67. The Valley of the Dry Bones,   Where the Carcase Is,  3 Overturns, "The Breach in Judah",  Thou Art My People 

67.  -The Valley of the Dry Bones, Ezekiel 37

Where the Carcase Is, Matthew 24:28.

The "Sign" of the Tile,

Ezekiel 4:1-17, Ezekiel 5:1-6.

3 Overturns, Ezekiel 21:27.

"The Breach in Judah", Genesis 38.

Thou Art My People, Hosea 2:23. 

The "Valley of Dry Bones" in Ezekiel 37:1-14, was presented to the priest/prophet Ezekiel through the spirit, to convey a vivid picture to him the future restoration of both houses of Israel, whose people had been taken into captivity into Assyria and Babylon.

Ezekiel prophesied out of Babylon, he had been taken away from the land of Israel between the first and final deportations of the "House of Judah", 538 BC. Therefore, he was looking into future history from his time when God showed him the "Valley of Dry Bones".

This prophecy did not and does not, pertain to the return only of the Jew, of the House of Judah, noted in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah in the Old Testament.

The 10 Kingdomed House of Israel had suffered their fate in the Empires of Mesopotamia, having come into contact with the Assyrian King Shalmaneser III, (860-825 BC), much earlier than the kingdom of the southern House of Judah.

The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah were often at war with each other and at times united in their common cause against Assyria. Then Judah would unite with Assyria against the Kingdom of Israel, when Tiglath-Pileser was king of Assyria, which same monarch ravaged northern Israel.

The Assyrian armies returned once more to the Kingdom of Israel, under other kings, namely Shalmaneser V, and Sargon, when the capital city Samaria was besieged and fell in 722-21 BC. So, for a 100 years the Northern Kingdom of Israel had been whittled away by the Assyrians, before it fell completely to them.

The House of Judah didn't fall to the Assyrians, only the Babylonian conqueror as a whole approx; 184 years later. Therefore, the Northern kingdom of Israel had been scattered and peeled into other lands, approx; 284 years before Judah's people were also led captive away. No wonder the "House of Israel's" identity was lost! (Ezekiel 37:11.) The Northern Kingdom of Israel's people also "lost" a lot of their desire for Israel's God before their captivity, when King Ahab and his pagan Queen Jezebel ruled them, so it wouldn't have been difficult for them to reject and lose their heritage in these circumstances and with the ebb and flow of conqueror's during this length of time.

When the "House of Judah" returned to the land of Israel from Babylon after only 70 years of captivity compared with the other tribes, some of their children had no pedigree to log and had taken strange wives of other nations, though they tried to keep records. (Ezra chapters 9-10)-(Nehemiah chapter 7). So, the "Valley of Dry Bones" is certainly more applicable to the 10 Kingdomed "House of Israel," than the House of Judah, because the larger House of Israel's peoples "hope" had long gone and they had been "lost"! The "dryness of their bones" without pedigree, -As Ezekiel, put it,- which meant that their bones as a large nation of people, languished in the earth unattended through centuries of years. They were lashed from storms of other people, heated by the ferocity of life and dried out through punishment. These Israelite people wandered about with movements of nations like Zombies, a walking dead to their real purpose and ancestry. They adopted the ways of other nations in order to survive.

Daniel and Jeremiah had prophesied during the exile of the House of the Southern Kingdom of Judah in Babylon, though these men were prisoners of the Babylonians, yet! They were a help to their people, because the hand of the Lord was upon them. Unlike Ezekiel, the prophet for the House of Israel, they saw that these people had been "cut off" from God in this respect.

Let us examine some of the words of Ezekiel 37:1-14 and "really" understand what it's saying. In Ezekiel 37:3 God sets the question for Ezekiel to answer, "SON OF MAN CAN THESE BONES LIVE"? Ezekiel could only answer God as an uneducated human being, because he knows only God could take a bone and make it a living creature.

As was the case of a rib taken from Adam's side to make into Eve, in Genesis.

Ezekiel 37:4. "AGAIN HE SAID UNTO ME, PROPHESY UPON THESE BONES, AND SAY UNTO THEM, O YE DRY BONES, HEAR THE WORD OF THE LORD". The question now is, how can Ezekiel himself make an effect on these bones with his prophecy? The answer comes through the bones themselves through hearing the words, which Ezekiel speaks from the Almighty. Today, millenniums later, Ezekiel speaks to us with these deep words of God, for us to read and hear the words of the Lord correctly, because we ARE those bones!

Ezekiel 37:5, "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD UNTO THESE BONES; BEHOLD, I WILL CAUSE BREATHE TO ENTER INTO YOU, AND YE SHALL LIVE". The first thing these bones must sense is a "life-force" of power.

The same breath when God breathed life upon Adam in Genesis.

A gentle life force did pass over them and that gentle breath of life came when Jesus Christ walked the earth. He gave the 2 nations of Israel a "reason" to hear and live again, according to God's promises. Our Lord gave the House of Israel especially, "hope" for its end, because they became Christians taking on a new life force.

Ezekiel 37:6, "AND I WILL LAY SINEWS UPON YOU, AND WILL BRING UP FLESH UPON YOU, AND COVER YOU WITH SKIN, AND PUT BREATH IN YOU, AND YE SHALL LIVE; AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD".

Over the centuries of years of history, great men and women from the times of the disciples of Jesus, spoke great words helping to make the people strong. They gave the people a "reason" to live, putting on sinews of strength, they put on flesh and skin to become noticeable people, they breathed the truth again and stood firm for the Lord oozing desire, joy and love.

Verse 7:- "SO I PROPHESIED AS I WAS COMMANDED; AND AS I PROPHESIED, THERE WAS A NOISE, AND BEHOLD A SHAKING AND THE BONES CAME TOGETHER, BONE TO HIS BONE".

Verse 8:- "AND WHEN I BEHELD, LO, THE SINEWS AND FLESH CAME UP UPON THEM, AND THE SKIN COVERED THEM ABOVE; BUT THERE WAS NO BREATHE TO THEM".

Indeed, throughout secular history Ezekiel's prophetic words in the Bible have reached out to the Christian Israelite bones and their noise and shaking was to become a large body of people as followers of Christ, having enlarged with each passing year, bringing bone to bone. But, because they do not possess a true name for this body of people, their Israelite "life force" from their Israelite Jesus is not fully known to them, because their knowledge is limited.

Verse 9:- "THEN SAID HE UNTO ME, PROPHESY UNTO THE WIND, PROPHESY SON OF MAN, AND SAY TO THE WIND, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; COME FROM THE FOUR WINDS, O BREATH, AND BREATHE UPON THESE SLAIN, THAT THEY MAY LIVE". Ezekiel was told to speak loudly with his voice, in a current of air coming from a particular point. That "point" for that voice in the wind, is coming from the words of God in the bible, which has been going out to His people, to the 4 corners of the world. Ezekiel has been told to speak to these dead people who lie in the earth's large grave, calling to them from the North, South, East and West winds of the earth. These "winds" are a spiritual force driving His children across the world back to God, into a land set for them, they, coming from untold circumstances in life, bringing them back onto the right road, from the abyss of searching, longing and despair.

Verse 10:- "SO I PROPHESIED AS HE COMMANDED ME, AND THE BREATH CAME INTO THEM, AND THEY LIVED, AND STOOD UPON THEIR FEET, AN EXCEEDING GREAT ARMY". When all these 2 nations of the whole Israel understand fully who they are, they will stand up in the earth to be counted! These many millions of the Israelite nations of people, who are spread around the earth in these modern times, where the earth's winds have carried them. The House of Israel in the Gentiles (not the Jew of Judah) live and their "breathe of life" is the Word of God and His Christ, because those deep words bring forth that "Comforting" life force.

Verse 11:- "THEN HE SAID UNTO ME, SON OF MAN, THESE BONES ARE THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL; BEHOLD THEY SAY, OUR BONES ARE DRIED, AND OR HOPE IS LOST; WE ARE CUT OFF FOR OUR PARTS". The vision is now explained to Ezekiel, that the dry bones are the 10 lost tribes of the House of Israel who had disappeared into history as if they never had existed. They had all been scattered into nations, each tribal part cut off from the other tribal part, unidentified from the other member parts of their nation, even cut off from the "House of Judah". They had become known to peoples as the "lost" tribes of the House of Israel, of whom the Law recalls in Jeremiah 50:4-6, - Matthew 10:6, etc;

The great prophet Daniel as a prisoner in Babylon, spoke about "all" Israel in his prayer and supplications to The Lord God Almighty, (Daniel 9). He spoke of all the nation of Israel (2 nations), of those children who were "near" him in the Empire of Babylon and those of Israel who were "far off" driven through many countries. They no longer looked like Israelites in appearance, their faces being CONFUSED by their intermingling with other nations, which helped them to lose their identity. Ezekiel 37:12. "THEREFORE PROPHESY AND SAY UNTO THEM, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; BEHOLD O MY PEOPLE, I WILL OPEN YOUR GRAVES, AND CAUSE YOU TO COME UP OUT OF YOUR GRAVES, AND BRING YOU INTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL".

Verse 13:- "AND YE SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD, WHEN I HAVE OPENED YOUR GRAVES, O MY PEOPLE, AND BROUGHT YOU UP OUT OF YOUR GRAVES".

Verse 14:- "AND SHALL PUT MY SPIRIT IN YOU, AND YE SHALL LIVE, AND I SHALL PLACE YOU IN YOUR OWN LAND; THEN SHALL YE KNOW THAT I THE LORD HAVE SPOKEN IT, AND PERFORMED IT, SAITH THE LORD".

These last 3 verses of Ezekiel are not only written for the 2 nations of Israel's children, who will be identified and counted during the coming millennium, when Jesus Christ will be their King and as it is written many dead will come out of their graves. (John 5:28-29). Neither does it mean that only the Jew has returned to the Holy Land of Israel, as we see it has taken place in our modern world.

Ezekiel's meaning to these verses is the factual acknowledgement that the "House of Israel" is no longer "lost" or dead to their "identity" as if in graves in the earth, or the "valley of dry bones" is without purpose. But these 10 nations who were lost are alive, as we have already seen and read, when unravelling prophecy from Genesis to Revelations, within centuries of history.

