Session Two
The Beginning of the Trunk of the Olive tree where roots join the trunk.
The story of Joseph and the family of Jacob goes down to Egypt continued
15 For if their rejection and exclusion from the benefits of salvation were [overruled] for the reconciliation of a world to God, what will their acceptance and admission mean? [It will be nothing short of] life from the dead!
16 Now if the first handful of dough offered as the firstfruits [Abraham and the patriarchs] is consecrated (holy), so is the whole mass [the nation of Israel]; and if the root [Abraham] is consecrated (holy), so are the branches.
17 But if some of the branches were broken off, while you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among them to share the richness [of the root and sap] of the olive tree,
Part B of the Story of Joseph continues
I will break Part B down into two sections, for ease of reading as it is a long part.
Part B, Section 1 points 1-2
- Joseph’s reunion with his brothers in Egypt.
- Joseph only revealed himself to them after he had tested them to see if they felt remorse for what they had done to him and after he heard Judah’s confession of their sin against him by selling him as a slave.
3. Jacob and his family came down to Egypt to live as God told Abraham that his descendants would come down to Egypt to live.
4. Jacob’s last years in Egypt, his adoption of Joseph's two sons, his death bed prophecy over his sons, the burial and mourning of Jacob.
5. The conclusion of the story of Joseph with Joseph reassuring his brothers that he bears them no ill will as they feared he would seek revenge upon them. He told them that what they did to him for harm God turned it into good.
6. Joseph also told his brothers that God will surely visit them to bring them back to the land He promised to their forefathers and to carry his bones from Egypt to that land Genesis 50:24-25.
1 Joseph’s brothers come to Egypt to buy food
⦁ The famine had spread to Canaan and Jacob sends his sons down to Egypt to get food for the family as they have heard that there was food in Egypt.
⦁ As was seen from Part A on the section to do with Joseph’s dreams the brothers came to Egypt and bowed before Joseph as he was the governor of the land who was in charge of the food distribution.
⦁ They didn’t recognize him but he recognized them and he remembered the dreams he had in his youth.
Genesis 42:1-9
1 NOW WHEN Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, Why do you look at one another?
2 For, he said, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; get down there and buy [grain] for us, that we may live and not die.
3 So ten of Joseph's brethren went to buy grain in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph's [full] brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers; for he said, Lest perhaps some harm or injury should befall him.
5 So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who came, for there was hunger and general lack of food in the land of Canaan.
6 Now Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was who sold to all the people of the land; and Joseph's [half] brothers came and bowed themselves down before him with their faces to the ground.
7 Joseph saw his brethren and he recognized them, but he treated them as if he were a stranger to them and spoke roughly to them. He said, Where do you come from? And they replied, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
8 Joseph knew his brethren, but they did not know him.
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them and said to them, You are spies and with unfriendly purpose you have come to observe [secretly] the nakedness of the land.
(Centuries later another man came to His brothers the house of Judah and they did not know Him the God man Yeshua
John 1:11
11 He came to that which belonged to Him [to His own--His domain, creation, things, world], and they who were His own did not receive Him and did not welcome Him.)
2. Joseph Tests his brothers to see if they had repented of their ill treatment of him.
The brother’s first trip to Egypt and what happened there.
⦁ Joseph's brothers come down to Egypt to buy food, Joseph recognizes them but they don't recognize him. To see if his brothers feel any remorse for what they had done to him in selling him into slavery. Joseph sets out
to test his brothers in order to get them to confess to him, he devises various means to test them.
⦁ First of all he accuses them of being spies and they deny this he asks about their family and his father and brother.
⦁ Benjamin did not go down with them to get food as Jacob feared that something bad will befall his other son to Rachel.
⦁ Once Joseph heard that his father was still alive and his brother, he demanded that they bring Benjamin down with them the next time they came to buy food.
⦁ He kept Simeon back as he was one of the eldest of his brothers in prison. He kept Simeon in prison as a form of surety to make his brothers bring Benjamin down to Egypt so that he can see him for himself. Perhaps Simeon may have been one of the brothers who was the most vocal in wanting to put Joseph to death out of jealousy only the Lord knows if this was the case.
