{"id":10561,"date":"2021-12-28T19:29:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T19:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/watchmannews.kinsta.cloud\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2022-04-19T05:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T05:49:45","slug":"read-book-origin-of-our-western-heritage-chapter-7-did-israel-not-leave-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/watchman.news\/uk\/2021\/12\/read-book-origin-of-our-western-heritage-chapter-7-did-israel-not-leave-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Read book “Origin of Our Western Heritage” Chapter 7, Did Israel Not Leave Palestine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapter Seven<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did Israel Not Leave Palestine?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In spite of the massive amount of material that demonstrates the movement of the Israelites from the land of their captivity to northwestern Europe and the British Isles, thence to America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, one can read statements like this:\u00a0 “How unbelievable it is that millions of Israelites in the course of only a few centuries could completely lose their identity and become known to the world as Scythians” (Darms, 139).\u00a0 A look at the Afro-American community can quickly answer this argument.\u00a0 How many Negroes know the tribal affiliation of their ancestors, or their original language?\u00a0\u00a0 If millions of Negroes can lose their national identity as quickly as they did in modern times, why should we think it strange that Israel could lose its identity in ancient times? The only reason the Jews never lost their national identity is because they continued to observe the sign God gave them\u2014the weekly Sabbath (Ezek. 20:12).\u00a0\u00a0 History tells us that when nations change their language, they change their names even more easily (Minns, 40).\u00a0 Language can be a test of racial contact, but not necessarily for migration.\u00a0 Yet, language can be helpful to determine the affinities and movements of peoples (Haddon, 10\u201311).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One should discard the notion that race and language are synonymous.\u00a0 Language is not a test of race.\u00a0 The same race may speak different languages, and different races may speak the same language.\u00a0Languages are easily borrowed from one people to another.\u00a0 Archaeological speculation has been cursed by the attempt to base racial conclusions on language\u2014that is, to say those who speak the same language are all from the same race.\u00a0 It is necessary to realize that race and language are two entirely different studies (Sayce, 13).\u00a0 If the guide to racial distinctions is based on language, the classification of peoples and cultures may be entirely misleading.\u00a0 Evidence of physical characteristics was lacking in the past so attempts were made to identify people by cultural evidence.\u00a0 This is no longer true.\u00a0 Physical types today identify people, and names such as Nordic, Alpine, and Mediterranean are used which carry no linguistic connotation (Morant, 140).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When one race was more civilized than another and was politically and numerically superior, it was able to impose its language upon the other.\u00a0 When two nations brought together are equally advanced, the one with the most numerous population will prevail.\u00a0 On the other hand, when a small body of invaders with a higher civilization converges with a lower one, the higher culture will prevail.\u00a0 At one time Aryan languages were found being used in vast areas by peoples who were not Aryan.\u00a0 The fact is:\u00a0 Change in language takes place easier than change in physical type.\u00a0 To repeat, language is not a test of race, and more often than not is entirely misleading. Languages are extremely changeable, and countries have altered their language while the race remained the same.\u00a0 Language appears to be almost independent of racial factors (Taylor, 210\u2013211, 197, 204).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0On the other hand, language should not be entirely discounted.\u00a0 In certain cases a common language raises the presumption that the people who speak it are from a common ancestry (Sayce, 32).\u00a0Language and the geographical location of people change, but not race (Jowett, 38).\u00a0 Take the Roman Empire, for example.\u00a0 All races living under the rule of the Romans had to obey one law and learn the language of the imperial city.\u00a0 By the time the Roman Empire disintegrated, Latin was the common language everywhere.\u00a0 Teutonic invaders soon learned the languages of the subject populations, and today the result is the modern languages of France, Spain, and Italy.\u00a0 The Northmen who came to Normandy and southern Italy soon forgot their own languages.\u00a0 In Britain, however, the subject populations learned the language of the Saxons, the Scandinavian invaders, and later, that of the Normans.\u00a0 A dialect of the Aram\u0107an tribes of Syria and northern Arabia supplanted Hebrew, Ph\u015bnician, Assyrian, and Babylonian. Arabic, in turn, supplanted Aramaic after the Mohammedan conquest.\u00a0 The fact is:\u00a0 Language is not a test of race; rather, it is a test of social contact (Sayce, 30\u201331).\u00a0 Therefore, it is unwise to draw conclusions regarding races from the evidence of language alone (Wainwright, 14). To assume the lost ten tribes of Israel could not lose their language in the space of a few hundred years is contrary to the known facts regarding language and race.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A commonly accepted argument is that Israel could not have migrated to Europe because Josephus tells us that the Scythians are descended from Japheth, and that the Greeks called the sons of Japheth “Scythians” (Darms, 143\u2013144).\u00a0 Statements supposedly reinforce the argument that the Celtic family had its origin in Gomer, the son of Japheth, and that the Cimmerians and Cimbri are descended from the Celtic family (ibid, 134).\u00a0 Furthermore, every ancient historian who connects European genealogies with those of the Bible, shows that the northwestern Europeans are descended from Japheth.