The disconnecting of Israel happened with the children of Joseph. It is hard to understand why brother’s would sell another brother into slavery. Yet God used one act to bring salvation to the tribe of Israel during a time of famine. David offspring would once again cause division in Israel, and Jesus would reunite His people under the cross of Calvary. Despite how different each church is from each other, there is one thing that unites believers and that is Christ who suffered and died for the division of Israel. The land of Samaritans were gentile nation, but were part Jewish, and so were the mountains of Seir. The division of Israel had to do pure breed of the house of Israel. Gentiles not being consider a part of Israel, though some were part of Israel just intermixed with another tribe of people.

The intermixing of tribes was taboo in some cultures and still is today in some cultures. God did not say you could not marry into another tribe of people, He only said one was not to marry a people of another faith. The purity of faith enables a family to not have children with confusion of who God is. There is no combining of baal with God. The throne of David was to cease the division in Israel. The continual throne being in the heart of man, with Christ being on the throne in one’s heart. With Christ in the center of the heart there is no division among God’s people. If God’s people walk by the Spirit despite the tradition of the individual church world the division is no more.

Division healing only comes with teaching and preaching and people learning about what true division is in the church verses the unifying of the church. The church would begin unifying with the dead being raised to life as prophesied in scripture. Though the raising of dead is only a prophesy to explain how God is going to bring Israel into unity once again, it would be something that would physically happen upon Christ death on the cross as the earth is shaken and the dead came back to life.

Christ would raise up on the third day. Yet those before Him would begin a revival in Israel that could not be ceased. One can wonder about disciples and followers of Jesus and wonder why more was not present for Christ burial, but understanding people that were once dead were walking in Jerusalem, it is not hard to figure out.

Christ would halt the division among tribes of people. The unifying would be taught and preached among the believers. Paul would teach there was no respecter of person with God. There is no Gentile or Jew they were all one united through Christ Jesus. The issue comes then when groups choose to be divided for any reason beyond faith. There is only one division a sinner and a sinner saved by God’s grace.

When one talks of unifying the world, one has to find common ground to be united. People take up the cause of abuse to animals, child abuse, conservation and so forth when faith is a division. United States unified by five basic amendment rights for freedom. Even if everyone disagrees on everything else in the laws those freedoms are to be what causes America to unify.

Ezekiel was to take a stick for each tribe and put the names of each tribe on each stick and the put them together to form one stick. The binding of these stick would be faith in Christ Jesus. Jesus said he came to divide. The division comes with those who believe in God but not Jesus and those that believe in Jesus. What would unify would also divide.

Dear Heavenly Father bring unity to your people of faith concentrating on what unifies believers together by Christ Jesus and the Holy Spirit. In Jesus precious nam,e Amen.