Tuesday, May 27, 2008
The Revolution: A Manifesto
I'll take an autographed copy of Ron Paul's book, The Revolution: A Manifesto, and in return will give him an autographed copy of Beyond Babylon: Europe's Rise and Fall.
Is there a Future for the USA?
A Voice from Hebron by Gary M. Cooperberg
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Is there a Future for the USA?
May 27, 2008
George W. Was the first President of the United States. Could it be that George W. will also be the last President of the United States? Everyone is trying to figure out whether Hillary, Obama, or McCain will be the next President. But is anyone considering the possibility that the experiment called the United States of America may have come to an end?
All true Bible believers know that this world has a Creator. They also know that the Creator had a “friend” called Abraham. He Promised His friend, Abraham, that his descendants, through Isaac and Jacob, will inherit all of the Land of Israel (Canaan), and will bring knowledge of the Creator to all of the Peoples of the World. It will be through the Jewish People that all Peoples of the World will be blessed.
The beginning of return of Jewish Sovereignty to the Land of Israel has defied all odds and stands as irrefutable proof that our Creator is beginning to fulfill His Promise to our Father, Abraham. Biblical Redemption is beginning to unfold, yet most choose to ignore it. Incredible technological advances have caused the majority of us to forget our Creator. We think that we can create everything ourselves now. Wealth and power have gone to our heads and led us to believe that we can dictate a new morality and a more efficient, modern way of life. In some ways conditions similar to these are what led to the Tower of Babel.
President Bush claims to be a Bible believer. Yet he has designed a “roadmap” which defies Biblical destiny. He claims that he wants to make peace in the Middle East, but the reality is that he simply needs to curry favor with Arab oil interests. He doesn’t really want to hurt Israel, but he thinks that he can appease the powerful Arab financial moguls by getting Israel to agree to “modest” compromises.
Ehud Olmert is currently under investigation for charges of bribery and other criminal activities. He is desperate to save his neck, and willing to sacrifice his own country to do so. Not only is he trying to meet Bush’s deadline to make peace with the PLO, he is also trying to make peace with Syria by agreeing to give away the Golan Heights! Syria has never been willing to speak to Israel unless she first agrees to give her all of the Golan Heights. Clearly this demand has already been accepted by Olmert. And they are talking!
Aside from Olmert’s dangerous maneuvering, nearly all of our leaders agree to the concept of negotiating peace with our enemies by giving away Jewish Land. It defies rationality how anyone at this late date could imagine that even were we to give away the entire Golan, all of Judea and Samaria, and half of Jerusalem that peace would descend upon us like the dew from heaven. Look at how much peace we got by giving away Gaza! Our military leaders are worried that Ashkelon, Ashdod and Beersheva may soon be within range of the rockets being launched against us from Gaza. They are spending fortunes to build defensive missiles to protect us from this threat. They could save enormous sums of money and countless lives were they to decide to simply remove our enemies from Gaza and repopulate it with Jews. But this thought defies their preconceived notion of making peace by giving away Jewish Land.
World leaders and even Jewish leaders seem to have lost their minds. Israel is a very tiny country. Why would the greatest and most powerful nations of the world even care what goes on here? Yet they all seem to think that world peace can only be gained by weakening this tiny country. Even Jewish leaders seem to agree to this absurd notion. Despite the beautiful words and concepts espoused by world leaders who seem to want to force the lion to graze with the lamb, those words are words of deceit, and the “peaceful” lion is just waiting for dinner.
Indeed, the nations are already gathering against tiny Israel. . . an act which in and of itself is ridiculous. But this too is clearly part of Biblical Destiny. The reality is that the great nations of the world are trying to prove, as did Hitler before them, that there is no G-d. They want to usurp that role and rule the world. In order to do so they must first prove that there is no G-d. And the only way to do this is to destroy His Chosen People, Israel. Hitler tried and failed. The next effort will be the very last. It will result in the destruction of those nations who dare attack Israel. This will truly be a war to end all wars and will eventually see Israel as the leader of all nations and true peace reign throughout the world.
