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Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by Ajibam: 12:01pm On Oct 20, 2014
I wonder if some of us wants to know about the prophecy that was fulfilled about the modern day Israel.. There Regathering back to there original land, Jerusalem...
It is very long, so I will post it in many intervals. So, do you want to know?
I need 5 yes!
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by gidjah(m): 12:26pm On Oct 20, 2014
THOUGH SOME OF US KNOW ABOUT IT,all d same, a LIL MORE KNOWLEDGE will not hurt,so a yes!
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by blessedvisky(m): 2:36pm On Oct 20, 2014
Dude, you dont need a 'yes' before you do the needful.. And yes, its a yes from me..
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by MrPresident1: 3:21pm On Oct 20, 2014
Ajibam:
I wonder if some of us wants to know about the prophecy that was fulfilled about the modern day Israel.. There Regathering back to there original land, Jerusalem...
It is very long, so I will post it in many intervals. So, do you want to know?
I need 5 yes!
[b]
Ezekiel 37:21-28
21 And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24 And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
26 Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27 My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.[/b]

Ajibam, Israel has not been regathered. Israel is still suffering around the world. The above is the prophecy of Ezekiel concerning the regathering of Israel.

David (Christ) is not yet king, Christ is the one who will lead Israel back home, He is the one who will establish the everlasting covenant. One king, Jesus Christ, is not ruling over Israel yet.

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Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by Ajibam: 4:13pm On Oct 20, 2014
Here we go!
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by Ajibam: 4:14pm On Oct 20, 2014
Since the Assyrians invaded their land and
led them into captivity in 722 B.C., the
whereabouts of the northern tribes of Israel
has remained one of the great mysteries of
antiquity. Unlike those in the southern
kingdom of Judah, who returned to
Jerusalem and rebuilt the Temple after 70
years in captivity under the Babylonians
(586-516 B.C.), there is no record in the
Bible of the northern tribes ever returning.


In fact, these "lost tribes of Israel," in a
wider sense, include more than just the 10
tribes that vanished from the stage of
history after the Assyrians took them
captive. Ezra and Nehemiah both relay that
only a remnant returned to Jerusalem with
them from the Babylonian captivity. What
happened to the rest of the southern
kingdom, members of the tribes of Judah
and Benjamin? And what of the Jews
remaining in Israel following the destruction
of Jerusalem and the Temple in 70 A.D. and
the final revolt against the Romans in 136
A.D.? They were banished from their land,
scattered to the nations of the world and
became known as the diaspora, or
dispersion.


Jews wandered from nation to nation
throughout Europe during the Middle Ages
as they were expelled from their host
nations. Jews living in Italy were banished
in 855 A.D. and from England in 1290.
During the Spanish Inquisition (1492-97),
the Jews of Spain (1492) and later Portugal
(1497) were expelled and migrated to the
Ottoman Empire, North Africa and the
Netherlands. Many also ended up in South
and Central America and are known today
as Marranos, Conversos or Anusim
(translated "retrained ones"wink.


Commerce also played a role in Jewish
migration into other nations of the world.
Merchants in search of treasures from the
Middle East established trade routes into
Asia and Africa. One of the most famous of
these was the "Silk Road," a 4,000-mile trek
that connected silk traders in China with
consumers in the Middle East. This route
brought Persian Jews and other Jewish
merchants into China. By the year 1200,
there was a thriving Jewish community in
Kaifeng until a flood of the Yellow River in
1850 destroyed their synagogue.
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by Ajibam: 4:15pm On Oct 20, 2014
I had the opportunity to travel to Kaifeng on
an outreach led by my good friend Sid Roth
back in 1995 to scout out the Jewish
community remaining there. Although we
only met a handful of these Chinese Jews,
this trip led me on a journey that has
continued to this day—searching out and
working to aid and restore the scattered
children of Israel. The experience has felt
like an Indiana Jones adventure, but instead
of searching for the lost Ark of the
Covenant, I have been in search of the lost
people of the Covenant. This quest has
since taken me to some of the most remote
areas of the world.


God warned Israel that if they were not
faithful to obey His laws and
commandments, He would banish them
from their land to wander the nations: "The
Lord will scatter you among all the peoples,
from one end of the earth to the
other" (Deut. 28:64).


