Shalom, veteran.
Just a quick comment and then to bed.
You assume too much to say I haven't done my studies. I understand that Nebuchadnezzar never conquered the 10 northern tribes of Isra'el; HOWEVER, Bavel (Babylon) was conquered BY the Medes and Persians (through Koresh or Cyrus II the Great) who already had the 10 tribes living among them! Technically, the 10 tribes did NOT come back from the Babylonian captivity; however, some of them DID return with the captives in Bavel when Koresh gave His Edict of Restoration.
No, I'm not assuming too much when I declare how you reveal that you have not... fully studied this subject of the ten tribes per God's Word.
Ezekiel 37 declares the rejoining of the ten tribes under Ephraim back with Judah in final, and that prophecy contains parameters that have NEVER come to pass to this day. And that's not the only Scripture example of that future event.
In Romans, Apostle Paul quotes from the Book of Hosea and applies it to Gentile believers on Christ Jesus, yet the Hosea Scripture he quoted was FIRST written specifically about the ten tribes under Ephraim, and not Judah. Why would Apostle Paul do that since he was learned in the Scriptures from the best Hebrew scholar of his day, Gamaliel? It's because of Bible prophecy of what was to befall the ten tribes after they had been scattered among the Gentiles, and The Gospel of Jesus Christ manifesting among them. After Christ's crucifixion, just where was that Gospel manifested to the majority that would believe? Among the nations of Asia Minor and Europe.
Gen 48:3-6
3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance.
(KJV)
Gen 48:14-20
14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.
17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it:
he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
(KJV)
God foretold that "multitude of nations" idea first to Jacob...
Gen 35:10-11
10 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply;
a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
(KJV)
So there's no twisting the Hebrew with those two Scripture examples backing each other up. It means literally, a multitude or assemblage of nations.
We're then required to do a bit of thinking about that prophecy to understand what specific idea it covers. God named Jacob with the new name Israel. Jacob blessed Joseph's two sons and said let his name Israel being named upon them. But as far as the 'world' is concerned, there's only ever been but one single... nation known as Israel. So HOW... would Ephraim's seed become literally "a multitude of nations", because that has to mean ISRAELITE nations, plural?To make sure... we know that's how the Scripture is written, God included the idea of a single 'nation' also in that with, "a nation..." that Jacob would become, along with that "company of nations" idea.
Thus to God, His Israel was to become literally "a multitude of nations", and Paul by quoting Hosea to Gentile believers, that's exactly what he was pointing to, the ten tribes under Ephraim becoming literally "a multitude of nations" where they would wind up, and believing Gentiles among them would be included. That idea is also exactly... what Paul was preaching in Romans 9 when he said...
Rom 9:6-8
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8
That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
(KJV)
That's about believing Gentiles becoming spiritual children of Abraham in the Promise to Abraham which was by Faith, and they thus have become part of the "commonwealth of Israel" under Christ Jesus...
Eph 2:11-13
11 Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands;
12
That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:
13
But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ.
(KJV)
Is that "commonwealth of Israel" Paul preached about the nation state in the holy land called Israel today? Nope! It's because the majority of Jews there STILL... refuse Jesus of Nazareth as The Messiah, The Christ. But they are still beloved for the father's sakes, and God will not go back of His gifts of calling (Rom.11). They won't understand this until the 'blindness' our Heavenly Father put upon them is removed. And Paul said that's dependent upon the fullness of the Gentiles in coming to Christ Jesus.
So, let's get the story straight, okay? I'm not saying that the others who did NOT return with the Jews to Isra'el didn't end up in the countries of Europe! They probably did! However, I believe THESE are the ones who are sent back in litters and on the shoulders of the Goyim when Yeshua` calls for them after He is reigning in Isra'el, regathering His family - His mishpachah.
I think you'll find - IF you take the time to consider carefully what I've said - that we're closer to being on the same page than you think!
Well, you said some of the claims about who the ten tribes are, is questionable. And you said it was wrong for those in England to claim the throne of David.
I don't think it is wrong, and actually myself personally, I know... it is not wrong for their claiming that. Yet those on the throne in England aren't the ones claiming that. If they agree to that, they certainly are keeping it a well guarded secret. But that throne is not only in England, it's also in Denmark, Netherlands, Spain, anywhere that members of that same royal family is sitting upon a throne. And few understand how the royal families of Europe are kin to each other.
Per the Book of Jeremiah, God ordained Jeremiah as a prophet to the nations,
"to root out, to pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant." (Jer.1:5-10). Strange how many want to deny that latter part of his commission "to build, and to plant."
Jer 31:28-33
28 And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict;
so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
29 In those days they shall say no more, The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.
30 But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.
31
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
33
But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
(KJV)
Hebrews 8 repeats that prophecy in regards to The New Covenant by The Blood of Jesus Christ. Notice how only the "house of Israel" is specifically mentioned in that last verse of Jer.31:33. After Israel's split in Solomon's days, that "house of Israel" label only applied to the ten northern tribes of Israel under Ephraim, the same Ephraim that was to become "a multitude of nations" per Gen.48.
So just what was Jeremiah given commission "to build, and to plant"? For me, it's obvious what that is pointing to. It's of how the ten tribes were to be built and planted... in a new location on earth. And that planting was to be directly related to that New Covenant Jesus Christ! That's where God re-established the majority of the people of Israel, along with the throne of David, and with scattered remnants of the "house of Judah" also among them, in the Christian West. But it was to be mainly "the house of Israel" (ten tribes) whom that New Covenant would be manifest upon, as per that Jer.31:33 verse, for the majority of Judah still refuse today.