Just as Jacob, later called Israel by G-d, had 12 sons, YHVH chose a people from 12 tribes, which is called the whole house of Israel
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. Ez 37:11
The whole house of Israel is biblically divided into the house of Judah and the house of Israel. As in Isaiah, for example:
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. Isa 5:7
We have been grafted into this entire house of Israel and thus belong to the confederation of Israel.
And this entire House of Israel was created for the covenant with YHVH. I repeat this again: We were created for the covenant with Yah. The covenant is characterized by the terms of the covenant, by keeping which we remain in YHVH's blessing, by transgressing which we fall under the curse.
And sin is defined in the renewed covenant, i.e., in the NT, as transgressing the terms of the covenant, more precisely as transgressing the Torah
Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law. 1 John 3:4
Instead of lawlessness, one should say Torahlessness, because wherever Torah appears, it has been translated as law in most Bible translations, which is of course incorrect.
And now the big question arises:
How does YHVH deal with the Torahlessness of His children, that is, the whole house of Israel and those who have been grafted in?
As we read in the Hebrew Holy Scriptures, which are mistakenly called the OT, YHVH has sent His prophets over and over again throughout the centuries to preach
teshubah, that is, to exhort repentance and conversion
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts. Zec 7:11-12
And when the people did not listen, YHVH finally intervened. For example, the house of Judah was taken into captivity in Babylon, which, as the prophet Jeremiah had announced, would last 70 years. And the house of Israel, the ten so-called lost tribes, were scattered throughout the world, where they remain to this day. But neither the house of Judah nor the house of Israel nor we who are grafted in ceased to belong to his whole house of Israel. There is even a wonderful promise for the end of days:
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. Jer 3:18
In those days, and in that time, saith the Lord, the children of Israel shall come, they and the children of Judah together, going and weeping: they shall go, and seek the Lord their G-d. Jer 50:4
What sin did the house of Israel, that is, the ten tribes of the northern kingdom or the house of Ephraim, commit?
What sin was so great that YHVH scattered them throughout the world for over 2000 years?
These 10 tribes in the north stopped traveling to Jerusalem for the feasts and instead visited the new holy places of Dan and Bethel. In addition, they moved the autumn feasts from the seventh to the eighth month. Their motto was: The main thing is that the autumn festivals are celebrated. And this kind of sin continues in Christianity to this day, where even the Torah has been declared no longer valid for Christians.
I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing. Hos 8:12
In Hebrew, law is referred to as Torah.
I think that all or almost all of those who have now or for some time recognized the Hebrew roots of their faith and have converted to the validity of the Torah had been living in the sin of Torahlessness. We have all been running to the right of the home stretch, just as many Christians are still running to the right of it now. And many from the House of Judah run to the left of the home stretch, placing Talmudic writings above the Torah and claiming that the rabbis have the final say, not YHVH. But part of the House of Judah has preserved the Torah, also for us.
Now that we, who belong to the house of Judah or the house of Ephraim, have experienced so much grace in our lives and YHVH has removed the veil from our eyes, the question arises: how do we deal with certain movements that are rising up against the Jews?
It is about buying up time and standing by their side, in prayer and practical help. And that is especially true right now, as they fight against the spirit of Hamas, which will one day turn against us as well.
Just as YHVH deals with the house of Ephraim, He will also deal with the house of Judah. And we who are grafted in or belong to one of the twelve tribes should not look down on the house of Judah with pride and arrogance, thinking we know better than they do.