-current lost tribes of Israel, that was deforced by God.
Isaiah 8:17: “And I will wait upon the Lord,
that hideth his face from the house of Jacob
-remember there is 2 promises given.
The sceptre shall not depart from Judah …” (Genesis 49:10).
But the birthright was Joseph’s” (1 Chronicles 5:2).
the promises and the covenants of God, the sonship and the glory,
belong to Israel (Romans 9:4).
Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will
make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy
seed after thee for an everlasting possession” (Genesis 48:2-4).
“And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were
born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into
Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine”
The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads;
and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers
Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the
midst of the earth” (verses 14-16).
“Joseph is a fruitful bough,even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches [margin,
daughters] run over the wall” (verse 22).
“[T]he Almighty … shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep
that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the womb: 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”.
In Genesis 48 Jacob first passed the birthright on to the two sons of Joseph jointly, speaking of them
both together. Then he spoke of them separately—Manasseh was to become the single great nation;
Ephraim, the company of nations.
The promise of a future great nation and a company of
nations, together great for multitude, rich in national material
prosperity,fruits of the ground, possessing the “gates” of the Earth’s other nations,
spreading north s. e. w. applies to these lads and the two tribes which sprang from them.
-nothing about septer promise of one seed or grace in these promises.
only physical nations and multitudes in the midst of earth
Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning
my sons and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
“Behold, the days come, saith the [Eternal],
that I will perform that good thing which I have promised unto.....