Who Are the Two Houses of God's People Per His Word?

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Explain about the two houses written of in God's Word. Who are they and what does that kind of idea in God's Word actually mean? Why did God Himself cause them? And what became their result per history?

 

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God's future gathering of the two houses of Israel by Christ Jesus. Notice God reveals they have been "two nations", divided into two kingdoms. This gathering event is still future to us, and will only happen with Jesus' future coming, for He is that "one King".

Ezek 37:19-22
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.

20 And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.

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:

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:
KJV

 

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OK, since there's so many lazy brethren that won't study their Old Testament history, I'm forced to show a summary of events about the two 'houses' written of in God's Word. But one still will not fully understand this until they do... study their Old Testament also like they are supposed, along with study in The New Testament.


1. In king Solomon's day, he had many wives and concubines of the nations. God had warned Israel to not go after the false gods and idol worship of the nations, to stay separate in Him. Solomon fell from God's grace in allowing his many wives to bring in their foreign pagan idol worship among the children of Israel. And God warned Solomon about it twice. (see 1 Kings 11).

2. Because Solomon would not correct the false worship, God said He would rend (part) the kingdom from Solomon's hand, but that He would not do it in Solomon's day, but in the days of Solomon's son, Rehoboam.

3. Rehoboam, Solomon's son, then became king over Israel. The king line was to come from the tribe of Judah, of the house of David, per what God ordained. That was Rehoboam's origin also, thus he was the rightful king after his father Solomon. At this period in history, the southern lands in the south around Jerusalem-Judea was made up to just two tribes, the tribe of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin. The rest of the tribes of Israel living the northern parts of the holy land.

4. Solomon, while he was king, had setup Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim as ruler over the "house of Joseph" (ten tribes) in the northern lands. About that time when God had decided to rend the kingdom of Israel from Solomon's hand, God sent His prophet Ahijah to Jeroboam. The prophet caught Jeroboam in a field wearing a brand new coat. Ahijah tore it off him, and took is tore it into 12 pieces, and handed ten pieces to Jeroboam. And he repeated what God said, that He would give Jeroboam ten tribes to rule as 'king of Israel' if he would follow Him as His servant David did. (all this so far still in 1 Kings 11). At this Solomon sought to kill Jeroboam, so Jeroboam fled to Egypt.

5. God said He would not take the whole kingdom away from Rehoboam (Solomon's son), but that He would always leave one tribe at Jerusalem for His servant David's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake. (this would be the tribe of Judah at Jerusalem-Judea). (again, see 1 Kings 11).

6. Solomon dies and is buried. Then all Israel came to Shechem to make Rehoboam king. Then Jeroboam was notified, and he returned from Egypt. Jeroboam and the congregation (northern tribes) asked Rehoboam to lighten the labor burdens that his father Solomon had laid upon them. Rehoboam then said his father's burdens would be like Rehoboam's little finger, meaning Rehoboam was going to make the labor burdens upon the ten tribes even greater than his fathers. At this the ten tribes said, "What portion have we in David?... to your tents, O Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed to their tents." (1 Kings 12).

7. So the ten northern tribes of Israel parted from Jerusalem and Rehoboam, king of Judah. The ten northern tribes then made Jeroboam king of Israel (like God had said through His prophet Ahijah). This began God's split of the 12 tribes of Israel into 2 separate 'houses' and 'kingdoms'. Something to note also, is that Jeroboam was born of the tribe of Ephraim. The king tribe which God had previously ordained was to be the tribe of Judah, not Ephraim, and then from Judah the house of David. Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim did not fit this requirement at all. So what was God up to with doing all this? (1 Kings 12 still).

8. At this split with the ten tribes returning back north after the event at Shechem, Jeroboam was made 'king of Israel', which meant over the ten northern tribes of Israel ONLY.

Rehoboam, Solomon's son, king of Judah in the southern lands, was followed by the tribes of Judah and Benjamin only. A small remnant of the rest of the tribes that lived in the southern lands Rehoboam also ruled over. But the largest body of Israelites were of the ten northern tribes ruled by Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim. (see 1 KIngs 12).

 

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9. All the following history is written in 1 Kings 12 thru 2 Kings 17 --
The southern kingdom became known in God's Word as the "kingdom of Judah", or "house of Judah", or just "Judah", or just "Jerusalem", and even as just "Rehoboam" some times. Only the tribe of Benjamin at this time was with the tribe of Judah.

10. Under king Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim, the northern ten tribe kingdom was known as the "kingdom of Israel", or "house of Israel", or just "Israel", or just "Samaria" (it's capital city in the north), or even as just "Ephraim", or as just "Joseph". This "kingdom of Israel" made up the majority of the children of Israel. So after God split the old kingdom of Israel that was under Solomon, the Bible student must learn that after this split, "Israel" or "house of Israel" now meant the ten northern tribes of Israel ONLY.

11. During this history in 1 & 2 Kings, both the "house of Judah" and the "house of Israel" appear in the same verse, but is about 2 distinctly separate kingdoms. If you don't know this from Bible history, then you will wrongly assign Bible prophecy to the wrong group of peoples of Israel. Even today, some Jews will wrongly assign Bible prophecy to be only about about them when it is actually meant for the ten northern tribes of the "house of Israel" only.

