The Lost Tribes of Israel
By varnum11
@varnum11 (77)
United States
March 29, 2007 2:45am CST
Where are the lost tribes of Israel? Could they be the Celts that migrated into Europe and became the European nations? Could the United States and the European nations be the the lost tribes of Israel? I'm not talking about replacement theory? I'm talking about kinship. Could Europe be brothers to the Jews and Israelis? What do you think?
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
29 Mar 07
I think they are brothers through faith.. but the northern tribes of Israel were carried away to Assyria, and not long after the southeern kingdom to Babylon (as I'm sure you know). But some miss the decree of Cyrus, when he said "Let ALL Israel in ALL my kingdom, go home!" And by that time Assyria was (again) part of Babylonia (as it often was.. it went back and forth).. And you'll notice when they did the census after they did "go home" all twelve tribes are listed.
However, I believe spiritually we all will be of the twelve tribes.
@varnum11 (77)
• United States
30 Mar 07
I'm not sure where you got the quote from Cyrus "Let ALL Israel in ALL my kingdom, go home!" But when you read in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah which talk about the return of the Jews to Jerusalem. They refer primarily to the 3 tribes of the kingdom of Judah (Judah, Benjamin and the Levites). These 3 tribes are of Israel so will be named as Israel. Cyrus may have given the decree but it does not mean that they all went back to Jerusalem. But they did all leave his kingdom.
However, if you read in Esdras 13:40-47 you will see the 10 tribes never returned. They "would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt, That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land."
Also in Josephus "Antiquity of the Jews" Book XI Chapter V and verse 2 says "...but then the entire body of the people of Israel remained in that country; wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates till now and are an immense multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers."
In Josephus "Antiquity of the Jews" Book XI Chapter III verse 10 says "but the sum of those that went up, above the age of twelve years, of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, was four hundred and sixty-two myriads and eight thousand; the Levites were seventy-four" There is no mention of the other tribes retuning to Jerusalem.
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@mjsdls (1840)
• United States
30 Mar 07
Don't know much about the kins of Israel but I do know that the Jewish people have been scattered across the face of the earth. God is calling them back to Israel even as we speak. God has been calling them back home for a few years now. It says in the bible that in the last days God will call His chosen people back to their homelands. Well that is paraphrasing it, bit that what it means.
