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The well-known hymn, Standing
on the Promises, by
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Russell Carter is familiar
to most church-goers.
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But what are
those promises?
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Do you know?
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If you guess, "Salvation
through Jesus Christ,"
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that's certainly one
of the promises.
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But do you know to whom
that promise was given,
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and what other promise
accompanied it?
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And do you realize that this other promise explains what
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is happening geopolitically
in our world today?
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We read in Genesis 12:2-3, that a man named Abram was told to
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leave his country and go to a place that God had chosen for
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him, and he would be blessed mightily if he did so.
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Notice these promises:
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I will make you a great
nation; I will bless you
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And make your name great;
And you shall be a blessing.
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I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who
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curses you; And in you all
the families of the earth
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shall be blessed.
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It's generally
understood that,
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...in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
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...is a reference to the
Messiah--Jesus the Christ.
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But what about the blessing
of national greatness?
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Is this fulfilled by the tiny state we now call Israel?
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Or was it the kingdom of Israel under Kings David or Solomon?
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Or does it mean
far more than that?
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The promise of a Savior
is general knowledge,
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but we'll see on today's
program, one of the
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most remarkable truths
of Scripture.
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It's a truth so plain
a child can understand,
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but one that theologians
fail to explain.
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That truth is the promise of national greatness to Abraham,
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and it explains what we
see in our world today.
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Stay with me now, as we'll
look at the promises of God
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to Abraham--promises that God cannot, and has not, broken.
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A warm welcome to all of
you from all of us here at
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Tomorrow's World, where
we fearlessly explain,
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from the pages of the Bible,
promises and prophecies
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others don't understand,
or simply ignore.
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Do you realize, dear friends, that God gave two major
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promises to the patriarch Abraham, passed those along
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to his descendants, and has brought them to pass
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thousands of years later?
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Most church-goers are
familiar with one of them,
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but they are woefully
ignorant of the other.
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Why?
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And why should this
be important to you?
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When people sing "Standing
on the Promises,"
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do they know what
those promises are?
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The promises of God are found
in the book of Genesis,
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so let's begin with chapter
12, verses 1-3, where we
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are introduced to a
man named Abram.
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Now the LORD had said to Abram: "Get out of your country,
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from your family and from your father's house, to a land
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that I will show you.
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I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make
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your name great; and you
shall be a blessing.
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I will bless those who
bless you, and I will
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curse him who curses
you; and in you all the
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families of the earth
shall be blessed."
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Then in verse 7 we
read the following:
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Then the LORD appeared
to Abram and said,
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"To your descendants I
will give this land."
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How is it that a promise
made nearly 4,000 years
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ago could affect us
in the 21st century?
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Today we see a struggle
in the Middle East over
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the land promised to Abram
and his descendants.
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But there is far more
significance to the
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promises made to Abraham.
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Notice in chapter 13 of
Genesis that God promised
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this man, who was childless
at the time, that he would
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be the father of millions,
and that his descendants
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would spread out in
all directions.
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And the LORD
said to Abram...
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"Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are--
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northward, southward,
eastward, and westward;
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for all the land which
you see I give to you
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and your descendants forever.
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And I will make your descendants as the dust of the earth;
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so that if a man could number the dust of the earth,
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then your descendants
also could be numbered.
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People often think of the
promised land as only that
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area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea,
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as we hear angry chants today, "From the river to the sea."
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But the promise included
much more, as we see from
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the 15th chapter, verse 18,
where God told Abram,
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"To your descendants I have
given this land, from the
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river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates."
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The River Euphrates starts in Turkey, flows through Syria
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and modern Iraq and empties
into the Persian Gulf.
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This may not mean that all
territory south and west
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of the Euphrates
was given to Israel.
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But clearly much more
than most people realize.
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And even anciently, Israel
possessed land on the east
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side of the Jordan.
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When Abram was 99 years old
and before the birth of Isaac,
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in chapter 17, beginning
in verse 4, God told him
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the following:
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"As for Me, behold, My
covenant is with you,
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and you shall be a father
of many nations.