12. The Jewish historian Josephus actually said that those of Israel that returned from the 70 years Babylon captivity is when all those living in the southern lands of Judea took the title of 'Jew'. Per Ezra 2, NONE of the ten northern tribes are shown returning from Babylon, and the reason why is simple. It's because the ten northern tribes had been removed from the northern lands about 120 years prior to Judah going into their Babylon captivity. The title of 'Jew' did not apply to all the 12 tribes like it is often wrongly used today. That title of 'Jew' applied ONLY to those of the southern "kingdom of Judah" of 3 tribes (Judah, Benjamin, and Levi).

The ten tribe "house of Israel" was not there in the holy lands anymore. There's been 2 captivities of the children of Israel removed from the holy land. The first one was upon the ten northern tribes taken captive to Assyria by the kings of Assyria, and to the lands of the Medes, never to return.

14. Because that was the time of the old covenant worship, everyone was required to go to Jerusalem from year to year to worship. Jeroboam, king of Israel (ten tribes), feared if the ten tribes went south to Jerusalem, they might decide to stay and augment Judah's kingdom. So Jeroboam setup 2 gold calf idols in the northern cities of Dan and Bethel, and told Israel there's your gods. Jeroboam then setup common priests of the people. Because of this, the Levite priests ordained by God that served in the northern kingdom, left the ten tribes and went south and joined with the "kingdom of Judah". A remnant of the ten tribes that refused the calf idols also went south and joined with Judah (see 1 Kings 12, and 2 Chronicles 11).

15. Then the "house of Judah" became augmented with the tribe of Levi, and a remnant out of the ten northern tribes that refused Jeroboam calf idols. The majority of Israelites still remained in the northern lands under king Jeroboam. The two houses of the "house of Judah" and the "house of Israel" began to war against each other.

16. God eventually got fed up with Israel's (ten tribes) calf idols that Jeroboam had setup. So God brought the kings of Assyria upon the northern kingdom (in stages), and took ALL of the ten tribed "house of Israel" out of the holy lands captive to Assyria and the lands of the Medes (2 Kings 17). Only the 3 tribe "kingdom of Judah" or "house of Judah", remained in the holy land in the south. The ten tribes would never return, even as it is to this day. (Mark what I said, it is the Jews of the southern kingdom "house of Judah" that has been returning back to the holy land, not the ten lost tribes.) Then about 120 years after the ten tribes had been removed, God sent Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, upon the 3-tribe "kingdom of Judah", and took them captive to Babylon for 70 years. A small remnant of these would return to Jerusalem to rebuild the city, temple, and walls. But the ten tribes remained 'lost'.

17. Per God's prophet Hosea, God revealed much of what He would do to the ten tribe "house of Israel" with ending their kingdom, and scattering them among the Gentiles because of their falling away from Him into Baal worship. He showed He would cause them to lose their heritage as being part of Israel, forgetting His feast days, sabbaths, new moons, etc., showing they would become like Gentiles, living among Gentiles. But a remnant of them would know.

In Romans 9, Apostle Paul quoted from the Book of Hosea to Roman Gentile believers on Jesus Christ. What is strange with Paul doing that is, the Book of Hosea was written especially about and to the ten tribes of Israel ONLY. Yet in God's final proclamation in Hosea, He said He would gather lost Israel at a time when they would be called the children of the living God, which is what Paul quoted to Gentile Romans. That reveals lost Israel scattered among the Gentiles where The Gospel would be present. And that means the western Christian nations where The Gospel went to and was accepted on national scales after the Passion of Christ.

 

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18. When God blessed Jacob, giving him the new name Israel, He also gave a specific blessing about Jacob's seed. This prophecy many struggle with, but really should not if they study their Old Testament histories...

Gen 35:10-11
10 And God said unto him, "Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name": and He called his name Israel.

11 And God said unto him," I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
KJV

Did you see that promise where God told Jacob (Israel) that "a nation and a company of nations" would be of him? The nation of Israel in the middle east has always ONLY been but 1 nation, so who are those "company of nations" from Jacob's seed? And that "company of nations" means Israelite nations, having their origin from Jacob whose new name God gave Him as Israel.

But don't stop there, keep studying in the Book of Genesis, and you will come to another example of this blessing, given next time from... Jacob:

Gen 48:14-19
14 And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.
15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, "God, before Whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God Which fed me all my life long unto this day,
16 The Angel Which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth."
17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
18 And Joseph said unto his father, "Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head."
19 And his father refused, and said, "I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations."
KJV

With that 19th verse, there is Jacob transferring the blessing he received from God that his seed would become "a nation and a company of nations". The blessing then is given to Joseph's two sons borne to him in Egypt while separated from his brethren, Ephraim and Manasseh.

Thus Ephraim the younger was to become "a multitude of nations", and his brother Manasseh was also to become a great people. Where though? Because as said before, the middle east nation of Israel has always been just 1 nation.

If you understand so far, then you are beginning to understand what the ultimate result of God scattering the ten tribe "house of Israel" among the Gentiles to become 'lost'.

Let's look at the idea of the 'lost' ten tribes of Israel. Per God's prophecies in the Book of Hosea, the ten tribes as a kingdom in the holy land ended when they fell to Baal worship and would not end Jeroboam's calf idol worship. So God brought the kings of Assyria upon them and took them all captive to Assyria and the lands of the Medes, never to return to the holy lands. While in captivity. they forgot God's feasts, sabbaths, and new moons, basically loosing their identity as part of Israel. They became as Gentiles living among Gentiles, their names even changing.