Gary M. Cooperberg will be on a speaking tour in the states between June 29 and July 9. At present he has scheduled visits in Texas and Florida. He would like to spend the 4th of July weekend in a Jewish community where he would be able to speak at several locations between Friday and Sunday. He is willing to go just about anywhere in the states where he is invited. Should you be in a position to invite him to your neighborhood, drop him a line at gary@projectshofar.org. Time is running out so don’t wait until he is already booked.
Project Shofar is dedicated to spreading these truths wherever it is possible to do so. It is sounding the alarm, to Jew and Gentile alike,to open our eyes to the G-dly process that is presently underway, and work to support it. We dare not stand idly on the sidelines.
Bush White House First ‘Catholic’ Presidency?
It's increasingly known how outspoken I am against the baptized paganism of counterfeit Christianity, of the Babylonian Mystery religion dressed in Christian drag, yet some Protestants understand better than others how horribly rotten and evil the Roman Catholic Cult is and don't hesitate to say so. Jack Chick is one of these individuals. That's good! I simply wonder how such Protestants can see certain things so clearly, and yet fail to recognize that their Sunday for Sabbath, and pagan holidays for God's holy days, and other unclean doctrines are still hangovers from the Babylonian brew the Roman Catholic Cult concocts. We must forsake Babylon all the way, and return to the faith once delivered to Jerusalem - not have one foot in both worlds, rejected by both.
Plea to Diehard Catholics & Protestants to Repent
David Ben-Ariel
Plea to Diehard Catholics & Protestants to Repent
David Ben-Ariel
Gal. 4:16
How sad that the “born-again” leader of the free world should give a royal welcome to the leader of a religion which holds one billion people in spiritual bondage.
A flurry of publicity during the pope’s visit this year attempted to position the George Bush White House as “the first truly [Roman] Catholic presidency.”
Evidence presented cited the two new U.S. Supreme Court justices, John Roberts and Samuel Alito appointed by Bush bringing to five the number of Roman Catholics on the bench.
We are told that he is also surrounded with RC advisors, cabinet members and speechwriters. His royal welcome for Pope Benedict further reinforces the idea that the president has introduced a new era of Vatican influence.
There is no doubt that the pope stands for some good things. Catholic activists have been helpful in focusing our attention on the evils of abortion and homosexuality. However, sugar-coated poison is still poison. Satan’s lies are always mixed with an element of truth.
The history of nations that have embraced Vatican teachings is not pretty. In the Latin American countries, Catholic idolatrous rituals have bred poverty, corruption and political turmoil while the U.S. prospered under the widespread preaching of biblical righteousness.
Both began as virgin territories with rich resources of forests, minerals and oil but religious freedom in one and spiritual bondage in the other achieved very different results. There would be no immigration woes today had righteousness reigned on both continents. Truly, “Righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34).
For a thousand years, known as the “dark ages,” the Vatican held the Western World in spiritual darkness. Ignorance and superstition gripped the people. Corrupt popes terrorized kings and plowmen alike. Any who objected had to flee to the caves to avoid being burned as heretics.
Rome’s bonds were broken when God released the printing press technology so the Bible could be published for the common man. Satan had to come up with a new strategy for his prostitute “church.” Ecumenism was born. The lie that all religions essentially worship the same god began to spread. The Vatican held an “Ecumenical Council” known as “Vatican II.” Plans were drafted to bring together the Protestants, Muslims, Jews, Hindus, etc. to pray together for world “peace and justice.”
On the political front, the Jesuits have worked for centuries to infiltrate high levels of government to control the levers of power from behind the scenes. Their machinations have gotten them thrown out of several dozen countries in the past. The new strategy fit their method of operation well.
We see it in operation now with the infiltration around President Bush. He does not go along with all their agenda, but in many ways he is duped. In a recent speech he repeated the pope’s position on Islam, that Muslims and Christians both worship the same God. In an interview with ETWN, the reporter asked what he saw when he looked into the eyes of Pope Benedict. “God,” President Bush replied.
