John 11:47-54 

 ⁴⁷Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man [Yeshua] doeth many miracles.

 ⁴⁸If we let him thus alone, all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation.

 ⁴⁹And one of them, named Caiaphas, being the high  priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

 ⁵⁰Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

 ⁵¹And this spake he not of himself: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Yeshua should die for that nation;

 ⁵²And not for that nation only, but that also he should gather together in one the children of Elohim that were scattered abroad [i.e., namely, the House of Israel/Ephraim].

 ⁵³Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.

 ⁵⁴Yeshua therefore walked no more openly among the Jews; but went thence unto a country near to the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

Luke 13:34-35 

 ³⁴O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!

 ³⁵Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of YHWH.

Ezekiel 16:1-3 

 ¹Again the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,

 ²Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,

 ³And say, Thus saith Adonai YHWH unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.

Ezekiel 16:45-47 

 ⁴⁵Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.

 ⁴⁶And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

 ⁴⁷Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

Ezekiel 16:59-63 

 ⁵⁹For thus saith Adonai YHWH; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

 ⁶⁰Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

 ⁶¹Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

 ⁶²And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am YHWH:

 ⁶³That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith Adonai YHWH.

Isaiah 29:9-14; 19-20; 22-24 

 ⁹Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

 ¹⁰For YHWH hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered.

 ¹¹And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:

 ¹²And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

 ¹³Wherefore YHWH said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

 ¹⁴Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid…

 ¹⁹The meek also shall increase their joy in YHWH, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

 ²⁰For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

 ²¹That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.

 ²²Therefore thus saith YHWH, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.

 ²³But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the Elohim of Israel.

 ²⁴They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine…

Now, regarding the House of Israel/Ephraim...

Matthew 22:1-14 

 ¹And Yeshua answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

 ²The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king, which made a marriage for his son,

 ³And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

 ⁴Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatlings are killed, and all things are ready: come unto the marriage.

 ⁵But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

 ⁶And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

 ⁷But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

 ⁸Then saith he to his servants, The wedding is ready, but they which were bidden were not worthy.

 ⁹Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

 ¹⁰So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

 ¹¹And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

 ¹²And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

 ¹³Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 ¹⁴For many are called, but few are chosen.

Revelation 19:6-8 

 ⁶And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for YHWH El Shaddai reigneth.

 ⁷Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.

 ⁸And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

Matthew 25:24-30 

 ²⁴Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Master, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:

 ²⁵And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.

 ²⁶His master answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

 ²⁷Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

 ²⁸Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.

 ²⁹For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

 ³⁰And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

 

Luke 12:45-48 

 ⁴⁵But and if that servant say in his heart, My master delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

 ⁴⁶The master of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

 ⁴⁷And that servant, which knew his master’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

 ⁴⁸But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

 

Matthew 25:6-12 

 ⁶And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

 ⁷Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

 ⁸And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

 ⁹But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

 ¹⁰And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were ready went in with him to the marriage: and the door was shut.

 ¹¹Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Master, Master, open to us.

 ¹²But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

                                                                           

The servant that knew his Master’s desire but did it not was appointed his portion with the “unbelievers”.  He was beaten with many stripes because of his luke-warmness and apathy towards his Master’s will.  Could the phraseologies: ‘cast out into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth’... ‘receiving many stripes’... and ‘being assigned his portion with the unbelievers’ all be speaking of the same thing?  Could these, in fact, all be euphemisms for The Great Tribulation?! 

 

I do believe so!  Moreover, I believe that the rejection of the ‘foolish virgins’ as a judgment is readily distinguishable from that of the wicked of the nations who’ll be judged at Yeshua’s return.  You see, whereas the ‘foolish virgins’ were unprepared to enter the bridegrooms chambers and thus were left out in the ‘Great Tribulation’, the plight of the ‘wicked of the nations’ is very different.  The wicked will be judged and condemned upon Yeshua’s return at the end of the tribulation; and this judgment and condemnation will be on the basis of their ill treatment of the ‘Great Tribulation saints’ [Matt. 25:41-46]… i.e., on how they had treated all those who followed and turned to Messiah Yeshua during that period.

 

However, for the ‘foolish virgins’ who’ll be left out in ‘The Great Tribulation’, this will be their final opportunity during that time to truly wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb and be found among that ‘great crowd’ seen in Revelation 7:13-14.  Nevertheless, in that place of “outer darkness” there will indeed be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  For, in fact, the “foolish virgins” are presently the apathetic, slothful, and wicked servants who know their Master’s will but do it not.

 

The “wise virgins”, on the other hand, had not only washed their garments in the blood of the Lamb; but were arrayed in fine linen, clean and white.  For the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.  Thus, in knowing their Master’s will, they devotedly sought always to walk in the Ruach (Spirit... by holy faith) and not in the flesh.  They bore fruit through faith in His Word… some 30, some 60… some 100-fold.  They were seeking to live out ‘His Kingdom principles’ wherever they found themselves planted.  They sought to live in righteousness, peace and joy in the Ruach HaKodesh (Holy Spirit). 

