Ephraim Flashcards
To have the capability to effectively breakdown & identify who the tribe of Ephraim is today & in scriptures
What scriptural references do we use to locate the 12 tribes today? (Please provide scripture)
A) Genesis 49:1-2/ Dueteronomy 28:45-46/ Dueteronomy 33/ Lamentation 5 /Jeremiah 17:4
How does Ephraim fit into the twelve tribes, and what name is the tribe refer to at times in the scriptures?
A)Adopted thru Joseph their father (Genesis 48:13-20) // refers to as “Tribe of Joseph” or “Joseph” (Genesis 49:22 / Ezekiel 37:16 / Ezekiel 47:13 / Revelation7:8)
Who consist of the tribe of Joseph
A) Ephraim B) Manessah
C) Lost 10 tribes D) Ephraim and Manessah
D) Ephraim and Manessah
Where are they mainly located today?
A) Puerto Rico and scattered in Hawaii
What by-word is the tribe of Ephraim call today, and what does the name mean?
A) Puerto Ricans- Port of Riches
What are other names that the tribe of Ephraim is/were called?
A) Borinquen / Arawaks Indian / Igneri / Taino /Sumerians (Isaiah 7:9 / John 4:9)
What does “Borinquen” mean?
A) Hebrew for “Land of the Brave Lords”
What does “Boriqua” mean?
A) Brave
What is an “Arawak”?
A) a groups of indigenous peoples that migrated from South America, to Central and North America.
What does “Ephraim” mean?
A) Fruitful / I am Fruitful (Genesis 41:52)
In Genesis 49:22 what does “Joseph is a fruitful bough” mean?
A) Ephraim (and Manasseh) will have alot of children
What is a “bough”?
A) tree
What does even a “even a fruitful bough by a well” in Genesis 49:22 mean?
A) Like a tree by a well (good water source) the tribe of Ephraim (and Manessah) would live by the water and in very fruitful lands (islands) // Also have very large families
What does “Whose branches run over the wall” (Gen 49:22) mean?
A) As a wall divide other trees from other trees, the women of tribe of Ephraim would climb over the wall to mix w/ the Spaniards (conquistadors)
What was the “the wall” in Genesis 49:22 referencing in history?
A) The racial wall of divide - El Morro
What happen to majority of the children of the Ephraimites women had with the Spaniards? (Provide scriptural reference)
A) They died (AP)- Hosea 9:11-14
What is the result of the mixing of the Ephraimites women and the Spaniards we see today? (provide a scripture to support the statement)
A) Some are lighter skinned then the originally darker skinned tone Ephraimites - Hosea 7:8
What does “The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him.” mean?
A) Ephraim would be attack, enslaved and treated with extreme hatred.
Who are the “archer” (Gen 49:22)?
A) Spaniards/Conquistadors
What is an example of “sorely grieved him”?
A) The Boriqua Indians were forced to serve in gold mines and sugar cane fields under very hard and strenuous conditions
What is an historical example of “shot at him”?
A) Ponce de Leon, came in 1508, he had 6,000 Boriqua Indians, shot because they protested slave working conditions.
What are examples did the Spaniards do to show “And hated him” (Gen 49:22)?
A) The Spaniards, enslaved Ephraim and sent thousands of them to serve slavery in Spain, and Hawaii on slave ships (Deuteronomy 28:68) and stripped Puerto Rico, of it’s wealth and riches // Killed and maimed them due to not enough gold, diamonds and silver brought back. // Murder of babies thru polo w/ mallets, dashed against stone and feed to dogs.
What does Genesis 49:24 mean?
A) Joseph’s strength because he kept the commandments and his hands were made strong when TMH honored Joseph by making him second over all Egypt.
Who is the “ The Shepherd”? (Provide scriptures)
A) Christ- Hebrew 13:20 / 1 Peter 5:1,4
Who is “the stone of Israel”? (Provide scripture(s))
A) Jesus Christ- 1 Peter 2:5-6 // Ephesian 2:19-20
What does “blessings of the Heaven above” mean?
A) Where Ephraim would dwell would have good weather.
What does “Blessings of the deep that lieth under” mean?
A) The blessing of the sea and riches of the island of Puerto Rico- exotic fishes and beautiful waters (used by colonizers for tourism).
What does “ blessings of the breasts and the womb.” mean?
A) Ephraim would have alot of children thru the Lord blessing the tribe to replenish after mass murder of the Borinquen & the mass death of the babies of the Spaniards.
What does Genesis 49:26 mean?
A) Mean because of Ephraim and Manessah father’s (Joseph) position (2nd under pharaoh); infamy and wealth w/ the ability to provide for father, brethren and his family that his blessing is greater than Abraham and Isaac.
What does Dueteronomy 33:13 mean? (Provide a precept for the verse)
A) Talking of the blessing of the good weather & fish. (Gen 49:25)
What are examples of “for the precious things brought forth by the moon.”? (Duet 33:14)
A) Coqui frogs (whistle thru out nights) and dinoflagellates (small organisms that light the water blue at night in Puerto Mosquito, Puerto Rico).
What are the “chief things of the ancient mountains”? (Duet 33:15)
A) diamonds, gold and silver
What are the “precious things of the lasting hills”? (Duet 33:15)
A) Coffee beans
What does “good will of him that dwelt in the bush” mean? (Duet 33:16)
A) Out of the burning bush of Moses was giving the prophesy of Ephraim making to the New World (Arsareth) and surviving the onslaught of the Spaniards.
What does “His glory is like the firstling of a bullock” mean?
A) Ephraim would have the glory of the 1st born.
What is a “unicorn”?
A) Rhinoceros
What does “his horns are like the horns of unicorns” refer to?
A) As a 🦏 rhinoceros has a big horn and a little horn : so would be the leaders of Ephraim and Manessah
What is a “horn” making reference to? (Provide a scripture)
A) Leader, King or dominion ( Sirach 47:2,11)
A) Leader, King or dominion ( Sirach 47:2,11)
What does “with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth”
A)The Lord used the leaders of Ephraim and Manesseh to push/guide the 10 tribes of Israel to the other side of the world- New World/ Arsareth ( 2 Esdras 13:40-45).
