Ten Tribes Studies.
Contents:
1. Meredith Carpenter: The USA is in Trouble.
2. Brit-Am Appeal: Impertinent Gumption.
3. New Article: Ephraimite Entry.
Replies to Some Adverse Commentary Concerning the Lack of Recognition for Ephraimites.
4. Duane Hiebert: Pleased with Article.
5. Two Highlights from Isaiah.
1. Meredith Carpenter: The USA is in Trouble
Our country is being devastated by fire, draught, floods etc. Only things that God could allow. Over 70% of our corn crops have been destroyed by draught. The western part of the US is being torched, destroying many, many acres. ... We allow our unborn children to be aborted at the rate of over 1 million a year. Oh yeah, our nation has to answer for that. There is talk of Sabbaths having to be fulfilled in the land, but I don't understand that. God is doing a mighty work here. He is preparing us. M
2. Brit-Am Appeal: Impertinent Gumption
Gumption
gumption 1719, originally Scottish, "common sense, shrewdness," also "drive, initiative," possibly connected with M.E. gome "attention, heed," from O.N. gaumr "heed, attention." Sense of "initiative" is first recorded 1812.
In Hebrew we have the word Chutzpa implying effrontery.
Anyway, Some may think that Yair Davidiy (i.e. Yours Truly) has a nerve, in the negative sense.
First Yair spends what seems to be an inordinate amount of time and energy saying that they who believe they descend from the Ten Tribes should not try to come to Israel.
Yair says we should not submit to the pleasantries of Israeli Bureaucracy and wait in line outside the Immigration and Absorption Checkpoints at Ben Gurion Airport.
[Shucks!]
He says that even though the Ten Tribes are now to be found in significant proportions amongst Western Peoples nobody may be sure as individuals that they are of Israelite descent.
Also, the Religious beliefs of Yair, on major points, are not entirely consistent with those of most of us. Nowadays, Yair may try to deal with these issues with more tact than he did in the past but it is still quite obvious.
And then he asks for money on behalf of Brit-Am!
In fact if you subscribe to the Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Newsletters you may add to death and taxes as certainties of life another issue, i.e. recurring financial appeals from Brit-Am.
That is the way it goes.
First of all we really do need money. We are facing yet another crisis point with bills and debts (all incurred in the service of Brit-Am) to pay.
On top of this new exigencies have now arisen and even more demands have to be met.
For what we do our costs and expenses are not that great BUT in an absolute sense they are quite high. They have to be met each month in addition to ongoing daily needs.
We believe that whosoever gives to Brit-Am shall be blessed from Above.
If we did not believe this, we would not say it.
Proverbs 3:
9 Honor the Lord with your possessions,
And with the firstfruits of all your increase;
10 So your barns will be filled with plenty,
And your vats will overflow with new wine.
Malachi 3:
10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,
Says the Lord of hosts,
If I will not open for you the windows of heaven
And pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it.
Genesis 14:
18 Then Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was the priest of God Most High. 19 And he blessed him and said:
Blessed be Abram of God Most High,
Possessor of heaven and earth;
20 And blessed be God Most High,
Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.
And he gave him a tithe of all.
Genesis 28:
20 Then Jacob made a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I am going, and give me bread to eat and clothing to put on, 21 so that I come back to my father's house in peace, then the Lord shall be my God. 22 And this stone which I have set as a pillar shall be God's house, and of all that You give me I will surely give a tenth to You.'
Note that Jacob (i.e. The Patriarch Israel) in the verse above, appears to associate the return tot he house of his father to the giving of tithes.
Perhaps Divine Providence wants more people to get involved physically with Brit-Am and that is why it obliges us to continually make appeals such as the present one?
And what are we doing to earn the money?
What we have done up until now may be seen from our websites and publications.
This involves ongoing nonstop Promotion of the Information concerning Israelite Ancestry.
In addition,
We research Biblical and related sources alongside secular evidence. And we process and edit evidence received from others.
The result is that the total body of proof increases by small increments punctuated occasionally by significant additions.
The End Result is something of very great value.
It also does get out to the public and remains with them.
It goes out in a way that is usually acceptable and pleasing to both Judah and Joseph.
Brit-Am is worthwhile, worth your while, and worth supporting.
Please help Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations to keep going with respect and sufficiency.
3. New Article:
Ephraimite Entry
Replies to Some Adverse Commentary Concerning the Lack of Recognition for Ephraimites.
Queries from Andy followed by Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations Replies
Extracts:
The name Israel is found as applying to Judah or the Jews in the Books of Ezekiel, Ezra, and Nehemiah.
Jeremiah 30:10 addresses the Judahite exiles (cf. Jer 29:1, 30-31) and calls them "Jacob" and "Israel."
Ezra 2:70 states of the returned exiles, "and all Israel lived in their cities." Zechariah addresses the same Medo-Persian returnees as "Oh house of Judah and house of Israel" (8:13; cf. 8:15) and distinguishes them from the people of the nations (Zechariah 8:23).
Concerning Judah, the major Tribes are Judah, Benajmin, Levi along with (amongst the Jews) representative minorities of ALL the other tribes.
Theoretically if the Ten Tribes wherever they are were to disappear altogether the Twelve Tribes would still exist within Judah though the relative Tribal Proportions would be skewed in favor
of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi.
The Ten Tribes NEED to recognize who they are and work towards confirming their identity. This is a NEED they have. Judah does not.
Also,
It was prophesied that Judah would return first and prepare the way for the other Tribes.
Judah is not rejecting Joseph.
Joseph is DENYING HIS OWN IDENTITY.
Therefore Judah does not know who Joseph is.
If Ephraimites really wanted the world to know who and where the Lost Ten Tribes are they would support Brit-Am/Hebrew nations more than they do.
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4. Duane Hiebert: Pleased with Article.
re Can You Come Home Now?
Hello Yair
Excellent piece.
Makes sense to me.
5. Two Highlights from Isaiah
At least one Midrash (Pesikta Zutratha Lekach Tov, Balak, Numbers 24;17) says that the Messiah Son of Joseph will rebuild the Temple. This person is the future leader of the Lost Ten Tribes just prior to their reunification with Judah.
[Isaiah 1:29] FOR YOU SHALL BE ASHAMED OF THE OAKS IN WHICH YOU DELIGHTED; AND YOU SHALL BLUSH FOR THE GARDENS WHICH YOU HAVE CHOSEN.
Oaks were sacred to the Druids of Western Europe. The Druids also worshipped in groves, i.e. in gardens. The Druids were prominent amongst the so-called Celtic peoples of the West. Julius Caesar wrote that the center of Druidism was in Britain. The Druidic religion appears to have been a combination of Ancient Hebrew practices with pagan Middle Eastern accretions.