Ten Lost Tribes: Malachi 4, Zechariah 2, 6, 10

From: yair davidi (britam@netvision.net.il)
To:    heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org
Subject: Malachi 4, Zechariah 2, 6, 10 on the Ten Lost Tribes

    ORTHODOX JEWISH commentary on the Ten Lost Tribes
              prophesied in Malachi 4, Zechariah 2, 6, 10

          Researched by Yair Davidy, founder of BRIT-AM

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#1) Do Orthodox Jews believe in Replacement theology? NO
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"BRIT-AM ISRAEL" BELIEVES:

* The Hebrew Bible is the message of God.

* Out of the original 12 Tribes of Israel Ten were lost. Two
remained. The present-day Jews are descended mainly from the two
remaining Tribes of Judah and Benjamin.

* The Khazars were a Kingdom in southern Russia many of whose
leaders converted to Judaism. The Khazars were descended from the
Lost Ten Tribes. The Khazars were blood-relatives of the Picts who
went to Scotland, and of the Anglo-Saxons, and of peoples in
Scandinavia.

* In addition to the Khazars, many other converts to Judaism
through the ages were descended from assimilated Jews or from members
of the Lost Ten Tribes.

* Most of the Lost Ten Tribes migrated to Northwest and Western
Europe and their descendants are now in those areas or in North
America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.

* We do not claim that all residents of the said nations are
descended from Israel. We do however affirm that most descendants of
the Lost Ten Tribes are residents of those nations. On the whole
they are unaware of their Israelite Identity. Even so in the course
of history the Israelite origins of peoples in those areas have
influenced national developments and national characteristics.

* The Tribe of Joseph was divided into two other Tribes: Ephraim
and Menasseh. People from ALL of the Israelite Tribes congregated in
North America but in general the U.S.A. is dominated by Menasseh.
Britain has characteristics of Ephraim.

* Reuben was important in France, Issachar in Switzerland, Benjamin
in Belgium, Zebulon in Holland, Dan in Denmark, Naphtali in Norway,
Gad in Sweden, the country of Finland was influenced by the Tribes of
Simeon, Issachar, and Gad; Simeon, Dan, and Ephraim were important in
Ireland.

* There is a need for the present-day "Jews" of Judah and the Lost
Ten Tribes to recognize each other, and to work towards
re-unification and reconciliation.

* Proof exists confirming "Brit-Am Israel" Identity beliefs. Some
of the evidence has been presented in works by Yair Davidy such as
"The Tribes" (1993), "Ephraim" (1995), and "Lost Israelite Identity"
(1996), as well as in articles in our journal "Tribesman". Much
additional evidence is available and needs to be uncovered and
published. Our sources include the Bible, Talmud, Midrashim,
Commentators, Classical Greek and Roman historians, Chroniclers,
Legends, Linguistics, Archaeology, and where pertinent racial and
other scientific studies.

* Even though much of the evidence has been revealed by ourselves it
is not ours alone. Our proofs have never been properly refuted. The
basic claims we have made are irrefutable. If one cannot deny our
claims and there is nobody else who can it follows that one should
accept them. This means that the identity of the Lost Ten Tribes of
Israel with western peoples should be acknowledged. Once this
acknowledgment is forthcoming it is possible to discuss whatever
practical conclusions need to be made.

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Malachi-4

MAL 4:1] FOR, BEHOLD, THE DAY COMETH, THAT SHALL BURN AS AN OVEN; AND
ALL THE PROUD, YEA, AND ALL THAT DO WICKEDLY, SHALL BE STUBBLE: AND
THE DAY THAT COMETH SHALL BURN THEM UP, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, THAT
IT SHALL LEAVE THEM NEITHER ROOT NOR BRANCH.

MAL 4:2] BUT UNTO YOU THAT FEAR MY NAME SHALL THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
ARISE WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS; AND YE SHALL GO FORTH, AND GROW UP AS
CALVES OF THE STALL.

MAL 4:3] AND YE SHALL TREAD DOWN THE WICKED; FOR THEY SHALL BE ASHES
UNDER THE SOLES OF YOUR FEET IN THE DAY THAT I SHALL DO THIS, SAITH
THE LORD OF HOSTS.

MAL 4:4] REMEMBER YE THE LAW OF MOSES MY SERVANT, WHICH I COMMANDED
UNTO HIM IN HOREB FOR ALL ISRAEL, WITH THE STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS.

The Lost Ten Tribes will have to return and accept anew the Law of
Moses and Israel. This is also mentioned in Jerusalem Talmud and
Zohar.

