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Rabbi's Study:
"WHAT JUDAISM
REALLY SAYS ABOUT JOSEPH'S SEED!"
By
Rabbi Moshe Koniuchowsky
Series
4 of 6: (Part 2 of 2)
The Josiah Revival was primarily a Jewish revival, with all Israel (12
tribes) well represented, but not in full attendance (Second
Chronicles 35:17-18)! The Ephraimites who did not live in the land,
but who did in fact attend, were Scythians from the north who did not
eat swine, loathed idolatry, kept Shabbat and other Israelite customs.
Yahweh spoke of these Scythians or exiled Israelites 150 years after
their exile. He declared via Jeremiah the prophet, in chapter 3 verses
11-12, that the House Of Israel, though backslidden, was doing better
(150 years after exile) then Judah just 70 years after The King Josiah
Revival! In Jeremiah 3:12, Yahweh tells these Scythians to return
fully and receive full grace! Yahweh gives Jeremiah an inspired word
for exiled Israel 150 years after they supposedly disappeared, or 70
years after they supposedly rejoined Judah. We see that this cannot be
so, since Yahweh told Jeremiah that Israel, though in exile (not
lost), is doing better then Judah.
These sons of Isaac (Scythians), while decisively defeating Assyria
and Persia in major battles (ca 600 BC), left Judah intact because of
their recognition that Judah was their tribal brother. These Scythians
are the same ones joining Josiah for Passover!
From the original Ephraimites of the north, none stayed in the land
and remained (Second Kings 17:18). Therefore, the Ephraimites spoken
of in Second Chronicles 35:17-18, were returning Israelites who had
become known as Scythians. Having this understanding, we see that
there is no contradiction between the aforementioned verses and Second
Kings 17:18 in which Yahweh did not allow any Israelites in northern
Israel to avoid exile! These Ephraimites in the King Josiah Revival,
were` simply returning as Scythian/Israelites and therefore agreed to
join King Josiah!
Rav Shaul (Paul), recognized the Scythians as lost Israelites in
Colossians 3:11, where he favorably contrasted them to barbarians! The
Greek word translated barbarians in Colossians 3:11, is actually
foreigners. Thus he compared foreigners to non-foreigners or
Scythians. Rav Shaul knew that the Scythians were not foreigners when
it came to the Jewish people! This truth appeared in Scripture later
(600 years later), when he wrote Colossians from a prison cell. Why
don't we know these things?
The great and brilliant 19th century Hebrew Christian scholar, Alfred
Edersheim wrote, "The great mass of the ten tribes WAS IN THE DAYS OF
MESSIAH, AS OUR OWN, LOST TO THE HEBREW NATION." Edersheim's comment
reinforces the truth that the final two-stick reunion, is totally
eschatological and that it did not take place in the days of, or in
the days prior to Messiah Yahshua! In his study on rabbinical thought
regarding the House Of Joseph, Edersheim further stated, "as regards
to the ten tribes, there is this truth underlying. That as their
persistent apostasy from the Elohim of Israel and His worship had cut
them off from His people, so the fulfillment of the Divine promises to
them in the latter days, would imply as it were a second birth (born
again experience), to make them once more Israel!!!"
Edersheim's explanation clarifies why Yahshua said you must be born
again to gain entry into heaven and back into Israel! It is amazing
that the rabbis, according to Edersheim, taught that only through the
divine promise of, as it were, a NEW OR SECOND BIRTH, could
Ephraim/Israel return. Praise be to Yahweh for documentation like
this, in the face of nay-sayers!
Instead of looking at the House of Joseph as the enemy of our
exclusive claim to being chosen, we must look at him even as did our
patriarchal father Jacob (Gen. 30:25). What difference did the birth
and manifestation of Joseph and his house make to the patriarch?
