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Just why did the Ten Tribes of Israel lose their identity? Was ir mere/y because they rnigrated to
different parts of the earth- or was it because they rejected the one and only sign that would show
they were God's people? And what does it a/l have todo with your lije today?
T
by
Herbert W. Armstrong
he mystery is now revealed! Not only the answer
ly. They
assume,
in error, that
al/
lsraelites were Jcws,
to
what happened
to the "LOST Ten Tribes"-but also
and that the thirteen million Jews in the world today
WHY they so completely
lost
their identity!
constitutc the entire population of lsraelites remaining
The main vanguard of the lsraelites- the northern
alive at this time. Sorne theologians falsely claim that all
ki ngdom- who bore the national name " Kingdom of of the ten tribes who went into Assyrian captivity in
ISRAEL"- became a nation
lose
in all history.
72 1-718 B.C. returned to Jerusalem wi th the Jews who
So far as historie records are concerned, the earth
returned to build the temple there seventy years after
might as well have opened her mouth and swallowed
Judah's captivity, 604-585 B.C. But that is total error.
them.
Only
part
of J udah wcnt back. And those who returncd
History docs record their captivity by Assyria, 721-718
were
al/
of the three tribes of J udah, Benjamín and Levi.
s.c. They wcre removed from their cities, towns and farms
Check thc genealogies in Ezra and Nehemiah.
in their northcrn part of Palestine, taken as slaves to
The Jews are supposed to be Israel- and
al/
of lsraei-
Assyria, on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea. But by
because
they
never lose their identiry!
There is a reason
604-585 B.C., when the southern kingdom of J UDAH was
wby the Jews did
notlose
their identity, while the house of
taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, the Assyr- ISRAEL
did!
ians had migrated northwest- and the ten-tribed Israel-
GOO HAO GIVEN THEM A VERY SPECIAL EVERLASTING
ites with them!
COVENANT containing a SIGN of IDENTITY.
Utterly Lost
They were utterly GONE! They were lost from view! How
far northwcst they proceeded, or where they finally set–
tled, comes to a blank page in history.
How do historians and theologians explain this?
Not
knowing
the true answer, they explain it erroneous-
The PLAIN TRUTH May 1979
The Speclal Covenant of ldentity
lt is not generally known or recognized that the Eterna!
made with His people, while still at
M
t.
Sinai, a separate,
special, eternally bi nding COVENANT, providing for a SIGN
of IDENTITY.
At this juncture, it must be pointed out that these
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