Proof of Western Origins from the Ten Tribes.
The Tribes of Israel separated into two sections, Judah and Israel.
Judah comprised the Tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Levi, and representative minorities of the other Tribes. Descendants of the Kingdom of Judah became the Jewish People, i.e. the Jews.
Most Israelites today in the State of Israel are Jewish. They should not really be called Israel (strictly speaking) but rather "Judah" and in the Bible they are referred to mainly as "Judah."
In the Book of Ezekiel however the Jews may also be called "Israel." It all depends on the context. Nevertheless when in Ezekiel the House of Israel is juxtaposed against the House of Judah then by "House of Israel" the Ten Tribes are intended (e.g. cf. Ezekiel ch. 4).
Descendants of the House of Israel became the Lost Ten Tribes. The Ten Trbies were mainly from the 2 Tribes of Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh), Reuben, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulon, Gad, Asher, Dan, Naphtali. The Ten Tribes also include minority elements from the Tribes that make up the House of Judah meaning Judah, Benjamin, and Levi.
The most important Tribes among the Ten Tribes were the Tribes of Joseph. The two sons of Joseph were Ephraim and Manasseh, especially Ephraim. So too sometimes the Ten Tribes are called collectively "Ephraim."
The Ten Tribes lost awareness of their Identity. They migrated to the West and gave rise to Western Peoples including Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, France, Switzerland, and the offshoots of Britain such as the USA, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and part of South Africa.
The two Tribes of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, are found mostly in English-speaking countries. Ephraim is more dominant in Britain and offshoots of Britain where Manasseh is paramount in the USA.
Originally the two section of the Israelite nation had been together. King David was followed by Solomon and Solomon by Rehoboam. In the time of Rehoboam the Ten Northern Tribes seceded and created their own Kingdom under Jeroboam the son of Nebat from the Tribe of Ephraim. Rehoboam in Judah intented to make war against Jeroboam of Ephraim and force the Ten Tribes to re-attach themsleves to his Royal House of Judah. The Prophet Shemaiah came to him and told him not to do that.
1-Kings (NKJV) 12:
21 AND WHEN REHOBOAM CAME TO JERUSALEM, HE ASSEMBLED ALL THE HOUSE OF JUDAH WITH THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN, ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND CHOSEN MEN WHO WERE WARRIORS, TO FIGHT AGAINST THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, THAT HE MIGHT RESTORE THE KINGDOM TO REHOBOAM THE SON OF SOLOMON. 22 BUT THE WORD OF GOD CAME TO SHEMAIAH THE MAN OF GOD, SAYING, 23 SPEAK TO REHOBOAM THE SON OF SOLOMON, KING OF JUDAH, TO ALL THE HOUSE OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN, AND TO THE REST OF THE PEOPLE, SAYING, 24 THUS SAYS THE LORD: YOU SHALL NOT GO UP NOR FIGHT AGAINST YOUR BRETHREN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. LET EVERY MAN RETURN TO HIS HOUSE, FOR THIS THING IS FROM ME. THEREFORE THEY OBEYED THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND TURNED BACK, ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF THE LORD.
Note that the Almighty says:
FOR THIS THING IS FROM ME.
Goid had his own reasons for the Division.
Rabbi Moseh Valle (1697 - 1777 CE, Padua, Italy):
# IT IS A KNOWN MATTER THAT ISRAEL DID NOT DESCEND INTO THE REALMS OF POLLUTION OTHER THAN FOR THE NEED TO CLARIFY HIS DESTINY. HE NEEDED TO FULFILL THE WILL OF GOD AND REFORM THE WORLD THROUGH REDIRECTING ITS FORCES. WHEN THIS IS DONE THEY SHALL RETURN TO THEIR SOURCE. THERE WILL BE NO NEED TO REMAIN IN THAT SITUATION ANY MORE. THIS IS THE MEANING OF, 'EPHRAIM SHALL SAY, 'WHAT HAVE I TO DO ANYMORE WITH IDOLS?'" (Hosea 14:8). #
Rabbi Avraham HaCohen Kook (1865-1935) also made simialr statements concerning the Messiah son of Joseph and what he represents. The Messiah son of Joseph in the End Times will head the Ten Tribes when they return.
