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This is chapter 49, we are in the

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middle of a scene where Jacob is sick.

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Jacob has already called Joseph to his bedside

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and made Joseph swear an oath that he

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would not bury him in Egypt but back

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in Canaan in the cave of Mephila.

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Now he knew that Joseph had the political

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clout to make sure that would happen.

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So he had already called Joseph in to

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swear that he would do that, thinking at

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that time that he was ready to die.

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He wasn't.

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Time went on.

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But now Joseph has gotten word that Jacob

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is sick and Joseph now comes to his

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father with Ephraim and Manasseh.

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It says that when Jacob heard Joseph was

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coming, interesting it changes, that Israel propped himself

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up, his higher nature called as he stood

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himself up, no doubt propping himself up on

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his staff from Hebrews 11.21. And Joseph

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came in and he spoke with Joseph and

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he reminded Joseph of how God had first

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appeared to him and then spoke to Joseph

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how his mother Rachel had died.

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And no doubt if Rachel had been his

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first wife and that's what he intended, she

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may have been his only wife and Joseph

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may well have been his firstborn.

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And because of the sins of Reuben and

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Simeon and Levi, now Jacob has pronounced the

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right of the firstborn on Joseph in that

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not giving a double portion to Joseph himself

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but taking his two sons and saying to

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Joseph these two now will be called by

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my name.

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Any children you have after this, Joseph, are

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yours.

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But these two, Ephraim and Manasseh, will now

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be called by my name.

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They are now my children.

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Their heritage will not be as princes of

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Egypt and the wealth that comes to them

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will not be a physical wealth from this

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land but it will be a spiritual heritage

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and they will be named now amongst my

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sons among the tribes.

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So Ephraim and Manasseh now have received a

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blessing from Jacob.

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He is blind.

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It says the Lord is making his hands

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to know as he places his right hand

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on Ephraim and his left hand on Manasseh.

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He is filled with the Spirit.

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And after he blesses Ephraim and Manasseh, now

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he calls for all of his sons to

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come.

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Evidently the same sequence.

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Chapter 49 says Jacob called unto his sons

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and said gather yourselves together that I may

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tell you that which shall befall you, notice,

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in the last days.

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Jacob, blind, 147 years old.

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Gather yourselves together here, notice, ye sons of

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Jacob, but now harken which is to obey

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unto Israel your father.

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The man now speaking from the higher calling,

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Israel.

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Great privilege he has here.

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Remember that Abraham passed off the scene and

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we don't get many details of his death.

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But in Abraham the stream was narrowed to

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the Messianic line.

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Ishmael was divided off and the blessing came

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strictly upon Isaac.

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In Isaac's life the stream was narrowed and

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Esau was separated off and the blessing came

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strictly upon Jacob.

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But now Jacob, now the stream is widening

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as it were, all 12 of his sons

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are there and he now is able to

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bless all of them and pronounce blessing on

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all of them as he is ready to

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pass off the scene.

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And no doubt this is the highest point

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spiritually in the man's life.

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Now Hebrews chapter 11 verse 21 tells us

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that.

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It says, by faith Jacob when he was

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dying blessed Ephraim and Manasseh and worshipped upon

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his staff.

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There it tells us that the highest manifestation

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of faith in the life of this man

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was in his passing.

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And again, no doubt, I think for all

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of us, you know Jacob, Jacob was the

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man of a great contradictory personality.

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He longed for the higher things, but he

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always got his own hands involved.

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You know, he, he believed in God, but

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he trusted that God needed his help to

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get things done.

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And he always meddled.

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And you can't relate to that at all,

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I'm sure, by the blank stares on your

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faces.

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But he believed God, but he thought he

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was God's little helper.

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And on one side there was great faith

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and the other side there was great mistrust.

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And he was the great human portrayed before

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us.

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And we don't have any details really of

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Abraham's death or Isaac's death, but we're given

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great detail now of Jacob in his passing.

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And I believe that's because it's at this

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moment, he can't lend any of his own

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energies to this.

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He, at the end of chapter 49, it

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says, will yield up the ghost and willingly

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cast himself off into the hands of God.

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And he has nothing to do with it.

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He cannot contribute to this experience.

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And yet it's in this experience that he

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gives the greatest glory and trust to God.

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And I think in all of our lives,

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when that time comes, that is really the

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crux of our faith, isn't it?

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We believe that Jesus has forgiven our sins

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and that we will have life beyond the

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grave.

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And with all the things that we do

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from here, and we can say, I'm led

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of the Lord and the Lord really give

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me a burden for this.

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And I want to be involved in the

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missions field, the harvest crusade.

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But there comes a point in time when

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we know we're going to be breathing our

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last.

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And it's at that moment, if we move

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into eternity with our hearts filled with faith,

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trusting him and cast ourselves into the hands

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of God, that is the greatest and clearest

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testimony we can give to a lost world,

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that we trust God as we step through

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the veil into eternity, that his hands will

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be there to receive us.

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And in the life of Jacob, that's what

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we see here in a remarkable way.

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Now, again, I think this is the way

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I want to go.

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You know, I want to be, if the

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Lord tarries and I have to die a

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natural death, I'm hoping to be yanked out

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here at a trumpet blast.

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But if the Lord tarries, I would love

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to be there with my children gathered around

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my bed, filled with the Holy Ghost, prophesy,

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bless them all, remember to clean your room

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when I'm gone, you know, whatever I have

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to say to them.

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And then, and then it says Jacob gathers

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up his legs into the bed and he

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yields up the ghost.

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He prophesies over all the kids, pulls his

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legs up, says goodbye, blasts off.

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And I think what dignity and what grace

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and what beauty.

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And I know there are many people that

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die under very difficult circumstances.

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There are Christians that die suffering from cancer.

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And there are Christians who die at that

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time shaken in their faith, maybe even doubting.

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And I understand that.

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And I don't have easy answers for them.

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And I don't know why God in his

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sovereignty allows everything that he allows.

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But the assurances of his love are greater

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than the amount of unanswered questions I have

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to deal with.

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The demonstration of his goodness far outweighs any

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doubts that I can dream up about why

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he does what he does.

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And Jacob now here, filled with the Spirit,

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calls all of his sons and begins to

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prophesy.

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Blind in his physical eye, but seeing further

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in his heart than he ever has before.

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Reuben is firstborn.

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Thou art my firstborn, my might, the beginning

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of my strength, the excellency of dignity, the

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excellency of power.

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Unstable, or boiling, your translation might say, as

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water.

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Thou shalt not excel, because thou wentest up

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to thy father's bed, then defilest thou it.

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He went up to my couch.

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Remember, it was Reuben who went to bed

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with one of his father's concubines, Bilhah, and

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disgraced his father.

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So it's very interesting to see these men.

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And in each case, Jacob is taking a

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reflection of their historic life and projecting that

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onto the history of the tribe.

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It's very remarkable, because as we hear Moses

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reiterate in Deuteronomy 33, he's saying the same

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things.

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And most remarkably, when we get to Joshua

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and they draw lots for the land, they

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fall out exactly the way Jacob said they

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would here way back hundreds of years earlier

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in Genesis 49.

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So this is a beautiful movement and is

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very powerful.

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He says of Reuben, something's going to characterize

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the entire history of the tribe now, that

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they won't excel.

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And we know that it will be Reuben,

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Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh that

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will refuse to enter into the land.

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They will go across to fight until there's

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victory.

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But then they're the ones that are first

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defeated when the Assyrians come and other nations

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invade.

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So he says of Reuben, he won't excel.

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Now he says the problem with the man

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was he was given to lust.

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He was boiling.

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He went up to his father's bed, did

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something disgraceful.

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I challenge you this evening, if you are

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given to lust, you need to make some

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decisions.

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Some very simple ones would be, do not

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have pornography in your home.

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Do not walk past magazine racks where there

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is pornography.

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There are people who are tortured by those

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things.

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There's a pastor that's involved with Calvary.

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When he goes to a hotel, he won't

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go into the hotel room until he has

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them remove the TV from the room.

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Because he knows his own struggles and he

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won't even face the temptation.

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I think that's wisdom.

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And if you fall into sexual sin, how

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much will you excel after that?

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And the church is and I'm not saying

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archers, but the church by and large is

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filled with compromise.

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People that are living in sin saying that

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it's okay with God.

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And there's a process there whereby people are

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self-deceived.

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First John says, first of all, if we

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say we don't have to sin, we lie

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to ourselves.

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That's hypocrisy.

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And then he goes on to say that

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if we if we say that we don't

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have sin, we deceive ourselves.

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That's duplicity.

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We lie to ourselves.

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And you know someone when they're in sin,

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they're lying to themselves.

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They actually start to believe their own story.

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And you look at them and think, what

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is wrong with this person?

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And ultimately it says, if we say we

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have not sinned, we make God a liar.

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That's apostasy.

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Finally, when they're saying that God is approving

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of their lifestyle.

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And there's a process whereby we slip into

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that.

