Parsha Vayechi – And He lived
B’reshit 47-28, 50-26,
Haftorah
M’lakhim Alef 2:1-12, 1 Kefa 1:3-9
Daniel ben Ya'acov Ysrael
This is the last Parsha
from the book of B’reshit (Genesis),
the End of the recall of the life of the patriarchs from Adam to Yoseph during
their sojourning on earth. This is also the account of the life of mankind. The
book of B’reshit contains the
Beginning and the End. The next book in the P’shat (literal) meaning, will tells us the life of the children of
Israel under Moshe’s leadership, a
book which is embedded in the book of B’reshit. But let us go back to our today Parsha. Ya’acov the patriarch lived seventeen years in Mitzrayim (Egypt)!
Seventeen is in the gametria: seven +
ten. It shows the perfect accomplishment in Ya’acov’s
life as a patriarch who was bestowed of יהוה to keep the way of his father Abraham and Itzahk: seven is the divine perfection on earth, ten been the sum
of all number (e.g. Ten Commandments). Seventeen is also one + seven which is
equal to the number eight. Eight is the number marking what nothing to be ad to
it is behind the natural so we understand that Ya’acov’s life was not a simple
life but was divinely ordained by יהוה. The number of his life was “one hundred and forty seven years”.
If the date of his sojourning in Mitzrayim (Egypt) demonstrates perfection in the accomplishment, it
should be reflected in the number of Ya’acov’s life:
One
hundred and forty-seven = 10x10+40+7. Ten the sum of all number forty the
number for testing and trials and seven the number for divine perfection on earth;
Halleluyah! We can go further to see that this is confirmed by the Torah: 10 x 10 + 40+7= 147= 1+4+7=12. Twelve the number for divine government on earth:
One the number for יהוה according to the sh’ma:
Hear (sh'ma) Israel יהוה you Elohim יהוה is one (echad) D’varim (Deuter).6:4. 4 is also the number for
completion of fullness in this world / Sh’mot 6:6-7 Four times “I shall” other
translation write, “I will”: This is the revelation of the plan of redemption
for all of us embedded in the children of Israel’s life.
Exo
6:6 Wherefore
say unto the children of Israel, I am
יהוה, and I will bring you
out (1 deliverance) from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage (2 sanctification), and I will redeem you (3 redemption) with a
stretched out arm, and with great judgments: Exo 6:7 and I will take you (4 completion) to me
for a people, and I will be to you a Elohim: and ye shall know that I am יהוה your Elohim, which bringeth you out from under the
burdens of the Egyptians. ...................................
1 Delivrance:
Yehoshua died on the stake =
deliverance from the world (Mitzrayim)
Pesach
2. Sanctification The Ruach
HaQodesh (Shavuot) to walk in the
Torah Feast of the weeks
3.
Redemption. Yom Kippur (Redemption)
4.
Completion. Succoth, the re-gathering of the Qadosh ones (saints)..............
The Number Forty is the number for Test and trials it
can be also written: 10x4. If we see Ya’acov’s trials with Laban we will see
the number:
Gen 31:7 “Yet your father (Laban) has deceived me and changed my wages ten
times, but Elohim did not allow him to do evil to me.
Thus the number 4 or 40 contains the divine
representation of Test and Trials, past present and future in our life.
Have you already looked in your life if there is some
connection with the number 4 or 40 and with events in your life? I am pretty
sure it will also be. Sometime not so nice with number like 9 or 11 or 13! Thanks
יהוה for יהושע in our
life.............
Gen 47:28 and Yaʽaqoḇ lived in the land of Mitsrayim
seventeen years. So the length of
Yaʽaqoḇ’s life was one hundred and
forty-seven years. Gen 47:29
and the time for Yisra’ĕl to die drew near, and he called his son Yosĕph and
said to him, “Now if I have found favour in your eyes, please put your hand
under my thigh, and show kindness and truth to me. Please do not bury me in Mitsrayim, Gen 47:30 but I shall lie with my fathers, and you shall take me up out of Mitsrayim and bury me
in their burial place.” And he said, “I do as you have said.” Gen 47:31 and he said, “Swear to me.” And he swore to him, and
Yisra’ĕl bowed himself on the head of the bed. ............
Ya’acov
make Yoseph swear to bring his bones
out of Mitzrayim (Egypt):
Today many people do not give so much importance to what will happen to their
bones, many are burned called “incineration”,
only ashes remain! Especially now in Europe
where everything is expensive, people want to “save money” and let the body of
the dead to be burned. The Yehudin
who attach much importance to the resurrection build a place for their burial:
Eph 5:23 because the husband is head of the wife, as also the
Messiah is head of the assembly, and He is Saviour of the body*.
Rom
8:22 for we
know that all the creation groans together, and suffers the pains of childbirth
together until now.
Rom
8:23 and not
only so, but even we ourselves who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, we
ourselves also groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body.
..........
.*23 The meaning
here is twofold, first the carnal body and also the body as the assembly of believers
in Messiah..............
1Co
15:54 and when this corruptible has put on
incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality,
then shall come to be the word that
has been written, “Death is swallowed up in overcoming.”
1Co
15:55 “O
Death, where is your sting? O grave, where is your overcoming?” 1Co 15:56 and the sting of death is the sin, and the power of
the sin is the Torah. 1Co 15:57
But thanks to Elohim who gives us the overcoming through our Master יהושע Messiah.
Our body is not yet redeem. We are redeemed in spirit, but the last redemption, of our body, this mean the “flesh” will be
when our Master comes back! This is why we should care about our body now and
when one is dead………….
Eph 5:23 for the husband is the head of the wife,
even as the Messiah is the head of the assembly: and he (Messiah) is the saviour of
the body.........
The flesh which
is our carnal nature is the source of all struggle opposed to the spirit in us. Once renewed through Messiah, the spirit longs for
righteousness while the flesh still
for carnal desires. This is why Sha'ul writes:
Rom 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
mercies of YHWH, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice,
holy, acceptable unto YHWH, which is
your reasonable service. Rom 12:2 and be not
conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your
mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of YHWH. I
have written many times concerning the renewing
of the mind which doesn't come just by prayer, but much more requires of us
to exchange
worldly thoughts for Torah's
instructions. This what Sha'ul
was saying to the believers in Rome by "be
ye transformed by the renewing of your mind". Nobody can be
transformed by his own work but by the living words of the Torah. יהושע says:
Joh 6:63 it is the spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they
are spirit, and they are life. יהושע taught the Torah to his
disciples because their forefathers had taught them man's traditions and the letter of the Torah, not how to walk in
the spirit. Unfortunately even so today, many
believers among those who keep the Shabbat think that it is no more necessary
to study the Torah and thus remain
carnal, unspiritual and keep sinning without even been aware of it. Gossip is
one of the most widespread sins in messianic assemblies I have visited,
although it is an abomination in יהוה's eyes:
Pro 6:16 these six things doth YHWH
hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
Pro 6:17
a proud
look, a lying
tongue, and hands
that shed innocent blood, Pro 6:18 an heart
that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that
be swift in running to mischief, Pro 6:19 a false
witness that speaketh lies,
and he that soweth discord among brethren.
Lev 19:16 Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer
among thy people: neither
shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am YHWH.
Pro
20:19 he that goeth about as a talebearer
revealeth secrets: therefore meddle
not with him that flattereth with his lips.
Most of those gossips are: " brother have you not heard……….." or "brother don't you know……" it
comes like a secret and brings evil report. What kind of report did Ya'acov's Children brought when they sold Yospeh to the Ishmaelites? ..................
Chapter
48: This chapter is concerning Manashheh and Ephrayim
and the foretold of their future in Israel’s history of redemption. Elohim will unveil in part what will be. Who are Manashheh
and Ephrayim today? Are they not
mixed among the nations in the four corners of the earth? Are they not to be
found for the greatest part in the middle of the “Roman catholic Church” and her daughters Protestants, Anglican, Episcopal, Pentecostal,evangelist and
hundreds of others denominations, ?
1-3.
Ya’acov reminds Yoseph of Elohim’s
promises to Abraham and Itzahk. We should remember that Yoseph is Ya’acov’s beloved son, the
wording in reading Torah is very
important:
Luk 3:22
and the Set-apart Spirit descended in bodily form like a dove upon Him, and a
voice came from heaven saying, “You are My
Son, the Beloved, in You I
did delight.”
Gen 37:3 now Israel
(Ya'acov) loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was
the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours* ...................
*.The coat of many colours has two meanings, the first
is that of kingship, but in a deeper meaning it represent also the nations
(many colours) that will be found in Yoseph
descendants through Manassheh and
Ephraim, and the House of Israel. יהושע is Elohim’s beloved
son as Yospeh was Ya’acov beloved son! Yoseph is the one who will receive
double portion in his blessing and his
descendants Manasseh and Ephraim' s children will be included in
this blessing. Manasshheh and Ephrayim
were both born in Egypt
with a mother, Asenath been and
Egyptian, and a father been and Hebrew. How many today are also born from a
Hebrew descendant and the mother from among the nations? Ask yourself, our name give sometime
indication about our origin, although we have another nationality.
We read in the book of Revelation:
Rev 7:9 After this I looked and saw a
great crowd which no one was able to count, out of all nations and tribes and
peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, dressed in
white robes, and palm branches in their hands,
Rev 7:10
and crying out with a loud voice, saying, “Deliverance belongs to our
Elohim who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!”
