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Presents the Tell it like it is! series of studies:


This is Pamphlet #9053, taken from pamphlet #8075.

There is something so extremely important that our Father wants His watchman to continually teach it, all their lives! 

What is it?

It is the fact that "the house of Judah" IS NOT "the house of Israel"! 

Caution to students of God;s Word - Please remember two things when using our American Wisdom Series studies:
#1. Our commentary is not God's Word. It is only our interpretation or understanding of "His Word" and even though we try our best to be accurate we may or may not be correct. #2. The King James translation, or any other translation, of the original Hebrew text has some words which were given different translations at different places probably because of the interpreters preconceived ideas of what they think God meant to say. For example: According to the notes in the "Drake's Annotated Reference Bible" the Hebrew word hayah in the KJV is Trans. (became) 67 times, (becamest or came to pass) 505 times, (become) 66 times, and (come to pass) 131 times, but for some reason in Genesis 1:2 it is translated (was)! That sure changes the way a person perceives the original creation of the earth, doesn't it?  Gen. 1:2 And the earth was (became) without form, ... Having said that, let us continue with our "studies". These studies contain knowledge, we believe, you must have to fully and accurately unlock and understand the Word of God. 
May the Holy Spirit be your only guiding light. Sincerely, John Rhine

Revelation 2:17  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

John 15:26
But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

John 16:13-14
[13] Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. [14] He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.


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Without the leading by the Holy Spirit, there is no understanding of the truths, for all the truth of the Scriptures are revealed to us by God's Spirit.

 Now here is our study:

There is something so extremely important that our Father wants His watchman to continually teach it, all their lives! 

What is it?

It is the fact that "the house of Judah" IS NOT "the house of Israel"!

They are split into two houses! 
Judah, along with their allotment of Levites and many from the tribe of Benjamin, comprise the "House of Judah", 
while Joseph, of whom the tribe of Ephraim was the largest, along with the rest of the 10 northern tribes comprise the other house, the "House of Israel". 

There are, in this 21st century,

two houses,

two sticks, NOT ONE!

Here is why this is so important:

If you do not understand these two houses, then you are not a watchman unto the house of Israel, for you know not who to watch over.

Furthermore, if you do not understand who these two houses are, then you cannot possibly understand Bible prophecy!

Here's the test question, "Can you show someone where the United States of America, which has many times more Bibles in the land than people, is mentioned in God's Word?" You should not only be able to do that, but as a watchman you are commanded to show the two sticks to the dry bones!

That's what this study is all about!
You see, watchmen know that if you go out among the dry bones (the people, the professing Christians who live in the Christian nations of Europe and the Americas, and speak with them and ask them where the house of Israel is today, they will all point their phalanges to the Middle East and say "over there"!

That's the WRONG ANSWER!

And the biggest problem is that most ministers and preachers will tell you exactly the same thing, that the Jews are the same as the house of Israel, but they are "dead" wrong.

So much for their understanding of Bible prophecy, huh!

So here's what you do: You say to one of these bone heads when you encounter them, "Don't move, I'll be right back." Then go over to the nearest tree and rip off two small limbs... wait a minute! Check and make sure this action is not in violation of one the 57,002 environmental regulations in your township. Next, take a permanent black Sharpie and write "Judah" on one of the sticks, hand it to skeleton man**, and say, "Hold this up in your left hand a minute." Take the other stick and write "Joseph" on it and tell your sinew challenged friend to hold this up in his right hand.

Now say to him/her, "Are you holding one stick or two sticks?" If he says, "Wow man, I don't know", that means you are in a really arid section of town where the bones are becoming petrified, i.e. getting stoned. Just say "Ok dude" and go repeat this process perhaps in the suburbs somewhere. (This is a fairly close analogy to the teaching job of a watchman.)

Anyway, you've got the picture in your mind concerning the TWO sticks, not one stick, right?

