Joseph, Part 3: A Patriarchal Prophecy of Josephʼs Future

[In the following prophecy, the translations and especially the tenses of the verbs are faithful and literal to the biblical Hebrew. Explanations are noted only where most significant.]

Shortly after Jacobʼs blessing of Josephʼs sons Ephraim and Manasseh,

Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you [that] which shall befall you in the Last Days. Gen. 49:1

Of Joseph, he foretold –

49:22 Joseph is a fruitful son/bough, even a fruitful son/bough by a spring; whose daughters/branches have run over a wall:

The doubly-fruitful birthright holder bore so many children that his descendants ran over the border of the biblical Holy Land, and inhabited other lands. [Qal Perfect verb tense: this is an already completed action in the Last Days.]

23 The archers/masters of arrows will have bitterly grieved him, and will have shot him and will hate him:

In the Last Days, arrows are missiles. Besides Jacob here, these projectiles have been seen by Dimitri Dudeman, Henry Gruver, Sarah Menet, and many others. Missiles are aimed at specific places, not at people that are scattered and dispersed. Therefore, Josephʼs descendants in the Last Days must be primarily living together in groups: they are not merely dispersed among the nations.

24 But his bow shall abide in strength, and the arms of his hands shall be refined as gold (alt., made strong) by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob – from thence will be shepherding the Stone of Israel – 25 From the God of thy father, who shall help thee;

The gathered descendants of Joseph, receiving Divine help, will be able to overcome the assault against them, being shepherded by the Stone of Israel. [“Shepherding”: Qal predicative active participle. “From thence”: מִשָּׁם/mi-sham.]

and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee [with] blessings of heaven from above, blessings of depths lying beneath, blessings of breasts and of womb: 26 The blessings of thy father will have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors [?; lit., my conceiving] unto the utmost bound of the everlasting (or, concealed) hills: they shall be for the head of Joseph, and for the crown of the head of the Nazir/Consecrated One of his brethren.

Awesome blessings are yet to come after the attack upon and deliverance of Josephʼs people in the Last Days. [“For the head,” “for the crown”: the preposition ל is used, which means to or for, not on, as in the KJV.]

To sum up: “In the Last Days,” Josephʼs multiplied descendants, living together in some place or places, will be attacked by missiles and be grievously afflicted and hated, but they will prevail with Divine help. The Stone of Israel will personally shepherd his people of Joseph, who will thereafter be greatly exalted and blessed.

In the vision of George Washington at Valley Forge, he was shown that in the third of America’s three greatest trials (Revolutionary, Civil, and Last Days Wars), “hordes of armed men” will invade America and “devastate the whole country.” When “the inhabitants of America…[are] well-nigh overcome,” there will “descend from the heavens…legions of white spirits” who will join them, and they together will then achieve victory. “[T]he whole world united shall not prevail against her [ʻthe Republicʼ],” which shall once again flourish.

The prophecy of Isaiah 17 (see the first paragraph of Part 1) tells about the future failure of the “fortification of Ephraim” (:3), followed by the desolation of his land (:5-11). However, the prophecy concludes by saying that this Divine punishment, caused by means of “nations rushing like the rushing of many waters” (:12), will be followed by a Divine deliverance (:13). The latter shall cause the invaders to flee away “like a rolling thing before a whirlwind” (:13). Washington likewise saw “the dark cloud rolled back, together with the armies it had brought…”

Not so long ago, this country was called “Fortress America.” But the borders and defenses of this land have been being diminished for many years, so the fulfillment of this prophecy appears to be near.