DemographicsMain articles: Demographics of Israel and Languages of IsraelAccording to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, as of May 2006, of Israel's 7 million people, 77% were Jews of any background, 18.5% non-Jewish Arabs, and 4.3% "others".[1] Among Jews, 68% were Sabras (Israeli-born), mostly second- or third-generation Israelis, and the rest are olim (Jewish immigrants to Israel) — 22% from Europe and the Americas, and 10% from Asia and Africa, including the Arab countries. [2] Nearly half of all Israeli Jews are descended from Jews who immigrated from Europe, while around the same number are descended from Jews who immigrated from Arab countries, Iran, Turkey and Central Asia. Over two hundred thousand are, or are descended from, Ethiopian and Indian Jews.[3]Israel has two official languages; Hebrew and Arabic. Hebrew is the major and primary language of the state and is spoken by the majority of the population. Arabic is spoken by the Arab minority and by some members of the Mizrahi Jewish community. English is studied in school and is spoken by the majority of the population as a second language. Other languages spoken in Israel include Russian, Yiddish, Ladino, Amharic, Romanian, Polish and French. American and European popular television shows are commonly presented. Newspapers can be found in all languages listed above as well as others, such as Persian.In recent decades, considerable numbers of Israelis, estimated broadly from 760,000 to twice that figure, have moved abroad.[4] Reasons for emigration vary, but generally relate to a combination of economic and political concerns. Los Angeles is home to the largest community of Israelis out of Israel.[1][2] They make a considerable presence in Encino, an upper income neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, and elsewhere in the valley and L.A.'s Westside.See also: Mizrahim, Arab Jews, Palestinian Jew, Arab citizens of Israel, Negev Bedouins, and DruzeVickie says: I lived and married into an immigrant family documented from out of Russia who came to Encino, California. These tribes are kept up with by documentation by the Israel CBS just as the encyclopedia has it documented are kept up with through the Central Bureau of Statistics.I wanted to share this with some who are not able to grasp the measures that are taken by Israel to keep up with these tribes.
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Shalom,In the USA my family tree takes us back to Thomas Jefferson and Benedict Arnold (on my mother's side of the family) which also makes me related to Bill Clinton and the Bushes. In England that takes us back to being related to Alfred the Great and then into the rest of the European royalty. As you continue through the family tree you find that I am of the tribe of Levi on my father's side of the family while of the tribe of Judah on my mother's side. Although I have a long history in the USA on my mother's side of the famil I am a first generation American on my father's side. Before my parents died they gave me the entire tree for both sides of the family which takes our roots all the way back to Adam and Eve, minus some branches that were split off to what end they were not concerned with.Quite honestly, I find it amazing that most Americans don't care that much about where they came from. I understand how much work it can be and how frustrating it can be to trace but it is your history? When I was a child my Granf Father, on my mother's side of the family found some gaps in his family tree and he spent about 20 years trying to compile all the data. If was fascinating to see what new name or names he had added to the tree every time we visited. It was really exciting when he received a hand signed letter from Queen Elizabeth to confirm the history tie with Alfred the Great. That was the last major link that he needed confirmation of. It had long been told through the family but no one had ever had the documentation to make the connection. About a month ago I was finally able to close a part of my father's family history. The German gov't had copyrights on my family crest. Just last month they sent me a copy of the crest with a bit more family history information. Because a town was named after the family and because of things that had happened there in WWII and the ties to European royaly they had kept some facts protected. Now they had released the details to me.Knowing the "Who" of your family tree opens up many other questions about how they lived and how one got to be living where one is. For my Grand Father it opened the opportunity for him to visit the Queen before he died and to get a tour of the Palace. For about the last 10-15 years of his life it seemed like he was always speaking of it! For my entire life it has always made the study of history come to life in a more personal manner. If not for your self find out your family history for your kids or their kids! You may be surprised to learn who you are related to!
