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Genesis 49: Jacob (Israel) gathered his children to
hear what he had to say before he died. Reuben the first son would stop
excelling because he slept with one of Israel's wives (Bilhah - mother of Dan
and Naphtali). Simeon and Levi are
violent to men and oxen, killed in their anger, and will be scattered throughout
the promised land (Levites are the priests without land and serve in all other
territories). Judah will be king, other sons will bow to him, and will be
wealthy until Jesus comes. Zebulun will be by the sea and be haven for
ships. Issachar is strong, but because of laziness due to his good land,
he will labor forcefully for others. Dan will provide justice, is a serpent that cause others
pain, and needs deliverance. Gad will be attacked, but will defend himself
successfully. Asher will have rich food even for kings, while Naphtali
will have beautiful descendants. Joseph will be attacked, but God will
sustain him and he will prosper in blessings. Benjamin will devour preys
and divide plunders. Israel then instructed his sons to bury him in the
same land where Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah, and Leah were buried (Leah
gets the best blessing than Rachel because she was buried with the Patriarchs.
She was never loved and was not supposed to be Israel's wife, yet she gave
birth to the priests (Levites - Moses) and Judah kings - (David, Solomon, and Jesus).
What wants you can be greater than what you want). Israel then died.
Genesis 50: Joseph ordered the physicians to embalm Israel, which
took the normal 40 days, and Egypt mourned for Israel 70 days. Joseph took
permission to go bury Israel in Canaan as Israel had instructed them to before he died
and Pharaoh granted his request. Even Egyptian dignitaries went along to
bury Israel in Canaan. After they returned to Egypt, The brothers were
scared that Joseph may revenge what they did to him now that their father is
dead, so they sent a message to Joseph saying that his father wanted him to
forgive their wrongdoing. Evildoers, the godless, and the wicked
genuinely have no peace of mind regardless of time. The brothers came to bow to Joseph and said they were
his slaves, but Joseph said what happened was for the good of many because of
God. He also told them not to worry because he was going to provide for
them. Joseph died at 110 years old and saw his great-grand children.
He made his brothers promise to take his bones back to Canaan and was also
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The Political & Spiritual Purpose of the
Holy Land
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Exodus 1: There were 70 descendants of Israel in Egypt. Full
Arabs descendants of Abraham began 8 of the 12 tribes of Israel, while Arab and
African (mothers) mixture began the other four tribes - Dan (justice), Naphtali
(beautiful children), Gad (Defense), & Asher food for kings). Israel gradually
become more African in African Egypt after staying there for over 400 years.
Even the full blooded Arabs of the Israeli nation such as Joseph, married an
Egyptian and Judah was with Canaanite women, both of African (Ham) descent.
Unlike Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, the nation of Israel never returned to Arabia
to get their wives, but rather, married Egyptian or other African women
(Ethiopia or Canaan) in Egypt for over 400 years because the famine was so
severe all around Egypt. People relocate to a land of plenty and not to
the lands of scarcity. After the original children of Israel had died, a
new Pharaoh who did not care about the origin of the Israelites became scared
that they were getting too many and too strong. He feared that they may
join their enemies at war and leave Egypt poor, so they put them under forced
labor and ruthless slave masters. Pharaoh ordered that all male children
of the Israelites showed be killed or thrown into the Nile River.
Exodus 2:
Moses was born by parents from Levi. The mother hid him for
3 months and afterwards placed him in a basket to sail along the Nile while
his sister watched. Pharaoh's daughter saw him and adopted him as her son.
The sister asked the princess if a Hebrew woman can nurse the baby for her.
The princess agreed and paid Moses' mother to do so. The princess named him Moses
(Drawn out of water). When Moses got older, he went to were the Hebrews
(Israelites) worked as slaves. He once killed an Egyptian for beating a
Hebrew. The next day, he tried to stop two Hebrews from fighting, but they
challenged him and asked if he wanted to kill them like he did the Egyptian.
This means that Moses knew he was Hebrew and the Hebrews knew that he was
Hebrew, but were jealous of his privileged life in the Egyptian palace. The
Egyptians could not tell that Moses was Hebrew because the two nations were now African
after 400 years of marrying African women, but the Hebrews knew their relatives
because Moses' mother or sister may have informed them. Pharaoh tried to
kill Moses (his adopted grand-child) but he ran to Midian (step brother of Isaac
& Ishmael, sons of Abraham) and assisted the daughters of the Midian's priest at
the well with their livestock. Moses stayed with the priest and married
one of his daughters who gave him a son. Pharaoh dies and God hears
the cries of the Hebrews from the pain of slavery. God also remembers his
promise of 400 years of slavery in Egypt and the promised land to Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. |
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