Fwd: The lost tribes of Israel!!!

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Dear Believers of the Last Judgment and Resurrection,

 

i read a rather disturbing statement by Iranian President Mahmoud

Ahmadinejad that calls for the annihilation of Israel. But do

Muslims know that the gathering of the lost tribes of Israel back to

their ancient land is promised and safeguarded in their holy Qur'an,

a prophecy that must take place prior to the commencement of the

Last Judgment and Resurrection? Yet some are bent of wiping it out

completely from the face of the Earth. So who can tell them to fear

their own Qur'an?

But we messengers of the Last Judgemnt and Resurrection are not to

use any force:

 

We know best what they say;

And thou are not one to overawe them by force.

So admonish with the Qur'an such as fear My Warning!

 

surah 50:45 (Qaf)

(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, Amana Corporation, 1989.)

 

Iran leader's comments condemned

BBC Thursday, 27 October 2005

 

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's call for Israel to be " wiped

off the map " has drawn widespread condemnation from Israel, Europe

and North America.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4378948.stm

 

To Moses We did give Nine Clear Signs:

As the Children of Israel: when he came to them, Pharaoh said to him:

" O Moses! I consider thee, indeed, to have been worked upon by

sorcery!

Moses said, " Thou knowest well that these things have been sent down

by none,But the Lord of the heavens and the earth as eye-opening

evidence: And I consider thee indeed, O Pharaoh, to be one doomed to

destruction! "

So he resolved to remove them from the face of the earth:

But We did drown him and all who were with him.

And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel,

" Dwell securely in the land (of promise) " :

But when the second of the warnings came to pass,

We gather you together in a mingled crowd. (2314)

 

surah 17:101-104 Al Isra' (The Night Journey)

 

" 2314. Some commentators understand the second warning to be the Day

of Judgment, the Promise of the Hereafter. "

 

Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an

(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, p. 703.)

 

" And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord will set His

hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people,

that shall remain from Assyria, and from Egypt and from Pathros and

from Kush and from Eklam and from Shinar and from Hamath and from

the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the

nations and will assemble the dispersed of Israel and gather

together the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the Earth. "

Isaiah 11:11

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Faces Of The Lost Tribes

Saga Of The Lost Tribes Of Israel

 

To Moses We did give Nine Clear Signs:

As the Children of Israel: when he came to them, Pharaoh said to him:

" O Moses! I consider thee, indeed, to have been worked upon by

sorcery!

Moses said,

" Thou knowest well that these things have been sent down by none,

But the Lord of the heavens and the earth as eye-opening evidence:

And I consider thee indeed, O Pharaoh, to be one doomed to

destruction! "

So he resolved to remove them from the face of the earth:

But We did drown him and all who were with him.

And We said thereafter to the Children of Israel,

" Dwell securely in the land (of promise) " :

But when the second of the warnings came to pass,

We gather you together in a mingled crowd. (2314)

surah 17:101-104 Al Isra' (The Night Journey)

" 2314. Some commentators understand the second warning to be the Day

of Judgment, the Promise of the Hereafter. "

Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an

(Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur'an, p. 703.)

" And it shall come to pass on that day, that the Lord will set His

hand again the second time to recover the remnant of His people,

that shall remain from Assyria, and from Egypt and from Pathros and

from Kush and from Eklam and from Shinar and from Hamath and from

the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the

nations and will assemble the dispersed of Israel and gather

together the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the Earth. "

Isaiah 11:11

 

" THE SAGA OF THE LOST TRIBES

 

Descendants alive today, filmmaker says . . .

Lila Sarick, The Globe and Mail

 

The search for the lost tribes of Israel, dispersed nearly 3,000

years ago, is a romantic quest that has mesmerized explorers and

adventurers for hundreds of years. The stakes are tantalizing. Not

only is there the thrill of finding people alive today who are the

descendants of those who apparently disappeared without a trace, but

according to biblical prophecy, their reappearance signals the

approach of a Messianic time.

