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The Hidden Truth _ What Happened to the 12 Tribes of Israel _ And Where Are They Today · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: In 722 BC, an entire nation vanished. The Assyrian Empire
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  Speaker 1: marched into the northern kingdom of Israel, deported hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: thousands of people, and replaced them with foreigners. Ten tribes. Gone.
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  Speaker 1: No record. No trace. No return. For 2,700 years, the
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  Speaker 1: world has called them lost. But here is what nobody
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  Speaker 1: tells you. The Bible. Never. Never. called them lost, not once.
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  Speaker 1: The Apostle Paul referred to all 12 tribes in the
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  Speaker 1: present tense. The Apostle James wrote a letter addressed to
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  Speaker 1: all 12, and a woman from one of those lost
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  Speaker 1: tribes was standing in the temple in Jerusalem 700 years
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  Speaker 1: after the exile, and she knew exactly which tribe she
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  Speaker 1: belonged to. In this video, we are going to open
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  Speaker 1: the full biblical record, Genesis to Revelation, and and trace
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  Speaker 1: what really happened to the twelve tribes of Israel. Before
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  Speaker 1: we begin, I need an honest answer from you. When
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  Speaker 1: you hear the lost tribes of Israel, do you think
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  Speaker 1: of a mystery that was never solved, or a promise
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  Speaker 1: that was never broken? Lock in your answer in the comments.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see if the evidence changes your mind. There is
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  Speaker 1: a tent in Canaan. Inside it, a dying man is
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  Speaker 1: calling his sons to his bedside. His name is Israel.
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  Speaker 1: He was called Jacob once, before the night he wrestled
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  Speaker 1: with God at the Jabbok River and refused to let go.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 32, 28 records the moment his name changed. From
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  Speaker 1: that night forward, he was no longer Jacob the deceiver.
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  Speaker 1: He was Israel, the one who struggles with God and prevails.
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  Speaker 1: Jacob had 12 sons by four women, Leah, Rachel, Bilhah, Zilpah,
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  Speaker 1: Twelve sons, four mothers, one covenant. This is not a
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  Speaker 1: genealogy chart. This is a blueprint. Every tribe that would
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  Speaker 1: ever exist, every kingdom, every exile, every prophecy traces back
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  Speaker 1: to this one tent in Canaan. Now he is dying.
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  Speaker 1: And before he dies, he speaks over each of his
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  Speaker 1: twelve sons a prophecy that will play out across centuries.
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  Speaker 1: Genesis 49 records the destiny code. Blessings and judgments that
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  Speaker 1: played out across millennia. These were not generic blessings. They
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  Speaker 1: were surgical predictions. Some tribes would rise, some would fall,
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  Speaker 1: some would be scattered, some would rule. Three tribes carry
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  Speaker 1: the weight of this entire story. Judah received the scepter.
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  Speaker 1: The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's
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  Speaker 1: staff from between his feet, until he to whom it
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  Speaker 1: belongs shall come. That prophecy is 3,000 years old. It
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  Speaker 1: has not failed. Not once. The royal line came through Judah.
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  Speaker 1: David came from Judah. Solomon came from Judah. And the
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  Speaker 1: one the New Testament calls the Lion of the tribe
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  Speaker 1: of Judah came from Judah. That scepter has not departed.
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  Speaker 1: It is still in his hand. Levi received a curse
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  Speaker 1: that became a commission. Jacob said the same thing to
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  Speaker 1: Simeon and Levi, I will scatter them in Israel, both
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  Speaker 1: would be scattered. But Levi made a choice. When Israel
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  Speaker 1: built the golden calf in the wilderness, it was Levi
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  Speaker 1: who stood on God's side. Exodus 32.26 Moses cried out,
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  Speaker 1: Who is on the Lord's side? Come to me. And
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  Speaker 1: all the sons of Levi gathered around him. The curse
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  Speaker 1: became a commission. The scattered tribe became the priestly tribe,
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  Speaker 1: given 48 cities across all of Israel. No land inheritance,
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  Speaker 1: but a higher calling. Same prophecy, different outcome. The variable
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  Speaker 1: was obedience. Remember that. It matters at the end. Dan
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  Speaker 1: received a prophecy of judgment. Dan shall judge his people.
