[§155] The Translated Lost Ten Tribes in Jacob 5 and Ezekiel 37

This podcast discusses the translation of the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel as seen through the writings of Zenos in his allegory of the tame and wild olive trees, recorded in Jacob 5 in the Book of Mormon. The same topic is viewed from Ezekiel's vision of the valley of the dry bones recorded in Ezekiel 37 in the Old Testament. This is part of a continuing discussion of John the Revelator's little book mission in Revelation 10:8-11, where the Savior commissioned him to go among the Lost Ten Tribes as a translated person to minister among a people to be translated in preparation for their coming to Adam-ondi-Ahman and the Second Coming. John's little book mission came after the visit of Jesus Christ among the Lost Ten Tribes after his resurrection in about 34 AD. The Allegory of Zenos describes the Lost Ten Tribes as natural branches hidden in the nethermost part of the vineyard in a poor spot of ground. Despite their adversities, the Lost Ten Tribes brought forth much good fruit by the time of Christ's visit among them in 34 AD. Nevertheless, the Lost Ten Tribes became wicked and corrupt as the Great Apostasy took hold universally in all the world. In anticipation of this event, John received his little book mission to labor among the Lost Ten Tribes as recorded in Revelation 10:8-11. (See also D&C 77:14) In the face of their apostasy, the Lord did not allow the Lost Ten Tribes to be destroyed like the Nephites in 420 AD, but he instead plucked out the most bitter branches and preserved the rest by grafting in natural branches from the original tree, which describes John's mission among them and perhaps that of the Three Nephites as well. The Lost Ten Tribes were thus preserved until the time of their translation in 570 BC, which is a date 1260 years before the restoration of the Church in 1830. The 1260 years is the prophetic time given for the great apostacy as measured by the loss of earthly priesthood during the Great Apostasy. Ezekiel describes the translation and restoration of the Lost Ten Tribes as one part of his vision of dry bones in Ezekiel 37. The vision applies to the whole house of Israel represented by dry and scattered bones. Ezekiel say flesh and sinews restored to the dried up bones to represent the gathering of scattered Israel and the restoration of the Lost Ten Tribes as a great army of the latter days. This vision symbolically depicts the translation of the Lost Ten Tribes who will stand up as a great army with translated bodies during the Great Tribulation.