Ten Tribes Studies (2 December, 2013, 29 Kislev, 5774)
Contents:
1. Interesting Article in Mainstream Expatriate Irish Publication.
Are the Celts one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel? Evidence that the lost Dan tribe may have reached Ireland by JAMES O'SHEA.
2. Charlotte Mecklenburg: Need to Wait for the Messiah
3. Ezekiel 37: Commentary and Text
4. Nice Quote: 'Everybody knew it before.'
5. New Month of Tevet. The Tribe of Dan
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1. Interesting Article in Mainstream Expatriate Irish Publication.
Are the Celts one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel?
Evidence that the lost Dan tribe may have reached Ireland
by JAMES O'SHEA,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Are-the-Celts-one-of-the-ten-lost-tribes-of-Israel-233823021.html#ixzz2mEO9PHbC
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2. Charlotte Mecklenburg: Need to Wait for the Messiah
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Brit-Am Now no. 2168 Ten Tribes Studies.
http://hebrewnations.com/features/5/2168.html
#3. HANOCH YOUNG / video 6.25 minutes
Dear Yair,
Regarding Youngs video clip.
I don't know anything more about Young then what you gave but it sounded like it was not 'for Ephramites' but 'to Ephraimites.' The only problem I see in it is this: If you invite people to come home there has to be a way to do this. But at the moment there is no way for this to happen without a repentance and change of heart in the way the Ephraimites see things. I wonder who has that message.
Judah has the right to rule until Messiah comes and Hosea says that will be by election at least initially if you read the end first Chapter of Hosea and first few verses of 2. We don't want to dilute the Jewish state with a lot of unsettled arguments between the two groups.
Charlotte Mecklenburg
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3. Ezekiel 37: Commentary and Text
See Brit-Am Commentary to Ezekiel 37:
http://www.britam.org/Ezekiel36to40.html
MESSIAH SON OF JOSEPH was to be a descendant of Joseph from the Tribe of Ephraim. According to the Biblical Commentary known as the Malbim (1809-1879). MESSIAH SON OF JOSEPH was to head the Lost Ten Tribes in the latter days in the period leading up to the return of the Lost Ten Tribes and their eventual re-unification with Judah. The MALBIM (Meir Leib ben Yechiel Michael [Weiser] 1809 1879) explained the 37th chapter of Ezekiel in a manner worth noting: [Ezekiel 37;15] "He was commanded to take one stick and to write upon it, these words, ~FOR JUDAH AND FOR THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, HIS COMPANIONS~, which represented Judah and those [others] joined unto him from the Children of Israel, such as the Tribe of Benjamin, and the Sons of Levi, and the rest of the people who attached themselves to Judah.
"~And he took another stick, and he wrote upon it, these words: ~FOR JOSEPH, THE STICK OF EPHRAIM, AND FOR ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, HIS COMPANIONS~, representing Joseph who was the source of the tribe. From Joseph developed the Kingdom of Ephraim which began with Jeroboam, and therefore is termed , ~THE STICK OF EPHRAIM.
~AND ALL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL~, for unto him were joined all of Israel which belong to the Ten Tribes... Our Sacred Sages had a tradition that in the beginning (of the End Times) would arise a Messiah [i.e. Anointed Saviour] from the house of Joseph who will reign over the Ten Tribes. He will wage wars and all of Israel will be gathered together under his banner. [This will continue] until later on, a descendant of David will appear and he will reign over them....
"A transformation will take place. The Ten Tribes and the stick of Joseph will draw themselves closer unto the stick of Judah, and this too, will be through the agency of a Prophet and by miracles".
Ezekiel 37:
15 The word of the Lord came to me: 16Mortal, take a stick and write on it, 'For Judah, and the Israelites associated with it'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with it'; 17and join them together into one stick, so that they may become one in your hand. 18And when your people say to you, 'Will you not show us what you mean by these?' 19 say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I am about to take the stick of Joseph (which is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with it; and I will put the stick of Judah upon it,* and make them one stick, in order that they may be one in my hand. 20When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes, 21then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: I will take the people of Israel from the nations among which they have gone, and will gather them from every quarter, and bring them to their own land. 22I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all. Never again shall they be two nations, and never again shall they be divided into two kingdoms. 23They shall never again defile themselves with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions. I will save them from all the apostasies into which they have fallen,* and will cleanse them. Then they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
24 My servant David shall be king over them; and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall follow my ordinances and be careful to observe my statutes. 25They shall live in the land that I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your ancestors lived; they and their children and their children]s children shall live there for ever; and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. 26I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will bless* them and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary among them for evermore. 27My dwelling-place shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 28Then the nations shall know that I the Lord sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is among them for evermore.
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4. Nice Quote: 'Everybody knew it before.'
"Whenever a new or startling fact is brought to light,
people at first say,
It is not true';
then,
'It is contrary to religion';
and lastly,
'Everybody knew it before.'
Professor Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807 - 1873) a Swiss biologist, geologist, physician, and a prominent innovator in the study of Earth's natural history.
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5. New Month of Tevet. The Tribe of Dan
December 3 and December 4 , 2013, begin the Hebrew month of Tevet, in the year 5774.
Tevet is sometimes transliterated as Tebet or Tebeth.
According to the most generally accepted ruling (that of the Ari and of the Vilna Gaon) this month is that of the Tribe of Dan.
[Other opinions ascribe it to Gad.]
Dan was the brother of Naphtali. Dan and Naphtali were the sons of Bohah the maidservant of Rachel.
We identify Dan primarily with Denmark though elements of Dan were also present amongst the Irish and welsh and elsewhere.
[See item 1 above, about the article on Ireland and Dan that was just recently published.]
[Even whilst still within the Land of Israel, Dan had divided into several sections.]
Gad we identify with Sweden.