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2 Timothy 2:15

The lost 10 tribes of Israel are not lost

Who are the Israelites and where did they go

Today people refer to the Israelites as the Jews and the Jews as Israel. But that is not the case at all. I believe we can clearly show you in the Bible that they are two different people.

So I have a question for you: Are all legal Texans Americans? Yes. Are all legal Americans Texans? No.

I have a second question for you: Are all Jews Israelites? Yes. Are all Israelites Jews? No. Why not? Because in the same way Texas is only one state of America so the tribe of Judah is only one tribe of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Now I have a statement that might shock you. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not Jews! I can prove that in the Bible, the Word of God.

To most people the word "Israel" immediately spells "Jew". This is a very big mistake because that is not what the Bible teaches. After the death of Solomon the twelve tribes of Israel were divided into two groups, namely the ten tribes under Jeroboam with Samaria as their capital and the two tribes, Judah and Benjamin, with Jerusalem as their capital.
* quote from "Lost ten tribes of Israel:. FWC Nesser M.Sc

During the time of king Saul, king David and king Solomon all of the tribes of Israel were united under one king. I Kings 11:31-35 is where you will find the prophet Ahijah talking with Jeroboam alone and spoke the prophecy of Jeroboam being the king over the 10 tribes after they will rebel against Rehoboam who put a heavier tax on them than his father Solomon (who had already way over taxed them and got rich). The tribes of Israel had no inheritance of those riches (I Kings 12:16, II Chronicles 10:16).

Solomon's son, Rehoboam, wanted to bring the 12 tribes back together by force (I Kings 12:19-25). But God sent the prophet Shemaiah to him and said "This thing is from Me" (I Kings 12:24). Psalm 114:2 says Judah became His sanctuary and Israel His dominion (Two different groups of people).

Webster's dictionary:
Sanctuary - A consecrated place (as part of a church in which the alter is placed).
Dominion - 1) Domain, 2) Supreme authority: sovereignty, 3) A self governing nation of the commonwealth.

In Gods Word, when He is referring to the 10 tribes they are called "The house of Israel". When He is referring to the 2 tribes they are called "The house of Judah". When referring to all 12 tribes they are called "Israel".

So when did they get separated?

In the year 721 BC "The house of Israel" (10 tribes) were carried away to Assyria in the north, never to return as a nation. (II Kings 17:6, 7, 18, 22, 23).

In the year 604 BC "The house of Judah", the 2 tribe kingdom, was taken into captivity to Babylon (II Chronicles 36:17-21).

70 years after the captivity of the house of Judah, Cyrus, the king of Persia, gave permission for the house of Judah to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple (Ezra 1:1-3, 5, 10:7, 9). This return did not include any of the house of Israel, but only the house of Judah, from Babylonian captivity.

Some of the Levite priests were included in the 2 tribe kingdom (the house of Judah). II Kings 16:6 was the first time in the Bible that the word "Jew" is used. It is interpreted "Jews", but the correct word would be "The men of Judah". It is rendered this way in the Revised Version as "Those people who returned from the Babylonian captivity. The house of Judah was the first to be known as "Jews".

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not Jews, but Hebrews. Jacobs' name got changed to Israel and that is the beginning of the Israelites, Jacobs' 12 sons, Genesis 32:28

Jesus tells His 12 apostles to go to the lost sheep of Israel (The house of Israel). The only way you can have lost sheep is to not have a place of your own. The Jews had Judea and Jerusalem. The house of Israel were wanderers and had no place of their own, Matthew 10:5,6.

James, Peter and Paul wrote to the sheep scattered abroad, James 1:1, I Peter 1:1. Again Jesus said in Matthew 15:24, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. The Jews were the ones who rejected Jesus and had Him crucified. Jeremiah 50:17-20 proclaim Israel is a scattered flock.

If the ten tribes (the house of Israel) disappeared then the prophecies about them would be impossible. Obviously they must exist under a different name.

--  The prophecies of the Bible regarding The House of Israel and the House of Judah  --
God is not a liar. Romans 3:4

The prophecies we are about to look at will never be interpreted correctly as long as there is no distinction between the ten tribes (the House Of Israel) and the two tribes (the House of Judah). The Bible will remain not understood as long as the ten tribes are lumped together with the Jews as they are today. The Jews of today are a mixed breed of true Jews and people who refer to themselves as Jews, but are not Jews. The Great study on this subject, "The Lost Ten Tribes Of Israel", by F.W.C. Neser, M. Sc, shows clearly that the Jews of today are so mixed that they are an extremely heterogenous (impure) nation.