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Is restoration possible?

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Yes, it is.

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To what degree?

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I don't know.

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Will we ever be what we would have

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been before we fell into sexual sin?

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I don't know that.

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Charles Spurgeon said when a man's repentance is

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as far as as far known as his

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sin, that maybe then it's time for restoration.

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Alan Redpath said that David in his sin

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was like a bird with his wings clipped.

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He would fly again, but never as high.

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And when we look at the life of

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David, we think, how great of a man

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might he have been if he hadn't fallen

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into adultery, Bathsheba and killed Uriah?

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Yes, God was gracious to him.

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But this is a definite thing that plagues

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the church and it plagues our society.

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It's demonstrated in the life of Reuben.

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And Jacob says he will not excel.

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He was given to sexual desire.

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Next, he prophesies about Simeon and Levi.

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Simeon and Levi are brethren.

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Instruments of cruelty are in their habitation.

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O my soul, come not thou into their

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secret, on to their assembly.

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Mine honor be not thou united.

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For in their anger they slew a man

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and in their self will they dig down

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a wall or they hamstrung oxen, depending on

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your translation.

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Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce.

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And their wrath, for it was cruel.

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I will divide them in Jacob and scatter

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them in Israel.

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Now, Simeon and Levi, remember the two brothers

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that went in and slaughtered all the men

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in Shechem, and it says evidently they willfully

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had just hamstrung the oxen or tore down

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the walls of the city as they slaughtered

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the men.

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Again, here is this pronouncement against anger and

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being given to that kind of wrath and

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outburst.

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And it says because of their anger they

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will not all will be honored.

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That they'll be divided among Jacob.

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The interesting thing was, of course, that Simeon

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was absorbed into Judah, as we look at

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the tribes, and Levi ends up without an

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inheritance.

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They end up being the priestly line, but

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they end up without.

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They're scattered amongst Jacob and Israel, just as

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he prophesies.

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But the point is, again, anger.

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And you know what?

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We all have anger.

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Anger is a necessary thing.

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Jesus had anger.

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He overturned the tables of the money changers.

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Anger is not a wrong thing.

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What's wrong with anger is we do stupid

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things when we're angry.

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Punch holes in sheetrock walls.

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I'm talking to the guys, unless your wife's

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really something.

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Break furniture.

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You know, when you get tired of getting

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out the Elmer's glue and the spackle, and

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you know, and then once you get mad,

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then you get madder because you got mad.

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If you're given to that kind of thing,

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you need to pray and you need to

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realize, look, God gave us anger.

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If I see somebody molesting my kids, I'd

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better have anger.

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I'd better have anger because I don't love

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them if I don't.

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Anger is a necessary part of love.

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God has anger.

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It's part of his nature.

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He's angry at sin.

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He's angry at Satan destroying the world.

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Jesus was angry at the hypocrisy in the

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temple when he overturned the tables of the

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money changers.

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Anger is a good thing and a necessary

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thing, and without it, we'd be impotent emotionally.

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But to be given to wrath in a

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foolish, selfish way is wrong, and he condemns

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it here.

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They also not fulfilling their potential as men.

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Judah now.

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Now, as we go through this, Judah and

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Joseph are the two primary focuses in these

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prophecies.

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Judah will represent ultimately the southern tribes, and

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Joseph slash Ephraim, i.e. Israel.

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Ephraim and Israel will be interchangeable, will represent

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the northern ten tribes, and certainly these two

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prophecies are the longest around Judah and around

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Joseph, and they do end up to become

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the dominant forces amongst the tribes.

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So Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren

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shall praise.

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Judah means praise.

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Thy hand shall be on the neck of

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thine enemies.

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Thy father's children shall bow down before thee,

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the other tribes of Israel.

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Judah is a lion's whelp.

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From the prey, my son, thou art gone

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up.

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He stooped down, he couched as a lion

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and as an old lion who shall rouse

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him up.

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Of course, we will see Jesus as the

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lion of the tribe of Judah, and there

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are many reflections here of the Messiah in

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this prophecy.

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The scepter shall not depart from Judah, that

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is, one that will reign or a lawgiver.

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The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor

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a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh,

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or the one to whom it belongs, seems

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to be what Shiloh indicates come, and unto

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him shall be the gathering of the people,

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or the obedience of the people, and certainly

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a prophecy of Christ.

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Now, it is interesting that Moses will come

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to power, but of the tribe of Levi.

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Joshua will come to power of the tribe

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of Ephraim.

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Gideon is from Manasseh.

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Samson is from Dan.

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Samuel is from Ephraim.

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Saul is from Benjamin.

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It will be 640 years until David comes

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to the throne.

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He is of the tribe of Judah, and

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then there is a succession of kings from

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the tribe of Judah.

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And the word Judah then becomes synonymous with

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the word Jew.

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As the northern tribes are carried away, and

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finally Judah is carried to Babylon as they

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come back to the land, and they are

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known as the Jews.

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It is about 4 to 6 A.D.

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when the Romans take the right away from

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the Jews to execute the death sentence.

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They retained the right to stone those who

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were taken in adultery, and stoning was their

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means of execution, to stone those who were

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guilty of premeditated manslaughter.

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But about 4 to 6 A.D., as

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Rome was in power, they took the right

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from the Sanhedrin to execute the death sentence,

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and it was at that time the high

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priest went through Jerusalem weeping, saying that the

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word of God had been broken because the

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scepter had departed from Judah and Shiloh had

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not come.

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Of course, the high priest did not know

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that in a carpenter shop in Nazareth, the

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Messiah was making door jams ready to step

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onto the scene, and the word of God

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had been fulfilled exactly as the Scripture says.

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So, it says, the scepter shall not depart

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from Judah nor a lawgiver from between his

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feet until Shiloh come, and unto him shall

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the gathering of the people be, binding his

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foal unto the vine, doesn't it sound like

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the triumphal entry?

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And his ass's coal unto the choice vine.

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Then, it seems to look prophetically to the

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last days, he washed his garments in wine,

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Isaiah 63, his clothes in the blood of

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grapes, and Judah being a very productive area

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as far as vineyards.

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And the eyes, his eyes shall be red

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with wine, and his teeth shall be white

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with milk, speaking of grazing, planting, plenty, agriculturally,

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and certainly that is true of Judah.

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Zebulun now, short prophecy, shall dwell at the

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haven of the sea, and he shall be

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for a haven of ships, and his border

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shall be against Zidon.

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So, he was adjoining Zidon, he was just

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several miles from the sea, Asher reached up

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between him and the sea, but Zebulun was

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enriched by the trading from the sea, he

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was close enough that that took place.

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Moses also makes mention of it.

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Issachar is a strong ass, counting down between

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two burdens, like a donkey that is burdened

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down between the mountain ranges.

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Esraldin, the valley of Jezreel, the valley of

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Armageddon, that's what we're talking about here in

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the inheritance of Issachar.

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And he saw that rest was good, and

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the land that it was pleasant, and bowed

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his shoulder to bear, and became a servant

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to tribute.

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Through the land of Zebulun there, the Vimarae,

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the way of the sea, and the valley

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of the kings that would travel.

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Israel's a land bridge between Africa, Asia, and

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Europe, and there was constantly struggle in that

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part of the world, and particularly in this

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inheritance of Issachar, rather, with the Vimarae, the

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way of the sea, that they would travel

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through the land.

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So, he ends up in tribute to many

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different kings, paying taxes and being subjection.

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Dan shall judge his people as one of

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the tribes of Israel.

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Dan shall be a serpent by the way,

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an adder in the path that biteth the

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horse's heels, so that his rider shall fall

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backward.

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Now, we're not sure everything that Jacob is

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seeing as he prophesies about Dan.

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Dan is omitted in Revelation chapter 7.

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There are some who say they believe the

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Antichrist will come from Dan.

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I don't know if that's true at all.

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But as the 144,000 are named, Dan

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is not named there in God's counting the

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tribes in Revelation.

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Dan certainly is a troubler of Israel, like

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an adder biting at the horse's heel and

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causing the horse to go up and the

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rider to fall backwards and stumble.

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Dan would be the one who would not

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be satisfied with their inheritance, as the lot

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would fall out.

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Dan was one of the tribe that was

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not agreeable to the portion that was theirs.

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They moved north to finally the city of

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Dan.

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And it was there at Dan and at

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Bethel where the golden calves were set up

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during Jeroboam's reign.

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They become a center of idolatry in Israel

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and a stumbling block, like something making the

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horse fall backwards.

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And maybe as he talks of the serpent,

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he sees the involvement of Satan.

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He sees the prophecy in Genesis 3, the

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seed of the serpent and the seed of

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the woman.

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Possibly because in verse 18, Jacob now just

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cries out.

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There's an outburst that isn't related to any

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of the tribes.

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And he says, I have waited for thy

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salvation, O Lord, thy Yeshua.

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Interesting word when you break it down.

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00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:58,340
The word Yeshua, Jesus, is in there.

