WHO ARE THE REAL ISRAELITES?
Although we are supposed to be living in an enlightened world, and in many ways we are, when it comes to understanding who or where the Twelve Tribes of Israel are in the world today, we find only a limited amount of information, and much of it is conjecture.
The following information, along with the migration map will be helpful in shedding more light and understanding on this most important and timely subject.
We are endeavoring to show that the Twelve Tribes of Israel in the world today are none other than the peoples which comprise the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, Germanic, Scandinavian and kindred peoples. Since they are scattered throughout the world, it is difficult to have an accurate estimate of how many Israelites (real Israelites) there are living at this time, but there are some who estimate that there are between six and seven hundred million. The promise which is stated in the scriptures made some 3800 years ago to Abraham, Isaac and Isaac's sons (the Sax- sons) as recorded in the book of Genesis, has come to pass. The promise was reiterated specifically to Jacob, who was given the name "Israel".
The first time that Abraham was told that his progeny would be a blessing to all nations of the world, and would be a great host of people, is found in the Twelfth chapter of Genesis, but for this study we will consider chapter twenty-two where the Lord appears the second time to Abraham to repeat and confirm what we call today the "Abrahamic Covenant."
Consider verses fifteen through eighteen which state: "And the Angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time and said, "By myself have I sworn, sayeth the lord, that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice."
For many centuries the peoples which comprise " Anglo-Saxondom" have practiced some kind of faith to God. They are found in every nation and people in the world, and they have also been a blessing in other ways to the have-not nations of the world.
Most Christians are aware that the Israelites were carried into captivity, but many know little about the details. A short synopsis of this story is found in second Kings, chapter eighteen. There we read of this deportation of Israel and, a few years later, most of Judah. In approximately 730 B.C. Shalmaneser (king of Assyria) invaded Israel, and we read in verses 11 and 12: '"and the King of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Harbor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God but transgressed his covenant."
In verse 13, it states that seven years later the Assyrian army came up against the remaining cities of Judah and took them. Only Jerusalem remained under King Hezekiah's control.
Eventually the city of Jerusalem was also destroyed as the people continued to struggle. In the year 596 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, came and besieged Jerusalem, and took the inhabitants approximately 22,000 into what we call the Babylonian Captivity.
This is a short history in a nutshell, so to speak, of Israel's deportation and subsequent captivity. However, the important thing that we need to remember is that when almost the entire population of all twelve tribes of Israel were taken captive by the armies of Assyria they were placed in the area of the Caucasus Mountains to the North of their Homeland. There they remained for approximately one hundred years, and became known as Caucasians, most of these people had fair skin, blonde, or reddish-blond or light-brown hair and light blue or blue-green eyes.
The name Caucasian has remained as part of their identity ever since that time. Most people have no idea whatsoever of the connection between the Caucasians and the Israelites of Bible history and prophecy. Refer to the chapter about England, France and the Holy Grail.