Naphtali is a HINDU let loose: he giveth goodly words

A HIND LET LOSE

  

Zion, March 15, 2012

Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

             

(Old Testament | Genesis 49:21)

Dinesh Dsouza

dineshjdsouza@aol.com

Mr. Dsouza,

Without ceremony, I want to tell you that I just met you today. I saw the complete interview you had in A TV Book review program called CSPAN about your written works which video is divided in eleven parts. One day I will have the proper means to read and collect your works.

You may find this letter strange. I just want to let you know first, that I am not an educated man by any of the current world standards. I am a terribly self educated man. Nevertheless, I have had a wonderful feast with your intellectual lectures on the 11 episodes of your Book interview. And I can’t wait to see the film you have produced about the American Dream 2016. I truly enjoyed your words as if I was drinking the sweetest wine or listening to my successful little brother; or better yet, as I had just found a lost treasure of great worth. 

I am not articulated in intellectual communications as you may tell, but that does not exclude me from expressing my knowledge, thoughts and ideas with interesting intellect of the purest kind. In fact, because of this great intellect, I will surprise you today. I can even boast and propose, yet without any pride that, even thought I just met you, I know you more than anybody else under heaven knows you, including your wife, you precious daughter and even, yourself. 

Do you believe that can that be possible? There is only one way to find out. And it is to ask God directly by following the experiment James suggests as recorded in the bible which says:

“If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”

(New Testament | James 1:5 - 8)

Now, I did not even had to pray to know you. I just listened to a double conversation simultaneously while I heard your lectures. My name is Miguel Angel Tinoco Rodriguez, but you may call me Ephraim. Your name is Dinesh Dsousa, but from hence forth you are to me my Naphtali. That makes us both, not brothers but brethren.

This is how I know.  I have a God given gift and a special key to see things that only very few and select can see. It is because I am a descendant of the ancient seers. And I want to give you a seer’s gift. It is the precious gift of identity. Because if we know who we are, we can define where we come from and redirect our lives to where we want to be in this life and in the life to come. And this gift primarily to your daughter specially, for according to your speech in the tenth episode of your interview, you said she asked to you who is she supposed to be, for she has within her the lovely burden of a double precious heritage. No, it does not have to do with Indian culture or being Asian American. It is greater than that.  

Every moment I heard you speaking, despite paying strict attention to your goodly words, I was hearing or thinking of a blessing that my ancient father, Jacob gave before his death to all his children. And In that blessing I discovered in faith that you and I are of the same father, but of a different mother. And my father spoke about you particularly a great many centuries and/or even millenniums before you were born. And nobody else in the world that I know about, fulfills the blessing that he left to your people. You are the head or a prince of a peculiar tribe of the ten lost Tribes of Israel. Of the tribe of Naphtali.  And this is the way he refers to you or the people of your peculiar root extraction.

Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

             

(Old Testament | Genesis 49:21)

Believe it or not, I have just found you: I know without a shadow of a doubt that you are one of us or of the tribe of Neftali. And I want to introduce you to my other brethren and your brethren. I do not only mean to our distinguished brother, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, who is or was also one of us, but to Ephraim and Manasseh who particularly dwell in the top of the mountains, or Utah.  And also in the rest of Continental America, from Mexico to Patagonia, only that few of them know who they really are.

 

We are waiting for you to join us, if it is that you want the rest of your inheritance or the blessings of the priesthood that our fathers left us and our posterity to enjoy. If you have come thus far, what prevents you from coming a little farther? I prophesy that you will not be disappointed. Becaseu:

 

The House of Israel Must Be Gathered

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Why does the Lord want His people to be gathered?

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How will the house of Israel be gathered?

The Lord promised that His covenant people would someday be gathered: “I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them” (Jeremiah 23:3).

God gathers His children through missionary work. As people come to a knowledge of Jesus Christ, receiving the ordinances of salvation and keeping the associated covenants, they become “the children of the covenant” (3 Nephi 20:26). He has important reasons for gathering His children. He gathers them so they can learn the teachings of the gospel and prepare themselves to meet the Savior when He comes again. He gathers them so they will build temples and perform sacred ordinances for ancestors who have died without having this opportunity. He gathers them so they can strengthen one another and be unified in the gospel, finding protection from unrighteous influences in the world. He also gathers them so they can prepare themselves to share the gospel with others.

The power and authority to direct the work of gathering the house of Israel was given to Joseph Smith by the prophet Moses, who appeared in 1836 in the Kirtland Temple (see D&C 110:11). Since that time, each prophet has held the keys for the gathering of the house of Israel, and this gathering has been an important part of the Church’s work. The covenant people are now being gathered as they accept the restored gospel and serve the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (see Deuteronomy 30:1–5).

