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PART TWO IN A SERIES ON THE FULL RESTORATION OF ALL ISRAEL

In order to conclusively determine the makeup of the New Covenant body of Yahshua called the Israel of Yahweh in Galatians 6:16, we have to understand several crucial truths. We must understand that the twin dispersions of both houses of Israel, Ephraim in the north and Judah in the south was not only a punitive decision by Yahweh, but one of faithfulness as well. In Genesis 13:14-16, Genesis 17:4 -5, Genesis 26: 4, Genesis 48:19, along with a host of other texts the patriarchs were promised the physical blessing of physical multiplicity that would see their physical sperm or zera fill the globe. Prior to the northern kingdom's dispersion, beginning with Tiglath Pileser III in 745 BCE and culminating in Sargon II's final conquest of the northern capital of Samaria in 721BCE,    scripture teaches that many from Judah in the south migrated northward and many from Ephraim in the north, in order to escape capture migrated to the South. Therefore both houses of Israel most likely contained representative samplings of all twelve tribes but not the full numbers within the twelve tribes themselves. When the northern kingdom went into Diaspora due to paganism, idolatry and Torah breaking, they followed a northwest route taking them to parts of Assyria. Later according to history these Assyrian towns became part of the Scythian peoples who eventually settled in Europe and the west. Since these ten tribes had no interest in protecting their Israelite identity they tossed it to the wind and literally became Gentiles. First Kings 12:24 reminds us that this 721 BCE Israelite holocaust, was the divinely mandated plan of Yahweh for the intermingling of Israelite blood throughout the globe. Yahweh decided to accomplish this plan to fulfill covenant faithfulness to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by allowing first the northern kingdom and later the southern kingdom to both experience diaspora and global scattering. Since there was this dramatic crossover and migration prior to 721BCE by the time both houses would be scattered globally each house contained a representation of all twelve tribes. This is not to say however that all within those twelve tribes can be found in either the Judahite people or in the Ephraimite people. What can be said is that when Judah was dispersed first in 520BCE and later in 70 CE they were far more careful to preserve their culture, customs and their beloved Torah to which they remained generally faithful. Therefore no matter where either house went globally they would carry Israelite blood and seed to all creation and almost every creature. It had to be this way since the patriarchal promises of physical multiplicity were promised to be fulfilled through the Ephraim side of the family in Genesis 48:19, not through Judah. Judah rather was given the privilege, preeminence and honor of being the vehicle through which Shiloh the Messiah would be made manifest.

Thus according to Matthew 10:23 as prophesied by Yahshua every city on the globe would become a city of Israel, since many if not most of its inhabitants would be made up of large populations of those descended from both houses. In this same verse Yahshua confirms this amazing truth when He both prophecies and reminds His talmidim that they will have so much area to cover in their mission that when the Son Of Man returns, they will still be busy preaching the gospel. This area He talks about must be global in scope since the twelve shilichim (apostles), could have covered all of Judea in less than a couple of years or a couple of decades at the most. Remember that Judea was about the same size as Rhode Island and that Bethlehem was and still is only five miles south of Jerusalem. Yet Yahshua prepares them for a major task that will be so global in character that they will not have the opportunity to finish this kingdom business when He returns. "Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel before the Son Of Man be come". In other words Paris, London, Hong Kong, Tehran, Beirut, Tokyo, New York, Boston, Philadelphia etc., are all considered cities of Israel by our Heavenly Father. When you combine this powerful truth along with Matthew 15:24 where Yahshua Himself states that He only came for the lost sheep of the House Of Israel, we have strong evidence that the globe is "His Israel". Of course we balance this scripture with others stating how the Son would save the whole world that He came to die for. If He died for the whole world and if He only came for lost sheep of Israel, simple logic will tell you that the globe as it now stands today 2700 years after Ephraim’s diaspora and 2000 years after Judah’s last diaspora is made up largely of Israelite blood. Notice that I did not say Jewish blood, since most of the Jewish nation remained small and never really multiplied physically due to holocausts, inquisitions, extermination attempts and genocide. We must be careful not to continue to use confusing terminology.

Ephraim Israel on the other hand loved to assimilate and copy the ways of the heathen so they were not as easily detected and could not be identified for persecution and annihilation. They were more than happy to integrate and assimilate into any society they happened to find themselves in. It is through this carefree attitude towards Yahweh and His Torah that actually aided Yahweh in fulfilling the promise of Genesis 48:19. This yielding up of their Israelite heritage allowed Ephraimite blood to multiply and spread globally undetected, largely escaping the persecution and tribulations that have historically been associated with openly demonstrative Judah. O the depths and the wisdom of the Almighty. How marvelous and unsearchable are His ways, past finding out.

