What are the two sticks referred to in Eze. 37:16? C. G. The text itself tells us to what they refer, the one to the people of Judah and the other to the ten tribes under the term Ephraim. Two of the tribes were under the house of Judah, the rest of the tribes were under the house of Ephraim. God's promise was to that people, and would have been fulfilled in those days if the people themselves had been willing; had been ashamed of their sins and forsaken them, they would have been brought together and would have become one people. Verse 19. God would have brought up from the grave those who had died, would have set up His kingdom and sanctuary, as promised in the latter part of Ezekiel, on the condition, however, that Israel would forsake their sins and yield to Him. They did not, and consequently those promises were not fulfilled to them. They will be fulfilled thru Jesus Christ in a larger measure when all who believe in Him are counted Abraham's seed, "according to the promise." Then in the glorious fulfillment under Christ there shall be, in His own words, "one fold and one Shepherd." John 10:16.