“We are the Lord’s Portion”
In the
Pistis Sophia, an ancient document, it says, “There is an appointed place for
everything in the Cosmos.” Cosmos means organization, order. And that “there is
a numbering of souls for each world: and a dispensation is not completed until
the teleos(completed) number has been fulfilled.”
The
numbering of this dispensation of total people is linked to the number of the
children of Israel. Our lineage is declared in patriarchal blessings to be from
Joseph, with the majority from the tribe of Ephraim. We are the Lord’s portion.
In Ephraim:Chosen of the Lord, the authors tell us that, “The Lord has not revealed to
mankind the duration of the time we spent in pre-mortal life. The extent of the
programs that were made, has also, in His wisdom, been kept from us. However,
He has revealed the formula He used when he preplanned the sequencing, the
duration, the configuration, the assignments and the promised inheritances of
His children upon the earth. He revealed to Moses:
“When the
most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons
of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the
children of Israel. For the LORD’S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of
his inheritance (Deuteronomy 32:8-9).” [1]
If Ephraim is the Lord’s portion, then what a
huge responsibility we have. Everyone who has every lived must have the
opportunity to hear the gospel preached
[1] Ephraim,
Chosen of the Lord: what it means to be of the tribe of Ephraim, by Wayne R.
Shute, Monte S. Nyman and Randy L. Bott, © 1999 Millennial Press, Inc.,
Riverton, Utah, p. 9
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