Job 14:7 - For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again, and that the tender branch thereof will not cease.
Deliberately made from Copper... so that it would oxidize to THIS COLOR
"And touching the house of the king of Judah, say, Hear ye the word of the Lord; O house of David, thus saith the Lord; Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor...
"Hear the word of the Lord, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates: Thus saith the Lord; Execute ye judgment and righteousness, and deliver the spoiled out of the hand of the oppressor...
Questions by Elias Higbee: What is meant by the command in Isaiah, 52d chapter, 1st verse, which saith: Put on thy strength, O Zion—and what people had Isaiah reference to?
"He had reference to those whom God should call in the last days, who should hold the power of priesthood to bring again Zion, and the redemption of Israel; and to put on her strength is to put on the authority of the priesthood, which she, Zion, has a right to by lineage; also to return to that power which she had lost..."
Tribe of Joseph was divided into:
Ephraim
Manasseh
Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a spring;
Its branches run over a wall.
23 The archers bitterly attacked him,
And shot at him and harassed him;
24 But his bow remained firm,
And his arms were agile,
From the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob
(From there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel)...
26 The blessings of your father
Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors
Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills;
May they be on the head of Joseph,
Deuteronomy 33
16 And with the choice things of the earth and its fullness,
And the favor of Him who dwelt in the bush.
Let it come to the head of Joseph,
And to the crown of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.
17 As the firstborn of his ox, majesty is his,
And his horns are the horns of the wild ox (Ibex or unicorn)
With them he will push the peoples,
All at once, to the ends of the earth.
And those are the ten thousands of Ephraim,
And those are the thousands of Manasseh.
Ephraim is represented by a bull (Jeremiah 31:18)
I have surely heard Ephraim grieving,
You have chastised me, and I was chastised,
Like an untrained calf;
Bring me back that I may be restored,
For You are the LORD my God.
Manasseh is an animal called a Ream (Deuteronomy 37:17). The identity of this beast is disputed but in the KJV of the bible is translated as a unicorn.
Cyrus the Great approves the plan of Zerubbabel to return to Jerusalem and funds the rebuilding of the Temple.... Jews have $$$, but they have no Priests
Rabbinical commentary is both unkind to EliMelech/Malhon and ADD statements about David's Lineage that are NOT supported in the hebrew text:
Wikipedia... Jesse (/ˈdʒɛsi/ JESS-ee) or Yishai (Hebrew: יִשַׁי – Yīšay, meaning "King" or "God's gift"; Syriac: ܐܝܫܝ – Eshai; Greek: Ἰεσσαί – Iessaí; Latin: Issai, Isai ); (Arabic: إيشا, romanized: ʾīshā) is a figure described in the Hebrew Bible as the father of David, king of the Israelites.
Joseph is a fruitful bough,
A fruitful bough by a spring;
Its branches run over a wall...
"Ether saw the days of Christ, and he spake concerning a New Jerusalem upon this land. And he spake also concerning the house of Israel, and the Jerusalem from whence Lehi should come—after it should be destroyed it should be built up again, a holy city unto the Lord; wherefore, it could not be a new Jerusalem for it had been in a time of old; but it should be built up again, and become a holy city of the Lord; and it should be built unto the house of Israel — And that a New Jerusalem should be built up upon this land, unto the remnant of the seed of Joseph..."
Israel's Priests (Descendants of David, Joseph & Manasseh) sailed to America...
"...thus saith the Lord unto you, with whom the priesthood hath continued through the lineage of your fathers — For ye are lawful heirs, according to the flesh, and have been hid from the world with Christ in God — Therefore your life and the priesthood have remained, and must needs remain through you and your lineage until the restoration of all things spoken by the mouths of all the holy prophets since the world began..."
Long before his death Joseph said to me,
"I shall have a son born to me and his name shall be called David;
and on him in some future time will rest the responsibility that now rests upon me."
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"... if the one that Joseph the Prophet predicted
should step forth to become the leader of this church,
he will come to us like a little child,
saying "God says so and so through me."
Psalms 80:14-17 - "the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong"
Isaiah 4:2 - "In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious"
Jeremiah 33:15-22 - "In those days, and at that time, will I cause the Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David"
Jeremiah 23:5 - "the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and justice in the earth..."