Over the past hundred years and more we have witnessed the restoration of the first stick

Can we do תפילות prayers for:

Ephraim and Remonah?

That also through them The האור Light, רפואה The Healing and The ואהבה Love of ישועת יהוה Yeshuath YHWH may come back to הארץ The Land of Israel?

"As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: 'For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.' Then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.' Then join them one to another for yourself into one stick, and they will become one in your hand… they shall no longer be two nations, nor shall they ever be divided into two kingdoms again” (Ezekiel 3716-17, 22).  

Over the past hundred years and more we have witnessed the restoration of the first stick, or nation, of Judah. 

Nowadays Judah is, of course, a recognized national entity among the other nations of the world.  Naturally, Israel State laws define the Jewish identity.  Those who qualify have the rights to return to the Jewish State, but what about the second stick, or nation, of Joseph in the hand of Ephraim? Most of you are already aware of this phenomenon which is taking place out in the nations; that is, of non Jews (mostly Christians) who suddenly or gradually discover that they could very well be the natural descendants of the lost tribes of Israel.  There are many different testimonies as to how each has come to this awareness. 

The restoration of the second stick that is taken up by “the son of man,” in Ezekiel thirty-seven, is obviously happening in the present hour.   The lost tribes, like dry bones, have been without life; but now the Spirit is raising them/us up out of the graves of non-recognition and they/we are being networked together (at least through the cyber world) as His people.   Thus, at present this second tree/nation is made up of many assemblies, organizations, movements, house groups and individuals.  The one thing that they all have in common is their national identity as the second distinct nation of Ephraim/Israel, brother to the Jewish nation.  It is therefore imperative that we define the Ephraimite national entity.

For many years most of the Jews viewed the ‘ten lost tribes’ only as a theory, or even a myth. However, in more recent years there has been a growing awareness of this, at least in the realm of probability. There are a number of Israelis who are examining and looking at different groups in various parts of the world as the possible descendants of the lost tribes. However, in order to make this more viable, the identity of the ‘other’ house has to become more solidified, especially if they number in the tens of thousands.

This could very well be the time for the disclosure of the Ephraimite identity, just as it was for our forefather Joseph, who revealed himself to his brother, even though he was clad in his Egyptian attire.  Through troublesome circumstances Joseph’s brothers were prepared by YHVH to recognize their sibling.  Today our brother Judah is threatened by the increase of the Arab population in and around the Land of Israel, a growth which poses a threat to the demographic balance in the Land.  There are some Israelis who feel that if indeed the ‘lost tribes’ are found, it could be the answer to some of our critical problems in the State of Israel.

I don’t think that anyone who has come to the revelation of the Two Houses of Israel questions that this latter day out-pouring of YHVH’s Spirit is fulfilling biblical prophecy regarding the restoration of the whole House of Israel.  The Northern Kingdom of Israel (Ephraim) was rejected and cast off by Elohim.  Its inhabitants and their seed have been the broken, uncultivated branches of the olive tree of Jacob.  In their/our casting away (which is how a seed is sown) they/we have multiplied and have become “m’lo hagoyim” (“fullness of the gentiles/nations,” Genesis 48:19).  At this time there is a remnant that the Spirit is raising from the graves, through the restoration of the kingdom set up by Messiah Yeshua.   This move of YHVH’s Spirit has taken on many different expressions, but there is still one element common to all of us, and that is our national identity and biblical roots.

Ephraim