The Jews of today are made up of the 12 tribes.

Some, in clear contradiction to the Holy Bible, claim that the twelve tribes of Israel are Jewish. Such woefully ignorant or deceitful people deny the Biblical distinctions between the 12 tribes and pretend there is only one tribe: Judah.

Jacob-Israel had 12 sounds. Each son became patriarch of the tribe named after him. For example, there is Judah, whose descendants are Jewish. There is also Joseph, whose descendants are Joes. Jose is not Jewish!

The 12 Tribes of Israel became the nation of Israel which then split in two: Joseph was the leader of the Northern Kingdom with its 10 tribes, the capital Samaria, and Judah was the leader of the Southern Kingdom, the capital Jerusalem.

The northern kingdom of Israel was defeated and deported by the Assyrians 130 years before the southern kingdom of Judah was defeated and deported by the Babylonians! Two separate kingdoms with separate tribes. The Northern Kingdom of Israel became known as the “Lost Ten Tribes”. Jews continued to be known as Jews (including exceptions between them to the general rule of relatively few Israelites residing with them).

The first time in the Bible that the words “Jews” are used is when the Northern Kingdom of Israel allied itself with Syria. against the Jews! This is important to note as some deny these great distinctions! The Joes are not and never were Jewish! They are Joe!

2 Kings 16:5-6

5 Then Rezin king of Syria and Peka the son of Remaliah king of Israel went up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz [king of Judah]but he couldn’t beat it.

6 At that time Rezin king of Syria recovered Elath in Syria, and expel the Jews from Elat: and the Syrians came to Elat, and dwelt there to this day.

Additional evidence that there are TWELVE TRIBES and not just the Jews/Judah can be found in the various blessings of the 12 Tribes by Jacob (Genesis 48-49) and later by Moses (Deuteronomy 32). They are directed at each of the 12 Tribes of Israel and not just Judah! The Ten Lost Tribes” are not Jews.

The High Priest had 12 precious stones representing the 12 Tribes of Israel, not just one stone on his breastplate, and he carried two stones on his shoulder with six tribal names on one stone and six tribal names on the other (Exodus 28).

The Promised Land of Israel was divided among the 12 tribes of Israel, as any Biblical map will clearly reveal, not just a great inheritance for Judah!

Ezekiel 47-48 reveals a future division of the Land of Israel again among the 12 Tribes. The New Jerusalem mentions 12 tribes, not just Judah (Revelation 21:12)

Those who dare deny these God-given distinctions mentioned in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation claim that the 12 Tribes of Israel have merged into the one tribe of Judah, denying the distinct Bible prophecies for each of the separate tribes.

Some Jews have a haughty attitude against the other tribes, even against some Jews, and reject the “prodigal son” and would disinherit them contrary to the Word and Will of God:

Ezekiel 11:15

15 “Son of man, your brothers, your relatives, your brothers, and the whole house of Israel in its entirety, are those of whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, ‘Depart from the LORD; this land has been given to us to possess.

They want Gentilized Israelites to remain lost and aloof, feeling conceited and exclusive, instead of acknowledging that they are only a small part of the Chosen People, the Servant Nation, and must seek reconciliation, our family reunion, no more alienation.

Those who affirm that the 12 Tribes are now with Judah speak against the Law and the Prophets who reveal otherwise, as the Law declares to the People (I am Israel the Nation or the People of Israel – all the 12 Tribes) will be restored under the King Messiah, and the Prophets speak of two branches depicting the two main tribes of Joseph and Judah being reconciled and reunited.

Conclusive proof that Joseph and Judah are still separate and unique identities and tribes:

Ezekiel 37:15-22

15The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

16 Also, son of man, take a stick, and write about it for Judah, and for the children of Israel their companions: then take another stick, and write about it For Joseph, Ephraim’s stick and for all the house of Israel his companions:

17And unite them one to the other in a single stick; and they will be one in your hand [they’re two sticks, separate but brought together and joined by God].

18 And when the children of your people speak to you, saying: Will you not teach us what you think with this?

19 Say to them: Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the joseph stickwhich is in the hands of Ephraim and of the tribes of Israel his companions, and will set them with him, even with the judah Stick, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in my hand.

20 And the sticks on which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.

21 And tell them: Thus says the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations where they went, and I will gather them from all sides, and I will bring them to their own land.

22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to all of them; and they will never again be two nations, nor will they be divided into two kingdoms anymore. [which division still remains to this day until the restoration of all things].

Some Jews deny that Joes are Israelites, and some Joes deny that Judah is legitimate, accusing them of being Khazarian converts and unworthy of the Jewish homeland. I refute both hateful teachings with the plain truth of the Bible.

In Judaism, there is a concept, “Ma’ase Avot, Siman L’Banim”, the works of the fathers are guides for the children. The actions of the ancestors are reflected in the lives of their descendants.

Joseph and Judah fought before and they don’t always see eye to eye today. Joseph’s brothers were blind to his identity. and Joseph was a world ruler who fed the nations. Some still do not recognize Joseph as the Anglo-Saxons or perceive that Joseph represented Yeshua the Pierced, but in God’s good time all will be revealed beyond any shadow of a doubt.