It is evident to most serious students of the Bible that Yahshua of Nazareth being Israel’s real Messiah has done exactly what He said he would do and has been regathering all Israel, the chosen remnant of both houses right under our noses, while we have been sleeping and arguing about who has Jewish blood. Just like Adam woke up from a deep sleep to find his bride Chava next to him, so will Jewish Israel soon wake up to find their beloved long lost brother Joseph, who has been heretofore unrecognizable right next to him! Ephraim Israel was divinely sent ahead to provide gospel provision and spiritual manna for the last two thousand years. In order for Yahshua to regather both Jewish Israel and Ephraim Israel, He had to allow Judah to maintain identity lest they be consumed and Messiah’s birth prevented and at the same time literally turn the descendents of Jeroboam the Ephraimite into pagan Gentiles. That is correct. The lost sheep of the house of Ephraim became pagan Gentiles. That is why over and over again in the Brit Chadashah the epistles refer to Gentiles getting saved. Gentiles being born again. Gentiles being washed in the blood. Gentiles, Gentiles, Gentiles! I am so tired of answering the same question over and over again -- "If the ten tribes became Gentiles, why doesn’t the Brit Chadasha say that the body of Yahshua is made up of Judahites and Ephraimites instead of Jews and Gentiles?" I’ll tell you why! It is because the authors of the New Covenant took it for granted that those who follow Israelite history and have done their homework, would be well aware of the historicity behind the ten tribes and their subsequent assimilation that has led to their becoming Gentiles. These New Covenant authors simply took it for granted that you would know who most Gentiles were formerly. The burden of studious verification is on you not anyone else!

In the last issue we gave ample evidence that this truth is not only hinted at, but strongly addressed in Brit Chadasha. In James 1:1 and Acts 15:14-19, and many other scriptures which clearly talk about Yahweh not wanting to hang out or take up residence with the heathen nations, but states that He is visiting them to pull off a massive rescue and return to Himself, of the people belonging to and already called by His Name (Acts 15:14).Yaakov states that all the prophets of Israel agree that the primary purpose of the New Covenant and Israel’s Messiah is to redeem and return all the seed of Israel from both houses back into the Tabernacle Of David which had fallen. Obviously it fell due to division. Verse 16 of Acts 15 teaches us that Yahweh is not doing something new by building a manmade church headquartered in Rome nor is He building a church where Gentiles will outnumber, surpass and suppress Jewish expression, rather that He is returning Davidic 12 tribe glory to Israel. He is rebuilding not building. In order to rebuild you must of necessity use the same inhabitants of David’s Tabernacle (all twelve tribes) to rebuild it, in order for it to resemble it’s former makeup and appearance. Verse 20 of Acts 15 states that those who are making up the rebuilt Tabernacle are those returning to Yahweh. The Greek word in verse 20 is returning and these Ephraimites are returning because their Israelite Ephraimite ancestors left and forsook the Father of glory. Can it be any simpler? Once we can determine conclusively from scripture that multitudes of those coming into the body of Yahshua are bloodline descendents of the northern kingdom, then we will be forced to readjust our thinking in the Messianic movement. Just because we cannot recognize the house of Joseph as being from our own family and amongst us, doesn’t mean they are not. Joseph dressed like an Egyptian was married to a pagan priestess with a pagan name having pagan children which were unrecognizable to his brethren. The situation has not changed one iota. No matter how much denial proceeds from the camp of Judah the fact remains unchanged that those we call saved Gentiles or non Jews are in many cases our brother Yosef who fathered Ephraim the pagan in Egypt, as well as the masses of returning Ephraimite pagans resulting from the first Israelite holocaust in 721 BCE. It was this dual dispersion of both houses that has both fulfilled the promise of physical multiplicity and magnified Yahshua’s greatness as the only one who can find and locate both houses, both containing representation of all 12 tribes, both needing restoration to Yahweh and to the land.

Isaiah 49:6 is an amazing piece of Messianic scripture. In verse five it states that one of the reasons that the Father birthed Yahshua is to bring Jacob back. Not Jews only, but Jacob. Verse six of Isaiah 49 is even more profound. It prophecies that Messiah will raise up the tribes of Israel. To raise up means to make reappear or to restore back to recognizable life. He will bring life by restoring the desolate parts. What part or parts of Israel that had experienced Davidic glory had become the most desolate? That’s right! Ephraim did! Isaiah 11:12 confirms that while Judah was merely scattered it was Ephraim Israel that became the desolate part or the outcasts of Israel. Isaiah 11:10 claims that Messiah the Root of Jesse and Branch of David will do this regathering of both dispersed (Jewish) Israel as well as outcast (Ephraim) Israel. If Yahshua can differentiate between the two houses that were exiled in two different directions some 200 years apart, why can’t we? If Yahshua is not gathering both houses from both diasporas then He is a false Messiah! Of course we know He is the Messiah therefore He is regathering both houses.

