The Northern Kingdom of Israel was no small kingdom. Judah and Benjamin controlled the land around Jerusalem and to the south to Bethlehem and beyond, and the Northern ten tribes controlled  basically all the rest of the land of Israel. So vast were their numbers that three of the tribes, Reuben, Gad and half of the tribe of Manasseh, even took the land on the other side of the Jordan River (which would be modern Jordan today). Their numbers literally would have been in the millions. Take a look at just the size of their army in the days of King Jeroboam.

2nd Chron 13:3 And Abijah joined battle with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: and Jeroboam set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, who were mighty men of valor.

So here we see that the army of men of just that one battle numbered 800,000 men. It is also  interesting to note that it was actually King Abijah and the House of Judah that The House of Israel was fighting in this war. The Northern House of Israel, made up of 10 tribes, was a vast, large kingdom up until its captivity.

With that in mind, let us now look at the siege by Shalmaneser, the Assyrian king, against The Northern tribes of Ephraim and his brothers.

2nd Ki 17:1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel, and reigned nine years. (starting in 732BC)

2nd Ki 17:2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, yet not as  the  kings  of  Israel that were before him.

2nd Ki 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.

2nd Ki 17:4 And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent  messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered 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.

2nd Ki 17:5 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all  the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. (between 725-723-22 BC)

2nd Ki 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel  away unto Assyria, and  placed  them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

If you look up these places to which Israel was taken captive, you will find that they are the basic areas of the Assyrian Empire and the surrounding region. On a modern map they would correspond to the modern countries of Iran, Iraq, part of Syria, and Turkey.

There is, though, somewhat of  a  mystery to this captivity. The general who captured Samaria and  Israel was named Sargon 2. History tells us that he was a very famous and powerful Assyrian general. In the royal archives of  Assyrian history, under the annals of Sargon 2, he writes that he took captive 27,290 people in the war against Israel. This is an incredibly low number of captives for such a numerous people as the Israelites were. It is also almost inconceivable that these were the only captives, considering that Yahweh said that their punishment would be to dwell in a foreign land, not to be killed in battle.

2nd Ki 17:23 until Yahweh removed Israel out of His sight, as He spoke by all His servants the prophets. So Israel was carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.

Even if we count all the captives taken by King Tiglath- pileser, the previous king of Assyria, when he attacked the Northern tribes around 734BC, this would still constitute a very small number to be taken captive. From historical records, it also seems that Tiglash-pileser focused more on capturing the lands around Galilee, and also the two and one half tribes in Gilead on the other side of the Jordan River.

1st Chron 5:26 And the Elohim of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river of Gozan, unto this day.

So we see that neither the Biblical or historical accounts tell of any slaughtering of masses of Israelites during these captivities, yet the minute number of captives taken to Assyria just doesn’t add up to the vast amount of Israelites that were living in the Northern Kingdom. So where did the majority of the Ephraimites go?

First of all, several hundred thousand Israelites from Ephraim migrated to the south, to the kingdom of Judah, during the reign of King Jehoshaphat, about a hundred years earlier or so. King Jehoshaphat reined as the king of Judah at the same time that evil King Ahab reined over Israel. Ahab did so much wickedness in Israel that many pure-hearted Israelites moved to the south, to be under the reign of a much more righteous ruler in Jehoshaphat. Judah was also much wealthier under Jehoshaphat than the north was under Ahab. But still, there are well over two million Israelites from the Kingdom of Ephraim missing. So where did they go? If you look at the circumstances surrounding the captivity of Israel, it is not hard to figure out that they had fled the land of Israel long before the last invasion in 723-722 BC. Israel was being persecuted and intensely attacked by the Kings of Assyria for roughly 8-10 years. This alone would have been good reason to flee the land before a final devastating battle to their homeland. But also remember that all the prophets of Israel at that time were warning them that, because of their sin, Yahweh was going to remove them from off the land.

