This is an article on the \u2018one house\u2019 concept as opposed to the \u2018two house\u2019 ideas. There are some people who teach that those who embrace God\u2019s Torah and are not specifically Jewish are members of the house of Ephraim, while the modern Jew is of the house of Judah. This is called the \u2018two house\u2019 teaching. The association of \u2018Gentile who loves Torah\u2019 with \u2018Ephraim\u2019 is seen through a rather convoluted and spiritualized reasoning process to be part of the promise from God that He would reunite the \u2018two houses\u2019 of Israel that separated shortly after Solomon\u2019s reign. According to the two-housers this is because Ephraim (the northern 10 tribes sent into exile a little more than a hundred years before the southern two tribes of Judah and Benjamin) is said to have dispersed into the world population and lost their identity. Judah is said to have retained their identity through the centuries and are today\u2019s Jews. The modern day non-Jewish person who loves God\u2019s Torah must be related somehow to Ephraim according to these teachers, either through genetics or influence. So the \u2018two house\u2019 teachings consist of recognizing these so-called \u2018facts\u2019 and working to bring the two houses together.<\/p>\n
However, I think that the two house teachings are a distraction away from building the One House of God\u2019s family, which I believe is also called the Remnant. The House of God has existed since the beginning, and consists of all those who love and obey Him. Instead of worrying about whether the house a person belongs to is part of physical Israel, the person who follows God ought to see themselves as part of One house already, regardless of whether they are Jew or Gentile. I think God has already united the two houses, because no one can tell which tribe they are from now. Except for possibly the Levitical genetic marker, all of the Jews are one nation. Two houses have already become One house by God\u2019s power. God is the one who said He would do it, and it is almost completed.<\/p>\n
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