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>> “Careful now... ALL Israel is blind in part, not just Judah” <<
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Not so!
The apostles were sent to nobody but “the lost sheep of the House of Israel.” (and those that sojourned with them)
That is who all of the epistles were written to. They were all returning to their roots as prophesied by Hosea. They (not Judah) were the divorced wife. They were who Hosea’s life as a prophet symbolized.
They were also the mystery of Romans 7. How was Israel to be taken back as the bride without violating Torah? The answer: Her husband had died for her.
How could the bride be blinded? It was just sloppy translation of the epistle to the Romans from Paul’s Hebrew to Greek.
This is heavy stuff. Nobody wants to hear it; it spoils everyone’s painless eschatology.
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Nevertheless, she is - Song of Solomon alludes to her lackadaisical relationship to her groom... And I lean upon Zeke's 'binding of the two sticks' in Messiah...
Ephraim loves her idols, and has been all wrapped up in Rome, blind as a bat, for most of the time since Yeshua walked in Galilee.
I do not see the two, Ephraim and Judah, as resolving one into the other - They have both been horribly wrong throughout the last 2k years... I don't see the Jews suddenly seeing the light and joining the protestants or the catlicks... Nor will Christians, by and large, suddenly bow to the Wisdom of the Elders... I think Judah will see, and will believe, and will be able to show their brother the error of their ways as Ephraim comes to yearn for Torah... And Ephraim will be able to teach Judah much about Messiah that has been hidden from Judah's eyes....
Remember, Judah was widowed too - The Bride is the two, Judah and Ephraim, together as ONE woman, as Israel was before the split... That will take the discarding of man made tradition from both directions... And you and I, especially, can see that happening. Messianic Christians are different from Messianic Jews, but the two are far closer than their forefathers would have ever predicted...
And Judah will no more make Ephraim jealous, and Ephraim will no longer vex Judah...
This is heavy stuff. Nobody wants to hear it; it spoils everyone’s painless eschatology.
Yeah, I know.