JACOB GIVES BIRTH TO THE ISRAELITE NATION
As the prophet Isaac grows old, he blesses his son Jacob as the father of
many futuristic nations. However, he is very unhappy with his son Esau who married a Hittite woman
contrary to his will and to that of his mother Rebecca. Jacob went back to the land of his ancestors and
married Leah and Rachel who were two sisters. Leah gave him four sons first, their names were:
Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah. Rachel gives her slave-girl Bilhah to Jacob because she could not
conceive him any children herself. Her slave-girl Bilhah then gives birth to a son who is named Dan and
then she conceives again and gives birth to another son whom she calls Naphtali.
Then Leah gives her slave-girl Zilpath to Jacob and she gives birth to two sons, they named them
Gad and Asher. Leah gives Jacob two more sons which they named Issachar and Zebulin. Leah has
now given six sons to Jacob. Later on, Leah gave birth to a daughter and they named her Dinah. Finally
Rachel, who had been barren until now, prayed to God to give her a child. God answered her prayer and
she gave birth to a son and named him Joseph. All in all, and so far, Jacob's wives gave him a total of
twelve children - eleven sons and one daughter.
JACOB BECOMES ISRAEL
Then God speaks to Jacob and tells him :"Jacob is your name, but your shall no longer be Jacob : Israel shall
be your name."
Thus the Israelite nation was born. Then God spoke to Israel once again and
tells him :"I am God almighty. Be
fruitful and increase as a nation; a host of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from your
body. The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I give to you; and your descendants after you I give
this land."
History has recorded that Rachel gave birth to another son and, with her last
breath and on her death-bed, she names her new born son Ben-oni which means Son of good luck or
Son of the right hand. However, after Rachel's death, Jacob calls him Benjamin who becomes the
number twelve son of (Jacob) Israel. That is where the twelve tribes of Israel originated from.
Jacob, whose name had been changed to Israel by God himself, became the father of the Jewish
nation but he was also a great prophet. The next prophet who would follow in his footsteps was his young
son Joseph, as a prophet he would have the power to do wonderful true dream interpretations and, next
to the Egyptian Pharoah, he would become the prime minister of Egypt. He would minister to all of its
needs.
JOSEPH - ANOTHER PROPHET
Joseph's brothers disliked him because their father Jacob loved him more
than his other sons. So, at their first opportunity, they sold their brother Joseph to an Egyptian for twenty
pieces of silver. They told their father that a wild beast had devoured him during the night and that his
body had been torn to pieces.
Jacob mourned the death of his favourite son for a very long time. But the Lord was with Joseph
who prospered while living in the house of his Egyptian master who saw that God had chosen him to
carry out his will. Thus the Lord blessed everything and everyone who belonged to that Egyptian
household.
JOSEPH IS SENT TO JAIL
Joseph is sent to Jail after some false accusations are made by his master's
wife. While in jail, Joseph begins to interpret the dreams of some of the inmates. Two years later, the
Pharaoh had two vivid dreams which followed one another. He was unable to find anyone in his kingdom
who could give him a reasonable interpretation. The Pharaoh finally hears that an Hebrew by the name
of Joseph makes truly remarkable dream interpretations. He summons his servants and tells them to
have Joseph brought before him immediately so that he may be given a meaningful interpretation of his
dreams.
Joseph is brought before the Pharaoh and listens to the description of the dreams. Joseph tells
him that his two dreams are one dream. He then proceeds to gives him the true interpretations. He tells
him that there will be seven years of plenty (seven fat cows) followed by seven years of disastrous
crop failures (seven lean cows). He also tells him that he should find someone who will look after storing
the surplus Egyptian crops during the seven years of plenty.
JOSEPH BECOMES THE PRIME MINISTER OF EGYPT
The Pharaoh tells Joseph :
"Since a God has made all this known to you, there is no one so shrewd and intelligent as
you. You shall be in charge of my household, and all my people will depend on your every word. Only my
royal throne shall make me greater than you."
The Pharaoh then made Joseph equivalent to a Prime Minister to oversee
over all the lands and the people of Egypt and to store grain of various varieties during the seven years
of plenty.
