Ten Tribes Studies (14 May, 2013, Sivan 5, 5773)
Contents:
1. Shavuot Articles. Ruth.
2. A Royal Treasure and the Tudor Rose
3. Where does it say that Judah will return to the Land before the Ten Tribes?
4.Strategy Needed? Should More be Done to Bring Ephraim Home?
5. Lauri Cardoza-Moore Interviews Yair Davidiy. Rabbis Agree that Ten Tribes are in the West!
6. New You Tube Clip and Article. The Transference of Arabs. A Present-Day Parallel with Christians of the Middle East?
7. Rabbinical Impersonator, Asher Meza, Denies Existence of the Lost Ten Tribes!
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1. Shavuot Articles. Ruth.
Tomorrow is the Feast of Shavuot (Feast of Weeks) which celebrates the giving of the Torah.
On this day it is customary to read in the Synagogue the Book of Ruth.
Here are two articles from previous years concerning Ruth.
(a) Friendly Shadows? Presaging the Messiah?
Shavuot, Ruth, Bethlehem, and New Archaeology Find.
Contents:
What Feast is This?
Ruth the Moabitess, Woman of Destiny.
Converts, Moab, and Ammon.
The Future Messiah and the Personality of David.
Does a New Archaeological Discovery Presage the Messiah?
(b) King David and the Oral LawÂ
Loyalty to David is Required: Ruth and the Oral Tradition
Contents:
THE PREJUDICE AGAINST KING DAVID.
RUTH the MOABITESS, ANCESTRESS OF KING DAVID.
Reply to Claims that Ruth was not a Native-born Physical Daughter of Moab.
The Choice is between an Ancient Oral Tradition and a New One Derived from Base Motives!
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2. A Royal Treasure and the Tudor Rose
Ron Pristarius sent a message to Hebrew Nations Facebook
Hi, I did some research that indicates a cache of items from the Temple of Jerusalem survived and the english were about to retrieve it in 1760 to show their legitimacy of the Crown (being claimants also they were descendant from one of the original tribes). The cache was referred to as 'the Rose' and I see you have a Tudor Rose. I heard that the British Royal Family still maintains this claim. I'll attache the map to the cache for you. It's been sending people on hunts for over 250 years to locate the Temple items. regards, Ron
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3. Where does it say that Judah will return to the Land before the Ten Tribes?
Brit-Am Reply:
This question deserves a lengthier and more thorough answer than we are about to give at present.
We hope to prepare a more complete article on this issue.
In the meantime,
Several verses seem to imply that Judah will be in the Land before the Ten Tribes.
In addition see:
Micah 4:8 predicts that in the end times the beginning of the return, "THE FIRST DOMINION", shall be "TO THE DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM" meaning descendants of Judah. Judah will return before the other Tribes and prepare the way for them (cf. Hosea 6:10).
 See the Brit-Am Commentary to these verses.
See:
The Jews will Return before the Ten Tribes.
In addition, it is worth noting that spiritually and psychologically Judah never left the Land.
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4. Change of Strategy Needed? Should More be Done to Bring Ephraim Home?
The understanding of Biblical Prophecy indicates that the Ten Tribes will return first of all to those areas of the Land of Greater Israel now known as Lebanon , Jordan, and Syria. They will also settle in the area of Samaria which is often referred to as the West Bank.
[Some Israeli Nationalists are reserved about the term West Bank. They prefer to say "Yehudah ve Shomron" i.e. Judah and Samaria. The expression "West Bank" is associated with the Liberal Left-wing-inclined Media. "West Bank" is said to imply that it is part of the East Bank in Jordan and therefore should belong to Jordan. We disagree. The Term "West Bank" should be considered a positive one and remind us that not only the West Bank of the Jordan should belong to Israel but so should the east one.
The State of Israel in order to survive could well use large, powerful, friendly, western outposts of similarly minded long-lost brothers in these areas.
Micah 7:14
Shepherd Your people with Your staff,
The flock of Your heritage,
Who dwell solitarily in a woodland,
In the midst of Carmel;
Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead,
As in days of old.
Zechariah 10:
9 I will sow them among the peoples,
And they shall remember Me in far countries;
They shall live, together with their children,
And they shall return.
10 I will also bring them back from the land of Egypt,
And gather them from Assyria.
I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon,
Until no more room is found for them.
Jeremiah 50:
19 But I will bring back Israel to his home,
And he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan;
His soul shall be satisfied on Mount Ephraim and Gilead.
20 In those days and in that time, says the Lord,
The iniquity of Israel shall be sought, but there shall be none;
And the sins of Judah, but they shall not be found;
For I will pardon those whom I preserve.
Perhaps the time has come to do more in this direction?
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5. Lauri Cardoza-Moore Interviews Yair Davidiy. Rabbis Agree that Ten Tribes are in the West!
Lauri Cardoza-Moore is the head of Proclaiming Justice to the Nations
https://www.facebook.com/PJTNfans
whose mission is to
# educate Christians about their Biblical responsibility to stand with their Jewish brethren and Israel against the "new" anti-Semitism. #
http://www.pjtn.org/
Laurie has been interviewed on several occasions by the Media in the USA and also in Israel. She is quite active.
