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THE
FULL RESTORATION OF ISRAEL!
BY
RABBI MOSHE JOSEPH KONIUCHOWSKY
In Genesis 13:14-16 Yahweh our Heavenly Father promised Abram the
land
of Canaan as well as a promise of physical multiplicity of his zera or
his seed (sperm). Abram was told that this promise of physical
multiplicity will be so vast and so extensive that the entire earth
will literally be full of his zera. Verse 16 reminds us that at the
time that this promise is literally and physically brought to pass it
will be absolutely impossible for mankind to even count it, or in any
way census it, since mankind is totally impotent and unable to count
the dust of the earth. This promise is straightforward, needing
absolutely no interpretation or explanation. That same seed will
inherit the land eventually to be known as Israel.
In Genesis 15 verses 1-6 we see Abram willing to help Yahweh fulfill
the promise of Genesis 13 by prematurely and incorrectly choosing
Eliezer, a Gentile, who is not a physical offspring of Abram's own
sperm or zera, to be the one through whom that promise would be
brought to pass. However Yahweh rebukes Abram and makes it clear to
him that His promise of physical multiplicity that would become a
number that man would not be able to number would not come through an
adopted Gentile or a second class choice. No! Our Heavenly Father
ordained that this promised heir would come from Abram's own body. He
would not be adopted but he would be a physical descendent of Abram.
It is through this physical descendent that Yahweh once again promises
Abram that his physical offspring will be more than the stars of
Heaven. Obviously through modern science we know that our solar system
has trillions of stars and of course that other solar systems have
many more trillions. These stars in totality produce a number that
mankind cannot even fathom. Yahweh challenges Abram's lack of ability
in counting the stars with the words "if you can" in verse five. It is
because of Abram's pure faith and trust in Yahweh that he receives
imputed righteousness as a result of his believing and trusting in
Yahweh's promise. Notice there is only one promise not many promises.
Abram was declared righteous by faith in Yahweh's one promise. Whoever
this physical seed would turn out to be it would literally have to be
more than the dust particles of the sea and the visible stars of
heaven. This promise must be taken extremely and solely on a literal
face value. Any tendency to somehow spiritualize this promise is a
lack of faith in Yahweh's literal Word. That would be the very
opposite of the faith of Abram himself.
This promise of physical multiplicity and blessing is renewed in
Genesis 17 verse 4 where Abram is told that this promise will
establish him as a father of many nations or "hamon goyim". This term
"hamon goyim" is also found in verse 5 and literally means a noisy
multitude of Gentile nations. This physical seed that will literally
fill the globe will not be a silent group of religious folks, rather
they will be a great and noisy multitude making a great noise and
tumult about Yahweh and His gospel love for humanity. Verse 6 of
Genesis 17 promises Abraham that through this seed of promise, kings
would be manifest. This of course is talking about the kings that
would one day make up the royal House of David through whom Messiah
would come to His throne. In verse 7 Yahweh reassures Abraham that
this promise of greatness through physical multiplicity would be
unconditional and everlasting.
After the testing of Abraham's faith in Genesis 22, Yahweh renews the
promise, due to Abraham's great obedience in the binding of Isaac on
Mt Moriah. In verses 17&18 Yahweh reminds Abraham that it is he that
will inherit the physical promise of physical multiplicity when his
seed one day becomes more than the stars of heaven and the dust of the
earth. In verse 18 we see that from this earth filling seed, will come
one (Messiah), through whom all of the earth's families will be
blessed. In Genesis 24 verse 60, Rebecca's family prophetically prays
over her in order that her children may become "myriad's of peoples"
and rule over their enemies.
In Genesis 26 verse 4 we see this promise of physical increase being
renewed with Abraham's son Isaac. He is told that his zera will be
more than the stars of heaven. Sound familiar? Isaac becomes the heir
of this promise not Ishmael. Therefore when Yahweh brings to pass this
great and precious promise it will not be through an adopted Gentile
like Eliezer or a child of the flesh like Ishmael, but rather through
the child of promise (Isaac) the heir proceeding from Abraham's own
body. Galatians 4:28 confirms that only Isaac is the child of promise.
What promise? The promise of physical multiplicity that would fill the
earth, yet still possess the land of Canaan as it own homeland.
