Australia and New Zealand and the Lost Ten Tribes. 26 May 2025, 28 Iyar, 5785.
Isaiah 49 is a continuation of Isaiah 48.
Isaiah 48 is directed mostly to descendants of Judah and of Israel who are found among Judah i.e. the Jews.
They are reminded that everything had been prophesied. God will not tolerate idolatry or disobedience from the Jews. They shall be tested and refined by tribulations.
They are called upon to draw closer to God. HE will direct them and teach them. In the end they will be saved and made into an immense multitude.
The wicked will be punished.
The Prophet Isaiah then (at the beginning of chapter 49) addresses the Ten Tribes. This whole sections flits from Judah to the Ten Tribes and back again several times over.
Isaiah calls to the Islands (49:1). 1 HEARKEN, YOU ISLANDS, TO ME, AND LISTEN CLOSELY, YOU NATIONS, FROM AFAR; ... Islands, and nations from Afar are terms we found elsewhere connected to the LTTs.
5 AND NOW, THE LORD, WHO FORMED ME FROM THE WOMB AS A SERVANT TO HIM, SAID TO BRING JACOB BACK TO HIM, AND ISRAEL SHALL BE GATHERED TO HIM, AND I WILL BE HONORED IN THE EYES OF THE LORD, AND MY GOD WAS MY STRENGTH.
6 AND HE SAID, "IT IS TOO LIGHT FOR YOU TO BE MY SERVANT, TO ESTABLISH THE TRIBES OF JACOB AND TO BRING BACK THE BESIEGED (Hebrew: "Natsuri") OF ISRAEL, BUT I WILL MAKE YOU A LIGHT OF NATIONS, SO THAT MY SALVATION SHALL BE UNTIL THE END OF THE EARTH."
Une the above passge we find the terms:
Tribes of Jacob (Union Jack, Yankee, Jock, Jacques)
THE BESIEGED (49:6 Hebrew "Natsuri" i.e. Christians) OF ISRAEL,A LIGHT OF NATIONS (Civilizer), THE END OF THE EARTH." Angleterre, geographical extremities.
8 SO SAID THE LORD, "IN A TIME OF FAVOR I ANSWERED YOU, AND ON A DAY OF SALVATION I HELPED YOU; AND I WILL WATCH YOU, AND I WILL MAKE YOU FOR A PEOPLE OF A COVENANT, TO ESTABLISH A LAND, TO CAUSE TO INHERIT THE DESOLATE HERITAGES.
9 TO SAY TO THE PRISONERS, "GO OUT!" AND TO THE DARKNESS, "SHOW YOURSELVES!" BY THE ROADS THEY SHALL GRAZE, AND BY ALL RIVERS IS THEIR PASTURE.
The Talmud (Yerusalemi Sanhedrin ch.17, L.6,29) and the Midrash (Numbers Rabah 1;6, Eichah Rabah 2;9, ) quotes from Isaiah 49:9 as referring to the Three Different regions to which the Ten Tribes were exiled and their Return in the End Times.
Isaiah 49:
12 BEHOLD, THESE SHALL COME FROM AFAR, AND BEHOLD THESE FROM THE NORTH AND FROM THE WEST, AND THESE FROM THE LAND OF SINIM.
Isaiah is speaking about the Lost Ten Tribes. Those in the North and west are western Europeans and the British Isles and North America.
This has been proven by numerous Biblical Sources.
Those in the south and east are in the opposite corner of the world.
They are Australia and New Zealand.
This is the area referred to by Isaiah as Land of Sinim.
It includes New Zealand.
The Bible Codes also very strongly identify Australia and New Zealand with Sinim and the Lost Ten Tribes.
Judah.
21 AND YOU SHALL SAY TO YOURSELF, "WHO BEGOT THESE FOR ME, SEEING THAT I AM BEREAVED AND SOLITARY, EXILED AND REJECTED, AND WHO RAISED THESE? BEHOLD I WAS LEFT ALONE; THESE-[FROM] WHERE ARE THEY?"
LTTs in the Zohar.
Isaiah 49:21 refers to Judah when he sees the Lost Ten Tribes returning. At first he will not want to accept them. The Jews were persecuted. These people were not with them, did not help them, why should they be considered Israelites? Where were they all the while. After Isaiah 49:21 the prophet is referring to Judah. Before then the Ten Tribes are the subject being spoken of, apart possibly from Isaiah 49:7 which refers to Judah.
Isaiah 49:21 articulates the immediate reaction of Judah when he sees the Ten Tribes returning.
This explanation coincides with the simple literal meaning.