\u00a0 And, that Josephus said the sons of Japheth settled all the areas of Europe\u2014from the Black Sea to the Atlantic.\u00a0 There is, therefore, no history of the ancient world that shows the Europeans were Israelites (Justice, 77).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Is this true?<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The statement by Josephus concerning the sons of Japheth, refers to nations that received their names from their\u00a0first<\/em>\u00a0inhabitants.\u00a0 So, the statement that the children of Japheth had settled from the Black Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, whatever Josephus meant by this remark, refers to those who first lived in these areas.\u00a0 He does not say those inhabitants were living there in his day, nor should this be construed to mean in modern times. We have already seen that the sons of Shem drove the children of Japheth into the holes and corners of the earth, far away from their original inheritance.\u00a0 Other peoples have long possessed all the territories the sons of Japheth originally possessed.\u00a0 Furthermore, the appellation “Scythian” was assigned to at least 50 nations.\u00a0 Many of these people are not described as Japhetic, though the term Scythian could have been applied to some of them.\u00a0 Scythian simply meant “nomad,” or “wanderer,” and referred to those people who adhered to this lifystyle.\u00a0 Historians today generally avoid applying the name Scythian to members of the yellow race. Also, the appellation “Celt” was broadly applied to all the peoples inhabiting Western Europe.\u00a0 The Celtic peoples are not described as Japhetic.\u00a0 Scholars failed to differentiate between the Cimmerians and Celts, mixing the two (Hannay, 119\u2013120).\u00a0 While some Mongol stock may have been included in the appellation Celt, the bulk was Nordic and Alpine stock.\u00a0 Hannay believed the Celts were composed of peoples who at one time had been held captive by the Assyrians in the region of Lake Van (ibid, 125).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Historians, as a whole, prefer to remain in the mainstream of thought and to rely on other historians.\u00a0 Their hypotheses are often built upon previous works, but with a new twist of their own.\u00a0The idea that all the progeny of northwestern Europe are descended from Japheth came from early Catholic historians who were attempting to connect early European genealogies with the Bible.\u00a0 Keating is a case in point.\u00a0 In the pedigree of Miledh or Milesius of Spain, who brought the Milesian Scots to Britain, Keating jumps the track at Azariah or Easru, the great-grandson of Judah and switches it to Gaedal or Glas, the great-great-grandson of Magog.\u00a0 Thus, he makes the genealogy Japhetic rather than Semitic (Keating, 183).\u00a0 Professor Rawlinson advanced the idea that “Cimmerian” was derived from “Gomerian,” though it was not original with him.\u00a0 Josephus first advanced it, and many scholars followed him into the error.\u00a0\u00a0 Most of them read an unintended meaning into his statement.\u00a0 Raymond Capt mentions a British scholar who said:\u00a0 “It is quite a wrong supposition that the Cymbrians should have been so called from Gomer; indeed, it is questionable whether any nation has adopted a patronymic name which can be proved to have been derived from its first individual founder” (Capt, 218).\u00a0 Did Catholic scholars deliberately conceal the true identity of the British people under the subterfuge they are the descendants of Japheth?\u00a0 Lionel Lewis strongly hints so.\u00a0 He implies the primary reason appears to be that Catholic scholars were unwilling to admit a British Catholic foundation older than that of Rome (Lewis, 41).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Another argument is advanced by Charles Kent.\u00a0 He says the Israelites could not have migrated into Europe because with the fall of Samaria they not only lost their identity as a nation, but the character of the people was completely changed due to the foreign population introduced into the land. He says the Assyrian policy of eliminating national spirit by the assimilation and merging of different races proved to be extremely successful in the case of Israel, and that the Israelites who survived the Assyrian wars were allowed to remain in their homes.\u00a0 The result, Kent says, was that they mixed with foreign peoples. So the wild theory concerning the “lost ten tribes of Israel” is entirely without foundation (Kent, 105\u2013107).\u00a0 Kent’s view does not agree with the Bible.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Bible states:<\/p>\n

Therefore the\u00a0LORD\u00a0was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only . . . . the\u00a0LORD\u00a0removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.\u00a0\u00a0 And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel: and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the cities thereof (2 Kings 17:18, 23\u201324).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Jeremiah (643\u2013585\u00a0BC) is regarded as the author of the books of Kings.\u00a0 His statement in 2 Kings above was written about 130 years after Israel had been carried away into captivity.\u00a0 It is a summary statement of what took place in the land.\u00a0 Some Israelites were still present during the reign of the Jewish king Josiah (637\u2013607\u00a0BC), or about 100 years after Israel was carried away.\u00a0 While a remnant of Israelites had come under the dominion of Jewish kings and remained in the land (2 Chron. 34:1\u20139), by the time of Jeremiah all were removed.\u00a0 The Israelites in the northern kingdom did not lose their identity because they mingled with foreigners.\u00a0 They lost their identity because they were deported, lost their language, and were called by another name.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Both history and archaeology, which predates history, show an unbroken picture of tribes appearing, and disappearing, crossing and recrossing, assimilating, dividing, colonizing, conquering, or being absorbed (Ripley, 107).\u00a0 So, what happened to Israel was not unusual.\u00a0 Many ancient nations have vanished, not only in name, but also in race.\u00a0 What is significant is that at the time Europe became a seething wilderness of peoples coming from the east, they had the same names as the vanishing Asiatic races.