The Three Multitudes

of

Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh

By

Robert L. & Paul C. Sipe

January 1962

Fellow American, there are important parts of world history that seldom get presented or considered as necessary prerequisites to the history of America – being the history of a people found within the Bible of Christianity – history as outlined in the Old Testament as regards the Bible’s principle characters; the Israelite Nations; whose story composes the Great plan of the Lord for the Ages as it focuses on His hopes and demands for these unique and chosen peoples. So, fellow American, let me help you find yourself within the pages of the Word.

If you have never properly applied the three different meanings of the Hebrew word, “multitude,” to the three parts of the Hebrew house of Joseph, we believe that this study will be revealing. We also believe that the three separate meanings of the word “multitude” in Genesis 48, applies “only” to these three Hebrew Israelites: Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh, in “the last days.”

When properly applying or associating the word “multitude” with each of its three distinct meanings, we can understand more clearly the fulfillment of prophecy in the history of these chosen people. Further, the “partial blindness” now being removed from the eyes of America’s Christian Israelites, makes our identity certain (to those Christian Americans who are no longer, according to Romans 11:25, “blinded in part”), as the nation destined to become the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.

Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, with its Hebrew and Greek dictionaries where words are numbered and then interpreted or translated, depicts three separate Hebrew words that offer three distinct biblical meanings applied to the English word, “Multitude.”  What is further unique about these three Hebrew words is their biblical attachment to each of three separate historical Israelites, Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh.