The Israelite Ancestry of the English-Speaking Peoples
Joseph -1
100s of Prophecies exist proving that the Lost Ten Tribes are among Western peoples.
The Israelite People comprises the Jews i.e. the Tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Levi, and minority proportions of the others.
The Lost Ten Tribes are the Tribes of Reuben, Simeon, Issachar, Zebulon, Gad, Asher, Dan, Naphtali, and Joseph. Joseph in turn is divided into 2 Tribes Ephraim and Manasseh, altogether 10 Tribes.
Who are the 10 Tribes?
Finland - Issachar - Switzerland
Sweden - Gad
Norway - Naphtali
Denmark - Dan
Ireland - Dan and Asher
Britain - Joseph especially Ephraim.
Scotland - Manasseh
England - Ephraim
Wales - Manasseh - Dan, Judah.
USA - Manasseh in leadership.
Canada - Ephraim
Australia - Ephraim
New Zealand - Ephraim
South Africa - Zebulon, Naphtali
Netherlands - Zebulon
Belgium - Zebulon
France - Reuben
Simeon - Scattered in several groups in the British Isles, France, Northern Italy.
Also:
Descendants of Jethro in Ireland and Scotland.
Descendants of Moses in Wales and France.
Descendants of Benjamin among the Normans in the British Isles and France.
Descendants of Joseph from other sons, not Ephraim and Manasseh.
Jews of Judah among the Jews and those of Jewish stock.
From the point of view of Prophecy identifying prophecies concentrate on the Tribes of Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, on one side and the other 8 Tribes on the other.
In other words,
General Prophecies were made concerning ALL the 10 Tribes as well as special prophecies regarding Joseph.
Another point we wish to make concerns the Land and the Law.
The Land of Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates was promised to all the Tribes of Israel forever.
Dwelling in the Land however is contingent on Keeping the Law of Circumcision and the Torah in general.
In the future all the Israelites will keep ALL the Law and dwell in ALL the Land.
IN OUR TIME the Israelites Tribes have divided into two sections:
1. The Jews ("Judah") who HAVE TO KEEP THE LAW AND DWELL IN THE LAND WHEN THEY CAN.
2. The Lost Ten Tribes who TEMPORARILY have had their private obligations suspended BUT AS GROUPS they had national destinies to fulfill and this is what they did.
Meanwhile the 10 Tribes do not know who they are on the individual level. The Messiah will inform each individual Israelite Tribe they belong to (Maimonides, 1138-1204 CE, "Laws of Kings and their Wars." Ch.12). The Ten Tribes do not have to know who they are nor necessarily keep the Law at present YET the Prophecies are still pertinent to them as groups.
Many of the Prophecies made to individual Tribes as well as those made to the Israelites in general have been fulfilled. This fulfillment of Prophecy is PROOF of the Israelite Origin of the Peoples in question.
As we said, in the future all the Israelites will keep ALL the Law and dwell in ALL the Land. Not only that but the Lands they now dwell in will also become part of the Future Land of Israel. (This is based on an analysis of the borders of the Promised Land by the Hatam Sofer, 1762-1839. It is also confirmed in principle by the commentary of Rabbi Moshe David Valle, 1697-1776. Not every authority would necessarily agree).
The main Prophecies however are those given to the Forefathers,
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Numbers, Wealth, Military Power.
Numerous: Genesis 15:5, 22:17, 24:60, 32:12, Numbers 23:10, Isaiah 10:22, 24:16, 26:15, Hosea 1:10.
Extremely Numerous and the Gates of their enemies.
Genesis (TCTanakh) 24:
60 AND THEY BLESSED REBECCA AND SAID TO HER, "OUR SISTER, MAY YOU BECOME THOUSANDS OF MYRIADS, AND MAY YOUR SEED INHERIT THE CITIES [Hebrew: "SHAAREI" i.e. gates") OF THEIR ENEMIES."
Genesis (to Abraham) 22:
17 BLESSING I WILL BLESS YOU, AND MULTIPLYING I WILL MULTIPLY YOUR DESCENDANTS AS THE STARS OF THE HEAVEN AND AS THE SAND WHICH IS ON THE SEASHORE; AND YOUR DESCENDANTS SHALL POSSESS THE GATE OF THEIR ENEMIES. 18 AND IN YOUR SEED WILL ALL PEOPLES OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED...
Power
The Lost Ten Tribes were to become the most powerful nations on earth (Numbers 24:7-9, Micah 5:7-9) to rule the oceans (Numbers 24:7), to control major strategic passage ways (Genesis 22:17, 24:60), to be the police-man of the globe (Jeremiah 51:20, Zechariah 10:7).