Hos 4:1-3 Hear the word of Yahweh, ye children of Israel; for Yahweh hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of Elohim in the land. There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery; they break out, and blood touches blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

Israel knew that punishment and captivity were on its way, and it is only logical that many would try to flee the land to a new homeland and start over. One may ask why the rest of the Northern tribes of Israel wouldn’t have also fled to Judah as their brothers did one hundred years before. The answer is very simple. Judah, which was right below the Kingdom of Ephraim to the south, was also a prime target for the King of Assyria, as Hezekiah the King of Judah found out only about 20 years or so after Northern Israel’s captivity. Judah would not have been safe to flee to at this time, and would not have been an option to a fleeing Ephraimite. Let’s hear what Steven Collins, in his book “The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel … Found,” had to say about where the Northern tribes of Israel fled before the Assyrian invasion.

“Those who chose to leave the doomed kingdom of Israel had many potential destinations as options for new homelands. We have already seen that the “Phoenician” alliance of Israel, Tyre and Sidon had established many colonies in North Africa, Spain, other Mediterranean locations, The British Isles and even as  far  as  North America. Any of these locations could have served as new homelands. In the ninth century BC so many Israelites voluntarily left Israel  during the drought of  Elijah  to settle in these colonies that it was  necessary  to  found  a completely new colony (Carthage) to host all the refugees. Many people likely had relatives in these mostly Israelite colonies, and could start afresh with very little “culture shock” as the language, customs, and religion of those colonies were essentially the same as those  of  Israel.  The fact that Carthage rose to great power in the centuries that followed the fall of  Northern Israel also indicates it received a major infusion of people when Israel fell.”1

So we see that Ephraim was scattered to many different lands, from Africa to the Mediterranean and Europe and beyond to the west, and, as we will see, to the east to Assyria, and then to Parthia and even beyond to India.

Steve Collins mentions that Carthage was a relatively new colony of Israelites that started just about a generation earlier due to the drought that Elijah called on the Northern Kingdom under Ahab.2 It seems that many Israelites had fled to newly colonized Carthage long before the Assyrian siege ever took place, so when the Assyrians were starting to threaten the Northern tribes of Israel, the Israelites would have had many relatives already waiting for them in Carthage.

Carthage was a very prosperous empire for a while, before it fizzled out when most of its people  migrated either to the area of Ireland and Great Britain to the north or to many of the other African nations to the south, including South Africa. They were a great  sea  faring people, as we know the Israelites were, also. It was located on the Northern shore of Africa.

The original name of Carthage was actually Kirjath- Hadeschath, which translates as “New Town.”3  Kirjath is a Hebrew word for city, and appears many times in the Bible as the name of different Israelite cities, such as Kirjath–arba, or Kirjath-jearim. Although the city was called Kirjath by the Israelite inhabitants, the Greeks called it “Karchedon” and the Romans called it “Carthago.”4 It is also interesting to note that the Carthage Empire, instead of having a king like other nations, had magistrates, which they called “Shophetim,” the Hebrew word for “judges.”5

“This is understandable when one realizes that Carthage began as a “crown colony” of Israel, hence its true king for at least the first century of its existence was the reigning king of Israel.”6

Let’s take a look specifically at some of the named  tribes of Israel and where they went.

There is much evidence to show that part of the tribe of Dan migrated to Ireland and Scotland and even as far as Denmark. Dan’s descendants were very famous  in Scripture for naming things after their forefather, Dan.

Judges 18:29 And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.

Jos 19:47 And the border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

In Judges 5:17, we also know that the tribe of Dan was a seafaring tribe that abode in boats. You can still see the remnants of the Tribe of Dan evident in these places by their names, even today. J.H. Allen, in his book “Judah’s Scepter and Joseph’s Birthright,” tells us that a group of settlers migrated to Ireland and were called Tuatha De Danaans which, translated, simply means “tribe of Dan”7 Coincidently, this migration took place around 721 BC, right at the time of The Northern Tribes’ captivity. In Ireland you find they left these waymarks; Dans-Laugh, Dan-Sower, Dun-dalk, Dun-drum, Dun-gloe, and Dunsmor, which means more Dans. In Hebrew, vowels are not written, only consonants, so Dan in Hebrew would simply be rendered DN. Moreover, the name Dunn in the Irish language means the same as Dan in the  Hebrew language, “judge.”