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  Speaker 1: The tribe produced Samson. the judge. But Dan became the
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  Speaker 1: first tribe to set up graven images in Israel. Judges
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  Speaker 1: 18 records it. They stole a priest. They stole an idol.
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  Speaker 1: They set up a counterfeit worship system in the far north.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that name. Dan disappears from a very important list later,
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  Speaker 1: and the reason will shock you. But Jacob did something
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  Speaker 1: else on his deathbed. He adopted his son Joseph's two boys,
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  Speaker 1: Ephraim and Manasseh, as his own. Genesis 48.5 Ephraim and
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  Speaker 1: Manasseh shall be mine, as Reuben and Simeon are. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: received a double portion through his sons, twelve sons, but
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  Speaker 1: thirteen tribes. The number twelve was maintained by setting Levi
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  Speaker 1: apart for the priesthood, no land. but a higher calling.
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  Speaker 1: This detail, this adjustment, is the key that unlocks every
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  Speaker 1: tribal list controversy in Scripture, including the one in Revelation.
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  Speaker 1: The tribes entered the land under Joshua. Each received territory.
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  Speaker 1: Under David, all twelve tribes united under one king. Under Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: the temple was built. The Ark of the Covenant rested
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  Speaker 1: in the Holy of Holies. For one brief century, The
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  Speaker 1: promise was whole. Twelve tribes. One king, one temple, one God.
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  Speaker 1: It would never happen again. Not like that. Not in
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  Speaker 1: this age. Because Solomon's son made a decision, one sentence,
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  Speaker 1: one moment of arrogance, and the twelve tribes of Israel
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  Speaker 1: were never whole again. The world stopped counting. God never did.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon died in 930 BC. His son Rehoboam went to
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  Speaker 1: Shechem to be crowned king over all Israel. The northern
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  Speaker 1: tribes came with a request. Your father made our yoke heavy.
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  Speaker 1: Now lighten the hard service of your father and his
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  Speaker 1: heavy yoke on us, and we will serve you. Rehoboam
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  Speaker 1: asked for three days to consider. He consulted the elders
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  Speaker 1: who had served his father Solomon. They told him to
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  Speaker 1: grant the request. If you will be a servant to
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  Speaker 1: this people today and serve them and speak good words
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  Speaker 1: to them when you answer them, then they will be
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  Speaker 1: your servants forever. Win their loyalty with kindness. But Rehoboam
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  Speaker 1: rejected their counsel. He listened instead to the young men
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  Speaker 1: who had grown up with him, men who had never
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  Speaker 1: known hardship, men who had only known privilege, men who
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  Speaker 1: had no memory of how kingdoms are built, only how
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  Speaker 1: they are enjoyed. Three days later, Rehoboam returned with his answer.
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  Speaker 1: 1 Kings 12.14 records his exact words. My father made
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  Speaker 1: your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke.
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  Speaker 1: My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline
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  Speaker 1: you with scorpions. The northern tribes walked out. What portion
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  Speaker 1: do we have in David? We have no inheritance in
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  Speaker 1: the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel. Look
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  Speaker 1: now to your own house, David. And Israel went to
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  Speaker 1: their tents. One sentence. That is all it took. One sentence.
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  Speaker 1: And the nation of Israel was torn in two. ten
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  Speaker 1: tribes walked away. Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Ephraim, Manasseh.
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  Speaker 1: They crowned Jeroboam as their king. The kingdom of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: the northern kingdom, was born. Only two tribes stayed with Rehoboam,
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  Speaker 1: Judah and Benjamin. The kingdom of Judah, the southern kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: held Jerusalem and the temple. Jeroboam had a problem. If
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  Speaker 1: his people kept traveling to Jerusalem three times a year
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  Speaker 1: to worship at the temple, they might return their allegiance
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  Speaker 1: to the house of David. So he built a solution.
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  Speaker 1: Two golden calves, one in Dan, in the far north,
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  Speaker 1: one in Bethel, just north of the border with Judah.