\u00a0 The principal racial stocks of Europe are identified with the principal races of Asian antiquity (Hannay, 223).\u00a0 While nations were generally named according to their geography, often tribes took names from patriarchs or heroes.\u00a0 This was particularly true when a tribe branched off from a larger nation (Kephart, 352).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 From about the second century\u00a0AD, with the massive movements of Germanic peoples pouring into the Roman provinces, countless minor tribes disappeared and were replaced by larger nations such as the Franks, Alemanni, Saxons, and Goths.\u00a0 The tribes on the lower Rhine became known as the Catti and Sicambri, names we have seen earlier in this work.\u00a0 On the Baltic, tribes were known by such names as Frisii, Chauci, and Angli.\u00a0 Many other tribal names appear on the scene.\u00a0 Smaller communities were uniting and becoming larger nations. Some raised themselves to considerable power.\u00a0 At the same time many tribes were exterminated due to internecine wars or during some migration.\u00a0 Some joined with nations to which they did not originally belong.\u00a0 Others separated, such as the Lombards, who detached themselves from the Suevi and united with the Saxons (Menzel, 104, 10).\u00a0 Modern political boundaries are a superficial creation, and nationality bears no constant or necessary relation to race.\u00a0 Half of France, for example, is composed of Teutonic stock, which is racially Germanic (Ripley, 32).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0In order to succeed, a migration must be domestic, not military.\u00a0 A wholesale attempt to colonize must include men, women, and children.\u00a0 The reason Roman conquests had little effect on altering races was because they were military.\u00a0 A conqueror can succeed only by great intelligence and continual reinforcements. The Teutons who entered England were successful because they came there by the thousands (Ripley, 30\u201331).\u00a0 Migrating is not an easy accomplishment.\u00a0 Not only must the migrants fight through enemy territory, but also they must drive the people from the new territory claimed.\u00a0 On occasions, though, nations would permit migrating tribes to pass through their territory if they continued beyond the borders (Kephart, 446).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A permanent witness that a people who spoke a particular language passed through an area is seen in place names.\u00a0 A place name lasts much longer than the spoken language within a particular locality.\u00a0 Since it cannot migrate, it serves as a monument that marks the earlier confines of the language.\u00a0 While newcomers may alter the old name to suit their particular likes, the distinctive quality of age gives it permanence.\u00a0 This is the reason every migration has a trail of place names which indicates previous occupants.\u00a0 Nowhere is the evidence more vivid than in Europe.\u00a0 Each wave of Teutonic invaders can be traced with certainty by this means (Ripley, 26, 312).\u00a0 (The reader will recall this practice by the Israelitsh tribe of Dan.)<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We have previously commented on overpopulation as a motivation for migration.\u00a0 This was the primary reason, along with famine, for the German migrations in Europe, though the Germans had warlike tendencies and a thirst for adventure (Menzel, 19).\u00a0 Overpopulation was the main reason the Vikings left Scandinavia (Olson, 117).\u00a0 This began the Viking Age, which lasted from the second century\u00a0AD\u00a0to about the middle of the twelfth century without interruption (du Chaillu, 26).\u00a0 Often shepherd tribes are forced to leave because of prolonged drought.\u00a0 They usually attack their agricultural neighbors, thus setting the nomadic tribes in motion (Grant, 224\u2013225).\u00a0 When Roman domination came to an end, large-scale migrations of various tribes brought about vast cultural changes (Crossland, 6\u20137).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Charles Kent’s argument that Israel lost its identity because it remained in the land of Palestine and was merged with foreigners does not hold water when we consider what history reveals concerning races and languages.\u00a0 Kent’s argument is entirely too simplistic to be believable, and it does not consider the facts of history.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 David Baron makes the accusation that the so-called historical proofs used to support the British-Israel theory are derived from heathen myths and fables, as well as faulty philology which traces the word “British” to “Berith-ish” and “Saxon” to “Isaac’s-son” (Baron, 10).\u00a0 Previous chapters in this work have demonstrated historical proofs that are anything but heathen myths and fables.\u00a0 Philological attempts to trace “British” to “Berith-ish” (i.e. Covenant man) and “Saxon” from “Isaac’s-son” may be less tenable, but are essentially only twigs on the tree.\u00a0 Baron adds that some of these pagan writers believed that the object of worship in the Holy of Holies was the head of an ass, and that they believed other absurdities as well.\u00a0 This is his attempt to lump all pagan writers and historians as unreliable, without taking into consideration the subject of their writings.\u00a0 The question we need to ask is this:\u00a0 Do we reject all the events in Greek and Roman history because the historians who recorded these events were pagan?\u00a0 While it is true that no tribe is altogether without tradition\u2014some founded on facts, others on imagination\u2014whatever the origin, traditions are of little value unless supported by written records.\u00a0Often the fable has a historical record embedded in it that has changed to a childish form and is, therefore, of no historical value (Bancroft, 5:146, 137).\u00a0 On the other hand, hypercriticism often overshoots the mark and rejects all traditions as false when in reality they may be exaggerated truths by which further investigation affords collateral evidence of historical events (Keating, 186, fn).\u00a0 The\u00a0Annals of Ulster<\/em>\u00a0are a good example of reliable information because they assumed their present form in the late fifteenth century which follow with remarkable fidelity earlier, often contemporary material on which they were based (Wainwright, 15\u201316).