Dan also migrated through Britain and up to Denmark. The name Den-mark is literally Dans-mark, because he left his name or mark there. Also, the Danube River is named after Dan, and the Danish people are also migrants from the tribe of Dan. Dan also has descendants that migrated east to Parthia. Remember that part of the tribe of Dan lived on the northern border near Syria and part in the south below the tribe of Ephraim. The Northern Danites were the ones that went East to Assyria and beyond.

In the book “The United States and Britain in Prophecy” it states “The Northern colony of Danites were taken to Assyria in the  captivity,  and  after  leaving  Assyrian captivity they inhabited for some time the land just west of the Black Sea. (Parthian Empire) There we find the rivers Dnieper, Dniester, and Don.  In  Scotland  the  Dans,  Dons, and Duns, are prolific as in Ireland.”8

Now, let’s look at what J.H. Allen writes about the Tribe of Simeon. “Also a large portion of the tribe of Simeon chose a maritime escape from the Assyrians. Coinciding with the arrival of the Tuatha Danaan in Ireland, the Simonii landed in Wales and southern England in around 720BC. This date also is just after the fall of  Samaria, and it is most likely that the simultaneous arrival of the Danaan and the Simonii indicates that the tribes of Dan and Simeon sailed together for the British Isles.”9

“Brit” in Hebrew means covenant and “ish” means man, so the word for British literally means the men of the covenant. The people of Wales call themselves in ancient welsh, Bryth y Brithan, which  means the  Covenanters of the land of the covenant. The fact that  these  Brythonic Celts who migrated to the British Isles bore the Hebrew B-R-T root of covenant proves their Israelite origin.

So we see that some of the lost tribes migrated to Ireland and Britain and Denmark, and others to Carthage and Africa to the south. But what about the rest of the  lost tribes of Israel? History tells us that the overall majority of them actually left Israel and traveled north and settled up toward the Black and Caspian Sea, in what was known as the Parthian Empire.

“There is historical evidence that the main  body  of Israelites fleeing the kingdom of Israel took an overland route to their new homeland. They could not go east due to the Assyrian menace, there were not enough  vessels  to take everyone to new homelands via maritime routes to the west, and Egyptian forces were dominant to the south. This left the north as the  only realistic route out of Palestine, and that is exactly where historical evidence says they went.”10

When Israel migrated North they went up to an area called Arsareth, a region along the Black Sea.  Let’s also look at what the apocryphal book of 2 Esdras says about this exodus of Israel north to this region.

(2nd Esdras  13:40-45)-  …”these  are  the  ten  tribes  that  in the days of king Hosea were carried away from their own land into captivity, whom Shalmaneser, king  of  Assyria, made captives, and carried beyond the river….But they formed this plan among themselves, to leave the heathen population, and go to a more distant region…. so that there perhaps they might keep their statutes, which they had not kept in their own country. And they went in by the narrow passages of the Euphrates River.  For the  Most  High  then did wonders for them, for He held back the sources of the river until they had  passed  over.  But it was  a long journey of a year and a half to that country…called Arzareth.”

We can see from the historical accounts that this migration to what become known as the Parthian empire was no haphazard immigration. It was an organized migration to a new land. These  Israelites, as we have seen, also brought with them their customs, and wanted to go to a region where they could keep the statutes of Yahweh that they had failed to keep in Israel. This migration more than likely consisted of over a million northern Israelites from the so-called “lost tribes.”