Genesis 28 verse three finds Isaac blessing Jacob and prophesying that
the promise that Yahweh gave Abraham and Isaac would now be bestowed
upon Jacob and not Esau. We see that in verse three Isaac prays that
Jacob's zera, would be blessed and become a "kehelat goyim" or
"assembly of peoples." For the first time in scripture we get a
glimpse of Yahweh's plan for filling the earth with the seed of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Hebrew term found in verse three is
"kehelat goyim" or an assembly of nations or even better an "assembly
of goyim". Somehow the Father will fill the earth with the physical
seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob by putting together an assembly of
goyim. Verse 4 confirms that what Isaac is bestowing upon Jacob is
none other than the blessing of Abraham.
It is absolutely crucial for us to understand that there are not many
promises to Abraham. There are not some that are spiritual and some
others that are physical. Rather there is one promise and that one
promise contains two aspects of physical blessing. One is the seed who
would bless the nations, that being Messiah Yahshua Himself, the other
being merely a promise of physical reproduction and multiplicity. In
Genesis 28 in the account of Jacob's ladder we find Yahweh telling
Jacob that his seed will be spread out as the dust of the earth and
will break forth to the four corners of the globe. In other words his
offspring would find its home in Canaan land, but would somehow
through Yahweh's divine plan break forth and find its way to the four
corners of the earth. This promise is none other than the bestowing
upon Jacob of the promise and blessing of Abraham. The Hebrew term
used in Genesis 28 verse 14 is the term "parats" meaning to break
forth. It literally means to jump out and spread quickly. This promise
of physical multiplicity must come through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
therefore nullifying any claims by Islam and Ishmaelites or any other
misguided Bible scholars claiming that this promise is fulfilled in
adding the Jews and Muslims together. That is wrong since this promise
must come through Isaac and Jacob not Ishmael and Esau. The
Ishmaelite, Arab and Muslim peoples are the physical descendants of
Abraham alone, not of the promised heirs Isaac and Jacob. They do not,
I repeat do not, meet the standards set down by Yahweh when He stated
that the promise of physical multiplicity would come through Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. The faith of Islam is not the faith of Abraham
because in order to have the faith of Abraham one must believe it was
Isaac not Ishmael who was the chosen seed!
We find Yahweh elaborating on this promise to Jacob in Genesis
35:verse 11 where He declares to Jacob that he would no longer be
known as Jacob but as Israel. Israel means one who as a prince
struggles with Yahweh and prevails. It is as Israel that Jacob will
produce sperm that will lead to the establishment of a nation and a
company of nations. The nation of course is destined to be the Jewish
people and the company of nations will be the "kehelat goyim" or the
assembly of nations (Gentiles) that will proceed from his own body.
As we jump forward in time we find Israel the great patriarch dying in
the land of Goshen in Egypt and he summons all his sons to his bedside
as he is dying. He somehow finds enough strength and leans on his
staff and begins to prophecy through the Ruach HaKodesh the events
that will befall his sons in the last days. The Brit Chadasha (New
Covenant) refers to these deathbed prophecies of Israel as an act of
worship. In Genesis 48:5 he adopts Joseph's children born in Egypt,
Ephraim and Manasseh as his own. He is declaring his last will and
testament right there in front of Joseph. He officially adopts these
two boys so that Joseph his most beloved son can receive a double
portion of blessing through both his sons (verse 22). In verse 16 of
Genesis 48 he calls these two grandchildren "Israel", since he not
only adopts them but prophetically declares that the physical promise
of physical global multiplicity will come through them. After stating
"let my name be called upon them," meaning they are Israel's children,
he prays that they will become a multitude. The Hebrew term used here
for multitude can be read as a "teeming multitude of fish". It is
interesting to remember that it was none other than our Messiah
Yahshua who declared that He would make us fishers of men. Could many
of the men he was referring to be the "teeming multitude proceeding
from Ephraim and Manasseh?