542
00:20:58,700 --> 00:21:02,240
I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.

543
00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:03,660
Now he comes to Gad.

544
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:06,560
Gad, a troop shall overcome him.

545
00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,320
Now you have to imagine the sons are

546
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:11,100
standing around the bed and they're thinking, you

547
00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:13,260
know, first of all, Reuben really gets it

548
00:21:13,260 --> 00:21:13,920
between the eyes.

549
00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:14,940
He must be thinking, uh oh.

550
00:21:15,260 --> 00:21:18,180
And then Simeon and Levi really gives it

551
00:21:18,180 --> 00:21:18,520
to them.

552
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:19,940
They're going, oh man, this is a bummer.

553
00:21:20,200 --> 00:21:21,600
Then it comes to Judah and that's a

554
00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:22,300
pretty good prophecy.

555
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:23,760
And some of these are better, you know.

556
00:21:23,980 --> 00:21:25,620
And each son must be thinking, oh, I

557
00:21:25,620 --> 00:21:26,680
wonder what he's going to have to say

558
00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:26,940
to me.

559
00:21:27,080 --> 00:21:28,280
I wonder if Gad is excited.

560
00:21:29,140 --> 00:21:30,840
Gad, a troop shall overcome him.

561
00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,880
But he shall overcome at the last.

562
00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:36,840
Transjordan also.

563
00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:39,000
Reuben, Gadnath, the tribe of Manasseh.

564
00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:41,880
Out of Asher, his bread shall be fat.

565
00:21:42,360 --> 00:21:44,840
He shall yield royal dainties.

566
00:21:44,940 --> 00:21:46,260
Very, very productive area.

567
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:47,900
When you go on the tour to Israel

568
00:21:47,900 --> 00:21:49,440
today and your guide tells you, this is

569
00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:50,220
the area of Asher.

570
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:51,000
Beautiful.

571
00:21:51,340 --> 00:21:55,280
Covered with olive vineyard, olive orchards in particular.

572
00:21:55,580 --> 00:21:57,780
And Moses will say in Duke 33 that

573
00:21:57,780 --> 00:21:59,000
he will dip his toe in oil.

574
00:21:59,160 --> 00:22:02,060
Just a very, very productive area.

575
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:04,600
Naphtali is a hind.

576
00:22:05,600 --> 00:22:06,400
Let loose.

577
00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,500
He giveth goodly words.

578
00:22:08,880 --> 00:22:10,740
A beautiful area also.

579
00:22:11,640 --> 00:22:13,880
Joseph now, the longest of the prophecies.

580
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,440
And this is his two sons through Ephraim

581
00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:17,160
and Manasseh.

582
00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:19,880
Ephraim becoming the dominant tribe.

583
00:22:20,900 --> 00:22:23,280
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful

584
00:22:23,280 --> 00:22:26,960
bough by a well whose branches run over

585
00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,260
the wall.

586
00:22:28,420 --> 00:22:31,160
Speaking of his productivity.

587
00:22:31,340 --> 00:22:34,140
Now look, we know the imagery here.

588
00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:36,680
Blessed is the man who walketh not in

589
00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,520
the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in

590
00:22:38,520 --> 00:22:39,620
the way of the sinner, nor sit in

591
00:22:39,620 --> 00:22:40,560
the sea of the scornful.

592
00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:45,400
But he shall meditate on the law of

593
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:46,600
the Lord, someone says.

594
00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,420
And he meditates on it day and night.

595
00:22:50,580 --> 00:22:52,660
He shall be like a tree planted by

596
00:22:52,660 --> 00:22:53,620
the rivers of water.

597
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:55,400
Shall bear fruit in the season and his

598
00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:56,540
leaf also shall not wither.

599
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:58,260
You know, we have this imagery through the

600
00:22:58,260 --> 00:23:00,960
Old Testament of being a vine or a

601
00:23:00,960 --> 00:23:02,780
tree planted by a stream.

602
00:23:02,900 --> 00:23:04,800
That even in a time of difficulty, in

603
00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:07,280
the time of drought, because there is a

604
00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:10,600
source of refreshment, of living water as it

605
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,480
were, of water, that even in difficult times,

606
00:23:13,620 --> 00:23:15,900
those trees that were planted right by a

607
00:23:15,900 --> 00:23:18,860
spring or by a well would flourish and

608
00:23:18,860 --> 00:23:19,660
would do good.

609
00:23:20,380 --> 00:23:21,960
Again, one of the commentaries I read in

610
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:27,020
missionary mentions being in Saudi Arabia and seeing

611
00:23:27,020 --> 00:23:28,880
a row of palms and one palm a

612
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:30,440
third higher than all of the other palm

613
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:32,940
trees, and asked if that tree was older.

614
00:23:33,020 --> 00:23:34,600
And they say, no, that tree hit a

615
00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:35,060
spring.

616
00:23:35,660 --> 00:23:37,420
We have a saying amongst the Arabs that

617
00:23:37,420 --> 00:23:39,100
the palms love to have their head in

618
00:23:39,100 --> 00:23:41,180
the fire and the roots in the spring.

619
00:23:41,880 --> 00:23:44,360
And Joseph is depicted like that, of he

620
00:23:44,360 --> 00:23:48,980
had this source that refreshed him and kept

621
00:23:48,980 --> 00:23:49,160
him.

622
00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:51,240
We look at his life, a seventeen year

623
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:53,100
old, a young man with a dream, and

624
00:23:53,100 --> 00:23:55,920
somehow some marvelous thing planted in his heart

625
00:23:55,920 --> 00:23:56,460
by God.

626
00:23:56,540 --> 00:23:59,140
And then the great difficulties of being hated

627
00:23:59,140 --> 00:24:01,900
by his brothers, sold to Egypt, part of

628
00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:04,400
his wife trying to seduce him, refusing that,

629
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:06,300
then being sent to prison for rape.

630
00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:08,720
And the great years and years that are

631
00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:10,780
going by of difficulty and how he stayed

632
00:24:10,780 --> 00:24:12,260
true to the Lord through all of those

633
00:24:12,260 --> 00:24:12,700
things.

634
00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,960
And certainly he was like a tree planted

635
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:19,240
by rivers of water that somehow maintained in

636
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:23,820
his own soul a current relationship with the

637
00:24:23,820 --> 00:24:25,240
Lord through great difficulties.

638
00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:26,860
And that would reflect Ephraim.

639
00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:29,380
They would be fruitful as a tribe.

640
00:24:30,260 --> 00:24:35,060
The archers have sorely grieved him and shot

641
00:24:35,060 --> 00:24:38,080
at him and hated him, but his bow

642
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,620
abode in strength and the arms of his

643
00:24:40,620 --> 00:24:42,340
hands were made strong.

644
00:24:42,540 --> 00:24:45,740
Now, literally, they remained subtle.

645
00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:47,060
Here's why.

646
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,640
By the hands of the mighty God of

647
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:51,060
Jacob.

648
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:56,660
From thence is the shepherd, the stone of

649
00:24:56,660 --> 00:24:59,440
Israel, all the beautiful imagery, even by the

650
00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:01,460
God of thy father who shall help thee

651
00:25:01,460 --> 00:25:03,720
by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with

652
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:05,660
blessings of the heaven above and so forth.

653
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:07,820
So he says, Joseph is like a man

654
00:25:07,820 --> 00:25:10,180
in battle as the archer sorely grieved him.

655
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:11,540
And no doubt in those years he had

656
00:25:11,540 --> 00:25:13,000
great doubts as a man.

657
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,500
But he says he's like one who in

658
00:25:16,500 --> 00:25:18,860
the battle and you know, in those days

659
00:25:18,860 --> 00:25:21,280
it was swinging a big heavy sword or

660
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:22,880
pulling constantly on a bow.

661
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,080
After a little while of doing that, your

662
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:26,140
arms would tremble.

663
00:25:26,260 --> 00:25:27,760
And he said, No, this is like a

664
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:29,420
man who in the midst of the battle,

665
00:25:29,620 --> 00:25:32,240
his arms remain subtle and he's able to

666
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:33,440
aim and he's focused.

667
00:25:33,900 --> 00:25:35,540
And it's because and there's a picture of

668
00:25:35,540 --> 00:25:38,140
the God of Israel reaching around Joseph, putting

669
00:25:38,140 --> 00:25:39,760
his hand on the bow, putting his hand

670
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,760
on the string and pulling for him and

671
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,800
giving him that strength so that he remained

672
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:44,340
focused.

673
00:25:44,540 --> 00:25:46,980
And certainly through great trial, we see that

674
00:25:46,980 --> 00:25:48,700
the archers had wounded him.

675
00:25:48,900 --> 00:25:49,200
No, no.

676
00:25:49,380 --> 00:25:51,620
I'm sure there were doubts that came.