In verse 6 of Isaiah 49 Ephraim is called the preserved ones of Israel. The beginning of these potent verses reminds us that Almighty Yahweh is so omnipotent that what we consider an impossible task is such a light and small matter in the scope of eternity for the omniscient and omnipotent Messiah, that the Father has also given Him the true non Israelite Gentiles with no Israelite blood as His possession just so He doesn’t get bored with His task!

Messianic Judaism needs to make the break with the fears of the past and recognize the dawn of a new day where in Yahshua, Joseph our brother is sitting and dwelling with us and next to us. It is this recognition of our hidden brethren that will bring about not only the salvation of all Israel but an overnight mushrooming of this still small movement. This next step of growth can only come by accepting as authentic the claims of those who claim Israelite heritage, and are frankly willing to admit that they are not Jews, whose sole desire is to share in the destiny of Jewish Israel along with the good the bad and the oftentimes ugly aspects of being an Israelite.

If Yahshua is radiating His gospel all across the globe and bringing in all humanity in these last days global harvest from among the nations, then somewhere in that vast net there are hundreds of thousands even untold millions of descendents of Joseph and Ephraim who unknown to even themselves are returning to their Judahite brothers. You cannot have a final last days global Tikun Ha Olam without somewhere in that huge global harvest finding and coming across large amounts of the lost sheep of the northern house of Israel. That would be a logical, historical, cultural and mathematical impossibility! Remember that as believers it is up to us to line up our doctrine with Yahshua’s not His with ours or our organization’s doctrinal statement of faith, whatever form that may take. If we can all agree that amongst the nations of the world there is to be found that scattered "zera" of both Jewish Israel and Ephraim Israel, then we now have that common ground and common vision that beats simultaneously to that of the Heavenly Father’s heartbeat for all Israel. Just because we in our finite mortality cannot identify these non Jewish Israelites, does not mean that they disappeared off the face of the earth and does not mean that they are not showing up weekly in our midst and in our congregations and in our synagogues whether we like it or not. Shaking our collective heads in doctrinal disagreement with Your Arms To Israel will not make them go away. In Jeremiah 31:9&10, the Father cries out to all with ears to hear that Ephraim is HIS SON AND FIRSTBORN and will gather him again! It is Yahshua who is restoring the Kingdom to Israel one soul at a time and eventually in large masses. This massive Ephraimite assembling process results in the formation of the general assembly and congregation of "the first born", mentioned by Rav Shaul himself in Hebrews 12:23. He recognized that many in New Covenant Israel were of the lineage of Ephraim, the first born and therefore a congregation of firstborns. Notice the present tense backdrop for this scripture! This process is ongoing in the here and now even as it was already underway in Rav Shaul’s day. This task could not and cannot be undertaken by any movement of man no matter how well intentioned such as Jewish or even Christian Zionism. It is a job that only omnipotent Moshiach can and has been performing!

That is what I believe the so called rapture is all about. Let’s be honest here. How many born again non-Jewish believers do you see lining up at the Israeli consulate waiting in line for visas to make aliyah to Israel? Not even most Jewish Israelites do that. So how can the Father bring to pass all those promises that no Israelites will be left behind in any of the nations where He has scattered both houses. Ezekiel 39:28 talking about not a single Israelite living anywhere outside Israel during the millennium. Think about that promise! If one Israelite remains anywhere outside Israel then Yahweh lied. He said not one would be left behind. To me and my small way of thinking that can only happen by virtue of the "catching away", where millions of Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Nazarenes and other regathered born again folk, are supernaturally caught up and airlifted to Israel on His Almighty wings to, be returned to their land forever more. Why would these folks plan aliyah since their Israelite identity is lost to themselves as well. Most have no desire to return. Yes, I believe in the rapture of all Israel, but not in the rapture of something called the church as it is commonly taught. In that version or should I say perversion, the Jews get zonked and the "so called " saved Gentiles" get a seven year heavenly cruise vacation. That perversion of the rapture is pure poppycock and for those waiting for that kind of rapture bus to show up pre tribulationally, you will not only be sorely disappointed and misled, but I urge you to bring your jacket and sleeping bag. It is guaranteed to be a long wait for a pre-tribulation rapture bus that will never show up! It just won’t happen the way many of our readers want it to. That falsehood would further separate New Covenant Israel instead of rebuilding it, since the main thrust of that teaching is to have the Roman Church and her daughter hookers fly away unscathed while the "Jewish Christ killers" get zonked. The church and her Roman Pontiff fly to heaven while Jewish Israel is left behind. However if Yahshua’s New Covenant bride is born again Israel, then Jews escape as well! I see from scripture that there will be a bona fide snatching away, of redeemed blood washed New Covenant Israelites made up of Jews, Ephraimites and Gentiles as well, all returning to the mountains of our beloved homeland. The correct view of the rapture is to remove all of New Covenant Israel away from Yahweh’s wrath only to later return in mass to Israel without remaining in heaven, though as glorified beings we will have free access to the heavens as and whenever we desire. Verse 25 of Ezekiel 39 tells us that the whole house of Israel meaning the entire captivity of Jacob will return. When Yahweh uses the term Jacob it talks about both houses coming home along with their Gentile companions.