Listen  to what Steve  Collins had to say about this move by Israel up to the Black Sea region:

“This account further documents the escape  of  a  large body of the ten tribes of Israel when they abandoned Palestine to the Assyrians. Since the Israelites in this migration had 220,000 armed soldiers, one can conservatively estimate the number  of  Israelites  in  this body to be around a million people when the number of women, children and elderly are included. Based on the biblical and secular historical records of what happened to the other tribes, this body of Israelites likely included the half-tribe of Manasseh which lived on the west side of the Jordan River, most of the tribes of Ephraim, Asher, Zebulon, and Issachar, and a small portion of the tribe of Dan which lived in the northern part of Palestine.

As this large group of  Israelites  resettled  in  the  Black Sea region, they assumed new identities, but many  key factors made them readily identifiable as Hebrews. The region to the east of the Black Sea (and north of Armenia) came to be known as Iberia, confirming the presence of Hebrews from the ten tribes in  that region. The Hebrews had given the old Phoenician/Israelite colony in Spain the name Iberia (after Eber, the namesake of the  Hebrews), and it has long been  called the Iberian Peninsula.  The name of a modern Spanish river (the Ebro) still  preserves the name of Eber, and is a reminder of the Hebrew (“Phoenician”) presence in the ancient Iberian Peninsula.

The appearance of  the same Hebrew name (Iberia) in the region north of Armenia verifies that this region became an area of Israelite resettlement for those who escaped Assyrian captivity by voluntary flight. While information about the kingdom of Iberia in the Asian Caucasus region rarely appears in modern histories, it is shown on a map on Armenian history in the Encyclopedia Americana. That map represents the dimensions of Iberia’s size several centuries after the arrival of the Israelites, and at a time when most Israelites had migrated out of that area into South Russia.

Combining the above historical accounts with the fact that Hebrew place names  subsequently became attached to Black Sea areas, we have a positive  identification  of where the escaped Israelites relocated circa 724-720 B.C. Israel’s new homeland was well-chosen as it was in a mountainous region where the terrain greatly favored the defenders. The migration of the Israelites to a defensible region indicates that they purposefully fled to an area where Assyria would be reluctant to pursue them.”11

So we can see that this was a  carefully planned exile by the Northern tribes of the sons of Israel. Another interesting Scripture to look at in light of this historical information is Jeremiah 3:12.

Jer 3:12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, says Yahweh; I will not look in anger upon you; for I am merciful, says Yahweh, I will not keep anger for ever.

What is very telling about this Scripture is the fact  that the book of Jeremiah was written directly before Judah’s captivity into Babylon, around the year 627 BC, till 585 BC, a good hundred years after the Northern tribes were exiled to Assyria. But notice that Yahweh tells Jeremiah to prophecy to the tribes of Israel to the north! Assyria was due east of Israel, but the land of Iberia, east of the Black Sea, is directly north of the land  of  Israel. This is another dogmatic proof of where the so-called lost tribes were at that time.

If we’re honest with ourselves, we can see from history that the Northern House of Israel, called the House of Joseph or Ephraim in Scripture, was never lost from the historical accounts. Yet the higher educational facilities in our society choose not to look at or report what the historical records clearly show.

Even Josephus Flavius, the most famous of all Jewish historians, knew exactly were the House of Ephraim was during the first century AD. He wrote in “Antiquities of the Jews”:

“Wherefore there are but two tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the ten tribes are beyond Euphrates till now, and are an  immerse  multitude, and not to be estimated by numbers.”12

So Josephus knew exactly where the tribes were – it was no secret  in  his day. This also proves dogmatically from the historical account that the House of Ephraim was not living back in the land of Israel at the time that Yahshua had His earthly ministry in the first century AD. Many falsely believe that the Northern tribes merged with the Southern tribes after Judah returned from the Babylon captivity, but we can see clearly from Josephus’ statement this was not the case.

