From: Yair Davidi [mailto:britam@netvision.net.il]
To: heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org
Subject: The Blessings of the Ten Lost Tribes - Part II

TAPE2 SIDE 2

A GREAT AND MIGHTY NATION

Again in ch.18 God made himself known unto Abraham:

Genesis 18;18-19: "ABRAHAM SHALL BECOME A GREAT AND MIGHTY NATION, AND ALL

THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH SHALL BE BLESSED IN HIM.

"For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after
him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgement:
that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him.

"Justice And Judgement": Here, looking at this Blessing, the doing
of Justice and Judgement are spoken of and they are emphasized. The Chosen
People were destined to do "justice and judgement", that was to be part of
their task in history: They were to do "justice and judgement", in order
that all the nations of the earth be blessed in them.

The order of the blessing implies that in order to do "justice and
judgement" the people who are blessed must first become "a great and mighty
nation" since first "a great and mighty nation" is mentioned and then later
the goal of doing "justice and judgement" follows after. Becoming a great
and mighty nation may be seen as a tool, as a means, to do justice and
judgment. As it says:

"Abraham shall become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the
earth shall be blessed in him" i.e. first the descendants of Abraham were
to become a great and mighty nation in order that all the nations of the
earth be blessed in them. This was because, as God says:

"For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after
him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgement:
i.e. they would do justice and judgment after becoming a great and mighty
nation.

"that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he has spoken of him."

The Prophets also spoke of the Lost Ten Tribes becoming a great nation. For
instance, the Prophet Micah says:

[Micah 5:7] AND THE REMNANT OF JACOB SHALL BE IN THE MIDST OF MANY PEOPLE
AS A DEW FROM THE LORD, AS THE SHOWERS UPON THE GRASS THAT TARRIETH NOT FOR
MAN, NOR WAITETH FOR THE SONS OF MEN.

[Micah 5:8] AND THE REMNANT OF JACOB SHALL BE AMONG THE GENTILES IN THE
MIDST OF MANY PEOPLE AS A LION AMONG THE BEASTS OF THE FOREST, AS A YOUNG
LION AMONG THE FLOCKS OF SHEEP: WHO, IF HE GO THROUGH, BOTH TREADETH DOWN,
AND TEARETH IN PIECES, AND NONE CAN DELIVER.

[Micah 5:9] THINE HAND SHALL BE LIFTED UP UPON THINE ADVERSARIES, AND ALL
THINE ENEMIES SHALL BE CUT OFF.

The Lost Ten Tribes are described by the Prophet Micah as a warrior people
who defeat their enemies. They are called "A YOUNG LION". The British
symbol is a lion. A lion is the symbol of Britain. There is hardly a nation
on earth today that the British lion has not defeated in warfare at some
time or other. The USA is an extension of Britain in a sense. Britain and
the USA are dominated by descendants from the Lost Ten Tribes especially
from the Tribe of Joseph. Through Joseph the blessings were to be more
pronounced and to reveal themselves in a much stronger form. We will
discuss the Identity of Joseph at more length in another talk, later on. At
all events Britain and the USA in many ways are the major Lost Ten Tribe
countries in our day as far as Prophecy is concerned. The USA was founded
by Britain and many of the early settlers of the USA came from Britain. The
traditions and culture of the USA are more British than anything else.

Britain and the USA together fought Two World Wars and won them. In the
First World War they defeated Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Turkey. In the
Second World War they defeated Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, Italy,
and Japan. These nations were their enemies. They were the mightiest
non-Israelite nations on earth at that time. Britain assisted the USA in
the Korean War and in the Gulf War and in many military operations
including the recent defensive attacks against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The USA is the mightiest nation on earth today and all nations of the earth
fear the USA. Britain and the USA are the two major nations that do
"justice and judgment" on a relative scale at the international level. They
are almost the only nations that do have a conscience and they do to some
extent attempt to enforce some degree of justice in the world. Sometimes
they make mistakes. Sometimes they criticize the State of Israel when they
should support her. There are also anti-Semites amongst them. You have to
look at the good and the bad. On the whole, however the USA is the only
major power that consistently supports the State of Israel against the rest
of the world. The USA does have a CONSCIENCE. The people of the USA do
believe in using the power and influence of their nation for the sake of
justice and judgment. They fulfill the blessing given to Abraham: The
blessing given to the descendants of Abraham was that they should: To
become a very populous nation, to become a great and mighty nation, to do
justice and judgment, to become a nation through whom all the nations of
the earth would be blessed. There is not a single nation in the world today
that has not been assisted by the USA. Not one. All nations of the earth
have been blessed through the USA. The USA has fulfilled the blessing given
to Abraham.

