Mr. Missler tries to slant the historical seceding of the Ten Tribes from the Davidic kingdom into an illogical, fanciful and erroneous belief.  The author hopes Mr. Missler “believes” it too, for it is not just a belief, but now is an increasingly well-known and historically established fact. It is a pivotal and often-cited Biblical event that the northern Ten Tribes of Israel seceded from the kingdom of David and began the formation of a very real prophesied separate entity with specific roles of great portent in the history of mankind. Even before the final division of the Davidic Kingdom of Israel, Jeroboam, Solomon’s prime minister, was given charge over the northern Ten Tribes, who were already then known as “the House of Joseph.” Mr. Missler needs to understand that the names “House of Joseph” and “Ephraim,” (the name of Joseph’s younger son), are vital “keys” for understanding the prophecies about  Ten Tribes of Israel. That this break-up of Solomon’s kingdom was a Divinely ordained judgment and fated eventuality was pronounced by Ahijah the prophet:

28 And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labour of the house of Joseph. 29 And it came to pass at that time, when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; now Ahijah had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field. 30 And Ahijah laid hold of the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces. 31 And he said to Jeroboam: 'Take thee ten pieces; for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee— 32 but he shall have one tribe, for My servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake—, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel 33 because that they have forsaken Me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon; and they have not walked in My ways, to do that which is right in Mine eyes, and to keep My statutes and Mine ordinances, as did David his father. 34 Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David My servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept My commandments and My statutes; 35 but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes. 36 And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David My servant may have a lamp alway before Me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen Me to put My name there. 37 And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign over all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel. 38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in My ways, and do that which is right in Mine eyes, to keep My statutes and My commandments, as David My servant did, that I will be with thee, and will build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.   —I Kings 11:28-38

Later, Mr. Missler tries to make his most important case for the non-existence of a separate House of Joseph, made up of the exiled  Ten Tribes, by asserting that the righteous among them were totally amalgamated and absorbed into the House of Judah at various but ancient times. The rest, he maintains were destroyed and annihilated  However, the Hebrew Scriptures say that this separation of the tribes into two houses, NOT an AMALGAMATION, and certainly not an annihilation, was of God’s will and was to remain so in order to fulfill a Divine plan for both houses of Israel for centuries to come:

13 And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him; 14 and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying: 'My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.' 15 So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was a thing brought about of the LORD, that He might establish His word, which the LORD spoke by the hand of Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat. 16 And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying: 'What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse; to your tents, O Israel; now see to thine own house, David.' So Israel departed unto their tents. 17 But as for the children of Israel that dwelt in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them. — I Kings 12:13-17                                                 

The Prophet Shemayah prevented Solomon’s incompetent son, king Rehoboam from going to war and try to reclaim by force the seceded northern Ten Tribes.  He was told, that this division of the Davidic kingdom “was of God.” Truly, this separation was to last till the end of the age, for the prophetic books occupy themselves to a great extent with the return of the Ten Tribes at that time.

But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying:  'Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying: Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the

LORD.    — I kings 12:24

Mr. Missler keeps maintaining his kingpin point, that the “two houses” of Israel were joined and regathered into one, in ancient times. However, the Hebrew prophets speak of their kingpin points, that there were to be TWO distinct families of Israel, who were to play separate roles throughout history. Their distinction was NOT to be overruled or melded together by anyone at any time ― not even by themselves. God Himself is to reunite them after they have fulfilled their respective purposes in the Covenant, served out their respective punishments and have repented of their sins of idolatry and leaving His instructions, the Torah. Though both houses were to go into their respective exiles, unlike Judah, the northern house of “Israel” was not to be mercifully allowed to return to the Land till the end of days:  

And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And He said unto him: 'Call her name Lo-ruhamah; [No Mercy] for I will no more have compassion upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them.

But I will have compassion upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.' — Hos. 1:6-7

If there were a mixing and homogenizing of the two houses melding them into one in ancient times, this prophecy would never have been given. These two houses of Israel were to play out diverse and distinct roles in the history of the world, which “were of God” as Shemaiah the prophet had prophesied.

The myth of the "Ten Lost Tribes" is the basis for "British- Israelism" and other colorful legends, but these stories have no real Biblical basis.

It is worthy to note again that Mr. Missler’s very first denial of the Biblical relevancy of the Ten Tribes is the “labeling” of it as the so-called  “myth of

British Israelism.” It seems that with this much-maligned particular label of

a “myth,” Mr. Missler can discredit and dismiss the return of the Ten Tribes with one fell swoop. While Brit Am, Roots of Faith[4] (organizations of which the author is a member), do not subscribe to the “theological tenets” of this much-ridiculed school of thought, it is true that this belief system has preserved many core Biblical truths as well as historical details and “footprints” of the Ten Tribes for our “latter days” understanding of the greater picture of the so-called “lost Ten Tribes of Israel.” In the last days there is to be a “remnant”[5] whose task is to “take the precious from the vile” and be His witnesses against the false teachings prevalent in the last days when “a famine of the Word of God” would prevail among the Ten Tribes, (Amos 8:11). This “remnant” is to blaze a “clear, straight way,” by freeing it of centuries of vile smears, lies and contaminations. On this “cleared” way of the Torah the millions of the Ten Tribes are to return home to their God, His Covenant — and to their true identities, i.e. themselves, as “Israel:”

Therefore thus saith the LORD: if thou return, and I bring thee back, thou shalt stand before Me; and if thou bring forth the precious out of the vile, thou shalt be as My mouth; let them return unto thee, but thou shalt not return

unto them.  — Jer 15:19

Hark! One calleth: 'Clear you in the wilderness the way of the LORD, make plain in the desert a highway for our God. 
                                                                  — Isa. 40:3

Go through, go through the gates, clear you the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway, gather out the stones; lift up an ensign over the peoples. — Isa. 62:10

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, instead of that which was said unto them: 'You are not My people', it shall be said unto them: 'You are the children of the living God.'

                                                                  ― Hos. 1:10

Mr. Missler says that there are no prophecies of the future restoration of the TWO Houses. But Jeremiah clearly tells of the restoration of BOTH distinct houses of Israel in the future. If the TWO houses were fused into one at their return to the land in Nehemiah’s time, they would be just called “Israel” and not be enumerated separately in many prophecies by several prophets. This prophesied “envy” of Ephraim” is proof enough that Ephraim is NOT included among the House of Judah today. This “envy” has been going on for a long time, as evidenced by the purported superiority of Ephraim over Judah with their “new covenant,” “new testament” and their “the Church as new Israel,” “priesthood of all believers” and other triumphant replacement theologies.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people, that shall remain from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. And He will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the dispersed of Israel, and gather together the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and

Judah shall not vex Ephraim. — Isa. 11:11-12

“For lo, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will turn the captivity of My people Israel and Judah, saith the LORD; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it.'” — Jer. 30:3

Psalm 78, written as a testimony to “Ephraim,” (the younger son of Joseph and the often-used prophetic term for the Ten Tribes), tells of the times when the centuries-long, dark, hidden secrets of this return of the Ten Tribes onto the world stage will be revealed to their “children’s children” in the last days, just as Moses prophesied. These “revelations” are to come so that they may return to keeping the commandments of the Torah they have contemptuously cast away:

“For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law [Torah] in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children; That the generation to come might know them, even the children that should be born; who should arise and tell them to their children, That they might put their confidence in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep His commandments;  — Psalm 78:5-7

Being a Bible teacher, Mr. Missler repeatedly runs into the subject of the ”lost” Ten Tribes and is mounting a growing crusade against it. Yet, that opposition is also bringing attention to this core truth to the Hebrew Scriptures for these revealed “secrets” will be intensely studied and researched “in the end of days:” Paradoxically, Mr. Missler’s crusades will only promote the “lost” Ten Tribes to be “found” by many.

“The fierce anger of the LORD shall not return, until He has executed, and till He has performed the purposes of His heart; in the end of days you shall consider it.”

Timing is truly everything. Due to the curse clause in the Covenant, whatever truths that were discovered and preserved in British Israelism, other schools of thought about the Ten Tribes, and obscure historical data,[6] they were not permitted by God to enter into widespread popular knowledge till “the end of days.” These “truths” and historical “way marks” were to be hidden under the labels of “myths” and “fictions” (as Mr. Missler likes to call them), and were not to be disseminated widely till “the end of days,” when the sentence of exile on the Ten Tribes into anonymity was to be served out. Till then, i.e. till “the time to come,” outright misconceptions, and religious dogma covered their identities hidden from understanding. These outrageous lies, partially true and partially inaccurate theories and the labels of “myths” were to keep the identity of the Ten Tribes hidden from the general awareness of mankind including from the Ten Tribes themselves. The restoration and the unification of the two houses were not to be done centuries ago, as the actual “myth” that Mr. Missler promulgates, but only at the proper time, at the Biblical period of  “the end of days.”

“But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith: 'Restore.' Who among you will give ear to this? Who will

hearken and hear for the time to come?”  — Isa. 42:22-23

Unlike Mr. Missler says, the prophet Zacharia foretells both houses still divided  in “the end of days” scenarios on the prophetic timeline:

And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back, for I have compassion upon them, and they shall be as though I had not cast them off; for I am the LORD their God, and I will

hear them.  — Zech. 10:6

They are based upon misconceptions derived from the misreading of various Bible passages.

How true — and more importantly, they are based on the misunderstanding of many Bible passages due to Church-generated, Church-maintained dogma and hermeneutics which have kept the identity of the Ten Tribes much maligned, mixed with error, well-hidden and denied for centuries. In fact the Church with its theological dogma, is hard at work to keep those truths from surfacing “in the latter days” of which the Missler article is Exhibit “A.” After all, from where is the “great return” of the Ten Tribes of Israel to come at the end of days but from the “prison houses” of the churches?      

The Faithful Voted With Their Feet.

1 Before the Assyrian captivity, substantial numbers from the northern tribes had identified themselves with the house of David.

This is Mr. Missler’s thesis statement whose main claim is that the Ten Tribes in ancient times have remained in, or have rejoined and have been amalgamated into the house of David, the southern Kingdom of Judah. He seemingly backs this up with subsequent points below. Of course even before the breakup of the Davidic kingdom, due to religious reasons some have identified with the house of David.

And after them, out of all the tribes of Israel, such as set their hearts to seek the LORD, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice unto the LORD, the God of their fathers.  — II Chron. 11:16

However, even before the fateful split, in the time of king Solomon all the Ten Tribes in the north were strongly leaning toward a separate identity and were already known as a separate faction and unit, as “the House of Joseph.”

And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour; and Solomon saw the young man that he was industrious, and he gave him charge over all the labour of the house of

Joseph.   —  I Kings 11:28

This historical “priming” of the majority of the House of Joseph was a major factor in causing the Ten Tribes to follow Jeroboam to secede. This polarization was in large part due to severe taxation and forced labor under Solomon and worse prospects under Rehoboam. The “substantial numbers” claimed by Mr. Missler definitely did not identify with the House of David, but readily seceded from it.  The Scriptures say so:

And when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying: 'What portion have we in David? Neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse; to your tents, O Israel; now see to thine own house, David.' So Israel departed unto their tents.  — I Kings 12:16

2 The rebellion of Jeroboam and subsequent crises caused many to repudiate the Northern Kingdom and unite with the Southern Kingdom in a common alliance to the house of David and a desire to worship the Lord in Jerusalem.