Or they were all equally guilty of wanting to kill him except for Reuben and Judah who wanted to spare his life one to return him to his father and one to sell him off to be rid of him but to keep him alive still so that he will not be guilty of the blood of their brother. Genesis 37:26
In comparison to Jesus
⦁ Though the brothers didn’t kill Joseph the High Priest and priests the religious leaders of Jesus day were guilty of shedding Jesus’ innocent blood out of jealousy for they handed Him over to Pontius Pilate after Judas sold him to them by betraying him for money. They whipped up the crowd into a frenzy to want the blood of Jesus to be upon them and their children so they are full of blood guilt.
⦁ They the religious leaders still carry this blood guilt to this day and they need to own up to it before God. That is why they are so strident in their denial of who Jesus is the sinless Son of God but they don’t want to face this truth for then it would mean they would have to admit their blood guilt before God for rejecting His Son. They also put the guilt upon the common people by stirring them up against Jesus too. Matthew 27:20-25.
⦁ Joseph also put the brothers in prison for three days before letting them go and keeping Simeon in prison.
⦁ Remember when the brothers wanted to kill Joseph it was Reuben who suggested that they should put him in the pit for he was thinking to rescue him later and thereby he stayed their hand from killing him.
It is interesting to note that Reuben was not with the other brothers when they sold Joseph into slavery for he was away doing something else at the time they sold him.
This I believe was the hand of God to have Reuben away elsewhere for if he was there he may have prevented Joseph being sold off to the Ishmaelites and it was God’s plan for Joseph to go down to Egypt..
⦁ It was Judah who suggested that the brothers sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites and thereby not have the blood of their younger half-brother on their hands. Genesis 37:25-27
⦁ Also they sold him out of greed and jealousy for he was the favorite son of Jacob and they wanted to make a profit from him and thought that by selling him into slavery they will be rid of him and they told lies to Jacob about Joseph being killed by an animal to cover their tracks. Genesis 37:31-35.
⦁ The brothers lived with this guilt about their brother Joseph and what they did to him and seeing daily how their deception had deeply affected their elderly father. So much so that his very life / soul was tied up with his younger son Benjamin Joseph’s full brother that he had with his beloved Rachel.
⦁ Jacob’s life was so tied up with Rachel’s younger son that if anything did happen to him Jacob would surely die of grief, hence his hesitation of allowing Benjamin to go down to Egypt with the other brothers and for Judah’s willingness to go surety for this younger brother to protect him and to spare his father from more grief.
⦁ Keep these things in mind as we go through this study on Joseph for they are important facts to consider and to think about how similar these things are in relation to Jesus and His people the Israelite / Jewish people.
⦁ Just remember that the brothers lived with this guilt for thirteen years.
This was also possibly why Judah moved away from home in Genesis 38 because he couldn't bear the sight of his father mourning for Joseph and he wasn't yet willing to face the guilt he bore over this as he was the one who suggested that the brothers sell Joseph into slavery in the first place.
So now the stage is set for Joseph to hear the confession of his older brother Judah.
In the life of Jesus
⦁ Judas also sold Jesus by betraying Him into the hands of the High Priest for a price.
He sold Jesus out of greed for he was hoping to be someone great in the kingdom of God but things were not going the way he thought they would and Jesus was not going to overthrow the Romans and bring about the physical Kingdom back to Israel the way they had been taught by the scribes and Pharisees.
So he got impatient and wanted to be rid of Jesus for he didn’t like what Jesus said about the woman who anointed Him for burial
Matthew 26:6-13. Note that Judas betrayed Jesus after this episode of the woman anointing Jesus with oil for His burial.
⦁ Judas wanted the perfume to be sold not so as to go to the poor but if it was sold it could have been given to the disciples to be put in the treasury box they had.
So that he Judas could steal from it. For he often stole from what was given to them as he was a thief and totally under satan’s control. John 12:6.
⦁ Judas thought that the woman pouring the perfume upon Jesus the way she did was a wasteful thing to do as did some of the other disciples. In essence they may have thought that Jesus was a waste of time as they wanted the Kingdom to come about in their life time but on their terms not God’s.