It amazes me in my conversation with Messianic Jewish believers and leaders, how concerned they are that our two house truth doesn’t forget to make an allowance for true Gentiles to be included in New Covenant Messianic Nazarene Yisrael. Am I crazy or what? Hasn’t it been the Gentiles that have been included in Messianism for two thousand years? Hasn’t it been remnant Judah or the Jewish believers that have been experiencing revival since 1967, which has in turn allowed them an expression in and as New Covenant Israelites? Haven’t they experienced their newfound inclusion since 1967? It seems there is little or no concern out there for non Jewish Israelites who are our flesh and bone brothers and the part they play and will yet play in the end times! Not once when sharing the truth about the two houses has anyone come and told me that the reason for their rejecting the teaching was the lack of room in it for the other house of Israel. Never once has anyone expressed the concern over the fact that much of Messianism claims the body is made up of only Jews and true Gentiles ONLY! We must readjust our attitudes by reading scripture properly wherein The Father states that all things on earth, in heaven and even under the earth, are being gathered by Messiah Yahshua (Ephesians 1:10). This verse reiterates that all things and peoples needing to be restored and gathered (12 tribes) are being gathered by and through Messiah, in the here and now. Except of course the folks who refuse to recognize The House Of Joseph’s literal physical seed (sperma in Greek), in the current makeup of the body Of Messiah (Galatians 3:29). It is a spirit of blindness and stupor upon much of Jewish Israel. It’s amazing how born again Jews can have a greater concern for true Gentiles, who according to scripture remain in the global minority, than for those who claim, desire and are destined to be Judah’s physical brother Joseph. Where are our priorities as Jewish Israelites? Are we not called to lay aside the murderous vexing spirit of Cain and acknowledge and insist upon fulfilling our role as our brother’s keeper? Is not that the spirit of meekness and contriteness that Yahweh would be pleased with? That role can only begin to be assumed by Judah when he is willing to partake and engage in proper hermeneutics and exegesis. He must remind himself that according to Second Kings 17:23, written in about 538 BCE, about 200 years after Ephraim’s diaspora the northern people of Israel went to Assyria and most never returned to Judah in the south and according to Second Kings 17:23, ARE STILL THERE IN ASSYRIAN TERRITORIES! Further proof that Jewish Israel today may represent all 12 tribes but not include their huge and vast numbers, is found in Zechariah 11:14, where the minor prophet is told to take his stick called Union symbolizing the union of the two houses and break it in half thus symbolizing the ongoing broken brotherhood between both houses even some 200 years after the northern diaspora in 520 BCE. If the Jews returning from Babylon at about the same time included the fullness of all 12 tribes of Israel, why then would Yahweh through Zachariah remind both houses that the brotherhood experienced under David’s reign remained broken? If all Israel CAME TOGETHER after returning from Babylon as some say, then Yahweh should have told Zachariah to scotch tape or crazy glue his stick called Union. Obviously that didn’t happen and those who say it did are the main proponents of the "Ephraim fell off the face of the earth theory", or was swallowed up by Judah theory! The truth is they were swallowed up. Not by Jewish Israel but by the plethora of the world’s goyim (nations) We who know better must not fall into that false explanation!

Just because replacement theology has attempted to destroy any vibrant Jewish witness in the body, does not mean that these past wrongs should dictate our attitude to the real existence of Ephraimites in the local as well as the universal body. When are we going to grow up spiritually and not react to people but react to the revelation of scripture? Let’s make a deal! I will begin to be more concerned for true Gentiles and their place in the Messianic body, if you who deny Yahweh’s illustrative word to Zechariah, take off your blinders and make room for your brother Ephraim in your theology and begin to become his keeper by searching for him along with your Master! Do we have a deal?

