An Israeli Pre-Messiah Gleaning!
Part of a Final Gleaning of Israel Before Messiah Arrives!
Old Testament Kingdoms of Israel and Judah Now One!
September 29, 2004
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The quote from Aaron Klein, which follows comments and Scriptures, was taken from the World Net Daily New Service.
Long ago, Ezekiel indicated there would be an initial gathering before Messiah returned, and an even greater one after he was crowned as King of Israel.
It appears we are now in the final stages of the initial gathering prior to Messiah’s return.
Joseph had two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, and Ephraim was often used in the Old Testament to represent the Northern Kingdom of Israel, while Judah, one of Joseph’s brothers from the man Jacob, was used to represent the Southern Kingdom of Judah.
The Assyrians carried most of the population of the 10 Northern Kingdom tribes far away into the eastern part of the Assyrian Empire during the time of the writings of the Old Testament Prophet Isaiah.
However, some 100 years later the Prophet Ezekiel prophesied the 10 tribes would return to be part of a single United Kingdom before the coming of Messiah.
The two sticks of Judah and Ephraim would once again be a single Kingdom, as in the days of David and Solomon.
But after Messiah returned, a much more massive gathering of Tribulation Period surviving Jews, from all over the earth, was to be gathered back to Israel to become a part of the reign of Messiah.
THE INITIAL RE-GATHERING BEFORE MESSIAH
Ezekiel 37:19-22 – Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; 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 Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. [20] And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
[21] And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; 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: [22] 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:
THE FINAL RE-GATHERING AFTER MESSIAH’S RETURN
Ezekiel 39:23-29 – And the heathen shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity: because they trespassed against me, therefore hid I my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies: so fell they all by the sword.
[24] According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions have I done unto them, and hid my face from them.
[25] Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name; [26] After that they have borne their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they dwelt safely in their land, and none made them afraid. [27] When I have brought them again from the people, and gathered them out of their enemies’ lands, and am sanctified in them in the sight of many nations; [28] Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there. [29] Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.
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From WorldNetDaily.com Jerusalem Bureau
Rabbis Convert ‘Lost Tribe of Israel’
Recognize 200 Members of Group Believing Descent from Joseph
By Aaron Klein
September 26, 2005
“An official delegation of Israeli rabbis arrived in India last week and began converting to Judaism members of a group that believes it is one of the ten “lost tribes” of Israel, jump starting a process many hope will bring the tribe’s remaining 7,000 members to the Jewish state.
The Bnei Menashe say they are the descendants of Manasseh, one of biblical patriarch Joseph’s two sons, and a grandson of Jacob.
They live in the two Indian states of Mizoram and Manipur, to which they claim to have been exiled from Israel over 2,700 years ago by the Assyrian Empire, and have been trying the past fifty years to return to Israel.”
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