The Great Removal

How did The Five Civilized Tribes come to live in Oklahoma?

The Five Civilized Tribes are the Choctaw, Creek (Muskogee), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Cherokee tribes.  They are held in great esteem in Oklahoma.  People here are proud to being even a thirty-second part of one these tribes.

The Great Seal of the State of Oklahoma features The Five Civilized Tribes.  It was adopted from the Great Seal of the State of Sequoyah that The Five Civilized Tribes proposed in 1905 AD.  The blue on the flag of Oklahoma came from the flag used by the Choctaw Nation in the Civil War.

The Five Civilized Tribes have built all kinds of industries here - like producing high-tech military equipment - that goes beyond the cigarettes and casinos that most people think of.  They have produced notable artists, educators, statesmen, entertainers, athletes, and members of every noble profession.  They have fought bravely in the defense of the United States and have done Oklahoma proud.

However, they did not live near Oklahoma when Europeans first made contact with them.  They lived in the southeast United States, from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic Ocean.  So, how did these five great tribes come to live in Oklahoma?

This is best answered by answering some other questions about The Five Civilized Tribes.

What happened to the Five Civilized Tribes after George Washington ceased to be President?
 

The next President, John Adams, continued to follow the six point plan of George Washington.  He treated the Five Civilized Tribes as sovereign nations living within the borders of the United States.  He sent them aid for their efforts to advance their own civilizations to be on par with that of European Americans.  They were only subject to the same federal laws that applied to individual states and the terms of any treaties that were made with the federal government.

 

However,  the state governments constantly ignored the terms of these treaties.  This created ever greater tensions between these tribes and the state governments.  The worst of these by far was the government of Georgia.

Despite this, the Five Civilized Tribes made tremendous progress in adapting to living in American society, especially the Cherokee and the Choctaw.  Many of their leaders were college educated.  In fact, the largest private library of books in America was owned by one of the Cherokee chiefs.

However, things began to change for the worse when the first president from the predecessor of the Democratic party was elected.

In 1802 AD, Thomas Jefferson made a deal with the state of Georgia, for the federal government to aid Georgia in convincing the Cherokee and Creek to leave Georgia, in exchange for Georgia releasing its claims on the unorganized land to the west.  (These lands later became the states called Alabama and Mississippi.)

It was up to Georgia to negotiate with the Cherokee and Creek to buy their land.  However, most of the Cherokee Nation was not interested in selling their land, but the Creek eventually sold their land in Georgia east of the Ocmulgee River in 1805 AD.

Then in 1811 AD, a comet appeared over Creek territory.  Soon, Tecumseh, a Shawnee Chief whose name means "shooting star", came to one of the largest Creek cities.  He told the Creek there that the comet was a sign that he was to lead the Native Americans in uniting to defeat the United States.  He told them that the Great Spirit would soon send another sign to confirm this.  Not long after that, the New Madrid earthquakes, the largest earthquakes in modern history, occurred.  So many of the Creeks joined his cause.  They were called the Red Sticks.

After three years of fighting, the United States army completely defeated the army of Tecumseh.  The war was ended with a new treaty, which punished the Creek Nation for not preventing the Red Sticks from joining Tecumseh in taking up arms against the United States.  The actions of the Red Sticks was contrary to the terms of their previous treaty.  So, the Creek Nation lost the rest of its land in Georgia and most of its land in Alabama.

Many of the Creek, including almost all of the surviving Red Sticks, fled to Florida, which was under Spanish control, and joined the Seminole Nation.  This caused the Seminole tribe to triple in size by 1815 AD.

Also that year, the United States set aside about a quarter of the modern state of Arkansas for the Cherokee Nation to move to.  The United States provided assistance to any of the Cherokee Nation that moved there voluntarily.  Over the next thirteen years, about a third of the Cherokee Nation moved there on their own and formed the Cherokee Nation (West).  There were no recorded deaths on these voluntary journeys.

The Seminole tribe was recognized as the Seminole Nation when the United States acquired Florida in 1821 AD.  The Seminole Nation made a treaty with the United States in 1823 AD to remain on a really large reservation in the middle of the Florida peninsula.  (The United States did not want the Seminole to return to piracy, but the reservation land was very suitable for cattle ranching.)

The Creek Nation was scattered over the southeast United States, but the main part of the tribe was confined to a small strip of land in Alabama in a treaty that they signed in 1826 AD.

President John Quincy Adams negotiated a treaty in 1828 AD with the Cherokee Nation (West) to move from Arkansaw Territory to Indian Territory.

Then came the Indian Removal Act of 1830 AD that President Andrew Jackson, the first president from the Democratic party, primarily authored.

Why was the Indian Removal Act created?

The reasons of President Andrew Jackson for seeking passage of this act were complex.

On one hand, he had a genuine concern about the well being of the Native Americans.  He had lived among and fought along side various Native American tribes at various times.  He was concerned about their dwindling numbers, largely caused by devastating diseases that they caught from Europeans.

There were also many European Americans, who wanted to exterminate all Native Americans.  It was impossible for the Federal government to protect these tribes from such people, when they were spread out over such a large geographical area.  While these tribes fought back, they were simply outnumbered, and there was a continual influx of more European Americans moving into their vicinity.

Then there was the problem of the state governments, who did not have jurisdiction over the tribes.

However, this concern was not a concern of only President Jackson.  Many in Washington did not want to have to send Federal troops to confront the state militias that were violating the terms of these treaties.  They were concerned that once fighting began between Federal troops and a state militia, that it would lead to a civil war.  (Which it did in 1861 AD.)

These concerns about Federal troops needing to be sent in to fight with a state militia to defend the Five Civilized Tribes were exasperated, when gold was discovered in Georgia in 1828 AD.

European American prospectors were constantly going into Cherokee land to pan for gold, contrary to the treaty that had been signed.  This lead to violate confrontations, and the state of Georgia sent its militia into Cherokee lands to aid the prospectors - another violation of treaty terms.

This wave of greed that was running through Georgia, made it all but inevitable that there would soon be a military confrontation between the Cherokee and the Georgia militia.  Then Federal troops would have to be sent in to defend the Cherokee.

President Jackson also wanted to avoid this, because he had ran for president as a champion of state rights.  He believed that state law should have precedence over federal law.

In particular, he supported the claims of southern states that they should be able to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.  Sending in federal troops to protect the Cherokee from the Georgia state militia was contrary to this support of state rights.

Georgia was testing the limits of state rights.  Georgia wanted the Cherokee land in its borders, so prospectors could mine the gold, and the state could collect taxes and fees from the prospectors.  This would not just bolster the economy of Georgia, but of the surrounding states as well, and eventually benefit northern cities like New York City.

Georgia was willing to use the state militia to accomplish this, unless the Federal government would remove the Cherokee.  Georgia was even willing to have the state militia help in this removal.

So, President Jackson believed that the Five Civilized Tribes would safer, happier, and better able to develop into a more advance civilization quicker, if they were separated from European Americans and these state governments.

Although he had previous advocated relocating these tribes just across the Mississippi River to Arkansaw Territory, he realized that this was still too close to European Americans.  It was evident that the Five Civilized Tribes would have the same problems as they had in other states, when Arkansaw Territory became a state.

