Some Personal Confirmations

I've kept a notebook for a couple years now. At first I was afraid of people finding it. I wrote very cryptically and philosophically. Now I mostly record dreams. When I came to Unsealed, I stopped writing as much in my notebook and began writing more of my thoughts on here.

One thing I'm kind of ashamed of. I dont think I've been adequately obedient to God with one thing I believe He showed me in a dream.

I had a "flash-dream" which is a dream that happens so quickly I don't have much time to analyze what I see or hear, but it is very quick, like a brief action shot from a movie.

I saw a man as if he were looking over a counter at me. So I really only saw him like from the chest up. I couldn't really tell what he was wearing, or where he was. But He looked to be late middle ages, and looked to be happy, humble, confident, and a little amused. He was clean-shaven, bald, and had had a convex, hooked nose. I thought he looked distinctly Jewish. He said, "Let me have a voice!" and smiled confidently.

I woke, startled, and was rather confused. Who was this, and why did he ask for me to let him have a voice? I wondered if it were an enemy, but he had the look of a truly confident, Spirit-filled believer, and I prayed and received an amount of assurance from the Spirit that this was a legitimate message for me.

But how could I let this person have a voice, if I didn't know who he was? I got the feeling he might be a Bible character, but the clean-shaven face confused me. I didn't think men shaved like that in Bible times. I kind of felt this guy might be a prophet, but I thought prophets had beards (well, not that I ever saw any photos. . . ."

I puzzled over it, and began to think of men in the Bible who shaved. I remembered that Joseph had shaved before going before Pharaoh, but he was not known to be bald. I looked up baldness, and saw how the priests were not to make themselves bald or trim their beards. Then I saw the passage I was looking for and knew it was the one. . . . Ezekiel 5.

God wanted me to give Ezekiel a voice. And this was especially funny because Ezekiel was one of the dumb prophets--God closed his mouth at times so that he could not speak! No wonder the man looked like he was amused by what he was telling me!

I already was intrigued by the book of Ezekiel, so I began studying it in more earnest. I began to make a video series about it, but really only made chapter 1 before it stalled out. It was published, but I wasn't able to make the continued recordings as my friend JG was not available to help any more.

I continued to paste portions of Ezekiel on Facebook, and share them with people, and I have shared some of what I have learned about Ezekiel on Unsealed, but I feel I have really fallen down on the job with this task. I really would like to do more of this, but time is short and I hardly know what all to do.

I will share that I believe Ezekiel 37's 2 sticks prophecy is near at hand. I believe the hidden lost tribes will surface soon--possibly under the leadership of the 2 witnesses, after we are raptured. I believe the Micah 5:3 gathering is in relation to Ezekiel's 2 sticks. And the American eclipse may well be a sign that somehow the Israelites will understand and make use of, to vacate the US and head back tot the Promised Land--in just a short window of time.

Connie, there has been a lot of confusion over these two sticks, especially as certain groups (Mormans, J's Witnesses, 7DA, African Israel, etc) have tortured this prophecy to "become" evidence for their own false teachings.

After Solomon's death, the two "boams" split the kingdom (Reaboam and Jeraboam) into two pieces. The southern kingdom is generally known as Judah, since Judah was the primary tribe in charge there. However, neither the land nor the people were entirely from the tribe of Judah. There were definitely members of the southern kingdom from Benjamin and Levi (Levi is a special case among the tribes). There also seem to have been a few "hangers-on" from other tribes, as well.

The northern kingdom is often called the "northern ten tribes" and generally is considered to include all the landed tribes except Judah and Benjamin. The northern kingdom was concentrated around the tribe of Ephraim, one of the two tribes descended from Joseph. 

Both kingdoms existed for several hundred years, and both committed abominations before the Lord over time. However, Judah had significant times of revival, whereas Israel (the northern tribes) had little in the way of revival, and never had a truly good king. Jehu was as close as they came, but even he was not true to God in the end.

In the OT historical books and prophets written after the time of the kingdom split, it is confusing to determine which places when it says "Israel" does it mean all 12/13 tribes, versus merely the northern 10 tribes, which was also known as Israel. However, when you see the term Joseph, Ephraim, or Samaria in these books, you can usually see that as a clue to point to these ten tribes under the leadership of Ephraim.

The northern kingdom was taken into Assyrian captivity before the southern kingdom (Judah) was taken into Babylonian captivity. After the NK's capture and exile to Assyrian lands, the Bible tells us very little more about what happened to them. From around 700BC they are mostly lost from the Biblical record.

However passages such as Ezekiel 48 and Revelation 7 show us that God is not done with the 12/13 tribes of Israel. Also the blessing chapters of Genesis 48 and 49, and the end of Deuteronomy seem to indicate God has plans for them that have not been fulfilled yet.

This has led to MUCH wild speculation as to where these tribes are today, and which people or people groups they are associated with. If the ten tribes know who they are today, they're mostly not telling. However, there are many groups of people who CLAIM to be from various tribes. Groups all over the world make a claim to be descended from the tribes. But I have found no good way to truly verify who the tribe groups are today.

But Ezekiel 37 prophesies that they are or will be in two distinct groups. The tribe of Judah and his brethren, and the tribe of Ephraim and his brethren, and they will join together.

Yes. I personally associate the two prophesies as being intricately linked. Some people believe that the tribes of Israel have already been rejoined today, and that it happened before Jesus came, under the Persian empire, after Ezekiel's time. While there could be some truth to that, I don't really see it myself. There may have been some of that which occurred at that time, but I think, like the dry bones, this will happen still in the future for us. Though I also suspect that SOME of the people in Israel today may be Israelites and not know it. . . . . .

Watchmanjim, would you be willing to start up a thread about Ezekiel and begin to lead us with a study?  Perhaps there is something we need to see in Ezekiel that will be discovered if we start at the beginning with Chapter 1 and gradually proceed through the book.