According to Rabbi Schmuel Ben Nachmani, it made a world of
difference. In Talmud Baba Batra 123:B, Rabbi Schmuel said "Jacob our
forefather saw that the seed of Esau is not destined to be delivered
into the hands of anyone (including Judah), save Joseph, as it says in
Obadiah 1:18. "The House of Jacob shall be a fire and the House of
Joseph a flame and the house of Esau for stubble." Obadiah 2:18-19 and
Isaiah 11:14-15, teach in the simplest possible terms, that the Jewish
people will never ever conquer the Palestinians, Arabs, Edomites and
sons of Esau ,until they are reunited with one heart, one Spirit and
one accord, into one massive army, through the reconciliation of
Jewish Israel with non-Jewish Israel. As long as we do not recognize
this victorious equation for spiritual and military alliance, as did
Jacob , as did Rabbi Schmuel and as in some respects does the
government of the State Of Israel, we (believers) will continue to
struggle and fight ourselves, over the question of who is the real
Israel, instead of both camps recognizing the other house as also
being legitimate heirs in Israel!
Only a reunited Israel in these final last days of humanity, will be
able to overthrow the nefarious forces of Islam. This can become a
reality in our lifetime! Islam cannot stand against a united Israel,
for greater is He that is in us, than he that is in the world.
According to Yair Davidy, Nazi Germany and other German governments,
considered the ten lost tribes to be part of their apocalyptic
enemies, all the while embracing the sons of Esau. We must never make
that same mistake as they did. We must look upon them (Ephraim in our
midst), with great favor and grant them the recognition they deserve,
so that they can take their rightful place in national Israel as
physical Spirit-filled co-heirs, who are willing to join in military
and spiritual warfare operations against Israel's historic enemies. We
will receive the consolation of Jacob, only when we preserve the
REVELATION OF JACOB, found in Genesis 30:25!
With a reunified Israel, the Middle East problem will end according to
Scripture, when the west, along with all Israel, puts the Palestinians
on airplanes and sends them away. Isaiah 11:14 in its most literal
translation reads "THEY SHALL FLY THE PHILISTINES AWAY WESTWARD!"
Those in Messianic Judah who in ignorance fight the two-house
restoration, are actually postponing the inevitable Israelite victory
over our enemies. Instead of worrying solely about learning Hebrew and
keeping kosher, Messianic Judaism should be concerned with victory.
Biblical victory can only be achieved by a reunified two-house, two
front (spiritual and military) solution, to the Arab-Israeli conflict
(Obadiah 1:18)!
Davidy explains that the sages taught that Obadiah 1:20, was best
translated and understood as follows:
"This first exile (of the ten tribes), would reach from the land of
the Cannanites (Germany), to Zarapheth (France and Britain)." The
Hebrew word in Obadiah 1:20, translated as host, is better understood
as first. The first of exiled Ephraim, were positioned to go into
Europe through the land known today as Germany, to France and to Great
Britain. Historically this is exactly what transpired! This was the
belief of the great Don Isaac Ben Yehudah Abarbanel (1437-1508) the
great Spanish Jew, who stood up to the King and Queen during the
Spanish Inquisition.
How come the noble scribes like Abarbanel, DID NOT CONSIDER EPHRAIM
LOST? Both Christianity and Messianic Judaism, have much truth to
learn in the years of restoration that lie ahead. In Rashi's
commentary on Obadiah 1:20, he states that "Zarapheth is the kingdom
of France." Rashi, the hallowed commentator states that the lost ten
tribes of Israel are in France!! This conclusion of Rashi, is fully
backed up by another legendary Jewish commentator, Iben Ezra
(1080-1164), born in Toledo Spain, who visited many of the lost tribes
of Israel in his lifetime. Iben Ezra stated that "Zarapheth is
France!" Rabbi Moshe Ben Nachman, known as Ramban, commented on
Obadiah 1:20, "the vision of Obadiah is the House of Joseph and refers
to the ten tribes, who are exiled and STILL ARE IN THEIR PLACE OF
EXILE, the exile of Zarapheth and Canaan." In 1270 AD Ramban said that
the ten tribes had not returned!!