**Note: Gender cannot be readily determined by looking at a skeleton. Gender is a thing of the flesh. So doesn't that make you wonder why all the prehistoric skeletons they discover are always called "men", you know, Neanderthal Man, Pilton Man, etc. Maybe those who made the discoveries were totally wrong and it was really Neanderthal Woman they found! Women just aren't treated equally with men in the theory of evolution.

For the less theatrical among us, there is another way to use "sticks" to demonstrate that which God wants His watchmen to continually educate the dry bones about, and that is simply to write on and hold up the two branches on the Family Tree, one for Judah and one for Joseph.

Here it is:

You can get a copy of the little booklet, "The Abrahamic Covenant", by E. Raymond Capt, from Artisan Publishers 1-918-682-8341.

Now you know why... Ezekiel 37:16! 

By the way, the star of the House of Israel has 5 points on it. "5" in Biblical numerics means "grace", as in "God shed His grace on thee!" (See appendix 10 in the Companion Bible for the significance of numbers in scriptures.)

Let's continue with verse 17 where God now tells Ezekiel that once the two sticks have been shown to be two separate sticks, demonstrate that they will be joined together and become just one stick. 

This is prophecy and will happen at the restoration in the Millennium, which begins at the 7th Trump, the return of Jesus Christ.

Ezekiel 37:17 
And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
Then after you join the two sticks back together so that they are now one in your hand, just smile and wait for the fish to bite, or the bones to shake and rattle and start coming together.
[18] And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
This question by a "child" of your people would be your cue to teach from God's Word in the manner in which watchmen always teach, i.e. "Thus saith the Lord GOD". You simply say something like, "Did you know it is written (you could even say "in Ezekiel chapter 37  if you remember the chapter) that God is going to restore the house of Judah and the house of Israel into one"?

That is because they are two separate houses right now."

[19] Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
They shall be one in HIS HAND, the Lord's hand!  Remember what we learned earlier in this book of Ezekiel.
It is the Lord GOD, not man, who will restore His people, both houses you now know, so that they and all the nations round about them "Shall know that He is the LORD".
Ezekiel 37:20 
And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
You keep showing them and keep telling them dry bones about those two separate houses, watchman! You stick to it!

Earlier we learned that there is something very important that our Father wants His watchman to continually teach, all their lives! 

And that something is who the lost tribes of the House of Israel really are. They are NOT the same as the house of Judah. They are TWO separate sticks, even two separate "branches" of the family tree.

It is so clearly written in God's Word that Judah was only one of the twelve sons of Israel (the name God gave to Jacob), so that while all the people we today call Jews (those from the tribes of Judah and Benjamin, whose ancesters made up the ancient "House of Judah") are Israelites, the majority of Israelites are NOT Jews.

It also clearly written and should be common knowledge among Christians that following Solomon's reign over the whole house of Israel (all 12 tribes) that the kingdom was split into TWO separate houses, the northern 10 tribes retaining their name as the "House of Israel" and southern two tribes, Judah along with Benjamin becoming known as the "House of Judah". Anyone who has a Bible with maps in the appendix can find a map showing these two separate houses. So how is it that so many people think that the little nation in the Middle East is the whole house of Israel? (they aren't even all Israelites from the "house of Judah" anymore, They've mixed with Kenites, ancestors of Cain) Let's just say it is a case of mistaken ID (Ignorance and Deception).

We have read many times already in this incredible Book of Ezekiel that both the house of Israel, i.e. the 10 northern tribes, along with much of the two southern tribes from the house of Judah (those who lived outside of the fortified City of Jerusalem) were to be taken captive and scattered among the nations by Assyria and so they were. Then 135 years later the remainder of the house of Judah was also taken, but not by Assyria. They were taken and carried off to Babylon by  Nebuchadnezzar. God's Word always comes to pass exactly as it is written. Even the early apostles knew where the tribes were scattered. Have you ever noticed that the apostle James addresses his book specifically to those twelve tribes which were already scattered abroad?

What postal address did he use? 

You should know.

