ALL Bible students know that the House of Israel went into captivity about bc. 725. This was the Assyrian captivity, from which they have never returned. The reader must remember that the Assyrian captivity of Israel and the Babylonish captivity of Judah are NOT the same, because Judah remained in the land about 134 years after Israel's captivity. ' Judah was not captive until about B.C., 588 (2 Kings xxv.), and then only for 70 years, whereas the records of the Scriptures, which include the return of the Jews from Babylon (2 Chron. xxxvi. ,2I-23; Zech. vii. 5), declare most emphatically, that though the Jews had returned from the Babylonish captivity the Ten Tribes had not. Saying, " So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria UNTO THIS DAY" (2 Kings xvii. 23; I Chron. v. 26), which can only mean that up to the day that these historical books were compiled, Israel had not returned, but were still "in the cities of the Medes" (2 Kings xvii. 6), and that they remained in the region of Media even in the days of Christ and the times of the Apostles, we may be quite' sure, because when Christ commanded them to "Go NOT into the way of the Gentiles, and' into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not but go' rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel" (Matt. x. 5), they, went into this very region; so that in going after these "lost sheep," it., these exiled tribes, in order that the Scripture might have fulfilment which says, C0 Yet does He devise deans that His banished be not expelled from Him." (2 Sam, xiv. I4), they went into the very neighbourhood of Media, and thence to Pamphylia, Galatia, Cappa docia, Bithynia, Illyricum, and by the region of the Euxine Sea. In favour of this, we have the testimony of Josephus, for he says-" But, then, the entire body of the people of Israel remained in that country, wherefore there are but two Tribes in Asia and Europe subject to the Romans, while the Ten Tribes are beyond Euphrates till now, and are an immense multitude, not to be estimated by numbers." (Ant., chap. v.) So that by the mouth of two witnesses, sacred and secular historians, we learn that the exiled House of, Israel was, in the days of the Apostles, about the region of Media. Why were they in this locality so long after exile? Because they were waiting for redemption from the Mosaic law. Christ's grand mission was to "redeem Israel." "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel" (Matt., xv. 24, Ezek. xxxiv. ii). . Hence we are told at Christ's birth e was " a light to lighten the Gentiles:" but what was a separate and far grander mission, He was "the glory of His, people Israel" (Luke ii 32). Well might Anna, who belonged to one of the Ten Tribes, and not to the two, when "she, coming in that instant, gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for, redemption in Jerusalem" (Luke ii. 3S), i.e., to the people of the Tribe of Benjamin, the only Tribe belonging to the ten that had not been exiled. Rom. xi. 1. Well might Simeon, in the fulness of his heart,' declare that Christ was L0 set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel," Luke u 34, i.e., He would become the stumbling; stone to the Jews, or Judah, who would reject Him; when their curses would overtake them: hence their "fall." But by His redemption for Israel, it would be for their "I rising again," so that by the death of Christ, by which " redemption alone could come, the curses upon; Judah began, and contemporaneously, the prophecies of blessings upon Israel: both would take effect at the same time., It is not necessary to insist that the exiled Tribes of Israel were literally " lost," in the English acceptation of the word, until after the crucifixion of our Saviour.

THE IDENTITY-The object of the Identity is to show that in the very region, and at the very time that the exiled Tribes are clearly traced in the days of the Apostles, there the antes tors of the British people are also traced, and this we are justified in emphasising as the

These extracts are invaluable to our purpose, as they call-to our aid Strabo, Herodotus, Diodorus, Pliny, and Ptolemy, to prove that our so-called Saxon, ancestors came from the parts where Israel was lost, and by which we gain the important fact, that in the days of Christ our forefathers were then occupying the north-west of Asia, on the point of making. their way into Europe; that in the very days of the Apostles the British race were located in Cappadocia, Galatia, Pamphylia, Lydia, Bithynia, Bithynia, Mysia, Achaica, Thessaly, Macedonia, and Illyricum.

This is important: one of Christ's positive declarations was, that He was "not sent but unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel" (Matt. xv. 24). To his disciples He said, "Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and' into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not; but go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel" (Matt. x. 5). In obedience to this command, we find the Apostles making their journeys to the precise localities where our British forefathers then were. So that with the abounding mass of evidence that is yet to follow, we are justified in saying, that when the Apostles were bid to go after exiled Israel, they immediately came to our British ancestors.

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