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Genesis 49 - 12 Tribes of Israel, The last
Days
Genesis 1, 2,
3, 4,
5, 6,
7, 8,
9,10,11,12,13,
14, 15,
16, 17,
18, 19,
20,
21, 22, 23,
24, 25,
26, 27,
28, 29,
30, 31,
32, 33,
34, 35,
36, 37,
38, 39,
40, 41,
42,
43, 44,
45, 46,
47, 48,
49, 50
Genesis 49:1 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather
yourselves together, that I may tell you that which shall befall
you in the last days.
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A study of these will show that the prophecy
(verse 1) and "blessing" (verse 28) extends to,
and embraces the days of Messiah, and His first
and second advents.
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This blessing (verse 28) is therefore direct
prophecy.
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Jacob called unto his sons, that I may tell you
that which shall befall you in the last days.
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Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be
called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a
prince hast thou power with God and with men,
and hast prevailed.
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Genesis 45:26 And told him, saying,
Joseph is yet alive, and he is
governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob's
heart fainted, for he believed them not.
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Jacob = 12 tribes of Israel= which shall befall
you.
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The last days = In ten
of these rendered "latter days".
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1. Numbers 24:14 And now, behold, I go
unto my people: come therefore, and I
will advertise thee what this people shall do to
thy people in the latter days.
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2. Deuteronomy 4:30 When thou art in
tribulation, and all these things are come upon
thee, even in the latter days,
if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and shalt be
obedient unto his voice;
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3. Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that
after my death ye will utterly corrupt
yourselves, and turn aside from the way
which I have commanded you; and evil will befall
you in the latter days; because
ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD, to
provoke him to anger through the work of your
hands.
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4. Isaiah 2:2 And it shall come to pass
in the last days, that
the mountain of the LORD'S house shall be
established in the top of the mountains, and
shall be exalted above the hills; and all
nations shall flow unto it.
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5. Jeremiah 23:20 The anger of the LORD
shall not return, until he have executed,
and till he have performed the thoughts of his
heart: in the latter days ye
shall consider it perfectly.
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6. Jeremiah 30:24 The fierce anger of the
LORD shall not return, until he
have done it, and until he have performed
the intents of his heart: in the latter
days ye shall consider it.
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7. Jeremiah 48:47 Yet will I bring again
the captivity of Moab in the latter days,
saith the LORD. Thus far is the judgment
of Moab.
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8. Jeremiah 49:39 But it shall come to
pass in the latter days,
that I will bring again the captivity of
Elam, saith the LORD.
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9. Ezekiel 38:16 And thou shalt come up
against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover
the land; it shall be in the latter days,
and I will bring thee against my land, that the
heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified
in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
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10. Daniel 2:28 But there is a God in
heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known
to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be
in the latter days. Thy dream, and the
visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;
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Daniel 10:14 Now I am come to make thee
understand what shall befall thy people
in the latter days: for yet the vision
is for many days.
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Hosea 3:5 Afterward shall the children of
Israel return, and seek the LORD their God, and
David their king; and shall fear the LORD and
his goodness in the latter days.
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Micah 4:1 But in the last days
it shall come to pass, that the
mountain of the house of the LORD shall be
established in the top of the mountains, and it
shall be exalted above the hills; and people
shall flow unto it.
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Genesis 45:26 And told him, saying, Joseph is
yet alive, and he is governor over all
the land of Egypt. And Jacob's heart fainted,
for he believed them not.
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27 And they told him all the words of Joseph,
which he had said unto them: and when he saw the
wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the
spirit of Jacob their father revived:
28 And Israel said, It is enough; Joseph
my son is yet alive: I will go and see
him before I die.
2 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and
hearken unto Israel your father.
3 Reuben, thou art my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of
my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of
power:
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Reuben the beginning of my strength
4 Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest
up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my
couch.
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Unstable as water = Numbers 16:1 Now
Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the
son of Levi, and Dathan and Abiram, the sons of
Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of
Reuben, took men:
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2 And they rose up before Moses, with
certain of the children of Israel, two hundred
and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the
congregation, men of renown:
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Water thou = The word "unstable" = to flow down,
and requires the Ellipsis to be filled up
thus: "Flowing down as water "passes away, so"
thou shalt not excel".
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What thus would pass away is set forth in
Genesis 49:3 Reuben, thou art my
firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my
strength, the excellency of dignity, and the
excellency of power:
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And so it came to pass in 1 Chronicles 5:1 Now
the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for
he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as
he defiled his father's bed, his
birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph
the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to
be reckoned after the birthright.
5 Simeon and Levi are brethren; instruments of cruelty are in
their habitations.
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Simeon and Levi are brethren
6 O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their
assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger
they slew a man, and in their self will they digged down a wall.
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My soul = myself
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Secret = council
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Unto = insert "and" = "and into".
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Digged down a wall = read "hamstrung an
ox".