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  Speaker 1: 1 Kings 12.28 It is too much for you to
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  Speaker 1: go up to Jerusalem. Behold your gods, O Israel, who
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  Speaker 1: brought you up out of the land of Egypt. He
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  Speaker 1: created alternative priests, men who were not from the tribe
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  Speaker 1: of Levi. He created alternative festivals, feast days that mimicked
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  Speaker 1: the festivals in Jerusalem, but held at different times. Jeroboam
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  Speaker 1: did not just build idols. He built an alternative covenant,
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  Speaker 1: a counterfeit system designed to keep people close to him
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  Speaker 1: and far from God. He replaced the priesthood. He replaced
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  Speaker 1: the calendar. He replaced the worship. He did not lead
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  Speaker 1: the people away from God accidentally. He did it systematically.
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  Speaker 1: The northern kingdom lasted 208 years. In that time it
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  Speaker 1: had nineteen kings from nine separate dynasties. Not a single
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  Speaker 1: one is described as righteous. Not one. Every king walked
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  Speaker 1: in the sin of Jeroboam. Every king led the people
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  Speaker 1: further from God. The phrase appears again and again in
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  Speaker 1: the book of Kings. He did evil in the sight
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord and walked in the way of Jeroboam
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  Speaker 1: and in his sin which he made Israel to sin.
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  Speaker 1: The south had its failures. But it also had Hezekiah.
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  Speaker 1: it had Josiah Kings who tore down the high places
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  Speaker 1: and called the people back to God the north had
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  Speaker 1: nothing two centuries of unbroken rebellion God sent warnings prophet
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  Speaker 1: after prophet They stood in the marketplaces of the north
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  Speaker 1: and declared judgment. They were ignored, every single one. And
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  Speaker 1: in 722 BC, an empire arrived to collect. The world
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  Speaker 1: stopped counting. God never did. The Assyrian empire invented something
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  Speaker 1: the ancient world had never seen, systematic mass deportation. This
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  Speaker 1: was not just a military conquest. Their policy... was precise.
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  Speaker 1: Conquer a nation, deport the population, scatter them across the empire,
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  Speaker 1: resettle foreigners in their place, break the connection between people
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  Speaker 1: and land, erase the memory of who they were. The
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  Speaker 1: goal was not genocide. It was something more surgical. It
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  Speaker 1: was the erasure of national identity. They didn't want the
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  Speaker 1: Israelites dead. They wanted them to forget who they were,
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  Speaker 1: forget their language, forget their God, forget their covenant. Within
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  Speaker 1: a generation, the conquered people would be absorbed into the empire.
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  Speaker 1: No rebellion, no return, no restoration. 2 Kings 17.6 In
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  Speaker 1: the ninth year of Hosea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria,
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  Speaker 1: and he carried the Israelites away to Assyria and placed
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  Speaker 1: them in Hala, and on the Heber, the river of Gozan,
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  Speaker 1: and in the cities of the Medes. Sargon II, the
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  Speaker 1: Assyrian king, left his own account. The inscription was found
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  Speaker 1: at his palace at Khorsabad, carved in stone by the
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  Speaker 1: king's own scribes. I besieged and conquered Samaria, and led
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  Speaker 1: away as booty twenty-seven thousand two hundred ninety inhabitants of it.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says it happened, the stone says it happened,
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  Speaker 1: the number matches, the policy matches, the destination matches, two
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  Speaker 1: independent sources, same event, same year. The deportees were sent
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  Speaker 1: to three locations, Hala in Upper Mesopotamia, Habor, the river
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  Speaker 1: of Gozan, the Kabul River region in northeast Syria, and
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  Speaker 1: the cities of the Medes, northwest Iran, the region known
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  Speaker 1: today as Kurdistan. The Assyrians then brought in foreigners from
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  Speaker 1: other conquered territories to settle in Samaria. 2 Kings 17.24
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  Speaker 1: The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, Kutha, Ava, Hamath,
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  Speaker 1: and Sephavim, and placed them in the cities of Samaria
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  Speaker 1: instead of the people of Israel. These mixed populations became
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  Speaker 1: the Samaritans. The land was repopulated. The people were replaced.
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  Speaker 1: And then, silence. No record of where the deportees went.
