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Most people are familiar with the Biblical account of Jacob and his family going down into Egypt and living there for 430 years; if you are unfamiliar read Genesis 46 through Exodus 12. We will focus on what happened and occurred AFTER we became a nation. 

 

Our History

Most people are familiar with the Biblical account of Jacob and his family going down into Egypt and living there for 430 years; if you are not familiar with this account, take a look at Genesis 46 through Exodus 12 to familiarize yourself with this history. Most people are also familiar with the Hebrews spending 40 years in the wilderness before coming into Canaan and becoming a nation. Again, if you need to refresh yourself read Numbers 13 and Numbers 14 also Numbers 32:13. We will not focus on that here in this section but we will focus on what happened and occurred AFTER we became a nation. What events happened to make us fall as a nation, and how we were separated as a people. Also, how we are able to KNOW, IN THIS DAY AND TIME, who are INDEED the 12 so-called “Lost” Tribes of Israel?

But first, some basic history must be covered. I will start at the time of the rulership of King Solomon, son of David. The downfall of the nation of Israel began when King Solomon took women of the other nations to love and they moved his heart away from serving the God of Israel.

1 Kings 1-3:

1: But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;
2: Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
3: And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.

-- Also, check out the following precepts which show the Most High’s attitude on “Interacial Marriages”.

 

-- Ezra 9:12 (Apocrypha) Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.

 

-- 1 Esdras (Apocrypha), chapter 8:84: Therefore now shall ye not join your daughters unto their sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons.

-- Nehemiah, chapter 13:25: And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

For Solomon’s disobedience, the nation of Israel was to be split in two.

1 Kings 11:9-13:

9: And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart was turned from the LORD God of Israel, which had appeared unto him twice,
10: And had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which the LORD commanded.
11: Wherefore the LORD said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.
12: Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it for David thy father's sake: but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
13: Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.

Jeroboam became the king over the ten tribes of the northern kingdom, while Solomon’s seed maintained rulership over the rest of Israel in Judah(the southern kingdom).

1 Kings 11:28-32,34,35

28: And the man Jeroboam was a mighty man of valour: and Solomon seeing the young man that he was industrious, he made him ruler over all the charge of the house of Joseph.
29: And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:
30: And Ahijah caught the new garment that was on him, and rent it in twelve pieces:
31: And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee:
32: (But he shall have one tribe for my servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel:)

34: Howbeit I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand: but I will make him prince all the days of his life for David my servant's sake, whom I chose, because he kept my commandments and my statutes:
35: But I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.

After Solomon died, his son Rehoboam took over.

1 Kings 11:42-43

42: And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.
43: And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

The kingdom was further split when Jeroboam came to Rehoboam to lighten the burden that his father Solomon had inflicted on them and Rehoboam refused.

See 1 Kings 12:1-15. When Rehoboam refused to lighten their yoke, that is when the ten tribes decided not to have anything further to deal with him. 1 Kings 12:16,19,20

16: So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them, the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David? neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their tents.

19: So Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day.
20: And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

The tribe of Benjamin was with the Tribe of Judah as shown in 1 Kings 12:21-24.

21: And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, with the tribe of Benjamin, an hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, which were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
22: But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
23: Speak unto Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and unto all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
24: Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word of the LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word of the LORD.

When Jeroboam became king, he began to deal unrighteously and so the downfall of the northern kingdom began(Read 1 Kings 12:26-13:34). Rehoboam also reigned unrighteously, and thus began the fall of the southern kingdom(Read 1 Kings 14).

Both of these groups of Israelites went into captivity for their disobedience to God. The northern kingdom went into captivity under Shalmaneser, the king of Assyria(Read 2 Kings 17). The southern kingdom went into captivity under Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon(Read 2 Kings 24and 25).

After the Assyrian captivity, the northern kingdom had made up their minds to leave that portion of the world in which they were located, and find someplace else to dwell and worship the Lord their God, as shown in 2 Esdras 13:40-45.

40: Those are the ten tribes, which were carried away prisoners out of their own land in the time of Osea the king, whom Salmanasar the king of Assyria led away captive, and he carried them over the waters, and so came they into another land.
41: But they took this counsel among themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the heathen, and go forth into a further country, where never mankind dwelt,
42: That they might there keep their statutes, which they never kept in their own land.
43: And they entered into Euphrates by the narrow places of the river.
44: For the most High then shewed signs for them, and held still the flood, till they were passed over.
45: For through that country there was a great way to go, namely, of a year and a half: and the same region is called Arsareth.

Arsareth, in Hebrew means “another land”, or “another country”. WHERE NEVER MANKIND DWELT, is referring to Americas and the Caribbean. These people (the northern kingdom of the nation of Israel) where the first occupants of what is now known as the Americas and the Caribbean. Over many years they spread out all over the land from the top of Canada to the bottom of Chile and across the Caribbean islands and flourished as a people, until the time that the Europeans arrived in the continent. Then began the slow downfall of the nation of Israel in the Americas. After the so-called north American Indians(Gad) were slaughtered, worked to exhaustion, also purposely given diseases such as small pox and others to which they had no cure, many of them died out under the harsh and very cruel labor being inflicted upon them. At this time enters slavery and the southern kingdom of the nation of Israel namely the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, and Levi to the shores of America.

The vast majority of the so-called Africans that were brought to this continent were captured on the western coast of Africa, in such locations as Ouidah, Yoruba, Hausa, Oyo, Igbo, Malinke, and Bantu. These areas are along the Gold Coast of Africa. Many west African empires were maintained by Israelites who had migrated to these areas after the destruction of Jerusalem by the Roman armies(Gen. Titus and Vespatian) in 70 A.D. Some of them had acquired vast amounts of wealth, such as Mansa Musa, the king of Mali in the 14^th century, whose bearded face appears on some European maps as one of the wealthiest men in the world at that time. Also, he was an Israelite which later took on the philosophical beliefs of Islam.

In the book Hebrewisms of West Africa by John Jackson, it is written from the point of view that since the Hebrews which migrated to the area had such a lasting effect on the African tribes already present in that area before their arrival—as far as teaching the Hamitic people(descendents of Noah’s son Ham) the Hebrew language and culture and showing them how to worship their God—that these Hebrews must have been white semites who settled in this part of the continent. But one need only to use a bit of common sense to analyze this theory. If these were white semites who came to the western part of Africa, where are they now? Where and how did they go from here?

It is noted in history that the African people sold and or traded their war captives to the Europeans for liquor, guns, cloth and other items of interest. Were the white semites around at this time? If so, where? The fact is that it was black semites(Israelites) that were captured and sold to the Europeans on the western shores of Africa. These people(southern kingdom) joined their brethren(Northern Kingdom) in the Americas and the Caribbean to serve out their slavery TOGETHER, thus fulfilling the prophecy found in Jeremiah 50:33 which states:

33: Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The children of Israel and the children of Judah were oppressed together: and all that took them captives held them fast; they refused to let them go.

You will see in the other sections of this website, how we can ascertain the wherabouts of each individual tribe of the Nation of Israel today: through historical records, but mostly, through the word of God!

Gen 49: 1-2

1: And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.
2: Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

Hosea 3:4-5

 4: For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince, and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:

5: Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and David their king; and shall fear the LORD and his goodness in the latter days.