The ten tribes would migrate westward mainly into Asia Minor and Europe, and carry their various versions of Baal worship with them into those new lands. These peoples made up the Cimmerian and Scythian tribes that traveled west from Assyria, and crossed around the Black Sea into Asia Minor and Europe, with many of them going through the Dariel pass in the Caucasus mountains north of the Black Sea and would become known as Caucasians. These would make up the peoples of the Norsk, Celts, Gauls, Gadites, Angles, Saxons, Normans, Franks, etc., basically the Caucasian peoples of Europe.

Man's secular history and field of anthropology has lied to us. The Assyrian tablets have sections translated all the way back to the 1930's about lost Israel in Assyria, and how the names the Assyrians called them eventually related to the word Cimmerian about the Cimmerian tribes that migrated westward in Europe (see linguist professor Leroy Waterman's work, Royal Correspondence of the Assyrian Empire).

What that is pointing to is the first Western Christian nations of history in Asia Minor and Europe. Once Lord Jesus was rejected in Jerusalem, The Gospel was sent to the "lost sheep of the house of Israel", like Jesus said (Matthew 15:24). After the split of old Israel back in Rehoboam's day, the "house of Israel" became a title only for the ten northern tribe "kingdom of Israel", and not about the Jews of the southern "kingdom of Judah".

To this day, many preachers wrongly confuse this issue about who the people of Israel actually are per God's Word. Both the "house of Judah" (Jews) and the "house of Israel" (ten lost tribes) are all Israelites, but the ten tribes are NOT Jews. Like the Jewish historian Josephus said, those who returned from the Babylon captivity is when the remnant of the "house of Judah" began calling theirselves by the title of Jew, which comes from the sole tribe of Judah.

Thus there are actually TWO Israels; the "house of Judah" represented still in the middle east as today's nation of Israel, and... the ten lost tribes scattered to the West known as the historical Christian nations. The Christian nations of Europe represent Ephraim's "multitude of nations", and the United States of America represents his brother Manasseh that would also be a great people per the Genesis 48 prophecy. You have The Bible right before you, but you just probably don't know this, simply because of man's ideas being followed instead of Bible prophecy and history that shows its fulfillment.

 

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In other words, a version of the idea that's most commonly known as "British Israelism."

 

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So what God's Word ACTUALLY shows, is that Jews who like to claim they only represent God's Israel, are totally and completely wrong.

Still today the majority of Israelites are made up of the ten lost tribes which God scattered out of the holy land never to return. They made up the majority of Israelites before their scattering, and still do to this day.

In Matthew 21, Lord Jesus pointed directly to the ten tribe "house of Israel" that was scattered at that time, as being the "nation" that The Gospel and Kingdom would go to. He said the kingdom would be taken from those men of Judah at Jerusalem and instead give to a "nation" that would bear its fruits (of The Gospel). This "nation" represented His Church among the scattered lost sheep of the "house of Israel" and believing Gentiles along with them. Only a remnant of Jews would convert to Jesus and be among them.

In His Message, Jesus used the idea of a 'vineyard' as that "nation"...


Matt 21:33-43
33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

Jesus is using an analogy of God as the "householder" that planted that vineyard and set it up, and then went in a far country. That is represent when God set Israel in place for this world with a Mission to accomplish for Him. And when it was time, He sent His Son (Jesus Christ) to reap the fruits of it.


35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, "They will reverence my son."
38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, "This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance."
39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

God sent His prophets to testify to the husbandmen (rulers in Jerusalem), and they killed them. Then He sent His Son thinking surely they would receive Him, and the husbandmen KNOWING The Son was the Heir, they murdered Him upon a cross.

40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

Jesus then asked those scribes and Pharisees that were against Him what the Lord of the vineyard would do when He returns.

41 They say unto Him, "He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons."

By that, the blind scribes and Pharisees of the Jews pronounced their own sentence.

42 Jesus saith unto them, "Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."
KJV

Then Jesus proclaims to those Jews that the kingdom would be taken from them, and instead given to a "nation" that would bring forth its fruits. He was pointing to the "multitude of nations" of Ephraim per the Genesis 48 prophecy which would be about the western Christian nations of history! They represent Christ's Church of BOTH believing Israelite and believing Gentile, joined together as one body. And they ESPECIALLY include the ten tribe "house of Israel" which God first scattered to Assyria while leaving the Jews in the holy land to go into their later captivity to Babylon.

In Isaiah 5, God pointed to His vineyard as being the "house of Israel", a term after the split of 1 Kings 11 used only for the northern ten tribes of Israel.

Isa 5:1-7
5 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt Me and My vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to My vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
KJV

"For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel..." -- so there it is, declared from The LORD's Own mouth.

Jer 3:17-18
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
KJV

Do you see that above distinction between the two houses, "the house of Judah" and "the house of Israel"? Don't allow any man to tell you that means only Jews, because only that "house of Judah" involves the Jews. The rest of those there, the "house of Israel", were never known by the title of Jew, and were not even present in the holy land at Jesus' 1st coming.

So why... do today's Jews try... and claim they only represent the children of Israel? Why would they be so quick to disown their brethren of the ten tribe "house of Israel" that God scattered first? Is it just because those Jews simply don't have a clue as to where God scattered the ten tribed "house of Israel"? That's not a valid excuse, because God showed even them per His prophet Hosea, and through New Testament hints and Messages like the one in Matthew 21 that Jesus gave, and by Apostle Paul quoting from Hosea directly to Roman Gentile believers pointing to Christ's Church!

