Rev20, Josephus said: the ten tribes are now a vast multitude, scattered far away...
2 Esdras 13:39-46 says the ten tribes resolved to go to distant regions...where they would keep the Laws.....
I googled Origins of European peoples and most just do not know, example is; news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130423-european-genetic-history-dna-archaeology-science/Modern Europe's Genetic History Starts in Stone Age
There is at least one website that purveys the truth; BritAm.com does have good info and facts about how the ten tribes left 'dolmens' to mark the way of their migration.
You may not believe it, but you must concede that it is possible for the Israelites exiled by the Assyrians to have firstly remained as people groups; Cimmerians, Scythians, Celts, Gaelic, Saxons, etc. then to have moved away from where the Assyrian's put them. They were not held captive, just re-settled and it makes sense for them to move to greener pastures, as population pressure, taxation and just a desire to be independent moved them.
Note in John 11:49-52, where Caiaphas prophesied 'to gather together the scattered children of God'.We await that gathering, as the modern State of Israel is far from being all the Children of God.
That took quite an imagination. As aforementioned, the ten "lost" tribes were never physically lost. Many kept in contact with their brethren in Judaea; and thousands who remained in areas of their former captivity, or moved to other areas outside Judaea, traveled to Jerusalem for the day of Pentecost. Check out these highlighted areas on a map:
" And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. . . And they were all amazed and marvelled, saying one to another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born? Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, and in Judaea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia, Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and Arabians, we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of God." -- Acts 2:5, 7-11
The Mesopotamians were those in the Euphrates-Tigris area. The Church at Babylon, that Peter wrote of in 1 Pet 5:13, was located there.
Three of those areas mentioned, Media, Parthia, and Elam, were located east of the Euphrates.
You might be interested in this page on the ten "lost" tribes:
Ten Lost Tribes? (Messianic Judaism)
[Long, but a great read.]
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Rev20 asked: How long is 'not too long now'.
We do have several Biblical indications as to when the Lord will once again take action in His creation. Jesus prophesied: I will work today and tomorrow and on the third day, I shall achieve my goal.Luke 13:32 So after 2000 years He will gain His reward of the 1000 year Millennial reign.
Hosea 6:2
No. This is that same verse, in context:
"The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. And [Jesus] said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected. Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem." -- Luke 13:31-33
Keras, was Christ in the tomb for 3000 years, or 3 days?
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Also Ezekiel 4:4-5 tells us the decreed punishment for Israel is 390 years. This was multiplied by 7 because of continued sin, Lev 26:18
No, Keras. The "seven-fold" in Leviticus 26 was the
intensity of the punishment,
not the length.
For the record, the punishment for Israel was listed as 190 years in the Greek Septuagint, the OT translation quoted by Christ and his Apostles:
"For I have appointed thee their iniquities for a number of days, for a hundred and ninety days: so thou shalt bear the iniquities of the house of Israel." -- Eze 4:5 LXX
That changes things, considerably, since that was approximately the entire length of the captivity of Israel. Cobern commented:
"The captivity of Israel is here counted one hundred and fifty years longer than that of Judah; its beginning probably being reckoned from the invasion and deportation of Tiglath-pileser, 734 B.C. (2 Kings 15:39.) The one-hundred and ninety years of Israel would extend, then, from 734 B. C. to 538 B. C., the year of the restoration." [Camden M Cobern, 'Commentary on the Old Testament Vol III,' Eaton & Mains, 1901, Eze 4:4, p.65]
Another point, the famous Commentator, John Gill, presents several plausible scenerios using the 390 year Masoretic number:
"Abarbinel [Abrabanel]is of opinion that these years describe the four hundred and thirty years of Israel’s bondage in Egypt; though, he says, they may be understood of the time of the division of the kingdom under Rehoboam, from whence, to the destruction of Jerusalem, were three hundred and ninety years; which sense is best, and is what is first given;" [John Gill, 'John Gill's Old Testament Commentary,' Grace E-Books, Eze 4:4, pp.55-56]
"According to Jerom [Jerome,]both the three hundred and ninety days, and the forty days, were figurative of the captivities of Israel and Judah. The captivity of Israel, or the ten tribes, began under Pekah king of Israel, (1 Kings 15:29); when many places in the kingdom were wasted; from whence, to the fortieth year of Ahasuerus, when the Jews were entirely set at liberty, were three hundred and ninety years; and the captivity of Judah began in the first year of Jeconiah, which, to the first of Cyrus, were forty years." [John Gill, 'John Gill's Old Testament Commentary,' Grace E-Books, Eze 4:4, p.55]
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Their final removal from the Land was in 718 BCE, add 2730 years = 2014. [Deduct 2 years for the BCE/CE year one's commencing at their start.]
I believe that I will see it all happen, so 'not too long' for me at 73 now, is no more than 20 years.
LOL! Baloney.