The "memory" has been opened, -in other words,- for both nations of Israel/Judah, to give purpose and hope to their lives. As the following verses of Ezekiel 37:15-28 explains.

Ezekiel 37:16,17.

Verse 16:- "MOREOVER, THOU SON OF MAN, TAKE THEE ONE STICK, 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".

Verse 17:- "AND JOIN THEM ONE TO ANOTHER INTO ONE STICK; AND THEY SHALL BECOME ONE IN MY HAND".

Where the Carcase Is, Matthew 24:28.

The "Valley of Dry Bones" is also called the "Carcase" of the "lost" House of Israel, of whom our Lord speaks. (Matthew 24:28). The "Carcase" is the remains of a body of people who have been torn and picked dry by the Eagles of men. Biblical history tells us first the twain Chaldean golden eagles of Assyria-Babylon, then came Persian power. The "Carcase" has been torn by the Eagles of Greece and the iron Eagle of Rome. In secular history all Israel have submitted to the European Eagles, some children going through the lands of the 2 headed Russian Eagle, also living with the warriors of the Eagles of the Germanic states, etc;

The thought provoking verse of our Lord in Matthew was spoken and put into place during our Lord's long tribulation discourse, upon the terrible things that have and will happen, during the "end days" of man's ruling power in the earth.

Matthew 24:28, "FOR WHERESOEVER THE CARCASE IS, THERE WILL THE EAGLES BE GATHERED TOGETHER". The verses before and after this verse in Matthew is a description of world affairs and of the coming of our Lord's kingdom and His return to this earth, though they are words of much sorrow in Matthew 28, yet! There is also "hope" in the end of days, especially for the whole House of Israel, whose "Carcase" will rise up through knowledge and live again and identified, that is foreseen in Ezekiel's prophecy.

A dictionary tells us that a "Carcase" is the dead body of a man or beast and is something that has fallen and exhausted of life.

Under the laws of Moses in Leviticus 11, a "Carcase" was unclean. So too, was and is the "House of Israel," who have been punished by God for its "unclean" mode of living and loss of desire to search out and please its God. Even today, the debauchery of all kinds of this house is abundantly evident in our modern world.

Let us go back to the words of the prophet Ezekiel and ask ourselves, "when" did we see in secular history these DRY BONES come together, culminating eventually into AN EXCEEDING GREAT ARMY? After God placed Jesus on this earth to give the "breathe of life" to the bones of Israel's Carcase, those bones began to shake and to come together into a notable "Carcase", of which Jesus Himself spoke of in Matthew 24.

The BONES moved one by one out of a valley of death, going through many nations upon earth, until they all met up together in a wilderness called the British Isles, of which prophecy speaks, Jeremiah 31:2-10.

"THUS SAITH THE LORD, THE PEOPLE WHICH WERE LEFT OF THE SWORD FOUND GRACE IN THE WILDERNESS, EVEN ISRAEL, WHEN I WENT TO CAUSE HIM TO REST".

Verse 10:- "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". God, the Shepherd, herded them into a tiny island.

Indeed, these "Isles" fulfilled God's question to Ezekiel within history, the "lost" House of Israel's bones DID live, as they came together. Bone to bone or one tribe after another entered the "Isles" in their disguises, or in "Confusion Of Faces", as Daniel writes, (Daniel 9:8).

They were in many tribes of Celts, Angles Saxons, Vikings, Normans, etc; so, the sinews, flesh, skin, etc; began to cover the bones. The "breath" of Jesus as their Lord, began to revive and shape these people into "One Carcase" and they began to live and shape into a nation again. The people had come out of the four winds of the earth, breathing again without fear. The "House of Israel" in the "Isles" grew and grew, being shaped into a Gentile nation, as their blessings were being fulfilled before their blind eyes. Each prince of the 10 tribes took its place in secular history on that throne, thereby fulfilling their long held destiny from the blessing of the tribes by Jacob/Israel and Moses, from God, seen in Genesis 48 and 49 and Deuteronomy 33.

The "House of Israel's" Carcase grew greatly until it spilled over the "wall" of the seas around the Isles and became an Empire of a Commonwealth of Nations. Namely Wales, England, Scotland, Ireland, United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia, etc; Before the "House of Israel" received the breath of life upon that Carcase, it was lost in the Gentile nations, an alien to its own ancestral roots, which Saint Paul explains in Ephesians 2:11-13. "WHEREFORE REMEMBER, THAT YE BEING IN TIME PAST GENTILES IN THE FLESH, WHO ARE CALLED UNCIRCUMCISION BY THAT WHICH IS CALLED THE CIRCUMCISION IN THE FLESH MADE BY HANDS".

Verse 12:- "THAT AT THAT TIME YE WERE WITHOUT CHRIST, BEING ALIENS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF ISRAEL AND STRANGERS FROM THE COVENANTS OF PROMISE, HAVING NO HOPE AND WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD".

Verse 13:- "BUT NOW IN CHRIST JESUS YE WHO SOMETIMES WERE FAR OFF ARE MADE NIGH BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST".

Jacob/Israel's dying prophetic blessings upon the tribes of Israel in Genesis 49, for the "last days" of its ingathering, were carried out to the letter of the Law. Joseph, who was the one who held and nurtured the tribes together, fulfilled that prophetic power within history and the people. Through Joseph, they were fruitful and multiplied in that "well of water" of the seas surrounding the Isles, until many of Joseph's children went over that "wall" to other lands. (Genesis 49:22-24).

The children of the "Isles" have "WAITED" for understanding as Joseph's blessing says. The "Carcase" has received the breath of the salvation of life, Jesus. Once they trusted God, soon they will be judged according to the truth of the whole matter, (Isaiah 51:5).

This "House of Israel" after its "gathering" was to "stand up" upon its feet as an exceeding great army, for all the world to see, which it did during two World Wars of the END TIME of history, just as Ezekiel prophesied that they would! During those times of amalgamation they had within them, remnants of the "House of Judah" (Jew) also and they all fought as "lions" against their enemies!

When all these tribes stand together and believe and trust in God, they cannot fail! If they disunite and forget their God, -The Holy One of Israel,- then that "Carcase" will lose its breath of life to motivate it into action, there will be no "hope" in their end!

Those "2 feet" seen in Daniel's prophecy, of The British Empire and United States of America, have stood up in the earth in great power, as the centuries progressed and no one understood that it was Israel's Carcase that had stood up out of its grave!

Today, the "ARMY" of the House of Israel stands at the cross-roads of life, will they choose God in faith and trust, or will they choose the vanities of their own secular spiritual virtues? The 4 horns of Assyria/Babylon, -Medes/Persians, - Greece and Rome which Daniel 7 told us about, pushed the House of Israel through the nations, which is also told to us in Zechariah 1:18-19. "THEN I LIFTED UP MINE EYES AND SAW, AND BEHOLD 4 HORNS".

Verse 19:- "AND I SAID UNTO THE ANGEL THAT TALKED TO ME, WHAT BE THESE? AND HE ANSWERED ME, THESE ARE THE HORNS WHICH HAVE SCATTERED JUDAH, ISRAEL, AND JERUSALEM". These are the 2 nations of the Israelite nation and the holy city. Many peoples know Judah the Jew were scattered in the nations in history, but know nothing about the larger Israelite house or what became of them.

Many prophets tell the "House of Israel's" story over and over and how they went through the Gentile nations.

Hosea 9:17. "MY GOD WILL CAST THEM AWAY, BECAUSE THEY DID NOT HEARKEN UNTO HIM; AND THEY SHALL BE WANDERERS AMONG THE HEATHEN".

Hosea tells us "Why" Ephraim of the "House of Israel" went into that grave of the "valley of dry bones", of which Ezekiel speaks.

Hosea 13:14. "I WILL RANSOM THEM FROM THE POWER OF THE GRAVE; I WILL REDEEM THEM FROM DEATH; O DEATH, I WILL BE THY PLAGUES; O GRAVE I WILL BE THY DESTRUCTION; REPENTANCE SHALL BE HID FROM MINE EYES". God sent Jesus the Christ to "Redeem" this nation from the "grave". He gave HIS life as a "ransom" for Gentile Israel, so they might live again and make that "Carcase" stand upon its feet!

So, once more all Israel must understand the paths that they have walked in history, who must be placed back onto the right road towards Israel's final end!

We do not come from many nations within the world, but belong to "one" nation, as brothers and sisters from Jacob/Israel. The prophets continually teach us "who" we are in the "last days" and how to find each other and as Ezekiel says, Israel shall "Stand Up" as one mighty army of people! Some of the ancient tribes of other nations, such as the Australian Aborigines, or the Navajo Red Indian of America for example, are trying to find their genetic roots, with a yearning for their ancestral land, for their past customs and their ancestral spirits. The situation is no different for the 2 nations of Israel, who have walked the earth in times of secular history as strangers, worshipping many strange gods!

The prophet Hosea 3:4-5, explains this situation. "FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL ABIDE MANY DAYS (or years) WITHOUT A KING, AND WITHOUT A PRINCE, AND WITHOUT A SACRIFICE, (or atonement accepted by God) AND WITHOUT AN IMAGE, (Israel worshipped other gods) AND WITHOUT AN EPHOD (this was a sacred garment of a high priest, made of gold, blue, purple, scarlet and fine linen, which eventually became a cause for adoration, then idol worship. -Judges 8:27). AND WITHOUT TERAPHIM"; (or images of good luck, sometimes used to ensure the title to their father's property, seen in Genesis 31:19-34. A Teraphim was also used in witchcraft and rebellion, all these things happened and were used by Israel in ancient and modern times).

Verse 5:- "AFTERWARD SHALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL RETURN, AND SEEK THE LORD THEIR GOD, (after their Lord and King Jesus came, some of the children turned around and searched for God) AND DAVID THEIR KING; (David was king to both houses of Israel, Jesus is King from David's lineage) AND SHALL FEAR THE LORD AND HIS GOODNESS IN THE LATTER DAYS". Our modern era is the "LATTER DAYS", when all Israel will know God is not dead but very much alive. He has fulfilled all His Holy Scripture in detail and in truth. With this complete knowledge of His actions within history, much respect will be held in holy awe and reverence for God and His Laws, which He set in motion! Therefore, we must all return to our God and to the spirit of faith and trust of the patriarchs of old, whose "Great Spirit" was the Holy One of Israel!