Messianic Judaism teaches that tiny, 16 million-member Judah today, IS
THE REUNIFICATION OF ALL ISRAEL. Whose report will you believe? Will
you believe the report of the rabbis based on the book of Obadiah, or
the party line reaction of manmade steering committees, operating
through a spirit of fear and exclusivity? We see how foolish is the
claim that the ten tribes already returned in the past. It is
biblically, logically and historically, an indefensible position! No
wonder we as Messianic leaders are often ridiculed, due to our lack of
schooling and training in some of the most foundational areas of our
precious Jewish faith!
Perhaps the most breath taking pronouncement regarding Obadiah 1:20,
is found in the writings of the previously mentioned Don Isaac
Abarbanel. He said "Zarapheth is France and so too the exile of
Sepherad (verse 20 B) is Spain! Do not err just because Zarapheth
(France is spoken of and Angleterre (England), is not recalled (in
this verse). For there too (England), did the exiles go, for lo and
behold that island is considered a part of Zarapheth (France) and in
the beginning belonged to it and in their ancient books they call it
the isles of Zarapheth (the isles of France), even though it later
separated itself from Zarapheth (France) and became a kingdom
(England) in its own right."
In another similar startling admission Don Isaac Abarbanel admits to
thousands of Ephraimites being in pain, because of their punishment of
living like gentiles among the gentiles. He said, "And maybe the
intention is too, that those children of Israel, who completely left
religion (Hebraic), due to the weight of troubles and persecutions,
remain in Spain in their thousands and TENS OF THOUSANDS (Deut.
33:17-18), IN HUGE COMMUNITIES. They shall return and request the Lord
their Elohim". Abarbanel, a Hebrew and CHRISTIAN scholar echoes the
same commentary in another portion of his work, on the book of First
Kings.17:9, where he insists that Zarapeth includes France and Great
Britain. The term thousands (Manasseh) and ten thousands (Ephraim)
that Abarbanel used, are a direct quote from Torah in Deuteronomy
33:17-18.
As many already know "British" means covenant of man, or covenant man
and "Union Jack" means, the Commonwealth or Union of Jacob. While
these great sages may not have had every detail of Israel's
restoration at hand, they had enough evidence from the plain reading
and study of Scripture, to conclude beyond any reasonable doubt, that
the exiles of the ten tribes of Ephraim in numerous droves, settled in
the west (Europe and the Americas). Thus many of those we mistakenly
refer to as Morannos or Conversos who became Christians or Catholics,
are in fact Ephraimites as well as Judahites. These Conversos are not
as popularly understood made up solely of converted Jews. Rather the
Conversos and Morannos are made up of converted Israelites and
Judahites from both houses!
Another identifying mark of Ephraim/Israel according to the sages of
Israel, is that in the last days the returning Israelites will
unfortunately have certain pagan characteristics. According to Isaiah
66:17, there are biological Israelites who separated themselves from
Israel into a separate people. They are characterized by a disdain for
kashrut and Torah (verse 18) and the general dislike of Jews. Despite
this perversion of Torah, Yahweh declared in Isaiah 66:18 that
nevertheless, by sheer grace, He will reveal his glory to them. We
know in light of the Brit Chadashah, that this took place through the
person of Yahshua the Messiah, who reaffirmed that He was sent to the
swine eating, Shabbat breaking, anti-nomian "lost sheep of the HOUSE
OF ISRAEL!"
Verse 19 of Isaiah 66 teaches that Yahshua would send His talmidim to
the coastlands of the nations as well as Spain (Tarshish) and Europe
(Tubal), to share the report of the manifest glory of Yahweh in the
face of His Son Yahshua. Verse 19 also reminds us, that these lost
Israelites will return to Jerusalem from the coastlands (British Isles
and their colonies). These returnees are called the brothers of Judah
in verse 20. Yahweh says in Isaiah 66 verse 21 that from returning
Israel, He will take priests to function as Levites, though not
biologically descended from that tribe. We know from Scripture in
First Keefa (Peter) 2:9, that Peter talks about all born again
believers being royal priests to Yahweh! These priests will minister
to Yahweh, right into the earthly millennium (Isaiah 66: 22, 23).