\u00a0 It is only in recent times that the Irish legends have been subjected to serious criticism (Ency. Brit<\/em>., 11th<\/sup>\u00a0ed., s.v. “Ireland”).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The reality is that in some cases the rejection of tradition can have adverse effects.\u00a0 An example is Greek history.\u00a0 The uncertainty of poetical reports, which were the only ancient histories the Greeks possessed, led philosophers to reject Greek history altogether, and to frame new theories of their own for the original state of mankind.\u00a0 The Greeks had no authentic history of primitive mankind, so philosophers concluded that progress had continued for an indefinite length of time.\u00a0 This hypothesis was popular in ancient times and is still with us today.\u00a0 We call it the theory of evolution (E. Davies, 3\u20135).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Today, historians stress the scientific character of their work.\u00a0 As a result they have conveyed the impression that their works are scientific, literally.\u00a0 Nothing could be farther from the truth.\u00a0 The only branch of historical writing that is scientific is source criticism.\u00a0 Source criticism involves the examination of chronicles, reports, deeds, charters, letters, and traditions.\u00a0 All are carefully scrutinized.\u00a0 Scientific methods are used to determine the origin, genuineness, and value of this material.\u00a0 But here is the rub.\u00a0The selection of source material used in any work is strictly a matter of the personal discretion of each critic.\u00a0 What is selected depends on the critic’s concept of the time period he is investigating.\u00a0 In brief, the historian is limited by his own temperament and guided by the spirit of his age.\u00a0 Early source critics ignored the subjective nature of their work because they were enamored by the “scientific approach.”\u00a0They attempted to reconstruct the growth and decay of nations with separate pieces of data in much the same way one would make chemical compounds by joining separate elements.\u00a0 The result was that all the great historians of the world were discarded, men such as Herodotus, Thucydides, Tacitus, and Suetonius.\u00a0 Otto Spengler described it for what it was.\u00a0 His words were:\u00a0 “Historical writing is fiction.”\u00a0He recognized the interpretive function of the historian (Marek, 119\u2013120).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some Greek legends came from events that actually occurred and contain a kernel of truth.\u00a0 The Greeks did not begin to employ writing as a means of preserving history until 776\u00a0BC, which was during the first Olympiad.\u00a0 Even so, the heroic age must not be entirely passed over.\u00a0 Traditions of a people are worthy of record, and this is especially true of the Greeks.\u00a0\u00a0The Illiad<\/em>, for example, is a historical novel and does record actual events (Trump, 189\u2013190).\u00a0 The very outside limit of early history goes back only 4,000 years (Wasserman, intro., 14).\u00a0 So, far as ancient history is concerned, tradition and general belief, as far as broad facts are concerned, are what we must consider (Morgan, 63).\u00a0 The idea that we cannot rely on pagan historians overlooks the basis for the original account.\u00a0 Many of the ancient accounts contain important kernels of truth, and while details may be confused, they do add a dimension to what is already known, and should not be rejected on the basis of Baron’s argument.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There are two questions concerning the northern kingdom that can certainly be answered:\u00a0 (1) Were the ten tribes lost? And, (2) are not the names of Israel and Judah two names for the same nation?\u00a0 Those who oppose the belief that the ten tribes lost their identity say the whole hypothesis is based on the assumption the tribes never returned and that they no longer exist.\u00a0 One writer refers to 2 Chronicles 30:1 to “prove” the tribes never left the land because Hezekiah invited people of Ephraim and Manasseh to attend the Passover after Israel had supposedly been taken captive.\u00a0 The northern kingdom was vanquished from 721\u2013718\u00a0BC.\u00a0 The first year of Hezekiah’s reign was in 723\u00a0BC, two years before the deportation of the northern kingdom began.\u00a0 Israel was removed from the land by three successive deportations.\u00a0 The final removal did not take place until some time later.\u00a0 This issue was also addressed on page 71 of this work.\u00a0 By the time of Jeremiah, or about 130 years after the deportations began, all from the northern kingdom had been removed (2 Kings 17: 18, 23\u201324).\u00a0 The entire argument is invalid.\u00a0Regarding the second question above, do the names of Israel and Judah refer to the same people?\u00a0 The answer was given on page one of this work.\u00a0 The fact is:\u00a0 In the political sense Israel and Judah are never used as the same, though we see in both Ezra and Nehemiah that the people of Judah are called as Israel.\u00a0 And indeed they are.\u00a0 They are descendants of Israel through their father Judah, but in the Bible we never see the children of the northern kingdom ever referred to as Jews.\u00a0 The fact is:\u00a0 All Jews are Israelites, but not all Israelites are Jews.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What do knowledgeable Jews themselves say regarding lost Israel?\u00a0 The following quotes are from James Mountain’s book entitled,\u00a0The Triumph of British-Israel<\/em>\u00a0(pp. 106\u2013107).\u00a0 While we do not subscribe to many of the beliefs of the British-Israel movement, these quotes are a valuable source of information regarding the views of informed Jews.<\/p>\n

If the Ten Tribes have disappeared, the literal fulfillment of the prophecies would be impossible.\u00a0 If they have not disappeared, obviously, they must exist under a different name (The Jewish Encyclopedia<\/em>, 12:249).<\/p>\n

The Ten Tribes of Israel were irretrievably lost; and a deep and impenetrable silence clings round their dispersion.\u00a0 The thick folds of the veil have never been lifted (The History and Literature of the Israelites<\/em>, by C.\u00a0 and A. D. Rothschild, 1:489).<\/p>\n

