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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Content on “the Lost 10 Tribes of Israel”

What Tribes made up the Northern Kingdom of Israel?

Israel (Jacob) had 12 sons with his two wives and their two handmaids. They were born in order as follows:

The Ten Tribes of the Northern Kingdom
Of the 12 sons (tribes), ten eventually split off at the end of King Solomon’s reign and became the Northern Kingdom of Israel.

The Southern Kingdom of Judah
Judah and Benjamin became known as the Southern Kingdom of Judah. The Cohanim (Priests) of the Tribe of Levi were mainly present in the Land of the Tribes of Judah and Benjamin, but they (Levi) nor Simeon received land inheritance because of their actions at Shechem (Genesis 49:5-7), but were instead scattered in the midst of both Kingdoms.

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Were the 10-Tribes of Israel ever really “LOST”? (Part-2)

Were the 10-Tribes of Israel ever really “LOST”? (Part-1)

The story of Joseph’s slavery and rise to power in Mitsrayim (Egypt) is both historic and prophetic. It was prophetic because it foretold what would happen in the life of the House of Joseph long after Joseph himself had passed away.

One of our first clues that the House of Joseph (10-Israel) would be “LOST” or forgotten is by the mere fact that Jacob, Joseph’s father, thought Joseph had been killed (Genesis 37:33). Jacob didn’t forget Joseph, but he of course grieved terribly and for many years after losing (in his mind) his intended heir.

Our second clue that the House of Joseph (10-Israel) would forget himself is from the name Joseph gave his son Menashe (Manasseh/Strong’s H5382) “causing to forget”. Notice in the following passage how Joseph’s first son is about “forgetting” and his second son is all about “multiplication”, indicating what sequence things would ultimately occur in the future.

Genesis 41:51-52:
51 And Yoseph called the name of the first-born Menashsheh, “For Elohim has made me forget all my toil and all my father’s house.”
52 And the name of the second he called Ephrayim, “For Elohim has caused me to bear fruit in the land of my affliction.”

Our third clue that the House of Joseph would be forgotten is by the way Joseph’s brothers didn’t recognize Joseph in his Egyptian attire when they came to him during the famine.

Genesis 42:7-8:
7 And Yoseph saw his brothers and recognised them, but he acted as a stranger to them and spoke to them harshly, and said to them, “Where do you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Kena’an to buy food.”
8 So Yoseph recognised his brothers, but they did not recognise him.

Many secular and religious researchers have tried to find the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel by looking for a few bread crumbs of “Jewishness” carried by peoples they suspect are descendant of 10-Israel, but these researchers forget that 10-Israel was first of all exiled because they began looking like and mixing with their pagan neighbors. They didn’t look like “Judah” then and they certainly don’t look like “Judah” now. They currently look just like everyone else in proverbial Egypt, and they have become a great multitude, just as the Prophets indicated they would.

Were the 10-Tribes of Israel ever really “LOST”? (Part-1)

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