January 24, 2008

• Torah Class issues

  I'm on #32 of Genesis and he's talking "lost tribes" again ... only this time it's Ephraim and Judah ....

  ok so hmmmm I've heard 2 arguments:

   

  first of all the ten northern tribes or Israel sure when after Solomon's reign and the kingdom split that new guy came in and said don't go to Jerusalem to the Temple, instead I'll set up 2 other places you can go to.  and then when Assyria came in...both times many of the other 10 tribes would have been fleeing into Judea ..... so in other words the tribes were never lost and if they were then we should all be worried that G-D could lose some people .... that's sure frightening.

  and when Yeshua came HE was from a more northern region of Israel and in HIM the north and south were reunited ... that Ezekiel 37 stuff.

   

  so I've heard the above argument and yet from others they talk about the northern tribes being assimilated into Europe and Asia and one day returning to Israel ... yet there is a weblog I read and a young lady specifically says something about if the 3rd generation also marries a non-Jew then assimilation would be complete.  And a book called DNA & Tradition makes it clear that marrying outside the Jewish line is done only maybe 1% of the time.  SO how can ministers tout there is such a thing as lost/assimilated tribes and try to say that us european background folks are those 10 lost tribes?  I say we more likely came from Japeth's line, not Shem's but in Yeshua we are all brought back together and part of the commonwealth of Israel.  Praise Yeshua!!  ((see Ephesians 2:11-22))

  so what does your research show?  or am I the only one who finds such things interesting?  And remember Yah always keeps a remnant!

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