ISRAEL SENDS HIS SONS TO EGYPT TO PURCHASE GRAIN
A famine came to many countries of that continent. Jacob, whose new name
was now Israel, sent ten of his sons to buy grain from Egypt because he had been told by travellers that
grain was in abundance in that country. However, he keeps his youngest son Benjamin with him at home
because he was the one which he loved the most since the disappearance of his favourite son Joseph.
Joseph's brothers travelled to Egypt at the request of their father. They visited the governor of Egypt who
was their own brother Joseph which they did not recognize.
Joseph recognizes his own brothers and tests them, he talks harshly to them through an interpreter
because he does not wish his brothers to recognize him yet. He accuses his own brothers of being
spies and then he throws them in jail for three days. After the three days, having questioned them about
their father and their youngest brother, he sends them back to their home with plenty of food and he
tells them to bring back their young brother Benjamin on their next trip.
However, he also tells them that one of them must remain behind as a hostage to insure that they
all come back to the land of Egypt. Joseph's brothers tell him that should his father lose their younger
brother Benjamin as he had lost their brother Joseph through their own fault, then their very aged father
will surely die of grief. They returned to their father and recounted to him everything that happened while
they had been in the land of Egypt. They also told their father Israel the conversation which they had with
the governor of Egypt who was their own younger brother Joseph whom they had not yet recognized.
Israel tells his sons to go back to Egypt. He reluctantly lets them take their youngest brother
Benjamin with them. Israel also gives his sons presents to be given to the governor of Egypt. He did not
know yet that the governor was his own son Joseph. He gives his sons balsam, honey, gum tragacanth,
myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds. He also doubles the amount of silver which he had previously
given to them. When Joseph saw that his brothers had returned to the land of Egypt with their younger
brother Benjamin he prepared a great feast for them. At noontime he met with them and began
questioning them about their father's health. He said to them : Joseph sat with his own brothers and served them himself but he gave his young brother Benjamin
greater portions than he gave to his other brothers. They ate and drank together merrily. Then Joseph
tells them that the time has come for them to go back to their aging father. However, Joseph plays a
trick on them and after they had left he sends men after them and brings them back.
Joseph tells his brothers that they may return to their homeland but that Benjamin must remain
behind. Judah pleads with Joseph and explains to him that their father will surely die of grief if they
return home without their younger brother Benjamin. Then Judah pleads again with Joseph and requests
that he keeps him as a hostage instead of Benjamin because he does not wish to cause his father any
more grief than he has had already. Joseph could no longer control his emotions so he tells his
attendants to leave the room. JOSEPH MAKES HIMSELF KNOWN TO HIS BROTHERS
Joseph finally makes himself known to his brothers, he said to them in their
own tongue : Joseph talks again with his brothers and says to them : Then Joseph embraced his younger brother Benjamin, they openly wept with joy.
He then kissed all his brothers and wept with them also. Afterwards they talked together for a very long
time. When everything that happened to Joseph reached the ears of the Pharaoh he sent a message to
Joseph and told him : Joseph's brothers did as ordered by the Pharaoh, they returned to their home
to tell everything to their father Jacob who lived in the land of Canaan. They explained to him what had
happened to them while they had been in Egypt. Then they gave their father the news that Joseph was
still alive and that next to the Pharaoh he was ruler over all of Egypt. When Jacob saw and heard all that
Joseph had done, he said to his sons : ISRAEL IMMIGRATES TO THE LAND OF EGYPT
Israel set out with all of his sons and their families and journeyed to the land
of Egypt stopping at Beersheba where he offered sacrifices to the God of his forefathers. While Israel
slept, he had a vivid dream in which God spoke to him. He said to him :"Jacob, Jacob". Jacob answered :"I am here." God said :
"I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid
to go down to Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation. I will go down with you to Egypt, for I myself
will bring you back again without fail ; and Joseph shall close your eyes."
So they all set out to the land of Egypt with their dependants, with all of their
wives and with all of their children. They also took all their herds of domesticated animals with them to
Egypt. Judah went on ahead so that he could inform his brother Joseph that all of the family members
were on their way to Egypt accompanied by their father Jacob whose name God had changed to Israel.
