This recent exchange with a gentleman on the History Channel forum comes just in time for Thanksgiving Day…
The twelve tribes themselves are not of European origin.
The Twelve Tribes of Israel, the Anglo-Saxons and the white peoples of northwestern Europe, are of Israelite origin. We are the so-called “Ten Lost Tribes”. We were taken captive by the Assyrians and later, as prophesied, migrated north and west in Europe and King David’s dynasty continues on Scepter Island.
Of the 12,000 from each tribe who will be taken away on judgment day, how many do you think will be half-breeds?
If they are so mixed, the Holy Spirit would not have inspired John to write specifically about the unique tribes of Israel. Obviously, they are not “mixed” enough to disqualify them from being considered, in God’s eyes, this or that specific tribe of Israel. We have undoubtedly intermarried, but still dominate this or that tribe in our ancestry, having sifted through various countries (we can say we are English, Irish, Dutch) but still ISRAELITE.
When Revelation was written, the author probably had no idea that the Jews would have scattered throughout the world as they have or intermarried as they have with other peoples.
John was a prophet and the Holy Spirit undoubtedly inspired him to learn about the other prophecies of the Law and the Prophets that clearly foretold the reach and expansion of the Twelve Tribes to the ends of the Earth: not only the Jews! The Jews are only a small part of the great family of Jacob-Israel.
It is written in Amos that we (the northern 10-tribe Kingdom of Israel) would migrate, sift through the nations, and yet not lose our identity (in regards to our ethnic makeup, our basic DNA).
assuming you’re a gentile
God’s mercy extends to all peoples, even though his plan calls first for the Jews (and Israelites) and then for the Gentiles. God has called our peoples, the Jews and the Joes, Israelites, so that they finally become his servant nation to bless all nations.
I am Joe (descendant of Joseph/Anglo-Saxon heritage) as well as a Jew, a descendant of King David, as our family traces back to the British and Scottish royal families. I am also a descendant of two Mayflower Pilgrims, John and Priscilla Alden, and a collateral descendant of three American Presidents.
[The Scripture] it does not apply to the United States because they did not give us anything. WE TAKE ALL WE HAVE FROM THE NATIVES
The United States was given primarily to the descendants of Joseph and the other northern tribes of Israel, with some Jews living among us (although God has given them a Jewish homeland). Just as ancient Israel had to be willing to fight to secure their inheritance, so do we. Sometimes we were more honorable than others, like Jacob with Esau, but even though Manifest Destiny was going to be and was fulfilled in us. We do not take from the natives because it was not theirs to begin with—it belongs to our Great Creator God and to whom He gives it, as is His divine prerogative.
The various natives took each and had a violent history towards different tribes and was carried away by their crude paganism. Some were more advanced than others.
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
10 “So it will be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land of which he swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities that you did not build, 11 houses full of all good things that you did not fill, dug wells that you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant;when you have eaten and are satisfied, 12 then be careful, lest you forget the LORD…
we build the cities, we invent our gadgets and things, we build a gigantic economy, we pave the roads, we assemble a massive army, etc. all for us. God had nothing to do with these things.
God works in, through, and for people at the same time. He warned us not to develop such an unhealthy and pompous attitude of vainly imagining that we were doing all these things without his help and inspiration from him, even giving us the health to achieve great things. God has blessed our efforts. It is true that God helps those who help themselves. The “Protestant work ethic” is a biblical work ethic.
Deuteronomy 8:9-20
9 a land in which you will not eat bread with scarcity, in which you will lack nothing; a land whose stones are made of iron and from whose mountains copper can be extracted. 10 When you have eaten and are satisfied, then you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land that He has given you.
eleven Be careful not to forget the LORD your God, not keeping his commandments, his judgments, and his statutes that I command you today, 12 except when you have eaten and are satisfied, and have built beautiful houses and live in them. 13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, 14 when your hearts are lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God… 17 then you say in your heart: ‘My power and the strength of my hand have earned me this wealth.’
