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There are no "lost tribes of Judah." The lost tribes are of "Israel"... there's a difference.
The House of Judah is "the Jews"... and the Jews are quite visible in the world.
The House of Israel, on the other hand, are not Jews (allowing for a small remnant of Jews who got mixed in when they disappeared in world history).
The name "Israel" was named on "Joseph." Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, were "Josephites"... not "Jews." (Gen.48:16)
The world seems wholly unaware that the nation of Israel was and is split into "two houses"... the House of Israel and the House of Judah (the Jews), and ignorantly thinks they are all "Jews."
But, it was JOSEPH who was scattered to the four winds in history and never returned. The JEWS, however, were taken to Babylon for 70 years and returned. And although they were subsequently "dispersed" a number of times since... unlike the "lost tribes of the House of Israel" - the Jews have retained their identity... they know who they are... the world knows who they are... and there is no mystery about it.
The House of Israel lost their "identity" before they were even scattered, because they abandoned God's commanded Holy Days and Sabbaths: the very things that IDENTIFY who God's people are:
"...Verily MY SABBATHS YE SHALL KEEP: for IT IS A SIGN between Me and you throughout your generations; THAT YE MAY KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD THAT DOTH SANCTIFY YOU... IT IS A SIGN between Me and the children of Israel FOR EVER... (Ex.31:13 & 17).
The Jews still keep the Sabbaths of God and know who they are. The lost tribes of the House of Israel in their rejection of God's commanded Sabbaths - THINK THEY ARE GENTILES to this very day!
Prophecy clearly reveals that God shall bring the two houses together again upon His return and reunite them into the nation of "Israel" once again. Yet, the world remains utterly ignorant of it.
"...ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up out of your graves, and shall put My Spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.
"...Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the House of Israel his companions:
"And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thy hand. And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I WILL TAKE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FROM AMONG THE HEATHEN, WHITHER THEY BE GONE, AND I WILL GATHER THEM ON EVERY SIDE, AND BRING THEM INTO THEIR OWN LAND: AND I WILL MAKE THEM ONE NATION in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one King shall be King to them all: and THEY SHALL BE NO MORE TWO NATIONS, neither shall they BE DIVIDED INTO TWO KINGDOMS ANY MORE AT ALL." (Ezek.37:13-22)
So, it wasn't of the "lost tribes of Judah" about whom Jesus spoke to His disciples, but "the lost sheep of the House of ISRAEL."
"...these twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not in the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: but go rather to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand..." (Matt.10:5-7).
"...Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the HOUSE OF ISRAEL and with the HOUSE OF JUDAH... For this is the covenant that I will make with the HOUSE OF ISRAEL after those days, saith the Lord (notice that the two houses will then be ONE HOUSE of Israel); I will put My laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to Me a people..." (Heb.8:8-10).
The Jews (Judah) know who they are and are not lost to the world, because they have kept God's sabbaths, His sign, and their "identity." The lost tribes of Israel don't know they are Israelites, because they reject the "sign" of God that would "identify" them.
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When did the Jews come into existence?
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What province was Jesus born in?
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