Shadowland: Beginnings

Shadowland: Beginnings: Week 55

48:5 "Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine" - Now there are 13 tribes, but only 12 are ever listed: which one is left out varies.
48:10,11 Israel's physical eyes were dim, but God showed him Joseph's seed. A contrast from Isaac.
48:14 Israel crosses his arms, seeing with spiritual eyes.
48:16 "let my name be upon them" - Israel adopts Ephraim and Mannasseh.
48:19 "I know it" - Israel saw perfectly well through the eyes of faith. Unlike earlier times, Israel was in charge and walking by the Spirit. Hebrews 11:21
48:22 "one portion more" - Shechem Joshua 24:32 and John 4:5, but also a double portion by Israel adopting Ephraim and Mannasseh.
49:1 "what shall befall you in the last days" - prophecy follows. See Deuteronomy 33
49:2 "sons of Jacob", "Israel your Father" - again with the two names. Israel was walking in the Spirit, his sons in the flesh.
49:4 "thou shalt not excel" - no prophets, no kings, no judges. Reubens numbers decrease between the two numberings in Numbers. Reuben doesn't even take an inheritance in the land. "unstable as water" - unreliable, like streams that spring up in the desert and then disappear. "father's bed" - Reuben tried to take his fathers place prematurely. Who does that remind you of?
49:7 "divide in Jacob" - Joshua 19, "scatter in Israel" Joshua 18:7, Joshua 21