Shalom
Fellow Israelite,
On 12th
of May 1948 a decision on the name of the newly formed State of Israel had
to be voted on by ten council members. The choices were Yehuda, Tsyion, Tsabar,
and Erets Yisrael. Most assumed that it
would be Yehuda, but a divine harbinger manifested in a last minute suggestion
by David Ben Gurion, and that was the name “Yisrael”. Seven of the council
members voted for that name, which was a prophetic sign of the future return of
all the tribes of Israel. The
order of the restoration and return in Ezekiel 37 places Yehuda/Israel first, and
thusly Yehuda’s dry stick became at that time a nation once again.
Perhaps you
are not aware that also in 1948 a contest was held by the temporary government
for a national emblem. One hundred and
sixty four individuals submitted
450 ideas. The one chosen, which the State of
Israel adopted, on February 10th 1949, was designed by two brothers,
Gabriel and Maxim Shamir. Their suggestion included the seven candle branch
Menorah. The final draft, however, did not totally resemble the brothers’
original design, as the committee decided to incorporate a few other features
into it and changed the shape of the Menorah to the one depicted in the Arch of
Titus (in Rome). The two olive branches
which flank the Menorah, were meant as peace symbols, and only later were associated
with Zechariah
4:11. I believe that this design was another harbinger of the
restoration of the two sticks of Ezekiel 37:16.
In his book
The Harbinger, Jonathan Cahn makes mention of the significance of trees in the
Bible. He specifically notes the two cited
in Isaiah 9:10 - the sycamore and the cedar, both in relationship to the 9/11
terror attack in New York, as being symbolic of judgments upon the United
States. In an interview about his latest
book, The Mystery of the Shemitah Unlocked, he noted how Shemitah years are
associated with judgments and changes, both positive and negative. The rise and fall of nations in connection to
Shemitah is one example he brings up in this book. Hence, if the USA is indeed spiraling down,
and if that began in a Shemitah year (2001), what about the rise of the nation
of Yehuda in 1917 (another Shemitah), or the reconstitution of the second
stick/nation of Yosef/Ephraim in the current Shemitah? Is the latter also a harbinger of this
eventuality, with the first Yehuda-Yosef “United 2 Restore” group marching in
the Jerusalem Succot parade last year and then with the convening of the first B’ney
Yosef National Congress on Shavuot? Is this
the Shemitah year in which the second stick/nation of Joseph/Ephraim is
beginning to bud? By the same token, should
many of the harbingers of judgment be also interpreted positively, in that YHVH
is going to bring back and restore the whole House of Israel? The branch of Yehuda in the national emblem is
fully leafed, but what about the second branch in that national emblem, what
should it look like at this time? Here
is my rendition:
Shabbat
Shalom,
Ephraim
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