Benjamin 

I am going to show you a bit at a time what or who Benjamin represents in Scripture.

You will need to know about his life and who the two witnesses in Revelation are.

Benjamin was the youngest son of Jacob.  HIs mother was the beloved Rachel.  Jacob had fallen in love with Rachel at first sight.  He had worked seven years for her Daddy in order to be given Rachel in marriage.  Instead he had been tricked into marrying Leah, the oldest daughter.

Jacob never loved Leah. He hated her.

Leah began having children right away, but Rachel was barren. 

After they gave their handmaidens  to Jacob to have children with he then had ten sons, but Rachel had none.  Then God blessed her with the great Joseph.  Later she had Benjamin but died giving birth.

You know the story of how Jacob loved Joseph more than the others, because he was the son of his beloved Rachel.  The jealous brothers sold Joseph and he eventually became a great prince in Egypt. The brothers had told Jacob that Joseph was dead.  Jacob had grieved all those years for Joseph and his life was now wrapped up in Benjamin, the other son of Rachel.

When the bad famine hit the brothers went to Egypt to buy corn.  They had no idea that the powerful prince was Joseph.  He told them he would sell them no more corn until they brought their youngest brother to him.

Joseph would not reveal his identity unto them before he saw his brother. 

Jacob did not want them to take Benjamin for he was afraid something bad would happen to him.  But they finally convinced Jacob that the prince would not sell them any more corn without Benjamin being with them.

So, in this part of Benjamin’s story, he is showing the manifested sons of God. The reason I say this is because Jesus is not going to show his glory to this world until the Sons of God, [those who overcome sin and obey God until the end], are manifested.   We saw the sons of God manifested in the powerful Church in the Book of Acts. Then the bad famine set in.

  But there has to be a restoring of that power that came on the Day of Pentecost;  another manifesting the sons of God.  Hence, the two witnesses. 

 [more to come]

Jo Smith.  . . Oct. 15, 2024

Part 2:

The OT law system under Moses is shown by Leah.  God said to them, I am married to you;  yet God came to hate them.  He always hated that law system.  Isa 1.

They had more children than the beloved Grace system.  This Grace system in the NT brought in the beloved wife or bride of Christ Jesus.

Thus Rachel is showing this beloved Grace wife.  She bore two witnesses of Jesus Christ.  This is the two sons Joseph and Benjamin.

In this type, Joseph is showing the first witness, the powerful Church in the Book of Acts. Then that old jewish system of law rose up again and took this Church into a famine of hearing the Word of God.  They then lost the truth and the Baptism of the Holy Ghost with those gifts of the spirit.  Hence, a dead church or still born group, 

In order to understand those two witnesses you need this:

Zechariah 4

 And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep.

2 And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:

3 And two olive trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

4 So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

5 Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

6 Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

7 Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

Verse 6 and 7 prove this is speaking of John the Baptist.  He was a Prophet and also shows the first witness, with Jesus being the other witness in this part of it.  BUT.

Look at those two olive trees on either side of the seven lamps.

Revelation says that a candlestick is a church.  So those two olive trees on either side of the candlestick shows two other powerful groups;  one coming before the seven churches in Revelation and the other coming after those seven.

Those are the two witnesses.  Proven by this:

11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?

12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

Rev. 11:  3 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.

4 These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.

See that?  Those two witnesses are the same as those two olive trees in Zeck. 4.

Who did God anoint with power?  First, John and Jesus.  But then the powerful group in Acts 2, and then another powerful group in Psalm 149.  Those two powerful groups of anointed ones were those two olives Trees or Candlesticks, so they are two churches separate from those seven.

It was the group in Acts and that group yet to be in Psalm 149.

So I conclude that Joseph shows this first witness and Benjamin shows the second witness.

Part 3:

Now to show you how Benjamin shows the birthing of Christ, the true Church and the restoring of the glory of God to his people.

First, His mother died giving him birth.  Thus it is showing that Jesus, our spiritual mother and father, had to die to give us birth.

There was a time when the tribe of Benjamin had almost been killed out due to a quarrel  between them and the other tribes.  The other tribes were so angry at the Benjamites that they had taken an oath that none of them would give their daughters to them for wives.

Later when they saw that their brother tribe stood in danger of ceasing they repented and told the men of Benjamin to go catch a wife of the daughters of some foreigners when the women went out to dance.  Thus Benjamin shows that there is no such thing as a ‘pure-blood’ Israelite.  See, those women were not of the Isrealites but the men married them and had children with them.

You know also that Rahab the harlot is in the ancestry of Jesus and so is Ruth the Moabite.  So the idea that they are a special ‘brand’ of folks is totally false.

This thing that Benjamin went through at that time shows how the Christians were almost killed out by the Catholics and others who hated them.  But then Christ opened the door to salvation to the entire world.  See, Benjamin was saved by those foreign women and the Christian nation was saved by the people of the world coming to Christ.

The taking of Benjamin to see his brother, Joseph, is all that saved Jacob’s family from starving.  So here he is again showing that Jesus being shown to the world is all that has saved us from death, eternal death.

When ten tribes broke away from the house of David and became the ten tribe nation of Israel, Benjamin stayed with Judah.  This is powerful.  Thus Benjamin is one of the two horns on that beast out of the earth, Judah.  So here again it shows that Benjamin types one of the two witnesses of Jesus Christ. 

Part 4

One of the most beautiful things that Benjamin shows is the double portion. Yes.  Without Benjamin the family of Jacob would have starved to death.  Joseph would not sell them any more corn unless they brought Benjamin there.  He longed to see his brother who was also his Mother’s son.

When the brothers came into Joseph’s house He had prepared a big meal for them.  He seated them according to the way they were born, eldest to youngest.  This amazed the brothers for they could not understand how this royal prince could know that.

He then had the servants serve each brother a portion of the food.  But he sent Benjamin A DOUBLE PORTION.

WHEN Elijah was to be taken up to heaven he asked Elisha what do you want from me before I go.  Elisha said I want a DOUBLE PORTION of your spirit.  Elijah said you have ASKED A hard thing BUT IF YOU SEE ME WHEN I GO YOU MAY HAVE IT.

The Apostles saw Jesus when he went up to heaven.  They then received a double portion.  The glory of this latter house will be greater than the former house.

The former house was Adam in the Garden of Eden.

But now we will have more glory due to Jesus.  As Elijah went up his mantle fell upon Elisha and he had a double portion of Elijah’s spirit.

Now think how great Benjamin was…. He received that DOUBLE PORTION.

So thankful for this study.  I truly never saw all of this about Benjamin before.

Jo Smith… Oct 15, 2024.