GENESIS - CHAPTER 49 - 49:28
GENESIS CHAPTER 41 41:45 - Asenath, the Gentile bride espoused by Joseph the rejected one ( JOHN 19:15 ), type of the Church, called out from the Gentiles to be the bride of Christ during the time of His rejection by His brethren, Israel ( ACTS 15:14; EPHESIANS 5:31__32 ). 43:34 - Genesis 35:18, note. It is important to observe that Benjamin now becomes prominent. Joseph is peculiarly the type of Christ in His first advent, rejection, death, resurrection, and present exaltation among the Gentiles, but unrecognized of Israel. As the greater Benjamin, "Son of sorrow," but also "Son of my right hand," He is to be revealed in power in the Kingdom ( GENESIS 1:26__28; ZECHARIAH 12:8, note. It is then, and not till then, that Israel is to be restored and converted ( DEUTERONOMY 30:1__9, note ). Typically Genesis 45:1__2 anticipates the revelation prophetically described, Ezekiel 20:33__36; Hosea...