A Prophecy of Esau and Jacob

The Scripture tells us that Joseph’s sons were blessed by Jacob, who was inspired by God in his choice of words. They were to carry his name, Israel, to be blessed and “as the fishes of the sea in multiplying are multiplied in the sea, so may the children of Joseph be multiplied abundantly in the midst of the earth” (Genesis 48:16 Jonathan).

This means that the children of Joseph would be like fish which are fruitful and multiply, and which are not affected by the evil eye, since they live calmly and are unseen by their enemies.

Jacob blessed the two sons of Joseph by placing his right hand on the head of the younger sibling, and his left hand on the older. When Joseph saw that Jacob’s right hand was on Ephraim’s head, he tried to move it, thinking Jacob couldn’t see which son was which. Joseph assumed that the greater blessing would go to the older son.

But this was God’s intent; Ephraim, the younger son, was blessed by God with the blessing of the right hand, the greater blessing – the blessing of the firstborn. His offspring were to become a “multitude” of nations.

Joseph protested, and the story of Jacob’s words continues in Genesis 48:19, “I know, my son, I know that he is the firstborn.” Jacob repeated the expression to imply that he knew many things of which Joseph was unaware, and if he chose to give the primary blessing to Ephraim, it was for good and sufficient reason.

Ephraim’s pre-eminence was not the result of Jacob’s blessing. It was not Jacob’s blessing because Ephraim’s upbringing was the source of his future greatness, for he was accustomed to studying the Torah with Jacob (Rashi Genesis 48:1), while Manasseh, the firstborn was picked up by Joseph to be his assistant in governing Egypt.

Let’s study a critical verse in Deuteronomy 33:17

His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns. With them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth; and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.” Deuteronomy 33:17

Who symbolises the Bullock and who is the Unicorn?

If Great Britain were truly Ephraim, then why does their Royal Standard bear the clear representation of the Unicorn – the symbol or sign of the tribe of Manasseh? The Unicorn of Great Britain identifies the British as primarily of the tribe of Manasseh. And if the unicorn is the symbol of Manasseh and the United States is “Manasseh” – why doesn’t the United States have this symbol in their national emblems and symbols?

The beginning of the story of America is the saga of the search for freedom to worship God without having to conform to the authority of a religious tyranny emanating from Europe. Today, as a whole, America remains a religious nation.

Among advanced industrialized countries, the United States is easily the most religious. Some 60 percent of its citizens say religion is very important to their lives, about six times the percentage of the French. But the divine looms even larger in most Americans’ hearts than those figures suggest. Some 90 percent say they believe in God – 94 percent if you add those who revere a ‘universal spirit’ – while less than 1 percent call themselves atheists or agnostics.

The United States was originally founded largely by Puritans, called Pilgrims, a break-away group of devout Christians who were known as Separatists, because they separated from the Church of England to follow the precepts of the Bible. Because of intense persecution, they sailed for the New World to establish a country where they could worship God in peace.

If anyone visits Washington, DC, he or she would be able to see Bible verses etched in stone all over Federal buildings and monuments. Up the steps to the Supreme Court building, near the top of the building, lies a row of the world’s great lawgivers, each one facing the one in the middle – Moses holding the Ten Commandments. Continuing inside the courtroom, the wall right above where the chief justice sits, there displays the Ten Commandments.

The Puritans of New England – sought to practice their own Christian faith and to found a Christian state. They established Congregationalism and supported it with taxes and compelled their chief magistrates to govern “according to the rule of the Word of God.”

During the 1740s, the colonies were swept by a powerful religious revival called “The First Great Awakening.” It emphasized individual religious experience and conversion.

With a renewed and over zealous fevour, they viewed their emigration from England as a virtual re-enactment of the Exodus from Egypt: England was Egypt, the English king was Pharaoh, the Atlantic Ocean their Red Sea, America was the Land of Israel, and the Indians were the ancient Canaanites.

“We are the New Israelites,” they thought, entering into a new covenant with God in a new Promised Land; with a notion of cultural and racial superiority, the new Settlers started eradicating the native population like it was when they were entering into the land of Canaan.

Names of cities, towns and settlements likewise derived from Hebraic sources. This widespread use of biblical names, however, was not confined to the naming of offspring, cities and towns – names of many biblical heights were eventually bestowed upon the great mountains of America.

Mount Carmel and Mount Horeb, home of the Prophets, were popular names, as was Mount Nebo, the final resting place of Moses. Names like Mount Ephraim, Mount Gilead, Mount Hermon, Mount Moriah, Mount Pisgah, were all popular as well. Some mountains in the New World were even called Mount Sinai, Mount Zion and Mount Olive.

Many of the people who settled British North America in the seventeenth century came for religious reasons, for the opportunity to worship God in ways that were unacceptable in Europe.  As the New Israelites, their passion for their faith was transmitted to their descendants who created the American nation in 1776.

The Puritans wholeheartedly believed that it was their special mission to establish in America a society precisely modeled on the precepts of Sacred Scriptures. They firmly believed that the Hebrew prophets were speaking to them as directly as they had spoken to the the new Israelites; and thus they also carried out ethnic cleansings like it was upon entering the land of Canaan.

Thus the history of the Israelites as related in the Bible served, according to the ministers of the day, as a mirror in which the Puritans could see their own activities reflected. Still considering themselves as Christian Protestants, the Puritans related to the Israelites and their Jewish belief for their fundamental ‘grounding.’

