Restoring the Two Houses of Israel
Acknowledgments and Forward
Acknowledgments
I would like to give praise and thanksgiving to the
L-rd G-d of
Israel for
blessing me with faithful and loving parents, Doyle and Lillian Chumney,
who have given me much support, encouragement, care, and love over the
years.
Dad and Mom, you are
the most special parents in the entire world and I LOVE YOU!!!
This book is written exclusively for the glory of
the G-d of
Israel
and his Kingdom (Malkut Shamayim).
May all blessing, glory, praise, and honor be given to the King
of kings and the L-rd of
lords.
(Revelation 5:11-14,
7:9-12, 19:16)
The Set Time
To Favor
Zion
NOW is the set time to favor Zion.
In Psalm (Tehillim)
102:13, 16-18, it is written:
“Thou shalt
arise, and have
MERCY UPON ZION: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come…when the Lord
shall
BUILD UP ZION,
he shall appear in his glory.
He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their
prayer.
This shall be
written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be
created shall praise the Lord.”
In Isaiah (Yeshayahu)
62:1, 7 it is written:
“For
ZION'S
SAKE will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the
salvation thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a
lamp that burneth. … And give him no rest, till he establish, and till
he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.”
Blow a
Trumpet in Zion
In Joel (Yoel)
62:1 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 night at hand.”
In Jeremiah (Yermiyahu)
31:6-7, 10 it is written:
“For there
shall be a day, that the watchman upon the mount Ephraim shall cry,
Arise ye, and LET US GO UP
TO ZION unto the Lord
our God. For thus saith the Lord,
Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations:
publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord,
save thy people, the remnant of Israel … Hear the word of the Lord,
O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that
scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his
flock.”
May the G-d of
Israel
arise and have mercy upon
Zion
speedily in our days.
Amen!
Foreword
For over 2,000 years, Orthodox Jews have prayed for
the Ingathering of the Exiles (Qibbutz Galuyot) from the four corners of the earth 9Deuteronomy [Devarim]
30:1-5).
Ever since the
destruction of Jerusalem (Yerushalayim)
and the Temple
(Brit HaMikdash) by the Romans
in 70 CE (Common Era), Orthodox Jews have prayed three times a day for
this Ingathering. 1 For Orthodox Jews, the Ingathering of the
Exiles in synonymous with the NATIONAL Redemption.
The requests for Redemption and for the coming of
the Messiah (Mashiach) are
part of the Amidah prayer
(known also as “The Eighteen Benedictions”).
This prayer along with the
Shema (“Hear, O Israel”) is recited three times a day by Orthodox
Jews and is regarded as the most important daily prayer.
The
Amidah prayer was
edited by Rabban Gamaliel II soon after the destruction of the Jerusalem
Temple
by the Romans in 70 C.E.
The
thenth benediction of the
Amidah
prayer is a prayer for the Ingathering of the Exiles (Qibbutz
Galuyot). 2
The full text of this tenth benediction reads as follows:
“Blow the Great
Shofar for our freedom, and lift up a banner to gather our exiles, and
gather us from the four corners of the earth.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord, who gathers the banished of they people,
Israel.”
This is a prayer for
ALL 12 TRIBES to be gathered
back to the land
of Israel.
Closely associated with this Ingathering of the Exiles (Qibbutz
Galuyot) is the ingathering of the Ten Lost Tribes who were exiles
by the Assyrians in 721 BCE and believed to dwell beyond the mythical
river Sambatyon. 3
It is widely believed among Orthodox Jews that
Elijah will precede the coming of the messiah (Mashiach)
and will announce the redemption to the seed of Jacob (all 12 tribes).
In an Orthodox Jewish rabbinic commentary to Leviticus (Vayikra)
26:42 (Mid. Haser w’Yater, pp. 16, 42, and Rashi ad Leviticus 26:42) it
is taught:
“Everywhere in the Bible the name of Jacob is spelled
with the [Hebrew] letter vav, except for five places; and everywhere the name of Elijah is
spelled with a vav, except
for five places.
Why?
To teach you that Elijah will come and redeem the seed of Jacob.
Jacob took the vav
from the name of Elijah as a pledge that
ELIJAH
WOULD COME AND ANNOUNCE THE REDEMPTION of the world to his children.” 4
In Luke 1, Zacharias was a priest of the course of Abijah (1 Chronicles 24:10) who was praying the
Amidah prayer in the Temple (Beit
haMikdash).
As he was
praying, the angel Gabriel spoke to him and told him that his prayer had
been heard and that he would have a son named John (Yochanan)
who would be of the SPIRIT
and power OF ELIJAH.