Gen 48:1 and after these events it came to be that it was said
to Yosĕph, “See, your father is sick.” And he took with him his two sons,
Menashsheh and Ephrayim. Gen 48:2
and Yaʽaqoḇ was told, “See, your son Yosĕph is coming to you.” And Yisra’ĕl
strengthened himself and sat up on the bed. Gen 48:3 and Yaʽaqoḇ said to Yosĕph, “Ěl Shaddai appeared to
me at Luz in the land
of Kenaʽan and blessed
me, Gen
48:4 and said
to me, ‘See, I am making you bear fruit and shall increase you and make of you an assembly of peoples, and give this land to your seed after you as
an everlasting possession.’
Gen 48:5
“And now, your two sons, Ephrayim and
Menashsheh, who were born to you in the land of Mitsrayim before I came to
you in Mitsrayim, are mine – as Re’uḇĕn and Shimʽon,(The
First and second born )
they are mine. Gen 48:6 “Your
offspring whom you shall bring forth after them are yours, and let them be called by the name of their
brothers in their inheritance. Gen 48:7 “And I, when I came from Paddan, Raḥĕl died beside
me in the land of
Kenaʽan on the way, when
there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath. And I buried her there on the way to Ephrath, that is Bĕyth Leḥem.”
4-7..............El Shaddai , the “Mighty One” appeared to Ya’acov in luz in the land of Kena’an (Canaan)
Let see what we can find in names: Luz means
“Almond tree” and the name Kena’an (Canaan)
means: humiliated, bend the knee, bring down, into subjection, humble, subdue. We know that Elohim gave his land to Abraham,
Itzhak and Ya’acov for an “everlasting possession”. Therefore it is Elohim who will “humble”, “bring down”,
“humiliate” “put into subjection” to the descendants of Abraham, Itzahk and Ya’acov
all nations who will oppose Israel in
its divine role. It is amazing that
today some people “Palestinians claim this land, Gaza
and other place as their land, and nations from the world want to force Israel to give
up this land for “peace”. Brothers
and sisters this will never come. This land has been given to our ancestors and
יהוה cares for it.
Lev 25:23 The
land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are
strangers and sojourners with me......"The land is mine" says יהוה.
What can man does against that? Ya’acov
tells Yoseph, “thy children are mine”
(verse 5) like Reuben and Simeon! Not only them but also their descendants are
included,(verse6) and “let them be called by the name of their brothers in
their inheritance”. The relation between
Ya'acov and his son Yoseph reflect the relation יהוה has with his Son יהושע we should always have this in
mind when reading the parsha
concerning Ya'acov and Yoseph.
Keil
and Delitzsch give us following explanations: --- Referring
to the promise which El Shaddai had given him at Bethel (Gen_35:10. cf. Gen_38:13.),
Israel said to Joseph (Gen_48:5):
“And now thy two sons, which were born
to thee in the land of Egypt, until (before) I came to thee into Egypt...let them be mine; Ephraim and Manasseh,
like Reuben and Simeon (my first and second born), let them be mine.” The promise which Jacob had received
empowered the patriarch to adopt the sons of Joseph in the place of children.
Since El Shaddai had promised him the increase of his seed into a multitude of
peoples, and Canaan as an eternal possession to that seed, he could so
incorporate into the number of his descendants the two sons of Joseph who were
born in Egypt before his arrival,
and therefore outside the range of his house, that they should receive an equal
share in the promised inheritance with his own eldest sons. But this privilege was to be restricted to the
two first-born sons of Joseph. “Thy descendants,” he proceeds in Gen_48:6, “which thou
hast begotten since them (i.e.
the other children), shall be thine; by the name of their brethren shall
they be called in their inheritance;” i.e., they
shall not form tribes of their own with a separate inheritance, but shall be reckoned as belonging to
Ephraim and Manasseh, and receive their possessions among these tribes, and
in their inheritance. These other sons
of Joseph are not mentioned anywhere; but their descendants are at any rate
included in the families of Ephraim and Manasseh mentioned in Num_26:28-37; 1
Chron 7:14-29. By this adoption of his two eldest
sons, Joseph was placed in the
position of the first-born, so far as the inheritance was concerned
We read from the prophet Yrmeyahu:
Yrmeyahu 31:9 They shall come with weeping, and with supplications
will I lead them: I will cause them to walk by the rivers of waters in a
straight way, wherein they shall not stumble: for I am a father to Israel, and
Ephraim is my firstborn.
(1Ch_5:2). Joseph's mother, who had died so early, was also
honoured thereby. and this explains the allusion made by Jacob in Gen_48:7 to his beloved Rachel, the wife of his affections,
and to her death-how she died by his side (עָלַי), on his
return from Padan (for Padan-Aram, the only place in which
it is so called, cf. Gen_25:20), without living to see her first-born exalted to the position of a
saviour to the whole house of Israel.
It is of importance to see what Ya’acov told Yoseph concerning the descendants:
Gen 48:16 the Messenger who has redeemed
me from all evil – bless the youths! And let my name be called upon them, and
the name of my fathers Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq. And let them increase to a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
What was the name of Ya’acov, was it not Israël? So we see that Yoseph
children Manasheh and Ephaim will be call by the name Israel (e.g. The House of Israel)
including the other nine tribes who will be joined to them at Sh’lomo death.
Where does this multitude will
come from?
Gen 48:19 and his father refused, and said,
I know it, my son, I know it: he (Manasheh) also shall become a people, and he
(Manasheh) also shall be great: but truly his younger brother (Ephraim) shall
be greater than he (Manassheh), and his (Ephraim) seed shall become a multitude of nations. …………..It is interesting to see that the Hebrew word for “nations” plural in English is the word “goyim” plural in Hebrew (plural goyim): “multitude of nations”. The word
for “multitude” is a word used by Sha’ul, the word “melo” meaning “fullness”: Rom 11:25 for
I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye
should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to
Israel, until the fulness of the
Gentiles (melo HaGoyim) be come in. …………..
From this
we should know who are these “gentiles”, are
they “pagans” or are the descendants
from Ephraim, the House of Israel? Let us
look at the descendants from Yoseph through
Mannasheh and Ephraim who will be reckoned as belonging to the adoption:
Num 26:28 The
sons of Joseph after their families
were Manasseh and Ephraim. Num 26:29 Of the sons of
Manasseh: of
Machir, the family of the Machirites: and Machir begat Gilead: of Gilead come the family of the Gileadites. Num 26:30 These
are the sons of Gilead: of Jeezer, the family
of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the family of the Helekites: Num 26:31 and
of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the
Shechemites: Num 26:32 and
of Shemida, the family of the Shemidaites: and of Hepher, the family of the
Hepherites.
Num 26:33
and
Zelophehad the son of Hepher had no sons, but daughters: and the names of the daughters
of Zelophehad were Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. Num 26:34 These
are the families of Manasseh, and those that were numbered of them, fifty and two thousand and seven hundred. Num 26:35 These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the
Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of
the Tahanites. Num 26:36 and
these are the sons of Shuthelah: of Eran, the family of the Eranites. Num 26:37 These
are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered
of them, thirty
and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.
Fifty two thousands and seven
hundred for Mannasheh and thirty two
thousand five hundred for Ephraim
though Ya'acov told Yoseph " but truly his younger brother (Ephraim)
shall be greater than he (Mannasheh), and his seed shall become a multitude of nations" (b'reshit 48:7). It
seems at this this time Manassheh was
still more numerous than Ephraim, how
is it today, were is Epraim?
1Ch 5:2 for Yehuḏah
prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although
the birthright was Yosĕph’s ....7. Rahel died on
the way back from “Paddan”. Paddan Aram was the place from Abraham’s
relatives, Laban. “Paddan”, the word “Paddan Aram” means
“field”
(Brown Driver Briggs).
Paddan-Aram (ISBE)
pad´an-ā´ram or pad´an-âr´am (ארם פּדּן, paddan 'ărām;
Septuagint Μεσοποταμία τῆς Συρίας, Mesopotamı́a
tḗs Surı́as; the King James Version Padan-aram):
In Gen_48:7, Paddan stands alone, but as the Septuagint, Sam, and Peshitta read “Aram” also, it must in
this verse have dropped out of the Massoretic Text.
In the time of Abraham, padanu
occurs on the Babylonian contract-tablets as a land measure, to which we may
compare the Arabic feddān or “ox-gang.” In the Assyrian syllabaries it
is the equivalent of iklu, “a
field,” so that Paddan-aram would mean “the
field of Aram,”
Quite interesting when we see the word יהושע spoke concerning “fields”:
Joh 4:35
“Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and the harvest comes’? See, I
say to you, lift up your eyes and see the
fields (paddan), for they are white for harvest – already!
Rahel died on the way back to Ken’anan (Canaan). Rahel is the mother of the multitude,
the Mother of Ephraim, the house of Israel for whom
יהושע came: .....
Mat 15:24 And He answering, said, “I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Yisra’ĕl.” . She died close to “Ephrath”,
which is “Beyth lehem”. Beth Lehem is the city where King David
and יהושע were born!
