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Genesis chapter 48 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 48. Let us pray our God, you are
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  higher, you are greater, you are better.
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  You are more mighty than anything we could ever try to
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  come up with in our own minds. God, you rule all over the
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  Galaxy, all over the universe. There is no one higher than you.
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  God, you have preeminence. You are the highest, most
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  loftiest idea in all of literature.
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  God, you are the grandest entity in our lives, so we give you
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  your due respect. We give you your due honor.
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  God, we lay down like dead men at your feet.
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  We're asking God for a touch. Gird up our loin so that we can
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  stand in your holy presence. Father, we love you.
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  We love everything about you. Speak to us today.
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  Here we are, we're listening. God, speak to us in whichever
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  way you want to. God, we are your servants.
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  We're your bond servants. We willfully attach ourselves
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  unto you, God, the God of Israel.
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  We thank you, Lord, for revealing yourself unto us, for
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  giving us the Holy Scriptures. We thank you, God, that you
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  chose us and predestined us before the foundations of the
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  earth. But God help us to make those
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  decisions and to use our free will.
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  God, to choose you every single day, every minute, and every
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  single situation, we choose you. God, you are worthy to be
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  praised. You are our everything.
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  You are All in all. You're the great I am, and
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  Father, Father us, thank you Jesus, for the cross and for the
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  spilled blood. We call upon the name of Jesus
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  today and receive our salvation. We believe that you, God, raised
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  him from the dead. And Holy Spirit, we thank you
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  for helping us. Give us conviction today.
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  Fill us today. I decrease as you increase.
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  Jesus come and have your way in our lives.
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  It's in your holy and precious and powerful awesome name that I
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  pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. And it came to pass after these
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  things that one told Joseph, behold, your father is sick.
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  And he took with him his two sons, Vanessa and Ephraim.
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  So here we're going to get to see this little change of
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  events. And we know that Jacob also
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  called Israel. We know that he's at his last
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  days. Let's see how it goes.
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  Verse 2. And one told Jacob and said,
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  behold, your son Joseph comes to you.
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  And Israel strengthened himself and sat up in the bed.
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  So here the news comes first to Joseph and says, hey, your dad's
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  about to die. And then here comes the news
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  unto Jacob that says, your son's on his way to see you before you
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  pass. So he strengthens himself in the
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  Lord, and he sits up in his bed. Three.
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  And Jacob said to Joseph, God Almighty appeared to me at loves
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  in the land of Canaan and blessed me.
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  So this is the ladder that went up in Bethel.
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  And he saw the Son of man ascending and descending, the
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  angels ascending and descending upon the Son of man.
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  We saw this ladder that went up. And he said, surely God is in
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  this place, and I did not know it.
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  And he's remembering this when God became unto him, when he was
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  no longer just the God of Isaac and the God of Abraham, but when
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  he became the God of Israel, is what is mentioned here.
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  And he blessed him for and said to me, Behold, I will make you
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  fruitful and multiply you, and I will make of you a multitude of
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  people, and I will give this land to your seed after you for
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  an everlasting possession. So here Jacob is very careful to
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  meticulously say everything exactly the way that God had
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  told him. And he told him that he was
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  going to bless him and make him into a mighty nation, and that
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  he was going to bring him back and give him all the land of
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  Canaan. 5 And now your two sons, Ephraim and Manessa, which were
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  born to you in the land of Egypt before I came unto you in Egypt,
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  are mine. As Reuben and Simeon, they shall
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  be mine. So we remember Reuben and
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  Simeon, and they're disgusting, deplorable acts, and we know
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  that they were disqualified. And so Manasseh and Ephraim are
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  like unto him as this first born and second born, and he's giving
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  them a place of honor. And we know that later on we're
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  going to see the entire northern Kingdom of Israel called
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  Ephraim. 6 And your issue, but you bigot, after them shall be
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  yours, and shall be called after the name of their brothers and
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  their inheritance. So he's giving them a very high
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  lofty position within the 12 tribes of Israel.
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  And it's always 12 no matter how you look at it.
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  You can look at it from all different kinds of angles and
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  still come up with 12 and you need to know that 7 When?
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  As for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the
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  land of Canaan, in the way, when Yet there was but a little way
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  to come unto Ephra, and I buried her there in the way of Ephra.
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  The same is Bethlehem, and we know that Jesus Christ was born
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  in Bethlehem, and here he is remembering his beloved wife
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  that he was so incredibly tender with, and he is remembering her
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  and honoring her, and letting Joseph know that that is where
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  she is buried, and not to stay in the land of Egypt. 8 And
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  Israel beheld Joseph's sons, and said, Who are these nine?