So, between the concerns of President Jackson, and the greed of many congressmen, the Indian Removal Act of 1830 AD was passed by a narrow margin and signed into law.

The act provided for the President of the United States to negotiate terms for a peaceful removal of the Five Civilized Tribes to Indian Territory via a land swap and payment for infrastructure improvements in their new lands.

However, things did not go as smoothly as President Jackson had envisioned. 

How was the removal of the Choctaw Nation to Indian Territory conducted?

The Choctaw Nation was having humiliating laws passed upon them by the state of Mississippi, even though they were not counted as citizens, and not allowed to have representation in the state legislature.  It was legislation without representation - the very same injustice that caused the United States to separate from Great Britain.

So, the Choctaw tribe made a treaty that allowed most of the tribe to move to a similar size piece of land in southern Indian Territory in 1831 AD.  This was to be done in three phases over a period two and a half years.

However, the federally supervised move to Indian Territory was done with such incompetence that the Choctaw Nation lost about a quarter of the tribe in these moves - largely due to disease.  One of their chiefs called the entire experience "a trail of tears and death".   This led to any path used for a federally supervised removal of Native Americans be called, "The Trail of Tears" in American culture.

Instead of learning from the experience, the federal government decided to use the removal of the Choctaw Nation as a model for all future removals of Native American tribes.

How was the removal of the Creek (Muskogee) Nation to Indian Territory conducted?

The Creek Nation signed a treaty in 1832 AD that divided the Creek land into individual allotments.  Each individual could decide to sell their allotment and move to Indian Territory, or remain on it and be subject to the laws of the state of Alabama.

However, the state of Alabama never really gave any chance for most of the individual members of the Creek tribe to decide for themselves.  European Americans started immediately invading these allotments and claiming them for their own.  Some members of the Creek tribe went ahead with selling their allotment and moving to Indian Territory to escape this mistreatment.  When other members of the Creek fought back, the government of Alabama sent the state militia to protect the European American violators of the treaty.

So, the Creek Nation decided to just move to Indian Territory, where it would receive a much larger piece of land, in 1834 AD.

However, some of the Creek Nation decided to stay behind and fight for their right to remain in Alabama.  They were eventually captured in 1836 AD, and force to relocate to Indian Territory.  The Creek Nation lost about a quarter of their tribe during these journeys to Indian Territory.

How was the removal of the Seminal Nation to Indian Territory conducted?

In 1832 AD, a treaty was negotiated with the Seminole Nation in Florida to move to Indian Territory, if the land was found to be suitable.  They were to live along side the Creek Nation.

The Seminole were concerned that the Creek Nation would take retribution upon them, because many of them were deserters from the Creek tribe.  So, seven of the chiefs went to Indian Territory to see if this was a suitable arrangement for the Seminoles.

The seven chiefs found the land suitable, and the members of the Creek tribe in Indian Territory assured them that the Seminole were welcome to live among them.  So, they signed a treaty for the Seminole Nation to move to Indian Territory in 1833 AD.

However, when they arrived in Florida, most of these chiefs renounced the treaty.  They stated that they did not have the authority to make an agreement for the entire tribe.  Still, some of the Seminoles went ahead and relocated to Indian Territory in 1834 AD.

In 1835 AD, the commander of Fort King read a letter from President Jackson to the remaining Seminole Chiefs.  The letter stated, that if the off-reservation Seminole did not move voluntarily per the treaty that they had previously made, then the US government would move them by force.

All but five of the most important Seminole chiefs agreed to move at the end of the year.  So, in 1836 AD the majority of the Seminole Nation moved to Indian Territory.

However, the remaining part of the off-reservation Seminoles began waging a war against the European Americans at the end of 1835 AD.  This war lasted until 1842 AD.

All captured Seminoles were treated as prisoners of war and forced to relocate to Indian Territory before being unshackled.  About three hundred Seminoles had stayed on the reservation, so they were allowed to remain there.  The war had been very expensive for the US to wage, and it was not worth it to pursue the remaining two hundred members of the off reservation Seminoles into the Everglades.

This however did not lead to peace.

European Americans kept trying to squat on the Seminole Reservation until President James Polk put a twenty mile (32 km) barrier around it in 1845 AD.

The Seminole eventually began to fight back, with groups of off reservation Seminoles attacking European American families.  The State of Florida then began making efforts to have all of the Seminole removed, and generally did what it could to make life uncomfortable for them.

So, in 1850 AD, seventy-four members of the Seminole tribe agreed to moved to Indian Territory via a water route that went through New Orleans.

In 1852 AD, sixteen off reservation Seminoles were captured and sent to Indian Territory as prisoners of war.

Finally, in 1854 AD, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, decided to use force to remove the off reservation Seminole out of Florida.

The next year, another war between the United States and the Seminole Nation began.  For the next two years, the efforts of the United States army was largely ineffective, with it taking many more casualties than the Seminoles.

However, 1857 AD, a new commander, Loomis, arrived, who employed a new tactic using metal alligator boats to transport Marines.  This allowed him to effectively pursue the Seminole into the swamp.  He managed to capture many of the women and children of the off reservation Seminole as well as destroy their crops and villages.

Finally, a delegation of Seminole chiefs from Indian Territory came to Florida, and met with the chiefs of the off-reservation Seminoles in 1858 AD.

They informed them that the Seminole had been given their own tribal land in Indian Territory the previous year, which was separate from the Creek Nation.  Loomis also offered substantial money to each Seminole that decided to move to Indian Territory.

So the two main off-reservation chiefs agreed, and the last one hundred and sixty-three off-reservation Seminoles were moved to Indian Territory by the same water route as previous groups.

This left about 300 off-reservation Seminoles in Florida, in two small bands of less than thirty men on opposite ends of the state, plus single families scattered throughout Florida.

The Seminole Nation had no recorded losses in transit to Indian Territory, but it lost about a sixth of the tribe in Florida during twenty-six years of resistance to removal.

How was the removal of the Chickasaw Nation to Indian Territory conducted?

The Chickasaw Nation was told by the state of Mississippi that it was subject to state law in 1830 AD.   The state of Mississippi refused to recognized their treaty rights to operate as a sovereign nation.

So, the Chickasaw met President Jackson in Franklin, Tennessee and made a treaty to move to Indian Territory, if the land offered was suitable for the needs of the tribe.  They sent representatives to survey the land offered in Indian Territory.

The representatives returned in two years, and said that the land was not suitable.

However, the state of Mississippi was unwilling to do anything about the continual harassment that European Americans were heaping on the Chickasaw Nation.

So, the Chickasaw Nation made a new treaty in 1832 AD, where they agreed to move on their own to Indian Territory for about three million dollars.  This was followed by five years of internal fighting over how to accomplish their movement.

Finally, in 1837 AD, they paid the Choctaw about half a million dollars for the western part of their territory, and migrated to their new home in Indian Territory.  They lost about a sixth of their tribe on the journey - almost completely from disease.

They did not receive their payment of three million dollars from the federal government until right before the Civil War broke out in 1861 AD.