Let us see more concerning the words’ meaning:
Ephrath: Strong’s # H672
אפרתה אפרת 'ephrâth 'ephrâthâh ef-rawth', ef-raw'-thaw From H6509; fruitfulness;
Ephrath, another name for Bethlehem;
once used in Psa_132:6 perhaps for Ephraim; also of an Israelite woman: -
Ephrath, Ephratah. H6509pârâh paw-raw'. A
primitive root; to bear fruit
(literally or figuratively): - bear, bring forth (fruit), (be, cause to be,
make) fruitful, grow, increase.
Now
let us compare with the Name Ephraim:
Ephraim: Strong's# H669 אֶפרַיִם 'Ephrayim (ef-rah'-yim) n/p.
1. double fruit
2. Ephrajim, a son of Joseph
3. (also) the tribe descended from him, and its territory
[dual of masculine form of H672]
KJV: Ephraim, Ephraimites.
Root(s): H672 (see Ephrath)
Was
it not Yoseph the "savior" of
his brethren?
Is
it not Yeshua who came to redeem Ephraim
and Yehudah?
Psa 132:6 See, we heard of it in Ephrathah; We found
it in the fields of the forest.
Eprath
the word is written with the first
letter been “aleph” א while the last letter is
the “Tav” ת “Aleph
and Tav” “Alpha and
Omega”! Can you see? In Ephrath
i.e. Bethlehem was Messiah to be
born! Rahel died close to the place where King David and יהושע will be born. Sha'ul
reveals the spiritual aspect of the dying seed:
1Co 15:35 but someone might
say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?”
1Co 15:36 Senseless one! What you sow is not made alive unless it dies. 1Co 15:37 and as to what you sow: you do not sow the body which
is to be, but a bare grain, it might be wheat or some other grain. ..........
Rahel
died she was still young as we can read in the book of Yasher chapter 36: 10. and whilst they were going on the road,
and there was yet but a little way to come to Ephrath, Rachel bare a son and
she had hard labour and she died.11. and Jacob buried her in the way to
Ephrath, which is Bethlehem, and he set a pillar upon her grave, which is there
unto this day; and the days of
Rachel were forty-five years and she died.
45
= 4 + 5. Four is the number for « tests and trials » and 5 the number
for “Torah and grace”. We remember that Rahel
was daughter of Idolaters. She left this life to follow her husband Ya’acov. Her life was filled with
challenged and test. May be a shadow of what will be with her descendants the House of Israel (Ten tribes)!
45=
4+5=9. Nine is the number for judgment! Could it be that we
must pass judgment before we can enter the Promise
Land?
1Pe 4:17 for the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of YHWH: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not
the gospel of YHWH? ……………
Do you need a second witness in the scriptures?
2Th 1:4 so that we ourselves glory in you
in the assemblies of YHWH for your patience and faith in all your persecutions
and tribulations that ye endure: 2Th 1:5 which is a manifest token of the
righteous judgment of YHWH, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of
YHWH, for which ye also suffer:
Rahel
when she died has not seen Yoseph
being captive in Egypt, nor his children Manashheh
and Ephraim. Like the seed of corn
multiply when it is sown and died in the soil, so was Rahel’s life. She didn’t even saw Benyamin because she died at his birth! What was the short life of Rachel? She lived with Ya’acov twenty years in her father place
Laban among idolaters and died on the
way back to the land of Canaan the
land of Abraham and Itzahk. It looks that the two thousand
years of Rachel’s descendants Ephraim, the House of Israel living
among idolaters who will have to “die” before entering the Land of the forefathers! Are you ready to lose your life on the way
back to the Promise Land?
Gen 48:8
and Yisra’ĕl saw Yosĕph’s sons, and said, “Who are these?” Gen 48:9 and Yosĕph said to his father, “They are my sons,
whom Elohim has given me in this place.” And he said, “Please bring them to me,
and let me bless them.”
Gen 48:10
and the eyes of Yisra’ĕl were dim with age, and he was unable to see. And he
drew them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
Gen 48:11
and Yisra’ĕl said to Yosĕph, “I had not thought to see your face. But see, Elohim has also shown me your seed!”
Gen 48:12
so Yosĕph brought them from between his knees, and he bowed down with his face
to the earth. Gen 48:13
and Yosĕph took them both, Ephrayim with
his right hand toward Yisra’ĕl’s left hand, and Menashsheh with his left hand toward Yisra’ĕl’s right hand, and
brought them near him. Gen 48:14
and Yisra’ĕl stretched out his right
hand and laid it on Ephrayim’s head, who was the younger, and his
left hand on Menashsheh’s head, consciously directing his hands, for Menashsheh
was the first-born. Gen 48:15
and he blessed Yosĕph, and said, “The
Elohim before whom my father Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq walked, the Elohim who has fed me all my life long to this day, Gen 48:16 the Messenger who has redeemed me from all evil –
bless the youths! And let my name
(Ya'acov and Israel) be called upon them, and the name of my fathers Aḇraham
and Yitsḥaq. And let them
increase to a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
Gen 48:17
and when Yosĕph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of
Ephrayim, it was evil in his eyes; and he took hold of his father’s hand to
remove it from the head of Ephrayim to the head of Menashsheh. Gen 48:18 and Yosĕph said to his father, “Not so, my father, for this one (Mannasheh) is the first-born, put your
right hand on his head.” Gen 48:19
but his father refused and said, “I
know, my son, I know. He also becomes a people, and he also is great. And
yet, his younger brother (Ephraim) is greater than he, and his seed is to
become the completeness (fullness) of the nations.” Gen 48:20
and he blessed them on that day, saying, “In you Yisra’ĕl shall bless, saying,
‘Elohim make you as Ephrayim and as Menashsheh!’ ” Thus he put Ephrayim before Menashsheh.
Gen 48:21
and Yisra’ĕl said to Yosĕph, “See, I am
dying, but Elohim shall be with you and bring you back to the land of your
fathers. Gen 48:22
“And I, I have given to you one
portion above your brothers, which I took from the hand of the Amorite
with my sword and with my bow.” .........Yoseph saw his
father Ya'acov bless his two children
and reverse the First born right putting is right hand on Ephraim, thus making him the heir of the First born right.......
1Ch 5:2 for Yehuḏah
prevailed over his brothers, and from him came a ruler, although
the birthright was Yosĕph’s – “I
know, my son, I know. He also becomes a people, and he also is great. And
yet, his younger brother (Ephraim) is greater than he, and his seed is to become
the completeness (fullness) of the nations.”(verse 19).
Mannasheh
shall become "a
people" and "be great"
but Ya'acov tells Yoseph that it is Ephraim that will be greater than Mannasheh and that out of his seed shall comes "fullness of nations", in Hebrew "melo HaGoyim".
Let us see what Strong's concordance gives for the
word "nation":
Nation:
Strong's #H1471 גּוי gôy go'ee,
Apparently from the same root as H1465
(in the sense of massing); a foreign
nation; hence a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop
of animals, or a flight of locusts: - Gentile, heathen, nation, people..................
Throughout the Tanak
(O.T.) the Hebrew word "Goy"
is used for "nation, people,
heathen".
The word "fullness"
is also quite interesting:
Fulness:
Strong's #G4393 מלא melo From
H4390; fulness (literally or
figuratively): - X all along, X all that
is (there-) in, fill, (X that
whereof . . . was) full, fullness,
[hand-] full, multitude. H4390
mâlê' mâlâ' maw-lay', maw-law'.A primitive root, to fill or (intransitively) be full of,
in a wide application (literally and figuratively): - accomplish, confirm, +
consecrate, be at an end, be
expired, be fenced, fill, fulfil,
(be, become, X draw, give in, go) fully (-ly, -ly set, tale), [over-] flow, fullness,
furnish, gather (selves, together), presume, replenish, satisfy, set, space,
take a [hand-] full, + have wholly.
With that in mind we can now read what Sha'ul writes to the Romans believers: Rom 11:25
for I would not, brethren, that ye should
be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own
conceits; that blindness in part is
happened to Israel, until the fullness
of the Gentiles (melo HaGoyim)* be come
in.
Rom
11:26 and so all
Israel shall be saved: as it is written,
There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away wickedness from
Jacob:"be come in"! In what is not in Ya'acov Household, so that all
Israel
shall be saved? The fullness (melo) of "gentiles" is the "goy",
nations, spoken of by Ya'acov when
blessing Yospeh's children before
dying. The evidence that Sha'ul was
not speaking to Christians, but to
those from the scattered Children of the House
of Israel, Ephraim is given here and in no way contradict the fact that
those who are not from the household can become partaker of the promise through
Messiah יהושע .
It could have been written:
Rom 11:25 for I would not, brethren, that ye should be
ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own
conceits; that blindness in part is
happened to Israel, until the fullness
of the descendants of Ephraim (House of Ysrael)* be come in. Rom 11:26 and so all Israel shall be saved..........
Sh'aul is said
to have been able to quote the Torah from the first verse of b'reshit to the last of D'varim (Deuter.) by heart. The Ruach HaQodesh (Set apart Spirit)
inspire Sha'ul to write these words
to the believers in Rome, himself been a "Jew"
also call Israelite (Romans 11:1) has
brought confusion in many scholars who persist to want to see in Sha'ul and other disciples "Christians" which of course
have never been!
Rom 11:1
I say
then, Hath YHWH cast away his people? By
no means. For I (Sha'ul) also am an
Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
The tribe of Benjamin
has been assimilated to the House of
Yehuda (Jews) after the split of the Kingdom after the death of Sholomo (Salomon).
This is why Sha'ul wrote: " blindness in part
is happened to Israel…………………….and so all
Israel (Twelve tribes, two Houses) shall be saved.