Let me remind you according to unsaved sabra born Yair Davidy of Brit Am ministries in Jerusalem, most of history's greatest atrocities against the Jewish people were committed by true blood Gentiles, not by those claiming a blood or spiritual link to the Jewish nation. Those who tended to see the Jewish nation as a blessing while they lived amongst the nations, was one of several outstanding character traits of lost Ephraimites according to Mr. Davidy’s extensive research. Mr. Davidy has no Messianic agenda and is a world renown scholar on the 12 tribes of Israel. He is a leading voice in the continuing existence of two still divided houses of Israel, with neither being better or replacing the other, merely discovering each other’s unique chosenness (Jeremiah 33:24 speaks of two chosen families of Israel) and enjoying Israelite brotherhood. Ordering information on his book "The Tribes" can be found at the end of this teaching.

Let us determine that as Yahshua’s blood pulls in the nations, that within that call will be our long lost brother. Let us now establish from scripture that the ten tribes did in fact become Gentiles, losing their identity but not their bloodline. What one does or does not believe does not change bloodline. Bloodline has nothing to do with one’s’ religious practice or absence thereof.

The prophet Hosea was sent exclusively to the north just prior to his Assyrian captivity. In Hosea chapter one verses 1-9, Hosea tells Ephraim Israel or the House of Israel that his reign is coming to an end and that he will not be Yahweh’s people and will have no compassion from Yahweh. He will no longer be their Elohim. Yet miraculously in verse 10 of Hosea one, the same people show up again or are born again, this time not as a corporate nation but as individuals who have become returning children of Yahweh. Verse ten calls these former northerners more numerable then the sands of the sea. It states that "the number of the children of Israel", shall be as the sand of the sea. That means that it is Ephraim Israel that is destined to produce the millions or even billions of spirit filled children of Yahweh for Yahweh, promised to the patriarchs. This truth is confirmed in verse 11 as we see Jew and Ephraimite both getting saved through the same King. Hosea 2:22-23 confirms this great truth. Remember their believing and coming to faith in Messiah and tragically perhaps even going to a Catholic church, still does not change their bloodline. That remains the same. Hosea chapter 2 verse 11 prophecies that after the northern house of Israel is dispersed by Assyria he will totally lose his identity because Yahweh will cause him to forget Shabbat, the moedim (Feasts) and Rosh Chodesh (new moons). He will remove those visible signs of Israelism from him in order to facilitate his assimilation amongst true Gentiles. In their assimilated status as Gentiles, they will refer to Yahweh as Baal, which means lord in English! We find this truth in Hosea 2:16&17. Yet when they return to Yahweh through Messiah they will leave behind the names of paganized Gentile Christendom and begin to know and call Yahweh "Ishi", meaning my husband. This prophecy coincides with Hosea 1:10. In Hosea 4:17 Yahweh tells Judah to leave Ephraim alone since he is joined to idolatry. Hosea 5:9 talks about Ephraim’s heritage becoming desolate! The very desolate heritage Yahshua is said to revive in Isaiah 49:5-6. According to Hosea 5:15 Yahshua would return to heaven, but after two days or two thousand years Ephraim would be raised up to live both physically and spiritually in His sight. In context we see that the ten tribes of the former house of Israel will see national revival and restoration after two days or two thousand years after Messiah’s first advent. The sign that Ephraim’s punishment is coming to an end is the blindness to his true identity being removed. The sign that Judah’s punishment is coming to an end is his recognition of his blindness about the fact that Yahweh has a Son who was manifest in the flesh for our forgiveness.

Hosea 7:8 states that Ephraim has mixed himself among the heathen. Obviously to find Ephraim Israel you have to look amongst the heathen. Verse 11 states that the road to the nations went through Assyria. Hosea 8:8 reiterates in the clearest possible terms that Israel will be swallowed up by the Gentile nations. The Hebrew word for swallow is bala, which literally means to become one flesh with by being devoured or taken away. In the same manner that meat eaten by a human being literally disappears and becomes one flesh with his body, so Israel (Ephraim), will become one and the same as the Gentile nations, even as Yahshua and His Father are Echad!. In scripture the term goy is a collective term for a nation and goy is never used in scripture in a derogatory manner against any individual since Gentiles mean corporate nations. There are even several references to the nation of Yisrael as "Goy Yisrael" instead of Am Yisrael. Hosea 7:8 & 8:8 states that Ephraim would live among the nations or Gentiles, as his severe punishment for counting Torah as a strange thing (Hosea 8:12). No matter how much Torah Yahweh shared with Ephraim he wanted no part of it feeling restricted by it. Sound familiar ? It should. That is the current state of most non Jewish believers. In Hosea 9:11 a heart wrenching scripture states that Ephraim Israel will fly away like a bird, where there will be no birth, no carrying womb, no conception. Their future as recognizable Israelites will not continue, therefore no birth or conception (as Israelites). Verse 17 of Hosea 9 reiterates the clear historical fact that Ephraim Israel was destined to wander among the nations.