No doubt that at the time of the seceding there were some people who made their way to the Kingdom of Judah. (See II Chron. 11:16 above).  The Book of Kings is full of examples of gross idolatry prevailing under one wicked ruler of the kingdom of Israel after another. Even the great (and prophetic[7]) confrontation of the priests of Baal by Elijah in the reign of Ahab and Jezebel (c.870 BCE, I Kings 18), had not brought about a lasting reformation or exodus of substantial segments of the Ten Tribes to the kingdom of Judah in the South.

3 In 930 B.C. Jeroboam ruled the Northern Kingdom from his capital in Samaria. 

This is true.  The formation of a separate identiy for the Ten Tribes, that was to last for many centuries to come was underway

4 When Jeroboam turned the Northern Kingdom to idolatry, the Levites (and others who desired to remain faithful) migrated south to Rehoboam.

Horrified that Jeroboam had set up a rival religion with golden calf worship at Bethel and Dan, many Northerners moved south, knowing that the only place acceptable to God was the Temple on Mt. Moriah.

Actually, in spite of what Mr. Missler asserts, we do not read about “many” Northerners “being horrified” with Jeroboam’s idolatrous system when it was set up.  What we do read in the Scriptures is that Jeroboam turned immediately to idolatry upon seceding with the Ten Tribes to from the Kingdom of Israel.  It is difficult to conceive that this departure from the Temple-associated ways was not immediately seen for what it was by most of the seceding tribes. In spite of this blatant apostasy, most of the northern Ten Tribes remained with these centers of (bull worship) idolatry in the northern kingdom of Israel.  

26 And Jeroboam said in his heart: 'Now will the kingdom return to the house of David. 27 If this people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, then will the heart of this people turn back unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.' 28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them: 'Ye have gone up long enough to Jerusalem; behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.' 29 And he set the one in Beth-el, and the other put he in Dan. 30 And this thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan. 31 And he made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, that were not of the sons of Levi. 32 And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he went up unto the altar; so did he in Beth-el, to sacrifice unto the calves that he had made; and he placed in Beth-el the priests of the high places that he had made. 33 And he went up unto the altar which he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up unto the altar, to offer.  — I Kings 12:26-33

For the Levites left their open land and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons cast them off, that they should not execute the priest's office unto the LORD; and he appointed him priests for the high places, and for the satyrs, [demons / וְלַשְּׂעִירִי and for the

calves which he had made. —II Chron 11:14-15
                            

The adamant disposition of the Ten Tribes to not rejoin the spiritual leading from Jerusalem has been preserved in Jewish tradition. Talmud Babli, Baba Batra 121b recounts that Jeroboam had placed the equivalent of policemen at the borders to prevent the northern Israelites from going to Jerusalem for religious purposes. These preventive measures were maintained throughout the existence of the northern kingdom until the time of their last ruler king Hoshea, who did away with them. King Hoshea allowed those Israelites who wished to worship at Jerusalem to do so. According to the sages his failure was that he did not compel his subjects to go up to Jerusalem [but rather left it to their own decision]. This account shows us that during the 210 years existence of the kingdom of Israel, joining to the southern kingdom of Judah by northerners was done only by a very few. The aggregate small numbers of those who did so were very insignificant, and are in no way supporting Mr.Missler’s thesis that the tribes from the two kingdoms were reunited in ancient times. We can also see that the idea of “forcing” a reunification as advocated by the sages was not allowed for it was not to be done by anyone, not even by kings, e.g. Rehoboam and Hoshea.

6 Those who favored idolatry migrated north to Jeroboam.

We do not read of this migration in the Bible about idolaters from Judah moving to the northern Kingdom of Israel. This is a “myth” invented by Mr. Missler, to make his minimalizing point that the idolaters of Northern House were eventually annihilated and do not exist today.

Later, when Asa reigned as king in the south, another great company came from the north.

It is true that about 896 BCE, during the reformation of king Asa in the south, substantial numbers from the north went south when they saw that God was with Asa. Whatever that amount was, these were only some from the Tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh and Simeon, they were NOT the complete tribes by these names.

And when Asa heard these words, even the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the detestable things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he renewed the altar of the LORD, that was before the porch of the LORD. And he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and them that sojourned with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon; for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the LORD his God was with him. So they gathered themselves together at Jerusalem in the third month, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.  — II Chron. 15:9-10                                                                   

Influential as king Asa may have been in his reformation, it did not cause the majority of the Ten Tribes to join Judah in the south. For the next 150 years they remained recalcitrant toward the authority of God till the very end of their kingdom:

And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and

in the cities of the Medes; because they did not obey the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant and all that Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded and they would neither hear nor do

them. — II Kings 18:11-12

7 Years after the deportation by Assyria, King Hezekiah of Judah issued a call to all Israel to come and worship in Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover.

This historical note by itself refers only to the invitation to the Ten Tribes to come and worship in Hezekiah’s restoration effort at the start of Hezekiah’s reign c.726 BCE. This occurred just BEFORE the final Assyrian deportation of the Northern tribes was completed in 721-722 BCE.  It does not say that those who came remained in the south. Like all pilgrims have always done, after the Passover period these also returned to their homes in the northern kingdom of Israel..

And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover unto the LORD, the God of Israel.  — II Chron 30:1

It is true that some have responded from some of the northern tribes:

Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem. Also in Judah was the hand of God to give them one heart, to do the commandment of the king and of the princes by the word of

the LORD.  — II Chron 30:11-12                                                                                                  

For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim and Manasseh, Issachar and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the Passover otherwise than it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying: 'The good LORD pardon every one that setteth his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, though [he be] not [cleansed] according to the purification that pertaineth to holy things. — II Chron 30:18

Though the above numbers may have been considerable, however most of the northern tribes derided the emissaries of Hezekiah and remained in the north even for the Passover period:

So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even unto Zebulun; but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them. — II Chron 30:10

We need to note that the siege of Samaria begins in the 4th year of Hezekiah and the 6th year of Hoshea.  In the 6th year of Hezekiah, [721 BCE], Samaria was taken and the exile of the kingdom of Israel was complete: The very destruction of the northern kingdom was due to their intransigent idolatrous apostasy, because of which, they were finally driven out of the Land.

And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. And at the end of three years they took it; even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.  And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes;     — II Kings 18:9-11

8 Eighty years later, King Josiah of Judah also issued a call and an offering for the Temple was received from "Manasseh and Ephraim and all the remnant of Israel...."

The verse not wholly quoted above by Mr. Missler is:

And they came to Hilkiah the high priest, and delivered the money that was brought into the house of God, which the Levites, the keepers of the door, had gathered of the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim, and of all the remnant שְׁאֵרִית                 /sh'eriyt) of Israel, and of all Judah and Benjamin, and they returned to Jerusalem. — II Chron 34:9

Josiah ruled over Judah c. 628-609 BCE, long after the exile of the Ten Tribes in the north. How could he receive an offering from the exiled Northern Israelites during his reformation? We need to note it was only a “remnant” of the northern tribes who were still present at the great Passover of Josiah. The bulk of these tribes were not there. The phraseology suggests that this was only a minority from these tribes, possibly descendants of earlier refugees from the north, who were living in their enclave communities in the southern Kingdom of Judah:

And the children of Israel that were present kept the Passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days. — II Chron. 35:17

The historical background adds the main missing factor that Mr. Missler has not found out yet. Stephen Collins explains: “The “Israelites” from the ten tribes “who were present” in Palestine during king Josiah’s revival were the Scythians (the “Sacae”) whose armies were then occupying everything from Palestine to Mesopotamia!”[8] This was the time of King Josiah’s reformation,

(639-608 BCE) when the whole Mideast was under the occupation of the Scythians, made up of Issraelitish tribes. They are not mentioned by their Greek names, “Scythians,” but by their tribal names. They were on a quest to reoccupy their ancestral lands; the “remnant” probably referred toa contingent of Ten Tribers sent to aid king Josiah in the restoration. Flush with booty, and even taking  tribute from Egypt, they were in position to contribute to the rebuilding of the Temple and celebrate the feasts. In fact they were in better spiritual shape than Judah at the time as attested by Jeremiah:

even the LORD said unto me--backsliding Israel hath proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah. 
                                                                      — Jer. 8:11

The “Scythian” Ten Tribes were not allowed by God to stay and reoccupy the Land at that time. That was not to be for some 2600 years later. They had the same role to play as invincible, powerful “liberators” later and elsewhere — in “the West.”  However, evidence of their presence is then and there  is preserved in the  renaming of the city of Beth Sh’an as “Scythopolis” in their honor for they freed the Jews, their brethren, from the Assyrian Empire’s yoke.[9]                  

9 Eventually, all 12 tribes were represented in the south. God even addresses the 12 tribes in the south: "Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel in Judah and Benjamin...."

The above citation quoted by Mr. Missler is not quoted accurately. The verse does not have the words “to all Israel” in it. Rather it has “and to the rest of the people,” which shows that the majority has seceded already. It refers to the Levites and minorities from other tribes, e.g. some of Simeon, who were among them. It does not mean that ALL THE TWELVE TRIBES were in the south with Judah and Benjamin. They had just seceded from David’s kingdom. Rather it shows that Rehoboam is told to address “all those Israelites who were with them at the time.” 

Further, Mr. Missler’s citation is completely out of chronological and historical sequence to back up the Missler claim that, all 12 tribes “eventually” ended up in the south. Rehoboam ruled at the beginning, (932/931 BCE) of the great separation of the two houses of Israel.  The Scriptures here do not speak of any “eventuality” at all. At the time of the above quote, the Ten Tribes have just seceded from the rulership of Rehoboam to begin their 210 years of existence as a sovereign kingdom under nineteen kings. There is nothing “eventual” about it. At the time of the beginning of the breakup, on Divine orders, Rehoboam was expressly forbidden to reclaim the Ten Tribes by force and was forbidden reunite them with the tribes who remained with him:

But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying:  'Speak unto Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, /v’yeter haam הָעָם וְיֶתֶר saying: Thus saith the LORD: Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel; return every man to his

house; for this thing is of Me.'  —I Kings 12:22-24

Ironically, this one citation by Mr. Missler, is the one that cancels out his whole premise, that there are no separate tribes of Israel outside those now supposedly all absorbed into the people we now call “Jews.” This very ruling by God, as voiced by the prophet Shemaiah, proves that the separation of the Ten Tribes from the Davidic kingdom was engineered and sanctioned by God.  It was to last a very long time, in fact for centuries till the end of days.

10 The "tribe of Judah" (II Kings 17:18, et al) is used idiomatically for the Southern Kingdom.

Yes, it is. That is a good observation.  So? The above point made seems to be incomplete. What we could add to the above identifying term are the names Joseph and Ephraim, which idiomatically always refer to the northern Kingdom of Israel.  Depending on the context, the term Israel can refer to the Ten Tribes, the Davidic kingdom, or the restored united kingdom to come. In a minority of occurrences, the term Israel may refer to the remnant of the post-exilic southern kingdom of Judah.  In Biblical terminology the term "Judah" is always applied to those of Judah and the other Tribes who remained "Jewish" in the religious sense. These three names are used idiomatically in the Writings and the Prophets to refer to the Ten Tribes as a whole. Readers are encouraged to see a sampling of these terms in the following places:

Joseph:                Ephraim                                  Israel

Eze. 37:16             Hos. 5:3, 13; 6:4,Psalm 78:67    Hos. 11:12, Eze. 37:19

Amos 6:6              Isa. 7:19; 11:13,                        Jer. 3:18; 5:11; 11:17,

Ob. 1:18                Jer. 7:15; 31:20-21; 33:30 Jer., 13:11; 31:27; 31

Zech 10:6                                          

11 When encountering the tribal designations, it is important to distinguish between the territories allocated to the tribes and the people themselves.

