The End Game. Why did the Ten Tribes Get Lost? (Revised)
(Adapted from ch,17, Words Beginning with Q, "Hebrew English. The Israelite Language as part of English Speech and Thought Patterns," by Yair Davidiy, 2018).
Contents:
1. What was Supposed to Happen? Plan 1.
The Israelites had come out of Egypt. The implied intention was that all the 12 Tribes should receive the Torah. After that they were to conquer Canaan and drive out the Canaanites. They would divide the Land. They would have a King and build a Temple. All nations of the Earth would come up to Jerusalem to learn. They should all receive instruction from Jerusalem. The Cohens and Levites would serve in the Temple and together with the Sages develop the Law. They should evolve in every sense and elevate the rest of mankind along with them.
2. What did Take Place?
It did not work out the way it could have done.
There was the sin of the Golden Calf in the Wilderness, then more offences. Then came the sin of the Spies bringing a bad report about the Land. They conquered the Land, or a good part of it, but did not drive out all the Canaanites but rather inter-mixed with them.
Finally they did have a Messianic King and that was David. He was prevented from building the Temple. His son Solomon built it in his stead. Solomon took foreign wives who turned his heart away. In the time of Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, the Ten Tribes separated and set up their own Kingdom under Jeroboam son of Nebat from the Tribe of Ephraim. The Ten Tribes set up golden calves in Dan and in Beth-el to replace worship in the Temple in Jerusalem. A while later all the northern Kingdom was conquered by Assyria and all of its inhabitants exiled. They were exiled because they had intermixed with pagan peoples and learnt their ways (see 2-Kings ch.17). The Ten Tribes lost awareness of their Hebrew ancestry yet stayed together while in Exile though at the beginning moving about from one place to another. Meanwhile, in Judah that the First Temple was desttoyed. Judah was exiled to Babylon but returned and rebuilt the Temple. Later, The Romans camr destroyed the Temple for the second time . Judah was exiled yet again and scattered in many directions. Nevertheless Judah kept the faith and developed it.
3. The Role of Esau.
Who Was Esau? What Was the Role of Esau in this Whole Scenario?
Jacob and Esau were twin brothers, the sons of Isaac and Rebecca (Genesis 25:23). Jacob was later re-named Israel. He was the father of the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Isaac before his death intended to bless Esau instead of Jacob. Isaac considered Esau to be the fore-ordained military ruler of the world and a civilizing influence over mankind. Jacob represented more the religious aspect that humanity also needed.
Isaac thought the pre-eminence should be allotted to Esau.
BOTH aspects of the promise however were needed to go to Jacob.
Rebecca, the mother of Jacob and Esau, directed Jacob to receive the Blessing of their father by subterfuge.
Rebecca understood that Esau was not suited for the task nor was he destined for it (Genesis 25:23). Esau is also known as Edom.
Jacob needed to receive the blessing from his father Isaac by pretending to be his brother, Esau.
Isaac after being deceived realized that Jacob was meant to receive BOTH portions (Genesis 27: 33, 28:3-4).
Nevertheless Esau was also promised military might, fertile land, and a role of his own (Genesis 27:39-40).
Esau was destined to become the antagonist of Jacob (Genesis 27:41). Esau became dominant in many lands. This includes Rome who destoyed the Temple and Germany who perpetrated the Holocaust, and others.
In the future part of Esau will be wiped out by Joseph (Obadiah 1:18). They who remain from Esau will repent and will assist Jacob in his task. Meanwhile Esau still strives to be dominant in this world. Descendants of Esau are to be found among many peoples especially Germany, Japan, Russia, and others including entities otherwise dominated by Lost Israelites. Joseph became dominant among the English-speaking peoples suchas Britain, the USA, Australia, and New Zealand. Joseph has in effect played the role of Jacob in dressing himself like Esau. Joseph is fulfilling that aspect of the Promise that Isaac had intended to give to Esau.
4. What was the Back-Up Arrangement? Plan 2?
The difference between what was supposed to happen as First Preference and what took place had a reason. The word had not been ready for Plan 1. Neither were the Israelites prepared for it. The Nation of Israel had needed to be divided.