Even Moshe Rabainu prophesied this Ephraimite diaspora in Deuteronomy 33:16-17! Moshe said in verse 16 that Ephraim was always separated from his brethren and in verse 17 reiterates Ephraim’s eternal first born status as bullish or steadfast. Then amazingly he describes Ephraim as a unicorn which is the only member of the horse species with only one horn, symbolizing that when Ephraim would experience his yet future 721 BCE diaspora, he would be thrust out of Israel alone (one horn), without Judah his brother. The end of Devarim (Deuteronomy) 33:17 reconfirms that this unicorn (Ephraim) shall push the people of Israel to the ends of the earth, where being scattered, they will multiply and become known as the ten thousands of Ephraim and the thousands of Manasseh! WOW!

Despite this terrible correction, Yahweh promised that this global scattering would not result in Ephraim’s destruction according to Hosea 11:9 and Jeremiah 31:35-37 and countless other texts. Therefore we know that though they have wandered and dwelt among the Gentiles becoming Gentiles, since Torah that was designed to knit them together, was treated as a strange thing to them, the Father promised that they would not be destroyed but would be individually preserved. If they are not destroyed and if one of Yahshua’s missions was to find them in their desolate heritage and rebuild the Tabernacle of David, where do you think many of them are today! That’s right. They are in many instances your non Jewish believing brothers and sisters according to Hosea 2:1! Wake up O Israel, put off your slumber and the truth will set you free!

Hosea 12:1 and Hosea 13:15, give very strong biblical clues to the current location of scattered Ephraim Israel. The Word states that Ephraim feeds on wind meaning he is being tossed around the globe and follows after an east wind. We know that an east wind blows west. Zechariah 10:8 -9 says that Yahweh will whistle for Ephraim and summon them out of all the western nations where they have been sown. That glorious re-gathering of both houses in scripture is called the Day Of Jezreal, which literally means the regathering and replanting of that which was previously uprooted! All land today west and northwest of Israel such as the Americas, North, Central & South, as well as Europe and the British Isles are all locations of major population centers of Ephraimites.

Yair Davidy reached the following well documented conclusions from talmudic, historical, and archeological sources. Ephraim wound up in Britain, Manasseh in the USA, Reuben in France, Simeon in Celtic and Jewish Europe, Levi wherever the Jews went, Judah went everywhere, Issachar wound up in Switzerland and Finland, Zebulon wound up in Holland, Gad wound up in Sweden, Asher in Scotland, Benjamin with the Judahites in Belgium, Normandy and elsewhere. Dan with the Danes and Celts of Europe and Naphtali wound up with the Norwegians in Norway. As you can plainly see, both houses went just about everywhere though Judah was more successful at sticking together.

This north and northwest flight will result in millions from both houses returning to Israel in the last days from Russia where many multitudes of Ephraimites are found along with Judahites. Jeremiah 16:15-19 are strong proof texts that claim that the northern house of Israel went directly north to modern day Russia and the current area known as the Commonwealth of Independent States, that make up the former Soviet Union. They will return from the north country. That return will be so massive that it will cause ALL ISRAEL to downplay the Egyptian Exodus and magnify the numerically greater one currently underway. Messianic Judaism loves to proclaim Yahweh’s majesty in the return of the Jew from the former Soviet Union as well as the Jewish revival currently underway there, yet it fails to take into account scriptures like Jeremiah 3:17-18, that state that in the last days when we see this massive return of Israelites from the north, or this Second Exodus, that it will be the seed and offspring of both houses returning to Israel. In other words it is time to wake up and smell the coffee and allow Messiah to give you light! Some of the folks that we call Jewish in the former Soviet Union that are excepting Messiah in record numbers and returning to the land of Israel are in fact Ephraimites not just Judahites. Yahweh did not say He will bring Jewish Israel back and leave Ephraim Israel in the lands of the north only to suffer more pogroms (annihilation crusades) at the hands of anti-Semites like the Pamyat. Rather in Jeremiah 3:17-18, He stated that He will bring both houses back in the last days. Since both houses return it is obvious that both houses still exist. It is Yahshua’s gospel light that seeks to make these two into one new man called Israel! Jeremiah 50: 4-5 confirms that in order for all Israel to be regathered both houses will learn how to walk together away from Babylon and Rome and hand in hand return to Zion. Whether you like it or not, there is no scriptural regathering of Judah without or apart from a simultaneous and equally ambitious effort on Yahweh’s part to regather the house of Joseph in the hand of Ephraim. They go together and are not separate rescues done at separate times! One must totally butcher scripture to even suggest that Judah’s return to the land of Israel is happening without brother Ephraimites. Whether Messianic Judaism at this juncture recognizes his brother or not, that will not stop the Father’s plan which shall stand above all others, coming to 1956.