Likewise, today's pastors that keep pushing lies by the 'false Jews' that try to claim they only represent God's Israel, those pastors need to study their Bible history more also, and come to the truth about the ten tribed "house of Israel" and who they are today.

 

[Ammi]

So what God's Word ACTUALLY shows, is that Jews who like to claim they only represent God's Israel, are totally and completely wrong.

Still today the majority of Israelites are made up of the ten lost tribes which God scattered out of the holy land never to return. They made up the majority of Israelites before their scattering, and still do to this day.

In Matthew 21, Lord Jesus pointed directly to the ten tribe "house of Israel" that was scattered at that time, as being the "nation" that The Gospel and Kingdom would go to. He said the kingdom would be taken from those men of Judah at Jerusalem and instead give to a "nation" that would bear its fruits (of The Gospel). This "nation" represented His Church among the scattered lost sheep of the "house of Israel" and believing Gentiles along with them. Only a remnant of Jews would convert to Jesus and be among them.

In His Message, Jesus used the idea of a 'vineyard' as that "nation"...


Matt 21:33-43
33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:

34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

Jesus is using an analogy of God as the "householder" that planted that vineyard and set it up, and then went in a far country. That is represent when God set Israel in place for this world with a Mission to accomplish for Him. And when it was time, He sent His Son (Jesus Christ) to reap the fruits of it.


35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.
36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.
37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, "They will reverence my son."
38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, "This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance."
39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him.

God sent His prophets to testify to the husbandmen (rulers in Jerusalem), and they killed them. Then He sent His Son thinking surely they would receive Him, and the husbandmen KNOWING The Son was the Heir, they murdered Him upon a cross.

40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

Jesus then asked those scribes and Pharisees that were against Him what the Lord of the vineyard would do when He returns.

41 They say unto Him, "He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons."

By that, the blind scribes and Pharisees of the Jews pronounced their own sentence.

42 Jesus saith unto them, "Did ye never read in the scriptures, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
43 Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."
KJV

Then Jesus proclaims to those Jews that the kingdom would be taken from them, and instead given to a "nation" that would bring forth its fruits. He was pointing to the "multitude of nations" of Ephraim per the Genesis 48 prophecy which would be about the western Christian nations of history! They represent Christ's Church of BOTH believing Israelite and believing Gentile, joined together as one body. And they ESPECIALLY include the ten tribe "house of Israel" which God first scattered to Assyria while leaving the Jews in the holy land to go into their later captivity to Babylon.

In Isaiah 5, God pointed to His vineyard as being the "house of Israel", a term after the split of 1 Kings 11 used only for the northern ten tribes of Israel.

Isa 5:1-7
5 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt Me and My vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to My vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to My vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
KJV

"For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel..." -- so there it is, declared from The LORD's Own mouth.

Jer 3:17-18
17 At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
18 In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
KJV

Do you see that above distinction between the two houses, "the house of Judah" and "the house of Israel"? Don't allow any man to tell you that means only Jews, because only that "house of Judah" involves the Jews. The rest of those there, the "house of Israel", were never known by the title of Jew, and were not even present in the holy land at Jesus' 1st coming.

So why... do today's Jews try... and claim they only represent the children of Israel? Why would they be so quick to disown their brethren of the ten tribe "house of Israel" that God scattered first? Is it just because those Jews simply don't have a clue as to where God scattered the ten tribed "house of Israel"? That's not a valid excuse, because God showed even them per His prophet Hosea, and through New Testament hints and Messages like the one in Matthew 21 that Jesus gave, and by Apostle Paul quoting from Hosea directly to Roman Gentile believers pointing to Christ's Church!

Likewise, today's pastors that keep pushing lies by the 'false Jews' that try to claim they only represent God's Israel, those pastors need to study their Bible history more also, and come to the truth about the ten tribed "house of Israel" and who they are today.

God showed me that I'm descended from Levi, through the Assyrian captivity. I always thought I was English. Perhaps a descendent of mine will use this knowledge and go to Beulah, which, by the way, was my mother's name. Strange coincidence.

 

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God showed me that I'm descended from Levi, through the Assyrian captivity. I always thought I was English. Perhaps a descendent of mine will use this knowledge and go to Beulah, which, by the way, was my mother's name. Strange coincidence.

Most descendants of the ten lost tribes don't know their heritage from old Israel. But we can know the children of the northern ten tribes of Israel still exist today, because God told us so in His Word, and even told us from where He will gather them from in final. And the fact that the ten northern tribes of Israel made up the majority of Israelites, and the Jews only made up 3 tribes, ought to reveal that the ten tribes are in majority of numbers, even today. The Jewish historian Josephus (100 A.D.) said in his day the ten tribes were still scattered beyond Euphrates, and were a great number of people, too many to be counted.

 

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Most descendants of the ten lost tribes don't know their heritage from old Israel. But we can know the children of the northern ten tribes of Israel still exist today, because God told us so in His Word, and even told us from where He will gather them from in final. And the fact that the ten northern tribes of Israel made up the majority of Israelites, and the Jews only made up 3 tribes, ought to reveal that the ten tribes are in majority of numbers, even today. The Jewish historian Josephus (100 A.D.) said in his day the ten tribes were still scattered beyond Euphrates, and were a great number of people, too many to be counted.