All Israel must turn its back to the shallow, godless anarchy of man's peculiar ways of living and worshipping. We must all listen intently to our Ancestors stories of faith and vision, which are in the words of God. The Bible alone is the secular and spiritual histories of truth for the "lost" Hebrew/Israelite nation as a whole.

Of course, there are questioning people who will ask about the role in humanity of other nations and tribes, in the earth, speaking many tongues, who seem to have been left out of Israel's large picture. One may ask, "surely the Bible is not only concerned with just one nation, called the 12 tribes of Israel and the rest are forgotten?" The answer to that remark is that all mankind has been taken note of most ardently in prophecy, when naming ancient and modern peoples and Empires in times and dates. Many of other nations are also mingled within the 2 nations of Israel and many other peoples in our modern world are joined to them, as the prophets tell us. (Hosea 7 and 8,- Amos 9:9,- Revelation 7:9).

All mankind is accommodated and saved through believing in the Lamb of God, -Jesus- and only through "Him" can this happen!

Israel's large role amongst the nations of the earth is applicable only to them, not only because they were a chosen race of people for a special role, their history was written to prove to mankind first and foremost, that God is very much alive today, as He was in ancient times and that through Israelite knowledge "He" rules in the kingdoms of men.

If one can see and understand most clearly God's hand directing prophecy and controlling living history of dates, times, personages, etc; in that secular history, then mankind will have a strong belief, with a different perspective upon life than he has now. Mankind would not continue with his "perhaps and maybes" in a myriad of translations of the law, which one can read and hear today, because there is only "one" absolute correct answer, found in the understanding of the role that the children of Israel have played out in history.

You may be pleased reader with the knowledge of these prophecies written in this book, but afraid of facing its content with the implications of turning our world upside down. It is man himself that has turned things upside down not the prophets or God.

Isaiah 29:16, "SURELY YOUR TURNING OF THINGS UPSIDE DOWN SHALL BE ESTEEMED AS THE POTTERS CLAY; FOR SHALL THE WORK SAY OF HIM THAT MADE IT; HE MADE ME NOT? OR SHALL THE THING FRAMED SAY OF HIM THAT FRAMED IT, HE HAD NO UNDERSTANDING"? This verse is the sentence passed upon man's vanity of thought and his scepticism of doubt upon the existence of God. The warnings upon all secular and spiritual prophecy to be re-enacted on the world stage have been told to us. Isaiah 42:9. "BEHOLD THE FORMER THINGS ARE COME TO PASS, AND NEW THINGS DO I DECLARE; BEFORE THEY SPRING FORTH I TELL YOU OF THEM". It is the power of the "inkhorn" and not the sword that is the divider of both body and soul! (Ezekiel 9).

Ezekiel the Sign. Sign of the Tile, Ezekiel 4.

The prophet Ezekiel was called by God to be a "Sign" for all the nation of Israel, both houses. (Ezekiel 12:6-11, 24:24). A person who is a "Sign" does something externally, representing something both secular and spiritual, thus making known to people, that which has come to pass through gesture.

Ezekiel was also called the "Watchman" for the House of Israel. (Ezekiel 3:17) In other words he is a man who is a guard over the affairs of the 10 tribes of the House of Israel, speaking words of warning. In Ezekiel's case he has kept vigilance and attention to detail in writing etc; over the words of God, throughout all Israel's secular/biblical histories set down within the book called the Bible. In each chapter, and in his peculiar way of various "Signs" of movements, have captured all Israel's trauma of punishment, sorrow and eventual restoration in the earth. Thereby, going through their history of centuries past and present.

Ezekiel speaks of the "House of Israel", sometimes meaning "all" Israel, -both nations,- other times only meaning the 10 tribed House of Israel as a separate nation. The 2 nations were separated in power by their 2 respective capital cities, Samaria of Israel and Jerusalem of Judah. Ezekiel gives us the parable of these 2 cities as 2 women coming from 1 mother, who was Abraham's wife Sarah. In chapter 23, Ezekiel goes into historical detail how these 2 women played the harlot with other nations, whom God punished. They, ending up in the lands of the Assyrians and Chaldeans, then governed in the process of time by many other nations.

During 660 BC history tells us the Assyrian Empire under their then King Ashurbanipal, stretched from Thebes south of Egypt, across Memphis North of Egypt, through Palestine, on to the mountains of Armenia. Then across the middle lands of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and on to the Persian Gulf. They had also captured Ecbatana of the kingdom of the Medes and Susa of Persia. So, the Israelite slaves would have also dispersed in these lands.

Historians say that the people of the Northern Kingdom of Israel with their kings, nobles and princes disappeared and were absorbed into the populations of these foreign lands, never to emerge again in history. All investigations into what became of the ten tribes has so far come to nothing!

Maybe man couldn't find them! But God, though scattering them, kept them before His eyes through many centuries of history, because vows and promises made to the Patriarchs had to be fulfilled. Ezekiel was filled with another spirit from time to time, after being confronted with tremendous sights and visions of spiritual fire, brought to him from Beings of another dimension and power. In chapter 4 Ezekiel was first presented with some of the history of the city of Jerusalem and what would befall that city in the distant future. It also concerned itself with both nations of Israel being driven far away.

Ezekiel 4 is the "SIGN OF THE TILE", which he had to perform in symbolic actions.

To write on tablets or tiles, is an ancient way of recording inventories of day-to-day happenings.

In verse 1, Ezekiel 4, he had to portray or draw a picture of the city of Jerusalem.

At this point of the story, we must remember that Jerusalem had already fallen to the Babylonians in 586/BC. With a number of deportations of Judah's people being carried out at different times. Ezekiel himself had already spent 30 years in the lands of the Chaldeans. (Ezekiel 1:1).

The drawing of a picture of Jerusalem upon the tile, is also towards 2 nations of Israel, (Ezekiel 4:5-6). Then the "House of Israel" had already disappeared and lost into history, from the time of the Assyrians.

Putting these items together one will note, the "Sign" of Jerusalem upon the tile, was towards future history from Ezekiel's time.

Ezekiel 4:2, "AND LAY SIEGE AGAINST IT (Jerusalem) AND BUILD A FORT AGAINST IT, AND CAST A MOUNT AGAINST IT; SET THE CAMP ALSO AGAINST IT, AND SET BATTERING RAMS AGAINST IT ROUND ABOUT".

After Nebuchadnezzar and his armies decimated Judah's lands and the temple, Jerusalem lay waste about 50 years until Zerubbabel and his followers returned to Jerusalem in 538 BC, this was to lay the foundations of the temple,(Ezra 3). The walls of the city were rebuilt by Nehemiah etc; about 444/BC, (Nehemiah 2-4).

After the Babylonians came and then lost their ruling power, in came the Persians and then Alexander the Great of Macedonia. The city of Jerusalem was taken by Antiochus the Great in 203 BC retaken by the Egyptians in 199 BC. In 170 BC the much-noted Antiochus Epiphanes took Jerusalem and desecrated the temple. Then Judah's people angered, arose under the Maccabees and retook the city in 165 BC. So, the sieges of Jerusalem and the rebuilding and plundering, went on until the dawn of the Romans with Pompey in 63 BC. -All noted in Daniel's prophecies.- So, all these terrible disasters were to happen to Jerusalem, after the return of many Jews from Babylonian lands, as the siege of the "Sign" of the tile predicted.

This picture of Ezekiel 4:2 paints the never ending marauding nations up against Judea and Jerusalem, over the centuries.

The thickness of the walls of Jerusalem seemed to be the only thing that protected the people within, hence, the need for the sieges, forts, a mount, battering rams and camps of soldiers without. A "Siege" is of course a regular attack of a fortified place. A "FORT" seen in Ezekiel 4:2 is a place occupied by troops. Many forts were built around those walls at different times. A "MOUNT" is a high hill built for offence purposes, which we read of in Daniel 11:15, when the Romans built a massive "MOUNT" against Jerusalem. A "CAMP" is usually built in a field, in which an army has pitched its tents. "BATTERING RAMS", were ancient military engines, with a beam and iron head, for striking down stone walls.

So, Ezekiel sees nothing but terrible strife in the future history of his time, for Jerusalem, though some of the "House of Judah" were to return from their captivity eventually.

Ezekiel 4:3, "MOREOVER TAKE THOU UNTO THEE AN IRON PAN, AND SET IT FOR A WALL OF IRON BETWEEN THEE AND THE CITY; AND SET THY FACE AGAINST IT, AND IT SHALL BE BESIEGED, AND THOU SHALT LAY SIEGE AGAINST IT. THIS SHALL BE A SIGN TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL". In this verse Ezekiel speaks to both nations of Israel and calls them all the House of Israel. Then in the next 3 verses he divides them again into 2 houses.

Ezekiel takes on "IRON PAN" standing it up between himself and Jerusalem on the tile, as a wall. Then he concentrates anger against that "IRON PAN", which eventually will cause the pan's destruction. The "IRON PAN" is the "sign" of a conqueror of Jerusalem for the House of Judah and of the House of Israel, in the process of time, both being affected at one point in history by the powerful IRON conqueror.

"Iron" is the metal of Rome, which we read of in Daniel 2:40. Rome is called the "IRON PAN" in Ezekiel because its purposes are broad, but shallow and this pan would be used within history for many operations.

Though Jerusalem will face this "IRON PAN" and be destroyed by it, both nations of Israel will face this "IRON PAN" yoke, however.

Ezekiel "sign of the Pan" says, it will be made known to us through the written words of prophecy from the Bible, so that we today, can read and understand this "sign" situation in the scheme of things. Both houses of Israel received the force of the "IRON PAN". The terrible destruction and burning of Jerusalem by Rome during AD 70 etc; felt the siege full on. Devastation of war also reached Israel's new land against the peoples of the British Isles during these times, they also felt the anger of the Iron Pan full on. These prophetic verses for all Israel under Rome, are spelled out in the prophecies of Daniel 11 verses 10 to 21, and each verse of Daniel's is a chapter in itself in this book, which then endorses Ezekiel's "Signs".