How was the removal of the Cherokee Nation to Indian Territory conducted?

When the Indian Removal Act was signed into law in 1830 AD, about one third of the Cherokee Nation (East) took the offer and moved to Indian Territory - losing hardly anyone on the journey.

The rest of the Cherokee Nation was divided about what to do by 1832 AD.  Many of the most educated pressed for negotiating the best deal the Cherokee Nation could get and remove the entire tribe to Indian Territory.  However, Chief Ross convinced the majority to not move.

Still, Chief Ross tried to negotiate a better deal with the United States government twice over the next two years, but both deals were rejected.

In 1834 AD, Chief Ross had made political maneuvers to silence his opposition within the Cherokee Nation (East).

In 1835 AD, Chief Ross made another offer for the Cherokee Nation to move voluntarily to Indian Territory for a sum of twenty million dollars.  (This was half the price of the Seminole War that ended in 1842 AD.)  Again, the United States and Georgia rejected the offer.

So, in 1835 AD, the opposition went and made a treaty for the removal of the Cherokee Nation (East) with the United States.

Chief Ross then had laws passed by the Cherokee Council against individuals abiding by the treaty.

However, by 1837 AD over two thousand members of the Cherokee Nation (East) realized the inevitable, so they took the assistance from the United States government offered, and relocated to Indian Territory with practically no losses on the journey.

In the spring of 1838 AD, the United States army rounded up about two thousand, eight hundred members of the Cherokee Nation (East), and forced them to march to Indian Territory.  About six hundred died on the forced march.

(Another one thousand two hundred escaped to the mountains outside of the Cherokee Nation (East).  They formed the Eastern Band of the Cherokee.)

The army stopped the removal in order to figure out how to conduct the removal better.  So, it rounded up the remaining twelve thousand members of the Cherokee Nation (East) into internment camps.  About three hundred and fifty members of the Cherokee Nation (East) died in the internment camps. 

The Cherokee Council realized the inevitable and asked for the removal to wait until summer was over.  When September came around, Chief Ross started negotiating to be in control of everything involving the removal - including control of the money.  After two more months of negotiating, the Army agreed to let the Cherokee Council be in charge of the removal.  So, the last of the Cherokee Nation wagon trains left the last internment camp in November of 1838 AD.

This late departure proved disastrous for the Cherokee Nation (East) as they went overland in wagon trains to Indian Territory as far north as Illinois in a particularly harsh winter.

By the time that the Cherokee Nation (East) finished arriving in Indian Territory in late March of 1839 AD, they had lost about two thousand, two hundred members on the journey.  This final removal over land in the winter is what the Cherokee Nation today refers to as "The Trail of Tears".

However, Chief Ross, the Cherokee Council, and their families went on a river boat that he purchased out of the removal money.  Of those on the river boat, only his wife died on the journey.

After the arrival of the Cherokee Nation (East) in Indian Territory, there was soon a war between it and the Cherokee Nation (West).  About everything that the Cherokee Nation (West) had built was destroyed.  So, most of the Cherokee Nation (West) members left Indian Territory to go Mexico or California in 1849 AD.

Those that remained in Indian Territory formed the Keetoowah Band of the Cherokee in 1859 AD.

 

By the time the Civil War was over in 1865 AD, the the Cherokee Nation (East) had many members more die at the hand of other members.  Also, many of their supporters of the Union had to flee to Kansas and many of their supporters of the Confederacy had to flee to Texas.

 

The Cherokee Nation (East) that remained in Indian Territory became known simply as the Cherokee Nation.  This is the tribe is considered to be part of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma.

What happened to the Five Civilized Tribes after the Great Removal?

The Five Civilized Tribes had some things in common with other immigrants.

 

Like European immigrants, most immigrated due to adverse circumstances, but others immigrated voluntarily for the hope of a better future.  Like European immigrants, they were able to bargain to some degree about when they would immigrate and what kind of assistance they would get to start over in their new land.

Like most African immigrants, the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory were not given an option about the location of the land that they would immigrate to. 

However, the immigration of all Native Americans was different than that the immigration of all other Americans in some important ways.

The immigration of Native Americans was entirely coerced by American presidents and negotiated with the American Congress.  Their immigration was carried out under guard by the American army.  Their migration was not to America from another land, but entirely inside of America.  

 

No other Americans have been systematically forced to immigrate from one part of America to another by the American government.

However, the Great Removal was unique among these unjust removals of Native Americans.  

 

Part of what made it unique was how the Five Civilized Tribes adapted to living in Indian Territory.  They chose to continue to live as civilized people despite the uncivilized way that they had been treated.  

 

The Five Civilized Tribes were determine to create something better in their new land than what they had left behind in their old land.  They created new schools and institutions of higher learning that often surpassed those of European Americans in nearby states and territories.  They refused to let past injustices shackle their future.

The Five Civilized Tribes were the first Native Americans to be forced to move to Indian Territory.  They set a model, which other tribes that were later forced to move there could follow.  They often helped other Native Americans adjust to living in Indian Territory.  They helped them learn how to live as Americans without losing their tribal identity.

 

When European Americans were allowed into Indian Territory, they treated them with the civility that their ancestors should have been treated with by European Americans.  They proved George Washington right in calling them the Five Civilized Tribes.

The Choctaw, Creek (Muskogee), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Cherokee tribes all adopted to the new land that they were removed to, but they did not forget the land they came from.

 

They named many of their towns in Indian Territory after the towns that they had left behind in their old lands.  These new towns in Indian Territory were often settled by the same people who lived in the towns with the same name in their old land.  

 

Broken Arrow, the City of Champions, is one such example.  So is Coweta, the next town south east of it.

They were able to do this, because unlike European immigrants to America, their entire town had been forced to move together in the Great Removal.  This made their immigration unique in American History.

Since then they have proven to be great Americans, but they still have a longing for complete autonomy.

 

There is reason to not let go of this hope.  It starts with looking at another more ancient Great Removal.

What was this more ancient Great Removal?

 

The Five Civilized Tribes are not the first set of civilized tribes living in cities to be systematically removed to another land inside of an empire by a ruling government composed of people from another ethnic group.  About 2500 years earlier, the same thing happened to the ten civilized tribes of Israel.

Like the European Americans, Asshur and his descendants the Assyrians, immigrated from a land far away from the land of tribes of Israel to a land near their land to build a new country with new cities (Genesis 10:9-12).

 

After many years, a ruler of the Assyrians came against the land of the ten civilized tribes of Israel and forced them to make an impoverishing treaty to be able to remain on their tribal land (2 Kings 15:19-20). 

Then the next ruler of the Assyrians claimed the land of some of the ten civilized tribes of Israel, took them from their cities, and began this ancient Great Removal by having the Assyrian army force their immigration under guard to another part of the Assyrian empire far from their tribal land (2 Kings 15:29).  He even did this to the civilized tribe of Israel that bordered the land of his own country (1 Chronicles 5:6-9).

So, these two rulers of the Assyrians impoverished and then removed half of the ten civilized tribes of Israel to another land far from their tribal lands in the first phase of this ancient Great Removal (1 Chronicles 5:26).

