Christians for Truth
In his essay, “Heirs Of The Promise,” Sheldon Emry includes an interview with biblical archeologist, E. Raymond Capt, on what happened to the ten “lost” northern tribes of Israel, and who their descendants are today based on the fulfillment of prophecy.
Of course, most Christian ministers and priests will tell you that these peoples — numbering perhaps in the millions after the Assyrian captivity — were simply lost in the mists of time, absorbed into the surrounding peoples, such as the Persians and Medes.
But the 19th century excavations of ancient Nineveh — most notably by Austen Henry Layard — unearthered thousands of cuneiform tablets that revealed the identity of these Israelite captive tribes — along with their subsequent movements.
Capt’s work was later confirmed by Welsh archeologists, Alan Wilson and Baram Blackett whose work connects the Welsh people — Cymry/Cymru — with the ancient Khumry of the Assyrian captivity. Wilson and Blackett maintain that the Welsh language is virtually the same as that of the ancient Khumry.
Ironically, the Israelite tribes that have been “lost in the mists of time” are the three southern tribes of the captivity — Judah, Benjamin, and Levi — collectively known as “the Jews” in the New Testament. After the Roman destruction of the temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD — and then the Bar Kokhba Revolt in 132 B.C. — these three tribes were indeed scattered to the wind, absorbing the genetics of all kinds of peoples along the way — Arab Syrians, Mongol-Turks, Babylonians. They literally became a different, non-Israelite people…
