I would like to add this article that I wrote inspired by God.  A revelation that I just got.  Thank you Brother John and all the Doves.
 
 

THE BLESSINGS OF THE COVENANT


I am writing here today about the blessing of the covenant that God provided in the Scriptures and the blessing bestowed on the sons of various generations showing typology of God's way of doing things. The blessing specifically going to the younger son and not to the older son in many cases is a conundrum of sorts. Many have contemplated and inquired into and quizzically wondered about this phenomenon. I for years did not understand this concept or this strange, seeming unequivocal ceremony of a “knighting” of the younger son and not of the older son myself also. Until one day when I came across the amazing revelation of the “crossing of the hands” of the blesser upon the receiver being that a picture of the CROSS itself. This was God's way of showing to all that the Cross is the only way that you can become an inheritor of the covenant of Grace that God has provided for all people to receive: whether Greek or Jew. All who call on the name of Jesus will be saved. We are saved by grace and that not of ourselves (the law), that no man can boast.


Abraham blessed Jacob instead of Esau when he crossed his hands and blessed the younger instead of the elder who and which was entitled to the blessing. Jacob he loved, Esau he hated (loved less).


Jacob blessed Joseph with the covenant when he gave him the many colored coat, a blessing that went to the younger son and not to the elder sons.


Jacob gave the blessing to Ephraim and not Manassah the elder son when Joseph asked him to bless his sons, but the younger son to Ephraim instead when he crossed his hands and blessed Joseph's sons in Egypt.


The crossing of the hands depicts the CROSS. The Cross-- that we come to God through Salvation in his Son Jesus.


The Elder son is Israel. And the younger son is the Church (the believers, the ecclesia, the called out ones).


Here is a diagram of the two types revealed. It is a rough sketch of the two types set out in the scriptures.

ISREAL                                                         CHURCH

(THE ELDER SON)                                         (THE YOUNGER SON)

COVENANT BY RIGHT                                     COVENANT BY BLOOD



The Elder Son                                                 The Younger Son

The Inheritor according to the law                     The Inheritor according to Grace

LAW                                                                 GRACE

Judgment                                                             Mercy

Through the law – The Torah                             Through the Blood of Jesus—The Cross

His chosen ones                                             The Remnant – Bride of Christ


Mercy triumphs over judgment.


God's chosen ones are put aside as an adulterous wife and blindness has happened in part to them, until the fullness of the Gentiles come in (the church), and then the chosen ones will see and receive the gift of God. God still loves Esau, He still has a blessing for him.