Posted on 03/06/2018 5:39:39 AM PST by left that other site
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As we return to the Torah
For this Wonderful, Redemptive Story of Joseph,
We Are Reminded of the duplicity and acrimony that exists in Families to this day
And even in Nations, Abba Father,
Because these Twelve Brothers were not only a Family,
They were a Nation Being Born.
Thank You For this Timeless and Magnificent Story,
Which teaches us the horrible consequences of Jealousy, Favoritism, and Duplicity.
LORD, We ask that You fill the leaders of the USA with Your Spirit, that they may make Holy and Righteous decisions.
Bring the Truth To Light, Abba Father,
And expose all the Liars!
May the Leaders of Our Own Beloved USA
Receive Wisdom from You
to do the Right Thing.
We Pray For The Swift and Sure Coming of Messiah,
Blessed Be He,
To Establish His Kingdom,
and Make All Things Right.
Blessings To All Who Visit This Garden of Prayer.
Hallelujah and Amen
ML/LTOS
Agreeing in prayer. It is always amazing how God gives us such complete stories in just a few verses.
Love it. Thanks for posting.
Amen, thank you, and wow, so glad you’re OK! (Was worried.) :)
Glad you are safe and back now with us. Hugs.
Prayers always. God bless.
Joining with you all in prayer, praise and thanksgiving!!
Welcome back, left that other site
Glad you’re OK.
I knew you were going to do Joseph — one of my favorite stories.
Joining in prayer for the Peace of Jerusalem and for revival in our beloved America
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Wow, talk about wording and timing. It brings to mind one of my favorite pages and quotes:
As we have already seen, early on Joseph is linked to the fulfillment of Jacob's legacy.
These are the generations of Jacob, Joseph was seventeen years old ...[Genesis 37:2]
At the outset, the Torah connects Jacob with Joseph. Of all his sons specifically Joseph holds the key to not only Jacob's but the family's mission.
There's one place in the Tanakh where the word key (מפתח) is placed/hidden in the final letters of the words in a phrase (the sofei teivos), and nowhere does it appear in the beginning letters (roshei teivos). The numbers of letters in the words also make this key appear at a skip of four, Gen 41:45:
שם יוסף צפנת פענח
"shem Yoseph Tzaphnat Pa'ane'ach"
The name of Joseph is Tzaphnat Pa'ane'ach, which means a cipher decipherer, a revealer of the hidden. It's the perfect place to hide a key, because noone's looking there.
The brothers said snidely, "We shall see what will become of his dreams."
8. And his brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? or shall you indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him even more for his dreams, and for his words:
9. And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brothers, and said, Behold, I have again dreamed a dream; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me:
10. And he told it to his father, and to his brothers; and his father rebuked him, and said to him, What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow down ourselves to you to the earth:
11. And his brothers envied him; but his father kept the matter in mind
Rachel had already passed away at that point, but she didn't really die because as it is with her soulmate Jacob, truth is eternal. Jacob was given the truth (Mic 7:20) after serving another seven years, but it was but a few days to him, for the love he had toward her. emet, truth (n. fem.)
You've got to figure that if Joseph (in whom the Spirit of Elohim is, as was exclaimed by the Pharaoh himself) could set up a whole-hearted family rectification that reunited all the brothers together in love, wiping away the jealousy and animosity because they all saw the light (and there was none of that "I told you so" business, only pure joy and love)...
... then Joseph could to do the same to reunite Jacob and Esav.
That's a tall order, but who else could pull something like that off? If he could do the harder thing (in reuniting twelve), then he could surely accomplish the lighter thing (in reuniting two).
Whom Rachel saw when Joseph was born, such that she gave Joseph his name:
And she called his name Joseph; and said, "The Lord shall add to me another son" ~ Rachel Imenu
It's the Longview.