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I find it very interesting, and you just proven with genealogy that the Lord did indeed provide a place for His people Israel, and that David will never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel. The pieces fit together ever so well that for this to be coincidence is beyond the possibility. You are more than related to the Bushes and Clintons and so forth---- you are somehow related to every US President, and also if to European Royalty, then of the tribe of Judah as you already mentioned, the house of David and can trace back to Adam and Eve.Not all people are so fortunate as you to have these blessings, but I always encourage people to do their lineages because if they can find that they are related to royalty (which most people may be, but just not thru the father's lineage), then they have at least one line that goes back to Adam and Eve.I did not find a royal link yet, but I know I have one famous ancestor, my fourth great grandfather: James Lick. Yes, he's was just as eccentric as the family name's always been (The real name is Lük but was Anglicized to Lick). What is interesting is that genealogists (depending on who you talk with) seems to show coat of arms for my family name that look like traits of Judah or Levi as well. Leaders and fighters tend to be Judaic (sometimes Simeon) and teachers Levitic. It's sort of in their genes.
Shalom,Well youmay also know that the Jews were a nomadic people before YHVH took hold of them, yes? Well my parents used to joke that I had inherited the nomadic genes in the family as I moved 19 times in the first 9 years I was married and lived in three different coutries. Currently I have been in this house longer than any place I have ever lived anywhere else but am preparing to sell this place and move again. In the 23 years we have been here I have never felt at home. Do you want to buy a house in the States?
Quite interesting what you wrote. The promise from God to the Levites and the house of Judah, David's house. That will never depart. Enjoy. This will come forth when the kingdom is set up. Jerm. 33:17 For thus saith the LORD; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel; 18 Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually. 19 And the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, 20 Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; 21 Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministerVickieShalom,Well youmay also know that the Jews were a nomadic people before YHVH took hold of them, yes? Well my parents used to joke that I had inherited the nomadic genes in the family as I moved 19 times in the first 9 years I was married and lived in three different coutries. Currently I have been in this house longer than any place I have ever lived anywhere else but am preparing to sell this place and move again. In the 23 years we have been here I have never felt at home. Want to buy a house in the States?
Oh the flashbacks to my youth. My father would quote that passage at every meal. Thanks dad!
Well, we are going into some rough times here that is bringing Our Lord back. HE will soon be setting up hispriesthood along with the Saints. Are you aware that God is removing those that do not acknowledge him, of the 12 tribes as the armies surround Jerusalem? To take them and covert them to be pure of heart and speak no lies they will be virgin coming with him at his return? This is spoken about in different places of the bible. it is very interesting. A great flood is coming over to the Jerusalem area right before the attack which is going to happen and God speaks of removing the 12 tribes. Isa 43. VickieOh the flashbacks to my youth. My father would quote that passage at every meal. Thanks dad!
Shalom Vicki,I think you are ready to start another thread and to start a different discussion ?? ? ??
Maybe, but it could be spoken about here. God removes these 12 tribes right before the Son of Perdition enters into the city and into the temple. The bible speaks about it. They have not know Jesus, and areunder the Mosaic Law. The bible is full of description in answers to what is written in Revelations. we are told much through the prophets. The only source for complete truth of what God is saying.
Shalom Vickie,I must step forth and correct something you have written about the Priesthood. When Y'SHUA died YHVH set up The Royal Priesthood to continue until the end of time in Y'SHUA as the High Priest offering Praise, Worship and Sacrifice unto YHVH. Those who believe in Y'SHUA as The CHRIST are the Priesthood of Believers here, upon the earth serving Him as The High Priest until His return to catch-up the Believers.
