RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

COMMENTARY - ENDNOTES
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The inevitable cry of latter-day repentance among Yisrael.
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Actually it is the other way around. Yisraelites ought not to share unclean food with heathen at heathen tables of
fellowship. If worldly people in Egypt understand this why don’t Yisraelites?
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Judah seeks leadership in the family as guardian.
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Actually the Scriptures only give a shortened version of the full exchange here between Judah and Joseph, In the
Scroll of Jasher the exchange is long, drawn out, threatening and downright hostile. Judah is recorded as
threatening Joseph and all of Egypt with destruction, in much the same way they came upon and destroyed the city
of Shechem. In light of the future struggle between Judah and Joseph in the two house wars, this is a mere preview
of that age-old conflict. For more details see Sefer Yahshar at: http://restorationscriptures.org/page2.htm
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Declaring yourself to your Jewish brethren as Joseph returning and revealed is a painful and trying experience
for many.
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The cry of restoration.
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Like their father Joseph, YHWH sent Efrayim to preserve life in the world as dispersed Yisrael in order to preserve
and proclaim eternal life through the Good News of Messiah’s kingdom.
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Only a remnant from both houses of physical Yisrael will be saved before entering the kingdom.
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Dialogue as equal heirs along with repentance will lead to reconciliation and restoration.
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Jospeh’s revelation of himself will bring revival to Yisrael.
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Yisrael called YHWH’s goy/nation.
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There (in spite of famine) physical multiplication will begin in earnest.
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For violating the Torah principle of physical multiplicity.
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According to the LXX, Dead Sea Scrolls and the Renewed Covenant.
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Judah will lead the way in the restoration, when they behold two-house truth and Yahshua in all its fullness.
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Restored Yisrael is to be a nation of shepherds of truth and love in the midst of a pagan culture.
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Note the correct attitude of a born again Yisraelite. The earth is not our home in this age, but in the age to come,
when the heavens and earth will become one, even as the two houses are becoming one.
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Le kahal amim, or congregation of nations as fulfilled by Messiah the Restorer of our nation, who has assembled
a congregation from out of all the scattered Yisraelite nations.
176
A profound event and declaration. They are Jacob’s physical grandchildren, and as such they are already
physical Yisrael. But here he equates them to a status of his sons, not merely his grandsons, and officially places
them into the tribal equation.
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Jacob demands that Efrayim and Manasseh be considered and verbally called Yisrael/Yisraelites along with all
their children for all future generations.
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Perhaps Jacob/Yisrael is testing Joseph to see if he grasped the prior declarations. Of course his sight is
diminishing as well.
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The right hand is the one of imparted favor and blessing. Reserved for the firstborn.
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This is no mistake. Notice the term “knowingly.” YHWH was taking the next step to bring about Yisrael’s growth,
division and end-time regathering.
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The Angel of His Presence, or Yahshua, called the Guardian, or Metatron who alone can redeem from sin’s wages.
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His name was Yisrael, and he declares again that Efrayim and Manasseh’s descendants are physical Yisrael
carrying that very literal name.
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Vayidagoo lerov, may they grow into a multitude of fish in the midst of the olam, or earth. This is an amazing
prophecy, whereby YHWH through the dying man Yisrael, pinpoints that the offspring of the people of Efrayim and
Manasseh, known later on as the 10 tribes (not two), would literally fill the globe with Yisraelites. We see the
ingathering officially begin later in Mattityahu/Matthew 4:19, where the disciples are sent to fish for the men of
Yisrael and are called to be Yahshua’s fishermen, sent to catch the wandering and floating fish of Yisrael in the
midst of all the earth.
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Man’s ways are not YHWH’s ways.
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Jacob knew what he was doing in the Spirit. Do you?
186
Could this be a specific nation?
187
Melo ha-goyim, or the “fullness of the gentiles.” Efrayim’s seed later collected in the ten tribes of the northern
kingdom would produce the “fullness of the gentiles.” This is a marvelous revelation that most so-called gentiles are
in fact Yisrael’s physical children. Of course, they still need blood-atonement-salvation to become true redeemed
remnant Yisrael. Paul confirms this clear understanding in Romans 11:25-26, when he speaks of the “fullness of the
gentiles” as those who will come in as believing returning Yisrael in the last of the last days.
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He sealed the revelation through prayer and the laying on of hands, a Yisraelite custom.
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This sealing of Yisrael’s non-Jewish peoples is still found in the Jewish Daily Prayer book - the siddur.
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For Yahshua’s assembly is greater than any individual physical nation. Yahshua's nation is both physical and
spiritual Yisrael, as opposed to a mere physical nation.
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Joseph is once again declaring this truth. Efrayim, or the ten tribes are even now returning to the land of Yisrael.
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The wealth of the gentile heathen Amorites are laid up for redeemed Yisrael. Yisrael is the head and never the tail.
Do not let anyone steal your birthright as the firstborn.
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