The Temple and the Lost Tribes of Israel

Jon Eric Lambert

Description

The Temple and the Lost Tribes of Israel argues that the ten northern tribes of Israel still exist despite being banished from western Christian theology. It also argues for a new location for the Temple—contrary to long-held, accepted tradition, using new archeological finds, first century eyewitness Josephus, and the work of Bliss and Dickie from the 1890s that overlaps Nehemiah. These two prophetic themes support Paul’s assertion that someday all Israel will be saved (Romans 11:26).

THE TEMPLE AND THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL addresses two main prophecies that must occur before the return of Christ. First, the lost tribes of Israel must be located in order for all Israel to be saved. Second, Gentile Christians must help Israel build the Temple in its ancient and proper location. These two missions begin to bring all Israel to faith in Jesus. And so, all Israel will be Saved (Romans 11:26).

Sujets

• Biblical Commentary
• Philosophie et théologie
• Ten Lost Tribes
• Nehemiah
• Religion
• Prophecy
• Temple

Informations

• Publié par: WestBow Press
• Date de parution: 09 novembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781664279773
• Langue: English

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The Temple and the Lost Tribes of Israel
 
A Biblical View
 
 
JON ERIC LAMBERT
 
 
 
 
 

 
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ISBN: 978-1-6642-7976-6 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2022918266
 
WestBow Press rev. date: 11/07/2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
And so all Israel will be saved.
—Romans 11:26
For the Glory of God.
My thanks to a daughter who helped me understand a bit about editing when I was not so willing. For another daughter who prayed and traveled with me when traveling was not her thing. And a son who put up with my constant frustration with computers.
Thanks also to all the students at my school who listened to me over the years and supported my efforts.
And, most of all, to my wife who has amazingly put up with my need to research these things for forty years.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1John 3:3–4 and What it Implies
Chapter 2Hastening the Day of God and Christopher Columbus
Chapter 3John 10 and the Other Sheep—the Lost Tribes of Israel: Part I
Chapter 4The Lost Tribes of Israel: Part II
Chapter 5The Sur Gate and the Foundation Gate
Chapter 6The Seven Branched Candlestick: The Symbol of the Holy Spirit in Both Testaments
Chapter 7Asaph Predicted the Destruction of the Temple Two Times
Chapter 8God’s Future Temple in the Right Location: Part I
Chapter 9God’s Future Temple in the Right Location: Part II
Chapter 10God’s Future Temple in the Right Location: Part III
Chapter 11The Red Heifer
Chapter 12The Messiah’s First and Last Names Predicted in the Old Testament. (How This Can Bring about Israel’s Salvation)
Chapter 13Additional Matters and Critics
Conclusion
Afterword
Temple Memorial 2022
About the Author
Introduction

This is a how-to book about winning all Israel to Christ. It is a book about overcoming hurdles—or we might say it is about moving mountains that stand in the way before the return of Christ. Two mountains stand in our way before the final fulfillment of this age and the return of Christ: finding and winning the Lost Tribes of Israel and rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem in its correct location.
The information presented here contradicts the notion that northern Israel is lost and gone for good. It also disputes that the current, traditional Temple Mount is the correct location for the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. At the same time, we present new understandings of ancient historians and present new finds on the old walls from Nehemiah’s day. With the Bible in hand to interpret what we found, we can show that the ancient location of the Temple was in the City of David and not on the traditional Temple Mount.
In addition, this book contains the Scriptures’ ultimate guide to witnessing to anyone without fear. It features a brief review (or revelation) about what Columbus was up to when he sailed west in order to hasten the Day of Christ. This includes things that the older European world may have known long ago but were withheld from Americans by omission from today’s history books.
The Temple and the Lost Tribes of Israel is a book is about winning all Israel to Christ; it is a simple formula, but getting there is a journey. It is a story that has not been told before because the time was not ripe. In explaining this research to others, I was told by a Chinese student that it was too confusing—even though he was the most brilliant English student I have ever had. To remedy this, I have added five maps and several photos to help convey new and difficult thoughts. As has been said, “A picture is worth a thousand words.”
These maps and pictures lessen the difficulty considerably. The maps are from the American archeologist Frederick Jones Bliss (1859–1937) and the Scottish archeologist Archibald Campbell Dickie (1845–1920) whose mission in the 1890s was to uncover the walls of ancient Jerusalem. They worked under the auspices of a nineteenth-century British organization, the Palestinian Exploration Fund, the PEF, which still exists today.
To Bliss and Dickie and their sponsors, we owe a large debt of gratitude. The two archeologists were said to be extraordinarily accurate in their mapmaking, complimented for this more than sixty years after their work by the great British archeologist, Dame Kenyon (Hallote 2006, 130).
Some information declared here is new, and other details have been corroborated by nineteenth-century archeologists and more modern scholars. On the one hand, my style is to say many things as a matter of fact, but bear in mind, they may be entirely new and outside the present ideas of most theologians, historians, and archeologists of Jerusalem and its ancient sites.
I have corresponded with secular scholars and Bible scholars. Many thanks to all of them. Some have agreed with a part of what follows, and others have argued against our theory of the Temple’s location—this seems to be the normal way that theologians and archeologists do business—no hard feelings. Others have ignored the theory. Most academics named here would not ascribe to all that I say in any case. I have mentioned some of their names only to let you know what they have written to me or spoken to me on a specific issue.
Jesus said that we, by faith, could move mountains that stand in our way (Matthew 17:20). The task of winning the nation of Israel to Christ has a few mountains standing in our path, one of which is rebuilding the Temple in Jerusalem. What we can do about it is important for the return of Jesus and winning the nation of Israel to Christ. Though the traditional Temple Mount is where the observant Jew expects the Temple to be built, there is an abundance of evidence from the Bible, from history, and from archeology that shows otherwise. Some of the following is original research from these records, and some is from a search of old Jerusalem in 2015, 2017, and 2019 to tie these all together. This will hasten the Day by hastening the building of the Temple “on its site” (Ezra 5:15).
Huge credit goes to the late Ernest L. Martin for originating this theory of the Temple’s true location (Martin 2000). He started with the idea that the Temple was actually south of the traditional Mount, and I have reviewed his research and corroborated it further by expanding on our new discoveries of the walls of Nehemiah’s Jerusalem. After some archeological finds were revealed in recent days that were not known to Dr. Martin, and after new identifications made about the location of Nehemiah’s walls, his original position for the Temple had to be moved to the east a bit. While Ernest L. Martin and I do not share the same convictions in matters of religion, I appreciate the insights and research that he pioneered in this very important matter.
For sure, both Israel and Judah are included in the promises of God. Since we are speaking of winning all Israel to Christ, we show from the Bible and from history the whereabouts of the “Lost” Tribes of Israel. I say lost in quotes since they are not lost to themselves; they are confident of their own whereabouts and their own boast to be those tribes.
After many years of interest and study on the one subject and almost as many on the other, I hope what you are about to read thrills your soul as a believer in Christ as much as it did mine to search these things out. But why such a long wait—and why now? I believe the time may be ripe in our day.
In particular, if you are convinced and willing, please remove, copy, share, sign, and send to me the Temple Memorial at the end of the book. After we have gathered enough signatures on the Temple Memorial, these will be presented to the president of the United States, God willing, just as Blackstone’s original Zionist Memorial was sent to President Harrison many years ago.
The Jewish people are not automatically right with God by following the outward signs of their religion. Even in the days of the Second Temple, the Jews needed to be saved. Jesus had harsh words for their leaders who followed the word of man over the Word of God. Not mu