Give the truth to Jacob, and the offspring of that union is Joseph, the one in whom the Spirit of Elohim is. You can see that in (among other things) the design of his beautiful coat, which is a coat of stripes (passim). Same word is used for rails of train tracks. It's the classic image in perspective 101 (specifically the long view): parallel lines coming to a vertex (code-code) at Har Zion er the horizon. It's called the vanishing point, which is the root meaning of the word olam, eternity. It's the image of a ladder going to heaven, yet never leaving the ground.
As we have already seen, early on Joseph is linked to the fulfillment of Jacob's legacy.
Genesis 28, before Joseph was even born:
12. And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it:
13. And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed:
14. And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south; and in you and in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed:
15. And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places where you go, and will bring you back to this land; for I will not leave you, until I have done that about which I have spoken to you:
16. And Jacob awoke from his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not:
17. And he was afraid, and said, How awesome is this place! this is no other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven:
It never ends (pun not intended, but..) because while looking at the image I read verse 12 and what runs along train tracks but trains. Train: rachevet. But that's not the only meaning of rachevet. Turns out is it also a... "ladder". ?? I'd never seen that so I consulted Oxford English-Hebrew because it's big. It told me more (under the entry for ladder): 2. " רַכֶּבֶת" (flaw in tights, etc.)
Everyone has seen that happen. Those things run right down the leg and are really obvious:
sciatic nerve damage ---> knee weakened
Haman hated Mordecai the Jew because he did not bow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gid_hanasheh
Gen 28: Jacob's "train" dream
Gen 30: birth of Joseph
Gen 32: Wrestling match, Jacob's "injury", Jacob renamed Israel
Gen 35: Benoni born (firstborn and first named of Israel's sons, whisked away along with the soul of his mother)
Back to the wrestling match,
And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I beg you, your name; And he said, Why is it that you ask after my name? And he blessed (ויברך) him there:
"And he blessed" = 238 = Rachel = "And there was light"
Besides, if you pick up the vav (the first letter of the next verse) it reads: And he blessed him is his name.
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day:
Ben-oni: "son of my [Rachel's] strength"
It has been 3570 years since Rachel's soul went out from Bethlehem, 51 (Edom) x 70 years, the end of Galut Edom (גלות אדום), which is the same as Bethlehem (= 490, 70 x 7). There's a midrash about that too (Rachel's mercy bringing the end to the exile after 70 years).
I love these storylines within storylines, timelines within timelines, reading between the lines. Great stuff with timetables, the trains running on time and in the right direction all along.
At the outset, the Torah connects Jacob with Joseph. Of all his sons specifically Joseph holds the key to not only Jacob's but the family's mission.
Feel the love! Maphte'ach, key, = 528, which is the sum of the numbers 1-32 (lev, heart). Just thought I'd toss that in while I'm at it. Key of the House of David, the heart of love. Bethlehem, where David was born. David even said to Jonathan that it was his city (1 Sam 20:6).
It's the place in the text where David had to hide out in the field until the third day in the evening. Makes sense, because who would be looking there.
Be still my beating heart. I was concerned about you. Of course, I am perfectly capable of praying for the Peace of Jerusalem by myself, but...without you...Well, we depend on you and look forward to your presence daily!
LORD, We ask that You fill the leaders of the USA AND ISRAEL with Your Spirit, that they may make Holy and Righteous decisions.
Bring the Truth To Light, Abba Father,
And expose all the Liars!
May the Leaders of Our Beloved USA and ISRAEL
Receive Wisdom from You to do the Right Thing.
In Jesus’ name. Amen.
Glad to hear you’re OK. I was going to send you a FReepmail yesterday when you hadn’t posted for several days, figuring it was the lousy weather, but saw you were back A-OK.
Would that were so.
But then just the other day Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman visited St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral in Cairo which sends a powerful signal of at least this much rapprochement in light of the Saudi's heretofore profound Wahabi Islamism. Add to it bin Salman's recent record price acquisition of da Vinci's Salvator Mundi.
Then consider Saudi Arabia's recent thawing of the desert ice twixt they and Israel.
Something surely seems in the mix. Could it really presage something good?
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