Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Heslip John
Title : Who and where are the lost ten tribes ?
Year : 1943

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Where are they ? They are somewhere on earth. They are a distinct and separate people. They are not Jews. That is what, we believe, the Scriptures say. We must look to the Scriptures for proof of these statements, then. We look to the New Testament first. And this for one purpose mainly, to get the New Testament estimate of the Scriptures of the Old Testament. Are the Scriptures of the Old Testament reliable ? Can the promises there recorded be depended on? Are the Scriptures of the Old Testament a record of man's search for God and man's conception of God ? Or are they a record of God's search for man and God's revelation of His will to man, as man was able to receive? Even as Jesus said to His disciples, "I have many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear receive them now, did God reveal His will and way, according to man's ability to receive ? And are the Scriptures of the Old Testament not a record of man's conception of God, but of man's increasing ability to receive the Divine revelation ? What answer does the New Testament give to these questions ? It is in the Old Testament that the promises to the fathers are found. What was Jesus' estimate of the Scriptures of the Old Testament? We may say that He had no other writings than the Old Testament Scriptures. We can say that He was well acquainted with their contents. In them He found the program for His own life. "They are they which testify of me," He said. When He was charged with teaching and acting contrary to the teaching of the Sacred Scriptures, He said, "Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all things be accomplished. That is strong language. ...