Yes, it is important to do that. It is also important to pay attention to the provisions of God’s eternal Covenant made with Israel, as well as to the words of the Prophets, who back up the promise in the Torah of the regathering of both Judah and Israel at the end of days, (Deut. 30:3). If they were already united before the regathering, all the prophets would not name them separately as two separate entities.

Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together are against Judah. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.  — Isa. 9:20

The verses below are to be understood to mean that the outcasts of Israel will be together in specific regions whereas Judah will have been thinly scattered in many nations.  It is to be noted that a certain degree of antagonism and distrust will have existed between the two families of Israel until the very end of the exile. This is all permitted for the purpose of keeping the two houses separate till the end of the age. In spite of what Mr. Missler says, their separate identities in the Scriptures are unmistakable.

11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord will set His hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people, that shall remain from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

12 And He will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the dispersed of Israel, and gather together the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

                                                             —Isa. 11:10-13                                                             

'Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying: The two families which the LORD did choose, He hath cast them off? And they contemn My people, that they should be no more a nation before them. — Jer. 33:24

The Northern Kingdom Falls

In 724 B.C. Shalmaneser V besieged Samaria for three years. King Hoshea of Israel attempted to revolt against paying Assyrians annual tribute money — a treaty with Pharaoh of Egypt did not help.

This was Shalmaneser V, (727-722 BCE), as distinct from Shalmaneser III, (859-824 BCE), who fought against King Ahab and received tribute from Jehu son of Omri. Shalmaneser V succeeded Tiglath-pileser, (745-727). Tiglath-pileser boasted of having exacted tribute from Hoshea.

Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his vassal, and paid him tribute money.

And the king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy by Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and brought no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.  — II Kings 17: 3-4

Shalmaneser V began the siege but apparently it was completed by his successor, King Sargon II, (722-705)  who seized power from Shalmaneser V in a violent coup in 722 BC.

Now the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years. 

                                                             — II Kings 17:5

At this stage the Kingdom of Israel had been reduced to the Royal city of Samaria and some territory around it.

12--and Samaria, Jeroboam's capital, fell in 722 B.C. with Sargon II seizing power.

This was indeed so, and we need to note that this casting out of the Land of Israel was due to northern kingdom totally forsaking the Covenant:

And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

And at the end of three years they took it; even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, which was the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and in Habor, on the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes; because they hearkened not to the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.  — II Kings 18:9-13

The Assyrians implemented their infamous policy of mixing conquered peoples to keep them from organizing a revolt. Israelite captives were mixed with Persians and others, and strangers from far-off lands were resettled in Samaria. The resulting mixed, quasi-Jewish populations became the "Samaritans."

The Assyrians did not “mix” conquered peoples all the time. They deported them from their homelands to elsewhere in the Assyrian Empire. Some were mixed with others but most were not. The Ten Tribes were removed en masse from their land and settled en masse elsewhere, e.g. Media, in the Assyrian Empire. This had to be true, for the tribes retained their associations, though often not their original tibal names, and migrated as tribal groups elsewhere.

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite in his scholarly tome relegates the Ten Tribes to the realm imagination by Christians and Jews. His understanding was not opened to the Biblical foundations of the Ten Tribes exile and regathering. Hence his “wanderings” in many historical sources have not put the puzzle together but left them as separate unrelated pieces. Yet he relies on archeological and documentary evidence from the regions where the Ten Tribes were exiled, which show that many of the Israelites were not completely dispersed and mixed with others, but settled in large groups in major cities. They could even own property, marry and own businesses[10] Also to be noted here is the fact that the Samaritans were only an apparently “quasi-Jewish” population, for the Jews kept strictly apart from them. This isolation was due to the popular custom of the day of adopting the local gods of a land when one moved there. The Samaritans have adapted a form Judaism, which they then tailored to their taste, (II Kings 17:33).

13 (You can read about this "fall" in 2 Kings 17.)

It is worthwhile to read all of II Kings 17 here. Of special note are three verses.  In the first one, we can see that northern kingdom of Israel was very distinct at this time from the southern Kingdom of Judah. They were not amalgamated into one at all as Mr. Missler maintains.

that the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of His sight; there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.  — II Kings 17:18

“The other two crucial verses are:

with whom the LORD had made a covenant, and charged them, saying: 'Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow down to

them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;

                                                              — II Kings 17:35

and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods;  — II Kings 17-38

These verses refer to the eternal Covenant whose mutually agreed-upon and binding tenets on ALL Israel provide the matrix from which the deportation and exile of the Ten Tribes, as well as their eventual regathering arises:

“Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; but with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not

here with us this day.” — Deut. 29:13-14

These tenets also contain the unfailing Divine promises in the Covenant by which the regathering of those very same Tribes, which comprise the two distinct houses of Israel, shall come to pass in the last days. Mr. Missler says that there are no prophecies about the regathering of all the Tribes,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Lyvwwpqms. The Scriptures say otherwise.  Jacob tells us his quintessential message, i.e. command,  that they were to “gather themselves together at the end of days.  Fore this to happen he gives the identifying signs by which they will be able to recognized themselves as to which tribal group they will belong. Jacob’s prophecies prove that the twelve Tribes of Israel will exist as separate entities at the end of days. These identifying signs are vital for by that time they will have lost their true “Israelite”  identities. Their tribal/national identities will need to be revealed to them then.  At that time, they will need to “listen” to their father, implying that before that they have NOT been listening to the “teachings,” i..e. the Torah of Israel’s God.

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: 'Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the end of days. Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

                                                              — Gen. 49:1-2

And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt bethink thyself among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee, and shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and hearken to His voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thy heart, and with all thy soul; that then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the peoples, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.  — Deut. 30:1-3

Moses impresses on us that if we are to be wise, we should consider “our latter end.”  Those days are upon us now:

If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end.  — Deut. 32:29

The prophet Hosea, whose book is soleley written to the Ten Tribes in the latter days, tell us the same:  

Whoso is wise, let him understand these things, whoso is prudent, let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right, and the just do walk in them; but transgressors do stumble therein.  — Hos. 14:10

The prerequisite of that necessary wisdom for understanding is to be “Covenant-minded.”[11]  That means to regard the eternal Covenant as such and realize that it never needs to be improved, replaced or superceded with something “new.”  God does not need to make corrections in His plan to make Israel “the Covenant people.” Using the Covenant with Israel as “the” example, He will show all nations who He is and what His eternal way for life is.  This makes Israel not only a “people of the Covenant,” but Israel is part and parcel of the Covenant, they embody its blessings and curses. Yes, for this reason they were preserved, and for this reason they will be ALL regathered:

I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and have taken hold of thy hand, and kept thee, and set thee for a covenant of the people, l’briyt am / עָם תירִבְלִ for a light of the
nations;  — Isa. 42:6     

Thus saith the LORD: In an acceptable time have I answered thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, /l’briyt am/ םעָ  תירִבְלִ to raise up the land, to cause to inherit

the desolate heritages; — Isa. 49:8
                                                        

Not all from the Northern Kingdom were deported. Archaeologists have uncovered annals of the Assyrian Sargon, in which he tells that he carried away only 27,290 people and 50 chariots:

Mr. Missler again tries to minimize the emptying out of the land by Assyria with quoting only this last one of the conquerors. It is well known by historians and archeologists that there were three major waves of Assyrian invasions by three Assyrian kings, Tiglath-pileser III (745-727), Shalmaneser (727-722) and Sargon II (722-705). The latter finished the complete removal of all the Ten Tribes from the Land. These “waves” involved millions of people who were taken away over 20 to 30 or more years. Through such relentless and protracted efforts the Land was totally emptied of the general population, of the nobility and of all inhabitants of the Ten Tribes kingdom of Israel.

Even at a cursory look, this particular inscription (often quoted by deniers), could prove that only at this one particular raid by this one king were these numbers taken.  The inscription says: "I counted as spoil 27,280 people and the rest of them I resettled in Assyria." It may be better understood to mean NOT that Sargon took only 27,290 people from Samaria into captivity BUT rather that Sargon took 27,290 people for his own personal or military purposes and the remainder he settled in Assyria without bothering to count them. We have to keep in mind that by this time after a siege of several years only the city of Samaria and a small surrounding area were left to conquer. This inscription does NOT prove Mr. Missler’s thesis that the majority of the Ten Tribes were NOT taken but remained behind to be absorbed into the kingdom of Judah.[12]

According to all modern archaeological finds, there are no Israelite remains in northern Israel after the Assyrian conquest and exile. Every excavated settlement is covered with a layer of ashes and destruction from that period. God’s forewarned judgment of the Covenant was carried out, (Deut. 29:20-28).

“Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of His sight; there was none left but

the tribe of Judah only.” — II Kings 17:18

14 Population estimates of the Northern Kingdom at that time range from 400,000 to 500,000; less than 1/20th were deported-- mostly the leadership from the capital, Samaria. The rest of the Northern Kingdom was taken by Assyria as slaves, which were a valuable commodity.

If 1/20 were deported, and the rest were taken as slaves to Assyria, does that not mean that ALL the inhabitants of the kingdom were taken to Assyria?  Surely, Mr. Missler does not mean that “the slaves” as “valuable commodity,” were left in the Land.  Besides this point of logic, Mr. Missler’s minimization of this captivity and exile is seemingly depending on his minimization of the northern kingdom’s population.  We need to consider that when the Israelites came out of Egypt they numbered more than 600,000 males between the ages of 20 and 60, not counting the women, plus those older and younger. By the time of David this grew into a much greater number:

And Joab gave up the sum of the numbering of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword; and Judah was four hundred three-score and ten thousand men that drew sword. — I Chronicles 21:5

This census did not even include Levi and Benjamin.

But Levi and Benjamin he did not number among them; for the king's word was abominable to Joab.

                                                       — I Chronicles 21:6

In the time of David, the Northern Tribes had 1,100,000 warriors; Judah had 470,000 plus Levites and Benjaminites who were not numbered. Just a generation later, we can see that Jeroboam with 800,000 warriors (II Chronicles 13:3) attacked Judah and was defeated when 500,000 of his men were killed (II Chronicles 13:17).  Since polygamy was permitted at that time we may safely assume that the population of Israel returned to what it had been, just as populations after modern wars return to what they were before.

We can see further evidence of great numbers in the Israelite population about 70 years later, when king Amaziah of Judah hired 100,000 Israelite mercenaries from Samaria. (II Chronicles 25:6). If in the time of Amaziah such a large number of warriors were available for surplus usage then, there must have been many more on hand for the regular forces. Amaziah also had 300,000 of his own from Judah. The final exile of the Northern Israelites was 60 years afterwards.