Only about 50,000 people came out of Babylon to Jerusalem. Many of the Jews of today do not even have a drop of Judah blood in them and therefore have no claim on the promises of God to Israel.

There are so many scriptures that talk about the two different houses, here are a few of them: 2 Samuel 7:10-29, Jeremiah 23:6-8, 31:31-34, Amos 9:9-15, Hebrews 8:8-13

These are some of the irrevocable promises made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob "Israel". To Abraham: Genesis 12:1-3, 13: 15-17, 15:5-6, 15:16, 15:19-21, 17:2-8, 18:18, 22:15-18. To Isaac: Genesis 26:3-5,24, 24:60. To Jacob: Genesis 27:28-29, 28:3,4,13,14, 32:12,27,28, 35:11,12.

So the question must be asked, who and where are the ten tribes of Israel today?

We will show you that they are not lost but very prosperous and very many. After the Assyrian captivity the ten tribes moved up through the caucus mountains and to the west where they settled and became as different tribes or nations under God. But all together as friendly people believing in the same God, Jesus Christ - the son of God. They are now in the British Isles, Germany, Scotland, etc. And now in Canada and America (United States).

We will show you their movement and confirm this is the track they went. They became known as Caucasians. "Webster's dictionary - 2004- Caucasian - of or relating to the white race of human kind."

If you were born in America there is a good chance you are an Israelite or at least have some connection to the Israelites by blood. Luke 1:33, says Jesus is coming to rule over the house of Jacob (Israel) that is put for all 12 tribes of Israel, not just the two tribed house of Judah that resides in the land called Israel. So then the house of Israel must still be alive and thriving today.

After around 600 B.C. the Assyrian captivity was over and the ten tribes moved west around the Caspian Sea and over the Caucus mountains and lost their true name/identity, Israel, and were called by other names. This is the lo-ami period of Hosea 1:9. But Hosea 1:10 shows us that God still allowed Israel to become so many as the sand of the sea shore and dust of the Earth: Genesis 12:1-3, 15:5-6, 17:2-8. Gods promises and covenants will always play out just as He said in His Word.

The house of Israel went a way they knew not (Isaiah 42:16). They moved toward the place God approved for them (2 Samuel 7:10). They wandered through Europe, as it was at the time a wilderness. If God has made an everlasting covenant with Israel (all 12 tribes) and the Jewish nation of today is only two of the tribes of Israel, then we must look to other nations to find the other ten tribes of Israel. Matthew 21:43 says this is the Jewish nation: "Therefore I say this to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bringing forth the fruit thereof." God's promises like Matthew 21:43, Isaiah 43:10,11,12,21 44:1-8.

God cannot lie. His Word does not return void. The nation or nations that show forth His praise, and who are His witnesses and who do His work, His servants, must be literal Israel. (The 10 tribes) The Jews who are of Israel (Jacob), or some of the Jews of today, are not doing it. Jesus said that it would be taken from them and given to a nation (not a church which means a congregation) that bring forth the fruit thereof (Matthew 21:43). It had to be given to the other ten tribes, otherwise God's promises to Israel would be broken.

The white western protestant nations, even though in a backslidden state, do proclaim the praise of the eternal true God and of His son Jesus, the Christ (messiah). They print and distribute the Bible, send out missionaries, print and distribute Christian literature, acknowledge the God head as the supreme authority and so on. Take the western nations out of the history of the past 2000 years and see what remains of the world of God and the proclaiming of it. Absolutely nothing!

Even with the western nations and all their proclaiming of the Word, the rest of the world still remains, nationally, heathen or without the true God. Not to see the obvious conclusion is to remain willfully blind. (Nesser)

The conclusion is clearly this: The white western nations represent the ten tribes of Israel just as the Jews represent the two tribes Judah and Benjamin. The House of Judah and the house of Israel will remain apart until the second coming of Christ. Jeremiah 3:17-18, 16:15, 23:8, Ezekiel 37.