As Israel is about to pronounce blessing he lays his right hand on
Ephraim instead of Manasseh who was Joseph's firstborn. The right hand
is symbolic of the blessing of the first born and should have
rightfully fallen to Manasseh. However above the protests of Joseph,
Israel crosses his hands and place the right one on the second of
Joseph's sons Ephraim. When Joseph objects Israel tells him not to
worry that he knows exactly what he is doing and that while Manasseh
will become a great nation, Ephraim will be greater than him. In
Genesis 48:19 we have one of the most fascinating and important
prophecies of scripture. In blessing Ephraim over and above his
brother, Israel declares that the seed or zera of Ephraim will become
the "maleh goyim", or the "fullness of the Gentiles". In other words
the physical seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that was promised to one
day literally fill the earth as the sand and dust of the earth and
stars of heaven, will now come to pass in and through Ephraim. Ephraim
will be the vehicle though which the great and precious single promise
of physical multiplicity will literally come to pass. In English the
words "maleh hagoyim" can best be translated as the "fullness of the
Gentiles". If that term sounds familiar it should. It is a quotation
from Romans 11:25 by Rav Shaul (Paul) as the method and means by which
all Israel would be saved. The only other time this word maleh is used
in Tanach is in Psalm 24:1, where the psalmist declares that the earth
is Yahweh's and the fullness thereof. In other words the earth is full
of peoples, places and things that belong to Yahweh and there is
nothing found in the earth that does not belong to Yahweh. In like
manner there will be virtually no one in the earth that is not somehow
belonging to the seed of Ephraim since it is the seed of Ephraim where
all the blessings of physical multiplicity will be found. More on that
later.
Not only do we see Ephraim receiving the birthright of the first born
over and above his older brother Manasseh, but Israel also removes it
from Reuben in Genesis 49:3 & 4 since Reuben defiled his father's bed
and was sexually impure regarding the privacy and intimacy of Israel's
marriage bed. So in reality Ephraim is moved ahead of Reuben, Joseph
and Manasseh to receive the blessing of the firstborn of Israel. First
Kings 5:1-2 and Jeremiah 31:9, confirms this essential truth. There is
however some needed insight at this point. In all ancient Mideast
cultures the right of the firstborn was essential in establishing
lordship over the house of the dying father. With the birthright went
power, authority, respect, grandeur and the right to enact all family
business and transactions pertaining to its sustenance, care and well
being. In essence the birthright was the permission to the firstborn
to take over and rule the fathers' house in the fathers absence
through death. Isaac received this right from Abraham even as Jacob
received it from Isaac, albeit deceitfully. With the birthright went
power and therefore it was coveted greatly in that culture.
When Israel gave Ephraim the birthright, however, he gave it to him
with one major reservation. We read about this in Genesis 49:8-10,
where Judah is given the pre-eminence or power to rule and reign
royally over the House Of Israel! In verse 9 it states that all
Israel's children will bow before the royalty of Judah and verse 9
states that the pre-eminence will cause all Israel to pay homage to
the Lion of Judah whom verse 10 refers to by the Messianic moniker of
Shiloh. Shiloh means the "sent one" or the anointed King Messiah from
the kingly line of Judah who would be manifest in the natural through
the tribe of Judah. Hebrews 7:14 makes it clear that Yahshua was
Shiloh and it is evident that He sprang forth from Judah. What a mess!
Did Jacob make a major error? Did he go to all the trouble of
establishing Ephraim as the firstborn with the firstborn birthright
only to give him a title without authority and without preeminence
over his brothers? Did he make Ephraim a puppet ruler with just a
paper title much like the modern day Queen of England? One thing we
know for sure. He brought a split into and among the sons of Israel
since one son had a birthright but the other son Judah had the right
to rule! What good is a birthright without the authority that goes
along with it? The children of Israel would submit to Judah's seed not
Ephraim's, yet Ephraim's seed would become the fullness of the
Gentiles. Judah would rule over the House Of Israel, but Ephraim would
bring forth the promised zera that would fill the globe with the
promise to the patriarchs of physical multiplicity. Of course Israel
knew what he was doing since he was ministering through the Ruach
HaKodesh. He split the authority and blessing between the two brothers
who would continue to wage war over the fullness of the blessing that
would ultimately be played out in a battle royal over the title of who
is Israel? How ironic that according to Genesis 49:10 it will be the
Lion of Judah (Messiah Yahshua), that would gather the goyim or
nations of the seed of Ephraim back into the House Of Israel! After
Israel died and his children waxed great in Egypt this promise of
physical multiplicity began to trouble a Pharaoh who knew not Joseph.
Of course he enslaved the Hebrews and it took Moshe Rabainu our great
deliverer to rescue Israel from the house of bondage. As history
teaches us Moshe took the twelve tribes out of Egypt to Sinai where
they received Torah and the twelve tribes settled the land of Canaan.
