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The teaching of the two houses in a nutshell

What is “two-house teaching”? He is known by various names, both positive and derogatory. It is called “Thealogy of the two houses”, “Doctrine of the two houses”, “Ideology of the two houses”, “Movement of the two houses”, “Heresy of the two houses”, “Ephraimite Movement”, “Ephraimite Fallacy “, and the” Ephraimite Error “, but it would be more accurately called the” Reality of the Two Houses “.

Reality in a nutshell

The Two House Teaching is called the “TWO House” Teaching because, sadly, the House of Jacob (Israel) was divided at first. The Division goes back to the enigma Jacob found himself in while living with his uncle Laban. Jacob had tricked his brother Esau shortly before to obtain Isaac’s birthright blessings. Later, Jacob takes advantage of that deception by being deceived himself. He ends up having to marry two wives, Rachel and Leah. Those two (and his individual concubines) bore him children who were never fully united in a close family. Rachel gave birth to “Joseph”, the name later applied to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, where the “House of Joseph” was sometimes attributed to 10-Israel (what later became known in legend as “the 10 Lost Tribes “). Leah gave birth to “Judah” and it was her descendants who would later derive the Southern Kingdom of Judah. This division can also be seen even after King David brought them all together under one banner, where troop censuses were always made by separating or attributing those of “Israel” and those of “Judah”.

Jacob’s youngest son Benjamin would eventually and perhaps prophetically become the bridge between the division. Benjamin was Joseph’s only full brother, but Benjamin’s descendants lived largely within the population of Judah and were assimilated into the Kingdom of Judah. The best example of the manifestation of this family bridge is in the life of the Apostle Paul, who was a Benjaminite (Philippians 3: 5) from the Kingdom of Judah. He has been called by many to be the “Apostle of the Gentiles”, bringing to them the message of Messiah Yeshua (Jesus). More with that connection in a moment.

Why is the Two House Teaching important to you and the world?

The House of Joseph (10-Israel) consists of more than just legends or fairy tales. In another article (The Promise of the Hebrew Multitudes), I list a myriad of scriptural prophetic promises made directly to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, and Ephraim … where, in no uncertain terms, they were “unconditionally” promised to be parents. of large crowds (ie “the sands of the sea”). More specifically, Ephraim was promised that his descendants would become “the fullness of the nations / peoples / GENTILES / goyim” (Genesis 48:19). What that means is somewhat debatable unless you consider all the other promises made to him and his ancestral line.

This is where we return to the Apostle Paul. As I said before, he was the “Apostle to the Gentiles”, or at least that’s the phrase we inherit from the English translations of the Christian NT. But actually he was going and wanted to go to the “Goyim”, the known areas where “Ephraim” (the fullness of the Goyim) had been scattered and / or deported before, during and after the Assyrian captivity of the House of Israel (Joseph) between 740-722 a. C. Paul was obeying Yeshua’s (Jesus) instruction to go “rather to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel” (Matthew 10: 6). And Paul, being a Benjaminite, descendant of Benjamin, had a deep and intimate connection with the Goyim of scattered Ephraim (Benjamin’s nephew). He knew that the Death and Resurrection of the Messiah was an important and UNIQUE door for Ephraim to return to the Father and return to the Commonwealth of Israel.

In our present time, this prophetic “REALITY” of the descendants of Ephraim is important because it means that the house of Jacob is much larger than what is known and accepted internationally: that is, “the Jews.” It also flips the superficial biblical exegesis of many theologians (both Jewish and Christian) … and has profound ramifications even with the current Middle East Peace Process … where Palestinian Muslims claim they have a “right of return “to” their “lands that” those “Jews took from them. In reality, there is a much larger population that descends from the House of Joseph that has a much older and more prophetic “right of return” and the Prophets indicate that 10-Israel will certainly return (ex: see Ezekiel 37 and Zechariah 10) . The international community and its leaders have no idea that Jews largely only represent the House of Judah, and most of them would probably prefer not to know or understand that reality. The situation is overwhelmingly complicated for those accused of Political Correctness and, in fact, the return of Ephraim (10-Israel) to the Land of Israel will not happen by the mere efforts of men anyway. Orthodox Jews don’t want Ephraim there unless they convert to their Orthodoxy, and Palestinian Muslims certainly don’t want them there.

So … as Ephraim awakens (Luke 15:17) he must also painfully wait … for the appearance of Elijah (Malachi 4) before the restoration takes place, where the Reality of the Two Houses becomes the Reality of One House .

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