Confirmation of the Regathering from the Apocrypha

Apocrypha (from the Greek word ἀπόκρυφα, meaning "those having been hidden away"^[ are texts of uncertain authenticity or writings where the authorship is questioned. In Judeo-Christian theology the term apocrypha refers to any collection of scriptural texts that falls outside the canon. Given that different denominations have different ideas about what constitutes canonical scripture, there are several different versions of the apocrypha. During sixteenth-century controversies over the biblical canon the word "apocrypha" acquired a negative connotation, and it has become a synonym for "spurious" or "false".

Although traditional rabbinical Judaism insists on the exclusive canonization of the current 24 books in the Tanakh, it also claims to have an oral law handed down from Moses. The Sadducees, - unlike the Pharisees but like the Samaritans - seem to have maintained an earlier and smaller number of texts as canonical, preferring to hold to only what was written in the Law of Moses (making most of the presently accepted canon, both Jewish and Christian, apocryphal in their eyes). Certain circles in Judaism, such as the Essenes in Judea and the Therapeutae in Egypt, were said to have a secret literature (see Dead Sea scrolls.

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2 ESDRAS

The main body of the book appears to be written for consolation in a period of great distress (most likely Titus' destruction of the Second Temple in AD 70) according to the modern theory. The author seeks answers, similar to Job's quest for understanding the meaning of suffering but the author doesn't like or desire only the answer that was given to Job.

The book is considered one of the gems of Jewish apocalyptic literature.

Extract fro 2 Esdras 13:8-47

8  “After this I looked and saw that all who had gathered together against him, to wage war with him, were filled with fear, and yet they dared to fight

10  but I saw only how he sent forth from his mouth something like a stream of fire, and from his lips a flaming breath, and from his tongue he shot forth a storm of sparks.  11  … (which) fell on the onrushing multitude that was prepared to fight, and burned up all of them, so that suddenly nothing was seen of the innumerable multitude but only the dust of ashes and the smell of smoke  …
12 After this I saw the same man come down from the mountain and call to himself another multitude that was peaceable.

25  This is the interpretation of the vision:

26  … this is he whom the Most High has been keeping for many ages, who will himself deliver his creation; and he will direct those who are left. ²⁷And as for your seeing wind and fire and a storm coming out of his mouth ²⁸ … destroying the onrushing multitude that came to conquer him, this is the interpretation: 

29  The days are coming when the Most High will deliver those who are on the earth. ³⁰And bewilderment of mind shall come over those who inhabit the earth. ³¹They shall plan to make war against one another …. 
33  Then, when all the nations hear his voice, all the nations shall leave their own lands and the warfare that they have against one another; ³⁴and an innumerable multitude shall be gathered together, as you saw, wishing to come and conquer him. 

35  But he shall stand on the top of Mount Zion. ³⁶And Zion shall come and be made manifest to all people, prepared and built, as you saw the mountain carved out without hands. 
39  And as for your seeing him gather to himself another multitude that was peaceable, ⁴⁰these are the Ten Tribes that were taken away from their own land into exile in the days of King Hoshea, whom Shalmaneser, king of the Assyrians, made captives; he took them across the river, and they were taken into another land. ⁴¹But they formed this plan for themselves, that they would leave the multitude of the nations and go to a more distant region, where no human beings had ever lived … 

46  Then they lived there until the last times; and now, when they are about to come again, ⁴⁷the Most High will stop the channels of the river (Euphrates) again, so that they may be able to cross over. Therefore you saw the multitude gathered together in peace. "

The regathering of an entire nation foretold centuries in advance

Eze 37:15 And the Word of HaShem came to me,

(16) saying, And you, son of man, take one stick to yourself and write on it, For Judah, and for his companions, the sons of Israel. And take another stick and write on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and all the house of Israel, his companions.

(17) And draw them one to one for yourself, into one stick. And they shall become one in your hand.

(18) And when the sons of your people shall speak to you, saying, Will you not declare to us what these mean to you?

(19) Say to them, So says HaShem: 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 him, with the stick of Judah, and I will make them one stick, and they shall be one in My hand.

(20) And the sticks shall be in your hand, the ones on which you write before their eyes.

(21) And say to them, So says HaShem: Behold, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations, there where they have gone, and will gather them from all around, and will bring them into their own land.

(22) And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel, and one King shall be for a king to all of them. And they shall not be two nations still. And they will not be split into two kingdoms any more.

(23) And they will not still be defiled with their idols, even with their filthy idols, nor with all of their transgressions. But I will save them out of all their dwelling places where they have sinned in them, and I will cleanse them. So they shall be for a people to Me and I will be their G-d.

(24) And My Servant, David, shall be King over them. And there shall be one Shepherd to all of them. And they shall walk in My judgments and keep My statutes, and do them.

(25) And they shall dwell on the land that I have given to my servant, to Jacob, there where your fathers dwelt in it. And they shall dwell on it, they and their sons, and the sons of their sons, forever. And My Servant David shall be a ruler to them forever.

(26) And I will cut a covenant of peace with them, an everlasting covenant it shall be with them, And I will place them and multiply them, and I will put My sanctuary in their midst forever.

(27) And My tabernacle shall be with them, and I will be their G-d, and they shall be My people.

(28) And when My sanctuary shall be in their midst forever, the nations shall know that I, HaShem, sanctify Israel.