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From FULL RESTORATION OF ALL ISRAEL series

At the very height of the Davidic monarchy, with Israel literally ruling and reigning over the known world of that day, Yahuwah sent a startling prophetic word to David via the prophet Nathan. This prophetic word, recorded In Second Samuel 7:10 and First Chronicles 17:9, unveils one of the most fascinating truths of Scripture as it pertains to the nation of Israel in these last days. The prophecy was given to David, king of all Israel in 1000 BCE, when all Israel was united and at peace from within and from without. Second Samuel 7:1 confirms that David the King had rest and peace with all his enemies round about, with the favor and grace of Yahuwah as his covering. The Davidic monarchy had total authority throughout the known world, economically, politically, socially, militarily and in every other way. In the midst of this tranquility and Davidic glory, Nathan arrived at the king’s palace with one of the most overlooked and neglected prophetic pronouncements from Yahuwah to His people Israel, regarding their future as a nation.

We must bear in mind that the two Houses of Israel did not yet exist, since the split in the Davidic monarchy did not take place until 921 BCE or about 80 years later. Yet, Yahuwah in His omniscience, declared a glorious truth to King David. In verse 10 of Second Samuel chapter 7 , Nathan declared the words of Yahuwah:

"I will appoint a place for my people Israel and shall plant them and they shall dwell in a place of their own and no longer be afraid, neither shall the children of wickedness oppress them again as at the first."

First Chronicles 17:9 restates the same prophecy with one additional piece of information regarding Israel’s future home with the phrase, "and will move no more." Bear in mind that this word was given in the land of Israel, which was and still is the Holy Land promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and their descendents (Israel) forever. The nation was not yet been divided into two separate houses. All 12 tribes lived comfortably in the Holy Land of Israel with peace from all their enemies, fully planted and resting in the first place prepared for the nation of Israel. Jerusalem was the capital over a united people with the throne of David comfortably positioned in Jerusalem, with David reigning to the ends of the earth. If ever a people or nation were planted and living their lives in the original appointed place that the Heavenly Father had given to His people, it was Israel in 1000 BCE. In what seems to be a case of bad timing, when Israel did not need to have her security and her safety needs addressed at all, Yahuwah rattled the nation with this amazing proclamation.

Yahuwah spoke to David and the entire nation in the future tense. He "will appoint", (Hebrew: vesamti) "will plant", (Hebrew: oontativ) and "they shall dwell in a place of their own." Consider this apparent contradiction. Scripture teaches that Israel in the Holy Land of Canaan promised to our patriarchs, is our appointed and prepared place, where we are to find dwelling and peace from all the sons of wickedness (traditional enemies such as Ishmaelites and Edomites). While the nation was strong and fortified and at rest from all her enemies, Yahuwah declared that there will yet be a FUTURE place of planting and appointment, where the traditional enemies of Israel (children of wickedness), will no longer oppress and harass the nation. He called this future land a place of their own, despite the fact that when this prophecy was given they were in a land of their own.

It is therefore most apparent that Yahuwah prepared for the nation of Israel, (which was promised to be more numerous then the stars of heaven and the sand of the sea), a future land in another place. Knowing that David’s monarchy would be divided into the two houses of Israel, with the House of Israel becoming the latter-day "fullness of the gentiles", or the infilling of the globe with Israelite seed, the Father sought and prepared a land that would be able to accommodate hundreds of millions of His people, unlike original Israel. Even taking into account greater Israel as promised to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob from the Dead Sea in the south, to the Euphrates in the north, to the Mediterranean in the west, all the way to the Tigris River in the east, there is still absolutely no way that the Holy Land could hold all the sons and daughters of Israel, promised to the patriarchs.