Hello,"According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics" .... well, if they are called Israel then they must be trusted, right? Since when is "Israel", "Judah" and "Jew" synonymous words?If you accept the Jewish faith (Judaism) then you become a Jew. Does that mean you are part of Israel, YHVH´s People?. If you accept Judaism means you donnot accept Christ as the Messiah right?According to many, if you are a Judean, then you are a Jew. That makes you part of Israel YHVH´s people? No.By the way, has anyone read the Balfour Declaration of 1917? Do you know what Zionism is? Do you know what Khazars are? Well I guess not. So lets go back to Scrypture.Esther 817And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.They became Jews for the fear of the Jews. They became Jews .... Modern Jewry includes a further mixing with Mongol-Turkish people (Khazar kingdom of Rusia) who adopted Judaism during the 8th and 9th centuries A.D. Are they also part of Israel?But wait, in the Scripture we can read:John 831Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 3 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? So those Jews must not be part of Israel because they did not know Israel was in bondage in Egypt according to Deuteronomy 56I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."Josephus records that the portion of the nation of Judah carried into Babylonian captivity by King Nabuchadnezzar was a millon and a half people. Seventy years later, when Judah was allowed to return to their homeland, although still in subjection to Persian rule, approximately forty-two thousand (Neh. 7:66) went back into Jerusalem, rebuilt the temple and set up the nation, later to be called the nation of the Jews. While in Babylon, many of the forty-two thousand intermarried with Babylonians, adopted the Babyloniain financial, political and ecclesiastical systems.Josephus further report that many non-Israelites joined themselves to the returning Judahites. Later, Christ identified these people, also called Jews, as not of Galilee (John 7:1-13) not of Abraham or of God, (John 8:39-47) and not of His sheep, (John 10:26-30). It was this mixed remnant of Judah, upon returning from the Babylon captivity in the time of Ezra and Nehemiah, that became known as the nation of the Jews; a name not applied to Judah prior to the Babylonian captivity. Included in this nation were the Edomites, who had ocuppied Jerusalem during the captivity period. King Herod the Great was an example of this, as he was of Indumean (Edomite) origen and thus not an Israelite. King Herod filled the ranks of the Sadducees with his own kind. This explains why the Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection and said there was neither angel, nor spirit, (Acts 23:8).By the time of Christ, continued mixing with Amorites, Philistines, Canaanites, Babylonians and Hittites resulted in a racially mixed nation. From the Hittite infusion came the so-called "Jewish nose"..."(Quotes from the book: "Abrahamic Covenant")Now lets read what the Scripture says:Ezra 91Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. 2For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.Does that make us all Jews?. No. Does it make us all from Israel? No.All the sons of Jacob were Israelites and also Hebrews; they headed the twelve tribes of Israel, and their descendants are Israelites. Only a snail "residue" of the Kingdom of Judah was called "Jews," after the Babylonian captivity, about 1200 years after the birth of Judah, the patriarch of the tribe of Judah (Jeremiah 24:8 and Jeremiah 52:28-30). 47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and saith of him, Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!A "TRUE" Israelite. 1I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. And also, the word "Jew" sometimes was mistranslated in Scripture from the word "Ioudais" and "Ioudaism". So please pay attention to the WORD:28For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.The word Jew means of the Jewish nation and not of Israel.20And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; And also, the word "Jew" sometimes was mistranslated in Scripture from the word "Ioudais" and "Ioudaism". Revelation 29I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.Revelation 39Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.jews = Ἰουδαῖος, Jewish, belonging to the Jewish nation, Jewish as respects to birth, origin, religionIoudaios ee-oo-dah'-yos from 2448 (in the sense of 2455 as a country); Judaean, i.e. belonging to Jehudah:--Jew(-ess), of JudaeaSo the conclusion is:1 Timothy 13As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine, 4Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do. Titus 39But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.Galatians 326For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus. 27For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. 28There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus. 29And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.
Shalom,Well hope to answer your only real question that is pertainent to the overall discussion of...
Pretty much in the modern era they became universally applied one to another. After the KJV Bible was written. After the Balfour Declaration when in 1948 after the British Mandate over Palestine ended and the new Jewish nation of Israel was formed. The Word "Jew" today can be someone's nationality, their ethnicity, their faith or a combination of these.An example would be me! I am a Jew by faith and ethnicity but not by origin of birth (nationality) and yet if you did a DNA test on me you would call me a Jew. Then to complicate matters through Y'SHUA you could be a Jew or in other words one of YHVH's children.Gal 4:4. but when the fullness of time came, God sent forth His Son, Who was born of a woman, Who was under Torah, 5. so that He would redeem those under legalism, so that we could take the adoption. 6. And because you are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying “Abba, Father.” 7. So that you are no longer a servant but a son: and if a son, then an heir through God. (Power New Testament)The only thing that matters is if you accept the one eternal sacrifice that YHVH said HE would (through Abrahm) provide and that you accept that YHVH is. ALL ELSE IS SEMANTICS!
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