Salo Baron, acclaimed by the London Daily Express as the world's greatest authority on Jewish history, says that prior to Israel's Assyrian captivity, 'there were not less than four hundred settlements classified as towns.' (Social and Religious History of the Jews, vol.1, p.72.) Interestingly, "Tiglath-pileser boasts that he destroyed at this time five hundred and ninety-one cities [!], whose inhabitants were carried away with all their possessions to Assyria, ("Tiglath-pileser," Unger's Bible Dictionary, p. 1,094). “We must remember that those 600 cities were all located in the northern part of the kingdom of Israel and in the region across the Jordan, away from the main concentration of the northern tribes! Thus, Israel in the Eighth Century B.C. was an extremely populous nation!" (Raymond F. McNair, "America and Britain In Prophecy," 1996, p.18). Mr. Missler tries to minimize the numbers of the population of the Northern kingdom at the time of transportation to Assyria.  God’s Word and historical data say otherwise.

(It is difficult to view the Assyrians as careless enough to let their captives wander off to Europe.)

It is also difficult to view Mr. Missler as careless enough to make this ridiculing and flippant assertion about Assyria’s supposed “carelessness” to let their captives “wander off” to Europe. The Word of God tells the all- important reason for this “wandering:”

The Book of Hosea is dedicated solely to the Ten Tribes, describing their political, moral and spiritual states just before their exile as well as their future history till “the latter days.” It is interesting to note that the Prophet Hosea has the same name as the last king of the kingdom Israel. Perhaps this is a Divine “coincidental” hint for students of the Bible to notice the two individuals with the same name and thusly be prompted look into the Book of Hosea which tells the past and future of a people of the last king of Israel who disappeared into a hidden and veiled history. At the time of the writing of this article, Yair Davidiy of Brit-Am Movement of the Ten Tribes is preparing a commentary on the Book of Hosea.  This much-misunderstood prophetic book is the only book in the Bible that is written to one audience only, that of the Ten Tribes, to be understood at the end of days. The revelations in it are proof positive in what prophesied times we live. Those who left the Torah’s Covenant to live without its instructions were to be “wanderers” outside the land of Israel. They were to physically wander away from the Land and its proximity and live in the far corners of the earth.  Also, since they took on the spiritual guidance of the gentiles, they were to be “wandering” spiritually as well. These “spiritual wanderings” are conducted to this day by the churches that are misleading them into such myths as perpetuated by “church” teachers such as Mr. Missler. To learn their corrective lesson, they were to be misguided by those pagan idolatries of their own choice till their regathering at the end of days.  Hosea, the prophet to the Ten Tribes, speaks of this “wandering” as a Divinely given decree:

“My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.”  — Hos. 9:17

Popular opinions based on traditional Christian belief held by some deniers, say that these Tribes have died out and were lost forever or were assimilated into oblivion and shall never return. Other deniers like Mr. Missler, cannot entirely deny that they were lost completely. Instead they try to minimalize and marginalize their existence by maintianing the idea that they were amalgamated gradually into the kingdom of Judah and are found all mixed up in their current modern populations. In spite of all these  
“myths,” though these “wandering” Ten Tribes have lost sight of God, He has not lost sight of them:

“For Israel is not widowed, nor Judah, of his God, of the LORD of hosts; for their land is full of guilt against the Holy One of Israel. ― Jer. 51:5

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. — Amos 9:9  

And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in far countries; and they shall live with their children, and shall return. I will bring them back also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and

place shall not suffice them. — Zech. 10:9-10

Mr. Missler, who may not be “Covenant-minded” as Israel was told to be, (Deut.4: 23) has missed the “wandering” provision in the Covenant. If any of the Tribes would leave the Covenant and worship other gods, then they would be cast out of the Land and would be sentenced to “spiritually wander” in the theologies of those false gods for centuries to come, even to the end of the age. Of course this is not easy to admit by anyone who may be a descendant of the Ten Tribes today and is told by the prophets that he shall

come home weeping from his idolatry in the West:

“And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to cause you to perish, and to destroy you; and you shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest in to possess it. 

And the LORD shall scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone. 

And among these nations shalt thou have no repose, and there shall be no rest for the sole of thy foot; but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and languishing of soul.” — Deut. 28:63-65

They shall walk after the LORD, who shall roar like a lion; for He shall roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.  ―  Hos. 11:10

Though the Ten Tribes were to settle down eventually at the extremities of the world, they are depicted as still wandering spiritually:

And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word

of the LORD, and shall not find it.  — Amos 8:12

By God’s grace, their spiritual wandering will be redirected to “the straight way,” of the Torah, which does not mean “law,” but “instruction.” The root of the word Torah is shared with the word yarah / הרָיָ which implies a

“straight way:”[13]

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first-born. 
                                                           — Jer. 31:9

They were to be left alone by God, to wallow in their idolatries till they are to be loosened from them in the last days. They were to serve out their sentence in the prison houses of the dogmas of the gentiles / nations they chose to imitate:

“Ephraim is joined to idols; let him alone.” — Hos. 4:17

The word “joined” in Hebrew is havor/ חֲבוּר. It literally means “one being joined,” and has two very significant connotations. Besides the main idea of “to join or unite,” the root idea of the term is “to bind.” It appears in a verbal form in Deut. 18:11, where it expresses the idea of binding a person by a magic spell. This idolatrous act expressly prevents one from receiving any revelation from God through His prophets. That means that due to their idolatry, the Ten Tribes will not understand the prophetic writings about them. The other connotation of this joining is “coupling” as in marriage. This is truly fitting, for Ephraim is likened by God to an unfaithful adulterous wife with many lovers, who cannot find her way back for she is immersed in the misleading religious and philosophical concepts of the gentiles. This paradigm of being barred from understanding is applicable to

all humans, be they Israel or not Israel:

"And I saw, when, forasmuch as backsliding Israel had committed adultery, I had put her away and given her a bill of divorcement, that yet treacherous Judah her sister feared not; but she also went and played the harlot;"   ― Jer. 3:8

Israel is swallowed up; now are they become among the nations as a vessel wherein is no value. For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself; Ephraim hath

hired lovers. — Hos. 8:8-9

Ephraim compasseth Me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; and Judah is yet wayward towards God,

and towards the Holy One who is faithful. — Hos. 11:12

O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge, in the day of affliction, unto Thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: 'Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, vanity and things wherein there is no profit.'  — Jer. 16:19

In all their spiritual wanderings, from one form of religion to another, they would not be able to find their way,[14] i.e. “the straight paths” of the Torah back to God: 

Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.  — Hos. 2:8

Yes, Mr. Missler, the Ten Tribes also “wandered off” for two more different reasons. One was due to a timely escape before invading armies. As it has happened in modern wars, one contingent left “voluntarily” before the onslought of the Assyrian invasions. The Bible lists only the Tribes of Naphtali, Gad, Reuben, the half tribe of Manasseh and those of the capital of Samaria taken into the Assyrian empire. Why are the other tribes not mentioned here? Steven Collins traces little known historical evidences that show these Israelitish tribes arriving in Carthage, Iberia, Ireland and the British Isles contemporary with the Assyrian invasion of their homeland.  These “wandering” tribes came to these places, since they had relatives who earlier settled here in colonies during Solomonic times and before.

Mr. Missler labels the earliest histories of the British isles as “colorful myths.” Judges 5:17 tells of the seafaring nature of the Tribe of Dan, who with other Celtic tribes are shown in secular historical accounts to have “wandered” in ships to Ireland, Wales and other parts of the British isles.[15]

The second other great reason the Ten Tribes are called “wanderers” by God is because they had a great comission to fiulfill as God’s invincible
“battle ax” nation with whom He was to punish nations and remove them from their stations. Having lost their names, they became known as several of the Scythian tribes north of Assyria. Some modern authorities believe that the name “Scythian” developed into its modern form of “Scot” which means “wanderer” or “migrant.”[16] Many of these superb warriors became part of the Assyrian, Median and Persian military forces.  Scythians together with Israelites serving in the Median and Babylonian forces later overthrew the Assyrian empire. These tribes began a long history of military conquests reaching Europe and many parts of Asia to fulfill the prophecies of Gen. 12:3, and 17:9 “I will bless them that bless thee and curse them that curse thee”[17] The Persians gave the “Massagetae” to a “Gothic’ tribe of the Scythians who lived in n.orthern Media.[18] It means “Great Wanderers(!).  Mr. Missler labels these historical records as “colorful myths.” However, ancient historians and modern archeology confirm them to be “colorful facts” of the powerful people of Joseph and the Ten Tribes of Israel.

“But he turned to his powerful bow, and the hands of his arms were quick. By the hands of the  mighty God of Jacob, from whom is Israel’s stone. May the God of your father guard you, and the  Almighty bless you...”

—   Gen. 49:24 (Fenton Trans)

Mr. Missler tells us that there are no prophecies which foretell the Ten Tribes to Return in the “latter days.” However, the Prophets tell us that the Ten Tribes in the end times will be mainly situated to the west of the Land of Israel.  In Hebrew the word for sea is "yam" which also can mean west, hence “from the west.”  This is confirmed by the Aramaic Targumim and the commentators who say it means the exiles will be in the west in the last days.

Those yonder lifts up their voice, they sing for joy; for the majesty of the LORD they shout from the sea.

הֵמָּה יִשְׂאוּ קוֹלָם יָרֹנּוּ בִּגְאוֹן יְהוָה צָהֲלוּ מִיָּם -Isaiah 24:14

Mr. Missler ridicules “the colorful tales” of the Celtic peoples of “the isles” who tell of their origins in Israel. But Isaiah speaks directly to the people of the isles in the west.  Judah was never known as having dwelt in the isles. They were not a maritime power at any time that would necessitate calling them the people “of the west,” of the sea,” or “of the isles.”

'Therefore glorify ye the LORD in the regions of light, even the name of the LORD, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.'  —Isaiah 24:15

Hear the word of the LORD, O you nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say: 'He that scattered Israel doth gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.' 
                                                                 — Jer. 31:10

Hosea also speaks of Ephraim in the end times, who were NOT destroyed but will be found primarily in the West:

But fear not thou, O Jacob My servant, neither be dismayed, O Israel; for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall again be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid. Fear not thou, O Jacob My servant, saith the LORD, for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee, but I will not make a full end of thee; and I will correct thee in measure, but will not utterly

destroy thee.  — Jer. 46:27-28

I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim; for I am God, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not come in fury.

They shall walk after the LORD, who shall roar like a lion; for He shall roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.  — Hosea 11:9-10

Though they shall come primarily from the Western / Occidental World, Israel shall be gathered from all points of the compass:

Fear not, for I am with thee; I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west; I will say to the north: 'Give up,' and to the south: 'Keep not back, bring My sons from far, and My daughters from the end of the

earth;  — Isa. 43:5-6
                                                           

They will come from the far coast of the earth, even from “the land down under,” that was settled by prisoners, i.e. Australia. [19]

Behold, these shall come from far; and, lo, these from the north and from the west, and these from the land of Sinim.  — Isa. 49:12

They shall come with weeping, and with supplications will I lead them; I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble; for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is My first-born.                                                    

—Jer. 31:8         

The following verse could never have referred to Jews, for they were NEVER called “not My people” by God at any time. They have always worshipped the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and have kept their identities:

And He said: 'Call his name Lo-ammi; [Hebrew: not-my- people] for ye are not My people, and I will not be yours.'                                                                                                                     — Hos. 1:9

And I will sow her unto Me in the land; and I will have compassion upon her that had not obtained compassion; and I will say to them that were not My people: 'Thou art My people'; and they shall say: 'Thou art my God.' 