The Second Great Awakening, around 1845, saw revivalist Christianity and evangelicalism spread hand in hand with Jacksonian democracy, bolstering the American creed of liberty, individualism and equality.

It was a Protestant religious revival spreading religion through emotional preaching which sparked a number of reform movements. Revivals were a key part of the movement and attracted hundreds of converts to new Protestant denominations. The Methodist Church used circuit riders to reach people in frontier locations.

The outpouring of religious fervor and revival began in Kentucky and Tennessee in the 1790s and early 1800s among the Presbyterians, Methodists, and Baptists; and new religious movements such as the Latter Day Saint and Adventist movements; and later, the Jehovah witnesses.

And here is the story of Prophet Joseph Smith (1805-1844), who inspired a fabricated treasure-digging scheme promoted by the Prophet Joseph Smith Jr that empowered the Latter Day Saint movement:

Joseph Smith began his vision with angel Moroni giving him the Golden Plates in a buried stone box at the Hill Cumorah in upstate New York situated a few miles from Smith’s boyhood home on a farm.

When Smith arrived, “the hill opened, and they walked into a cave, in which there was a large and spacious room.” The account continues by saying they found “more plates than probably many wagon loads; and were piled up in the corners and along the walls.”

But Smith was forbidden by the angel to show the plates to anyone until they had been translated from their original “reformed Egyptian” language.

In his home, Smith dictated the text of the plates while his wife or a scribe wrote down the words which would later become the Book of Mormon. Smith translated the plates, not by looking directly at them, but by looking through a transparent seer stone in the bottom of his hat.

Smith published the first edition of the translation in March 1830 as the Book of Mormon, with an initial print run of 5,000 copies; and hence starting the Movement more riveting and entertaining than a Tom Clancy novel.

Overlapping the life of Joseph Smith, a Prophetess Ellen G White (1827-1915) were to appear to energize the Adventist movement:

Soon after Baptist preacher William Miller (1782-1849) failed miserably in his prophecy that the Second Coming would occur at Atonement Ocober 22, 1843 and then again on Ocober 22, 1844. Among the founders of the Adventist movement was Ellen G White, whose extensive writings are still held in high regard that they are on higher ground than the Bible by the church.

In one of her fabricated visions, Ellen G White, wrote of rays of lights from the throne or in one of her dreams, of “her revelation” that her writings ahead of Moses and the Prophets, ahead of God’s Word in actual fact; wine isn’t wine as we normally think of drinking wine to make one merry during festivals.

And in an extremely case, Noah, a righteous man, was found to be drunk with wine, but it was simply grape juice, says Sister White, so let’s check on her writing what she wrote about the eating of meat:

From the light God has given me, the prevalence of cancer and tumors is largely due to gross living on dead flesh.

I sincerely and prayerfully hope that, as a physician, you will not forever be blind on this subject, for blindness is mingled with a want of moral courage to deny our appetite, to lift the cross, which means, to take up the very duties which cut across the natural passions.

Feeding on flesh, the juices and fluids of what you eat pass into the circulation of your blood, and, as we are composed of what we eat, we become animalized; thus a feverish condition is created, because the animals are diseased, and by partaking of their flesh, we plant the seeds of disease in our own tissue and blood.

Then when exposed to the changes in a malarious atmosphere, these are more sensibly felt; also when we are exposed to prevailing epidemics and contagious diseases the system is not in condition to resist the disease. TSDF 68.11

I have the subject presented to me in different aspects. The mortality caused by meat-eating is not discerned; if it were, we would hear no more arguments and excuses in favor of the indulgence of the appetite for dead flesh. We have plenty of good things to satisfy hunger without bringing CORPSES upon our table to compose our bill of fare. TSDF 68.12

But during Passover, the Israelites were asked to eat lamb. False prophets and false prophetesses abound, Ellen Super White seemed to have more understanding of our human body than the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Besides, the sons of Aaron serving as priests in His Temple, would be most defiled because they have to eat the numerous offerings, not CORPSES as false prophetess White alleged, considered as most holy; Leviticus 2:3,10, 6:29. Such a subtle attack on the priesthood; hence giving rise to a Thyatira dublicity!

In ancient Israel, when prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel spoke, their words and prophecies are complementary, although they spoke in different ways, but in this latter day’s so-called prophets or prophetess teachings, their themes kill each other.

That is, Joseph Smith’s teaching is incompatible with Ellen G White’s. And besides, Ellen G White’s numerous visions, as well as her voluminous writings, are as authentic as the treasure-digging scheme promoted by Prophet Joseph Smith Jr!

Not only that, their themes, teachings and prophecies are also incompatible to any of the Old Testament Prophets.

For example, Ezekiel wrote about the Passover, among many other sacrifices, reinstated in the Millennium:

“‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the Passover, a feast of seven days. Unleavened bread shall be eaten” Ezekiel 45:21 — this is understood to mean the Passover, “a feast of a full week,” the exact duration of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which began with the eating of the Paschal lamb;

— in actual fact, Passover and the Feast of Tabernacles, and numerous sacrifices are to be offered during the Millennium Ezekiel 40 to 48.

Today, this spiritual malaise about Ephraim has been prophesied long ago of their false teachings or human idols: “for I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied in Baal and caused My people Israel to err” Jeremiah 23:13; further, the God they seemingly worshipped looks down from heaven and says:

“I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel; there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled” Hosea 6:10

“Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which is on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!” Isaiah 28:1

And to be followed by God’s judgement:

“The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet” Isaiah 28:3

~ by Joel on January 10, 2024.

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