This what the Western Nations did. The Israelite Nations (at least in part) France and the Netherlands had important Empires spread all over the world. They were followed by the British and they by the Americans. The British and Americans especially based their foreign policy and long-range military strategy on possessing strategic points allowing them potential access to vital areas of those antagonistic to them i.e. the gates of their Enemies and of those who hate them.
Large Numbers, Powerful, and Materially Blessed and a Civilizing Element - Doers of Good.
It was prophesied that the Lost Ten Tribes would be extremely numerous and would become a major proportion of world population.
They were to civilize and humanize the rest of Humanity.
We must therefore look for an ethnic group (in which the different members are related to each other) of numerical significance and a civilizing factor.
Inhabitants of North America, the British Isles together with West Europeans are one historical continuum. They are all more or less interrelated.
Genesis (TC T) 48:
3 AND JACOB SAID TO JOSEPH, "ALMIGHTY GOD APPEARED TO ME IN LUZ, IN THE LAND OF CANAAN, AND HE BLESSED ME.
4 AND HE SAID TO ME, 'BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE YOU FRUITFUL AND CAUSE YOU TO MULTIPLY, AND I WILL MAKE YOU INTO A CONGREGATION OF PEOPLES, AND I WILL GIVE THIS LAND TO YOUR SEED AFTER YOU FOR AN EVERLASTING INHERITANCE.'
5 AND NOW, [AS FOR] YOUR TWO SONS, WHO WERE BORN TO YOU IN THE LAND OF EGYPT, UNTIL I CAME TO YOU, TO THE LAND OF EGYPT THEY ARE MINE. EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH SHALL BE MINE LIKE REUBEN AND SIMEON.
6 BUT YOUR CHILDREN, IF YOU BEGET [ANY] AFTER THEM, SHALL BE YOURS; BY THEIR BROTHERS' NAMES THEY SHALL BE CALLED IN THEIR INHERITANCE.
See Below: The Special Case of Ephraim and Manasseh. Multiply like fish. Fulfillment of the Nations. Rule over Nations. Agricultural Blessings. Mineral Wealth.
12 AND JOSEPH TOOK THEM OUT FROM UPON HIS [JACOB'S] KNEES, AND HE PROSTRATED HIMSELF TO THE GROUND.
13 AND JOSEPH TOOK THEM BOTH, EPHRAIM AT HIS RIGHT, FROM ISRAEL'S LEFT, AND MANASSEH AT HIS LEFT, FROM ISRAEL'S RIGHT, AND HE BROUGHT [THEM] NEAR TO HIM.
14 BUT ISRAEL STRETCHED OUT HIS RIGHT HAND AND PLACED [IT] ON EPHRAIM'S HEAD, ALTHOUGH HE WAS THE YOUNGER, AND HIS LEFT HAND [HE PLACED] ON MANASSEH'S HEAD. HE GUIDED HIS HANDS DELIBERATELY, FOR MANASSEH WAS THE FIRSTBORN.
15 AND HE BLESSED JOSEPH AND SAID, "GOD, BEFORE WHOM MY FATHERS, ABRAHAM AND ISAAC, WALKED, GOD WHO SUSTAINED ME AS LONG AS I AM ALIVE, UNTIL THIS DAY,
16 MAY THE ANGEL WHO REDEEMED ME FROM ALL HARM BLESS THE YOUTHS, AND MAY THEY BE CALLED BY MY NAME AND THE NAME OF MY FATHERS, ABRAHAM AND ISAAC, AND MAY THEY MULTIPLY ABUNDANTLY LIKE FISH, IN THE MIDST OF THE LAND."
17 AND JOSEPH SAW THAT HIS FATHER WAS PLACING HIS RIGHT HAND ON EPHRAIM'S HEAD, AND IT DISPLEASED HIM. SO HE HELD UP HIS FATHER'S HAND TO REMOVE IT FROM UPON EPHRAIM'S HEAD [TO PLACE IT] ON MANASSEH'S HEAD.
18 AND JOSEPH SAID TO HIS FATHER, "NOT SO, FATHER, FOR THIS ONE IS THE FIRSTBORN; PUT YOUR RIGHT HAND ON HIS HEAD."
19 BUT HIS FATHER REFUSED, AND HE SAID, "I KNOW, MY SON, I KNOW; HE TOO WILL BECOME A PEOPLE, AND HE TOO WILL BE GREAT. BUT HIS YOUNGER BROTHER WILL BE GREATER THAN HE, AND HIS CHILDREN['S FAME] WILL FILL [Malae - fulfil] THE NATIONS."
In Hebrew "malo hagoim" or literally "the fullness of nations." Onkelos translates this as saying that his seed will rule over the nations.
20 SO HE BLESSED THEM ON THAT DAY, SAYING, "WITH YOU, ISRAEL WILL BLESS, SAYING, 'MAY GOD MAKE YOU LIKE EPHRAIM AND LIKE MANASSEH,' " AND HE PLACED EPHRAIM BEFORE MANASSEH.
