(tim_from_pa;53945)
OK all. I proved to my satisfaction that the UK is Ephraim, and by extrapolation that the US is Manasseh. Here's how I did it---- but first, a little background.Whenever a skeptic of the lost tribes debates this issue, they will come up with questioning as to why another nation or nations are not the lost tribes (if they even believe there are lost tribes to begin with). You will hear anything from Japan, or remote parts of India to an Indian tribe in the Americas. The bottom line is that the skeptic wants to derail the British-Israel belief because it sounds "racist" or whatever other reason they come up with. I keep replying until I am blue in the face that the nations they pick do
NOT fit certain descriptions and prophecies about Israel. It's like detective work. If we want to find a suspect with a trench coat that robbed a store in the city, we don't go to the beach and look for a bikini-clad girl---- it's only common sense. Likewise, if the description of Israel for example says that it has an enduring Monarchy, we don't look for a nation without one. Nevertheless, this goes over their heads like a lead balloon, while spouting off nonsense trying to make themselves sound intellectual and me dumb.
Now for the experiment: I went on a non-religious forum and told them that I was playing a "party game" where we described a person, object or whatever else and people had to guess. One of the set of clues described a country. I said that there was disagreement as to what country this was. (This is analogous to the critic that says other nations could be the lost tribes). I never said to them that these were
Bible descriptions mainly of Ephraim. Now, the bible has
SCORES of descriptions, but I gave
ONLY SEVEN albeit good ones.I had about a dozen replies. They unanimously said it was
England or the UK. One fellow said one clue was a "dead giveaway" (The part about many or a commonwealth of nations).I don't know why I did not think of this earlier. This proves that I did not twist the descriptions to fit the bible or vice versa the way the critic accuses me of doing because they were not even aware that the bible was involved. So, my answer to all this is next time there's such a know-it-all critic, maybe I'll ask them if there's a way I can hook a hose up to their mouth and channel it in my washing machine to do my laundry. Energy is getting expensive these days.
But Ephraim and Mannasah are Egyptian Gentiles by birth through their mother who was Egyptian. This is not to say you are not speaking the truth. I was seeing how to reconcile this with that..........
