i don't know if youre asking a rhetorical question or what. I'm only half with the thread but ive got a metaphysical bible concordance here which says Rachel means 'ewe', 'migrating' 'sheep' or 'lamb'. She was the mother of Benjamin and Joseph which were children she bore through faith. She had been barren.
Its interesting that the lamb was sacrificed for the hebrews in Egypt and the children of Rachel were killed instead of Christ ( the lamb). Patterns always mean something in the bible. I'll have to ponder that one.
Hope that helped. = )
Rhetorical, Just rambling, it's the way I learn.
I write these ridiculously long posts that nobody reads, but I learn as I go.
Have you ever considered that You are Rachel?
That your death and birth might be the birth of Benjamin and the death of Rachel?
I Try to put a concept in the mind of somebody else, so that they may see it from an angel that I maybe missing.
Jacob and Rachel is an idea of making one person out of two brothers.
While Jacob was born from Abraham, Rachel was from Nahor.
The concept is to make the children of Nahor, Abraham, and Haran one people, because these 3 brothers represent a whole.
It's just like looking at the 3 sons of Adam, 3 sons, of Noah, and these 3 sons of Noah together represent the whole world.
When we see Moses and his two siblings, we are looking at a whole that says,'' Body, soul, and spirit.''
So we are trying to make one body out of Abraham, Nahor, and Haran.
So we see Abraham in Jacob, and Nahor in Rachel.
If the first born of Rachel was Joseph who only shadowed what Jesus would be, then the second born of Rachel points to who?
We have seen Jesus come and literally fulfill the life of Joseph, and so we must figure that we have already seen the birth of Benjamin, OR, we will see the birth of Benjamin, or.
Jesus{Joseph} is presumed dead right now, but he is co ruler of all the gentiles who believe in him, he reigns in their lives.
No doubt, the story of Joseph demanding to see his brother Benjamin will play out, and Judah will stand up for Benjamin. Jesus will no doubt tell his brothers that he forgives them for what they had done to him, he will say,'' You meant it for evil but God meant it not only for your salvation, but the salvation of all the world.
Here is what I am thinking.
It's not hard to relay the concept of Jesus having to be both, '' Suffering Messiah Ben Yoseph, AND the ruling and reigning Messiah Ben David,''
But what are we missing?
Between these two kingdoms, and in the midst of these two Messiahs, there is a third.
Jerusalem was built in Benjamin to unite all of Israel.
Benjamin is the beloved of the Lord who literally rests between the bosom of the Lord, and between two sons of God.
Not only did Jesus have to be Joseph, and not only did he have to be David, he also has to be Benjamin.
The birth of Jesus in the flesh shows Joseph which is the body.
But what about the second birth of Jesus?
Jesus was born in the flesh on the 15th of Tishri.
Jesus was also born on the 17th of Nisan.
Being born the first man to die, and then to be reborn through that death.
Jesus was the first fruits of all those who will be reborn, just as a woman gives birth, so too this body has a day of birth for the child that we have raised.
There was a virgin, and then we saw a partition wall tear from the top down.
Blood and water spilled out upon the earth and the Earth became pregnant, 3 days later the Earth gave birth to a full grown man on the day of birth, first fruits.
Woe to those with child in those days who are weaning children.
Have you fed your child the milk of the word, raised him, giving him understanding of the meat of the word?
WE are more concerned with raising the flesh and building a kingdom here, that we forget that we are pregnant with the child of God who needs the milk and we should be doing good works as to building him a better future.
If a demand goes out to produce Benjamin, it means that we are given a time to seek the Lord with all our hearts, because Benjamin is that child who is lurking within you like a man in the belly of a fish having scales on his eyes
WE feed this body of flesh and we give it all it desires, but we neglect that child within, we are abusive parents when we stick that child in a corner, we don't feed it the milk of the word enough so it can learn to eat the meat of the word.
WE seek out riches and the things of this world while neglecting little Benjamin.
Benjamin became corrupt and was almost completely destroyed, but a way was found to replenish Benjamin.
Provision for Benjamin's Survival
20And they commanded the sons of Benjamin, saying, "Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
21and watch; and behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then you shall come out of the vineyards and each of you shall catch his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
22"It shall come about, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we shall say to them, 'Give them to us voluntarily, because we did not take for each man of Benjamin a wife in battle, nor did you give them to them, else you would now be guilty.'"
1Then Jacob called for his sons and said: Gather around so I can tell you what will happen to you in days to come.
The last days, the last group of 3's.
Genesis 49 is a 12 step ladder in your walk with God.
You begin in the first 3 which is bad but you move up, you begin sacrificing in Judah, the word goes out in Zebulun and you witness, but in Isaachar, you haven't commited and your on a fence. Dan comes and punishes you and you bend your knee and pray the prayer. You get stronger in Gad and you just keep climbing.
It's both a ladder and a timeline, and the last 3 shows what the people of God become in the last days, and Benjamin will have his time.
God's people are set free in Naphtali and Joseph comes
But then comes Benjamin.
Naphtali is a doe set free
that bears beautiful fawns.
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22Joseph is a fruitful vine,
a fruitful vine near a spring,
whose branches climb over a wall.
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23With bitterness archers attacked him;
they shot at him with hostility.
24But his bow remained steady,
his strong arms stayed
l limber,
because of the hand of the Mighty One of Jacob,
because of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
25because of your fathers God, who helps you,
because of the Almighty,
m who blesses you
with blessings of the skies above,
blessings of the deep springs below,
blessings of the breast and womb.
26Your fathers blessings are greater
than the blessings of the ancient mountains,
than
n the bounty of the age-old hills.
Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,
on the brow of the prince among
o his brothers.
27Benjamin is a ravenous wolf;
in the morning he devours the prey,
in the evening he divides the plunder.