This synopsis starts with a question from a family member of mine. We can answer through an understanding of Israel the Nation. Where did they start and Where are they now.

QUESTION:
So this has come up many times and I’m hopeful that you can direct me towards scripture so I can actually sort it out. A church we used to go to said often in prayer about blessing Israel. Nothing specific, so at the time I took it as blessing the people of Israel, or the land.  It’s not been clear, the intention. I need to understand if God was blessing the land, the “people” who live there, or perhaps God’s chosen people from Israel a long time ago. Or maybe I need to understand something else about it.

Israel as a nation. Who is Israel? Does God bless Israel? Should we bless Israel? We will answer this question at the end. First you must understand who Israel is, where they are, and why God choose them.

Lets start with understanding the main reason god choose Israel. It is through Israel that Christ would come to provide salvation for your soul through the forgiveness for your sins.

You are not worthy to stand before God. Christ gave his life and he was perfect, he had no sin. He gave his life for you that you can be justified before God, not through your righteousness (we are all sinners). But you are justified before God by the righteousness of Christ your Savior.

Accept Christ as your Savior, believe on him as the son of God and ask forgiveness to him for your sins. You will have salvation and stand before God after your body perishes, and live with him FOREVER.

John

3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Man could not have salvation from their sins through the blood sacrifice of animals. 

Hebrews

God’s gave us the law and animals were sacrificed for the atonement of sins. The Messiah Jesus Christ would come and offer himself to replace this law by offering himself for one and all time a perfect offering for all sin. We can ask for forgiveness for our sins, by repentance to him.

Hebrews

10:10  By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

10:11  And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:

10:12  But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

Israel was the chosen nation and chosen people where Christ through a perfect seed line would come and make this offering of himself for our sins. 

1863 BC
Abraham offers up Isaac his only son

Abraham was in the lineage of Christ. After he had offered up his only son Isaac for sacrifice as directed by God. Abraham was promised his seed would multiply as the stars of heaven.

God would stop Abraham and bless him offering a ram caught in a bush instead of his son Isaac. On this same hill God would offer his son Jesus Christ as a sacrifice for our sins and save whomsoever would believe on him.

Genesis 

 22:16  And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:

Isaac is Abraham’s only son whom the nation Israel would come through. 

Remember this next verse as you read.

Genesis 

 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

1836 BC
Jacob and Esau are born to Isaac Abrahams son

Isaac’s sons would be Jacob and Esau. Esau would sell his birth right of the firstborn to Jacob for a bowl of mush. Jacob would then become the patriarch of the 12 tribes of Israel.

Hebrews

12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.

12:17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

1752 BC
The 12 Patriarchs are born to Jacob

Jacob would be the patriarch of the 12 tribes of Israel, through his 12 sons. 

The twelve sons of Jacob form the basis for the twelve tribes of the nation Israel, listed in the order from oldest to youngest:

Reuben – Ephraim, Joseph’s son would replace Ruben due to Ruben sinning against his family.
Simeon
Levi – The priests tribe
Judah – The royal King line tribe. Christ would come through David’s son Nathan. 
Dan
Naphtali
Gad
Asher
Issachar
Zebulun
Joseph – Who was sold into Egypt
and Benjamin

1727 BC
Joseph is sold into Egypt

The Lord warned Abraham that the nation of Israel would be in bondage in Egypt. 

Genesis

 15:13  And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years;

 15:14  And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

We all know the story of Joseph. He was sold into slavery by the jealousy of his brothers. He had been given the coat of many colors. A sign of the firstborn but he was not the firstborn. God would use him to save his family and the Nation Israel through whom would Christ come.

Acts

 7:9  And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

1717 BC
Joseph is moved by God to power in Egypt

God moved Joseph to second in command to Pharaoh and he would save his father and family of 12 brothers and their wives and children 70 souls total from the famine in the land. They would go to Egypt with Joseph and escape and there grow into the nation Israel.

Acts

 7:10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

1706 BC
Jacob and his family of 70 goes to Egypt

There the family of 70 grew into the nation Israel under bondage of the Egyptians. For 400 years building cities for Pharaoh.

Exodus

1:5 And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.

1:6 And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

1491 BC
God through Moses frees Israel from Egypt

God would raise up Moses to free this nation of his chosen people. Christ your savior was to come through Israel.

