Yeah, you're right. Most people know that. I usually say the twelve tribes across the earth, to keep some from being confused and thinking they have gained some type of leverage. If I need to say, the twelve tribes across the earth for you so you understand I will try to keep that in mind.
Well, no, I disagree that most folks do NOT know the Bible history about God splitting old Israel into two separate kingdoms, and then scattered the ten northern tribes until they became lost to the Jews, and lost to the world. Yet God knows where they are today, as He has promised to gather them in final.
When Hitler went after the Jews, was he only looking for those from the tribes of Juda, Benjamin and Levi which are of the House of Judah. Or was he also looking for the House of Israel?
Nazi Germany likely didn't know any more Bible history about the Jews of the southern kingdom than those on this forum, which is almost nil. Per 1 Kings 11 through 2 Kings 17, when God scattered the ten northern tribes out of the holy land, only the 3 tribes of the
"house of Judah" were left in the land. And those Jews began claiming they ONLY represent Israel, even as it still is today. So they are definitely NOT about the
"house of Israel" which label after the 1 Kings 11 split only represents the ten lost tribes of Israel.
The reality per God's Word about the ten tribes, is that His true Israel still is represented by the scattered ten northern tribes and... a remnant of the house of Judah that have accepted Jesus of Nazareth as Messiah.
Today those are called Christ's Church, along with believing Gentiles. Apostle Paul confirms what I'm saying with that, because Paul in Romans 9 quotes from the Book of Hosea to Roman Gentile believers on Christ, and the Book of Hosea was specifically given by God through His prophet Hosea to the ten tribe
"house of Israel". That points to Paul having been ordained to go to Rome to preach The Gospel to both ten lost tribes of the
"house of Israel" in Europe, along with Gentiles.
When someone says that they are Jewish, does that only mean that they come for the tribes of Judah, Benjamin and Levi?
It points only... to those representing the
"house of Judah", or after the split with the
"kingdom of Judah" at Jerusalem/Judea. And I think you may already know this, but are trying to check me out. But what you maybe do not realize, is that I also know about the remnant of the northern ten tribes that left the north when king Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim setup calf idol worship in the north. So a small remnant out of the northern ten tribes refused the idols and left the north and went south and joined with the tribes of Judah and Benjamin,
and they also became known as Jews. The Levites in the north also refused those idols and left and went south and joined with Judah. This is written in 2 Chronicles 11.
Thus after Jeroboam's day, the JEWS of the "house of Judah" became the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Levi, and small mix out of the northern ten tribes that refused Jeroboam's calf idols and left the north and joined with Judah. That includes the 'strangers' (foreigners) that lived in Judea also which had to convert to the Jew's religion. And that is still how it is with Jews today.
The majority of the children of Israel PRIOR to God splitting old Israel per 1 Kings 11, was made up of the northern ten tribes of Israel:
Zebulun
Issachar
Dan
Gad
Asher
Naphtali
Ephraim
Manasseh
Rueben
Simeon
Those ten tribes above made up the northern
"kingdom of Israel" or
"house of Israel" after the split. Before God split old Israel, the label
"house of Israel" was put for all... 12 tribes (like in Ex.16:31; Numbers 20:29; 2 Samuel 16:3). But after God split old Israel into two separate kingdoms, that
"house of Israel" label became applies ONLY to the separated ten northern tribes of the
"kingdom of Israel".
Only in Acts 2:36 with
"all the house of Israel" is that label used for all... 12 tribes of Israelites after Christ's death and crucifixion. In Ezekiel 37:16, that
"all the house of Israel" label is used only... for the stick of Ephraim who was head tribe over the ten northern tribes, so even by that it reveals the distinct use of that title per God's Word, and shows one must... pay attention line upon line in study of God's Word.
The ten lost tribes of Israel do have an archeological history. The Assyrian tablets records names which the Assyrians called them by while they were captive in Assyria. One of those names became the name Cimmerian (the 'C' pronounced like a 'K'). There's a lot of history written about the Cimmerian tribes which migrated into Europe, including those of them that passed north of the Black Sea through the Caucasus Mountains into Europe. Scottish leaders circa 1300 A.D. wrote a reference to their heritage from Israel in the Scottish Declaration of Independence (Declaration of Arbroath).
And because Apostle Paul was ordained to preach The Gospel at Rome, as Peter did also, that reveals that Europe was where remnants of the ten lost tribes had migrated to. And because Britain became the first nation on a national scale to accept The Gospel of Jesus Christ, and the histories of Glastonbury with some of the early Apostles, and the pillar stone being there which the kings of Ireland, Scotland, and England have been coronated upon, just like king David had, and the kings of old Israel, that further points to the West as being where the majority of the 12 tribes were scattered to, but mainly the ten tribes, since the Jews of the "house of Judah" did not go captive to Assyria and the lands of the Medes.
The Jews were scattered later, after their later Babylon captivity by king Nebuchadnezzar, as the majority of Jews captive to Babylon stayed there, and then were scattered through the countries later. Then in 70 A.D. with the Romans having destroyed Jerusalem and the 2nd temple, they scattered the Jews in Jerusalem/Judea through the countries (excepting for a very small remnant that remained, because God had promised to always leave one tribe at Jerusalem per 1 Kings 11). As the scattered Jews in old Europe refused to convert to Christ, the European nations exiled them out of their countries and they became vagabonds, so they had no choice but to make their way back to the holy land. Over the centuries those Jews began returning, and then in 1948 by U.N. Charter vote, they became the nation of Israel again. But that's ONLY about the Jews of the old "house of Judah" (only a small remnant of the ten tribes with them).
The majority of the ten tribes are still... scattered to this day, and won't be gathered until Jesus returns at His future coming. And I will say, the majority of those ten tribes today, are located among the Western Christian nations and its allies. Converted Jews are among them, along with believing Gentiles, and all of those together make up Christ's Church today.
Thus God's true Israel, has always been a 'pointer' to the northern ten tribe "kingdom of Israel" which made up the majority of the seed of Israelites. And like Joseph, those ten tribes were separated from their brethren of the "house of Judah" (Judah, Benjamin, and Levi = Jews). That separation is also covered in the Book of Hosea where foretold of His ending the "kingdom of Israel" of ten tribes, and scattering them into the "wilderness" (to the West), and there He would let them have the full weight of their Baal idol worship they forgot Him for. That happened, as the ten lost tribes migrated into Asia Minor and Europe, and took their Baal gods with them. Each area of Europe had their own names and style of Baal idol worship for a period. Then when The Gospel was preached to them after Christ was rejected at Jerusalem, the migrated ten tribes westward to Europe became the western Christian nations. Per Hosea, God said after their Baal worship, He would give the ten tribes a New Covenant, and there they would no longer call Him "Baali", but instead "Ishi". And then in final, He would call them the sons of the living God (which Apostle Paul quoted to believing Gentile Romans in Romans 9).
