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Genesis chapter 49 · Scripture Unscripted

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  Genesis chapter 49, let us pray. We thank you, God, for today.
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  And we thank you, Lord, for waking us up and putting us on
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  our feet. We thank you that you've given
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  us life. God, You've given us a family.
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  We thank you, God, for sustenance.
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  Thank you for clean drinking water.
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  God, we ask that you'll raise up righteous leaders unto yourself.
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  God, we pray that we'll be the answer.
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  God, the church will be the answer.
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  We'll stand in the gap for the widows and the orphans.
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  God, I pray that we'll be men and women of faith who actually
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  are in tune with you. And we listen for that still
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  small voice. God, help us to obey that still
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  small voice when you do speak. We thank you for all your words
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  that you've given us. They speak a better word over
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  all of the rhetoric that we have all around us, Father.
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  Lord, We pay attention closely to every syllable, every jot,
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  and every title. It is law unto us, God.
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  It is life unto us, God. It is our lifeline, Father.
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  So we hold it tightly. We memorize it, God.
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  Well, we hide it in our hearts so that we might not sin against
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  you. We only want you, Father.
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  We only desire you. God be with us everywhere that
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  we go. Help us not to ask you to cosign
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  on our mess, but God, to actually do the things that
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  you've asked us to do, whether it is hard or whether it is an
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  easy Yes. God, I pray that we'll actually
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  do what it is that you are leading us into, that we will
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  not tune you out, that we will not sear our consciences, but
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  God will actually be a people who are called by your name, who
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  actually do the things that you've asked us to do.
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  God, let us not just love you in Word, but help us to love you in
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  deed. We love you, God.
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  We love everything about you. Come and have your way, Father,
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  teach us you paths. Lord, we get out of our own way.
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  We give you center stage. I decrease as you increase.
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  Maranatha, come, Lord, come. We fill up our lamps, We trim
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  our Wicks. It's all about King Jesus.
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  We love you. King Jesus, help us.
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  Lord God Almighty, help us. And it's in your powerful and
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  precious name that I pray. Amen.
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  Well, let's start in verse one. And Jacob called unto his sons
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  and said, Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you
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  what shall befall you in the last days.
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  So here Jacob's going to bestow upon his twelve sons their last
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  will and testament that he needs to give to them.
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  He needs to tell them what is going to happen to them as the
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  years go by. And many of the things that he's
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  about to say are still yet are there still future.
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  There are things that he's going to talk about that are going to
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  point us to the immediate time that he was in, to the time of
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  Christ. And then there are things that
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  he's going to say that point to future times, friends.
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  And so you need to lock in and pay attention, to gather
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  yourselves together and hear you, sons of Jacob, listen unto
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  Israel, your father. So here he's vacillating between
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  these two characters. Sometimes he is like Jacob and
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  sometimes he's like Israel. And these prophecies are going
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  to reveal this manifold character of this patriarch, how
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  he vacillated between the two. And we need to know that at
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  times he is prophesying to them things of Jacob, and at others
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  he's prophesying to them things of Israel.
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  Let's see how it goes. 3 Reuben, you're my first born.
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  My might in the beginning of my strength, the Excellency of
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  dignity, the Excellency of power.
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  So here Reuben was supposed to get the birthright, he's
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  supposed to get the double portion.
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  But he disqualified himself by laying with his father's
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  concubine and by slaying and splaying out all of the men of
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  Shechem whenever they defiled his sister Dinah.
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  For unstable as water you shall not excel, because you went up
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  to your father's bed and defiled it you.
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  He went up to my couch, saying, You took my concubine for
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  yourself as deplorable and despicable. 5 Simeon Levi, our
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  brothers instruments of cruelty are in their habitations.
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  So this was actually the two the pair that went into Shechem and
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  tricked all the men there to give up their foreskin so that
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  they would be able to intermarry in with the family here of the
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  promise. And they actually were duped and
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  tricked, and they actually got deceived by Simeon and Levi, and
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  we're going to see him pronounce this judgment upon them.
