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Brit-Am Now no. 1558
The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel Movement
17 August 2010, 7 Elul 5770
Contents:
1. Welcome to Brit-Am Now!
2. Time for Joseph to Come Home?
3. Reply to Questions from Joseph Lowe.
Western Israelite nations and Christianity, Messiah son of Joseph and the
Christian Messiah,
What Needs to be Done, The Return of Joseph and the Ten Tribes
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2. Time for Joseph to Come Home?
Re: testW
Received....is it time for Joseph to pack up and come home?
Avigdor
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Brit-Am Reply:
Joseph includes a great multitude.
They too need to be informed of their origins.
3. Reply to Questions from Joseph Lowe.
Western Israelite nations and Christianity, Messiah son of Joseph and the
Christian Messiah,
What Needs to be Done, The Return of Joseph and the Ten Tribes
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Joseph Lowe wrote:
I have gone over your site and continue to do more so as is a lot
of info.
I have several questions for you.
1. You seem to say western nations have roots in the lost tribes. Do
you recognize that the western nations are well christian nations?
2. Do you believe the christian nation then is the House of Joseph and
each country it occupies falls under a tribe?
3. You are a jew and so am I, I understand you are not a christian in
beliefs either correct? So with that, there is a part of your site
that you say a saviour/messiah will be born from Beit Yosef (which I
know is oral tradition from the sages) that will lead the scattered
tribes which you believe are the western nations which are primarily
or have been for the majority christian nations. Is this message
saying that [the Christian Messiah] you believe is the messiah of the
scattered tribes
as the western nations believe? They do believe he is their leader.
4. How are we to differentiate the goy from the goy that are scattered
israelites without their identity? Or do we cleanse the christian
nation back into the covenant and torah?
5. Are we to then immigrate the billion plus hidden israelites to
israel and divide the lots as torah states or wait for moshiach?
Thanks
Joseph Lowe
Metro Surety Group
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Brit-Am Replies:
(1. Are All Christians Israelites?
Nations identified by the Brit-Am Movement of the Ten Tribes as
Israelite are all Christian but not all Christians are Israelite.
European Christian Nations as a whole are associated with Edom.
Joseph (i.e. the Ten Tribes) co-exists alongside Edom, was subject to Edom (Amos
1:6,9), and eventually will war against him (Obadiah 1:18)
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(2. Can Every Christian Nations Be
Equated with an Israelite Tribe?
I did not properly understand this question. Each Israelite Tribe
may more or less be allocated to a specific European Nation in the West.
Details are given in our work "The Tribes".
http://britam.org/the-Tribes.html
These nations are all at least nominally Christian but they comprise only a
minority of the Christian Nations.
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(3. Is the Messiah Son of Joseph the
Christian Messiah?
Quite a few Christians equate the projected Messiah son of Joseph
with the Christian Messiah. The concept of the Messiah son of Joseph is
mentioned very briefly Early Aramaic Translations, in collections of obscure
Midrashim of uncertain origin, apparently also in some pseudo-Apocryphal works
(see Raphael Patai), in a few lines in the Talmud, in brief references by
commentators such as Saadia Gaon and Abraham Ibin Ezra, etc.
Some [pethaps questionable?] sources say the Messiah son of Joseph will be
killed and then resurrected and that he suffers for all Israel.
[This is obviously parallel to similar concepts in Christianity.]
The concept may [or may not] have existed before Christianity and have derived
from trends of thought that influenced early Christianity and perhaps were also
influenced by it.
Despite the antiquity of this concept, the idea does not seem to have been
related to seriously in Judaism until recently.
In our time amongst Religious Zionists and others, the Messiah son of Joseph is
also taken to represent an historical phenomenon of Israelites returning to
their Land i.e. Zionism.
A lot has been written on this matter.
I personally do not take any of these sources literally or seriously since their
reliance on Biblical Passages is too tenuous.
The Sages also do not expound on this matter.
What interests Brit-Am is the aspect of Biblical Exegesis in which Messiah son
of Joseph is the future leader of the Ten Tribes when they return and even
before their return may be considered a king of allegory concerning the Ten
Tribes and symbolizing them. This helps us understand certain Biblical Passages
concerning the Ten Tribes in general and strengthens our own interpretation of
the verses under consideration as pertaining to the Ten Tribes.
You asked,
# Is this message saying that [the Christian Messiah] you believe is the messiah
of the scattered tribes
as the western nations believe? #
We do not believe in the Christian Messiah. We are not interested in the matter.
Jews are
OBLIGATED to remain Jewish and to strengthen themselves in their Jewish Beliefs.
There can be no compromise on this issue and it is an extremely important point.
Jews are OBLIGATED MOST SEVERELY to keep the Torah and obey the commandments.
This is their life and that of their children. The whole world depends upon
this. Anything that seeks to diminish this obligation is bad and must be
condemned .
Our task is NOT to engage in inter-faith dialogue. We resent attempts to use us
or manoeuvre us into theological considerations that are alien to our direct
fields of interest.
We have a message to promote that is IMPORTANT and that is for the good of the
people we are directing it towards.
People who hurt us damage the cause of all Israel.
The Brit-Am Movement of the Ten Tribes works for the good of all Israel.
We believe in the Hebrew Bible and that is all.
For more concerning the Brit-Am understanding of the Role of Christianity, See:
Notsrim
http://www.britam.org/Proof/Attributes/roleNotsrim.html
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(4. What Should
Ephraimites
do for their Israelite Identity?
We cannot tell you what needs to be done next on the religious
plane.
We need to emphasize the Ten Tribes are not Jews or a collection of
something-like the Jews but rather a collectivity in their own right.
They themselves need to realize that the message is saying that as a group they
are descended from Israel.
They will mostly return as a group i.e. be re-united with Judah but how and when
this will happen is not known.
All we know at present is their identity and that only in very general terms
that need to be confirmed and asserted.
At present,
The identity of the Ten Tribes NEEDS to be made known through more research,
making the research results known,
and causing the authorities (i.e. history experts etc) to take the results
seriously.
This to our minds is the FIRST step.
By allegory,
Someone approaches you in the street and out of the blue convinces you that you
may well be a co-inheritor to a vast fortune.
He convinces you but you see that the evidence (though strong) is not of a
nature acceptable to others.
Further research along the lines already initiated could however lead to
definite proof of the kind required.
The inheritance entails not only benefits but also difficult obligations which
to fulfill could require the acquiescence of quite a few other co-inheritors.
People (in this case the Brit-Am Movement of the Ten Tribes) are working on your
behalf and they want you to help them, take an interest in the issue, and work
with them. The choice is yours. It is true that you have no clear-cut definite
obligation regarding this subject.
On the other hand Divine Providence must have opened your eyes up to thew matter
for a reason.
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5. What will the Future Bring?
Will all the Tribes return to an enlarged rehabilitated ecologically altered
Greater Land of Israel stretching from the Nile to the Euphrates and beyond?
Or will only a portion return?
What will happen to the others? Will they remain were they are?
How many of them (i.e. of us) are there really?
When will this happen?
How will it come about?
These and other questions are referred to in Scripture. Different possibilities
seem to be raised.
We have discussed this in our Brit-Am Biblical Commentaries.
http://www.britam.org/ContentsSubject.html#lic
Some of our correspondents have also suggested various scenarios based on their
own understandings of Scripture.
We in Brit-Am encourage discussions and studies of the Bible and anything that
enhances Biblical understanding.
We concentrate however especially on matter involving the Israelite Ancestry of
Western Peoples.
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