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Judah is a part of Israel. Israel is not a part of Judah. Judah is only one of the twelve tribes. Israel is all twelve tribes.
When Daniel prayed he considered himself part of Israel, which is all the tribes. Even though he was himself personaly probably from the tribe of Judah. But he never prayed for Judah. He prayed for the full house of Israel.
When Paul wrote it was to the Gentiles who knew not of the other lost tribes. So Paul speaks to them of the Jews, who were still around in the area. He does't mention the other tribes because they were unkown to the Gentiles since they long ceased to exist as a group.
But Jesus and James speak of the "lost tribes" and are attempting to recover them. They don't speak of Judah at all.
To say that Judah was a lost tribe undermines the terminology. Then what are the other actual lost tribes who were taken captivity to Assyria and never regrouped? Are they then the " lost lost tribes?"
Hi DanaB
Thanks again for sharing. For some reason in America christians don't seem to get that God is not a respecter of persons. He has no preference for any people regardless of race, or ethnicity.
(KJV) AC 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
(NIV) Ro 2:11 For God does not show favoritism.
Why is it not understood that the law is a shadow of better things?
(NIV) HEB 10:1 The law is only a shadow of the good things that are coming--not the realities themselves.
The Jews were given the law. The law was given to all the tribes of Israel including Judah, Benjamin, and the ten lost tribes. They were the people of the law. Just as the law was a shadow and not the reality, so were the people of the law -Judah and the lost tribes are the shadow people and not the reality. The reality is found in Christ and all those who trust in him.
(NIV) Col 2:17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ.
The real jews are spiritual being made up of the lost sheep of Israel (Judah) and the lost tribes (Gentiles).
Paul stated that the truth jews were not determined by ethnicity. His point was that only the jews who believed the gospel were of Israel and this included believing gentiles as well.
(NIV) RO 9:6 It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's children. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned." 8 In other words, it is not the natural children who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring.
The children of the promise is all those who believe in Christ and this is not based on natural DNA but on faith in the finished work of Christ. Again, Paul understood this and interpreted an old testament scripture referring to the lost tribes as referring to the gentiles. Hosea prophesied the fate of the northern kingdom (the ten tribes) where God was going to scatter them and then reunite them.
HOS 1:4 Then the LORD said to Hosea, "Call him Jezreel, because I will soon punish the house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel. 5 In that day I will break Israel's bow in the Valley of Jezreel."
HOS 1:10 "Yet the Israelites will be like the sand on the seashore, which cannot be measured or counted. In the place where it was said to them, `You are not my people,' they will be called `sons of the living God.' 11 The people of Judah and the people of Israel will be reunited, and they will appoint one leader and will come up out of the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.
However, the Apostle Paul interpreted this reunion as referring to the joining of the believers from Judah with the gentile believers. He quotes from Hosea and sees the reality of the restoration of the lost tribes as being fulfilled in the gentiles.
(NIV) Ro 9:23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory-- 24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? 25 As he says in Hosea:
"I will call them `my people' who are not my people;
and I will call her `my loved one' who is not my loved one,"
RO 9:26 and,
"It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them,
`You are not my people,'
they will be called `sons of the living God.' "
As it says in Hosea, they will appoint one leader. That leader is Christ whom we appoint in our hearts when trust in him. God's concern is Adam(man/humans). The natural jews were his instruments of redemption, but his object of redemption is all mankind and natural jews are a shadow that point to his people redeemed from all mankind.
God Bless
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