Peter and John merely prayed for the Samaritans that they would receive the Holy Spirit. Its people were called Jews. Read it: "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, TO THE TWELVE TRIBES WHICH ARE SCATTERED ABROAD, greeting" (first p. 870). "From whence come WARS and lightings among you?" The Acts of the Apostles: 6 Pro Series Bible Maps $ 5.99. Why is it that almost no one has thought of it before? It is addressed to ALL TWELVE TRIBES. But they are not in North Africa today. moment, in Jerusalem at the inspired conference recorded in Acts 15? Now turn to the book of James. More Biblical Archaeology - Significant Discoveries from Ancient Empires. Scythia was the name of the vast plain north of the Black and the Caspian Seas. Consider this also. It was Picture Study Bible - StudyBible with Pictures and Maps. History knows them as Angles and Saxons. slain on Golgotha to pay for the sins of the world -- He commissioned His twelve disciples. Where Did the TWELVE APOSTLES Go? Hence he removed into... Asiatic Scythia or Sarmatia, but finding the inhabitants very barbarous and intractable, he stayed not long among them, only at Cherson, or Chersonesus, a great and populous city within the Bosporus [this Bosporus is the modern Crimea], he continued for some time, instructing them and confirming them in the faith. This is a prophecy of Paul's mission to the British Isles! How can any misunderstand! Greek historians, in the early Middle Ages, have left us information from original documents that apparently are no longer extant. Notice the surprising answer -- in Matthew 10:5-6: "These twelve Jesus sent forth, and COMMANDED them, saying, Go not into 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." In the original inspired Greek New Testament everyone of Paul's letters ends vith an "Amen." But where did the remaining apostles go? He, too, was to end his work among the Lost Ten Tribes! It makes history and the Bible plain. They have handed it down from generation to generation. What white nation was driven from the western shores of western Asia? And significantly, about A.D. 60 great wars overtook Britain -- just as James warned (in the fourth chapter, verse 1) the twelve tribes of Israel! This migration was occasioned by a concerted Roman attack in the east. The question is where did he spend most of his time? But to return, for a moment, to the letter of James. (Bedes "Ecclesiastical History", bk. Christian Identity, British Israelism, Aryan Race movements. Some early writers were confused by the fact that two of the twelve apostles were named James. Ethiopic and Greek sources designate Dacia (modern Romania) and Macedonia, north of Greece, as part of the ministry of Matthias. In apostolic days the whole region was subject to the Parthians. "And they" -- the Jews at Rome -- "said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee. But the movements of the original twelve apostles are cloaked in mystery. Have you ever noticed that the letter of James, like the book of Acts, ends abruptly, without the normal salutations? Here he preached and wrought many miracles ...." Nicephorus and Dorotheus both wrote "that he went at last into BRITAIN, and ... was crucified ... and buried there" (p. 203 of Cave's "Antiq. But that was not to bring the gospel to them. Blue markers represent commonly accepted death locations while yellow markers represent disputed locations. In the mid-40s AD to the mid-50s AD, he founded several churches in Asia Minor and Europe in what was then the Roman Empire during the course of three long missionary journeys. You read plainly of Paul's travels through Cyprus, Asia Minor, Greece, Italy. At the end of that two-year period, during which no accusers had appeared, Paul would automatically have been released according to Roman law. Babylon was the major city from which the apostles in the east worked. But WE DESIRE TO HEAR OF THEE WHAT THOU THINKEST: for as concerning this sect we know that everywhere it is spoken against. What the Greeks report is not what most people expect to find! If you require a different type of license, please contact us. It is at this point that Luke strangely breaks off the story of Paul's life. Here is Geoffrey of Monmouth's answer: "The Saxons ... went unto Gormund, King of the Africans, IN IRELAND, wherein, adventuring thither with a vast fleet, he had conquered the folk of the country Thereupon, by the treachery of the Saxons, he sailed across with a hundred and sixty thousand Africans into Britain ... (and) laid