The Ten Lost Tribes

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I have a question on what others view about the Lost Ten Tribes. Biblically they were scattered when the Assyrian Empire conquered them. But, I have been reading through the Prophets and am right now going through the Prophet Jeremiah, and from what I have read and understood, there seems to be a lot of emphasis and prophecy on the return of Israel. Usually in Jeremiah, we can see a distinction between Judah and Israel, and Jeremiah typically makes use of those distinctions quite well. From what it seems, God has promised to one day bring the ten tribes of Israel back to the promised land.
I am not to well informed on what the Catholic perspective is but I was wondering what everyone else’s view is and if there are official Catholic teachings on the lost tribes?

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Judah and Israel describe two separate geographic regions in the Old Testament.
At the end of time, everyone will be found again 🙂 But for now, the tribes were lost when Assyria took them off into captivity
 
SeekerOfTruth7 said:
God has promised to one day bring the ten tribes of Israel back to the promised land.
I am not to well informed on what the Catholic perspective is but I was wondering what everyone else’s view is and if there are official Catholic teachings on the lost tribes?
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The ten lost tribes have been dispersed among “the nations” – that is, they’re now Gentiles. Christ brings the Gentiles back into the people of God by virtue of His New Covenant.

We’re all the ten tribes who have been reconstituted into the Body of Christ, and grafted back into the vine!
 
Maybe some were sent to Arabia and later immigrated to Palestine after most of Judah was exiled by the Roman Legions in the 1st century.
 
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Maybe some were sent to Arabia and later immigrated to Palestine after most of Judah was exiled by the Roman Legions in the 1st century.
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That’s a whole 'nother context. Do the “ten lost tribes” include all of the Gentile world? Yep. And, by virtue of being absorbed by “the nations”, is Palestine included? Yep.

But, it’s not that Palestine is the location to which any organized portion of the ten lost tribes flowed, which is what you seem to be implying.
 
It is my understanding that the DNA of Palestinians cannot be distinguished from the DNA of Israelis.
 
I’m not sure. I think that it supports the idea that some portion of the ancient ten lost tribes may be found in the modern Palestinian population.
 
undead_rat said:
I’m not sure. I think that it supports the idea that some portion of the ancient ten lost tribes may be found in the modern Palestinian population.
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That strikes me as merely a cog in the “pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli” propaganda of the present day.

From a (Catholic) theological perspective, all of the Gentile nations represent the ten lost tribes, and their incorporation into the Body of Christ is the means by which they return to their role as the People of God.
 
SeekerOfTruth7 said:
I have a question on what others view about the Lost Ten Tribes. Biblically they were scattered when the Assyrian Empire conquered them. But, I have been reading through the Prophets and am right now going through the Prophet Jeremiah, and from what I have read and understood, there seems to be a lot of emphasis and prophecy on the return of Israel. Usually in Jeremiah, we can see a distinction between Judah and Israel, and Jeremiah typically makes use of those distinctions quite well. From what it seems, God has promised to one day bring the ten tribes of Israel back to the promised land.
I am not to well informed on what the Catholic perspective is but I was wondering what everyone else’s view is and if there are official Catholic teachings on the lost tribes?

God Bless
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We Catholics find the fulfillment of that prophecy in the Church, not in a real identification of the ten lost tribes.

The Ten Tribes disappeared over two thousand years ago and were subject to the Assyrian policy of dispersion, compared with the Babylonian and Persian policies of allowing them to live in communities. The tribes would most likely have become assimilated into Assyrian culture and intermarried, thereby mixing into the current Assyrian/Chaldean/Iraqi Arab ethnicities of today.

If you’re looking for the Ten Tribes, their DNA is probably to be found in the Christian communities of Iraq.
 
It seems to be a common practice among zionists to label anything that supports Palestinian legitimacy as antisemitic.
 
Gorgias said:
The ten lost tribes have been dispersed among “the nations” – that is, they’re now Gentiles. Christ brings the Gentiles back into the people of God by virtue of His New Covenant.
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Respectfully toward and opinion only, when seeking out, words and meaning in Jesus language Hebrew etc …Gentile means Nation.
…Gentiles means Nations
…The Lost 10 Tribes ( made up of the Sons of Jacob) where each Son was given their own large portion of Land when they entered in. Which each would later become and grow into a Nation…
10 Nations (Gentiles)
…Theses 10 Nations know as the …House of Israel, theses Nations ( Gentiles) were captured and taken into other Nations ( Gentiles) who ruled over them.
…Gentile means Nation…
Go out and spread the good news into all the Gentiles (Nations)
There were 2 Houses…

The House of Judah ( in the South) 2 Tribes, plus some of the Tribe of Levi, priestly Tribe remained…

House of Israel ( in the North) 10 Tribes

Gentile is not a religious or non religious belief…means Nation…
Therefore not Gentiles…

Peace 🙂
 
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rose321 said:
Gentile is not a religious or non religious belief…means Nation…
Therefore not Gentiles…
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In Hebrew language usage, it takes on the meaning of “non-Jews”. Therefore, in a sense, it is a term with religious implications. So, yes – inasmuch as the ten lost tribes were dispersed into the Gentiles, Christ brings them back (undifferentiated, but as ‘Gentiles’) into the status as “the people of God.”
 
Not really. They are genetically similar, but not indistinguishable. The second-closest genetic relatives of the Israelis are the Palestinians. Druze are at number one, according to several articles I’ve read over the years. (It’s a topic of interest for me).
 
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Gorgias:
That strikes me as merely a cog in the “pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli” propaganda of the present day.
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May I ask why? I personally found nothing to imply this.
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To my mind, it seems to advance the goals of those who would advocate a reversal of pro-Israel political policy, and who seek rationales for doing so. Making a revisionist claim of shared ancestry would be yet another arrow in the quiver – “see? they’re no different than Israelis, genetically speaking! So, you have no right to choose one over the other; they have the right to be where they are, even on the basis of genealogy!”

Anyway, that’s how it appears to me.
 
In the NT - The 12 Tribes are mentioned at least a half-dozen times
without any claims that they are considered “lost”.

Rather, they’re simply mentioned as existing… in the manner of knowing they exist…

One account which says they are dispersed …
  • contains a v.interesting and important admonition/teaching
  1. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
  2. To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations:
  3. Greetings.
  4. Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
  5. If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.
 
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EndTimes said:
In the NT - The 12 Tribes are mentioned at least a half-dozen times
without any claims that they are considered “lost”.
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Hang on a second – you’re moving the goalposts! We’re not talking about the “twelve tribes of Israel” – we’re talking about the “Ten Lost Tribes” (of the Assyrian Exile)!

So, while what you’ve written holds for the People of God who now live among the Nations (i.e., in the ‘diaspora’), it doesn’t directly address what we’re talking about here – how to understand who the “Ten Lost Tribes” are, and how we see them in the context of the New Covenant of Christ!
 
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