The "House of Israel" was beginning to reform as a nation within the British Isles, which was then under the Celts, subdued under the iron yoke of Rome, or Israel's Bones began to shake in that "Valley of Dry Bones". Some of those Celts held the genetic bloodline of the tribes of Dan and Gad of the "House of Israel".

The soon to be Roman Emperor Vespasian, who was then a General during the siege and conquest of Britain, also accompanied his son Titus, with legions of soldiers to attack the holy land and the "House of Judah". The "IRON PAN" of Rome under Titus laid "siege" to Jerusalem. Thereby, through Roman desires on a large scale in mileage and power throughout the lands they governed, were to control many of the tribes of the children of Israel under that "IRON PAN'S" power, which Ezekiel saw it as strong as a wall.

Ezekiel 4:4, "LIE THOU ALSO UPON THY LEFT SIDE, AND LAY THE INIQUITY OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL UPON IT. ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF DAYS THAT THOU SHALT LIE UPON IT THOU SHALT BEAR THEIR INIQUITY".

Verse 5:- "FOR I HAVE LAID UPON THEE THE YEARS OF THEIR INIQUITY, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE DAYS, THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY DAYS; SO SHALT THOU BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL".

Verse 6:- "AND WHEN THOU HAST ACCOMPLISHED THEM, LIE AGAIN ON THY RIGHT SIDE, AND THOU SHALT BEAR THE INIQUITY OF THE HOUSE OF JUDAH FORTY DAYS; I HAVE APPOINTED THEE EACH DAY FOR A YEAR".

Both houses of Judah and Israel are under punishment for their past crimes of unjust wickedness, which the word "INIQUITY" implies.

Though the House of Israel was lost in the late Empire of Assyria many hundreds of years previously to the Roman Empire, they were also being driven through the Western lands, they were to come within the strength of the "IRON PAN" of the Romans. Nevertheless, God, -through Ezekiel- set his face "AGAINST" that "IRON PAN", which means "He" was and is against Rome.

Imagine reader if you will, a picture of what ghastly pain poor Ezekiel endured being bound with bands, which meant he could hardly move going through these rituals, as verse 8 tells us.

For 390 days (or years) Ezekiel lay on his left side, which amounts to a person lying for over a year in one position, unable to free himself from extreme pain of the body and limbs, numbness, circulation problems, and perhaps crying out in agony from cramp, etc; Ezekiel had to partake in an awful ordeal as a "Sign" to the House of Israel, then that dreadful punishment upon Ezekiel's body, was to be brought upon the children of Israel without mercy from God, because they forsook Him for idolatry and sinful living practises. The people then and now, did not understand this Sign.

Ezekiel turned after this, upon his right side, for the House of Judah for 40 days, (40 years) and the agony began again!

Therefore, both the houses of Israel combined, will spend 430 years under the yoke of the Roman "IRON PAN", as slaves to their new masters.

This is the same length of time when all Israel was under the yoke of the ancient Egyptians as slaves, before Moses brought them out of that land, (Exodus 12:40-42).

Also, the "covenant of promise" made to and from, Abraham, Isaac, to Jacob/Israel, (Then it passed to Joseph and Judah's seeds), also took 430 years to establish itself fully, after the manner of the ages of the patriarchs.

Jesus Christ set His seal upon the law of time and the covenant to Abraham's seed, (Galatians 3:17), with Saint Paul having endorsed the 430 years of time, before the people called Galatians, or Gauls in Greece. (Which same Gauls were also of ancient France).

During the 430 years of all Israel under the Roman yoke, some of Judah's children in Egypt, Cyprus, etc; rebelled in 115-116 AD which was savagely put down by the Romans.

The poorest Jews that had been left in Jerusalem and those Jews who eventually returned to that city after the 70 AD destruction, were seething with unrest in the years that followed, until those Jews sort open rebellion against the Iron wall of the Romans, which was "put down" in 132/135 AD by Julius Severus, (which story is in Daniel 11:16). The terror and anger perpetrated by Severus was complete and the land of Judea once more ran with blood and fire. There after, Jerusalem was off limits to both Jew and Christian and what was left of the Jews was sold into slavery.

While terrible things were going on with the House of Judah, the House of Israel (now going into the British Isles) also suffered great bloodletting by the Roman "IRON PANS" conquest, subduing the land and its peoples.

Under the Emperor Claudius during 43/47 AD, Rome began its push into the "Isles" and the conquest hotted up with the marching legions from 61/93 AD. (Which story is in Daniel 11:15-19).

The Anglo/Saxon invasion of Roman Britain and the Germanic tribe's invasion of Rome and its Empire began to undermine Roman powers everywhere, though the Saxon terror on the lands of the British Isles was terrible, it brought more tribes of the "House of Israel" into the Isles in its wake. Those Saxon invaders laid siege to the "IRON PAN" of Rome, which Ezekiel foresaw in his prophecy. (The Saxon Germanic invasions of Britain and Rome, is in Daniel 11:22).

We have read in Ezekiel 4:2-3, which tells us that Jerusalem was besieged by the "IRON PAN" (Rome). It also tells that God was "AGAINST" Rome, because Ezekiel set his face "AGAINST" the IRON PAN'S power, meaning Rome itself would also be besieged, which secular history testifies to. It was under siege from the Vandals and Visigoths etc; in the 5th century and Rome's wound took a while to reform and heal, but its Empire was lost. The "siege" and internal social decay took its toll, Roman legions started to leave the Isles to its fate, between 350-410 AD when they left altogether. So, the 390 years of Ezekiel lying on his side bound and in pain for the "House of Israel", under a conqueror of Rome's iron magnitude, was completed during those years!

The rations of food and water depicted in Ezekiel's prophecy in chapter 4 verses 9 to 17, was eaten and drunk by measure over the years of occupation very carefully, as nothing escaped the watchful eyes of the Romans over the occupied territories, (which we read of in Daniel 11:20). Food and water by "ration" are either eaten during times of war, famine, or subjugation. As slaves and servants during those 430 years depicted, both the Houses of Israel would have gone through all the happenings Ezekiel portrayed.

Israel had been a freeborn nation under God but had suffered indignities through punishment and siege under the "IRON PAN" of Rome, brought on by Israel's licentious behaviour before God. The "House of Judah", as Jews, were to go on suffering in secular history even longer, eventually, than the "House of Israel", because they had no Mediator such as Jesus between themselves and God, which Ezekiel tells us in Ezekiel 4:7. "THEREFORE THOU SHALT SET THY FACE TOWARD THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM, AND THINE ARM SHALL BE UNCOVERED, AND THOU SHALT PROPHECY, AGAINST IT". This verse not only contained the terrible destruction of the city of Jerusalem and its people during AD 70, but it also explains that no man or prophet can appeal to God on Judah's behalf. The expression "THINE ARM SHALL BE UNCOVERED", is how in ancient and modern history the Jew continues a ritual of memory and supplication, upon the arm.

When men of the orthodox House of Judah prays to God, he wears upon his forehead and upper left arm, small leather cases, called phylacteries. Each box containing a parchment upon which is written certain texts. For example, Deuteronomy 6:4. "HEAR, O ISRAEL; THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE LORD". Exodus 13:16, "AND IT SHALL BE FOR A TOKEN UPON THINE HAND, AND FOR FRONTLETS BETWEEN THINE EYES; FOR BY STRENGTH OF HAND THE LORD BROUGHT US FORTH OUT OF EGYPT". A phylactery is fastened as an armlet with leather straps wound around a bare arm.

Ezekiel as a Rabbi and Prophet would have been used to the practice of baring the Arm to bind it with prayers of hope, supplication and memory in this manner. Ezekiel's Arm however, for the purpose of this prophecy, remained uncovered, without an acceptable Jewish mediator such as Jesus, born of Judah or a phylactery between himself and God. Therefore, prophecy towards the Jew and Jerusalem was "AGAINST" them again!

Before the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70 under the Romans, only 40 years earlier they had crucified the Messiah and asked that "His" blood be upon them and their children. Sadly, they had their wish and they became the hunted nomads of the following secular history. Their "hope" in God through their phylacteries upon the Arm were no more, the Arm remained bare! (Matthew 27:25).

The prophecy "against" all Israel, both houses, is written in Ezekiel chapters 5 and 6. Ezekiel goes through the ritual of cutting his hair, thereby cutting the people away from their past life and promises made to them, instead, they must endure punishment. Only a few children in number would escape, because they were hidden as hairs, in the prophet Ezekiel's skirts. (Ezekiel 5:3).

This ritual of cutting the hair is noted in Deuteronomy 21:10-13, when the story explains the situation of a strange bride being brought into Israel's people. Her head was shaved, her nails cut short and her raiment of her past life taken away.

The hairs of Ezekiel's head and beard, represented the genetic lineage of all Israel's children, some children would die in the siege and fires of Jerusalem. Other children would die under the Roman Empires siege. Others would be killed with the knife and still others would be scattered in the earth. The children that were protected by the prophet Ezekiel, were sown into his skirts hidden from the brutalities of men. These are the chosen seeds of remnants called the "daughter of Jerusalem and Zion" and this act was to ensure these might live, to eventually bring their children to God. These are the predestined children spoken of by God to Elijah, (I Kings 19:18, Romans 11:4-5).

The watchman Ezekiel's "signs" continues within his chapters for identification purposes and for instruction for all Israel, who are to this day throughout the world, to "Wake Up" and understand what prophecy is telling us all, even into our 20th century.

Ezekiel 5:5, "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; THIS IS JERUSALEM; I HAVE SET IT IN THE MIDST OF THE NATIONS AND COUNTRIES THAT ARE ROUND ABOUT HER".

Ezekiel 7:2, "ALSO, THOU SON OF MAN, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD UNTO THE LAND OF ISRAEL; AN END, THE END HAS COME UPON THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE LAND".

Ezekiel 6:8-10, "YET WILL I LEAVE A REMNANT, THAT YE MAY HAVE SOME THAT SHALL ESCAPE THE SWORD AMONG THE NATIONS, WHEN YE SHALL BE SCATTERED THROUGH THE COUNTRIES".

