The Two Houses Of Israel and their separate history and prophecies
An important key to understanding Israel in prophecy is that after the time of Solomon they were divided into two nations, the house of Israel (ten tribes), and the house of Judah (two tribes), as related in First Kings, chapter 12. This division continued, for God speaks of “the two families” whom He had chosen - Israel and Judah - and declares, “Thus says the Lord: If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the ordinances of heaven and earth, then I will reject the descendants of Jacob [Israel] and David my servant [Judah]…” (Jer. 33:24-26) These two families are called the “two wives” (Jer. 3:6-14), “two sisters” (Ezek. 23:2), “two nations” (Ezek. 37:22), and “two kingdoms.” (Ezek. 37:22) They were the “two sons” of Christ’s parables, indicating their continuing separateness in His day. (Mt. 21:28-32; Lk. 15:11-32) In fact, the first Scriptural mention of the Jews is in 2 Kings 16:6 where they were at war with Israel. Letters were written by the chief rabbis of the British Empire in 1918 and 1950, explaining that this division has continued to the present day, and that the Jewish people are descended only from the house of Judah. (See appendix 9 of The Story Of Celto-Saxon Israel) The house of Israel, sometimes called ‘Ephraim’ after its leading tribe, instead was conquered by Assyria in the 8th century, B.C., and scattered through the nations of the world. “In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes... So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day. (2 Kings 17:6, 23) Read more about the House of Israel...
The British-Israel or Anglo-Israel belief...
The Canadian British-Israel Association is known as "The Servant People" because Israel was called by God to be His Servants in proclaiming the Word of the Lord to the ends of the earth! Isaiah 49:6 says, "I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth." Who is doing that—and who has done that—during the whole of this age? Read the wonderful prophecies given to Israel in Jacob's blessing in Genesis chapters 48 and 49, as well as the parallel prophecies in Moses blessing in Deuteronomy chapter 33, and notice something significant: There are individual prophecies given to each tribe as well as to the two separate Houses of Israel. Since these are specifically called "latter day" prophecies (Genesis 49:1), how could they each be fulfilled today if the individual tribes totally intermixed long ago and Israel only constitutes one mixed nation? Instead, research by scholars such as Steven M. Collins has shown that elements of the ten tribes of the House of Israel can be traced to European nations of today. Read a synopsis from his interesting book, "Israel's Tribes Today."