“Are you one of the Joes?”

Recently, after sharing this website with a friend, she responded with this:

I noticed the “jewsandjoes”–I have to chuckle, since this last Sukkot in Israel, there were 15 with me at the Jaffa Gate. Several of our group were stopped by Orthodox Jews asking, “Are you one of the Joes?”
They know who we are…

I’m curious if others have experienced similar approaches by Judah. If so, please share them by leaving a comment below or from the link near the title.

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Things “One-Housers” hope You never find out!

If you don’t already know, a “One-Houser” is someone who denies that there remains a Two House/Two Kingdom reality of Israel in modern times. They view “the Jews” as exclusively representing all 12 tribes of Israel. Their world-view/paradigm is basically opposite to that of a “Two-Houser”, which is better defined here: Two House Theology (Reality) defined and defended.

So here are some things “One-Housers” hope you never find out (you’ll rarely ever hear them mention these things when they accuse Two-Housers of “lies”, “error”, “heresy”, and/or “bad exegesis“):

Please Note: “Two-Housers” will one day be “One-Housers” also, but that transition will only take place after the-Anointed Son of David (Ha-Mashaikh ben Dawid) unites both Houses into One House, or One Stick as Ezekiel 37 prophesies He will do in the Last Days. We are in the Last Days, so that transition and this battle of world-views will be over SOON! Halleluyah!!

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The “Two-House Teaching” defuses Christian-based Anti-Semitism

When I hear Christian and One-House Messianic “scholars” proclaim and rebuke Two House Theology as being “Replacement Theology” and Anti-Jewish or Anti-Semitic, I’m a bit baffled and perplexed. All of those I’ve seen who understand and embrace the Two-House Teaching actually develop a deeper sense of affection for the Jewish people (Israelite descendants of the Kingdom of Judah), however there persists differing degrees of dislike for the Rabbinic system of the Jewish people. Even so, a love for Yehudah (Jew-dah) continues and a desire to do “the Jews” harm is unthinkable. Indeed, a sense of brotherhood develops, even though the feeling isn’t always mutual.

Even where Christianity doesn’t express clear Replacement-type doctrines, there is an underlying Replacement-type paradigm that pervades much of the Catholic and Protesting-Catholic spheres of doctrinal reasoning. If you were born and raised up within Christianity as I was, you’ve surely heard distinguishing comments like “physical Israel” and “spiritual Israel”, where the “Church” is spiritual Israel and inheritor of Israel’s promises. Or you’ll hear even more ridiculous doctrines like: “God the Father was married to Israel, while Jesus is married to the Church”. These and similar Replacement-type theologies are defused when Christians come to understand the Two-House Teaching and begin seeing the presence of Judah and 10-Israel even when they read their New Testaments. This ancient and prophetic “reality” is truly everywhere within the Tanakh and the Christian scriptures, but it is a reality which has been hidden from Judah and 10-Israel for many centuries (in other words: “blindness until the fullness of the Nations/Gentiles have come in” - Romans 11:25).

The fact that the Two-House Teaching defuses Anti-semitism isn’t a primary basis for importance, but simply a peripheral ramification which is good and good to point out, especially in a world where Anti-semitism is on the rise yet again.

I highly recommend all Christians and Jews to read the following (including the Related Content if time permits): The Hidden Irony in Christian Replacement Theology.

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Philosophical Mountain derived from a Genetic Pimple

The more I learn of human genetics, the more I grow to fundamentally despise racist terminology such as “white and black”, “Mongoloid, Negroid, and Caucasoid”. Yet, what perplexes me even more is how Population Geneticists (those who should know better) still use such terms even though most all of them readily admit humanity is more than 99.9% identical on every genetic level. What we use to categorize each other is almost entirely religious, social/cultural, and/or climatic/environmental induced “appearance” which is often confused with our ignorant assumptions regarding Human DNA.

What I’ve seen from studying sheep and sheeple, there is an enormous need to group off into like-ness cliques (i.e. White sheep, Black sheep). And once the larger group is semi-stabilized, further needs arise where deeper like-ness cliques are developed (i.e. Irish Catholics, Irish Protestants or Rwandan Hutu, Rwandan Tutsi). And sadly the cliques keep growing and variating (i.e. Rich and Poor, Rich and Ridiculously Rich). What is more disturbing, you’ll see small children behaving in similar patterns even before their parents get the chance to refine and radicalize this human tendency toward bigotry. Palestinian children are an example taken to the furthest extreme (their hate for the Jews is certainly not innate).

When I see similar Philosophical Mountaineering applied to “Ephraim” and the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, it brings me further mental duress. It seems several diverse groups desire to claim exclusive rights to the House of Joseph… while they all seem to forget that Joseph was given a coat of “many colors” while Ephraim was promised to be the “fullness of the peoples/nations“. No matter how passionate and assertive British-Israelites or African-Israelites or Asian-Israelites become regarding their claims to Joseph, they are all one day going to look past skin tones and nose features… and come to grapple with and love their shared brotherhood of many colors.

Furthermore (even if you don’t agree with the Two House Teaching), hopefully you’ll begin to understand the realities of Human Exponential Population Growth and perceive how not long ago we were all on the same boat and had the same papa (Noah).

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