Lauri interviewed Yair in Jerusalem. The interview was professionally conducted with a photographer, face-powder, etc. It was also quite spontaneous. I had no idea what kind of questions would be asked. Nevertheless it seems to have come of quite well. Laurie says the interview should be available to the public within a few months.
Lauri says she has been interested in the subject of the Lost Tribes for quite a while. During her time in Israel Laurie has been interviewing various personalities including Rabbis of importance. She has asked them concerning the location of the Ten Tribes amongst Western nations especially as regards those who support the State of Israel. Laurie says the answers she received from the Rabbis in question were strongly affirmative.
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6.  New You Tube Clip and Article. The Transference of Arabs. A Present-Day Parallel with Christians of the Middle East?
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(a) New You Tube Clip.
Transferring Palestinians
Duration ca. 9 minutes
Isaiah 11:14 says that Ephraim (i.e. the Ten Lost Tribes) will co-operate with the Jews (Judah) in flying the Palestinians to somewhere to the west of the Land of Israel.
"They Must Go! Expulsion of Arab Populations"
http://www.britam.org/Expulsion.html
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(b) New Article. The Transference of Arabs. A Present-Day Parallel with Christians of the Middle East?
Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations advocates the encouraged speeded-up movement of Palestinians and other Arabs to other areas.
Isaiah 11:
13 Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart,
     And the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off;
     Ephraim shall not envy Judah,
     And Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
     14 But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west;
    The expression in Isaiah 11:14 translated as:
" But they shall fly down upon the shoulder of the Philistines toward the west; "
could preferably be translated as saying:
"They shall fly the Philistines to the West".
The Philistines represent the Palestinians.
The Palestinians are named after the Philistines.
See:
Expulsion of Arab Peoples.avi ![[]](http://s.ytimg.com/yts/img/pixel-vfl3z5WfW.gif){kind=tracking}
Duration 10 minutes
The Arabs in Israel should be encouraged to migrate to the West (e.g. to Brazil). The Ten Tribes in the West (Joseph) should join forces with Judah to facilitate this movement.
See Written article on this subject:
"They Must Go! Expulsion of Arab Populations"
It may be protested that the forceable removal or even simple monetary encouragement of a whole ethnic group to leave an area is not humane and not acceptable in the present age.
Such is not the case. The majority of Christians in the Middle East have already been forced out by Muslim violence and intimidation. The rest seem to be on the way. it may not be long before hardly any Christians remain in the Middle East at all. This has been going on in our time before our eyes. The Media has not been speaking much on the subject but it is happening. In many cases it has been going on under the nose of the US administration. In Iraq it began while the Americans were in virtual control of the country!
See:
The Mass Exodus of Christians from the Muslim World by Raymond Ibrahim
Fox News, May 7, 2013
http://www.meforum.org/3504/christians-exodus-muslim-world
Extract:
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recently said: "The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it's increasing year by year." In our lifetime alone "Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt."
Ongoing reports from the Islamic world certainly support this conclusion. Iraq was the earliest indicator of the fate awaiting Christians once Islamic forces are liberated from the grip of dictators.
In 2003, Iraq's Christian population was at least one million. Today fewer than 400,000 remain, the result of an anti-Christian campaign that began with the U.S. occupation of Iraq, when countless Christian churches were bombed and countless Christians killed, including by crucifixion and beheading.
If, as seems the case, it is OK for Muslims to expel Christians from Lands they dwelt in before Islam existed why should Jews not be allowed to expel Muslims from land Jews dwelt before Islam ever was?
This question is especially pertinent once one realizes that such is the command of the BIble.
Numbers 33:
[50 Now the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying, 51 Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you...
 [Numbers 33:55] But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell. 56 Moreover it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.
We are told in 2-Kings 17 that the Ten tribes were exiled because they went on the ways of the nations around them. Because they did not drive them out they themselves were exiled from the Land. We do not want this to happen again. The Palestinians must leave!
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7. Rabbinical Impersonator, Asher Meza, Denies Existence of the Lost Ten Tribes!
Yisroel Feld posted to Hebrew Nations Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hebrew-Nations/114512172040677
can you please refute this for G-d and country Thank you.
Isroel then refers us to:
The ten lost tribes and how they are not coming back, with Rabbi Asher Meza of BeJewish.org
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151461452847462
Duration ca. 20 minutes
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Preliminary Reply (a more detailed answer will follow):
Note: Isroel Feld was one of our first supporters. Isroel helped us through a difficult period, believed in our message, and assisted immensely in many ways. He deserves much of the credit for making possible the publishing of the first edition of The Tribes. He also enabled the first reprint of The Tribes.
Now to the question:
Who is Asher Meza?
According to the source below Meza apparently is not Jewish. This explains why he keeps on emphasizing the importance of ethics over blood and of moral behavior over heredity.