Verse 9:- "AND THEY THAT ESCAPE OF YOU SHALL REMEMBER ME AMONG THE NATIONS WHITHER THEY SHALL BE CARRIED CAPTIVES, BECAUSE I AM BROKEN FROM THEIR WHORISH HEART, WHICH HATH DEPARTED FROM ME, AND WITH THEIR EYES, WHICH GO A WHORING AFTER THEIR IDOLS; AND THEY SHALL LOATHE THEMSELVES FOR THE EVILS WHICH THEY HAVE COMMITTED IN ALL THEIR ABOMINATIONS".

Verse 10:- "AND THEY SHALL KNOW THAT I AM THE LORD, AND THAT I HAVE NOT SAID IN VAIN THAT I WOULD DO THIS EVIL UNTO THEM".

3 Overturns, Ezekiel 21:25-27. The Breach in Judah, Genesis 38.

Ezekiel 21/25-27.

Verse 25:- "AND THOU, PROFANE WICKED PRINCE OF ISRAEL, WHOSE DAY HAS COME, WHEN INIQUITY SHALL HAVE AN END".

Verse 26:- "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; REMOVE THE DIADEM, AND TAKE OFF THE CROWN; THIS SHALL NOT BE THE SAME; EXALT HIM THAT IS LOW, AND ABASE HIM THAT IS HIGH".

Verse 27:- "I WILL OVERTURN, OVERTURN, OVERTURN IT; AND IT SHALL BE NO MORE UNTIL HE COME WHOSE RIGHT IT IS; AND I WILL GIVE IT HIM".

These prophetic verses within Ezekiel's chapters, are leading up to the "VALLEY OF DRY BONES" in Ezekiel 37.

They are explaining the destruction and powers that have governed and hated the children of Israel. This is apart from the judgement of wrath metered out to the 2 houses of Israel by God, for their eternal wickedness.

The "VALLEY OF DRY BONES" is the story towards the restoration and renewal of the life of the "House of Israel" in the earth, through God's works amongst the nations and over centuries of years. Thus, making those bones to "stand up" upon their feet and take stock upon their position in the scheme of their historical happenings.

Ezekiel 21:25, "AND THOU, PROFANE WICKED PRINCE OF ISRAEL, WHOSE DAY HAS COME, WHEN INIQUITY SHALL HAVE AN END". This verse is an indictment against the ancient Kingdom of Judah, whose last King during Babylonian times was Zedekiah. He was called "PROFANE" because he did not have a holy character and was irreverent towards God.

God had given this "House of Judah" many chances to change their ways before the final onslaught of Nebuchadnezzar's army.

Zedekiah's father had been the great King Josiah, who tried to please God during his long reign. The evil of Zedekiah's reign lasted 11 years, some of which we read of in Jeremiah chapters 34-37. Ezekiel 21:25 tells how the end of Zedekiah's days as King and how the end of the Kingdom of Judah came about, when coming face to face with Nebuchadnezzar and his army. Zedekiah's 70 sons were killed, then his eyes were put out, and he died in Babylon. (II Kings 24-25).

Ezekiel 21:26, "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD; REMOVE THE DIADEM, AND TAKE OFF THE CROWN; THIS SHALL NOT BE THE SAME; EXALT HIM THAT IS LOW, AND ABASE HIM THAT IS HIGH". Now prophecy tells us of the "judgement" upon that royal House of Judah. The Lord God said He would "TAKE OFF" and remove from office the "DIADEM", which was a head band worn as a badge of Israelite royalty.

This House of Judah was also to "TAKE OFF THE CROWN", which is a badge of the highest compliment of regal power worn on the head by mankind, usually worn through a royal bloodline from one ancestor to the next.

Verse 26 tells us also that this royal line will NOT BE THE SAME again after Zedekiah's time. "All" Israel, -then both nations- would have then been taken prisoner by the 2 nations that came from one land, namely, Assyria/Babylon, as spoken by Ezekiel 21:19.

Any person who tries to set up a kingdom for Israel from Zedekiah's time -especially Judah's lineage,- will come from an illegitimate station in life, to become their king. The true royal line will have reverted to a debased value amongst men, thus losing their Kingly inheritance. Prophetic secular/history tells us this was so.

The Maccabean family of the Hasmonean dynasty, who became kings and priests of Judah, did so, from an uprising against the Seleucid Greek (Syrian) King Antiochus Epiphanes during 168 BC. The Maccabees were a Jewish family from the low country west of Jordan and village of Modin. Mattathias, a priest, was the first to release anger against idol worship. They were not of the correct royal lineage, however.

The times of the Roman Mark Antony and Egyptian/Greek Cleopatra, also Herod the Great an Idumaean, - approx; 47-30 BC etc; were all a ruling class in Judea, biblically classed as low class, not princes of Israel's line coming to pass. After the "judgement" was passed upon those chosen people, Ezekiel 21:27. "I WILL OVERTURN, OVERTURN, OVERTURN, IT; AND IT SHALL BE NO MORE UNTIL HE COME WHOSE RIGHT IT IS; AND I WILL GIVE IT HIM".

These "3 overturns" have been given different translations by different biblical scholars. Some say the "3 overturns" occurred perhaps, after the return from Babylon of the Jews, but they give no detail. Other bible scholars look for the "3 overturns" in the earth, whilst the Jew waits for the return of the Messiah to the earth.

The most interesting version of the "3 overturns" by a biblical scholar, happened he said, in ancient history of the British Isles. He says, some of the Irish people, -who answered in prophecy to the tribe of Dan in name took the crown of Israel from Ireland to Scotland, then to England, making "3 overturns" and 3 thrones. This theory, though having an element of truth in it from the mists of ancient legend, cannot be set down as historical fact, to prove that the British throne is the lost "House of Israel", which is the main thrust of this version.

Instead, if we refer to Ezekiel chapters 22 and 23, we begin to sort out the jigsaw. These chapters pass upon the 2 nations of Israel the "judgement" of their evil ways and we read they were both taken captive by all the sectional nations of Chaldea, with the prominent Assyrian/Babylonians uppermost, (Ezekiel 21:23). So, the "3 overturns" in Ezekiel 21:27 came about "After" the princely lineage of Josiah, through Zedekiah, when lower men were to set themselves up as kings of Judea, as was the case of Herod etc; under Roman power. Therefore, in Judah's case its Greek and Roman power that one must count the "3 overturns" in factual history. (Daniel the prophet explains these "3 overturns", when understanding secular/spiritual history, Daniel 11:4-14).

After King Zedekiah was put in a Babylonian prison until the day of his death, (Jeremiah 52:11). Judea lay waste until some Jews returned through decrees being written by Cyrus and Darius the Persians, (Ezra 5- Daniel 6). The Persians were to "help" some of the Jews to return to Judea from Babylon, therefore Persia did not "OVERTURN" the Judean kingdom.

Upon the worlds stage, in came Alexander the Great's armies, he, having died in Babylon 323 BC. His Empire was then divided into 4 quarters of power and from that time, Judea was to be the meat in the sandwich, between the Greek ruling Ptolemies of Egypt and the Greek ruling Seleucids of Syria. The Jewish Maccabean/Hasmonean family, (not of Zedekiah's lineage) began its rule by rebelling against Syria from approx; 166 BC, with one of the last Hasmoneans called Marianne becoming the wife of Herod the Great of that dynasty 29 to 4 BC.

During these years the Roman legions were marching and Judea fell under their power and was annexed as a province. So, during those times Judea was at their mercy and was "overturned" 3 times, with the Egyptians, Syrians and Romans.

Ezekiel 21:27 also says, "AND IT SHALL BE NO MORE, UNTIL HE COME WHOSE RIGHT IT IS; AND I WILL GIVE IT HIM". Ezekiel is explaining what happened to the royal lineage of David's throne. The direct "high" royal lineage which was made "low" as predicted, was lost within the people of the Jews, taking that high royal place were lower base men who set themselves up on that throne, carved out by the power of men.

The "He" who came during the foreign Roman/Herod's time was the rightful King and His name was Jesus. This is "why" the genealogy of that "lowly" set royal lineage is recorded in the New Testament for historical remembrances sake. Mary's royal genealogy is in Luke chapter 3, which came through Nathan, third son of David.

The stepfather of Jesus was Joseph, whose genealogy is recorded from Solomon, son of David in Matthew chapter 1.

Many peoples have wrestled with the problem of the genealogies given in Matthew and Luke, as to which one is for Mary, coming from the House of King David. Though Joseph was Jesus's stepfather, his lineage is important also, because Jesus "had" to be brought up in a household of the royal lineage of King David of the House of Judah. Both Mary and Joseph fulfilled the age-old blessing of Genesis 49:10, which says, "THE SCEPTRE SHALL NOT DEPART FROM JUDAH". Though the royal lineage was in a carpenter's house of lowly people, yet! That bloodline was kept waiting for its King!

Romans 1:3, tells us through Paul's teaching, that Jesus was made according to the seed of David of the flesh.

Mary was of great importance because she fulfilled 3 paths giving birth to Jesus.

1:- She was chosen as of the lineage of King David.

2:- She gave birth to a Being from "outside" the Laws of the earth, with a Spirit that no man could control. Nevertheless, Mary passed on her genetic lineage of King David to Him.

3:- Mary's lineage as of a "woman", also held the earthly/spiritual genealogy of the "second choice" seen in the Laws of God. From Sarah, Leah, Ruth, Rachel etc; these women were chosen by the Lord for a Special reason, Proverbs 18:22, 19:14. Man is the fleshly chosen seed. Ecclesiastes 4:15.

The rightful King of both Judah and Israel was born in a stable and one cannot get any "lower" in the stations of life than that!

When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of the Idumean King Herod, wise men came from the east seeking the babe who was born "King of the Jews," (Matthew 2). This throne of Judea was Jesus's "right" through His blood line to David.

When John the Baptist, Baptised Jesus through the waters of the earth, Jesus was then "anointed" as King by the spirit of God alighting on Him like a dove and the voice said, "This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased", (Matthew 3). This voice and exercises performed upon Him, was the "shout of the King," installed as ruler of the 2 nations of Israel and of the earth. Therefore, it is as Ezekiel says, the throne of David and of Josiah is of Jesus, King of Kings, which God gave to Him!