Deuteronomy 1:10-11 gives us a good idea as to the future size of this nation. In Deuteronomy 1:10 Moshe Rabeinu said that the people of the Exodus from Egypt were already "increased and as numerous as the stars of heaven." Most experts surmise that 4 to 5 million Israelites left Egypt in the Exodus led by Moshe. That number includes men, women and children. In verse 11 of Deuteronomy 1, Moshe said that nevertheless, Yahuwah would "add to you a thousand times more than you are and bless you as He has spoken to you." If we use simple mathematics, Moshe’s thousand fold multiplication of the 4 to 5 million Israelites of the Exodus becomes 4 billion people. Today in these last of the last days, as we stand at the brink of the coming of Yahshua and His reign in the Atid Lavoh (millennium), we stand at 4 billion or so Israelites, out of a world population of 5 to 6 billion people! Those numbers belong to Moses the prophet, not this author. Do you believe the Word of Yahuwah when it stares you in the face?

Knowing this end time population explosion by the Israelites, Yahuwah promises through Nathan to give Israel another land able to house most of the nation. In context, David’s people are all Israel, united and dwelling together, since at the time of Nathan’s pronouncement the nation had not yet experienced division and relocation into two houses dispersed abroad. When the people of Israel, therefore, are planted and appointed a new land of their own, which will be highlighted by the absence of the Edomites (the traditional children of wickedness), both houses must be dwelling together as one nation.

Perhaps the most important clue to where this latter-day land of planting can be found is in verse 9 of First Chronicles 17, where Yahuwah told David that when both houses are planted in this future appointed place, they will "MOVE NO MORE!" Some translations read and they will be "disturbed no more!" (Even with the latter understanding, Israel would live in a place of their own undisturbed or moved by external enemies). Remember that in 1000 BCE, Israel had inhabited the promised land of Canaan for 500 years, without ever having moved. The first Israelite holocaust (carried out by Tiglat Pileser the Third in 745 BCE and concluded by Sargon the Second’s conquest of Samaria in 721BCE) resulted in massive deportations of the ten tribes away from Israel. This event occurred less than 300 years after King David was given this prophecy!

This massive resettlement was a major move out of the land of Israel. The Holy Land could not be the land of the future planting of Israel, since they (David’s people) moved from it. The Scriptures under consideration clearly proclaim that when Yahuwah completes this future planting of all Israel in a new and future homeland, they will not have to move or be disturbed again!

History also tells us of the epic ongoing struggle of Jewish/Israel to survive their numerous wanderings and resettlements. History’s pages are full of tales of tiny Jewish Israel’s struggle to survive their many exiles and wanderings in the wilderness of the gentile nations. The Babylonian exile in 586 BCE under Nebuchadnezzar and the global Diaspora in 70 AD, which continues to this day, is further verification of the fact that Jewish/Israel (also a part of King David’s people) moved away from Israel many times. It is beyond any honest examination of the facts that the land of future planting could not possibly be the Holy Land given to Israel, but another land that would be given to our people.

There is a classic misinterpretation of these verses by some, who apply the future "appointed place" to Solomon’s Temple as opposed to a new land. This explanation of the considered verses is impossible, if one understands that even if Solomon’s Temple was the place of Israel’s future planting, we are left with two major problems. First, how do you plant an entire nation in Solomon’s Temple? Second, how does one account for the fact that Solomon’s Temple was destroyed twice and would therefore force the nation that supposedly lived in it to move twice as well. Remember that Yahuwah ordained that His people would never move or be disturbed again, until Yahshua returns and heralds in the Atid Lavoh (millennium). Thus we easily dismiss that misinterpretation!