 

Then the chief ruler of the other tribes related to the ten civilized tribes of Israel made an impoverishing treaty with this second ruler of the Assyrians to help his tribes in a war against the ten civilized tribes of Israel and their ally (2 Kings 16:5-10).  Later, when the chief ruler of these other tribes sought more help from this second ruler of the Assyrians, he was forced to give even more to the ruler of the Assyrians, but still did not receive any help (2 Chronicles 28:16-21).

Then another ruler of the Assyrians came against the land of the remainder of the ten civilized tribes of Israel and forced their chief ruler to make an impoverishing treaty for their tribes to be able to remain on their tribal land (2 Kings 17:3).  When the chief ruler of the remaining civilized tribes of Israel broke the treaty and sought help to expel the ruler of the Assyrians, he was taken prisoner and the Assyrians waged war against the remaining civilized tribes of Israel (2 Kings 17:4-5).  

 

After winning the war, the ruler of the Assyrians had the remaining civilized tribes of Israel removed to another land far from their tribal lands and to live as minorities in the cities dominated by another ethnic group in the second phase of this ancient Great Removal (2 Kings 17:6).  Then the ruler of the Assyrians had other people immigrate into the land of ten civilized tribes of Israel (2 Kings 17:24).

 

However, just like the Five Civilized Tribes, some members of the ten civilized tribes of Israel escaped  removal and remained in their tribal lands as a minority among the other immigrants (2 Chronicles 30:6-11).

However, this ruler of the Assyrians was not able to remove the other tribes related to the ten civilized tribes of Israel to another land at this time (2 Kings 18:7-11).  

 

Later, the next ruler of the Assyrians came against these other tribes related to the ten civilized tribes of Israel to force them into an impoverishing treaty to remain on their tribal land (2 Kings 18:13-16).

 

However, even when the next chief ruler of these other tribes abided by the terms of the treaty, this Assyrian ruler told them that they could only remain on their tribal land until he was ready to have them removed far away (2 Kings 18:31-32).  His new treaty would let them be removed to another land like their own (Isaiah 36:16-17).

So, in many ways the events of this ancient Great Removal are not that different than the events of the Great Removal.  It is not hard to see the same narrative played out by American presidents, the Five Civilized Tribes, and the other related Native Americans.  

After 200 years for the Five Civilized Tribes, and 2,700 years for the ten civilized tribes of Israel, there still remains one question:

 

Will the Great Removal ever be reversed?

 

The relationship with the Assyrians and the other tribes related to the ten civilized tribes of Israel eventually began to change for the better.

 

The next chief ruler of these other tribes was taken captive to a land thousands of miles from his tribal lands by the officers of a later ruler of the Assyrians (2 Chronicles 33:11).  However, when he was in the land of his captivity, he humbled himself greatly before the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD), who then caused him to be returned to his tribal lands (2 Chronicles 33:12-13).  He then made the cities of his tribal lands stronger than before and led his people back to walking in the ways of their ancestors (2 Chronicles 33:14-17).

Many years later, the rulers of the Assyrians sent aid to the help these other tribes, plus the members of the ten civilized tribes of Israel that lived among them, in rebuilding what had been destroyed, after they had returned to their tribal lands from the lands when they had been removed to  (Ezra 6:21-22).  

 

This change in their relationship with the Assyrians only came after they admitted that they had brought this trouble upon themselves by not walking in the ways of the Father of Truth, and that the Assyrians had only been His means to punish them for their wicked ways (Nehemiah 9:30-33).  Yet even though they were back in their tribal lands, they were still under the rule of another government (Nehemiah 9:36-37).

It has only been recently that some members of these related tribes, plus some members of the ten civilized tribes of Israel that have lived among them, have returned to live in part of their ancient tribal lands with complete autonomy.

The Children of Truth (those who obey The Father of Truth because they love Him) have been used by the Father of Truth to turn the impossible dream of the impossible people returning to the impossible land to be ruled by the impossible government and speaking the impossible language into a reality.  As a result, some members of these related tribes, plus some members of the ten civilized tribes of Israel, live in the impossible country called Israel today, which sits on part of their ancient tribal lands and has complete autonomy.

So, this ancient Great Removal has been being reversed since 1870 AD.  In the near future, this ancient Great Removal will finish being reversed by the Greater Exodus.

 

The Father of Truth will bring all the descendants of those who were removed in this ancient Great Removal back to their tribal lands (Isaiah 11:11-12).  The Assyrians will build a massive highway to help them in their return (Isaiah 11:16).  That highway will later be extended through their tribal lands and into the land of their southern neighbor, when all three ethnic groups will live in their own lands and in harmony with each other under the blessing of the Father of Truth (Isaiah 19:23-25).

 

The Father of Truth will be finished with removing the ten civilized tribes of Israel and the tribes related to them to the ends of the Earth and back again.

In like manner, the Great Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes will be reversed under the reign of the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ).

 

The Father of Truth owns the entire Earth and every person who lives in it (Psalm 24:1).  So, He has set the boundaries of the land of each ethnic group, including the Five Civilized Tribes, to live on (Acts 17:24-26). 

 

The Earth was originally divided among the nations that came from Noah (Noach) (Genesis 10:32).  

 

The Man of Truth will place every ethnic group back on its own land.

 

The Man of Truth has inherited the Gentiles as well as the descendants of Israel and the entire Earth (Psalm 2:6-8).  Since this is the case, the Father of Truth gave the Man of Truth to be both a covenant to the descendants of Israel and a light to all other ethnic groups (Isaiah 42:5-6).  

 

The suffering of the Man of Truth on the cross was too great to just be a covenant of salvation for Israel, so he was made a light to all other ethnic groups as well to bring salvation to the ends of the Earth and to rule over all people (Isaiah 49:5-8).  For this reason, these other ethnic groups and their rulers will seek him out (Isaiah 60:1-4).

So, the Man of Truth will be able to do reverse the Great Removal, because he will be absolute ruler over the whole earth and will break large countries into smaller nations (Psalm 2:9-12).  People of every ethnic group and language will serve him in a kingdom that will never be overthrown (Daniel 7:13-14).  Every nation will have to obey his decrees (Revelation 12:5).

When the Man of Truth is ruling over all the Earth he will treat both the descendants of Israel and the Gentiles justly to restore their health (Psalm 67).  He will settle disputes between nations in accordance with the Law of Truth (Torah aka The Law), instead of them going to war with each other (Isaiah 2:1-4).  Strong nations will not be able force their will onto other nations and every nation will enjoy the fruits of their own labor (Micah 4:1-4).

 

The Man of Truth will cause all ethnic groups, including the Five Civilized Tribes, to be treated justly after this ancient Great Removal is finished being reversed by the Greater Exodus (Jeremiah 23:3-8).  When this ancient Great Removal is finished being reversed, it will bring about the correction of every injustice that has brought trouble to all ethnic groups, including the Great Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes (Romans 11:11-15). 

 

When this is done, the Great Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes, as well as that of everything ethnic group, including all Native Americans, will be reversed.