It is also significant that Benedict chose to speak to the UN while in the U.S. His ecumenical vision includes more than the spiritual. He spoke of the “international community” as a family that needed to work together for the good of each member. But we know from the Bible that any attempt by man to create an “international community” will only result in the introduction of the anti-Christ. Had any of the Fathers of the Reformation been asked what they saw in the eyes of the pope, they would no doubt have said “Anti-Christ!”
Evil will continue to rise in the world until the nations will, in desperation, welcome a world leader who will promise a solution. But that solution will turn out to be world slavery to an even greater evil.
We must pray for our leaders that we may continue to have the peace and freedom to share the gospel. But the Bible assures us that persecution will come and that we need to work “while it is day.”
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C.H. Spurgeon on Christmas and Roman Catholicism
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Sorcerer-Pope to Bewitch Europe and Mislead the Masses
Europe's Bitter Roots
Bavarian Pope to Sweep Europe Off its Feet?
Catholic Europe in Vogue?
The Intelligence Summit Misses the Mark: the German-Jesuit Threat to World Peace
The Bible is the Word of God
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DBA- Without the Word of God, the Holy Bible to base every belief upon, you're a spiritual anarchist who is bent on self-destruction.
Your own idolatrous ideas cannot save you, and you have no authority or right to determine what is good and what is evil.
Other books say something else. Your book says those books are false. Those books say your book is false.
I know many of the other books and have burnt them, being saved out of their falsehoods, now knowing only the Bible is the Word of God, the divine revelation of our Great Creator God, the God of Israel. If you don't know that, you're still wandering in your wilderness.
A Higher Calling: Quest for the Kingdom of God
Herbert W. Armstrong and the Worldwide Church of God Mentioned in Israeli Newspaper
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I don't worship a book.
I don't know anybody who does, but I do know that we are to have a proper love and respect for the Holy Bible, the divine revelation, that God has graciously given us and not take it lightly or treat it disrespectfully, dishonoring our Father.
The Oracles of God
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I worship a living God, who speaks to me personally.
If you reject the Bible as the Word of our Great Creator God - who has given us His living Word - you're not worshiping the true God, but are either being conned by demons who can appear as angels of light or are merely letting your deceitful heart mislead you, or a combination of the two. God knows.
Those who recognize and submit Father knows best and the Bible is His Word, let it speak to their hearts and minds, as God intends, inspired by His Holy Spirit that brings it to our attention whether in actual word or biblical principle.
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When people say that their religion is better than someone else's religion, it sounds like childish schoolyard bragging. If a religion is so true, then it it is not necessary to preach it. Its truth would outshine all the rest.
At least according to your self-righteous preaching and self-righteous standards, all based upon your idolatrous ideas - nothing concrete or authoritative, unlike the Bible.
Yeshua said the Jews know who they worship and that the Gentiles don't know God. The Prophets basically said the same, as well as the apostles. Pitiful you think you know more than them.
They were merely stating facts, not bragging. There is no room for bragging because everything that's true we have, we have received in varying degrees, and we're to continue to live and learn, so help us God. That's part of what the conversion process is all about: learning to THINK LIKE GOD to increasingly LIVE LIKE GOD and at the resurrection, when we're truly born again, we're transformed and become God - a literal member of the Kingdom-Family of God-Beings - just like the Bible teaches!
Isaiah 55:7-9
7 Let the wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
Let him return to the LORD,
And He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
8 "For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.
9 "For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.
www.davidbenariel.org
Monday, May 26, 2008
Blacks and Jews
Crown Heights tensions between Jews, blacks recall 1991 riots
Let the Jews return to Zion and the blacks to Africa, and all will be well.
Why do Jews prefer to remain in a self-imposed exile? Doesn't Judaism teach Jews belong in the Promised Land of Israel? Isn't it the Jewish Homeland?
Jews Don't Follow Judaism
The more white Israelite people try to ignore the issues of race, the more race will get in our face (Daniel 9:11). It is in the best interests of every race to SEGREGATE NOW.
Diversity Demands: Segregate Now!
