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“Say unto them, Thus saith the Sovereign Yahuweh;
Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand
of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put
them with him, even with the stick of Yahudah, and make them
one stick, and they will be one in Mine hand.
And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand
before their eyes.
And say unto them, Thus saith the Sovereign Yahuweh;
Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen,
whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side,
and bring them into their own land:
And I will make them one nation in the land upon the
mountains of Israel; and one King shall be king to them all:
and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided
into two kingdoms any more at all:”
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We have seen many articles claiming that the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948
was the fulfilment of the prophecy that YHWH would regather Israel.
While the establishment of the State of Israel was a beginning of this fulfilment it is by no means the
conclusion of the prophecy, merely a beginning.
As we can see by the above prophecy in Ezekiel 37, there are two groups involved in this prophecy.
The Stick of Ephraim being the Northern Kingdom,often referred to as the Ten Lost Tribes,
headed by the Tribe of Ephraim. The Stick of Yahudah being the Southern Kingdom
comprised of the Tribe of Yahudah and the Tribe of Benjamin. The Southern Kingdom being
those commonly referred to as Jews. However make no mistake about this, the Tribe of Yahudah
(the Jews) alone, does not comprise the Nation of Israel referred to by YHWH.
The Scriptural Nation of Israel is made up of All Twelve Tribes.
In the days that Yahushua walked in the flesh amongst men, He referred to the
Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom as the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.
Matt.15:24
“But He answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the
house of Israel”
The Ten Tribes were spiritually lost (as most still are today) but they were not physically lost,
The Messiah knew exactly where they were and where to send His Apostles to find them.
In the gospel of John we see a confirmation of the
Ezekiel 37 prophecy.
John10:16
“And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring,
and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
Yahushua was of the House of Yahudah, He was talking to those of his own house, when He spoke
of those, ‘which are not of this fold’, referring to those of the House of Israel.
At no time since Yahushua was on earth have the Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom ever been physically
returned to the Promised Land. This return of The Ten Tribes (the stick of Ephraim) is still yet to happen,
and will not be totally fulfilled until the return of Our Saviour.
There are many and varied interpretations of this prophecy of the Re-gathering, from those who believe it to
be already fulfilled, to those that believe it won’t be fulfilled at all until Yahushua returns and all
interpretations and time lines in between these two extremes.
What can we know for sure?
One thing we can know with absolute certainty is that the re-gathering will happen,
The word of YHWH says so.
At the present time there are a rapidly growing number of people
across the globe that are waking up to both the fact that they
are quite likely descendants of the 10 tribes and also finding the
true Name of YHWH.
From this we know that YHWH has already begun the re-gathering
process.The regathering of the Two Houses of Ephraim and Yahudah
will nothowever come to complete fruition until the return of
Yahushua the Messiah
to this earth. In the meantime of course there are those that are
called outand set apart unto Yahushua who will be with Him on His
return to the earth.
Zechariah 14:5
“And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains; for the valley
of the mountains shall reach unto A’zal: yea, ye shall flee, like
as ye fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uz-zi’ah
king of Judah: and Yahuweh my Elohyim shall come, and all the
saints with thee.”
Those “saints” will be comprised of people from all twelve tribes and
some gentiles also. So this will be a people set apart and called now
according to His purpose.
ROMANS 8:27-28
“And He that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind
of the Spirit, because He maketh intercession for the saints
according to the will of Elohyim.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that
love Yah, to them that are called according to His purpose.”
So at this present time Yahuweh is gathering some of the House of Ephraim together with some of
the House of Yahudah and some Gentiles who join themselves to the House of Israel through
Yahushua’s Renewed Covenant Blood. So that at Yahushua’s return there will be a remnant of the whole
House of Israel ready to meet Him.
At the present time many of the secular and some of the religious “Jews” who are settled in the Land of Israel
are not really ‘The House of Yahudah’ at all, but are really, ‘counterfeit Jews’ (possibly descended
from Esau, who sold his birthright to Jacob for a bowl of soup).