"Akeda" = "The Binding"

We said above that the blessing concerning inheriting and settling in the
Land of Israel was conditional upon keeping the commandments whereas other
aspects of the blessings were not conditional but had to be fulfilled at
some time or other and they were fulfilled through the Lost Ten Tribes. An
understanding of how part of the blessings became unconditional can be
gained from the incident known in Hebrew as "The Akeda" = "The Binding". It
is described in Genesis 22. There are aspects of this incident that are
difficult for us to understand properly. Abraham was told to take his son,
his "only son" (according to the words of the Bible), and go with him to
the Mount of Moriah. He was told that when he reached the Mount of Moriah
he was to offer Isaac up as a human-sacrifice. Abraham did as he was told
and he went with Isaac to the place. He laid wood upon an altar. Then
Abraham bound Isaac to the altar and he raised a sacrificial knife to kill
Isaac. At the last minute an angel of God stopped Abraham. The angel told
Abraham that the whole thing was only a test of faith to see if Abraham
would obey the commandment of God in this matter or not, to see if he was
prepared to go through with what God had told him. A ram was substituted
for Isaac and the ram was sacrificed instead of Isaac.

The purpose of the test was to enable the international aspects of the
Promises to be fulfilled UNCONDITIONALLY. After the "Akeda" (i.e. After the
Binding of Isaac) i.e. after Abraham had passed the test, God Blessed
Abraham,

"And said, By myself have I sworn, says the LORD, for because you have done
this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

"That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying, I will multiply
your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the
seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

"And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed; because
you have obeyed my voice.

Note the expression in the first part of this blessing,

"By myself have I sworn, says the LORD because you have done this thing,
and have not withheld Your son, your only son from me".

"By myself have I sworn, says the LORD" in other words unconditionally. God
is making an unconditional promise. "By MYSELF" He swears, i.e. by
HIMSELF", by the very essence of God Almighty Himself who cannot change and
therefore the promise is NOT SUBJECT TO CHANGE!!!!

This is a new development: Some of the previous blessings are now
repeated. The seed of Abraham is promised that it will be multiplied as
the stars of the heavens and as the sands of the seashores; it is also
promised that the seed of Abraham will inherit the gates of his enemies
i.e. strategic points. The Promise is now unconditional: In this verse
nothing is said about the LAND because inheriting the LAND of Israel is not
unconditional but is however contingent upon keeping the commandments and
upon Monotheistic belief.

Thousands of Millions = "Alfei Revavah" ??: Eventually Abraham
became old and thought he was going to die so he sent his servant Elazar to
the House of his father in Padan Aram to bring back a wife for his son,
Isaac. Elazar went and brought back Rivka (Rebecca) with him. Before
Rebecca left her home, the family of Rebecca blessed her. They said unto
her (Genesis 24;60), "You are our sister, be you the mother of thousands
of millions and may your seed possess the gate of those that hate them".

The translation from the Hebrew is not clear here BUT the verse is
definitely saying that Rebecca should become the mother of a vast number of
people, tens, hundreds of millions, of people.

Rebecca was also blessed, "-and may your seed possess the gate of those
that hate them".

i.e. The seed of Rebecca and Isaac were promised to be extremely numerous
and to possess the strategic passes (the gates of their enemies)
promised in the Blessings.

Gate of your enemies: Isaac had been promised (through Abraham) that his
seed would possess "the gate of his enemies" and Rebecca likewise was
promised that her seed would "possess the gate of those that hate them".
Isaac and Rebecca were the parents of Jacob, of Israel. The promise to
possess the gate of your enemies refers to the possession of strategic
points that allow access to or control over thoroughfares of supply or the
interior of a country or something similar. This is how Rabbinical
Commentators understood the expression. For instance it was said in the
Midrash that the blessing (to possess the gate of your enemies) was
partially fulfilled in the time of Solomon when Solomon built the city of
Tadmor in the Syrian Desert. By possessing Tadmor Solomon was able to
control the passage of caravans bearing merchandise that traveled along
caravan-routes in the desert. In those days people did not have
refrigeration. In many areas of the world at that time before the coming of
winter surplus farm animals would be killed off. The meat of these animals
would be preserved and flavored using different spices. Many spices came
from India and the East. Other valuable goods also came from India and the
East. The trade with India and the East was very important. Whoever
controlled this trade had a strategic advantage in international affairs.
When Solomon built Tadmor he was able to get control of this trade. Tadmor
is an example of what the expression "gate of your enemies" means, in
practical terms.