The proof from the true history, the Earth itself.
It's time to look at the route that the ten tribes took to get to where they are today. You can not look to the history books in schools because satan has done a good job of confusing the people to the truth. I Corinthians 14:33. You must look to the archaeologists who are digging up the history from the Earth. The Earth giving up the truth by tablets of clay and statues and many things that prove the course of the ten tribes.

We must also look to the museums and the records of Assyria and Great Britain. The Assyrians called Israel by many names and it is in their records and history. Before the exile of the ten tribes from Assyria they were called "bit-khumri". That means "the sons of Omri" which is the king who founded Samaria. I kings 16:16, 21-25; Micah 6:16.

When Israel went into exile, they ceased to be called Israel, which means "a ruler with God", and were called by other names, such as bit-khumri, which means "the house of Omri". We see in Micah 6:16 that Omri was the name God said "the disgrace of my people you should bear".

So it came to be that the ten tribes, "the house of Israel", ceased to exist in the history books of the nations. Israel had become "lo-ami", which means "not my people", Hosea 1:9, until the "fullness of time", that would come when Israel would be called "the sons of the living God", Hosea 1:10. In other words, Christians. *Nesser*

Archaeology Proves Israel Was Taken Captive By Assyria

We must first show you in the Bible where Israel was disobedient to God and taken captive by Assyria. (The tablets and inscriptions found by archaeologists are a double witness to the Bible.) We then can show you the Bible and tablets of archaeology that proves the track they took to lead us to this great revelation of truth. 1 Chronicles 5:25-26. Talks about the transgressions of Israel and how they went "whoring after other gods". You will see the names of some of the ten tribes in this scripture. Also see 2 Kings 15:29.

The first piece of archaeological evidence we want to introduce is one of the greatest findings to date that proves the Bible and the history of Israel's capture. Sennacherib's cylinder, 607-583 B.C. It records his campaign against Israel. It is in the British Museum (55-10-2.1). It records the capture of Israel and it is a double witness to scripture. See Companion Bible appendix #67 for much more information on this, one of, if not, the greatest finding of its kind.

Also known as "The Taylor Prism". Also see "Missing Links Discovered" By E. Raymond Capt, PP 75-77. The Behistun Rock is also a great discovery that declares the capture of the ten tribes (The house of Israel). It is here that we find the key to the hidden history of the House of Israel, after the Assyrian captivity.

Israel escapes from her Assyrian bondage under these names: Scythians, Saca, Cimmerians, Gimiri. The inscriptions on the Behistun rock confirms a book in the Brittish museum, "Sculpture and inscriptions of Darius at Behistun, Persia." Published in 1907. The identity of these names being the House of Israel is very clear. Paul speaks of the Scythian in Colossians 3:11. Smiths Bible dictionary shows Scythians as being "the nomadic tribes" i.e. the lost and wandering tribes. The Webster's dictionary gives this description of nomadic - a member of a people who have no fixed residence but move from place to place. They are a wanderer without a home. (scattered and lost). James 1:1, Jeremiah 50:17, 1 Peter 1:1.

After the Jews rejected Jesus, He gave the apostles these instructions: Matthew 10:5,6 & 15:24. The Jews asked: John 7:35. And from 1 Peter 1:1 & 2:9,10; James 1:1, it is clear that the dispersed among the gentiles were the lost 10 tribes. The apostles and the Jews knew 7 centuries after the fall of the house of Israel that the ten tribes had not disappeared, but were living in Asia around the Black Sea in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia and Bithynia. The house of Israel (or the ten tribes) became separated into different groups such as Scyths, Sacae, Cimri and Getae. The groups or tribes were sometimes separated from one another. They did not call themselves Scyths, but were called that by the Greeks. Colossians 3:11

The Goths in northwest and west Europe, the Scythians in Russia and Ukraine, the Cimmerians in Europe. It is evident why the nations from whom the west and northwest European nations have descended are called the Caucasian race, It is because they entered Europe from Media through the Caucasian (Caucasus) mountains (a mountain range at the intersection of Asia and Europe). They were none other than the so called lost ten tribes of Israel.

The Migration of the House of Israel

The Scythians in South Russia and the battle between the Celts and Scythians is a whole book in itself, but as time would have it, God was actually directing these "lost ten tribes" to the place He had ordained for them in the latter days. In this predestined place they were to develop into the Christian nations of today, The Anglo-Saxon.

