NOTICE how Christ gathers the nations (northern and southern KingdomS) in Judgment is found in Ezekiel 37:15-28
Matthew 25:32 Before him WILL BE GATHERED ALL THE NATIONS and he will separate people one from another AS A SHEPHERD SEPARATES THE SHEEP FROM THE GOATs.
John 11:52 and not for the nation only, but in order that He might also GATHER TOGETHER INTO ONE THE CHILDREN OF GOD WHO ARE SCATTERED ABROAD.
Ezekiel 37:1-14 is about the resurrection, being brought back into the land, back into covenant, back into relationship with YHWH and no longer CUT-OFF!
1 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. 2 He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry.3 He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones live?”
I said, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.”
4 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! 5 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breathenter you, and you will come to life. 6 I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”
7 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. 8 I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
9 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to the breath;prophesy, son of man, and say to it, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come, breath, from the four winds and breathe into these slain, that they may live.’” 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet—a vast army.
11 Then he said to me: “Son of man, these bones are the people of Israel. They say, ‘Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.’ 12 Therefore prophesy and say to them: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: My people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel. 13 Then you, my people, will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and bring you up from them.14 I will put my Spirit in you and you will live, and I will settle you in your own land. Then you will know that I the Lord have spoken, and I have done it, declares the Lord.’”
Ezekiel 37:15-2815 The word of the Lord came to me: 16 “Son of man, take a stick and write on it, ‘For Judah, and the people of Israel associated with him’; then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph (the stick of Ephraim) and all the house of Israel associated with him.’ 17 And join them one to another into ONE STICK, that they may become one in your hand. 18 And when your people say to you, ‘Will you not tell us what you mean by these?’ 19 say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am about to take the stick of Joseph (that is in the hand of Ephraim) and the tribes of Israel associated with him. And I will join with it the stick of Judah, and make them ONE STICK, that they may be ONE IN MY HAND. 20 When the sticks on which you write are in your hand before their eyes, 21 then say to them, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will take the people of Israel from THE NATIONS among which they have gone, and WILL GATHER THEM FROM ALL AROUND, AND BRING THEM TO THEIR OWN LAND. 22 And I will MAKE THEM ONE NATION in the land, on the mountains of Israel. And ONE KING shall be king over them all, and they shall be no longer TWO NATIONS, and no longer divided into TWO KINGDOMS. 23 They shall not defile themselves anymore with their idols and their detestable things, or with any of THEIR TRANSGRESSIONS. But I will SAVE THEM from all the backslidings in which THEY HAVE SINNED, and will cleanse THEM; and they shall be MY PEOPLE, and I will be THEIR God.
24 “My servant David shall be KING OVER THEM, and they shall all have one shepherd. They shall walk in my rules and be careful to obey my statutes. 25 They shall DWELL IN THE LAND that I gave to my servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They and their children and their children's children shall dwell there forever, and David my servant shall be THEIR PRINCE FOREVER. 26 I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an EVERLASTING COVENANT WITH THEM. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set MY SANCTUARY IN THEIR MIDST FOREVERMORE. 27 MY DWELLING PLACE WILL BE WITH THEM, and I will be their God, and they shall be MY PEOPLE. 28 Then the nations will know that I am the Lord who sanctifies Israel, when MY SANCTUARY IS IN THEIR MIDST FOREVERMORE.”
NOTICE how Christ gathers the nations (northern and southern Kingdom) in Judgment
Matthew 25:32
Before him will be gathered all the NATIONS and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Notice how Christ gathers the elect remnant from north n south into one.
John 11:52
and not for the NATION only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
v19 YHWH will make the stick of Joseph and the stick of Judah into ONE STICK.
v21 YHWH gathers the people of Israel from the nations where they were gone or were scattered.
Look at v22 How YHWH calls the northern and southern kingdomS, TWO NATION[S], TWO KINGDOM(S) plural. Notice how this is the time when YHWH cleanses and calls these people, "MY PEOPLE" again.
v22 YHWH makes north and south kingdoms ONE NATION with ONE KING, YESHUA.
V23 YHWH says that He will SAVE THEM. Romans 11: 26 says that ALL ISRAEL SAVED.
V24 CHRIST IS KING OVER THEM.
v25 ISRAEL IS BROUGHT INTO THE PROMISELAND, CHRIST'S PRESENCE. YESHUA is prince forever.
v26 EVERLASTING COVENANT; SANCTUARY IN THEIR MIDST FOREVERMORE.
V27 YHWH's DWELLING PLACE WILL BE WITH THEM. THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.
V28 ISRAEL IS SANCTIFIED AND YHWH'S sanctuary is in their midst forevermore.
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