Christians reject
vehemently this evidence nevertheless time will show that Messiah never came to
make a new religion as pretended by Christianity and all these self-proclaimed
false prophets.
Read
what the prophet Malachi writes: Mal 3:6
for I am YHWH, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not
consumed.
Who
are the sons of Ya'acov", are
they not the Children of Israel in
part or all united? Malachi in Hebrew "messenger
of Yah" "Malakyah" is said to have written in Nehemiah's time between 445 and 432 BC. As Dr. J.M.P. Smith says, The Book of Malachi
fits the situation amid which Nehemiah worked as snugly as a bone fits its
socket” (ICC, 7).
So he could not speak of the twelve sons of Ya'acov but of their descendants. How is
it with our Master יהושע
Luk 1:33 and he (יהושע) shall reign over the
house of Jacob for ever;
and of his kingdom there shall be no
end.
No possibility for Christianity
to take over, only replacement theory can bring blind people in error. May יהוה open the eyes of the blind and bring them into the fold. Since
around 1800 years Christians battle
to let the all world believe that Christianity
is the only true religion in spite of what the prophets and the disciples
were proclaiming among the believers.
Eph 2:17 and came (יהושע) and preached peace to you (the Goy, nations Ephraim) which were afar off, and to them (Jews,
House of Yehudah) that were nigh. Eph 2:18 for
through him we both (House of Yehudah and House of Israel, Ephraim) have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Eph 2:19 now therefore (because of what יהושע did) ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens (partakers) with the
saints (Set apart ones), and of the household
of YHWH; ...................
The
"Household of יהוה is
forever The house of Ya'acov as it
has been proclaim by Gabri'el the
Messenger of יהוה to Miriam when יהושע was born (Luke 1:33).
8-22.:
We have now come to the blessings and prediction from Ya’acov to Yoseph’s children. Ya’acov
would have liked to give Yoseph the
first born right, but it was not possible because there was other born before
him. This is very important to see how Ya’acov saw in the “Ruach”(Spirit) what Elohim
had in his mind as we can read from the prophet Yrmeyahu (Jeremiah) wrote centuries later:
Jer
31:9 “With weeping they shall come, and with their prayers I bring them. I shall
make them walk by rivers of waters, in a straight way in which they do not
stumble. For I shall be a Father to Yisra’ĕl, and Ephrayim he is My first-born.............
10.
“Ya’acov’eyes were dim with the age”
(in Hebrew his eyes were heavy). We could say that Ya’acov saw in part, not
all:
1Co 13:12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know
in part, but then I shall know, as I also have been known.
Yoseph
will now bring his two sons to Ya’acov
in order to be blessed. We can read from Keil
and Delitzsch: The patriarch then stretched out his right hand and laid it upon
Ephraim's head, and placed his left upon the head of Manasseh (crossing his
arms therefore), to bless Joseph in his sons. “Guiding his hands wittingly;”
i.e., he placed his hands in this manner intentionally. Laying on the hand,
which is mentioned here for the first
time in the Scriptures, was a symbolical sign, by which the person acting
transferred to another a spiritual good, a super-sensual power or gift; it
occurs elsewhere in connection with dedication to an office (Num_27:18, Num_27:23;
Deu_34:9;
Mat_19:13;
Act_6:6;
Act_8:17,
etc.), with the sacrifices, and with the cures performed by Messiah and the
apostles. By the imposition of hands,
Jacob transferred to Joseph in his sons the blessing which he implored for
them from his own and his father's God: “The
God (HaElohim) before
whom my father Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God (HaElohim) who hath fed me (led and provided for me with a shepherd's
faithfulness, Psa_23:1;
Psa_28:9)
from my existence up to this day, the
Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads. Today if you go to a Christian congregation;
particular the “charismatic” they “like” to laid hands. We should read
concerning the laying of hands: 1Ti 4:14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the elderhood. This is where the “pastors” take their “authority” to laid hands on
people. But if we read further in the same letter Sha'ul tells Timothy: 1Ti 5:22 Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share
in sins of others. Keep yourself clean. We
see that hands are channels for good and also bad things, if not done
appropriately. Before we let people laid hands on us we should be aware of
their life style. I have seen many so called “Pastors” laid their hands
on people for “nothing good” but to put them in bondage by false “word of the
Lord”. At the time Ya’acov did it, it was the way it was
taught and we are going to see that the Torah
was already there as we have seen before. Here the words are clear. I have
already explained in another “parsha”(Torah's
portion) that the Torah existed
already with Adam.
Verse 16. Gen 48:16 the Messenger
who has redeemed me from all evil – bless the youths! And let my name be called
upon them, and the name of my fathers Aḇraham and Yitsḥaq. And let them increase to a multitude in the
midst of the earth.” .......................In the margin of the King
James version you can read:”
.............“as fishes do
increase" for “let them increase”. This was the first revelation of
believers be compared to “fish”, remember יהושע says “I will make you fishers of men” (Matt.4:18)...........Read also: (This has not
yet been fulfilled it is still to be fulfilled in the day to come when Messiah יהושע will establish יהוה’s Kingdom). Eze 37:16 “And you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and
write on it, ‘For Yehuḏah and for
the children of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’ Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Yosĕph, the stick of Ephrayim, and for all the house of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’ Eze 37:17 “Then bring them together for yourself into one
stick, and they shall become one in your hand. ...............The
multitudes of nation comes from the name Ephraim
which means “fruitful” (B’reshit
41:52) Manashheh means “forgetting” (B’reshit 41:51), Yoseph says concerning Manashheh: “For Elohim has made me forget
all my toil and all my father’s house.” Concerning Ephraim: “For
Elohim has caused me to bear fruit in
the land of my affliction.” ………………Today
it is well known that Ephraim and Manashheh are to be found among the
western nations and scattered in the four corners of the earth where they have
been fruitful. We all have "forgotten" our father’s house Ya’acov and we for the majority of us
are in the "land of our affliction" “Egypt”, "Mitzrayim"!
Millions of people claim to be Christians
and have forgotten their roots.
Gal 3:29 and if you are of Messiah, then you are seed of Aḇraham, and heirs
according to promise. Genuine Christians must leave pagans tradition
and tradition of men from the Roman
Catholic Church to embrace again the truth of Abraham, Itzhak and Ya’acov
through יהושע Messiah. Verse 19. “His seed s*hall become a fullness of nation”. In Hebrew fullness
of nation is the term “melo HaGoyim”.
This term is known from Sha’ul in the
book of Romans: Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery,
lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened
to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles (melo HaGoyim) be come in.
Sha’ul
is not talking to “gentiles” in this text. Gentiles are “pagans” people who
reject Elohim. The Greek word is “Etnos” which means “race”, “tribe”
especially foreign “no jewish”.
(Strong’s concordance). Webster gives following description:........GEN'TILE, n. [L. gentilis; from L. gens, nation, race; applied to pagans.or
heathen]
In
the scriptures, a pagan;
a worshipper of false gods; any
person not a Jew or a christian; a heathen. The Hebrews included in the term
goim (Goy, Goyim) or nations, all the tribes of men who had not received the
true faith, and were not circumcised. The
christians translated "goyim" by the L. gentes, and imitated
the Jews in giving the name gentiles
to all nations who were not Jews nor "Christians"*. In civil
affairs, the denomination was given to all nations who were not Romans. GEN'TILE,
a. Pertaining to pagans or heathens.
Today's
difficulty is to found correct text, by this I mean text which have not been
under the hands of these fanatic
Christians who try since centuries to make their doctrines been accepted by
the all world. In the original text in יהושע and the disciples times they
were no Christians in Israel:
Act 2:5 and there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out
of every nation under heaven.
Act 11:19 now they which were scattered abroad upon
the persecution that arose about Stephen travelled as far as Phenice, and Cyprus, and Antioch, preaching the word to none but unto the Jews only. Act 13:5 and when they
were at Salamis,
they preached the word of YHWH in the synagogues of the Jews:
and they had also John to their minister. Act
13:42 and when the
Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the
Gentiles (those from the nations, Goyim) besought that these words might be
preached to them the next Sabbath.
Can you imagine that pagans, idolaters, heathen went with the “jews” in the synagogue? Act 13:43 now
when the congregation was broken up, many
of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who,
speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the favour of YHWH. Act 14:1 and it came to
pass in Iconium, that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews,
and so spake, that a great multitude
both of the Jews and also of the Greeks* believed.
……….* By Greeks we must read "helen" as it is in the Greek text. Helens are the Inhabitants of Hellas in Greece, thus those "Goyim" from the scattered House of Israel and not Greeks in the
sense of people. Act 21:20 and when they
heard it, they glorified YHWH, and said unto him, Thou seest, brother, how many thousands of Jews there
are which believe; and they are
all zealous of the law (Torah): .........Thousands: Strong's #G3461 murias moo-ree'-as ..........From G3463; a ten
thousand; by extension a “myriad” or indefinite number: - ten
thousand.
This
was during the first century after the departure of our Master to the Father.
We see that majority of them were from among the "Jews", no Christians.
No error is possible as we read:
Jas 1:1 James (Ya'acov), a servant of YHWH and of
the Master Yehoshua the Messiah, to
the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. 1Pe
1:1 Kepha, an
apostle of Yehoshua the Messiah, to the
strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and
Bithynia, ……………….Who are these strangers?.................. Strangers:
Strong's #G3927 parepidēmos
par-ep-id'-ay-mos
From
G3844 and the
base of G1927; an alien alongside,
that is, a resident foreigner:
- pilgrim, stranger.