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  Speaker 1: No inscription documenting their settlement. No diary, no letter, no monument.
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  Speaker 1: Ten tribes, hundreds of thousands of people, Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Ephraim, Manasseh, gone.
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  Speaker 1: For 2,700 years the world has called them the Ten
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  Speaker 1: Lost Tribes of Israel, but the Bible never called them lost.
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  Speaker 1: What if the answer was never hidden? It was just ignored.
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  Speaker 1: Open your Bible. Because what comes next changes everything. The
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  Speaker 1: world stopped counting. God never did. During the reign of
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  Speaker 1: King Hezekiah of Judah, after the Assyrian deportation had begun,
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  Speaker 1: Hezekiah sent messengers throughout all Israel and Judah, inviting them
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  Speaker 1: to keep the Passover in Jerusalem. 2 Chronicles 30 verse
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  Speaker 1: 11 Nevertheless, some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled
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  Speaker 1: themselves and came to Jerusalem. Verse 18. For a multitude
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  Speaker 1: of the people, many of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar,
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  Speaker 1: and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the
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  Speaker 1: Passover otherwise than as prescribed. Five northern tribes, documented in Jerusalem, Asher, Manasseh, Zebulun, Ephraim, Issachar.
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  Speaker 1: They were never fully removed. The exile was real, but
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  Speaker 1: it was not total. 2 Chronicles 34.9 Over a century later,
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  Speaker 1: King Josiah collected temple repair funds from Manasseh and Ephraim
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  Speaker 1: and from all the remnant of Israel. One hundred years
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  Speaker 1: after Assyria carried them away, and the chronicler still identifies
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  Speaker 1: them by tribe. Luke 236. There was also a prophetess, Anna,
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  Speaker 1: the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Asher. She
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  Speaker 1: was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven
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  Speaker 1: years from when she was a virgin, and then as
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  Speaker 1: a widow until she was 84. Asher, a northern tribe,
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  Speaker 1: exiled in 722 BC, and 700 years later, A woman
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  Speaker 1: in the temple in Jerusalem knows her tribal identity. She
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  Speaker 1: is not guessing. She is not claiming a vague connection
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  Speaker 1: to Israel. She knows her father's name. She knows her tribe.
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  Speaker 1: She is identified by Luke under the inspiration of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit as a member of the tribe of Asher.
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  Speaker 1: If Asher was lost, how did Anna know her surname?
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  Speaker 1: The tribes were not lost to God. THEY WERE LOST
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  Speaker 1: TO US. JAMES 1 1. JAMES, A SERVANT OF GOD
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  Speaker 1: AND OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, TO THE TWELVE TRIBES
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  Speaker 1: IN THE DISPERSION. GREETINGS. NOT TWO TRIBES. NOT THE REMNANT
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  Speaker 1: OF JUDAH. TWELVE. JAMES WROTE TO ALL OF THEM. HE
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  Speaker 1: KNEW THEY EXISTED. ACTS 26 6. PAUL, TESTIFYING BEFORE KING AGRIPPA,
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  Speaker 1: DEFENDED HIS FAITH BY POINTING TO THE HOPE OF ISRAEL.
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  Speaker 1: And now I stand here on trial because of my
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  Speaker 1: hope in the promise made by God to our fathers,
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  Speaker 1: to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they
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  Speaker 1: earnestly worship night and day. Present tense. Our twelve tribes
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  Speaker 1: hope to attain, earnestly worship, night and day. Paul did
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  Speaker 1: not speak of the twelve tribes as a memory. He
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  Speaker 1: spoke of them as a living, breathing, worshipping reality. Matthew 19.28
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said to his disciples, Truly I say to you,
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  Speaker 1: in the new world, when the Son of Man will
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  Speaker 1: sit on his glorious throne, you who have followed me
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  Speaker 1: will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. If ten tribes were permanently erased, this promise
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  Speaker 1: makes no sense. You do not assign thrones to nations
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  Speaker 1: that no longer exist. Jesus spoke of the twelve tribes
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  Speaker 1: as a future reality, a reality that will exist when
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  Speaker 1: he returns. And there is one more place where all
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  Speaker 1: twelve tribes appear, at the very end of the Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Revelation 21.12 The wall of the city had twelve foundations,
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  Speaker 1: and on them were the twelve names of the twelve
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  Speaker 1: apostles of the Lamb. It had a great high wall,
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  Speaker 1: With twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and
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  Speaker 1: on the gates the names of the twelve tribes of
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  Speaker 1: the sons of Israel were inscribed. The first book of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible gave them their names. The last book of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible carved those names into the gates of eternity.
