Jesus described the Kingdom of God as a little leaven, or yeast, that a woman “hid” in a lump of dough, leavening the whole loaf. Conventional Christian wisdom has it that this all important “leaven” is the Word of God which Jesus spoke into the world. But there are problems with this explanation of the symbolism. It shows Jesus and, by extension, the apostles, as a woman hiding the Word of Jesus, while Jesus Himself said that His teachings should not be “hidden under a bushel” but “shouted from the house tops.” Also, leaven is not in the Hebrew tradition something spiritually good; it, in fact, signifies apostasy among God’s people.
There is a key Old Testament subject that, when placed in this New Testament allegory, not only fits the bill, but itself provides a key that unlocks all of Scripture and ties together all the loose ends between the Old and New Testaments. The Lost Tribes of Israel are this “Holy Grail”, lost to man but not lost to God. These most important people of the actual Kingdom of Israel, upon whose shoulders rested all the Abrahamic Promises of earthly and heavenly greatness specifically spoken upon the Tribes of Joseph (except the leadership role, given to the Tribe of Judah and fulfilled in Jesus the Davidic Jew) — were overrun by the Assyrians in the 8th Century BCE, their most important citizens deported to the far northern regions of Mesopotamia. This is an historical fact and can be found in any encyclopedia. They have never been heard from as Israelites again. But both Jacob and Moses proclaimed just before their deaths that they would become nations “in the last days” and that the Josephites would be the greatest nation that has ever existed, growing beyond the geophysical boundaries of the Middle East, driving their enemies to the ends of the earth and being greatly blessed with every sort of resource, even the precious things of the sun and moon.
The Hebrew prophets bemoaned the destruction and deportation of the Northern Kingdom of Israel as befalling them because they had become idolatrous and unfaithful. In other words, God had cast them off because they had become “leaven” in his sight. The Assyrians were Goddess worshipers, and the Israelites had fallen into the scurrilous and pornographic practices involved in the worship of the Goddess Ishtar, aka Ashtoreth.
While it is often stated in historical references that the Lost Tribes were assimilated into the Assyrian melting pot becoming unidentifiable as Israelites (hence “lost”), the fact is that in the centuries just following this relocation the peoples of the region underwent major migrations to the four winds. Many pilgrimages have been undertaken to all points of the globe to tribes and towns where the people mysteriously exhibit Hebrew characteristics in their culture and religious practices, these people being heralded as having descended directly from one of the “Ten Lost Tribes.”
My book “The Hidden Kingdom” does not claim to have found any new “Lost Tribes” – what I do is point out the significance of their being “lost” in the first place. They were the “leaven” (God’s people in apostasy) that was hidden by the “woman” (the Assyrian Goddess worshipers) in the “lump of dough” (the world) “leavening the whole loaf,” turning the whole world into the Kingdom of God in apostasy. I show how the Lost Tribes are also the “pearl of great price” that a man (God) found hidden in a field, becoming so happy that he “hid it again” (hence they are still “lost”), sold all he had (God’s Son given over to be killed) and bought the whole field (saving the rest of the world). They were the Prodigal Son, who returned to the Father asking only to be treated as one of His servants, and for whom He killed the “fatted calf”. They later became the Good Samaritan (the original residents of Samaria were the “cream of the crop” Tribe of Ephraim) that saved the Jews who were ambushed by the Nazi criminals ” . . . on the road to Jericho.” Jesus, in fact, said He had come seeking the “lost sheep of the House of Israel.” The loss of this key piece of the Abrahamic genealogical puzzle was the catalytic event that brought the Son of God to the world. He came to save the worldly plan for the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and in so doing, also saved “whosoever believed”.
We are still enjoying the “feast of the fatted calf,” but for how long . . .? Read about it in The Hidden Kingdom: The United States in Biblical Prophecy – the meaning of September11.
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