Was All of Ancient Israel Really Carried Captive? - Lawson C Briggs - June 1974

Lawson C Briggs

Most Christians assume that all the ancient Israelites became Jews. Others suppose the "House of Israel" - the so-called "lost ten tribes" - simply lost their identity and ceased to exist as a people by becoming merged in the mass of Middle Eastern humanity. Clouding the issue in both" suppositions is a widespread assumption that those tribes (except a few) were never really removed from the Holy Land. A LEADING Jewish rabbi recently stated on a Los Angeles radio station: "I have always been very much interested in the whereabouts of the lost tribes." Why? Because the rabbi, like other leaders of Judaism, is very much aware that the Jewish people are not the whole of Israel. The Jews know they are basically descended from just two main tribes, Judah and Benjamin, with perhaps lesser increments of Simeon and the priestly tribe of Levi. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library