Acts

 7:34 I have seen, I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt, and I have heard their groaning, and am come down to deliver them. And now come, I will send thee into Egypt.

God would give the Passover through Moses in Egypt where they would kill a lamb on the 14th day after the spring equinox and place the blood of the lamb on the door posts. The death angel (Satan) that night would have to pass over the house. 

On this same day of Passover on the 14th day after the spring equinox God would offer up his son and through Christ’s sacrifice on Passover day you receive redemption from your sins. Satan the angel of death must pass over you.

Hebrews

2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

Exodus

 12:5  Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

 12:6  And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

The firstborn of every household without the blood of the lamb on the door posts died, and Egypt sent the nation Israel out. 

Exodus

11:4  And Moses said, Thus saith the LORD, About midnight will I go out into the midst of Egypt:

 11:5  And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sitteth upon his throne, even unto the firstborn of the maidservant that is behind the mill; and all the firstborn of beasts.

1491 BC
The Exodus of Israel

Moses would lead Israel out of Egypt. Egypt pursued them and Moses by God’s hand led them to the Red Sea and they would pass through. 

The Egyptians army would die in the Red Sea and Israel was free. 

Exodus 

 14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.

Israel now has around 2 million people. They would receive the 10 commandments at Moses’ hand. They would rebel and wander in the wilderness for 40 years. 

The Ten Commandments

You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall make no idols.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
Keep the Sabbath day holy.
Honor your father and your mother.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet.

Joshua 

 5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

1451 BC
Joshua leads Israel into the promised land

Moses would die and Joshua would lead the nation Israel into the land promised to them by God. 40 Years after wandering in the wilderness for their rebellion against God. 

Deuteronomy 

 31:7 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

1444 BC
Joshua drives out the inhabitants of the land

Joshua would by many wars drive out the inhabitants of the land, and win the land promised to them by God.

Joshua

11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

The 12 tribes would settle into the allotments given to them by God through Moses. 

Ephraim Josephs son would replace Ruben due to Ruben sinning against his family.

1491-1000 BC
Judges rule over Israel 

Over the space of 450 years Israel would be ruled by judges. They would constantly leave God by following idolatry. God would send them into captivity under the enemies of Israel. 

Acts

 13:20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

God would raise up judges to free them. After they cried to the Lord for help.

Samson
Gideon
Deborah

Judges

 10:10 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.

1040 BC
God raises up Samuel the last judge of Israel.

Samuel would be the last judge before the period of Kings.

Acts

 13:20 And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

God wanted to be the King over Israel but they refused his laws and followed idolatry. 

The people asked for a man king to rule over them and God told Samuel he will give them a man king. 

Samuel

1:4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

1:5 And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.

1000 BC
Saul becomes the first King of Israel

God gave them Saul for their first King of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin. Who started out ok but quickly left God’s commandments and laws. Saul was rejected by God. 

1 Samuel

13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

13:14 But now thy kingdom shall not continue: the Lord hath sought him a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee.

960 BC
David takes over as the second King of Israel

God then gave the kingship to David of Judah. A good king of Israel but not perfect. David would rule for 40 years. 

1 Chronicles

 29:26  Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel.

 29:27  And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years; seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.

 29:28  And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.

God would promise David a King to rule over Israel on his throne. This was Christ for ever and ever to be established on the throne of David ruling Israel. Christ will return he will Rule Israel on the throne of David.

2 Samuel

 7:12  And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.

 7:13  He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

920 BC
Solomon takes over as the third King of Israel

Solomon David’s son took over his throne ruling the 12 tribes of Israel. And because of idolatry. The kingdom was split. 

880 BC
The kingdom of Israel split into two nations

They would become two nations. 10 tribes to the north under the banner of Ephraim the largest tribe with their capital of Samaria, and 2 tribes in Jerusalem, Judah and Benjamin. 

The northern 10 tribes had their own King over them, Jeroboam. The southern 2 tribes had Rehoboam for their King. The 10 Northern tribes were known as Israel. The 2 Southern Tribes as Judah.

The line of Kings would continue on both sides; some kings were good. Most of the King’s were bad. 

Jeroboam (the king of the northern 10 Tribes) made two golden calves to worship there in Samaria and told the people to worship these golden calves instead of going down to Jerusalem and worshiping God at the Temple there. This was idolatry.