The significance of the name of Judas
I decided to look up the name of Judas to see what it meant and to my surprise Judas means praised it is a Greek form of the Hebrew name Judah.
A few things to think about here.
- When Judah sold Joseph his half brother he was being a type of Judas who centuries later sold Jesus (in selling Jesus Judas was selling his tribal half brother for he was selling one of his Jewish brethren) for thirty pieces of silver blood money.
- Judah means praise but what he did in selling Joseph was not a praiseworthy thing to do at all. He bore his guilt for this for thirteen years until he was forced to admit his guilt to his brother Joseph who forgave him and the other brothers more on this further on.
- Likewise what Judas did in selling Jesus for blood money was not a praiseworthy thing to do at all.
14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
Matthew 27:1-8
1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
7 And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.
8 Wherefore that field was called, The field of blood, unto this day.
- He sold the One who is from the House of David of the Tribe of Judah who is the praise and glory of Israel for greed and because he was a thief.
1 Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
2 There they made him a supper; and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of them that sat at the table with him.
3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.
8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.
- He sold the one who loved him and regarded him as a friend. For Jesus called him friend when Judas came with the temple guards and others to arrest Jesus.
47 And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.
48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
49 And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him.
50 And Jesus said unto him, Friend, wherefore art thou come? Then came they, and laid hands on Jesus and took him.
Zechariah 13:6- Also it says in Zechariah that Jesus was wounded in the house of his friends.
6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
- So in essence Judas did not live up to the Hebrew version of his name Judah or the Greek version Judas which means praise. What he did was shameful and unlike Judah who did come right and confess what he did to Joseph and received forgiveness.
- This Judas instead of waiting for Jesus to rise from the dead and confess his guilt he went out filled with remorse after throwing the money into the treasury. He went out and hung himself.
1 When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
- In fact he was given totally over to satan in what he did to Jesus and even Jesus said of him it would have been better if he wasn't born.
21 And as they did eat, he said, Verily I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
22 And they were exceeding sorrowful, and began every one of them to say unto him, Lord, is it I?
23 And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
24 The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.
25 Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.
- Yet he had to be so that scripture could be fulfilled.
18 I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
19 Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
20 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
21 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
22 Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
23 Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, that he should ask who it should be of whom he spake.
25 He then lying on Jesus' breast saith unto him, Lord, who is it?
26 Jesus answered, He it is, to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop, he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
27 And after the sop Satan entered into him. Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
28 Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake this unto him.
29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.
30 He then having received the sop went immediately out: and it was night.
31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
32 If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
Acts 1:15-2015 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred and twenty,)
16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.
17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry.
18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood.
20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
- Jesus Himself chose Judas.
71 Jesus answered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?
71 He spake of Judas Iscariot the son of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.
- I believe that Israel too will go through a betrayal like Jesus was betrayed.
- Israel will be betrayed when they are handed over to the false messiah when the leaders of the people of Israel which possibly will be from the tribe of Judah and the priests from the tribe of Levi sign the false covenant of peace with the son of perdition.
- They in essence will be making a covenant of death and selling their nation and people into slavery to the devil through this false messiah. For he will be possessed by the devil in the end when he finally sits in the temple to rule over both Israel and the world.
- Getting back to Joseph this is another similarity between the life of Joseph and Jesus in the fact that both were betrayed and sold for money by a man called Judah.
- Joseph was sold for twenty pieces of silver by Judah into slavery.
26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.
28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
- Jesus was sold for blood money to be put to death thirty pieces of silver by Judas to the chief priests and elders of the people this will be the tribal elders.
3 Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtilty, and kill him.
5 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.
6 Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
7 There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.
8 But when his disciples saw it, they had indignation, saying, To what purpose is this waste?
9 For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.
10 When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
11 For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.
12 For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.
13 Verily I say unto you, Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached in the whole world, there shall also this, that this woman hath done, be told for a memorial of her.