So, the First Nations will not just have their land restored, but their autonomy as well.  The Man of Truth is the hope of the Almodadi. 

However, there is another Great Removal that all people need reversed.

The first man and woman originally lived in a wonderful world where they were in fellowship with the Father of Truth (Genesis 3:8-9).  Then they were removed from that wonderful world to world of trouble and hard labor (Genesis 3:16-24).  Their sins against Him brought about the original Great Removal (Isaiah 59:2).  All their descendants have continued to suffer from the results of the original Great Removal (Romans 5:12-14).

Since the Father of Truth loved the human race, he sent His only begotten Son to make a way for them to return to Him (John 3:16).  He sent His Son to die on their behalf, so they could be restored to Him (Romans 5:8-11).  So, the Man of Truth died on a cross to reverse the original Great Removal (Colossians 1:19-22).

 

The Father of Truth then raised the Man of Truth to justify those who put their trust in His Son (Romans 4:22-25).

When the original Great Removal is finished being reversed, the human race will once again live in a wonderful world where they will be in fellowship with the Father of Truth (Revelation 21:1-4).

 

All who come into the House of Truth will have be part of this reversal of the original Great Removal.

 

You can have begin to experience the reversal of the original Great Removal in your own life by coming into the House of Truth. 

You can make the Man of Truth your king because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).  All things will become new to you and you will be restored back into fellowship with the Father of Truth (2 Corinthians 5:17-21).  You will start to regain those things that were lost in the original Great Removal (2 Peter 1:2-4).

Come into the House of Truth!

 

 

 

The Impossible People

How did the Jews return to Israel after being scattered all over the Earth for more than 1700 years?

It is not humanly possible for a people group to be almost destroyed off the face of the Earth, the survivors of the genocide to be broken into small groups of individuals, those small groups to be removed from their homeland, then scattered across every country on Earth, remain separated from each other for more than 1700 years, and then regather back in their ancient homeland to reunited as the original people group again.  Yet this is exactly what the people of Israel did.  That is why I call them the Impossible People.

The land of Israel is the only land in history that was vacated of its ancient people, and then repopulated with their descendants.  This did not begin a generation or two later, but after more than 1700 years of almost complete vacancy.  Every other people group who has been removed from their ancient homeland has either disappeared from history, or lost their identity by being completely assimilated into the countries that they were scattered to, within five generations.

After the Romans scattered the Jews of Jerusalem throughout the Roman Empire in 70 AD, and then scattered the Jews of Judaea throughout the Roman Empire in 135 AD, there were practically no Jews left in the land of Israel.  Where there had been over two and a half million Jews living in the land of Israel, there were less than two thousand left, and possibly as few as two hundred.  However, more than 100,000 Jews were enslaved, removed from the land of Israel, and scattered throughout the Roman Empire.  From there, they were further scattered over the centuries, until there was not a country on Earth that did not have some Jews living in it.  

(The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) has always left a few Jews in the Promised Land as a witness that He had not forgotten his promise to Abraham (Abram), Yitzakh (Isaac) and Jacob (Yah'acob aka Israel).  There are the ruins of synagogues in Israel today from various time periods showing a continuous presence of some Jews in the land of Israel from the time of the Romans until the time of British).

Disasters happened frequently over the centuries in the land of Israel, like great plagues, or war brought on by new empires taking control of the land of Israel, that would either force more Jews out of the land of Israel, or kill off more Jews in the land of Israel.  Some Jews were also usually hauled off as slaves whenever a new empire took control of the land of Israel.

The Byzantine Empire took control of the land of Israel after the Roman Empire split in two empires in 390 AD. The land of Israel was a weak spot in the Byzantine Empire and someone needed to occupy it to act as a buffer against the advances of the Sassanid Empire (Persian).  Since it was hard to find anyone who was willing to live there, other than religious professionals to maintain religious sites, the Byzantine Empire allowed Jews to move back into the former area of Judaea, except for Jerusalem. 

So even though there may have been as many as 400,000 Jews living in the land of Israel, before the Arab Caliphates took control of the land of Israel from the Byzantine Empire in 636 AD, their numbers soon began to diminish rapidly.

Most of the Jews who left the land of Israel went into nearby countries not controlled by the latest conquer of Israel, that offered them a better life.  Many Jews moved to Khazaria when it formed in 650 AD from the land of Israel after the Arab Caliphates took control of the land of Israel, because they had freedom of religion there.  Other Jews made similar immigrations when subsequent empires took control of the land of Israel until the time of the Ottoman Empire.

Then the Crusaders came in 1099 AD, killing every Jew and Muslim that they could find in the land of Israel.  They even killed local Christians in many cases. Their policy was, "Kill them all, and let God sort them out".  Even so, a few Jews manage to escape death, and remain in the land of Israel.

In 1187 AD, the Crusaders lost most of the land of Israel to the Ayyubid Sultanate, and the few Jews remaining in the land of Israel enjoyed a generation of relative peace, where plagues were the main source of mass destruction.

So there were less than two thousand Jews, most of them Mizrahi Jews, in the land of Israel in 1250 AD, more than 1100 years after the Romans had scattered the Jews in 135 AD.

Then the Mamluk Sultanate invaded the land of Israel in 1260 AD and fought a 31 year war to gain control of the land of Israel, during which time the land of Israel suffered great destruction and most of the population died, including most of the Jews.

So when Rambam, a Sephardic Rabbi, made aliyah to Jerusalem in 1267 AD, all alone, he could not find a synagogue there.  He wrote a letter to his oldest son explaining how desolate the city of Jerusalem was, and that there were only two other Jewish men living there, a pair of brothers engaged in the dye trade.  So he went to Jews in various places in the land of Israel, and helped them establish synagogues.  He finally established the first synagogue in Jerusalem in hundreds of years, once he found seven more Jewish men who were within a Sabbath days walk (about a mile), so they could form a minyan that is needed to establish a synagogue, which requires ten men at a minimum.  (Some of them appear to have had to move to new homes to be close enough, since Rambam was not able to locate them to form a synagogue when he first arrived.)

The earliest record of Ashkenazi Jews returning to the land of Israel is 1290 AD, just one year before the Mamluk Sultanate drove the Crusaders completely out of the land of Israel.  After this, a few Ashkenazi Jews continued to trickle into the land of Israel at a time.

Some Sephardic Jews also began trickling into the land of Israel after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 AD.  After this, a few Sephardic Jews continued to trickle into the land of Israel at a time.

The the Ottoman Empire then took control of the land of Israel in 1517 AD.  The Ottoman Turks were more open to letting Jews return to the land of Israel than their predecessors, since they could not find hardly anyone else who was willing to live there.  The Jews who immigrated into the land of Israel had to be supported by Jews living outside of Israel continuously, and the Ottoman Turks found interesting ways to tax the Jews in the land of Israel to bring some of that aid into their coffers.  So the Ottoman Turks allowed limited Jewish immigration into the land of Israel, so they would have some means to profit from the land of Israel.

The Ashkenazi Jews were eventually helped by Christian Zionists shortly after 1600 AD.  Christian Zionists, like Sir Isaac Newton and the Pilgrims, started working to bring about the return of the Jews to the land of Israel, because they believed that their salvation was tied to that of the Jewish people, by the everlasting covenant that the Father of Truth made with Abraham.

