I speak this so that you will understand in the days following your calamity.
You sold your brother for silver, and yet he redeemed you and brought you into a land of safety during the famine. The birthright passed through this man unto his youngest son. This son was raised again, and brought you across the Jordan to claim your inheritance. He stood with the High priest and divided unto you your inheritance. He stood with the lawgiver on Sinai, and he entered into the tabernacle with the lawgiver, when the Lord as a cloud, descended with his glory. He remained in the tabernacle when the lawgiver went out unto the people. The lawgiver laid his hands upon this man, in the presence of the High Priest, and imparted upon him a portion of his glory.
Again this man was raised. Because you did not circumcise your hearts, and remained a prideful people, upon passover, the Lord passed over you yet again, and claimed the firstborn of your inheritance.
One thing you have understood, which the gentiles have been led astray in. This man was not your king on earth. Jesus himself said in the book of the gentiles, “What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, the LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?”
He never once made claim to be a king on earth, but often told parables of the king to come. In denying this man as king on this earth you did no wrong, for it is written, “Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright. For Judah prevailed above his brethren, and of him came the chief ruler; but the birthright was Joseph’s)”
You denied a greater than David. You denied the sacrifice of the Lord, the birthright of your inheritance, the blood of the lamb slain that judgment might pass over you. Look to the name of Jesus, as he was first named in Hebrew. Yehshua (Joshua) is the identical Hebrew used for both Jesus and Joshua of the tribe of Ephraim. Ephraim, the son who received the birthright, from Joseph, who had the birthright. Ephraim of whom it is written in Jeremiah 31 – “Ephraim is my firstborn.” On passover – it was the SON OF JOSEPH, firstborn of the birthright that was taken, not the seed of the ruler, David. Unto David is the Peace.
The Lord has adopted a new people, and yet still would He rejoice upon your return, and set you in a high place. Seal yourselves with the blood of the lamb, lest judgment consume you.
In Jeremiah it is written, “The LORD saith thus; Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up, even this whole land.”
“The word of the Lord came unto me, Zion shall be established in the place that I have chosen, and peopled by the sons and daughters of those who choose me. My mercy towards my children is without end, but they must return with humble hearts, circumcised in ways of peace. Does a man build again upon a foundation that is fallen, and shall I not choose a new land upon which to establish my city?”