For many centuries, Christians (who have had enough resources) have traveled the globe looking for the "lost ten tribes" of Israel and have written a myriad of books on their findings. They, largely descending from 10-Israel themselves, have been like trees lost in their own forest... looking for a few twigs from a "lost" tree that they themselves fell from or represent.
Being so consumed with biblical minimalism and a religious system that generally asserts that 10-Israel and Jew-dah were forsaken and replaced by the "church", they thus cannot perceive the literal prophetic promises of יהוה regarding the Hebrew multitudes to be present in the Last Days and the promise that they would NOT be forsaken (Jeremiah 51:5). The blindness to their own identity may actually be an extension of the ultimate plan of יהוה, keeping all of Israel partially blind until Ephraim's seed had completed the promise of becoming the "fullness of the goyim" (Genesis 48:19; Romans 11:25; John 10:16; Ezekiel 37:16; Luke 21:24).
The Prodigal Son story in Luke 15 also indicates that the younger, rebellious son (a parable of Ephraim) suddenly "comes to himself" after life becomes very difficult for him (Jacob's Trouble?), and he "remembers" his father's house. And fortunately for him, the Father goes out to him while he is "yet afar off" and rescues him.
In the mean time, you need not be a lost tree, but we may have to wait until the Father comes for us to bring us home to the Land of Israel, for I have only a faint hope that Jew-dah (the elder brother) is going to let us in before hand.
Shalom from exile,
Hanok
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