JOSEPH GOES TO MEET HIS FATHER AT GOSHEN
Joseph went on ahead and met his father at Goshen. When he met him, he
threw his arms around him and he wept and embraced him for a very long time. Israel then spoke to his
son Joseph and said to him : "I have seen your face
again, and you are still alive. Now I am ready to die."
Then Joseph tells his brothers and all of the members of their households
what to tell the Pharaoh. I will say to him :
"My brothers and my father's household who were in Canaan have come to me." Joseph also said to them :"When the
Pharaoh summons you and asks what your occupation is, you must say, "My lord, we have been
herdsmen all our lives, as our fathers were before us." You must say this
if you are to settle in the land of Goshen, because all shepherds are an abomination to the Egyptians.
Joseph goes and tells the pharaoh : The Pharaoh then spoke to Joseph and said the following words to him:
"So your father and your brothers have come to you.
The land of Egypt is yours; settle them in the best part of it. Let them live in Goshen, and if you know of
any capable men among them, make them chief herdsmen over my cattle."
ISRAEL MEETS THE PHARAOH
Joseph presented his father to the Pharaoh. Israel blesses him. The Pharaoh
asked Jacob his age. He answered him by saying :
"The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred and thirty." Then
Joseph's father and brothers all went out from the Pharaoh's presence to settle in the land of
Egypt.
JACOB (ISRAEL) BLESSES JOSEPH'S TWO SONS
Some time later, Joseph heard that his father had taken ill so he visited him
accompanied by his two young sons who were called Manassey and Ephraim. Jacob sat up in bed and
said to Joseph :"God Almighty appeared to me at Luz
in Canaan and blessed me." He said to me : "I will make you fruitful and increase your descendants until they become a host of
nations. I will give this land to your descendants after you as perpetual possession."
Then Jacob tells Joseph that he considers his children, Ephraim and
Manasseh, as his own children. He says to Joseph :
"I had not expected to see your face again, and now God has granted me to see your sons also."
He then said to Joseph :"The
God in whose presence my forefathers lived, my forefathers Abraham and Isaac, the God who has been
my shepherd all my life until this day, the angel who ransomed me from all misfortune, may he bless
these boys ; they shall be called by my name, and by that of my forefathers, Abraham and Isaac ; may
they grow into a great people on earth."
Then Jacob tells Joseph that he buried his mother Rachel in Bethlehem
when she died after having given birth to his younger brother Benjamin. Israel then holds Joseph's two
sons on his knees and hugs and kisses them, he then proceeds to bless them. Joseph noticed that his
father was holding his right hand on the youngest of the two boys, on Ephraim's head. Joseph tells his
father that it is not right that his right hand should be on Ephraim's head because he is the youngest of
Joseph's two children.
Joseph's father responded to him by saying : Then Jacob blessed the two boys and said the following words over them :
"When a blessing is pronounced in Israel, men shall
use your names and say, God made you like Ephraim and Manasseh."
Thus was Jacob setting Ephraim before Manasseh.
Many biblical experts are saying that Ephraim, Joseph's youngest son, represents the United States
of America and that his other son, Manasseh, represents the English Kingdom which is the United
Kingdom. They may be right because the united States of America, although it is a younger nation, has
definitely become the greater of the two.
After Jacob had finished blessing Joseph's two sons, he tells him : JACOB GIVES HIS SONS GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE
Jacob summons all of his sons and said to them :"Come near and I will tell you what will happen in days to come.
Gather around me and listen, you sons of Jacob ; listen to Israel your father".
Reuben you are first-born, my strength and the first fruit of my vigour,
excelling in pride, excelling in might, turbulent as a flood, you shall not excel ; because you climbed into
your father's bed ; then you defiled his concubine's couch.
Simeon and Levi are brothers, their spades became weapons of violence. My soul shall not enter
their council, my heart shall not join their company; for in their anger they killed men, wantonly they
hamstrung oxen. A curse be on their anger because it was fierce ; a curse on their wrath because it was
ruthless! I will scatter them in Jacob, I will disperse them in Israel.
