Where should 10-Israel be according to End Time prophecy?

The scripture verse below depicts an End Time reality of both Jews AND Joes. It is frequently referenced by advocates of the Two-House Teaching. Become familiar with the history of the divided kingdom of Israel (Judah and Joseph) and the prophecies regarding their reunification in the Last Days, and then Zechariah's prophecy below and the concept of "Jew and Joe" will come alive.

"And I shall strengthen the House of Jew-dah, and I shall save the House of Joe-seph. And I shall bring them back, because I have compassion on them. And they shall be as though I had not cast them off. For I am יהוה their Elohim, and I will answer them." -Zechariah 10:6 [bold is mine]

Most prophecy scholars agree that Ezekiel 37 illustrates an End Times (Latter Day) reality. And clearly, two sticks or two houses are portrayed:

"And you, son of man, take for yourself one stick and write on it, 'For Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions'; then take another stick and write on it, 'For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.'" -Ezekiel 37:16

The unconditional promise to Ephraim, that his descendants, his seed, would become the "fullness of the nations":

"But his father refused and said, I know, my son, I know: he also will become a people, and he also will be great; but truly his younger brother will be greater than he; and his seed will become the fulness of nations." -Genesis 48:19

The following verses depicts why Japheth's male Y-Chromosome descendants no longer dwell and dominate Eurasia to the extent most Christian scholars presume. Some population geneticists would consider the following verse indicative of the "Genghis Khan Effect".

"His splendor is like a first-born bull, and his horns are like the horns of the wild ox. With them he pushes the peoples to the ends of the earth. And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh." -Deuteronomy 33:17

"For you shall break forth to the right and to the left, and your seed inherit the nations, and make the deserted cities inhabited." -Isaiah 54:3

"See, these come from far away, and see, those from the north and the west, and these from the land of Sinim." -Isaiah 49:12

There is much debate regarding where the Land of Sinim is (China, Australia, etc), but there is no doubt that "the north and the west" implicates Europe. The Jews (Judah) have been gathered from Europe, but their own scholars indicate they aren't representative of 10-Israel, but it is interesting that Judah seems to be dispersed in every region that was first inhabited by Ephraim or other segments of 10-Israel.

Almost the entire chapter of Genesis 49 is regarding what would happen to the Sons of Jacob in the Last Days, however many of the details are given mysteriously by Jacob and people far and wide take a great deal of liberty interpreting the meaning of each individual tribe's prophetic blessing. None-the-less, the historic experience of "the Jews" can by no way reflect all of what Jacob foresaw. But the Jews do reflect perfectly Jacob's prophecy given to the tribe of JEW-dah in verses 8 through 12.

Genesis 49:1-28:
(1) And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, so that I declare to you what is to befall you in the last days:
(2) “Gather together and hear, you sons of Jacob, and listen to Yisrael your father.
(3) “Reuben, you are my first-born, my power and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of exaltation and the excellency of power.
(4) “Boiling like water, you do not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed, then you defiled it – he went up to my couch.
(5) “Simeon and Levi are brothers, their weapons are implements of violence.
(6) “Let my being not enter their council, let my esteem not be united to their assembly; because they slew a man in their displeasure, and they lamed an ox in pleasure.
(7) “Cursed be their displeasure for it is fierce, and their wrath for it is cruel! I divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Yisrael.
(8) “You, Judah, your brothers praise you; your hand is on the neck of your enemies; your father’s children bow down before you.
(9) “Judah is a lion’s cub; from the prey you have gone up, my son! He bowed down, he crouched like a lion. And like a lion, who does rouse him?
(10) “The sceptre shall not turn aside from Judah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to Him is the obedience of peoples.
(11) “Binding his donkey to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he washed his garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes.
(12) “His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
(13) “Zebulun dwells at the seashore, he is for a haven for ships, and his border is unto Tsidon.
(14) “Issaschar is a strong donkey lying down between two burdens,
(15) and he saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, and he inclined his shoulder to bear a burden, and became a subject to slave labour.
(16) “Dan rightly rules his people as one of the tribes of Yisrael.
(17) “Dan is a serpent by the way, an adder by the path, that bites the horse’s heels so that its rider falls backward.
(18) “I have waited for your deliverance, O יהוה
(19) “Gad, a raiding band raids him, but he raids its heel.
(20) “Bread from Asher is rich, and he gives delicacies of a sovereign.
(21) “Naphtali is a deer let loose, he gives words of elegance.
(22) “Joseph is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree by a fountain, his branches run over a wall.
(23) “And the archers have bitterly grieved him, shot at him and hated him.
(24) “But his bow remained in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob – from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Yisrael –
(25) from the El of your father who helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you with blessings of the heavens above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
(26) “The blessings of your father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, up to the limit of the everlasting hills. They are on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.
(27) “Benjamin is a wolf that tears, in the morning he eats prey, and at night he divides the spoil.”
(28) All these are the twelve tribes of Yisrael, and this is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them, he blessed each one according to his own blessing.

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