It is also indicated by a Midrash Tanchuma and by the Zohar (VaYechi).
Another Midrash (Pesikta Rabati 32;10) along with addtional sources (see: Torah shel baal Peh on Yeshayahu by Menachem Zeev Shtern) expressly says as much. These sources link Isaiah 49:21 to Isaiah 49:8-9 and say that 49:8-9 is referring to the Ten Tribes whereas 49:21 is giving expression to the reaction of Judah.
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Land of Sinim (49:12) - Australia and New Zealand.
Bible Codes
Shmuel Treister: "Australia and the Matrix"
Sinim links up with the word Scot and Ireland with Scotland being important in New Zealand and Ireland with Australia.
The Liberation of Jerusalem from the Turks in which ANZACs (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) were important.
And other points.
"Australia and the Land of Sinim"
Australia is connected is connected with an area East of Eden and being hidden, with the hand of Joseph and Prisoners.
Australia was originally established as a place to which criminals would be sent to serve their sentence and then released in the land to help settle it.
With passing through the Red Sea and leaving Egypt as criminals and colonists sent out from Britain would do on their way to Australia, also with wool (Australia was the leading producer of wool) and horses.
A link to birds who had lost the ability to fly is also mentioned. Such birds were common in New Zealand when the white man first arrived. The name of one of these birds, "Kiwi," is commonly used both internationally and by locals as a nickname for somebody from New Zealand.
New Zealand in Brit-Am Bible Codes
Alister Lowe: Bible Code Findings Linking Joseph and Australia
Australia is linked with the name of Joseph. We identify inhabitants of the British isles with the Tribes of Joseph (Ephraim and Manasseh) and most early inhabitants came from the British Isles.
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Sinim - The South Land
Some commentators explain "Sinim" to mean "South Land." The name Australia means South Land. In Latin Translations of the Bible "Sinim" is translated as "Australis" i.e. Australia.
Isaiah 49:12 refers to the LTTs as from the North and west "and these from the Land of Sinim."
The Sinim are the "Sinites" who were among the descendants of Canaan.
Genesis 10:
15 CANAAN BECAME THE FATHER OF SIDON HIS FIRSTBORN, AND HETH, 16 AND THE JEBUSITES, THE AMORITES, THE GIRGASHITES, 17 THE HIVITES, THE ARKITES, THE SINITES, 18 THE ARVADITES, THE ZEMARITES, AND THE HAMATHITES.
"Sin" in Hebrew is a name frequently given to China. In Modern Hebrew it is the name for China.
The Australian Aborigines are said to have originated from China.
They also had links with Ancient Egypt. Stone Age paintings from Egypt show a naked dark people using boomerangs. The Canaanite half-feral dog of the area is similar to the Australian dingo.
In the Middle East there were once Vedoid types (traces of whom still remain) whose physical appearance is similar to the Aborigines. People like this can still be found as a sub-stratum in southern Arabia and Yemen and the Persian Gulf leading into India where they are quite frequent.
The Aborigines are actually a mixture of different peoples. The Vedoids are one of these. All the various ethnic groups amongst the Aborigines seem to have intermixed with each other and they all share a common culture.
The simple literal sense of the Biblical verses in the light of the above would therefore mean that by Israelites returning from the Land of Sinim (and the other regions) the Ten Tribes are intended.
Quote:
Midrash BaMidbar 17;16
LO, THESE SHALL COME FROM FAR AWAY, AND LO, THESE FROM THE NORTH AND FROM THE WEST, FROM THE LAND OF SINIM (ISAIAH 49:12). THOSE TRIBES [I.E. THE TEN TRIBES] THAT WERE BEYOND THE SAMBATION AND THE MOUNTAINS OF DARKNESS SHALL GATHER TOGETHER AND COME UP TO JERUSALEM. AS ISAIAH SAYS (ISAIAH 49:9) SAYING TO THE PRISONERS, COME OUT, THESE ARE THOSE BEYOND THE SAMBATIAN RIVER.
TO THOSE WHO ARE IN DARKNESS, SHOW YOURSELVES. THESE ARE THOSE WHO ARE BEYOND THE CLOUD OF DARKNESS.
THEY SHALL FEED ALONG THE WAYS, ON ALL THE BARE HEIGHTS SHALL BE THEIR PASTURE; THESE ARE THOSE TAKEN TO DAPHNE OF ANTIOCHIa.