In the past Britain and the USA controlled every important
international strait and thoroughfare: Examples are Hong Kong, Singapore,
Gibraltar, The Falklands, Panama, The Philippines, The Suez Canal, Malta,
Heligoland, -Everywhere where there was a strategic point of international
importance it was usually (in nearly every case) under British or American
control.

Even now many of these places are still controlled by the USA or
Britain. The USA has bases all over the world. The USA does not always
publicize the existence of these bases but they are known about. They do
exist. The host countries to which these bases technically belong have only
limited control over them. They cannot just tell the USA to leave. In some
cases the host countries are open enemies of the USA and in other cases
they are potential enemies. Even so, the countries in which the bases
exist have no real say on a day-to-day basis concerning what the USA does
or does not do with these bases, and on them. These bases are "gates". They
are the gates of our enemies. The USA has bases in islands off Japan, in
the Pacific Ocean, in the Indian Ocean, in every Ocean, in Greenland, in
Saudia Arabia, in the Persian Gulf, in northern Iraq (i.e. Kurdistan); The
USA now has just acquired bases in Central Asia that give it access to
Russia, Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, India, and China. The USA has all
kinds of facilities of strategic importance all over the world, not all of
which are often publicized.

The host nations (as we said) in which these bases are located are
often America's enemies but they still can do little concerning what
America does. They cannot get America out of these bases though these bases
potentially allow America access to their vital points. In other words the
bases allow America access. They allow America, if necessary, to come
in. They are "gates". They are "the gate of your enemies." The Chosen
People of Israel were promised that they would possess the gate of their
enemies. These promises have been fulfilled through Britain and
America. America and Britain are the only countries that have rights of
this type on such an international scale. They are the only nations where
these arrangements have always been a natural integrated part of their
foreign and military policy. In the past other Empires existed. There were
the Assyrian Empire, the Babylonian Empire, the Persian Empire, the Greek
Empire, the Roman Empire, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the German Empire,
the Turkish Empire, the Russian Empire, the Chinese Empire, the Spanish and
Portuguese Empires and there were other Empires. Only Britain and America
made the possession of gates an important part of their strategy. Other
Empires used other methods and placed their emphasis on other means of
control and influence. Only Britain and America emphasized the possession
of gates because this was part of the Blessing to the Children of Israel
and descendants of the Children of Israel constituted an important element
in their populations. Britain and America as representatives of the Lost
Ten Tribes of Israel were the ones to whom it was promised that they would
possess the gates of their enemies, and in them was this blessing fulfilled.

In the past Britain "ruled the waves" and all the major Sea-lanes
and Sea passes were under the control of Britain. Nowadays sea-movement is
less important than it used to be. Nevertheless, Space is important. The
USA has control of Space. The USA has Satellites and Missiles and a
Space-orientated -infrastructure that allows it access by satellite to most
parts of the world -for the purposes of attack or at least of
surveillance. Through its satellites the USA (if it so wishes) can take
very-close-up photographs of a lot of areas. In some cases, not only can
USA satellites reveal soldiers marching below on the ground but they can
even discern what signs-of-rank the soldiers bear on their shoulders.

In other words the USA has "gates" meaning avenues of entry, it
has means of access to all of its actual and potential enemies. The
possession of these gates (of this option of entry into these areas) does
not guarantee victory in War but it is a definite advantage. Other
countries have got space-programs of their own but they cannot really do
much unless the USA allows them to. None of the other nations have achieved
anything like the USA. in this field. It is not that they are less gifted.
It just was not there. They lacked the resources and inclination at the
right time. They were not there at the strategic moment. They did not make
the right decisions at the right time. The Blessing to "possess the gates
of your enemies" was not pertinent to other nations. It was pertinent to
the USA.

Jacob and Esau: Isaac married Rebecca. Rebecca gave birth to two twin
brothers. When the brothers were still in the womb it was said unto
Rebecca, Genesis 25; 23:

"And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in your womb, and two manners
of people shall be separated from your bowels; and the one people shall
struggle with the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

So we find that two twin-brothers (Jacob and Esau) were born to
Isaac. Esau (Genesis 25;25) was the firstborn but Esau later sold his
firstborn birthright to Jacob.

After the birth of the twins Isaac was once again blessed (Genesis
26;3-5): Isaac was blessed with the future possession of all the lands
round about, a Multitude of descendants, and all the nations of the earth
being blessed in him because of the pledge to Abraham and due to the
virtue of Abraham having kept the commandments.

Later when Isaac was old he became blind and wanted to bless his son Esau
before he died.