The career of the Jews can be traced without difficulty . . . until the present day. Of that of the Israelites, however, nothing authentic is known after their departure from their fatherland to Halah and Habor\u00a0 . . . and the cities of the Medes.\u00a0 With the beginning of their captivity, they seem to have passed from all human knowledge (The Jewish Quarterly Review<\/em>, July 1903).<\/p>\n

By this return of the captives\u2014from Babylon\u2014the Israelitish nation was not restored, since the Ten Tribes . . . were yet left in banishment; and to this day the researches of travellers and wise men have not been able to trace their fate (The Jewish Religion<\/em>, by Isaac Leiser, 1:256).<\/p>\n

The Israelites, who were subjugated by the Assyrian power, disappear from the page of history as suddenly and completely as though the land of their captivity had swallowed them up . . . . The Scriptures speak of a future restoration of Israel, which is clearly to include both Judah and Ephraim.\u00a0 The problem then is reduced to its simplest form.\u00a0 The Ten Tribes are certainly in existence.\u00a0 All that has to be done is to discover which people represent them (The Jewish Chronicle<\/em>, May 2, 1879).<\/p>\n

We are longing to find our lost brethren who for two thousand years have baffled all our efforts to discover their whereabouts, and are at this day a riddle even to the greatest of our illustrious Rabbis (comment by Rabbi Gershom).<\/p>\n

The author of Chronicles\u2014a contemporary of Ezra\u2014says that the captives of Israel are “up to this day” in the lands of their transportation . . . . The hope of the return of the Ten Tribes has never ceased among the Jews in exile (comment by A. Neubauer in\u00a0The Jewish Quarterly Review<\/em>).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These views contradict the opinions of most modern theologians.\u00a0 Anyone who has done much study into the subject, will quickly find that support for both pro and con arguments is based on the interpretation of prophecy. Many of these prophecies are vague, but there are some that are very specific with respect to time and need no interpretation.\u00a0 For example, Jeremiah 3:18 and Hosea 1:11 are often quoted to prove Israel returned with Judah after the Babylonian captivity.\u00a0 A look at these texts reveals both are vague with respect to time, though the former implies an event\u00a0after<\/em>\u00a0the return of Christ.\u00a0 But look at Hosea 3:5.\u00a0 It is very specific.\u00a0 It reads:\u00a0 “Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the\u00a0LORD\u00a0their God, and David their king; and shall fear the\u00a0LORD\u00a0and his goodness\u00a0in the latter days<\/em>” (Emphasis ours).\u00a0 This is clearly a reference to the last days; it refers to the return of Christ and the resurrection of King David. When the Jews returned to Palestine during the time of Ezra, they did not seek King David.\u00a0 He had died many years earlier, so this text pinpoints “the latter days.”\u00a0 This is a prophecy that will take place\u00a0after<\/em>\u00a0the return of Christ.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ezekiel 37:15\u201317 is often quoted to “prove” the schism between the house of Israel and the house of Judah was to be brief.\u00a0 “The word of the\u00a0LORD\u00a0came again unto me, saying,\u00a0 Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:\u00a0 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.” Notice the time setting, particularly verses 24 and 25.\u00a0 “And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.\u00a0 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children’s children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.”\u00a0 Again, this text is a reference to the “last days,” a prophecy that will be fulfilled\u00a0after<\/em>\u00a0the return of Christ.\u00a0 David will be resurrected at that time (1 Cor. 15:22\u201323).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 According to the Bible, somewhat over 42,000 Jews returned to Palestine after the Babylonian captivity (Ezra 2:64).\u00a0 When Sennacherib attacked Judah, he took 46 fenced cities and deported 200,150 Jews.\u00a0 This number represented only a portion of the population, because Jerusalem had thousands of refugees within its walls.\u00a0 The city was not taken.\u00a0 The number deported from the northern kingdom must have run into the millions, since the Jews were only one tribe.\u00a0 To assume those who came back under Ezra is the fulfillment of the prophecies regarding the restoration of Israel, is wishful thinking.\u00a0Ezra 6:17 describes a dedication for the house of God, which included offering 12 sacrificial goats representing the 12 tribes.\u00a0 The assumption is that all 12 tribes must have been present.\u00a0 This was a sin offering.\u00a0 The Temple was intended for all the covenant people, whose return to the Lord and to the land of Palestine, according to the prophets was anticipated.\u00a0 Not even all the Jews were present, as vast numbers of them had been deported along with the northern kingdom when it was overthrown.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New Testament texts are also employed to “prove” the Israelites from the northern kingdom returned at the time of Ezra.\u00a0 Since Anna of the tribe of Asher (Luke 2:36) is mentioned, it is assumed the term “Jew” and “Israelite” are synonymous.\u00a0 Since the book of Ezra mentions “Jews” eight times, and “Israel” 40 times, the two must be the same people.\u00a0 Similarly, the book of Nehemiah mentions “Jews” 11 times and “Israel” 22 times. According to Paul Benware, it is a fallacy to assume that the term “Jew” stands for the bodily descendants of the tribe of Judah, since in both biblical and secular usage the term has a far broader meaning (Benware, 83).\u00a0 Anton Darms insists that after the return from Babylon the term “Jew” and “Israel” are used interchangeably.\u00a0 He cites various concordances, Bible dictionaries, and encyclopedias to prove his argument (Darms, 29\u201330).\u00a0 The problem, of course, is the failure to recognize that all Jews are Israelites, but not all Israelites are Jews.\u00a0 References in both Ezra and Nehemiah are in keeping with this fact.\u00a0 The same is true in Acts 2:22, 36.\u00a0 Nowhere does the Bible use the term “the 12 tribes of Judah.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Josephus supposedly “proves” that Jews are not distinct from Israel.