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  1. Hello Clarion call family. It's a feel well from the tribe of Benjamin.
  2. So who is this tribe?
  3. We know him saw paul Mordecai,
  4. who the judge for our Barbas calls out their
  5. archers and fighters from the Book of Judges.
  6. Um So here is an overview of the tribe
  7. of Benjamin and how they fit in with Jacob's blessing
  8. and what that would look like possibly for my banner.
  9. So
  10. Benjamin
  11. Rachel's Kids, one of them.
  12. So Rachel had
  13. um Benjamin and joseph joseph um remember was
  14. split into the tribe of Ephraim and Manasseh.
  15. So here we see Manasseh and or in mustard yellow at
  16. the top and Ephraim kind of like a mayonnaise color.
  17. And
  18. right below there you in baby blue is tribal. Benjamin Barbara Tropp revenge.
  19. Remember being kind of small and also having
  20. trouble
  21. past or troubled relationship with other tribes.
  22. So in the Book of Judges there was a big battle and give you where
  23. Benjamin was almost completely wiped out
  24. um
  25. because there was a rape and a lot of um discord and distrust. And so um
  26. the only reason that tribe survived is because the men hid in the cave,
  27. but even though they survived, they stole wives.
  28. Um
  29. so they survived. But there's a question of which is the character of this group
  30. um are they violent? Can they be trusted? Are they leaders?
  31. So if you think back to when Benjamin was named
  32. Benjamin was initially named Ben Omi which means son of my pain why his mother died?
  33. Rachel died when she was giving birth
  34. um to him but Jacob changed his name to son of my right hand
  35. um after because if you remember Jacob really loved Rachel um
  36. and so there's this question still, what's the character of this leader?
  37. Can just need to be trusted?
  38. Are they violent? How do they fit into the rest of the tribe?
  39. And so here the blessing of Jacob Jacob is described as a rather ravenous wolf.
  40. So if you think about that in context of the other people from the
  41. tribe of Benjamin that we see throughout scripture we can think about the hood,
  42. a triumphant victor but very violent
  43. or sol a great king, but should we have had a king
  44. or Mordecai um saves the people with Esther but um
  45. you know also from the tribe of Benjamin so experienced his own
  46. you know semi extermination event in the context of his tribe.
  47. So there's this,
  48. there's just questions about um how people from the tribe of Benjamin fit.
  49. And so um even the apostle paul, right also from the tribe of Benjamin,
  50. like is he paul is he saw, can you trust him?
  51. You know?
  52. So
  53. when you think about a wolf in the context
  54. of the blessing that Jacob bestowed on Benjamin,
  55. um the blessing itself states that Benjamin is a ravenous wolf
  56. in the morning
  57. he devised his prey and in the evening he devises plunder.
  58. So that's interesting because if you think about the idea of a werewolf,
  59. which is idea from the cult
  60. right
  61. with werewolves there, people during the day and at night, they become wolves.
  62. But with Benjamin is the opposite.
  63. It says that Benjamin is a revenues wolf in the morning
  64. and in the evening he devised to plunder.
  65. So there's more aggressiveness in the morning and in
  66. the evening is a more meter temperate response.
  67. So that comes up also in the context of an abyss.
  68. So, and this is the Egyptian god of mummification.
  69. So the tribe of Israel did not believe in the Egyptians God, but
  70. at the time they were in Egypt when Jacob bestowed his blessing on Benjamin.
  71. So just think about how this um other idea of a wolf would play with
  72. Benjamin being blessed as a reminisce wolf.
  73. So, and this is the Egyptian god of mummification.
  74. So, when you, in Egyptian mythology, when someone dies,
  75. once again that ravenous character,
  76. they meet this wolf and the wolf will wear your heart and determine where you go.
  77. So once again, a more temperate response.
  78. So there's this balance between aggression
  79. and immediate response.
  80. And I found this picture of a abstract wolf on the
  81. internet and here the wolf is a wolf at the bottom,
  82. but it's kind of balancing
  83. abstract object
  84. on top. So I kind of see this as how I viewed the tribe of Benjamin
  85. ravenous yet also meted and tempered, but leaders nonetheless.
  86. All right, thanks clarion,
  87. love y'all