Chapter 12 – Chapters 39 to 47

Chapters 39 to 41

Chapter 39 tells us how Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Chapter 40 tells us about the Pharaoh’s dreams and how Joseph told the Pharaoh the dreams and their interpretation. Chapter 41 tells of Pharaoh’s dream of the seven full years and the seven lean years. Pharaoh sets Joseph to be a ruler (Gen. 41:43) over all of Egypt. While Joseph was in Egypt he had two sons, Manasseh (verse 51) and Ephraim (verse 52).

Chapters 42 and 43

Chapters 42 and 43 tell about the famine in the land of Canaan and how Joseph’s brothers came to present him with a present and to bow before him. Gen. 43:26 states as follows:

Gen. 43:26 was a vindication of Gen. 37:7 in that Joseph’s brothers “bowed” down to him. It should be noted that at this time that Yahweh had set Joseph to be a ruler not only of all Egypt but also over all of this brothers. Joseph was a ruler and Joseph’s half-brothers were all bowing, making obeisance and bringing presents to Joseph.

Chapter 44

Genesis 44 verse 14 brought a further vindication of chapter 37:7-8 in that Joseph’s brothers “fell before him on the ground.”

Chapter 45

In Genesis 45, Joseph finally identifies himself to his brothers as their youngest brother. Verse 3 tells us that his brothers wee “troubled”, meaning terrified at his presence. Joseph persuaded his brothers to go back to Canaan and get their father, their wives and families and return to Egypt and to enjoy the fat of the land of Egypt (ver 18).

Chapter 46

Genesis 46 describes the journey from Canaan to Egypt of the 64 souls of the House of Israel, plus Shaul and Shelah, sons of Canaanitish women (verse 10) which made the total 66.

Chapter 47

Genesis 47 describes the settling in of the House of Israel in the land of Egypt and the famine that came to Egypt.

Chapter 13 – The Thirteenth Tribe

In Genesis 48 Jacob-Israel makes Joseph’s sons Ephraim and Manasseh his own by adoption. Jacob crossed (verse 13) his arms when he blessed Ephraim the younger and Manasseh the older. In verse 19 it states that Ephraim, the younger brother, shall be greater than Manasseh, the older. Ephraim’s seed is promised to become a multitude of nations. The footnote to “multitude” says fullness. In verse 20, Ephraim is set before Manasseh, meaning that Ephraim would receive the birthright even though Manasseh was the older and this fulfilled prophecy that the older would serve the younger. Joseph was given “one portion above thy brethren (verse 22).” (emphasis added) In this way Joseph received a double portion of blessings over all of this other brothers.

The House of Israel had 13, not 12 sons, after Jacob adopted Ephraim and Manasseh. The adoption supplanted Joseph as a direct son. Joseph received a double portion in the process in that both of his sons were full sons of Jacob.

The “Battle Flag” of the Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) is a monument to the creation of the modern House of Israel with 13 stars in a diagonally crossed pattern. The 13 stars representing the 13 sons and the diagonally crossed pattern representing Jacob crossing his hands to bless Ephraim and Manasseh. The Cross is the historic Cross of St. Andrew and it is an ancient Christian symbol..

At this point it is obvious that the 12 original sons of Jacob are obviously unequal. Jacob favored Joseph from the beginning. Joseph was a sterling character. He did not plan any one’s murder, he did not associate with prostitutes. He did not have children with Canaanite women. Joseph was a ruler of both Egypt and his brethren while his brothers were simple shepherds.

Judah was an abomination At this point. He married a Canaanite (38: 2) which was and still is an abomination and had two sons, Er and Onan who were so sinful that they were slain by Yahweh, (38: 7 and 10 respectfully). Do you really think that Yahweh would slay his ancestor’s sons and still claim heredity from such a person?

Joseph saved the House of Israel from famine and death by his actions in caring for his brethren, his father, and his nephews and nieces.