James 1:1 
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Dates of captivities: 

The northern kingdom, "House of Israel", along with many from the southern kingdom, "House of Judah" were taken by Assyria, in 721 B.C. well over eight hundred thousand Israelite men 2 Samuel 24:1 - 9 and their families from ten different tribes of the house of Israel. (2 Kings 17, 18, and 19.) and the two tribes of the house of Judah (the Jews). In 2 Kings 19:32-34 we learn that only Jerusalem was spared..

Then, from the southern kingdom, "House of Judah" one hundred and thirty five years later, in 586 B.C,, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon carried more than one half million Israelite men (the remainder of the Jews) 2 Samuel 24:1 - 9 and their families from the tribes, of Benjamin and Judah, away to Babylon. 2 Kings 25:1 - 21.

(All total approximately 1,300,000 men plus their wives and children were carried away)

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It just seems so fitting that a millennium and a half later, God would raise up one of the kings of those tribes of Israel, bearing the same name as this apostle, and he would bring forth the written Word of God to the common man. His name of course was King James! (the King James version of the Bible)

Did you also know that the apostle Paul made it a point to tell us (twice) that he was not of Judah, (a jew) but that he was a Benjamite, from the tribe of Benjamin. Here is Paul writing in Romans:

Romans 11:1 
I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
The same thing noted earlier applies here: All Benjamites are Israelites but not all Israelites are Benjamites. And while both Benjamites and Judahites are Israelites, Benjamin is NOT his brother Judah! Here's Paul once again declaring his nationality, this time in his writing to the Philippians:
Philip. 3:5 
Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;
Though they lost their identity as the house of Israel, it is written that God's children would be called by a "new name", even "His name". Today they are called "Christians".

We also learned that God was going to gather His lost children from among those nations and bring them into a land of their own. And so He did!

Ezekiel 37:21 
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
Wherever the House of Israel resides today, you will find them in their own land/lands!

But our Father will go even one step further and He will soon rejoin the two separate "sticks" of the "House of Israel" and the "House of Judah".

This will occur at Christ's second coming and Messiah shall forevermore be their King and their Shepherd.
[22] And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
The House of Israel will be made "whole" and will once again include all 12 of the tribes.

There is even a calling out from among those tribes of Israel taking place right now, in this final generation, in preparation for that final restoration at Christ's coming.
 (a spiritual calling out, not a physical calling out)

In fact, even now at this late hour in the day, they are being "sealed" in their foreheads [minds], which is to say they are being educated with the pure truth and understanding from His Word.
Rev. 7:4 
And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

[5] Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of thetribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.


Judah is listed as ONE of the tribes of Israel, NOT as Israel itself!


If you do not understand this then you currently dwell in spiritual Babylon, in which case the license plate on your tail reads, from "The State of Confusion".
[6] Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of thetribe of Nepthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.

[7] Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of thetribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.

[8] Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of thetribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

So even though Judah is a separate house (stick) today, all the 12 tribes will be joined back together and restored as one house, one stick (at Christ's return), and will be united forevermore.

And when Israel and Judah are joined back together into that one stick, it will be a time not only of restoration, but of great cleansing.

God's people will see their shame and idolatrous ways when Christ returns and they will turn to Him of their own free will, in great humbleness, loathing the sins which they have committed, (especially the one where they worshiped Satan,  when he came to earth prior to Christ's return, claiming he was God) and they will begin pouring out their love for Him and for what He has done for His children.
Ezekiel 37:23 
Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
[24] And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
This refers to Messiah to come, the returning King and the Shepherd of Israel.

Jeremiah records the same thing in chapter 23 of his book:
Jeremiah 23:5 
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth.
The Messiah, the son David, shall be given the throne of His father David?
Luke 1:32 
He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David:

[33] And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

Do you know who sits upon the throne of David at this present time, for it is written that "David shall never want for a man (no gender implied) to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel" (Jer. 33:17)?
Her name is Queen Elizabeth.

