Ezekiel 37 (ESV)
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 (lost 10 tribes of the ancient northern kingdom of Israel - split from Judah's southern kingdom, who lost their identity, got scattered - to be regathered in time, and intermingled and adopted others whilst scattered within the nations, and started worshipping idols since, after they went into Assyrian captivity around 740BC, never to return even remotely substantially). And I will join with it the stick of Judah (those of the Jews who substantially remembered their identity and walk in God's Torah through Judaism - who also returned substantially after Babylonian captivity in 597BC, even returned to Jerusalem's recapture in 1967 after the six day war, following the destruction of Jerusalem in 70AC and got scattered from Judea following the false-messiah Barkokhba's revolt which were defeated by 136AC) , and make them one stick, that they may be one in my hand.
John 11 (ESV)
49 But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, "You know nothing at all.
50 Nor do you understand that it is better for you that one man should die for the people, not that the whole nation should perish."
51 He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
53 So from that day on they made plans to put him to death.
54 Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews (southern kingdom remnant), but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim (very small group of known northern kingdom remnant, known at the time), and there he stayed with the disciples.
After Ezekiel 37's restoration of ALL the worldwide-scattered, former identity-lost, descendants of ALL 12 tribes of Jacob / Israel to the land of Israel, the war with Gog breaks out before the mention of the last temple in Ezekiel 40:
Ezekiel 39 (ESV)
1"And you, son of man, prophesy against Gog and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
2 And I will turn you about and drive you forward, and bring you up from the uttermost parts of the north, and lead you against the mountains of Israel.
Ezekiel 40 (ESV)
3 When he brought me there, behold, there was a man whose appearance was like bronze, with a linen cord and a measuring reed in his hand. And he was standing in the gateway.
4 And the man said to me, "Son of man, look with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart upon all that I shall show you, for you were brought here in order that I might show it to you. Declare all that you see to the house of Israel."
5 And behold, there was a wall all around the outside of the temple area, and the length of the measuring reed in the man's hand was six long cubits, each being a cubit and a handbreadth in length. So he measured the thickness of the wall, one reed; and the height, one reed.
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