Black to Africa: Facing the Crisis in Black America
Is Germany Conquering Latin America?
Is Germany Conquering Latin America?
May 23, 2008 From theTrumpet.com
Economic ties that German corporate agents have been actively establishing in Latin America are about to give the European Union a network of colonies. By Andrew Miiller May 23, 2008 From theTrumpet.com
Germany is investing in Latin American industry as never before. The Latin Business Chronicle reports that German daughter companies are producing 10 percent of the Brazilian industrial gross domestic product. Meanwhile, German industrial giant ThyssenKrupp AG is constructing a $4.6 billion giant steel-producing complex that will actively transform the mineral wealth of South America into vast amounts of steel products to be sold throughout Germany and Latin America by 2010. By that time, it will have taken 13,000 laborers a full four years to build.
Yet this massive investment project is about a whole lot more than just steel production. It is also about political cooperation between Germany and Brazil. The cooperation that is taking place between ThyssenKrupp AG and the Brazilian government is a means to further cement a business relationship that began all the way back in 1837. When Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came to visit the steel mill construction site this past February, the Chairman ThyssenKrupp’s steel producing arm, Dr. Karl-Ulrich Köhler, delivered a speech that recalled these long-standing ties. After recalling this history, he added, “The steel mill, which involves an investment of €3 billion, will be a solid basis for the continuation of these excellent relations.”
It is these “excellent relations” that have prompted German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier to call for a “partnership on eye level” with Latin America—and it is “excellent relations” that convinced German Chancellor Angela Merkel to tour Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru from May 13 to 20.
The Latin Business Chronicle further reports that Latin American trade with the EU is growing at twice the rate as its trade with the United States. As the U.S. economy dips into recession, Latin America will be forced to become even more reliant on Germany and the European Union as both a trade partner and source of investment. Indeed, German trade alone across the entire Latin American region has already risen to a value of $55 billion as of last year—making Germany Latin America’s largest trade partner in the EU.
The Flag Follows Trade
To see where this economic “goodwill” is leading, it is helpful to understand the mind of the founder of ThyssenKrupp AG in the post-World War ii world. Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was the executive director of ThyssenKrupp’s predecessor organization, Fried Krupp AG, from 1943 until his death in 1968. Possibly more than any other man of his era, he understood that economic relations could be a precursor to political conquest. He once said that his corporation would reverse the old adage that trade follows the flag. In a new, postwar German Reich, the flag would follow trade.
Alfried Krupp and other major German industrialists used their company’s exports to strengthen Germany’s economy and to increase its political influence over other nations—especially resource-rich nations that could serve as an industrial base.
As the richest and most powerful figure in the European Economic Community (established in 1957), Alfried Krupp helped lay the foundation for the economic relations that culminated in the founding of the European Union. As one of the first Western European industrialists to establish business contacts with the markets of Eastern Europe, Krupp helped lay the foundation for the European Union’s eastward expansion after the fall of the Soviet Union. As one of the first to recognize the importance of establishing trade contacts with Latin America, he set in motion a process of economic conquest that has now culminated in Brazil being earmarked as ThyssenKrupp’s largest site of foreign investment.
The flag follows trade, and if history is any indication, Latin America may well be the next global region to fall prey to an expanding European Empire—an empire with Germany as its heartland. As T.H. Tetens wrote in his book Germany Plots With the Kremlin, “South America will be conquered by business agents, not by guns.”
History of the Krupps
Krupp’s family has played a vital role in German industry for the last 500 years. Indeed, the Krupp dynasty of industrialists has been dubbed the “Uncrowned Kings of Essen” because of their historic role as the leaders of German industry and arms production. Anton Krupp produced 1,000 gun barrels per year for Germany in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648). Friedrich Krupp dug the trenches for Napoleon once Essen allied with France (1812). The Krupps produced the cannons that the German states used in their bombardment of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War (1871). Alfried’s father, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, was the only German to be tried for war crimes after both world wars for his role in producing weapons of war for both Kaiser Wilhelm and Adolf Hitler. Alfried worked closely by his father’s side throughout the Second World War until he was arrested by the Allies, convicted at Nuremburg, and imprisoned for war crimes (William Manchester, The Arms of the Krupp).
