The History Of The Ten 'Lost' Tribes: Angloisraelism Examined,New

Dear Friend,I Shall Endeavor To Comply With Your Request, And To Give You In This Letter A Few Reasons For My Rejection Of The Angloisraelite Theory. I Can Sincerely Say That I Am Not A Man Delighting In Controversy, And I Only Consent To Your Wish Because I Believe That You, Like Many Other Simpleminded Christians, Are Perplexed And Imposed Upon By The Plausibilities Of The Supposed 'Identifications,' And Are Not Able To Detect The Fallacies And Perversions Of Scripture And History Upon Which They Are Based.As To The Jews, Quite A Different History And Destiny Is Marked Out For Them. They, As The Descendants Of Judah, Are Still Under The Curse. In Fact, The Angloisraelite, By Another And More Mischievous Method, Is Doing Exactly What The Allegorizing, Or Socalled Spiritualizing, School Of Interpreters Did. The Method Was To Apply All The Promises In The Bible To The 'Spiritual' Israel, Or The Church, And All The Curses To The Literal Israel, Or The Jews; But By This New System, While The Curses Are Still Left To The Jew, All The Blessings Are Applied Not Even To Those 'In Christ,' But Indiscriminately To A Nation, Which, As A Nation, Is Like The Other Nations Of Christendom In A Greater Or Lesser Degree In A State Of Apostasy From God, Though I Thankfully Recognize The Fact That There Are In Proportion More Of Gods True People In It Than In Any Other Professing Christian Land.I Shall Endeavor Later On To Show You The Baselessness Of The Distinction Which Angloisraelism Makes Between The Ultimate Fates Of Israel And Judah, But Let Me First Say That The Supposed Historical And Philological 'Proofs' By Which The Theory Is Supported, Most Of Which Have No More Basis In Fact Than Fairy Tales, Are Utterly Discredited By Competent Authorities.Contentspart I.I. Angloisrael Assertions And Claimsii. The Way Angloisrael Writers Interpret Scriptureiii. Fictitious Histories Of The Tribespart Ii.I. Are The Tribes Lost?Ii. The Condition Of Things At The Time Of Christiii. The Testimony Of The New Testament That The 'Jews' Are Representative Of 'All Israel'Iv. Early Misconceptions And Confusion On The Question Of The Ten Tribesv. The Testimony Of Prophecy In The Light Of Historyvi. A Solemn Warningpart Iii.Notes And Explanations.I. Angloisrael 'Proofs' Of A Separate Fate And Destiny Of 'Israel' And 'Judah'Ii. The Promises To The Fathers Of A Multitudinous Seediii. The Perpetuity Of The Davidic Throneiv. The Socalled Historic Proofs Of Angloisraelismv. 'The Gate Of His Enemies'Appendix.Are We The Ten Tribes? By The Late Horatius Bonar, D.D.