A Search for Israel, by Bill Shuey
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In these troubling times we live in we struggle to understand world events as they unfold before our very eyes. Are the Muslims that are attacking the Jews in Palestine fulfilling Bible prophecy? Will the beleaguered people in Judea survive? Will the new ISIS threat gain momentum and spread beyond the Middle East? Has Israel been restored as predicted by Bible prophecy? All these questions and many more trouble both Christians and Jews who look to their sacred books, the Old and New Testaments, for guidance and answers. Unfortunately there are no definitive answers to be found within the pages of either testament. However, the ancient scriptures do provide us with predictions, promises, and clues. Based on these hints and what we can assemble from secular history, we have the tools to put together a reasonable conclusion regarding the reality of who the modern Israel is and their significance in the world today. My research has led me to the opinion that, by design or unwittingly, a great distortion has been imposed upon on an unsuspecting and trusting public. Certainly no one effort has the ability to right all wrongs or make all roads straight. However, A Search for Israel does attempt to combine biblical information with secular events to arrive at a picture of whom and what constitutes Israel – the nation and the people. Certainly the knowledge of who and what represents Israel should be of utmost importance to the Christian community. But Sunday school teachers and Protestant ministers typically will not discuss the realities associated with biblical prophecies as they pertain to the nation/kingdom that is to be restored —the issue is too complex and the false premises too deeply ingrained. A Search for Israel provides the open-minded reader with the biblical, historical, and anecdotal information needed to make an informed decision regarding the Jews and the possible disposition of Israel today. And A Search for Israel provides those who are more interested in facts than indoctrination with a reasoned alternative to what has long been taught as the only possible truth.
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- Published on: 2015-06-08
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Questioning God's gift to the Jews By K. Rollins A Search for Israel, by Bill Shuey, is a series of essays that take different approaches to proving the same thesis. He uses a mixture of Biblical references from the Old and New Testaments, historical documents, and others’ books to build his arguments. He believes that the current nation of Israel and the Jews living there are not the true recipients of God’s promise of glory. In fact, he suggests that the Lost Tribes of Israel wound up in Great Britain and in the United States. Thus, his people, who came to the United States from England, are more likely to be the chosen people of God than the Jews in Israel. Shuey claims, “No other nations on Earth except the US and Great Britain contain all the prerequisite requirement for the restored/revealed Israel that were established in Old Testament prophecy! Therefore, either the Biblical promises made to Israel, the man and his descendants, are merely nonsense written by anonymous scribes, or the Bible is true and accurate, thereby lending credibility to my conclusions.”It’s hard for me to put much credence in any argument that’s based on the Bible as the infallible word of God. I see the Bible (Old and New Testaments) as a collection of stories that explain creation, history, and morality to the faithful. Like many other religious texts, it emphasizes its claim to absolute truth. It makes its believers members of the winning team, the holy and righteous, while all others are losers who are ultimately damned. When coupled with political and cultural aspirations, these stories become weapons that allow one group to slaughter another in the name of God and righteousness. Even Jesus, who suggested that people treat each other with kindness, has been used as an excuse for exclusion and violence. It’s hard to believe the amount of blood that has been spilled in his name.The problem is, if you believe the Old Testament stories, it’s clear that God promised Canaan to Abraham and his descendants. Abraham’s descendants include both Ishmael (the father of the Muslim faith) and Isaac (the father of the Jewish and later Christian faith). That makes the current hatred between Jews, Christians, and Muslims a family affair. But Shuey wants that promise to apply only to Christians. Thus, he embarks on a series of long explanations that use some facts and a lot of “interpretation” to reach the conclusion that, as he says, “The Jews have had no factual relationship to the kingdom/nation of Israel beyond a distant kinship.”The most important part of this argument is his claim that the scattering of the tribes after their conquest by the Babylonians meant only a few returned to Judea. The rest could have gone anywhere. Hence the “Lost Tribes” moniker. Shuey writes, “There are obviously a great number of descendants of the tribe of Judah scattered all over the earth.”Later, he repeats that claim in stronger words: “Therefore it makes no sense to view the Jews and the revealed/restored Israel as being one and the same.” He quotes from Frederick Haberman’s book, Tracing Our Ancestors: “Before the coming of the Angles into northern Germany, there arrived another related tribe, that of the Juti, in the peninsula to the north of the Angles, who gave the country the name of Jutland. They were the Juti of Ariana, who were the descendants of the people of Judah.” Shuey goes on to