\u00a0 This is because Josephus uses the term “Jew” to apply to all ten tribes from the beginning of their history (Ant<\/em>., IX, xiv; VI, ii, 2 and iii, 5; VII, iv, 1;\u00a0Apion<\/em>\u00a0I, xiii and II, ii).\u00a0 Therefore, his statement that only two tribes were in subjection to the Romans has no significance since all these people were Jews.\u00a0 What is overlooked is that Josephus said that the appellation “Jew” was not applied to the Jews until\u00a0after<\/em>\u00a0the Babylonian captivity, and that it was also applied to the land (Ant<\/em>., XI, v, 7).\u00a0 He knew perfectly well the distinction, but in his works uses the term “Jew” because this was the common practice of the day.\u00a0 He specifically said that only\u00a0two tribes<\/em>\u00a0were in subjection to the Romans and did not refer to them as Jews, but rather as the “people of Israel.”\u00a0 He knew the difference.\u00a0 The fact is: The Bible makes the distinction clear in 2 Kings 16:5\u20136.\u00a0 In about 740\u00a0BC, the Jews were at war with the house of Israel and are here called Jews for the first time.\u00a0 We read:\u00a0 “Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.\u00a0 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath to Syria, and drave the Jews from Elath: and the Syrians came to Elath, and dwelt there unto this day.”\u00a0 Even Anton Darms admits\u00a0 the difference.\u00a0 He says the book of Ezekiel proves that Israel was still in the land of the Medes at the close of the Babylonian period, and had not migrated elsewhere (Darms, 142).\u00a0 Actually, portions of Israel had already moved across the Araxes by that time.\u00a0 David Baron also admits, “There is not the least possibility of doubt that many of the settlements of the Diaspora [Dispersion] in the time of our Lord\u2014both north, south, and west, as well as east of Palestine\u2014were made up of those who had never returned to the land of their fathers since the time of the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles, and who were not only descendants of Judah, as Anglo-Israelism ignorantly presupposes, but of all the twelve tribes scattered abroad” (Baron, 32).<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Acts 26:6\u20137 is sometimes quoted to demonstrate that Israel was not lost and was found among the Jews.\u00a0 Paul states:\u00a0 “And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:\u00a0 Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope’s sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.”\u00a0 The inference is that the Jews represent the 12 tribes and are urgently serving God day and night.\u00a0 The fact is:\u00a0 The Jews were doing anything but serving God.\u00a0 Paul tells us:\u00a0 “For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:\u00a0 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men” (1 Thess. 2:14\u201315).\u00a0 The entire book of Acts, as well as the Gospels, demonstrate the rebellion and obstinacy of the Jews against the Truth.\u00a0 A much better rendering of Acts 26:6\u20137 is found in the Williams Translation.\u00a0 It reads:\u00a0 “And now it is for the hope of the promise made by God to our forefathers that I stand here on trial, which promise our twelve tribes, by devotedly worshipping day and night, hope to see fulfilled in them.”\u00a0 What Paul said was that the 12 tribes could hope to attain to the promises made by God when all Israel should be “intently serving God.”\u00a0 Paul’s statement was intended for the future; it is not a reference to what the Jews were doing at that time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Other texts employed to “prove” Israel was not lost include James 1:1 and Matthew 10:23.\u00a0 James mentions the 12 tribes that are scattered abroad. This has been interpreted as “the 12 tribes of the Jews.”\u00a0 The Jews are not the 12 tribes.\u00a0 They are one tribe only\u2014the tribe of Judah, though at the time the ten tribes of the north broke away from the house of David, the tribes of Benjamin, Levi, and some Israelites, in limited numbers, joined themselves to the house of Judah. Politically they became known as the house of Judah, and were distinct from the house of Israel.\u00a0 Both vast numbers of Israelites and a number of Jews had been scattered in the deportations under the Assyrian and Babylonian kings.\u00a0 These were the people to whom James was writing.\u00a0 They were found in the territory of the ancient Persian Empire, central Asia, throughout the occidental world, including Asia Minor and the Mediterranean region. James says that many of them were warlike (Jas. 4:1\u20133).\u00a0 In Matthew 10:23, Jesus said:\u00a0 “But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.”\u00a0 Most theologians interpret this text to refer to the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple.\u00a0 In reality, the text is a reference to the second coming of Christ.\u00a0 It is a prophecy for a work that will be done in the last days, just before the return of Christ.\u00a0It demonstrates that very near the end of this age the house of Israel would be scattered around the world, and that not even all these people would hear the true gospel before the return of Christ.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The various arguments presented above are called “the amalgamation theory.”\u00a0 As we have seen, it advocates that the Israelites and Jews fused and came together in representative numbers sufficient enough to become one nation (Mountain, 22).\u00a0 The idea is that a very small remnant of Jews, along with a very few Israelites, returned to Palestine, thus making them representative of all the promises given by God to Israel.\u00a0 They fail to comprehend that the promises could apply to Israel in the last days\u00a0before<\/em>\u00a0the return of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 What is clear is that the two houses\u2014the house of Judah and the house of Israel\u2014will remain separate until the return of Christ, but this separation has no bearing on the fulfillment on God’s promises to the descendants of Abraham.\u00a0 The amalgamation theory was advanced because of the difficulty in locating the ten tribes after their deportation.\u00a0 This was the most “reasonable conclusion” that could be reached (ibid, 22\u201323).