Satan needs these people in order to pull off his ‘counterfeit Messiah’ and establish his anti-Messiah,
beast power from Jerusalem.
REVELATION 3:9
(see also Rev.2:9)
“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews,
and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them come and worship before thy
feet, and to know that I have loved thee.”
So we can clearly see that at this end time, there will be those claiming to be of the House of Yahudah,
who are not at all. These people said by Messiah to be of the synagogue of Satan, will most likely be
followers of the Kabbalah, with all its Satanic mysticism and magic.
As was Simon Magus. So there is the possibility, that Yahushua is speaking of them not being “spiritual Jews”
rather than “physical Jews”.
However at this time it seems likely that both are involved.
ACTS 8:9-11
“(9)But there was a certain man, called Simon, which before time in the same city used sorcery,
and bewitched the people of Samaria, giving out that himself was some great one:
(10) To whom they all gave heed, from the least to the greatest, saying, this man is the great
power of Elohyim.
(11) And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.”
So we see that this Satan worship has been around for a long time. The Messiah and the Apostles
were well aware of these people.
ACTS 13:6-10
(6)“And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer,
a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-je’sus:
(7) Which was with the deputy of the country, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul,
and desired to hear the word of Yah.
(8) But El’y-mas the sorcerer (for so was his name by interpretation) withstood them seeking to turn
away the deputy from the faith.
(9) Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Spirit, set eyes upon him,
(10) And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all
righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Master.”
You will see in the above scripture that the person that was ‘targeted’ by the sorcerer was the ‘deputy of
the country’, a Roman proconsul, in other words a government official.
The Governments of the world still today are the place where you will see Satan working hardest, if he
can have them on his side, this affects all the people one way or another.
The Clergy, Ministries and religious leaders of the world are being used as Satan’s tools in the misleading
of the peoples.
The coming Beast Power ruling from Jerusalem will be a Church and State affair.
A Satanic Counterfeit of the coming Kingdom of Yah.
Many will accept the Mark of the Beast, some out of fear, most out of genuine deception.
Why? How? will most be deceived!
Sadly this deception will come upon many professing christians because they do not follow
the Torah of Our Creator. It really is that simple.
It will not be so easy to deceive those who have followed Messiah closely, the closer we follow
Messiah the less chance we have of being deceived. Many professing christians never read
the bible for themselves but rely on what clergy and ministers tell them.
Most don’t observe the weekly and Annual Sabbaths, so have no idea that they lay out Yah’s
plan of Salvation.
Most do not realize that the Old Covenant Torah was not a set of Laws,
but was a marriage covenant, made between the 12 tribes of Israel and Yahweh.
Most don’t realize that Yahweh divorced 10 tribes of Israel (the stick of Ephraim).
The tribes of Judah and Benjamin( the stick of Yahudah) were not divorced.
The Word of Yah so loved His wife that He came and died for her so as to be able
to redeem her back to himself.
The Old Covenant was never made with any other nation than Israel (all 12 tribes).
So the other nations were never under the death penalty for breaking that Covenant.
The Messiah came to and for the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel
MATTHEW15:24
“But He answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house
of Israel.”
MATTHEW 10:5-6
“These twelve Yah’shua sent forth, and commanded them, saying,
“Go not into the way of the Gentiles,
and into any city of the Sa-mari-tans enter ye not:
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
Through both the renewed covenant in Yah’shua’s shed blood to redeem Israel and the
Tribe of Judah’s rejection of Yah’shua as their Messiah, the way opened for the gentiles to be grafted into
the Israel of Elohyim ,
Romans11:11
“I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Elohyim forbid: but rather through
their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.”
‘provoke them to jealousy??? It must be remembered that Paul speaks so much of the Gentiles as
he (Paul), was sent specifically to the Gentiles. The other Apostles were sent to the lost sheep
of the House of Israel, the Northern Kingdom that was and still is, in diaspora.