677
00:25:52,020 --> 00:25:55,000
I'm sure he experienced the bitterness of his

678
00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:58,920
circumstances because he names his son Manasseh, which

679
00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,220
means forgetting, he says, because I've forgotten the

680
00:26:01,220 --> 00:26:02,320
bitterness of those years.

681
00:26:02,820 --> 00:26:04,720
But in all of that bitterness, there was

682
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,520
a strength that was part of the man's

683
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,820
character that would also then become part of

684
00:26:09,820 --> 00:26:13,960
the tribe's character as Jacob is prophesying here.

685
00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:16,180
And it says it's because of his involvement,

686
00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:19,840
God's involvement, the mighty God of Jacob, the

687
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,000
shepherd, the stone, even by the God of

688
00:26:23,000 --> 00:26:25,240
thy father who shall help thee by the

689
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,180
almighty who shall bless thee with the blessings

690
00:26:28,180 --> 00:26:31,140
of heaven above the rain, the blessings of

691
00:26:31,140 --> 00:26:33,660
the deep that lieth under streams and springs,

692
00:26:34,260 --> 00:26:36,300
the blessings of the breast and the womb

693
00:26:36,300 --> 00:26:41,140
productive, the blessings of thy father have prevailed

694
00:26:41,140 --> 00:26:44,220
above the blessings of my progenitors under the

695
00:26:44,220 --> 00:26:45,860
utmost bound of the everlasting hills.

696
00:26:45,920 --> 00:26:48,940
He says, Joseph, the blessing I'm pronouncing upon

697
00:26:48,940 --> 00:26:52,200
you is greater than the blessings my progenitors

698
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:56,120
pronounced upon me, even as the hills are

699
00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:59,080
above the plains, they shall be on the

700
00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:01,280
head of Joseph and on the crown of

701
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:02,340
the head of him.

702
00:27:02,500 --> 00:27:05,660
Notice that was separate from his brethren and

703
00:27:05,660 --> 00:27:09,440
how God has called us to separation unto

704
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:10,120
himself.

705
00:27:11,820 --> 00:27:15,120
Benjamin shall raven as a wolf in the

706
00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:18,180
morning, he shall devour the prey at night,

707
00:27:18,360 --> 00:27:20,220
he shall divide the spoil.

708
00:27:20,660 --> 00:27:23,180
Benjamin known for its warriors and a tough

709
00:27:23,180 --> 00:27:25,040
tribe, though it becomes part of Judah.

710
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,760
Now, all these are the 12 tribes of

711
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:31,680
Israel, and this is that their father spake

712
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:33,300
unto them and bless them.

713
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:37,020
Everyone according to his blessing, he blessed them

714
00:27:37,020 --> 00:27:39,920
and he charged them and said unto them,

715
00:27:40,100 --> 00:27:42,460
I am to be gathered unto my people.

716
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,120
Bury me with my fathers in the cave

717
00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:46,920
that is in the field of Ephraim the

718
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,340
Hittite in the cave that is in the

719
00:27:49,340 --> 00:27:52,580
field of Mephillah, which is before memory in

720
00:27:52,580 --> 00:27:56,600
the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with

721
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:58,600
the field of Ephraim the Hittite for a

722
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,000
possession and a burying place.

723
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,680
He's making sure to let them know they

724
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,020
own this parcel of ground.

725
00:28:03,460 --> 00:28:05,580
Abraham paid for it, bought it with money,

726
00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:06,780
and they have a right to it.

727
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,240
There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife.

728
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:14,900
There they buried Isaac and Rebecca, who Jacob

729
00:28:14,900 --> 00:28:18,280
loved greatly, his mother Rebecca, his wife, Isaac's

730
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:18,560
wife.

731
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:20,400
There I buried Leah.

732
00:28:21,480 --> 00:28:23,460
The purchase of the field and of the

733
00:28:23,460 --> 00:28:25,880
cave that is therein was from the children

734
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,860
of Hath, he reiterates again.

735
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,500
And when Jacob had made an end of

736
00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:36,480
commanding his sons, this is amazing, he gathered

737
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:40,500
up his feet into the bed and he

738
00:28:40,500 --> 00:28:43,860
yielded up the ghost and was gathered to

739
00:28:43,860 --> 00:28:44,400
his people.

740
00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:45,400
What a great scene.

741
00:28:45,840 --> 00:28:48,660
As he is done prophesying, he must lay

742
00:28:48,660 --> 00:28:51,560
aside the staff that he propped himself up

743
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:52,000
with.

744
00:28:52,580 --> 00:28:57,040
And that staff, interesting, in Genesis chapter 32,

745
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,080
verse 10, as he had come back from

746
00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:05,380
Padinarum, he said, Lord, I'm not worthy of

747
00:29:05,380 --> 00:29:06,960
all of your mercies and of all the

748
00:29:06,960 --> 00:29:09,580
truth that you've made known unto me and

749
00:29:09,580 --> 00:29:10,940
all the goodness you've shown to me.

750
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,320
When I passed over this river, all I

751
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:16,680
had was this staff.

752
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:19,400
And now you have made me two companies.

753
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,480
Jacob there said, Lord, I'm not worthy of

754
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:23,380
any of your mercies.

755
00:29:23,460 --> 00:29:25,340
I remember when I fled from Esau, I

756
00:29:25,340 --> 00:29:27,340
had cheated my blind father.

757
00:29:27,460 --> 00:29:28,220
I had lied to him.

758
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:29,720
I had scheming.

759
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:32,580
I had gotten the blessing away from Esau.

760
00:29:32,740 --> 00:29:34,360
He was pursuing me to kill me.

761
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:36,160
And Lord, all I had to my life

762
00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:38,060
was this staff that I'm holding on to.

763
00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,820
And as he comes back, he still has

764
00:29:40,820 --> 00:29:41,480
that staff.

765
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,420
And he says, Lord, I'm not worthy of

766
00:29:45,420 --> 00:29:46,160
any of your mercies.

767
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:47,180
Here you've enlarged me.

768
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:47,960
I'm two companies.

769
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,380
And all I had when I left was

770
00:29:49,380 --> 00:29:50,080
this staff.

771
00:29:50,460 --> 00:29:51,940
Now, evidently, at the very end of his

772
00:29:51,940 --> 00:29:53,940
life, he's still leaning on that staff.

773
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:55,680
And what a life it had been.

774
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,820
We're told in Hebrews that as he was

775
00:29:58,820 --> 00:30:01,720
dying, he blessed and he worshiped.

776
00:30:01,740 --> 00:30:02,580
And what a way to go.

777
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:08,200
Passing off the earthly scene, not worried about

778
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:12,280
himself, but about his sons and God's plan

779
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:12,900
in the earth.

780
00:30:13,720 --> 00:30:14,960
He blesses others.

781
00:30:15,580 --> 00:30:17,720
And then he worships leaning on the staff.

782
00:30:17,860 --> 00:30:18,700
He's worshiping God.

783
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:21,100
And it says he yields up the ghost.

784
00:30:21,220 --> 00:30:21,940
There's no fighting.

785
00:30:22,100 --> 00:30:25,580
He is in complete agreement with God at

786
00:30:25,580 --> 00:30:26,400
this point in time.

787
00:30:26,540 --> 00:30:30,660
He is willingly giving himself into the hands

788
00:30:30,660 --> 00:30:31,000
of God.

789
00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:32,600
He's not fighting for his life.

790
00:30:33,060 --> 00:30:34,180
There's no sign of fear.

791
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:35,860
He's not saying, you know, I'm going to

792
00:30:35,860 --> 00:30:37,560
be part of the masses now that are

793
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,500
swept into the darkness at the end of

794
00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:39,860
life.

795
00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:41,200
And what will become of me?

796
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,040
No, he yields up the ghost and he

797
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,560
trusts himself in cooperation in the hands of

798
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:48,820
God, sending aside his the staff of his

799
00:30:48,820 --> 00:30:50,880
pilgrimage and moving on.

800
00:30:50,940 --> 00:30:52,180
What a great scene.

801
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:58,020
And Joseph fell upon his father's face and

802
00:30:58,020 --> 00:31:00,620
wept upon him and kissed him.

803
00:31:00,740 --> 00:31:03,680
Back in Chapter 46, when God had told

804
00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,400
Jacob to go down to Egypt, he said,

805
00:31:05,460 --> 00:31:07,520
you'll see your son, Joseph, and he will

806
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:08,880
close your eyes at death.

807
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,700
And here, Joseph is the one who falls

808
00:31:10,700 --> 00:31:20,840
upon Jacob, weeping, no doubt praying, gently

809
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:22,920
reaching out and closing his father's eyes.

810
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:27,700
Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm

811
00:31:27,700 --> 00:31:31,840
his father and the physicians embalmed Israel.

812
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,080
And 40 days were fulfilled for him, for

813
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,880
so are fulfilled the days of those which

814
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:40,960
are embalmed.

815
00:31:41,540 --> 00:31:44,360
And the Egyptian mourned for him three score

816
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:44,940
and 10 days.