\u00a0 The Bible tells us that a limited number of families was resident within the borders of Judah before the captivity (1 Kings 12:17, 1 Chron. 9:3).\u00a0 This included some Simeonites (Josh. 19:1\u20139), and probably accounts for Anna of the tribe of Asher (Luke 2:36\u201338).\u00a0At times religious pilgrimages to Jerusalem took place (2 Chron. 11:16\u201317; 15:9\u201315; 30:1\u201327; 34:9), though there is no indication these pilgrims chose to remain in Judah.\u00a0 The last portion of 2 Chronicles 34:9 should read:\u00a0 “. . . and of all the remnant of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin; and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.”\u00a0 Also, the word “multitude” in 2 Chronicles 30:18 should read “many.”<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anton Darms says that British-Israelites seek to propagate their beliefs by teaching that Great Britain is the “stone kingdom” mentioned in Daniel 2:35 (Darms, 11).\u00a0 This charge is not without basis because British-Israelites often apply this text to the British Empire.\u00a0 The fact is:\u00a0 This verse has been taken out of context; it applies to the Millennium\u00a0after<\/em>\u00a0the return of Christ.\u00a0 It is a reference to the Kingdom of God, not the British Empire.\u00a0 On the other hand, some say that if the Israelites are located in northwestern Europe and the British Isles, they are under a curse.\u00a0 This is because only when they are in Palestine are they blessed.\u00a0 This notion doesn’t make much sense when we look at what is happening in the Holy Land today.\u00a0 There is constant bloodshed between the Arabs and Jews, and peace seems beyond the grasp of all the parties involved.\u00a0 Many who have gone to Palestine leave after a few years, disillusioned.\u00a0 Religious tension exists among the Jews themselves\u2014secular opposed to conservative. The state of Israel is heavily subsidized by the United States government, and receives liberal contributions from Jews who reside in America.\u00a0 In the sense of being blessed, the “promised land” is anything but that, though it is probably much better than living in Russia.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is said by some that there is no Bible reference for Israel to become a multitude of nations in “the latter days.”\u00a0 Furthermore, during the Old Testament period, Israel became as multitudinous as the “stars of heaven,” and that the promise to be like the “stars of heaven” is spiritual in nature and was fulfilled by Galatians 3:29.\u00a0 Also, that the promises given to Jacob regarding the lands applied only to the lands Jacob rested on when the promise was given, and that securing “the gate of his enemies” is figurative, idiomatic, and means that Israel took over the cities of their enemies.\u00a0 In addition, there was no more to the birthright than two tribal portions, and that “body of peoples” and “assemblage of people” was all Jacob’s descendants would become.\u00a0 All these promises were supposedly fulfilled during the Old Testament period and the only place David’s throne has any legitimacy is on Mount Zion in Jerusalem.\u00a0Nations meant no more than little kingdoms in the land of Canaan, and kings meant no more than rulers over cities.\u00a0 Israel is spoken of as “nations” because it was made up of different tribes.\u00a0 They add that anyone who assigns material blessings to the birthright and spiritual blessings to the scepter is manifesting artificiality.\u00a0 In brief, all the promises applied to Israel were meant for the Old Testament period only.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Evidently, some people have not read their Bibles, or refuse to take it at face value.\u00a0 Take Genesis 49:1, 22\u201326, for example.\u00a0 Notice, it is a prophecy for the last days.\u00a0 We read:<\/p>\n

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days . . . . Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:\u00a0 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:\u00a0 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)\u00a0 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:\u00a0 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Joseph is the eponym for the two birthright tribes\u2014Ephraim and Manasseh.\u00a0 What we read here is a prophecy for the last days, just before the return of Christ.\u00a0 This describes an extremely wealthy and powerful nation, not at all what appears in the Old Testament. The wealth and power described above far exceeds the resources and land acquired in ancient Israel (Micah 4:1, 6).\u00a0 Several verses in the context place the time setting in the last days.\u00a0 Micah 5:1, 8\u201310 is another important text.\u00a0 Again, We read in verses 8\u20139:\u00a0 “And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, both treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and none can deliver.\u00a0 Thine hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.”\u00a0 This shows the military power and prestige Israel would possess shortly before the return of Christ.\u00a0 In the light of these texts, how can we believe Galatians 3:29 was the fulfillment.\u00a0 Galatians 3:29 refers to the scepter promise\u2014the promise of salvation through Jesus Christ, which is found in Genesis 22:18.\u00a0 It is not a promise of material blessings.\u00a0 The promise of great material wealth is found in Genesis 22: 17.\u00a0 God said: “That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.” These promises, known in the Bible as the birthright, belonged to Ephraim and Manasseh.\u00a0 Jacob passed them down to the sons of Joseph.\u00a0 This is recorded in Genesis 48:5\u20136, 14\u201316:<\/p>\n