When the Lord first told me that I was a Levite, I had no idea what He was talking about. And though I'd read through the Tanakh a few times, all the talk about Hebrews, Israelites, Jews, Joseph, and Ephraim being exiled and returned to the land confused me.
I didn't understand about the ten tribes. It was only during 2019 when He told me to go watch a video about Levites on YouTube that I learned about them. Ends up, the video was more about Ephraim than Levites, though that was how the video started. That is, many of the northern Levites going back to Jerusalem.
I'm a Christian...becoming a Messianic Joe. So far, the few changes I've made in my life have been due to my love for the Lord...there's nothing legalistic about it. And no pressure from Him whatsoever. I'm saved by grace...period! The Lord is slowly leading me in this.
There's no one else that I presently know in my town that the Lord has talked to about this, though there is one person I lost touch with long ago. At the time, I didn't know what she was talking about. Shalom.

 

[SetFree]

When the Lord first told me that I was a Levite, I had no idea what He was talking about. And though I'd read through the Tanakh a few times, all the talk about Hebrews, Israelites, Jews, Joseph, and Ephraim being exiled and returned to the land confused me.
I didn't understand about the ten tribes. It was only during 2019 when He told me to go watch a video about Levites on YouTube that I learned about them. Ends up, the video was more about Ephraim than Levites, though that was how the video started. That is, many of the northern Levites going back to Jerusalem.
I'm a Christian...becoming a Messianic Joe. So far, the few changes I've made in my life have been due to my love for the Lord...there's nothing legalistic about it. And no pressure from Him whatsoever. I'm saved by grace...period! The Lord is slowly leading me in this.
There's no one else that I presently know in my town that the Lord has talked to about this, though there is one person I lost touch with long ago. At the time, I didn't know what she was talking about. Shalom.

This matter about the two 'houses' of Israel, was revealed to me when I was in the military stationed in Spain. A friend of mine stationed in Zaragossa got married and called, wanted me to come up there to meet his new wife. We had a picnic at some old ruins, outside the city, which I asked him what those ruins were. Said he didn't know. Then many years later after I had gotten out of the service, and returned home, and God hit me with the Holy Spirit urge to do in-depth Bible study, He reminded me of that event in Zaragossa, Spain while studying about the lost ten tribes.

Turns out, that Zarragossa means 'fortress of Zarah'. It was an ancient city in Spain. And Zarah was the scarlet thread son of Tamar and Judah per Genesis 38. No wonder why Apostle Paul wanted to visit the brethren in old Spain. The Milesians that ascended to the thrones of ancient Ireland came from there in Spain. So most likely, Apostle Paul had planned on visiting a part of the royal family in Spain.

 

[Ammi]

This matter about the two 'houses' of Israel, was revealed to me when I was in the military stationed in Spain. A friend of mine stationed in Zaragossa got married and called, wanted me to come up there to meet his new wife. We had a picnic at some old ruins, outside the city, which I asked him what those ruins were. Said he didn't know. Then many years later after I had gotten out of the service, and returned home, and God hit me with the Holy Spirit urge to do in-depth Bible study, He reminded me of that event in Zaragossa, Spain while studying about the lost ten tribes.

Turns out, that Zarragossa means 'fortress of Zarah'. It was an ancient city in Spain. And Zarah was the scarlet thread son of Tamar and Judah per Genesis 38. No wonder why Apostle Paul wanted to visit the brethren in old Spain. The Milesians that ascended to the thrones of ancient Ireland came from there in Spain. So most likely, Apostle Paul had planned on visiting a part of the royal family in Spain.

It's always nice to encounter someone to whom the Lord has given insight into this misunderstood and contentious subject. Nice to meet you, Set Free. Is your avatar of the ten tribes in Assyria?

 

[Albion]

Turns out, that Zarragossa means 'fortress of Zarah'. It was an ancient city in Spain. And Zarah was the scarlet thread son of Tamar and Judah per Genesis 38. No wonder why Apostle Paul wanted to visit the brethren in old Spain. The Milesians that ascended to the thrones of ancient Ireland came from there in Spain. So most likely, Apostle Paul had planned on visiting a part of the royal family in Spain.

Most students of the Lost Ten Tribes point to Scriptural passages that suggest that they migrated across continental Europe before settling in what is now England, however.

 

[SetFree]

It's always nice to encounter someone to whom the Lord has given insight into this misunderstood and contentious subject. Nice to meet you, Set Free. Is your avatar of the ten tribes in Assyria?

Yes, my avatar pic is of a carving of the Behistun Rock in northern Iraq, displaying nine tribal chieftans bound to each other with the tenth laying down with the Assyrian king's foot on top of him, to symbolize the king of Assyria having conquered the northern ten tribes of Israel. However, most captions one finds with that pic tries to disguise those as being of a mix of different nations, which is bogus.

 

[SetFree]

Most students of the Lost Ten Tribes point to Scriptural passages that suggest that they migrated across continental Europe before settling in what is now England, however.

The real matter is that most don't actually know their Old Testament Bible history well enough to understand how God fulfilled His Promise to Jacob that his seed would become "a nation, and a company of nations."

Gen 35:10-11
10 And God said unto him, "Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and He called his name Israel.

11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;"
KJV

That was what the "multitude of nations" seed idea of Genesis 48 passed on to Joseph's younger son Ephraim was about.

