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DPI #33 What is the Double Portion Inheritance?
Category: Religion & Spirituality
Duration: 02:24:20
Publish Date: 2009-08-23 05:00:00
Description: In order to understand what this "Double Portion" blessing is all about, we must first read about the story of Joseph and his eleven brothers. We first hear about the grandsons of Jacob/Israel as being the Egyptian born sons of Joseph (Ephraim & Manasseh), who discover that their identity is not Egyptian or "Gentile," as they had previously thought. But the day comes when their grandfather Israel comes to them and says "let my name be named upon them." This is when "the lights come on" and these boys suddenly see their true identity as being "Israelites" and no longer "Gentiles" or "Strangers." In Genesis 48, Jacob is growing old and he is about to die. He has been estranged from his favorite son Joseph for many years, and now he is finally reunited with him in the land of Egypt. As Jacob is about to give the blessing to his sons before he dies, he meets these two "strangers" and he does not know who they are. Jacob is going blind and "cannot see" these little boys, but Joseph tells his father Jacob "these are my sons whom I have born in this place." And today we see this story as an ongoing allegory of our Messiah Yeshua inheriting the Double Portion blessing from his father just as Joseph did. The Double Portion includes the House of Ephraim (Joseph's youngest son) and the House of Judah (Joseph's older brother). These two (Ephraim & Judah) make up the House of Israel as described in Ezekiel 37:16-17. Yeshua our Messiah is now gathering these two groups Ephraim & Judah (Jew & Gentile) to make of the two groups "one stick in the hand of the Lord" and "One New Man" (Ephesians 2:12-15) as a corporate body of the end time remnant of New Covenant Israel.
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