RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

COMMENTARY - ENDNOTES
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“Far off” is a reference often used of Efrayim-Yisrael's exiles, and no one can find this out without revelation
from YHWH Himself.
4132
A wise heart can discern the time and season of Yisrael’s restoration.
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Their body and soul die, not their redeemed spirit.
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Many of Yisrael’s kings were mere children.
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Keep sowing the two-house message, for soon Yisrael will be fully restored.
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Et borecha. Literally: “your Creators.” A reference to the plurality of divinity. Also the alef taf, or et (in the actual
Hebrew) before “Creators” is a direct object pointer, indicating that the Creators are alef taf.
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This is the truth plainly outlined by those open to receive it.
4138
In Yisrael’s rebuilding, the Good Shepherd distributes our tasks and tools, symbolized by nails.
ESTHER
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Many scholars feel this was none other than the well-known Artaxeres, who was a friend of the Jews based on
many events, including those detailed in the Scroll of Esther.
4140
The Jews in Babylon, who chose not to return with Ezra and Nehemiah, were later swallowed up in the captivity
of Babylon, by the combined might of Medo-Persia. These captured exiles from Babylon circa 490 BCE are the Jews
of the Book of Esther. They were called Jews by then, because all the Jews descended primarily from the three
southern tribes, as were both Mordechai and Esther.
4141
The thought of anyone having to become Jewish is nonsensical prior to 921 BCE when the Tabernacle of Dawid
split. The term “Jew,” or “Jews,” is not mentioned in Scripture prior to 490 BCE. The term “Jew” does not even
appear in the Scriptures in social-historical Yisrael until the nation split into two houses and is first referenced here
in the Scroll of Esther (and in the Scroll of Jeremiah), which took place after the first return of Judah from the
Babylonian captivity. Jews did not exist as Jews separately from Yisrael until the kingdom split in 921 BCE. Any ties
to social and historical Yisrael prior to that date would lead one to Yisraelite, and certainly not Jewish, status.
Mordechai was considered a Jew, because he came from Benjamin, a southern tribe after the split.
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Jewish-Yisrael.
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Yisraelites cannot keep silent when either house of Yisrael is being mistreated, or persecuted. We must speak up
for both houses, using love and equal weights and measures. If we keep silent we lose YHWH’s blessing. We have
been brought into the kingdom in these last days to proclaim deliverance and relief to all Yisrael’s captives.
4144
We must be willing to lose all for the kingdom message of Yisrael’s restoration.
4145
Would to YHWH all the gentiles would grab hold of this principle.
4146
We see Yisraelites throughout Asia and Asia Minor. If that is true of Judah, how much more of the numerically
larger non-Jewish Yisraelites?
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Judah was scattered into every Persian city, just like Efrayim was scattered into every city on the earth as the
“fullness of the nations.”
4148
Many in Asia and the Middle East became Jews. Since the Chaldeans in Medo-Persia were included, many
Chaldeans and Persians also became Yisrael. So the blood of both houses remains fully intermingled in fulfillment
of the nivrechu promise given to Abraham in Genesis 12:3. See notes on Gen. 12:3 for more details.
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Many joined with Jewish-Yisrael and had offspring who obviously became Yisrael and are dispersed in the world
to this day.
4150 Home to many of Efrayim-Yisrael.
EZRA
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Not Efrayim, or the other ten tribes, since Efrayim never was part of the Babylonian exile having gone into
Assyria some 200 years earlier.
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This is the Mordechai from the Scroll of Esther recorded here as Mordechai-Bilashon, because he was proficient
in many languages. He returned from exile with Ezra and Nehemiah.
4153
Many black Jews in Africa today (Lemba) claim to be from the exiled children of Senaah who never returned. See:
http://pbs.org/wgbh/nova/israel/familylemba.html
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Yet they were still numbered among Yisrael in this chapter by Ezra, a scribe and leader of the nation, once again
showing that all those willing to follow Yisrael and dwell with Yisrael by following their regulations are Yisrael, even
when they can’t prove their lineage.
4155
As seen elsewhere, most Jews didn’t return from Babylon, let alone Efrayim from out of the nations. A remnant
returned, but not all Yisrael. They have never yet been fully reconstituted.
4156
Obviously “all Yisrael” here is limited to those who returned with Jewish-Yisrael, and not the false notion that the
fullness of all 12 tribes returned. The qualifier for the “all Yisrael” is found earlier in this very same verse with the
term “some of the people.”
4157
Assyrian colonists who settled in the north after Efrayim’s expulsion, and mixed with the remaining Efrayimites,
who came to be known as Samaritans and were actually Efrayimites who were blood-related to the Jewish exiles that
returned.
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This was basically another Efrayimite attempt to stop Jerusalem-based worship.
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