WHO AND WHERE ARE "The Proverbial" Lost Tribes of Israel?

Who are those "lost sheep of the House of Israel"?

Matt 15:24 But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. KJV

The Book of James is written to the 12 tribes scattered abroad. They are the lost sheep of the House of Israel. They were taken into Assyrian captivity about 700 BC and never returned to Israel. (This is extremely important in discerning the difference between the STATE of Israel established in 1948, and the proverbial "lost sheep" of THE HOUSE of Israel.

What happened to them? Where are they now? Why would Christ say that he was sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel?

It's important to know the history or we will never understand the Bible and who it is about.

About 931 BC the kingdom of Israel was split into 2 kingdoms. The 2 tribes of Judah and Benjamin in the south became the kingdom or House of Judah.

The 10 northern tribes led by Ephraim became the kingdom or House of Israel.

They each had their own king. The capitol city of Judah was Jerusalem while the capitol city in Israel became Samaria under King Omri.

Today since 1948 the nation of the Jews was created by Britain and the UN and was named Israel.

However, the Jews of today only represent the ancient 2 tribe nation of Judah.

So what happened to the other 10 tribes of Israel?

Again, the 10 northern tribes and most of the other 2 were taken into Assyrian captivity about 700 BC and never returned to Israel or Judah.

The Assyrians, according to scripture had placed the captives of Israel and Judah in the land of the Medes. See 2 Kings 17:6 and 2 Kings 18:13. This is the area south of the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian Seas.

With the decline of Assyria the tribes of Israel began to escape through the Caucasus Mountains about 675 BC. Thus the name Caucasians. From here they eventually spread across western and northern Europe and became known as Saxons, Sachsens, Celts, Gauls, Goths, Angles, Jutes, etc.

Through the course of time (probably just a few generations) they forgot who they were. And today most of them have no idea of who they really are.

So again, why would Christ say that he was sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel?

Because it was the lost sheep of the House of Israel who would become the Christian nations and they in turn would spread Christianity throughout the world.

And how very few of them even know who they really are.



For the Israelites, forgetting who they were was part of the punishment. Deut 32:26

26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

This prophecy can only refer to the 10 tribes (plus most of the other 2) and not to Judah.

Today’s Jews represent the House of Judah and the whole world is aware of them and remembers them.



The Jews spoken of in Revelation 2:9 and Revelation 3:9 are not of the House Of Judah thus the "synagogue of Satan" clarification.

The 10 tribes in captivity and lost to historians but not to God.

After the 10 tribes of Israel (and most of Judah and Benjamin) were hauled out of their land and deported to Assyria, 700 B.C., they are lost to historians. These tribes never returned to Israel. The Bible tells us that they were placed into Halah, Habor, by the river Gozan and in the Cities of the Medes. One commonly held thought by historians is that they were absorbed into the populations of the areas they were placed into.

Did God cast away His people, Israel, or allow them to be absorbed into other populations? Even for all their sin God promised that He would not break His covenant with them.

In Leviticus 26:44 God said that even when they were in the hands of their enemies He would NOT cast them away. In Isaiah 41: 8-9 after all Israel had been scattered, God says He has not cast them away.

In the last book of the Old Testament Malachi 3:6, God says to Israel, "I am the Lord, I change not, therefore ye sons of Jacob are NOT consumed."

In the case of the Israelites, forgetting who they were was part of the punishment. Deut 32:26

26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

This prophecy can only refer to the 10 tribes and not to Judah. Today’s Jews represent the House of Judah and the whole world is aware of them and remembers them.

Why wouldn’t the Israelites remember their own identity? It is very easy to see how they would forget if we just look at our American example. In my own example, my mother was a full Norwegian. Both my mother’s parents were born in Norway. From my grand parents to my children anything about Norway, i.e. the country, language or customs has been completely lost.

When our people, Israel, went into the Assyrian captivity they would be called by another name. The Medes and Persians called the tribes of Israel the Saka on the inscriptions of the Rock of Behistun, a monument that Darius the Great had carved into the face of a mountain and still remains today. See photo.