However, enough Ashkenazi Jews finally trickled into Jerusalem, that by 1860 AD the walls of the Old City could no longer contain them.  So in 1860 AD construction of the first neighborhood outside of the Old City, Mishkenot Sha’ananim, began.  In 1865 AD, the first new Jewish community outside of Jerusalem was built since 70 AD, and then occupied by these Ashkenazi Jews.

When Mark Twain went from Haifa to Jerusalem in 1867 AD, he reported not seeing so much as a goat on his journey.  There were only about 12,000 Jews in the land of Israel, and no one, Jew, Arab, or otherwise, lived within sight of the long stretch of road between the two cities.  He also reported that almost no one lived in Jerusalem except for Jews, and religious professionals of various religions, who maintained the many religious sites there.

The trickling of Sephardic Jews into the land of Israel had also continued throughout the Old Yishuv period, that ended around 1870 AD.  During this entire time, they remained in just four cities: Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias, and Safed.

By 1870 AD, there were still only 25,000 Jews in total living in the land of Israel.  Almost all of them lived in just 10 cities:  Jerusalem, Hebron, Tiberias, Safed, Jaffa, Haifa, Peki'in, Acre (Akko), Nablus, and Shfaram.  This is counting the Ashkenazi Jews that trickled in from northern Europe and North America, the Sephardic Jews that trickled in from southern Europe, modern Turkey, northern Africa, the rest of the Americas, and the Mizrahi Jews that either trickled in from the Middle East, or who were descendants of those few Jews left in the land of Israel, after the war that the Mamluk Empire had waged to take control of the land of Israel.

Then starting in 1870 AD, this trickle of Ashkenazi Jews began to become a steady stream of Ashkenazi Jews, from not just Germany and France, but also from Russia, and the countries between Germany and Russia, where Ashkenazi Jews had been scattered due to various persecutions since the founding of the Holy Roman Empire in 962 AD.  These Ashkenazi Jews were met in Haifa by Mizrahi Jews from Yemen, who had reported that they had felt compelled to leave Yemen, even though they were not being persecuted there, and to come to Haifa.

These Mizrahi Jews were vital to the success that the Ashkenazi Jews, who were totally unfamiliar with living in the wasteland conditions that existed in the land of Israel at that time.  These Mizrahi Jews taught the Ashkenazi Jews how adjust to their new home.

This steady stream of Ashkenazi Jews continued to increased due to the efforts of another Ashkenazi Jew named Theodor Herzl.  The book he wrote in 1896 AD, "The Jewish State", that convinced hundreds of thousands of Ashkenazi Jews that they had to move from Europe to the Promised Land.

So as more and more Ashkenazi Jews immigrated into the Promised Land, they began to rebuild the ancient cities, that had been destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD and 135 AD. They built a modern European style city on an empty expanse of sand next to the Mediterranean Sea, that is called Tel Aviv.  It was these Ashkenazi Jews who founded the first hospital and university in Israel as well.

All of these improvements caused other Mizrahi Jews from the Middle East, who were being expelled from the Muslim lands around the land of Israel, to move there as well.  However, the Ottoman Empire still controlled the land of Israel.

Then through the efforts of Ashkenazi Jews like Chaim Weizmann, and Christian Zionists, like his friend Arthur Balfour, the Balfour Declaration was issued in 1917 AD that gave the land that Britain would win in World War I from the Ottoman Turks to the Jewish people.

After Britain took control of the land of Israel in 1918 AD, Weizmann then founded the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.  He also helped to establish The Technion - The Israel Institute of Technology - along with other Ashkenazi Jews like Albert Einstein.  Lastly, he was responsible for founding the Weizmann Institute of Science with the help of other Ashkenazi Jews.

So with  these improvements, the small steady stream of Ashkenazi Jews immigrating to Israel grew into a bubbling brook.

Then came the Nazis and World War II.  Millions of Ashkenazi Jews were killed in the Holocaust, but millions also survived.  Most of those who survived, literally had no home to return to.  First, the Nazis had confiscated their homes and move other people into them.  Then the Allies turned the cities of the Germans into powder with carpet bombing.   The buildings that housed the apartments, which the mostly urbanized Ashkenazi Jews had lived in, simply were destroyed off the face of the Earth.

So finding themselves homeless, and wanting to get far away from the horror that they had survived, multitudes of Ashkenazi Jews moved into the Promised Land, after the war was over in 1945 AD.

In 1948 AD, the Jews finally created the country of Israel, when it was apparent that the British were going to leave, and the Jews would have to defend themselves from the same Muslims nations that had forced so many Mizrahi Jews to move into the land of Israel over the years.

So after the Ashkenazi Jews created the country of Israel, with very little help from the other Jews, the number of Jews in Israel tripled.  About half of the new wave of immigrants were Ashkenazi Jews, and half of them were Mizrahi Jews from Muslim countries.  The bubbling brook of immigrating Ashkenazi Jews had grown into a river.

Then the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 AD, which signaled the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Over the next 15 years, about 1.75 million Ashkenazi Jews immigrated from Russia to Israel.  The river of immigrating Ashkenazi Jews had became a flood.

The Ashkenazi Jews in Israel have continued to bring Jews back to Israel from every country that they have been scattered to since 135 AD.  There are Jews living in Israel today from every country on Earth, and these new streams of Jews returning to the land of Israel, have not been stemmed by the efforts of the Arabs or the United Nations.  In fact, the Ashkenazi Jews have brought back so many Jews from places like Ethiopia, that the Ashkenazi Jews only make up about 47% of the Jews in the land of Israel today.

So many Jews keep moving back to Israel that they have to continuously to rebuild the ancient cities as new settlements to absorb them.  There are now more than twice as many Jews in the land of Israel as there was in 70 AD.

The Jews have been brought back to the land of Israel in another important way, beyond just the great number of descendants of those dispersed among the nations who have returned.

The descendants of the Jews who were dispersed from the land of Israel in 70 AD and 135 AD, were involved in inter-racial marriage over the centuries.  As a result, they ended up with physical characteristics that were almost never seen among Jews in the land of Israel before the Roman Diaspora.  For example, the Jews in the land of Israel at that time did not have white skin, blond hair, or blue eyes, like many Ashkenazi Jews who moved back to the land of Israel after World War II.  The Jews had their original image changed to more like that of the nations that they lived among for many generations. 

Now, a whole new breed of Jew has emerged in the land of Israel since Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews, Mizrahi Jews, and other Jews from other places like China, have returned to the land of Israel.

This new breed of Jew is called a Sabra. (Sabra literally means "the fruit of a prickly pear cactus", - tough on the outside, but sweet on the inside.)  While any Jew born in the land of Israel is called a Sabra, many multi-generational Sabras have developed characteristics that are different from Jews born outside of the land of Israel, but common with each other.  This has been the result intermarriage between the various other types of Jews after they make aliyah to the land of Israel.