Even before Alfried’s arrest in 1945, however, he was already planning how his corporation, could help establish a strong, postwar German Empire. A shocking World War II intelligence document released by the U.S. government in 1996 reveals that a certain “Dr. Kasper” was sent as a representative of Fried Krupp AG to a covert meeting of German industrialists that took place on August 10, 1944, in Strasbourg, France. The purpose of this meeting, and its follow-up meeting, was to instruct German industrialists how to conduct “a postwar commercial campaign.” This campaign was to “finance the Nazi Party which would be forced to go underground” and to ensure that “a strong German Empire [could] be created after the defeat.” Specifically, these industrialists were told to strengthen Germany “through their exports” and to “make contacts and alliances with foreign firms.” Alfried definitely took the instruction to heart.
Perhaps even more shocking than what is revealed in this intelligence document, however, is the fact that the Allies released Alfried in 1951 and actually let him reassume sole proprietorship of Fried Krupp AG in 1953.
Upon reassuming control of his company, Alfried immediately went to work strengthening Fried Krupp AG (and Germany) by establishing new export markets in Eastern Europe, Africa and Latin America. His business genius was such that after 10 years, he entered the European Economic Community as its richest individual and single most powerful industrialist. Alfried had been accused of war crimes, bloody-mindedness and unrepentant Nazism, but no one could ever accuse him of disloyalty to his corporation.
Although Alfried died in 1968, with his personal copy of Mein Kampf still on his nightstand, his corporation continued to follow the path he had set for it. Fried Krupp AG went public as Krupp’s protégé Berthold Beitz became the chairman and executive member of the Board of Trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation in Essen (the foundation that as of 2005 held 23.58 percent of the voting rights in ThyssenKrupp AG). Beitz still holds this position—as well as that of Honorary Chairman of Supervisory Board of ThyssenKrupp AG. Under his leadership, the corporation lost much of its public association with Nazism. What it did not lose was its unswerving devotion to the ideal of a globally dominant postwar Germany. Everything is going just as Alfried Krupp and Dr. Kasper planned over 60 years ago.
Germany’s Latin American Industrial Base
Today, as talk of the German-led EU as the next global superpower abounds, Germany needs the natural resource wealth of Latin America more than ever. The entire region from the Rio Grande to Terra del Fuego is a giant storehouse of timber, natural gas, crude oil, minerals, precious metals, and especially iron. It is easy to see why Germany has worked so hard to set new trade records with nations like Mexico, Brazil and Argentina.
Latin America is far more important to Germany as an industrial base than as a simple trade partner. The total value of goods and services produced by German daughter companies in Brazil is four-fold the value of actual German exports to Brazil. If the investments of other EU nations like Spain are considered, these figures become even more stunning. Europe as a whole may only be Latin America’s second greatest trade partner (behind the U.S.), but it is definitely Latin America’s greatest investor.
In addition to ThyssenKrupp AG, German corporate giants such as Siemens, Bayer, Volkswagen, I.G., Farben, and Deutche Bank have also become household names across Latin America as German business agents imbed themselves throughout Mexico, Central America and South America. By investing in a country rather than just simply trading with it, German business agents are ensuring that they have a far deeper stake in a region that supplies them with machines, vehicles, car components, electo-technical equipment, pharmaceuticals, chemical products, plastics, and especially metal.
As the Plain Truth magazine forecast in July 1965, “Flowing across the Atlantic to feed the hungry furnaces of the Ruhr and the other industrial complexes of Europe will come the rich mineral wealth of Latin America.”
Europe’s Next Colonies
Economies across Europe and Latin American are booming as America enters recession. For the first time since the Great Depression, the collapse of the U.S. currency is a definite possibility. If the dollar were to collapse, the economic reverberations would shake this world’s financial systems to their cores. Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel would all experience economic meltdown. The nations of Asia, which are based on American consumerism, would suffer, at least temporarily. The only self-sustaining economic bloc at that point would be Europe. Countries across Latin America (and Africa) would have no option other than complete reliance of the economic ties that a German-led EU is currently establishing with them. Either in name or in effect, the nations of Latin America would be virtual colonies of a European empire.