And per 1 Kings 11 when God split old Israel into two separate kingdoms because of Solomon's folly, God gave Jeroboam of the tribe of Ephraim to be "king of Israel" over the northern ten tribes. And thus the later kings over the ten tribes did not come from the tribe of Judah of the house of David. Solomon's posterity of the house of David continued as kings over the southern "kingdom of Judah" at Jerusalem, until Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, killed them and ended the Judah lineage in Jerusalem.

However, there were twin... sons born of Judah and Tamar per Genesis 38. The other one was Zarah who's hand actually stuck out of Tamar's womb first, and they tied a scarlet thread around his hand to mark the firstborn. But then his twin brother Pharez pulled Zarah back into the womb, and Pharez came out first, and became the firstborn, and thus the lineage of David and Christ descended from Pharez. Zarah's seed migrated to ancient Argos and Greece before the Hebrews left their Egyptian captivity. (See Raymond Capt's documented book Missing Links Discovered in Assyrian Tablets) Documented also is a letter those descendants in ancient Greece wrote to the Jews in Jerusalem claiming to be their brethren. And the Jews wrote back and confirmed that they already knew that. Thus the history of ancient Greece and Troy actually involved Israelite history on Zarah's side; it's just that part of history was not detailed in God's Word.

What is detailed in God's Word are His specific Promises and Blessings to Israel so that those can actually be seen and traced. And since the end of the reign of the kings of Judah in Jerusalem when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, destroyed Jerusalem and Solomon's temple, and then later in 70 A.D. when the Roman general Titus and his army destroyed Jerusalem and the 2nd temple, there has never been another Jewish temple standing there with old covenant worship.

Many of God's Promises were then removed from Jerusalem and Judea.

The Orthodox Jews try... to claim only they are still subject to those Biblical Promises and Blessings first given through Abraham. That isn't true anymore, and this can easily be proven Biblically and historically.

The Jews in today's Israel have NO KING sitting upon the throne of David. That is an eternal Promise God gave to David, and Genesis 49:10 reveals it is still... supposed to be fulfilled to this day. So where did it go? Those of us who know God's Promises know.

God's Promise to Israel was that they would rule the gates of their enemies. The nation of Israel does not have that kind of power today, so where did it go? Ask yourself, who are the most powerful military nations on earth today?

God's Promise by Faith first given to Abraham is about The Gospel of Jesus Christ. The Gospel was preached to Abraham, Apostle Paul said in Galatians 3. The majority of Jews in today's Israel, and around the world, still reject The Gospel of Jesus Christ. God's Old Testament prophets and Patriarchs did NOT reject Jesus Christ, but were even given to prophecy about Him (Ps.22: Isa.53). How is it that the Jew's religion refuses to recognize those written Scriptures in God's Word?

God's Promised Blessings to Israel of plenty of corn and wine is about the best land resources of the earth. At one time in old Israel's history that was true back long ago, but not since Jerusalem had been under siege so many times and destroyed by the Romans. Only since 1948 have the Jews in the middle east been rebuilding and replanting to try and reach its ancient fruitfulness. Where then, are shown to have the greatest crop producing lands? In Russia? No, their growing seasons are limited, and their Communist politics hinder, so they have had to buy wheat from the bountiful West in the past. In the Arab countries which make up much desert area?

No countries outside the western Christian nations can be compared with food and crop production. The West still produces much more food than it can consume, including plenty of wine. Even in the old days of middle east Israel, much of their wine was imported from the Romans in Italy.

And... the western Christian nations have 'kings' and 'queens', and they are associated with the Christian Church. The Genesis 49:10 prophecy that the royal sceptre would remain with Judah all the way until Shiloh (Jesus) returns shows fulfillment in the Christian West today, and NOT in Jerusalem.

 

[SetFree]

OK, so how does what I have shown from the actual Bible Scripture about the identity of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel denounce those scoffers who keep trying to use terms like "British Israel"?


1. Firstly, those who keep saying, "British Israelitetism", "British Israelitism",... show they don't understand the actual 'written'... Word of God about His having split old Israel into TWO SEPARATE PEOPLES AND NATIONS. Terms like 'British Israel' isn't what matters. It's what God's WRITTEN WORD teaches, is what matters. I'd like to see those scoffers answer God in His Word in all these Bible Scriptures I have shown that point to other "nations" making up God's Israel, and not just the little nation of Israel in the middle east. But just so you know, the use of the term "British Israel" is a fallacy, and does not align with Bible Scripture.

Gen 35:10-12
10 And God said unto him, "Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
11 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
12 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land.
KJV

Jacob's seed would become "a company of nations" according to God's promise above?? WHAT nations?? Answer that British Israel scoffers.


2. Later in Bible history, Jacob (Israel) would have 12 sons, the 12 tribes of Israel. His son Joseph would receive God's Birthright Blessings first given through Abraham. Joseph was then separated from his brethren as they kidnapped him, and Joseph wound up in captivity to Egypt. Because God gave Joseph to interpret Pharaoh's dream about a coming famine, Joseph was exalted to second in power over Egypt. Joseph would then have two sons while in Egypt, having married a priest's daughter. The sons were Manasseh the elder, and Ephraim the younger. (See Genesis 30:31 to Genesis 48 for this history)

3. Then in Genesis 48, Jacob is on his death bed, and Joseph brings his two sons Manasseh and Ephraim to Jacob's bed for transfer of the Birthright Blessing. Jacob said for his name ISRAEL to be named upon the two lads, and Jacob put his hand on the head of Ephraim who was on Jacob's left hand side, and said that Ephraim's seed would become "a multitude of nations"...