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No longer shall your name
be called Abram, but your
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name shall be Abraham; for
I have made you a father
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of many nations.
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I will make you exceedingly fruitful; and I will make
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nations of you, and kings
shall come from you."
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Notice that the very name Abraham means "father of
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many nations."
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And his wife Sarah was prophesied to be, notice
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verse 16: "... a mother of nations; kings of peoples
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shall be from her."
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As we go through the book
of Genesis, we find that
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God expanded the promises
far beyond a tiny land on
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the eastern shore of
the Mediterranean Sea.
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However, Sarah was barren,
and in the course of time,
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Abraham and Sarah
became impatient.
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Sarah suggested that
Abraham could produce
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a child by a surrogate.
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The result was the
birth of Ishmael.
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Dear friends, you cannot
understand our world today
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without understanding
the promises of national
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greatness made to Abraham
and his descendants.
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Yes, the promises made to him include the promised Messiah,
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Jesus Christ, but that's
not the whole story.
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These promises include
kings (plural), nations
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(plural), and, as we will
see, great agricultural
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and mineral wealth, and
great military power.
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Welcome back to Tomorrow's
World, where today I'm
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explaining, from the Bible, promises given thousands of
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years ago that explain
our world today.
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We read that God tested
Abraham to know who he
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would put first--
God, or his son?
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He passed that test and
God responded by making
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the promises unconditional
and giving greater detail.
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Notice it in Genesis 22:16-18,
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"By Myself I have sworn,
says the LORD, because you
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have done this thing, and
have not withheld your son,
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your only son--blessing
I will bless you, and
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multiplying I will multiply
your descendants as the stars
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of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and
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your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
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In your seed all the
nations of the earth shall
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be blessed, because you
have obeyed My voice."
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So far, we have seen that
God promised the following:
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#1: In your seed all the
nations of the earth
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shall be blessed.
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#2: God would give great
national blessings
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to Abraham and
his descendants.
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#3: His descendants would
be in number as the sands
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of the seashore.
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And #4: They would possess
the gate of their enemies.
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The Apostle Paul explains
that point number 1--
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"In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed"--
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refers to the Messiah.
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Notice it in Galatians 3:16,
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Now to Abraham and his Seed
were the promises made.
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He does not say, "And to seeds," as of many, but
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as of one, "And to your
Seed," who is Christ.
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That single seed, that would bring a blessing to the
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whole world, is the promise
of Jesus Christ, who gave
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His life for the sins of the world and offered salvation
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and eternal life to mankind.
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This promise is generally
understood, but what about
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other aspects of the
promise made to Abraham?
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What about:
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Kings?
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Territory?
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Descendants in
the millions?
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And possessing gates
of their enemies?
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Genesis 24:60 shows
how these promises were
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conferred upon Abraham's
daughter-in-law:
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And they blessed Rebekah
and said to her:
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"Our sister, may you become
the mother of thousands of
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ten thousands [that's tens
of millions]; and may your
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descendants possess the
gates [plural] of those
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who hate them."
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My friends, these are remarkable promises, if they are true.
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And we're going to see that they are true, that they have been,
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and are being fulfilled
right before our very eyes.
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Furthermore, these promises affect your life.
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Now we come to a part of
the story that explains
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what is happening in the
Middle East even as I speak.
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We find that Abraham's
daughter-in-law, Rebekah
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was pregnant with twin boys
who struggled within her womb.
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When she inquired of God
as to why there was such
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a struggle within her, He answered, Genesis 25:23,
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"Two nations are in your
womb, two peoples shall be
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separated from your body; one people shall be stronger than
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the other, and the older
shall serve the younger."
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The two sons were
named Jacob and Esau.
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Do you realize that what
is happening in that part
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of the world all began with
what we're reading here in
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the book of Genesis?
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The struggles that began
between Jacob and Esau
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were foretold nearly 4,000
years in advance, but what
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remains of this story is
even more remarkable.
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Esau was the older of the two and was in line to receive
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a double portion of the inheritance as a right of birth.
