FINAL WARNING: The Curtain Falls
according to the commandment of the king, saying, Ye children of
Israel, turn again unto the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and
Israel, and he will return to the remnant of you, that are escaped
out of the hand of the kings of Assyria ... So the posts passed
from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh
even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked
them.”This indicates that the King knew where the tribes were and was able
to send them correspondence, so they were never really lost at all.Genesis relates that Cain made his way to a land where he built “a city,
and called the name of the city, after the name of his son
Enoch.” (Genesis 4:17) Although there has been extensive
archeological research around the area where Eden was believed to
have been located, no remains of such a city has been found. But there
is a city that bears the name– Tenochtitlan. However, this was the
capital of the Aztec empire, which later became known as Mexico City.In 1 Chronicles 1:19 it says: “And unto Eber were born two sons: the
name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided:
and his brother’s name was Joktan.” Peleg was born around 2248 BC
and the confounding of speech took place at the Tower of Babel
around 2234 BC. The text in Chronicles could be referring to people
dividing up into various groups– according to language similarity.
However, some researchers believe that this passage reflects the fact
that prior to Peleg, all the continents were connected. This confirms
the scientific concept known as the Continental Drift Theory (even
though it happened much later), and illustrates that the descendants of
Noah were able to migrate to lands all around the world on natural land
bridges.In Genesis 35:11, Israel is referred to as a “nation and a company of
nations,” and is a veiled prophetic reference to what would later occur.
Undoubtedly the ten ‘lost’ tribes were assimilated into local
populations, and branches also eventually migrated west.In 1165, Benjamin of Tudela (son of Jonah), in Spain, set out to explore
the world, recording his adventures in his Book of Travels. In the
mountains of Persia, he ran across Jewish tribesmen who he believed