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From: Eddie Chumney
To:      heb_roots_chr@hebroots.org
Subject: Chapter 12: Ephraim and Judah Become One House


                                        CHAPTER 12

            EPHRAIM AND JUDAH BECOME ONE HOUSE


                      from the book by Eddie Chumney

              "RESTORING THE TWO HOUSES OF ISRAEL"

         Copies can be purchased for individual or group study by
         writing to me (Eddie Chumney) at: (chumney@hebroots.org)


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                                   CHAPTER 12

             EPHRAIM AND JUDAH BECOME ONE HOUSE

                                     (Part 6 of 6)



     THE REUNIFICATION OF EPHRAIM AND JUDAH DURING
                                JACOB'S TROUBLE

     In Ezekiel (Yechezekel) 37:21-22 it tells us that when the two
houses of Israel are united that they will return to the "mountains
of Israel." The mountains of Israel are called in the Bible the
mountains of Judea and Samaria. In the Western world, the mountains
of Judea and Samaria are called the "West Bank." This is the land
that the world wants Israel to give to the PLO so that they can have
their PLO state.

     By comparing Ezekiel (Yechezekel) 37:21-22 with Ezekiel
(Yechezekel) 34:11-13, we can understand that the two houses will
return to the "mountains of Israel" in a "dark and cloudy day." In
Ezekiel (Yechezekel) 34:11-12 it is written:

      "For thus says the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search
      my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeks out his flock
      in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so
      will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all
      places where they have been scattered in the CLOUDY AND DARK
      DAY."

     The "dark and cloudy day" is a Jewish idiom for the "day of the
Lord." In Joel (Yoel) 2:1-2 it is written:

      "Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy
      mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the
      DAY OF THE LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand; A day of
      darkness and of gloominess, a DAY OF CLOUDS AND OF THICK
      DARKNESS."

     As we learned earlier in this book, the "day of the Lord" is a
Jewish idiom for the 1,000-year Messianic Age (Athid Lavo).
Furthermore, every Biblical day begins in the evening and ends in the
morning (Genesis [Bereishit] 1. The  "evening" part of the "day of
the Lord" is the tribulation/Chevlai shel Mashiach/Jacob's trouble.
In Jeremiah (Yermiyahu) 30:1-7 it tells us that the two houses of
Israel (Ephraim and Judah) will return to the land of Israel during
Jacob's trouble as it is written:

      "The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying . For, lo,
      the days come says the Lord, that I will bring again the
      captivity of my people Israel AND Judah says the Lord: and I
      will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their
      fathers, and they shall possess it. And these are the words that
      the Lord spake concerning Israel AND concerning Judah. For thus
      says the Lord; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and
      not of peace. Ask ye now, and see whether a man does travail
      with child? Wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his
      loins, as a woman in travail, [tribulation/birth pangs of the
      Messiah] and all faces are turned into paleness? Alas! for that
      day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of
      Jacob's trouble [Israel AND Judah]; but he shall be saved out of
      it."

     In Jeremiah (Yermiyahu) 31:15-22, we also see Ephraim (house of
Israel/Christianity) repenting for departing from the Torah of the
G-d of Israel and returning to the land of Israel when "a woman shall
compass a man" (which is a reference to the Messianic Age/Athid Lavo)
as it is written:

      "Thus saith the Lord; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation,
      and bitter weeping; Rachel weeping for her children refused to
      be comforted for her children, because they were not. Thus saith
      the Lord; Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from
      tears: for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord; and they
      shall come again from the land of the enemy. And there is hope
      in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come again
      to their own border. I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning
      himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a
      bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be
      turned; for thou art the Lord my God. Surely after that I was
      turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote
      upon my thigh: I was ashamed yea, even confounded, because I did
      bear the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a
      pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly
      remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I
      will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord. Set thee up
      waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the
      highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin
      daughter, turn again to these thy cities. How long wilt thou go
      about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the Lord hath created a
      new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man."

     This period of time when Ephraim and Judah will be restored and
reunited with each other (Ezekiel [Yechezekel] 37:15-28) is also
called "the day of Jezreel." In Hosea (Hoshea) 1:10-11, it tells us
that when the G-d of Israel fulfills His covenant with Abraham
(Avraham) and the two houses of Israel are reunited that the children
of Israel AND the children of Judah shall walk together as it is written:

      "Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand
      of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; [the words of
      G-d's covenant with Abraham] and it shall come to pass, that in
      the place where it was said unto them, You are not my people,
      there it shall be said unto them, You are the sons of the living
      God. Then shall the children of Judah AND the children of Israel
      be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head [Ezekiel
      34:11-13, 23, 37:24-25] and they shall come up out of the land:
      for great shall be the day of Jezreel."

     In Jeremiah (Yermiyahu) 3:14, 17-18 it tells us that when the
children of Israel and the children of Judah return to Zion (the land
of Israel) and walk together that all nations will be gathered
against Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) as it is written:

      "Turn, O backsliding children says the Lord; for I am married
      unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family
      and I will bring you to Zion . At that time they shall call
      Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be
      gathered unto it [Zechariah 14:2] . in those days the house of
      Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come
      TOGETHER out of the land of the north to the land that I have
      given for an inheritance unto your fathers."

     Therefore, the two houses of Israel will be restored and reunited
(Ezekiel 37:15-28) during Jacob's trouble (Jeremiah 30:7) in their
affliction (Hosea 5:15) in the "day of Jezreel" (Hosea 1:11) when
they return to the mountains of Israel (West Bank) (Ezekiel 34:11-13,
37:21-22) and walk together with each other (Hosea 1:11, Jeremiah
3:18) prior to the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus setting His
feet down upon the mount of Olives (Zechariah 14:4) and teaching the
Torah to the nations from the city of Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) during
the Messianic Age (Athid Lavo) (Isaiah 2:2-3).


                  A PRAYER FOR THE MESSIANIC AGE

     When the G-d of Israel made a covenant with Abraham, it was an
eternal and everlasting covenant. The fulfillment of this covenant
was dependent upon the seed of Abraham being obedient to the Torah of
the G-d of Israel. By being obedient to the Torah of the G-d of
Israel, the seed of Abraham was promised a land and the G-d of Israel
would tabernacle with His people in this land. However, by being
disobedient to the Torah of the G-d of Israel, the seed of Abraham
would be exiled into all the nations of the earth.

     After they were exiled, if the seed of Abraham repented and
confessed their sins to the G-d of Israel, He promised to redeem them
from all the nations where they have been scattered and bring them
back to the land of Israel. The reunification of the seed of Abraham
(the house of Israel and the house of Judah) would take place in the
end of days prior to the coming of the Jewish Messiah and the
establishment of the Messianic Age on the earth. During the Messianic
Age, the G-d of Israel promised to tabernacle with His people through
the Jewish Messiah.

     This is the fullness of the covenant that the G-d of Israel made
with Abraham. This is the Gospel  according to Torah !!!

     May the G-d of Israel redeem and restore the two houses of Israel
and return them to the land of Israel and bring forth the Messianic
age speedily in our Days.


                       NEXT YEAR IN JERUSALEM !!!


                             (End Part 6 of 6)


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