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Genesis 28:3 And God Almighty bless thee,
and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that
thou mayest be a multitude of people;
7 Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for
it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in
Israel.
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I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in
Israel.
8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand
shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children
shall bow down before thee.
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Judah whom thy brethren shall praise
9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone
up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion;
who shall rouse him up?
10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the
gathering of the people be.
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The sceptre shall not depart from Judah
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Sceptre = ruler = Put by for Him Who holds it.
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Numbers 24:17 I shall see him, but not
now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there
shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre
shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the
corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of
Sheth.
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Star out of Jacob = Messiah
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Not now = Who is not
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Moab = an incestuous son of Lot; also his
territory and descendants
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Sheth = The son born to Adam and Eve after the
death of Abel
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Shiloh = OT:7886 = an epithet of the Messiah
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Psalm 45:6 Thy throne, O God, is
for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom
is a right sceptre.
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Zechariah 10:11 And he shall pass through
the sea with affliction, and shall smite the
waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river
shall dry up: and the pride of Assyria shall be
brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall
depart away.
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Lawgiver = Numbers 21:18 The princes
digged the well, the nobles of the people digged
it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their
staves. And from the wilderness they went to
Mattanah:
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Deuteronomy 33:21 And he provided the
first part for himself, because there, in a
portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he
came with the heads of the people, he executed
the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with
Israel.
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Psalm 60:7 Gilead is mine, and
Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is
the strength of mine head; Judah is my
lawgiver;
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Psalm 108:8 Gilead is mine;
Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is
the strength of mine head; Judah is my
lawgiver;
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Isaiah 33:22 For the LORD is our
judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD
is our king; he will save us.
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From between his feet = from his
posterity = read "from his thighs" = "his
seed"
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Deuteronomy 28:57 And toward her young
one that cometh out from between her feet, and
toward her children which she shall bear: for
she shall eat them for want of all things
secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith
thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
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Until Shiloh come = until He, Shiloh, comes
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Note the six Pentateuch titles:
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Seed = Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity
between thee and the woman, and between thy seed
and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou
shalt bruise his heel.
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Shiloh = Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall
not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto
him shall the gathering of the people
be.
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Sceptre = Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall
not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto
him shall the gathering of the people
be.
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Shepherd and Stone = Genesis 49:24 But
his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his
hands were made strong by the hands of the
mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is
the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
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Star = Numbers 24:17 I shall see him, but
not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there
shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre
shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the
corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of
Sheth.
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Gathering = obedience, submission
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Jeremiah 31:10 Hear the word of the LORD,
O ye nations, and declare it in the isles
afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will
gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth
his flock.
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Note the Structure of this verse (Alternation).
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The Sceptre shall not depart from Judah
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Ezekiel 21:27 I will overturn, overturn,
overturn, it: and it shall be no more,
until he come whose right it is; and I will give
it him.
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Until He, Shiloh, come Whose right it is. Nor a
Lawgiver from his seed
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And until to Him, the "Lawgiver, shall be" the
obedience of the peoples.
11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the
choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in
the blood of grapes:
12 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with
milk.
13 Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea; and he shall be
for an haven of ships; and his border shall be unto Zidon.
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Zebulun an haven of ships
14 Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:
15 And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was
pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant
unto tribute.
16 Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.
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Dan shall judge his people
17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that
biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
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Dan shall be a serpent by the way = beguiling to
idolatry
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The first tribe to do so.
18 I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.
19 Gad, a troop shall overcome him: but he shall overcome at the
last.
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Gad he shall overcome at the last.
20 Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield royal
dainties.
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Asher
he shall yield royal dainties
21 Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
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Naphtali is a hind let loose
22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well;
whose branches run over the wall:
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Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by
a well; whose branches run over the wall
23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and
hated him:
24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were
made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from
thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
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Joseph hands were made strong by the hands of
the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the
shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by
the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven
above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the
breasts, and of the womb:
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This Should be "El = GOD
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Even by the God of thy father, who shall help
thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee
with blessings
26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the
blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the
everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on
the crown of the head of him that was separate from his
brethren.
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Separate = or set apart
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James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when
he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to
them that love him.
27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall
devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
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Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf
28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it
that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one
according to his blessing he blessed them.
29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered
unto my people: bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in
the field of Ephron the Hittite,
30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is
before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with
the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a
buryingplace.
31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they
buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
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Abraham The five previously buried there form
an acrostic of the sixth.
Isaac, Sarah, Rebekah, Abraham, Leah = Israel
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Hebrew 11:13 These all died in faith, not having
received the promises, but having seen them afar
off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced
them, and confessed that they were strangers and
pilgrims on the earth.
32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was
from the children of Heth.
33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he
gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and
was gathered unto his people.
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Yielded up the ghost = The spirit going to God
who gave it
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Eccl 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the
earth as it was: and the spirit shall return
unto God who gave it.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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