THE LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL IN THE PACIFIC AND ASIAN RIM expression on his face confucius said that

on his face confucius said that there will be

one born in the west west to china the middle east he
david H
by
H chen
would be the only one to be the holy onei onel
the most obvious israeli influence upon china is the
chinese practice of lalen lalys
ial
lal SS gloh nian which literally means
guoh
iguoh
china is a multi racial society with more than fifty
multiracial passover festival and iitt has been changed to the term of
different nationalities and races minority races constitute spring festival or new year celebration after the overthrow of
seven per cent of the total population of china a nation of over the manchurian rulership the last chinese imperial dynasty in
one billion people today most of the minority races in china 1911 the chinese guoh gloh nian is identical to the jewish
passover festival both the chinese guoh
have their respective autonomous regions and still maintain their gloh nian
passover festival are during the beginning month and the israel
own racial identities and particular religious faith however in the lunar
some of the minorities have already been assimilated to the han calendar the lord spake unto moses and aaron in the land of
race of the chinese majority the israelites perhaps are the egypt saying the month shall be unto you the beginning of
typical example historically the israelites were not of months it shall be the first month of the year to you 2
during this special occasion the israelites place lambs blood
chinese origin and they lived in their motherland palestine upon their doors to avoid the destroying angels entering their
until the kingdom of israel was defeated by sargon 11II king of
the assyrian empire in 721 BC A af ter the
short time after homes and they shall take of the blood and strike it on the
two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses wherein
captivity the israelites escaped mysteriously and moved toward they shall eat it and the blood shall be to you for a token
their north neighboring countries thereafter the israelites upon the houses where ye are and when I1 see the blood 1I will
became the lost people in the regions of the euphrates and they pass over you ana
were referred as the ten lost tribes of israel and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy
prior to the fall of the assyrian empire in 612 BC you 3 the chinese place red strips of paper on their doors
babylonia came to power as the new babylonian empire or chaldean during guohgloh nian and the chinese new year for good luck and
empire allying itself with the medes and persians under king to be more free from disaster before new years eve to please
nebipolassar and his son nebuchadnezzar they defeated the the spirits the chinese traditionally clean their houses even
egyptians in 605 BC jerusalem was sacked and destroyed putting away their left over food to give to beggars in the next
consequently the king and nobles of the kingdom of judah were day the israelites have the same tradition and customs in their
passover festival which marks the time when elijah is said to
imprisoned in babylon and remained in babylonian captivity
until their liberation in 529 BC by cyrus the great king of visit each house of israel disguised as a beggar to see whether
the persian empire the israelites migrated through central or not the world is ready and worthy for a messiah4
chinese guohgloh nian
messiahs
messiah 4 on
passover festival or spring festival
asia along the silkroute
silk route into the north western region ofapproxi-
china
of ye shall go out at the door of his house until the morning5
none
mornings
morning 5
perhaps during the latter part of the zhou dynasty
mately 600 BC the people of israel upon their arrival in therefore no visitors are accepted from the eve of the new year
china at their best taught the highest ideas of moral and until the following morning of the next daya day6 the majority of
ethical excellence their social principles and values were the chinese households do not sleep on chinese new year eve in
identical with that of the chinese ethical a rules and systems the lunar calendar and eat unleavened dumpling at midnight on
therefore the israelites were accepted as civilized race of the other hand the israelites on the night of the passover
people by the chinese and concepts such as the redeemer or the festival do not go out but stay in their homes and partake of
holy one T Z were also introduced to the chinese in the unleavened bread called mazzah
gloh nian passover festival
fazzah midnight
at midnights
midnight7 7 the chinese
ancient chi lassie
lassle
nes e eclassic
chinese writing lieh tse jong ni pianrj4
pianj t akljeb
piana tul
tub guoh is the most serious and biggest
there is the following passage festival in china even in modern times although the chinese
government officially has adopted the western calendar practices
gloh nian the lunar chinese new year
guoh or the chinese passover
tivai is still the most important festival and ceremony in
festival
fes
eat
ettiagftemasicaathasiitawsiyafttemsnasfe saa
aad chinese custom the first two weeks of the new year to the
chinese people is the period of mutual greetings and bay nian
which is translated as follows which means to ask for forgiveness to those whom a person has
offended and to express thanksgiving to those to whom a person
shang premier visited confucius and asked him whether is indebted the way of bay nian is to bow head to the ground
the three kings and the five emperors of china were the of the earth in order to show a persons sincerity and true
holies confucius answered that he knew not the whom shang humbleness to his benefactors as well as to god after a couple
premier was very astonished and asked again then is of thousand years practicing the gloh nian
guoh ceremony the
to be the holy one after a while with a very touching chinese no longer know why they have such a mysterious tradition

