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to the scattered condition of the Jews today-the very
people to whom it does
not
apply. This is one example of
the fact that what we a re here covering is a veritable KEY
to an understanding of many long-hidden prophecies.
Unless this is kept firmly in mind , prophecy can never be
correctly understood.
The people which this passage says sha ll be rooted up
and scattered beyond the river never were called Jews.
They were the people headed by Ephraim and Manas–
seh, possessors of the unconditional promises of becom–
ing a great nation and a company of nations-becoming
so numerous they would number into the hundreds of
millions, possessing the gates of enemy nations, becom–
ing a colonizing people, spreading out till their colonies
spread around the globe.
Yet many who come to see this distinction between
Israel and Judah- between Jews and the other tribes–
after having seen it as a great new Jjght, will, by force of
The covenant promise to David is plain
and definite. Either his dynasty has
continued and exists today, ruling over
the house of Israel, or God's Word fails!
years of habit, fall right back into the old rut and apply
texts referring to Israel to the Jews!
The terms "house of Israel" or "all Israel," when the
meaning is national, or the terms "Jacob," or "Rache!,"
or "Ephraim," or "house of Joseph," or "Samaria," often
used in the Bible in prophecy, RELATE TO THE
l'EN–
TRIBED BIRTHRIGHT PEOPLE, NOT TO THE JEWS. This is a
KEY, anda master key, to Bible understanding!
Israel Driven Out and Lost
In the years 72 1-7 18 B.C., the house of Israel was con–
quered and its people were soon driven out of their own
land-out of their homes and cities-and carried captives
to Assyria, on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea!
And then ... LOST FROM VLEW!
"Therefore the Eterna! was very angry with Israel, and
removed them out of his sight:
there was none left but the
tribe ofJudah only"(II
Kings 17: 18).
The Eterna! removed whom? Israel!
It
is
Israel
which
was removed and driven from the Eternal's sigh t until
they became lost from view.
Who was left? Judah
ONLY- only
the Jews! Israel was
now gone! They became known as the LOST Ten Tribes
and a re so designated today.
Gentiles Replace the House of Israel
Now notice 11 Kings 17:22-23: "For the chi ldren of
Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did ;
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they departed not from them; until the Lord
removed
Israel out of his sight.
as he had said by a ll his servants
the prophets. So was Israel [not Judah-not the Jews]
carried away out of their own land to ASSYRIA unto this
day [written about 620 B.C.]." Observe that the people
who had the national title " Israel" and the birthright
promises, who were not the Jews, were
carried away out
of their own
land- Samaria. They left that land- never
yet to re turn !
Now note the following verse of this same passage:
"And the king of Assyria brought men from Babylon,
and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath, and
from Sepharvaim,
and placed
THEM
in the cities of
So–
maria instead ofthe children of Israel:
and they possessed
Samaria, and dwel t in the cities thereof' (11 Kings
17:24).
lt
is these foreigners who were living in the land of
Samaria in the time of Christ and who were called
Samaritans in the Gospel records.
lt
is well to keep that
in mind. For the Samaritans of the New Testament were
not in any sense a racial mixture with the Israelites.
Only
one
individual- a priest- returned from among
the ca ptive I sraelites to teach the newly planted
Genti les the corrupted religion of Israel (11 Kings
17:27-28).
These people from the land of Babylon, however, did
not follow God, nor God's ways, nor His religion . The
very next verse shows this: But "every nation [still) made
gods oftheir own ..." (11 Kings 17:29).
The general sta te religion of the Assyrians and Baby–
lonians was the Chaldean mystery religion. This was the
religion of Simon the sorcerer (Acts 8) who believed
Philip's miracles, appropriated the name "Christian,"
and started a
new
counterfeit "Christianity" after the
apostle Peter rejected him as being bound in "iniquity"–
i.e., " Jawlessness." He took the
name
of Christ, rejected
God's law, and added licent ious fa lse "grace" to the
Babylonian mystery religion, calling it "Christianity."
This fa lse "Christianity" has deceived mill ions, down to
this present evil generation!
A more detailed account of the captivi ty of Israel is
round in 11 Kings 18:9-12 and 17:5-18. The house of
Israel began to "abide many days without a king"
(Hosea 3 :4). Since they were the people who carried the
ti tle " Israel," it is they, not Judah, who must become
lost
in identity!
Israel , Not Judah, Lost
The Scriptures p1ain1y tell us that
Israel
was to lose its
identity,
its
language,
its
religion,
its
land,
and its
name.
In Deuteronomy 32:26, God had · warned t hem
through Moses:
"J
said, 1 wou1d scatter them into cor–
ners, I would MAKE THE REMEMBRANCE OF THEM TO
CEASE FROM AMONG MEN." T hat warning
cannot
be ap–
plied to the
Jew!
The remembrance of the Jews has not
ceased. The remembrance of them could not cease un-
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