The Bnei Menashe of India
Near the border between eastern India and
Myanmar are the two Indian states of
Manipur and Mizoram. Within these lives an
ancient community called the Bnei Menashe,
believed to be descended from the lost tribe
of Manasseh. Oral history holds that they
were captured by Assyria along with the rest
of the northern tribes of Israel and
eventually landed in China. Then, in the
second century, they migrated to India in
the wake of Chinese persecution. Many
converted to Christianity in the 19th century
through the work of Welsh Presbyterian
missionaries.
In 2008, a rat infestation completely
overtook the rice crops in Mizoram,
threatening starvation. This famine drew
global media attention to the Bnei Menashe.
When I heard of their plight, I felt the Lord
strongly prompting me to do something to
help. After an advance trip to assess the
needs, we provided hundreds of tons of rice
and brought a large team of doctors and
dentists to provide free medical, dental and
eye care to the Bnei Menashe. We've been
back every year since. More than 900
members of the Bnei Menashe have prayed
with our prayer teams to receive Jesus as
their Messiah.

In 2011, the Israeli government decided to
allow 7,300 members of the Bnei Menashe
to come to Israel. Several hundred more
have also recently made aliyah (going up to
the Holy Land), but thousands still remain
and live in a state of deep poverty.

Jews of Ethiopia
Isaiah 11:11 says, "In that day the Lord
shall set His hand again the second time to
recover the remnant of His people, who
shall be left, from Assyria, from Egypt, from
Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar,
from Hamath, and from the islands of the
sea."


What's referred to as Cush in the ancient
Scriptures is likely modern-day Ethiopia.
According to ancient tradition, Ethiopia's
Jewish connection goes back to the time of
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. A 14th-
century document known as the Kebra
Nagast ("The Glory of the Kings" records
that Solomon and Sheba had a son named
Menelik I, who later returned to Ethiopia
with his family and the Ark of the Covenant.


Others believe that Jews from the exodus
made their way up the Nile and eventually
settled in Ethiopia. Most historians,
however, believe their presence in Ethiopia is
post-exilic and traces back to the Roman
dispersion of Jews migrating from Yemen to
the horn of Africa. Whatever history is
correct, we do have the account of Phillip's
encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts
8:26-39), who was led to faith not from
paganism but from Judaism.

Known as the Beta Israel (House of Israel),
the Ethiopian Jews were officially
recognized by the State of Israel in 1973. In
fact, the Israeli government conducted two
dangerous operations to bring them to
Israel: Operation Moses, which took place
over a period of seven weeks in 1984-85,
during which 8,000 Ethiopian Jews were
brought to Israel. Operation Solomon, a
covert airlift, was conducted in 1991 and
brought 14,500 Ethiopian Jews to Israel
over a 24-hour period. Sadly, thousands of
the Beta Israel identified as Falasha Mura
(converts to Christianity) were left behind.


Another tribe of Ethiopian Jews, the Beta
Avraham, was originally part of the Beta
Israel community. But in the 17th century, a
false messiah rose up among these people
and ultimately led them to join the Orthodox
Church. They broke away, becoming their
own tribe and eventually settled in the
Ethiopian district of Kechene, near the
capital city of Addis Ababa. Jewish Voice
brings a team of medical doctors and
volunteers to help this community every year
and operates a full-time medical clinic
known as Bete Hibret.


A third offshoot of Ethiopian Jews, the
Gefat, lives farther south in the Ethiopian
rural countryside of Woliso and Hosanna. A
remote community made up of 20,000 to
30,000 people, this tribe has faithfully
observed Jewish customs for hundreds of
years, including circumcising their male
children on the eighth day, applying the
blood of a lamb over their doorposts at
Passover and keeping biblical dietary laws.
In fact, their name, Gefat, means "the
blowers"—according to their oral history,
they were chosen by the kings of Ethiopia
centuries ago to blow the shofar ahead of
the Ark of the Covenant in official
processionals.


I became aware of this community in 2010
when their elders contacted me during one
of our medical clinic outreaches in Addis
Ababa and asked for our help. The following
year we held our first medical outreach in
Woliso. Thousands came for treatment, and
we've returned regularly ever since.
To date, Jewish Voice has planted and
supports a flourishing network of eight
Messianic Jewish congregations in Ethiopia,
all of which are experiencing rapid growth.

I had the opportunity to travel to Kaifeng on
an outreach led by my good friend Sid Roth
back in 1995 to scout out the Jewish
community remaining there. Although we
only met a handful of these Chinese Jews,
this trip led me on a journey that has
continued to this day—searching out and
working to aid and restore the scattered
children of Israel. The experience has felt
like an Indiana Jones adventure, but instead
of searching for the lost Ark of the
Covenant, I have been in search of the lost
people of the Covenant. This quest has
since taken me to some of the most remote
areas of the world.


God warned Israel that if they were not
faithful to obey His laws and
commandments, He would banish them
from their land to wander the nations: "The
Lord will scatter you among all the peoples,
from one end of the earth to the
other" (Deut. 28:64).