waste, as has been said, well-nigh the whole island with his countless thousands of Africans" (bk. Luke doesn't even finish the life of Paul after his two-years' imprisonment ended! Who the Parthians were has long remained a mystery. MARTYRS, THAT IS, THE RELICS OF THE BLESSED APOSTLES, PETER AND PHILIP HAD DONE THAT! It refers not to Gentiles, but to non-Gentiles who dwelt among Gentiles, as foreigners and aliens. Paul's Four Missionary Journeys began with his first one around 45 AD and ended around 60-61 AD with his fourth and final voyage to Rome. Paul's Second Missionary Journey Parthia and Britain were Israelite. Irresistible, entertaining and educational, this big, colorful wall poster can be an easy and enjoyable way for everyone to learn. Which one of the twelve apostles preached to their ancestors -- the so-called "White Syrians" -- while they abode by the Bosporus and on the Black Sea? Jul 24, 2012 - This site includes an unusual chart of Bible., N.T., Geography, Maps, Early works to 1800. Paul did preach, on his first journey, in SOUTHERN Galatia, in the cities of Iconium, Lystra, Derbe (Acts 14). GREGORY, AND PANCRATIUS, TO BE DELIVERED TO THE BEARERS OF THESE The Parthian kingdom, which was composed of the Ten Tribes ruling over Gentiles, possessed Assyria and Mesopotamia during most of the New Testament period. But God intended, for a special purpose, which few understand, that the identity of the lost House of Israel should not be revealed until this pulsating twentieth century! The Parthians were none other than the exiled Lost Ten Tribes who remained in the land of their captivity until A.D. 226. It was Paul, not any of the twelve, who said: "From henceforth I will go unto the Gentiles" (Acts 18:6). Source: The Plain Truth magazine, May 1964, Philip’s Missionary Journey (Acts 8) V, & Sect; 2). Paul (c. 5 AD - c. 67 AD), whose original name was Saul of Tarsus, was an apostle (though not one of the Twelve Apostles) who taught the gospel of Jesus Christ to the first-century world. Jesus was of the lineage of David, of the House of Judah. (See the accompanying map for the location of Parthia.) -------------------PHOTO CAPTION: The area to which Andrew journeyed. The true gospel had not been PUBLICLY preached in Rome before Paul arrived in A.D. 59. The very fact that Peter preached in Britain is proof in itself that part of the Lost House of Israel was already there! Again he wrote: "Some of the Apostles preached the Gospel in the British Isles." Paul’s First Missionary Journey Let's understand! Included Maps: And in northern Asia Minor, associated with the Assyrians. It means "a resident foreigner," literally, "an alien alongside." Jul 24, 2012 - This site includes an unusual chart of Bible., N.T., Geography, Maps, Early works to 1800. The Hebrew name Joshua is Jesus in Greek. From there, around A.D. 256, the Ten Tribes migrated with their brethren from Asia Minor into Northwest Europe. These strange sounding names are the lands we know today as Iran (or Persia) and Afghanistan. Abraham, for example, was a stranger, an alien, when he lived among the Canaanite Gentiles in Palestine. That was the very land into which Israel was EXILED! (See Rawlinson's "The Sixth Monarchy", page 19.) No one, it seems, has thought to question the tradition. disciples, ordained them apostles, sent them, first, to preach to the Jews. What puzzles historians is that the Parthians were neither Persians, nor Medes, nor Assyrians or any other known people. The Apostle Paul's Missionary Journeys 1: This map is a panoramic view of the Apostle Paul's missionary journeys and includes maps of much of the ancient Roman empire. Life Changing. Could anything be plainer? If multitudes of Greeks in Southern Asia Minor were being converted to Christ by the ministry of Paul, and at the same time multitudes among the lost ten tribes of the House of Israel were being converted in northern Asia Minor, should not those Greeks have left the record of which of the twelve apostles carried the gospel there? -------------------PHOTO CAPTION: The final migrations of the House of Israel to Northwest Europe. This package includes 6 Bible maps in HD (1080p) format. In A.D. 598, when the bishop of Rome sent Augustine to bring Catholicism to England he found the inhabitants were already professing Christians! He was not writing primarily to Jews. Gerizim J o r d n R. L i t a n i R. O r o n t e s R .