Chapter 14 – Israel’s Blessings

In Genesis 49 Jacob-Israel gave each of his sons blessings before he died. The blessings were varied and unequal. The Geneva Bible is quoted and its margin notes are in parenthesis.

49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said,

Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you

[that] which shall befall you in the (a) last days.

49:3 Reuben, thou [art] my firstborn, my {b}

might, and the beginning of my strength, {c}

the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

49:5 Simeon and Levi are brethren;

instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

49:6 O my soul, come not thou into their {d} secret;

unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united:

for in their anger they slew a {e} man,

and in their self-will they digged down a wall.

49:7 Cursed [be] their anger, for it was fierce;

and their wrath, for it was cruel:

I will {f} divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

(f) For Levi had no part, and Simeon was under Judah,

Jos. 19:1 till God gave them the place of the Amalekites, 1Ch 4:43.

49:8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise:

thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies;

thy father’s children shall {g} bow down before thee.

(need to comment on this one) This is a 1 Chr 5:2 problem

This is a contradiction in that Joseph never bowed down before Judah.

49:9 Judah [is] a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son,

thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion,

and as an old lion; {h} who shall rouse him up?

49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah,

nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until {I} Shiloh come;

and unto Him [shall] the gathering of the people [be].

49:11 Binding his foal unto the {k} vine,

and his ass’s colt unto the choice vine;

he washed his garments in wine,

and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

49:13 Zebulon shall dwell at the haven of the sea;

and he shall be for an haven of ships;

and his border shall be unto Zidon.

49:14 Issachar [is] {l} a strong ass

couching down between two burdens:

49:16 Dan {m} shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

49:17 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

49:18 {o} I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

49:19 Gad, a troop shall over come him: but he shall over come at the last.

49:20 Out of Asher his {p} bread [shall be] fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

49:21 Napthali [is] a hind let loose: he giveth {q} goodly words.

49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

49:23 {r} The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot [at him], and hated him:

(r) As his brethren when they were his enemies, Potiphar and others

49:24 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 {s} stone of Israel:)

49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless the with blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb:

49:26 The blessings of thy father have {t} 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 {u} separate from his brethren.

49:27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

49:33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he {x} gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

(x) By which is signified how quietly he died.

Genesis 50

Genesis 50 tells how Joseph led his brothers and returned his father’s body to be buried in the land of Canaan. Verse 18 states as follows:

Chapter 15 – Ephraim and Manasseh

Ephraim and Manasseh both inherited Joseph’s blessings but in a separate and unequal manner. We must first review Joseph’s blessing. Using the Geneva Bible Genesis 49 with its margin notes as follows:

Verse 22: A fruitful bough means having many descendants. Well means well watered and productive lands. Branches run over the walls means well distributed across the earth. Verse 23 means that Joseph’s brothers hated him and harmed him. Verse 24 means that the Messiah would descend through him as he held the birthright. Verse 25 means that Yahweh would make the greatest of the blessings come true. Verse 26 means that Joseph’s blessing would be the greatest of all the nations of the House of Israel. The crown refers to the sceptre.

Ephraim and Manasseh were blessed by Jacob in Genesis 48 verses 9-22. Jacob crossed (verse 13) his arms and put his right hand on Ephraim the younger and on his left hand on Manasseh the older (verses 17-19).

Ephraim received both the birthright and the sceptre. Ephraim was the younger and he prevailed over his older brother, Manasseh. Herbert Armstrong and most commentators have held that Ephraim was the United Kingdom and that Manasseh was the United States. We believe that the opposite is true. Verse 19 ” a multitude of nations” could easily refer to the 50 states of the United States and the 10 provinces of Canada. The United States and Canada with their 5000 mile long unfortified border since about 1842 has got to be of the same people. Remember that many Americans fled from the colonies to Canada in the 1770’s. The British Commonwealth of Nations with its high percentage of non-Israelite inhabitants could not and has not qualified for Yahweh’s blessings. The United States is simply the mightiest nation on the face of the earth today. It has been since at least 1920. The United States has a higher standard of living that does Great Britain. The US has the fullness of the birthright and the world knows it.