21 AND ISRAEL SAID TO JOSEPH, "BEHOLD, I AM GOING TO DIE, AND GOD WILL BE WITH YOU, AND HE WILL RETURN YOU TO THE LAND OF YOUR FOREFATHERS.
22 AND I HAVE GIVEN YOU ONE PORTION OVER YOUR BROTHERS, WHICH I TOOK FROM THE HAND OF THE AMORITE WITH MY SWORD AND MY BOW.
Genesis (TC T) 49:
22 A CHARMING SON IS JOSEPH, A SON CHARMING TO THE EYE; [OF THE] WOMEN, [EACH ONE] STRODE ALONG TO SEE HIM.
23 THEY HEAPED BITTERNESS UPON HIM AND BECAME QUARRELSOME; YEA, ARCHERS DESPISED HIM.
24 BUT HIS BOW WAS STRONGLY ESTABLISHED, AND HIS ARMS WERE GILDED FROM THE HANDS OF THE MIGHTY ONE OF JACOB; FROM THERE HE SUSTAINED THE ROCK OF ISRAEL,
25 FROM THE GOD OF YOUR FATHER, AND HE WILL HELP YOU, AND WITH THE ALMIGHTY, AND HE WILL BLESS YOU [WITH] THE BLESSINGS OF THE HEAVENS ABOVE, THE BLESSINGS OF THE DEEP, LYING BELOW, THE BLESSINGS OF FATHER AND MOTHER.
26 THE BLESSINGS OF YOUR FATHER SURPASSED THE BLESSINGS OF MY PARENTS, THE ENDS OF THE EVERLASTING HILLS. MAY THEY COME TO JOSEPH'S HEAD AND TO THE CROWN (OF THE HEAD) OF THE ONE WHO WAS SEPARATED FROM HIS BROTHERS.
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Jeremiah 51:
19 THE PORTION OF JACOB IS NOT LIKE THEM,
FOR HE IS THE MAKER OF ALL THINGS;
AND ISRAEL IS THE TRIBE OF HIS INHERITANCE.
THE LORD OF HOSTS IS HIS NAME.
20 YOU ARE MY BATTLE-AX AND WEAPONS OF WAR:
FOR WITH YOU I WILL BREAK THE NATION IN PIECES;
WITH YOU I WILL DESTROY KINGDOMS;
21 WITH YOU I WILL BREAK IN PIECES THE HORSE AND ITS RIDER;
WITH YOU I WILL BREAK IN PIECES THE CHARIOT AND ITS RIDER;
22 WITH YOU ALSO I WILL BREAK IN PIECES MAN AND WOMAN;
WITH YOU I WILL BREAK IN PIECES OLD AND YOUNG;
WITH YOU I WILL BREAK IN PIECES THE YOUNG MAN AND THE MAIDEN;
23 WITH YOU ALSO I WILL BREAK IN PIECES THE SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK;
WITH YOU I WILL BREAK IN PIECES THE FARMER AND HIS YOKE OF OXEN;
AND WITH YOU I WILL BREAK IN PIECES GOVERNORS AND RULERS.
Micah 5:
7 THEN THE REMNANT OF JACOB
SHALL BE IN THE MIDST OF MANY PEOPLES,
LIKE DEW FROM THE LORD,
LIKE SHOWERS ON THE GRASS,
THAT TARRY FOR NO MAN
NOR WAIT FOR THE SONS OF MEN.
8 AND THE REMNANT OF JACOB
SHALL BE AMONG THE GENTILES,
IN THE MIDST OF MANY PEOPLES,
LIKE A LION AMONG THE BEASTS OF THE FOREST,
LIKE A YOUNG LION AMONG FLOCKS OF SHEEP,
WHO, IF HE PASSES THROUGH,
BOTH TREADS DOWN AND TEARS IN PIECES,
AND NONE CAN DELIVER.
9 YOUR HAND SHALL BE LIFTED AGAINST YOUR ADVERSARIES,
AND ALL YOUR ENEMIES SHALL BE CUT OFF.
Joseph was prophesied to Rule over the Nations of the World!
Jacob [re-named Israel] was blessed by Isaac:
[Genesis 27:29]
"LET PEOPLE SERVE THEE, AND NATIONS BOW DOWN TO THEE: BE LORD OVER THY BRETHREN, AND LET THY MOTHER'S SONS BOW DOWN TO THEE: CURSED BE EVERY ONE THAT CURSETH THEE, AND BLESSED BE HE THAT BLESSETH THEE".
LET PEOPLE SERVE THEE AND NATIONS BOW DOWN TO THEE: Nations would bow down to them.
