| This recent exchange with a gentleman at the | | | | migrate, sift through the nations, and yet not lose |
| History Channel forum is just in time for | | | | our identity (as far as our ethnic make-up is |
| Thanksgiving Day...The twelve tribes themselves | | | | concerned, our basic DNA).assuming that you are |
| are not European in originThe Twelve Tribes of | | | | a GentileGod's mercy extends to all peoples, |
| Israel - the Anglo-Saxons and white peoples of | | | | although His plan calls for the Jew (and Israelites) |
| Northwestern Europe - are Israelite in origin. We're | | | | first and then the Gentiles. God has called our |
| the so-called "Lost Ten Tribes." We we taken | | | | peoples, the Jews and the Joes, Israelites, to |
| captive by the Assyrians and later, as prophesied, | | | | ultimately become His Servant Nation to bless all |
| migrated north and west into Europe and King | | | | nations.I am a Joe (descended from Joseph |
| David's dynasty continues in the Sceptered Isle.Of | | | | Anglo-Saxon heritage), as well as a Jew, scions of |
| the 12,000 from each tribe to be taken on | | | | King David, as our family goes back to the British |
| judgement day, how many do you think will be of | | | | and Scottish Royal Families. I'm also a descendant |
| mixed blood?If they're so mixed the Holy Spirit | | | | of two Mayflower Pilgrims, John and Priscilla Alden, |
| wouldn't have inspired John to write specifically of | | | | and collateral descendant of three American |
| the unique tribes of Israel. They're obviously not | | | | presidents. [The Scripture] doesn't apply to |
| "mixed" enough to disqualify them from being | | | | America because we were given nothing. We |
| considered, in God's eyes, this or that specific | | | | TOOK everything we have from the nativesThe |
| tribe of Israel. Undoubtedly we have married | | | | United States was given primarily to the |
| among ourselves, yet still this or that tribe | | | | descendants of Joseph and the other Northern |
| dominates in our ancestry, having sifted through | | | | tribes of Israel, with some Jews living among us |
| various countries (we can say we're English, Irish, | | | | (even though God has given them a Jewish |
| Dutch) but still ISRAELITE. | | | | Homeland). Just like ancient Israel had to be willing |
| When Revelations was written the author | | | | to fight to secure their inheritance, so did we. |
| probably had no idea that the Jews would have | | | | Sometimes we were more honorable than others, |
| dispersed across the globe as they have or | | | | just like Jacob with Esau, but regardless Manifest |
| intermarried as they have with other peoplesJohn | | | | Destiny was to be and was fulfilled in us. We didn't |
| was a prophet and the Holy Spirit undoubtedly | | | | take from the natives as it wasn't theirs to begin |
| inspired him to know the other prophecies in the | | | | with - it belongs to our Great Creator God and to |
| Law and the Prophets that clearly foretold the | | | | whomsoever He gives it, as is His divine |
| reach and expansion of all Twelve Tribes to the | | | | prerogative.The various natives took from each |
| far ends of the Earth - not just the Jews! The | | | | other and had a violent history towards different |
| Jews are only a small part of the big family of | | | | tribes and were carried away with their raw |
| Jacob-Israel.It's written in Amos that we (the | | | | paganism. Some were more advanced than |
| Northern 10-tribed Kingdom of Israel) would | | | | others. |