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Where Are The Lost Tribes of Israel in the Modern World?
David was a man after God’s own heart (I Sam. 13:14). Because he was a man with a tender conscience toward his Creator, God made a separate and distinct covenant with him in addition to the one He had made with Israel. When David wanted to build a house for God, He sent a message to David through the prophet Nathan:
“When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for My name and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chastise him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever” (II Sam. 7:12-16).
This promise is again repeated in Psalm 89:
“I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant, Your seed [dynasty – Moffatt] will I establish for ever and build up your throne to all generations” (verses 3-4).
So far as the world knows the last king to sit on the throne of David was Zedekiah of Judah when the Babylonians conquered Judah and took them off captive to the land of Babylon about the year 585 BC. The throne of David was never restored when the Jews, a portion of Judah, returned to the land of Palestine after their captivity.
But God promised to David that his throne would last to all generations or FOREVER. If God has not failed to keep His word we need to look for David’s throne (described as the throne of the Eternal in I Chron. 29:23) elsewhere than the land of Palestine where the Jewish state of Israel is today.
When Judah was taken by Babylon into captivity, Nebuchadnezzar killed Zedekiah and all his sons (Jer. 37:1-9), seemingly destroying the royal dynasty. Former King Jeconiah (Jehoiachin) was at that time in the dungeons of Babylon and he had sons to continue David’s line and it was through his line of descendants that Jesus Christ was born (Matt. 1:12-16). God decreed the following about Jeconiah:
“Thus saith the Lord, Write ye this man childless, a man that shall not prosper in his days: for no man of his seed shall prosper, sitting upon the throne of David, and ruling any more in Judah”! (Jer. 22:30).
As far as the throne of David was concerned, Jeconiah was childless. God had determined that none of his children would ever occupy the throne thereafter. As a result, God’s commission to the prophet Jeremiah was to be:
“See, I have set you this day over nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down, to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.” (Jer. 1:10).
Where are the ‘Lost’ Tribes of Israel in the Modern World? An Introduction
God would use him to help keep the royal line alive and plant it in another land. Nebuchadnezzar did not kill King Zedekiah’s daughters who escaped with Jeremiah (Jer. 43:5- 7; Is. 37:32-33). It would be through one of the daughters of Zedekiah that God would keep the throne of David alive. What land did God lead them to? In Ezekiel 17 God says:
“I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop it from the top of his young twigs a tender one [a daughter] and will plant it upon a high mountain and eminent. In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit” (verses 22- 23).
God directed them to northwest Europe (Is. 49:12) to where the House of Israel had migrated to.
Another work well worth studying and proving the above is Professor Megalommitis’ paper “Elizabeth II on the Throne of David and Solomon”, published in Origin of Nations magazine (details at the end of this article).
When Christ returns He shall take over the throne of David that God has continued to preserve since the days of His promise to King David (Luke 1:32; Gen. 49:10) and all contention will cease.
Reprinted with permission from FriendsofSabbath.org.
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