Lost
By
Bishop Melvin L, Maughmer, Jr.
OPENING: - It is my desire, my mission to dive into one of the most intriguing Biblical facts of history and talk about the 12 tribes of Israel. We are going to discover who these tribes were, the spiritual blessings each tribe possessed, what happened to them, and answer the question are they still around today?
Understand it is only through ignorance of self are others able to humiliate us, intimidate us, control us, and erase us but when you understand that the same DNA that ran through the veins of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob runs through yours, that you are a recipient of the Divine Promise, that you have an inheritance. Although our ancestors were stolen from their land, packed into ships, identity erased, names replaced, language forbidden, culture ridiculed, and our God stripped from us and called demonic. Then we for centuries are faced with forced labor, lynchings, whippings, beatings, rape, murder, emasculation, mutilations, separations, selling of family, then take our God whitewash him and demonize his theology and claim that he cursed us with a blatant lie and a manipulation of scripture to ease the corrupt disturbed gentile mind, then have the audacity to say some day hopefully if you are good enough this white Jesus that looks just like the ones persecuting you will come and rescue you. Its no wonder people act the way the act because as Jesus said “As a man thinketh so is he”, but when you understand differently, when you think differently, then naturally you act differently.
It is time for the people of God to realize you they truly are, to wake up from their slumber, start walking in their promise, recognizing their purpose, living in their victory. You are not cursed, forgotten, rejected, lost, or cast aside but are chosen, favored, royalty, and most of all LOVED because you are His people.
PRAYER
SCRIPTURES: - Genesis 17:19, Genesis 18:14, Genesis 28:12-15, Genesis 35, Deuteronomy 28, 1 Kings 11:43, 1 Kings 12:26-27, Genesis 49, Ezekiel 37, Revelation 7:14, Matthew 24
I opened with a statement on ignorance about self and how we are controlled when we are ignorant of us. WATCH THIS: - Everyone most likely can finish this quote “In 1492 …….. Christopher Columbus sailed the oceans blue, and his 3 ships were the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria”. That was a quote we learned early in our school years to learn the colonized lies of history and to celebrate a murderous, rapist, slave trader, and thief who we have cities named after and we even have a holiday we celebrate called Columbus Day we celebrate for a murderous, rapist, slave trader, and thief. However, do you know there were approximately 12,000 slave ships involved in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and over 12.5 million Hebrews (Africans) were brought to the Americas, Caribbean, West Indes, Puerto Rico, and Cuba between the 16th and 19th centuries and about 1.8 million died at sea and many more died after arriving, also there were over 40,000 voyages of these slave ships and through explorations less than 20 of these ships have been found.
Let me give you just a little more history did you know that the financial center of the United States the infamous WALL STREET is literally remains of a key hub for the flesh trade that ran from 1711 to 1762, but its legacy has been buried so deep that most people don’t even know it existed. In 1711, the New York City Common Council established a market at the foot of Wall Street and the East River for the sale and rental of enslaved African and Native American people the city directly profited from the market by taxing each person who was bought and sold, while slavery was not abolished in New York until 1827 turned into the financial institution we know today. Banks like City Bank of New York (later Citibank) provided loans to plantation owners, using enslaved people as collateral, this sick, demonic, abusive, practice continued even after slavery was abolished in New York.
Insurance companies like Atena and New York Life sold policies to slave owners to protect their investments in enslaved individuals. Even after New York abolished slavery, local merchants and finaciers continued to profit from slave-produced goods like cotton and sugar. Wall Street banks funded the industry and processed raw materials that came from Southern plantations. In 2015 a plaque was installed at the corner of Wall Street and Water Street to acknowledge the area’s history as a slave market and that is it.
We have been forced to learn the lies of colonized history, we have been forced to believe white-washed religion with its stained glass pictures and renaissance representation, we believe our history started in chains, that we were cursed, rejected, and forgotten when in reality we come from crowns not chains, we are chosen not cursed, we are royalty not rejected and we are favored not forgotten. It’s time for the True Children of Israel to Wake Up, Realize Our Identity, Walk in Our Purpose and Live in Our Promise!
TEXT: - Genesis 17:19 says, “And God said, Sarah, thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him”. Now this is extremely important part of the promises given to Abraham back in Genesis 12 & 15 because Abraham is 100 and Sarah is 90 they are well beyond child bearing years but this demonstrates the omnipotence and sovereignty of God, it proves that this promise has no human intervention and in no way can be manipulated by mankind it is a Divine Promise and He then reaffirms this promise in Genesis 18:14 when He said “Is there anything to hard for the Lord”.
Isaac is born and he is the promised seed linking the promise of God to the people although Abraham had another son Ishmael and would have other children Isaac was the link through which the promise would extend.
Isaac would have 2 sons as well Esau and Jacob, Jacob would be the one that would be the connection and the continuation of the promise of God.
