THE ASSYRIAN CAPTIVITY: THE LOST TEN TRIBES
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. The Assyrian Captivity
a) Of all the Times of Israel, the seventh — EXILE AND SCATTERING — is probably the saddest. We have seen the kingdom divided, and that was sad. But worse still, we now see the beginning of the captivities — as the larger kingdom (Israel) falls to Assyria and its people are taken away to foreign lands.
2. The Lost Ten Tribes
a) The tribes of the northern kingdom are often spoken of as "the ten lost tribes".
b) It is claimed (and certain doctrines are based upon this claim) that no remnant of these tribes ever returned to or remained in the promised land.
c) However, this is not so. For example, Anna the prophetess was of the tribe of Asher (Luke 2:36).
d) Not only would some members of the ten tribes have made their way to Judah before, during, and after the Assyrian attack, but some would have been already living among the people of Judah and Benjamin.
e) In the time of Josiah, when Passover observance was restored, it was kept with "the priests and Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem" (2 Chronicles 35:17-19).
The End ...
1. The Assyrian Captivity a) Of all the Times of Israel, the seventh — EXILE AND SCATTERING — is probably the saddest. We have seen the kingdom divided, and that was sad. But worse still, we now see the beginning of the captivities — as the larger kingdom (Israel) falls to Assyria and its people are taken away to foreign lands.
2. The Lost Ten Tribes
a) The tribes of the northern kingdom are often spoken of as "the ten lost tribes".
b) It is claimed (and certain doctrines are based upon this claim) that no remnant of these tribes ever returned to or remained in the promised land.
c) However, this is not so. For example, Anna the prophetess was of the tribe of Asher (Luke 2:36).
d) Not only would some members of the ten tribes have made their way to Judah before, during, and after the Assyrian attack, but some would have been already living among the people of Judah and Benjamin.
e) In the time of Josiah, when Passover observance was restored, it was kept with "the priests and Levites, all Judah and Israel who were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem" (2 Chronicles 35:17-19).
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