 

They also understood that they were being kept in the Father’s Name, YHWH, and so they feared YHWH and spoke of Him often one to another; and they thought (meditated) upon His name.  His name is a strong tower, a haven, a secret place.  These ‘wise virgins’ love His Name and were drawn by Him into His inner chamber.  He will set them on high because they have known His Name.  Therefore, they are found upon Mount Zion following the Lamb- who came in His Father’s name- wherever He goes.  These ‘wise virgins’ are the firstfruits from the earth.  They shall stand upon Mount Zion with the Lamb; and they shall have His Father's Name, YHWH, written in their foreheads.  And they sing a new song that no one was able to learn but them… who did these things.   

 

 

 The Judgment upon Babylon & the Call of the Holy Ones

                                                       

Jeremiah 51:47-50 

 ⁴⁷Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

 ⁴⁸Then the heaven and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for Babylon: for the spoilers shall come unto her from the north, saith YHWH.

 ⁴⁹As Babylon hath caused the slain of Israel to fall, so at Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.

 ⁵⁰Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still: remember YHWH afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

                                                                                                        

Revelation 18:1-8 

 ¹And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

 ²And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

 ³For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

 ⁴And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

 ⁵For her sins have reached unto heaven, and Elohim hath remembered her iniquities.

 ⁶Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

 ⁷How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her: for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

 ⁸Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the YHWH Elohim who judgeth her.

 

Isaiah 60:8-9 

 ⁸Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

 ⁹Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of YHWH thy Elohim, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

 

Hosea 11:9-10 

 ⁹I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am Elohim, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee: and I will not enter into the city.

 ¹⁰They shall walk after YHWH: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.

 

Matthew 24:29-31 

 ²⁹Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

 ³⁰And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

 ³¹And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

                                                       

Hosea 3:5 

 ⁵Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek YHWH their Elohim, and David their king; and shall fear YHWH and his goodness in the latter days.

                                                                            

Hosea 6:1-2 

 ¹Come, and let us return unto YHWH: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

 ²After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.

 

Isaiah 63:16-18 

 ¹⁶Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O YHWH, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.

 ¹⁷O YHWH, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.

 ¹⁸The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

                                                                                          

Ezekiel 11:14-21 

 ¹⁴Again the word of YHWH came unto me, saying,

 ¹⁵Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from YHWH: unto us is this land given in possession.

 ¹⁶Therefore say, Thus saith Adonai YHWH; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

 ¹⁷Therefore say, Thus saith Adonai YHWH; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

 ¹⁸And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.

 ¹⁹And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

 ²⁰That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their Elohim.

 ²¹But as for them whose heart walketh after the heart of their detestable things and their abominations, I will recompense their way upon their own heads, saith Adonai YHWH.

 

Amos 9:11-12 

 ¹¹In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

 ¹²That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen [goyim/nations], which are called by my name, saith YHWH that doeth this.

 

A Reminder to Judah...

Ezekiel 16:46; 55; 60-63

 ⁴⁶And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters…

 ⁵⁵When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate…

⁶⁰Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant.

 ⁶¹Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant.

 ⁶²And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am YHWH:

 ⁶³That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith Adonai YHWH.

 

A Reminder to Ephraim...

Jeremiah 31:20-22 (King James Version)

 ²⁰Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith YHWH.

 ²¹Set thee up waymarks, make thee high heaps: set thine heart toward the highway, even the way which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

 ²²How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for YHWH hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.

                                                                                               

Isaiah 54:1-3 

 ¹Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith YHWH.

 ²Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;

 ³For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

 

Jeremiah 3:14 

 ¹⁴Turn, O backsliding children, saith YHWH; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

                                                                                                                                     

 

Judah and Ephraim Reunite...

Malachi 3:16-18 

 ¹⁶Then they that feared YHWH spake often one to another: and YHWH hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared YHWH, and that thought upon his name.

 ¹⁷And they shall be mine, saith YHWH of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.

 ¹⁸Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth Elohim and him that serveth him not.

 

Isaiah 49:18-23 

 ¹⁸Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith YHWH, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them on thee, as a bride doeth.

 ¹⁹For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

 ²⁰The children which thou shalt have, after thou hast lost the other, shall say again in thine ears, The place is too strait for me: give place to me that I may dwell.

 ²¹Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where had they been?

 ²²Thus saith Adonai YHWH, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

 ²³And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am YHWH: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.

                                                                                              

Revelation 7:1-4 

 ¹And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

 ²And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living Elohim: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

 ³Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our Elohim in their foreheads.

 ⁴And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

 

Revelation 14:1-4 (King James Version)

 ¹And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.

 ²And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:

 ³And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

 ⁴These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto Elohim and to the Lamb.

                                                                                                

Hosea 1:10-11 

 ¹⁰Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living El.

 ¹¹Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

                                                                                                         

Zechariah 12:6-9 

 ⁶In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

 ⁷YHWH also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

 ⁸In that day shall YHWH defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as Elohim, as the angel of YHWH before them.

 ⁹And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

                                                                                                                                

Zechariah 9:13-16 

 ¹³When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

 ¹⁴And YHWH shall be seen over them, and his arrow shall go forth as the lightning: and Adonai YHWH shall blow the trumpet, and shall go with whirlwinds of the south.

 ¹⁵ YHWH of hosts shall defend them; and they shall devour, and subdue with sling stones; and they shall drink, and make a noise as through wine; and they shall be filled like bowls, and as the corners of the altar.

 ¹⁶And YHWH their Elohim shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.