Genesis. It amazes me how God gave insight to the Patriarchs as they pronounced blessings upon their descendants. Ephraim did become a greater tribe than his older brother, just as Jacob had said. Then, this blessing upon Judah, the ancestor of Jesus:
8 “Judah, your brothers will praise you. You will grasp your enemies by the neck. All your relatives will bow before you. (This was fulfilled in King David, then in Christ.)
9 Judah, my son, is a young lion that has finished eating its prey. Like a lion he crouches and lies down; like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? (The lion became the banner of Judah. Jesus was the Lion of the tribe of Judah. Interesting that C.S. Lewis portrays Him as a lion in Chronicles of Narnia.)
10 The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from his descendants, until the coming of the one to whom it belongs, the one whom all nations will honor. (Every knee shall bow to Him and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.)
11 He ties his foal to a grapevine, the colt of his donkey to a choice vine. He washes his clothes in wine, his robes in the blood of grapes. (He rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a donkey. His blood-covered robe was left intact.)
12 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk. Genesis 49:8-12 (NLT) (I am not sure if we have references to this verse later in Scripture. Do any of you have insight?)
Joseph came to Egypt 17 and died at 110. He lived there for 93 years. His family came when he was almost 40. He was alive for the first 70 years of their long stay; they would be slaves soon after this.
We have completed Genesis and Job, two long and amazing Bible books. Tomorrow we launch into Exodus!
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