After a period of diverse judges and after King Saul, David was
anointed King over all Israel. In the days of David the King, we see
the house of Judah ruling and reigning over a united Israel with 12
tribes under David's monarchy. All was well until Solomon, David's'
son, began whoring physically as well as spiritually and Yahweh
revealed to Solomon that the kingdom would be broken in the life of
his son Rehoboam because of Solomon's sins. (First Kings 11:11-14).
Yahweh further revealed to Jeroboam an Ephraimite, one of Solomon's
talented craftsman, that he would receive ten tribes resulting from
this split in the kingdom of Israel after Solomon's death. This
prophecy was acted out in front of Jeroboam by Ahiyah the prophet. The
glory days under David was the last time that the kingdom belonged to
all Israel, made up of all twelve tribes. In approximately 921 BC the
ten northern tribes broke away from the House Of David and called
themselves Israel making Samaria its capital. The southern tribes of
Judah, Benjamin and Levi made up the southern kingdom under Rehoboam
with Jerusalem as its capital (Read First Kings 11:26-43). As Rehoboam
prepares an army to retake the ten renegade tribes in the north,
Yahweh forbids it in First Kings 12:24 by telling Rehoboam that this
split in the House Of David is from Him and that they should not fight
against their brothers.
This split in 921 BC was simply the literal fulfillment of the
prophetic unction's pronounced by Jacob over his sons when he split
the family so to speak. He split the birthright between Ephraim and
Judah and that is why Yahweh says in First Kings 12:24 that this
family split is from Him. He ordained it and desired it so that He
could bring to pass the promise He made to the patriarchs.
Specifically the promise of physical multiplicity. The means by which
our Heavenly Father chose to do this is through this split in David's
House. We will see why later! What began with Jacob now was being
played out in the natural. The Northern kingdom of ten tribes began to
adopt pagan practices, holidays, customs, false worship and
unfortunately Jeroboam became the father of Ephraimite pagans. In
First Kings 12:26-33 we see the evil heart of Jeroboam son of Nebat at
as he devised a scheme for the ten tribes collectively known as the
House of Israel or Ephraim to begin to practice a false religion
designed to keep Ephraim separate from Judah and separate from Judah's
Elohim. As we will shortly come to realize this House of Ephraim would
one day become hidden as individuals within the Christian Church
through Yahweh's program of the regathering of Ephraim through Messiah
Yahshua and would adopt all of the ungodly pagan practices of
Jeroboam. This system of Jeroboam had as its basic design the creation
of a separate entity from the House of David consisting of the ten
tribes in the north.
This separation unto debauchery and unto Ephraim's departure from the
family of Israel resulted in Yahweh's judgement in approximately 721
BCE when Hashem send Tilgat Pilsger III, the Assyrian king to utterly
destroy the House Of Ephraim or the ten northern tribes. Since Ephraim
played the harlot and lifted her skirt to every foreign deity, Yahweh
declared that he would in like manner sift her and cause her to be
naked before the Gentile nations, by bringing an end to the northern
kingdom, of Israel. This stern punishment would be enacted by the
dispersing and swallowing up of these ten tribes by the world's pagan
nations. Since Ephraim's lust, penchant and desire for paganism was so
great Yahweh permitted the ten tribes to become the very thing that
they so desperately and so wickedly craved to be! Thus we find that
the children of Israel experienced their first holocaust in 721 BCE
when ten tribes seemingly disappeared and became lost spiritually as
well as physically. Thus was born the ten lost tribes of Israel.
As we are about to discover this breakage was the method by which
Yahweh chose to fulfill the family split caused by Jacob himself as
well as to fulfill the promise of physical multiplicity to the
patriarchs. Are the ten tribes really lost? Can they be found? Have
they been destroyed or somehow preserved? Did the Messiah come to
restore the Tabernacle of David which had fallen in 920 BCE? Did the
ten lost tribes of Israel become Gentiles later to be regathered back
into the house Of Israel by the ministry of Moshiach? Is it possible
that the ten tribes became the "maleh goyim" or the "fullness of the
Gentiles" that we read about in Romans and that was promised to be the
physical Israelite seed through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Ephraim?
Let's find out!