Why Esau and not Jacob? Why? They were both his sons.
Because (as it tells us in Genesis 25;27 -28) Esau was a hunter, he was a
man of the field, and his father loved him. Esau was apparently a masculine
enterprising type such as every father (in some way) likes to see in his
male children. This is part of being a man. Jacob, on the other hand, was a
dweller of tents. He was a favorite of his mother. Later in his life we
find that Jacob also possessed enormous physical strength. Jacob also
showed himself to be quite a hero. He became a leader of men in his own
right. Perhaps the heroic qualities of Jacob did not at that time show
themselves while he was still in the house of his father.

Isaac called Esau unto him and asked him to go and hunt venison
(deer) and bring him food so that with a full heart he might bless him
before he died.

Rebecca the mother of Esau and Jacob overhead Isaac speak unto
Esau. She called Jacob and told him to go take kid goats. The goats were to
be slaughtered. Their meat would be prepared to resemble deer meat. Rebecca
also told Jacob to place goatskins on his arms (so that they would feel
hairy) and to dress himself in the clothes of Esau and to go into his
father and to pretend he was Esau in order to receive the Blessing. Jacob
did what his mother told him.

When Jacob came into Isaac, Isaac said, "The voice is the voice
of Jacob but the hands are the hands of Esau". Isaac apparently thought
that Jacob was Esau. This is not so far-fetched as we might think. Isaac
did think that the voice was the voice of Esau but he was not sure. It will
be remembered that Isaac was blind and that Jacob and Esau were twin
brothers. Brothers from the same family often have voices that sound
similar. I know from my own experience. I have sons of my own. Sometimes
when my sons would ring me on the Phone I would not immediately discern
which one of my sons was talking to me even though I would know that it was
one of them.

Isaac gave the blessing to Jacob (Genesis 27;28-29):

"Therefore God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the
earth, and plenty of corn and wine:

"Let people serve you, and nations bow down to you: be lord over your
brethren, and let your mother's sons bow down to you: cursed be everyone
that curses you, and blessed be he that blesses you.

Jacob received promises of plenty and all the blessings of the Patriarchs.
Everything that had been promised to the forefathers was to come to Jacob.
Jacob was to receive everything. After receiving the blessings, Jacob went
out. Esau returned from the field and came in just after Jacob had left.
Esau heard that Jacob had come "with subtlety (craft) and had received the
blessing" (Genesis 27;35) Isaac said that even though Jacob had received
the blessing through subterfuge, through trickery, yet he was the one whom
Isaac now realized "shall be blessed" (Genesis 27;33): In other words the
Blessings had a spiritual significance. When Isaac gave the Blessing he
must have realized that he was only an agent of the Almighty, of God. He
was an agent of God. He was serving as a channel for the Blessing to come
from above. The person being blessed was being blessed by God -through him.

The Blessings were the Will of God.

Isaac told Esau , "Behold I have made him [i.e. Jacob] your lord", [ Jacob
was made the "lord" of Esau] "and all his brethren have I given to him as
servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him..." (Genesis 27;37).

Esau planned to kill Jacob and take revenge but Rebecca the mother
of Esau and Jacob heard about it. She persuaded Isaac to send Jacob away,
to Padan Aram, to the house of her father, to take a wife from the house of
her family.

Before he went, Isaac once again blessed Jacob and said,
"And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, that
you may be a multitude of people;

The expression "a multitude of people" (Kahal-Amim) actually this means "a
multitude of peoples" i.e. several peoples, in the plural, at one and the
same time.

"And give you [i.e. may God give you] the blessing of Abraham, to you, and
to your seed with you; that you may inherit the land wherein you are a
stranger, which God gave unto Abraham" (Genesis 28;3-4).
Isaac was now, at this moment, consciously giving and re-affirming the
Blessing to Jacob. He realized that however Jacob had received the Blessing
at first, it was the will of God that Jacob receive it. It does not matter,
that he tricked him, that he deceived him, that he disguised himself and
said he was somebody else. He received the Blessing and it was the Will of
God that he receive the Blessing. The Blessing was to be his according to
the will of God. Jacob was promised that he would receive "the blessing of
Abraham, to you". Jacob was the inheritor of the Promises and from Jacob
would emerge the Chosen People.

Jacob set out to go to Padan Aram. On the way he came to Beth-el, took a
stone for a pillow and slept there.

"And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it
reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on
it.

"And behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of
Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon you lie, to you
will I give it, and to your seed.

"And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth: and you shall spread
abroad to the west and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and
in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

"And behold I am with you, and will keep you in all the places whither you
go, and will bring you again into this land; for I will not leave you,
until I have done that which I have spoken to you of (Genesis 28; 12-15).