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But Jacob was a crafty man
and induced Esau to sell him
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his birthright--Genesis 25, beginning in verse 29:
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"Now Jacob cooked a stew;
and Esau came in from the
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field, and he was weary.
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And Esau said to Jacob,
"Please feed me with
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that same red stew,
for I am weary" ...
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But Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright as of this day."
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And Esau said, "Look, I am
about to die; so what is
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this birthright to me?"
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Now it's evident by what
followed that he was not
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really ready to die:
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Then Jacob said, "Swear
to me as of this day."
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So he swore to him, and sold
his birthright to Jacob.
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And Jacob gave Esau bread
and stew of lentils;
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then he ate and drank,
arose, and went his way.
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Thus Esau despised
his birthright."
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In the course of time,
Jacob's name was changed
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to Israel, and the
promises became his.
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The one seed, Christ, would
come from his descendants.
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But also, would come all the national blessings of wealth,
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land, kings, tens of millions
in population, possession of
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the gates of their enemies,
and great military power.
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Now I'll show that in the remainder of this program,
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but let me remind you
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given to Abraham and
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This clear and
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Welcome back.
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On this Tomorrow's World program, I'm showing you what
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God revealed thousands of years in advance of what would become
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of the descendants of the biblical patriarch Abraham.
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And as we will see, those
promises, given thousands
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of years ago, are coming
alive before our very eyes.
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Let's pick up the story
in Genesis 35 where God
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appeared to Abraham's
grandson, Jacob.
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We'll begin in verse 10:
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And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; your name shall not
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be called Jacob anymore, but Israel shall be your name"....
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Also God said to him:
"I am God Almighty.
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Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations
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shall proceed from you, and kings shall come from your body.
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The land which I gave Abraham and Isaac I give to you;
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and to your descendants after you I give this land."
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Notice this additional
detail given here.
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Abram's name was changed
to Abraham, meaning a
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father of many, or a
multitude, of nations.
17:10.095 --> 17:12.631
But here we see that the
promise to his grandson
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explains the promise
included a single nation
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and a company of nations.
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So what are we to
think of this?
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And should this
matter to you?
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Well absolutely it should,
as we shall see.
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Let's go to the end of
Genesis and read some
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remarkable prophecies.
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Bible students know the
story of Jacob's 12 sons
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and how they all ended
up in Egypt.
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One of Jacob's (or Israel's)
son was Judah--the father
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of the Jews.
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Another was Joseph.
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As Israel came to the end
of his life, he adopted
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Joseph's two sons--
Manasseh and Ephraim.
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We read of this in
chapter 48 of Genesis.
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After confirming what
God had promised him,
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Israel then said something
almost no one understands,
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yet there's nothing
difficult here.
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Let's notice this
in Genesis 48:
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"And now your two sons,
Ephraim and Manasseh,
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who were born to you in
the land of Egypt before
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I came to you in Egypt,
are mine; as Reuben
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and Simeon, they
shall be mine.
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Your offspring whom you beget after them shall be yours;
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they will be called by the
name of their brothers in
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their inheritance."
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This adoption by Israel
of Joseph's sons was
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confirmed in verse 16:
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"Let my name [that is, the name Israel] be named upon them,
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And the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac;
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And let them grow into
a multitude in the midst
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of the earth."
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This is vitally important.
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The name of Israel was placed, not on the sons of Judah,
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the Jews, but on the sons
of his brother, Joseph.
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Now let that sink in.
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I repeat, the name of Israel
was placed, not on the sons of
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Judah--not on the Jews--but on the sons of his brother Joseph.
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And as the verses that follow demonstrate, the birthright
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blessings, of a single nation, and a multitude of nations,
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goes to Joseph's sons--
Manasseh and Ephraim.
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The verses that
follow prove that.
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Jacob, that is Israel,
commanded Joseph to bring
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his sons forward to him, that the birthright blessing could
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be passed to them.
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Joseph then placed the oldest, that is Manasseh, before his
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father so that Israel's right hand would be on his head;
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and the younger Ephraim in
front of Israel's left hand.
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However, Israel crossed
his hands and conferred
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the greater blessing
on the younger brother.
