Perhaps one of the most central and pertinent questions is this. 'Was the Everlasting Covenant which was preserved in Abraham divided into two? And what is the logic of so spliting it? Now it is true that the Jews do fain claim it by David. For it is indeed in David that the promise of 'the seed', that is the Messiah to come, that he would be of the fruit of his loins.

"And when thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever." ~ 2 Samuel 7:12-13

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of host will perform this." ~ Isaiah 9:6-7

Now that the promise, the covenant, of this promised seed went beyond David and his immediate 'seed' as seen by Isaiah's reference to it still in a future tense in his day. It was that preserved 'promised seed' which was made unto Eve (Genesis 3:15). It was that 'promised seed' even the Messiah, which was of the covenant from Adam down to Enoch and Noah and thus on to father Abraham.

"I sought for mine appointment unto the Priesthood according to the appointment of God unto the fathers concerning the seed." ~ Abraham 1:4

"Abraham first received the gospel of baptism. Then he had conferred upon him the higher priesthood, and he entered into celestial marriage ... he would have eternal increase ... all of these blessings would be offered to allof his mortal posterity. Included in the divine promises to Abraham were the assurance that Christ would come through his lineage, and that Abraham's posterity would receive certain lands as an eternal inheritance. These promises taken together are called the Abrahamhic covenant. It was renewed with Isaac and again with Jacob." ~ Bible Dictionary - Abraham, Covenant of

"It was through Jacob that the covenant of Abraham continued; it was then passed on to Joseph and Ephraim." ~ Bible Dictionary - Jacob

That the whole of the Abrahamic Covenant included the promise of the birth of the Messiah through those 'fathers' who bore the covenant is implicit. That the Abrahamic Covenant continued to Jacob and from Jacob to his son Joseph and Joseph's son Ephraim, is so stated and given in the scriptures in Genesis chapter 48 and is made especially clear in the Joseph Smith Translation that Jacob did confer it upon the sons of Joseph, particularly upon Ephraim, even calling them by the name of the covenant, Israel. And this would be the perspective in all of Israel except in the from the Jewish view point which states that 'they did prevail in Israel.' And they would fain claim it through David, who 'chose Judah over Israel', David being near bloodline kin unto Judah by the parenthood of Boaz the Jew. This is Judah's great claim to the Messiah. It is the argument claim of two mothers to but one child. And it the Jewish prepared Old Testament there is given one book in partiuclar which provides that ancestory of the Lord and Messiah. It not being a women's story as much as it being the presentation of the ancestry of the Messiah according to the Jews.

However, as previously explained, in the preserved record by which the Jews in its ending prescribe David's descent from Boaz and thence to Judah, it is also proclaimed by Boaz himself that he was but taking upon himself the vicarious ordiance performance of raising up 'seed to the dead' (Ruth 4:5,10 & Deuteronomy 25:5-10). And that the first born son of Ruth would be raise up to be the legal and rightful seed unto Mahlon and the house of Elimelech who were Ephrathites, meaning Ephraimites. That the ancestry of Elimelech is not at least also given in the book of Ruth is but shameful. It would have fallen back to Joshua and Nun and thence back to Ephraim and Joseph of Egypt.

That the promises of the fathers, that is the 'covenant' which Abraham had sought after and had obtained and included all of the promises, blessings and covenants as explained by that Abrahamic Covenant, was preserved in and through Joseph is also scripturally given.

"And also with Joseph and Jacob, and Isaac, and Abraham, your fathers, by whom the promises remain;" ~ D&C 27:10

That 'the promises' did remain through these 'our fathers' is so plainly and clearly stated. And what promises? It is the promises of the Covenant of Abraham. Which included through Joseph of Egypt that the Messiah would be of his descent. And this we may now conclude was through Obed, the true and rightful son of Mahlon according to the Law of God, that Boaz raise up seed unto the dead and that Jesse like his grandfathers was also considered to be an Ephraimite or Bethlehem which was in the lands so claimed by Judah by that time and date.

And thus it is that the answer to the question, 'Was the Covenant Split? Was it Divided?' is NO IT WAS NOT. True it is that speaking purely genictically Boaz the Jew was ancester of the Lord and in this he has the blood of Judah. But as to the legal and lawful determination of his ancestry by the Law of God, He is of Ephraim. For thus was Obed and Jesse and even was David himself. And though David would of himself claim Judah over Israel or Ephraim, David's preference of a fallen man from the grace of God cannot change the reality of the matter, that Christ was of the seed of Joseph of Egypt.

The Jews who would claim him, denied him and crucified him. They have even split him into two in the 2^nd or 3^rd century A.D. by contriving two Messiahs, Messiah ben David and Messiah ben Joseph or Ephraim, into to separate coming Messiahs confessing the various asspects of the Messiah into two separate beings, a suffering Messiah and a glorious Messiah, claiming only the glorious Messiah as their own to come. Yet they will come to find that their two imagined Messiahs are one and the same Messiah, Jesus Christ.

And the will also come to realized that their claim to have prevailed in Israel over their brethren in the covenant of Abraham, is but also to be swallowed up in the latter-day revealed understanding that Christ was the son of Joseph, even that Joseph of Egypt through his son Ephraim, the firstborn of Israel (Jeremaih 31:9). And then they will come to understand that the bullock of the sacrifice of atonement was that bullock of Ephraim, even the Son of Ephraim, Jesus Christ.