Only the Tribes of Yahudah (Judah) and Benjamin (of which was Paul), the Southern Kingdom
then called the House of Yahudah (the Jews), were in the land at the time of Messiah.
ACTS 13:45
“But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and
spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and
blaspheming.”
So we see that the giving of Salvation to the Gentiles did indeed provoke the Jews to envy.
They had come to see themselves as the Number One People of the whole earth after Yah had divorced
the House of Israel (the Northern Kingdom, the 10 Tribes headed by Ephraim).
After The Nation of Israel had split into two Kingdoms, only the Northern Kingdom retained the name of Israel.
The Southern Kingdom was known as the House of Yahudah (Judah).
Why? Because Jacob, whom Yah renamed Israel, blessed
Joseph’s twin sons Ephraim and Ma-nas’seh (Jacob’s grandsons) and said His name (Israel) be named on them.
This is important to understand in terms of the Regathering
as many think that the Tribe of Yahudah alone is the Biblical nation of Israel.
GENESIS 48:16
“The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads: and let my name be named on them,
and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude
in the midst of the earth.”
So this is why the Northern Kingdom retained the name of Israel
and became known as the lost sheep of the House of Israel,
to whom Messiah was sent.
So while it may not be important to know your genealogy in terms of Salvation, because Salvation is open
to anyone who will enter into the Renewed Covenant, by repentance, baptism
and the accepting of Yahushua’s shed blood for forgiveness of sin.
To recognise that you may be from the ten lost tribes should be to all a very humbling experience,
to realise that Yah’shua was sent especially to die for you to redeem you from
the death penalty.
[We apologise if we seem to have digressed from the original topic. This is in part due to limited webspace.
Sometimes we have to make difficult decisions on what to cover and what to leave out.
We cannot have a separate page for each topic, as we are not a large group with large pockets to maintain
a large website. In part it is due to the fact that not all people have the same background knowledge
regarding events written in the Old Covenant, so sometimes we need to insert some background knowledge
for those people.
Please bear with us, if you are one who understands all this background,then you, like us,
can remember well the days when you didn’t know any of it either.]
So in the days of Messiah, the House of Israel (the stick of Ephraim) remained in diaspora, they had never
returned to the land. Only the House of Yahudah was in the land.(Promised Land)
The Apostles were sent out to take the good news of the Kingdom and salvation through Messiah’s shed blood
to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.
Has the House of Israel (the stick of Ephraim) ever returned to the land since then??
No, never.
The House of Yahudah went into Diaspora again in 135AD, and some of them have now once again returned
to the land , but the House of Israel has yet to come back.
Therefore, to this date the re-gathering has not happened, despite what many might tell you.
Also as previously stated many of the people calling themselves Jews both in the tiny land of Israel and
around the world are not Yahudah (Judah) at all but rather counterfeit Jews, who while having a form
of religion (Judaism) they do not follow the pure Torah of Yahuweh, but rather they follow Talmud, Kabbalah,
and the “oral Law” all of which Yahushua called “the traditions of men”.
This Judaism is no more “THE WAY” taught by Messiah than nominal paganised Chritianity is.
This regathering of Israel will take place after Messiah’s return to the earth as King of Kings.
The scripture at the top of the page from Ezekiel 37 is often taken out of context. If you read the
whole chapter, you will see that Ezekiel had a vision in which skeletons of dead people were raised and
brought back to life, these were said to be the whole House of Israel, that is all twelve tribes.
This is when the stick of Ephraim and the Stick of Yahudah will be joined back into one nation,
after Yahushua’s return to earth.
At present some of the House of Israel , some of the House of Yahudah and some of the gentile nations
are coming out of false religion, and being moulded and trained as “Sons of Yah” but it is only a few that
are finding that narrow path, at this time, and being “regathered spiritually”.
Messiah warned of those who would lead people astray.
MATTHEW 24:23-27
“Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Messiah, or there; believe it not.
