Voice of the Kingfisher speaks out …from a different perspective
by Elinor Montgomery
From Moses to the Nations Israel and America
June 25, 2011
The crossover blessing of Israel, being in place before the nation ever was formed, was made visible to us prophetically through the relationship of Moses to Joshua. Moses was a man of the nation; Joshua was a man of salvation. Moses was a Levite, Joshua was an Ephraimite, representing a crossover from one kind of priesthood to another.
Now Joseph had two sons who were blessed by his father Jacob, the father of the tribes of Israel. The blessing upon them was one of a crossover when he placed his hands on the heads of the two sons – Manasseh, the older, and Ephraim, the younger. With this crossover blessing, the inheritance of Jacob, now blessing them under the name of Israel, went from the first son to the second son.
The name Manasseh means ‘cause to forget’. God had caused Joseph to forget his toil and his father’s house, in the foreign land of Egypt to where his brothers had sent him as a slave. The name of the second son, Ephraim, means ‘fruitful’; for God had caused Joseph to be fruitful in the land of his affliction (see Genesis 41:51-52).
Joseph, a man born of the tribes or nations of Israel, became a man of salvation for his brothers of the nation. For they had sold him into Egyptian slavery within the ruling empire of their day, by turning him over to the Ishmaelite slave-traders who turned him over to his captives. He was purchased by Potiphar, an officer of the ruler, Pharaoh, and captain of the guard.
Now Potiphar saw that the Lord was with Joseph, and so he found favor in his master’s sight; he made him overseer over his house and all that he possessed. But Joseph was falsely accused by Potiphar’s wife and, as a result of her actions, his mantle or cloak was stolen from him and he was thrown into prison. Joseph, who was a type of Jesus, married a woman called Asenath who was not from the tribes or nation of Israel, but rather from the religious world of Egypt. She was a bride who carried within her birthright the priestly entitlement of her father, Poti-Pherah (meaning ‘given by the sun god’, Re), priest of On.
Pharaoh, like Potiphar, saw the Spirit of God in Joseph and he made him ruler over his house as well, with all the people being ruled according to the word (truth) of Joseph. Only in regard to the throne was Pharaoh to be greater than he; for every knee in Egypt would bow before him. Likewise Jesus will rule by the truth of the Bible and none shall be greater than He who sits at the right hand of God, except God, Himself, for He is God.
So it was that Joseph went from the accused to a type of king of the world. This meant that the fruit of his offspring with his bride would belong to a priest-king line coming, not from just the nation, but rather from a woman of the gentile nations. This became the symbol for the inheritance of the nation through Jesus and His bride who would bear good fruit for Him and for His Father, a blessing that would bless all nations of the world, in so far as Egypt was the world empire of its day. The result of this union meant that the fruit of Jesus and His bride, the church, would combine the inheritance of Israel with a priesthood found from within the gentile nations, to produce the good fruit of their union, which would become known as the true Jew.
This union would bring about the fulfillment of the Ephraim blessing of the crossover, which would deliver the sons of God as Israelites, not of the nation, but rather of a spiritual nation through their father, Jesus. This would also fulfill the blessing of which He spoke to Nicodemus regarding the inheritance of the kingdom, which would not be possible without being born again of the water and the Spirit.
The national inheritance would still go to those who believe on Jesus for salvation, in accordance with the blessing of Israel upon the other tribes, separate from the crossover blessing upon the sons of Joseph, where the kingdom inheritance of Israel resided. Those saved without being born again would not be of the king-priest line of David.
God had put the pattern in place for the principle of spiritual Israel receiving the first-son inheritance through a crossover blessing, put in place long before the Israelites became a nation. The pattern, the principle and the precept of the church or spiritual nation were set in place with Joseph, his brothers, his wife, his children and his father, long before the Israelites ever entered into the Land to receive their inheritance as the nation of Israel.
The nation, through its idolatry and rejection of Jesus, just as the brothers had rejected Joseph, would lose the Promised Land, only to be driven from it. One day, the Israel of God would return in peace and rebuild the ruined cities. That will not happen until Jesus returns with His church, possessing the key of David, to set up His Davidic throne and the ruling house of Israel with His comparable partner and His bride. That day has not yet come.
So, a people who are not God’s people dwell in a land that does not belong to them any more than it belongs to the Palestinians. None of them has a right to the land, which Satan is about to claim and set up as his own. The reason he will be able to take possession of it is the fact that both the nation and the spiritual nation have broken the Law of God given to Moses. They have rejected the unity of acceptance of the Law with the worship of only their one true God, which results in the moral compass of the Law no longer being the foundation for legal justice and liberty for man under God’s rule.
The first four of the Ten Commandments bind man’s relationship to the one true God, having no other gods or idols before Him. The last six deal with laws that govern man’s day-to-day relationship with his fellow man. It has always been the plan of God for His people that the state and a priesthood ruled by truth (church) become as one, ruling together. It has never been His plan for state and religion, which is the agent of Satan, to rule together.
The Law of Moses was intended to actually produce a king-priest line, which would rule eventually over the world as a kingdom. It will not happen without the great falling away first, whereby the gentiles come to the time of their fullness when Satan has a One World Order with a religious system, which worships him instead of the Most High God.
The religious world has been deceived into believing that the Israel of the United Nations is the Israel of God, now back in the Land. The Christian, who is supposed to believe in Jesus as the Savior of the world, finds it acceptable to link arms with Judaism, which rejected Jesus, and does so to this day, sending Him to the cross. Is it not the light that was rejected by man from the beginning, and did Jesus not say that He was the Light of the world?
How is it we have a so-called Judeo-Christian tie within a nation under God, which rejects truth in order for religion to rule over it? Are our American Judeo-Christian proponents not as blind as Saul was? Are they not without revelation of the light? How in the world can such an alliance ever be a light to the world? The answer comes back, very loud and clear; the Judeo-Christian alliance can never be a light to the world and, consequently, an America, which has accepted this alliance in place of truth, will fall as hard as Israel fell.
The only answer for America is a return to the truth of God’s Word and His Law. It is becoming evident that the great falling away is upon us and the next stop along the Way in truth and life is the kingdom on earth as it is in heaven. This will come to be when Jesus returns with His church to set up His throne and His house of Israel, the house of God. It is then that He will enter through the east gate of the city of Jerusalem with His bride, the church and the true Jew, and Israel will be returned to the Land in peace and victory.
At that point, the crossover blessing, which went from Moses to Joshua and from Manasseh to Ephraim, will be complete and the inheritance of Abraham will come to fruition with the spiritual nation’s second-son-blessing upon it. The second Son of Man and of God, called Jesus, shall replace the first son of man and of God, called Adam, as the partnering ruler over the world. For He has redeemed the children of God from the fallen world and from a marriage bed with man that could never be fruitful through Adam.
The bride of King Jesus will bring forth the sons and daughters of a spiritual rebirth and of a nature, which King David always wanted from his sons, but never could produce as a fallen man, who had not yet been redeemed. But the bride, like her spiritual father David, will become his spiritual sons and daughters who will love the Spirit of life and desire that it never again depart from them, no matter how great the sin they commit, which, through repentance, will find forgiveness in Jesus.