Who is the Publisher? Random House Who is Arthur K.? Renowned Jewish scholar living in Israel when he died. Do the modern day jews affirm? Yes, and besides it's historical fact. Is this a book that could be checked out from the Library? Yes.
What about other 10% of Jews? They are Sephardic--mixed with Babylonian semites, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Spanish. It is a myth that modern Jews are descendant from abraham. When the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD, the genealogies were destroyed. According to Jewish Anthropologist Ashley Montague and A. L. Kroeber, the modern Jews are the most mixed race on the earth today.
What about the 10 tribes in Revelations? You mean the 12 tribes from Rev. 7:5. I believe these twelve tribes are the remnanant who accepted Jesus in the first century and went out and evangelized the whole earth. The first generation Christian Church was composed almost exclusively of these Christian Jews. This 144,000 remanant of Jews was used by God to bring forth from all nations a multitude to worship the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. It also fulfills Gods' promised to Abraham: 'you shall be the father of many nations.'
Rev.7 "9: After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; |