                                                                  — Hos. 2:25

Mr. Missler denies that the Ten Tribes will be regathered as a separate entity. Yet, the God of Israel, explicitely names them as a separate entity and holds them dear as a beloved “firstborn son,” whom He will  regather as a prophesied separate entity, distinct from their brethren the Jews. They were NOT to be amalgamated and dissolved among Jews who stayed true to the True God. The Ten Tribes were to stay separate to learn their lesson of idolatry till the end of the age. At that time the prodigal “disappeared“ son Ephraim, for whom his mother rachel is “prophetically” weeping, will repent of his idolatries and will return “home” to his Father.  Yes, Mr. Missler, Ephraim will investigate the preserved waymarks of his journey in history to where he ended up. He will trace his forgotten and neglected Biblical and secular histories and will find himself on the road “homeward:”

And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back, for I have compassion upon them, and they shall be as though I had not cast them off; for I am the LORD their God, and I will hear them. And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back, for I have compassion upon them, and they shall be as though I had not cast them off; for I am the LORD their God, and I will hear them. And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine; yea, their children shall see it, and rejoice, their heart shall be glad in the LORD.

I will hiss for them, and gather them, for I have redeemed them; and they shall increase as they have increased. 
                                                           ― Zech. 10:6- 8

Thus saith the LORD: A voice is heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children; she refuseth to be comforted for her children, because they are not. Thus saith the LORD: Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the LORD; and they shall come back from the land of the enemy. And there is hope for thy future, saith the LORD; and thy children shall return to their own border. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: 'Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf untrained; turn thou me, and I shall be turned, for Thou art the LORD my God. Surely after that I was turned, I repented, and after that I was instructed, I smote upon my thigh; I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.' Is Ephraim a darling son unto Me? Is he a child that is dandled? For as often as I speak of him, I do earnestly remember him still; therefore My heart yearneth for him, I will surely have compassion upon him, saith the LORD. Set thee up waymarks, make  thee guide-posts; set thy heart toward the high-way, even  

the way by which thou wentest; return, O virgin of Israel, return to these thy cities. — Jer. 31:14-20                          

Yes, the Ten Tribes, prophetically known as the “House of Joseph” or  “Ephraim,” will return to their God primarily from the Occidental world of the Christian West. For since they were cast out of the Land, they were to be physical wanderers till they would settle in their birthright lands of rich blessings. Though there they were to grow into their unconditional birthright strength,[20] there they would continue to be “spiritual wanderers” worshipping other gods and be “spiritually lost.” This was to teach them “the quintessential lesson”[21] about which we read in the Torah and all over in the writings of the prophets:

“You shall know this day and reflect in your heart, that it is the L-RD who is G-d in the heavens above and on the earth, there is none else.” ― Deut 4:19  

See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no god with Me; I kill, and I make alive; I have wounded, and I heal; and there is none that can deliver out of My hand. See now that I, even I, am He, and there is no god with Me; I kill, and I make alive; I have wounded, and I heal; and there is

none that can deliver out of My hand. ― Deut. 32:39

Readers are referred to Yair Davidy’s[22] The Tribes, 3^rd Ed., e.g. p.198, and Steven M. Collins’ Parthia, and Israel’s Lost Empires,  for detailed historical data to counter the Missler claims of early amalgamation with Judah. The Ten Tribes definitely did not just “wander away” from Assyrian control as Mr. Missler misunderstands and tries to ridicule the history of the journeys of the Ten Tribes. Collins makes the case that Scythians, Cimmerians and Medes who at the time had large populations of Israelites of the Ten Tribes among them, actually overthrew the Neo-Assyrian Empire between 627-605 BCE.[23]  They established the Parthian Empire, ruled much of former Assyria’s holdings for some 500 (!) years and prevented Roman expansion to the East.

And the peoples shall take them, and bring them to their place; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and for handmaids; and they shall take them captive, whose captives they were; and they shall

rule over their oppressors.  ― Isa. 14:2

When the Babylonians take over Assyria, the descendants of the "Ten Tribes" were probably again comingled with the captives of Judah.

Of course the idea that some very few stragglers remained is possible. It is the nature of the chaos of all wars and the concomitant mass movements of peoples. However, most of the Ten Tribes were long gone by the time Babylon rose to power.  They were NOT comingled with Judah in order to conveniently disappear for those who do not want to admit their return from their churches at the “end of days.”

The Babylonians Take Over

When the Northern Kingdom went into captivity (722 B.C.), all 12 tribes were also represented in the south. When the Babylonians took the Southern Kingdom into captivity (586 B.C.), members of all 12 tribes of Israel were involved. Isaiah, prophesying to Judah, refers to them as the "House of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel..." (Isaiah 48:1; cf. vv. 12-14).

Am surprised at Mr. Missler using Jacob’s new name “Israel” as the northern “Kingdom of Israel” supposedly addressed here by Isaiah. He seems to be not aware of the fact that the term “Israel” can refer to Judah, to the northern seceded Kingdom of Israel of the Ten Tribes, to the unified kingdom under David and Solomon or the restored unified kingdom during the Great Shabbat of the messianic age to come. To discern as to which group the term refers, one needs to look at the context where the term is used.  Mr. Missler’s reference above truly says that this “house of Jacob” which are called by the name Israel and are come forth out of the waters of Judah” refers to the genetic descendants of the patriarch Judah, son of Jacob. The address does NOT refer to the northern Ten Tribes at all. The Ten Tribes have not genetically come from “the waters [seed] of Judah.” This confusion of terminology about Israel and Jews can begin to be resolved by realizing that the Ten Tribes were never “Jews” and are NOT Jews now. The context is clearly referring to those captives of the southern house of the Kingdom of Judah returning from captivity in Babylon.  There is NO mentioning of the Ten Tribes here in any way.  By this time, the Ten Tribes were gone from the Land for some 130 (!) years. As ancient Judah was commanded to come out of Babylon, we also are to study and learn these truths and come out of the confusion of the modern Babylon of man-made hermeneutics, dogmas and systematic theologies. Though it has not yet come to pass, these truths declare Jacob’s redemption to be as good as done. That is the “good news” of the real “Gospel.”

Hearken unto Me, O Jacob, and Israel My called: I am He; I am the first, I also am the last. Yea, My hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and My right hand hath spread out the heavens; when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Assemble yourselves, all ye, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? He whom the LORD loveth shall perform His pleasure on Babylon, and show His arm on the Chaldeans. — Isa. 48:12-14

Go ye forth from Babylon, flee ye from the Chaldeans; with a voice of singing declare ye, tell this, utter it even to the end of the earth; say ye: 'The LORD hath redeemed His servant Jacob.  —  Isa. 48: 20    

Post-Captivity Terminology

After the Babylonian captivity, the terms "Jew" and "Israelite" are used interchangeably. Ezra calls the returning remnant "Jews" 8 times and "Israel" 40 times. (Ezra also speaks of "all Israel": Ezra 2:70; 3:11; 8:35; 10:25, et al.) Nehemiah uses the term "Jew" 11 times and "Israel" 22 times. Nehemiah too speaks of "all Israel" being back in the land (Nehemiah 12:47). The remnant who returned from Babylon is represented as "the nation" (Malachi 1:1, et al.).

This misunderstanding by Mr. Missler is straightened out very simply. As far as Ezra and Nehemiah were concerned, these returnees were the sum total that was left of the nation Israel in the Land. To these few returnees, their small band was “the nation.” Most were Jews who were left at this time. Many remained in Babylon where they continued to reside for centuries even after they were permitted by Cyrus to go home. Sure, there were some from among the Ten Tribes who represented all the Tribes at the dedication of the Second Temple. But these were token numbers who remained among the Jews from pre-exile times and in no way did the Ten Tribes return en masse to the Land at this time or any other time. If they did, the curses in the Covenant would have had to expire then. We will see later that this could not have been the case at all. Further, great Joseph’s birthright blessings (I Chron. 5:2) of tremendous political, economic and military powers would have had to begin then and there. They did not begin then. They were to be delayed till the Ten Tribes came into their “far” lands “in the isles” and elsewhere in “the extremeties of the world.”

Had that happened, the returning Jews (because of Ephraim and Menashe supposedly mixed in among them) would have become a great world power. However this was not the case for becoming great world powers was not to be the role of Jews. The Ten Tribes were NOT among them to impel them numerically, ideologically and economically to become the greatest of all world powers of all time. The Ten Tribes had that powerful role to play in the history of the world later. Joseph’s younger son Ephraim was to become the greatest group of nations, i.e. as the British Empire was, and his brother Menashe was to become the greatest single nation that ever lived, i.e. the United States. Yes, Mr. Missler, they were to be a “very colorful” multitude of nations in the west who though not identifying as “Israel,” were to wield immense political, economic, military and civilizing powers, and were to feed the world. These were the birthright blessings given to Joseph, (Gen. 48:19, 49:22, Deut. 33:13-17).  This was not the case ever with Judah, who never lost her identifying name as “Israel” to the world. She was always a persecuted minority scattered and “wandering” among the nations. They gave the Torah and the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures to the world and became “the suffering servant” for it.  These powerful set of nations (plural), were not to come from Judah for these unconditional birthright blessings were to be delayed for centuries to be realized by the prolific descendants of Joseph’s sons, Ephraim and Menashe.  

In the census lists of Ezra and Nehemiah, only people from the Tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi are mentioned, (Neh 11:7, 25). These same cities are also recalled as being in the inheritances of Judah and Benjamin in the Book of Joshua when they first entered the land. The Assyrians had carried off all the other Tribes. After that deportation their identities became hidden for a long time — for the next 2700 years.

The work on traditional Jewish history, “Midrash Seder Olam” sheds more light on the returning population from Babylon: The Ramban, Rabbi Moshe ben Nahman, [Nachmanides] (1194–c. 1270) quotes it:

“Together with all this we acknowledge the view of our sages… They said in the Midrash Seder Olam,  ‘Of those who came into the Land in the time of Ezra, the whole community together numbered 42,360. The total whose names are recorded however only numbered 30,360. What happened therefore to the missing 12,000? These were those from the other Tribes who came up with Ezra [i.e. not from Judah, Benjamin, and Levi].’” These “others” who had returned with Judah were to be considered henceforth attached to Judah.  The Ramban goes on to explain that the other Tribes were considered to be still in exile and that “There was no Redemption for their Tribes.” (Kitvei Ramban, Sefer HaGeulah [Book of Redemption],

p.271-272, Mossad HaRav Kook, Jerusalem, 5723.[24]

The same is true in the New Testament. Our Lord is said to have offered Himself to the nation, "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matthew 10:5-6; 15:24). Tribes other than Judah are mentioned specifically in the New Testament as being represented in the land.

The above statement by the rabbi from Nazereth can be understood in several ways. One is that he categorically says that he came to the sinners, metaphorically referred to as “the lost sheep of the house of Israel.” He is said to have directed his disciples to not even go into the cities of the Samaritans, “but go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel,” and call them to repentance (Mat. 10:6). Another way to understand this statement  is that this saying was meant to be prophetic, that essentially he came “to the Ten Tribes.” If so, that was to be realized centuries later, when Christianity would spread to the lands of the Ten Tribes. 