Indeed, this came to pass. The descendants
of Jacob have been scattered to almost
every nation on earth. But in His mercy and
faithfulness, God also promised the day
would come when He would bring them
back: "When all these things happen to you,
the blessing and the curse, which I have set
before you, and you remember them among
all the nations, where the Lord your God has
driven you, then you must return to the Lord
your God and obey His voice according to
all that I am commanding you today, you
and your children, with all your heart, and
with all your soul. Then the Lord your God
will overturn your captivity and have
compassion on you and will return and
gather you from all the nations, where the
Lord your God has scattered you" (Deut.
30:1-3).


While these tribes may be lost to the world,
God knows who and where each one of them
is. I believe we are living in those days of
restoration. Indeed, many of these Jewish
communities are now coming to light and
being recognized by the State of Israel.

Since the Assyrians invaded their land and
led them into captivity in 722 B.C., the
whereabouts of the northern tribes of Israel
has remained one of the great mysteries of
antiquity. Unlike those in the southern
kingdom of Judah, who returned to
Jerusalem and rebuilt the Temple after 70
years in captivity under the Babylonians
(586-516 B.C.), there is no record in the
Bible of the northern tribes ever returning.


In fact, these "lost tribes of Israel," in a
wider sense, include more than just the 10
tribes that vanished from the stage of
history after the Assyrians took them
captive. Ezra and Nehemiah both relay that
only a remnant returned to Jerusalem with
them from the Babylonian captivity. What
happened to the rest of the southern
kingdom, members of the tribes of Judah
and Benjamin? And what of the Jews
remaining in Israel following the destruction
of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 A.D. and
the final revolt against the Romans in 136
A.D.? They were banished from their land,
scattered to the nations of the world and
became known as the diaspora, or
dispersion.


Jews wandered from nation to nation
throughout Europe during the Middle Ages
as they were expelled from their host
nations. Jews living in Italy were banished
in 855 A.D. and from England in 1290.
During the Spanish Inquisition (1492-97),
the Jews of Spain (1492) and later Portugal
(1497) were expelled and migrated to the
Ottoman Empire, North Africa and the
Netherlands. Many also ended up in South
and Central America and are known today
as Marranos, Conversos or Anusim
(translated "retrained ones".


Commerce also played a role in Jewish
migration into other nations of the world.
Merchants in search of treasures from the
Middle East established trade routes into
Asia and Africa. One of the most famous of
these was the "Silk Road," a 4,000-mile trek
that connected silk traders in China with
consumers in the Middle East. This route
brought Persian Jews and other Jewish
merchants into China. By the year 1200,
there was a thriving Jewish community in
Kaifeng until a flood of the Yellow River in
1850 destroyed their synagogue.

Here we go!

I wonder if some of us wants to know about the prophecy that was fulfilled about the modern day Israel.. There Regathering back to there original land, Jerusalem...
It is very long, so I will post it in many intervals. So, do you want to know?
I need 5 yes!

Rilwayne001:


ignoramus

To be ignorant is better than to be a jihadist, a terrorist, a threat and a killer '!!

Mynd44:
No wonder unbelievers laugh at you people. What makes a Bible, the paper or words written on it?

Smh

The power of God through revelation and inspiration make up the bible, is not about words or papers..

Will you people stop spamming the section with this nonsense question!!

musKeeto:
Doubts, not truth, sets us free.

Doubts leads to confusion, and confusion leads to madness!
Psalm14:1

proevan:


Paul told how he went outside the box to evangelise ; do you know that Peter believed that gentiles had to be circumsized when they got born-again, that it was so strong on Paul that He had to do for one of his pastors.

The Church is the biggest problem of evangelism.

Matt.23:1 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 2 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat: 3 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not. 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. 5 But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, 6 And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, 7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi. 8 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all ye are brethren. 9 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven. 10 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ. 11 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.

13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Alright bro

proevan:


You don't go about the gentile minstry the way you will the jewish. Peter couldn't do the gentile work.

Scriptures for emphasis.

2.Peter.3: 15 And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; 16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Peter had problems with Paul, just the way you have with me, but I don't blame you because you don't understand. What it fully takes to evangelise the World ; you are Church people.

Okay bro

proevan:


1.Cor.9:16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel. 19 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

What's your point?

taiyesoul:



If i have a gun right now,i will kill u for such derogatory remarks against islam.if u wanna dare me,drop ur contacts here.i will find u and kill u i swear .U ideeot.I wont insult christainity or Jesus just like u uncultured thwart did.I will insult your Corruption advocates and men of God here in Nigeria.Ayo Oritsejafor and Chris Oyakilome.are they real?.TB Joshua nko?.these and others are disgrace to christainity.Oloriburuku oshi.*spits on ur post*

Chai.. All this blinded guys and their threat.. Always threatening to kill!

