of Israel.
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During Succot of 2007 the author was privileged to meet
renowned Orthodox Jewish scholar Yair Davidiy in Jerusalem.
He graciously consented to a video interview and the series
of videos that came out of this can be seen on
This Tangle link
and up on YouTube. Click
HERE to go to the YouTube videos we
did back in 2007. Yair Davidiy has unearthed a wealth of information
on the lost ten tribes of Israel and has written a number of books
which are available over on his website,
www.britam.org.
If you would like to download an MP3 audio of the Yair Davidiy interview for your iPod right-click
here for the first hour of the interview and
here for the second hour of the interview.
Then left click on "Save file/target as" to save the audio file to a folder in your computer.
Then when the file is clicked it should, or can be made to, open up into your iTunes library.
The next time you synch to your iPod the mp3 audio will load up onto the iPod.
ONE OF THE SEVERAL YOUTUBE VIDEO SEGMENTS
AN INTERVIEW WITH STEVEN COLLINS ON THE LOST TEN TRIBES
Steven Collins is an American Christian researcher who has done extensive research and written a number of books on the Lost Ten Tribes. I was pleased to note that he has had some cordial correspondence with Yair Davidy in Jerusalem. Steven Collins has done a faithful work on the subject with scholarly diligence on the physical and historical evidence and Berean diligence in searching out the relevant prophetic Holy Scriptures. Here below is an mp3 audio in which he is interviewed by Christian interviewer Mike Wiles from http://trunews.com
The mp3 audio file is HERE.
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SUMMARY:
Idolatry was Israel's downfall in the former times. And there were consequences. After the death of Solomon the nation was split by a terrible feud. At its deepest level it involved "Law and Grace". These two feuding factions at cross purposes with each other over two Godly truths went into deeper idolatry. During the 8th century B.C. the Assyrians in two invasions lead much of the northern 10 tribes of Israel off into captivity, scattering many away from their homeland in the process. The Israelites taken captive were deliberately intermingled among the other nations. What happened to these lost ten tribes of Israel afterward? This is a mystery and a magnificent story of salvation and restoration to be revealed in the latter days. But the full restoration of all 12 tribes of Israel will surely come. (See Romans 11). This hidden history concerning the origin of the nations of Europe and the lost ten tribes of Israel is a both mystery and a suppressed national memory. That national amnesia concerning the true identities of the lost ten tribes in their wanderings persists in both the faction that is lost in amnesia and in the faction who knows who they are.
The breakup between the northern and southern kingdom was sharp and decisive when it came. It began as a bitter blood feud in the family of God. And this unhealed wound continues to fester and cause great pain and grief this day. The squabbling goes on between Jews and Christians, generally over issues of God's Righteousness and Law on the one hand and His Mercy and Grace on the other. Both holy issues still remain as sharp jagged broken pieces in the hearts, minds, and hands of the two feuding parties. These deep doctrinal matters are attended by differences of gifting and temperament and they will always be a source of contention among those who do not know Messiah and put Him first in their lives. Having been run through the Greek culture our Hellenized Judeo-Christian minds are still steeped in pagan Gnosticism which spawns both secular humanism and religious humanism. The centuries go on and we are still endlessly arguing the point using human reason and the failed sophistry of Greek logic. A man-centered platform for discovery without faith and surrender of one's will to God cannot ever hope to fathom and comprehend the things of God which comes by revelation and not human reason or rationalism. These critically important issues of Righteousness under the Law and Salvation by Grace do have an answer. But that answer comes in the Person of the indwelling Messiah/Christ who addresses both the issues of Law/Righteousness and Mercy/Grace as He sits upon a throne and presides as High Priest at an altar and at the mercy seat. Unfortunately most Christians and most of our Jewish brothers and sisters have not yet found the full and proper resolution of God's Law and His Grace at the cross. They have not yet been saved by grace through faith under the atoning blood of Israel's promised Sacrifice Lamb, even our Redeemer, the soon coming Jewish Messiah.