18 “And you shall remember the LORD your God, for he it is who gives you power to get riches, to establish his covenant who swore to your fathers, as on this day. 19 And if in any way you forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and serve and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. 20 Like the nations that the LORD destroys before you, so you will perish, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God.
As Abraham Lincoln warned, he said that we had forgotten our Great God and encouraged everyone to repent and pray that God would save our nation. We were saved so that God could fulfill his many prophecies, his wonderful promises to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob about peace and prosperity for his offspring because of THE OBEDIENCE OF ABRAHAM. But God has given us so many things and wonderful years and we have forgotten it as self-made men and women who in vain imagine that we do not need God and this is all our doing, the work of our hands, so God, who controls the weather – He will take these things off our hands and show us how we are at His mercy to humble us and bring us back to Him and remind us to keep Their commandments, Their Holy Saturday and biblical holidays, the “Jewish holidays”, and reject the replacement theology and the pagan holidays of bloody Rome!
If we have God to thank for the invention of the airplane, then we have to thank him for 9/11.
That is just ridiculous. What we do with a gift is our responsibility. Everything has the potential to be a blessing or a curse. God gives us free will to determine what we want of ourselves, what we will do with what we have been given: whether we will squander our inheritance or use it wisely, with an attitude of gratitude and loving obedience.
I see you conveniently didn’t refer to the other verse I quoted, verse 24 which says:
1. Behold, the LORD empties the land, desolates it, and turns it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants.
2. And it will be, that as it is with the people, so with the priest; as it is with the servant, so with his master; as it is with the maid, so with his mistress; as it is with the buyer, so with the seller; as it is with the lender, so also with the borrower; as it is with the usury taker, so with the usury payer for him.
3. The land will be completely devastated and completely plundered, because Jehovah has spoken this word. 4 The earth mourns and fades, the world languishes and fades, the haughty people of the earth languish.
13. When this happens: in the midst of the land among the peoples, it will be like the shaking of the olive tree, and like the grapes that are picked after the harvest. 14 They will raise their voice, they will sing to the majesty of the Lord, they will cry out from the sea. 15 Therefore glorify the LORD in the fires, the name of the LORD God of Israel in the islands of the sea. 16. From most of the earth we have heard songs, glory to the righteous. But I said: My thinness, my thinness, woe is me! treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yes, treacherous dealers have dealt with much treachery. 17 Fear, pit and snare upon you, O inhabitant of the earth. 18 And it will come to pass that he who flees from the voice of fear will fall into the pit; and whoever comes out of the middle of the well will be caught in the snare; for windows from on high were opened, and the foundations of the earth shook. 19 The earth is completely broken, the earth completely dissolved, the earth greatly shaken. 20 The earth will stagger like a drunkard, and shake like a hut; and her transgression will be heavy upon her; and will fall, and will not rise again.
These verses prophesy the destruction of everything and everyone who does not agree with what you are telling me.
I didn’t ignore it and tackled it. Humanity will reach the point of no return: except for divine intervention no flesh would be spared alive, no human being would remain, just as Yeshua and the Prophets predicted. Within that Scripture is revealed survivors who are praising God, which I have highlighted.
Matthew 24:21-22
21 For then there will be great tribulation [Time of Jacob’s Trouble], such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor will there ever be. 22 and unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the sake of the elect [the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob] those days will be shortened.
Isaiah 1:9
9 Unless Jehovah of hosts
He had left us a very small scrap or remains,
We would have become like Sodom,
We would have been made like Gomorrah.
Isaiah 43:1-3
1 But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob,
And he who formed you, O Israel:
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by your name;
You are mine.
two When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;
And by the rivers, they will not drown you.
When you go through the fire, you won’t get burned,
Not even the flame will burn you.
3 For I am the LORD your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your Savior;
I gave Egypt for your ransom,
Ethiopia and Seba in your place.
God always saves a remnant to keep alive His promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that He would be their God and the God of their descendants (meaning they must always have some descendants). East GOOD NEWS That’s why the first chapter of Beyond Babylon: The Rise and Fall of Europe is appropriately called “Guaranteed Survival!”