Hosea 14:6 says that returning and repentant Ephraim will again be part of the olive tree of Israel. This is confirmed by Rav Shaul who in Romans 11:16 calls returning Ephraimites wild (paganized) olive branches. In Amos 9:8 Yahweh promised to destroy the northern nation but in verse nine He says that as individuals, not a single grain will fall to the ground, or be destroyed among the nations or Gentiles where they are destined to go. Verse 11 of Amos 9 states that the reason that not a singular grain of Israelite corn will fall to the ground is that the Father must preserve them amongst the nations that they are going to be in, so that He can rebuild the Tabernacle of David which has fallen so completely. The idea of "LOST TRIBES", IS TOTALLY CHRISTIAN IN THEOLOGY AND HAS NO BIBLICAL OR JEWISH BASIS! There is much talmudic literature that talks about Ephraim still existing and waiting to experience a second birth through MOSHIACH!!

Ezekiel confirms the fact that the northern kingdom became Gentiles amongst the nations in such verses as Ezekiel 36:15-38. These verses also bring to light the fact that Judah is not mentioned since Judah at the time of Ezekiel in around 5OO BCE had only known Babylonian dispersion not global dispersion. In Ezekiel’s day the only segment of Israel that at the time of Ezekiel’s prophetic writings that had known global dispersion was the north or the house of Israel. The only place Jewish Israel needed to return from in Ezekiel’s time was Babylon, the ones who refused to return with Ezra and Nehemiah. That was only a one nation diaspora, not a global one. In Ezekiel 37:11 Yahweh changes course by telling Ezekiel that the last days two stick vision is for the whole house of Israel. The addition of the word "whole" is confirmed in verses 12-28 where we see both houses that make up the whole clearly mentioned.

It is therefore beyond any shadow of a doubt that Ephraim Israel and to a lesser extent Jewish Israel is safe and sound in our day as they have been in every other day simply being sifted on an individual basis until Yahshua brings them back into New Covenant Israel one at a time. What will happen in the millennium as both houses come together fully is happening partially as Yahshua takes those far off, or far away from Jerusalem, as well as those near and makes both houses into one tree of life, by the precious blood of Messiah (Ephesians:2:13-14 ). The two houses, the near one and the far one, have after many years seen the ancient middle wall of partition broken down though Yahweh’s Son. The gradual and progressive process which began at Calvary the day Yahshua died, will culminate at His return with the commencement of the Kingdom of Yahweh on earth. HalleluYAH!

We do not need Herbert W. Armstrong, Mormons, the replacement theologians of British Israelism, or the American Indians, to tell us where to look for and find the Tabernacle of David restored and rebuilt. We need look no further than Yahshua’s body, the body of believers and you will find all of redeemed Israel living together in unity, harmony and love. Right under our nose, largely unknown to most of us, lies the mystery of regathered physical twelve tribe Israel. That is why Rav Shaul’s Olive Tree illustration is called a former mystery now revealed.

We see the first steps toward the inclusion of non Jewish Israelites in the Master’s visit to Samaria the former northern capital. In Matthew 10:5 He forbids any evangelism by his talmidim in Samaria which is openly acknowledged former Ephraimite territory. Yet in John chapter four we find Him ministering to the Ephraimite or Samaritan woman at the well. What’s going on? Why would He forbid his apostles from ministry in the hills of Samaria (Ephraim) and then turn right around and seemingly violate His own prohibition? The answer should be obvious. Due to His Jewish disciples prejudice and dislike of the Samaritans, Yahshua felt that they would botch the assignment at best, or fail to carry it out at worst. If left up to His talmidim they would more than likely bypass the hated Samaritans who were a half-breed race made up from the offspring of the widespread co-habitation of Ephraimites who stayed in the land, (at the request of the conquering colonial Assyrian Empire) and their conquerors. They were allowed to remain in the Samaritan mountains due to their farming ability which would provide food and provision for the conquering colonists. Unlike other armies such as Greece, Babylon and Rome, the Assyrian policy was to settle a conquered territory by assimilating their own people, as opposed to killing all the native inhabitants. This intermingling between colonial Assyrians and Ephraimite food providers, produced the mixed race of the hated Samaritans in existence at the time of Yahshua as well as today.

