June 17, 2005 journal, the migration of the children of Israel to the duel promised land and Empires of Britain and the United States. The 10 lost tribes known as the House of Israel.

It is important I believe to know the history of the Israelite people and Who is Who today.

It's a pity the writer of Kingdom Digest did not discover no J's until after the 16th century.

"Not long after the crucifixion / resurrection of the Lord (Yesu) Christ, the J-e-ws rebelled against their Roman overlords, and in ad 70 were destroyed by a nation in the land, exactly as (Christ) had foretold, Luke 21: 24. Back now to the ‘House of Israel’, the 10 lost tribes removed to captivity in Assyria, II Kings 15, 17 and 18. Into their homeland (Sarmaria) the King of Assyria then brought various nationalities (II Kings 17:44) to occupy the land and settle there; their descendants became the Samaritans of the days of Christ ministry. Bearing these facts in mind, they can therefore understand the customary and animosity, etc. between the two people, the J-e-w-s and Samaritans, as is revealed sometimes in the Gospel accounts; for as the woman at the well of Sychar remarked to (Yesu) John 4:9, "The Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans". But what happened to the ‘House of Israel’ when eventually their years of captivity in Assyria ended, as they did of course when the Assyrian Empire was succeeded by the Babylonians? When we realize that the House of Judah, the far smaller session of the original 12 tribes, was preserved throughout

their particular captivity, how much more certain it is that the far larger ‘House of Israel’

comprising 5/6 of the whole of God's covenant people, would survive. Indeed, not merely survive, but after that their just chastisement in Assyria was over, God would continue to watch over them and over His promises to make a blessing to all the families of the earth. For, as the psalmist tells us, (Psalm 94:14), "the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will He forsake his inheritance". Israel would be disciplined by God, but never abandoned, despite their off times recurring sinfulness. One very telling Scripture (Amos 9:8-9) re-minds us of the Lord's faithfulness to His Word and his people. “Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom (the House of Israel), and I will cut it off from the land (literal translation, i.e. by the captivity in Assyria) saving that I will not utterly destroy the House of Jacob, saith the lord. For, lo, I will command and I will sift (Bible margin cause to move) the House of Israel, among all nations, like a corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth", so then, the House of Israel would be on the move again, after its Assyria captivity; but as we know, the 10 tribes would not return to Canaan… From the Assyrian captivity, the 10 tribes have never been restored to Palestine. A remnant of Judah returned under Zerubbabel, Ezra and Nehemiah, and individuals out of the 10 tribes (called, after the division of Solomon's kingdom, Israel in the historical, books and prophets, also Ephraim by the latter) went back, but the nation restoration is yet to the fulfilled". Now, if the House of Israel did not return to Palestine (Canaan), where did they go? The following quotations will help us in our quest. Apocrypha (RV) II Esdras 13:40-45: "These are the tens tribes, which were led away out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of the Assyrians led away captive. II Kings 17, and he carried them beyond the River, and they were carried into another land. But they took this council among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt, that they might there keep their statues which they had not kept in their own land. And they entered by the narrow passages of the river Euphrates river. For the Most High then wrought signs for them, and stayed the springs of the river, till they were passed over”, far through that.