Here
again we see that these people were
not the native but those from the House of Israel scattered abroad.
Sha'ul
cannot have called the House of Israel “Gentiles”. The promise according to Shaul is that יהוה Elohim of Israel will bring back the “House of Israel” into the fold as יהושע says in different places and then Yehudah will also be brought back to the faith of Abraham, Itzahk and Ya’acov. Ya’acov’s words to Mannashheh and Ephraim
are prophetic words of what will come to pass in “the last days”. We are now living
in the last days as we can learn in the Torah (see my midrash on the sh’mita cycle).
Soon the “fullness of the Goyim” (nations)
will be complete and יהוה will close the way of salvation. It will be the time
for Yehudah to turn back to Elohim by
faith. Read also B’reshit 35:11 to see
the promise of nations to Ya’acov. Gen 35:11 And Elohim said to him (Ya'acov), “I am Ěl Shaddai.
Bear fruit and increase, a nation (Goy)
and a company of nations (Goyim) shall
be from you, and sovereigns
(Kings) come from your body. Verse 21…… Elohim shall be with you and bring you back to the land of your
fathers. Ya’acov tells Yoseph that it is Elohim who will bring his children “The children of Israel” out of Egypt. It is also an Allegory “drash” to what will happen to all the
children of Israel after they have been scattered in the four corners of the
earth “the land of their affliction”...........Verse 22.
“And
I, I have given to you one portion above your brothers, which I took from the
hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.”
Spiritual explanation: We know that the Amorites were
the descendants from Ammon, Lot’s son. We read how they slew Hamor and Shechem after Dinah had
been abused (B’reshit 34:26-29). In Hebrew thoughts the “sword” and “bow”
represent “prayers and supplication”: 2Co 10:4 For the weapons
we fight with are not fleshly but mighty in Elohim for overthrowing
strongholds, Eph 6:17 Take also the helmet of deliverance, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of Elohim, Eph 6:18 praying
at all times, with all prayer
and supplication in the Spirit,
watching in all perseverance and supplication for all the set-apart ones;
Chapter
49.........This chapter starts with the gathering of Yoseph’s children including now Ephraim and Mannashheh. Let see first that the Torah was well known in Ya’acov’s time as it is mentioned in the
book of Yasher:Yasher chapter 56. 7. and
on the next day Jacob again called for his sons, and they all assembled and
came to
him and sat before him, and Jacob on that day blessed
his sons before his death, each
man did he bless according to his blessing; behold it is written in the book of the
law (Torah
in Hebrew) of YHWH
appertaining to Israel. Israel
is not only the “Jews” but include
all the tribes with Ephraim and Mannashheh. The book of Yasher in its account follows the Torah
written by Moshe. So this verse was proclaimed by Ya’acov just before his dead..........Gen 49:1 and Yaʽaqoḇ called his sons and said, “Gather
together, so that I declare to you what
is to befall you in the last days: Read: 2Ti
3:1 but know this,
that in the last days hard times
shall come. Job 19:25 for I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: The
book of Yob (Job) is said to be one
of the first book which has been written. Yob
speaks already from the “latter days upon the earth”. -Reuben,
Shim'on and Levi loosed their first born right to Ephraim: “thou shall not excel”. It is said Reubenites are in a big part to be found in France (Yair Davidi).
Gen 49:2
“Gather together and hear, you sons of Yaʽaqoḇ, and listen to Yisra’ĕl your
father. Gen 49:3 “Re’uḇĕn,
you are my first-born, my power and the beginning of my strength, the
excellency of exaltation and the excellency of power. Gen 49:4 “Boiling like water, you do not excel, because you went up to your father’s bed,
then you defiled it – he went up to my couch. Gen 49:5 “Shimʽon and
Lĕwi are brothers, their weapons are implements of violence. Gen 49:6 “Let my being not enter their council, let my esteem not be united to their
assembly; because they slew a man in their displeasure, and they lamed an
ox in pleasure. Gen 49:7
“Cursed be their displeasure for it is fierce, and their wrath for it is cruel!
I divide them in Yaʽaqoḇ and scatter them in Yisra’ĕl. Gen 49:8 “You, Yehuḏah,
your brothers praise you; your hand is on the neck of your enemies; your
father’s children bow down before you. Gen 49:9 “Yehuḏah is a lion’s cub; from the prey you have
gone up, my son! He bowed down, he crouched like a lion. And like a lion, who
does rouse him? Gen 49:10
“The sceptre shall not turn aside from
Yehuḏah, nor a Lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and
to Him is the obedience of peoples. Gen 49:11 “Binding his
donkey to the vine, and his donkey’s colt to the choice vine, he washed his
garments in wine, and his robes in the blood of grapes.
The sceptre, equal to guidance and authority and shall
not depart from Yehudah until “Shiloh”
comes, and unto him (Shiloh) shall the gathering of the people be. Shiloh is recognized in Hebrew thoughts
to be another name for Messiah. Messiah יהושע came in
the year 4000. Since this time, the authority has been given to him even if "Jews" do not recognize his
authority:
Joh 5:23 that all
should value the Son even as they value the Father. He who does not value the Son does not value the Father who sent Him. Joh 5:24 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me possesses everlasting life,
and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life. Joh 5:26 “For as the Father possesses life in Himself, so He
gave also to the Son to possess life in Himself, Joh 5:27
and He (YHWH) has given Him (Yehoshua)
authority also to do judgment, because He is the Son of Aḏam.
Php 2:10 that at
the Name of יהושע every knee should bow, of those
in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,
Php 2:11 and every tongue should confess that יהושע Messiah is Master, to the esteem of Elohim the Father.
Col 1:18 And He is the
Head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the first-born from the
dead, that He might become the One who is first in all.............יהושע was the “Son of
David” like his father Yospeh the
husband of Miriam his mother:
Mat 1:20 but while he thought about this, see, a
messenger of יהוה appeared to him in a dream, saying,
“Yosĕph, son of Dawiḏ, do
not be afraid …………
Mat 12:23 and all the crowds were amazed and said, “Is this the Son of Dawiḏ?”
Act 13:22 “And having removed him, He raised up for
them Dawiḏ as sovereign, to whom also He gave witness and said, ‘I have found
Dawiḏ the son of Yishai, a man after My own heart, who shall do all My
desires.’
Act 13:23 “From
this one’s seed, according to the promise, Elohim raised up for Yisra’ĕl a Saviour, יהושע,………….
Hence, יהושע was the
direct descendant from King David and
thus to be the King of Israel. The Jews
rejected him this was a “political” decision, they didn’t wanted to lose their
positions and therefore were blinded to the truth through their avidity for
power, Yahudah (the Jews) has not
recognized יהושע until today; only a small remnant which could be as I
think a “picture” of “Benjamin
recognizing his brother Yoseph” has
enter the faith through Messiah (Avi
Mordechai, Ariel Vankessel, Ed Neddle, and others to name few of them)..........Gen 49:12 “His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter
than milk. Gen
49:13
“Zeḇulun dwells at the seashore, he is for a haven for ships, and his border
is unto Tsiḏon. Gen 49:14
“Yissasḵar is a strong donkey lying down between two burdens, Gen 49:15 and he saw that a resting place was good, and that
the land was pleasant, and he inclined his shoulder to bear a burden, and
became a subject to slave labour. Gen 49:16 “Dan rightly
rules his people as one of the tribes of Yisra’ĕl. Gen 49:17 “Dan is a
serpent by the way, an adder by the path, that bites the horse’s heels so
that its rider falls backward.
The king James version gives:” Dan shall judge his people”. ..................
The Hebrew word in the text is the word “diyn” which mean “to judge” as ruler, the
word for “rule” be the word “adon”, master, sovereign, controller. It is taught that through Dan will raise the
anti-messiah. In the book of Revelation, chapter 7, two tribes are missing: the
tribe of Ephraim and the tribe of Dan.
I have spent many times to meditate the reason why this both tribes were
not mentioned. I have read a lot of explanations. One day the Ruach HaQodesh revealed something beautiful to me. According to Ya’acov’s prophecy, Ephraim is a multitude among the nations, intermingled within Christianity, wheat among the tares who
will go through the tribulations to wash their robes. We find Ephraim in the same chapter 7 from Revelation verses 9-17, they are the one
who have kept their faith in Messiah in spite of having rejected the Torah, and
will have to suffer the great tribulation in order to remove the filth of their
false believe, many will fall back and deny their faith because of the pressure
during the tribulation:
Rev 7:9 After this I
looked and saw a great crowd which no one was able to count, out of all nations and tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and
before the Lamb, dressed in white robes,
and palm branches in their hands, Rev 7:14
And I said to him, “Master, you know.”
And he said to me, “These are those
coming out of the great distress (tribulations), having washed
their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Dan is also missing. According to some Hebrew teaching, we find the
answer in the book of Judge chapter 14, the story of Samson. Samson was from
the tribe of Dan who married a
philistine (Palestinian!) woman in spite of that the parents were against.