In Luke 1:5-9, 11, 13, 15-17, 67-68, 72-73 it is written:
“There
was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea,
a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia
[Abijah]:
and his wife was of the daughter of Aaron, and her name was
Elisabeth [Elisheva].
And they were both
righteous [tzaddik]
before God, walking in all the commandments
[mitzvoth]
and ordinances of the Lord
blamlEss [tamim]. And
they had no child, because that Elisabeth [Elisheva]
was barren, and they both
were now well stricken in years.
And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s
office before God in the order of his course, According to the
custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when
he went into the temple of the Lord
… And there appeared unto him an angel
[Gabriel]
of the Lord standing on the
right side of the altar of incense … the angel said unto him,
Fear not, Zacharias: for they prayer is heard; and thy wife
Elisabeth [Elisheva]
shall bear thee a son: and thou shalt call his name John
[Yochanan]
… he shall be filled with
the Holy Ghost [Ruach HaKodesh]
even from his mother’s womb.
And many of the children of Israel
[the seed of Jacob – Mid.
Haser w’Yater, pp.16, 42, and Rashi ad Leviticus 26:42]
shall he turn
[teshuvah]
to the Lord their
God.
And he shall go
before him in the
SPIRIT
and power OF ELIJAH,
to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children [Malachi
4:5-6]
and the disobedient
to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for
the Lord … And his
father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost [Ruach
HaKodesh] and prophesied, saying.
Blessed be the Lord
God of Israel; for he has visited and redeemed his people … to
perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his
holy covenant; The oath which he swore to our father Abraham…”
Orthodox Jews believe that there is a
suffering Messiah and a Kingly Messiah.
The suffering Messiah (Mashiach)
is known as style Messiah ben Yosef
(Joseph).
The Kingly Messiah
(Mashiach) is known as
MeMessiah
ben David.
Non-Jews who believe that
Yeshua/Jesus is the
Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) also
believe in a suffering Messiah and a Kingly Messiah.
However, they believe that both of these roles will be fulfilled
by the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach)
Yeshua/Jesus.
In His
first coming, He came to fulfill the role of the suffering Messiah (Messiah
ben Yosef/Joseph).
In
His second coming, He will come to fulfill the role of the Kingly
Messiah (Messiah ben David).).
In the first coming of the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach) Yeshua/Jesus,
Yochanan the Immerser
(John the Baptist) came in the SPIRIT OF ELIJAH (Luke 1:17).
Orthodox Jews believe that Elijah will announce the redemption of
the seed of Jacob to his children (Mid. Haser w’Yater, pp. 16, 42, and
Rashi ad Leviticus 26:42).
Is it possible that prior to the second coming of the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach)
Yeshua/Jesus that the G-d of
Israel will use the SPIRIT OF
ELIJAH through an outpouring of the Holy Spirit (Ruach
Hakodesh) to announce the redemption of the seed of Jacob (ALL 12
TRIBES) to the seed of Jacob (house
of Israel/Christianity and the
house of Judah/Judaism) and to the world?
In the first part of this book, we will examine some of
the issues which have historically divided the two houses of
Israel (house of Israel/Christianity and the
house of Judah/Judaism).
Among the issues to be discussed are:
Who is the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach)
and is the Jewish Messiah (Mashiach)
the G-d of Israel manifested in the flesh?
What is the obligation of the non-Jew in keeping the Torah and
the commandments (mitzvoth) of
the G-d of Israel?
What is
the purpose and meaning of the Sabbath (Shabbat)?)?
In the last part of the book, we will learn how the
Israel/Arab peace process is associated with the redemption,
restoration and reunification of both houses of Israel (Ezekiel
[Yechezekel] 37:15-28.
As a background for understand the Israel/Arab land conflict, we
will study the modern history of the nation of Israel.
We will learn that the Israel/Arab peace process is based upon UN
resolutions 242 and 338.
We
will understand how the G-d of Israel will judge all the nations in the earth
based upon how they have treated the Jewish people (house of Judah)
and the nation of
Israel.
This book is written to communicate the soon redemption,
restoration and reunification of both houses of
Israel
(house of Israel/Christianity
and the house of Judah/Judaism)
in a style that can be easily understood by both houses.
Therefore, traditional Jewish terms are used and the name of the
G-d of Israel
is written with a hyphen (G-d, L-rd)
so that this book is acceptable reading to the
house of Judah (Jews).
There are twelve chapters in this book – one chapter in
remembrance for each of the twelve tribes of
Israelst1:place.
May the G-d of
Israel
bring redemption, restoration and reunification to both houses of
Israel speedily in our days.
Amen!