MAL 4:5] BEHOLD, I WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH THE PROPHET BEFORE THE COMING
OF THE GREAT AND DREADFUL DAY OF THE LORD:

MAL 4:6] AND HE SHALL TURN THE HEART OF THE FATHERS TO THE CHILDREN,
AND THE HEART OF THE CHILDREN TO THEIR FATHERS, LEST I COME AND SMITE
THE EARTH WITH A CURSE.

Darrel Conder (of Commonwealth Publishing) once suggested that this
refers to the Lost Ten Tribes returning and identifying their fathers
from the Tribes of Israel.

Zechariah 2

ZECH 2:1] I LIFTED UP MINE EYES AGAIN, AND LOOKED, AND BEHOLD A MAN WITH A
MEASURING LINE IN HIS HAND.

ZECH 2:2] THEN SAID I, WHITHER GOEST THOU? AND HE SAID UNTO ME, TO MEASURE
JERUSALEM, TO SEE WHAT IS THE BREADTH THEREOF, AND WHAT IS THE LENGTH
THEREOF.

ZECH 2:3] AND, BEHOLD, THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME WENT FORTH, AND
ANOTHER ANGEL WENT OUT TO MEET HIM,

ZECH 2:4] AND SAID UNTO HIM, RUN, SPEAK TO THIS YOUNG MAN, SAYING,
JERUSALEM SHALL BE INHABITED AS TOWNS WITHOUT WALLS FOR THE MULTITUDE OF
MEN AND CATTLE THEREIN:

"JERUSALEM SHALL BE INHABITED AS TOWNS WITHOUT WALLS":

The traditional Commentary "Meam Loaz" says on this verse: "When they were
allowed to return from Babylon the Ten Tribes did not return only some of
Judah and Benjamin and a minority of them. Most remained in their places of
exile. In the future however all the tribes that were exiled to the north,
and are still hidden in the north, will return." [Mean Loaz (R"M Ditho)].

ZECH 2:5] FOR I, SAITH THE LORD, WILL BE UNTO HER A WALL OF FIRE ROUND
ABOUT, AND WILL BE THE GLORY IN THE MIDST OF HER.

ZECH 2:6] HO, HO, COME FORTH, AND FLEE FROM THE LAND OF THE NORTH, SAITH
THE LORD: FOR I HAVE SPREAD YOU ABROAD AS THE FOUR WINDS OF THE HEAVEN,
SAITH THE LORD.

ZECH 2:7] DELIVER THYSELF, O ZION, THAT DWELLEST WITH THE DAUGHTER OF
BABYLON.

ZECH 2:8] FOR THUS SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS; AFTER THE GLORY HATH HE SENT ME
UNTO THE NATIONS WHICH SPOILED YOU: FOR HE THAT TOUCHETH YOU TOUCHETH THE
APPLE OF HIS EYE.

This means that anybody who persecutes the Jews is considered by God as if
they attempted to harm the very eye of God Himself!

ZECH 2:9] FOR, BEHOLD, I WILL SHAKE MINE HAND UPON THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE
A SPOIL TO THEIR SERVANTS: AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH
SENT ME.

Retribution is coming.

ZECH 2:10] SING AND REJOICE, O DAUGHTER OF ZION: FOR, LO, I COME, AND I
WILL DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEE, SAITH THE LORD.

ZECH 2:11] AND MANY NATIONS SHALL BE JOINED TO THE LORD IN THAT DAY, AND
SHALL BE MY PEOPLE: AND I WILL DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEE, AND THOU SHALT
KNOW THAT THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH SENT ME UNTO THEE.

ZECH 2:12] AND THE LORD SHALL INHERIT JUDAH HIS PORTION IN THE HOLY LAND,
AND SHALL CHOOSE JERUSALEM AGAIN.

Note: " JUDAH HIS PORTION IN THE HOLY LAND" - the return of the Jews to the
Holy Land is the will of God. Anybody who tries to undermine or weaken this
return will have to give an account for it before the Almighty!

ZECH 2:13] BE SILENT, O ALL FLESH, BEFORE THE LORD: FOR HE IS RAISED UP OUT
OF HIS HOLY HABITATION.

Zechariah-6

ZECH 6:1] AND I TURNED, AND LIFTED UP MINE EYES, AND LOOKED, AND,
BEHOLD, THERE CAME FOUR CHARIOTS OUT FROM BETWEEN TWO MOUNTAINS; AND
THE MOUNTAINS WERE MOUNTAINS OF BRASS.

ZECH 6:2] IN THE FIRST CHARIOT WERE RED HORSES; AND IN THE SECOND
CHARIOT BLACK HORSES;

ZECH 6:3] AND IN THE THIRD CHARIOT WHITE HORSES; AND IN THE FOURTH
CHARIOT GRISLED AND BAY HORSES.

