THE LOST TEN TRIBES MUST EXIST AT THE END OF THE AGE
When the Messiah returns to bring the millennium paradise, He will reunite Israel. Israel consisted of two kingdoms. The northern ten tribes whose capital was Samaria, and the southern kingdom of Judah whose capital is Jerusalem. Note the future of the two:
Ezekiel 37:16-19, “Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:
“17 And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
“18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, ‘Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?’
“19 Say unto them, ‘Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.’” (NKJV)
Christ cannot reunite the two parts of Israel if the largest part, the northern ten tribes, no longer exist. Further, what about the special blessings that were to go to the sons of Joseph –– Ephraim and Manasseh? God keeps all His promises. Let us search for the blessings to help us find them. Ephraim, the leading tribe of the ten.
Genesis 48:16, “The Angel who has redeemed me from all evil, Bless the lads; Let my name be named upon them [Ephraim and Manasseh], And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; And let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
The key member of the ten would be blessed and become a multitude of nations. Great Britain until recently, had the greatest empire in the world and is leader of the commonwealth of nations. His older brother Manasseh was also to become a great nation.
Genesis 48:19, “But his father refused and said, ‘I know, my son, I know. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great; but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his descendants shall become a multitude of nations.’”
Looking at the last five centuries, where can we find two related nations that fulfill that description? Clearly, only Britain and America fulfill such a description. Britain was first and America came out of Britain to become the world's economic super power. Using inductive reasoning, I state this point: If Christ told the apostles that they would sit on thrones and judge the 12 tribes of Israel, then these tribes must exist! Otherwise, Christ promised something He could not deliver. See Luke 22:29-30 and Matthew 19:28. Therefore, the lost ten tribes MUST exist at the end time and at His second coming and Christ must know their location. God sifted the ten tribes during the captivity.
Amos 9:8-9, “Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob…For surely I will command, And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.”
Also, the twelve tribes are mentioned at the end in Revelation chapters 7 & 21.
WHAT ARE THE BLESSINGS OF BRITAIN AND AMERICA ?
The two nations would also be a blessing to the world. They would in sharing the blessings given to the sons of Abraham be good for the world.
Genesis 22:17-18, “…blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed…”
God blessed the two key members of the ten tribes with control of strategic gates.
The Spanish Armada was destroyed in 1588 mostly by weather, God’s doing and blessing. After that period the British Empire, later augmented by the U.S., controlled almost every major sea and land gate. Britannia ruled the waves thereafter. The British Isles themselves are a sea gate to the Baltic Sea and the Arctic at that point. A list of Gates includes:
1. Suez Canal
2. Straits of Hormuz
3. Gibraltar
4. Singapore
5. Straits of Malacca
6. Falkland Islands
7. Canary Islands
8. Cape of Good Hope
9. Khyber Pass
10. Panama Canal
11. Hawaiian Islands
12. Midway Island
13. Philippine Islands
14. Kabul Pass
15. Island of Malta
16. Bearing Straits off Alaska
17. Aleutian Islands
18. Guantanamo Bay
19. Puerto Rican Islands
20. Ceylon
These are some of the gates God gave them.
No other two brother nations can be found with such blessings. America has given more to the world in charity than any other nation, and it is not even close. Think of what the world would be like without America and Britain. Hundreds of nations have been blessed both materially and spiritually. By far most Christian missionaries have been sponsored by these two nations as well. The British navy ended the Atlantic slave trade with a little help from America. The majority of worldwide Bible distribution has been done by them also. Why the blessings that are shared you ask?
Genesis 26:4-5, “And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed; 5 because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.””
WHY IS ANY OF THIS IMPORTANT TO BELIEVERS TODAY ?
Britain and America must return to our Christian roots and morality, or the nations will fall. The counter Amelia meme indicates a longing to return to Britain's traditional roots. Have the British gone beyond the point of no return ? God wants us to pray for both nations to return to our nominal Judeo-Christian foundations before it is too late-to whatever extent that is possible!
Romans 11:13-14, “For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.
Verse 16, “For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and [b]fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches.”
Both gentiles and Israelites are blessed to be in Britain and especially America as these countries share in the Old Testament spiritual roots Paul is referencing.
Hebrews 8:8, “Because finding fault with them, He says: “Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah––”
Paul recognized that both parts of Israel still existed in his day.