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Joseph protested here
in Genesis 48:18,
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"Not so, my father, for
this one is the firstborn;
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put your right hand
on his head."
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But his father refused and said, "I know, my son, I know.
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He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great;
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but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and
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his descendants shall become
a multitude of nations."
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Notice it.
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The older son would become
a great nation, but his
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younger brother would become a
multitude or company of nations.
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This should be proof
enough that these
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birthright blessings
never went to the Jews.
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But if you have your Bible,
turn now to 1 Chronicles 5,
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or write this down
and look it up later.
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Here we see a clear statement that the birthright went to
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neither the firstborn, Reuben, of Israel, nor to the Jews.
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Beginning in 1 Chronicles 5:1,
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"Now the sons of Reuben the
firstborn of Israel--
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he was indeed the firstborn,
but because he defiled
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[that is, by sexual misconduct] his father's bed, his birthright
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was given to the sons of Joseph [that is, Ephraim and Manasseh],
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the son of Israel, so that
the genealogy is not listed
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according to the birthright;
yet Judah prevailed over
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his brothers, and from him
came a ruler [that is the
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Messiah--Jesus Christ],
although the birthright
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[the national blessings]
was Joseph's."
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Understand.
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Jacob, whose name was changed
to Israel, had twelve sons.
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Among the twelve are Judah,
the father of the Jews,
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but also Joseph, whose descendants, through
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Ephraim and Manasseh,
were destined to become
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a single great nation and
a company of nations.
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From the Jews would come the Messiah, but the promise of
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national greatness was given to his brother Joseph and his sons.
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Not only is this what Scripture tells us, so does history.
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When have the Jews ever been
a great nation and a company
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of nations possessing the bounties of the earth?
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Some think the split between
the house of Judah and the
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house of Israel fulfilled
this, but that cannot be.
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Because the house of Israel
was not made up of Jews.
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The Jews were only a
single nation--never
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a multitude of nations.
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Welcome back.
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Since I only have a short
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let me get right to it.
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Prior to his death, Jacob
(that is Israel) called all
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twelve of his sons and foretold
what would come of them at
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the time of the end.
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Here it is in
Genesis 49:1,
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And Jacob called his sons
and said, "Gather together,
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that I may tell you what shall
befall you in the last days."
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To Judah (that is the Jews) we read of the promise of a line
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of kings culminating in
the returning Messiah.
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And we read of that
in verse 10:
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"The scepter shall not
depart from Judah, Nor a
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lawgiver from between his
feet, Until Shiloh comes;
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And to Him shall be the
obedience of the people."
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We also see from verses 8
and 9 that the Jews will
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be a powerful military force
at the time of the end,
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and is that not exactly
what we see in our news?
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"Judah...Your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies....
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Judah is a lion's whelp;
From the prey, my son,
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you have gone up.
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He bows down, he lies down
as a lion; And as a lion,
25:47.879 --> 25:50.248
who shall rouse him?"
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This is confirmed in a
prophecy about the Jews
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and Jerusalem, found
in Zechariah 12:6...
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"In that day I will make the governors of Judah like
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a firepan in the woodpile,
and like a fiery torch in
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the sheaves; they shall
devour all the surrounding
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peoples on the right hand
and on the left...."
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But what about the
birthright descendants of
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Joseph during the time of
the end--these very days?
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Back in Genesis 49:22,
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"Joseph is a fruitful bough... His branches run over the wall.
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The archers have bitterly
grieved him, Shot at him
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and hated him.
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But his bow remained in
strength, And the arms of
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his hands were made strong
By the hands of the Mighty
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God of Jacob... By the God of your father who will help you,
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And by the Almighty who will
bless you With blessings
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of heaven above, Blessings
of the deep that lies beneath,
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Blessings of the breasts
and of the womb.
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The blessings of your
father Have excelled the
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blessings of my ancestors,
Up to the utmost bound of
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the everlasting hills.
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They shall be on the head
of Joseph, And on the crown
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of the head of him who was separate from his brothers."
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Dear friends, there is so
much more to this story that
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involves the British-descended and American peoples.
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in today's news, and what
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