The Ten Tribes will return in the End times. This was prophesied in Scripture.
Jeremiah (NKJV) 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.
7 FOR THUS SAYS THE LORD:
SING WITH GLADNESS FOR JACOB,
AND SHOUT AMONG THE CHIEF OF THE NATIONS;
PROCLAIM, GIVE PRAISE, AND SAY,
O LORD, SAVE YOUR PEOPLE,
THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL!
8 BEHOLD, I WILL BRING THEM FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY,
AND GATHER THEM FROM THE ENDS OF THE EARTH,
(The USA, the British Isles, and every other habitation of the Ten Tribes may be considered "End of the Earth" when judged from the Land of Israel."
AMONG THEM THE BLIND AND THE LAME,
THE WOMAN WITH CHILD
AND THE ONE WHO LABORS WITH CHILD, TOGETHER;
A GREAT THRONG SHALL RETURN THERE.
9 THEY SHALL COME WITH WEEPING,
AND WITH SUPPLICATIONS I WILL LEAD THEM.
I WILL CAUSE THEM TO WALK BY THE RIVERS OF WATERS,
IN A STRAIGHT WAY IN WHICH THEY SHALL NOT STUMBLE;
FOR I AM A FATHER TO ISRAEL,
AND EPHRAIM IS MY FIRSTBORN.
10 HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD, O NATIONS,
AND DECLARE IT IN THE ISLES AFAR OFF, AND SAY,
HE WHO SCATTERED ISRAEL WILL GATHER HIM,
AND KEEP HIM AS A SHEPHERD DOES HIS FLOCK.
11 FOR THE LORD HAS REDEEMED JACOB...
16 THUS SAYS THE LORD:
REFRAIN YOUR VOICE FROM WEEPING,
AND YOUR EYES FROM TEARS;
FOR YOUR WORK SHALL BE REWARDED, SAYS THE LORD,
AND THEY SHALL COME BACK FROM THE LAND OF THE ENEMY.
17 THERE IS HOPE IN YOUR FUTURE, SAYS THE LORD,
THAT YOUR CHILDREN SHALL COME BACK TO THEIR OWN BORDER.
18 I HAVE SURELY HEARD EPHRAIM BEMOANING HIMSELF:
YOU HAVE CHASTISED ME, AND I WAS CHASTISED,
LIKE AN UNTRAINED BULL;
(In Hebrew the expression is "aegel lo melumadah" meaning "untrained bull-calf." The word for bull-calf in Hebrew is "aegel" pronounceable as "angle" as in "Anglo-Saxon." It is the same word.
RESTORE ME, AND I WILL RETURN,
FOR YOU ARE THE LORD MY GOD.
19 SURELY, AFTER MY TURNING, I REPENTED;
AND AFTER I WAS INSTRUCTED, I STRUCK MYSELF ON THE THIGH;
I WAS ASHAMED, YES, EVEN HUMILIATED,
BECAUSE I BORE THE REPROACH OF MY YOUTH.
20 IS EPHRAIM MY DEAR SON?
IS HE A PLEASANT CHILD?
FOR THOUGH I SPOKE AGAINST HIM,
I EARNESTLY REMEMBER HIM STILL;
THEREFORE MY HEART YEARNS FOR HIM;
I WILL SURELY HAVE MERCY ON HIM, SAYS THE LORD.
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.
Jeremiah 31:21 is referring to Megalithic Monuments.
The Hebrew word above translated as "signposts" ("Tsionim") mean a stone edifice" whereas the word translated as "Landmarks" ("tamrurim") means piles of rocks.
Dolments were stone munuments sourrounded byt piles of rocks.