The Israelites are to be gathered spiritually first and then physically. They are gathered spiritually as they join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and make and keep sacred covenants. This spiritual gathering began during the time of the Prophet Joseph Smith and continues today all over the world. Converts to the Church are Israelites either by blood oradoption. They belong to the family of Abraham and Jacob (see Abraham 2:9–11; Galatians 3:26–29).

President Joseph Fielding Smith said: “There are many nations represented in the … Church. … They have come because the Spirit of the Lord rested upon them; … receiving the spirit of gathering, they left everything for the sake of the gospel” (Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. [1954–56], 3:256; italics in original).

The physical gathering of Israel means that the covenant people will be “gathered home to the lands of their inheritance, and shall be established in all their lands of promise” (2 Nephi 9:2). The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh will be gathered in the Americas. The tribe of Judah will return to the city of Jerusalem and the area surrounding it. The ten lost tribes will receive from the tribe of Ephraim their promised blessings (see D&C 133:26–34).

When the Church was first established, the Saints were instructed to gather in Ohio, then Missouri, and then the Salt Lake Valley. Today, however, modern prophets have taught that Church members are to build up the kingdom of God in their own lands. Elder Russell M. Nelson said: “The choice to come unto Christ is not a matter of physical location; it is a matter of individual commitment. People can be ‘brought to the knowledge of the Lord’ [3 Nephi 20:13] without leaving their homelands. True, in the early days of the Church, conversion often meant emigration as well. But now the gathering takes place in each nation. … The place of gathering for Brazilian Saints is in Brazil; the place of gathering for Nigerian Saints is in Nigeria; the place of gathering for Korean Saints is in Korea; and so forth. Zion is ‘the pure in heart.’ [D&C 97:21.] Zion is wherever righteous Saints are” (in Conference Report, Oct. 2006, 85; orEnsign, Nov. 2006, 81).

The physical gathering of Israel will not be complete until the Second Coming of the Savior and on into the Millennium (see Joseph Smith—Matthew 1:37). Then the Lord’s promise will be fulfilled:

“Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be said, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt;

“But, The Lord liveth, that brought up the children of Israel from the land of the north, and from all the lands whither he had driven them: and I will bring them again into their land that I gave unto their fathers” (Jeremiah 16:14–15).

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In what ways have you been gathered spiritually as one of the Lord’s covenant people?

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In what ways have you participated in the gathering of others?

For teachers: When people share their stories of being converted to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, they are sharing stories about being gathered spiritually. Consider asking a few people in advance to tell about how they were converted to the gospel.

Additional Scriptures

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Genesis 17:1–8 (God’s covenant with Abraham)

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Romans 9:4–8; Galatians 3:29 (those who follow Jesus Christ and His word are the children of the covenant)

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2 Nephi 30:2; Mosiah 5:10–11 (those who repent, follow the prophets, and have faith in Jesus Christ become the Lord’s covenant people)

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2 Kings 17 (Northern Kingdom taken captive)

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2 Chronicles 36:11–20 (Southern Kingdom taken captive)

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James 1:1 (twelve tribes scattered abroad)

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1 Nephi 10:12–13 (Nephite migration was part of the scattering)

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Jeremiah 3:14–18 (one from a city, two from a family)

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Ezekiel 20:33–36 (Israel will be gathered from all countries)

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3 Nephi 20:29–46 (Jews will be gathered to Jerusalem)

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1 Nephi 15:13–18; 3 Nephi 21:26–29 (gathering starts with Restoration of the gospel)

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D&C 38:31–33 (the Lord’s covenant people will be saved)

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Isaiah 11:11–13 (the Lord will recover His people)

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Revelation 18:4–8 (a voice will proclaim the gathering)

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D&C 133:6–15 (Gentiles to Zion, Jews to Jerusalem)

 

The reason why you are somewhat reluctant to write about India is because you do not entirely identify with all of them, but with a few here and there. But as you say, one day you may and you will. I hope that finding your true roots and the roots of many dispersed Israelites in the whereabouts you were born, gets somewhere into your agenda. That will give you; and also us, your family something of worst to us to read, to collect and to preserve for generations to come. I hope one day, my brethren from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints will knock on your door and give you and your loved ones greater news that what I have just done. I am just reaching out, If not, you know where to find me. This is my wish and prayer and I say these things, in the name of Jesus Christ, amen

Attentively yours from your strange brother

Miguel Angel Tinoco Rodriguez