Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations"

Nuggets from "Judgment Day: Islam, Israel, and the Nations" by Dave Hunt

There are other ways to get rid of the Jews than putting them into Hitler's ovens or killing them by Muslim terrorism and war. There is the myth of the "ten lost tribes" that is popularly believed among Christians today. Yes, the ten northern tribes were indeed carried into Assyria in about 740 BC: "Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah...as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day" (2 Kings:17:17-23 [17] And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, to provoke him to anger. [18] Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. [19] Also Judah kept not the commandments of the LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. [20] And the LORD rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight. [21] For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the LORD, and made them sin a great sin. [22] For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did; they departed not from them; [23] Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.
See All...). Of course, "this day" refers to the day in which this was written, not to our day.

Furthermore, it is clear that many if not most of those who were carried away had returned, even at that time. There is specific mention of "a multitude of people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulon," who "escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria" and kept the Passover in Jerusalem in the days of Hezekiah more than a decade after the carrying away into Assyria (2 Chronicles:30:6So the posts went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
See All...,18, etc.). Then we read of Israel joining with Judah in keeping the Passover during the great revival under King Josiah about ninety years later. Seven of the "ten lost tribes" are mentioned as being present, and the implication is that all were there (2 Chronicles 34, 35). Nearly two hundred years after the ten tribes were carried into Assyria, God gave Ezekiel a vision of the future restoration and referred to the Promised Land being divided "according to the twelve tribes of Israel" (Ezekiel:47:13Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
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If ten tribes were lost, Christ's promise could not be fulfilled to His disciples: 'When the Son of Man shall sit in the throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matthew  19:28; Luke:22:30That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
See All...). Then Christ would be a liar and Satan the victor. Paul didn't think any tribes were lost. In his appeal to King Agrippa, he refers to the "twelve tribes" as in existence at that time (Acts:26:7Unto which promise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God day and night, hope to come. For which hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of the Jews.
See All...). James addressed his epistle "to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad" (James:1:1James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
See All...). Yet the myth of the "ten lost tribes" is still believed by many Christians.