Judaism on the other hand does emphasize the importance of physical descent.
Meza certainly is not a Rabbi.
See:
JEWS - Is Asher Meza a real RABBI? or is he a fake?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120930175111AAG4emE
Meza has however learned something at some time, somewhere. I would guess that he once intended to convert to Judaism and undertook a course of basic study after which he modified the subject matter to suit his own personality. This is consistent with what he himself says.
There is nothing wrong with not being Jewish nor with not being a Rabbi but there is a problem with saying you are what you are not.
A Rabbi however to be accepted has to toe the line and teach according to what is accepted. Meza does not do this but gives his own maverick opinions and presents them as Torah . This is not so. Meza denies the value of Israelite Descent. His organization "BeJewish" is a non-Jewish heresy propagating the idea that people should consider themselves Jewish based on faith alone.
Meza Protests against claims for special treatment from those claiming to be from the Ten Lost Tribes (TLTs).
Meza says the TLTs no longer exist.
Says that Karaites and Christians have come to accept the notion of the Ten Lost Tribes
Says that no-where is the number ten given as the number of Tribes who were exiled. Says that Scripture only mentions three, Reuben Gad, and Manasseh.
Quotes R. Akiva  who is reported (Sanhedrin 110 b) to have said that the Ten Tribes will not return. Rabbi Akiva quoted from Deuteronomy 29.
Rabbi Eliezer says they will return. God will shine HIS light on them. Meza says this means that repentance is what is required.
Meza says belief in the LTTS emphasizes blood over ethics.
Meza quotes from Ezekiel 37. Confuses the issue of dry bones. Says this prophecy is contingent on Repentance. Parameters for Redemption are repentance. Feeling not ancestry is what counts!.
Meza says there is no such thing as intrinsic worth.
Josiah sent Jeremiah (Jeremiah ch. 31) to bring the LTTS back,
We will deal with some of these issues later at more length.
For the moment here are a few points:
The Bible says that the Israelites are the Chosen People.
Deuteronomy 7:6
6 For you are a holy people to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. 7 The Lord did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; 8 but because the Lord loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Amos 3:
2 Â You only have I known of all the families of the earth;
Therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.
The Bible is concerned with the Israelite nation. Other peoples are mentioned mainly in so far as their existence touches on that of the Israelites. Most of Prophecy concerns the Israelite Nation.
Rabbi Akiva was a great Sage. His opinion however is not accepted on many important issues. Rabbi Akiva for instance is very strict about the penalties for consanguinity and other matters concerning marital status. Jewish Law (Halacha) however is opposed to the opinion of Rabbi Akiva on this issue and on other matters. Rabbi Akiva considered Bar Kokhba to be the Messiah and was consequently ridiculed by the other Sages. It should be mentioned that the Sages often disagreed with each other but their opinions would still be recorded and studied. The only limitation was that the authority of the final decision had to be respected. Just because someone says something does not necessarily mean very much UNLESS it is declared to be the Law. In the case of Rabbi Akiva his opinion was denied in the Talmud.
Not only that but,
according to the great commentator Rashi, even Rabbi Akiva was referring only to the Ten Tribes in his own generation (who would not return) and not to those in the future. Rashi in effect says that Rabbi Akiva also agreed that in the future the Ten Tribes will come back.
[Even if one disagrees with Rashi the fact that he saw a need to interpret Rabbi Akiva as agreeing that the LTTs will return shows how important the matter was in the eyes of the Rabbis.]
[Incidentally, they who are interested in these matters should make more use of our on-site search engines. Many questions have already been answered. See:
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cast them into another land
Rabbi Akiva quoted from Deuteronomy 29.
We have shown how the verse referred to actually indicates that the Lost Ten Tribes in the End Times will be in America!
See:
The USA in Biblical Codes
# 2. The New World. America IS the Place of Exile of the Ten Lost Tribes!
Extract:
Deuteronomy 29:28 says that the Israelites would ultimately be cast out to "Another Land". In Hebrew "Another Land" is "Erets Aheret"
The Mishna (Sanhedrin 10) opines that the verse refers to the Lost Ten Tribes who are destined to remain in "Eretz Acheret" until close to the End Times.
The Hebrew Term "Erets Aheret" translated as "Another Land" can also be translated as "New World" meaning America!
THE NEW WORLD is what the Americas were known by when they were first discovered. This term could also be an acceptable translation of "Erets Aheret" (otherwise translated as "Another Land") to which the Ten Tribes were eventually to be found in!
THE NEW WORLD PREDICTED TO BE THE PLACE OF THE LOST TEN TRIBES!
Jeremiah 31 is a prophecy and indicates the Ten Tribes are to be identified with inhabitants of the British Isles, North America, parts of Western Europe, and related nations.
See the Brit-Am Bible Commentary to this Chapter of Jeremiah.
http://www.britam.org/Jeremiah29to32.html#Chapters
Ezekiel 37 speaks of the PHYSICAL reunion of the PHYSICAL descendants of the Ten Tribes with the Physical descendants of Judah!
More later.