ZECH 6:4] THEN I ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO THE ANGEL THAT TALKED WITH ME,
WHAT ARE THESE, MY LORD?

ZECH 6:5] AND THE ANGEL ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO ME, THESE ARE THE FOUR
SPIRITS OF THE HEAVENS, WHICH GO FORTH FROM STANDING BEFORE THE LORD
OF ALL THE EARTH.

ZECH 6:6] THE BLACK HORSES WHICH ARE THEREIN GO FORTH INTO THE NORTH
COUNTRY; AND THE WHITE GO FORTH AFTER THEM; AND THE GRISLED GO FORTH
TOWARD THE SOUTH COUNTRY.

ZECH 6:7] AND THE BAY WENT FORTH, AND SOUGHT TO GO THAT THEY MIGHT
WALK TO AND FRO THROUGH THE EARTH: AND HE SAID, GET YOU HENCE, WALK TO
AND FRO THROUGH THE EARTH. SO THEY WALKED TO AND FRO THROUGH THE
EARTH.

ZECH 6:8] THEN CRIED HE UPON ME, AND SPAKE UNTO ME, SAYING, BEHOLD,
THESE THAT GO TOWARD THE NORTH COUNTRY HAVE QUIETED MY SPIRIT IN THE
NORTH COUNTRY.

ZECH 6:9] AND THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME UNTO ME, SAYING,

ZECH 6:10] TAKE OF THEM OF THE CAPTIVITY, EVEN OF HELDAI, OF TOBIJAH,
AND OF JEDAIAH, WHICH ARE COME FROM BABYLON, AND COME THOU THE SAME
DAY, AND GO INTO THE HOUSE OF JOSIAH THE SON OF ZEPHANIAH;


ZECH 6:11] THEN TAKE SILVER AND GOLD, AND MAKE CROWNS, AND SET THEM
UPON THE HEAD OF JOSHUA THE SON OF JOSEDECH, THE HIGH PRIEST;

ZECH 6:12] AND SPEAK UNTO HIM, SAYING, THUS SPEAKETH THE LORD OF
HOSTS, SAYING, BEHOLD THE MAN WHOSE NAME IS THE BRANCH; AND HE SHALL
GROW UP OUT OF HIS PLACE, AND HE SHALL BUILD THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD:

ZECH 6:13] EVEN HE SHALL BUILD THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD; AND HE SHALL
BEAR THE GLORY, AND SHALL SIT AND RULE UPON HIS THRONE; AND HE SHALL
BE A PRIEST UPON HIS THRONE: AND THE COUNSEL OF PEACE SHALL BE BETWEEN
THEM BOTH.

ZECH 6:14] AND THE CROWNS SHALL BE TO HELEM, AND TO TOBIJAH, AND TO
JEDAIAH, AND TO HEN THE SON OF ZEPHANIAH, FOR A MEMORIAL IN THE TEMPLE
OF THE LORD.

ZECH 6:15] AND THEY THAT ARE FAR OFF SHALL COME AND BUILD IN THE
TEMPLE OF THE LORD, AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH SENT
ME UNTO YOU. AND THIS SHALL COME TO PASS, IF YE WILL DILIGENTLY OBEY
THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD.

The northern ten tribes of Israel were exiled by the Assyrians around
730-720 BCE. Later in ca. 580 BCE the First Temple was destroyed and
the Jews of the southern kingdom of Judah were also exiled by the
Babylonians. The Persians conquered the Babylonians and gave the Jews
of Judah permission to return and rebuild the temple. About 40,000
Jews did return and did rebuild the Temple. Later other Jews joined
them though most remained in their places of exile. None of the Ten
Tribes had ever returned. Zechariah was amongst those who returned at
first from Babylonian. His book speaks of events connected with the
early period of rebuilding BUT here and there it diverges and speaks
of the future. OR it uses contemporary events as symbolic of the
future.

Abarbanel (1437-1509) said that the Jewish exiles in Babylon did not
show sufficient respect for the Second Temple for seven reasons: 1.
They knew that the Presence of God would be less apparent there than
it formerly had been. 2. They were not sure whether the re-settlement
in the land of Judah would last. 3. "There was not a complete
ingathering of the exiles there. Not of the Ten Tribes who had been
exiled and did not return and neither of the exiled of Judah who had
gone off and been scattered to Egypt, Amon, Moab, Greece, France,
Spain, and the other lands of the west. 4. The land had deteriorated.
5. The descendants of Judah and Israel were everywhere held in
contempt. 6. The non-Israelite Cutheans [i.e. "Samaritans"] controlled
much of the Land. 7. There was no king over them of the House of
David. Zerubabel indeed was descended from David and he had been given
authority over then BUT they knew he would have to shortly return to
Babylon.

