133. I AM WHO/WHOM I AM
(The Lord Will Announce Himself)

     All of this being truth, then the day will come when Christ shall announce himself and make it all clear exactly who it is that he is. There are many evidences of this, who he is, which have been covered in this text. Perhaps from this last perspective a putting of some of them together from the perspective of Christ's self announcement of his person may be enlightening. The Jews knew who he was, they knew that he was of the linage of David, and yet 'in truth' they did accuse him of being a Samaritan, that is of a 'mix of Ephraim and other strangers'.

To that charge Jesus did not answer in the negative. In fact he did not answer that at all, which is as an admission that that part of the accusation was indeed correct. David was the son of that Ephrathite/Ephraimite Jesse, who was in turn the son of Obed whose mother was a Moabite, and who had been raise up as seed unto the dead, Mahlon and Elimelech, Ephrathites/Ephraimites. Even as son of David, the ancestry of Jesus was that of the former wife of a Hittite, Bathsheba. No, in truth the whole of the house of David could not deny such a charge. It was ironic that Jesus the Son of King David would be so charged by the Jewish leadership who not only knew well of that which they did speak, but that they would bring such upon the House of David by their own voice. The Jews had claim David that he was blood of their blood. But this in the days of Jesus was not as a claiming of the House of David, but a rebuke against the Son of David. Thus it is well that we next look to the very blessing of Judah under the hand of Jacob next for our next thought link.

It is not to be disputed that so the blood desent from Judah was to be the holders of the sceptre and/or the ruling lawgivers 'until' Shiloh, who was and is Jesus Christ should come. And even at that was not Jesus of the blood line of Judah and the Son of David by way of his mother Mary? But the key perspective here is that Shiloh, Jesus, had more than one ancestrial inheritance. Not only was he of the blood of Judah, but he had was the legal and rightful heir of the birthright covenant as being raised up to the dead and so by the Law of Moses the heir of that house of Ephraim whereby the right of the birthright and the Covenant of Abraham did come. And to Jesus Christ as that heir of Ephraim was the gathering of the people in the latter days to be. That is the very position of the LDS Church, that they are the heirs of the birthright of Ephraim and those very promises of the fathers (D&C 27:10) wherein they as of Ephraim where and are to gather Israel unto Christ.

And here now it is well that we revisit Jacob's blessing upon Joseph and his two sons as recorded in not just Genesis chapter 48, but the JST version of Genesis 48 which speaks not only of Joseph of Egypt in his day but of Joseph's posterity's postition and responsibility in the latter days.

Here the Lord by the mouth of Jacob so states that Joseph has prevailed. And this does last speaks of the latter days and the deliverance unto salvation of the gospel being preached unto the nations of the earth, by which the nation of the earth well be blessed under that Covenant of Abraham by Ephraim and his companions. And the fruit of the loins of Joseph, as well as of Ephriam, is he who is Messiah ben Joseph/Ephraim and whom all of Israel will bow down to and worship for ever and ever. And he it is who is the same as Jesus Christ. Who, upon this text being true, may one day so state:

And then will Jesus Christ elborate to the people just who it is that he is. That he is our God and King, so appointed and annointed by the Father to act in His stead in all things pertaining to this the second estate from its beginning to its end, he is both Alpha and Omega, our Mediator, Advocate, Intercessor, Priest and King; he being the only name given under heaven whereby man miy be saved to receive salvation and exaltation. Amen