All the three areas mentioned (Sambatian, Clouds and Mountains of Darkness, and Daphneh of Antiochia) are areas of Exile of the Ten Tribes, i.e. They are places the Ten Tribes were first taken to according to Rabbinical Literature as quoted here and along with other sources quoted by Menachem Zeev Shtern, Torah shel baal Peh on Yishayahu p.780.
Yalkut Shimeoni related the Land of Sinim to the sons Rechav sons of Ken. These were the descedants of Jethro.
Numbers 24:
21 And he looked at the Kenite, and took up his discourse and said,
'Your dwelling place is enduring,
And your nest is set in the cliff.
22 Nevertheless Kain will suffer devastation;
How long will Asshur keep you captive?'
Rabbi Moshe David Vali ("Shivtei-Ya") comments:
# They [the Kenites of Jethro] were destined to be exiled with the Ten Tribes who were exiled by the King of Assyria... he [Jethro] should not mourn over this . The Exile merely involves moving from one place to another...it does not involve extinction. In the same way as the Ten Tribes are destined to return so are they [the people of Jethro] to come back with them....
#... There will be Realization and Complete Comprehension given to Israel. This had been taken away when they were exiled.
Jethro in Ireland?
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/tribes/ireland-and-ulster/jethro.html
n early Jewish sources a tradition existed that the Children of Moses (from the Tribe of Levi) and the Rechabites were together with the Lost Ten Tribes (Midrash Yalkut Shimeoni, Song of Solomon, 905). They were believed to dwell in the Blessed Isles," i.e. in the "Islands of the Blessed Ones" which were in "the Ocean, the Great Sea", meaning the Atlantic Ocean. The Blessed Isles in Classical Terminology were identified with the British Isles especially Ireland. An early Aramaic document from the Christian Era even bears the title, "The History of the Sons of Jonadab, the Son of Rechab, who are in the Midst of the Ocean, the Great Sea... " Syriac MS B3.
Tubal Cain,
Villaneuva (1833) based on place and ethnic names found Kenites in Northern Ireland, in Tyrone Armagh, Donegal, and part of Derry. The Irish sources refer to them as "Kini."
Irish were very important int he early history of Australia. About 20% of the white population are from southern Ireland and very many from Northern Ireland.
Putting the sources together the Lan d of Sinim (Austrlia) was the place they were destined to end up in.
Another (see quote below) source says;
http://creationwiki.org/Sinites
Sinites are the Murrayian Aboriginals living in southern Australia who may have arrived via southern China.
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Australian Aborigines.
In addition to the Aborigines we also have the Torres Strait Islanders. These are a Melanesian type people who dwell in Austrlaian islands in the straits separating Northern Queensland and New Guinea. Both Torres Strait Islanders and Australian Aborigines practiced mummification. The Torre Strait practices were more sophisticated. Those of the Australian Aborigines resemble attempts to reconstruct the Torres Strait methods though lacking (or having lost) the needed expertise.
Grafton Elliot Smith (1879-1937) was an Australian-British anatomist, Egyptologist and a proponent of the Hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory. Smith believed in Hyperdiffusionism i.e. that ancient cultures had originated in Egypt. One of the points he focused on was the great similarity between Ancient Egyptian methods of mummification and those of the Torres Islands. Smith had intensively studied this subject both in Egypt and in Australia. Whether one accepts his Hyperdiffusionist Theories or not his findings cannot be refuted.
See:
"The migrations of early culture," by Grafton Elliot Smith, 1915.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/62164/62164-h/62164-h.htm
Aboriginal DNA
Mostly YDNA C closely related to R and Q. Some from all over the world including R1b.
The Middle East and Europe
Y-Chromosomal Haplogroup D. The Sinites are connected with "Sinim" which may be applied to the regions both east and south of the Holy Land. In any event, the name is certainly connected with the Sinai, sometimes spelt Thinai.
http://creationwiki.org/Sinites
QUOTATION.
The name may be connected with the Sin-ai or Sin (Pelusium in Egypt) (Ezekiel 30:15) or Syene (Aswan) (Ezekiel 29:10; 30:6) Also of interest is the prophecy in Isaiah which refers to exiles who:
"Shall come from afar: and, lo, these from the North and from the West; and these from the land of Sinim." - Isaiah 49:12
Here Sinim, in it's context is speaking of a land both south and east, or southeast of Palestine. Wherever the Sinites are today, they are in the land of Sinim. But, where is Sinim? Some may have migrated to just north of the Colchis region on the shores of the Black Sea which had a settlement of the Sinope according to Pliny. Even the Don River was known as the Sinus for a time. Some may have migrated into Thrace for a people known as the Sing-i dwelt there and on the confines of Macedonia. Another people known as the Sintii dwelt in Thrace. There was also the Sindi people of European Scythia. These were very small tribes and nothing can be proven about their origin with Sini at this time.
