With a call to become part of Israel comes an imperative to define what and who Israel actually is… 

Are we telling people to travel to the Levant? Are we impelling people to surrender their citizenship of their birth country to instead accept the citizenship of the nation occupying Outremer in our day, the country currently called Israel? No. 

Given the existence of the nation state named Israel and our own biblical identity as part of the ancient nation of Israel, a distinction must be made.

We are called by YHWH to become part of Israel, His ancient nation made up of the descendants of all 13 tribes and every one converted thereto or married in. We are not called to become part of the nation state known as Israel today.

And the two are not related in anyway, other than the state occupying the place and holding the rights and controlling the authority of the people to whom it all really belongs.

While the argument has long been Israel verses Palestine the real juxtaposition should be Israel verses Israel. 

Inspite of many modern ignorant claims the Land of Israel was infact known as Palestina during the Roman occupation and was the official name to the eradication of all Hebrew designations from the end of the BarKochba revolt to the issuance of the edict of Milan.

And Palestine has served off and on as an interchangeable designation for the Promised Land ever since, along with Israel, Outremer, the Levant, the Kingdom of Jerusalem, etc. 

Do the Palestinians have a right to live in The Land or the Jews? Well, Palestinians were living there for generations while Jews were in exile so why not? Do Jews in exile have a right to return? Obviously. Why not?

But historically speaking these questions are ignoring important portions of the subject.

Jews are the descendants of the southern kingdom of Israel called Yehudah (Judah) only 3 tribes of Israel - Judah, Benjamin, and Levi. And Levi never had any land inheritance. So no Levite holds a natural right to the land. Which would mean no Jew of the tribe of Levi has land rights in Israel. The narrative thereof is nuanced but no one notices. 

Moreover The Land never did belong to just the Jews, but to all the tribes of Israel, including the lost ones - the ten other tribes - Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Ephraim, and Manasseh - which would mean that Jews occupying The Land are occupying some of the property that belongs to the northern kingdom and therefore the property of the lost tribes… The problem is also that the Jews will not allow the lost tribes to return unless those people convert to Judaism.

In other words, the Jews want to be the whole kingdom of Israel… They don’t mind the lost tribes coming back and becoming part of the kingdom so long as they don’t try claiming their ancient heritage. They must accept the narrative that Israel is “the Jews” and the “the Jews” are Israel if they too want to return to The Land.

The ancient prophets foretold, the restoration of both the northern kingdom and southern kingdom as being Israel again. Both kingdoms restored and joining together as one - not the southern kingdom, absorbing the people of the northern kingdom in order to be made one.

Another problem with the nation state of Israel is the thing that they are most greatly praised for in the modern day - being the only democracy in the Middle East. Of all the nations that could be democratic in existence, in all the world let alone in the Middle East, Israel is the only one that has no moral standing to be so. The Torah is required to be the law of the land of Israel, and that is a theocracy not a democracy.

Since the return of the Jews to The Land, they have not truly honored The Shemitah, the land Sabbath, nor have they rebuilt the Temple nor even a the tabernacle.

Though they have the ability to apply the calendar correctly to mark the biblical times appropriately according to the Torah, they still run by the calculated calendar, which is lawful anywhere in the world, but not in Israel. 

The only place on earth, where freedom of religion is not supposed to be allowed is Israel, and yet they allow freedom of religion. In Israel none but YHWH is supposed to be worshiped, and yet they allow all the gods of the nations. They have silenced the Divine Name from His own Land even to this day, and allow the perverse sexual habits of the nations and the perversions of their kitchens, to be consumed in the land of Israel.

This nation state of Israel is decidedly not the Israel we are trying to be part of, as it does not include all the right people, accepts many who do not rightly belong, shuns many who naturally belong, and routinely breaks the commandments of the Torah… 

But that is their business. They occupy our Land, and though we are the ones who have a right to it if we do the commandments, until the Messiah returns, there is nothing that can be done about it. 

All we are supposed to do, and all we can do is keep the commandments to the best of our abilities. Wherever we are in the world far off looking to the time that was and will be again when the Presence of the Most High resides upon the Temple Mount, and when the King Messiah will reign there in Jerusalem, enforcing the Torah upon the world. 

Until that glorious day, who we are depends on what we do… If we love the Name of YHWH, cleave unto His Covenant, honor His Sabbaths and keep His Commandments, we will be reckoned as sons and daughters as He has promised.

No one can know if they belong to the lost tribes. Not for sure. But we can know that our Heavenly Father exiled those tribes to the farthest corners of the world, and they were not destroyed but intermingled with the nations, and their descendants walk the world today. 

And we can know from the Torah that YHWH said to all Israel, not just the Jews, but all Israel, that even when the Israelites were exiled to the farthest ends of the world, even if it was in the last days, that if they turned to Him, He would turn to them, and have mercy upon them and bring them back to The Land. 

The Torah commands both the Jews, and the lost tribes to repent and return to the true worship of YHWH, no matter who they are, and no matter where they are in the entire world or when they realize what The Way is. That makes it pretty important to know the difference between Israel and Israel. 

If you are not Israel, then you can become part of it by following His commandments, cleaving to His covenant, loving His Name, and honoring His Sabbaths as He said. And if you are of Israel, then you can return the exact same Way as those entering in for the first time, who never were of Israel before. 

It’s not possible to know if our ancestors came from the lost tribes, but with a commandment to the lost tribes, to turn to YHWH and obey the Torah, even if we’re at the end of the Earth, and the end of Time, if you have learned about YHWH, here at the end of all things, and far across the world, it might be a good idea to assume that you just might be one of the descendants of Israel, and act accordingly.

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