The Great Bwana Mzungu to Africa and 100 Caucasians, the greatest Church of God prophet to ever exist in human history popped his homeo-pathetic cork today over British Israelism and its racist principles that have been used to slaughter and abuse millions around the world (i.e. King Leopold of Belgium).
After some of his usual blabbering, The Great Bwana Mzungu to Africa and 100 Caucasians had to lash out at us:
On June 4, 2020, the anti-COG site Banned by HWA posted the following:
Kubik and the entire United Church of God need to IMMEDIATELY discard their belief in British Israelism. …
Will Victor Kubik do what is right and set the example for all the other Churches of God and publicly denounce the racist myth of British Israelism?
British Israelism is neither racist nor is it a myth.
Oh, dear! Someone is NOT happy in Grover Beach! One of his pet doctrines has been disparaged! Without it, his little lacking-in-personality cult would have no need to exist.
He then goes on to blabber about the so-called "lost tribes" of Israel. Armstrongism has milked this concept for decades as one of its foundational doctrines, which incidentally is 100% irrelevant to ANYONE'S salvation.
“The ten lost tribes” is not a Biblical phrase, nor is there any similar expression implying the loss of any of the tribes. The phrase has been invented to support a theory, as a little Biblical history will show.
The twelve tribes formed one united kingdom under King Solomon (1 Kings 2:12), but because of the evils that appeared during his reign (chap. 11:6), the Lord allowed ten tribes to revolt (verses 30, 31) and form a kingdom un der Jeroboam with their capital in Samaria, to the north. Rehoboam, who declined the advice of seasoned counselors, became the king of Judah, or the southern kingdom of two tribes (Judah and Benjamin; 1 Kings 12:1-24; 2 Chron. 10:1-19), with his capital in Jerusalem. From then on the history of Israel, the northern kingdom, was for more than two hundred years a dismal succession of apostasy, rebellion, murder, usurpation. As a result, large numbers deserted to the southern kingdom of Judah, as is clearly stated in 2 Chronicles 15:9: “And he [King Asa] gathered all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon: for they fell to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that the Lord his God was with him.”
Prior to the end of the northern kingdom, King Hezekiah of Judah attempted a revival (2 Chron. 30:1-27) by inviting them to return to the worship of God, and a multitude from the north came to Jerusalem. But the days of the northern kingdom were numbered, and it came to an end (2 Kings 17:6) by an Assyrian invasion of Samaria and the deportation of nearly 28,000 captives:
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor . . . , and in the cities of the Medes. (See also verses 7-9; 18-23; 18:9-12; compare 2 Chron. 30:1-18.)
The fall of Samaria marked the end of the north ern kingdom of Israel after a tragic history of little more than two centuries. Conceived and born in the spirit of rebellion, it had no chance of survival. Twenty kings with an average rule of 10 years had sat upon the throne, 7 of them as murderers of their predecessors.
If it had been recognized that with the downfall of Samaria “the ten-tribed kingdom of Israel” ceased forever to exist as a separate political entity, no British-American-Israel theory would have arisen.
This and other captivities and deportations did not, however, mean that all the members of the ten tribes were transported from their own land into exile. For in stance, about one hundred years after the Assyrian deportations of Israel, King Josiah of Judah instituted a revival and repaired the Temple at Jerusalem (2 Chron. 34:1-9)—a revival in which the citizens of Ephraim and Manasseh and other Israelite remnants left in the land participated. In 2 Chronicles 35:17 and 18 we read of a great Passover observed by Judah and Israel.
It is estimated that not more than fifty thousand of Israel were deported to Assyria, in harmony with the custom of ancient despots to remove mainly leaders and people likely to foment revolt. This means that there were no completely lost tribes down to this time, and here the prophet Jeremiah, who prophesied to both Judah and Israel from the days of Josiah till the end of Zedekiah’s reign, the last ruler of Judah, enters the picture.
Not a word does Jeremiah utter in his prophecies to both Israel and Judah of any idea of lost tribes and their future rediscovery. That carries us down to the final Babylonian captivity of the southern kingdom
It should be noted that when the Persian King Cyrus released God’s people from Babylon to return to their homeland in 536BC they are not called Jews by Isaiah, but "Jacob" and "Israel," also "Israel mine elect," so that Isaiah was also unaquanted with the distinction made by the Anglo-Israelites between "Israelites" and "Jews" (see Isaiah 45:4, 11:25, on the use of these terms). The True Israel of God: The Anglo-American-Israel Theory Examined by Harry W. Lowe - General Conference Field Secretary
Also:
Over time, many theories, legends, and myths developed concerning these tribes. In the 19th century, literature started to appear, declaring the so-called 10 lost tribes had migrated into Western Europe, eventually settling in the British Isles. Claims were made that people within the United Kingdom descended from the “lost” tribes of Israel. This false belief became known as British-Israelism and Anglo-Israelism.
The truth is there is no such thing as the 10 lost tribes because they were never lost! For example, King Hezekiah invited the remnant of Israel to Jerusalem to keep the Passover with the tribe of Judah. Many came from the tribes of Asher, Ephraim, Manasseh, and Zebulun and identified themselves with the house of David (2 Chr. 30:1, 10–11, 25–26; 34:6–9). Most probably never left Judah. Are the 10 Tribes of Israel Lost?
And this:
The mystery of the lost ten tribes of Israel endures in legend today, but the provided evidence does show that those who had a military occupation and served the Assyrian army as auxiliary units seemed to have retained their identity. As for the overall Israelite population, they too can be found, but by an individual basis, based on who held different jobs of a non-military nature.
It appears that the so-called “Lost Ten Tribes of Israel” were never lost. Instead, they served, and over a generation or two, integrated within the local Assyrian populations, eventually losing their identity. Ancient Orgins: Were the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel Ever Lost?
All of this useless claptrap is just one more tool of diversion that COG leaders use to divert attention away from the ONE they should be following and trusing in. As fascinating as the stories and myths may be, they still are irrelevant to any Chrsitan.
