Verizon iPhone 4S stopped being able to receive SMS messages last night.  Any ideas?

My wife and I have had our iPhone 4S's since they first became available in 2011.  Up until last night we had not had any issues.  All of a sudden a couple of our relvatives called us and said they could not send us text messages, they were getting Not Delivered messages or SMS Failure, depending on their carrier/device (they do not have iPhones).  My wife and I were still able to send iMessages to each other, but when I shut off iMessage to debug, we were not able to send SMS messages to each other.  Turned iMessage back on and we are able to message back and forth.
Note, our two iPhones share the same Apple ID, but each phone's iMessage is associated with a different phone number and email.  Both phones were on iOS 6.0.2
I searched this forum and Verizon for solutions, tried several starting with reboot, delete all existing messages, delete contact and finally did a backup and factory restore via iTunes for my device only.  Still no luck, I cannot receive SMS messages.
I had not yet installed iOS 6.1.x after reading of some of the issues.  However, since I tried a factory restore to fix this, I was foreced to updated to 6.1.2.
We did not receive the message that we have reached the 75,000 message limit, but just to be sure, we deleted all old messages and still nothing.
So to summarize:
iMessage works fine, send and receive between the two of us and other iPhone users
We are able to send SMS messages, we have confirmed that people can receive our SMS messages
We cannot receive SMS message.  We never see the messages and the people who try to text us get undeliverable messages.
All started yesterday evening.
Any help is much appreciated.
Darin

Contact your carrier to confirm that your messaging plan is properly provisioned.  They are responsible for routing your sms messages.

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