A more probable variation on this might be that he came to the Ten Tribes, to turn them back to the Torah “in the latter days,”(!).  If so, that is yet to be done. If so, his own restoration to who he really was is yet to come about. If so, it might be revealed the he was NOT “the Hellenic, gentile “Jesus” of the churches,” who came to supplant the supposed “harsh old God of the Hebrews” and His Torah. Rather, in time he may be proven to be a Torah-observant Jew, who made the Torah even more binding then was believed by many in his day. He is being shown now to have been “a messenger of the Covenant” then and just might be so in the latter days at the time of restoration spoken of by the Prophets.  If so, he may yet be Divinely used to bring the false edifice of the Church down, which has no legitimacy at all as having been founded by the rabbi from Natzeret. Some have already discovered how Torah-true he was and are following him out of the churches to come home to the God he worshipped. They are coming  home to the God of Israel and home to His Torah which he affirmed and made binding in all its points as long as heavens and earth are here.

We will see how any or none of these speculations may play out in the near future. In many churches and assemblies menorahs are showing up with movements to explore the Hebraic meaning of the Scriptures.  Already, if one really listens to what he said, one cannot possibly stay in ANY Church, but must follow him out of the Church to worship the God he worshipped.[25] That is already happening to many who are leaving the churches and are forming their own gatherings. These “fellowships” are studying the original Hebraic meaning of the Scriptures he quoted and what the rabbi from Natzeret really said, meant and taught.  It may be the beginning of a great exodus to come into “gatherings” where these descendants of Jacob are to listen to Israel their father, who gives them his primary command to do in the latter days: “Gather yourselves together!” Then in these “gatherings” they are to learn their prophesied identifying signs of their Israelite identities and what they must do as “sons and daughters of Israel” in the latter days:

And Jacob called unto his sons, and said: 'Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the end of days. Assemble yourselves, and hear, you sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.   — Gen: 49:1-2

Assemble yourselves and come, draw near together, you that are escaped of the nations; they have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god that cannot save. — Isa. 45:20

The same old Covenant will be mercifully remade, between the same God and the same people. This is core message the Ten Tribes are to hear:

Incline your ear, and come unto Me; hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,

even the sure mercies of David.  — Isa. 55:3

They are also to learn about Jacob’s legacy: the true God. The word “memorial” is more accurately rendered by the KJV from the Hebrew  zicro / וֹרכְזִ / His memorial.  The root implies that the name of the God of Israel should be invoked by us when we call on God. As such this verse tells us that Jacob is pointing his sons to look to the God of Israel, for He is the everlasting  “memorial” that Jacob has left for us in the latter days and not the temporary stone monument that Jacob built in Beit El, [the House of God]:     

Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found Him in Bethel, and there he spake

with us; Even the LORD God of hosts; the LORD is His memorial.                                                                                      — Hos. 12:5-6 (KJV)

Interestingly the parable of the prodigal son[26], a story of the homecoming of the Ten Tribes, was made famous by the rabbi from Natzeret. It depicts the  younger son Ephraim, who in his youth has left his father and wasted his spiritual inheritance among the gentiles and later comes to his senses in a “far country.”  His spiritually elder brother depicts the Jews of Judah, who will meet the return of the repentant Lost Ten Tribes with mixed reactions. They will say the same words as the blind Jacob had said when the children of Joseph were brought before him “Who are these?” (Gen. 48:8). If Ephraim and Judah were amalgamated in ancient times, this prophesied consternation by Judah could never happen and its prophecies would never have been given.

Then shalt thou say in thy heart: 'Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have been bereaved of my children, and am solitary, an exile, and wandering to and fro? And who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where were they?'  — Isaiah 49:21

Yes Mr. Missler, the Ten Tribes will return from their present day idolatries in the West to the faith, legacy and God of their father Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Scriptures clearly say so. That great return is the Work of God, the work of Eli Yah.[27]

For Thou art our Father; for Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us; Thou, O LORD, art our Father, our Redeemer from everlasting is Thy name. 
                                                              — Isaiah 63:16

Ephraim [shall say]: 'What have I to do any more with idols?' As for Me, I respond and look on him; I am like a leafy cypress-tree; from Me is thy fruit found. — Hos. 14:9

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the LORD. And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers; lest I come and smite the land with

utter destruction.  — Mal. 3:24

Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that it shall no more be said: 'As the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt,' but: 'As the LORD liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the countries whither He had driven them'; and I will bring them back into their land that I gave unto their fathers. ― Jer. 16:14-15

When we read the above verses in context, we can see that they are addressed to the Ten Tribes, who kept not the Torah, but served other gods.  Yet by God’s mercies they will be regathered to the ONLY God who delivered them once before from Egypt... and yes, they will be regathered “from the West.”

O LORD, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge, in the day of affliction, unto Thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say: 'Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, vanity and things wherein there is no profit.'

Shall a man make unto himself gods, and they are no gods? Therefore, behold, I will cause them to know, this once will I cause them to know My hand and My might; and they shall know that My name is the LORD.  ― Jer. 16:19-21

15 Anna knew her tribal identity was of the tribe of Asher (Luke 2:36). Paul knew he was of the tribe of Benjamin, a "Jew" and an "Israelite" (Romans 11:1). The New Testament speaks of "Israel" 75 times and uses the word "Jew" 174 times.

If there were a few representatives of the Ten Tribes with Ezra and Nehemiah, it is conceivable that these few families retained their tribal identities among Judah down to this time. After all, a few from all the Ten Tribes did join the southern Kingdom as we have read.  However, they do not in any way prove that the Ten Tribes returned en masse.  If Paul says he was a Benjaminite, that does not prove that he was from the Ten Tribes, since from the time of Rehoboam, most of Benjamin remained in the southern Kingdom of Judah.  It does not prove that he was also of the Ten Tribes, when he says he was an “Israelite.” Rather, he is proudly emphasizing his lineage to be a genuine Israelite, descended from Jacob like all other Israelites were, regardless of which tribe they might have been. The emphasis here is about Israelite heritage.  It is similar to one saying today, “I am a born Californian, and [therefore] an American.” It does not prove that one is a Californian and is also from some of the other states.” Rather it asserts that one is a genuine born Californian and therefore a real American” at a time when many Californians are not even citizens, but are illegals, and definitely are NOT “American” as that term has been historically and commonly understood.

It is to be noted that though the tribe of Benjamin together with the tribes of Judah and Levi comprised the Kingdom of Judah and make up the modern Jewish people of today, considerable numbers of Benjamin were taken captive with the Ten Tribes.[28]

It is unlikely that Paul was of this division of Benjamin that was taken by the Assyrians.  Rather he was of the division that stayed with Judah from the earliest times of the Davidic kingdom. Yair Davidiy cites the Talmud, (Zevachim 118b) that a strip of land extended from Benjamin into Ephraim and encompassed the area of the Tabernacle in Shiloh in the center of the territory of Ephraim. Yair Davidiy cites other studies by scholars which show that Benjaminites lived among Manassites and were exiled along with the Ten Tribes. Davidy also traces exiled Benjaminites to comprise large portions of Belgians and Normans (The Tribes, 3rd Ed. p. 311-319, 2004, Russel Davis Publishers, Jerusalem). 

16 At the Feast of Pentecost Peter cries, "Ye men of Judea" (Acts 2:14), "ye men of Israel..." (Acts 2:22), and "All the house of Israel" (Acts 2:36).

“Ye men of Judea” refers to the Jews who lived in the traditional geographical district of the Land, knows as “Judea.” Those who lived in the Land at the time were all known as “Jews” As explained above, the appellation “Ye men of Israel” does not prove that the Ten Tribes of the Kingdom of Israel were there and that they would be addressed separately as such more than seven hundred years (!) after their kingdom was dissolved. Rather the phrase underscores the audience’s identifications with being the progeny of their father Jacob whose name was changed to “Israel,” and are carrying that “national” name as a badge of honor ascribed to them by the speaker.

Regathered as One

Ezekiel 36 and 37, the Dry Bones Vision, declares that Judah (Jews) and Israel (10 tribes) shall be joined as one in the regathering.

Mr. Missler repeatedly makes the grave mistake in lumping the Ten Tribes of Israel and the Jews of the southern House into one. In Ezekiel 36 the condemnation of the Ten Tribes for their idolatry is very clear. They are charged with bringing shame upon the name of God.  This was NEVER the case with Jews as a whole. They suffered terribly for millennia for adhering to the True God.  However, the Ten Tribes profaned His name by demoting Him and adding other gods, saviors, “saints” and false teachings to Him.

And when they came unto the nations, whither they came, they profaned My holy name; in that men said of them: These are the people of the LORD, and are gone forth out of

His land. But I had pity for My holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, whither they came. Therefore say unto the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord GOD: I do not this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you have profaned among the nations, whither you came. 

                                                           — Eze. 36:21-23 

It is the case to this very day which they need confess and of which they need to repent.[29]

The vision of the Valley of Dry Bones is about the Ten Tribes, “the whole house of Israel,” not of the southern kingdom of Judah.  This is an allegory, picturing the Ten Tribes to be “spiritually dead,” since they traded their identity as “Israel” i.e. “those prevailing with God,” for being worshippers of the idolatries of other nations. The penalty for that in the Covenant was death. This was never the case with Jews after the time of Ezekiel:

And it shall be, if thou shalt forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I forewarn you this day that you shall surely perish. 

                                                                 — Deut. 8:19

That prophesied reunification that Mr. Missler says already happened is still ahead. For that eventuality the regathering of the two houses of Israel into separate camps is now going on.  Jews are not gathering the Ten Tribes but are gathering their own into their congregations around the world and into the Land. Simultaneously there is an awakening and calling out by the God of Israel of the pioneer contingent of the Ten Tribes from the Valley of Dry Bones, (Eze. 37). The latter are NOT identifying as “Jews,” but as “returnees from the long lost Ten Tribes.” The proof of this is verse 16, which shows that the two houses of Judah and of Joseph were to be gathered separately into two separate camps. If they were all amalgamated into one group, as Mr. Missler keeps on saying, then why the two separate camps? It is obvious that the two houses of Israel will be regathered separately, and will be reunited later.

And thou, son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it: ‘For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions;’ then take another stick, and write upon it: ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and of all the house of Israel his companions;’ and join them for thee one to another into one

stick, that they may become one in thy hand. –Ez. 37:16-17                                                                     

This separation of the two houses, one who has obtained mercy and the other who has not obtained mercy is clearly explained in the book of Hosea, which is emphatically addressed “to the Ten Tribes in the latter days.” 

And she conceived again, and bore a daughter. And He said unto him: 'Call her name Lo-ruhamah; for I will no more have compassion upon the house of Israel, that I should in any wise pardon them. — Hos. 1:5

If these bones represented the amalgamated two houses, then the next verse does not makes sense, for Judah did receive mercy and was returned to the Land:

But I will have compassion upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the LORD their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, nor by horses, nor by horsemen.' — Hos. 1:6

Yes, the two houses of Israel will be finally reunited, but NOT by themselves, but by their God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.  Yes, Mr. Missler, they have been the “LOST” sheep, and look who have led the astray:

In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together; they shall go on their way weeping, and shall seek the LORD their God. They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces hitherward: 'Come ye, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.' My people hath been lost sheep; their shepherds have caused them to go astray, they have turned them away on the mountains; they have gone from mountain to hill, they have forgotten their resting-

place.  ― Jer. 50:4-6

By the way, that “everlasting covenant” is the same “old” Covenant, remade anew, with the same parties Israel and Judah, and the same God.. It will be like when an estranged spouse repents and remarries the abondoned other. This is “the” time (and not before, not in ancient times nor in 1948) when they will be reunited into one house, the reunited, regathered, repentant and restored  house of Israel.  Mr. Missler, the Scriptures say so:

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; forasmuch as they broke My covenant, although I was a lord over them, [Hebrew: husband to them] saith the LORD. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the LORD, I will put My law [Torah]  in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people; and they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying: 'Know the LORD'; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more. — Jer. 31:31-34

17 This is true today. (The total physical descendants were not the people to whom the promises were made [Romans 9:4-7].)