Having understood this, before examining exactly which land fits this biblical description, we must reiterate some plain truths. Once planted and appointed in this land, all Israel (both houses), will never again be plagued OR DISTURBED by enemies, persecutions, pogroms, inquisitions, holocausts, anti-Semitism, and genocide. They will be safe and sound as a united jointed nation, that must by definition resemble the people of David’s united monarchy. We must also bear in mind such crucial texts as Ezekial 37 and Hosea 1:11, that even speak of the Day of Jezreal or Israel’s final and full re-gathering, as a great day when both houses of Hosea 1:11, come out of the land. This reminds us that although Israel is planted and appointed in a different land, that even that appointment will come to an end. At that time, in that Day (millennium) of Jezreal, when all Israel returns to Israel, the people will come up out of "the land (another land)" together! While Yahuwah will house our people for safekeeping and multiplication in another land, a remnant of both houses will one day return to the Holy Land of Israel as a returning, reunited people. This other appointed land promised to David by Yahuwah through Nathan, will be a land of our own, where we will be safe from the sons of Esau, who will not be able to inflict massive physical and spiritual harm and from whence we will never be moved again (via persecution ), until the Day of Jezreal (literally, the day of the re-gathering of the zera-seed of Israel)! In that day all of remnant-redeemed, Spirit-filled, physical Israel, will return to the land of Israel (Jeremiah 50:20). In no way should this new appointed land be viewed as a replacement of the Holy Land, or the first appointed land, but rather as a land where no human being or human government can move our people, until Yahshua Himself returns and summons us back to the Holy Land and Jerusalem, our eternal capital and city of the great King. While scattered Israel (12 tribes) can still be found in EVERY LAND AND NATION under heaven, there is still this promise of a future specific land that will be owned by Israel, where they will no longer be disturbed or moved by traditional enemies!!

Hosea 11:10 and 12:1 teach us that this second land of appointment in which Israel will live together reunited as a people, is in the west. Ephraim will come trembling from the west, since he has followed an east wind. Jeremiah 50:4 teaches us that both houses will return together from latter-day Babylon to Israel. In order to return to Israel together, they must by definition be together, as they exit this new appointed place. Jeremiah 50:4 speaks of both houses returning to Zion with weeping and repentance as they find Messiah, who is the Way back to Yahuwah and to all that Zion has to offer. In Jeremiah 50:8, the Word is very specific regarding this latter-day return of Israel to the Holy Land, as both houses leave latter-day Babylon together!!

This latter-day Babylon cannot possibly be referring to Nebuchadnezzar's Babylonian captivity of Judah in 586 BCE, since the House of Israel or Ephraim, was never in Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon as a nation. There may have been some Ephraimites in that captivity, but certainly not the fullness of Ephraim/Israel. Jeremiah 51:44 speaks of Israel "His people" coming out of a literal latter-day land called Babylon. Born again Israel in these last days before the Atid Lavoh, is being called out of both spiritually diseased Babylon (popery and her often times harlot Protestant offspring), as well as the literal land of Babylon. Jeremiah 51:50 teaches us that upon our leaving or moving from the land of latter-day Babylon, we are to set our hearts on Jerusalem and our return to the Holy Land. The Chaldeans who made up the former-day Babylon are extinct. The literal latter-day land of Babylon therefore, is a different land with similar characteristics to that of the extinct Chaldeans! Scripture speaks much of the end time destruction of a literal latter-day Babylon, even though the former Babylon will never be rebuilt. There are over 20 identifying marks of where the land of latter-day Babylon will exist.

Both Houses of Israel migrated north into Western Asia and eventually west into Europe. Although Europe is populated by large numbers of Israelites from both houses (see parts 1-4 of this series), it does not fit the description of "another land", or a future place of their own. First of all, wandering Israelites who moved west of Jerusalem and into Europe, were always strangers in strange lands. Great Britain cannot be the new promised land since they expelled the Jews twice and forced them to move. Almost every other country in Europe has not allowed Jewish Israel to settle down and establish long term roots. Because no European countries have ever allowed the Jews (who are Israelites), to be permanently planted and never move or be disturbed again, all of Europe is disqualified from being the new land of planting and appointment. The "new land Israelites", may have migrated to Europe, but only as a temporary stop on the way towards their eventual settlement in their new homeland. The crusades, inquisitions, pogroms, executions, tortures, murders, forced conversions and attempted genocides of Jewish Israel by all these European nations, does not allow the prophecy of Nathan to be applicable to Europe. Even while scattered throughout Europe, the Edomites (Esau) or the physical and spiritual descendents of Rome and her church (the Catholic Church), unmercifully persecuted and unceasingly troubled the scattered sheep of wandering Israel. The Nathan prophecy boldly proclaims that when Israel is permanently settled in their future home of safekeeping and protection, that "the children of wickedness", or the Esau-Edomites (Gen. 36:8-9), will not be found there in significant enough numbers, to mount aggression and will not be allowed to commit their infamous acts of retribution and brutality towards Israel. Certainly world history teaches us that the Edomites hated the Jews wherever they went, never leaving them to rest in peace. Haman, Herod and Hitler, were all Edomites in one form or another. Therefore the claim that Great Britain alone is the new Israel or true Israel, must be dismissed as a total falsehood. Although Great Britain and the commonwealth of British nations have housed millions of lost and wandering Israelites, the fact that Israelites were not allowed to permanently settle in the countries of that commonwealth, is one of many reasons that Great Britain is not the new appointed land promised to Israel, for her physical multiplication and protection. The regions of Asia and Russia around the Caspian and Black Seas, also are disqualified as the fulfillment of Nathan’s prophecy, since both houses of Israel not only moved continuously from these regions, but also met the children of wickedness wherever they went, throughout those areas!