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of gloh
guoh nian passover festival nevertheless they practice
it it is very similar to the offering sacrifices of adam and
eve after they were out of the garden of eden although they knew
not why they did offer sacrifices they did so because they were 11
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KAIFENG
genealogical
ISRAEL RELIGION RESEARCH
israelites had kept their genealogical records until they were
influenced by the chinese they changed their surnames and
adopted chinese surnames in the 13th century AD professor there was ample evidence that the israelites through
wolfram eberhard has indicated in his writing Ch inas
cainas
chinas interracial
inter racial marriages were already assimilated with the
the majority race of
minorities yesterday and today that the israelites or jewish indigenous people of the han chinese
european
people reached the yellow river basin perhaps before the 9th ath china ip
10 addition american and scholars
century AD most of the israelites the jewish people were commented upon returning from their visit to china at the end
businessmen and entered china through siberia of the 16th century AD that there were only few israel or
gradually the israelite immigrants settled in the haifeng
kaifeng jewish scriptures left and the people of the israelites were
area and developed their own style of israel communities already completely assimilated by the chinese race after the
sometimes referred to as the jewish communities and lived their 16th century AD the west could no longer hear anything about
own way of life regardless of whether they went through the israelites in china
siberia silk routes or any other paths they entered into china mixed marriages changed the unique features of the
haifeng area of chinas henan province
their settlement in the kaifeng israelites the adoption of chinese surnames changed the social
was a historical fact consqupntly after the 16th
identities of the israelite people a consequently
consquently
while in the 16th century AD the jesuit missionaries
arrived in china they heard about the israelites jewish
AD the israelites became
century AO people of nodifferent
nodifferent
comparison to their physical appearance and social identities
in
communities and not only visited the area but also studied a with the native chinese professor wolfram eberhard pointed out
great deal about those israelites and their communities the
reports of the jesuit missionaries indicated that although the
in his writing inas
cainas
chinas
Ch minorities yesterday and today that
in the history of mankind china was the only place where the
israel or jewish communities still kept their own religious israelites were peacefully and completely assimilated with the
faith and their ministers could still read their own scriptures native race of people without suffering any persecute persecut
perse
persecution
cut i on
yet their social circles had become very Ilimited11
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mixed marriage and the adoption of the native ways of life as alley these street names were given
actually kven
kiven by the early
well as that of native chinese surnames thus a couple of israelite settlers the native chinese had referred to the
thousand years later the israelites had totally and completely israelites as the blue hat moslems because the israelites in
bluehat
lost their original racial identities and their characters of the early days always wore blue hats in order to distinguish
appearance and became chinese themnselves from the turkish moslems so the israelites were
leo gabow an israel nationality spent more than seven known as the blue hat moslems
years studying the history and historical traces of the to the native chinese there was no way to distinguish the
china12
israelites in China 12 jews from the israelites the jews from the arabs and the arabs
the result of his studies has been noticed and collected from th consquently the israelites were given the name
thee turks consequently
by the hoover institute of stanford university research data as the blue hat moslems in the early days of the Ka kaifeng
haifeng
ifeng
and accomplishments have been preserved by the institute the since the last cn century
tury
turs the study of races became a popular
data show that the date of the israelites arrival in china was academic subject the jewish communities its proper name should