The lost ten tribes had entered into gross idolatry even before the reign of Solomon. And so after his death the Kingdom was divided, precisely as prophesied, at an awful event known as the Breach of Jeroboam. The fracture line that occurred at the Breach of Jeroboam as quite predictable. It went right on down Israel's deep doctrinal cleavage line, that of God's Law and His Grace. How can the two be resolved? Only in Messiah. Under the reign of Rehoboam the glory Israel had enjoyed under Solomon was rapidly departing. And with the departing it went the wealth, the power, and finally the unity and integrity of the kingdom. The northern ten tribes, under this growing economic strain went to Judah. They went to King Rehoboam, their king who, we must remember, sat upon the throne of David in the royal Jewish House of Judah. The northern ten tribes took their appeal to Judah looking for Grace in the matter of tax relief. When Judah's King Rehoboam laid down the Law in a very harsh way the northern ten tribes had had enough. They walked out. They rebelled. But that was not the worst of it. At this big divorce of Israel the lost ten tribes cursed themselves blind. They rejected and renounced their own sovereignty which was in the throne of David. This was an awful thing to do. It was like Gomer walking out on Hosea. The lost ten tribes had just lost their sovereignty in the nation of Israel! They had thrown it away! Soon after, even though they tended to stay together in their families, they were to also lose their identity in Israel. The Northern Kingdom thus parted company with Judah. And because of the loss of that sovereignty in glorious Israel a deadly jealousy of of the Jewish House of Judah kicked up a bitter blood feud which continues to this very day.
The truth of this divorce and the pain of what happened back then is forgotten. It is lodged deep down in our Western collective memory. This loss of connection to Israel by people who once did indeed belong has given rise to much jealousy in Christendom which results in the blood feuding which cause Jews and Christians to cry out to God and ask "Why Lord?". This deadly jealousy and the raging against the Jewish House of Judah explains the bloody carnal crusading we have seen and the so-called Anti-Semitism we still see in Western Christendom. It explains the Inquisitions, the forced conversions, the Pogroms, the Holocaust, and a raft of other Edomite misbehaviors. In fact the the root cause of anti-Semitism is this raging against the throne of David.
This terrible saga of yesteryear and what really happened to the nation of Israel back then at the Breach of Jeroboam is a blockbuster story. But very few in either of the two feuding houses dare to speak about this or discuss it in their Yeshivas or Sunday School classes.. And the manner in which Messiah intends to fix it at the climax of this age also unknown. Or if it is known it remains a taboo subject under the hierarchical religious moderators that rule over the religious conversations. And since the hurt is so deep no one wants to offend the other. The awesome truth here and how Messiah alone can bring His Peace and shalom to this argument over Law and Grace is a major key to the unlocking of the End-Time mysteries and our understanding of the End-Time drama. Unfortunately, at this present time neither the Western Church or the Rabbinical priesthood wants to even remotely talk about this old family feud. Nor will either party take any responsibility for resolving the matter. As usual, the powers of the status quo have a vested interest in keeping things precisely as they are.
The Antinomian Church is a big problem here. Like wayward Gomer the Western Church refuses to face matters of righteousness. She still worships her Easter Bunnies and Ishtar eggs on Firstfruits Resurrection day. Our best excuse is to say is that we are busy fulfilling the Great Commission and "fishing for men" to worry about deep and seemingly insurmountable problems like this. But face it we shall, in the latter half of the 70th Week, the final 3.5 years of this present age. During that future 666 regime that fishing for men will be outlawed and the hunters come looking for those who refuse to worship the beast. Many of God's covenant people will go into exile in those days. It will be a camp meeting in which rich Biblical understanding and the guiding comforting Presence of the Holy Spirit will be there in abundant measure. For the people of Western Christendom the realization of their Hebrew spiritual roots and heritage in Christ, the promised Seed of Abraham, will surely come. For the Christians, their 'blindness in part' to their true identity in Israel will be healed. Yes, the scales will fall off Christian eyes and they will wake up to "see" their identity in Israel even as the scales fall off Jewish eyes to "see" the true identity of their Messiah in His first coming as the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 53.
