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Tablet Five
Israel separates the spiritual promises (the
scepter) from the material promises (birthright) and gives them
to two of his sons
The scepter
shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between
his feet, until
Shiloh come;
and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
(Genesis 49:10)
<1>So, "the
scepter...nor a lawgiver from between his feet...," the supreme
spiritual dominance and authority, "shall not depart from Judah...." This part of the promise of God,
which said, "kings shall come out of thee" to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, should be fulfilled through Judah.
<2>That is why the great kings of
Israel and the
Jews
have come from the tribe of Judah.
<3>But that will last only "until
Shiloh come," or until
the
Messiah comes. Then
that would be taken away from Judah.
<4>The other part of the promise, the
birthright of inheriting the material possession, was given to
Joseph, who already demonstrated
God's Will to see him have
material and social status domination over his brothers.
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful
bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot
at him, and hated him:
But his bow abode in strength, and the arms
of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty
God of Jacob; (from
thence is the shepherd, the stone of
Israel:)
Even by the
God of thy father,
who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee
with
blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that
lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:
The blessings of thy father have prevailed
above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound
of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph,
and on the crown of the head of him that was
separate from
his brethren.
(Genesis 49:22-26)
<5>"Whose branches run over the wall" means
Joseph's material domination would exceed his country and
territories.
<6>"Blessings of the breasts, and of the
womb:" Very healthy and strong children or people would be given to
him and his seed.
<7>"The utmost bound of the everlasting
hills" refers to the great material possession.
<8>These all would go to Joseph and his seed,
Ephraim and Manasseh (Ephraim above Manasseh).
<9>With this gift of the spiritual dominance
to Judah and the material dominance to Joseph, the two promised
possessions of the children of
Abraham became
separated, with two different destinies.
<10>Also, a record of that birthright which
went to Joseph can be found in the first two verses of chapter 5 of
I Chronicles:
Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of
Israel, (for he
was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled
his father's
bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of
Israel:...
For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and
of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph's:)
(I Chronicles 5:1-2)
<11>With these events in the first book of
the
Bible, the foundation of the future events in history was
shaped. The seed of Abram or
Abraham would be
multiplied "as the dust of the earth" or "the number of the
stars
in heaven." They would possess "a great nation" in the case of
Ishmael, and "many nations" for Isaac. <12>Also the people of
the earth would be blessed through them because of the spiritual
domination and for the spiritual truth which would be revealed
through them to humanity (the
scepter).
<13>In the case of the seed of Ishmael, the
material possession (great nation) and the spiritual possession (the
scepter) remained together to be fulfilled in the future. But in
the case of the
Children of
Israel, the material possession went to the seed of Joseph and
the scepter to
Judah.
<14>After this chapter in the Bible,
the history of the
Children of Israel continues. They became servants of Pharaohs
in Egypt. Moses took them out of Egypt by the power of the Lord.
Joshua (Y'shua) conquered the land of
Canaan
for them. <15>With the Laws that
God
revealed to them and the struggle they went through, they became a
mighty nation.
<16>However, later on, they lost their previous vigor and
eventually, after rejecting
God as their King, they
failed.
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