Mr. Missler quotes this misleading Church doctrine which have imprisoned the people of the Ten Tribes for centuries. It supposedly supercedes the Hebrew Word of God, His “only everlasting covenant.”   There is no “new” covenant here to replace the “old one.” Actually the promises were originally made ONLY to the physical House of Israel.  The Bible is an Israel-centric book, in that Israel is God’s model nation, whom He prepares to be teachers of mankind when they will have learned their lesson.

He declareth His word unto Jacob, His statutes and His ordinances unto Israel. He hath not dealt so with any nation; and as for His ordinances, they have not known them. Hallelujah. — Psalm 147:19-20

You only have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities. 
                                                                — Amos 3:2

And Moses and the priests the Levites spoke unto all Israel, saying: 'Keep silence, and hear, O Israel; this day thou art become a people unto the LORD thy God. Thou shalt therefore hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and do His commandments and His statutes, which I command thee

this day.'  — Deut. 27:9-10

They were the ONLY ones “adopted” to be God’s “firstborn,” from among all nations. To them belongs “the sonship” of the “firstborn status.”

And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh: Thus saith the LORD: Israel is My son, My first-born. And I have said unto thee: Let My son go, that he may serve Me; — Ex. 4:22

In the office of the “firstborn” they were to teach His Torah to the rest of the Eternal’s children. They will yet do that at a greater scope when they will have learned their lesson of idolatry after their regathering from exile. The “redemption” / deliverance of the whole house of Israel, including the Ten Tribes will cause other nations to look to Israel’s God,  His Torah and the eternal Covenants.  Then they will go to Jerusalem to learn His ways. Further, the gentiles will find out that there is only one way to God.  At the time of regathering, those gentiles who wish to join in, they can do so, by starting with the observance of the Shabbat, and taking hold of the Covenant. Many deniers like to pull out the race card about the Covenant of Israel. There is nothing “racist” about the Covenant God made with Israel. Gentiles, the other children of God, have access to join in, into the same “old” covenant.  They are NOT to supplant Israel with a “new dispensation,” a “new” covenant, and a “new way” of  replacement theology.  The only “way” they can join in, is by keeping the Torah, the same way the God of Israel specified for His firstborn “teaching” nation of priests, Israel. There has always been only one way, one Torah, one set of isntructions that God has made for for all peoples, be they of Israel or not:

One law/Torah shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.' 

תּוֹרָה אַחַת יִהְיֶה לָאֶזְרָח וְלַגֵּר הַגָּר בְּתוֹכְכֶם:

― Ex. 12:49

As for the congregation, there shall be one statute both for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you, a statute for ever throughout your generations; as you are, so shall the stranger be before the LORD. ― Num. 15:15

Thus saith the LORD: Keep you justice, and do righteousness; for My salvation is near to come, and My favour to be revealed. Happy is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth fast by it: that keepeth the Sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil. Neither let the alien that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying: 'The LORD will surely separate me from His people'; neither let the eunuch say: 'Behold, I am a dry tree.' For thus saith the LORD concerning the eunuchs that keep My Sabbaths, and choose the things that please Me, and hold fast by My covenant: Even unto them will I give in My house and within My walls a monument and a memorial better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting memorial, that

shall not be cut off. Also the aliens, that join themselves to the LORD, to minister unto Him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be His servants, every one that keepeth the Sabbath from profaning it, and holdeth fast by My covenant: Even them will I bring to My holy mountain, and make them joyful in My house of prayer; their burnt-offerings and their sacrifices shall be acceptable upon Mine altar; for My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples. Saith the Lord GOD who gathereth the dispersed of Israel: Yet I will gather others to him, beside those of him that are gathered. —Isa. 56:1-8
                                                             

“.... When lost Israel I collect, I will collect with him, beyond him, my select.” —Isa. 56:8 (Fenton trans.)

The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. And it shall come to pass in the end of days, that the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be established as the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.  And many peoples shall go and say: 'Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and He will teach us of His ways, and we will walk in His paths.' For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word

of the LORD from Jerusalem.  —Isa. 2:1-3

Of course this straight way of the Torah has always been open, and anyone can start his or her walk homeward at the same place for all, regardless of race, ethnicity or nationality. They are to begin with the observation of the seventh day Shabbat, which is “the sign between Him and His people.” They too can take hold of the ever-lasting Covenant and join their camp. That is the only way to join, i.e. be “grafted” into Israel.  The “sonship” is promised to all who are willing to take hold of the ONLY Covenant, that God gave to Israel. “The Israel of God” anyone can join, if they are willing to go the only way the Giver of the Covenant has prescribed, the instructions in the Torah.

After the Babylonian captivity Judah did not reject the Shabbat and the Covenant, but the House of Israel did so to this very day. Those awakening from the Valley of Dry Bones today, together with some gentiles, are leaving their “Sun”- day-keeping churches and are taking on this initial sign of His people that Christianity has overruled, replaced and cast away: 

Moreover also I gave them My sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them. But the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness; they walked not in My statutes, and they rejected Mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them, and My sabbaths they greatly profaned; then I said I would pour out My fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.

                                                           — Eze. 20:12-13 

The prophet Hosea declares that just as ancient Israel has done, so were they to continue in those Divinely condemned ways till the latter days. Because they mixed error with Truth, they will think and say that they know God, but God will say otherwise:

Set the horn to thy mouth. As a vulture he cometh against the house of the LORD; because they have transgressed My covenant, and trespassed against My law [Torah]. Will they cry unto Me: 'My God, we Israel know Thee'? Israel hath cast off that which is good; the enemy shall pursue

him. — Hos. 8:1-3

Israel is swallowed up; now are they become among the

nations as a vessel wherein is no value. — Hos. 8:8

Anti-Semitism

Accompanying some of the legends of the so-called "Ten Lost Tribes" are aspersions on the present State of Israel and the people being regathered in the Land. These various theories such as "British Israelism" are by their nature anti-Semitic because they deny the Jewish people their proper place in the plan of God. Let's remember that Genesis 12:3 has never been repealed!

As for the citing of anti-semitism ascribed to “British Israelism,” this race card and charge will not work to dismiss the chief of the Ten Tribes of having settled in “the isles.”  From there they spread out into the choicest parts of the world to inherit the birthright blessings. True, the information preserved by the British, Scots, Welsh, Irish and others who have settled the “isles” was mixed with “theological” doctrines, dogmas and error of the Church. Yet the earliest historical origins preserved by all these ethnic groups can be traced  to the Tribes and the Land of Israel. Yes, anti-semitism exists everywhere, and has existed everywhere, especially among those who have made up the doctrines of replacement theologies, e.g. “new covenants,” “spiritual Israels,” and “dispensations,” for the last 2,000 years. Some even call the return of the Ten Tribes a “Jewish Myth,” e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv9zaEWTICo&feature=related   Yet, the God of Israel shall restore His people from the dark spiritual prison houses from “the isles” in spite of all the deniers in the whole world… just as He foretold. It is quite clear that the prophesied Divine call shall cause these exiles to “draw near”[30] to their God in the latter days.  Mr. Missler denies the prophecies of the return of the Ten Tribes, but the Prophets of God say otherwise:

Keep silence before Me, O islands, and let the peoples renew their strength; let them draw near, then let them speak; let us come near together to judgment. Who hath raised up one from the east, at whose steps victory attendeth? He giveth nations before him, and maketh him rule over kings; his sword maketh them as the dust, his bow as the driven stubble. He pursueth them, and passeth on safely; the way with his feet he treadeth not. Who hath wrought and done it? He that called the generations from the beginning. I, the LORD, who am the first, and with the last am the same. The isles saw, and feared; the ends of the earth trembled; they drew near, and came. They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother: 'Be of good courage.' So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smiteth the anvil, saying of the soldering: 'It is good'; and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved. But thou, Israel, My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham My friend; Thou whom I have taken hold of from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the uttermost parts thereof, and said unto thee: 'Thou art My servant, I have chosen thee and not cast thee away';

                                                                     —Isa.41:1-9  

He shall not fail nor be crushed, till he have set the right in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his teaching. He shall not fail nor be crushed, till he have set the right in the earth,

and the isles shall wait for his teaching [Torah]. – Isa. 42:4

I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and have taken hold of thy hand, and kept thee, and set thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the nations; To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house. I am the LORD, that is My name; and My glory will I not give to another, neither My praise to graven images. Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and His praise from the end of the earth; you that go down to the sea, and all that therein, the isles, and the inhabitants thereof.

                                                              — Isa. 42:6-10
                                                                

My favour is near, My salvation is gone forth, and Mine arms shall judge the peoples; the isles shall wait for Me, and on

Mine arm shall they trust.  — Isa. 49:1
                                                           

Listen, O isles, unto me, and hearken, you peoples, from far: the LORD hath called me from the womb, from the bowels of my mother hath He made mention of my name;

—   Isa. 51:5

As for Gen 12:3, yes, it has never been repealed. In fact, the blessings of the legacies Abraham have gone forth to the whole world through the agencies of the descendants of the sons of Joseph, Ephraim and Menashe.  This was done basically by the English-speaking peoples of the world and to a lesser degree through the others of the Ten Tribes. The sons of Joseph inherited the birthright blessings of true power, of good governments, invincible military might, resources of the soil, good climate, inventive minds and generous hearts with which they fed, policed and civilized the world wherever they went:

Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a fountain; its branches run over the wall. The archers have dealt bitterly with him, and shot at him, and hated him; But his bow abode firm, and the arms of his hands were made supple, by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, from thence, from the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel, Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb. The blessings of thy father are mighty beyond the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills; they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of the prince among his brethren.  KJV:  on the crown of him that was separate

from his brethren.” — Gen. 49:22-26

And of Joseph he said: Blessed of the LORD be his land; for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, And for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, and for the precious things of the yield of the moons, And for the tops of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the everlasting hills, And for the precious things of the earth and the fullness thereof, and the good will of Him that dwelt in the bush; let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the crown of the head of him that is prince among his brethren. His firstling bullock, majesty is his; and his horns are the horns of the wild-ox; with them he shall gore the peoples all of them, even the ends of the earth; and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh. 
                                                          — Deut. 33:13-17

Israel is being regathered in the land just as God has announced.

It is true, Israel is being regathered in the Land at this time. Jews have been “regathering” in earnest starting with the birth of the Zionist movement in the 1880s through the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, to these difficult besieged times. They are continuing to flow into that restored nation as we read in Eze. 36. The latter day initial conquest and settling of the Land by Jews was foreshadowed in the Book of Judges. In the original settling of the Land, Judah went in first to fight the nations whose time there was up, since their iniquity was full.  Likewise in modern times they were to be the first ones to fight those they found in the Land when the Land is to be reclaimed from squatters and usurpers.