817
00:31:45,140 --> 00:31:46,580
They mourned for him 70 days.

818
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,520
They mourned for him during the time of

819
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:51,260
his embalming, 40 days and then 30 days

820
00:31:51,260 --> 00:31:51,800
after that.

821
00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:54,740
They would mourn for a pharaoh for 72

822
00:31:54,740 --> 00:31:55,200
days.

823
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:57,000
So the fact that they mourned for Jacob

824
00:31:57,000 --> 00:32:00,420
for 70 days tells us what great regard

825
00:32:00,420 --> 00:32:04,180
they held Joseph in and so his father

826
00:32:04,180 --> 00:32:09,620
and the embalming process was a remarkable process.

827
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,500
They would wash them.

828
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,560
The brains would be drawn out through the

829
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:14,080
nose.

830
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:16,660
They would clean out the head, a small

831
00:32:16,660 --> 00:32:18,020
cut in the left side.

832
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:19,640
They would take out all of the guts,

833
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:21,120
but just leave the heart and the kidneys,

834
00:32:21,220 --> 00:32:23,520
take everything else out and stuff it with

835
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,160
the man with spices and so forth.

836
00:32:25,500 --> 00:32:27,200
And then as they wrapped him, there would

837
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:34,400
be certain potash and sodas from some of

838
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:35,640
the marshes in the area.

839
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,780
It was really a remarkable process.

840
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:39,080
It took 40 days.

841
00:32:40,380 --> 00:32:42,480
You were just about pickled when they were

842
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:42,860
done with you.

843
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:44,640
It was the same kind of stuff they

844
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:47,020
put in some of our potato chip dip

845
00:32:47,020 --> 00:32:47,420
today.

846
00:32:47,580 --> 00:32:52,960
You know, stuff you don't have to refrigerate

847
00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:54,320
it and a month later it still looks

848
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:54,780
the same.

849
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:56,200
Mold doesn't grow on it.

850
00:32:56,340 --> 00:32:58,700
You know, they had that process down too.

851
00:33:00,660 --> 00:33:04,340
So possibly, by the way, I have not

852
00:33:04,340 --> 00:33:06,940
been to Hebron where he is there and

853
00:33:06,940 --> 00:33:12,240
the Abraham's burying place in this cave in

854
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,580
Mechphila, but evidently you would be able to

855
00:33:14,580 --> 00:33:16,920
pick out Jacob because he would be the

856
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:18,400
one that would be preserved there.

857
00:33:18,460 --> 00:33:20,280
The rest of them would have turned to

858
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:22,540
bone, gathered their bones and put them in

859
00:33:22,540 --> 00:33:24,500
a pot as they disintegrated.

860
00:33:24,620 --> 00:33:26,080
There is one there that's in pretty good

861
00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:27,640
shape, and that's old Jacob.

862
00:33:28,020 --> 00:33:29,060
He's the mummy there.

863
00:33:30,660 --> 00:33:32,760
When the days of his mourning were passed,

864
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,720
Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh saying,

865
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:37,580
If now I have found grace in your

866
00:33:37,580 --> 00:33:40,820
eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears

867
00:33:40,820 --> 00:33:43,660
of Pharaoh saying that my father made me

868
00:33:43,660 --> 00:33:47,020
swear saying, Lo, I die in my grave,

869
00:33:47,140 --> 00:33:48,560
which I have digged for me in the

870
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,840
land of Canaan, there thou shalt bury me.

871
00:33:51,380 --> 00:33:53,680
Now, therefore, let me go up, I pray

872
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,000
thee, and bury my father and I will

873
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:56,560
come again.

874
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,280
So he speaks to those in Pharaoh's household.

875
00:33:59,460 --> 00:34:00,960
They go on behalf of Joseph and say,

876
00:34:01,060 --> 00:34:02,740
Joseph is asking, he had sworn to his

877
00:34:02,740 --> 00:34:05,380
father that he would bury him in Canaan.

878
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,620
Pharaoh said, Go up and bury thy father

879
00:34:08,620 --> 00:34:10,739
according as he hath made thee swear.

880
00:34:11,540 --> 00:34:13,780
And Joseph went up to bury his father

881
00:34:13,780 --> 00:34:17,179
and with him went up, notice this, all

882
00:34:17,179 --> 00:34:21,060
of the servants of Pharaoh and the elders

883
00:34:21,060 --> 00:34:24,540
of Pharaoh's house and all the elders of

884
00:34:24,540 --> 00:34:27,179
the land of Egypt and all of the

885
00:34:27,179 --> 00:34:30,020
house of Joseph and his brethren and his

886
00:34:30,020 --> 00:34:30,940
father's house.

887
00:34:31,620 --> 00:34:34,239
Only their little ones and their flocks and

888
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,239
their herds left they in the land of

889
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:38,719
Goshen and there went up with him both

890
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:42,139
chariots and horsemen and it was a very

891
00:34:42,139 --> 00:34:43,139
great company.

892
00:34:43,139 --> 00:34:45,760
You have to imagine for the Canaanite and

893
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,219
for those in the land seeing this incredible

894
00:34:48,219 --> 00:34:51,780
caravan come with chariots and soldiers and all

895
00:34:51,780 --> 00:34:54,760
of the royalty and elders of Egypt, all

896
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:56,780
of them it says, coming with.

897
00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:00,420
And Joseph in his splendor and all of

898
00:35:00,420 --> 00:35:04,020
them coming, bringing now this coffin up into

899
00:35:04,020 --> 00:35:05,140
the land of Canaan.

900
00:35:05,620 --> 00:35:07,960
It says, And they came to the threshing

901
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,860
floor of Atod, which is beyond Jordan.

902
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,480
Now they're trans-Jordan, they're on the east

903
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:14,680
side of the Jordan River.

904
00:35:15,220 --> 00:35:17,940
And there they mourned with a great, a

905
00:35:17,940 --> 00:35:20,980
very sore lamentation and he made a mourning

906
00:35:20,980 --> 00:35:22,920
for his father seven days.

907
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:25,340
And when the inhabitants of the land of

908
00:35:25,340 --> 00:35:28,160
the Canaanites saw the mourning in the floor

909
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,660
of Atod, they said, This is a grievous

910
00:35:31,660 --> 00:35:33,160
mourning to the Egyptians.

911
00:35:34,280 --> 00:35:37,340
Wherefore, the name of it was called Abel

912
00:35:37,340 --> 00:35:38,240
Mitzarim.

913
00:35:38,680 --> 00:35:42,300
Abel, the mourning Mitzarim is the Egyptians.

914
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,820
The mourning of the Egyptians was beyond Jordan.

915
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:47,060
So they called the place of the mourning

916
00:35:47,060 --> 00:35:47,740
of the Egyptians.

917
00:35:48,460 --> 00:35:51,440
And evidently they didn't enter into Canaan across

918
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:56,040
Jordan, not wanting possibly hostility with the Hittites

919
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:57,100
or with some of the tribes of the

920
00:35:57,100 --> 00:35:58,840
land, but they come up in a peaceful

921
00:35:58,840 --> 00:35:59,200
mode.

922
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:00,500
They stay trans-Jordan.

923
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:02,780
They mourned there in a large company for

924
00:36:02,780 --> 00:36:03,500
seven days.

925
00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:07,060
And then evidently a small contingency of Joseph

926
00:36:07,060 --> 00:36:10,200
and his family bring across the body of

927
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,720
Jacob to the cave that they had purchased

928
00:36:12,720 --> 00:36:15,740
from Heth, the sons of Heth.

929
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:22,710
And it says, And his sons did unto

930
00:36:22,710 --> 00:36:24,370
him according as he had commanded them.

931
00:36:24,410 --> 00:36:26,990
Verse 12, For his sons carried him into

932
00:36:26,990 --> 00:36:29,430
the land of Canaan and buried him in

933
00:36:29,430 --> 00:36:33,150
the cave of Mephila, which Abraham bought with

934
00:36:33,150 --> 00:36:35,170
the field for a possession of a burying

935
00:36:35,170 --> 00:36:38,010
place of Ephron the Hittite before memory.

936
00:36:38,830 --> 00:36:41,490
And Joseph returned unto Egypt he and his

937
00:36:41,490 --> 00:36:43,630
brethren and all that went up with him

938
00:36:43,630 --> 00:36:46,030
to bury his father after he had buried

939
00:36:46,030 --> 00:36:46,610
his father.

940
00:36:47,730 --> 00:36:50,510
And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father

941
00:36:50,510 --> 00:36:55,090
was dead, they said, Joseph will perhaps hate

942
00:36:55,090 --> 00:36:59,770
us and will certainly will require us all

943
00:36:59,770 --> 00:37:01,530
the evil which we did unto him.

944
00:37:01,870 --> 00:37:04,250
And they sent a messenger to Joseph saying,

945
00:37:04,490 --> 00:37:07,230
Thy father did command before he died, saying,

946
00:37:07,790 --> 00:37:10,650
So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive I

947
00:37:10,650 --> 00:37:12,850
pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren

948
00:37:12,850 --> 00:37:16,250
and their sin, for they did unto thee

949
00:37:16,250 --> 00:37:16,690
evil.