Despite the fact that they were half-breeds they had Israelite (not Jewish) blood. This fact is far beyond dispute or argument and is confirmed in such verses as John 4:5, where the city of Shechem is called a city of the house of Joseph, and verse six where Jacob’s well is mentioned. Since Jacob was the first Israelite and since he both dwelt and raised cattle there, we know this account takes place in the former northern kingdom territory. The Samaritan woman claims direct bloodline ancestry to Jacob in verse 12 of Yochanan 4, even calling Jacob or Israel her father. At no point does Yahshua rebuke or correct her assertion to her Israelite heritage, though He does rebuke her immorality. Had lying been one of her immoral character traits, He no doubt would have brought this up. The woman at the well was definitely an Israelite even though according to verse 9 of Yochanan 4,. Judean-Jews stayed away from Ephraim and Samaria, by refusing to go in and step out in love and recognition toward their brethren. Sound familiar? It should. Nothing has changed. His arrival to minister to her in Shechem an Ephraimite Samaritan village, was an open and unashamed act of love. There can be no doubt that Yahshua knew that this was a task that only He was capable of, due to Judah’s prejudice and blindness. May we be more like our Messiah when it comes to granting recognition and ministering love to those in our midst who claim Ephraimite blood, without administering a DNA test to them every time we see them, since genealogy cannot be proven or disproved. Genealogy is an issue of faith in who you think you are. Let’s be frank. Who would want to suffer as a Jew unless they were one? Who would want to receive vexation and ridicule as a non Jewish Israelite except one who really is one?

At the commencement of the modern day state of Israel in 1948, David Ben Gurion assembled 49 Jewish experts to determine who was a Jew eligible to return to Israel under Israel’s new law of return and came up with 49 diverse opinions! The conclusion to the whole matter was Ben Gurion’s famous remark born out of frustration with the rabbis, that a Jew "was anyone who said he was"! That must be our loving attitude to both Judahites and Ephraimites when they come into our midst, rather then refusing to deal with them or their claim to Israelite heritage unless they admit to being a "Gentile". As we covered in our last issue, there is no such thing as a saved Gentile and the Brit Chadasha confirms that in numerous places.

Perhaps Messianic Judaism’s desperate attempts to make legal aliyah to the State of Israel as Jews will be allowed by Yahweh once Judah grants outcast Ephraim the recognition they demand. If you want recognition by the government of Israel, you must sow recognition. It is the biblical principal of sowing and reaping found in Galatians 6:7. We as Messianic Jews have tried every other angle at getting into our homeland, including being deceptive on paperwork and have still been denied entry, because our Jewishness is frowned upon as not being authentic. Maybe, just maybe, if we tried granting some family love and recognition, we may finally get some back from the State of Israel and see our Heavenly Father go to bat for us as Israel’s doors swing open to aliyah for all Messianic Jews. We have tried everything else what have we got to lose?

Once Yahshua opened the former northern kingdom to the gospel, He through the Ruach Hakodesh after His ascension sent Phillip (Acts 8:5-14) and almost all of Samaria believed and became born again non Jewish Israelites. As a matter of record this revival among Ephraim was so powerful that Shimon Keefa and Yochanan went up personally to survey and confirm the situation in Acts 8:14. Based on these and numerous other texts there is little doubt that the early Messianic community headquartered in Jerusalem, was made up of large numbers of Samaritans or non Jewish Israelites. What happened to their descendents and children? Didn’t they become believers? Isn’t that the goal of raising set apart children? These believing Israelite offspring that passed down the Messianic faith to future generations are still with us today. They are direct bloodline descendents of the early Samaritan believers. They are in our midst whether we grant them recognition or not! Also didn’t the early Jewish believers have children and grandchildren? Where are they? Didn’t early first century Messianic Jews represent all twelve tribes? That’s right many of them are still in the body of Yahshua 2000 years later right next to their Ephraimite brothers! It is utterly fascinating that in John 4:27 when the Jewish disciples returned to town only to find Yahshua witnessing to a Samaritan Israelite woman, that none of them asked Him what He was doing or why He was doing this, since they all knew instinctively that despite their own prejudice, Yahshua was as He said in Matthew 15:24, ministering only to the lost sheep of the House of Israel. By virtue of the fact that He was ministering to Samaritans they knew that He was starting the reclamation and returning of all Israelites to the fold. That is why they were neither shocked, alarmed or inquisitive. We must learn from their response in John 4:27 and not be shocked or threatened to discover through correct prophetic and biblical exegesis that Yahshua has been ministering to many non Jewish Israelites for the past two thousand years by placing them under His care in His body or His assembly.

The past two thousand years have seen the ongoing restoration of both houses of Yisrael only within Yahshua’s universal body. The great news however is that He will duplicate that which is going on in believing Israel and expand it to include all of lost Israel, as we approach the millennial reign of Yahshua on earth. Therefore it is both a Kingdom in the here and now as well as a Kingdom yet to come. He is bound to His Word. His Word is truth!