The Two Sticks Of Israel. |
Since, The People Of Israel [ aka, Those Ten Lost Tribes ] were taken captive around 3500 Years Ago; by Those Semitic Tribes Of A
While, The People Of Judah [ Whom Everyone Refers To As All Of Those Jews ] were taken captive around 750 Years Later; by Those People Of Babylon; and they have since been re-gathered to The Promised Land - in that, long prophesied, first wave of promised resettlement.
And, as Those Two Very Distinct Nations, we can now read of them in Ezekiel Chapter 37 ( where it, very clearly, says ):
" Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
' As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write upon it: " For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions. " Then, take another stick and write upon it: " For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions. " Then, join them one to another for yourself into one stick; and they will become one in your hand. '
And, when the children of your people speak to you, saying: ' Will you not show us what you mean by these? '— say to them: ' Thus says the Lord God: " Surely I will take The Stick Of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will join them with it, with The Stick Of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will be one in My hand. " And, the sticks upon which you write will be in your hand before their eyes.
Then, say to them: ' Thus says the Lord God:
" Surely I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, wherever they have gone, and will gather them from every side and bring them into their own land; and I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king over them all; They Shall No Longer Be Two Nations, nor shall they ever be divided into Two Kingdoms again.
They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will deliver them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and will cleanse them. Then they shall be My people, and I will be their God.
David My Servant shall be king over them, and they shall all have one shepherd; they shall also walk in My Judgments and observe My Statutes, and do them. Then they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob My servant, wherein your fathers dwelt; and they shall dwell there, they, their children, and their children’s children, forever; and My Servant David shall be their prince forever.
Moreover, I will make A Covenant Of Peace with them, and it shall be An Everlasting Covenant with them; I will establish them and multiply them, and I will set My Sanctuary in their midst forevermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them; indeed I will be their God, and they shall be My people. The nations also will know that I, the Lord, sanctify Israel, when My Sanctuary is in their midst forevermore. " ' " - Ezekiel 37:15-28.