Some Sabras now look just like the Jews who lived in Judaea before the Romans scattered the Jews in 70 AD and 135 AD.  The descendants of those Jews have not just come back to the land of Israel, but the people of Israel are being reformed into their original image in the land of Israel.

The impossible has happened.

How could have all of this happened?

This is the work of the Greatest Zionist.

The Father of Truth has been bringing the Jews back to the Land of Israel, and making their population greater than it was before 70 AD (Deuteronomy 30:4-5).  The Father of Truth has been bringing back the Jewish people from all directions to the land of Israel ( Isaiah 43:5-6).  He has been bringing them back to the Land of Israel, when they were weeping from their troubles in other lands (Jeremiah 31:8-9).  He has been delivering them from those who were too strong for them, like the Nazis, so they would return to the land of Israel (Jeremiah 31:10-11).

The Father of Truth has been causing the Jews to rebuild the ancient places that were wasted (Isaiah 58:12).  He has been giving the Jews success in their efforts to rebuild cities that were destroyed more than 1700 years ago (Isaiah 61:4).  He has been filling the ancient cities that the Jews have rebuilt with large populations (Jeremiah 30:18-19).  He has been gathering the Jewish people back to the land of Israel to rebuild the ancient cities (Amos 9:14).

The Father of Truth has been filling the land of Israel again with sound of Jewish music and dancing (Jeremiah 31:4).  He has been filling the ancient cities of Israel with the sound of gladness again (Jeremiah 33:10-11).

He has been filling the streets of Jerusalem once again with singing and dancing (Jeremiah 31:12-13).  He has been filling the streets of Jerusalem with Jews, both old and young (Zechariah 8:4-5).

The Father of Truth does not just want to make the impossible to happen with the Jewish people, but He wants to make it happen with your life.  He wants you to come into the House of Truth and become the person that you were meant to be.

Like the Jews, you have been separated from the place that you were meant to live, in His presence, because of your sin (Isaiah 59:2).  You have have not been experiencing every good thing that He wants to give you, because of your sin (Jeremiah 5:25).

Like the Jews, you have rebelled against Him with your sin (Romans 3:23).  Your obedience to sin has made you to be carried off as a slave from where you were meant to live (Romans 6:16).

Like the Jews, you have been been suffering for your rebellion (Proverbs 13:15).  Your sin has made you as good as dead to the Father of Truth (Romans 7:5).

Like the Jews, you were originally meant to have a different image (Romans 8:29 ).  You have had that original image changed to be more like that of the world by living among the world for so many years (Ephesians 2:2-3).

Like the Jews, the Father of Truth has done what is impossible for you to do for yourself, and made a way for you to come back from the dead like His Son (Colossians 2:12-14).  The blood of the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) has made it possible for you to return to the place where you were meant to live (Revelation 1:5-6).

Like the Jews, you can come back to where you were meant to live, by making the Man of Truth your king because you believe that His Father raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9).  You can come into the House of Truth to be reformed into the original image that you were intended to have (2 Corinthians 5:17).

Come into the House of Truth!

To The Ends Of The Earth And Back Again

Why did the Jews leave Israel, and then come back to Israel, more than 1,700 years later?

I once knew a Jewish man from Rapa Iti, who lived in a house situated on the southwest corner of the island.  His house was literally the furthest inhabited place on Earth from Jerusalem.  Jews live throughout Polynesia, the islands that are furthest lands on Earth from Jerusalem.  Jews also live in New Zealand, the second furthest inhabited lands on Earth from Jerusalem.  Jews in like manner live in Chile, the third furthest inhabited land on Earth from Jerusalem.

So, Jews have been literally scattered to the ends of the Earth from Jerusalem and their ancient homeland of Judea.  There is not a nation on Earth where Jews do not live.  They have lived in some of these places for more than 1500 years.  Yet, they started coming back to their ancient homeland, after more than 1700 years of being gone.  Why did the Jews even leave Israel in the first place?

The Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) said, that the Jews in Judaea would be scattered among all ethnic groups (nations) as slaves when the Romans destroyed first Jerusalem, and then the providence of Judaea (Luke 21:20-24).  The Romans first enslaved and scattered the Jews, who survived their siege of Jerusalem, among every ethnic group that lived inside the Roman Empire in 70 AD.  They did the same thing with the Jews, who survived the destruction of Judaea in 135 AD.

The Man of Truth knew this from what was written in the Torah and the Prophets.  The Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) had told the Jews that He would raise up a Prophet like unto Moses (Moishe), who they must obey or face His judgement (Deuteronomy 18:14-19).  The Man of Truth is that Prophet, who suffered as foretold by the Prophets of Truth, and the Father of Truth set in motion His judgment against every Jew in Judaea who would not obey him (Acts 3:18-23).

So it came to pass as the Father of Truth had warned the Jews, that He would cast the Jews into other lands, if they worshiped anything other than Him (Deuteronomy 29:26-28).  He had said if the Jews despised His commandments, including those about that Prophet like unto Moses, then He would send a powerful nation to destroy their cities and land, the Jews would die in great numbers with famine and disease when they were sieged by this power nation, and finally would be scattered by that power nation (Leviticus 26:14-33).  He had said, that He would scattered them among all ethnic groups for not obeying the Law of Truth, including what it said about that Prophet like unto Moses (Zechariah 7:11-14).

The Father of Truth had said, that the would live in fear and misery among other nations, and even die in great numbers among those nations, for refusing to keep His commandments, including those concerning that Prophet like unto Moses (Leviticus 26:36-38).  He had said, that if they did not keep His covenant, that included obeying that Prophet like unto Moses, then they would become a small minority in other nations, where they would be forced to worship idols, like those of the False Church of Rome (Deuteronomy 4:23-28).  He had said that if they did not obey His voice, including what He said about that Prophet like unto Moses, then He would greatly reduce their numbers, scatter them among every ethnic group across the entire Earth, and they would live in constant fear and trouble (Deuteronomy 28:62-67).

The Father of Truth had done this twice before he used the Romans to scatter the providence of Judaea.  He did this when he used the Assyrians to scattered the northern kingdom of Israel, and then used the Babylonians to scatter the southern kingdom of Judah (Nehemiah 1:6-8).  These first two scatterings were only among the ethnic groups who lived in the Middle East, and the regions around it (Ezekiel 12:10-15).  These first two diasporas only went to the regions around the Middle East, but the Roman diaspora has sent them to live among every ethnic group on Earth, as the Father of Truth had spoken through Moses.  The first two scatterings for going into idolatry were, but mere shadows of the scattering for rejecting the Man of Truth.

However, the story did not end there for the first two diasporas, and it does not end there for the Roman diaspora.  Why not?  Why did Jews start coming back to their ancestral homeland?