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  And it's going to be split down the middle. 6 O my soul, come
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  not you into their secret unto their assembly, my honor, be not
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  united. For in their anger they slew a
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  man, and in their self will they dug down a wall, they hamstrung
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  the ox. And here he is going to
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  pronounce this division, where Levi actually gets put back in
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  to favor whenever he becomes the priesthood.
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  But you see that Simeon is left out. 7 Cursed be your anger, for
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  it was fierce, and their wrath for it was cruel.
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  I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
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  So this dividing and scattering here means that one will be
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  dishonored while the other one becomes honored and becomes a
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  massive line of the Levitical priesthood that we're going to
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  see in the temple. Hey, Judah, you are he whom your
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  brother shall praise. Your hand shall be in the neck
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  of your enemies. Your father's children shall bow
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  down before you. Here he's talking about our
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  Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. And even in Judah's failures, it
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  did not disqualify the Messiah from coming out of his loins.
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  And this is the prophecy that Jacob is talking about, and it's
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  all all connected towards the Messiah coming out of his
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  genealogy. 9 Judah is a lion's well from the prey, my son, you
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  are gone up. He stooped down.
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  He couched as a lion, and as an old lion.
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  Who shall rouse him up? Jesus, Jesus and Jesus all over
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  it. You look at how the hands shall
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  be on the neck of the enemies. We know that Jesus is going to
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  crush the head of the serpent. Look at how he's the lion of
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  Judah. 10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor Allah
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  give her from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and unto him
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  shall the gathering of the people be.
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  So we see that the power stayed within Israel all the way up
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  until Jesus Christ arrived on the scene, and He upended all of
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  this prophecy where the scepter would not depart from them until
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  Shiloh. And Jesus is Shiloh, He is the
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  Messiah. 11 Binding is full unto the vine, and his ass is colt
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  unto the choice vine. He washed his garments and wine
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  and his clothes in the blood of grapes.
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  So we know that Jesus treads in the winepress, friends, in his
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  robe is drenched in the blood, friends, as he wrought our
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  salvation for us. And the land of Judah was a
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  wonderful place of vintage, where it was the production of
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  wine. 12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white
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  with milk. So we know that Jesus Christ is
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  coming back full of power, with eyes like fire and hair like
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  wool. 13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea, and he
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  shall be for a haven of ships, and his border shall be unto
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  Zeidom. So here we know that Zebulun
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  went down whenever they were going, and they were dividing
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  the land. Zebulun wound up as a coast. 14
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  Issachars, a strong ass, crouching down between two
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  burdens. So we're going to see this
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  little prophecy about what happens to Issachar. 15 And he
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  saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant, and
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  he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto
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  tribute. So here he was a strong and
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  mighty nation, but because he chose to not stay in the fight
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  and he started to get lazy and LAX up, he became a servant.
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  We'll see that as scripture unfolds. 16 Dan shall judge his
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  people as one of the tribes of Israel.
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  So here we're going to get into an interesting debate about Old
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  Dan, and the debate is whether the Antichrist will come from
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  the tribe of Dan, which is why they're not mentioned in one of
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  the roll calls. But then he gets put back in in
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  Ezekiel, Millennial temple roll call.
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  And you're going to see here that perhaps the Antichrist
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  won't be a Gentile. He very well could be a Jew and
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  that is why the Jews receive him.
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  What an interesting thought and we can get off on 1000 different
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  tangents, but suffice to say it is never in our interest to
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  become anti-Semitic towards God's chosen people. 17 Dan
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  shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path that bites
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  the horse's heels, so that his riders shall fall backwards.
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  Very interesting, friends 18 I have waited for your salvation,
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  O Lord. So here we see that Jacob is
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  looking into the future, prophetically speaking, all of
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  these things, and it's as if he catches a glimpse of the end
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  times and he is saying to Jesus Christ, Lord, I've waited for
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  you, I want you. And this is where he is calling
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  out to his God, the God of Israel, the God of our Messiah.
