Words from the Sages Pertinent to the Ten Tribes
Contents:
1. If it is Written it is as if it already has been done! Midrash. Redemption as Promised!
2. Messiah son of Joseph and Messiah son of David.
3. It is a Good Sign when Judah and Joseph are Together!
4. By Virtue of their Children the Ten Tribes Will be Saved!
5. Midrash. Israel to Defeat Persians and Others.
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1. If it is Written it is as if it already has been done! Midrash. Redemption as Promised!
Zechariah (NASB) 10: 8 I will whistle for them and gather them together, For I have redeemed them... [in the past tense.] Rabbi Hunna and Rabbi Dostai in the name of Rabbi Shmuel bar Nachman: The very word of the Almighty is the same as HIS action.
[Stern: For every word that the Almighty speaks is as if it was already carried out since there is nothing to prevent it from coming to pass]... As its says, 'I will whistle for them and gather them together, For I have redeemed them." It does not say, "I will redeem them," [in the future tense] but rather "For I have redeemed them." [in the past tense] (Midrash Breishit Rabah 44;27).
Zechariah (NASB) 10:
6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah,
And I will save the house of Joseph,
And I willbring them back,
Because I have had compassion on them;
And they will be as though I had not rejected them,
For I am the LORD their God and I will answer them.
7 Ephraim will be like a warrior,
And their heart will be joyful as if from wine;
Indeed, their children will see it and be joyful.
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2. Messiah son of Joseph and Messiah son of David.
Zechariah 10: 6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah... In the future the Messiah Anointed Leader for War is destined to emerge from Joseph. The Messiah [who will come after him] who comes out of Judah is even tougher [towards the gentiles] than he is... (Midrash Tanchumah 2:3).
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3. It is a Good Sign when Judah and Joseph are Together!
10: 6 And I will strengthen the house of Judah, And I will save the house of Joseph, " It is a propitious for Israel when Judah is recalled together with Joseph (Midrash HaGadol, "VeYigash," p. 783).
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4. By Virtue of their Children the Ten Tribes Will be Saved!
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Zechariah 10:9... # They will remember Me in distant countries, And they with their children will live and come back.#
The Midrash Kehilat Rabah 4:1 points out that the Hebrew text may be read here is indicating that by virtue of their children the Hebrews will be revitalized and kept alive.
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5. Midrash. Israel to Defeat Persians and Others.
Obadiah (ESV) 1:
18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble...
#This is Esau the villain out of whom emerged the Thracians and Persians and the House of Edom [Byzantine and Rome]. They are destined to fall at the feet of Israel, as it says,
"they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor for the house of Esau, for the LORD has spoken."