FALSE TEACHING: ANGLO-ISRAELISM Also called BRITISH-ISRAELISM, this is the belief that the ANGLO-SAXON people make up the TEN "LOST TRIBES" OF ISRAEL and are the heirs of God’s covenant PROMISES TO ISRAEL. Naturally, this belief has lost some weight since the days when "the sun never sat on the British Empire." However, thanks to Herbert Armstrong, who taught that England is Ephraim and the United States is Manasseh, this heresy is now embraced by a great number of people. The notion that the ten northern tribes are lost is unscriptural. Revelation 12:4-8 plainly tells us that God will seal 12,000 JEWS from each tribe in the coming Tribulation. NO MENTION is made here of AMERICA, ENGLAND, or any ANGLO-SAXON people. In fact, such people would be found in verse 9, TOTALLY SEPARATE FROM THE JEWS. Also, there is no scriptural basis for teaching that the ten northern tribes will form NATIONS. Hosea and Amos , who prophesied mostly to the ten northern tribes, declared that these tribes would be scattered "AMONG THE NATIONS" (Hos. 8:10; 9:17; Amos 9:9). God never said that He would permit them to form independent nations of their own. Advocates of the ANGLO-ISRAEL HERESY insist that "JEWS" are ONLY THOSE FROM JUDAH, while "ISRAEL" is the TEN NORTHERN TRIBES. Any reader of Scripture knows this just won’t do. In Matthew 10:6, Jesus told His disciples "But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel," yet we never read of the twelve going north and preaching to the ten "LOST TRIBES." They preached in Palestine. It wasn’t until after the resurrection that Christ commissioned them to go elsewhere (Acts 1:8-9). The words "JEW" and "ISRAEL" are used interchangeably throughout the Bible, especially in Ezra and Nehemiah. Peter was from Galilee, some eighty miles north of Jerusalem and over fifty miles north of Samaria, yet Paul still titled him a "JEW" in Galatians 2:14. The Bible is filled with promises like Zechariah 8:13 and Acts 26:7, which tell us that all ISRAEL (ALL TWELVE TRIBES) will be RESTORED and SAVED. Also see Jeremiah 30:3, Amos 9:14-15, Romans 11:26, Isaiah 66:8, Matthew 19:28, and James 1:1. Even in eternity, God distinguishes between the twelve tribes and other nations (Rev. 21:12, 24-26). FP&T: WE REFUTE ANGLO-ISRAELISM IS A GROSS MIS-APPLICATION OF THE SCRIPTURES.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:25:50 +0000