Indeed, this came to pass. The descendants
of Jacob have been scattered to almost
every nation on earth. But in His mercy and
faithfulness, God also promised the day
would come when He would bring them
back: "When all these things happen to you,
the blessing and the curse, which I have set
before you, and you remember them among
all the nations, where the Lord your God has
driven you, then you must return to the Lord
your God and obey His voice according to
all that I am commanding you today, you
and your children, with all your heart, and
with all your soul. Then the Lord your God
will overturn your captivity and have
compassion on you and will return and
gather you from all the nations, where the
Lord your God has scattered you" (Deut.
30:1-3).


While these tribes may be lost to the world,
God knows who and where each one of them
is. I believe we are living in those days of
restoration. Indeed, many of these Jewish
communities are now coming to light and
being recognized by the State of Israel.
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by Ajibam: 4:16pm On Oct 20, 2014
Jews of Ethiopia
Isaiah 11:11 says, "In that day the Lord
shall set His hand again the second time to
recover the remnant of His people, who
shall be left, from Assyria, from Egypt, from
Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar,
from Hamath, and from the islands of the
sea."


What's referred to as Cush in the ancient
Scriptures is likely modern-day Ethiopia.
According to ancient tradition, Ethiopia's
Jewish connection goes back to the time of
Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. A 14th-
century document known as the Kebra
Nagast ("The Glory of the Kings"wink records
that Solomon and Sheba had a son named
Menelik I, who later returned to Ethiopia
with his family and the Ark of the Covenant.


Others believe that Jews from the exodus
made their way up the Nile and eventually
settled in Ethiopia. Most historians,
however, believe their presence in Ethiopia is
post-exilic and traces back to the Roman
dispersion of Jews migrating from Yemen to
the horn of Africa. Whatever history is
correct, we do have the account of Phillip's
encounter with the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts
8:26-39), who was led to faith not from
paganism but from Judaism.

Known as the Beta Israel (House of Israel),
the Ethiopian Jews were officially
recognized by the State of Israel in 1973. In
fact, the Israeli government conducted two
dangerous operations to bring them to
Israel: Operation Moses, which took place
over a period of seven weeks in 1984-85,
during which 8,000 Ethiopian Jews were
brought to Israel. Operation Solomon, a
covert airlift, was conducted in 1991 and
brought 14,500 Ethiopian Jews to Israel
over a 24-hour period. Sadly, thousands of
the Beta Israel identified as Falasha Mura
(converts to Christianity) were left behind.


Another tribe of Ethiopian Jews, the Beta
Avraham, was originally part of the Beta
Israel community. But in the 17th century, a
false messiah rose up among these people
and ultimately led them to join the Orthodox
Church. They broke away, becoming their
own tribe and eventually settled in the
Ethiopian district of Kechene, near the
capital city of Addis Ababa. Jewish Voice
brings a team of medical doctors and
volunteers to help this community every year
and operates a full-time medical clinic
known as Bete Hibret.


A third offshoot of Ethiopian Jews, the
Gefat, lives farther south in the Ethiopian
rural countryside of Woliso and Hosanna. A
remote community made up of 20,000 to
30,000 people, this tribe has faithfully
observed Jewish customs for hundreds of
years, including circumcising their male
children on the eighth day, applying the
blood of a lamb over their doorposts at
Passover and keeping biblical dietary laws.
In fact, their name, Gefat, means "the
blowers"—according to their oral history,
they were chosen by the kings of Ethiopia
centuries ago to blow the shofar ahead of
the Ark of the Covenant in official
processionals.


I became aware of this community in 2010
when their elders contacted me during one
of our medical clinic outreaches in Addis
Ababa and asked for our help. The following
year we held our first medical outreach in
Woliso. Thousands came for treatment, and
we've returned regularly ever since.
To date, Jewish Voice has planted and
supports a flourishing network of eight
Messianic Jewish congregations in Ethiopia,
all of which are experiencing rapid growth.
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by Ajibam: 4:17pm On Oct 20, 2014
The Bnei Menashe of India
Near the border between eastern India and
Myanmar are the two Indian states of
Manipur and Mizoram. Within these lives an
ancient community called the Bnei Menashe,
believed to be descended from the lost tribe
of Manasseh. Oral history holds that they
were captured by Assyria along with the rest
of the northern tribes of Israel and
eventually landed in China. Then, in the
second century, they migrated to India in
the wake of Chinese persecution. Many
converted to Christianity in the 19th century
through the work of Welsh Presbyterian
missionaries.
In 2008, a rat infestation completely
overtook the rice crops in Mizoram,
threatening starvation. This famine drew
global media attention to the Bnei Menashe.
When I heard of their plight, I felt the Lord
strongly prompting me to do something to
help. After an advance trip to assess the
needs, we provided hundreds of tons of rice
and brought a large team of doctors and
dentists to provide free medical, dental and
eye care to the Bnei Menashe. We've been
back every year since. More than 900
members of the Bnei Menashe have prayed
with our prayer teams to receive Jesus as
their Messiah.

