Where are The Twelve Tribes? We know they exist because all were mentioned by St. James in James 1:1. “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes of the Dispersion: Greetings. . “
The Tribes of Judah and Benjamin were mostly in Southern Israel when St. James wrote to them. The Ten Northern Tribes to whom he wrote had been forcibly relocated to the North around 720 BC. Many were first sent to Halah and Habor, on the river of Gozan. Others were sent to cities of the Medes.
These areas were South of The Caucasus Mountains. For centuries, those of European descent have called ourselves “Caucasians”. The name describe our ancestral residences between the Black and Caspian Seas.
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The Ten Northern Tribes maintained tribal identities as they migrated into other areas. Some in the Tribe of Gad ended up in England. So did some of Simon’s descendants. Their lands and names appear on maps of England before Romans took over.
The Tribe of Dan left its “mark” on “Denmark”, The Mark of Dan. The name “Saxon” is shorthand for others of “Isaac’s Sons”.
Goths, Gepids, Samaritans, Slavs, Ashkenazi, and dozens of other Tribes and divisions, maintained their ancient identities as they moved across Central Asia and Europe. They fought each other, and Rome, for living space.
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God moved Rome to defeat Carthage, Greece, Persia, Egypt, North Africa, Parthia, Armenia, England, and Illyria. The long Rhine-Danube Valley was Rome’s Northern Frontier. The Sahara Desert was its Southern boundary.
Rome gave the Ten Tribes a common language. Rom’s language and laws moved along Roman roads. As Catholicism spread, the Northern Tribes were given a Faith that spread from India to Ireland.
When the Franks became Catholic, they were given France. Longobards became Catholic Lombards, and were given the Northern half of Italy. Visigoths became Arian Christians, and took Spain. God was disgusted with their heresy. He took Spain from them and gave it to Moslems. When Visigoths returned to The Catholic Church, God gave Spain back to them.
Then, God gave the Catholic Visigoths in Spain and the Catholic Suevi (Swabians, from Germany) in Portugal entire Continents in New World that He arranged for Columbus to discover.
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From The Philippines to Mainland Asia, Catholics did what they had done for over a thousand years.
Catholics built Catholic Churches, hospitals, schools, universities, orphanages, monasteries, and convents. They established accommodations for the poor.
In every nation, the spiritual Children of Abraham were blessed to obey He Who Fulfilled The Prophecies. To this very day, we remain in The Only Church Jesus Founded by His Decree:
“And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.”
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There is a short, interesting History Section in “New Road to Rome”. It may be downloaded free at catholicfundamentalism.com