The Northern tribes of Israel, called the House of Ephraim, had migrated to the areas  north  of Assyria on and around the Black and Caspian Seas. These Israelites were called Scythians. The  Encyclopedia  Americana tells us the following about these Israelite Scythians:

“The Scythians are those tribes  that  occupied  this territory, (the region north of the Black Sea) from about 700BC and formed a single cohesive  political  entity until the 4th century BC, when the nation was splintered into several groups.”13

It is very interesting that even the Encyclopedia Americana shows these Scythians migrated to the Black Sea right around 700 B.C., at the same time period the Israelites were exiled from Samaria, Israel. They know for sure that this is the migration date, due to the fact that this is the earliest record of tombs for these people in that area. What is also interesting is the fact that these Scythians had Eurasian features, not Mongolian. The Mongolian Scyths were a whole different race of people.

“An historical account of the Medes records that the Assyrian King Esarhaddon in 674 B.C. was confronted by an alliance of “Mannaean, Median, and newly-arrived Cimmerian forces. These newly arrived Cimmerians were likely the Israelite Samarians who had been relocated among the Medes only a few decades earlier. Notice the striking phonetic similarity between “Samarian” and “Cimmerian” (dictionaries confirm the “c” should be pronounced like an “s”). That these “Cimmerians” were recent arrivals in Media adds weight to their identification as Israelite captives from the city of Samaria. The transplanted Samarians of Israel would be anti-Assyrian, and would logically join an anti-Assyrian alliance.

Those Israelites who migrated to the Black Sea area became known as “Scythians”.”14

Who can deny the obvious connection between the words Cimmerian and Samarian? It is quite clear these are from the same group of people, the lost House of Israel.

But there is even quite a bit more proof that these Cimmerians were indeed the lost sheep of Israel.

An area called Mannae, which was between Assyria and Urartu, was one of the major places to which the House of Ephraim was exiled. Coincidently enough, Mannae was also one of the very first regions to which the Cimmerians migrated, at the same exact time of  the  Israelite exile. “This is written on an ancient Assyrian inscription.”15 Mannue was also destined to become a major Scythian center. It was also a well-known fact  of  ancient  history that the Cimmerians and Scythians were  indeed one and the same people. Anne Kristenson writes  in  her  book “Who Were the Cimmerians, and Where Did They Come From”: “The Scythians and the  Cimmerians  were two groups of people who seem inclined to operate in the same geographical zones, and whose names seem to be interchangeable already in the Assyrian sources.”16

Yair Davidiy even goes further in his evaluation of these Cimmerians and Scythians in his book entitled “Origin”: “There were three main groups of people in the Cimmerian and Scythian forces;  Cimmerians,  Scyths, and Guti  or Goths. Both the Cimmerians and the Scyths of history contained representatives of all three groups though in varying proportions. Later, in the east of Scythia (modern Russia, Central Asia, Siberia, and even  northern China) areas associated with the Cimmerians, Scythians, and Goths were those in which there were religious practices of Israelite and pagan Canaanite origin. Aramaic was commonly spoken, tribal names were those  of  Israelite Tribal clans already recorded in the  bible,  and contemporary reports as well as legends spoke of The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel.”17  They  even  spoke  Aramaic,  the same language that Yahshua spoke besides Hebrew.

It is interesting to note that these Cimmerians, who were Israelites, are historically recorded to have lived  in  the area of Mannae. This is the exact area  to  which  the prophet Amos, under inspiration from Yahweh  Himself, told us that the House of Israel would be cast out.

Amo 4:1-3 Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, that oppress the poor, that crush the needy, that say unto their lords, Bring, and let us drink. The Almighty Yahweh hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that they shall take you away with hooks, and your residue with fish- hooks. And ye shall go out at the breaches, every one straight before her; and ye shall cast yourselves to “Har-mone”, says Yahweh.

This is a very interesting verse. If you notice in verse 3, Yahweh states that because Israel has sinned they will be cast to Har–Mone. This is a Hebrew word. Har in Hebrew means mountain, and Mone in Hebrew is pronounced Mannae. So Yahweh told us exactly where the Israelite Samarians or Cimmerians (c is pronounced as an s) were to be exiled: the mountains of Mannae.  “There  is  an ancient Midrash (Eichah Rabah), which states  that  the exiles from Samaria were taken by way of “Harmoniah” (i.e.Mannae or Armenia).18

History does not lie. When we honestly look at the plain facts of history, we can clearly see that the ancient Cimmerians, Scyths, and Goths were no doubt displaced Israelites who had migrated to the region between the Black and Caspian Seas. Let’s look at even further proof of this point.