In Genesis 27 we have the Blessing of Jacob from Isaac his father, then in Genesis 28 there is a very unique dream Jacob has verses 12 - 15 says, “And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And behold the Lord stood above it, and said I am the Lord God of Abraham, thy father and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it and to thy seed: and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places to which thou goest and will bring thee again into this land for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of” – PROMISE. Then in the 30th chapter 11 of the sons of Jacob are born Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Joseph then Benjamin is born in chapter 35 approximately 9 to 12 years later.
Then we come to the 49th chapter of Genesis the blessing of the sons of Jacob the 12 tribes of Israel. Israel became a nation although they had the promises of God they were disobedient to His commandments, lusted after other gods, followed after pagan rituals sought the things that the heathern nations had, intermingled and married people of foreign nations, committed idolatry and apostasy, rebellion and disobedience to God’s commands, social injustices, constantly turning away from God and did all manner of evil in the sight of God.
Deuteronomy 28 tells of the curses and or promises the Children of Israel would receive if the disobeyed or obeyed God, well they disobeyed and received the curses. In 931 B.C. King Solomon died 1 Kings 11:43 says, “And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David, his father; Rehoboam his son, reigned in his stead”. Rehoboam was young, vain, unaccomplished, overbearing and prone to follow bad advice he was determined to continue to exploit and tax people heavily for his own grandiose pleasures. Rehoboam would not listen to the counsel of the old and wise leaders and elders that served under his father Solomon but instead listen to the inexperienced people that all they wanted to do was please Rehoboam and not concerned about the people.
There is a man named Jeroboam who was a servant of Solomon at one time. However, he tried to rise up against Solomon and Solomon was going to have him killed but he fled to Egypt and lived in Egypt until Solomon was dead. When Rehoboam became King he returned and the people of Jerusalem wanted him to be their King, so he led a rebellion against Rehoboam and the 12 tribes of Israel were split into the Northern and Southern Kingdoms Ten tribes became the Northern Kingdom under Jeroboam and 2 remained loyal to David under Rehoboam Judah and Benjamin.
Jeroboam did not obey the Lord. Instead, he had two golden calves made for the people to worship in the northern kingdom and made priests and celebrations for them. 1 Kings 12:26-27 says, “And Jeroboam said in his heart, ‘Now [with the pilgrimage festival approaching] the kingdom is [in danger of] returning to the house of David. If this people go up to bring sacrifices in the house of God at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn back to their master, to Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go back to Rehoboam king of Judah”. In 722 B.C. the Northern Kingdom fell to the Assyrians and the Ten tribes never returned. The Southern Kingdom was attacked in 586 B.C. by the Babylonians and King Nebuchadnezzar. In 538 BC, Cyrus, the King of Persia, who had recently conquered the Babylonians, issues a decree allowing the Yahudim Ju – Dah = (Jews) in captivity to return to their homeland and rebuild. The return was done over decades and although they returned Judah and Benjamin were never as effective as they were before but remain in Jerusalem until 70 A.D. when Titus conquers after months of resistance and destroys Jerusalem, destroys the Temple, murders thousands of Jews. Judah and Benjamin the remaining tribes flee into Africa.
The Yahudim (Jews) Amam people of God, the tribes of Judah and Benjamin settled in Western Africa in what became known as the Gao region, Ghana, Nigeria, Benin, and Guinea later named NEGROLAND. These Yahudim were very influential and held to the Laws of God strictly, through the years fought many battels with the different African Tribes because they carried their culture, history, laws, and written records which assured them a constant higher social organization and due to their culture they were not absorbed into the population. These are the people, tribes, Hebrews, Africans from Negroland, that were capture, sold into slavery and brought to the Americas, Caribbean, West Indes, etc.
The 10 tribes Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, and Joseph (Ephraim/Manasseh) have been called the lost tribes, they have been said to have merged into other cultures, they have been said to have vanished from the pages of history and are lost forever. Understand, first of all the 10 tribes could never have been lost by God or else He would not be God, because He is omniscient, all knowing, He always knows everything all the time, so He would never had not known where the tribes were.
Second, according to Revelation 7:4 which says, “And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel” proves that they are not lost because in the End times there is 12,000 from every tribe sealed, so in order for there to be 12,000 from every tribe the tribes would have to be represented. It was never God’s intention for the tribes of Israel to separated forever, the promise is true we will be reunited and if the curse is true, you and guarantee the PROMISE IS TRUE. Remember Genesis 28:12-15 “and thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places to which thou goest and will bring thee again into this land for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of”.
