Post by watchmanjim on Jun 3, 2017 6:10:57 GMT -6
A lot to digest. When the 2 Witnesses appear, I'm pretty sure they will straighten it all out.
If everything you were saying were feasible, I still would have one major hang-up--it ought to be Ephraim that is the US, not Manasseh. Manasseh ought to be England.
Gen 48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
Gen 48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
Gen 48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
If this were true, Manasseh is the older brother (England) and the US would be Ephraim, the younger brother, whose seed would be a multitude of nations (50 to be exact, each state is a nation).
My wife and myself both have a lot of Welsh background, but we are fairly mixed among the European peoples, especially her, with a lot of Hungarian and Swiss. My surname suggests a possible, but not conclusive, descent from either King David of Wales, or King David of Scotland. We can't trace the patrilinear line back more than 7 generations, where my first known ancestor in that line is ironically first-named Abraham. I also have several Pilgrim ancestors from the Mayflower, but not patrilineal.
I have studied these things you're talking about out before, and I just find it rather difficult to swallow.
"All Israel" in the Bible has to, I think, refer to all 12/13 tribes. These are all scattered today--some of the individuals are known and some--many--are not.
I believe one of three events will soon sort all the people of Israel out and positively identify them:
1. The prophetic testimony of the two witnesses may straighten it out--
2. God may reveal it directly to the individuals as He, for instance, appeared to Saul/Paul on the Damascus road--
3. DNA testing is on the brink of discovering it, if people who understand the Biblical genealogy analyze it properly.
Jim
If everything you were saying were feasible, I still would have one major hang-up--it ought to be Ephraim that is the US, not Manasseh. Manasseh ought to be England.
Gen 48:17 And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.
Gen 48:18 And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.
Gen 48:19 And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
If this were true, Manasseh is the older brother (England) and the US would be Ephraim, the younger brother, whose seed would be a multitude of nations (50 to be exact, each state is a nation).
My wife and myself both have a lot of Welsh background, but we are fairly mixed among the European peoples, especially her, with a lot of Hungarian and Swiss. My surname suggests a possible, but not conclusive, descent from either King David of Wales, or King David of Scotland. We can't trace the patrilinear line back more than 7 generations, where my first known ancestor in that line is ironically first-named Abraham. I also have several Pilgrim ancestors from the Mayflower, but not patrilineal.
I have studied these things you're talking about out before, and I just find it rather difficult to swallow.
"All Israel" in the Bible has to, I think, refer to all 12/13 tribes. These are all scattered today--some of the individuals are known and some--many--are not.
I believe one of three events will soon sort all the people of Israel out and positively identify them:
1. The prophetic testimony of the two witnesses may straighten it out--
2. God may reveal it directly to the individuals as He, for instance, appeared to Saul/Paul on the Damascus road--
3. DNA testing is on the brink of discovering it, if people who understand the Biblical genealogy analyze it properly.
Jim