It is clear that Jesus' coming, crucifixion and resurrection had many effects on the world and history. Churches tell us that Jesus came to die for the sins of the world, but that was never the reason given by Jesus as his purpose and calling. When he prayed to His Father in the garden he stated that he had accomplished God's directive, He was praying this prayer before His crucifixion. Clearly he wasn't talking about His redemptive work on the cross.
So what was that mission, what did he come to do? He said he had come to seek and to save those which are lost (Luke 19: 10). This concept was echoed in Mark 2: 17, when the leaders of the temple asked Jesus, “Why does He eat with tax collectors and sinners?”, as if to say "why do you choose to eat with him, rather than us richteous ones?", he told them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."
There are many occasions when what seem like throwaway remarks from Jesus say far more than we may realise. One in particular is heard in an exchange between a Canaanite woman where he tells her, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." By saying it that way, he is also saying, though indirectly, "I am not sent to the sheep of the House of Judah." Here Jesus qualified specifically which lost people he was referring to. That is not to say he did not care about the rest of humanity, rather that the job of reaching the nations of the earth was someone else's calling: "you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth" (Acts 1: 8) he told his disciples; that was their task. His task was to seek and to save those which are lost, the House of Israel - to make disciples of them and send them out to fulfil God's promise to Abraham that "through his seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed".
So who are the lost sheep of the House of Israel that Jesus not only spoke so passionately about, and even claimed it was for then that he had been sent by God? So who were these people? How did they become lost? Were they ever found? Strangely, these questions were never discussed or addressed, not to mention satisfactoraly answered during my decades as a church goer. I asked many times but no one seemed either willing or able to give me a satifactory explanation and this left me with no alternative to go and have a look in the Scriptures and find out for myself. This study documents what I found.
The following links provide background information that may be of interest to any reader who may wish to go deaper into research relating to the Lost of the Hose of Israel than this series of studies has gone. Some of the lnks lead to articles hy other writers and researchers that present a different viewpoint to mine, or cover related topics that I have not addressed or discussed. These links are providec as information only, there inclusion does not infer that I neccessarily agree with them, and readers are encouraged to do their own research and come to their own conclusions, just as I suggest they do when reading what I have written.
Headed by King Charles III, the English monarchy is one of the oldest in the world. According to the royal family’s official site, its roots can be traced back to the time when William the Conqueror was declared King of England in 1066 and can be traced even still when the Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD. But there are those who believe that Kng Charles III's roots can be traced even further - to the royal family of Israel and that Her Majesty is actually a descendant of King David, the Psalmist.
Jews and The BibleIn the Bible the word "Jew" means a resident of the land of Judaea regardless of their tribe, race or religion just as an Australian or Englishman may in fact be a Chinese, Negro or an Eskimo, though originally it referred to a member of the tribe of Judah (Judahite).
The Legend of Tephi, Queen of IrelandThe story of Teia Tephi, said to be a princess in the Line of David, is told in Irish myths and legends, but much of what we know today of her exploits in Ireland come from The Book of Tephi, said to be written by her, which documents her exploits.
Princess ScotaWas an Irish princess in the line of Moses and David?
100 Biblical References to the House of IsraelWhat The Bible Says About The House Of Israel.
God's Dealings With His Chosen People IsraelElieser Bassin is credited as the first Jewish convert to British Israelism. In 1884 he delivered a lecture entitled "God's Dealings With His Chosen People Israel" to a crowd of British Israelites in Portobello, Edinburgh.
The Lemba: The Lost Tribe of Israel In AfricaThe Lemba, a Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa, have a tradition that they were led out of Judea by a man named Buba. Considering themselves to be a Lost Tribe of the Children of Israel, they specifically adhere to religious practices which are similar to those which exist in Judaism.
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