Jacob Blesses His Sons

[Walter and Deborah]

Tuesday 11-10-20 Cheshvan 23, 5781 3rd. day of the weekly cycle,

50th. Fall Day

 

Jacob Blesses His Sons: Genesis Forty Nine:1-33

 

◄ Genesis Forty Nine ►

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Jacob Blesses his Sons

 

1And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days.

 

2Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

 

3Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power:

 

4Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.

 

5Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.

 

6O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

 

7Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.

 

8Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.

 

9Judah 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; who shall rouse him up?

 

10The sceptre 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.

 

11Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes:

 

12His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.

 

13Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.

 

14Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

 

15And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.

 

16Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

 

17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

 

18I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.

 

19Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the last.

 

20Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal dainties.

 

21Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

 

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

 

23The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him:

 

24But 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 Israelhttps://www.christianityboard.com/styles/default/xenforo/clear.png

 

25Even 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:

 

26The 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.

 

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

 

28All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

 

The Death of Jacob

 

29And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, 30In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a buryingplace.

 

31There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah. 32The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. 33And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people.

 

Genesis Fifty:1-26  Death And Burial Of Jacob, Death Of Joseph 22-26

 

The full story of Joseph - Bing video

 

Movie about 'Joseph', son of Jacob

 

Love, Walter and Debbie

Edited November 11, 2020 by Walter and Deborah
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Shalom @Walter and Deborah

There's plenty that could be written about these blessings but the one to Yahudah (Judah) is of the most interest.

30 minutes ago, Walter and Deborah said:

The sceptre 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.

The sceptre DID depart from Yahudah and with perfect timing.

In approximately 6 AD, Herod Archelaus was replaced with a the Roman procurator Caponius.  This meant that the Sanhedrin no longer had the authority for capital punishment by Torah.  Rome was now in control.

This must have been a confusing time for the Jews of the day. Little did they know that Shiloh had come and was still just a lad! 

The fulfilment of the Genesis 49:10 prophecy is highly significant as it's a small window in time in which no one before or after the Messiah could ever lay claim to.  And it's right there, in the first book of Moses. Amazing.

Love & Shalom

[JohnD]

8 hours ago, Walter and Deborah said:

16Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

 

17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

This is believed to be the prophecy of the antichrist / Judas Iscariot.