note that “Jutland” is very close to “Judah” or “Judahland.” So, he argues, “it is reasonable to presume that many people from the nation of Judah would have migrated east after they escaped the Assyrian attack, and Denmark is a logical location for that eastern trek.” The Jutes migrated to Great Britain in 390. Therefore, Shuey’s people, who came from England to the United States, are probably descended from those Lost Tribes.It’s interesting to note that Denmark is over 2000 miles from Israel and probably was not the first choice for people fleeing the encroaching hoards in the Middle East, despite the similarity of the spelling of their lands.The Lost Tribes argument has been used for places all over the globe. Lately, it’s been very popular among the Mormons to prove that some of the Lost Tribes folks wound up in Ixtapa, in southern Mexico. They have a very detailed argument that ultimately proves no more than the Denmark one. Thor Heyerdahl felt the Lost Tribes could have traveled to the New World by reed boat.But it’s not enough for Shuey to suggest that some of the chosen people wound up in England, or Denmark, or wherever. He needs to disenfranchise the Jews and, by association, Israel as the land God promised to the Jews. Because the Lost Tribes migrated to other lands, he says, “These considerable numbers of the tribe of Judah are completely separate from the Jews who returned to Palestine or remained in Babylonia.” Jeremiah, he points out, says God’s promise is to the throne of Israel. But because Israel, the nation, is a democracy, not a monarchy, it cannot be the recipient promised in scripture. Further, he quotes Ezekiel (17:23) as saying, “In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing: in the shadow of the branches therefore shall they dwell.” Shuey says, “The symbolism in Ezekiel is clear and unambiguous and it can be alluding to no other subject than the restoration of Israel.” No, sorry, there’s nothing clear and unambiguous in this quote or pretty much any other quote you can take from Ezekiel. It’s being used here to push an argument of dubious merit.There’s another side to this thesis which gets considerably less benign. Shuey says, “There is no way to avoid the conclusion that the entire kingdom of Israel is lost. This fact will help us focus on the fact that the Jews in Palestine/Judea cannot be the kingdom of Judah or Israel.” He tries to erase the Jews from the promise of God’s glory. Even the words “Jews” he finds questionable. In Chapter VII, Shuey says, “Whoever wrote II Kings was surely a Jew and as such could well have inserted the term Jew into Kings even though the word was yet to be coined.” That makes no sense at all. How could a writer use a word that had not yet been “coined”?When that argument loses strength, he switches to the idea that after the destruction of the Temple by the Romans in 70 AD, the Jews were scattered. Therefore, some might have ended up in England. From there, Shuey switches to historical references, including Akhenaten and his wife, Nefertiti, as well as the pyramid at Giza, before turning to symbols on the great seal of the United States, including the Great Eye and the motto “Annuit Coeptis” which has thirteen letters, just like the thirteen tribes of Israel.In some sections, Shuey’s book reminds me of Chariots of the Gods, by Eric von Danniken, which introduced the entertaining though ultimately unsupportable thesis that aliens had created all the advanced technologies of ancient sites like Machu Picchu and the Egyptian pyramids. Much of his evidence was selective use and interpretation of ancient inscriptions, Bible verses, and folk stories. While his theories have long since been disproven, they’ve proven to be very popular.For centuries, people have used dubious religious claims as an excuse to persecute Jews. As far back as the Black Death plague in the 14th century, Jews were accused to poisoning the wells, creating the sickness. In 1492, Jews and Muslims were expelled from Spain. Those Jews who remained were tortured and killed by the Roman Catholic Church Inquisition, based on the idea that Jews had killed Jesus (despite the fact that Jesus was a Jew). By the time Hitler demonized the Jews in Depression-era Germany, people were used to blaming Jews for whatever misfortune befell them. It was easy, then, to say the Jews shouldn’t receive God’s promise; non-Jewish Germans should.I would condemn the book outright if I felt it was just another way to demonize Jews, but Shuey’s motivation seems to be more envy than hatred. He wants God’s promise, as stated in the scripture he believes, to apply to him and his people. To do so, he has to disenfranchise the Jews and by extension Israel. Perhaps that feeling underpins many anti-Semitic efforts.The book itself is clearly written. The author makes a point of including sources for his statements, though the sources themselves are often books much like his own, with a clear and biased agenda.I read the book with interest because I wanted to know how the author came to these beliefs, but I do not endorse the author’s conclusions. The Bible, like the Koran and other important books, has been used for many purposes. Perhaps the least attractive of these, to me, is the exclusionary function.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Finally, a book that tells the truth about Israel! By Larry Tisdale This book answers the question that I have asked all my life: What happened to the 12 Tribes of Israel and is the current tiny nation of Israel the one prophesied in the Bible? Shuey does a great job answering that question and comes to an astounding conclusion!
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