In Amos 7:16 God uses the name "House of Isaac" as synonymous with "Israel", so this must be a name for Israel that the people were familiar with. Also, "In Isaac shall thy seed be called" Romans 9:7, Hebrews 11:18 and Genesis 21:12; this documents that Israel would be called by Isaac’s name.

So the lost tribes of Israel would be called by Isaac’s name. It is a well-known Hebraism, and for some reason it certainly was a very common custom among the Israelites, to drop the first letter of a proper name to show the possessive. We could go into the actual Hebrew name but it comes out the same.

Isaac then becomes Saac or Sak. The Hebraism of dropping the first letter of a proper name, to show the possessive, would be the reason for dropping the "I".

The ten lost tribes of Israel (plus most of the other 2) then would have called themselves the Sak or the Beth Sak (which means House of Isaac) and this name would be synonymous with Israel.

And just as "Beth Sak" (house of Sak) was their name, they would also be known as the sons of Sak or Saksons. Translated into Latin and then into English as Saxons.

The Israelites taken into captivity called themselves the "Beth Sak", or House of Isaac, or just "Sak", during and after the captivity, and later the "Saksons" or sons of Isaac. Other nations called them:

Khumri - Assyrian name for Israel, for (King) Omri of Israel, 10
tribes, before the captivity. Pronounced "Ghimri" in
Hebrew.
Ghimri - Hebrew pronunciation of Omri
Gimera - Assyrian name for the 10 tribes during the captivity.
Gimiri - Babylonian name for Gimera on Behistun inscription
Saka - Persian name for Gimiri on Behistun and other
inscriptions
Sakasuna - Persian for sons of the Saka or Saksons
Sacae - Latin and English for Saka
Sak-Geloths - Hebrew, prisoners of Isaac
Goths - Latin, prob. from Sak-Geloth, tribes of Scythians
Beth-Sak - Hebrew, House of Isaac
Scythians - (Latin and English for the Greek words – Skuthes
or Sakai)
Skuthes - Greek (Skoo-thace) for Scythian or Saka, prob. of
foreign origin
Sakai - Greek for the Persian word Saka
Scolots & Scoloti - The Greeks said they were Royal Scythians
Cimmerians - Greek, (actually the Latin word for the Greek –
Kimmerioi) derived from Ghimri (King Omri of
Israel)
Celts - English for the Greek word – (Keltoi)
Gauls - Latin for Celts (Keltoi)
Germans - Latin for Genuine or original Scythians
Saxons - Latin and English for Saksons
Angli - Greek. A large tribe of the Saka (Ephraim)
Angles - English for Angli. Engel means "bull" in Hebrew.
The primary emblem for Ephraim was the "bull".
Jutes - A Saxon tribe from Jutland (Denmark). Invaded
Britain with the Angles and Saxons 449 to 557 A.D.



Some quotes by historians

Diodorus (1st Cent. B.C.) – "The Sacae (Saka) sprung from a people in Media who obtained a vast and glorious empire."

Ptolemy (85 A.D. Egypt) – finds the Saxons in a race of Scythians, called Sakai (Saka), who came from Media.

Pliny (23 to 79 A.D.) – "The Sakai were among the most distinguished people of Scythia, who settled in Armenia (south of the Caucasus Mtns,), and were called Sacae-Sani."

Prof. Totten (1851 to 1908) says, "In most of the Eastern languages, sons of, is written "sunnia" or "sani". It is equivalent to the Scottish "Mac" and the English and Irish "Fitz". So Sacae-Sani means Sak’s sons.

Albinus (147 to 197 A.D.) – "The Saxons were descended from the ancient Sacae (Saka) of Asia.

Prideaux (1845) – Says the Cimbrians came from between the Black and Euxine (Caspian) seas, and that with them came the Angli. (Both the Cimbrians and the Angli settled in the Jutland Peninsula.)

Sharon Turner - (great Saxon historian 1768 to 1847) "The Saxons were a Scythian nation and were called Saca (Saka), Sacki, Sachsen."

Herodotus (Greek Historian 484 to 425 B.C.) – He said that the Skuthes (Scythians) were called Sakai (Greek form of the Persian Saka) by the Persians.

