Cipher 9. The Remnant of Israel with Ephraim my First-born (Jer 31:6-9)
1. WHO? (31:6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the hills of Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, (Yeshua) and let us go up to Zion unto YHWH our God.
2. WHY? (31:7) For thus saith YHWH, Sing with gladness for Jacob
3. HOW? (31:7) Shout at the crossroads of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say:
4. WHAT to save? (31:7-8) Save O YHWH, your people, the remnant of Israel. Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together
5. WHEN? (31:8-9) In a great company shall they return hither. They shall come with weeping; and with supplications will I lead them: I will cause them
6. WHERE to lead? (31:9) to walk by rivers of waters, (baptism) in a straight way wherein they shall not stumble;
7. WHICH way?( 31:9) For I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my first-born. (77)
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Commentary: The first cross above shows a series of second-born sons receiving the status of first-born. First Isaac over Ishmael. Then there was the first-born Esau who sold his first-born status to Jacob for a bowl of soup. Joseph the 11th born son of Jacob was chosen by God over first-born Reuben, who committed adultery on Jacob’s bed. Jacob, who God called Israel, consequently adopted Joseph’s two sons through his crossed arms (the Holy Cross) and assigned first-born status to second-born Ephraim. (Cipher 8) Ephraim then becomes the second born 14th son of Israel, and his birthright number is 14 or 7+7 or 77 that appears four times in the genealogy of Jesus Christ. (Cipher 31) The first cross above shows four times through the cross that the second birth is the preferred and elected birthright for YHWH God. It is not unlike a second birth in the spirit that Jesus taught Nicodemus in John 3:3. (Cipher 42)
The Cross of Jer 31:9 above shows Ephraim is the first born of the Father YHWH, who is the son of Joseph in the flesh and the second born of Jacob (Israel). All of this illustrates how God prefers and elects the second born in the spirit, rather than the first born in the soul. (water)
Ultimately this same scenario plays out again when Jesus, the Son of Man, is the first born in the flesh from Joseph, and then the second born in the Spirit as the Son of God with Jesus’ resurrection and ascension to heaven.