We see then that the west and northwest European nations, including those who migrated from there to North America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia all sprang originally from the ten tribes of Israel as distinct from the Jews.

After the Assyrian captivity in exile the ten tribes became divided into two groups in separate places, one near the upper Euphrates, the other in Media. These two groups migrated by different routes and over different periods to the countries of the west and northwestern Europe. Some of them arrived first in the British Isles as Celts.

Others came from west and north western Europe in successive waves as, Danes, Vikings, Saxons and Normans and invaded the British Isles and there developed into the British, Scotch, Irish and Welch nations. Those of them who remained behind on the continent of west and northwestern Europe in the course of time became the nations known today as Norwegians, Swedes, Danes, Hollanders, West-Germans, parts of Belgium, France and northern Italy. Pockets of these Israelites were also left behind all over Europe and even as far away as Russia in the east and Spain and Portugal in the west.

This is an amazing history that will be totally revealed and the veil removed when our king, the real Jesus, returns to His people. Those that are doing His work when He returns will be greatly blessed!

Israelites Identified In Assyrian Tablets

II Kings 19:36,37; Isaiah 37:36,37 Sennacherib claims victory over Israel. But the Bible tells a different story.
Taylor Prism in British museum

Note: in the Companion Bible, "in the Assyrian inscriptions he is called the son of Omri." 2 Kings 9:2 Jehu is the son of Jehosaphat and reigned over Israel 28 years. "Jehu Stele or Black Obelisk", shows king Jehu bowing down to the Assyrian king and the scene is written in Assyrian cuniform script and tells how Shalmaneser III received silver and gold gifts from Jehu.

The tribute of Jehu (Iaua) son of Khumri (Omri) the Hebrew name Omri begins with the consonant "Y" called "ayin" which is pronounced with a guttreal "H" and is represented in Assyria transliteration as "GH" or "KH". The Israelites naturally pronounced "Omri" as "Ghomri" which became "Khumri" in Assyrian. The Assyrians called the Israelites "Beth Khumri" meaning "House of Omri". Before even being taken into captivity similar pronunciations are "Gomorrah", "Gaza", both of which begin with consonant "Y".

The Assyrian name "Khumri" used for the name Israel, or to denote the Israelites, is also found in the annals of king Tiglath Pileser III concerning his invasion of Israel when he removed the first Israelites to Assyria: "The cities of Gilead and Abel-Beth-Maacah on the borders of the land of Khumri and the widespread land of Hazael to its whole extent, I brought within the territory of Assyria."

Sargon II (722-705 bc), also makes mention of the Khumri in his record of the capture of Samaria. He refers to himself as the conqueror of "Bit-Khumri" (Omri). In 1847 Austin Henry Layard found the great palace of Sennacherib which was in the capital of Assyria (Nineveh). This is where the gigantic winged lions were unearthed. In two small rooms many clay tablets were found in Assyria. Arrow-headed writing which is called cuniform writing. These were the books of the royal library of the Assyrian kings. Over 23,000 tablets were found, some whole and some broken. They contained documents and writings about stars and planets, mathematical calculations, medical prescriptions, religious text, business documents and historical records. You can do a much deeper study on these tablets and records by getting the book "Missing Links Discovered" by E. Raymond Capt.

There is so much info on this subject but we must only touch the surface here. We find in the tablets info on the placement of a large group of the ten tribed northern kingdom called the Land Of Gamir, Letters #197 and 646. In letter #112 "Arad-sin to the overseer of the palace" reveals the names of the inhabitants of Gamir as Gamera and further identified them as Cimmerians (ga-me-ra-a-an).

The texts of the preceding tablets reveal the Israelites originally known to the Assyrians as Khumri were placed in captivity near the river harbor in northern Assyria in Gozan and among the Medes in Northern Iran. In captivity the Israelites were named Gimira and Gamera and finally Cimmerians.

The Earth Gives Up The Truth (and confirms the scripture)

So archaeology has solved two great mysteries, both occurring at the same time in history:
1) What happened to the countless thousands of Israelites that disappeared into Assyrian captivity?
2) Where did the countless thousands of Scythians and Cimmerians come from?
Both mysteries no longer exists. The so called lost tribes of Israel were really never lost. They only lost their identity during their captivity in Assyria.