Ephraim was also blessed:
[Genesis 48:19]
"AND HIS FATHER REFUSED, AND SAID, I KNOW IT, MY SON, I KNOW IT: HE ALSO SHALL BECOME A PEOPLE, AND HE ALSO SHALL BE GREAT: BUT TRULY HIS YOUNGER BROTHER SHALL BE GREATER THAN HE, AND HIS SEED SHALL BECOME A MULTITUDE OF NATIONS."
HIS SEED SHALL BECOME A MULTITUDE OF NATIONS: In Hebrew "malo hagoim" or literally "the fullness of nations." Onkelos translates this as saying that his seed will rule over the nations.
Ephraim was to become a ruler of other peoples!
All other peoples would be blessed through them (Genesis 12:2-3, 18:18, 22:18, 26:4, Isaiah 61:9).
1-Chronicles (TCT) 5:
1 AND THE SONS OF REUBEN, THE FIRSTBORN OF ISRAEL, FOR HE WAS THE FIRSTBORN, BUT WHEN HE DEFILED HIS FATHER'S BED, HIS BIRTHRIGHT WAS GIVEN TO THE SONS OF JOSEPH THE SON OF ISRAEL, BUT NOT TO BE RECKONED IN THE GENEALOGY AS FIRSTBORN.
Jacob gave Joseph a separate blessing of his own:
Genesis (TCT) 49:
26 THE BLESSINGS OF YOUR FATHER SURPASSED THE BLESSINGS OF MY PARENTS, THE ENDS OF THE EVERLASTING HILLS.
MAY THEY COME TO JOSEPH'S HEAD AND TO THE CROWN (OF THE HEAD) OF THE ONE WHO WAS SEPARATED FROM HIS BROTHERS.
Natural Resources.
Moses prophesied concerning Joseph:
Deuteronomy 33:
13-17 "AND OF JOSEPH HE SAID, BLESSED OF THE LORD BE HIS LAND (FOR THE PRECIOUS THINGS OF HEAVEN, FOR THE DEW, AND FOR THE DEEP THAT CROUCHETH BENEATH, AND FOR THE PRECIOUS FRUITS...AND FOR THE CHIEF THINGS OF THE ANCIENT MOUNTAINS OF THE EVERLASTING HILLS...OF THE EARTH AND FULLNESS THEREOF...THE GOOD WILL OF HIM THAT DWELT IN THE BUSH.. HIS GLORY IS LIKE THE FIRSTLING OF HIS BULL, AND HIS HORNS, ARE LIKE THE HORN OF A UNICORN WITH THEM HE SHALL PUSH THE PEOPLE TOGETHER UNTO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: AND THEY ARE THE TEN THOUSANDS OF EPHRAIM, AND THEY ARE THE THOUSANDS OF MENASSEH"
In this (and other) blessings Joseph was promised agricultural bounty, mineral resources, favorable climate; He was associated with a people being pushed together unto the ends of the earth.
"Ends of the EARTH" when considered from the Land of Israel means: The continents of America and Australia, and the geographical extremities of South Africa and Northwest Europe.
Isaiah 49:
6 "AND HE SAID, IT IS A LIGHT THING THAT THOU SHOULDEST BE MY
SERVANT TO RAISE UP THE TRIBES OF JACOB, AND TO RESTORE THE PRESERVED OF ISRAEL: I WILL ALSO GIVE THEE FOR A LIGHT TO THE GENTILES, THAT THOU MAYEST BE MY SALVATION UNTO THE END OF THE EARTH."
Ends of the Earth and Britain
The very name of England ('Angleterre' in French) can be understood as meaning "Corner of the Land", i.e. Angle-Land, or "End of the Earth". The prophet Isaiah appears several times to have located the Lost Tribes of Israel in the "Ends of the Earth" e.g. England, in the French language is called Angleterre, or literally end of the earth. We have shown how 'end of the earth' and 'ends of the earth' were one of the descriptions applied to the location of the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Times - according to the Prophets. I have just obtained a book, "Deconstructing the Bible: Abraham Ibn Ezra's Introduction to the Torah," by Irene Lancaster, London 2003. The book concerns the Commentary of Rabbi Abraham Iben Ezra (1089-ca. 1165). Iben Ezra was borne in Spain and during his lifetime travelled in France, Italy, North Africa, Egypt, the Land of Israel, before reaching India. Towards the end of his life, he settled in England and apparently died there. The authoress suggests that Iben Ezras considered England to be one of the ends of the earth.
Ends of the Earth and Northern Europe
The Lost Ten Tribes are linked with the Ends of the earth (Genesis 33:13, Isaiah 41:8,9,13). This expression in ancient times could relate to northern regions:
"In innumerable places Egyptian, Hebrew, Babylonian, Greek, and Latin writings refer to the most northerly lands as the ends of the earth" (Jurgen Spanuch, 'Atlantic of the North,' p. 28).