For there shall arise false Messiahs, and false prophets, and shall show great
signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
Behold, I have told you before.
Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold He is in the desert; go not forth:
behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.
For as lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the the west;
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.”
For the largest part the regathering, that appears to be happening in the tiny nation of Israel, is merely a
setting of the stage for the rise of the beast power, counterfeit Messiah.
Many of the people involved are either physically or spiritually (having the mindset of) Esau.
Cousin Esau wants control.
As “Jacob” has spread throughout the nations of the world, so has cousin Esau,
and cousin Esau is in high places.
More important than someone’s fleshly ancestry is the person’s heart and mindset. Do we have the heart
of Jacob who passionately wished for the birthright? or do we have the heart of Esau who sold the birthright
for what he wanted at the time (a bowl of soup).
Esau has been trying to steal the birthright back ever since; by whatever means he can.
Esau will enjoy watching the time of ‘Jacob’s trouble’.
That Esau will not succeed in his venture is assured.
OBADIAH v9
“ And thy mighty men, O Teman, shall be dismayed, to the end that every one of
the mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter.”
OBADIAH v21
“And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the
kingdom shall be Yahuweh’s”
Let us study prayerfully and carefully the little book of Obadiah, it says a lot about what
YHWH has against Esau.
At present most people have a little too much of the spirit of Esau in them,
let us be overcoming the Esau in us. Remembering always:-
ROMANS 9:13
“As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated”
The battle between Esau and Jacob began way back at Genesis 25, “two manner of people”. That battle
continues throughout scripture right until the return of Messiah.
(All true interpretation of scripture, can be traced from Genesis to Revelation, if a connection to Genesis
cannot be found and followed, then you are following a false teaching or prophet.)
Let us therefore wait patiently upon YHWH, putting our whole heart into following Messiah and becoming
the Spiritual Jacob (Israel) that YHWH loves. So that when Yahuweh’s time and purpose for the regathering
has come, we can be assured of being there.
The bride “makes herself ready” she does not keep looking out of the window to see if the bridegroom is
coming and forget to get dressed.
The bride fusses with every detail of her appearance, knowing the groom will be there at the appointed time.
The bride wants to be ready.
So let us strive to be ready in every detail “without spot or wrinkle”.
Not by living the letter of the law, but by understanding the spirit of the law, the reason for the law and
thereby loving Torah, and loving Yahuweh.
Yah wants a bride for His son Messiah Yahushua that loves Him, just as any man desires.
The re-gathering will happen, Yah said so.
Let us wait on His time and not try to pre-empt Him, like a pushy wife.
What began in Genesis as a struggle of two babies in the womb.......
GENESIS 25:21-24
“And Isaac intreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren: and Yahweh was intreated
of him, and Re-bek’ah his wife conceived.
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus?
And she went to enquire of Yahweh.
And Yahweh said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people
shall be separated from thy bowels: and the one people shall be stronger
than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.
And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.”
..............will come to a final battle at the end. A battle between two manner of people, those who
follow HaSatan (wittingly or unwittingly) and those that follow Yahweh.
Which side will you be on?
The outcome of the battle is already known.
REVELATION 15:3-4
“And they sing the song of Moses the servant of Yahweh, and the song of the Lamb, saying,
Great and marvellous are thy works, Yahweh El-Shaddai: just and true are Thy ways,
thou King of saints.
Who shall not fear thee, O Yahweh, and glorify Thy name?
for thou only art kodesh:
for all nations shall come and worship before thee for Thy judgements are made manifest.
In conclusion then, while there may be a beginning of the re-gathering, before the tribulation,
the total re-gathering so many hope for, will not come about until
the forces of Ha Satan have been put down.
DANIEL 7:22
“Until the Ancient of days came, and judgement was given to the saints of the most High;
and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom”
Let us therefore study prayerfully and carefully, Praising Yah always, and waiting on
His timing for the birth of the “children of Yah” and the gathering of his people.
Isaiah 35:1
“The Wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them;
and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as a rose.”
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