In the course of time the former northern territory of the land of
Israel became known as Samaria, and the occupants of that land as
Samaritans, who were a mixed breed of Ephraimite food growing
landowners and Assyrian colonists. Many scriptures prophetically speak
of a future day in Messianic times during which these same mountains
of Samaria will be inhabited by notzrim. These prophetic scriptures
reveal the glorious plan of the Father, to turn these idolatrous
territories into one of the future home bases of the notzrim of
Israel. The word notzrim speaks of watchmen appointed by Yahweh and
assigned to the task of watching over the restoration of all Israel.
Scripture talks about the Mountains of Ephraim (Samaria), that will
produce the watchmen of the last days.
The Samaritans believed at one time, that Joshua son of Nun was their
founder and the son of God. It was natural then, that when true
revival broke out in Samaria in John chapter 4 and Acts chapter 8,
that the early Samaritan believers would have a lot of religious and
idolatrous baggage that would be brought into the Messianic faith!
Unfortunately, this amalgamation of Messianic faith with the profane
has been a terminal condition in Ephraim to this day. The Samaritans
are credited with originating the heretical Christian sect and
doctrine of Gnosticism. The Gnostics were notoriously anti-Jewish and
anti-Torah. They loathed anything in the physical realm, believing all
physical matter to be inherently evil. History teaches that the
Ephraimite/Samaritan man named Simon Magus, found in Acts 8:5-25,
became a early Gnostic leader after practicing sorcery and in essence
became the first Gnostic Pope in Rome, even before Constantine!
We can see the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, that were so prevalent
in Israel before 721 BC, lodging in almost identical manner within the
separate entity known as the "Christian Church." Matthew chapter 13
includes seven parables taught by Yahshua Himself, about the complete
leavening of the Kingdom as, it would evolve into the separate entity
called "The Church". Read it for yourself and weep! Unfortunately,
this behavioral manifestation of the spirit of Jeroboam (First Kings
12: 25-33), is a telltale sign that most Christians are in fact the
redeemed remnant of the House of Joseph. Like father like son!
Isaiah 65:11 is a condemnation of apostate Ephraim/Israel who were
being removed from Israel, due to their penchant for forsaking Yahweh,
his holy mountain, his provision, and exchanging those things for gods
of fortune, destiny, luck and a pantheon of super-heroes. The word
"Gad," used in the original Hebrew of this verse, is a generic term
for any and all man-made deities. It was Ephraim's exile throughout
the globe, that caused them to carry and proliferate the concept of
"Gad" or "God" throughout the pagan world.
Bill Burton, in his Study of The Separated (Holy) Name, documents the
definition of "God" as found in several well-known reference works.
The consensus of most reliable sources is that "God" came into the
English language by way of the Teutonic dialects. He explains that the
term "God" was originally used to refer to Teutonic pagan deities.
There is hardly a known language today that does not use some form of
"God," in place of the sacred, true, eternal redemptive Name of
Almighty Yahweh! How tragic!
These statements are not to be misconstrued as a blanket condemnation
of all forms of Christianity. The example of the origin of "God", is
one of many examples of paganism that was assimilated into the brand
of Christianity that developed in Europe. Since Europe was the area of
settlement for numerous exiled Ephraimites, it follows that the early
European Christians exhibited many of the same behaviors as ancient
Ephraim/Israel, prior to their conversion to popery and its various
deviations. One can only imagine and lament as to how many non-Jewish
Israelites, are to be found today in the Roman Catholic Church. Yahweh
help us!