The "patterns" of some kings of the earth reflect these patterns of heavenly things. The "anointing" of the Kings and Queens of Britain with oil and the receiving of the Royal Sceptre with the Dove, is the ensign of Kingly power and justice. The "shout" of Long Live the King is given after the homage paid to him, which is the same as our Living God saying, "This is My Beloved Son"! That of a Ruler within heaven and of earth!

Judah's house was "OVERTURNED" through the wars of 3 peoples that of the Greek Ptolemies of Egypt, the Greek Seleucids of Syria and the Romans. (Which is told in detail by Daniel the prophet in chapter 11, etc;)

Because this royal line of David through Jesus, was rejected by the Jews, they acknowledging the Romans as rulers, (John 19:15). The Majesty and Crown of His earthly throne was passed to a second nation, that of the "House of Israel" who held many princes, of the greater part of the whole Israelite nation. They eventually were to pick up the sceptre for that earthly throne and at the same time acknowledging Jesus Christ as their rightful King.

These "3 Overturns" would be repeated even for the "House of Israel" in the Gentiles, they, -apart from Judah,- were waiting for its rightful princes to take the secular stage of the crown, they were also overturned 3 times.

Let us now examine this statement. The Celtic tribes within the Brythons (Britons) and Gadhelic nations, who possessed some of the House of Israel's children within the Britannic Isles, fought the Romans fiercely. Eventually Celtic Britain was "Overturned" by Roman Britain.

Roman/Celtic Britain then had to contend with the terror of the Angles and Saxons and other Germanic tribes who eventually "Overturned" both Romans and Celts. The land became Anglo/Saxon-Celtic Britain.

In came the furious Danes/Vikings, who "Overturned" the British Isles and set up the Dane law with their Kings, (994?-1035 AD). Thus making "3 Overturns" of ruling power in the Britannic Isles.

When William Duke of Normandy entered onto the scene of British reorganisation, his taking of the throne and lands, was his by "right" of birth, being the first prince of Israel to inherit that which was set down in prophecy, centuries previously from Genesis chapter 49. The vow of "blessing" made by his father Jacob/Israel, was put in motion by God in secular history as their "right" and the throne was then "given" to each tribe in God's own time.

So it was "3 Overturns" that formed the peoples of the Isles, then 1 complete ruling power over Britain by Reuben the Norman. His "right" taking the peoples into an inheritance of that throne through Israelite blood line, instead of siege and occupation. Their King of Kings, Jesus, having the throne of David remained with them through all their problems, though He was worshipped in different ways by various people.

Bible scholars who apply these "3 Overturns" to Britain in another manner of Irish legend, -though interesting,- does not completely fit the prophecy. They say, some of the tribe of Dan prior to 700 BC arrived in ships in Ireland, settled and were known as "Tuatha de Danann" (tribe of Dan). Later in years approx; 569 BC, Jeremiah the prophet came with a princess of Judah, Jeremiah's friend and scribe (Simon) Baruch and a colony, -of the line of Zarah,- all merged in Ireland to fulfil a royal line of David's throne. After the dynasty was set up in Ireland they then went to Scotland and then to England, thus making "3 Overturns".

Which actually through calculations of history does not work out this way.

To "overturn" means to overthrow, to subvert and to ruin. This did not happen to this legendary new dynasty of Israel in Ireland, it seems the throne was set up instead, thus making 2 overturns here. The Scots/Irish certainly did not "Overturn" the throne of Britain or England, though there were skirmishes. The Scots inherited the English throne after Elizabeth I, death. Margaret Tudor's daughter of Henry VII had married James IV of Scotland, after being married 3 times, her daughter Margaret was the grandmother of James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England.

The Stuarts or Stewarts of Scotland trace their descent from a Norman who accompanied William the Conqueror to England.

Britain's modern throne was set up by many different tribes of people.

The Irish legend reasoning, seems to have neglected to mention the ancient Britons (Brythons) themselves, who were predominant at one time as a superior race in ancient history, from 600 BC, who eventually brought about the most famous House of the Tudors, of the tribe of Dan.

We may ask here, "who are the Scots"? Which is a question in ancient history not completely answered, which many people have made many suggestions about. History does tell us that in the sixth century invaders from Ireland, seized the Western Highlands and they were called Scots. The greater part of the Highlands, the redheaded Picts inhabited, whose origins scholars disagree upon. Southern Scotland, had blonde-haired Saxon invaders from England and short dark haired ancient Britons/Welshmen. Not forgetting the blonde and red head Vikings, which took centuries to call all these people Scots.

Ancient history does tell us that there was much activity between the peoples of Ireland and Wales, owing to geographical nearness.

Before the Romans arrived on the scene in Britain, there were short dark-haired Britons and tall red-haired Britons in the land now called England and Wales.

The Tudor lineage of Dan of Wales (Genesis 49), were mostly tall red-haired Kings and Queens. So, ancient Britain was an amalgamation of races, which, only working from modern factual historical biblical prophecy can put into focus.

The lineage of Zarah mentioned with Jeremiah setting up another throne for Israel in Ireland, does not work out properly, when keeping to the "patterns" of law set down for our understanding. To recap this situation, which is rather involved, Biblical prophecy makes the throne of David's lost lineage more evident for understanding, when keeping to the "Principles" of the Law set down of which present qualities depend, (Hebrews 5:12).

Remember, Jesus was born out of the "House of Judah" (Jew). His mother's lineage was from King David and was registered as such in the Bible, (Luke 1:27, 3:22-38). Jesus himself said, He was a King and to this end was He born, (John 18:37, Acts 2:29-30, Romans 1:3). At his crucifixion Jesus was called, King of the Jews, or King out of Judah, though these words were a lesson in mocking Him, none the less it was true, because His earthly lineage is written down as such! His earthly bloodline was of royal parentage, but it was not accepted by the people, otherwise they couldn't have tortured Him, without a fight for His rights!

So, it all came to pass as prophesied by Ezekiel 21:26. "THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD, REMOVE THE DIADEM, AND TAKE OFF THE CROWN; THIS SHALL NOT BE THE SAME; EXALT HIM THAT IS LOW, AND ABASE HIM THAT IS HIGH". King David's throne was not the "same" any more, because King Herod and the Romans as rulers, were of "lowly" origins of men, who were "exalted" into positions of power over the Jew. He, Jesus of the High Royal Lineage of David, was "abased" in that world, because this noble King Jesus was born in a stable, lived a life of a humble carpenter and died as a malefactor. These situations of His life were indeed lowly and "abased". Nevertheless, Biblical prophetical history records Him as the rightful heir of King David's throne, which lineage He "still" holds, because He's very much alive and one day He will prove it!

King David's royal descendants are of the "House of Judah" and do "Not" sit today upon England's throne as some biblical preachers believe. Yes! The English throne "does" belong to the "House of Israel", which each prince representing a tribe inherited over the centuries, as prophesied in Genesis 49. Queen Elizabeth is identified as a representative of the tribe of Ephraim, who was Joseph's son, (Genesis 48:15-19). England's historical throne is "Not" King David's throne. But! England's throne is registered in biblical history, to prove that the children of the "lost tribes of Israel" do exist, during the "end time" of prophecy. Thus, for all peoples to see and understand, the bodies of the House of Israel within the "Valley of dry bones" from Ezekiel's prophecy, have come together and "stand up an Exceeding Great Army". (Ezekiel 37:1-14).

The "3 Overturns" in British Israelite history finished when England's throne was set up in 1066 AD with William the Conqueror. Then, it proceeded to establish itself with the trauma of ruling from one house of tribes to another, which took place over the following years. Thereby, identifying each tribe as it did so seen in Genesis 48 and 49, - Deuteronomy 33. Daniel's prophecies established for them by God, the deathbed vows of Jacob/Israel!

In Daniel 2:44, 7:9, 13 and 14, we read of the presenting and anointing of Jesus as King, when He returns to this earth, then taking up King David's earthly throne and crown in the sight of all Israel once more. (Jeremiah 23:5-6, Acts 15:16-18). The throne of David and the sceptre of Judah (Jew), will not depart from Jesus the Christ "ever", until He comes again! (Genesis 49:10). The Lord Jesus is from the lineage of Pharez, we can't take it from "Him" and give the crown to Zarah's lineage, that situation would cut across the Principles of the Law of the second child, chosen by God, when a biblical scholar said, Zarah's lineage with Jeremiah the prophet was in Ireland, Scotland and took England's throne. We must read the story of Zarah and "why" this legend for Ireland, remains a legend. The First Principles of God's Book tells us otherwise.

The Breach in Judah, Genesis 38.

The story of the twins Zarah and Pharez which one reads in Genesis chapter 38, is indeed a "mysterious breach" in the lineages of the tribe of Judah.

This chapter tells of Judah's shame, after having 3 sons by a Canaanite woman and when they grew up, Judah married 2 sons to a woman called Tamar. They both died childless, because God was displeased with them. Judah promised his third son Shelah also to Tamar, enabling Judah to have grandchildren. In the process of time, Judah forgot his promise to Tamar. Eventually Judah, thinking Tamar a harlot, she being covered by a veil -as was the custom of some other nations,- lay with her, Tamar was to prove to Judah, that she was more righteous than he after identifying herself and that she was carrying his child.

When the time came for Tamar to give birth she had twins in her womb. Tamar travailed in labour pains and one child put out his hand, the midwife ties a scarlet thread upon it, to prove he was the "firstborn". The babe drew back his hand, instead his twin brother was born first. The midwife was astounded and exclaimed, "HOW HAST THOU BROKEN FORTH? THIS BREACH BE UPON THEE; THEREFORE HIS NAME WAS CALLED PHAREZ, (Breach)". -(Genesis 38).

The baby with the scarlet thread on his hand was called Zarah, (meaning, dawning or shining). The word "BREACH" translates as the state of disruption, it is a gap made by interference and therefore opens up another situation. Indeed, that interference or BREACH was against the odds, when one considers the actual birth of a babe lying with its arms across its chest, as the head reaches down into the birth canal, pushing its way out, in order to be born.

The 2 babies inside Tamar must have made a great movement exchanging places, so that the second twin Pharez could be born.