950
00:37:17,050 --> 00:37:19,330
And now we pray thee forgive the trespass

951
00:37:19,330 --> 00:37:22,410
of thy servants, of the servants of the

952
00:37:22,410 --> 00:37:23,550
God of thy father.

953
00:37:23,690 --> 00:37:24,970
Now and Joseph begins to weep.

954
00:37:25,310 --> 00:37:28,350
Now the brothers are still guilty after all

955
00:37:28,350 --> 00:37:29,050
these years.

956
00:37:30,090 --> 00:37:31,930
And they're saying, Well, now that dad is

957
00:37:31,930 --> 00:37:34,590
dead, Joseph, maybe he was just being nice

958
00:37:34,590 --> 00:37:36,390
to us because dad was alive.

959
00:37:36,450 --> 00:37:37,870
You want to break dad's heart now that

960
00:37:37,870 --> 00:37:38,430
dad is dead.

961
00:37:38,530 --> 00:37:40,310
Maybe he's going to get us now.

962
00:37:41,450 --> 00:37:43,990
You remember Esau had said, When my father

963
00:37:43,990 --> 00:37:46,510
dies, I'm going to kill Jacob and then

964
00:37:46,510 --> 00:37:48,110
all my heart will have rest.

965
00:37:48,230 --> 00:37:50,630
And they're thinking, You know, boy, I hope

966
00:37:50,630 --> 00:37:52,250
we haven't read this guy wrong all these

967
00:37:52,250 --> 00:37:52,750
times.

968
00:37:53,930 --> 00:37:56,210
Now that the father's gone, will the son

969
00:37:56,210 --> 00:37:57,190
really love us?

970
00:37:57,230 --> 00:37:59,110
And you know, I think that we all

971
00:37:59,110 --> 00:38:01,910
relate to that because we have the son

972
00:38:01,910 --> 00:38:04,350
of another father who has pledged his love

973
00:38:04,350 --> 00:38:08,030
to us without condition.

974
00:38:09,290 --> 00:38:11,230
If we come to him by faith and

975
00:38:11,230 --> 00:38:16,900
we ask forgiveness of sin, judicially, heaven then

976
00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:22,040
has pronounced upon us that we're justified, glorified,

977
00:38:22,900 --> 00:38:23,440
sanctified.

978
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:27,540
And yet, I think because his love is

979
00:38:27,540 --> 00:38:30,940
unlike any love we've ever known, even in

980
00:38:30,940 --> 00:38:34,800
our relationship with God's son, sometimes we struggle

981
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,580
and think, well, maybe now he's going to

982
00:38:36,580 --> 00:38:37,660
withdraw his love.

983
00:38:38,300 --> 00:38:40,720
Maybe now that circumstances have turned this way

984
00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:43,280
and I failed or I've made a mistake

985
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:47,880
or I've fallen, that he will withdraw his

986
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:48,280
love.

987
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:50,560
We're suspicious too, aren't we?

988
00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:53,100
And I think how it must break the

989
00:38:53,100 --> 00:38:53,700
heart of God.

990
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,040
I believe sometimes he almost weeps as he

991
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,400
desires to lavish his love on us and

992
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:01,440
we're so slow to respond sometimes, even as

993
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:01,780
Christians.

994
00:39:02,740 --> 00:39:04,320
You know, if one of my kids at

995
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,300
home was always trembling when they're around me,

996
00:39:07,300 --> 00:39:08,900
Do you still love me today, Dad?

997
00:39:09,340 --> 00:39:11,620
You know, I ate cookies without asking you

998
00:39:11,620 --> 00:39:13,840
yesterday, you know, or I was, you know,

999
00:39:13,900 --> 00:39:15,740
I was playing with the television when I

1000
00:39:15,740 --> 00:39:16,920
was supposed to be doing my homework.

1001
00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:18,200
Do you still love me, Dad?

1002
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:20,600
You know, I'm not worthy of your love.

1003
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:22,520
And, you know, if I had a kid

1004
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:23,680
that was doing it, it would break my

1005
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:24,080
heart.

1006
00:39:30,900 --> 00:39:33,580
And his love is not like any human

1007
00:39:33,580 --> 00:39:33,900
love.

1008
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:38,020
There is no barometer to measure it on

1009
00:39:38,020 --> 00:39:40,500
because it's holy like he is.

1010
00:39:40,540 --> 00:39:43,200
It is completely separate from all else that

1011
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:43,840
exists.

1012
00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,940
And his mercy and his love and his

1013
00:39:46,940 --> 00:39:49,620
grace is born out of his very holiness.

1014
00:39:50,220 --> 00:39:52,740
And it comes to us not to be

1015
00:39:52,740 --> 00:39:56,000
compared with any other love that's known.

1016
00:39:58,140 --> 00:40:01,760
The ancient rabbis said God loves us because

1017
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:02,520
he loves us.

1018
00:40:02,660 --> 00:40:03,960
That was the best answer they could come

1019
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:04,320
up with.

1020
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:07,060
There's no reason to it.

1021
00:40:07,580 --> 00:40:09,940
He loves us, not because we deserve to

1022
00:40:09,940 --> 00:40:10,420
be loved.

1023
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,940
He loves us because of who he is.

1024
00:40:13,860 --> 00:40:15,600
And you see, we're used to conditional love.

1025
00:40:15,720 --> 00:40:17,000
We're used to loving somebody.

1026
00:40:17,380 --> 00:40:19,060
You know, if you like fishing and somebody

1027
00:40:19,060 --> 00:40:20,480
and you meet a girl and she likes

1028
00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,460
fishing and you like football and she likes

1029
00:40:22,460 --> 00:40:25,120
football and you hate shopping and she hates

1030
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:26,700
shopping, you fall in love with this girl.

1031
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:27,420
She's smart.

1032
00:40:27,740 --> 00:40:28,460
She's intelligent.

1033
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,700
She's got all the same, you know, priorities

1034
00:40:30,700 --> 00:40:31,300
you do.

1035
00:40:31,580 --> 00:40:33,280
I mean, you know, our love is so

1036
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:33,840
conditional.

1037
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,960
We, you know, someone elicits our love from

1038
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:37,200
us.

1039
00:40:37,260 --> 00:40:39,560
There's something in that person that draws our

1040
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:41,740
love from us because there's some quality, there's

1041
00:40:41,740 --> 00:40:43,040
something in them we appreciate.

1042
00:40:44,580 --> 00:40:46,880
And then they disappoint us or they do

1043
00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:48,460
something we didn't expect them to do or

1044
00:40:48,460 --> 00:40:49,960
were there not who we thought they were.

1045
00:40:52,790 --> 00:40:55,430
And then there isn't so much eliciting our

1046
00:40:55,430 --> 00:40:56,030
love anymore.

1047
00:40:56,230 --> 00:40:57,670
You know, human love is like that.

1048
00:40:57,710 --> 00:41:01,470
Well, there isn't anything in us that elicited

1049
00:41:01,470 --> 00:41:02,170
God's love.

1050
00:41:02,710 --> 00:41:05,290
He did never love us because there was

1051
00:41:05,290 --> 00:41:06,570
something lovable in us.

1052
00:41:07,590 --> 00:41:09,650
He loved us solely because of who he

1053
00:41:09,650 --> 00:41:12,350
is and because of his plan from the

1054
00:41:12,350 --> 00:41:14,210
foundation of the world to offer up his

1055
00:41:14,210 --> 00:41:14,490
son.

1056
00:41:15,310 --> 00:41:16,910
He did not love us because we were

1057
00:41:16,910 --> 00:41:17,270
lovable.

1058
00:41:18,810 --> 00:41:20,670
He loved us because he was a lover

1059
00:41:20,670 --> 00:41:21,770
of men's souls.

1060
00:41:23,370 --> 00:41:26,730
And it leaves us in a position as

1061
00:41:26,730 --> 00:41:28,090
we hear of his love and of his

1062
00:41:28,090 --> 00:41:29,410
grace of being suspicious.

1063
00:41:30,770 --> 00:41:32,910
And I think of how many that, you

1064
00:41:32,910 --> 00:41:35,710
know, because they have learned to judge Jesus

1065
00:41:35,710 --> 00:41:38,050
Christ by the church or by Christians.

1066
00:41:40,460 --> 00:41:42,380
And then they take that and they and

1067
00:41:42,380 --> 00:41:43,480
they lay that on Christ.

1068
00:41:43,540 --> 00:41:44,660
And they think, well, that must be the

1069
00:41:44,660 --> 00:41:46,340
way Jesus is, because that's the way Christians

1070
00:41:46,340 --> 00:41:46,600
are.

1071
00:41:46,660 --> 00:41:47,740
And that's the way the church is.

1072
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,180
And they got all these rules and regulations.

