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Circa 721 B.C. our Father allowed Assyria to take Israel captive because they had rejected His Holy Covenant and turned to paganism. In other words, they had become one of the heathen gentiles.
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The Biblical Location of Exile 2 Kings 17:6 states that Israel was placed in the cities of the Medes (the Caucasus region), which is the gateway into Asia Minor. This was in circa 721 B.C. and from there they became extremely large and migrated north.
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By the time of Christ they had migrated into Asia Minor, as is testified by the first century historian Josephus and the Apostle Peter. The historian Josephus confirmed in Antiquities of the Jews (11.5.2) that the ten tribes remained a massive multitude “beyond the Euphrates” (to the North and West) and had not returned to Jerusalem.
In 1 Peter 1:1, Peter addresses the “scattered” sheep specifically in the provinces of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. These are all located in Asia Minor. In keeping with Yashava’s mission to rescue His lost sheep, all seven of Christ’s foundational true churches that He specifically names in Revelation 1:11 are located within Asia Minor, right where the Ten Northern tribes of Israel had migrated to.
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Yashava had successfully moved His true churches out of the corrupted and hostile Jerusalem, which gave all of His true followers a place of refuge as they escaped the hostile interloper purge that was occurring by the Edomite Hierarchy in Jerusalem.
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The Edomite controlled Priesthood was attempting to completely eradicate the true Followers of the Way of Christ, but many of them fled into Asia minor as fugitives and joined with the Asia churches. As the news about Christ spread to the scattered lost tribes they were rapidly dumping their pagan religion, and returning to the truth of Yahavah.
The third betrayal had been exposed by Yashava, when He came in the flesh; and suddenly it appeared that the interlopers were going to fail. That was the fear that led to the fourth and final betrayal.