The forgotten national identity of the European nations in the lost ten tribes Israel is shrouded in deep mystery right now. And having seen the political usurpation of this message by British Israelism the story of the lost tribes has probably been hidden away for some good reasons. But along with many other mysteries the truth about the lost ten tribes will be revealed in times to come. And it is a blockbuster story. This hidden collective memory will explode into the Western consciousness. Among the first to know about it will be those who have come to know Christ/Messiah personally. All this unveiling of mysteries and the Revelation of Messiah will come as the fullness of the heathen gentiles are saved and gathered into the full Commonwealth of Israel. Even as many fall away from the faith many will draw near to God, crying out to Him. He will answer in the End-Time Revival. Those Spirit filled times of refreshing will surely come. And the awakenings yet to be seen at those future camp meetings will eclipse all the former awakenings put together. Increasing waves of glory will break over God's Elect even in times when many are in Great Tribulation and going into exile. The Holy Spirit outpouring will build up all the way up to that awesome climax with the Second Coming of Messiah at the last day. The full revelation of this mystery of Israel and the real identity of its estranged lost Congregation/Church will surely come. All this and more will be seen during the End-Time Revival, the true and genuine Latter Rain. The prophet Joel saw this outpouring coming to a peak right as this age ends and Messiah returns at the conclusion of the 70th Week of Daniel. See Joel 2:28-32. The Apostle Paul tells us that 'all Israel will be saved'. The prophet Zechariah reports that even as Jerusalem is surrounded by armies there will be a great and epic corporate wave of salvation sweep across the entire royal Jewish house of Israel. And whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord will be saved and delivered. (Joel 2:28-32)
At the same time the scales will be falling off other eyes in the other house. Christians will awaken to their ultimate identity in Israel. The partial blindness endemic in both houses of Israel will come to an end. Through it all the Breach of Jeroboam will be healed. All Israel will be saved, restored, as a Congregation/church/synagogue and also as a Nation and "body politic" under the returning Messiah. Both houses of Israel will see their Messiah in both His offices as High Priest and King of Kings after the Order of Melchizedek. This promised restoration of all Israel seems impossible right now. But when the Refiner comes, and even in the midst of Great Tribulation all this will surely come to pass. The prophet Jeremiah spoke of this time of trial and epiphany as the time of Jacob's Trouble. Through the prophet Micah the Holy One of Israel declared that ALL of divided Jacob will be regathered as the sheep of Edomite Bozrah. The covenant people of God will be in travail as the woman of Revelation chapter 12. This evil age will come to its appointed climax precisely according to the Holy Scriptures. The House of Joseph will emerge in an epic End-Time ministry of reconciliation. And finally, the Man-Child will be born out of Israel. And Benjamin, 'son of my right hand' will come forth!
2,000 years ago a Child was born. And at the end of the story as the saints of the Most High YHVH bring in the "final witness" to their Messiah a Son will be given. Messiah Himself, through His witnesses, and in His unveiling or His Revelation will achieve this promised restoration of the Nation and Congregation of Israel, even as the end-time drama unfolds. In giving give birth to the man child the Woman will go into transition and the man-Child will be fully born into the glory, joining the Sacred Head in the Resurrection power of Messiah. And so 'all Israel will be saved'. The Jewish House of Judah will recognize their Messiah precisely as the prophet Zechariah foretold. In those coming days the fractured feuding nation of Jacob the trickster will undergo a character change and a name change to be restored as, Israel, which means "prince with God". All twelve tribes of Israel will come into their magnificent unity as one single undivided Elect even as the New Jerusalem, a city of 12 gates, descends from heaven. A Holy celestial City of many mansions awaits their pleasure. All Israel will attain full restoration and unity both spiritually and nationally. A Single Elect Company of the saints will be raised up to become that promised spiritual household, the long-awaited royal priesthood and a holy nation that Moses and the Apostle Peter both spoke about. What a Day that will be!
