2) return from exile - Ezra 6:17
-lets backup the time frame here to, the house of Israels captivity
2 Kings 17
5Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged
it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria,
and carried Israel away into Assyria,
and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
22For the children of Israel walked in all the sins of Jeroboam which he did;they departed not from them
23Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets.
So was [Israel] carried away out of their own land to Assyria [unto this day].
-In 721-718 b.c. Israel was “carried away out of their own land to Assyria”
18Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight:
there was none left but the tribe of Judah only. -Judah only remained.
20And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them
into the hand of spoilers, until he had [cast them out of his sight].
21For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king:
and Jeroboam drave Israel from following the Lord, and made them sin a great sin.
“For the children of Israel walked in all [the sins of Jeroboam] which he did;
- do a study about the sins of Jeroboam, did like father before,and father before him...,
the reason Israel was deforced, and Judah followed after, it was always about
Gods statues and judgements or there forfathers tradations.
Isaiah 8:17: “And I will wait upon the Lord,
[that hideth his face] from the house of Jacob[sinning Israel, or in sin] and without God.
-Wherever you see the name “Israel,” or “house of Israel,” or “Samaria,” or
“Jacob,” or “Rachel,” or “Ephraim” and or "Manasseh" used in prophecy,
It never refers to the Jews, but to Israel
Amos 9:8-9
“Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom [house of Israel]
[Judah had not yet sinned], and I will destroy it -the kingdom, or government,
not the people, from off the face of the earth, lost from mans view and idenity.
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift [the house of Israel] among [all nations],
like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth”
-the house of Israel was sifted among all nations, not the house of Judah.
Hosea 3
4For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, and without a prince,
and without a sacrifice, and without an image, and without an ephod, and without teraphim:
5Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king;
and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days.
2 Samuel 7:14
I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with
the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:
Judah, that it did worse then its brother did, and deforced them too.
- about a 130 years later, the house of Judah goes captive to Babylon.
after they where warned time an again, about Gods sabbaths, and bringing goods to sell.
-we will skip Jeremiahs great commision for now, but one question would be,
why did he hookup with the former kings daughters, and where did he go with afterwards?
- now we have the return from captivity of Judah, back to Jerusalem.
but for Davids sake, and Gods Holy name, we can even see the jews return.
5And also let the golden and silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took forth
out of the temple which is at Jerusalem, and brought unto Babylon, be restored, and brought again
unto the temple which is at Jerusalem, every one to his place, and place them in the house of God.
Ezra 1:5
“Then rose up the chief of the fathers of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests, and the Levites
the tribe of Judah, or the house of Judah, together with remnants of Benjamin and Levi,
who constituted the children of Israel, returned at that time, not the lost ten tribes.
Ezra 6:
7Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of [the Jews] and the elders of
the Jews build this house of God in his place.
14And the elders of [the Jews builded], and they prospered through the prophesying
of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo.
And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel,
and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.
[Ezra 6:17]
And offered [at the dedication of this house of God] an hundred bullocks,
two hundred rams, four hundred lambs;
and for a sin offering [for all Israel], twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel
- the children of the captivity made the offering for all the tribes of Israel, -only twelve goats,
it does not say that all Israel was there, a sin offering was made by jews, in all there behalf.
- Ezra 6:17 is not the return from exile of the house of Israel to Jerusalem.
the current visible Jews are not the lost ten tribes.