There is a principle in Rabbinical Thought that The Deeds of the Fathers
Are Indications For the sons, they symbolize what the descendants would do,
of what would happen to them. i.e. what happened to Jacob was symbolic of
the destiny of his children, of those who would come after him. Jacob was
told by God that, "I will not leave you, until I have done that which I
have spoken to you of", -What does it mean "until"? What does it mean, "I
will not leave you, UNTIL I have done that which I have spoken to you of"??

Does it mean that after he has done it, that then He will leave him?? No!
Definitely not! The Bible says He will not. Rather it may be understood to
say that since Jacob was leaving the Land of Israel and going away, in
order to take a wife and was eventually to return, so, the leaving of Jacob
symbolizes the exile of his children for the purposes of Divine Providence.

Jacob was being promised that even in his state of exile God would look
after him, i.e. he would look after his children and would fulfill in him
[i.e. in those descended from him] all that which had been promised to
them. The Promises have been fulfilled in the Lost Ten Tribes to a degree,
as Promised even though we believe that in the Messianic Era, even greater
Blessings, much greater Blessings, will come upon the Children of Israel
and upon all of humanity.

Regarding the Peoples of Britain and America and to a degree also
those people of Israelite descent in other parts of Western Europe such as
a significant proportion, a significant element among the populations of
France, Holland, and Scandinavia, within the limitations of circumstance
and nature, the promises to the Children of Israel have been fulfilled to a
degree among them. Amongst these peoples are to be found most of the
descendants of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel. These peoples relatively
speaking have been the most blessed of all the peoples of the world: In
terms of their average length of life (longevity), their relative freedom
from disease, their ability to heal themselves once they are injured or
sick, in terms of their standard of living and the quality of their life,
their freedom from oppression, their self-respect in terms of local
government and so on, their access to knowledge, to education, from an
all-round point-of-view they have been the most blessed of all the peoples
of the world. That does not mean that everybody is happy in these areas or
that the Blessing is felt by everybody in them. Nowadays, through
immorality and bad living people are now acting self-destructively and
harming each other. Despite all this the blessings were fulfilled in these
peoples to some degree and a large proportion of their populations did get
close to seeing, somewhere on the horizon, that life in this world can be
good in a physical, emotional, and national sense, as well as in a
spiritual one. Just being able to beat their enemies against all odds, to
help the oppressed, to help refugees, as America did, so did Britain in her
own way: - just this, - was a Blessing. It gave them a feeling of being
"BIG", of enlargement, - it was a blessing in its own right. In Europe
they used to say that in every war the British lose all the battles except
one -but that one battle that they do win is always the last battle of the
War. In other words, even though they may have been brave and powerful in
their own right there was always a feeling that some how God was on their
side, that they had somehow been chosen, that the Almighty would intervene
on their behalf. This feeling was instinctive and it came from the bottom,
from the common people. The existence of this feeling was a Blessing. It
helped them overcome all the odds against them and the feeling itself may
be considered a gift from heaven. This feeling did exist and it still does
in some respects.

The Jews of Judah: If the peoples we have spoken about are the
Lost Ten Tribes of Israel and if in them have been fulfilled the Blessings
given to Israel, who then are the Jews?? The Jews are Israelites. The Jews
are mainly from the Tribes of Judah, Benjamin, Simeon, and Levi. The Jews
also include some representatives of all of the other Tribes who somehow or
other over the course of time joined themselves to the Jews. Judah is the
dominant Tribe amongst the Jews just as Joseph or Ephraim (the son of
Joseph) was the dominant tribe amongst the Lost Ten Tribes. In Scripture
the Jews are represented by the terms Jerusalem, Zion, or Judah. These
names represent the Jewish people in Scripture.

JUDAH and JOSEPH

Jacob was re-named Israel. Israel had 12 sons who became the 12
tribes of Israel. The physical first-born of Israel was Reuben but since
Reuben acted improperly with the concubine of his father the rights of the
firstborn were taken away from him and given to Joseph. On the other hand
David and the house of David from the tribe of Judah are the true-rightful
rulers of all Israel. The Messiah is destined to come from Judah and the
Messiah is destined to rule over all Israel. David belongs to the Tribe of
Judah. Judah was destined to keep the Law whereas the other Tribes were not
so destined. We see from this that Reuben, and the Tribes of Joseph
(Ephraim and Manasseh), and Judah all in their own way could claim a
certain degree of pre-eminence: They all had some claim to the rights of
leadership.

"The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the
firstborn; but, for as much as he defiled his father's bed, his birthright
was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel and the genealogy [the
rights of the first-born] is not to be reckoned after the birthright."

"For JUDAH prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief
ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's" (1-Chronicles 5;1-2). We see from
this that the chief ruler was to come from Judah whereas the birthright was
given to Joseph.

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