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{{DOD-January}}
Chapter 49 continues [[Jacob]]'s last message and his dying blessing. He assembled his twelve sons together to prophesy of their tribal future. The prophecy, covered in verses 3-27, covers the entire sweep of [[Israel]]ite history--past, present, and future. The prophecy concerning Reuben (verses 3 and 4) and Simeon and Levi (verses 5 and 7) characterized the nation of [[Israel]] until the [[Messiah]] 's advent. [[Judah]] (verses 8-12) pointed to the period when our [[Lord]] was on the earth. Zebulun (verse 13) and [[Issac]]har) verses 14 and 15) portrayed [[Israel]], a trading people scattered among the nations. Verses 16-18 suggest apostate [[Israel]] during the reign of the Antichrist. Gad (verse 10), Asher (verse 20) and Naphtali (verse 21) portray the [[God]]ly Jewish remnant of the Great Tribulation, and then [[Joseph]] (verses 22-26) speaks of the second advent of [[Messiah]] , and Benjamin of the rod-of-iron righteous rule of the King in the Kingdom Age.
The deaths of [[Jacob]] and [[Joseph]] are recorded in chapter 50. [[Jacob]] was buried in Canaan, the land [[God]] had given him. He did not belong to the world or to [[Egypt]]. [[Joseph]] was buried in [[Egypt]], but as we read the Book of Exodus we will see that [[Moses]] took [[Joseph]]'s remains from [[Egypt]] when the children of [[Israel]] left there.