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Continuing with what Jeremiah wrote:

Jeremiah 23:56 
In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
This is the restoration when both "sticks" shall be joined together under one King and one Shepherd, the LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Jesus Christ is that one shepherd:
John 10:11 
I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
Under Messiah, the Prince of Peace, the Shepherd of Israel, ALL of the House of Israel shall safely dwell forever.
Ezekiel 37:25 
And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
This will happen during the Millennium when Jesus Christ has returned and we are all changed into our spiritual bodies and the whole House of Israel, including Judah, even from ALL GENERATIONS** both past and present, will be united together as one happy family FOREVER!

What a glorious family reunion that will be!!

**Note: This verse does not imply that people will be having children but rather that they will be with their children and their grandchildren, who will be with their fathers and their forefathers. Yes, all our family tree, reunited together FOREVER, with ancestors from generations that we never even met, during our human lives in this earth age. I've heard stories, tales of  adventure, about my great, great, grandfather, but never dirrectly from him! What a life! Sure hope he has a better memory than I do! 
[26] Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
The covenant of peace is even that the Prince of Peace shall be with them, and His holy place, His sanctuary, shall be in the midst of His children. It is important to note that both the words "everlasting" and "evermore" are exactly the same word in Hebrew which means "eternally", which is "from the beginning of time and continuing on without ending". You see, His covenant is eternal!

 Here's the Strong's definition:
`owlam, o-lawm', Hebrew 5769; or olam, o-lawm'; from Hebrew 5956 (`alam); properly concealed, i.e. the vanishing point; generally time out of mind (past or future), i.e. (practical) eternity; frequent adverb (especially with prepositional prefix) always :- alway (-s), ancient (time), any more, continuance, eternal, (for, [n-]) ever (-lasting, -more, of old), lasting, long (time), (of) old (time), perpetual, at any time, (beginning of the) world (+ without end). Compare Hebrew 5331 (netsach), Hebrew 5703 (`ad).
The reason this is important is because it shows that it was God's purpose and His plan from the very beginning, not just from henceforth. Of course one must understand the beginning, the first earth age, the time spoken of by Paul in Eph. 1:4 which was "before the foundation of this world (earth age)", called "the world that then was" by Peter in 2 Pet. 3. For only with that understanding can the in-depth meaning of John 3:16 be understood.
John 3:16 
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
The Greek word translated "everlasting" here also means "eternal", which is from the beginning on without end, even before Genesis 1:1.

You see, there has been no cessation of your life since your Father created your soul, which was even before the earth was brought into being**.

Even Satan, who has been sentenced to die in the lake of fire, is still alive at this present time and will be cast to this earth in the very near future (Rev. 12:7-9) and will claim to be the Messiah.

 Here is the Greek word which should be translated "eternally", meaning from the beginning, instead of "everlasting" in John 3:16.
aionios, ahee-o'-nee-os, Greek 166; from Greek 165 (aion); perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future as well) :- eternal, for ever, everlasting, world (began).
**Note: Most people believe that the Plan of God begins with Gen. 1:1 because the Bible begins there. But such is not the case, for although the heavens and the earth had a beginning (at their creation in Gen. 1:1), our Father did not. Proverbs chapter 8 will document that "wisdom" was with our Father before He even made the earth and His desire was to have sons (children), which He did! He then built them the most beautiful home in the universe which we call planet earth, and His sons (we all) sang and shouted for joy (Job 38:7) . Therefore His plan began long before the earth was created, and if you would like to learn more about that time and the overall Plan of God, then just log unto and read, "The Plan of God". You'll be glad you did. 

Yes, Jesus Christ will be with His people in the sanctuary during the Millennium, but eventually even the Father will come and tabernacle with His children.
Ezekiel 37:27 
My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Here is the second witness as it is written in the Book of Revelation:
Rev. 21:2 
And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

[3] And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, thetabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.

And that will be the name of that great eternal city, i.e. "God himself shall be with them"!