THE BREACH OF JEROBOAM LED THE NORTHERN 10 TRIBES INTO DEEP IDOLATRY.
LATER THEY WENT INTO THE ASSYRIAN CAPTIVITY AND LOST THEIR SOVEREIGNTY.
ISRAEL SPLIT INTO TWO COMPANIES, ONE VISIBLE IN JEWRY, THE OTHER INVISIBLE.
THE DIVISION OF ISRAEL INTO TWO SEPARATE KINGDOMS CONTINUES TO THIS DAY.
THE LOST TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL ARE STILL OUT THERE, .... SOMEWHERE. . . . .
. . . . . . SEE
THIS VIDEO BY RABBI KEN SPIRO.
After the passing of King David and King Solomon
King Rehoboam took the throne of Israel.
The glory of Israel was departing.
And with it went the financial power of the once great superpower.
Solomon had married hundreds of foreign wives who brought their idolatrous religion into Israel.
The compromise with all these gods of the surrounding nations was now beginning to take its spiritual toll.
Israel was in serious decline. And as always happens the kingdom and the financial power went down with the glory.
And so the royal tribe of Judah in the south was trying
to compensate using the ways of this world. They were exacting more and more taxes and servitude from the ten northern tribes.
The point eventually came when this burden became quite onerous. And so it was that Jeroboam led Israel
to King Rehoboam. The northern ten tribes asked the Jewish tribe of Judah for
some tax relief, or some grace, if you will.
The meeting was a disastrous one for all Israel. Yes, the ten tribes were out looking for grace. But Rehoboam just laid down the law. The king of the Jewish tribe of Judah had unwisely accepted the council of the young men instead of the elders. Any hope of retaining unity under Judah was now lost. God's covenant people were divided asunder. They were split into the two houses. Judah and Benjamin with the Holy City of Jerusalem continued on in the south. And under Jeroboam the ten northern tribes went their own way. They became one of histories great mysteries, the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.
This was an awful wrenching separation.
And it is a division which exists to this day.
The lost ten tribes of Israel are out there in the nations.
Their loss has resulted in a schism from which Israel has yet to recover.
From this point on, until the end of this age, Israel would be a divided kingdom of two houses. One kingdom, the royal house of Judah is visible to the world and can still be seen. They still have their Hebrew language, Hebrew geneology, Hebrew religion, and connection to their past in greater Israel. The other, the northern kingdom are hidden from view. They just disappeared into the fog. And how about the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel? Did they curse themselves? And if they did then will they find the grace they have sought? Will they to find redemption and restoration? Will lost Israel ever be found and re-unified into one Elect people?
This is one of the great mysteries of history. And many in Judah along with many in lost Israel have their reasons for not wanting to find out what has happened and not seeking the restoration. They have a vested interest in the religious status quo. Regrettably many are heavily devoted to their own religious tradition and to the support systems of this world. And in spite of rough treatment by the western political powers the Church and Jewish communities have nearly always ingratiated themselves to the dubious graces of the princes of Europe and to the dark angelic powers behind them that pull their strings. They think that this policy will always ensure security for themselves and their communities. But repeatedly they are proven wrong. Their faith in the powers of this world is misplaced. History shows this time and time again.
But even as the nations rage they still want to forget the coming of their Messiah.
Individually they do not receive Him into their hearts.
And collectively they do not want to hear of His Second Coming.
They do not want to hear of Messiah's coming to rule in this world.
But they have no other choice.
He remains their only hope.
The Holy Scriptures have good news to declare. And the beauty and truth of Israel's Old Testament prophetic poetry rejoices in this truth. Israel will be restored, totally and gloriously. The lost ten tribes of Israel will surely be found, even as the prophet Hosea found his wayward wife lost Gomer. As we search the scriptures and do out homework all these mysteries will surely unfold in a wave of splendor never seen before. European origins can be traced back to Israel. And Israel's Messiah, the Seed of Abraham, gives Christians their second passport. Because the Apostle Paul declares that in Christ, who is the indwelling Seed of Abraham, true born-again Christians come into the Commonwealth of Israel.
