12. After a while, God got tired of the northern kingdom still allowing Jeroboam's two gold calf idols in the north, so He sent the kings of Assyria upon the ten northern tribes, in stages, and removed all the ten tribes out of the holy land, captive to Assyria and the lands of the Medes (2 Kings 17). Only the southern "kingdom of Judah" in the south was left.
13. The Book of Hosea is about God's ending the northern "kingdom of Israel", and removing them out of the holy land. God through Hosea showed He would given the ten tribes their fullness of false Baal worship they loved, and they would loose their heritage as part of Israel, and loose knowledge of God's feast days, new moons, etc. Then after a while, they would seek to return to their old lands because they recognize they had it better there, but God said He hedged up their paths so they wouldn't find their way back. God scattered them among the Gentiles like He warned the children of Israel back in Deuteronomy 4 and 28 for doing false worship. So God led the northern ten tribes into the 'wilderness', and there He would make them lay down safely, and He would take the names of Baali they called Him with out of their mouths, and they would then call Him "Ishi" (Husband), and give them a new covenant. This prophecy is all written in the Book of Hosea to the "house of Israel", the ten northern tribe kingdom after the 1 Kings 11 split.
14. After God removed the ten northern tribes by the king of Assyria, as was the kings of Assyria practice, they would remove a people from their lands, and then transplant other peoples in their place. So the king of Assyria removed Israel in the northern lands, and replaced the ten tribes with five peoples from Babylon who each brought their pagan god. These became the Samaritans of the Apostle's days. The Jews of the southern kingdom at Jerusalem-Judea wouldn't have anything to do with those Samaritans, because they were foreigners. Even Christ's Apostles questioned Him why He was speaking to the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4.
15. Then about 120 years after the northern ten tribes had been removed, the "house of Judah" kingdom in the south also fell into false worship, and God brought Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon upon them, and took them captive for seventy years to Babylon (time of Jeremiah and Daniel). These were the Jews only of the southern kingdom of Judah, the tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Levi, and a small remnant of the ten tribes, and the rest foreigners that lived in Judea and took the name Jew also. This captivity did not involve the ten tribes at all, for they had already been removed by this time.
16. After seventy years, only a small remnant of the 3 tribe "house of Judah" returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the city, walls, and the 2nd temple. The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah reveals the families that returned. These became known as 'Israel', because they were the only children of Israel left in the holy land that knew of their heritage from old Israel. The majority of the ten tribes would forget their heritage as the larger part of the children of Israel. To this day, the Jews represent only the 3 tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Levi, and a small remnant of ten tribes that left Jeroboam's gold calf idol worship. Thus the larger portion of the children of Israel is represented by the ten lost tribes, and are not known as Jews, which the title of Jew originates from the tribe of Judah (per Josephus).
17. The Jewish historian Josephus (100 A.D.) also said the ten tribes were still scattered beyond Euphrates in his day, and that they were a great number, too many to count. Beyond Euphrates is about their captivity by the kings of Assyria to northern parts of what we today call Iraq. They took on new customs and names, and most of them forgot their heritage.
18. Linguist professor of the University of Michigan in the 1930's, Leroy Waterman, translated one of the names from the ancient Assyrian tablets used for the ten tribes of Israel in their captivity. Waterman then revealed from those Assyrian tablets that name was linked to the Cimmerians (pronounced with a 'K', like Kimmerian).
19. Anthropology is the study of the histories of peoples, their migrations, culture, etc. This field of science well knows much about the Cimmerian tribes that migrated into Asia Minor and Europe, and became the main Caucasian peoples that formed the early western nations. The people called Scythians also were part of that larger group that also migrated westward from the east after them. Prof. Waterman's link of the ten tribes of Israel in Assyria with the Cimmerians reveals the mystery of where the majority of the ten lost tribes migrated to, i.e., to Asia Minor and Europe.
20. During the long treks of the Cimmerian tribes, they brought their Baal idol worship with them into Europe. Each Caucasian people there had their own version of Baal worship, just under different names. This was PRIOR to Christ's 1st coming to die on the cross. In Scandinavia their Baal gods were like Odin, Thor, etc. In ancient Rome it would be Jupiter, etc. In ancient Greece it would be Mars, etc. But when Jesus was rejected in Jerusalem by the Jews, The Gospel would then go to the ten scattered tribes mostly scattered to the West, and they would begin to put away their Baal gods, and accept The Gospel of Jesus Christ, along with the believing Gentiles (like God said in Hosea 2:14-18).
21. In Romans 9, Apostle Paul quoted to Gentile Roman believers on Jesus from the Book of Hosea, pointing to the ten lost tribes and Gentiles together as Christ's Church. The Book of Hosea was written specifically to the ten tribe "house of Israel" after the split in Rehoboam's day. So Paul quoting to Gentile Romans from it reveals the ten tribes scattered to the West among believing Gentiles.
22. The
Scottish Declaration of Arbroath proclaims the Scott's heritage from Israel having migrated from the area of ancient Scythia and the Pillars of Hercules, and having dwelt for a long time in old Spain, and then coming there to Scotland with a king line. (see
https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files...of-arbroath-transcription-and-translation.pdf)
23. II Esdras 13 in the Apocrypha declares how the ten tribes would migrate to new lands to keep their old ways, linked with a place called Arsareth, which Christopher Columbus interpreted to be the Americas. They actually migrated to Asia Minor and all Europe per the Cimmerian and Scythian migrations.
24. Thus once Jesus was rejected by the Jews in Jerusalem and crucified, The Gospel would be sent to the Gentiles AND... the children of Israel scattered to the western nations, and those western nations would accept The Gospel on national scales, Great Britain being the first to do so per history. Then from there they as ambassadors for Christ would go to the rest of the world with The Gospel of Jesus Christ. This event of history fulfilled the prophecy to Ephraim that his seed would become "a multitude of nations" (Genesis 48). Those multitude of nations represent the traditional Christian nations who first accepted Jesus Christ in their new lands.
