There is not a single Jew included in the 'House of Israel'!

Scripture List 3:

The Jews are not the “House of Israel”!

List Preview: One of the commonest mistakes that people make is thinking that the Jews are all there is to Israel. Actually a significant number of Levites are still recopgnized as Israelites and another significant number of Benjamites have retained their national identity. Members of these other two tribes are often referred to as “Jews” because they often practice Judaism. But Abraham had twelve sons and just because most of ten tribes became “lost” after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel does not mean that God has lost track of them. Furthermore, a great deal of prophecy involves these tribes which seemingly vanished off of the earth.

Here is but one of many examples of prophecy about the twelve tribes:

Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather together, that I may tell you what shall befall you in the last days: 2 Gather together and hear, you sons of Jacob, and listen to Israel your father. NKJV

This prophecy from Genesis goes on to describe the fates of all of the tribes of Israel “in the last days”.

From Genesis to Revelation—all prophecy concerns the twelve tribes:

Revelation 7:1-5 After these things I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea, 3 saying, “Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.” 4 And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed: 5 of the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand were sealed....

The following scriptures illustrate without any ambiguity or commentary the uniqueness of the twelve tribes within the nation of Israel.

2 Samuel 12:8 I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your keeping, and gave you the house of Israel AND Judah. And if that had been too little, I also would have given you much more!

1 Kings 12:21 And when Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah with the tribe of Benjamin, one hundred and eighty thousand chosen men who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, that he might restore the kingdom to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, AND the men of Judah are His pleasant plant. He looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry for help.

Jeremiah 3:18 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 as an inheritance to your fathers.

Jeremiah 5:11 For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously with Me, says the LORD.

Jeremiah 11:10 They have turned back to the iniquities of their forefathers who refused to hear My words, and they have gone after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.

Jeremiah 11:17 For the LORD of hosts, who planted you, has pronounced doom against you for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke Me to anger in offering incense to Baal.

Jeremiah 13:11 ‘For as the sash clings to the waist of a man, so I have caused the WHOLE [all TEN tribes] house of Israel AND the WHOLE house of Judah to cling to Me,’ says the LORD, ‘that they may become My people, for renown, for praise, and for glory; but they would not hear.’

Jeremiah 31:27 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast.

Jeremiah 31:31 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah....

Jeremiah 33:14 ‘Behold, the days are coming,’ says the LORD, ‘that I will perform that good thing which I have promised to the house of Israel and to the house of Judah:

Ezekiel 37:11 Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. [Again TEN tribes] They indeed say, ‘Our bones are dry, our hope is lost, and we ourselves are cut off!

Ezekiel 37:16 As for you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and write on it: ‘For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel, his companions.’

Hosea 11:12 Ephraim has encircled Me with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah still walks with God, even with the Holy One who is faithful.

Zechariah 8:13 And it shall come to pass that just as you were a curse among the nations, O house of Judah and house of Israel, so I will save you, and you shall be a blessing. Do not fear, let your hands be strong.

Hebrews 8:8 Because finding fault with them, He says: Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah....

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