In 2011, the Israeli government decided to
allow 7,300 members of the Bnei Menashe
to come to Israel. Several hundred more
have also recently made aliyah (going up to
the Holy Land), but thousands still remain
and live in a state of deep poverty.
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by Ajibam: 4:50pm On Oct 20, 2014
The Lemba of Zimbabwe
God made good on His promise to scatter
the children of Israel to the uttermost parts
of the world. Perhaps nowhere is that more
evidenced than in the remote bush of
Zimbabwe, where we've often had to wait to
land our six-seater prop plane until zebras
exited the clearing we use as a makeshift
runway. Here we've found the Lemba, a tribe
numbering over 70,000 and spread
throughout Zimbabwe and parts of South
Africa.

In a recent DNA study, 70 percent of the
Lemba sampled possessed the Cohanim
gene (from an ancient Jewish priestly line)—
a higher percentage than both Sephardic
and Ashkenazi Jews sampled. This finding
has generated significant interest among the
Jewish community and strongly supports
their 800-year claim to be descendants of
Aaron the high priest.

After a whirlwind trip—spent mostly on
planes—to meet with the Lemba's elders, we
organized our first medical outreach to their
community in 2012. Without electricity,
hotels or restaurants, we had to truck in the
entire clinic on washed-out dirt roads—
including tents and the generators needed
to power our medical equipment. Since this
first outreach two years ago, we now have
30 Messianic Jewish congregations among
the Lemba with a weekly attendance of over
3,000. The Lemba are currently the fastest-
growing Messianic Jewish community in the
world.

[b]The Yibir of Somaliland[\b]

Through a dear friend, Gerald Gotzen, I
heard about a mystical tribe of people in
Somaliland called the Yibir. The Yibir—
whose name, some believe, derives from the
word Hebrew —were forced to convert to
Islam many years ago yet have secretly
retained their Jewish identity. In 2012, I
sent an advance team to Hargeisa, the
capital of Somaliland to meet with tribal
leaders.
They quietly shared about their
Jewish ancestry and their desire to further
connect with their Jewish identity and the
State of Israel. We've continued to develop
our relationship and are seeking ways to
help them in this pursuit.
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by Ajibam: 4:51pm On Oct 20, 2014
The Pashtun of Afghanistan

Within the borders of Afghanistan, one of
the most uniformly Muslim countries in the
world, lives an ethnic group called the
Pashtun who some believe to be
descendants of one of the 10 lost tribes. The
Pashtun are the largest ethnic group in
Afghanistan. Though DNA testing has been
inconclusive and scholars have disagreed
for centuries as to their true origins, it's
indisputable that the Pashtun do observe
certain ancient Jewish customs and
traditions. Many historic markers in the
region are written in Aramaic (the language
of first-century Judaism) instead of the
traditional Sanskrit usually found in this
area.

Many of the family names among the
Pashtun are Jewish as well, including
Levani (similar to Levi), Daftani (similar to
Naphtali) and Jaji (similar to Gad). Some
historians, as far back as the 1800s, even
referred to the Pashtuns as "Yusefzai,"
meaning sons of Joseph.

The Igbo of Nigeria
In the central-western African country of
Nigeria lives a tribe of the Igbo people who
call themselves the Bnei Yisrael. They
believe themselves to be descended from the
lost tribes of Gad, Zebulun, Manasseh, Dan,
Asher and Naphtali. Numbering some
30,000, the Bnei Yisrael observe many
biblical feasts and maintain the dietary laws
and other commandments of the Torah.
We just completed a scouting trip to meet
with the leaders of the Bnei Yisrael and
plans are under way to conduct our first
outreach in Nigeria next year.
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by Ajibam: 4:52pm On Oct 20, 2014
The Jew First
While many rightly view the rebirth of the
State of Israel and restoration of Jerusalem
as important fulfillments of last days'
prophecy, too few Christians are paying
attention to other prophetic events taking
place before our eyes. Among these are the
large numbers of Jewish people coming to
faith in Jesus as their Messiah; the rise and
growth of the Messianic Jewish movement;
and the regathering of these "lost tribes"
back to their homeland. In my opinion,
these are some of the most significant signs
of Messiah's soon return.