Anomnity:

https://www.nairaland.com/1844702/snatched-someones-guy-babe-before

MAY GOD DELIVER US FROM THESE LAST DAYS PROPHETS.BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM.

Old things has passed away

musKeeto:

The virgin would know all about relationships and marriage.

musKeeto:



Today is Sunday. Let's keep it holy.

I guess she don't talk about holiness too,, she is good to be your wife.. You always reason in the same pattern like her..

MizMyColi:


Sorry, I decline.

Okay

MizMyColi:
When I went off the grid of organized
Christianity, I went through this blackout and detox period. I didn't go to church, didn't converse about God or Christianity, didn't pray, didn't read my Bible, didn't listen to "Christian music"... nothing! An interesting place to be for a former zonal prayer secretary, coordinator, prayer warrior, e.t.c
During this season I became deeply connected with myself, others, the divine, and life itself in ways I have never experienced before when religion was running the show.

I'm still going through this phases, only it's at different levels.
Infact, while I'm convinced that there is God and Jesus and Holyspirit.......I really don't have this urge to talk about them, kinda irritates me at the moment.


But within me, I talk to them, I just know that I'm transcendent and if anyone's expecting me to explain certain spiritual stuff based on intellect alone, that person is a big time waster.

Currently, I'm questioning a lot of things, currently, I'm kinda confuzzled and it feels like I'm no where, but love will find me.

Love always does. It'll give me a new sense of purpose, of direction.

And Yes!
There is spirituality outside religion, outside organized christianity.

I'm living that life now and I can categorically say that I have never been better, more at peace and so full of life.

Feel free to ask me questions.

Which life?

ifeness:


Haha funny to know that your ideas are from a book written hundreds of years ago. You have just repeated the famous recycled quotes " poor christians are rich in Christ ". Very under achieving statement.

1 Corinthians 1:18
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

ifeness:


Jesus showed you which way? Way to the bank to loot all your hard earned money. Since you have been following this Jewsus,what have you achieved in life? Majority of Christians are underachievers in life.

If indeed Christianity is a lifestyle,then it is a lifestyle of people under the influence of poverty.

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of ourLord Jesus Christ, that thoughhe was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you through his poverty might become rich...
Christians are not rich.. If you see any poor christian, they are rich in christ. Which is the greatest wealth you can have.. Earthly riches will fade, Christ riches will be eternal..

People wrote the bible according to the inspiration of the Holy Spirit but two books were written by revelations of past and future which is Genesis and revelations respectively.. God revealed what happened in the past to moses when he saw the back of God (past of God, Genesis)
Exodus 33:23
Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen.
The back that moses saw was the Genesis.. He was not allowed to see the face(future) cause it wasn't the right time.. Study exodus 33 very well..
Shalom

ifeness:


The belief in the fact that Jesus died for you is not a lifestyle but a religion. Religion is a movement based on an individual.

Paying tithe and offering to deity because you feel protected by it or you owe it your life is not a lifestyle but a bloody religion when followed by many. You are ready to die for this religion,dont you?

So far Christianity has been a religion meant for unintelligent minds. People who read and yet do not understand.

Blah blah blah.. Stop writing with sentiments,it is surely blocking your reasoning.
Religion is a way created and coordinated to find God by man.
Christianity is a lifestyle, that is a life after someone's life which is Jesus christ..
Now, to your rants about the christian practices that you blindly called religion activities, they are the things christ Jesus that we are copying his lifestyle lay down for us.. So what's your problem about it?
We are not finding ways or instituting ways to find God cause christ has shown it to us and posses it for us, to fellowship in the right way we have to follow the guildlines he layed down for us..

youngice:
please I am tired and confused and sad, I have this hole in my heart I feel with some "things" .
I heard something about sins towards the Holy spirit and about how they can't be forgiven .
-does this mean that salvation is not for every body , because if a sin can't be forgiven this implies that some people are destined to go to hell
- please what sin I classified as a sin against the holy spirit
- how can you know u have sinned against the holy spirit , because I've observed that nothing Christian really moves me again
Please mature CHRISTIAN COMMENTS ONLY
-----troubled Bros
PS whenever I try reading the bible I lose comprehension

Matured christians only?

plaetton:

I am just using you own words, otherwise I would asked from which biological family did guys like you evolve from.

He didn't evolve like you and your descendants that evolved from monkeys

Barselonia:

So where is the right section If I may ask

Nairaland.com/islam

Okay.. But I don't think this is the right section to post this.

Congratulations. You've done well

FrancisTony:


My Catholic bible has 73books.

Your demonic Protestant book reformed by blasphemous Martin Luther has 66books indicating '666'(anti-christ).

The bible he is referring to is written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, your own demonic book is written with the understanding of a papal that murdered and persecuted the early church

Rubbish post.. You've got to deal with the ridiculous statements and steps that your Pope Francis is saying and doing first before bringing up all this incessant jagons!

macof:


Doesn't relate with my post. you can't jst proclaim ur god is the unknown God when so many other religions claim it too

so,what's your point?
you chose help too right?

okay naw