Ten Tribes Studies. (11 July, 2013, Av 4, 5773)
Contents:
1. Going Ahead or Going Down?
2. Yaffah Davis: New Three Rs... right on target....
3. M. E. Concurrence in this Necessary Work
4. New Article. Straight Talk
5. New Article and YouTube Clip. Gomer and the Ten Tribes
6. Robert Kubris: The Ten Tribes are being Tested!
7. Question on Purity of Lineage
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1. Going Ahead or Going Down?
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Shalom,
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2. Yaffah Davis: New Three Rs... right on target....
This is right on target....
Recognition
Realization
Repentance.....It is time, i believe. i am trying to share with pastors. This is not openly accepted
where I am. i don't know what people are waiting for, but perhaps this ignorance is for our protection.
This is us...i pray we will wake up! Maybe it's Abba's timing.
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3. M. E. Concurrence in this Necessary Work
Re: Going Ahead or Going Down?
Dear Davidiy,
YOu can NOt imagine how :( Saddened I am by YOUr financial Problems.
I concur with sooooooooooooo much of what YOu write and LOOK-for each letter.
Because of YOu ; I discovered that My American/ Canadian Family
were Jews ! !! FORCED to Convert to Roman Catholic, until they escaped to CANADA.
I now realized (60+yrs. Later) why my Family Cleaned-House/ Washed certain things at Certain
Times [ tho' "Easter" ] they did ! ! ! some Kosher Food?????
We are however considered 'Goyim'.
Now my childhood makes sense now, more so.
/*\ = Pray
/*\ may HaShem bring aside a Philanthropist(s) to help in this Necessary work
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4. New Article. Straight Talk
A New Standard Reply to Various Claimants
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5. New Article and YouTube Clip. Gomer and the Ten Tribes
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(a) New Article. Gomer and Israel
The Ten Lost Tribes Predicted in the First Two Chapters of Hosea
Extract:
They are given names that show that the children represent the Israelites APART FROM JUDAH!
From their state of being disowned they will emerge as very numerous, enormously wealthy, and powerful.
After that they are to be acknowledged as legitimate offspring.
The name GOMER, which was the name of the woman with whom Hosea had these children, is the SAME NAME by which the Cimmerians were known.
The Cimmerians first appeared in Mannaae and other areas to which Israelites had been exiled. They included the Scythians and Goths. They became the ancestors of some of the Celtic, Scandinavian, and other northern peoples. A great deal of additional evidence proves that the Ten Tribes were ancestors to a significant portion of the people in those northern and western regions and their overseas offshoots.
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(b) YouTube Clip. Gomer and the Ten Tribes
Duration: 20.03 minutes
The Prophet Hosea expressly declares that the Ten Tribes will be exiled, loose their identity, become numerous, great, and wealthy, and then return to the God of Israel and be acknowledged as children of the Almighty.
See: Gomer and Israel
The Ten Lost Tribes Predicted in the First Two Chapters of Hosea
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6. Robert Kubris: The Ten Tribes are being Tested!
I also believe that as the first generation of Israelites that left Egypt have wondered for 40 years in the desert so [God] could purify them and test their hearts never entered the promise land, simply because they failed the test. The same will happen to this generation or generation after. We are being tested, purified by [God]; but sadly just like the generation that left Egypt had so much Egypt in them that they were really never able to break away from their habits, traditions and doctrines they acquired in Mitsraym. And I have to admit with sadness that the same end awaits this generation. Unless a miracle will happen.
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7. Question on Purity of Lineage
Yair--the following is my issue with Western peoples being part of the "lost tribes of Israel": There has been so much assimilation and inter-marriage in the West for hundreds or even thousands of years, really what difference does it make? The blood lines are completely altered. However, in the case of the Pathans or Pashtuns, of Afghanastan who are also said to be descended from the "lost tribes" that would not be the case. They are a tribal people, and similar to other tribal peoples as well a traditional Jews, there blood lines are pure, in tact, so that their ancestry would be valid. The Western peoples would be similar to Jews who throughout history opted to no longer be Jews or generate Jews. They converted to Christianity, etc or inter-married and assimilated with gentiles. Their progeny ceased to remain Jewish. Howard (Yechiel) Bahr
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Brit-Am Reply:
Shalom,
You have brought up several different issues.
You are implying that since there are different claimants as to who the Lost Ten Tribes are then the most suitable candidate is probably the true one. In this case you would suggest that the most suitable is the one with the purest lineage.
Our approach is different.
We take Biblical and related evidence together with secular sources and find who fits the list.
See:
Ephraimite Criteria
After that all other matters and considerations need to cope with what the findings are.
As for the Afghans and Pathans etc they seem to have frequentlyy raided their neighbors and the people of India stealing their women for the purpose of procreation. They were quite intermixed themselves.
The peoples of the west have indeed intermarried with others especially in recent generations. This was also the case at key points in the past. Nevertheless it appears that most of the time most of the people kept to themselves. Until a few centuries ago about 90% of the world population married with those living within a few miles of their own place of birth. They also married with those from their own station and of similar background and ethnicity.
It is true that a Jew who changes their religion usually ceases to be Jewish after a few generations. Even halachically this is the case. Nevertheless in our studies we are not running a marriage bureau. We are telling people who their ancestors probably were. We also tell them what the pertinence is to Biblical Prophecy.
As for purity of lineage we do not know how important it really is.
See our article:
Hebrew Fathers?
Did Only Male Descendants Survive in Some Cases? Are Many of the Ten Tribes descended from Non-Israelite Women? Notes for Further Study.
Three Rs for Hebrew Nations that should be adopted by members:
Recognition of Israelite Ancestry.
Realization of Hebrew Origins through spreading the knowledge and support for Israel.
Repentance and turning back to Biblical Consciousness and Biblical Values.
The NEW Three Rs:
Recognition
Realization
Repentance