The blessings or inheritance to the children of Israel - It is a big, big subject, interspersed throughout the Torah - Those blessings are often declaratory, and cannot be subsumed or transferred to any other tribe. Of those blessings, unarguably the promises to Judah ultimately wind up in Yeshua... But there are promises made to ALL the tribes - though primarily to Judah and to Ephraim/Manasseh - One would have to show how those promises, promised to other than Judah, can wind up in Yeshua.
Start with the blessings meted out in Gen 48-49, and note that 49 is prophetic 'for the last days'
The promises to Abraham -- all of them -- were inherited by one seed, Christ, exactly as God promised Abraham. Through Christ are all nations blessed.
Forget the Torah. Christ was the fulfillment of the old covenant; and the old covenant (old testament) was superceded by the new covenant (new testament.) Even Moses, in the Torah, warned Israel to listen to Christ:
"I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him." (Deu 18:18-19 KJV)
This is that statement as found in the Orthodox Jewish Bible:
"I will raise them up a Navi from among their achim, like unto thee, and will put My words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him [Yn 10:18]. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not listen unto My words which he shall speak Bishmi (in My Name), I will require it of him." (Deva 18:18-19 OJB)
In the book of Acts, it reads, in context:
"And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed. Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities." (Acts 3:20-26 KJV)
Philip
I forgot to mention that the ministry of Christ occurred in the last days:
"God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;" (Heb 1:1-2 KJV)
When evaluating Genesis 49, note that the lawgiver is Judah, but his seed is Christ. This is the verse:
"The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be." (Gen 49:10 KJV)
Young's Literal Translation omits the word Shiloh, and adds "seed":
The sceptre turneth not aside from Judah, And a lawgiver from between his feet, Till his Seed come; And his [is] the obedience of peoples." (Gen 49:10 YLT)
But according to Strong's, the word Shiloh is "an epithet of the Messiah." Anyway, when did the "gathering" occur?
I believe it began in the beginning of Christ's ministry. Recall that he said this:
"…I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel." (Mat 15:24 KJV)
And when he sent his disciples out, where did he send them?
"These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. And as ye go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give." (Mat 10:5-8 KJV)
Later, around chapter 10 of the book of Acts, the Gentiles were (finally) grafted in to the tree. So, salvation was to the Jew first, then the Gentile, sorta. It was actually to the "house of Israel" first. Jesus had rejoined the Judah and Israel into one:
"I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd." (John 10:14-16 KJV)
The "rejoining" of the two "nations" of Israel was prophesied several times: this is from Ezekiel:
"For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day… I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment." (Eze 34:11-12, 16 KJV)
Philip