Verse 4 we read that this came from יהוה, Samson was chosen from his
mother’s womb to serve יהוה. Chapter 14:5-6 Samson
fight against the young Lion and destroy it, verse 8 Samson find bees in the
lion’s carcase and honey, he brings some to his father and mother, not telling
them where he got it. The Lion is an
unclean animal but is also a metaphor for יהושע “the lion of the tribe of יהושע”. The lion represent the tribe of Yehudah (B’reshit 49:8), Samson
is from the tribe of Dan which banner
is adorn with bees. Dan want to
avenge himself from his brother Yehudah
who has taken his place and so will fulfil Elohim’s
plan. The Philistines today Palestinians intermingle with some descendants of Dan and fight against Yehudah the “Jews”. December 2007 they
received financial aid from the EU (European Union) worth 7 million Euro, to
build their so called “Palestinian State”.
Today 2010 the E.U (European Union) again plan to bring a law which recognize
half of Jerusalem as capital for a Palestinian State! If that is not
anti-messiah’s plan, we must be blind not recognizing who they are.
Gen 49:18 “I have waited for your deliverance, O יהוה! Gen 49:19 “Gaḏ, a raiding band raids him, but he raids its heel.
Gen 49:20 “Bread from Ashĕr is rich, and he gives delicacies of a sovereign. Gen 49:21 “Naphtali is a deer let loose, he gives words of elegance. Gen 49:22 “Yosĕph is an offshoot of a fruit-bearing tree, an offshoot
of a fruit-bearing tree by a fountain, his
branches run over a wall. Gen 49:23 “And the archers have bitterly
grieved him, shot at him and hated him. Gen 49:24 “But his bow remained in
strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty
One of Yaʽaqoḇ – from there is the
Shepherd, the Stone of Yisra’ĕl – Gen 49:25 from the Ěl of your father who
helps you, and by the Almighty who blesses you with blessings of the heavens
above, blessings of the deep that lies beneath, blessings of the breasts and of
the womb. Gen 49:26 “The blessings of
your father have excelled the blessings of my ancestors, up to the limit of
the everlasting hills. They are on the
head of Yosĕph, and on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his
brothers. ………………The blessing of Yoseph is above all his brothers. Today
people in the world have forgotten this prophecy and think they get their
wealth, power and dominion because they are smarter than others. If we keep our
eyes in the Torah we will see that it is the faithfulness of יהוה to His word……….Psa
24:1 The earth is
YHWH's, and the fulness thereof; the
world, and they that dwell therein...............Before we conclude this chapter I want you to read what Ya’acov said to do to his children
concerning his burial and how he considered his Son Yoseph, even up to the day of his death:
Yasher Chapter 56:10. and Jacob again commanded his sons on that
day, saying, Behold I shall be this day gathered unto my people; carry me up
from Egypt, and bury me in the cave of Machpelah as I have commanded you.11.
Howbeit take heed I pray you that none of your sons carry me, only yourselves, and this is the manner
you shall do unto me, when you carry my body to go with it to the land of Canaan
to bury me, 12. Judah, Issachar and Zebulun shall carry my bier at the eastern side; Reuben, Simeon and Gad at the south, Ephraim, Manasseh and Benjamin at the west, Dan,
Asher and Naphtali at the north.
13. Let not Levi carry with
you, for he and his sons will carry the ark of the covenant of the YHWH with the Israelites in the camp, neither let Joseph my son carry, for as
a king so let his glory be;
howbeit, Ephraim and Manasseh shall
be in their stead. 14. Thus
shall you do unto me when you carry me away; do not neglect any thing of all
that I command you; and it shall come to
pass when you do this unto me, that YHWH will remember you favourably and your
children after you forever. 15. and you
my sons, honor each his brother and his
relative, and command your children and
your children's children after you to serve YHWH Elohim of your ancestors all
the days. 16. In
order that you may prolong your days in the land, you and your children and
your children's children for ever, when you do what is good and upright in the
sight of the YHWH your God, to go in all his ways.
Verse 12 Ya’acov gives
to his children their position around the bier they will carry after his death.
This could be a shadow of the tabernacle! Are you amazed? If you read what
Moshe commanded centuries later after the children came out of Egypt, when they
build the tabernacle you can see their positions for the camp around the
tabernacle! Read Badmidbar (Number) chapter
2 (all) which include Ephraim and Mannashheh but “Levites were not
numbered” verse 33, same as Ya’acov
commanded his children. This was what יהוה commanded Moshe verse 34………………..Num 2:1 and YHWH spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Num 2:2 Every
man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own standard, with the ensign
of their father's house: far off about the tabernacle of the congregation shall
they pitch. Num
2:3 and on the east side toward the rising of the
sun shall they of the standard of the
camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son
of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.Num 2:4 and
his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and fourteen
thousand and six hundred. Num 2:5
and those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar
shall be captain of the children of Issachar. Num 2:6 and
his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand
and four hundred.Num 2:7
Then the tribe of Zebulun: and Eliab
the son of Helon shall be captain of the children of Zebulun. Num 2:8 and
his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand
and four hundred. Num 2:9 all
that were numbered in the camp of Judah were an hundred thousand and fourscore
thousand and six thousand and four hundred, throughout their armies. These
shall first set forth. Num 2:10
on the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben according to their
armies: and the captain of the children of Reuben shall be Elizur the son of
Shedeur. Num
2:11 and his host, and those that were numbered thereof,
were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
Num
2:12 and those which pitch by him shall be the tribe of Simeon: and the captain of the children
of Simeon shall be Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai. Num 2:13 and his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred. Num 2:14 Then the tribe of Gad: and the captain of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son
of Reuel. Num
2:15 and his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were forty and five thousand and six hundred and fifty. Num 2:16 all
that were numbered in the camp of Reuben were an hundred thousand and fifty and
one thousand and four hundred and fifty, throughout their armies. And they
shall set forth in the second rank. Num 2:17 Then
the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the
Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every
man in his place by their standards. Num 2:18 on
the west side shall be the
standard of the camp of Ephraim
according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall be
Elishama the son of Ammihud. Num 2:19
and his
host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty thousand and five
hundred.Num
2:20 and by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of the children of Manasseh shall be
Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.Num 2:21
and his
host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and two thousand and
two hundred.Num
2:22 Then the tribe of Benjamin:
and the captain of the sons of Benjamin shall be Abidan the son of Gideoni.Num 2:23 and
his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand
and four hundred.Num 2:24
all that
were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were an hundred thousand and eight
thousand and an hundred, throughout their armies. And they shall go forward in
the third rank.Num 2:25
The
standard of the camp of Dan
shall be on the north side by their
armies: and the captain of the children of Dan shall be Ahiezer the son of
Ammishaddai.Num
2:26 and his host, and those that were numbered of them,
were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.Num 2:27 and
those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the captain of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the
son of Ocran.
Num 2:28
and his
host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty and one thousand and
five hundred.
Num 2:29
Then the
tribe of Naphtali: and the captain
of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.
Num 2:30
and his
host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and
four hundred.
Num 2:31 all they that were numbered in the camp of
Dan were an hundred thousand and fifty and seven thousand and six hundred. They
shall go hindmost with their standards.Num 2:32 These
are those which were numbered of the children of Israel by the house of their
fathers: all those that were numbered of the camps throughout their hosts were
six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty.
Num 2:33
but the Levites were not numbered among the children of
Israel; as YHWH commanded Moses.
Num 2:34
and the children of Israel did according to all that YHWH commanded Moses: so
they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their
families, according to the house of their fathers.Gen 49:27 “Binyamin is a wolf that tears, in the morning he eats prey, and at
night he divides the spoil.” Gen 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Yisra’ĕl, and this
is what their father spoke to them. And he blessed them, he blessed each one
according to his own blessing. ………………..;In order to have twelve
tribes Yoseph and Levi are replaced by Ephraim and Mannasheh. Throughout the scriptures many times Yoseph stand for Ephraim and Mannasheh…….Gen 49:29 and he commanded them, and said
to them, “I am to be gathered to my people, bury me with my fathers in the cave
that is in the field of Ephron the Ḥittite,
Gen 49:30 in the cave that is in the field
of Maḵpĕlah, which is before Mamrĕ in the land of Kenaʽan, which Aḇraham
bought with the field of Ephron the Ḥittite as a possession for a burial site.
Gen 49:31 There they buried Aḇraham and Sarah his wife, there
they buried Yitsḥaq and Riḇqah his wife, and there I buried Lĕ’ah – Gen 49:32 the field purchased, and the
cave which is in it, from the sons of Ḥĕth.”
Gen 49:33 and when Yaʽaqoḇ ended
commanding his sons, he drew his feet up into the bed and breathed his last,
and was gathered to his people. Machpelah was not the place where Rachel was buried she was in Ephratath which is also Bethlechem! This has a very significant
spiritual interpretation as Rachel is
the mother of the House of Israel
also called Ephraim…………….Chapter 50.Verse 2.
“Yoseph commanded his servants to
embalm his father”. We see here that even in Egypt, pagans believed in the life
after death. This is found in the Mitzrayim religion which has been adopted by
the Roman Catholic belief in many
ways. The Egyptians mourned for Ya’acov
seventy days. The blessing of Ya’acov and his children has rich the Egyptians
so that after he died they mourned for him.