The Father of Truth said that He would not destroy the Jews completely, but leave some alive in every nation where they were scattered for generation after generation.  He promised that some Jews would always survive in the nations where they were scattered, even if they lived in misery for their disobedience (Leviticus 26:39).  He promised that the Jewish people not be cast away, nor destroyed completely in the lands of their enemies, because of the covenant that He made with their ancestors when he brought them out of Egypt (Leviticus 26:44-45).  He promised that He would not destroy the Jewish people nor forget them when they were scattered, because of the covenants that He had made with Abraham (Abram), Isaac (Yitzakh), and Jacob (Yah'acob aka Israel) (Deuteronomy 4:31).  He would preserve some of them among the nations, so they could remember what He had warned them about (Deuteronomy 30:1).  He could no more forget and forsake the Jewish people, who He gave Jerusalem to, than a mother could forget and forsake her own children (Isaiah 49:14-16).  He promised to not let all of the Jewish people be completely destroyed by the ethnic groups that they were scattered among, but to only use these ethnic groups to punish the Jewish people in part (Jeremiah 30:11).  He promised that He would destroy the universe, if he forgot about the Jewish people and let them cease to exist (Jeremiah 31:35-37).  He promised to leave a remnant of Jews in every place that they were scattered to (Ezekiel 6:8).  He promised to leave some of the Jews alive in every nation, so they could serve as a warning to those nations against doing what the Father of Truth finds abominable (Ezekiel 12:16).

The Father of Truth instead said that He would not forget His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give the Promised Land to their descendants, even though they would be removed from the Land of Israel for many years (Leviticus 26:42-43).  He promised to gather them back to the Promised Land, and make them more numerous there than their ancestors, as it is with Jews in Israel today (Deuteronomy 30:3-5).  He has been gathering the Jewish people from all nations (Jeremiah 23:3).  He said, that he would gather them back from all of the nations that they had been scattered to (Jeremiah 31:9-11).  He is the One, who has given the land of Israel back to the Jews (Ezekiel 11:16-17).  He is the One, who has caused Jews to come back from all nations, and dwell in the land of Israel (Ezekiel 28:25).

The Father of Truth has caused the Jews to both inhabit Jerusalem, and rebuild the ruined cities of Israel (Isaiah 44:26).  He has brought the Jews back to the land of Israel, to build Jerusalem back up, to bring back the sound of joy in the land, and to fill the land of Israel with a great number of people (Jeremiah 30:17-19).  He has caused the daughters of the Jews to dance in the land of Israel (Jeremiah 31:4).  He has caused Jews from all over Israel to sing and shout for joy, when they are assembled in Jerusalem (Jeremiah 31:6-7).  He has caused young and old alike among the Jews to dance with joy in Jerusalem (Jeremiah 31:12-13).  He has caused the Jews to return to their ancient cities and rebuild the places that were wasted by the Romans (Ezekiel 36:10-12).  He has caused so many Jews to rebuild the ancient places in the land of Israel, that they are constantly being forced to rebuild more of them in new settlements (Ezekiel 36:35-38). He has caused the streets of Jerusalem to be filled with old Jews watching Jewish children playing in the streets of Jerusalem (Zechariah 8:4-5).

So the Father of Truth has brought the Jews back to the land of Israel, to form the nation of Israel, after more than 1700 years.  It was never a matter of The Greatest Zionist keeping the Jews from returning to the land of Israel.  He has patiently been waiting on them to return.  The better question to ask is: Why did the Jews wait so long to start coming back to the land of Israel?

The Father of Truth also said, that He would bring them back to the land of Israel to fulfill His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, after they admitted that they had walked contrary to Him by rejecting His commandments, including those about that Prophet like unto Moses (Leviticus 26:40-42).  He said that He would show Himself strong on behalf of the Jewish people, when they started turning their hearts back to Him in their dispersion (Deuteronomy 4:29-30).  He said, that things would begin to change, when they returned to obeying Him in those foreign lands (Deuteronomy 30:1-2).  He said, that this change would come, when they began to loathe themselves in these foreign lands, for what they had done to Him through their disobedience, before they were scattered among the nations (Ezekiel 6:9-10).

The Father of Truth said, that when they did this, then He would circumcise their hearts, so they could love Him with all of their heart (Deuteronomy 30:5).  He said, that He would do this through a Renewed Covenant that He would make with the Jews, which would cause them to be able to obey Him from their heart (Jeremiah 31:31-34).  He said, that the Jews would be given but one way to be gain a heart that feared to depart from Him in disobedience, so he could regather them from all nations (Jeremiah 32:37-42).  He said, that He would put the Spirit of Truth (Ruach HaQodesh aka The Holy Spirit aka The Holy Ghost) in them, so they could obey Him from the heart (Ezekiel 11:19-20).  He said, that He would replace their hearts of stone, with hearts of flesh, that could respond to His commandments, so the people of Israel could dwell in the land of Israel (Ezekiel 36:26-28).

The Father of Truth gathered the Jewish people back to the Promised Land from the Babylonian diaspora, after they turned back to Him in obedience to the Law of Truth, while they were still scattered throughout the lands of the Middle East and those nearby (Nehemiah 1:9-10).  He gathered the Jewish people back to the Promised Land, after only seventy years in exile to Babylon, because they returned to obeying Him in their exile (Jeremiah 29:10-14).

This gathering was a mere shadow of how the gathering the Jewish people back to the Promised Land, after they turned back to Him in obedience to the Law of Truth, by committing to obey that Prophet like unto Moses, while they were still scattered throughout the entire Earth (Isaiah 11:10-12).

So the Jews began to come back into the Promised Land, after they began to return to the Father of Truth, by obeying the Man of Truth, that Prophet like unto Moses, written about in the Law of Truth.

This gathering from the Roman diaspora was not after 70 years in exile, like the Babylonian diaspora, but after more than 1700 years in exile.  It took so long to begin, because the Jews took so long to begin returning to the Father of Truth, by obeying that Prophet like unto Moses, the Man of Truth, whom they were told that they must obey in the Law of Truth.

The Jews have come back to Israel in proportion to how they have come into the House of Truth.  This history of disobedience, and then finally the beginning to come to repentance after 1700 years, has caused the Jews to go to the ends of the Earth and back again.

Today, there are more Jews who follow the Man of Truth in Israel than anytime since 70 AD.  There are far more Jews who have came into the House of Truth, outside of Israel than in Israel.  As more and more Jews have realized that the Man of Truth is the Messiah of Israel, more and more Jews have returned to the land of Israel.  As more and more Jews have come to realize that that it is a Jewish thing to follow the Man of Truth, more and more of Jews have come into the House of Truth.

The Man of Truth is that one way to come into the House of Truth, that the Prophets of Truth spoke about (John 14:6-7).  The Father of Truth has circumcised the heart of every Jew who has come into the House of Truth (Romans 2:28-29).  The Spirit of Truth now lives in the heart of every Jew who has come into the House of Truth (Romans 8:9-11).  The Spirit of Truth has turned the heart of stone in every Jew, who has come into the House of Truth, into hearts of flesh that the commandments of the Father of Truth can be written upon (2 Corinthians 3:3).  The Renewed Covenant (B'rit Chadashah aka The New Testament) is the means to come into the House of Truth (Hebrews 8:8-12).

Every Jew who decides to obey the Man of Truth, that Prophet like unto Moses, because they believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead, will come into the House of Truth (Romans 10:8-10).  Everyone, Jew or Gentile, can come into the House of Truth by the same means (Romans 10:11-13).

Come into the House of Truth!