The ten tribes of Ephraim Israel, had no less of a trying time in Europe, than Jewish Israel. Born again believers in Yahshua were forced to flee Europe and Great Britain, to seek a land of refuge so that they could worship Yahuwah in Spirit and truth. History is full of European and English persecution of those who eventually came to the shores of America, searching and looking for religious freedom. Ephraim wandered with Judah into Europe. After massive migrations to Europe in about 400 AD, the people found no rest or permanent home! The Pilgrims and Puritans who came to America were born again, non-Jewish Ephraimites, looking for a biblical homeland away from Israel and Europe. Their writings indicate that they received much inspiration to come to America via the "appointed land prophecy!" Israel and Europe both had been overrun by the children of wickedness, who gave the lost sheep of both houses of Israel no rest. It is only the United States of America, that has granted Ephraim (non Jewish born again believers), the freedom to practice pure biblical faith! Only America was founded by lost wandering Israelites, so that Yahshua the Messiah could be worshipped in Spirit and truth free from the shackles of the church of Rome and the Anglican religious system. Examination of the early practices of the Pilgrims and the Puritans, reveal not only Torah observance, but a loathing of Easter, Christmas, Halloween and other pagan practices adopted by the apostate church system of Europe. Only in the United States of America has Ephraim had total religious and spiritual freedom, without having to move or run for cover from either the church of Rome, the Anglican church, or the traditional children of wickedness, who still live and fill the Middle East and Europe. Please note that the descendents of these early Ephraimite Pilgrims, have multiplied and are still living in the USA as free men and women, never having been troubled through religious zealotry or persecution!

Perhaps the most convincing evidence of the USA being the literal fulfillment of Second Samuel 7:10 and First Chronicles 17:9, is the golden age of Judaism in this country. Let history record that since the Jews escaped Europe and have come to the USA, we have never once been targeted on a massive scale for state sponsored pogroms, holocausts, anti-Semitism, death, crusade or religious persecution. For 223 years we have lived, comfortably planted, established and appointed to be a major driving force in all aspects of our nation. It is in this great country that we flourish, as if we were planted in our own land of Israel. Only in America do Jews (7 million) and Ephraimites (non-Jewish believers in Moshiach) LIVE TOGETHER, WORK TOGETHER, PLAY TOGETHER, SPORT TOGETHER, VACATION TOGETHER, FIGHT WARS TOGETHER SIDE BY SIDE, WITHOUT SEEKING TO ANNIHILATE AND DESTROY EACH OTHER. Both houses have been free from governmental interference (although that is starting to change), to pursue righteousness in a Judeo-Christian ethical framework. The term Judeo-Christian faith is in itself, a verbal manifestation of the two houses having become one again in America, for the FIRST TIME SINCE THE DAYS OF KING DAVID!!!! Truly in America the Father has reunited the two houses of Israel, in fulfillment of the fascinating prophecies of Nathan. This truth is Nathanism not British-Anglo-Israelism!!

In order for both houses to return together in repentance they must already be planted and dwelling together. Since the Word of Yahuwah cannot be broken or cannot lie, we can be sure that the Jewish people and the born again Ephraimites will be preserved individuals, safe and sound, living away from the children of wickedness, never to wander or relocate again, until that glorious time, when Yahshua the King returns to take us home to Canaan land and to Jerusalem the city of the Great King.