I have written about many of the forms of replacement theology and planning on explaining the various forms and the errors of each one. This post will be about one of the most stealth forms that is being embraced by those in the false fringe of the Messianic movement as well as by mainstream Christianity. This form is often called British Israelism or sometimes Anglo-Israelism where the adherents claim that Europe, especially Great Britain, was first settled by the "ten lost tribes of Israel". This is a heretical and satanic teaching of those who are anti-semites at heart that is accepted by the uneducated and simple minded.
The British Israelism movement started in the mid 1800'sin Great Britain and spread to the United States. The belief was that the Europeans (then the Americans) were the "real Israel" and that real Israel was false. Other forms of replacement theology, such as the serpent seed doctrine, were popularized by that faulty premise. In the United States, British Israelism was popularized in the United States by Herbert W. Armstrong's cult the Worldwide Church of God. Interestingly the most popular heretics in the Messianic movement that hold to British Israelism such as Michael Rood were part of the Worldwide Church of God cult.
In Genesis 10 in the table of nations, it gives the nations each of the sons of Noah populated. Europe was populated by the ancestors of Japheth
Genesis 10
2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
3 And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.
4 And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
5 By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
The Jewish, and all Semitic peoples, came from the line of Shem (Shem for Semite)
Genesis 10
21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
24 And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.
25 And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother's name was Joktan.
26 And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,
27 And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
28 And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
29 And Ophir, and Havilah, and Jobab: all these were the sons of Joktan.
30 And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.
Gen 10:31 These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.
Tarshish is believed by many researchers to be Great Britain. It is prophesied that Tarshish and the 'young lions' (some believe to be the United States and other nations that came out of Britain) will object when gog-magog invades Israel but will not do anything. Many of the nations that are from Japheth (Europe) are mentioned in the prophecy of gog-magog:
Ezekiel 38
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
During King David's time (around 1,000 BC), all of the twelve tribes were dwelling in their land and were identifiable by which tribe they were from. 250 years after King David, the prophet Jonah was trying to escape to Tarshish - which was already established and regularly had ships sailing for it from Israel when he was swallowed by a great fish.
Jonah 1:3 But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD.
The babylonian captivity lasted 70 years around the years 597BC - 538BC. During the captivity, the Israel kept their national and religious identity and some chose to remain in babylon after the captivity maintaining their national and religious identity. Those who returned to Israel after the captivity who took foreign wives were told to leave their foreign wives and children.:
Ezra 9
1 Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the people of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
2 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.
3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
4 Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.
5 And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the LORD my God,
6 And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.
7 Since the days of our fathers have we been in a great trespass unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to a spoil, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.
8 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.
9 For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.
10 And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,
11 Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.
12 Now therefore give not your daughters unto their sons, neither take their daughters unto your sons, nor seek their peace or their wealth for ever: that ye may be strong, and eat the good of the land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children for ever.
13 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
14 Should we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the people of these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant nor escaping?
15 O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.
Ezra 10
1 Now when Ezra had prayed, and when he had confessed, weeping and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and children: for the people wept very sore.
2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is hope in Israel concerning this thing.
:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and let it be done according to the law.
4 Arise; for this matter belongeth unto thee: we also will be with thee: be of good courage, and do it.
5 Then arose Ezra, and made the chief priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they should do according to this word. And they sware.
The term Jew, Judaism originally meant the tribe of Judah although by the time Yeshua was born, the term Jew meant anyone of the nation of Israel - decedents of Israel (Jacob) due to the tribes living throughout the entire land of Israel. Mary and Joseph were from the tribe of Judah yet lived in Nazareth which is in the North of Israel in the land that was given to the tribe of Naphtali. After Yeshua, the tribes, while maintaining their nationality and religion, were intermixed, The tribal identity may have been lost after Yeshua's birth but not their nationality.
At no time in the history of Israel were the ten tribes "lost". Wherever the Jewish people were living outside of Israel, they still maintained their identity. The inquisitors knew who they were when they tried to force convert them, the crusaders knew who they were when they pillaged their villages, and hitler knew who they were. At no time in history were they dispersed and unrecognizable, Some clans were unidentifiable and have been discovered because they went into hiding for protection from those who were after them to kill them although not on a national scale that is held by British Israelism.
There are genetic tests to show who is Jewish and who is not, Those tests as well as linguisitc research (study of the origin of the languages) has refuted the claims of British Israelism yet you still have those that claim they are the "real Jews" and those in Israel are "fake Jews" - Messiah Yeshua calls those who believe replacement theology LIARS and of satan:
Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Interestingly those who used to believe the pre-tribulation rapture that have bought into the lie of British Israelism (or other forms of replacement theology) end up rejecting the pre-tribulation rapture. I believe they do so because Yahweh gives them over to a strong delusion / reprobate mind - after all, if they think they are Jews then they will be going through the tribulation since they no longer follow Messiah Yeshua in truth, The REAL (unbelieving) Jewish people will go through the tribulation in order for them (the REAL Jewish people) to discover Yeshua is their Messiah --- the false "Jews" will go through the tribulation as do all evildoers. The false "Jews" will be eternally punished since, from what Yeshua said, they are of satan.
1 John 3:4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
Matthew 7
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. G458
Strong's number G458 iniquity (transliterated as anomia) :
anomia
1) the condition of without law
a) because ignorant of it
b) because of violating it
2) contempt and violation of law, iniquity, wickedness
John14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments.
John14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
John15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
1 John 2
3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1 John 5
2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous.
Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
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