THE WORD OF ELOHIM

GENESIS

Chapter 49

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Unstable as water, you shall excel no longer; for when you mounted your father’s bed, you brought disgrace—my couch he mounted!

     What a humiliation for Reuben, to be gathered with his brothers, when his father puts him to so much shame. (Genesis chapter 35)

     Yet, I can think of a far greater humiliation…

     Imagine what it will be like when we are all gathered before the throne of Elohim and judged alongside our loved ones and our sins are exposed.

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Simeon and Levi are a pair; their weapons are tools of lawlessness.

Let not my person be included in their council,

Let not my being be counted in their assembly.

For when angry they slay men and when pleased they maim oxen.

Cursed be their anger so fierce, and their wrath so relentless.

I will divide them in Ya’akov, scatter them in Yisrael.

     Ya’akov is referring to their behavior in Shekem, Genesis chapter 34 and the manner in which they treated Yehoseph in Genesis chapter 37, in particularly; however, we can be sure that Ya’akov witnessed more than what has been disclosed to us.

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You, O Yehudah, your brothers shall praise;

Your hand shall be on the nape of your foes; your father’s sons shall bow low to you.

Yehudah is a lion’s whelp; on prey, my son, have you grown.

He crouches, lies down like a lion, like the king of beasts— who dare rouse him?

The scepter shall not depart from Yehudah nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet;

So that tribute shall come to him and the homage of peoples be his.

He tethers his ass to a vine, his ass’s foal to a choice vine;

He washes his garment in wine, his robe in blood of grapes,

His eyes are darker than wine; his teeth are whiter than milk.

— A prophesy of Elohim, our Mashiach (Messiah), when he returns.

I wait for Your deliverance, O YEHOVAH!

     Ya’akov is on his deathbed and is crying out for deliverance.  

     I have been with the elderly and severally afflicted and am now elderly and severally afflicted.  I know what it is like to see and be seen near death; full of exasperation, because you are so tired of your physical and emotional complications and pain.   There seems to be no end to the pain and every day becomes a struggle to live.  

—Death becomes welcome.

     Satan does not have to attack someone, whom he has already conquered.  It is only when you truly try to walk with Elohim that he starts to antagonize you.  Then, the spiritual battle begins.    During the tribulation, there will be many hardships and so many people will welcome death.

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Archers bitterly assailed him; they shot at him and harried him.

Yet his bow stayed taut and his arms were made firm

By the hand of the Mighty One of Ya’akov—

     Throughout Yehoseph’s life, he lived with the fear of Elohim and the love for his father and his father’s household.  He was treated brutally and sold into slavery, and except for the first and second moment that his brothers went to Egypt, to procure food; he never truly sought vengeance and he remained faithful to providing for them.  He knew that what he had suffered was justified, in order to “save lives.”  He remained steadfast to the teachings of his father and he remained faithful; even in hardship, to the ways of Elohim.  —Elohim was always given the glory.