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possibly in the latter part of the zhou dynasty 500 600 BC
500600 be the israelite communities also became a noticeable
13 terminology in sinology and chinas kaifeng
haifeng is no longer strange
someof the data shows that the possibility of their arrival consquently in order to study the early
to the academic world consquentlyv
consequently
in china was in the han dynasty 206 BC israelite communities in Ka haifeng
kaifeng
ifeng the blue hat moslems became

a
220 AD some
other data indicated that their settlement in the kaifeng
haifeng area the subject matter in research the popular knowing blue hat
nationa of multiracial
was a natiola multi racial cosmopolitanism leo gabow in moslems were also referred to as the seven blue bluehat
hat moslems
order to find the factual data for furthering studies of the because they adopted seven chinese surnames into themselves
israelites in china in may 1983 went to china and visited the namely
nameiy
qamelv
israel or jewish conn unities
communities in the kaifeng
haifeng area he interviewed jl
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and shy
unfortunately although they knew that they were the descendants
of the israelites they have no knowledge about their ances toral
ancestoral
ancestorial
history however some of the israel customs still remained in 14 X 15
haifeng area such as the practice of circumcision andthe
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their adopting seven chinese surnames into themselves is
there are still more than two hundred people nowadays in the
thene different from the records of the inscription of ancient
monuments found in the kaifeng
haifeng area known as the descendants of the israelites but
kaifeng haifeng area which indicated that there
their physical appearance differs not much from the han majority were seventeen surnames chinese surnames of the israelites in
chinese besides some of the streets in the city of kaifeng
haifeng are the early kaifengs jewish israelite communities
still named as religion scripture alley and muscle pick out
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 besides the above mentioned israelite communities perhaps
16
it is worthy to notice that in 1957 the chinese government sent
an expeditionary team of explorers with the mission to discover
the takla maka the largest desert of the world which is located
ft in the chinese Turki stan the xinjiang
turkistan Xin jiang province of china the
ft
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9
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31 IF AB 17 expeditionary team found in the central part of the takla maka
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revealed to the rest of the world to scholars in racial
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studies inevitably rises the question that if these people are
8 te 2 at afckffi
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not of chinese racial origin then what is their racial origin
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are the
theyy the lost tribes of israel
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fji R the WORLD JOURNAL has made some interesting comments
fe
sa s3 AS regarding the assimilation of the israelites into the chinese
4 wa
a
w0 1l & 9 it 0 race as follows perhaps one day you and most of youyouthe the
9&1
chinese may find that you have assimilated blood o0 f the
as
3s &
u israelites although the chance may be rare but not aat all
impossible 18 perhaps it was why only five years after the
ft early pioneers reached salt lake valley in 1852 four
missionaries were called to work in asia three of the four
missionaries were called to china
A
ai
2i t
10 it half a century later president david 0 mckay mekay with hugh J
cannon traveled to the region of manchuria korea and beijing
sfe
afe the very political center of china in the forbidden city
itff
iff
sta
saa
5