In Romans 8:22 Sha'ul explains that the whole creation “groan” /mourn
because of the bondage of death to those who are without hope in the world. In
the book of Hebrew, Sha'ul explains
that death put people in bondage, because they have no hope: Heb 2:15
and deliver those who throughout life were held in slavery by fear of death. .......Once again before the Children of Israel life after death was
common belief among pagan nations, the difference lays in the doctrine of purgatory adopted by the Roman Catholic Church which is not part
of the Messianic belief. There is today controversy as concerning the immortality of the soul which many among
messianic assemblies reject and classify as pagan
tradition or even satanic, but
what do the scriptures say? Php 1:23 for I am in a
strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with the Messiah; which is far better: Php 1:24 Nevertheless
to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
............Sha'ul says that to be
with Mesiah is far better! Is Messiah dead? Of course not he is alive and
seated at the right hand of the Father. Rev 7:9 after this I
beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations,
and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood
before the throne, and before the
Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands; ..........Even if it is a vision Yochanan saw them before the throne and
before the Lamb יהושע Mat 24:30
and then shall appear the sign of the Son
of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they
shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds
of heaven with power and great glory............What is the meaning
of clouds?
Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about
with so great a cloud of witnesses,
let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and
let us run with patience the race that is set before us,...................In
the precedent chapter 11, the writer of the book
of Hebrew was speaking of the "witnesses"
in the list of all those who lived by faith..............So the term clouds, is a
metaphor for “numerous people”........Rev 1:7 behold, he (יהושע) cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which
pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so,
amein.
Who were all these clouds,
or soul if not with Messiah, it
is to notice that they are the souls of the righteous people who follow the יהושע. It's up to each of us to believe or not that the soul after
death depart from the body and goes to be join to Messiah יהושע until he
time of the resurrection when they will get the glorify body. A long time I
held also the doctrine of those who believe that the soul knows nothing after
death, but today I have open up my heart not to follow the majority but to
search the scripture and listen to the small voice. ……….Gen 50:1
and Yosĕph fell on his father’s face, and wept over him, and kissed him. Gen 50:2 and Yosĕph commanded his servants the physicians to
embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Yisra’ĕl. Gen 50:3 and forty days
were completed for him, for so are completed the days of embalming. And the
Mitsrites wept for him seventy days. Gen 50:4 and when the days of weeping for him were past,
Yosĕph spoke to the household of Pharaoh, saying, “If, now, I have found favour
in your eyes, please speak in the hearing of Pharaoh, saying, Gen 50:5 ‘My father made me swear, saying, “See, I am dying,
bury me in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Kenaʽan.” And now,
please let me go up and bury my father, and return.’ ”
Gen 50:6
and Pharaoh said, “Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear.” Gen 50:7 and Yosĕph went up to bury his father. And with him
went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the
elders of the land of Mitsrayim, Gen 50:8 and all the house of Yosĕph, and his brothers, and
his father’s house. Only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds
they left in the land of Goshen. Gen 50:9 and there went up with him both chariots and
horsemen, and it was a very great company. Gen 50:10 and they came to the threshing-floor of Ataḏ, which
is beyond the Yardĕn, and they lamented there with a great and very heavy
lamentation. And he observed seven days
of mourning for his father. Gen 50:11
and when the inhabitants of the land, the Kenaʽanites, saw the mourning at the
threshing-floor of Ataḏ, they said, “This is a grievous mourning for the
Mitsrites.” That is why its name was called Aḇĕl Mitsrayim, which is beyond
the Yardĕn. Gen
50:12 and his
sons did to him as he had commanded them, Gen 50:13 for his sons brought him to the land of Kenaʽan, and
buried him in the cave of the field of Maḵpĕlah, before Mamrĕ, which Aḇraham
bought with the field from Ephron the Ḥittite as property for a burial site. Gen 50:14 and after he had buried his father, Yosĕph returned to Mitsrayim, he and
his brothers and all who went up with him to bury his father.
Elohim
told Abraham that his descendants
were to be in Egypt for four hundred years (B’reshit 15:13), therefore Yoseph had to go back to Egypt where the
children of Israel will stay until Elohim
bring them out.
Gen 50:15 and when
Yosĕph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if
Yosĕph hates us, and pays us back all the evil which we did to him?” Gen 50:16 and they sent word to Yosĕph, saying, “Before your
father died he commanded, saying, Gen 50:17 ‘This is what you are to say to Yosĕph, “I beg you, please forgive the transgression of your
brothers and their sin, for they did evil to you.” ’ And now, please
forgive the transgression of the servants of the Elohim of your father.” And Yosĕph wept when they spoke to him. Gen 50:18 and his brothers also went and fell down before his
face, and they said, “See, we are your
servants.” .......Now Ya’acov
is no more and Yoseph brothers fear
him! It is quite interesting to see that they still have not forgotten all what
they have done to Yoseph. How will it
be when Yehudah will look and see
that יהושע (Yoseph) is Messiah?
We can see the parallel. At this point of Yospeh
life Ephraim are only spectators of
what happen with their father’s brothers. Later they will also experience rejection
of the father (Elohim) by going whoredom
with pagan g-ds. Yoseph reiterate that it was Elohim’s
will to keep “great many people alive” through the action they intended against
him. יהוה has His way and His people. In spite of being alone in
Egypt, Yoseph was able to keep the
way he was taught by his father and humble himself, so that Elohim could lift him to the high
position. This sound like our Master יהושע who was
born to be our Messiah, but was
proclaim only at the resurrection. Some people think it was automatic, just
read:
Php 2:8 and having been found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient
unto death, death even of a stake.Heb 5:9 and having
been perfected, He became
the Causer of everlasting deliverance to all those obeying Him,
......Some people think that it was easy for יהושע because he
was “Messiah”. יהושע was a man of blood and flesh like you and me, and went
through the test of life, but he was without sin.
Gen 50:19 and Yosĕph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of Elohim? Gen 50:20 “And you, you intended evil against me, but Elohim intended it for good, in order to do
it as it is this day, to keep a great many people alive. Gen 50:21 “And now, do not fear, I provide for you and your
little ones.” So he comforted them and spoke kindly to them. Gen 50:22 and Yosĕph dwelt in Mitsrayim, he and his father’s
household. And Yosĕph lived one hundred
and ten years. ........22.
and Yoseph dwelt in Mitsrayim…. Read Yeshayahu 60:1-5 which speaks of nations coming to the light of Messiah when the all world will be in
darkness. Darkness is the world without Torah!
.............;Isa 60:1 “Arise, shine, for your light has come! And
the esteem of יהוה has risen upon you. Isa 60:2 “For look, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness the peoples. But יהוה arises over you, and His esteem is
seen upon you. Isa 60:3 “And the gentiles (nations Goyim) shall come to your light1, and sovereigns to the
brightness of your rising. Footnote: 1Isa. 60:19,20, Rev. 21:23,24.
Isa 60:4 “Lift up your eyes all around
and see: all of them have gathered, they have come to you; your sons come from
afar, and your daughters are supported on the side.
Isa 60:5 “Then you shall see and be
bright, and your heart shall throb and swell, for the wealth of the sea is
turned to you, the riches of the
gentiles(nations goyim) come to you.
Gen 50:23 and Yosĕph saw
Ephrayim’s children to the third generation. The children of Maḵir, son of
Menashsheh, were also brought up on Yosĕph’s knees. Gen 50:24
and Yosĕph said to his brothers, “I am dying, but Elohim shall certainly visit you and bring you out of this land to the
land of which He swore to Aḇraham, to Yitsḥaq, and to Yaʽaqoḇ.” ..............Is
this promise fulfilled today, have the children of Israel been brought back to
the Land of Abraham Itzhak and Ya’acov? The answer is yes and no! Because
they entered the Promise Land under Yehoshua
the son of Nun, but were scattered again after having disobey יהוה. This time it is יהושע who will
gather יהוה’s people (Matt.24:31) after the great tribulations. This will
be the final act for the faithful ones.................Eze 37:16 “And you, son of man, take a stick for yourself and
write on it, ‘For Yehuḏah and for the children of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’
Then take another stick and write on it, ‘For Yosĕph, the stick of Ephrayim,
and for all the house of Yisra’ĕl, his companions.’ Eze 37:17 “Then bring them together for yourself into one
stick, and they shall become one in your
hand. Eze
37:18 “And
when the children of your people speak to you, saying, ‘Won’t you show us what
you mean by these?’Eze 37:19
say to them, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I am taking the stick of Yosĕph, which is in the hand
of Ephrayim, and the tribes of Yisra’ĕl, his companions. And I shall give
them unto him, with the stick of Yehuḏah, and make them one stick, and they
shall be one in My hand.” ’ Eze 37:20 “And the sticks on which you
write shall be in your hand before their eyes.