1073
00:41:49,340 --> 00:41:50,460
You have to dress this way.

1074
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:51,080
You have to do this.

1075
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:51,800
You have to do that.

1076
00:41:51,800 --> 00:41:55,060
And they and they get this idea of

1077
00:41:55,060 --> 00:41:56,280
who Christ is and say, well, I don't

1078
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:57,300
want to be a Christian then.

1079
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,980
No, who he is is separate from anything

1080
00:42:01,980 --> 00:42:02,780
we've ever known.

1081
00:42:02,860 --> 00:42:04,020
That's what holiness is.

1082
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:05,560
His mercy is holy.

1083
00:42:05,740 --> 00:42:06,520
His love is holy.

1084
00:42:06,980 --> 00:42:07,940
His grace is holy.

1085
00:42:08,980 --> 00:42:10,640
And it comes for a reason that we

1086
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:11,460
will never understand.

1087
00:42:12,220 --> 00:42:13,600
We just have to believe in it.

1088
00:42:14,380 --> 00:42:15,840
We have to get out of the boat

1089
00:42:15,840 --> 00:42:17,680
and walk on the water or we will

1090
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,500
never experience his love and grace because there

1091
00:42:20,500 --> 00:42:26,060
is no reason that we can grasp with

1092
00:42:26,060 --> 00:42:28,740
our logic as to why he loves us.

1093
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,260
He loves us because he loves us.

1094
00:42:36,340 --> 00:42:38,800
But it leaves us suspicious like these men.

1095
00:42:39,300 --> 00:42:40,000
They're doubting.

1096
00:42:40,940 --> 00:42:42,680
Maybe he's going to get us now.

1097
00:42:43,860 --> 00:42:46,040
Joseph, when he hears it again, we're told

1098
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:47,200
that he wept.

1099
00:42:48,820 --> 00:42:50,700
Five or six times were told that he

1100
00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:51,040
weeps.

1101
00:42:51,180 --> 00:42:53,240
You know, Psalm 56 says that God keeps

1102
00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:54,840
record of all of our tears.

1103
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:57,940
We see it here in Joseph's life continually.

1104
00:42:58,020 --> 00:43:01,140
We're told he wept when they spake that

1105
00:43:01,140 --> 00:43:01,560
to him.

1106
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:04,260
His brethren also went and fell down before

1107
00:43:04,260 --> 00:43:06,160
his face, and they said, Behold, we are

1108
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:06,940
thy servants.

1109
00:43:07,020 --> 00:43:09,860
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not.

1110
00:43:10,300 --> 00:43:12,800
Am I in the place of God?

1111
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:15,960
You know, because he knew that vengeance belongs.

1112
00:43:16,100 --> 00:43:17,300
I'm not here to take vengeance.

1113
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:18,560
You know, God is the judge.

1114
00:43:18,660 --> 00:43:20,140
He and he's going to tell them again.

1115
00:43:20,260 --> 00:43:21,760
You meant it for evil, but God meant

1116
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:22,400
it for good.

1117
00:43:23,820 --> 00:43:26,660
You know, sometimes when when we have somebody

1118
00:43:26,660 --> 00:43:29,600
in a situation where they're groveling a little

1119
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:34,920
bit, particularly if we know that for their

1120
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:36,660
good, they need to grovel a little bit.

1121
00:43:38,680 --> 00:43:40,940
We can be of the mind where we

1122
00:43:40,940 --> 00:43:44,020
can make them squeeze them just a little,

1123
00:43:44,220 --> 00:43:47,220
you know, just while they while they're here,

1124
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:49,320
Lord, I'll help you help them learn their

1125
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:49,660
lesson.

1126
00:43:49,800 --> 00:43:51,940
You know, vengeance belongs to you, Lord, but

1127
00:43:51,940 --> 00:43:53,500
you get them and I'll be your instrument.

1128
00:43:53,700 --> 00:43:57,440
You know, Joseph, there's none of that in

1129
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:57,600
him.

1130
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,000
He's a remarkable character.

1131
00:43:59,380 --> 00:44:00,840
Am I in the place of God?

1132
00:44:02,620 --> 00:44:06,920
Romans says this.

1133
00:44:08,240 --> 00:44:10,980
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give

1134
00:44:10,980 --> 00:44:12,240
place unto wrath.

1135
00:44:13,420 --> 00:44:15,800
For it is written, Vengeance is mine and

1136
00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,480
I will repay, saith the Lord.

1137
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:21,340
Therefore, if thine enemy hunger, feed him.

1138
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:22,920
If he thirst, give him the drink.

1139
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:25,560
For in so doing, thou shalt heap calls

1140
00:44:25,560 --> 00:44:26,200
upon his head.

1141
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:28,660
You know, it says this is a divine

1142
00:44:28,660 --> 00:44:29,140
matter.

1143
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,960
It's not unto us to mete out vengeance

1144
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:33,660
upon other human beings.

1145
00:44:34,960 --> 00:44:36,600
And I know we would like to sometimes.

1146
00:44:39,110 --> 00:44:40,530
Am I in the place of God?

1147
00:44:40,650 --> 00:44:42,650
As for you, you thought evil against me,

1148
00:44:42,730 --> 00:44:45,150
but God meant it unto good to bring

1149
00:44:45,150 --> 00:44:47,150
to pass as it is this day and

1150
00:44:47,150 --> 00:44:49,230
to save many people alive.

1151
00:44:49,350 --> 00:44:50,930
Now, therefore, fear ye not.

1152
00:44:51,350 --> 00:44:54,110
I will nourish you and your little ones.

1153
00:44:57,270 --> 00:45:00,570
And he comforted them and spake kindly under

1154
00:45:00,570 --> 00:45:00,970
them.

1155
00:45:01,670 --> 00:45:04,270
And Joseph dwelled in Egypt, he and his

1156
00:45:04,270 --> 00:45:05,110
father's house.

1157
00:45:05,970 --> 00:45:10,270
And Joseph lived a hundred and ten years.

1158
00:45:12,030 --> 00:45:15,750
Now, Jacob died when Joseph was fifty six

1159
00:45:15,750 --> 00:45:16,370
years old.

1160
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:19,760
He's one hundred and ten now.

1161
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:22,100
This is fifty four years after his dad

1162
00:45:22,100 --> 00:45:22,420
died.

1163
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,600
When he took his dad to bury him

1164
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:26,220
in Canaan, it was the first time he

1165
00:45:26,220 --> 00:45:28,160
had been in Canaan in thirty nine years.

1166
00:45:28,300 --> 00:45:31,000
He had left Canaan in a caravan sold

1167
00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:31,780
to the Midianites.

1168
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:34,140
He had returned in a caravan with pomp

1169
00:45:34,140 --> 00:45:36,960
and royalty and a chariot and an army.

1170
00:45:39,060 --> 00:45:42,400
And now, fifty four years later, it's his

1171
00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:44,180
turn, one hundred and ten years old, to

1172
00:45:44,180 --> 00:45:45,260
pass off the scene.

1173
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,440
Joseph saw Ephraim's sons to the third generation,

1174
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,400
his great grandchildren, and the children also of

1175
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:55,980
Maker, the son of Manasseh.

1176
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:58,920
So Ephraim's, it seems, the great, great grandchildren

1177
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:00,880
and of Manasseh, the great grandchildren.

1178
00:46:01,420 --> 00:46:03,820
They were brought up upon Joseph's knees.

1179
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,300
Well, how much fun, you know, kids deserve

1180
00:46:07,300 --> 00:46:08,540
to be around their grandparents.

1181
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:11,340
And if you're here, you're a grandparent.

1182
00:46:12,140 --> 00:46:14,120
You take opportunity of the time you have

1183
00:46:14,120 --> 00:46:17,020
with those kids because grandparents are special to

1184
00:46:17,020 --> 00:46:17,520
kids.

1185
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:20,360
And what you do and what you say

1186
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,340
weighs greatly on their little hearts.

1187
00:46:23,740 --> 00:46:29,720
And you stand, a great opportunity stands before

1188
00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:33,160
you to minister Christ to your grandchildren because

1189
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:34,340
of how much they respect you.

1190
00:46:34,420 --> 00:46:36,840
They know that you are their dad's dad

1191
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:38,760
or you're their mom's mom.

1192
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:42,580
So that means you have clout because they're

1193
00:46:42,580 --> 00:46:44,180
kids and they still understand a mom and

1194
00:46:44,180 --> 00:46:44,880
dad have clout.

1195
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:46,660
And if you're a mom's mom, you really

1196
00:46:46,660 --> 00:46:47,220
have clout.

1197
00:46:49,620 --> 00:46:51,420
So with grandchildren, there's great love.

1198
00:46:51,520 --> 00:46:53,060
Besides, you can spoil them and then go

1199
00:46:53,060 --> 00:46:55,620
home and leave them with their mom and

1200
00:46:55,620 --> 00:46:55,900
dad.

