The mission of every Christian its to reveal, and revealing means unveiling; we must unveil the truth of the "end times". This is the purpose of the Revelation or Yeshua- Jesus the Messiah of Nazaret.
The Revelation removes the covering and annunces pubblicy for the first time what is kept unveiled until this very day. The Revelation removes the curtains that cover the eyes of man, preventing him to see God's and Heavenly realities.
Looking at the Holy Scriptures we see that the books of the prophets still have something to tell us, today. Isaih, Ezekiel, Zephaniah, Joel, are still talking to the Jews and to the Christian faithfull today.
Ezekiel 37,15 tell us that after the dry bones start walking again, something very important starts; the dry bones identify the people of Israel that were "separated" between them in 2 Kingdoms (Israel and Judah), and has they get back into life, they start UNITE themself to make ONE STRON NATION.
One Nation Under One King
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, take a stick of wood and write on it, ‘Belonging to Judah and the Israelites associated with him.’ Then take another stick of wood, and write on it, ‘Belonging to Joseph (that is, to Ephraim) and all the Israelites associated with him. Join them together into one stick so that they will become one in your hand.
“When your people ask you, ‘Won’t you tell us what you mean by this? say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am going to take the stick of Joseph—which is in Ephraim’s hand—and of the Israelite tribes associated with him, and join it to Judah’s stick. I will make them into a single stick of wood, and they will become one in my hand. Hold before their eyes the sticks you have written on and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the Nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. They will no longer defilethemselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God. Ezekiel 37,15
In the times of King Salomon and until our days, Israel did not want to follow King David and recognise in him their King, and they build their Kingdom in the North of the country, with their own places of worship. The split of the Kingdom was prophecised to King David well in advance. becouse of his personal sin, in the times of his beloved son Salomon, God would plit the Kingdom of David, to regather it in latest times. The so called "end times".
The re-gathering of the 12 Tribes of Israel started already 2000 years ago in a symbolic meal given by Jesus of Nazaret, the Son of David; this was the name by wich Jesus was called upon by the Jews. By the Spirit of the Almighty God this is the way he was called to identify his "Fist Coming". In Jewish theology the Messiah will be the Son of David, the King, and the Son of Joseph, a meek and humble "soffering Messiah". In fact in His first coming Jesus fulfilled both expectations: by the people he was recognised as the son of David and by the Torah scolars as the son of Joseph.
As Jesus went on from there, two blind men followed him, calling out, “Have mercy on us, Son of David!” Mattew 9,27
“We have found the one Moses wrote about in the Law, and about whom the prophets also wrote—Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”John 1,44
A King that will suffer and that nevertheless will be a King in the same manner than King David; but with the same attitude of Joseph that did not remember the wrongdoing his brother did to him, selling him to foreign and to arab beduins, and forgot it all when his brothers were in need and eccept their demand of forgivness, after all. After all, all the bad thing that they wanted for him, never accurred and he become the King of Egypt. Only the King himself was before him, but for the rest Joseph was incharged of everything.
For the Jews of today, its difficult to eccept the "Second coming of the Messiah"; it seems like the "First Coming" did not bring any difference to the Jews and the Romans even destroy the Temple of Jerusalem. But in order for the jews to be the Light of the Nations, the magnificent Temple of Salomon had to be taken down and destroyed, in order for the all Nation to come to Jerusalem and meet the God of Israel!
Also the First coming of the Messiah, son of David, had to come to fullfill the most important prophecy: to the Jews first. Israel is My Firstborn, says the Lord and so anything that happend, must start always with Israel. It's clear that having Israel been the one separated from David, the Firt coming of the Messiah would start immediately up in the North, and seek to "gather the lost sheep of the people of Israel". It was them that first, did not want to have any part in the actions and Kingdom of David.
Israel and Judah were 2 separated Kingdom, and how could God eccept this situation forever? The Prophet Ezekiel prophecy is all about that that; Israel and Judah are 2 Holy sticks, that must be reunited like the ONE and only people of the Almighty God. Ezekiel 37,15
For this very reason if the Messiah had 2 names, it must come in two times; the Fist coming as the "son of David" and as the son of a King, that exercise the authority of a King and performes actions worthy of a King, and the Second time like the son of Joseph, a mercifull brother that gathers oall his family back into the land of Israel, forgetting all the wrong he received from his family members, and taking them all back into the promised land, in prosperity. Isaiah predicted a soffering servant, both Israel and the Messiah, someone that will gain his salvation trough suffering, and Joseph fullfilled perfectly this position. The Prophet Ezekiel explained the concept of the King David leading Israel:
"My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees. They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where your ancestors lived. Ezekiel 37,24
It is quiet clear that the Messiah work in the North of Israel, where he gatherded the Lost ship of Israel, in His First Coming, could not be prevented in advance and could not be told, how God in His Wisdom, would work this ri-union between the 12 Tribes. But it has become clear that the rebels would be served first. And in this situation the Messiah fullfilled two actions: he started His work form the one Kingdom that rebels to God's command when he give King David to the jews for Kingdom , and was both the son of David and the son of Joseph when the elders of Judah refuse him, giving his to the Romans to be crucify. Same destiny of Joseph the Patriarch, sold to strangers and after all his sufferings, made King in Egypt.
Isaiah 25,6 speaks and fortells of the "Banquet of the people" and the Prophet speaks of the coming of the Messiah in Jerusalem; in that occasion he will come as the King of the Nation and all eyes, even the jew, will see him.
Ezekiel also sees the New Temple of God, the New Jerusalem coming from God, and in the temple there is a door for each of the 12 Tribes of Israel.
But first we are waiting for the unity of the jewish people, and the two Kingdoms to become ONE STRONG UNITED NATION OF ISRAEL.
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