Well, that helps me better understand why you believe as you do. You have a view of what is prophesied, and therefore history is viewed from that perspective. That's not how I do exegesis, but that's okay. I'm not right and everyone else wrong. I only understand as God gives me to understand. I do hope you recognize that you are also filling in details of history where the Bible is silent. The Bible and all other texts are silent about the 10 tribes after about 720 BC. Some hold to traditions about them, but there's no concrete evidence.
The Mormons take your view farther and believe the future restoration will be on the American continent. Without clear evidence that it is one way or another, I will leave it to God how He sees fit to fulfill His prophecies. I'm pretty sure it won't be the Mormon way, however
What you're saying then, is that I'm only making assumptions of how the prophecies about the ten tribed "house of Israel" have been, or are being fulfilled.
Reality is that no one... can understand ANY prophecy fulfillment without historical facts to reveal it. And I don't just mean 'secular' history when I say historical fact. There's more to historical fact than just what secular writers put in their text books. There's many existing archaeological artifacts that exist which are not covered by secular historians.
For the believing Christian, God's Holy Writ also contains historical facts, including facts about the ten tribes after their scattering...
James 1:1
1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
(KJV)
Some so-called 'secular history' does support prophecy in God's Word and cannot simply be placed on the back burner. The secular historians of the past like Herodotus, Strabo, et all, wrote about the peoples who migrated into Asia Minor and Europe from the east, of which Esdras II in the Apocrypha relates to one such history link about the migrations of the ten tribes.
Further, professor of Oriental languages and archeaologist Leroy Waterman of the University of Michagan, in
The Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire translated the names which the Assyrians used for the captive ten tribe Israelites in the Assyrian Tablets, and it turned out to be the name Cimmerian. On the Jehu Steel is written the name Khumri for what the Assyrians called Omri, one of the kings over the ten tribes. Secular anthropology covers a whole lot of history about the migrations of the Cimmerian peoples into Asia Minor and Europe from the east. Yet they admit they cannot figure out who such a great number of peoples like the Cimmerians were, or originated from originally in the east.
Thus there are 'hints' recorded even in secular history that agrees with God's Word on the matter. The Book of Hosea was written primarily about His scattering of the ten tribed house of Israel, but it also covers their return.
Amos 9:8-9
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
9 For, lo, I will command, and
I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
(KJV)
After Solomon's days, the "house of Israel" is put only for the ten tribes which God removed by the kings of Assyria. This is why in final, in Ezekiel 37 He tells Ezekiel to take two sticks and write Judah on one, and the other for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim. Then He tells Ezekiel to put the two sticks together, and let the people see him do it. Then He tells Ezekiel to explain to the people about His future joining of both sticks back together again, and gives specific time markers with it related to Christ's second coming and future.
But the Mormons, they take the majority of their teachings from Joseph Smith and the Persian golden tablets he supposedly found. A closer look at their belief system parallels a lot of things which Islam believes. The reason they had to move out west was because of how the Christian Church in the east saw them as a cult, since they held to many un-Biblical ideas.
So I have... noticed that when this subject of the ten tribes is brought up at times, some will try to implant the Mormonism ideas with it, which is only a vain attempt to create a 'guilt by association' false argument, which is what you're trying to do.
If you want to do that, then why not bring up the theory that the ten tribes are really the tribes of the American Indians? Some see that just as viable, I do not. The reason why some draw that link is because of a connection with American Indian languages and customs to ancient Canaanite-Hebrew. Problem is, many forget that ancient Canaanite-Hebrew was the early language of Canaan and the Canaanites. They also forget that the result of God confusing the one language at the tower of Babel, was that He also scattered the peoples to the FOUR CORNERS of the earth, which is where the American Indians migrated to the Americas from, crossing the Bering Straits.
IF... you were able to follow the evidence of God's Promises to Abraham involving His Birthright which first was to Abraham, then to Isaac, then to Jacob, then to Joseph, and then to Joseph's two sons Ephraim and Manasseh, where it ended upon per 1 Chron.5, then you would be able to understand what happened to the ten tribes of Israel, where they went, and who they are today. Obviously you've yet to understand that, which is one of the requirements. So I don't see wasting my time here with those who have made up their mind already without truly seeking out the Biblical and historical evidence.
