Hosea 2

[Heart2Soul]

And Jerusalem above is our mother. (Gal 4)

He is our Lord and Savior....we have no mother in the kingdom of God...God is Father and He never mentions anywhere anyone being our mother.

 

[Davy]

Love your research on this. I was never much of a history buff but lately I have become very interested in biblical history.

What made me research those things is because of the prophecies written in God's Word about lost Israel. Like God said in Isaiah 42:9, new things He declares, before they come to pass, He tells us of them. So if one truly understands a prophecy in His Word, then one knows what to look for and there will be signs of it having come to pass, or getting ready to come to pass.

 

[robert derrick]

Good research but not Scriptural truth.

The ten 'lost' tribes were lost from God while yet a nation, and then destroyed by God as a nation and a people, because they were aiding Assyria against Jerusalem of Judah.

Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

There is no Scripture of those 'ten' tribes ever being a nation and people again.

At least, I don't read any Scripture speaking of the 'ten' again. Unless they are the ten horns of the beast? Probably not.

'Discussing' those ten tribes may be fascination scholarship, but it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ.

The lost sheep of the house of Israel were all Jews, as they were so name by Scripture from Babylon to the days of the Judean province.

The green olive tree of the risen God of Israel is now the true vine of Jesus Christ: all them that obey Him from the heart.

The house of Israel and of Judah are the tabernacle of David being built again from scratch: none of them being Gentiles, nor called Jews, but now are all called Christians.

Calling people 'Gentiles and Jews' are now only names used by the uncircumcised people of the earth. They are not used by Jesus Christ for His brethren.

 

[Davy]

Love your research on this. I was never much of a history buff but lately I have become very interested in biblical history.

Check this out, the Scottish Declaration of Arbroath (circa. 1320 A.D.):

"Most Holy Father, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find
that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread
renown. It journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the
Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage
peoples, but nowhere could it be subdued by any people, however barbarous. Thence
it came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to its
home in the west where it still lives today. The Britons it first drove out, the Picts it
utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes
and the English, it took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts;
and, as the histories of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all servitude
ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of
their own royal stock, the line unbroken by a single foreigner.

The high qualities and merits of these people, were they not otherwise manifest, shine
forth clearly enough from this: that the King of kings and Lord of lords, our Lord Jesus
Christ, after His Passion and Resurrection, called them, even though settled in the
uttermost parts of the earth, almost the first to His most holy faith. Nor did He wish
them to be confirmed in that faith by merely anyone but by the first of His Apostles -
by calling, though second or third in rank - the most gentle Saint Andrew, the Blessed
Peter’s brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their patron for
ever."
(Translation from The Declaration of Arbroath | National Records of Scotland)

 

[Heart2Soul]

Check this out, the Scottish Declaration of Arbroath (circa. 1320 A.D.):

"Most Holy Father, we know and from the chronicles and books of the ancients we find
that among other famous nations our own, the Scots, has been graced with widespread
renown. It journeyed from Greater Scythia by way of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the
Pillars of Hercules, and dwelt for a long course of time in Spain among the most savage
peoples, but nowhere could it be subdued by any people, however barbarous. Thence
it came, twelve hundred years after the people of Israel crossed the Red Sea, to its
home in the west where it still lives today. The Britons it first drove out, the Picts it
utterly destroyed, and, even though very often assailed by the Norwegians, the Danes
and the English, it took possession of that home with many victories and untold efforts;
and, as the histories of old time bear witness, they have held it free of all servitude
ever since. In their kingdom there have reigned one hundred and thirteen kings of
their own royal stock, the line unbroken by a single foreigner.

The high qualities and merits of these people, were they not otherwise manifest, shine
forth clearly enough from this: that the King of kings and Lord of lords, our Lord Jesus
Christ, after His Passion and Resurrection, called them, even though settled in the
uttermost parts of the earth, almost the first to His most holy faith. Nor did He wish
them to be confirmed in that faith by merely anyone but by the first of His Apostles -
by calling, though second or third in rank - the most gentle Saint Andrew, the Blessed
Peter’s brother, and desired him to keep them under his protection as their patron for
ever."
(Translation from The Declaration of Arbroath | National Records of Scotland)

Wow it sounds like they were bearing witness with scripture concerning Israel's restoration.

 

[Davy]

Wow it sounds like they were bearing witness with scripture concerning Israel's restoration.

Or about Israel's protection by God scattering them into the "wilderness" where He would speak comfortably to her (Hosea 2:14-18).

It's also important to realize per Scripture, that that is about only the ten scattered tribes of Israel in the West, and some believing remnants of Judah scattered among them also. It is not the Biblical restoration of Israel, because the restoration event is still future, and means all of God's promises to Israel of inheritance back to the holy lands God promised their fathers. We're given a picture of that future restoration in Ezekiel 48.