All this will become common knowledge one day. The truth of remnant Israel and the remnant Church being refined together into one royal priesthood and a holy nation is a hard truth to receive. But this knowledge will unfold collectively in Western Christendom in the crucible of the latter days. And YHVH-God, the Holy One of Israel will reveal it to His covenant people at the proper time.
We serve a God who hides things. And He keeps them hidden until the right time has come. Then He brings forth His mysteries as wonders or in Hebrew "surprises". Remember how Moses was hidden in the waters among the bulrushes. He was preserved, and nurtured in secrecy, even as a 'Notzrim', preserved for safe keeping until the proper time. Moses was trained up in the courts of the Egyptian superpower. But until he grew up he was kept in the dark about his true origins and his divine purpose. All this hidden information was revealed later, in its time.
The cloaking of Biblical truth by the powers is allowed by God. It is His permissive will. Smoke screening the truth is "business as usual" down here in this fallen world. That is the way of the dark principalities and powers, the angelic rulers who preside over the systems of this world from their lower perch in the second heaven. Disinformation is also the way of the political princes and merchants of this world. They think they have a handle on things as they try to seize the glory for themselves. They think that they are the sovereign ones as they muscle in and organize things their way. But there is a God who rules from the heavens. The Ancient of Days sits and presides over the unfolding of Holy History.
But the princes of this world have their own humanistic agenda.
They grasp the sword as they seek to hold on to the power over the people.
The religious powers go along with this.
The House of David in Judah and the mystery of the ten lost tribes who went looking for grace are a forgotten story.
Oh yes, this matter of the lost ten tribes of Israel is shrouded in a conspiracy of silence.
But it cannot last forever. The efforts of the dark powers to "cloak" the truth will not prevail.
The lights of Abraham will be seen again, passing out across the mountains as a bridal party going out to meet the Bridegroom.
They shout will be heard at midnight. And
the wise will arise and shine, even in a
coming night of deep darkness. (See
Isa.60:1-5)
The New Covenant Jeremish spoke about will see the Good News go out to bring a great redemption.
See
Jeremiah 31:31-33.
Lost Israel will reappear as a melo-hagoyim, a "multitude of nations", or a "company of nations".
And the long awaited restoration of all Israel will come at last.
All 12 tribes will be there. (See
Revelation chapter 7.)
The final seven years of this age will not be the picture of total doom and disaster
Evangelical teachers have painted.
Oh yes, there will be trouble, trouble primarily of our own making.
Our neglect in the devotion and our compromises and dalliances in
this world will be the root cause of all our tribulations.
But the prophet Micah had some good news to report.
He declared that
all of Jacob will be gathered as the sheep of Bozrah.
The God of Israel will be among His people in a
great revival.
And by His Spirit YHVH-God, the Holy One of Israel, will be calling all
His people out into a new ekklesia, just as He has done so many times before.
Lost Israel, and all their companions, will be found.
And even coming home by a difficult passage through a strait and narrow gate, "a remnant shall return".
The Book of Revelation can be clearly seen as an epic heavenly court case.
As the
70th Week opens the Ancient of Days will sit.
Here on earth the four horsemen, the four human governmental systems, will have finished their rule and their ride through history.
Up in the courts of heaven
the books will be opened concerning the two big issues of the latter days.
The 5th seal will be opened and YHVH-God will be calling for His
two witnesses.
The Holy One of Israel will be resuming His covenant dealings related to
1. His Holy City, Jerusalem.
And
It will be a time of high drama between God and His people.
And at that time the message will go forth,
This rejection of David, (and rejection of the coming Son of David), had been done before.
The same bitter words had been uttered two generations before.
On that occasion the words of rejection and cursing came by the rebel Sheba.
He was a man whom the scriptures
refer to as a "man of Belial", (a man of Satan).
He came against King David with bitter words of renunciation.
If we look carefully at the words uttered against the Throne of David back then
we can discern that these were words of
Anti-Semitism, although the word anti-Semitism is a misleading word that "cloaks" what is really going on. (2Samuel 20:1)
But now the very same words of rejection of the royal Jewish tribe of Judah were being heard again.