Actually, the collapse of the dollar may even be expedited by the current trade relationship being established between Latin America and Europe (especially Germany). Even now, Latin American free trade blocs such as Mercosur are looking to establish free trade agreements with the EU. As the Plain Truth said in May 1962, “The United States is going to be left out in the cold as two gigantic trade blocs, Europe and Latin America, mesh together and begin calling the shots in world commerce. The United States is going to be literally besieged—economically—frozen out of world trade.”
This colonization of Latin America has been in the planning for decades. The same Plain Truth article reveals, “Nazi agents, many of them disguised as ‘legitimate’ businessmen, were rampant throughout South America even before WWII.”
These “agents” did not just disappear from Latin America when the war was lost. As a matter of fact, the indication is that the number of these “agents” was greatly increased after the war as the odessa project allowed SS officers and Nazi Party members to escape from Germany to Latin America through Vatican ratlines. After all, it was determined at the August 10, 1944, meeting of Nazi industrialists mentioned above that the Nazi Party would place “its less conspicuous but most important members in positions with various German factories as technical experts or members of research and designing offices.”
The groundwork that these Nazi business agents laid during the later half of the 20th century is being exploited by the merchants of the European Union as they expand their political influence around the world.
According to biblical prophecy, Germany’s colonization of Latin America is a greater threat to the U.S. than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Osama bin Laden and Vladimir Putin combined. Besides the threat of being frozen out of world trade and the prospect of facing economic starvation, the presence of a European power in Latin America poses the much greater treat of literal invasion. That is why the U.S. used to enforce the Monroe Doctrine—to keep European powers out of the New World.
Biblical prophecy reveals that God will use Assyria (Germany) as the rod of His anger to punish the people of Israel (America, Britain, and Judah). For proof of this, please read Isaiah 10:5-6 and our booklet Nahum—An End-Time Prophecy for Germany. Germany’s takeover of Latin America would put European forces directly on the southern border of the U.S. and present an ideal scenario for a full-scale invasion of America. •
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May 23, 2008 | From theTrumpet.com
Are the Jews the only remaining survivors from the original 12 tribes of Israel? 
Like numerous other columnists over the past month, Charles Krauthammer commemorated Israel’s 60th birthday by referring to its establishment as a “miraculous story of redemption and return.” But unlike every other article we have read on the same subject, Krauthammer correctly identifies the two tribes of Israel that returned to establish the Jewish state 60 years ago—Judah and Benjamin.
To introduce his piece, Krauthammer writes about a meeting between Meriwether Lewis and Dr. Benjamin Rush that took place shortly before Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis off on his famous expedition out west. Rush wanted Lewis to observe the religious practices of the Indians to see if there were any similarities with the Jewish religion. “Jefferson and Lewis,” Krauthammer wrote, “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.”
He’s right. A quick search through the New York Times archives reveals how much speculation there was during the 1800s about where the lost tribes migrated after their Assyrian captivity in the 8th century b.c. One headline from 1885 reads: “Afghans and Their Home—Are They Descendents of Israel’s Lost Tribes?” The Times wrote, “A very ingenious attempt to connect the Afghans with the 10 lost tribes of Israel was made by Sir G.H. Rose, in a pamphlet issued 30 odd years ago. The Old Testament was abundantly drawn upon to show that the tribes disappeared toward the east …” (April 19, 1885).
During the same time period, when several articles were written about the whereabouts of the lost 10 tribes, the New York Times also printed numerous articles in favor of the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. Clearly, more people back then understood that the lost 10 tribes were not Jewish.
Today, most people carelessly assume that all Israelites are Jews. So kudos to Charles Krauthammer for pointing out that the people identified as Jews today come from only two of the original 12 tribes. The only problem with his interpretation of Israel’s history is his explanation of where the lost 10 tribes went. He wrote, “Their disappearance into the mists 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.”