Judah, your brothers shall praise you, your hand is on the neck of your enemies. Your father's sons
shall do you homage. Judah, you lion's whelp, you have returned from the kill, my son, and crouch and
stretch like a lion; and, like a lion, who dare rouse you? The sceptre shall not pass from Judah, nor the
staff from his descendants, so long as tribute is brought to him and the obedience of the nation is his.
To the vine he tethers his ass, and the colt of his ass to the red vine; he washes his cloak in wine, his
robes in the blood of grapes. Darker than wine are his eyes, his teeth wither than milk.
Zebulun dwells by the sea-shore, his shore is a haven for ships, and his frontier rests on Sidon.
Issachar, a gelded ass lying down in the cattle-pens, saw that a settled home was good and that the
land was pleasant, so he bent his back to the burden and submitted to perpetual forced labour.
Dan -- how insignificant his people, lowly as any tribe in Israel! Let Dan be a viper on the road, a
horned snake on the path, who bites the horse's fetlock so that the rider tumbles backwards. For your
salvation I wait in hope, O Lord.
Gad is raided by raiders, and he raids them from the rear. Asher shall have rich food as daily fare,
and provide dishes for a king. Naphtali is a spreading terebinth putting forth lovely boughs. Joseph is a
young oxen, an ox who lives by a spring with branches climbing over the wall. The archers savagely
attacked him, they shot at him and pressed him hard, but their bow was splintered by the Eternal and
the sinews of their arms were torn apart by the power of the strong one of Jacob, by the name of the
shepherd of Israel, by the God of your father - so may he help you, by God Almighty - so may he bless
you with the blessings of heaven above, the blessings of the deep that lurks below.
The blessings of breast and womb and the blessings of your father are stronger than the blessings
of the everlasting pools and the bounty of the eternal hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, on the
brow of the prince among his brothers.
Benjamin is a ravening wolf : in the morning, he devours the prey, in the evening he snatches a
share of the spoil."
Judah and Joseph are the only two brothers who are highly praised by their father Jacob. The Lord
speaking through Israel recounts the story of the twelve tribes of Israel. Then (Jacob) Israel dies and his
body is returned to the land of his forefathers.
Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel, told us that Joseph was similar to a young oxen. Could
he be the spirit essence referred to as the ox in the book of Revelation and whose biblical name is that
of the Branch?
Israel has also told us that his son Judah was like a lion, is he the spirit of the lion of Revelation
who also came to this world to animate the prophet Zoroaster? Israel was animated by the Holy Spirit
and he was the father of all Humanity. He is the father of all the people who presently exist on this
planet. THE DEATH AND FUNERAL OF JACOB
Joseph heartily cried after he learned from his brothers that his father Jacob
had died at a very old age. He then ordered that the body of his father be embalmed. It was a task which
lasted for forty days. The mourning for Jacob lasted for a period of seventy days. After the days of
mourning, Joseph asked permission from the Pharaoh to let him go so that he could take the body of his
father Israel to be buried in the land of his forefathers.
The Pharaoh answered him by saying : THE DEATH OF JOSEPH
After the death of Jacob, the father of all the Israelites, Joseph's brothers
were talking amongst each other; saying :"What if
Joseph should bear a grudge against us and pays us out for all the harm that we did to him."
They approached Joseph and said the following words to him :
"In his last words to us before he died, your father gave us
this message for you."
They then repeated to Joseph what their father Jacob had said to them :
"I ask you to forgive your brothers crime and
wickedness ; I know they did you harm." They then asked Joseph that he
forgives their crime against him. Joseph began crying and his brothers also wept with him saying :
"We are your slaves."Joseph
answered his brothers by saying to them : "Do not
be afraid, am I in the place of God? You meant to do me harm; but God meant to bring good out of it by
preserving the lives of many people, as we see today. Do not be afraid. I will provide for you and for your
dependants."
