In the course of events of ancient Israel, it was the northern Kingdom of Israel under the leadership of Ephraim who first rejected Jehovah and turned from him and was scattered into all the world for having done so. Though not fully faithful in all things, the kingdom of Judah remained and was led by both wicked and righteous kings after this time of Ephraim's or the kingdom of Israel's rejection of the Lord. A remnant of some of the 'lost tribes' remained in Judah, but these were few. Later in the days of Zedekiah, the rebellion and rejection of Jehovah by the Jews reached its height of wickedness and they also were destoryed and carried off and many scattered into the nations of the earth. In one since, it was Judah who was first brought back to the land of Jerusalem and it was first to Judah to who the Christ did come. This 'momentary gathering of a few of the Jews facilitated to coming of Christ in the meridian of time. But then again the Jews did reject the Lord even to the point that they did crucify him.

The scriptures speak of the concept of that which was first shall be last and that which was last shall be first. Like may applications of such dualistic prophetic prophecies, that scripture can be likened unto a number of things. Usually applied to the gentiles and Israel in the forms of scattered 'Ephraim' among the nations of the Earth thus associated with the Gentiles and of those who remained identifyable as the 'Jews'. And in this application, there is a dualistic application. Ephraim, who as a nation phyically rejected the Lord first and has been scattered into the nations of the earth among the Gentiles, will receive the Lord last in his visitation to earth. And thus the Jews who physically rejected him second and were scattered after Ephriam, the kingdom of Israel, physically received his coming to the earth as Jesus Christ first. Thus the physical coming to the earth was first to those who phycially rejected him last, the Jews. And the Lord came second to his other sheep who were not of that fold. And thus Ephraim, Israel who rejected him physical first received his visitation to them beginning in the America's of the Book of Mormon last.

But then again in a spiritual since, the Jews who recieve the physical manifestation of the Christ first will in the last times, receive of his testimony spiritually last. Thus in the latter-days, it has been Ephraim, the promised firstborn of God, who has received of the restoration and of the spiritual witness of the Lord first. And it is Ephraim who will take that gospel of testimony to the world. And after Ephraim, who has now received of the restoration first, after having received his earthly physical manifestation last, the Jews will also come to the testimony of the Lord and return unto him last, after Ephraim having been restored first,

Further in the simpliest since, between the Gentiles and the Jews, it can be said that they who had the opportunity to recieved the mortal Jesus first and rejected him first, the Jews, will be the last. And the Gentiles who recieved the acceptance of Jesus Christ in the meridian of time second through such as the apostles including Paul and accepted it for a time but then also rejected it 'second', then in restoration, they will be given the gospel first before the Jews who will be given of the restoration second.

Thus when the scriptures speak of things that are first and their being made to come last, and things which are last and will made to be first, they do certainly speak of many things concerning the Jews and the Gentiles, Ephraim and Judah, and times then and now and even of things yet to come.

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It is often referenced that the Messiah would descend below all men. The need for the Messiah to come to this earth, which has been pronouced by scripture to be the most wicked of all the creations of the Lord (Moses 7:36) and that it was indeed that very earth where Satan and his followers where cast out to (Rev. 12:9, 11-12), and that the Jewish nation was the most wicked of this earth, and that no other nation of this most wicked of God's creations would have crucified their God (2 Nep 10:3). Thus indeed, of all the Lord's creations and of all the sites upon this creation, that the Lord did come, He did come to where he would descend below all other states of wickedness to be so crucified by the voice of the Jews here upon this world.

Now, what makes it possible for Christ to come to this place of creation most wicked upon all others to descend below all to be so pursecuted and crucified by 'His Own', but that Christ was known to be decended of the blood of Judah, thus he was to be rejected by his own in that blood relationship with the tribe of Judah. Thus He needed to be so descended of Judah.

At the same time, at his second coming, Christ will be accepted by his own. This time, His own would be his rightful and legal line of ancestry, that is being of the heir of the tribe of Ephraim.