“And LORD said: 'Judah shall go up; behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.'” — Judges 1:2

The great medieval commentator Ramban (Nachmanides) made this observation in the 1200s: "The deeds of our fathers are a signs for the children." He taught that the stories about the patriarchs and Israel’s general history in the past serve as prophetic indicators of what is set to occur in future generations. This has already occurred in the initial resettling of the Land by Judah.  The Ten Tribes will come into the Land later and it will be a reconfiguring shock to the world’s geo-political system.

“Great shall be the day of Jezreel!” — Hos. 1:11

18 There is yet to come an event which will awaken them to realize that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob once again has His hand upon them (Ezekiel 38, 39). I believe this event could happen at any moment.

We can only guess to what “event” Chuck Missler is referring. That “event” possibly could be the arrival of the Davidic Messiah, or perhaps the infamous Gog and Magog invasion of Israel that he is expecting to happen soon. If Mr. Missler, a denier of the two separate houses of Israel to exist in the last days, is referring to the coming “Gog and Magog invasion of Israel,” it is useful to note here what is prophesied in the chapter beforehand:

18 And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying: Wilt thou not tell us what thou meanest by these?

19 say into them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his companions; and I will put them unto him together with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.

20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thy hand before their eyes.

And say unto them: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, whither they are gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land;

20 and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;  

                                                           — Eze. 37:18-20

Yes, the two kingdoms are still separated from each other till this Divinely prophesied, timed, managed and enabled reunification that shall come to pass at last.

19 The Throne of David was promised to the Son of Mary (Luke 1:32). I believe His taking possession of it is on the near horizon. Maranatha!

Speaking of Gen 12:3 not having been repealed, neither has Gen 22:18 been repealed:

…and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast hearkened to My voice.'

                                                               — Gen 22:18

nor the verse before it:

that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore;  — Gen. 22:17

The small nation of Israel together with all the Jews among the nations numbering some 13 million does not make up the enormous numbers prophesied to Abraham.  The Ten Tribes have started to come home, and will be coming home by the hundreds of millions to their God and His Torah. It will signal the Redemption of the world.

Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass that, instead of that which was said unto them: 'Ye are not My people', it shall be said unto them: 'Ye are the children of the living God.'

Contrary to popular Christian dogma, this regathering of the whole House of Israel will be “the great harvest.” God will gather in those whom He has

sown around the world, for “Yizreel” / יִזְרְעֶאל / means “God sows.”  Interestingly it is only one sound difference away from the word  “Yisrael.”       

And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up out of the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel.   — Hos. 1:10-11

Yes, Mr. Missler, “the desolate wife,” the northern House of Israel of the Ten Tribes will return, and they will do so in great numbers, by the 100s of millions.  Prophetically speaking, these are the children of Rachel, who initally was barren till she birthed Joseph and then Bejamin:

Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear, break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. ― Isa. 54:1

Mr. Missler says that the two divisions of Israel have been reunited in ancient times. Yet it is very clear from the Prophets that the two families of Israel are repeatedly addressed separately and will be regathered separately to be reunited at last:

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great horn shall be blown; and they shall come that were lost in the land of Assyria, and they that were dispersed in the land of Egypt; and they shall worship the LORD in the holy mountain at

Jerusalem. — Isaiah 27:13

And He will set up an ensign for the nations, and will assemble the dispersed of Israel, and gather together the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth. The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and

Judah shall not vex Ephraim. — Isa. 11:122-13

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. — Amos 9:19

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD will beat off [His fruit] from the flood of the River unto the Brook of Egypt, and you shall be gathered one by one, O you

children of Israel.  — Isa. 27:12

Mr. Missler goes on a crusade to deny the return of the Ten Tribes in the latter days and to promote the notion that two houses of Israel were reunited in ancient times, and comprise the Jews of today. Yet from the Scriptures it is obvious, that if the two houses were amalgamated in ancient times, they would NOT be addressed here separately before the arrival of the Great Shabbat.  Mr. Missler says that there are NO prophecies of “return” of the Ten Tribes. God’s Word says otherwise. The TWO houses of Israel will return:

And it shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing; fear not, but let

your hands be strong.  — Zech. 8:13

And I will strengthen the house of Judah, and I will save the house of Joseph, and I will bring them back, for I have compassion upon them, and they shall be as though I had not cast them off; for I am the LORD their God, and I will hear them. And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine; yea, their children shall see it, and rejoice, their heart shall be glad in the LORD. I will hiss for them, and gather them, for I have redeemed them; and they shall increase as they have increased. And I will sow them among the peoples, and they shall remember Me in far countries; and they shall live

with their children, and shall return. — Zech. 10:6-9

What shall be the end of all these things?

The author of this critique does not say that Mr. Missler is of malicious intent in writing his article that denies the validity of the Ten Tribes returning at the end of days as a separate entity. Rather, he maintains that to know about the identity for Ten Tribes at this time is most often a matter of calling and revelation. Indeed at this time it is a calling of the pioneer workers to arise from the Valley of Dry Bones to begin their part in the Divine ‘Work” of  regathering  the Ten Tribes.  Since those bones depict the spiritual death of the Ten Tribes, their coming alive today is nothing but a Divinely engineered “resurrection from the dead.” As such, it is not expected that the great masses of the Ten Tribes at this time can know about their identity, for they are still in the Valley of Dry Bones being spiritually dead and are unable to hear. Those who are sleep do not know that they are asleep. Most of them are waiting for the Divine Voice to awaken them, though some are beginning to stir. Mr. Missler could very well be among them, waiting for the resurrection.

Of course there are a few who can choose to learn now, calling upon the name of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as depicted in Joel 2:32. Of course asking for Divine help in order to do so is highly recommended for the bones of Joseph are buried in Shechem where prophetically also the idols of the Tribes are buried, (Gen. 35:4). These events may be prophetic allegory, perhaps hinting of the spiritual state of the Ten Tribes and what they must do about it. The influence of these idols is blinding and block understanding.  Only the power of  God  can  break these mental blinders and manacles. If the analogy holds up, these bones cannot understand the Scriptures amidst the idols that killed them. All doubters are challenged by EliYah[31] to ask Him to help brake these shackles of the mind and soul, if they are there. The prayers of all brave and sincere seekers of truth and repentance are never refused but are immediately answered. We are being called to “come near” and take the Elijah challenge “in the latter days” just as we were called to assemble then and were  to call upon the gods of the gentiles and the God of our fathers, of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, (I Kings 18:17-40).  There is nothing to fear, truths will be affirmed, mixtures of error and Truth will be separated, and all lies, errors and yes, even “colorful myths” will be revealed and corrected.

Just as we cannot resurrect ourselves or anyone else, likewise, we cannot talk anyone into knowing and understanding these truths. It is a Divine act to restore the Ten Tribes and all Israel to themselves. It is part of God’s “eternal Covenant.” All readers, including Mr. Missler, are directed to ask the God of Israel for understanding.  May the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob open the eyes and ears of those who read these words and of those who are prayed for by those already awakened.

“And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee.   And thou shalt reinherit yourself, in the sight of the nations; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.'”
                — Ezekiel 22:15-16 (Stone Chumash translation)

But this is a people robbed and spoiled, they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith: 'Restore!' Who among you will give ear to this? Who will

hearken and hear for the time to come? —Isa. 42:22-23.

Psalm 80 was written to the sons and daughters of Joseph, Ephraim, Menashe and Benjamin to be used by them in the “latter days.” They contain the Divinely prescribed “words” they are to take to the God of Israel.  As the sacrifices of old were protocols with which to “come near,” likewise these words make up the sacrifices of the awakened ones with which they are to come near and entreat the God of Israel for Divine help in repentance and coming “home.”

Return, O Israel, unto the LORD thy God; for thou hast stumbled in thine iniquity. Take with you words, and return unto the LORD; say unto Him: 'Forgive all iniquity, and accept that which is good; so will we render for bullocks the offering of our lips.  — Hos. 14:2-3

Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; Thou that art enthroned upon the cherubim, shine forth. Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Thy might, and come to save us. O God, restore us; and cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved….

                                                            — Psalm 80:1-3

I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself: 'Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf untrained; turn thou me, and I shall be turned, for Thou art the LORD my God.   — Jer. 31:18

These words contain all pleading words of the people “who sent out their boughs into the West, (Psalm 80:11, 14), who are awaiting the “quickening” call to be raised from the Valley of Dry Bones. Yes, Mr. Missler, the “mythical” Ten Tribes have been found and they are not a “mystery” any more. In fact, they are beginning to find themselves and are beginning to be awakened by the mercies of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They will all be awakened from “the dead,” and who knows, you just may be among them…  “the remnant” is praying for this…

…quicken Thou us, and we will call upon Thy name. O LORD God of hosts, restore us; cause Thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.

Turn us again O G-d of hosts, and cause thy face to shine,

and we shall be saved. — Psalm 80:18-19

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Sources and Recommended Readings

Collins, Steven M.  Israel’s Lost Empires     

           www.BibleBlessings.net, Royal Oak, MI, 2002

Collins, Steven, M. Parthia, The Forgotten Ancient Superpower and  Its Role          in Biblical History, www.BibleBlessings.net, Royal Oak,         MI, 2003

Collins, Steven, M. The “Lost” Ten Tribes  of Israel.... Found! CPA Books,          Boring, Oregon, First Revised Ed., 1995

Davidy, Yair,  Biblical Truth, The Location of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel   in the West in the Book of Genesis, Russel-Davis Publishers,   Jerusalem, 2002

Davidy, Yair, Ephraim, The Gentile Children of Israel, The Location of Lost Israelite Tribes in the West According to the Bible, Jewish and Non-       Jewish Tradition and General Fact, Russell-Davis Publishers,   Jerusalem, 2001

Davidy, Yair,  Joseph, The Israelite Destiny of America, 2nd Ed., Russell-     Davis Publishers, Jerusalem, 2001

Davidy, Yair, Khazars, Tribe 13, Russel-Davis Publishers, Jerusalem,            2008

Davidy, Yair, Origin, You too are from Israel, You too are the People,           Russell-Davis Publishers, Jerusalem, 2002

Davidy, Yair, Role to Rule, The Task of Joseph, Russell-Davis Publishers,

          Jerusalem, 2007

Davidy, Yair, The Tribes, The Israelitish Origins of Western Peoples, 3rd      Ed., Russell-Davis Publishers, Jerusalem, 2011

Davidy, Yair, The Tribes, The Israelitish Origins of Western Peoples, 4th      Ed., Russell-Davis Publishers, Jerusalem, 2012

Kime, Marlin, The Lost 13^th Tribe, America in Prophecy, Vol. 1. The Trail     of the Serpent, AuthorHouse, www.AuthorHouse.com, Bloomington,      IN, 2005

Rea, Cam., The Assyrian Exile, Israel’s Legacy in Captivity, Wordclay,

                Indianapolis, www.Worldclay.com, 2007

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For more information (articles, books, videos) on the historical and Biblical details on the Ten Tribes returning in our days, see: http://www.hebrewnations.com and http://www.britam.org. For  a virtual gathering place for the Ten Tribes, with weekly Torah teachings on Shabbat, see: http://www.rootsoffaith.org, and http://shma.tv.

For understanding whether the points made here are true, and to receive ears with which to hear, be willing to let go everything you were taught about God and His Word.  Then call upon the Name of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob... and listen.  He will surely answer the sincere prayers from your heart.