Return of the Ten Tribes

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The Lord will call upon the ten tribes to return to Him, taking words, or expressing their guilt before Him. They shall come weeping. They shall answer, "Come, and let us return unto the LORD:...After two days (2000 years) will he revive us: in the third day (millennium) he will raise us up."
From the time of their captivity, "for many days" the ten tribes will have been without rulers, sacrifices, or idols, but as they will be restored, they will return to the Lord their God and David their Messiah.
These shall be brought out from the people where they have been scattered, and Jehovah will plead with them in the wilderness as He pleaded with their fathers when they first entered the land. Psa. 78 likens their return to their first coming into Canaan.
In the wilderness they shall pass under the rod and be brought into the bond of the new covenant. As a result of Jehovah's pleading face to face with the people, only one-tenth will enter into Jerusalem. That tenth shall be holy. The rebels will be purged out from among the remnant of faith because they will have refused to repent. These apostates will be delivered into the hands of strangers where judgment by the sword will be executed because they refused the mercy shown to them. They shall be judged at the border of Israel.
THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES
In the day of Israel's return to her land and to the Lord, she is likened to a valley of dry bones, a picture of national resurrection. The two tribes and the ten will be made into one nation, as two sticks are joined into one. They will not be divided again. David, one Shepherd, will be their King. They will have a new heart and a new spirit given them, one heart and one way, accepted with their sweet savor, resulting in showers of blessing.
Ezek. 37:1-51The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, 2And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. 3And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest. 4Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. 5Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: (Ezekiel 37:1‑5) Ezek. 37:15-2415The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 16Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: 17And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. 18And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not show us what thou meanest by these? 19Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. 20And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. 21And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: 22And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: 23Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. 24And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. (Ezekiel 37:15‑24) Ezek. 36:2626A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26) Jer. 32:3939And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: (Jeremiah 32:39) Ezek. 34:2626And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing. (Ezekiel 34:26)