This confirmed by Authoritative Rabbinical Commentators suchas the "Radak" (Rabbi David Kimchi, 1157-1236)
and Abarbanel (1437-1508).
The dolmens and other related stone monuments form a connecting link between the Land of Israel, Britain, West France, and Scandinavia. More dolmens (over 5000!) have been found in Denmark than in any other country. The oldest dolmens are believed to be those of Israel. More than 20,000 megalithic monuments of all types (including dolmens) have been found in the Land of Israel especially on the eastern "Jordanian" side since for various reasons those on the west were destroyed by local inhabitants. The verse in effects links dolmens with Ephraim.
We are called upon to use this stone monument trail as proof of our Israelite Ancestry.
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.
POEM. EPHRAIM COMING BACK
EPHRAIM IS THE NAME IN THE HOLY BIBLE
FOR ONE OF THE SONS OF JOSEPH OUR FOREBEAR
WHO WAS BORN TO JACOB IN CANAAN AND FAVORED THERE.
EPHRAIM IS ALSO THE TERM FOR DIVISION INTER-TRIBAL
FOR TEN OUT OF TWELVE OF THE HEBREW TRIBES
AS WRITTEN DOWN BY PROPHETIC SCRIBES.
EPHRAIM WISHED TO BE THEIR OWN NATION AND DARE
TO SET THEIR OWN DESTINATION, WORSHIP, AND WELFARE.
THEY SET THEMSELVES APART AND CUT LOOSE
AS FROM THE START THEY HAD CHOSE TO CHOOSE
THEIR NAME AND FAME TO DOMINATE WORLD NEWS.
EPHRAIM WAS TO LOOSE HIS IDENTITY
NOT KNOW WHO HE WAS, BUT FREE.
EPHRAIM AMONGST THE GENTILES INTER-MIXED
HE BECAME AS ONE OF THEM AND DID ASSIMILATE
SO THAT HIS CHARACTER WAS SET AND TRANS-FIXED
LIKE A NON-ISRAELITE HE WAS TO DISSIMULATE.
EPHRAIM WENT DOWN TO THE DEEP
THE COMMANDMENTS NOT KEEP.
HIS HEBREW SOUL ALL ASLEEP.
FROM OUT OF THE DEPTHS HE WILL AWAKE
YEARN, STRIVE, AND SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH
IN REPENTANCE AND FEAR OF GOD HE WILL QUAKE
WEEP FOR THE WASTE OF HIS YOUTH.
AS RACHEL HER CHILD PITIES
HE WILL TURN ONCE AGAIN
TO FIND THE PATHWAY BACK TO HIS CITIES
ACCORDING TO THE MONUMENT TRACK
EPHRAIM WILL BY DOLMENS, CAIRN STONE-HEAPS
AND OTHER MEGALITHIC SIGNPOSTS COME BACK.
FOR HER LOST CHILDREN MOTHER RACHEL WEEPS.
AS JEREMIAH FORETOLD
REMEMBER HIS FAME
CALL OUT HIS NAME
IT WAS PROPHESIED OF OLD.
LADEN WITH SILVER AND GOLD.
EPHRAIM WILL RETURN
HIS HEART WILL BURN.
JOSEPH COMING BACK
WILL BRING MANKIND IN HIS TRACK.
Note:
Dolmens were used throughout Ancient Israel. At one stage they may have been applied for pagan purposes even though originally that had not been the case, cf.
Genesis 31:
45 SO JACOB TOOK A STONE AND SET IT UP AS A PILLAR. 46 THEN JACOB SAID TO HIS BRETHREN, 'GATHER STONES.' AND THEY TOOK STONES AND MADE A HEAP, AND THEY ATE THERE ON THE HEAP. 47 LABAN CALLED IT YEGAR SAHADUTHA, BUT JACOB CALLED IT GALEED.
See Also:
Waymarks or Waywards?
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/megaliths/wayward.html