“Hebrew Israelite”
Hebrew Israelite lineage comes from the original 12 tribes of Jacob, later renamed by the Creator “Israel”, his only son.
Genesis 32:28 - Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with Elohim and with men and hast prevailed.
Exodus 4:22 - And thou shall say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith The Most High, Israel is my son, even my first born.
The lineage comes from our forefather Abraham, father of Issac; Issac begot Jacob and Esau, twins that battled from the womb; The seed of Jacob produced 12 sons, which are the 12 tribes of Israel, the Creators chosen people, who are to be the light to all nations.
This lineage was not as simple as our forefathers having kids. Each generation came with a struggle where The Most High’s will came to fruition. Let’s start with Abraham. Abraham was married to Sarah, who at the age of 90 had not conceived a child. The Most High opened her womb, and she begot Issac. Issac was married to Rebekah, who was chosen by a his father’s servant to find Issac a suitable wife. Once Rebekah conceived, she had twins that caused turmoil in her womb during the pregnancy. The Most High came to her and told her “Two Nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger”. (Genesis 25:23)
Now these twin sons were named Esau, the eldest and Jacob, the younger one. By birth right, Esau was supposed to inherit his father’s blessings prior to his passing. This did not come to pass. With the help of his mother, Jacob tricked his father Issac into giving him the blessing meant for the eldest boy. This was after Esau sold his birth right to Jacob for a bowl of lentil stew. Once Jacob fooled his father into giving him the blessing, he went to his Uncle’s city to escape the wrath of his brother Esau, who found out what Jacob did. While he was there he met Rachel and immediately fell in love and asked for her hand in marriage. Her father, Laban, Sarah’s brother, allowed the union as long as Jacob worked for him for 7 years. Jacob gladly did so awaiting his bride Rachel. Once the 7 years was up, Laban prepared a feast and brought Rachel’s sister to Jacob’s tent to be married. The next morning, Jacob realized he had wed Leah, Rachels older sister. When Jacob confronted Laban, he explained in their culture, it was uncommon for the younger sister (Rachel) to be married prior to the older. So he agreed to give Jacob Rachel if Jacob worked an additional 7 years. Jacob was so in love with Rachel, he agreed, and a week later Laban gave him Rachel as his 2nd wife. This caused heartache for Leah, as she was not Jacob’s first choice for a wife. Nevertheless she conceived first, 4 boys, Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah. Rachel grew jealous as her womb was not allowing her to conceive. She gave her handmaid, Bilhah to Jacob as a concubine to conceive. In ancient times, if a concubine gave birth on a woman’s thighs, the child would be considered the woman whom she sat on to deliver. Bilhah conceived and birthed Dan and Naphtali. Leah then gave her handmaid to Jacob to conceive more children, which she did, producing Gad and Asher. Soon after Leah conceived two more children, Issachar and Zebulun. Finally, The Most High opened Rachel’s womb and allowed her to conceive, producing Joseph and Benjamin. (Genesis 29-30)
12 Tribes of Israel ~
12 Tribes of Israel ~
Each tribe has certain attributes which are significantly different from one another. (Genesis 49)
Genesis 49:3 – Reuben, thou art my first born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power. Unstable as water, thou shat not excel, because thou we test up to they father’s bed, then defilest thou it; he went up to my couch.
Genesis 49:5 – Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret , unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united; for in their anger they slew a man, and in their self will they digged down a way. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Genesis 49:8 - Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.
Genesis 49:13 - Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
Genesis 49:14 - Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens: And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
Genesis 49:16 - Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O MOST HIGH.
Genesis 49:19 - Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.
Genesis 49:20 - Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.
Genesis 49:21 - Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
Genesis 49:22 - Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty Elohim of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:) Even by the Elohim of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.
Genesis 49:27 - Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
Genesis 28:21 - And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
The Blessings of the Twelve Tribes
Prior to Moses death, he blessed the 12 tribes of Israel.
Deuteronomy 33:1 - And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of Elohim blessed the children of Israel before his death.
Deuteronomy 33:6-25
6Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
7And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, The Most High, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
8And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;
9Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
10They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.
11Bless, The Most High, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
12And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the The Most High shall dwell in safety by him; and the The Most High shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
13And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the The Most High be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
14And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,
15And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lasting hills,
16And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.
17His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.
18And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and, Issachar, in thy tents.
19They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
20And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
21And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was heseated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the The Most High, and his judgments with Israel.
22And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.
23And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the The Most High: possess thou the west and the south.
24And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
25Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
ARE YOU FROM THE LINEAGE OF ONE OF THESE TRIBES?
Where are these tribes today?
Throughout generations since the 12 tribes were created, the chosen people of The Most High were disobedient to his laws. As a punishment, The Most High scattered us to the four corners of the earth. If you take a look at Deuteronomy 28, it speaks of the blessings we will receive if we followed the laws, statues and commandments The Most High has set for us as well as the curses we will succumb to if we do not. If you recall in history, we lived in Egypt as captives, slaves to the Egyptians. Moses was sent by The Most High to free us, and by The Most High’s will we were set free, which you can read about in the book of Exodus.
Deuteronomy 28:68 - And The Most High shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I Spake unto thee, thou shall see it no more again; and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bond women and no man shall buy you.
This verse speaks of the slavery which is how we were scattered to the four corners of the earth, brought over by ships in bondage dispersed in every direction.
The book of Isaiah speaks of us being recovered.
Isaiah 11:11-12 And it shall come to pass in that day, that The Most High shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt and from Pathos, and from Cush and from Elam and from Shiner and from Hamath and from the islands of the sea. And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.
“The Most High shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people,” the first time being the Exodus from Egypt.
This scripture explains where The Most High scattered all of us to the four corners of the earth. It is nearly impossible to track down this lineage due to the ends of the earth they were scattered. Many Israelites came to to America as slaves thru the Atlantic Slave trade, many were shipped to parts of Europe as slaves. Some correlate this passage, “from the islands of the sea” with the West Indies, the Carribean islands. All of the original people of these islands were brought to them by Europeans as slaves.
So many of us today of color could come from one of these 12 tribes, making us Israelites, The Most High’s chosen people. Whether we are part of this lineage or not, the laws, statutes and commandments set forth by The Most High are for everyone to live by.