And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.\u00a0 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance . . . . And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim’s head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh’s head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.\u00a0 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day, The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Those who oppose the belief that Israel migrated into western Europe and the British Isles, which comprise the Anglo-Saxon world today, may bicker over the meaning of Old Testament texts, but the facts of modern times speak for themselves.\u00a0 If God did not fulfill the material promises He made to Abraham, then we can have no confidence He fulfilled the promise of a Savior.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Jeremiah 31:35\u201336 states that the seed of Israel shall never cease as a nation before God.\u00a0 Some may argue that this refers to the Jews, but does it exclude the rest of the tribes of Israel?\u00a0 If not, what has become of them?\u00a0 The historical record is clear enough, as has been demonstrated earlier in this work.\u00a0 The standard explanation is that this text refers to the Church.\u00a0 Let us notice a quote from\u00a0The Jewish Encyclopedia<\/em>, 1925 ed., s.v., “tribes, lost ten,” (quoted in Parker).\u00a0 A partial quote of this reference was given earlier.<\/p>\n

As a large number of prophecies relate to the return of ‘Israel’ to the Holy Land, believers in the literal inspiration of the Scriptures have always labored under a difficulty in regard to the continued existence of the tribes of Israel, with the exception of those of Judah and Levi (or Benjamin), which returned with Ezra and Nehemiah.\u00a0 If the Ten Tribes have disappeared, obviously they must exist under a different name.\u00a0 The numerous attempts at identification that have been made constitute some of the most remarkable curiosities of literature.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The movement from the Holy Land into Europe was through the Caucasus.\u00a0 The Jews of the Caucasus regard themselves as representatives of the most blue-blooded Israelitish nobility.\u00a0 They claim to be the descendants of the Israelites sent there from Judea by the Assyrian kings between the end of the eighth and close of the seventh centuries\u00a0BC\u00a0(Pittard, 343).\u00a0 One argument is that Khazar blood vitiated Jewish blood after the Khazar kingdom converted to Judaism. (Pittard tells us that the Great Russians are called Khazars by the Ukranians).\u00a0 Mixed blood marriages between Jews and Gentiles were, in reality, between Jews and Christians, so that the conversion of the Khazars was of slight importance in altering Jewish blood (Ripley, 391).\u00a0 John Beddoe says that the Khazars were Turks of a high type and may be an Aryan mixture (Beddoe, 62).\u00a0 The Turks are a specialized branch of the Alpine race and closely affiliated with the races of Europe.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Those who oppose the truth about the modern identity of Israel assure us that correct prophetic interpretation is the key to a proper understanding of this belief.\u00a0 Then they give us\u00a0their<\/em>\u00a0interpretation of what they think the Scriptures say.\u00a0 They tell us Israel will not come into prominence again until the Messiah comes to rescue them from a scattered condition.\u00a0 This is partially correct.\u00a0 While many Jews are scattered, they do have their own nation that is powerful in its own right.\u00a0 Some Jewish writers admit the Jews today have enough military power to crush all the Arab nations combined.\u00a0 They have atomic weapons, so this could certainly be true. While the ten tribes are in a scattered condition, they too have their own nations\u2014a company of nations.\u00a0 The power of some of them is prodigious.\u00a0 Micah 5:7\u201310 shows that power, but also shows that they will be punished for their national sins.\u00a0 Opponents of British-Israelism do have some valid points, though.\u00a0 They criticize some of the weak prophetic interpretations and historical links used by proponents.\u00a0 Examples would be interpretation of the “seven times” in Leviticus 26; the “tender twig” in Ezekiel 17:22, as proof a Jewish princess would go to England and establish a royal house; the commission of Jeremiah to plant the throne of David in Ireland; the three overturns in Ezekiel 21:25\u201327, which move the throne of David from Palestine to Ireland, from Ireland to Scotland, and from Scotland to England.\u00a0 This is not to say any of these are not true.\u00a0 There are authentic accounts of these events in Keating’s\u00a0History of Ireland<\/em>\u00a0(p. 137).\u00a0 Scholars today would demand much more proof than these.\u00a0 What is important, however, is that the identity of modern Israel does not hinge on the transfer of David’s throne to England, or on the perpetuation of that throne.\u00a0 The massive amount of evidence that is available today clearly demonstrates the Israelite migration from the Holy Land into Europe.\u00a0 As such, it far surpasses any unanswered questions regarding David’s throne.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some questions are easily answered, questions such as: If David shall never want for a man to sit upon the throne of Israel (Jer. 33:17), why is a woman ruling today?\u00a0 If the Scythians are Israelites, why did they not circumcise?\u00a0 In the first instance the Hebrew word for man is “ish.”\u00a0 It refers to both men and women.\u00a0 See Job 12:10; 14:12; 15:16; 34:21, Psalm 39:11; 78:25.\u00a0 In the second instance, Israel had abandoned the Law of Moses over 200 years before going into captivity.\u00a0 They were conquered and deported because they refused to obey God’s Law (2 Kings 17:16\u201318).\u00a0 The British-Israel claim that the Anglo-Saxons are the lineal descendants of the ten tribes of Israel is only partially true.\u00a0 Other nations of northwest Europe, no doubt, should be included.\u00a0 There is a real danger, though, in attributing to oneself all the promises of God.\u00a0 The British-Israel claim that they are the recipients of the national promises made to Abraham is well and good, but to claim immunity from destruction in the form of national punishment, and that they alone are the executors of the commissions God gave to Israel is being presumptuous.\u00a0 Anton Darms is absolutely correct when he says that anyone who believes that Great Britain is now in the state of promised exaltation and blessedness has been drawn into an alliance with the godless world of British society and the demoralizing results that come from such an alliance (Darms, 28).\u00a0 While the English-speaking world may call itself Christian and be responsible for distributing more Bibles than all other nations combined, what is practiced, as Christianity, is\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0what Christ and the Apostles taught.<\/p>\n

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