It is written in the very last verse of the Book of Ezekiel, which in Hebrew reads"Yahveh sham", "The LORD is there".
Ezekiel 48:35 
It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.
And as we have seen time after time, chapter after chapter, how all encompassing the plan of God is to include ALL of His children of all races and nationalities.

it is so fitting and characteristic of our Father's love that He remembers those nations in the last verse of this chapter of the restoration of the whole House of Israel.

For not just the House of Israel shall know Him, but all people of all nations shall "know that He is the LORD".

He is so good to all of His children!

How can anyone not love Him for all that He has done?
Ezekiel 37:28 
And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.
Let's recap the basics of what we have learned in this study.
1.) God promised He would gather His people from among the nations and bring them into their own land, where they dwell even now. Do you know where they are?

2.) God promised to restore both the house of Israel and the house of Judah into one stick during the Millennium and His sanctuary will be among them, even the Millennial Temple, and Jesus Christ will reign as King and Shepherd over all forevermore.

3.) God Himself will come (at the end of the Millennium) and He Himself will tabernacle with His children forevermore.

All this we have learned from the great Book of Ezekiel, a book in the Old Testament!

Imagine that!

In chapters 38 and 39 of Ezekiel we will preview the final scenes on earth just before the 7th Trump sounds and then we will move on to the "Millennium chapters" beginning with chapter 40 to the end in chapter 48.

This series of pamphlets about the Book of Ezekiel which covers a 21 year period from about 484 B.C. to 463 B.C. but ranges in subject matter dating from the world that then was [the age of dinosaurs] to the world to yet come [the third earth age].

To view any of these chapters/w commentary first click unto "Studies on Books of the Bible" in the TOC to your left on this screen. Then click unto Ezekiel in the new TOC which will appear, to open Ezekiel's TOC from the list which then appears.
 
It is jam packed with exciting visions, descriptions of high-technology, and information about events that are taking place even now and on into the future.
In chapter 1 God comes to earth to visit Ezekiel in a flying saucer.
In chapter 3 God asks Ezekiel to eat the scroll [the Bible].
In chapter 4 God asks him to make human dung cakes and eat them in front of the people.
In chapter 5 God ask him to cut off all his hair and divide it into thirds.
In chapter 7 God gives him information about the coming anti christ of these end times.
In chapter 8 God tells him to dig a hole in the wall of the sanctuary to see what the religious leaders are doing there.
In chapter 20 he is taught the difference between the dry trees (spiritually dead people) and the green trees (spiritually alive people).
In chapter 27 he is shown how Satan operates.
In chapter 28 he is shown how  Satan became corrupt and corrupted the nations of the first earth age (the age of the dinosaurs).
In  chapter 34 God tells Ezekiel how His children are being taught now in their high places (churches) by false Christian teachers.
In chapter 35 he is taught about the fate of Esau (Russia).
In chapter 36 he is taught how the Christian Nations including America will be gathered together at his return.
In chapter 37 God set Ezekiel down in a valley of dry bones, symbolically representing his people who have become spiritually dead due to the famine of Amos 8:11. He learned how he God promised to breath life back into 144,000 of them through his elect even before Christ returns and many more during the millennium. He learned how the two sticks (Israel and Judah) would be brought back together during the millennium.
In chapter 38 we read and wonder if on the last day of this flesh age (the Day of Our Lord) will Russia march on the United States thru Alaska? The battle of Hamon-gog! I don't know, but we need to think about it.
Chapter 39 is a transition chapter between this flesh age and the Millennium.
 
This is only speculation, but think about it, since your experience of death in this flesh age is part of God's plan to save your soul during the Millennium you may be required to watch films of your physical death at some time during summer school.

Starting in chapter 40 Ezekiel is shown what the Kingdom of God will be like during the Millennium.
In chapter 43 you will learn why all dimensions of the Millennium temple are 1 cubit larger than Solomon's temple.
In chapter 44 you will learn what many of today's Christian preachers will be doing during the Millennium.

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