PROCLAMATION
“And he
charged them, and said unto them, ‘I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me
with my fathers in the cave that is in the end of the field of Ephron the
Hittite … in the land of Canaan … There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife;
there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah …’ And
when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into
bed, and yielded up the ghost …” Genesis
49:29-33 (KJV)
EXPLANATION
These are
the words of God which were revealed to and written by Moses under the
influence of The Holy Spirit of God. After Jacob blessed the two sons of
Joseph, intentionally giving the younger son Ephraim the blessing which should
have gone to the oldest son Manasseh, he blessed Joseph. (Genesis
48:8-20) Then Jacob called his twelve sons together and blessed each one
of them and spoke prophetically of their individual futures. (Genesis 49:1-28)
They would become the twelve tribes of
APPLICATION
People make
promises to others all of the time and, unfortunately, we break most of
them. Many children are often “crushed”
by the broken promises made to them. However, there is something special
about the promise one makes to a dying individual on their deathbed. Those promises are usually held in very high
regard and are often honored. We should be very careful when we give our
word to someone regarding something we plan to do in the future. The old
saying goes, “You are only as good as your word.” We need to pray for
faithfulness in the promises that we make to others. We also need to be
more faithful in the promises that we make to The Lord. We make a lot of promises when times are bad
that we somehow forget when things get better.
He doesn’t break His promises to us, and we need to keep ours to Him.
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