The Pharez lineage into the future history of the "House of Judah" became the lineage of Jesus and of Mary, (Luke 3:33).

The patterns of the law were kept, because the "BREACH" birth of Pharez saw the "Second Child" take the "birthright" of earthly position and that second choice of child was accepted, whose heritage was of God.

Judah's father Jacob, had a similar episode in his life being the second one of twin sons. Jacob as a young man was to take both the "birthright" and special "blessing" from his twin brother Esau. The "interference" or "Breach" in the nation of all Israel by God, has happened mostly through a babe or child. Some examples of "interference" are the birth of Isaac, a babe born to an aged mother past childbearing.

The birth and hiding of the baby Moses, kept for greater things in Israel.

The birth of the long-awaited Joseph, nurtured through anxiety for God's purpose.

The baby Samuel set aside by God to anoint David as King.

The most important babe of all, Jesus, born to suffer as the Redeemer of Israel.

Not forgetting the babe John, the Baptist born to aged parents, set aside to baptise The Christ. All these births were "interfered" with by God for a purpose!

When we go back to prophecy of Nebuchadnezzar's dream image, we read how the "stone" cut out of the mountain, smashes into the feet of iron and clay of the House of Israel. This is Israel's King of Kings, about to pick up the sceptre of the secular and spiritual crown of Israel's 2 nations. He, being always King to the "House of Israel," who are Christians under Joseph's power. He is also King to the "House of Judah" from the lineage of David, Pharez and Judah, thus making the throne of David always secure!

The large story of prophecy is very intricate, but simple when the "patterns" emerge to follow. Because of these "patterns" Zarah's lineage could not inherit the throne of David, nor the throne of Britain without complete secular/biblical evidence. Jeremiah reaching Ireland is left to legend only. The Bible says Jeremiah was forced to go to Egypt with the remnant of the Jews, where it is "supposed" he died an old man, (Jeremiah chapters 40,45) etc;

The history of the "3 OVERTURNS", in the House of Israel, is spelled out in detail by Daniel 11:18,19-22 (Rome), -22,23 (Angles/Saxons), -25,26, (Vikings, Danish kings).

Time and time again these different paths and waymarks in history noted here in this book, all lead to the identification of both houses of Israel in our modern world and where we might find them.

Thou Art My People, Hosea 2:23.

Hosea 2:23. "AND I WILL SOW HER UNTO ME IN THE EARTH; AND I WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HER THAT HAD NOT OBTAINED MERCY; AND I WILL SAY TO THEM WHICH WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, THOU ART MY PEOPLE; AND THEY SHALL SAY THOU ART MY GOD".

This wonderful 2-way loving, merciful verse, between God and the "House of Israel", have summed up the meaning and reason "Why" the "valley of dry bones" in Ezekiel's prophecy, has allowed this house to come out of its grave and STAND UPON ITS FEET, AN EXCEEDING GREAT ARMY.

Before we look deeper into Hosea's verse, let us have a quick look into the actions of this prophet, because like Ezekiel, he went through the motions of obedience to God, no matter how a peculiar situation evolved and seen by others.

Hosea prophesied for the Northern Kingdom of Israel, during the times of their Assyrian captivity. King Ahab and his evil Queen Jezebel had brought this Northern Kingdom down to its lowest position through idolatry etc; and for this, the kingdom was on borrowed time of forgiveness from God. Hosea began his prophetic work during the lifetime of King Jeroboam, who was of the dynasty of Jehu, he became King in Samaria 785 BC and reigned 41 years.

Though things had improved a little after Jehu's killing of Ahab and Jezebel, plus their numerous pagan priests etc; the Kingdom was toppling again into a dark pit of moral and religious decay, which the prophet Amos at that time, denounced, (Amos 5:1-4).

In Hosea 1:2 we read, The Lord God told Hosea to go and marry a wife who was a prostitute. Some bible students say the words are only symbolic.

The most important point that must not be ignored however, is when a prophet is of God, he obeys that voice to his own detriment completely, being fully aware of the penalties of his actions to himself and his people. Hosea would not be the first, nor the last prophet to stand in a lion's den so to speak, in obedience to his Makers voice!

Hosea "did" take a real prostitute for a wife, because she represented in her actions what the whole 2 houses of Israel had become. Especially the Northern Kingdom of the "House of Israel". Which we read of in Hosea 1:2. "THE BEGINNING OF THE WORD OF THE LORD BY HOSEA. AND THE LORD SAID TO HOSEA, GO, TAKE UNTO THEE A WIFE OF WHOREDOM AND CHILDREN OF WHOREDOMS. FOR THE LAND HATH COMMITTED GREAT WHOREDOM, DEPARTING FROM THE LORD".

In verses 3 and 4 of the same chapter, we read that his wife Gomer had a son by Hosea, who the Lord said had to be called Jezreel.

Why that famous biblical name Jezreel?

The reason was, King Ahab had built a fine palace at Jezreel, (I Kings 21:1). It was where Jezebel met her death and where Ahab's 70 son's severed heads were placed in heaps at the palace gates. Jezreel was a fertile place whose splendid view of the plain went on to Jordan. The story and destruction of which, by Jehu, is in II Kings 10.

Hosea 1:4-5 "AND THE LORD SAID UNTO HIM, CALL HIS NAME JEZREEL; FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE, AND I WILL AVENGE THE BLOOD OF JEZREEL UPON THE HOUSE OF JEHU, AND WILL CAUSE TO CEASE THE KINGDOM OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL".

Verse 5:- "AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS AT THAT DAY, THAT I WILL BREAK THE BOW OF ISRAEL IN THE VALLEY OF JEZREEL". One will note reader that God has taken note of the vile way the Northern Kingdom of Israel's people had lived and of the murder and mayhem by which they had solved their problems. The new dynasty of Jehu lasted about 100 years, one of which was Jeroboam II "against" whom Hosea prophesies.

So, the "little while" spoken of in verse 4, left to this short dynasty of Jehu was fast approaching, because the continual idolatry and spilling of so much blood of the people of this kingdom, sickened God, and He was causing this kingdom to cease to exist. From that time onwards the "bow", -representing their fighting secular and spiritual strength,- would be broken and the power within Jezreel of Samaria gone.

Hosea 1: 6-7. "AND SHE CONCEIVED AGAIN, AND BARE A DAUGHTER. AND GOD SAID UNTO HIM, CALL HER NAME LO-RUHAMAH; FOR I WILL NO MORE HAVE MERCY UPON THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL; BUT I WILL UTTERLY TAKE THEM AWAY".

Verse 7:- "BUT I WILL HAVE MERCY UPON THE HOUSE OF JUDAH, AND WILL SAVE THEM BY THE LORD THEIR GOD, AND WILL NOT SAVE THEM BY BOW, NOR BY SWORD, NOR BY BATTLE, BY HORSES, NOR BY HORSEMEN".

These verses tell us Gomer had a second child, a daughter called Lo-ruhamah, meaning "not pitied", or "not having obtained mercy". This judgement would be metered out to the 10 tribed "House of Israel" within secular history, without God's mercy and they would be no more a nation. Thus, becoming totally "lost" from all the promises of their beginnings and from their land.

Verse 7 however, has a judgement of "Mercy" and is offered to the "House of Judah", because they possessed the lineage of David's throne within their people. Also, a remnant of righteous people trying to adhere to the ways of God. Judah would be saved for a while, not by any armaments of war used by their men, but they would eventually possess the King of Kings, Jesus. "He" being brought about as their Saviour from the intervention of God Almighty.

Hosea 1:8-9. "NOW WHEN SHE HAD WEANED LO-RUHAMAH, SHE CONCEIVED, AND BARE A SON".

Verse 9:- "THEN SAID GOD, CALL HIS NAME LO-AMMI; FOR YE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL NOT BE YOUR GOD".

The prostitute Gomer had another son Lo-ammi, meaning "not my people". This time the expression "my people" means both houses of the nation of Israel, because by the time this child's prophecy is put into effect in secular/biblical history, Judah also will have rejected God's "peace offering" to mend these people's hearts and ways. They cut themselves off from God by killing its prophets and crucifying the Messiah.

Hosea 1:10. "YET THE NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL SHALL BE AS THE SAND OF THE SEA, WHICH CANNOT BE MEASURED NOR NUMBERED; AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, THERE IT SHALL BE SAID UNTO THEM, YE ARE THE SON'S OF THE LIVING GOD". This wonderful merciful blessing on God's part, is about to give both houses of Israel another chance in history, especially the Northern Kingdom of Israel. Verse 10 describes the state of the "House of Israel" within the nations of the world, after going through centuries of history where they had been driven. They now have emerged as a multitude of Israelite stock, holding both bad and good people, also containing the chosen remnant Zion, whose children were predestined from earlier times. Though at times even Zion's children had become evil and cruel. -(Lamentations 4:3).

All this nation will eventually learn to the full, the great depth to the truth of God's plan, which will change their corrupt and evil ways. The place of Jezreel will once more contain the children of the "House of Israel" into future history.

Both houses Judah/Israel will amalgamate as one full nation again, identifiable to all. They will acknowledge one ruler overall and He is the Christ! Thus, becoming the King over a mighty Kingdom, ruling peoples of the earth with a rod of iron.

The rejoicing will be marvellous when knowledge is increased, taking the people once more into the holy land, and Jezreel will sing for joy instead of the past rivers of blood.

Hosea 2:19-23, "AND I WILL BETROTH THEE UNTO ME FOREVER; YEA, I WILL BETROTH THEE UNTO ME IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND IN JUDGEMENT, AND IN LOVING KINDNESS, AND IN MERCIES".

Verse 20:- "I WILL EVEN BETROTH THEE UNTO ME IN FAITHFULNESS; AND THOU SHALT KNOW THE LORD".

Verse 21:- "AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY, I WILL HEAR, SAITH THE LORD. I WILL HEAR THE HEAVENS, AND THEY SHALL HEAR THE EARTH".

Verse 22:- "AND THE EARTH SHALL HEAR THE CORN, AND THE WINE, AND THE OIL; AND THEY SHALL HEAR JEZREEL".