The Migration: - So where did the tribes go? We know Judah and Benjamin along with Levi came to the Americas by way of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and ended up in the West Indes, Jamacia, and Trinadad. Joseph’s sons Ephriam and Manasseh were adopted by Jacob, and he blessed them in Joseph’s place, giving them each a blessing which gave Joseph a double portion blessing. The tribe of Manassa ended up in Cuba – Deuteronomy 33:17 known for strength, endurance. The tribe of Ephraim are the Puerto Ricans – Genesis 49:22-26 - creativity and innovation, the tribe of Reubin migrated and became the Seminole and Muskogee Indians of America – Genesis 49:3-4 - passion, zeal, restoration and dignity – Jacob said of Reubin that he was unstable as water constantly moving this is interesting the Seminole Indians are the only indigenous group that never signed a treaty with the white man and received the name Seminole which means run away because they were always moving from territory to territory, the tribe of Simeon Genesis 29:33 became the Dominicans, Panamanians – boldness spiritual intercessors, the tribe of Levi became the Haitians – Malachi 2:4-7 the Haitian have a strong spiritual presence and excel in spiritual teaching and leadership, the tribe of Naphtali are the Chileans and Argentina’s – Genesis 49:21- communication joy , the tribe of Gad they are the Native Americans – Gensis 49:19 warrior nations warfare and endurance, the tribe of Asher they are the Columbians, Venezuelans and other South Americans – Genesis 49:20 abundance healing, the tribe of Zebulun they are the Guatemalans and Panamanians – Genesis 49:30 they excel in trade and organization, and the tribe of Issachar are the Mexicans – 1 Chronicles 12:32 understanding of the times, wisdom, humble hard working, the tribe of Dan remains in West Africa Liberia and Nigeria region Genesis 49:16&17 - Justice and Judgment. The scattered, the oppressed, the rejected yet the chosen with a purpose a gift and a promise. Not lost, not forgotten, not forsaken, not vanished – scattered, protected, chosen, remembered, Loved, reunited.
Spiritual Warfare: - Now that we understand the migration/scattering of the 12 tribes of Israel and where we are in these tribes we need to pay close attention to the spiritual warfare that is being fought against us. Ephesians 6:12 says, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places”.
WATCH THIS: - Trump and his administration have a very strategic battle plan, and they don’t even know that it is spiritual. When Trump was running for president, he said “they are eating the dogs” making the false claim that the immigrants from Haiti – the tribe of Levi – were eating the dogs and pets of people in Springfield Ohio. This was an attempt to feed the racist stereotypes against the Haitian immigrants – the tribe of Levi – causing hatred, racism, anger, deportation and total disgust literally for a people of color who literally are the tribe of Levi. Look at the wall and the intense fight he has, and his administration has for the boarder patrol. He says the wall and the boarder patrol is critical of Mexico and illegal immigration, however, let’s understand who is mainly coming across the border primarily the people of color from Latin American countries people of color for instance Mexico – the tribe of Issachar, Colombia and Venezuela – the tribe of Asher, Guatemala – the tribe of Zebulun, then some from Haiti – the tribe of Levi, Cuba – the tribe of Manassa. Then he focuses on turning the National Guard on cities right here in the United States that have black mayors talking about he is controlling crime once again playing into the stereotypes of the racist mindset of the people against us the tribe of Judah. Nothing is being done to protect the boarder from the 7 horns of Revelation coming across the border No they are given tax breaks and monetary incentives to come but that is another Bible study. Just this week alone he and his administration gloated and were elated because they blew up a boat of 11 Venezuelans – the tribe of Asher – supposedly transporting drugs to the United States in a speed boat 1000 miles away from the shores of the United States. Also, just this past week in the middle of the night John 3:19 says, “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” tried to deport 600 Guatemalan kids – the tribe of Asher - out of the country.
Understand people of God when we open our eyes, our minds, our hearts and realize that we are Israel, we understand our identity, our inheritance, our promise, when we unite and stop believing what the world says about us and like Malcolm X said become intellectually independent enough rather than depending on white society for validation or solutions. Changing the way, we think as a people of promise, as a nation, united creating a strong collective power things will never change.
If the curse is true, then PROMISE is true as well.
Ezekiel 37 prophecies of two sticks coming together as one referring to the promise to reunite the divided kingdoms of Israel and Judah into a unified nation under the one king Jesus Christ the Messiah. This symbolizes the promise that God will gather His people the tribes of Israel that have been scatted like the dust of the earth all over, bringing them back into their land and restoring them as one people. In Matthew 24 we read how with a blast of the trumpet Jesus tells the angels to gather His chosen people, the elect from the four winds, symbolizing the ends of the earth.
God is calling and waking up His Amam (people), the fire, the spiritual gifts, the anointing that He has placed in His people is truly beginning to burn. There is a passion and a boldness in the people of God that is being awaken. When God asked Ezekiel in 37:3 “can these bones live” it was a prophetic question of a time that is being answered today and that answer is a definite YES!
CLOSING: - History has told us that we are worthless, cursed, rejected, forgotten, useless and labeled us with disgusting and humiliating 4 letter words only, just, can’t, and don’t - you’re just black, you’re only Mexican, you’re just indigenous, you don’t belong, you can’t have. However, God says of Israel, which is who we are – His Amam – His PEOPLE, His treasured possession, His chosen, His beloved, His bride indicating an intimate relationship, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. He has a special covenant with us (Israel) promising land and future blessings as well as the blessing of nations through us.
We are not lost, we are not rejected, we are not forsaken, we are Israel chosen, loved, protected, set-apart to receive an everlasting promise I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant and with his seed after him. We are that seed.
Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.