The early Samaritans as well as many apostate Jews, worshipped Tammuz
(Ezekial 8:14) the Babylonian god as El Elyon, a title reserved for
Yahweh. Now we understand why Ezekial 37:22-23 talks about Yahweh,
through the Greater David (Yahshua), cleansing Joseph and Judah from
all their detestable habits and disgusting behaviors! We see the need
for both houses to experience total cleansing and sinless perfection
through Yahshua, before being fully restored to Yahweh and to the land
of our fathers. Scriptures like Isaiah 49:6, Isaiah 60:21, and
Jeremiah 31:6, all make reference to the notzrim of Israel, or the
notzrim of Ephraim! Christians were called notzrim or "preserved
ones", by outsiders as well as by the believers themselves. Notzrim is
still one of the main Hebrew words used today for Christians! The
identical term is used at various times for both Ephraim/Israel as
well as Christian believers in Yahshua! Today, when one suggests to
Messianic Jewish leadership that notzrim is the term used for
Christians in Hebrew, as well as the name given to preserved
individuals from Ephraim who make up the former House of Israel, they
often disdain this notion, with ridicule and laughter.
The sages of our Jewish people, however took a different approach to
the former Ephraimites showing up as the latter day notzrim or
Christians. Yehonatan, Rashi, Radak and many others, all state that
the term Notzri Yisrael is synonymous with Christians!!
Listen to the luminous Don Isaac Abarbanel: "The prophet (Jeremiah),
foresaw through divine inspiration, that the ROMAN DESCENDENTS OF EDOM
(Constantine, Augustine, Origen and some early church fathers?), would
believe in that faith (European paganism) and therefore would be
called notzrim." Don Abarbanel in the most vivid terms possible,
interprets the terms notzrim as referring to the founding fathers of
the European Roman Church system, who unfortunately were made up of
many very lost Ephraimites and Edomites.
An interesting question must be asked at this point. Do the more
modern traditional rabbis, or those from the last several hundred
years, agree with the two-house conclusions of the former rabbis (CE
1000-1300)? Or, do they, like most modern Messianic Jewish rabbis,
scream "replacement theology!" when presented with the scriptural and
historical facts? Rabbi Zvi Kalisher in his book Am Habonim Smaycha
said "Judah will first return to Israel and prepare the land, so that
it will ultimately be able to support a great community. Then part of
the lost ten tribes will return and together with the Jews build the
Third Temple. Once the temple is rebuilt, the remainder and
numerically greater part of the lost ten tribes WILL ALSO COME BACK,
WHEN (SUFFERING) MESSIAH SON OF JOSEPH APPEARS and reigns in
Jerusalem. Then all Israel will hallow THE NAME of Elohim (Yahweh) and
all will worship Him in one tongue-Hebrew!" Here is a traditional
rabbi, who ties in the two-house restoration of Israel with the
appearing of Messiah Ben Yosef , the suffering dying Messiah of
Israel, coming to reign! If Yahshua is Messiah Ben Yosef, then both
houses are being reunited by Him. The reunion commenced at His first
appearing, with the ultimate accelerated phase to be gloriously
completed at His reappearance in Jerusalem on clouds of glory!
Rabbi Kalisher lived in Russia (1795-1874) and spoke a great deal
about Zionism. Rabbi Kalisher also commented on Isaiah 56:8, "This
verse applies to those who were lost in the land of Assyria (Isaiah
27:13), from the lost ten tribes and were perishing (in their
identity), that they will be regathered." With tremendous insight into
this two-house restoration, Rabbi Kalisher wrote "if a great community
of those who were lost in the Assyrian exile would be gathered in
first of all, how could they be brought to a wasted and desolate
country? Without doubt they will have to be preceded (by their
brothers in Judah), in order that the land may bring forth bread.
Afterwards all of them will be able to come to a country full of
Elohim's blessings. The wilderness shall be a fruitful field (Isaiah
35:15), full of fields and vineyards, restored by the hand of
Israelites and so the prophet Hosea predicted."
He went on to say, "So Judah has set a harvest for you, when I
returned the captivity of my people (Hosea 6:11)." According to Rabbi
Kalisher, the two-house restoration of Israel and Judah, will result
in the Hebrew language once again becoming the international language
of the globe (Zaphaniah 3:9). We see the start of that with Judah
returning. When Ephraim returns in great numbers, that proliferation
of the Hebrew language will greatly accelerate and encompass the
globe, replacing English as the international language.