The prophet Hosea is a great place to start our definitive search for
the other house of Israel, the House of Ephraim. From this point
forward the key to understanding prophecy related to the restoration
of the twelve tribes into the House Of David is to understand that
after the split in 921 BCE Yahweh almost never ever refers to one
house but to two houses of Israel! When He speaks to the North (10)
tribes He speaks of Israel or Ephraim. When He speaks to the South He
speaks of Judah. He always separates these two entities and unless you
learn to do likewise you cannot and will not understand any prophetic
writings or prophecies given by any of Israel's prophets after the
split of the House of David. Get it fully settled in your minds that
after 921 BC there was and still is two separate houses of Israel!! If
you can comprehend this truth you are well on your way to being an
instant prophecy expert!
In Hosea chapter One the prophet sent to the northern kingdom of
Israel is told to take a wife who is a whore since that would give him
a pretty good idea what the ten tribes have done to Yahweh. After
cohabiting with Gomer, Hosea calls their daughter "Lo-Ruhammah" (verse
6), meaning no mercy or compassion. In verse 4 of Hosea One we see
Yahweh putting an end to the northern House Of Israel and in verse 6
He promises to never again show Israel in the north any mercy. In
verse 7 Yahweh stated that unlike Israel, He will show mercy to Judah
in the south. The couple conceived a son in verse 9 and Yahweh
commands Hosea to call his name "Lo-Ami" for you are not my people and
I am not for you. When Yahweh is against you the party is over. Israel
or Ephraim is called Lo-Ami, not my people. It is adios , good bye and
good night Irene! No more mercy, no more my people, no more a kingdom,
and Yahweh fighting against you. We see clearly the end of the ten
northern tribes as a nation before Yahweh. A total divorce and
rejection has taken place. Hosea 7:8,8:8,9:11,9:17,10:1,12:1 and other
passages confirm that Ephraim's plight is to become Lo-Ami, swallowed
up among the Gentiles. Yet in verse 10 we see a startling declaration.
Despite a death sentence for the ten tribes as an identifiable kingdom
or nation, miraculously they reappear and are born-again so to speak
in the last days. Verse 10 of Hosea One begins with the words "Yet the
number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the seashore.
Here we have a kingdom totally destroyed and swallowed up among the
Gentiles, miraculously reappearing as the former children of Israel
and are even called the sand of the sea! Sound familiar? It should!
This is the sand of the sea promise made to the patriarchs and to
Ephraim. This verse further reveals to us just where we are going to
find the ten lost tribes or the sand of the sea that cannot be
counted. The ones who call themselves and are called by Yahweh
children of Elohim! Do you know any modern day group of people that
run around referring to themselves and claiming themselves to be
children of the living Yahweh! You got it! The born-again community of
Gentile believers is nothing more than the former dispersed House Of
Israel. Yahweh further states in this verse that when Ephraim is
gathered they will be His people or His Ami and He will be their
Elohim since they have become sons of the living Elohim by grace
though faith (Hosea 2:21-23). This cannot possibly be made any
clearer. A nation that has come to an end, disappeared or become lost
if you will, all of a sudden showing up as sons and daughters of
Yahweh in the last days! Elohim Himself reminds us in verse 10 that
this group in nothing more than the former House of Jeroboam or House
of Israel. In verse 11 of Hosea One we see this return of the ten lost
tribes coming back into the House Of David in the days when these
former lost Israelites appoint for themselves the same head that
Messianic Jews are appointing for themselves. This one head is the
head of the body made up of nothing more than Judahites and
Ephraimites with perhaps some true Gentiles, now restored to Yahweh as
redeemed individuals from both houses and are learning to trust and
lean on the same Head by appointing that Head (Yahshua) as personal
Elohim and Savior! Verse 11 goes on to say that when individual
Ephraimites and Judahites are making this personal appointment of
Yahshua as king of their lives it will not be a day to build something
called "a church" where "the church" replaces the Jew, rather it will
be the day of Jezreal. Jezreal means the replanting of those who were
scattered! Baruch HaShem. Notice the very next verse in Hosea 2:1,
where both Judahites and Ephraimites who appoint Yahshua as their head
(in the day of Jezreal's regathering and replanting into David's
rebuilt Tabernacle), will no longer look at their brothers and sisters
as spiritual brothers or sisters only, but will see them in a new
light. What light is that? As "ami!" My own people. Bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh. When Ephraim and Judah are individually
regenerated and regathered into the rebuilt Tabernacle of David then
we will begin to recognize each other as blood brothers, as physical
Israelites from different sides of the same family that have been
redeemed by the blood of the Lamb!
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