Tuesday, March 9, 2010

See Update On Obadiah post

See this critical update on the book of Obadiah, who prophesied against Edom and against the nations of the age of the Holocaust.  Read here

Monday, March 1, 2010

Did Israel Reject Joseph?

Did Israel reject Joseph? No. Only certain of his brothers rejected him, and some, Reuben and Judah, for instance, were a remnant among the brothers to testify to the love and trust of their father's heart toward Joseph, though they too, personally, may have doubted him.
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For why did his brothers reject him? It was on account of their perception of his replacement theology. For they saw him as putting himself above even his father and his mother. Such would be a violation of the covenant that God made with Abraham, the promise he gave also to Isaac and Jacob alone.
With a righteous indignation Joseph's brothers were offended by him. Of being a mere "Dreamer" they accused him. Should one's dreams outweigh the very word, the very covenant, of God? But in this judgment of Joseph as being an heretic and guilty of the invention of replacement theology his brothers understood neither his dreams nor their father's trust in Joseph.
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For Joseph did not dream of his exaltation above them and above his father and mother in a dream of life but in a dream of death. Therefore his brothers, in their ignorance of this, fulfilled the very words of God in covenant with Abraham. For Egypt would be a parable of death for Israel. And it would be in the fulfilling of this justice of God's sentence upon Adam that Joseph would rule over all his father's household. And it would be in all Israel's repentance toward the heart of their fathers that Joseph and his brothers would reign as one together over the world in their redemption from Egypt, a parable of life.
For the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not made to Abraham to be fulfilled in This World but in the resurrection of the dead.
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I, HASHEM, have not changed, and you, Sons of Jacob, have not become extinct. MALACHI 3:6