RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

COMMENTARY - ENDNOTES
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Only called Jews after their exile and return from Babylon.
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The prophets with vision and a message of correction always spearhead true revival moves, such as the endtime
restoration of both houses of Yisrael.
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Both the prophets and laborers must work together in Yisrael's restoration.
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The same command was renewed and confirmed three times.
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A sacrifice made representing all 12 tribes. This in no way indicates, or even implies that the fullness of all 12
tribes were present, as only 42,000 Jews had returned, proving that Judah had not fully returned, much less Efrayim.
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Specifically the Babylonian exile, since Efrayim is not even the topic here.
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Many of Judah stayed behind.
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According to Jewish legend, if Moses had not proven worthy to receive Torah, Ezra was next in line.
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This offering is by “all Yisrael there present,” or 42,360 Jews. It does not say all Yisrael was present.
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They offered on behalf of all Yisrael, not that all Yisrael was present.
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This is exactly what both houses need in this final hour of the age. A “little revival” in our national bondage.
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Even through this disobedience, Yisrael’s seed was mixed in many nations, fulfilling YHWH’s purpose.
NEHEMIAH
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Medo-Persia.
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Judah.
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Prayer for all 12 tribes.
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Known as the exile.
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All Yisrael’s prophets knew the importance of the Name.
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All Yisrael needs this desire.
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Notice the usage of the Babylonian names of months that do not appear in Scripture until the 70 years that Judah
spent in Babylon. The Scripture accurately records this transition into pagan names of months, but nowhere gives
approval to it. Yisraelites should do their very best to refrain from using them, and should stick to the numbering
system designated for months in the Torah.
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When one carries a true burden for all Yisrael’s restoration, he will not be received well, and the opponents will
be many.
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Those who try and rebuild Yisrael with King Yahshua’s blessings can always count on being mocked and
scorned.
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Those Samaritans that were colonized by the Assyrians. Here they mock Judah in another classic two-house
battle of hate and bitterness.
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Just like all those who don’t want to see Dawid’s Tabernacle being rebuilt, because they are building their own
version of Yisrael.
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The message of restoration will often bring out fierce anger.
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A true description of the two-house fight to rebuild. A sword along with hard labor.
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Nehemiah 5:8 has nothing at all to do with proving that all twelve tribes returned as some claim. If anything, it
proves that only Jews returned. The issue here is Nehemiah’s wrath at fellow Jews violating Torah by subjecting
other Jews to the bondage of slavery, when YHWH had set all of Jewish-Yisrael apart from the nations, or the
Babylonian pagans. Efrayim never returned from Babylonian exile because they were never in Babylon as a nation,
only as individuals mixed in with Judah.
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Many heathen joined Nehemiah and became Judah, or Jewish-Yisraelites. How about those who join Efrayim?
Using equal weights and measures, one would have to surmise that they also become Yisrael, since there is no
respecter of persons with YHWH.
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Jewish-Yisrael.
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These people could not prove their Yisraelite heritage, yet were still counted by Nehemiah as Yisraelites. The
same applies today. If someone dwells with and makes repentance with Yisrael, they must be reckoned as Yisrael,
without any kind of formal rabbinical conversion.
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The offspring of Barzillai were barred from the priesthood, not barred from the nation of Yisrael. Proving
genealogy may be critical in determining eligibility to be a priest, but cannot and should not bar one from being part
of both the physical and spiritual nation of Yisrael.
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As seen elsewhere in Second Chronicles and such, the term “all Yisrael” was often qualified by the term “all
Yisrael who were present.” The same would apply here. The total of around 50,000 returning exiles cannot be
considered all of Judah (most of whom remained in Babylon), let alone the full return of Efrayim.
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From Ezra’s example the modern bema, or raised pulpit was adopted.
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When restored Yisrael understands Torah, great joy breaks out.
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For 900 years the command to celebrate Tabernacles was violated by Judah and Efrayim. It is never too late to
start.
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Being true Yisrael requires full separation.
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His Name is higher and more important than all of man’s praise and worship.
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