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  19 God, a troop shall overcome him, but he shall overcome at
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  the last. So here God just gets 1 little
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  line and it's going to be indicative of what we read as we
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  go through scripture. We'll see how God will overcome
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  at the last. 20 out of Asher. His bread shall be fat, and he
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  shall yield royal dainties. So in the land of Asher they
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  were able not only to produce enough to be sustained, but they
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  had enough leftover where they had the delicacies as well. 21
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  Nephtali is a hind let loose. He gives good words.
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  So this was the region that Jesus did all of his ministry
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  in. And you can see that Jacob here,
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  he was able to foresee that it would be in the land of Neftali
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  that Jesus Christ would predominantly be centered in
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  with all of the words that are good and God is good and good is
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  God and there is nothing good outside of God.
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  And all of the words that Jesus spoke and all the words that we
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  hold in our hands are immortal, friends.
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  They'll never pass away. 22 Joseph is a fruitful bow, even a
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  fruitful bow by a well whose branches run over the wall.
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  So here he's going to flow right into Joseph and give this
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  discourse of how God sees Joseph in the lineage.
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  We already know that Jacob has blessed Manasseh and Ephraim, so
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  it is as if Joseph is split down the middle, and the two are
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  actually one. But here is even a double
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  portion unto Joseph. 2423 The Archers have sorely grieved him,
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  and shot at him, and hated him. 24 But his bow abode in
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  strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the
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  hands of the mighty God of Jacob.
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  From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel.
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  So you can see how Jacob is acknowledging God with all of
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  his names, with all of the wonderful things that he's
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  attributed to God. He is the stone of Israel.
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  He is the shepherd, He's the mighty God.
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  And you can see here that God actually helped Joseph in the
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  battle. It was as if God's hands were on
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  his hands every time that he let the arrow fly. 25 Even by the
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  God of your father who shall help you, and by the Almighty
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  who shall bless you with blessings of heaven above,
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  blessings of the deep that lie under, blessings of the breast
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  and of the womb. So here it's blessings upon
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  blessings upon blessings for Joseph, who saved them from all
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  of the starvation. 26 The blessings of your father have
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  prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost
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  bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of
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  Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate
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  from his brothers. So you can see that Joseph is
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  treated as if he's the first born. 27 Benjamin shall rave as
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  a wolf. In the morning he shall devour
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  the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
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  So we see that Saul came out of Benjamin.
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  We know that Paul came out of Benjamin.
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  We see how Benjamin was a powerhouse when it came to the
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  leadership in the land. 28 All these are the 12 tribes of
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  Israel, and this is that their father spoke to them and blessed
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  them everyone according to his blessing, He blessed them. 29
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  And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered
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  unto my people, Bury me with my father's in The Cave that is in
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  the field of Ephraim the Hittite. 30 In The Cave that is
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  in the field of Makbila, which is before Mamre, in the land of
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  Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the
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  Hittite, for a possession of a bearing place.
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  And it still exists today, The Cave of the patriarchs.
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  Friends, we know that the Bible is true and trustworthy.
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  We know that we can build our entire lives upon it, friends,
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  and we'll never be put to shame. And you see it time and time and
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  time and time again, that the Bible is our guiding star is
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  going to take us home. 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah
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  his wife. There they buried Isaac and
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  Rebecca his wife. And there I buried Leah. 32 The
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  purchase of the field and of The Cave that is in it was from the
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  children of Heath. We'll end on. 33 And when Jacob
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  had made the end of his commanding his sons, he gathered
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  up his feet into the bed, yielded up the ghost, and was
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  gathered to his people. Look at that, friends.
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  He got done blessing them. It took everything out of him.
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  He made his last will and testament and gathered his feet
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  up in the bed and yielded up the ghost.
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  We do not need to fear death, friends.
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  The only thing that even matters in the end is have you given
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  your life over to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  Truly, it's all that matters and if you have, then you can die in
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  peace and you do not need to fear death.
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  I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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  Word. I know I sure have.
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  I'm praying for every single one of you.
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  I love you. We'll see you back here
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  tomorrow. God bless you.