Some 800 years after their captivity Josephus, the Jewish historian, said that they were then beyond the Euphrates, and had become an immense multitude. It is plain from Scripture where the Israelites, that is the ten tribes, were deported, viz, the region beyond the Euphrates, between the Black and Caspian seas. The alleged proofs advanced by the advocates of this theory are twofold-historical and scriptural. We have before us a catalogue of over 150 books and pamphlets dealing with the above subject, showing a very considerable activity in propagating this theory, the contention being that the British nation and the United States of America are the descendants of the “ten tribes” forming the kingdom of Israel, and who were, in large numbers, deported to Assyria (see 2 Kings 15:29 17:6) in 721 B.C. Earthly hopes belong to Israel, and every promise made to that nation will be fulfilled by the faithful Fulfiller of promises, but this will be in a coming dispensation.-(Ed. Many earnest Christians, we believe, have adopted it, the result being that they are hindered from grasping the purpose of God in this present period, which is the gathering out of the nations His assembly, and giving to it heavenly hopes and a heavenly destiny. It is not possible in a short magazine article to go into such a question exhaustively, but we think that what we are here able to put before our readers should convince them that only those whose acquaintance with the Scriptures is not of the must superficial character could be led into accepting this theory. Interest in which seems to have revived since the outbreak of the war. We have been asked by correspondents to publish a paper upon this subject. STEM Publishing : A J Pollock : Are the Anglo-Saxons the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel? Are the Anglo-Saxons the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel?

Tribes of israel