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The Daily Word of Righteousness
The Olive Tree, #2
Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee. (Genesis 27:29)
Ishmael was of the blood line of Abraham, but the Divine inheritance, the Spirit of Christ, the Olive Tree, did not continue with him. Ishmael was not part of the Divine promise. Ishmael was a child of the present world.
The Olive Tree passed to Jacob, not through his blood relationship to Isaac but through the fact that the Spirit of Christ prophesied to him. The Messianic blessing given to Abraham was pronounced on Jacob but not on Esau:
Again:
And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south: and in thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. (Genesis 28:14)
Esau was of the blood line of Abraham through Isaac but he did not become a branch of the Olive Tree, a member of the Body of Christ, part of the eternal Church, the new Jerusalem.
Isaac was unable to make Esau part of the Olive Tree. God had spoken concerning Jacob and Esau prior to their birth:
And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger. (Genesis 25:23)
The Olive Tree, the Spirit of Christ, continued among the sons and grandsons of Jacob. The prophecies of Jacob to Ephraim and Judah are of special significance.
To Ephraim:
. . . his seed shall become a multitude of nations. (Genesis 48:19)
And to Judah:
. . . unto him shall the gathering of the people be. (Genesis 49:10)
Ephraim's seed is "a multitude of nations."
Ephraim represents the elect Gentiles—the branches cut out of the wild olive tree and grafted on the good Olive Tree.
Judah represents the elect Jews—the natural branches of the good Olive Tree.
In the last days the Lord God will bring the Jews back to the physical land of Israel, and the Gentile branches of the Olive Tree will become one with the natural branches. All Israel will be saved and the Lord Jesus Christ will be King over all.
Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all. (Ezekiel 37:19-22)
To be continued.