Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Blessing from our heavenly father is greater over any other

Genesis 48:1-22
Israel remembered what God has promised to him, so Israel blessed Joseph's two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
Israel blessed Ephraim with his right hand and to Manasseh with his left hand, for he knew younger brother will be greater than he, and his descendants will become a group of nations.
Israel said to Joseph, "to you, as one who is over your brother, I give you the ridge of land I took from the Amorites with my sword and my bow."
Why?
Once again a cycle is completed: from the blessing of Jacob by his blind old father to the blessing Joseph's sons (singled out in Hebrew 11:21 as an act of faith).
How simple Jacob's hands cross over to convey God's blessing to the younger son, in contrast to the Jacob and Esau story in chapter 27, Ephraim and Manasseh are counted as Jacob's own sons, so Joseph enjoys a double inheritance.
The spoken blessing looks to the distant future, when the descendants of these twelve will occupy the promised land.
How?
Father's blessing is important than any other, Like Issac blessed Jacob and Jacob blessed Ephraim. So as our blessing from heavenly father is greater than any other.



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