wbb fc
W
ft when president david 0 mckay with hugh J cannon came to a
grove of cypress trees a reverential feeling came and a presence
seemed to be upon them they were sure that unseen holy beings
were directing their footsteps there at peking in the heart of
the most populous nation in the world they offered the
ft prayer19
dedicatory prayer 19 the spirit had strongly impressed presi-
ja
j1
S
ap
9p dent david 0 mckay and hugh J cannon and they felt that their
prayer was accepted by the almighty his spirit gave approving
iio
sio
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W
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testimony and at the same time revealed for their comfort and
blessing some things which should transpire in the future
in 1949 three decades after president mckays dedi
of china for the gospel elder and sister matthew cowley with
20
cat ion
dedication
lon
president and sister henry W aki and president and sister
hilton A robertson were sent to continue the missionary work in
china due to the turmoil of chinas civil war it was decided
that hong kong would be the headquarters for the work of chinas
mission on the loth of july 1949 the southern far east
mission which is the continuation of the chinese mission was
commenced and on the 14th day of the same month the mission was
nevertheless regardless of the number of surnames of the officially opened the first two missionaries elder H grant
the existence of the israelite communities
israelite immigrants area heaton from utah and elder william K paalani from honolulu
in chinas haifeng
kaifeng was not an imaginary story but a arrived in the mission field on the 25th of february 1950 the
historical fact and these people were scattered racemixed married mission was interrupted by the korean war but it reopened on
and eventually assimilated into the chinese are also august 23rd of 1955 and elder H grant heaton was chosen as
undisputedly historical fact mission president to reopen and preside over the southern far

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east mission which oversaw hongguam kong macao vietnam thailand 4richard siegel michael strassfeld and sharon strass-
the philippines and american thirty years afta
after
aftler the feld eds THE JEWISH CATALOG philadelphia the jewish
reinstitut ion
reinstitute
reinstitution lon of the southern far east mission presently publication society of america 1973 p 141
missionary work has been rapidly developed in the region of
southeast asia there are respective missions in singapore 5 exodus 223 BIBLE
thailand the philippines and indonesia after a study the
writer has found out that all these above mentioned events are 6 wolfram eberhard CHINESE FESTIVALS new york henry
closely related with each other and guided by the almighty hands schuman 1952 p 39
certainly from this we can see that the lord works in
mysterious ways for his glory to bring to pass the 7 celil roth ed JUDAICA jerusalem keiter
immortality and eternal life of man publishing house 1971 vol 13 under passover 163172
ap 163
pp 172
in connection with the southern far east mission and the
various missions in the respective nations in southeast asia one
cannot help thinking of the diversity of the racial origin of 8 exodus 1226 BIBLE
the people of southeast asiaand asla and the permeation of the chinese
asia
immigrants among them the so socalled
called overseas chinese a 9 ibid 12
1227
27
great portion of them through interinterracial
racial marriage have
assimilated into the various indigenous people in southeast 10 liu OP CIT vol 3 p 12
asia thus it becomes much easier for us to comprehend why
the various missions in the nations of southeast asia are 11 wolfram eberhard CHINAS minorities YESTERDAY AND
derived and developed from the southern far east mission TODAY and see MING PO august 1983 p 83
by the same token it becomes much easier for us to understand
why the peoples republic of china cancelled all the cultural 12 world journal september 2 1983
exchange programs with the US excepting BYU and also the
noticeable event of the chinese premier BYU Ziy angs visit of
zhao ziyangs 13 ibid
the polynesiarn cultural center and the byuhawaii hawaii campus the
listic
wholistic
who picture of these events has enlightened us to the
missionary implication of the restored church not only to
14 ibid
china but also to the entire pacific and asian rim indeed 15 ibid
the house of israel was scattered together again before the
second coming of the lord jesus christ which god hath 16 liu yi jeng THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF CHINA vol 3 p
spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world 12
began 21
.21 regardless of these peoples living in
heathendom or believing in heathenism through missionary efforts 17 world journal september 2 1983
of the restored church the lord will bring them out of spiritual
darkness to know god is and jesus christ is the redeemer of 18 ibid
all mankind 1 I as the lord revealed to the ancient prophet
president spencer
isaiah that am sought of them that ask not for me I am found
1 19 W kimballs address
of them that sought me not I1 said behold me behold me
unto a nation that was not called by my name because of that 20 ibid
they have the assimilated blood of my covenanted people of the
israelites 22 21 acts 321 new testament BIBLE

FOOTNOTES

1 lieh tse jong ni pian and see liu yi jengs

bengs THE CULTURAL
HISTORY OF CHINA vol 2 p 10
2 12122
exodus 121 BIBLE

3 exodus 12713 BIBLE

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