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