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  Speaker 1: The world stopped counting. God never did. But the evidence
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  Speaker 1: does not end in Scripture. It is happening, right now,
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  Speaker 1: on the ground. And what you are about to see
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  Speaker 1: is not ancient history. It is tonight's headline, Ezekiel 37 15.
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  Speaker 1: The word of the Lord came to me, Son of man,
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  Speaker 1: take a stick and write on it, for Judah and
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  Speaker 1: the people of Israel associated with him. Then take another
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  Speaker 1: stick and write on it, for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim,
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  Speaker 1: and all the house of Israel associated with him. And
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  Speaker 1: join them one to another into one stick, that they
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  Speaker 1: may become one in your hand. Verse 22 and I
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  Speaker 1: will make them one nation in the land, on the
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  Speaker 1: mountains of Israel. And one king shall be king over
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  Speaker 1: them all, and they shall be no longer two nations,
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  Speaker 1: and no longer divided into two kingdoms. This has not
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  Speaker 1: yet been fully fulfilled. The physical gathering has begun, but
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual reunion, the one king, the permanent unity, the
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  Speaker 1: cleansing from sin that Ezekiel describes, has not yet occurred.
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah 11.11 In that day, the Lord will extend his
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  Speaker 1: hand yet a second time to recover the remnant of
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  Speaker 1: his people, who will be left from Assyria, from Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath,
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  Speaker 1: and from the coastlands of the sea. The first gathering
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  Speaker 1: was from Babylon, Ezra, Nehemiah, the return after 70 years
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  Speaker 1: of exile. This is a second gathering, a global one,
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  Speaker 1: From the four corners of the earth, read the list
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  Speaker 1: of locations. Assyria, where the ten tribes were sent. Cush, Ethiopia, Elam, Iran,
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  Speaker 1: the coastlands, the distant nations. This is not a local return.
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  Speaker 1: This is a worldwide regathering. Hosea 1.9 And the Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: Call His name not My people. for you are not
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  Speaker 1: my people, and I am not your God. Yet the
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  Speaker 1: number of the children of Israel shall be like the
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  Speaker 1: sand of the sea, which cannot be measured or numbered.
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  Speaker 1: And in the place where it was said to them,
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  Speaker 1: You are not my people, it shall be said to them,
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  Speaker 1: Children of the living God. God renamed the northern kingdom Lo-Ami,
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  Speaker 1: not my people. Judgment, exile, rejection. But then the reversal.
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  Speaker 1: In the very place where they were rejected, they will
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  Speaker 1: be called children of the living God. Hold that verse.
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  Speaker 1: It returns at the end. In the highlands of Ethiopia,
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  Speaker 1: a community called the Beta Israel had practiced Torah-based Judaism
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  Speaker 1: for centuries in complete isolation. Their tradition said they descended
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  Speaker 1: from the tribe of Dan. For centuries, they were unknown
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  Speaker 1: to the wider Jewish world. Then, in 1984... Operation Moses
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  Speaker 1: secretly airlifted thousands of Ethiopian Jews from refugee camps in
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  Speaker 1: Sudan to Israel. In 1991, Operation Solomon became one of
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  Speaker 1: the most dramatic events in modern Jewish history. The Ethiopian
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  Speaker 1: government was collapsing, civil war was closing in on the capital,
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  Speaker 1: the Israeli government mobilized every available aircraft, 34 planes, 36 hours, 14,325
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  Speaker 1: Ethiopian Jews airlifted to Israel. The seats were removed from
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  Speaker 1: the planes to fit more people. Mothers gave birth mid-flight.
