It was not really a coat of many colours that Joseph got from his father, but “a long garment with sleeves”. That was the robe that indicated the position of the Firstborn (which was not always the physical Firstborn but a position of pre-eminence as with Ephraim and Manasseh). Joseph was a type of YaHUsha who had this position of pre-eminence of the Firstborn over all of Creation, Col. 1:15 – 16.
From the beginning there was the Order of Melchizedek that operated through the Firstborn, but after the worshipping of the Golden Calf, the Levitical Order was TEMPORARILY put in place – read Numbers 3 – where all the Firstborn were exchanged with Levites.
When YaHUsha came, He came as the Firstborn and as the High Priest of the Order of Melchizedek and that put an end to the temporary Levitical Order.
John the Baptist who was a Levite, transferred the Priestly position to YaHUsha when he baptised Him, as YaHUsha was from the tribe of Judah.
YaHUsha’s robe which was not torn (Mat. 27:35), was symbolic of His position as Firstborn and also as the High Priest in the Order of Melchizedek, as Caiaphas tore his High Priestly robe which ended the temporary Levitical Order (Matt. 26:64 – 65, Mark. 14:62 – 63).
Read more about Joseph/YaHUseph and the “long garment with sleeves” as Barbara M. Bowen described it in her book “Strange Scriptures that perplex the Western Mind”.
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