Thanksgiving: Attitude of Gratitude Expressed in Loving Obedience

This recent exchange with a gentleman at themigrate, sift through the nations, and yet not lose
History Channel forum is just in time forour identity (as far as our ethnic make-up is
Thanksgiving Day...The twelve tribes themselvesconcerned, our basic DNA).assuming that you are
are not European in originThe Twelve Tribes ofa GentileGod's mercy extends to all peoples,
Israel - the Anglo-Saxons and white peoples ofalthough His plan calls for the Jew (and Israelites)
Northwestern Europe - are Israelite in origin. We'refirst and then the Gentiles. God has called our
the so-called "Lost Ten Tribes." We we takenpeoples, 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 Kingnations.I am a Joe (descended from Joseph
David's dynasty continues in the Sceptered Isle.OfAnglo-Saxon heritage), as well as a Jew, scions of
the 12,000 from each tribe to be taken onKing David, as our family goes back to the British
judgement day, how many do you think will be ofand Scottish Royal Families. I'm also a descendant
mixed blood?If they're so mixed the Holy Spiritof two Mayflower Pilgrims, John and Priscilla Alden,
wouldn't have inspired John to write specifically ofand collateral descendant of three American
the unique tribes of Israel. They're obviously notpresidents. [The Scripture] doesn't apply to
"mixed" enough to disqualify them from beingAmerica because we were given nothing. We
considered, in God's eyes, this or that specificTOOK everything we have from the nativesThe
tribe of Israel. Undoubtedly we have marriedUnited States was given primarily to the
among ourselves, yet still this or that tribedescendants of Joseph and the other Northern
dominates in our ancestry, having sifted throughtribes 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 authorto fight to secure their inheritance, so did we.
probably had no idea that the Jews would haveSometimes we were more honorable than others,
dispersed across the globe as they have orjust like Jacob with Esau, but regardless Manifest
intermarried as they have with other peoplesJohnDestiny was to be and was fulfilled in us. We didn't
was a prophet and the Holy Spirit undoubtedlytake from the natives as it wasn't theirs to begin
inspired him to know the other prophecies in thewith - it belongs to our Great Creator God and to
Law and the Prophets that clearly foretold thewhomsoever He gives it, as is His divine
reach and expansion of all Twelve Tribes to theprerogative.The various natives took from each
far ends of the Earth - not just the Jews! Theother and had a violent history towards different
Jews are only a small part of the big family oftribes and were carried away with their raw
Jacob-Israel.It's written in Amos that we (thepaganism. Some were more advanced than
Northern 10-tribed Kingdom of Israel) wouldothers.