Posted on 05/16/2008 1:47:42 PM PDT by knighthawk
Before sending Lewis and Clark west, Thomas Jefferson dispatched Meriwether Lewis to Philadelphia to see Dr. Benjamin Rush. The eminent doctor prepared a series of scientific questions for the expedition to answer. Among them, writes Stephen Ambrose: "What Affinity between their [the Indians'] religious Ceremonies & those of the Jews?" Jefferson and Lewis, like many of their day and ours, were fascinated by the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, and thought they might be out there on the Great Plains.
They weren't. They aren't anywhere. Their disappearance into the mist of history since their exile from Israel in 722 B.C. is no mystery. It is the norm, the rule for every ancient people defeated, destroyed, scattered and exiled.
With one exception, a miraculous story of redemption and return, after not a century or two, but 2,000 years. Remarkably, that miracle occurred in our time. This week marks its 60th anniversary: the return and restoration of the remaining two tribes of Israel - Judah and Benjamin, later known as the Jews - to their ancient homeland.
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We ARE the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel..........Well, two of them anyway......along with Britain......
They have been found in India and africa as well..
I am a full blown Jew, genetically proven Cohen.
And I have a red beard and like Irish beer and whiskey.
Just maybe . . . .
Er... how?
who gives frig?
Jesus opened up redemption for everyone. Lost or not.
Israel is important for three main reasons:
1) Religious antiquity
2) Launching pad to strike surrounding enemies that destabilize the oil market (hey, come up with something else and I’m all for it.)
3) democratic country with hot girls in short-shorts and uzis.
The uzi is no longer used.
The women are still hot, but they prefer low-riding jeans.
Israel is famous for...
* Some of the greatest advances in modern physics.
* The Intel Centrino chip that's inside almost all new laptops today.
* Trendsetting advances in medicine.
btt
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The book The United States and Britain in Prophecy is available, FREE of charge, just for the asking, as well as .PDF versions on the internet.
See post #12.....
The people found in India and Africa are essentially lost Jews, not the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. In 722 BCE the Assyrians under Shalmaneser V and then under Sargon II conquered the northern Kingdom of Israel, destroyed its capital Samaria and sent the Israelites into exile and captivity in Khorason, now part of eastern Iran and western Afghanistan. The Ten Lost Tribes are those who were deported. In Jewish popular culture, the ten tribes disappeared from history, leaving only the tribes of Benjamin, Judah and Levi to become the ancestors of modern day Jews.
As a result they lost all their identity as descendants of Abraham. But GOD DOES NOT FORGET. He still blessed Abraham’s descendants, just as he promised, even though they did not know who they were.........see post #12.......
Intersting read..
I think, if anything, the War of Independence in 1948 was a definite miracle of God. Any other state that size with that population being invaded on all sides by much larger countries with more troops and armor that they had would have been wiped out in short order.
You can order the book, absolutely free of charge, from the website. They also have a monthly magazine that is absolutely free of charge. No donations are requested or solicited. No prayer “gifts” or any of the other fraudulent practices of the so-called evangelical TV preachers are used..........
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