Bible TribesIssachar
Serbia
Boznia and Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Macedonia
Montenegro
Slovenia
Albania
Non-Aligned Members
Afghanistan Algeria Angola Antigua and Barbuda Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belize Benin Bhutan Bolivia Botswana Burma Brunei Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Chile Colombia Comoros Congo Côte d'Ivoire Cuba D. R. Congo Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Grenada Guatemala Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Iran Iraq Jamaica Jordan Kenya Kuwait Laos Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Mauritania Mauritius Mongolia Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Peru Philippines Qatar Rwanda Saint Lucia Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Vincent and the Grenadines São Tomé and Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Somalia South Africa Sri Lanka Sudan Suriname Swaziland Syria Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkmenistan Uganda United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vanuatu Venezuela Vietnam Yemen Zambia ZimbabweTribe of Issachar
The Lost Tribe of Issachar is modern Serbia and all affiliated countries.
The Congress of Berlin met in 1878 to reorganize the countries of the Balkans following the Russio-Turkish war.
As part of that process Serbia was recognized as an independent nation.
The timing, which follows Issachar's Seal Date, identifies the Balkans as the location of Issachar and the general collection of nations in that area as the nations that make up the Lost Tribe of Issachar.
For most of the 1900s, this was known as Yugoslavia, or South Slavia.
Nations that make up this tribe are characterized by their sharing what is called a South Slavic Language.
Jacob's Blessing
Jacob pronounces a blessing over Issachar that describes his eventual location in the world.
1 Genesis 49:14-15
14Issachar is a mighty man crouching by the highways;
15and he saw that his dwelling place was good, and his land fertile; and he bowed his shoulder to servitude, and submitted to forced labor.
Yugoslavia sits on the land trade-routes between Europe and Turkey, and from there to the east, India and China, and by land to Africa as well. This location on the trade routes, is hinted at in the prophecy over Issachar.
The other idea that Jacob hints at with Issachar is that he would submit to forced labor.
The Seal Date event was a peasant revolt in the Balkans that broke off Ottoman rule over the South Slavic peoples. This is the bondage that Jacob is hinting at. They would also come under Communist rule in the early 1900s, and then later NATO rule (and bombing)...
The main characteristic of Issachar is his inability to stand alone as an independent people.
Map
The dark green in the following map shows the peoples who share South Slavic languages and form the basis for Issachar.
Albania
The language map excludes Albania because the Albanian language is unique. The country of Albania should be included in Issachar, and not Zebulun, because the name of Albania, in Albanian, is Shqipëria, a play on Issachar.