Asia
They probably journeyed with the Cushites giving their name to the Sindhu River (Sanskrit: ), Sind Sagar district and the Desert of Sind in northwest India by the Asikni River. Sindhu eventually became Hindhu and the Indus River. Gesenius identifies Sinim with China. Others, too, identify it with Sin (China). Further, the Greeks and Arabs at one time referred to China as Sin. In fact, at one stage southern China was actually known as Sinai according to "Ancient India" as described by Ptolemy which had some tribes of , Ichthyophagoi Aithiopes - that is, "black fish eaters".
Many of the early traders with the Scythians were known as the Sinae with a capital at Thinae (modern Thsin) in Shaanxi Province. From here we get the dynasty of Tsin, called by the Malays "Tchina", and so it remains today: China. Today, we still speak in terms of Sino-Japanese relations and so forth.
Of further interest is that the Chinese regard Siang-Fu (Father Sin), capital of Shaanxi Provence as the origin of their civilization. Undoubtedly, the Sinites spent some time in China anciently, lending their name to that country. But, where did they move to afterwards?
Australia
The Vulgate translation of the aforementioned prophecy in Isaiah is "Australis" - Australia. "Australis" means "south", and Australia was known to the Arabs before the Europeans came as "Terra Australis". The Aboriginals were once in southern China, or at least a branch of them were, with various other black peoples. A black people who could possibly be, at least in part, Sinites are the Murrayian Aboriginals living in southern Australia.
There is a noticeable (but by no means striking) variation between the Carpentarian Aboriginals farther north and those in the south, which has led to the suggestion that they are two sub-races, that is divisions of the same race with slight physical differences. The Murrayians are lighter-skinned than the Carpentarians, have straighter hair and in certain respects are like the eastern Polynesians and Ainu, who both were anciently in China. It could be true that the Sinites not only gave their name to China, but later migrated into Australia, forming the Murrayian Aboriginal people.
New Zealand.
New Zealand is comprised of the North and South Island.
The majority of New Zealand's population of 5.25 million is of European descent; the indigenous Maori are the largest minority, followed by Asians and Pasifika. Reflecting this, New Zealand's culture is mainly derived from Maori and early British settlers.
"New Zealand and Australia have a strong relationship and are considered to have a shared Trans-Tasman identity between the two countries, stemming from centuries of British colonisation."
In the 2023 census, a total of 67.8% of New Zealand residents identified ethnically as European, with 54.1% identifying as European alone,[321] and 17.8% as M ori, with 7.3% identifying as M ori alone. Other major ethnic groups include Asian (17.3% total, 15.7% alone) and Pacific peoples (8.9%, 5.5% alone).[n 3] [4]
Before the white man came much of New Zealand was covered by forest.
"The forests were dominated by birds, and the lack of mammalian predators led to some like the kiwi, kakapo, weka and takah evolving flightlessness. "
The vast majority European New Zealanders are of British and Irish descent, and it has been estimated that 1-2 million (Out of ca. 5 million people) New Zealanders have roots in Scotland.
There are about a million Maori in New Zealand. These are a Polynesian people with a minority Melanesian admixture.
The Maoris are part of the larger group of Austronesian peoples traced back to the indigenous peoples of Taiwan off the coast of China. They are believed to be related to the Malay peoples and groups in Southeast Asia.
Some of the Maoris have green eyes and brownish hair.
"When the Maori arrived in New Zealand 800 years ago, there were very tall white-skinned, red-haired people already living there... Archaeological digs were performed but the New Zealand government is holding the results until 2065."
https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/4fr27e/new_zealands_redhaired_gaints/
The Rulers of Polynesia may ahv e been descedned from a red-headed race that once ruled over the Incas in Peru. The Kon-Ticki Exzpedition (1947) was intended to prove the feasibility of such a migration.
# Heyerdahl believed that a sun-worshiping blond/red-haired and blue-eyed Caucasian people (whom he called the "Tiki people") from South America could have reached Polynesia during pre-Columbian times by drifting with the wind directions. #
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Sources:
Isaiah 49:
Message from God , the Ten Tribes, and Judah
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/isaiah/is49.html
Video.
Message from God (Isaiah 49).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSJZZYlhkx8&t=1602s
The Lost Ten Tribes in Australia.
See:
Australia and the Ten Tribes.
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/biblical-proof/geo/australia1.html
https://hebrewnations.com/articles/bible/isaiah/is49.html
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