14 Then one of the twelve, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests,
15 And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
16 And from that time he sought opportunity to betray him.
The selling of the One who is Truth in person
⦁ There is a proverb that instructs us to buy truth and sell it notThe selling of the One who is Truth in person
Proverbs 23:23
23 Buy the truth and sell it not; not only that, but also get discernment and judgment, instruction and understanding.
⦁ Jesus is Truth in person remember he said to his disciples in John 14:6 that He is the way the Truth and the life and no one can come to the Father but by Him.
⦁ Even Pontius Pilate wondered what Truth is John 18:38 and there was Truth in the body of a man God in person who stood condemned by men in front of Him.
⦁ So Judas sold Truth in the person of Christ by betraying Him to the High Priest and the religious leaders for thirty pieces of silver.
⦁ They then handed the Truth - who is God the Son- in the person of Christ by handing Him over to the Gentiles to be crucified.
⦁ They treated the One who is Truth and the Word made flesh with disdain by doing this and they say they respect the word and follow the Law of Moses. Yet the One who wrote the Law and is the Law was handed over by them to be put to a horrible death on a cross.
⦁ Christ is the word in the flesh and He is also the Spirit that gives life to the word of God for it is a living word. It is alive and it is truth for it divides between soul and spirit, flesh and bones He reads and knows the thoughts and intents of our hearts. He is the truth that sets free. Hebrews 4:12, Revelation 2:23, John 8:32.
⦁ Yet they didn’t recognize Him and just saw Him as a trouble maker and a threat to their empire and cozy relationship with Rome and had to be gotten rid of at all costs.
For He was exposing their wicked deeds and bringing them into the light. He is truth no man could catch Him out for He is God and God is light and truth and no darkness dwells within Him.
⦁ Jesus wanted them to buy truth by giving Him their lives and allegiance to Him but they wouldn’t, Satan through man judged Him but they could find nothing in Him John 14: 30 and soon He will return to judge mankind for He has been judged by us but we could not fault Him
For He is innocent we are to give our lives to Him to give our lives to the truth. For truth is God Himself and this was embodied in His Son in the flesh.
Psalm 119:160 says thy word is truth o Lord , Psalms 119 extols the truthfulness of the commands of God.
⦁ So instead of giving Him their lives the Scribes and Pharisees thought they got rid of a troublesome man but they instead sold their God out through hatred and jealousy - John 15:22-25 who is truth - to the Gentiles and to this day they are still living with the guilt of what they had done and the ongoing consequences of this action until the Lord comes back when they realize their error and call for Him to come and save them where there is no one else to save them but God Himself at the very end.
⦁ So too Joseph also gave a truthful report about his brothers to his father and that is what angered them and caused them to want to get rid of him for he was a truthful person who gave honest reports to their father of what they were doing when they were away from him Genesis 37:2.
⦁ That is another reason why the brothers wanted to be rid of Joseph to stop him reporting to their father about them.
⦁ Jesus also said He would not report what the Pharisees did to His Father but Moses will be the one who would accuse them John 5:30-47. He also speaks about Himself being the truth and the light of the world and He judges no man but His word will judge people John 8:11-58, John 12:31-50.
⦁ The High Priest and the other priests/ scribes and Pharisees wanted Jesus put to death out of jealousy for he was a threat to them and they were losing control over the people for the people loved Jesus and followed Him. Matthew 26:1-6, Matthew 27:1-10, 18, Luke 22:1-6, Luke 23: John 11:46-53.
⦁ They didn’t want to lose their control and power over the people nor did they want to lose the power base they had with the Romans. So much like the modern Ultra-Orthodox Jews and rabbis today they still have control and power over the people but that is gradually breaking by the power and work of God among them.
⦁ As I mentioned above it was Judah who suggested selling Joseph to the travelling Ishmaelites and the brothers tricked Jacob into believing a wild animal killed Joseph by sending him the robe Joseph wore dipped in goat’s blood. For years they must have lived with this guilt until they came down to Egypt and Joseph tested them by keeping some of them in prison.
⦁ The modern day Ultra-Orthodox Jews / their rabbis are quite possibly a lot of them may be the actual descendants of the priests and Pharisees who plotted together to put Jesus to death out of jealousy hence their need to confess their blood guiltiness before God of selling innocent blood to the Gentiles.
Isaiah 49:7, John 18:34-35 and Matthew 21:33-46.
