IMessage working on iPhone but not on MacBook Pro or iPad

I've been working on this issue for several days to no avail. I've even worked through it with multiple technicians on AppleCare (and they actually made the problem worse). I cannot send any messages via iMessages on my Macbook and...in the process of troubleshooting it, lost the ability to send imessages on my macbook. My iPhone (even when the only thing it is connected to is wifi) works fine. I'm using the most up-to-date version of Mavericks. I'm using the most up-to-date version of iOS. The only thing that the technicians and I could figure out to spark this had to do with 2-step authentication. Has anyone else successfully resolved this issue before?

HI,
In System Preferences > Internet Accounts  you can enable some email type addresses (they may or may not be actual email addresses) to be able to join various services.
Therefore a Google ID  can be activated  for Messages as Google allow Google Mail IDs to use their GoogleTalk Service which in turn  happens to be a Google Server.
At Facebook (if you have an account there) you can enable Chat which gives you a Facebook Chat ID  which also runs off a Jabber server (the ID is similar to your regular ID  but has chat in the name and does not work with the Mail App)
Apple Issued IDs (@mac.com @me.com and @icloud.com ending IDs) will work as AIM valid Screen Names  in Messages until the 30th June at least (Then @mac.com and @me.com names will stop).
The iOS version of Messages will send either iMessages  to Apple IDs and iPhone Numbers or in some cases will send SMS to other phones including iPhones that may not have enough service coverage to do iMessaging.
Of course people may use their Google ID as their Apple ID and use it in the Messages app on the Mac which in turn may mean it is the same on the iOS device.
The same can be done with  Yahoo ID.
This means the email IDs from both those services could be used as a Messages account anyway, the iMessages ID as the Apple ID and be active for Mail in Internet Accounts.
7:58 pm      Friday; June 20, 2014
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 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
 Couple of iPhones and an iPad

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