The clay Cuniform letters found in Ashurbanipal's royal library at Kijunjik are the "missing links" connecting the Israelites to the people of western Europe and America who trace their roots to the Scythians and Cimmerians.

To bring this home we will look at the migration of the ten tribes who became known as the Scythians and Cimmerians to Europe and then to America's known as the Caucasian "white" race. The Apocryphal second book of Esdras, II Esdras 13:39-45, talks about specifically the ten tribes being carried away to Assyria captive. Then how they left the heathen population and went into another land. Even Greek historical writers agree in their writing about the Cimmerians being a large group of strong people.

Like Strabo, Aristotle and Herodotus

The Behistun rock shows and says this is king Darius king of Persia over the Sakkas and Gimiri. The Sakka was a tribe from the Gimiri from the east of Assyria. These people were taken right from the same area the Assyrians placed them when brought into captivity (ten tribes).

In conclusion of the study of the Assyrian captivity of the ten tribes of the north it is clear and evident that the Iskuza, Sakkam, Gimiri, the Scythians and the Cimmerians are the Israelites. It is now time to show you the migration of these people to central Asia, Europe and then to America.

The Cimmerian Migration

So much needs to be studied about the migration of the Cimmerians and Scythians that I can only give you a few historical facts. You must study this out to prove its facts. 2 Timothy 2:15.

Cimmerians moved over the Caucasus mountains and into Asia minor. Then as Scythians came up in the same area Cimmerians moved northeast and east into Europe and became known as Celts, the Romans called them Gauls. As a guide to the travels they moved up the Danube river into north western Europe through Hungary and Austria into southern Germany and France where they became known as Celts and Gauls.

In the 7th and 6th centuries groups of Celtic tribes had settled in Bohemia and Bauria. Many things, such as tombs, swords, houses have been dug up by archaeologists from the Earth. Material from these tombs have been given the name the Hallstatt Culture, so called from the area of upper Austria. Also found were weapons, fine bronze vessels, horse harnesses and pottery. (For a deep study with maps and more get the book "Missing Links Discovered" by E. Raymond Capt, available at The Shepherds Chapel - www.shepherdschapel.com)

The Celts and Gauls eventually expanded into the remote parts of Europe, Britain and Ireland. Many things have been unearthed to prove this migration. "Ogham" is an early written language of the Celts and Gauls that was found. Missing Links p152.

The Scythian Migration (Anglo Saxon)

The evidence is clear by tombs and mounds of burial sites as far south as Russia reveal the trail of the "Sakka" Scythians (Israelites). Many mounds found all over the Steppes in Russia. The Scythians would go through a name change recorded in archaeological artifacts that they were called Germans or Germai which means genuine in latin. Strabo VII i.2.

Again a much deeper study into the history of the tribes gives much more proof!

Conclusion

If you believe the Bible, you must believe what the Bible says or you are just believing what another man says or writes about the Bible. These are called opinions, they are like arm pits, they all stink. If you truly believe the Bible then you must study to show yourself approved and then believe what you have studied, 2 Timothy 2:15. A good study Bible is the Companion Bible, offered at the Shepherd's Chapel.

In our brief study of this subject we have identified the true Israel and have touched on the meaning of the words Hebrew, Israel, House of Israel, Judah, and Jew. We have found that the House of Israel is being represented today by the white protestant western nations and the House of Judah is found in the sections of Jews that are pure Israelite descendants. Without this insight the prophesies of the Bible concerning Israel would be mostly either confusing or lost to us.

Let's look at a few of these prophesies.
1) The promise of the last days: Deuteronomy 4:5-8, 30:6-8, Jeremiah 31:31-34, Romans 11:25-29, Psalms 46, Isaiah 2:1-5, compare to Exodus 19:4-6.
2) The vineyard of the Lord: Isaiah 5:7, Matthew 21:33-46, Psalms 80:8, John 15:8.
3) Israel- name shall remain forever: Isaiah 66:22.
4) The throne of David, now in England - this is a whole other study.
5) The world system destroyed and Israel restored to rule with God - Isaiah 13:6-16.

Ending

Israel remains forever right into the new heaven and new Earth. Isaiah 59-66