Eze 37:21 “And speak to them, ‘Thus said
the Master יהוה, “See, I am
taking the children of Yisra’ĕl from among the gentiles, wherever they have
gone, and shall gather them from all around, and I shall bring them into their
land. Eze 37:22 “And I shall make
them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Yisra’ĕl. And one
sovereign shall be sovereign over them all, and let them no longer be two nations, and let them no longer be
divided into two reigns. Eze 37:23 “And they shall no longer defile
themselves with their idols, nor with their disgusting matters, nor with any of their transgressions. And I shall save
them from all their dwelling places in which they have sinned, and I shall
cleanse them. And they shall be My people, and I be their Elohim, Eze 37:24 while Dawiḏ My servant is
sovereign over them. And they shall all have one shepherd and walk in My
right-rulings and guard My laws, and shall do them. Eze 37:25 “And they shall dwell in the
land that I have given to Yaʽaqoḇ My servant, where your fathers dwelt. And
they shall dwell in it, they and their children and their children’s children,
forever, and My servant Dawiḏ be their prince forever.Eze 37:26 “And I shall make a covenant of
peace (Shalom) with them – an everlasting covenant it is with them. And I shall place
them and increase them, and shall place My set-apart place in their midst,
forever.Eze 37:27 “And My Dwelling Place shall be over them. And I shall
be their Elohim, and they shall be My people. Eze 37:28 “And the gentiles shall know
that I, יהוה, am setting
Yisra’ĕl apart, when My set-apart place is in their midst – forever.” ’ ”Eze 34:11 ‘For thus said the Master יהוה, “See, I Myself shall search for My sheep and seek them out. Eze 34:12 “As a shepherd seeks out his
flock on the day he is among his scattered sheep, so I shall seek out My sheep
and deliver them from all the places where they were scattered in a day of
cloud and thick darkness. Eze 34:13 “And I shall bring them out from the peoples and gather them from the lands,
and shall bring them to their own land. And I shall feed them on the
mountains of Yisra’ĕl, in the valleys, and in all the dwellings of the land. Gen 50:25 and Yosĕph made the children of Yisra’ĕl swear,
saying, “Elohim shall certainly visit
you, and you shall bring up my bones from here.” Gen 50:26 and Yosĕph died, being one hundred and ten years old.
And they embalmed him, and he was placed in a coffin in Mitsrayim.....Jer 23:3 “Therefore I shall gather the remnant of My
flock out of all the lands where I have driven them, and shall bring them back to their fold. And they shall bear and
increase. .............Read: Joh 10:16 “And
other sheep I have which are not of this fold (Yehudah) – I have to
bring them as well, and they shall hear My voice, and there shall be one flock,
one shepherd Jer 23:4 “And I shall raise
up shepherds over them, and they shall feed them.1 And they shall fear no more, nor be discouraged, nor
shall they be lacking,” declares יהוה. Footnote: 1See
3:14-17. Jer 23:5 “See, the days are
coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall raise
for Dawiḏ a Branch1 of righteousness, and a Sovereign shall reign and act
wisely, and shall do right-ruling and righteousness in the earth. Footnote: 1Or
sprout.
Jer 23:6 “In His days Yehuḏah shall be saved, and Yisra’ĕl dwell safely. And this is
His Name whereby He shall be called: ‘יהוה our
Righteousness.’ …………….Verse 26.
: Yoseph
died he was 110 years old which is 10 x 10 + 10. What a beautiful revelation.
Ten is the number of perfection with 10 commandments , the sum of all number,
all build on the number one which is the divine number for יהוה (D’varim 6:4) Echad
the unity which is in יהוה. יהושע says: My Father
and I are one! Are we also ONE together in Messiah יהושע? This will be seen by our love
for one another. One more can be seen:
110 = 1+1+0 = 2. Two is the number for division which will happen to the
children of Israel who will be once again united through Messiah יהושע.
Before death Yoseph ruled over Egypt and the all land around Egypt after Pharaoh death, he ruled alone, Pharaoh's son been too young. When
reading, remember that Pharaoh is
also a picture of “Elohim” on earth
in Yoseph’s time. Another Pharaoh will raise during Moshe which will be a picture of HaSatan. …..Jasher
Chapter 58: 1. and it
came to pass in the thirty-second year of the Israelites going down to Egypt,
that
is in the
seventy-first year of the life of Joseph, in that year died Pharaoh king of Egypt,
and Magron his son reigned in his stead.2. and Pharaoh commanded Joseph before his death
to be a father to his son, Magron, and that Magron should be under the care of Joseph and under his counsel. 3.
and all Egypt
consented to this thing that Joseph should be king over them, for all the Egyptians loved Joseph as of
heretofore, only Magron the son of Pharaoh sat upon, his father's throne,
and he became king in those days in his father's stead. 4. Magron was forty-one
years old when he began to reign, and forty years he reigned in
Egypt, and all Egypt called his name Pharaoh after the
name of his father, as it was their custom to do in Egypt to every king that reigned
over them. 5. and it came to pass when Pharaoh reigned in his father's stead, he placed the laws of Egypt and all the
affairs of government in the hand of Joseph, as his father had commanded him. 6.
and Joseph became king over Egypt,
for he superintended over all Egypt, and all Egypt
was under his care and under his counsel, for all Egypt (pagans) inclined to Joseph
after the death of Pharaoh, and they loved him exceedingly to reign over
them. 7. But there were some people
amongst them, who did not like him, saying, No stranger shall reign over us;
still the whole government of Egypt
devolved in those days upon Joseph, after the death of Pharaoh, he being the
regulator, doing as he liked
throughout
the land without any one interfering. 8. and all
Egypt was under the care of Joseph, and Joseph made war with all his surrounding enemies, and he subdued them; also all the land and all the Philistines (Palestinians), unto the borders of Canaan, did Joseph subdue, and they were all under his
power and they gave a yearly tax unto
Joseph 9. and Pharaoh king of Egypt sat upon his throne in his father's stead, but he
was under
the
control and counsel of Joseph,
as he was at first under the control of his father. 10. Neither did he reign but in the land of
Egypt only, under the counsel of Joseph, but Joseph reigned over the whole country at that
time, from Egypt
unto the great river Perath. 11. and Joseph was successful in all his ways,
and YHWH was with him, and YHWH gave
Joseph additional wisdom, and honor, and glory, and love toward him in the
hearts
of
the Egyptians and throughout the land, and Joseph reigned over the whole
country forty years. 12.
and all the countries of the Philistines and Canaan
and Zidon, and on the other side of Jordan, brought presents unto Joseph all
his days, and the whole country was in the hand of Joseph, and they brought
unto him a yearly tribute as it was regulated, for Joseph had fought against
all his surrounding enemies and subdued them, and the whole
country was in the hand of Joseph, and Joseph sat
securely upon his throne in Egypt.
13. and also all his brethren the sons
of Jacob dwelt securely in the land, all
the days of Joseph, and they were fruitful and multiplied exceedingly in the
land, and they served YHWH all
their days, as their father Jacob had commanded them.
Haftorah
1Ki 2:1 and the days of Dawiḏ drew near to die, and he
commanded Shelomoh his son, saying, 1Ki 2:2 “I am going the way of all the earth. And you shall
be strong, and be a man. 1Ki 2:3
“And guard the Charge of יהוה your Elohim: to walk in His ways,
to guard His laws, His commands, His right-rulings, and His witnesses, as it is
written in the Torah of Mosheh, so that you do wisely all that you do and
wherever you turn; 1Ki 2:4 so that יהוה does establish His word which He
spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons guard their way, to walk before Me
in truth with all their heart and with all their being,’ saying, ‘there is not
to cease a man of yours on the throne of Yisra’ĕl.’ 1Ki 2:5 “And also, you know what Yo’aḇ
son of Tseruyah did to me, and what he did to the two commanders of the armies
of Yisra’ĕl, to Aḇnĕr son of Nĕr and Amasa son of Yether, that he slew them,
and shed the blood of battle in peace, and put the blood of battle on his belt
that was around his waist, and on his sandals that were on his feet.1Ki 2:6 “So act according to your
wisdom, and do not let his grey hair go down to the grave in peace. 1Ki 2:7 “But show kindness to the sons
of Barzillai the Gilʽaḏite, and let them be among those who eat at your table,
for so they came to me when I fled from Aḇshalom your brother.
1Ki 2:8 “And see, with you is Shimʽi son
of Gĕra, the Binyamite from Baḥurim, who cursed me with a grievous cursing in
the day when I went to Maḥanayim. But he came down to meet me at the Yardĕn,
and I swore to him by יהוה, saying, ‘I shall not put you to
death with the sword.’ 1Ki 2:9 “and now, do not leave him
unpunished, for you are a wise man and know what you should do to him, and
shall bring his grey hair down to the grave with blood.” 1Ki 2:10 and Dawiḏ slept with his fathers,
and was buried in the City of Dawiḏ. 1Ki 2:11 and the days that Dawiḏ reigned
over Yisra’ĕl was forty years. He reigned seven years in Ḥeḇron, and in
Yerushalayim he reigned thirty-three years. 1Ki 2:12 And Shelomoh sat on the throne
of his father Dawiḏ. And his reign was firmly established. 1Pe 1:3
Blessed be the Elohim and Father of our Master יהושע Messiah,
who according to His great compassion has caused us to be born again to a
living xpectation through the resurrection of יהושע Messiah
from the dead, 1Pe 1:4 to an inheritance incorruptible
and undefiled and unfading, having been kept in the heavens for you, 1Pe 1:5 who are protected by the power of Elohim through belief, for a deliverance ready to be revealed in the
last time, 1Pe 1:6 in which you exult, even though
for a little while, if need be, you have been grieved by manifold trials, 1Pe 1:7 in order that the proving of
your belief – much more precious than gold that perishes, and proven by fire –
might be found to result in praise and respect and esteem at the revelation of יהושע Messiah, 1Pe 1:8 whom having not seen, you love;
in whom you exult with unspeakable and esteemed joy, yet not seeing, but
believing, 1Pe 1:9 obtaining the goal of your belief: a deliverance of
lives. …..May יהוה bless
you and keep you as you walk in the Torah of life through our Master יהושע Messiah.
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