
https://hebrewnations.com/hebrewn/yairdavidiy.html
The support base of Brit-Am is relatively speaking not that large. Our followers send us contributions and buy books.
This keeps us going reasonably well most of the time
It happens here and there that income is not sufficient for our immediate needs. So we make Appeals.
http://www.britam.org/contribute-Brit-Am.html
http://hebrewnations.com/contributions/offerings.html
Below is the outline of an article concerning the goals before us:
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2. Verification versus Conciliation. Research Goals.
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The Lost Ten Tribes are among Western Peoples.
This is proven by Biblical Evidence and proofs from other sources.
The Biblical Proofs are the strongest.
They need to be promoted and made better known than they have been.
Secular Evidence is also vital. Secular Sources provide proofs in support of us as well as material interpreted as contradictory.
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Bible -
When properly presented the Hebrew Bible confirms Brit-Am understandings. Rabbinical opinions confirm and supplement our understanding of the Hebrew text in these matters.
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Dolmens-
Jeremiah (NKJV) 31:
21 SET UP SIGNPOSTS,
MAKE LANDMARKS;
SET YOUR HEART TOWARD THE HIGHWAY,
THE WAY IN WHICH YOU WENT.
TURN BACK, O VIRGIN OF ISRAEL,
TURN BACK TO THESE YOUR CITIES.
The words translated as "signposts" and "landmarks" in Hebrew actually means "Dolmens" (stone monuments) and "Cairns" i.e. rock or earthen piles around the dolmens.
This is confirmed by Major Rabbinical Authorities, e.g. Radak, Abarbanel.
The message is that using the dolmens as evidence can help us prove our Israelite origins.
The Problems is fixing the date of Dolmens findings.
Academic authorities rely on methods such as radio-carbon aging that determine when events took place. These methods are misleading.
Creation Science experts (anti-Evolutionists) are mainly Christian Fundamentalists. They provide many proofs nullifying radio-carbon and similar methods of chronology.
There are however also Jews with both Scientific and Torah-learning backgrounds who say the same. They have a different style and manner but in their own way if anything are even more authoritative in their findings.
One such source is:
"Genesis and Genes,"
by Yoram Boacz, Feldheim Publishers, USA, 2013.
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History:
The Historical scenario regarding Migrations, etc, is basically correct but may need to be revised. On the whole it is quite clear that most peoples now in the west originally came from eastern areas.
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DNA
DNA findings are often used to nullify Brit-Am claims. The argument goes that Western Europeans have a certain type of DNA (mainly R1b), whereas Jews have several other types (J2, etc).
If the Jews are physically related to the 10 Tribes then the DNA should be the same or at least more similar than it now is. Since the DNA is different than they must have had different ancestors!
Archaeology indicates that first there were Stone-Age Hunters in Britain. Then came farmers possibly from the region of Turkey and numerically overwhelmed the Stone-Agers. They had DNA similar to that of the Jews of today.
After that came people from the Steppes of Southern Russia. They replaced the Farmers altogether. Their DNA was R1b. This happened, the archaeologists claim ,about 2000 BCE with the appearance of the "Beaker Peoples."
This is wrong.
Brit-Am says it did not happen ca. 2000 BCE but closer to 500 BCE. The DNA change was not due to physical replacement but rather by Horizontal Genetic Transposon, the same as happens in microbes, and animals.
As far as we know we are the only ones who say this BUT it could be that the necessary research has already been carried out?
We could use help from other researchers. We could use more funds, etc. Meanwhile we do what we can.
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3. Specification. Individualization versus Imposition. Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan first.
We see Progress in the above areas as the MOST IMPORTANT PRIORITY for spreading the knowledge and ultimately reaching public conscious.
OTHER GROUPS,
Other groups exist who sometimes use the Ten Tribes name, sometimes call themselves "Ephraimites," etc. They have a different approach. Some of them are friends and supporters of ours so we cannot be too harsh on them.
They seem to assume something like the following:
# I feel in my heart that I belong to Israel. I know it. That should be enough. I should be allowed to come to Israel and live there alongside the Jews. I do not want to become Jewish but the Jews should accept me. If the Jews do not accept me with open arms despite, in some cases, my intention to convert their children to Christianity, etc, I will be offended. I might adopt anti-Semitic beliefs if I do not already have them. #
The above example may be a little exaggerated but this phenomenon exists. It is mistaken.
Individuals among the Ten Tribes who wish to convert should be enabled to do so. This however is NOT an overall solution.
The Ten Tribes, headed by Joseph, have their own distinct task to fulfill.