1201
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:02,180
But your testimony of Jesus is very powerful

1202
00:47:02,180 --> 00:47:03,020
to the grandchildren.

1203
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:05,960
Imagine Joseph here with his grandchildren and his

1204
00:47:05,960 --> 00:47:08,540
great-grandchildren and his great-great-grandchildren.

1205
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:14,060
Imagine the kids, you know, saying, how old

1206
00:47:14,060 --> 00:47:14,660
is he?

1207
00:47:16,900 --> 00:47:19,160
When Joshua was little, we were visiting my

1208
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:21,940
in-laws in the West Coast and Kathy's

1209
00:47:21,940 --> 00:47:26,520
dad has all, you know, wrinkles, crow's feet

1210
00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:27,600
around his eyes and everything.

1211
00:47:28,200 --> 00:47:30,380
And little Ryan, one of the grandkids, was

1212
00:47:30,380 --> 00:47:31,960
sitting at the table and said, why does

1213
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:33,380
grandpa look like an alligator?

1214
00:47:36,220 --> 00:47:43,530
Kids, you can imagine great-great-grandchildren sitting

1215
00:47:43,530 --> 00:47:44,910
there with old Joseph.

1216
00:47:45,170 --> 00:47:47,770
Imagine him with white hair or no hair,

1217
00:47:49,210 --> 00:47:54,190
crow's feet, speaking to them about the things

1218
00:47:54,190 --> 00:47:55,950
he heard from Jacob.

1219
00:47:55,950 --> 00:47:58,590
When he was a boy of Isaac and

1220
00:47:58,590 --> 00:48:03,280
of Abraham and of Shem and of Noah

1221
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,180
and of Adam and of the history of

1222
00:48:06,180 --> 00:48:08,300
redemption of the world before the fall.

1223
00:48:08,500 --> 00:48:10,080
Imagine the things that he had to say

1224
00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:10,820
to these kids.

1225
00:48:12,300 --> 00:48:16,440
And Joseph said to his brethren, I'm dying,

1226
00:48:16,820 --> 00:48:21,160
but God will surely visit you and bring

1227
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:22,660
you out of this land and to the

1228
00:48:22,660 --> 00:48:25,640
land which he swore to Abraham and to

1229
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,500
Isaac and to Jacob.

1230
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,900
And Joseph took an oath of the children

1231
00:48:31,900 --> 00:48:35,180
of Israel saying, God will surely visit you.

1232
00:48:35,680 --> 00:48:40,160
You shall carry up my bones from this

1233
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:40,680
place.

1234
00:48:40,780 --> 00:48:42,400
Now he knows that is, you know, he's

1235
00:48:42,400 --> 00:48:44,740
asking for his remains to be carried up.

1236
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:45,940
He doesn't want to be placed in a

1237
00:48:45,940 --> 00:48:46,300
pyramid.

1238
00:48:46,460 --> 00:48:47,300
He doesn't want to be put in a

1239
00:48:47,300 --> 00:48:47,680
monument.

1240
00:48:48,240 --> 00:48:49,400
His heart is in Canaan.

1241
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:52,160
His life at this point in time is

1242
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:52,860
in Egypt.

1243
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:55,760
He was called by God to be an

1244
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:56,780
administrator there.

1245
00:48:56,940 --> 00:48:59,520
And by the way, as you look at

1246
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:01,200
the great men in the Old Testament, whether

1247
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:05,640
it seems it was Abraham or Joseph or

1248
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:12,020
Moses or David, Daniel, Solomon, none of them

1249
00:49:12,020 --> 00:49:13,420
were Bible teachers or pastors.

1250
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:14,920
They were all administrators.

1251
00:49:15,540 --> 00:49:18,200
I encourage you in the business world and

1252
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,460
in the working world where you are to

1253
00:49:20,460 --> 00:49:23,120
take note that the majority of God's great

1254
00:49:23,120 --> 00:49:26,840
men through the scriptures were administrators.

1255
00:49:27,280 --> 00:49:31,560
They were men that excelled in the task

1256
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:33,300
that God called them to.

1257
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:34,420
And because of that.

1258
00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:38,860
Promotion came from God on their behalf.

1259
00:49:40,300 --> 00:49:41,540
He took an oath.

1260
00:49:42,060 --> 00:49:42,540
I'm dying.

1261
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:45,300
God's going to bring you out of this

1262
00:49:45,300 --> 00:49:46,520
land and bring you the land that he

1263
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,440
swore to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

1264
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,660
Joseph took an oath of the children of

1265
00:49:51,660 --> 00:49:55,840
Israel, saying, God will surely visit you.

1266
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:59,860
You shall carry up my bones from hence.

1267
00:50:00,200 --> 00:50:04,540
So Joseph died being one hundred and ten

1268
00:50:04,540 --> 00:50:08,480
years old and they embalmed him.

1269
00:50:09,060 --> 00:50:12,040
And he was put in a coffin in

1270
00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:12,540
Egypt.

1271
00:50:12,760 --> 00:50:15,860
Now, a very strange way to end the

1272
00:50:15,860 --> 00:50:16,100
book.

1273
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,340
We have covered in the study of Genesis

1274
00:50:18,340 --> 00:50:22,140
half of the Old Testament history from creation.

1275
00:50:22,780 --> 00:50:24,960
We are halfway through the Old Testament by

1276
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,720
the time we come to Joseph being placed

1277
00:50:27,720 --> 00:50:28,620
in a coffin.

1278
00:50:29,500 --> 00:50:32,800
The period of time that is now ahead

1279
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:35,860
of us from Genesis to Exodus, in fact,

1280
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:38,900
from between Genesis forty six three, where God

1281
00:50:38,900 --> 00:50:42,080
appears under Jacob one last time and Exodus

1282
00:50:42,080 --> 00:50:44,540
three, two is a very dark period.

1283
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:46,600
Four hundred years that God does not appear

1284
00:50:46,600 --> 00:50:48,120
to anyone until he appears to Moses.

1285
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:49,720
We have no record of God appearing to

1286
00:50:49,720 --> 00:50:50,360
Joseph ever.

1287
00:50:52,470 --> 00:50:54,490
We have covered half of the Old Testament

1288
00:50:54,490 --> 00:50:55,710
history in our study.

1289
00:50:56,310 --> 00:50:58,150
Joseph's coffin ends up to be a mute

1290
00:50:58,150 --> 00:51:01,450
testimony laying in Egypt as things become difficult

1291
00:51:01,450 --> 00:51:04,550
and they are working there in the brick

1292
00:51:04,550 --> 00:51:06,470
kilns and they are under hard labor.

1293
00:51:06,610 --> 00:51:08,290
There is this coffin that will sit there

1294
00:51:08,290 --> 00:51:10,650
and speak to their hearts of a promise

1295
00:51:10,650 --> 00:51:12,150
of a better place.

1296
00:51:12,830 --> 00:51:14,410
You know, as we look at the the

1297
00:51:14,410 --> 00:51:18,810
book of Genesis, remember, Jesus said many will

1298
00:51:18,810 --> 00:51:20,370
come from the east and the west and

1299
00:51:20,370 --> 00:51:22,570
sit down at the table with Abraham, Isaac

1300
00:51:22,570 --> 00:51:23,930
and Jacob in the kingdom.

1301
00:51:24,130 --> 00:51:25,490
Won't that be some dinner?

1302
00:51:30,220 --> 00:51:32,060
Won't it be amazing to sit down with

1303
00:51:32,060 --> 00:51:35,840
them and say now in chapter forty six

1304
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:37,500
where it says that what was that talking

1305
00:51:37,500 --> 00:51:37,760
about?

1306
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:39,760
You know, won't it be amazing to sit

1307
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,180
with them and to look at these men,

1308
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:44,560
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph?

1309
00:51:45,780 --> 00:51:47,400
Reuben, you're the one that Jacob.

1310
00:51:47,540 --> 00:51:48,720
Yeah, that was me.

1311
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:57,760
It seems sad that the book begins in

1312
00:51:57,760 --> 00:51:58,080
the beginning.

1313
00:51:58,220 --> 00:52:00,200
God created the heavens and earth and it

1314
00:52:00,200 --> 00:52:01,520
ends with a coffin in Egypt.

1315
00:52:02,140 --> 00:52:05,080
But there it is harking of hope.

1316
00:52:05,180 --> 00:52:07,080
It is looking towards resurrection.

1317
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:08,660
It is looking towards life.

1318
00:52:09,360 --> 00:52:11,960
Joseph wants his coffin to be carried up

1319
00:52:11,960 --> 00:52:14,700
and put in Canaan because when the Messiah

1320
00:52:14,700 --> 00:52:16,360
comes, he wants to wake up at the

1321
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:16,960
right place.

1322
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:18,120
He doesn't want to have to walk from

1323
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:19,920
Egypt to Jerusalem to see him.

1324
00:52:20,020 --> 00:52:21,640
He wants to get up where he is

1325
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:22,540
going to touch down.