Thus Joseph set his brothers minds at rest. Joseph later died while still living
in Egypt. He died at the ripe old age of 110 years. Before he died he made the sons of Israel take an
oath, saying to them : "When God thus comes to
your aid, you must take my bones with you from here."
After he died, Joseph was buried by his brothers in the land of Egypt.
The story of Genesis which we are currently studying is part of the story of creation. That story
actually tells us how God populated the whole earth. All of the people who are presently on the earth are
all the descendants of the prophet Abraham who begot Isaac. Isaac begot Jacob who was the father of
the twelve tribes of Israel. Then we also have to say that we are all the descendants of those tribes
with the exception of the descendants of Ishmael, Abraham's first son, who today are the various Arabic
nations. Thus ends the stories of the book of Genesis with the death of Joseph.
The great prophet Moses came on the scene 400 years later and succeeded to remove all of the
Israelites from under the domination of the Egyptians. He returned them to the lands that God had given
to his own forefathers. God sent many plagues to the Egyptians but those plagues had no affect on the
Israelites. Every time that a new plague came, Moses who was descendant of the tribe of Levi repeatedly
told the Pharaoh, "Let my people go", or else God would punish them even harder. After many calamities
had affected the Egyptians, the Egyptian Pharaoh finally allowed Moses and his people to leave the land
of Egypt (the sea of humanity) which is symbolically represented by the red sea.
The word sea in biblical writings is often utilized symbolically and it often represents a multitude of
people. The fact that the sea was red represents the shedding of human blood. The Israelites bled while
working in Egypt as slaves for the Egyptian Pharaoh. Moses, who became God's new prophet and who
had been raised in the Pharaoh's own household and by the Pharaoh's own daughter, had successfully
manipulated the Israelites release from under the bondage of the Egyptians.
All of those recorded facts are the proofs of Moses deeds which are recorded in the book of Exodus,
but that is another story. The story of Genesis has just told us that all of the people who are presently
living on this planet are all the descendants of the three sons of Noah. The three sons of Noah are all the
descendants of a mixture between the Nephilims who were the giant women who mated with our space
brothers who are labelled as the sons of the gods in biblical writings.
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The link to return to the main page follows :"Is your father well, is he still alive?"
They answered him by saying,"Yes, my Lord, our father is still alive and well."
Then Joseph talked with Benjamin who was his own mother's youngest son and
who was his true blood brother. He said to him :
"May God be gracious to you, my son!"
Joseph was near tears as he spoke to his brothers so he left the room to go alone to the inner room next
door where he wept openly. He then washed his face and came out ordering the meal to be served.
"I am Joseph; can my
father be still alive?"
His brothers were so dumbfounded
when Joseph told them who he was in their own language that they could not find any words to answer
him. Following that silence from his own brothers, Joseph wept so loudly that all of the people in the
Pharaoh's household heard him weep.
"I am your brother Joseph whom you sold into Egypt... do not be
distressed or take it amiss that you sold me into slavery here ; it was God who sent me ahead of you to
save men's lives... God sent me ahead of you to insure that you will have descendants on earth, and to
preserve you all, a great band of survivors. So it was not you who sent me here, but God, and he has
made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord over all his household and ruler over all Egypt. Make haste and
go back to my father and give him this message from his son Joseph: "God has made me lord over all
Egypt, come down to me and do not delay. You shall live in the land of Goshen and be near me, you,
your sons and your grandsons, your flocks and herds and all that you have. I will take care of you there,
you and your household and all that you have, and see that you are not reduced to poverty ; there are
still five years of famine to come." You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that it is
Joseph himself who is speaking to you. Tell my father of all the honour which I enjoy in Egypt, tell him all
you have seen, and make haste to bring him down here."
"Say to your
brothers : "This is what you are to do. Load your beasts and go to Canaan. Fetch your father and your
households and bring them to me. I will give you the best there is in Egypt, and you shall enjoy the fat of
the land."
You shall also tell them:"Take wagons from Egypt for your dependants and your
wives and fetch your father and come. Have no regrets at leaving your possessions, for all the best that
there is in Egypt is yours."
"It
is enough, Joseph my son is still alive so I will go and see him before I die."