John's Note: It is true that the ten tribe "House of Israel" was overthrown by Assyria and taken away, as recorded in 2 Kings 18:9-12.
2 Kings 18:9  And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it. 10  And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken. 11  And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes: 12  Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
These are the folks who scattered when Babylon conquered Assyria and passed through the
Caucasus mountains into the steppes of south Russia.
Soon after the power of the Assyrians was broken, vast numbers of the Israelites began several migrations, with the main two groups moving west under the Black Sea, Eventually making their way to that far eastern Island, while their cousins headed west to populate northwest Europe and the far western island of Britain. These folks lost their identity and became known, not by race of or as Israelites but, instead by their having come from the Caucasus mountain "Caucasians".
But, there is a overlooked fact recorded in 2 Kings 18:13.
2 Kings 18:13  Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.
A very large number of the "House of Judah" was also taken by Assyria and carried away with the "House of Israel".
Then in
2 Kings 19:4 we learn
2 Kings 19:4  It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.

the majority of the Judahites from "The House of Judah"(the other two tribes of Israelites), were also taken away by the Assyrians. Only a remnant of Judahites were left in Jerusalem, proper, for Nebuchadnazzer to take to Babylon over 100 years later when Babylon conquered Jerusalem.


Of that remnant of the former "House of Judah", we learn in Ezra that only a portion returned to Jerusalem with him after Babylon was over thrown and Ezra was given permission to move Israelites back to their homeland. We also learn that mixed with that remnant were many Kenites and by the time Christ was born in the flesh the Kenites had taken over the ministry.

Is it any wonder that in John 8:44 Jesus said to them>>>>
 John 8:44  "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him, When he spaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."

We also know from secular history that that group, called Jews, was further infiltrated by the former nation of the KHAZARS.
So what we have in that little country in the middle east today, that calls itself Israel is made up of some Israelites, some Kenites and some Khazars, all mixed together.  Both GOOD AND BAD FIGS.
When we are ask to "count the number of the beast" you have to know who all we are to count
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