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Joseph Specially Blessed
Gen 49:13-27
The position of Zebulun and the following tribes in the land of promise is accurately foretold. Compare the allotments of Jos 18:1-28. Notice the exclamation of the dying man in Gen 49:18. Such a spirit of waiting cannot be disappointed. See Isa 26:8-9. Joseph’s blessing is pre-eminently beautiful: Fruitful! This is mentioned twice, reminding us of Joh 15:8. But fruitfulness is only possible where there is the wall for separation, and the well for communion. When these are present, the branches droop over the wall with clusters of blessings to a thirsty world. Let us seek divine strength and ask that the mighty hands of the God of Jacob may be placed under our own poor weak hands! See Psa 141:1. The separated life is the crowned life. To the heart of the dying man came the memory of his native land and its mountains. What mountains are to a country, God is to His people!