Malbim (1809-1879): "AND THEY THAT ARE FAR OFF SHALL COME" [ZECHARIAH
6:15]. ..these are those of Israel who are now far away and did not
return at the time of the Second Temple.They will be aroused and will
go up in one mass AND BUILD IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD. Then YE SHALL
KNOW THAT THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH SENT ME UNTO YOU. This will happen
when the goals that God sent me to prophesy about will be fulfilled.
This however is dependent upon your actions , IF YE WILL DILIGENTLY
OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD YOUR GOD. Then the goals will be realized
immediately [if you better your deeds] and those who are far away
willcome back and the outcasts of Israel will be ingathered. They will
rebuild the Temple of God and the glory of the past will return.

Note: "outcasts of Israel" (cf. Isaiah 11;12) are explained to be the
Lost Ten Tribes as distinct from the scattered of Judah who will also
be ingathered. The Malbim himself frequently emphasizes the importance
of the Los Ten Tribes s in the future redemption.

Settlement in the Land requires KEEPING THE LAW.

The Lost Ten Tribes will return to keep the Law.

Zechariah-10

ZECH 10:1] ASK YE OF THE LORD RAIN IN THE TIME OF THE LATTER RAIN; SO
THE LORD SHALL MAKE BRIGHT CLOUDS, AND GIVE THEM SHOWERS OF RAIN, TO
EVERY ONE GRASS IN THE FIELD.

ZECH 10:2] FOR THE IDOLS HAVE SPOKEN VANITY, AND THE DIVINERS HAVE
SEEN A LIE, AND HAVE TOLD FALSE DREAMS; THEY COMFORT IN VAIN:
THEREFORE THEY WENT THEIR WAY AS A FLOCK, THEY WERE TROUBLED, BECAUSE
THERE WAS NO SHEPHERD.

ZECH 10:3] MINE ANGER WAS KINDLED AGAINST THE SHEPHERDS, AND I
PUNISHED THE GOATS: FOR THE LORD OF HOSTS HATH VISITED HIS FLOCK THE
HOUSE OF JUDAH, AND HATH MADE THEM AS HIS GOODLY HORSE IN THE BATTLE.

ZECH 10:4] OUT OF HIM CAME FORTH THE CORNER, OUT OF HIM THE NAIL, OUT
OF HIM THE BATTLE BOW, OUT OF HIM EVERY OPPRESSOR TOGETHER.

ZECH 10:5] AND THEY SHALL BE AS MIGHTY MEN, WHICH TREAD DOWN THEIR
ENEMIES IN THE MIRE OF THE STREETS IN THE BATTLE: AND THEY SHALL
FIGHT, BECAUSE THE LORD IS WITH THEM, AND THE RIDERS ON HORSES SHALL
BE CONFOUNDED.

ZECH 10:6] AND I WILL STRENGTHEN THE HOUSE OF JUDAH, AND I WILL SAVE
THE HOUSE OF JOSEPH, AND I WILL BRING THEM AGAIN TO PLACE THEM; FOR I
HAVE MERCY UPON THEM: AND THEY SHALL BE AS THOUGH I HAD NOT CAST THEM
OFF: FOR I AM THE LORD THEIR GOD, AND WILL HEAR THEM.


This is the re-union of the Lost Ten Tribes with Judah.

ZECH 10:7] AND THEY OF EPHRAIM SHALL BE LIKE A MIGHTY MAN, AND THEIR
HEART SHALL REJOICE AS THROUGH WINE: YEA, THEIR CHILDREN SHALL SEE IT,
AND BE GLAD; THEIR HEART SHALL REJOICE IN THE LORD.

ZECH 10:8] I WILL HISS FOR THEM, AND GATHER THEM; FOR I HAVE REDEEMED
THEM: AND THEY SHALL INCREASE AS THEY HAVE INCREASED.

ZECH 10:9] AND I WILL SOW THEM AMONG THE PEOPLE: AND THEY SHALL
REMEMBER ME IN FAR COUNTRIES; AND THEY SHALL LIVE WITH THEIR CHILDREN,
AND TURN AGAIN.

ZECH 10:10] I WILL BRING THEM AGAIN ALSO OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, AND
GATHER THEM OUT OF ASSYRIA; AND I WILL BRING THEM INTO THE LAND OF
GILEAD AND LEBANON; AND PLACE SHALL NOT BE FOUND FOR THEM.


