So, to understand who the “thy people” really are, we must delineate between peoples at an historic “Y” fork in the road of prophetic revelation. When it was time for Jacob, who had been renamed Israel, to pass on the birthright and decide who is going to get what, you begin to see at that point the blessings out of Jacob/Israel’s line should have gone to Ruben. But Ruben defiled his father’s bed, so Jacob/Israel decides by God’s empowerment who should inherit the promises, instead of Ruben. And it splits into two: the scepter and right to make the law goes to Judah, and the birthright promises go to the sons of Joseph. We see that in 1 Chronicles 5.
Read the story of Joseph in Genesis 37. His brothers sell Joseph off as a slave, and Joseph is sold to Potiphar’s house, falsely accused and put in a prison. He’s left there to rot in prison. While he’s in prison, he helps out and interprets the dreams of two other prisoners, but he’s still left there to rot, until we have that beautiful story of how God entered in: first He enters in, as the Scripture says, like iron entering into Joseph’s soul. Then, God entered in to raise up Joseph out of that prison to be the ruler of Egypt.
Pastor Melissa Scott tells us that Joseph was the ruler of Egypt. When there was a famine in the land, the brothers come to Egypt to get food. Later when the brothers are restored and everything’s made good, you know how the story ends up: Joseph assigns his brothers the richest land and they rule Egypt completely. They control everything. Then we read in the opening chapters of Exodus that there rose up a king, a pharaoh, who knew not Joseph. The brothers who ruled the land are known in history as the Hixos or the Shepherd Kings. But when this king rises up, he kicks them out of the land.
Some will erroneously say that all of the promises are to the Jews, and everyone is homogenized into one camp. That is not true. Why did Paul talk about the wild olive branch, in Romans 9 through 11? We are that wild olive branch, the church; we have been grafted on to the trunk of Abraham. But the time of that wild olive branch will come to an end. And God’s word says, “I will go back to My people in the end, those that first rejected me.” There will come the Great Tribulation on this Earth, and it will be a horrible sight. But we are not going to be here. We will be gone, so don’t worry about it.