1 Kings

 12:28 Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold, and said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

611 BC
The 10 northern tribes taken into captivity because of idolatry (Israel)

The 10 northern tribes would fall further into idolatry and God would give them up to the enemy. The Assyrians, would take them captive. They would later be released and spread north over the Caucasus mountains. Being called Caucasians and known by the same name today. 

The Assyrian captivity, also called the Assyrian exile, is the period in the history of ancient Israel and Judah during which tens of thousands of Israelites from the Kingdom of Israel were dispossessed and forcibly relocated by the Neo-Assyrian Empire. One of many instances attesting Assyrian resettlement policy, this mass deportation of the Israelite nation began immediately after the Assyrian conquest of Israel, which was overseen by the Assyrian kings Tiglath-Pileser III and Shalmaneser V.

The later Assyrian kings Sargon II and Sennacherib also managed to subjugate the Israelites in the neighbouring Kingdom of Judah following the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem, but were unable to annex their territory outright.

The Assyrian captivity’s victims are known as the Ten Lost Tribes, and Judah was left as the sole Israelite kingdom until the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem

The 10 northern tribes would spread throughout Europe and the British isles and migrate to the United States of America making up the free Christian nations of the world. 

Migrating away from the religious persecution of Europe. Founding the largest and most blessed nation in the world, the USA. The descendants of the 10 tribes Israel. 

477 BC
Judah taken captive by Babylon

200 years after the 10 northern tribes went into captivity Judah and Benjamin went into captivity to the king of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar. This was also due to idolatry and breaking God’s laws. After 70 years of captivity they would return to Jerusalem sent by Cyrus the king of Persia who defeated the Babylonians. The Persians would later be defeated and taken over by the Alexander (Greeks) then the Romans then the Muslims till 1948.

The 12 tribes of Israel do not all live in the state of Israel. Many have migrated and formed the free Christian nations of the world. The British isles many European countries and THE USA. 

1948 AD
Israel formed again as a nation

The establishment of Israel as a nation in 1948 was a pivotal moment in history, marking the rebirth of the Jewish people after 2,000 years of exile. The declaration of independence was made by David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, and was celebrated as a national holiday in Israel, known as Independence Day.

This event was recognized by the United States, the first country to do so, and it marked the beginning of a new era for the Jewish people in the land of Israel. The declaration emphasized the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land, the hardships they had endured throughout history, and their right to self-determination. It also called for peace with neighboring states and assured the Arab inhabitants of Israel of their civil rights.

The establishment of Israel was a result of the Zionist movement, which sought to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and it was influenced by the Balfour Declaration of 1917, which declared the British Empire’s intent to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

Today AD

The main body of Israel are the 10 tribes that were scattered north over the caucuses mountains and became known as the Caucasians of the free Christian nations of Europe, Britain, and the Americas, including the USA. 

And today most of the people in Europe, Britain, and USA don’t know they’re the descendants of the 10 tribes of Israel. They have forgotten their heritage, they have forgotten their Heavenly Father.

God’s promise to Abraham is true. Israel the Nation has become as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sands of the sea. God’s word always comes to pass.

Genesis 

22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;

The 10 tribes of Israel have fallen back into idolatry worshiping the pagan queen of heaven Ishtar/Easter. On the high day of Passover that was established by God through Moses to Israel.

Acts

12:4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter (G3957) to bring him forth to the people.

Israel worships many things of this world and break many of God’s laws.

They are too busy to study God’s Word. And they place the things of the world before God in their lives. God should be first in your life! Christ should be first in your life!

Question?

Who is Israel? Does God bless Israel? Should we bless Israel?

God blesses Israel! The 10 Tribes of Israel have become the free Christian nations of the world. We should bless our Nations and be glad that God has provided us freedom in a land to live in. Full of the good things that he wishes us to have. A wonderful place provided by a Wonderful Father who blesses and protects us. He blesses us here to Worship him in freedom from religious persecution. We should study his Word and give him praise and worship every day.

We should bless our Heavenly Father by understanding and following his Word. We should read and study his word daily, and follow and do his commandments.

Romans

2:13 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified

Accept Christ as your Savior, believe on him as the son of God and ask forgiveness to him for your sins. You will have salvation and stand before God after your body perishes, and live with him FOREVER.