The Jewish nation, he says, is the one exception. They, like the brothers from the northern 10 tribes, were defeated, removed from their homeland and “destroyed” by the Babylonians in the sixth century b.c. Yet, 70 years after their destruction, Cyrus the Great allowed about approximately 50,000 Jews to return to Jerusalem in order to rebuild Solomon’s Temple. Five centuries later, the Romans again besieged and destroyed the Jewish vassal state. According to first-century Jewish historian Josephus, Caesar instructed his general to utterly destroy Jerusalem, leaving it without inhabitant.
Yet, through two captivities, enslavements and scatterings—and despite being homeless for two millennia—the tribes of Benjamin and Judah had multiplied to about 18 million at the dawn of our modern era. Even after Adolf Hitler exterminated one third of the world’s Jewish population—in one of the worst crimes ever committed against a people in the history of human civilization—survivors of the Holocaust, backed by the United States and Britain, established the state of Israel in 1948.
Today, 60 years later, Israel is the most prosperous and powerful nation in the Middle East. That is a remarkable story of survival—no doubt about it.
What would be much more remarkable though—far-fetched, in fact—is if the other 10 tribes were systematically destroyed 2,700 years ago, resulting in their complete disappearance from the Earth.
Comparing the Numbers
When King David asked for his armies to be counted, he was told that there were 1.1 million Israelite men who were capable of bearing arms, compared to 470,000 in Judah. Counting women and children, one could conservatively estimate the total population to be around 3 million Israelites and 1.5 million Jews.
Ten generations after David’s reign, just before the northern 10 tribes went into captivity, one could safely assume that their population had grown and that Israel was still much larger than the southern nation of Judah.
With that in mind, isn’t it illogical to assume that the northern 10 tribes were destroyed or disappeared, while the much smaller nation of Judah survived three different captivities and mass exterminations to establish a Jewish state 60 years ago?
The Bible says that the Assyrians “removed Israel” out of God’s sight and carried them “away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day” (2 Kings 17:23). That biblical passage was recorded approximately 100 years after the Israelites were removed. There were still survivors, the author tells us—perhaps millions of them—dwelling in Assyria.
Where Did the Apostles Go?
Six hundred and fifty years after the author of Kings said Israelites had been uprooted from Israel and transplanted into Assyria, Jesus encountered a Canaanite woman on the coast of the Mediterranean who asked Him to have mercy on her possessed daughter, to which Christ responded, “I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 15:24). What an incredibly revealing response! The Israelites had become lost from world view during their captivity, largely because they rejected their identifying sign of Sabbath-keeping. They did not disappear. Neither were they destroyed, as Jesus plainly confirmed. Furthermore, Jesus actually said that His ministry was primarily aimed at those lost sheep!
Of course, that brief ministry was cut short when He was crucified to pay for the sins of mankind. Prior to His crucifixion, however, Jesus commissioned His 12 disciples to deliver the gospel to those same “lost” tribes of Israel. “Go not into the way of the Gentiles,” Christ told them, “but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matthew 10:5-6). It was through the work of His faithful disciples that Jesus Christ’s God-given mission to reach the “lost sheep” of Israel was primarily fulfilled!
Have you ever wondered why, after Acts 11, most of the first-century Church history is about the Apostle Paul’s ministry to the Gentile peoples on the eastern and northern shores of the Mediterranean? Does it seem strange that most of the New Testament is composed of letters written by Paul, who was commissioned to reach the Gentiles?
What happened to the original 12 apostles? Where did they go? They went exactly where Christ told them to go—far beyond Paul’s territory, following the migration of the Assyrians and their Israelite captives, into northwestern Europe, where the Israelites had been lost from world view!
Krauthammer is right when he says that many, even to this day, are still fascinated with the subject of ancient Israel’s modern identity. What he didn’t say is that most of this fascination can be attributed to a book written by Herbert W. Armstrong—The United States and Britain in Prophecy—requested by more than 6 million people during the 20th century!
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