“Cimmerians and Scyths were frequently confused with each other by foreigners and by historians. “SAKIA” is a name later given in Persian inscriptions to the Scyths. In Afghanistan the appellation, “SAK” (from Saka) was much later understood to be a form of the Hebrew”Isaac”19.

The author Van Loon identifies “a people  in  north Armenia (near Lake Leninkan close to the  border  with Iberia in Georgia) named “ISQI-GULU” as Scythians.”20

ISQI-GULU is the equivalent of “ISAACI-Golu, which means “The Exiles of ISAAC” Variations of the name Isaac were applied to the Scythians, who in many respects were identical with, or identified as, the Cimmerians.” 21

Remember that Yahweh told Abraham “that in Isaac your  seed  will  be  called  (Genesis  21:13).”

The Sakia (Scythians) of Isaac were also known as Saxe and as Saxon, and  the  Anglo-Saxons  are  their descendants.

The GUTI are also frequently mentioned alongside the Gimiri and Sakia. The name GUTI is an alternative name for the tribe of “GAD”, and Gad was to play an important role with the  Sakia. “Later the name GUTI and variations of it such as Guti, Gauth, Geti, Gothi, Gudo, and Gad  were applied to the Goths who eventually settled in Sweden. “Gauth”, which is one of the forms for  the name GAD,  was one of the terms applied to the Goths.”22

“The city of Saksin on the  northwest shores of the Caspian Sea was referred to by contemporaries  as  the “Saxon City”. Saksin was one of the Capitals of the Khazars who were a Scythian people and traditionally believed to have  been  descended  from the  Israelite  Tribes of Manasseh and Simeon.”23

The fact that exiled Israel migrated to the areas of the Parthian Empire on the shores of the Black and Caspian Seas is not even the most amazing point of all this solid history that we are going over. The more amazing point of all this is where these Israelites migrated to afterward. As we are researching the Israelites’ trail, we are seeing that from the regions of the Black and Caspian Seas they went into Afghanistan, and Russia, and the  Ukraine, even as far as India and China in the east. Then in the west, they went all throughout Europe, and started in the south of Carthage in Northern Africa, and history shows that they went all throughout the southern African continent.

“The Scythians had been spread over areas  extending from Afghanistan, North China, Siberia (Russia) and central Asia into East Europe”.24

There is even historical evidence to show that the so- called lost tribes even reached Japan.

“The Japanese believe a portion of their forebears reached Japan via central Asia, and these may have had Scythian connections. The name “Saka” is found in Japan.  Sakai near Osaka, Sakata and Sakuria are all places that derive from the name Isaac. A small minority of Israelites may have reached Japan and have been members of the first formative ruling clans. The Japanese are also traced back to Javan  son of  Japhet.  The dominant element in Japan is a people of so-called alpine type, similar in some ways to central Europeans.”25

It is a truly amazing fact to ponder that, far from being “lost tribes,” the sons of Israel  have  actually  spread  all over the earth, just as it was predicted that they would do in the pages of the Bible.

Gen 28:13-15 And, behold, Yahweh  stood  above  it and said, I am Yahweh the Elohim of your father Abraham, and the Elohim of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, I will give it to you and to your seed. And  your  seed  shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your Seed.  And,  behold,  I will be with you and will guard you in every place in which you may go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not forsake you until I have surely done that which I have  spoken  to you.

This Scripture given to Israel was telling him what the future of his sons was going to be. The first thing that Yahweh told him was that he was going to be spread out all over the earth. Little did Israel know, at that time, that this was going to be a punishment for sin, and not as a blessing to him, to be given more land! Israel, as a nation, was not going to be a great and powerful nation, as they could have been, if they had kept covenant with Yahweh; no, instead, because of their  rebellion, they were going to be wanderers among the nations.

