Section 03
The House Before The Split
Before there was a northern kingdom and a southern kingdom, there was one
covenant house.
The promise begins with Abraham: seed, land, blessing, and covenant purpose.
Jacob receives the name Israel, and the family identity passes through the sons.
Ephraim and Manasseh are brought into Jacob's house in Genesis 48, which becomes
important later because Ephraim often stands as a prophetic label for the
northern house.
That means "Israel" can be used in more than one way depending on context. It
can refer to the whole covenant house. It can also, in the split-kingdom frame,
refer to the northern kingdom. The study must keep those contexts distinct.
The distinction matters because confusion over the word "Israel" is part of how
the whole story becomes flattened.
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