The Behistun Inscription, in present day Iran, is to Old Persian Cuneiform as the Rosetta Stone is to Egyptian Hieroglyphs.

The inscriptions tell of the people ruled by, Darius the Great, in 3 languages which are identical texts: Persian, Elamite and Babylonian.

The Assyrian name for Israel was Ghimri. This name Ghimri was for King Omri of Israel. Omri in Hebrew is pronounced Ghimri. The Babylonian name for Omri was Gimiri.

Each time in the Babylonian text when the name "Gimiri" is used, the corresponding name in the Persian and Elamite texts is "Saka".

Gimiri being clearly established as the name for the 10 tribes of Israel is "Saka" in the Persian text. "Saka" has been clearly established by many ancient Greek and Roman historians as being the Saxons.

Israel = Gimiri = Saka = Sachsen = Saxon

The identity of our people, Israel, is literally written in stone at Behistun.

Ezekiel 37:4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD.

5 Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: KJV

Our people are only just starting to know who they really are.

For the Israelites, forgetting who they were was part of the punishment. Deut 32:26

26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men.

Ezekiel 37:11 Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. KJV
...The House of Israel is spiritually dead and for the most part they have no idea of who they really are.

12 Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. KJV
...Our Father will open the eyes of our people so that they see and understand that key to the house of David and come to realize who they really are.

At this time very few of our people have that key. However the whole house of Israel will be awakened and will be no longer spiritually dead. The truth is being told. That breath of life is reviving our people as every day more and more are awakening and realizing who they are.



The 10 tribes in captivity and lost to historians but not to God.

After the 10 tribes of Israel (and most of Judah and Benjamin) were hauled out of their land and deported to Assyria, 700 B.C., they are lost to historians. These tribes never returned to Israel. The Bible tells us that they were placed into Halah, Habor, by the river Gozan and in the Cities of the Medes. One commonly held thought by historians is that they were absorbed into the populations of the areas they were placed into.

Did God cast away His people, Israel, or allow them to be absorbed into other populations? Even for all their sin God promised that He would not break His covenant with them.

In Leviticus 26:44 God said that even when they were in the hands of their enemies He would NOT cast them away. In Isaiah 41: 8-9 after all Israel had been scattered, God says He has not cast them away.

In the last book of the Old Testament Malachi 3:6, God says to Israel, "I am the Lord, I change not, therefore ye sons of Jacob are NOT consumed."

In the case of the Israelites, forgetting who they were was part of the punishment. Deut 32:26

26 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

This prophecy can only refer to the 10 tribes and not to Judah. Today’s Jews represent the House of Judah and the whole world is aware of them and remembers them.

Why wouldn’t the Israelites remember their own identity? It is very easy to see how they would forget if we just look at our American example. In my own example, my mother was a full Norwegian. Both my mother’s parents were born in Norway. From my grand parents to my children anything about Norway, i.e. the country, language or customs has been completely lost.

When our people, Israel, went into the Assyrian captivity they would be called by another name. The Medes and Persians called the tribes of Israel the Saka on the inscriptions of the Rock of Behistun, a monument that Darius the Great had carved into the face of a mountain and still remains today. See Photo below.

In Amos 7:16 God uses the name "House of Isaac" as synonymous with "Israel", so this must be a name for Israel that the people were familiar with. Also, "In Isaac shall thy seed be called" Romans 9:7, Hebrews 11:18 and Genesis 21:12; this documents that Israel would be called by Isaac’s name.

So the lost tribes of Israel would be called by Isaac’s name. It is a well-known Hebraism, and for some reason it certainly was a very common custom among the Israelites, to drop the first letter of a proper name to show the possessive. We could go into the actual Hebrew name but it comes out the same.

Isaac then becomes Saac or Sak. The Hebraism of dropping the first letter of a proper name, to show the possessive, would be the reason for dropping the "I".

The ten lost tribes of Israel (plus most of the other 2) then would have called themselves the Sak or the Beth Sak (which means House of Isaac) and this name would be synonymous with Israel.

And just as "Beth Sak" (house of Sak) was their name, they would also be known as the sons of Sak or Saksons. Translated into Latin and then into English as Saxons.