Hos 9:17 My Elohim shall reject them because they did not listen to Him; and they shall be wanderers among the nations.

The second thing that Yahweh tells Israel in the above prophecy is even more important than the  first  point about going to the east and west and north and south, because the second point in this prophecy talks about

Yahweh bringing Israel back home to their own land again, back to the hills of Samaria in the land of Israel.

Right here, this one prophecy alone totally discredits the whole theory of replacement theology. We can  also  see that in the book of Hosea:

Hos 1:10 Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor numbered. And it shall be, in the place where it is said  to them, You  are not My  people, it shall be said to them, Sons of the Living Elohim.

We clearly see that our Heavenly Father never totally cast away Israel. He only sent Israel into Diaspora for a time, to open up salvation to the world.

Rom 11:1 I  say then, Did not Yahweh thrust away His people? Let it not be! For I also am an Israelite, out of Abraham’s seed, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Rom 11:5 So then, also in  the  present time a remnant according to election of grace has come into being.

Rom 11:11 I say, then, Did  not  they  stumble  that they fall? Let it not be! But by their slipping away came salvation to the nations, to provoke them to jealousy.

Yahweh used the unfaithfulness of Israel to show the entire world that He is not a respecter of persons, that anyone who seeks righteousness and fears Him, He will honor. And yet His main point of business is still with the sons of Jacob, the seed of Israel.

The point about Yahweh bringing the 12 tribes of Israel back into the land of Israel is very important to stress for two reasons. Number one, many people wrongly assume that only Judah or Jews are Israelites, and therefore only Jews have a legal right to the land called Israel. This is absolutely false and will be given more time later in this book, but to show you that this is not Biblically correct, just read the above Scripture again.

Hos 1:10a Yet the number of the sons of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which is not measured nor numbered.

Right here, Yahweh is saying that in the end time, when he will re-gather the sons of Israel back to the land of Israel, there will be so many of them that their numbers will even be too large to number. This cannot refer only to Judah. It would be impossible. There are roughly fourteen million Jews who live in the entire world. They are one of the smallest groups of people in the entire world. So the prophecy would have to include all of the Israelites that we have mentioned from Russia, Afghanistan, China, Africa, all of Europe and the British Isles, Africa, Australia, and all of America.

The second reason this Scripture is important (about Yahweh promising Jacob to bring all of Israel back to the land) is the fact that many of the displaced Israelites in captivity have been in captivity for so long that they now believe their land of captivity is the new land of Israel. Because Yahweh has blessed the sons of Israel in their Diaspora, as He promised, some of the sons of Israel scattered around the globe have claimed that America or Great Britain is now the land of Israel. Scripture, though, is very clear to where the Promised Land of the seed of Abraham is.

Gen 17:8 And I will give to  you  and  to your seed after you the land of your sojourning, all the land of Canaan, for an  everlasting possession  and  I will be their Elohim.

Deut 34:1-4 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And Yahweh caused him to see all the land; Gilead to Dan; and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah to the sea beyond; and the Negeb, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, to Zoar. And Yahweh said to him, “This is the land which I have sworn to Abraham, to Isaac, and to  Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed. I have caused you to see with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”

Not only are we living in the end of days, but we are actually the last generation according to Scripture, as I will show later in this book. This is the generation  that has seen Israel become a nation again after over 2,500 years of captivity, and this is the generation that will  see the Messiah appear on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.

With that in mind, it is one of the saddest things in the world to me to see Yahweh’s elect so deceived in these end times. It is so clear from Scripture that the little plot of land between the Mediterranean Sea and the current land of Jordan is the Promised Land of Abraham from Yahweh. Yet people have used the very historical information that I have shared in this book to come up with all types of distorted theories that are false, from America being the land of Israel, to even white supremacy ideologies and ideas. I am not promoting any of these unscriptural ideas. My sole purpose for writing this book is to bring you the clear historical and Biblical facts of the covenant promises made to the seed of Abraham, and what that means to us today, as believers in Yahshua.

