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Seems the tribe of Benjamin existed.
Paul says in Romans 11:
1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

He was of the Tribe of Benjamin, many of the Samitans were from the different tribes who had married Gentiles. That is why the Jews felt the way they did toward the Samaritans. The Jews in most cases today can track their linage all the way back to the son of Jacob they descended from.

Jesus says in the tribulation God will track them back to their tribe to seal 12,000 from each tribe listed. thus making up the 144,000, 12,000 from each tribe noted. That means God still has a plan for Israel.

 

Revelation 7:4-8
4 "And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.
7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.
8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand."

Explain how it is not!

 

There is often a difference between the kingdom of God and the kingdom of heaven. And this is one place where those phrases make a definite difference.
Jesus here is speaking of a spiritual kingdom (the kingdom of God).
The kingdom of heaven will indeed be given to the Jews. Read the OT. God is not a liar. He will restore the kingdom to the Jews--the Kingdom of Heaven on this earth--a Millennial Kingdom.

 

I did:

And I proved you wrong.

Judah and Benjamin are the only two tribes that make up what is known as Judah.
Now what about:

Luke 2:36 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

The tribe of Asher is from the Israel or the northern tribes.
She is but one example. The very fact that her tribe is recorded would give credence to believe that they all could give the tribe from which they came. Just because the Bible doesn't tell us which tribe each individual came from does not mean they didn't know it. That is only an unwarranted assumption on your part. You are reading into the scriptures something that isn't there.

 

No he isn't. I am not confused. Why are you?

 

I am glad, for once, you admit you are a novice. It gives one a reason to believe why you are so confused in your comprehension of Scripture.

1. Look you admit that not all were carried into captivity.
2. But then you make the inference that the ones left behind "all" intermarried and became Samaritans. No, some of them did. Many of them kept their identity, never lost it. You are simply making too many assumptions.
3. By putting away foreign wives Ezra purified the nation, and they kept their identity.

It seems to me you have no faith in God.

Look again at what the Scriptures say:

Luk 2:1-4 (EMTV)
(1) And it came to pass in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census be taken of all the empire.
(2) This census was the first one while Quirinius was governing Syria.
(3) And all were traveling to be registered, each to his own city.
(4) Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David,
--The KJV reads "to be taxed" but it was actually a census.
Mary and Joseph were of the tribe of Judah, specifically of the family of David. Therefore they had to go to Bethlehem to enroll in this census.
Each person had to do the same thing. It was imperative that they know their genealogy. They had to. It was a requirement. Something of such value was never lost on a Jew.
Look at the detailed history that Saul was able to give when called upon.
The same was true of Anna coming from Asher.

You have absolutely no evidence to say that any of their heritage was lost.

 

http://founders.org/fj09/the-history-of-dispensationalism-in-america/

 

Yes, but when he quoted Paul, he quoted him word perfectly. Paul stated many times his own pedigree, and not just in the book of Acts.

Php 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

Rom 11:1 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Act 22:2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
Act 22:3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught according to the perfect manner of the law of the fathers, and was zealous toward God, as ye all are this day.

Act 26:4 My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews;
Act 26:5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

These are Paul's own words, what he says about himself in the different letters he wrote, or what Luke records when he quotes him word for word.

 

So Criswell saw the light of truth and followed it?

 

Reading some biographical material on Reisinger, it wasn't the Bible that turned him away from dispensationalism.

http://www.carolbrandt.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Ernest-Reisinger.pdf
I suppose if he would have read Charles Taze Russell's books he would have become a J.W.
Someone once said: "You are what you read."