2 kingdoms handout

The Two Kingdoms of Yisra’el - separated in 931 BC

“If we don’t understand the 2 Kingdoms, then we don’t understand 7/8 ths of the Word/ Torah!”

1. The Northern Kingdom - also known as The House of Yisra’el, 

also known as Ephraim 

• Yarov’am/ Jeroboam is king - an Ephramite
• Shomron/ Samaria = the capitol
• Captured by Assyria in 721 BC... they lost their identity - and never came back to the land or the Covenant... and were dispersed into all the nations.
• YHWH divorced them in Yirmeyahu/ Jeremiah 3:6,8.
• They are called “Out of Covenant people” = “gentile”, and “the lost sheep” (Yirmeyahu 50:6), and “those who are far off” (Yesha'Yahu/Isaiah 57:19, Hoshea 8:8-12)
• They have forgotten the name of YHWH (Yirmeyahu 23:27)
• They are the lost 10 tribes = Re’uven, Shim’on, Naftali, Zvulun, Yissakhar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Yosef = Ephrayim, and M’nasheh, and part of Benyamin.
• The NEED: repentance of man’s tranditions and false teachings and the rejection of Torah.
• They are Christianity today.

2.  The Southern Kingdom - also known as The House of Judah, also known as Judah.

• Rechav’am /Rehoboam - the son of King Shlomo/ Solomon - a Judahite 
• Yerushalayim/ Jerusalem - capital
• Captured by Babylon in 586 BC - for 70 years, but came back to the land of Yisra’el in the days of Ezra and Nehemiah.
• Destruction of 2nd Temple and Rome captured and then dispersed into the world, but kept their faith and traditions.  They came back to the land of Yisra’el in 1948. 
• They never lost their identity.  They were punished but not divorced b/c of YHWH’s promise to David. (B’resheet/ Gen. 49:10).
• They are called - “those who are near” (Yesha’Yahu 57:19), and “those who are my people” (Hoshea 2:23) 
• They reject Y’shua as HaMashiach/ Messiah
• They are 2 tribes mainly - Judah, Levi and part of Benyamin.
• They are Jews today - (mostly Benyamin in Yisra’el)
• They need repentance of man’s additions to Torah and not accepting Mashiach.

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Yechezk’el/ Ezekiel 34, 36 

Yechezk’el 37: 15-28 - Two sticks/ trees

Romans 11:1-27 - two olive trees

Yechezk’el 39: 25-27 -When and where Yisra’el and Judah come together.

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The Good News:

D’varim/Deuteronomy 24:1-4 - husband can’t remarry his divorced, defiled wife.

Eph 1:9 - secret plan

Eph 2:13-19 

Those who are out of covenant can return and the BRIDE can be whole.