The Book of Hosea covers the fate of the ten lost tribes of Israel.
The ten northern tribes of Israel which lived in the northern portions of the holy land, were not known as Jews.
Per Josephus, the Jewish historian (100 A.D.), those of the southern kingdom at Jerusalem-Judea were those who called themselves Jews:
The ten northern tribes of the "kingdom of Israel" were removed from the holy land first, while the Jews of the "kingdom of Judah" remained. The ten tribes were taken captive first by the kings of Assyria, never to return, to this day.
The ten tribes made up the majority of the children of Israel. Only a small remnant of the ten tribes rejected Jeroboam, king of Israel's gold calf idol worship in the north, and left the north and went south to join with Judah and Benjamin at Judea (2 Chronicles 11). The larger portion of ten tribe Israelites went captive out of the land to Assyria and the lands of the Medes (2 Kings 17).
2 Esdras 13 (Apocrypha, which is included in original 1st edition KJV), mentions the migration of the ten tribes that were taken captive first and separated from the Jews of the southern kingdom.
The Book of Hosea reveals the ten tribe "house of Israel" would be removed from the holy land, and scattered to the "wilderness", to new lands, and there they would be given the full strength of Baal idol worship that they fell away into. And God would call them, Lo-Ami, meaning 'not My people'. Then the time would come when God would make a new covenant with them, and take the names of Baali out of their mouths, and they would call God "Ishi". (Friend).
That is exactly what I believe happened to the majority of the children of Israel, the ten lost tribes. God scattered the majority of them to the West. In the Scottish Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Arbroath (13th century A.D.), the signers mention their heritage from ancient Israel, and how they migrated to the west, from old Spain, Greece, etc.
Linguist professor at the University of Michigan, Leroy Waterman, in 1930 translated a portion of the Assyrian cuneiform clay tablets, and deciphered the Assyrian names of what the Assyrians called Omri king of Israel over the ten tribes, Khumri. The Jehu Steele also contains relative information linked to that. Professor Waterman translated those names as linked to the Cimmerian tribes, the Celtic peoples which migrated from the East into Asia Minor and Europe, having crossed through the Caucasus Mountains above the Black Sea, becoming known as Caucasians.
These historically became the early founders of the western Christian nations, the early beginnings of Christ's Church once Jesus was crucified and The Gospel preached among the Gentiles in Asia Minor and Europe.
The ten northern tribes of Israel which lived in the northern portions of the holy land, were not known as Jews.
Per Josephus, the Jewish historian (100 A.D.), those of the southern kingdom at Jerusalem-Judea were those who called themselves Jews:
7. Now when he was come to Babylon, and had taken with him many of his countrymen, who voluntarily followed him, he came to Jerusalem in the twenty and fifth year of the reign of Xerxes. And when he had shown the epistles to God 13 he gave them to Adeus, and to the other governors. He also called together all the people to Jerusalem, and stood in the midst of the temple, and made the following speech to them: "You know, O Jews, that God hath kept our fathers, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in mind continually, and for the sake of their righteousness hath not left off the care of you. Indeed he hath assisted me in gaining this authority of the king to raise up our wall, and finish what is wanting of the temple. I desire you, therefore who well know the ill-will our neighboring nations bear to us, and that when once they are made sensible that we are in earnest about building, they will come upon us, and contrive many ways of obstructing our works, that you will, in the first place, put your trust in God, as in him that will assist us against their hatred, and to intermit building neither night nor day, but to use all diligence, and to hasten on the work, now we have this especial opportunity for it." When he had said this, he gave order that the rulers should measure the wall, and part the work of it among the people, according to their villages and cities, as every one's ability should require. And when he had added this promise, that he himself, with his servants, would assist them, he dissolved the assembly. So the Jews prepared for the work: that is the name they are called by from the day that they came up from Babylon, which is taken from the tribe of Judah, which came first to these places, and thence both they and the country gained that appellation.
(The Antiquities of the Jews, by Flavius Josephus, Book XI, Chapter 5, section 7)
The ten northern tribes of the "kingdom of Israel" were removed from the holy land first, while the Jews of the "kingdom of Judah" remained. The ten tribes were taken captive first by the kings of Assyria, never to return, to this day.
The ten tribes made up the majority of the children of Israel. Only a small remnant of the ten tribes rejected Jeroboam, king of Israel's gold calf idol worship in the north, and left the north and went south to join with Judah and Benjamin at Judea (2 Chronicles 11). The larger portion of ten tribe Israelites went captive out of the land to Assyria and the lands of the Medes (2 Kings 17).
2 Esdras 13 (Apocrypha, which is included in original 1st edition KJV), mentions the migration of the ten tribes that were taken captive first and separated from the Jews of the southern kingdom.
40 these are the ten tribes which were led away from their own land into captivity in the days of King Hoshe′a, whom Shalmane′ser the king of the Assyrians led captive; he took them across the river, and they were taken into another land. 41 But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where mankind had never lived, 42 that there at least they might keep their statutes which they had not kept in their own land. 43 And they went in by the narrow passages of the Euphra′tes river. 44 For at that time the Most High performed signs for them, and stopped the channels of the river until they had passed over. 45 Through that region there was a long way to go, a journey of a year and a half; and that country is called Arzareth.[j]
Josephus said in his day, (100 A.D.), the ten tribes were still beyond the river Euphrates, and were a great many people, too many to be counted. The Book of Hosea reveals the ten tribe "house of Israel" would be removed from the holy land, and scattered to the "wilderness", to new lands, and there they would be given the full strength of Baal idol worship that they fell away into. And God would call them, Lo-Ami, meaning 'not My people'. Then the time would come when God would make a new covenant with them, and take the names of Baali out of their mouths, and they would call God "Ishi". (Friend).
That is exactly what I believe happened to the majority of the children of Israel, the ten lost tribes. God scattered the majority of them to the West. In the Scottish Declaration of Independence, the Declaration of Arbroath (13th century A.D.), the signers mention their heritage from ancient Israel, and how they migrated to the west, from old Spain, Greece, etc.
Linguist professor at the University of Michigan, Leroy Waterman, in 1930 translated a portion of the Assyrian cuneiform clay tablets, and deciphered the Assyrian names of what the Assyrians called Omri king of Israel over the ten tribes, Khumri. The Jehu Steele also contains relative information linked to that. Professor Waterman translated those names as linked to the Cimmerian tribes, the Celtic peoples which migrated from the East into Asia Minor and Europe, having crossed through the Caucasus Mountains above the Black Sea, becoming known as Caucasians.
These historically became the early founders of the western Christian nations, the early beginnings of Christ's Church once Jesus was crucified and The Gospel preached among the Gentiles in Asia Minor and Europe.