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  And Joseph said unto his father, They are my sons, and God has
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  given me in this place. And he said, Bring them, I pray
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  you, to me, and I will bless them.
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  So here he is going to bestow a blessing upon them. 10 Now the
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  eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see.
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  And he brought them near to him, and he kissed them, and he
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  embraced them. Look at how here in his last
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  days he's tender with Joseph's children. 11 And Israel said to
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  Joseph, I had not thought to see your face, and lo, God has
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  showed me also your seed. So he thought that Joseph was
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  dead. But not only did God bring
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  Joseph back into his life, but he also, Israel was able to see
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  and now bless Joseph's children, which was unthinkable just a
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  short time before this. 12 And Joseph brought them out from
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  between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the
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  earth. So here Joseph is showing
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  complete reverence unto his father. 13 And Joseph took them
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  both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left, and
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  Manessa in his left hand towards Israel's right hand, and brought
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  them near to him. So here Manessa was the oldest,
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  and here you're going to find out that Israel is going to
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  cross his arms when he blesses them.
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  And Joseph intentionally put the oldest one at Israel's right
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  hand. And it is no different than when
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  we know that Jesus sits at the right hand of the Father.
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  We know that this is a place of positional authority.
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  And so it was right for Israel to put his right hand on
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  Manessa. But instead he flips the script
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  and he switches up and he crosses his arms and he puts his
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  right hand on the younger 14 in Israel, stretched out his right
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  hand and laid it upon Ephraim's hand, who was the younger in his
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  left hand upon Manessa's head, guiding his hands wittingly.
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  For Manessa was the first born. He knew what he was doing,
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  friends, He did the cross up on him. 15 And he blessed Joseph
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  and said, God, before whom my father's Abraham and Isaac did
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  walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day.
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  So he's remembering how God is the one who took care of him.
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  He fed him, He sustained him, and we have that same
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  inheritance. And Jesus Christ told us with
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  food and clothing, be content. He feeds the birds of the air.
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  He clothes the lilies of the field.
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  We do not need to be so preoccupied with all of the
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  extra. We need contentment, friends.
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  That is what we desperately need in this hour.
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  We do not need to be distracted by all of the pretty things that
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  are being dangled in front of us. 16 The Angel which redeemed
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  me from all evil blessed the lads and let my name be named on
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  them in the name of my father Abraham and Isaac, and let them
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  grow into a multitude of the midst of the earth.
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  So here he's blessing Joseph, and now he is collectively
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  blessing the sons. 17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid
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  his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, had displeased him, and
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  he held up his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head
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  unto Manessa's head. 18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not
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  so, my father, for this is the first born, Put your right hand
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  upon his head. 19 And his father refused and said, I know it, my
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  son, I know it. He also shall become a good
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  people, he also shall become a people, and he also shall be
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  great. But truly his younger brother
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  shall be greater than he, and his seeds shall become a
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  multitude of nations. So here we can see that Jacob
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  knew what he was doing when he crossed up his arms and Joseph
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  was confused. But he bestows a greater measure
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  of blessing upon the younger. And we're going to see that
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  played out through scripture of why he did that.
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  And God already knows the beginning from the end.
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  And nothing is a secret to God and nothing is a surprise.
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  God already knows. That is why He has predestined
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  and chosen. That is why we are the elect
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  friends. Because God already knows he's
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  at the end. He's the alpha and the Omega.
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  He already knows how many people are going to be there.
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  He already knows who's going to be there, so he can step into
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  our time in such a time as this, and he can interject even in
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  people who seemingly don't care anything for him, he still
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  protects them because he knows that they're going to surrender
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  to him. What an amazing thought. 20 And
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  he blessed them that day, saying, In you shall Israel
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  bless, saying, God make you as Ephraim and as Manessa.
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  And he set Ephraim before Manessa. 21 And Israel said to
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  Joseph, Behold, I die, but God shall be with you, and bring you
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  again unto the land of your Father's.
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  So here he is prophesying that they will go back to their land,
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  they will not stay in Egypt. 22 Moreover, I have given to you
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  one portion above your brothers, which I took out of the hand of
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  the amorite with my sword and with my bow.
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  So here there is an unmentioned battle that Jacob had and he
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  took it out of the Amorite's hand and now he bestows a double
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  blessing upon Joseph. Because not only is Joseph
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  blessed as if he was the oldest and had the birthright, but then
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  also you could see here that he split it between the two sons,
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  which is why it is called a double blessing because Joseph's
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  portion went to two. So it's not 13 friends, it's not
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  13 tribes, it's still 12, but Joseph represents the two.
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  What an amazing thought. I hope you've been blessed by
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  this amazing chapter in God's Word.
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  I know I sure have. I'm praying for every single one
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  of you. I love you.
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  We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.