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The Fellowship of Gathering Israel
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Declaration of Principles
of The Fellowship of Gathering Israel |
When in
the course of human history the guiding hand of the Creator God becomes
manifest in human events, it becomes necessary for those who perceive
His beckoning direction to
respond[1]
with
the declaration of the causes that impel them to follow His call.
We hold these causes as evident truths revealed in
our time by the grace of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob that such
revelations signal the time for His people
Chief of these causes is the prophesied
revelation of the identities of the
so-called “Lost Tribes of Israel,” comprising the Biblical House of Joseph.
By God’s mercies after centuries of anonymity to the nations and to
themselves, these Tribes of
“Yet 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
instead of that which was said unto them where it was said unto them: ‘Ye are
not My people,’
it shall be said unto them: ‘Ye are the children of the Living
God.’” (Hosea 2:1, JPS).
“Then
you shall be caused to re-inherit yourselves in the sight of the nations, and
you shall know that I am the LORD.” (Ez. 22:15, Artscroll Chumash).
Along with the descendants of the Ten Tribes, who
are called to return to the ancestral spiritual roots of their fathers Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, the “sons of strangers” who take hold of the Covenant with
Israel, are also gathered to join “the re-gathered of the Tribes” in their
turning to the straight paths of the Torah:
“Declares my Sovereign, the LORD, who
is gathering the outcasts of Israel, Yet others will I gather
unto him,
besides his own gathered ones.” (Isa. 56:8,
We appeal to the Keeper and Preserver of Israel for
the rectitude of our intentions and ask His blessing to form this union bound by
the three principles of association we hold in common as we seek His Guidance to
reach our prophesied destination of the Restoration of Israel according to His
eternal Covenant given at
Principle One:
We sense an
awakening Divine call to know and identify with the revealed identity of the
people of Joseph and his companions[4]
in the Occidental world of the West[5]
as revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures and by the way-marks of history.
We affirm that all those who hear God’s
beckoning call through the command of our father Jacob are to gather together:
“Gather yourselves together, that I may
tell you that which will befall you in the end of days.
Assemble yourselves and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and
hearken unto
Principle
Two:
We also hear the Divine call of “Sh’ma Israel” to
those who are to gather themselves together and re-inherit their identities in
order to begin the prophesied return to “the straight paths” of the Torah by all
tribes of Israel:
“Assemble and come, draw near together, ye that
are escaped of the nations; they
have no knowledge that carry the wood of their graven image, and pray unto a god
that cannot save.” (Isa. 45:20, JPS).
We
realize that our fathers in the exile have inherited lies and we have done
likewise, (Jer. 16:19). We
sense a calling to gain true knowledge of
God and to turn or return to His ways by
searching
the straight, “ancient paths”[6]
of the fathers of the faith of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, as revealed in the Hebraic understanding of the Torah, the Writings
and the Hebrew Prophets, and we are committed to proclaim the same.[7]
Having identified for centuries with the religions
of our spiritual captivity, we come to this fellowship with a desire to
learn the quintessential lesson spoken by the Prophets;
“and you shall know that I am the LORD.”[8]
We sever all connections with replacement theology
and repudiate connections with those who proselytize
“This He says, the L-RD of Hosts, in
those days that ten men of all the languages of the nations, shall take hold,
they will even hold them by the hem of the robe of one that is a Jew, to say,
‘let us go with you, because we hear God is with you.’”
(Zech. 8:23, Kohlenberger).
Principle Three:
We sense a forbearing brotherhood with Judah
whom we desire to aid with no encumbrances and assist in every way around
the world and in the Land in order to further
Therefore, we who subscribe to these tenets
forming this "Fellowship of Gathering Israel,” with mindfulness of the Guiding
Presence of the Supreme Judge of the world, solemnly declare and publish our
intentions to abide on our individual and collective converging journeys by the
three basic Biblical guiding principles of this declaration. We acknowledge that
by Divine Providence this convergence of the gathered and re-gathered of God,
will eventually culminate in the restoration of the United Monarchy of
the Twelve Tribes of Israel. Further, we commit ourselves to seek the
blessing of the Sovereign God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob on our fellowship that we
might be enabled to walk in His ways according to the promises of His eternal
Covenant. Whether we are returning to our
spiritual roots, to the Rock whence we were hewn, or are joining the Covenant of
Israel of which we have taken hold, with firm reliance on seeking Divine
Guidance in this endeavor, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our
fortunes and our sacred honor.
[1] Malachi
4:23 tells of
“the Work” of Elijah ”which is greater than the work of one man.
Since the name Elijah is spelled
without the letter vav, it
implies that “the work is greater than that of man, and is “the Work” of
God, of “Eli-Y-h.” It is a work that has a “masculine” polarity,
in which the
“hearts of the Fathers” of the faith of
[2]
Jacob, the progenitor of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, did reveal
aspects of the last days for
his sons’ descendants living
then. He told them their identifying attributes, according which he
blessed them. These
characteristic signs were to be understood by the Tribes in “the latter
days” to enable them to return to God with these identities as “the
children of the Living God” of
[3]“And
it shall come to pass, that whoever shall call on the name of the LORD
shall be delivered: for in mount
[4]
The word of the LORD
came again to me saying, “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.’ “Then
join them for yourself one to another into one stick, that they may
become one in your hand. “When the sons of your people speak to you
saying, ‘Will you not declare to us what you mean by these?’ say to
them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,
“Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of
Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel, his companions; and I will put them
with it, with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they will
be one in My hand.” (Ez. 37:15-19).
[5]
They will walk after the LORD,
He will roar like a lion; Indeed He will roar, and His sons will
come trembling from the west.
(Hos. 11:10, KJV), ( “….. speeding from the west.” (
[6]
“ For my people have forgotten me, they
have burned incense to false [gods]; and they have been made to stumble
in their ways, in the ancient paths, to walk in by-ways, in a way not
built up.” (Jer. 18:15, World English Bible).
[7]
Hosea writing to the latter-day Ten Tribes, exhorts us: “
For I delight in loving-kindness, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge
of God more than burnt offerings.
“ (Hos. 6:6, Darby).
[8] Ex. 6:7,
Ez. 34:30, 35:4,9, 12, 36:11,27,38, 37:2, 13.