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What does it truly mean to bear the name of the Most High? In this episode, we will explore the biblical theme of being called by His name and the responsibility that comes with representing Him before the nations. We will dive deep into how believers are called to reflect His character, reveal His glory, and steward His reputation through the way they live. This episode also connects the concept of bearing His name to covenant faithfulness, and the connection that shows how Yahuah acts for His name’s sake because of the promises He swore to Abraham. We will look at how the heart of obedience is about faithfully representing the One whose name we carry, and how His mercy, truth, and covenant love continue to shape His people today.

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In this episode, we will explore Genesis 48 and Jacob's adoption of Ephraim and Manasseh. This moment establishes a prophetic shadow and helps us to better understand Paul's “mystery” that he doesn’t want us to be “ignorant” of when he penned Romans 11.

We will examine what it meant for Jacob to place his name—and the names of Abraham and Isaac—upon Ephraim and Manasseh. Through a Hebraic lens, we will see how names not only represent authority, character, and representation, but also represent inheritance rights and covenant identity (this is why we covered the “birthright” in Episode 15!). All of this reveals why this adoption was way more than just a simple moment in time.

We will also study Jacob's prophecy that Ephraim would become a melo ha goyim (“fullness of nations”), tracing this promise from Abraham to Jacob, to Ephraim, and ultimately to Paul's discussion of the pleroma ton ethnon (“fullness of the nations”) in Romans 11. This study will show that Paul's language intentionally echoes Genesis 48 and how Ephraim's adoption serves as a shadow and prophetic pattern of the nations being grafted into Israel's covenant inheritance through Messiah.

Additionally and alongside Romans 11, we will unpack the connection between Deuteronomy 29–30, heart circumcision, the New Covenant promises, Israel's temporary blindness, and the restoration foretold by Moses and the prophets. Romans 11 reveals a story of fulfillment...one in which the promises given to Israel are expanded through Messiah to include a people called out from among the nations.

I pray this episode blesses you as we seek to connect the birthright inheritance, adoption, covenant identity, the mystery of the fullness of the nations, and how Genesis 48 provides the shadow that helps explain the reality Paul explains in Romans 11.

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