The Nation of Israel had needed to be divided. The Ten Tribes were to go down to the level of the Heathen and then evolve upwards dragging the non-Israelites forward with them. The strong point of the Ten Tribes had always been a tendency to stress social justice rather than Torah Learning. This is what Britain and its offshoots, the USA and parts of the Western European coastal areas were supposed to do, each in its own way. They should have taught civilized values and social justice to others and enlightened the Gentiles. They did indeed do so, in many cases and in different ways, to some degree. They still are doing it. Meanwhile, Judah was to be relieved of the burden of an Independent State of his own but was to develop the Torah Law. This too, is what happened.
5. The Holocaust.
The Jews in their places of Exile will have been persecuted.
Persecutions will have taken place also in lands where the Lost Ten Tribes (LTTs) are dominant. In some of the Lands of Israel the Jews will hardly have been granted admittance. Neverthelerss, on the whole they will have been sympathetic towards the Jews realtively speaking.
In a portion of the lands the LTTs will be found in there will also be found elements from Edom and from other Gentiles.
Nevertheless the LTTs will have evolved.
In Britain, elements will ahave arisen who believe the Jews should have their own Land. These helped give rise to the Balfour Declaration.
Britain received the Mandate over Palestine.
The aim of the Mandate and part of the reason the rest of the world consented to it was in order that the Jews should have their own Land.
Despite waverings and problems and misunderstandings on the whole the British helped the Jews develop the Land up until 1939.
Following the White Paper of 1938 immigration of Jews was restricted.
This was at the very time when Nazi Germany will the connivance of other nations began the attempted extermination of the Jewish People. Britain for its part, while resisting Germany, restricted the admittance of Jews to the Holy Land. This was due in part to a desire to placate the Arabs and other Muslims in the British Empire. A certain degree of anti-Semitism and resentment was also invovled.
Different reasons were also given for this BUT the main impulse seems to have been a reluctance to carry Zionism through to its logical conclusion. There had always been nay-sayers who had slowed matters down and suddenly they came to the fore. Together with this it is also important to realize that it was the British and Americans and Russia who defeated Germany. They were fighting not only for themselves but ALSO in their mind, concerning the British and Americans, to save the Jews. This was a motive, one of the motivations for carrying the fight through to its ending. (I am an historian. I study history and this is one of my impressions that should not be dismissed).
In the Holocaust more than 1/3 of the Jewish people was wiped out. Under communism and assimilation in the west a great many more Jews also disappeared. There was much less room left among the Gentiles to accommodate Jews. The State of Israel needed to come into existecne when it did. In its beginning the Zionist State was dominated by secular elements but a religious cpmonent was also present. This spiritual motivation has been growing year after year. Under the surface it has been strenthened despite fierce opposition.).
Times had changed. The world was different.
The British in Palestine.more than they tried to stop the Jews had ceased to support them.
The Jews managed to assert themselves and set up their own small state. In the course of time this entity grew with much help at first from France, then from the USA.
6. The End Game. Plan 3?
What exactly will happen no-one knows. The Prophets spoke of it but they were not always that clear. Sages and inspired Commentaries on the Bible also speak of it. There is much information but the sequence is hazy. Judah will return to the Land, rehabilitate it and prepare the infrastructure for all the others. Perhaps this is what Judah is doing now through the State of Israel? At some stage the Ten Tribes will return and re-unite with Judah. They will need to know who they are before then. According to the MAHARAL the initiative will have to come from Josephg. It seems that towards the End Times there will arise two anointed leaders, i.e. Messiahs. A Messiah son of Joseph will arise from Ephraim. He will lead the Ten Tribes. Joseph will also help Judah rebuild the Land of Israel and expel the Palestinians (Isaiah 11:14). The Temple will be rebuilt. The Land of Israel will be divided among the Tribes.
Areas the LTTs aleady dwell in may become part of the Promised Land.
Miracles will take place. The gift of Prophecy will return. Either before, during, or after these events, a Messiah son of David will come. He will cause the Jews to repent and to purify themselves before the Almighty. Wars will be fought. Tribulations will take place. Eventually the Messiah son of David will rule over all Israel and after that over all mankind.
This is a rough outline according to some of the sources. Some of the details and the sequence of these happenings may be differ from the above scenario Meanwhile we all should do the best we can with what we have.