Again the denunciation was coming not from the pagan outsiders but from within Israel!
The bitter words were coming from the ten northern tribes.
This great divorce, the epic split-up of Israel, is recorded for us in the verses below.
"Now when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, saying:
So Israel departed to their tents." (1Kings 12:16 and 2Chronicles 10:16)
This was the great divorce of Israel, the awful 'breach of Jeroboam'.
Jeroboam had his political reasons for drawing the people away from Judah and from the true worship
of YHVH, the God of Israel. He did not want the northern tribes going back under the political
covering of the royal tribe of Judah.
The separation was deep and long lasting.
In fact the scriptures indicate that
this division will last all the way up
until the
end time drama. - Zech.12:7-13:1, Rom.11
There is no doubt that there was a search for grace involved here on the part of the lost tribes.
And God did not support Rehoboam's call to wage war on the rebelling tribes. God said that it was from Him. (1Kings 12:24)
But there is an element of hatred and rejection in this rebellion which is quite evident here.
The scriptures clearly indicate that this is what we would recognize today as
antisemitism. The bitter words and the venom is specifically directed at the Throne of David.
This is the throne from which the returning Christ/Messiah will rule in the coming
Millennium of Messiah. He is the Lion of the Tribe of Judah who is to sit upon the throne of David for a thousand years. (Rev.20)
But in the hearts of many people, (even some fellow Israelites), He is not welcome.
The kings and rulers of the nations, (and many of their their hired state churchmen),
clearly do not want Him to return either. (See also Psalm 2)
And how will this happen?
There will in fact be a great
End Time Revival. It will draw in the end time saints from both houses of Israel. We have not seen this yet.
We have only seen faint little glimmers of the great Light that will eventually shine out to the Gentiles
in the latter days. This great revival will come
even in a time of great darkness and period of
great apostasy.
But the prophet Isaiah spoke about this as did Joel and many others. (Isa.60, Joel 2:28-32)
Finally, at the end of the story Isaiah said that
2. His Holy People, the global Congregation of Israel, (or church).
It will be the culmination of the divine romance of the ages.
The Bridegroom will be approaching,
even in the dark hours after midnight.
"Arise, shine! For your light has come!" (Isa.60)
THE LOST TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL CUT OFF THE ROYAL TRIBE OF JUDAH,
The northern ten tribes of Israel did an awful thing.
They took it upon themselves to cut off the Jewish House of Judah.
THEY REBEL AND REJECT THE HOUSE OF JUDAH AND THE THRONE OF DAVID.
THIS IS THE VERY THRONE FROM WHICH MESSIAH WILL RULE!
200 YEARS LATER THE TEN TRIBES ARE CARRIED OFF INTO CAPTIVITY.
THEY ARE LOST; THEY DISAPPEAR INTO HISTORY.
They cut themselves off from the royal throne of David, the seat of their very own national sovereignty.
This would bring tragic consequences to them.
The ten tribes would go on to lose their sovereignty, their national roots, and their true identity.
We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.
To your tents, O Israel!
Now, see to your own house, O David!'
Woodcut illustration by Julius Schnoor von Carolsfeld (1794-1872">
King Solomon had died. The year was 922 B.C.
And Israel was now divided into two houses.
This is a situation which continues to this day.
TARGET #1 FOR THE FORCES OF DARKNESS:
We have abundant Biblical poetic and prophetic evidence to show that God will
heal the breach of Jeroboam. YHVH-God will find and restore
the lost ten tribes of Israel even as Hosea found and restored lost Gomer.
He will regather and restore both houses of Israel as a
single Elect, a royal priesthood and a holy nation. (1Pet.2:9) Israel will be a complete nation once again.
All 12 tribes will be rejoined and restored in the latter days of this age
as the promised restored full Commonwealth of Israel.
THE THRONE OF DAVID.
"The redeemed of the Lord shall return.
And come with singing unto Zion".
(Isa.35)