Gen 48:17-20
17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.

19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

20 And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.
KJV

Thus Manasseh the elder would become "great", but his younger brother Ephraim would become "a multitude of nations." The British Israel scoffers won't touch that prophecy; do you wonder why? It is because it destroys their LIE that they, the JEWS of the 3 tribe "house of Judah" are ONLY God's Israel of the seed. Yet the written Bible Scripture disproves their false claim. The JEWS only represent 1/3 of the seed of Israel.

4. In the Book of Hosea, God uses His prophet Hosea to show how the northern ten tribe "kingdom of Israel" had become rebellious, and that He was going to end it. God gave those warnings to the northern ten tribes in the days when the kings of Judah, and the kings of Israel existed as two separate kingdoms that God had split in Solomon's day (See 1 Kings 11 through 2 Kings 17, AGAIN).

God then tells Hosea to take a prostitute wife, and the first child to name him Jezreel (means 'God has sown, or scatters, in the sense of sowing seed; OT:3157).

Hos 1:4
4 And the LORD said unto him, "Call his name Jezreel; for yet a little while, and I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel.
KJV

Hosea's wife conceived again, a daughter, and God told him to call this next child "Lo-ruhamah", which means 'no mercy'.

Hos 1:6-7
6 And she conceived again, and bare a daughter. And God said unto him, "Call her name Lo–ruhamah: for I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will utterly take them away.

7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah, and will save them by the Lord their God, and will not save them by bow, nor by sword, nor by battle, by horses, nor by horsemen."
KJV

God shows above that He would no more have mercy on the northern ten tribe "house of Israel", and utterly take them away, ie., out of the holy land. But that He would have mercy still upon the 3 tribe "house of Judah" at Jerusalem-Judea, as they would remain in the holy land.

Hosea's wife then has yet another child, and God tells Hosea to name him, "Lo-ammi", which means 'not My people', for God tells the ten tribe "house of Israel" that they are no longer His people, and He will not be their God...

Hos 1:8-11
8 Now when she had weaned Lo–ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
9 Then said God, "Call his name Lo–ammi: for ye are not My people, and I will not be your God.

10 Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, "Ye are not My people, there it shall be said unto them, 'Ye are the sons of the living God.'"

11 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
KJV

In verse 10 above, when God refers to "Israel" there, He is referring ONLY to the ten northern tribes of the "house of Israel" that He was getting ready to scatter out of the holy land, leaving only the 3 tribe "house of Judah" in the holy land. Then eventually, in final, God promises that in the place where it was said to the ten tribes "Ye are not My people", there it will be said to them in final, "Ye are the sons of the living God."

Apostle Paul in Romans 9:24-26 quoted that idea "Ye are the sons of the living God" to Gentile Roman believers on Jesus Christ, showing the believing Gentiles will be part of the FINAL gathering by Lord Jesus Christ of these scattered ten tribes of Israel.

That is important, even huge, because by Paul quoting Hosea to GENTILES, which God had originally given these Hosea prophecies ONLY to the ten tribe "house of Israel", and Paul was... speaking to Christ's Church at Rome, it means Paul linked the scattering of the Ten Lost Tribes among... ROMAN GENTILE believers on Jesus Christ, and thus to EUROPE. That because this phrase in Hosea 1:10 will be said in the HOLY LAND in final to BOTH the lost ten tribes, AND to believing Gentiles, when both are gathered by Christ as one, which BOTH together make up Christ's Church today.

So are we getting closer to identifying the "multitude of nations" that Ephraim's seed would become? A little, yes.

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[SetFree]

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In the next Hosea 2 Chapter, God brings up past history about Jerusalem's whoredoms with idols, as He is still speaking to the ten tribes, but calls Jerusalem his "mother", and how she had played the harlot (See Ezekiel 16 of how Jerusalem had played the harlot against God.)...

Hos 2:5-6
5 For their mother hath played the harlot: she that conceived them hath done shamefully: for she said, "I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink."
6 Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and make a wall, that she shall not find her paths.
KJV

That in red God applies to the ten tribes He was then back in history getting ready to scatter out of the holy land. He said He would hedge up their paths so they could not find their way back. This historically happened, as the Jewish historian Josephus (100 A.D.) said in his day the ten tribes were still scattered beyond the Euphrates river, and were a great number, too many to be counted. Historically, as a majority, the ten northern tribes of Israel NEVER returned to the holy land, not even today.

Hos 2:7-10
7 And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, "I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now."

8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil, and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.

9 Therefore will I return, and take away My corn in the time thereof, and My wine in the season thereof, and will recover My wool and My flax given to cover her nakedness.

10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of Mine hand.
KJV

In the above God continues what He had done when scattering the northern ten tribes of Israel. The ten tribes would even say once scattered out of the holy land that she had things better there, and seek to return, but she (ten tribes) did not know GOD is Who gave her those things, which she instead wrongly attributed to Baal, the original false idol worship that started in ancient Babylon. Thus it was so per history in the western nations, as before Jesus Christ came, those nations were following ancient Baal worship under new names. Those false gods are what God there calls the "lovers" of the then "house of Israel" or ten tribes.