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  Speaker 1: Children who had never seen a paved road landed in
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  Speaker 1: Tel Aviv. A rabbi in Jerusalem once said the tribe
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  Speaker 1: of Dan was gone forever. That same year, 14,000 of
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  Speaker 1: their descendants stepped off an airplane in Tel Aviv. The
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  Speaker 1: dry bones stood up. Today, over 160,000 Ethiopian Jews live
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  Speaker 1: in Israel. They serve in the military. They sit in
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  Speaker 1: the Nesid. They are woven into the fabric of the nation.
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  Speaker 1: In the remote mountains of northeast India, in the states
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  Speaker 1: of Manipur and Mizoram, a community called the Bnei Menashe
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  Speaker 1: has lived for generations. Their oral tradition says they descended
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  Speaker 1: from the tribe of Manasseh, They believe their ancestors migrated
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  Speaker 1: east through Persia, through China, and settled in Southeast Asia.
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  Speaker 1: For over 2,000 years, they preserved songs, customs, and stories
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  Speaker 1: that echoed the biblical narrative. In 2005, Sephardi chief Rabbi
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  Speaker 1: Shlomo Amar officially recognized them as descendants of Israel. Approximately 5,000
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  Speaker 1: B'nai Menashe already live in Israel. In 2025, the Israeli
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  Speaker 1: government approved a plan to bring 5,800 more. The first
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  Speaker 1: group of 1,200 is scheduled to arrive in 2026. They
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  Speaker 1: are being settled in the Galilee, the north of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: the territory that once belonged to Naphtali, Asher, and Zebulun.
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  Speaker 1: the territory of the northern tribes, a community from the
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  Speaker 1: edges of Asia, claiming descent from one of Jacob's grandsons,
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  Speaker 1: is right now, this year, being physically gathered into the
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  Speaker 1: land of Israel. Whether their genealogy is fully verified by
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  Speaker 1: modern scholarship, the pattern is unmistakable. On Mount Gerizim, overlooking
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  Speaker 1: the modern city of Nablus in the West Bank, approximately
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  Speaker 1: 800 people still live. They are the Samaritans. They claim
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  Speaker 1: descent from the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, the northern
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  Speaker 1: tribes who were not deported by the Assyrians. They have
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  Speaker 1: maintained their own version of the Torah, the Samaritan Pentateuch,
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  Speaker 1: which is nearly identical to the Hebrew Torah. They have
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  Speaker 1: practiced animal sacrifice on Mount Gerizim for over 2,600 years.
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  Speaker 1: Every Passover, They gather on the mountain and slaughter lambs
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  Speaker 1: according to the instructions in Exodus 12. They have been
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  Speaker 1: there since before the Assyrians arrived, and they are still there.
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  Speaker 1: The smallest ethnic group in the world and the most
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  Speaker 1: powerful evidence that the Assyrian deportation was never total. The
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  Speaker 1: exile was real, but remnants remained. The tribes were scattered,
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  Speaker 1: but they were not erased. The world stopped counting. God
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  Speaker 1: never did. But this was never just about them. Hosea's prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: the one God gave to the northern tribes when he
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  Speaker 1: called them, not my people, has a second meaning. A
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  Speaker 1: meaning the Apostle Paul pulled out of that ancient text
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  Speaker 1: and aimed directly at you. In the last book of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, Revelation 7, John sees 144,000 sealed from the
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  Speaker 1: twelve tribes of Israel. 12,000 from each tribe. But the
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  Speaker 1: list is different from every other tribal list in scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Dan is missing. Ephraim is replaced by Joseph. And Levi,
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  Speaker 1: who never received a territorial inheritance in the original land distribution,
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  Speaker 1: is now included. Dan, the tribe that set up the
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  Speaker 1: first graven images in Israel, the tribe where Jeroboam placed
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  Speaker 1: one of his golden calves. The tribe most associated with idolatry,
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  Speaker 1: removed from the ceiling in Revelation 7. Ephraim, the dominant
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  Speaker 1: tribe of the northern kingdom. The tribe the prophet Hosea
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  Speaker 1: called out by name. Ephraim is joined to idols. Leave
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  Speaker 1: him alone, replaced in the list by the name of
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  Speaker 1: his father, Joseph. But here is what most people miss.
