Ten Tribes Studies (26 July, 2013, Av 19, 5773)
Contents:
1. New Article and YouTube Clip. Jewish Awareness of the Ten Tribes in Second Temple Times
2. Hebrew Nations/Brit-Am Message. Clarification and Acknowledgement of Strong Support
3. New Article and YouTube Clip. Deuteronomy (Akev) and the Rewards of Obedience
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1. New Article and YouTube Clip. Jewish Awareness of the Ten Tribes in Second Temple Times
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(a) New Article. Hebrew Isles.
Ancient Knowledge and Josephus
http://hebrewnations.com/articles/myth/josephus.html
Contents:
1. Mark Williams Sends an Informational-Lead!
2. Pagan Concepts of the Ten Tribes being in Britain Â
3. Jewish Notions of the Ten Tribes being in Ireland, Britain, and the West
4. Who Was Josephus?
5. Josephus and Balaam
6. The Prophecies of Balaam
7. Josephus Paraphrases Balaam.
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(b) YouTube. Ancient Jewish Knowledge of the Ten Tribes Location
Duration 17.58 minutes
The ancient pagans and the Jews both had an understanding that a good portion (i.e. the Ten Tribes) of the Israelite Nation was to be found in the West and in the British Isles. This may also be hinted at in the writings of Josephus.
See:
Hebrew Isles. Ancient Knowledge and Josephus
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2. Hebrew Nations/Brit-Am Message. Clarification and Acknowledgement of Strong Support
Recently we sent out a somewhat frantic call for increased support. We needed the extra funds in order to function and maintain the Brit-Am/Hebrew Nations enterprise.
We still do need more support.
Nevertheless some of the mail received indicates a misleading impression. There were those who strongly encouraged us to keep going along with a few who seemed complacent and offered friendly bits of advice of their own.
[We welcome advice even if we do not always immediately follow it BUT sometimes it comes to promote other agendas rather than our own good.]
When we send out appeals it happens that there is no immediate response. Usually however something positive does happen and so it was on this occasion.
We received an insurgence of relatively modest contributions that altogether have helped us greatly. The problem is still there but a beginning in the right direction has begun.
Let us clarify the situation:
On the whole we receive strong support in the form of offerings and purchases of our works.
This has enabled us for the past 12 years or so to maintain a small residence-cum-office in Jerusalem and to get by reasonably working full-time for Hebrew Nations.
For anyone familiar with the cost of living and maintaining an enterprise in Israel it should be obvious that this has not been a bad achievement.
We have also had results. And still keep having them. We have had ups and down but our message has kept going out, reaching more and more people.
It has also been improving slowly but steadily.
Books have been published alongside numerous articles, e-mail messages and YouTube Clips, and the foundations for more now exist.
At present our income on the whole meets more than 80% of our basic needs. This is a lot.
Our audience is of a reasonable size but not that great. Nevertheless in relation to its size it gives quite well.
People help us. We appreciate it and are very grateful. We also feel that this is a combined enterprise. Those who support us participate with us.
We believe that they will be blessed by God for this.
Despite the above more than 80% is still not enough. The lack accumulates and results in periodic crisis type situations.
We hope to find some way to increase our income over the long-run.
Meanwhile whoever can give to this cause is urged to do so.
To Make an Offering to Brit-Am: Snail Mail or PayPal
http://hebrewnations.com/contributions/offerings.html
http://www.britam.org/contribute-Brit-Am.html
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3. New Article and YouTube Clip. Deuteronomy (Akev) and the Rewards of Obedience
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(a) New Article. D3. Consequences of Obedience
Ekev (Weekly Portion) Deuteronomy 7:12 to 11:25
Extracts:
So too the Amerindians and Aborigines of Australia were not always the most moral of beings. There is tendency to romanticize these "noble savages" but on the whole they were worse than the Anglos who replaced them. What was done to them they would have done to others if they could have and in some cases had already done so. The Maoris in New Zealand came from Polynesia and had completely exterminated another race (the Mori) who had been there before them.
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Deuteronomy 9:
5 It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you are going in to occupy their land; but because of the wickedness of those nations that the Lord your God is dispossessing them before you, in order to fulfill the promise that the Lord made on oath to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
God made a Promise to our forefathers. The Almighty has a kind of obligation towards us because of our Israelite ancestors. If we are not worthy this obligation may not be fulfilled in our lifetime but eventually it will One of the commandments was You Shall Not Steal.
This commandment was more precisely applied to the prohibition of kidnapping another Israelite and forcing them to do work against their will.
The principle was also applicable against theft in general.
As a moral exhortation we may also learn from this not to talk rudely to people and not to order them about when they have no obligation towards us. If one is an instructor or employer then that is different but even then in most cases it should be done with sensitivity and consideration.
be. There is a chance for our descendants.
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(b) YouTube. D3 Rewards of Obedience
Duration:Â 27.41 minutes
The Book of Deuteronomy tells us that if we do good we shall be rewarded and if we act badly then bad things may happen to us. This message is especially pertinent to the Descendants of Israel both from Judah (the Jews) and from Joseph and the Ten Tribes.
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D3. Consequences of Obedience
Ekev (Weekly Portion) Deuteronomy 7:12 to 11:25