ut in Genesis alone this favoring of the younger one seems to happen over and over and over. It happened with Abel, with Isaac, with Jacob, and with Rachel. And now in Genesis 48 we see Ephraim, the younger, earning Jacob's favor over Manasses, the older. Something is trying to be said. A message is being symbolically conveyed. It seems to me more than a coincidence that the later Church of Christ can be likened to a younger sibling of the more ancient Jewish faith. Obviously the Jews of the time before Christ could not have seen it this way, but Someone Who can see All Time would be more than able to plant the seed of an idea, to foreshadow the significant events ahead, ages before mankind could understand those ideas more fully. We can now see that God was foretelling the blessing He would bestow on His Son's Church, as opposed to the older synagogue. I also don't think it a light matter that Jacob emblematically forms a cross with his arms as he blesses Ephraim and Manasses.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Genesis 48 - The Younger Shall Prevail
In Genesis 48 we see yet another example of a younger sibling being favored over the older. I don't mean to harp on this theme, but I can't help but find it significant. It would be one thing if such an event happened only once in Scripture and later scholars tried to make more out of it than they should. B
ut in Genesis alone this favoring of the younger one seems to happen over and over and over. It happened with Abel, with Isaac, with Jacob, and with Rachel. And now in Genesis 48 we see Ephraim, the younger, earning Jacob's favor over Manasses, the older. Something is trying to be said. A message is being symbolically conveyed. It seems to me more than a coincidence that the later Church of Christ can be likened to a younger sibling of the more ancient Jewish faith. Obviously the Jews of the time before Christ could not have seen it this way, but Someone Who can see All Time would be more than able to plant the seed of an idea, to foreshadow the significant events ahead, ages before mankind could understand those ideas more fully. We can now see that God was foretelling the blessing He would bestow on His Son's Church, as opposed to the older synagogue. I also don't think it a light matter that Jacob emblematically forms a cross with his arms as he blesses Ephraim and Manasses.
ut in Genesis alone this favoring of the younger one seems to happen over and over and over. It happened with Abel, with Isaac, with Jacob, and with Rachel. And now in Genesis 48 we see Ephraim, the younger, earning Jacob's favor over Manasses, the older. Something is trying to be said. A message is being symbolically conveyed. It seems to me more than a coincidence that the later Church of Christ can be likened to a younger sibling of the more ancient Jewish faith. Obviously the Jews of the time before Christ could not have seen it this way, but Someone Who can see All Time would be more than able to plant the seed of an idea, to foreshadow the significant events ahead, ages before mankind could understand those ideas more fully. We can now see that God was foretelling the blessing He would bestow on His Son's Church, as opposed to the older synagogue. I also don't think it a light matter that Jacob emblematically forms a cross with his arms as he blesses Ephraim and Manasses.
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