--500 0 - sea level (in meters) 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 And they passing by Mysia came down to Troas" (Acts 16:7, 8). This Google Earth file series shows the approximate journeys the apostle Paul made according to the book of Acts, which can be found in the New Testament of the Bible. "The Spanish writers generally contend, after the death of Stephen he came to these WESTERN parts, and particularly into SPAIN (some add BRITAIN and IRELAND) where he planted Christianity" (p. 148 of Cave's work). The archaeology of Scandinavia confirms this event. To the Here is part of his letter to the British king: "HOWEVER, WE HAVE ORDERED THE BLESSED GIFTS OF THE HOLY The refugees settled mainly about the Black Sea. For almost three centuries after the time of Simon Zelotes they remained in Mauritania. He reports: "That St. Paul brought salvation TO THE ISLES THAT LIE IN THE OCEAN" (book i, on Psalm cxvi. These countless thousands were not Negroes, or Arabs. The Travel Areas of the Acts of the Apostles; also where Paul Sent his Letters (city names in "stamped envelopes", the one province "unstamped") Map 13. Rome did not become designated as "Modern Babylon" until Christ revealed it, much later, after Peter's death, in the book of Revelation, chapter 17. Perfect for a classroom, church Bible studies, or home this large poster is showing the "Journeys of the Apostles" in a striking new digital physical Bible period maps. Paul’s Third Missionary Journey They lost their identity and became identified with the names of the districts in which they lived. Paul was expressly forbidden to preach in Mysia, the northern district of the Roman province of Asia. And in North Africa, from whence they migrated into Britain in the fifth century. From Assyria and Media, the lands of their exile, they spread east into Parthia and northwest around Black Sea. Map 14. Had some fled westward in 721 B.C. Read it -- James 5:20. Compare it with Paul's epistles. Seventy years later they returned to Instead, Jesus said to the Gentile woman: "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the House of Israel" (Mat. Apostle Peter’s Missionary Journey Map. The very area to which Thomas sojourned was, reports Josephus, filled with uncounted multitudes of the Ten Tribes! From there they migrated to Northwest Europe in the sixth century, long after the Apostles' time. From ancient times Spain was the high road of migration from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the British Isles. He was the leading conspirator in the plot hatched by the priests of the pagan Babylonian-Samaritan mysteries. Parthia [Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia]. Whole books of the Old Testament are devoted to the power struggles between the "House of Israel" and Judah. But the moment has now come, in this climactic "time of the end," to pull back the shroud of history and reveal where the twelve apostles went. House of Judah and to the House of Israel -- the Lost Ten Tribes. Paul never once mentions Peter in his epistle to the brethren in Rome, most of whom had been converted on Pentecost in 31 A.D. Not even the Jews at Rome had heard the gospel preached before Paul arrived! Peter preached the gospel in Great Britain, not in Rome, the capital of the Gentile world. Paul's Journey to Rome. Christ had chosen Paul for a threefold purpose -- "to bear His name before the Gentiles, and kings, AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL" (Acts 9:15). Then to WHOM -- and where -- were the twelve apostles sent? This book is not addressed to the Gentiles. Benjamin went with Judah. In the year 656 Pope Vitalian decided the Catholic Church was not interested in the remains of the apostles Peter and Paul. There it is! Yet another apostle sent to the lost sheep of the House of Israel ends in the British Isles -- in IRELAND as well as in Britain! Ask a Question! James wrote his book about A.D. 60 (he was martyred about two years later according to Josephus). That is why John cut his letter short. The word PARTHIAN MEANS EXILE! But Paul's third mission was not yet accomplished! ", p. 189). He "COMMANDED them." You will find the answer in Christ's commission to Paul. Now we know TO WHOM the twelve apostles were sent. This image may be used/stored on up to two (2) computers at the same time. The ancient royal House of Ireland for a time dwelt in Spain. And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into his lodging; to whom he expounded and testified the kingdom of God, persuading them concerning Jesus, both out of the law of Moses, and out of the prophets, from morning till evening (verses 21-23).