 

The latest bid to separate the fact from the myth comes from award

winning documentary filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici in Quest for the

Lost Tribes of Israel. . . .

 

Quest documents his travels to Tunisia, Afghanistan, Burma and

Uzbekistan. In every place, he found evidence that not only had the

Jews been there thousands of years ago but that people still had

Israelites names, practices and an Israel consciousness.

 

" I didn't approach this differently than any other story. I was

quite prepared to report there ain't nothing here, " Mr. Jacobovici

said in an interview. " If I land in Afghanistan and the Pathans say

they're Israelites, it's my job to report it honestly. "

 

The quest for the lost tribes was one of the three great mysteries

pursued by Western adventurers through the ages, along with the

search for the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant.

 

Of the three, the story of the tribes is the most clearly detailed

in the historical narratives of the Bible and other texts.

 

During the time of King Solomon, 10 of the 12 tribes of Israel lived

in an area north of Jerusalem in the Kingdom of Israel, while the

tribes of Judah and Benjamin inhabited the southern Kingdom of Judah.

 

With the Assyrian conquest of the Kingdom of Israel in 721 BC, the

10 tribes were captured, enslaved and deported. They vanished. The

tribes of Judah and Benjamin were captured and exiled to Babylon in

586 BC. They were freed 50 years later and allowed to return to

Israel.

 

Historians assume the 10 tribes were not truly lost but assimilated

into the larger society. . .

 

His quest began inadvertently when he made a film about the

Ethiopian Jews. Before they were airlifted to safety in the mid-

1980s, Israeli chief rabbi declared they were descendants of the

tribe of Dan.

 

Several years later, Mr. Jacobovici heard about an Israel rabbi

claiming to have discovered Jews on the Burmese-Indian border. These

people, who called themselves Menmasseh, had ancient songs about

crossing the sea with the water parting before them and following a

pillar of fire by night and a cloud by day, stories strikingly

similar to the biblical account of the exodus from Egypt. . . .

 

" If the chief rabbis are right and the Ethiopians are Dan, and if

this rabbi is right and these people are Menashe, could this be

happening? " Mr. Jacobovici recalled thinking. " If this prophecy were

to unfold, what do you think it would look like? Would the tribes

come on camel back from heaven? . . . Or do they get on boats and

airplanes, just regular people buying tickets going to their travel

agent and suddenly prophecy can unfold on the nightly news and we

don't even know it? "

 

His quixotic trek took him to Afghanistan, where he found hill-

dwelling people who belonged to the tribes of Shinwari, Efredi,

Reuveni and Gadun, corruptions, he believes, of the tribal names of

Simeon, Ephraim, Reuven and Gad.

 

They also call themselves children of Isaac, an odd appellation for

Muslims who would more likely to follow the tradition of Ishmael,

the father of the Arab nation, not his Jewish half-brother

Isaac. . . .

 

In Central Asia, where Mr. Jacobovici found treasure troves of

objects with Hebrew and Aramaic writing hidden away in museum

basements, there was, he believes a deliberate effort by the former

Soviet Union to suppress the history of the tribes.

 

In other instances, Western myopia means that dangerous and

inaccessible places have simply fallen off our radar. Volumes are

written about the Jewish communities of Poland, but next to nothing

is documented about the Afghani communities, which are hundreds, if

not thousands, of years older.

 

Citing his journalist's objectivity, Mr. Jacobovici declines to

speculate on the biblical prophecy that the discovery of the tribes

is the first step toward the end of days.

 

" All I know is, I went out to look for a story and I came home with

the goods, " he said.

 

But for believers, the idea " we may be living in times of ultimate

reunification of families is mind-blowing in a very positive way, "

he said. " The idea that biblical prophecy is unfolding in the

nightly news is wow for people. " "

 

The Globe and Mail, Friday, November 20, 1998

 

http://www.al-qiyamah.org/children_of_israel_gathered_(al_isra').htm

http://www.al-qiyamah.org/fear_my_warning.htm

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Gochi

 

 

 

 

 

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