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13 Jul 2023 Genesis (Program #119)

Genesis (Program #119) – The Spiritual Significance of Joseph and Benjamin (1)

Today we are going to look at Joseph, a fruitful bough and Benjamin a ravenous wolf from the final passages of Genesis.  We are in Genesis chapter 49 today.  This is one of those chapters that is all-inclusive…

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12 Jul 2023 Genesis (Program #118)

Genesis (Program #118) – The Manifestation of Maturity (6)

We come again today to the blessings that Jacob gave to his 12 sons near the end of Genesis.  Today we have the final two, Joseph and Benjamin.  Witness Lee will again point out that these two really complete one another.  What does this mean?

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11 Jul 2023 Genesis (Program #117)

Genesis (Program #117) – The Spiritual Significance of Dan, Gad, Asher, and Naphtali

Quite a lovely picture as Jacob gathered his 12 sons together to deliver a blessing.  Today we are going to focus on the group of Dan, Gad, Asher and Naphtali.  Regarding Jacob’s speaking of these blessings, Jacob is not giving moral exhortation and surely he is not engaging in an exercise of eloquence or natural speaking ability.  In sharp contrast, Jacob is prophesying by speaking forth blessings upon his 12 sons.  In order to speak with blessings in this way, we need to reach a stage that we are mature in the divine life.  This speaking is full of life, is full of insight.  It is profoundly accurate and amazing in the way it unveils as a whole God’s economy with His people…

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10 Jul 2023 Genesis (Program #116)

Genesis (Program #116) – The Manifestation of Maturity (5)

Jacob says “I have waited for Thy salvation, O Jehovah”, meaning Dan was such a problem, he didn’t know what else to say but to cry out for God’s salvation.  The good part is God heard it.  So you have a man who is all of a sudden victorious.  Where did the victory come from?  It came from the prayer.

We have Jacob’s speaking to his 12 sons….

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09 Jul 2023 Genesis (Program #115)

Genesis (Program #115) – The Spiritual Significance of the Blessing Prophesied concerning Judah, Zebulun, and Issachar (2)

Today we are going to continue our extended visit to chapter 49 of Genesis.   This wonderful chapter 49 of Genesis,  where Jacob is delivering all the various blessings to his 12 sons.  Of course, in Hebrews, we realize that this was a beautiful, poetic utterance by Jacob but we’ve been also discovering that it is prophetic as well.  How do we know that these blessings have a prophetic and up-to-date meaning that is applicable to us as New Testament believers?

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08 Jul 2023 Genesis (Program #114)

Genesis (Program #114) – The Spiritual Significance of the Blessing Prophesied concerning Judah, Zebulun, and Issachar (1)

Our life study today brings us to chapter 49 of Genesis and the lion of the tribe of Judah.  We have spent quite some time on the matter of various blessings that Jacob has delivered to his 12 sons.   These blessings are in a beautiful, poetic form.  So we are taking the time to delve into the significance of all the pictures that are portrait here.  We are going to focus again today on a particular blessing given to Judah.

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07 Jul 2023 Genesis (Program #113)

Genesis (Program #113) – The Manifestation of Maturity (4)

If we want to enter into God’s heart concerning the rich and complete experience of Christ for His Body, we need to open to see the significance of Jacob’s prophesying over his twelve sons.  These speakings are about us and Christ today.

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06 Jul 2023 Genesis (Program #112)

Genesis (Program #112) – The Manifestation of Maturity (3)

We want to look into the Jacob’s wonderful prophecy in Genesis chapter 49.  In our last broadcast concerns this matter of the maturity as seen in the latter part of Jacob’s life.  There was a marvelous point in that program that I think bears repeating…

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05 Jul 2023 Genesis (Program #111)

Genesis (Program #111) – The Manifestation of Maturity (2)

We have another message today giving us the manifestation of maturity in life as we see in Jacob.   Today, this maturity is going to be revealed in his prophesying with blessing.  This was his speakings to his sons at the end of his life.  What is prophesying?

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04 Jul 2023 Genesis (Program #110)

Genesis (Program #110) – The Shiftings of Birthright in Scripture

As we come to a portion of Genesis that has far reaching implications for God’s people.   We are going to focus today on a matter that appears Genesis, in which we will find out is very meaningful, very significant.  Yet like many other things like we’ve seen during our study of Genesis, this has been largely overlooked historically by God’s people.  We are going to look at the matter of birthright in the context of Jacob and Esau.

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