Hos 2:11
11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
KJV

That GOD would cause upon the ten tribes when He scattered them out of the holy land. The ten tribes would LOOSE their HERITAGE and IDENTITY as part of old ISRAEL. Did this happen to the JEWS of the "house of Judah" that remained in the holy land when this happened? No, the 3 tribe "house of Judah" remained intact worshiping God in Jerusalem-Judea when God scattered these ten tribes of the "kingdom of Israel"...

Hos 11:12
12 Ephraim compasseth Me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
KJV


This is how the ten tribes of Israel would become known as the TEN LOST TRIBES OF ISRAEL. They are lost to the JEWS, and lost to the world, but NOT lost to God, for He knows what happened to them, and who they are.

Hos 2:12-13
12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she hath said, These are my rewards that my lovers have given me: and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, wherein she burned incense to them, and she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and she went after her lovers, and forgat Me, saith the LORD.
KJV

In the above, God has said He would given the ten tribes the full weight of their Baal idol worship, her lovers that she forgot God for. This happened literally... to the ten scattered tribes of Israel. They would go captive to Assyria and the lands of the Medes, and live like Gentiles, change to Gentile style living and names, and loose the identifiers that showed she was the LARGER group of Israelites. There exists archaelogical relics like the Jehu stone, the Behistun Rock, and the clay cuneiform tablets of the Royal Assyrian Empire that establishes these facts, and even mentions what the ten tribes called themselves, and new names the ten tribes adopted for themselves.

This Gentile culture the ten tribes took with them when the majority of them migrated into Asia Minor and Europe. God had promised there would be a cluster of good grapes among the bad ones, and to not destroy them, per the prophecy in Isaiah 65. In the 13th century Declaration of Arbroath by the Scottish nobles, they admitted that they had a heritage from Israel and had migrated to those new lands from ancient Israel. Those Scottish royals has a previous heritage of having migrated from Ireland before that, and with the royal families of the Milesian royal line in old Spain before that. Thus like God promised, there would always exist a 'remnant' among the ten scattered tribes that would know the truth of these things.

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[SetFree]

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Then look what God said He would do with the ten scattered tribes of Israel...

Hos 2:14-23
14 Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.

God literally scattered the ten lost tribes to new lands, primarily westard into the area where The Gospel of Jesus Christ was preached on NATIONAL SCALES, and WHOLE NATIONS UNDER JESUS CHRIST were created out of old pagan kingdoms and culture. Just where... did that happen?? Recall what Lord Jesus said who He was sent to...

Matt 15:24
24 But He answered and said, "I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
KJV

Even though the majority of JEWS of the 3 tribe "house of Judah" were also LATER scattered, that "house of Israel" is ONLY about the ten lost tribes of Israel, these ten northern tribes God is speaking to here in the Book of Hosea. And the HISTORICAL proof of this is how The Gospel of Jesus Christ once it was rejected by the majority of the "house of Judah" in the holy land at Christ's 1st coming, LOOK at the first NATIONS where The Gospel would take hold on NATIONAL SCALES. That was Asia Minor where the 7 Churches in Asia were located, and then the majority of nations in Europe.

Britain was simply the first European nation that accepted The Gospel on a National Scale. It was not the only nation to accept The Gospel of Jesus Christ though. That is how you can recognize the scoffers who keep yelling, 'British Israel', 'British Israel', trying to fool you into thinking Britain or England is acting alone as a Christian nation. What was the Genesis 48 prophecy to Ephraim again? It was that Ephraim's seed would become "a MULTITUDE of nations", not just one. So we can add to the scoffers their inability to count also, and the word "multitude" means more than one.

I recall the movie "A Knight's Tale", and the characters were in France I think, and the mockers at another table mocking them. And those from Britian then told them, that the pope might be French (?), but that Jesus was English. I chuckled, because the script writers must have heard or believed some of the traditional legends the British have about Lord Jesus and the Holy Grail in ancient Britain, and Joseph of Arimethea who was called the 'tin man' because he was a trader in ores, and traded in ancient Britain known or tin ore in ancient times, etc. Those are just men's traditions though. The fact that Britain was the first European nation to accept The Gospel on a national scale is NOT men's tradition though, but history.


15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.
16 And it shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call Me Ishi; and shalt call Me no more Baali.
17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.

In these new lands, in that "wilderness" God said He would scatter the ten tribes to, there He would give her the vineyards, and a hope, and she would sing there (be happy), and there they would no more in ignorance think of GOD as Baali, but would call GOD "Ishi", or Friend.


18 And in that day will I make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven, and with the creeping things of the ground: and I will break the bow and the sword and the battle out of the earth, and will make them to lie down safely.
19 And I will betroth thee unto Me for ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto Me in righteousness, and in judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies.
20 I will even betroth thee unto Me in faithfulness: and thou shalt know the LORD.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, I will hear, saith the LORD, I will hear the heavens, and they shall hear the earth;
22 And the earth shall hear the corn, and the wine, and the oil; and they shall hear Jezreel.
23 And I will sow her unto Me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not My people, Thou art My people; and they shall say, "Thou art my God."
KJV

Though the above prophecy is not fully... complete yet today, for there will still be many more today that will turn to believe on The Father through His Son Jesus Christ, that began to happen with the Western Christian Nations of history, which involved the nations of Asia Minor and Europe.

That's who that "company of nations" of Jacob, and "multitude of nations" of Ephraim, would be fulfilled by, and where it was first fulfilled when The Gospel was mainly preached there and accepted by whole nations after having been rejected in Jerusalem. That is where God's Word points to where the majority of the ten scattered tribes are located.