⦁ The Gentiles need to repent too for our sins which put Him on the cross. Jesus allowed these things to take place for the Atonement through His blood to be given as an offering on the cross for all of mankind.
Jesus had the power and authority to lay down His life and to take it up again John 10:11-18. It was His Father’s will and His(Jesus's) will too once He submitted His will to the Father in the garden after praying let the cup pass Him by then not His will but Father’s be done so that His will was aligned with Father’s will in this Matthew 26:39-44.
⦁ The religious leaders stirred up the people against Jesus to want His blood on their hands and to cover up their wicked deeds and tracks by telling lies about Jesus who He is to the common person and this they have been doing so for centuries now.
They have kept the Jewish people away from knowing their Savior by fabricating lies about Him in their writings especially the Talmud and other writings.
In fact when Jewish people come to Christ they say as part of their testimony that the rabbis never told them the truth about Jesus.
⦁ This will finally culminate in God dealing so severely with them during the time of Jacob’s Troubles aka the Great Tribulation that the power of the rabbis / Ultra-Orthodox will have to be broken when their false Messiah turns on them and invades Israel and Jerusalem.
So that they will have to humble themselves and cry out to God to save them by sending Yeshua to save them or perish if they don’t call for Him. Or they may call out to God to Yeshua (save) us.
This they will do not knowing that they are calling for salvation in the person of Yeshua God’s Son Himself and they will be saying blessed is He meaning Yeshua who comes in the name of the Lord.
⦁ To have Jesus come to rescue them they would need to confess their sin and blood guilt before God for rejecting His dearly beloved Son by selling Him off and having Him handed over to the Gentiles to be killed.
As well as for covering up all of these things with lies and hindering people from finding out the truth about Him by telling lies that the Christians were to blame for what they did to the Jews down the centuries.
This is partly true for the Roman church and other churches did persecute and did put many Jews and Christians who followed Jesus to death.
⦁ When it was they who initially caused all of this grief upon Israel that caused God to wound them with an incurable wound by destroying the temple and having them carried off captive by the Romans and being dispersed among the nations. Jeremiah 30:11-15.
⦁ That God dealt severely with them out of anger and rage because of what they did to His Son and they the leading religious people are to blame for all of these things they also caused more grief on their people by working with the Catholic church to write a lie of the book called the Koran so that the Pope can try and take Jerusalem.
⦁ These leaders the rabbis have worked with the Popes to try and destroy the true believers in Jesus for centuries and are still doing this today by working with a false apostate movement called the New Apostolic Reformation.
This movement is bringing all of the churches back under the yoke of Rome and into the arms of the evil one the false messiah who is the antichrist.
⦁ They are scared of the true believers in Yeshua because they know Him to be the true Messiah and they are living in fear that what they had done will be discovered by the ordinary man on the street and by doing so they will all turn to Jesus.
Thereby they will lose control over the people which is what they don’t want. In fact those who are not so religious among the Israeli people or so educated and those who don’t go to rabbis are more inclined to believe that Jesus is the Hebrew people’s Messiah than those who are religious and go to Synagogue and who take advice of their rabbis do.
⦁ In the end God will have His way and like Judah did in confessing his and his brothers sin and guilt before Joseph for what the brothers did to him.
So too these leading religious leaders when they have nowhere else to turn to except to God will be forced to confess their sin and guilt with what they did to Father’s Son or perish. Hosea 5:15-6:3.
This also applies to the political leaders of today as well for they are the descendants possibly of the elders of the people who rejected Jesus the elders would have been tribal elders which include elders from the tribe of Judah.
⦁ When they do this then God will send His Son to save them and then the whole nation of Israel will mourn and repent for what they had done to Father’s Son and God will give the Spirit of grace and supplication to do this.
I believe this will take place on the Day of Atonement in the not too distant future.
For the Day of Atonement was to be a national day of fasting and mourning for Israel’s sins as a nation and for her priestly tribe.
How appropriate that will be for Jesus to come back to His people on that day as their Savior the One who is their Atonement on that Day to deliver them from their enemies but also to cleanse them on that Day from their blood guiltiness of handing Him over to the Gentiles to be killed.