It is important to understand that all true believers in Yahshua are part of the one tree of Israel, whether we are from one of the nations where Israel went into Diaspora and are a physical seed of Abraham, or whether we are true grafted-in gentiles; and the latter are still  equal to and one with the physical lineage of Abraham. It is important to understand this fact for one simple reason. Israel went into Diaspora for breaking the laws and commandments of the Almighty Yahweh, plain and simple. Yet today, so many of that same  Israelite lineage, in Diaspora, are proudly proclaiming that “the law is nailed to the cross” and done away with; they’re still breaking the same covenant laws that our forefathers did, which put us into the Diaspora to begin with. When they are asked, “Why don’t you have to keep Yahweh’s commandments,” the answer most of the time is “that those laws were only for Israel.” So you can see the great importance in knowing the history of the Diaspora of the sons of Israel and realizing that we are that progeny. In the end time, when Yahshua returns, the Bible states:

Mat 7:21-23 Not everyone who says to Me, Master, Master, will enter into  the  kingdom of Heaven, but the ones who do the will of My Father in  Heaven. Many will say to Me in that  day, Master, Master did we not prophesy in Your Name, and in  Your Name cast out demons, and in Your Name do many works of power? And then I will declare to them, I never knew you; “depart from Me, those working lawlessness!“

I am not judging the hearts or intents of men; all I am saying is that a false, lawless gospel is being preached today, and not only does it condone sin and lawlessness, but it doesn’t even touch upon the true work that our Heavenly Father is doing, in redeeming the sons of Israel.

Let us now look into what the “Good News” message that Yahshua brought to earth really was.

Author’s Note:

In this chapter I  have supplied  probably only about 5% of the archeological and historical evidence of where the lost tribes of Israel actually went. My purpose in writing this book is to show the spiritual significance of the true plan of our Heavenly Father, and  since others have written extensive books about the lost tribes from a historical perspective, the author did not feel it necessary to rewrite what is already in print elsewhere. I suggest that, if you want more proof of the lost tribes from a historical perspective, you acquire some of the books quoted. I will caution that the current author does not agree with the theological standpoint of most of the authors, and would highly caution when reading the material of Yair Davidiy. Although the author believes Yair Davidiy to be sincere and his historical information to be mostly accurate, he is not a believer in Yahshua as the Messiah of Israel, and his writings are slanted against believers of Yahshua, as a pagan form of worship.

End Notes:

1) Steve Collins, “The Lost Ten tribes of Israel Found, pg121

2) Ibid, pg 139

3) Church, “Carthage” pg 11

4) Ibid

5) Steve Collins, “The Lost Ten tribes of Israel Found,” pg 141

6) Ibid

7) H. Allen, “Judah’s Scepter Joseph’s Birthright,” pg 266-268

8) Herbert Armstrong, “The US and Britain in Prophecy,” pg 98-99

9) H. Allen, “Judah’s Scepter Joseph’s Birthright,” pg 275

10) Steve Collins, “The Lost Ten tribes of Israel Found,” pg 125

11) Ibid, 129-130

12) Josephus, “Antiquities of the Jews,” xi, v, 2

13) Encyclopedia Americana

14) Steve Collins, “The Lost Ten tribes of Israel Found,” pg 173

15) Yair Davidiy, “Origin” pg 34

16) Anne Kristensen, “Who Were the Cimmerians and Where Did They Come From?”, pg 102

17) Yair Davidiy, “Origin” pg 34-35

18) Ibid, pg 38

19) W. Bellow, “An Inquiry into the Ethnography of Afghanistan,” 1891

20) Van Loon, “Uratian Art Its Distinctive Tracts in the Light of New Excavations,” 1966

21) Yair Davidiy, “Origin” pg 41

22) Ibid, pg 41

23) Ibid, pg 43-44

24) Ibid, pg 62

25) M. White, “The Modern Descendants of Dodanim & Tarshish,” pg 14