Davidy refers to two contemporary rabbis, Dressler and Feld, who are
both alive today. They both state that the reason that Yahweh did not
allow the temple to be rebuilt by Judah in the 1967 recapture of
Jerusalem, is because the tribes of Joseph (USA and Britain), did not
have a Zionist movement of their own in that direction. These two
influential rabbis conclude by saying "Judah needs participation of
the lost ten tribes of Israel, in order for Hashem to allow the
rebuilding of the third temple."
The movement to watch carefully right now is the Christian Zionist
movement, which in actual fact contains large numbers of
Ephraim/Israel! Christian Zionists long to return home. While the
modern State of Israel generally does not take kindly to Messianic
Jews, they openly welcome Christian Zionists, their monies and their
tourist pilgrims, with open arms. This is no doubt a major first step
to full restoration! Ephraim is to be regrafted back into the Olive
Tree of Israel which they left in voluntary rebellion some 2000 years
ago, to chase the Roman Pontiff and her crusading harlot daughters. In
our time we see the literal fulfillment of Acts 3:20-21, the promised
restoration of all things pertaining to Israel, spoken of by the
(Israel's) prophets!
Ephraim (much of Christian Zionism), would not even be attracted to
the land of Israel, if there had been no Jewish/Israelite presence
preceding them in Israel. Isn't it amazing that the major supporters
of Gershom Solomon and the dedicated and persecuted Temple Mount
Faithful, are primarily Ephraimites (many Christian Zionists), not
traditional Jews and not traditional Christians. As Rav Shaul reminds
us in Romans 9:6, they are not all Israel who claim to be Israel. ONLY
A REDEEMED, RUACH QUICKENED BORN AGAIN REMNANT FROM BOTH HOUSES, WILL
BE THE FORERUNNING CATALYSTS, IN THE FULLNESS OF THE FATHER'S PLAN,
FOR THE RESTORATION OF ALL ISRAEL!!!
Scripture so beautifully outlines, the exciting days in which we live
in Jeremiah 3:18. "In those days the house of Yehudah shall all walk
with the House of Israel and they shall COME TOGETHER out of the land
of the North (Russia, Asia, Asia Minor), to the land that I have given
for an inheritance unto their fathers." Regarding the future
restoration and redemption of all Israel, the midrash Yalkut Shimeoni
on Song of Solomon 1:16 states, "The ten tribes who are exiled beyond
the river, are they whom the exiled of Judah and Benjamin are destined
to go and to bring back, to merit with Judah, the Days of the Messiah
(Yahshua) and life in the world to come." The rabbis are telling us
that Judahites (Jewish disciples), will be sent by Yahweh himself
(Yahshua), to go out and find and bring back the ten tribes, so that
they too can merit and enjoy the days of Messiah and the world to
come. We see this rabbinical teaching so beautifully followed in the
fulfillment of Matthew 28:18-20. The Great Commission followed
Yahshua's personally outlined treasure map on exactly where to preach
the Gospel, so as to find the lost sheep of all Israel. Jerusalem,
Judea, Samaria (Ephraim) and the outermost parts of the earth were the
direction that Yahshua outlined.
Praise be to Almighty Yahshua, that for the last 2000 years millions
of lost sheep have returned. They will merit the days of Messiah and
the millennial rule to come (olam habah), where both houses will enjoy
the rebuilt Tabernacle Of David, the rebuilt temple and the rebuilt
city that both worked so very hard and so very long to rebuild.
We must not fall into the trap of the two disciples on the Emmaus Road
(Luke 24), who temporarily gave up on Yahshua's Messiahship because
they thought it would be He who was the one to restore and usher in
Israel's consolation immediately in their day. Perhaps we must
patiently wait for His return, for the two sticks of Ezekial 37 to be
fully restored. Nevertheless, rest assured that Israel's full, final
and glorious consolation, will take place only through Messiah
Yahshua, Yahweh's only begotten Son, the only and final Hope of all
Israel for all times.
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