Verse 23:- "AND I WILL SOW HER UNTO ME IN THE EARTH; AND I WILL HAVE MERCY UPON HER THAT HAD NOT OBTAINED MERCY; AND I WILL SAY TO THEM WHICH WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, THOU ART MY PEOPLE; AND THEY SHALL SAY, THOU ART MY GOD".

Whereas in Hosea 1:6, God had "No Mercy for the House of Israel" and they were utterly taken away from their land, Kingdom and Jezreel. At the end of time and chastisement God's mercy returns to them and once more become "Thou Art My People" in Hosea 2:23.

So, that "Valley" full of the House of Israel's "Dry Bones" has come back to life and renewed itself in the waters of baptism, faith and wisdom, thereby denouncing its evil past.

The prophet Amos who prophesied at the time of Hosea, also wrote of the destruction of the "House of Israel" and of its carcasses. Amos 8:2-3, "AND HE SAID, AMOS, WHAT SEEST THOU? AND I SAID, A BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT. THEN SAID THE LORD UNTO ME. THE END HAS COME UPON MY PEOPLE ISRAEL; I WILL NOT AGAIN PASS BY THEM ANYMORE".

Verse 3:- "AND THE SONGS OF THE TEMPLE SHALL BE HOWLINGS IN THAT DAY, SAITH THE LORD GOD; THERE SHALL BE MANY DEAD BODIES IN EVERY PLACE, THEY SHALL CAST THEM FORTH WITH SILENCE".

Amos 9:8-9. "BEHOLD, THE EYES OF THE LORD GOD ARE UPON THE SINFUL KINGDOM, (Of the Northern House of Israel) AND I WILL DESTROY IT FROM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH; (Who became "lost" sheep) SAYING THAT I WILL NOT UTTERLY DESTROY THE HOUSE OF JACOB; (Or Judah/Jews) SAITH THE LORD".

Verse 9:- "FOR, LO, I WILL COMMAND, AND I WILL SIFT THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AMONG THE NATIONS, LIKE AS CORN IS SIFTED IN A SIEVE, YET SHALL NOT THE LEAST GRAIN FALL UPON THE EARTH".

The "Valley of Israel's Dry Bones" lay in the earth, with those dead bodies piling up one on top of the other throughout the centuries, because of the ignorance of this house.

Most of the prophets tell us the sad story of the House of Israel. Micah 6:16. "FOR THE STATUTES OF OMRI ARE KEPT, (Omri, sixth king of this house, father of Ahab) AND ALL THE WORKS OF THE HOUSE OF AHAB, (King of N/Israel, wife Jezebel) AND YE WALK IN THEIR COUNSELS, (This house counselled that "anything goes" with one's self-will and God was a memory. This sounds just like today's generations), THAT I SHOULD MAKE THEE A DESOLATION, (Or destruction of Israel's inhabitants) AND THE INHABITANTS THEREOF AN HISSING, (Or the people of that place will be a byword, or a sound of contempt). THEREFORE, YE SHALL BEAR THE REPROACH OF MY PEOPLE". (Or the Houses of Israel/Judah will bear the shame and scorn in the nations for their ancient history and modern-day Israel remains ignorant of truth).

The Prophet Isaiah enlarges the story of Micah, when he speaks of the ignorance of the house of Israel within yesterdays and today’s people. Isaiah 65:1-7, "I AM SOUGHT OF THEM THAT ASKED NOT FOR ME; (Isaiah's message is the description of the House of Israel in the last days. These people seek God in the latter centuries, but "not" in the idolatrous ancient kingdom of Israel). I AM FOUND OF THEM THAT SOUGHT ME NOT; (Today we say, God exists and "He" is "I am", all-powerful). I SAID, BEHOLD ME, BEHOLD ME UNTO A NATION THAT WAS NOT CALLED BY MY NAME". (God has been trying for centuries to tell the nation of the "House of Israel" who they really are! They can't hear prophecy because they are blanketed with their own man-made rituals of religions and secular interests. "He" has been saying to them "you are my people" to the nation of Israel and "I am" The Holy One of Israel. You are called by my name Israel, meaning:- he strives with God and prevails, (Isaiah 44:5). These Gentile Israelites say they are of British stock, or American, Australian, New Zealand, etc; who would have difficulty in the knowledge that they are also Israel's genetic children. Some of them are happy, calling themselves "Spiritual" Israel. I'm afraid one can't divide the flesh from the spirit, because these 2 halves are the whole person. Therefore, both halves must be Israelites)!

Isaiah 65:2:- "I HAVE SPREAD OUT MY HANDS ALL THE DAY UNTO A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE, (Or He has shown us in many ways He exists! He has expanded His display of "who" He is and has published it widely in the Bible. This knowledge has been read for centuries by the people without results). WHICH WALKETH IN A WAY THAT WAS NOT GOOD, AFTER THEIR OWN THOUGHTS"; (The House of Israel are Christians and say they are seekers after God framed in their own minds and will not allow themselves further conceptions. Their conceited thoughts are not good, nor reasonable, because they shut a door on His big plan).

Verse 3:- "A PEOPLE THAT PROVOKETH ME TO ANGER CONTINUALLY TO MY FACE; THAT SACRIFICETH IN GARDENS, AND BURNETH INCENSE UPON ALTARS OF BRICK; (These Christian Israelites prefer man-made rituals and long robes, they have grottos or churches to seek God in and offer the Mediator Jesus as their sacrifice. The incense of their altars are meaningless, because the people are not taught about The Holy One of Israel, nor His great plan in the earth. This goes on year after year provoking the Almighty to destruction).

Verse 4:- "WHICH REMAIN AMONG THE GRAVES, AND LODGE IN THE MONUMENTS. (They are a people dead to knowledge, and their memories of events are perpetuated on and on into deathly ignorance). WHICH EAT SWINES FLESH, AND BROTH OF ABOMINABLE THINGS IS IN THEIR VESSELS". (The House of Israel no longer adheres to the laws set down through Moses, against unclean living standards. Because they say that situation is only applicable to a Jew, and they are Gentiles governed by "anything goes")!

Verse 5:- "WHICH SAY, STAND BY THYSELF, COME NOT NEAR TO ME; FOR I AM HOLIER THAN THOU. (These Gentile Israelites are full of their own vanities of mind and purpose, they are aloof from others, being full of their own important rituals. The "real" children of God who live amongst them in a quiet manner, some of them are looked down upon or excommunicated, from the so-called righteous). THESE ARE A SMOKE IN MY NOSE, A FIRE THAT BURNETH ALL THE DAY". (Or the "Holier Than Thou" people, are taken note of continually, which makes God really angry and frustrated with them, because they hurt the righteous seed for nothing and stop the people from learning truth).

Verse 6:- "BEHOLD, IT IS WRITTEN BEFORE ME; I WILL NOT KEEP SILENCE, BUT WILL RECOMPENSE, EVEN RECOMPENSE INTO THEIR BOSOM". (Every person's guilt is set down for God to know what they have done in their lives and because of it, our sins will find us out in the end, we cannot escape. "He" will repay us for anything done bad or good suffered, felt by other persons in the heart).

Verse 7:- "YOUR INIQUITIES, AND THE INIQUITIES OF YOUR FATHERS TOGETHER, SAITH THE LORD, (The "House of Israel" both ancient and modern, have the sins of crime and injustice) WHICH HAVE BURNED INCENSE UPON THE MOUNTAINS, (A flattery of perfume in religious rites), AND BLASPHEMED ME UPON THE HILLS; (In an elevation of voice have spoken impiously in evil against God and the people of Israel lays blame at His doorstep for their own follies and utter abuse against Him. Today, it is fashionable to utter the name God in laughter). THEREFORE WILL I MEASURE THEIR FORMER WORK INTO THEIR BOSOM"; (We will all be answerable for our past sins and the secrets of the heart will not be hidden).

The prophet Ezekiel 36:16-38, also gives us all the same message as Isaiah, then takes us into the words of future conversion for this shallow "House of Israel". -Read it for yourselves.- Now, in this age of much intellectual ability, surely, we can start separating truth from fantasy and centuries of wrong teachings? The Bible will give up its dead for us to renew life to those bones of the Carcase which have waited in the Valley of Dry Bones. Now is the time in history for Zion of Israel and Jerusalem of Judah to travail in sorrow and pain, with the understanding of these matters and bring forth her children spoken by the prophets. (Isaiah 66:7-9).

God will then say, "Thou art my people", and they shall say, "Thou art my God". Hosea 1:11, "THEN SHALL THE CHILDREN OF JUDAH (Of the Jew) AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL (Second nation in the Gentiles), BE GATHERED TOGETHER, (As one nation again), AND APPOINT THEMSELVES ONE HEAD, (Jesus Christ), AND THEY SHALL COME UP OUT OF THE LAND; (Given to their fathers as the land of Israel) FOR GREAT SHALL BE THE DAY OF JEZREEL". (When all suffering and lack of knowledge will be no more, because they are home)!

Ezekiel 34:16, "I WILL SEEK THAT WHICH WAS LOST, (House of Israel in the Gentiles), AND BRING AGAIN THAT WHICH WAS DRIVEN AWAY, (The House of Judah/Jews, who have "now" been brought again into their land to establish it)- AND WILL BIND UP THAT WHICH WAS BROKEN, (The brotherhood between these 2 peoples had been "broken" they have treated each other over the centuries as foreigners. -Zechariah 11:14). AND WILL STRENGTHEN THAT WHICH WAS SICK; (The people affected by the disease of being tired and weary of trying to understand). BUT I WILL DESTROY THE FAT AND THE STRONG; (Or those people who have become "Fat" with good living off the back of our Lord and His Christ. The priests of all descriptions who have led the people down the paths of destruction who say they have become "Strong" in spiritual purposes). I WILL FEED THEM WITH JUDGEMENT". (These 2 nations of the people of Israel will be nourished with words of truth in this matter. The people will then become skilful in the understanding of the words of God and will consider between truth and conjecture. Then the "Comforter" has come)!

Ezekiel 34:30, "THUS SHALL THEY KNOW THAT I THE LORD THEIR GOD AM WITH THEM, AND THAT THEY, EVEN THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, ARE MY PEOPLE, SAITH THE LORD GOD".