Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Gayman Dan
Title : Are the lost ten tribes of Israel really lost ?
Year : 19**

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Millions of Church people throughout the Anglo-Saxon world, especially in America, make their way, Bible in hand, to a public worship service every week. These people primarily look to the New Testament as the basis for their faith. They are vaguely aware that the bulk of Scripture is tucked away in the 85% of the Bible that makes up the Old Testament. They also know that this 85% of the Bible concerns the twelve tribes of Israel. They are also vaguely aware that somewhere in the New Testament, Jesus Christ Himself said, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matt. 15:24). Many Christians also recall that the final Book in the New Testament calls for a sealing of 12,000 from every tribe in ancient Israel and points to Israel as being the Bride of Christ (Rev. 21:9-12). At least many Bible readers recall that both James and Peter addressed their epistles to the lost sheep of Israel in dispersion. In the back of their minds, they know that ten of the twelve tribes became swallowed in the historical abyss after the Assyrian invasion and captivity of millions of these people a little more than seven hundred years before the birth of Jesus Christ. Most church people readily admit to believing that the only portion of ancient Israel presently known are those who claim descent from the tribes of Judah, Levi, and a portion of Benjamin. These Israelites populated the Kingdom of Judah in the centuries immediately preceding the birth of Jesus Christ. The remaining body of ancient Israel, indeed the great majority of them, more than threefourths of twelve-tribed Israel, were simply swallowed up in the vast landscape occupied by the Assyrian Empire and the area to which the ten tribes were taken captive. So what happened to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel? Where did they go? How could millions of people become lost to historians and theologians? Where do you stand on this important question? What about your church, your minister? Did God lose the very people who are the subjects of the covenants and promises of Scripture? No theological question has ever trumped the quest for what happened to millions of Israelites taken by the Assyrians into captivity between 771-721 BC. The very honor and integrity of God’s name is at issue in this question. All of the unconditional covenants of the Bible rest upon the physical survival of these people throughout time and history. The unbroken continuity of twelve-tribed Israel is imperative in order for the Bible to have credibility. ...