Posted by Searcher on 8/29/2009, 8:10 pm, in reply to "The end of the Kingdom of Israel"
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Dear Ray,
We should love and believe in the Lord and love one another. Loving others and esteeming others above ourselves is part of the walk of faith, the new man.
Eph 4:24,25,31,32
And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor: for we are members one with another...Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice: And be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
Php 2:2,3
Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
I am happy that you and I are of one mind in our understanding of the law.
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The idea that the ten tribes went into captivity and were lost, never to return to Palestine, is false.
In Ezra 6:16, the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites kept the dedication of the house. The next verse tells of the offering of 12 he goats for a sin offering according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Ezra 16:16,17
And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of the house of God with joy. And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.
Later, in verse 21, it speaks of all the children of Israel that came out of captivity.
In Ezra 7:13 the King of Persia made a decree concerning the people of Israel and the priests and the Levites. The next verse speaks of Judah and Jerusalem. Verse 15 speaks of silver and gold which the king gave to the God of Israel whose habitation was in Jerusalem. (not Samaria or anyplace else)
Searcher
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