In Romans 1:16 we are told that the gospel
is "the power of God for salvation to
everyone who believes, to the Jew
first" (emphasis mine). While some teach
this is simply a fact of history and nothing
more, I believe this is a biblical principle
that is still in force today. In fact, it may be
the missing key to our missiology. Is it
possible that reaching the Jewish people
opens the door to the salvation of the
nations? Perhaps this is the mystery that
Paul was revealing to us in Romans 11:15
when he declared, "For if their rejection
means the reconciliation of the world, what
will their acceptance mean but life from the
dead?"


So how are we applying this missiological
view and reaching the "lost tribes" of Israel
with an end-times perspective in mind?
Since our first medical clinic in Gondar,
Ethiopia, in 1999, hundreds of dedicated
volunteers from church communities around
the world have worked with Jewish Voice in
more than 20 medical-clinic outreaches to
help impoverished Jewish communities.,


God's grace, we've provided free medical
care and medicines to more than 211,000
patients. We've distributed 37,000 pairs of
eyeglasses, performed nearly 700 eye
surgeries and provided dental treatment to
13,000 patients.
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by Ajibam: 4:52pm On Oct 20, 2014
While these statistics are wonderful, it's the
spiritual message and outcome that is most
important. Everything we do to physically
help these people is with the end goal of
earning the right to share our faith and
demonstrating that we care. I often repeat
the adage to the volunteers who work with
us that "people don't care what you know
until they know that you care."


Each of our outreaches features a prayer
tent, where patients can pray with members
of our team and hear about a God who
loves them and sent His Son to die for
them. We don't force anyone to enter these
tents—our medical help is truly free—but we
rejoice when they do. And the practical aid
has paid off.

Our teams have prayed with
38,644 to receive Yeshua as their Messiah
and Savior. Jews, Muslims, Hindus, people
of all walks of life have responded. We've
also witnessed thousands supernaturally
healed, delivered and filled with the Spirit of
God. We've seen patients enter the prayer
tent on their knees and walk out on their
feet. We've seen the deaf hear, the blind see
and the lame carried in and walk out!


Lost No More

God's preservation and regathering of the
dispersed of Israel is a testimony of His
faithfulness. As Jeremiah 31:35-36
declares, "Thus says the Lord, who gives the
sun for a light by day and the ordinances of
the moon and of the stars for a light by
night, who stirs up the sea so that the
waves roar, the Lord of Hosts is His name:
'If those ordinances depart from before Me,'
says the Lord, 'then the seed of Israel also
will cease from being a nation before Me
forever.'"

He has sustained His people through
famine, dispersion, persecution and
attempted genocide. While they may be
"lost" to the world, God knows where they
are ... and He is actively regathering them
before our watching eyes. He is not only
restoring them physically to their land, He is
restoring them spiritually through His Son.
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by Ajibam: 4:53pm On Oct 20, 2014
Re: Prophetic Fulfillment: Regathering The ‘lost Tribes’ Of Israel by blessedvisky(m): 8:05pm On Oct 20, 2014
Ajibam:
The Pashtun of Afghanistan

Within the borders of Afghanistan, one of
the most uniformly Muslim countries in the
world, lives an ethnic group called the
Pashtun who some believe to be
descendants of one of the 10 lost tribes. The
Pashtun are the largest ethnic group in
Afghanistan. Though DNA testing has been
inconclusive and scholars have disagreed
for centuries as to their true origins, it's
indisputable that the Pashtun do observe
certain ancient Jewish customs and
traditions. Many historic markers in the
region are written in Aramaic (the language
of first-century Judaism) instead of the
traditional Sanskrit usually found in this
area.

Many of the family names among the
Pashtun are Jewish as well, including
Levani (similar to Levi), Daftani (similar to
Naphtali) and Jaji (similar to Gad). Some
historians, as far back as the 1800s, even
referred to the Pashtuns as "Yusefzai,"
meaning sons of Joseph.

The Igbo of Nigeria
In the central-western African country of
Nigeria lives a tribe of the Igbo people who
call themselves the Bnei Yisrael. They
believe themselves to be descended from the
lost tribes of Gad, Zebulun, Manasseh, Dan,
Asher and Naphtali. Numbering some
30,000, the Bnei Yisrael observe many
biblical feasts and maintain the dietary laws
and other commandments of the Torah.
We just completed a scouting trip to meet
with the leaders of the Bnei Yisrael and
plans are under way to conduct our first
outreach in Nigeria next year.
OP, you can lie oo.. I dont know about the rest, but igbo as lost israelites Kai!!!

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