I know, but there is a great deal more in that prophecy than what is being extracted from it. God is talking to both "the house of Israel"
and to "the house of Judah" in the above prophecy, and promising the rejoining of the two kingdoms into one nation in that prophecy at the time of their restoration to God and to the land of their fathers.
The house of Israel being spoken to by God in the prophecy was exiled in 725 BC and scattered among the nations.
Their descendants intermarried with Gentiles in the nations and they have remained exiled ever since, and so there is a lot of talk about
"the lost 10 tribes" - but they are untraceable, because their descendants intermarried with Gentiles in the nations.
Yet Paul included Gentiles
with the Jews who believe in Jesus when he quoted Hosea speaking of the same thing:
Hosea
1:9-10 is talking about the House of Israel - whom God is talking to in the prophecy in Ezekiel that you are quoting.
Verse 11 talks about both the house of Israel AND the house of Judah:
Hosea 1
9 Then said God, Call his name Loammi: for all of
you are not my people, and I will not be your God.
10 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 in the place where it was said unto them, All of you are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, All of you are the sons of the living God.
11
Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head,
and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
(That last sentence is referring back to the part of the prophecy in Hosea that the 10 tribes of the house of Israel would be judged in the valley of Jezreel and exiled):
Hosea 1
5 And it shall be, at that day I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezreel.
Ezekiel 37:16-28 is talking about the same reunification, and Paul says the following when quoting Hosea:
Romans 9
22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had before prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he has called,
not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25
As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, All of you are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Isaiah also cries concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, (o. logos) and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work (o. logos) will the Lord make upon the earth.
29 And as Isaiah said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness.
Ezekiel is making a very clear distinction between the house of Israel and the house of Judah, and saying very clearly in Ezekiel 37:15-28 that the two nations will be joined into one in the day God restores them to the land - and the first part of Ezekiel 37 IMO cannot be spiritualized and is indeed talking about the resurrection of the dead in Christ when Christ returns:
Ezekiel 37
12 Therefore prophesy and say to them, So says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, O My people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, and will bring you into the land of Israel.
13 And you shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and have brought you up out of your graves.
14 And I shall put My Spirit in you, and you shall live, and I will place you in your own land. And you shall know that I the LORD have spoken and have done it, says the LORD.
The only other person in these forums who recognizes that Ezekiel chapters 35-39 is talking about a whole lot more than just "the Jews" is
@Keraz - but he only has God giving the New Covenant to ANYONE at this time (when this prophecy is fulfilled), so he does not believe that the New Covenant is
already the covenant we as Christians have with God - yet.
Anyway, the fact that Ezekiel is talking in some parts to "the house of Israel" and in other parts to "the house of Judah" shows us that this prophecy is not talking only to the people who today are commonly called "the Jews". It's more than only Jews. It's Jews + Gentiles in Christ.
This is a mystery few understand, IMO: "The house of Israel" = "the fullness of the Gentiles".
Nevertheless those with the spiritual discernment they claim to have should be able to recognize the spirit behind what is happening today with the war of the nations against modern-day Israel as well as the evil hatred of Jews world-wide, because it's the same Satanic spirit behind Gog of Magog - no matter when or how the prophecy is fulfilled, or which "house of Israel" is being referred to.
- and those who hate Israel and the Jews have the USA and basically all Caucasian Americans included and linked to, and part of, their hatred of Israel and its Jews (which they have in their own hearts and is NOT provoked).
IMO for the USA to distance itself from the Israeli government at this time and any actions taken by the Israeli government at this time will not help because it is and will only be seen by of the enemies of Israel and of the USA as appeasement through weakness and feebleness, because those same enemies of Israel just so happen to be the enemies of the USA too - but not by the choice of the USA - by the choice of those who hate Israel and the USA.
It's Satanic. It's the same spirit behind what we read about in Ezekiel and the Gog-Magog nations rebelling against God and against His Christ and against His people and their right to inhabit the land of their fathers that GOD gave to them.
Side-note: BRICS according to Wikipedia is only 9 nations strong. So I was mistaken when I said 10. It seems Saudi Arabia has not joined yet. Argentina's President pulled Argentina out of it also - just in time - they got a new President who is pro-Israel.
It will be 10 nations if Saudi Arabia has joined. I'm not sure of its status. But the main enemies of the USA are all there: China, Iran, Russia. And you may as well include Turkey in the list of enemies of the USA, despite its NATO membership.
The enemies of the Jews and of Israel just happen to also be the enemies of Christ and his sheep, and of Christianity. They have made themselves the enemies of both groups - and they just happen to have chosen to make themselves the enemies of the USA also.
This is most certainly a Gog-Magog spirit that has taken over the world at this time.