Egypt and Assyria could apply to areas in Europe.
Gilead means Syria and Lebanon means Lebanon. These areas will be
re-populated by the Lost Ten Tribes.

ZECH 10:11] AND HE SHALL PASS THROUGH THE SEA WITH AFFLICTION, AND
SHALL SMITE THE WAVES IN THE SEA, AND ALL THE DEEPS OF THE RIVER SHALL
DRY UP: AND THE PRIDE OF ASSYRIA SHALL BE BROUGHT DOWN, AND THE
SCEPTRE OF EGYPT SHALL DEPART AWAY.

Extract from the book "Ephraim," chapter six.

* Jerome on Zechariah 10;11:"And he shall pass through the sea..." :
"The Hebrews say that the Assyrians and Chaldeans took the Jews into
captivity not only to Persia and Media but also to the Bosporus and
the north; and at the end of days God in his mercy will call them back
from there:"

By "Jews" taken into captivity by the Assyrians Jerome is actually
referring to Israelites from the northern Ten Tribes even though
strictly-speaking these were not "Jews" which appellation refers to
Judaeans from the southern kingdom dominated by Judah.
An Israeli scholar Chaim Bar Deroma (1958) wrote a very
well-researched work concerning the real borders of the Promised
land. He brings evidence that the ancient Israelites once controlled
much of the Middle East. He also incidentally discusses many
geographical points and difficulties in Jewish sources. In his
opinion4 the DAPHNE referred to in the Midrash as a place to which
the Lost Ten Tribes were taken or went is the port of Dephenus Portas
(i.e. "Port of Dephen") also known as DEFEN and as DAPHNE. "Defen"
stood on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus straits opposite European
Byzantium, i.e.Istanbul in present-day Turkey. The Bosporus Straits
were spoken of by Jerome who translated the Bible into Latin and
consulted with Jewish sages. They reported to Jerome the tradition
that Israelites exiled by the Assyrians had reached the Bosporus
Straits and passed over them to the north into Europe*a.

At all events within fifty years of the north Israelites' exile the
Bosporus had become a Cimmmerian centre5 and was to remain so for
about 150 years.

Welsh tradition6 claimed that their ancestors the Cymry (i.e.
"Cimmeri") led by Hu Gadarn of the Sons of Don had come across the
"Lazy Sea" (i.e.Mediterranean) to the British isles from Defrobane
which they said was just opposite Byzantium. In other words Defrobane
stood on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus in the place where the port
of Defen was reported to be. Defrobane may be some kind of linguistic
derivation of Daphne. The British-Welsh who came from DEFROBANE
opposite Byzantium called themselves Cymry and the Scandinavian
peoples contained an underlying ethnic stratum from the
similarly-named CIMBRI of Celtic culture. In Scandinavian mythology
one version (reported by Saxo Grammaticus7) concerning the origins of
their ancestral gods said that they too came from the area of
Byzantium, and that one of their ancestors ruled over a city in the
nearby Hellespont called Dana8!

In Celtic Britain the region of southern Wales, Devon, and Cornwall
was referred to as Defenia9 and from this name comes the modern-day
appellation of "Devon"! This region of Defenia on Ptolemy's map of
Britain is called Damnonia which is similar to the ethnic name
Damnonii in Scotland within whose region was the northern Don River.
There was another Don River in Scotland further south and to the east
upon his banks stood the city of Danum. Defenia (Damnonia) in the
south was also known as Daunonia10 and as Dannonia11. Defenia also
encompassed or adjoined the Deni. Hu Gadarn who led the Cymry over the
seas to Britain was descended from the Children of Don12 who parallel
the Tribe of Dana in Irish legend13.      '

All these names, DON, Dana, Dannonia, Danum, etc., relate to the
Israelite Tribe of DAN! In the LAND OF ISRAEL the Tribe of DAN was
divided into several sections one of which (perhaps the most
important, certainly the most emphasised) was in the northern
Galilee. This was the centre of DAN where King Jeroboam ben Nebat set
up one of the golden calfs he expected the northern Israelites to worship:

"Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold....And
he set the one in Beth-el and the other put he in Dan" (1-Kings
12;28-29).

The site of the golden cow in Dan in the Galilee says Josephus was
also known as DAPHNE!!!:-

"...Daphne, a delightful spot with springs which feed the so-called
little Jordan, beneath the temple of the golden cow, and speed it on
its way to the greater river" (Josephus, Wars 4;1;1).

ZECH 10:12] AND I WILL STRENGTHEN THEM IN THE LORD; AND THEY SHALL
WALK UP AND DOWN IN HIS NAME, SAITH THE LORD.

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