January 3 - 'Lost Tribe's' Return to Israel Fulfilling Prophecy?

Article: Israel And The Last Days
 

"I feel like I'm home," one tribe member said. A recent decision now permits all the Bnei Menashe, about 7,000, to return. "The ten tribes may have been lost to us for many centuries, but they were never lost in terms of their identity," Michael Freund, with Shavai Israel, told CBN News. The Assyrian Empire exiled the tribe of Manassah almost 3,000 years ago. Although they settled in northeast India, tribe members kept their Jewish roots for more than 2,000 years. Several Christian organizations helped bring them home. "In fact, the Hebrew prophets said when God gathered His Jewish people back from all the ends of the earth in the last days that there would be Gentiles helping and bringing them back," David Parsons, with the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, told CBN News. "He said, 'I'll beckon to the Gentiles.' And so we have this invitation from God Himself to be involved in this Aliya," he said. Another 300 tribe members are scheduled to arrive in January, with thousands more yet to come.