⦁ Just like the brothers of Joseph Jesus too was in prison for three days for he went to the region of the dead for three days and nights to preach to the prisoners there and to show those who were looking forward to His day that He was the One they were looking forward to. These are the ones he led as the cloud of witnesses back with Him to present before the Father in heaven as first fruits of His labors and resurrection Isaiah 53:8-12, Acts 1:9-11. Hebrews 12:1-4, Ephesians 4:8-10, Hebrews 2:9-16 1 Peter 3:18-20.
Back to the Life of Joseph and His brothers – Joseph’s testing of his brothers
⦁ This came back upon them that was why Joseph tested them to see what was in their hearts. He gave them a taste of prison life for he imprisoned them for three days.
⦁ Simeon was kept in prison to ensure that they will come back to buy more food this time with Benjamin.
⦁ He also put the money back in their sacks.
The first trip to buy food and testing of his brothers by Joseph
Genesis 42:10 -38
10 But they said to him, No, my lord, but your servants have come [only] to buy food.
11 We are all one man's sons; we are true men; your servants are not spies.
12 And he said to them, No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land.
13 But they said, Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest is today with our father, and one is not.
14 And Joseph said to them, It is as I said to you, You are spies.
15 You shall be proved by this test: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go away from here unless your youngest brother comes here/
16 Send one of you and let him bring your brother, and you will be kept in prison, that your words may be proved whether there is any truth in you; or else by the life of Pharaoh you certainly are spies..
17 Then he put them all in custody for three days.
18 And Joseph said to them on the third day, Do this and live! I reverence and fear God.
19 If you are true men, let one of your brothers be bound in your prison, but [the rest of] you go and carry grain for those weakened with hunger in your households.
20 But bring your youngest brother to me, so your words will be verified and you shall live. And they did so.
21 And they said one to another, We are truly guilty about our brother, for we saw the distress and anguish of his soul when he begged us [to let him go], and we would not hear. So this distress and difficulty has come upon us.
22 Reuben answered them, Did I not tell you, Do not sin against the boy, and you would not hear? Therefore, behold, his blood is required [of us].
23 But they did not know that Joseph understood them, for he spoke to them through an interpreter.
24 And he turned away from them and wept; then he returned to them and talked with them, and took from them Simeon and bound him before their eyes.
25 Then [privately] Joseph commanded that their sacks be filled with grain, every man's money be restored to his sack, and provisions be given to them for the journey. And this was done for them.
26 They loaded their donkeys with grain and left.
27 And as one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he caught sight of his money; for behold, it was in his sack's mouth.
28 And he said to his brothers, My money is restored! Here it is in my sack! And their hearts failed them and they were afraid and turned trembling one to another, saying, What is this that God has done to us?
29 When they came to Jacob their father in Canaan, they told him all that had befallen them, saying,
30 The man who is the lord of the land spoke roughly to us and took us for spies of the country.
31 And we said to him, We are true men, not spies.
32 We are twelve brothers with the same father; one is no more, and the youngest is today with our father in the land of Canaan.
33 And the man, the lord of the country, said to us, By this test I will know whether or not you are honest men: leave one of your brothers here with me and take grain for your famishing households and be gone.
34 Bring your youngest brother to me; then I will know that you are not spies, but that you are honest men. And I will deliver to you your brother [whom I have kept bound in prison], and you may do business in the land. 35 When they emptied their sacks, behold, every man's parcel of money was in his sack! When both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.
36 And Jacob their father said to them, You have bereaved me! Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and you would take Benjamin from me. All these things are against me!
37 And Reuben said to his father, Slay my two sons if I do not bring [Benjamin] back to you. Deliver him into my keeping, and I will bring him back to you.
38 But [Jacob] said, My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left [of his mother's children]; if harm or accident should befall him on the journey you are to take, you would bring my hoary head down to Sheol (the place of the dead) with grief.
The brothers second trip to Egypt and the testing by Joseph
⦁ When the food had run out Jacob sent his sons down to Egypt for more food, they had to convince him to let Benjamin go because the governor of the land wanted to see him.