Note that the Jews could never fit into any of these promises. Fact, they are not a multitude of nations and they do not hold any gate of their enemies.

It has historically been taken without question that the Messiah descended through the loins of Judah. Daniel 12:4 states that knowledge shall increase in the latter days. Daniel’s prophecy is coming true and an exegesis of this chronology situation reveals that this previously unexamined assumption is in fact very false. The evidence is overwhelming that the Messiah descended from Joseph and Ephraim.

See also Deut. 33: 16 for Moses’ blessings upon the descendants of Joseph.

This article written by pastor Buddy Johnson

THE STONE OF DESTINY

by

Pastor Bertrand L. Comparet,A.B., J.D.

In the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey, in London, is an oblong block of sandstone, upon which all of England’s kings have been crowned for several centuries. Before that the kings of Scotland and before that the kings of Ireland were also crowned upon this stone. This is another bit of evidence and piece of the puzzle that proves the identity of the Anglo-Saxon people as the Israel of the Bible and that the House of David still rules over them fulfilling the prophecy that David would never lack a seed to rule over the House of Israel until Jesus the Christ came to take the crown himself.

The history of this stone begins in the 28th chapter of Genesis, where we read that Jacob camped overnight in a field and for his pillow used a stone with his cloak over it. During the night, God appeared to him in a vision and promised to give him the Land of Canaan. When Jacob awoke he said, “This is the house of God,” and named the place Beth-el meaning “House of God”. Then he took the stone he had used as his pillow and set it up as a monument and dedicated it with an offering of oil.

He promised that if God would help him, “then shall the Lord be my God: and this stone which I have set for a monument shall be God’s House. In Genesis 35, God instructs Jacob to go back to Beth-el and set up an altar to God, which Jacob did. It was at this time that God changed Jacob’s name to Israel; and Israel again set up and dedicated, as a monument of witness, the stone pillar which he had dedicated as “God’s House.” Its sacred character was now firmly established.

We next find mention of it in Genesis 49, when the aged Israel, before he dies, tells his 12 sons what will befall their respective descendants in the last days. Speaking of Joseph he says, “From thence is the shepherd of the Stone of Israel.” We should therefore expect to find the Stone in the custody of Joseph in the last days. The English are the Tribe of Ephraim, descended from one of Joseph’s sons. Its sacred character having been established, the stone would not be thereafter abandoned.

We next hear of it when the Children of Israel, in their exodus from Egypt, were facing death by thirst in the desert. God instructed Moses “I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink;” thus they were saved from death. This miracle was repeated later, but this time Moses was instructed to merely speak to the rock, not strike it; because Moses disobeyed God and hit the rock in a “grandstand play” before the people, he was not allowed to enter the Promised Land. We must not think that this rock was merely the native rock cliffs of these desert places, for in I Corinthians 10:1-4, Paul says, “All our fathers were under the cloud and all passed through the sea and did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual Rock THAT FOLLOWED THEM and that rock was Christ.” That is, they were given water to drink from a rock which was carried along with them; and as Israel had said, “This stone that I have set up for a monument shall be God’s house”, so Christ hallowed it with His presence.

After Joshua had conquered the Promised Land and divided it among the 12 Tribes, he reminded them that they must ever be loyal to God and he set up a stone as a monument of witness to this warning. The Hebrew says he took “the stone of greatness” and what would that be, or what more fitting witness could there be, but the stone which was “God’s House”?

Before God ever allowed Israel to have a king, the rebel Abimelech had himself crowned king beside this pillar or monument (Judges 9:6). Later, when the lawful monarchy was established in the House of David, we find it was the custom that the king be crowned standing by the “pillar” or monument, for we read in II Kings 11:12-14, “And he brought forth the king’s son and put the crown upon him and gave him the testimony; and they made him king and annoited him; and they clapped their hands and said, ‘God save the king.’ When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the Temple of the Lord. And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was and the princes and the trumpeters by the king, and all the people of the land rejoiced.

