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1 | Which 12 tribes of Israel exist today | Matthew | Chusarcik | 77993 | ||
I heard the tribe of Judah is intact in Isael. Is this true and are there any other tribes that have been preserved throughout history and exist today? thanks, Chusarcik |
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2 | Which 12 tribes of Israel exist today | Matthew | Taleb | 77994 | ||
Genealogies stopped when the Jews were dispersed for the last time in 70 A.D. when Jerusalem was destroyed. But ... With Jesus, the Jewish “race” ended. That is something coming from one with “Jewish blood”, yet truth doesn’t change. The Scripture has many genealogies, and they end with Jesus. If you look at Matthew 1, it clues you in to what I am stating. From Abraham to David is 14 generations. From Solomon to Jehoiachin (when they were carried away into Babylon) is 14 generations. From Salathiel to Jesus, who is called Christ, is 13. Yet Matthew 1:17 says 14 each time. Why? You have to understand what it takes to be a Jew. To “be” Jewish, one only has to adhere to their wide-ranged doctrine. You can be a Buddhist Jew – no problem. You can be any race, never intermarrying from Noah, and still become a Jew. Yet, to become a citizen of Israel one only has to be born to a “Jewish mother.” A man decides to become a Jew. He does. He marries a non-believer, she too becomes a Jew. They CANNOT immigrate to Israel. They have a daughter, raised in the Jewish faith. She marries a non-Jew who “converts”. They have children. Her children CAN immigrate to Israel because their mother, not their grandparents, is Jewish. Col. 3:11 explains it better yet. “Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision …. But Christ is all and in all. Taleb |
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3 | But are the Jews keeping track of tribes | Matthew | Chusarcik | 78003 | ||
Are you saying the Jews do not today track their tribes? That's more of what I'm asking. Chusarcik | ||||||
4 | But are the Jews keeping track of tribes | Matthew | Taleb | 78103 | ||
Chusarcik, since the destruction of the Jew’s temple, records kept have been lost forever. While “records are still kept” today, they CANNOT make any connection to anybody prior to that destruction, contrary to what my Mormon relatives claim. To answer you question, I must point out that the “tribes of Judah” and the “kingdom of Israel” does not exactly “go together”. Israel, according to the Old Testament, separated from Judah. Some from the various tribes “joined Judah”. BUT after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. those peoples were dispersed into the world, and still are. Their purpose had been fulfilled – that to bring Jesus the Christ into the world. A side note: Abraham received the promise in Genesis 17 about his “seed” and Galatians 3:16 explains EVERYTHING that promise meant. And I quote: “Now the promises were addressed to Abraham and to his Seed – notice, in passing that Scripture doesn’t use a plural word as if there were several descendents, it uses the singular “seed”, meaning Christ.” end quote. Verse 19: “… UNTIL the arrival of the “seed” to whom the promise referred.” So, for anyone to “keep” records, serves no purpose in any plan of God’s. God’s promise, for the entire world to be blessed through Abraham’s “seed”, has been forever completed. Respectfully, Taleb |
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5 | But are the Jews keeping track of tribes | Matthew | Chusarcik | 78119 | ||
Thanks, this is good information. Chusarcik |
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