The Ten Tribes when they return will come first to the areas of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan.
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4. The Ten Tribes in the Future.
(a) Kurdistan (Northern Syria), Carmel (Northern Israel), Bashan (Syria), Gilead (Southern Syria - Jordan).
Micah (NKJV) 7:
12 IN THAT DAY THEY SHALL COME TO YOU
FROM ASSYRIA AND THE FORTIFIED CITIES,
FROM THE FORTRESS TO THE RIVER,
FROM SEA TO SEA,
AND MOUNTAIN TO MOUNTAIN.
13 YET THE LAND SHALL BE DESOLATE
BECAUSE OF THOSE WHO DWELL IN IT,
AND FOR THE FRUIT OF THEIR DEEDS.
14 SHEPHERD YOUR PEOPLE WITH YOUR STAFF,
THE FLOCK OF YOUR HERITAGE,
WHO DWELL SOLITARILY IN A WOODLAND,
IN THE MIDST OF CARMEL;
LET THEM FEED IN BASHAN AND GILEAD,
AS IN DAYS OF OLD.
15 AS IN THE DAYS WHEN YOU CAME OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT,
I WILL SHOW THEM WONDERS.
Explanation:
In Micah 7:12 the words translated as "Fortress" in Hebrew are "Matsor" referring to an area in what is now Kurdistan. This area is now partially controlled by US and UK forces.
Micah 12:13 indicates that the Land the Ten Tribes will return to will be virtually depopulated due to the sins and mistakes of the previous dwellers.
Michah 7:14 mentions CARMEL which may mean an area near Haifa in present-day Israel,.
BASHAN means part of Syria.
GILEAD means much of Jordan and part of Syria.
See also:
(b) Lebanon and Jordan.
Zechariah 10:
10 I WILL ALSO BRING THEM BACK FROM THE LAND OF EGYPT,
AND GATHER THEM FROM ASSYRIA.
I WILL BRING THEM INTO THE LAND OF GILEAD AND LEBANON,
UNTIL NO MORE ROOM IS FOUND FOR THEM.
(c) The West Bank, Samaria. Or The West in General?
So too,
Jeremiah 31:
6 FOR THERE SHALL BE A DAY
WHEN THE WATCHMEN WILL CRY ON MOUNT EPHRAIM,
'ARISE, AND LET US GO UP TO ZION,
TO THE LORD OUR GOD.'
This may indicate that a portion of the Ten Tribes will come to the Mountain of Ephraim meaning the West Bank of present-day Israel and from there go up to Jerusalem. OR it masy be symbolic and "Moiunt Ephraim" mean a portion of the Ten Trbies in the West.
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5. Division of the Land.
In the End Times the Land will be divided up equally among all the Tribes.
Ezakiel (NKJV) 47:
13 THUS SAYS THE LORD GOD: THESE ARE THE BORDERS BY WHICH YOU SHALL DIVIDE THE LAND AS AN INHERITANCE AMONG THE TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. JOSEPH SHALL HAVE TWO PORTIONS. 14 YOU SHALL INHERIT IT EQUALLY WITH ONE ANOTHER; FOR I RAISED MY HAND IN AN OATH TO GIVE IT TO YOUR FATHERS, AND THIS LAND SHALL FALL TO YOU AS YOUR INHERITANCE.
Non-Israelites who live with Israel and identify with them will inherit alongside of them.
Ezakiel (NKJV) 47:
21 "THUS YOU SHALL DIVIDE THIS LAND AMONG YOURSELVES ACCORDING TO THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. 22 IT SHALL BE THAT YOU WILL DIVIDE IT BY LOT AS AN INHERITANCE FOR YOURSELVES, AND FOR THE STRANGERS WHO DWELL AMONG YOU AND WHO BEAR CHILDREN AMONG YOU. THEY SHALL BE TO YOU AS NATIVE-BORN AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; THEY SHALL HAVE AN INHERITANCE WITH YOU AMONG THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL. 23 AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN WHATEVER TRIBE THE STRANGER DWELLS, THERE YOU SHALL GIVE HIM HIS INHERITANCE," SAYS THE LORD GOD.
Converts and sojourners will attach themselves to Judah and Israel and identify with them.
Isaiah 14:1 FOR THE LORD WILL HAVE MERCY ON JACOB, AND WILL YET CHOOSE ISRAEL, AND SET THEM IN THEIR OWN LAND: AND THE STRANGERS SHALL BE JOINED WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL CLEAVE TO THE HOUSE OF JACOB.
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