The Stone had become a sacred relic, a witness of the mutual promises of God and of the Children of Israel. It would be found close to the Temple and the throne. Upon the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar, II Maccabees 2:4-8, says that ancient records stated that Jeremiah had taken the Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle and had hidden them in a cave on Mount Nebo. While I Samuel 4-5 records the capture of the Ark by the Philistines, and its return, there is no mention of it being taken by the Babylonians, so the ancient record of the Ark being hidden must be correct. Along with the Ark, we may be sure that Jeremiah would also safely hide the sacred Witness Stone. “God’s House”, which had twice been used to give water to the people to save them from death and which was now used in the coronation of the kings.

When I spoke to you on “What Jeremiah Planted”, I told you how Jeremiah and the daughters of the last King of Judah Zedekiah, were taken to Egypt with the refugees; But in order to fulfill God’s prophecy that Jeremiah was also “to build and to plant”, Jeremiah had to leave Egypt and take the princess to where another Israelite kingdom was then in existence, in Ireland. We know that with Jeremiah went Baruch, his scribe, and the king’s daughter Tea Tephi; and with the princess, he would also certainly take the hidden Stone upon which the kings were crowned.

The ancient Irish records record the coming of “the Great Prophet, Brugh, his scribe, (obviously Baruch) and the daughter of a king, about 583 B.C., which would be the correct date; and that with them they brought the “Wonderful Stone,” or “Stone of Destiny.”

Tea Tephi, the king’s daughter, married Eochaid the Heremon, or Chief King of Ireland. The stone, called “Lia Fail” or “Stone of Destiny” was kept at the capital city of Tara for some three centuries and all the kings, descendants of Eochaid and Tea Tephi, were crowned on it. Then about 350 B.C., it was sent to Scotland for the coronation of Fergus, King of the Scots, who was a descendant of the Milesian kings of Ireland. It remained in Scotland and all Scottish kings were crowned on it until 1297 A.D., when King Edward I of England invaded Scotland and captured the Stone, which he took to England, where it was placed in Westminster Abbey, its home ever since that date. It was built into the Coronation Chair, the oldest piece of furniture in England still serving its original purpose and all English kings have been crowned on it ever since. Its origin was well known during the entire time it has been in the British Isles and from practically the first it was called “Jacob’s Stone.” William of Rislanger, writing in the 13th century, records the coronation of John de Baliol as King of Scotland in the year 1292 “upon the stone upon which Jacob placed his head.

While the ten-tribed nation of Israel had to “abide many days without a king” as God prophesied in Hosea 3:4, yet there must always be a royal family of David’s line on the throne over some Israelite people, for God promised through Jeremiah (33:17) that “David shall never lack a man to sit upon the throne of the House of Israel.” We know that Eochaid the Heremon was of the Milesian line of Kings of Ireland and that the Milesians in Ireland were descendants of Zarah, a son of Judah; and that Tea Tephi was a descendant of David, who was also of the Royal Tribe of Judah through Judah’s other son, Pharez. So the two royal lines of Judah were united with the marriage of Eochaid and Tea Tephi and a descendant of David was always on the throne over Israelite people, as God had promised.

The Ark of the Covenant belonged in the Temple; and the Temple was not to be a continuous institution like the Throne of David; so it is not surprising that the Ark has disappeared from history, and probably will not be revealed again until Jesus Christ returns to reign upon the Throne of David, as is prophesied in Isaiah 9:7. But the Throne was to be a continuous throne (Jeremiah 33:17); therefore, it is only logical that the Coronation Stone, which the Hebrews had called “The Stone of Majesty” and “The Pillar of Witness”, should be found where the Throne of David had its continued existence. After all, it was “The Pillar of Witness” for it had been made witness to both Israel’s promise to be God’s people and God’s promise to be their God. It should be there, as a witness that God always makes good His promises and “David shall never lack a man to sit upon the Throne of the House of Israel.”