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  Speaker 1: Dan is restored in Ezekiel 48. In Ezekiel's vision of
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  Speaker 1: the millennial kingdom, the future age, when the Messiah reigns,
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  Speaker 1: Dan receives the first allotment of land, first on the list.
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  Speaker 1: The exclusion in Revelation 7 was a discipline, not a deletion.
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  Speaker 1: Dan fell into idolatry. Dan was removed from the list
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  Speaker 1: of the sealed. But Dan is restored in the kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: God's judgment is real. But God's judgment is not the
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  Speaker 1: final word, and that brings us to you. Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: feel like one of the exiled, deported from the life
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  Speaker 1: you thought you would live, scattered by circumstances you never chose.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you feel like Loami, not my people, like you
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  Speaker 1: have wandered too far, like your name has been erased
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  Speaker 1: from the list. Maybe you look at your life and
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  Speaker 1: see the fracture, The split that happened years ago. The
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  Speaker 1: decision that tore everything in two. The rebellion you walked into.
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  Speaker 1: The exile you are still living in. And you wonder,
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  Speaker 1: can someone like me ever be gathered back? Maybe you
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  Speaker 1: feel like Dan. Removed. Judged. Disqualified. You made choices. You
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  Speaker 1: set up your own golden calves. You walked away from
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  Speaker 1: what you knew was true. And now you wonder if
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  Speaker 1: God's judgment is the final word. But here is what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says. Hosea's God did not leave the northern
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  Speaker 1: tribes as Lo-Ammi. He did not let the sentence stand forever.
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  Speaker 1: He said, In the very place where it was said
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  Speaker 1: to you, You are not my people, it will be
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  Speaker 1: said to you, You are children of the living God.
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  Speaker 1: And the Apostle Paul said, writing to the church in
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  Speaker 1: Rome in the first century, takes that verse from Hosea
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  Speaker 1: and aims it at every person who has ever felt
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  Speaker 1: too far gone. Romans 9.25 As indeed he says in Hosea,
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  Speaker 1: Those who were not my people I will call my people,
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  Speaker 1: and her who was not beloved I will call beloved.
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  Speaker 1: And in the very place where it was said to them,
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  Speaker 1: You are not my people. There they will be called
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  Speaker 1: sons of the living God. The same God who remembered
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  Speaker 1: Asher in the person of an old woman standing in
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  Speaker 1: the temple 700 years after the exile. The same God
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  Speaker 1: who airlifted 14,000 souls from the highlands of Ethiopia and
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  Speaker 1: brought them home. The same God who is drawing a
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  Speaker 1: community from the mountains of India right now in 2026
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  Speaker 1: and settling them in the Galilee That God knows your name.
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  Speaker 1: He knows your tribe. He knows where you are. He
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  Speaker 1: knows how long you have been scattered, and He is
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  Speaker 1: not done gathering. The book of Revelation ends with a city,
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  Speaker 1: the new Jerusalem, a city coming down out of heaven
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  Speaker 1: from God, and that city has twelve gates, not ten,
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  Speaker 1: not two. Twelve Revelation 21-12, it had a great high
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  Speaker 1: wall with twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels,
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  Speaker 1: and on the gates the names of the twelve tribes
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  Speaker 1: of the sons of Israel were inscribed. Every name that
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  Speaker 1: was spoken over a newborn son in a tent in Canaan.
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  Speaker 1: every name that was scattered across empires, every name buried
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  Speaker 1: under centuries, every name declared lost by every historian who
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  Speaker 1: ever held a pen. Those names are carved into the
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  Speaker 1: architecture of eternity. Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph, Benjamin.
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  Speaker 1: The first book of the Bible gave them their names—
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  Speaker 1: The last book of the Bible carved those names into
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  Speaker 1: the gates of eternity. They were scattered. They were exiled.
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  Speaker 1: They were declared lost by every historian who ever held
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  Speaker 1: a pen. They were forgotten by the world. But God
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  Speaker 1: never stopped counting. God never stopped calling. God never stopped gathering.
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  Speaker 1: And God never lost a single one. Neither will he
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