⦁ So Judah went surety for the lad stating that he will take the blame forever if anything happened to Benjamin and he doesn’t bring him back safely to his father.
⦁ Jacob lets his sons go and when Joseph saw his brother he found it hard not to break down in front of them again he devises tests to test their hearts.
⦁ He had them eat with him and he heard what they spoke amongst themselves. He gave each man his money in his sack and the silver cup he used he placed in Benjamin’s sack then he sent the household servant after them.
This is where it gets really interesting.
⦁ In a way one but wonders could the Lord Himself put the people of Israel through a series of testing like the time of Jacob’s Troubles to get them to the point of confessing their sins of rejecting Him.
⦁ That is of rejecting Him when He came the first time and repenting of their idolatries of worshipping other gods and wanting to be like the other nations and for wanting another who will be the devil himself in the form of a man to be their shepherd over them instead of their true God.
- Interesting the brothers of Joseph said that the blood of Joseph is required of them due to how they were being treated by Joseph himself. Though they didn't recognise him. They felt that what they had done to Joseph was coming back upon them.
- This is prophetic because God will require His Son's blood of His Israeli people.
- God will require His Son's blood first from His Israeli people because Jesus poured out His life blood for His kinsmen and women on the cross as the Passover Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Also as the Atonement for Israel as a nation.
- As they rejected Jesus God will require His Son's blood of them in the end and this also applies to the Gentiles to every person on the earth.
- God will require us to give an account to Him in regards to His Son that is do we accept or reject the blood of Jesus for an atoning sacrifice for sin.
- There is no other sacrifice that can be done to cleanse from sin.
- If we accept Jesus as God's blood covenant to cleanse from sin then we are saved and our names are written in the Lamb's book of life. This goes for both Jew and Gentile.
- If we reject the blood of Jesus then we face eternal judgment that is the Lake of fire for eternity for rejecting the death of Jesus on the cross and accepting His life blood as the only way we can be cleansed and forgiven of sin and this goes for Jew and Gentile all people on the earth.
- Those who are saved will be covered by the blood of Jesus and will be in Him as the Ark of the New Covenant and we will answer that we have nothing cannot save ourselves but point to Jesus and say it is by His atoning sacrifice can we stand before you O Lord and the others will have nothing to cover them for they will have rejected Him and His life blood for sins and they will be sent away to hell at the Great White Throne judgment because their names are not in the Lamb's book of life.
- This is how seriously God takes the blood covenant of His Son and it is a warning for all for He didn't spare His Son but gave Him up for us to save man from sin. Romans 8:32.
Hebrews 10:26-31
26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Now back to the life of Joseph.
Genesis 43:1-341 BUT THE hunger and destitution and starvation were very severe and extremely distressing in the land [Canaan].
2 And when [the families of Jacob's sons] had eaten up the grain which the men had brought from Egypt, their father said to them, Go again; buy us a little food.
3 But Judah said to him, The man solemnly and sternly warned us, saying, You shall not see my face again unless your brother is with you.
4 If you will send our brother with us, we will go down [to Egypt] and buy you food;
5 But if you will not send him, we will not go down; for the man said to us, You shall not see my face unless your brother is with you.
6 And Israel said, Why did you do me such a wrong and suffer this evil to come upon me by telling the man that you had another brother?
7 And they said, The man asked us straightforward questions about ourselves and our relatives. He said, Is your father still alive? Have you another brother? And we answered him accordingly. How could we know that he would say, Bring your brother down here?
8 And Judah said to Israel his father, Send the lad with me and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.
9 I will be security for him; you shall require him of me [personally]; if I do not bring him back to you and put him before you, then let me bear the blame forever.
10 For if we had not lingered like this, surely by now we would have returned the second time.
11 And their father Israel said to them, If it must be so, now do this; take of the choicest products in the land in your sacks and carry down a present to the man, a little balm (balsam) and a little honey, aromatic spices and gum (of rock rose) or ladanum, pistachio nuts, and almonds.
12 And take double the [grain] money with you; and the money that was put back in the mouth of your sacks, carry it again with you; there is a possibility that [its being in your sacks] was an oversight.
13 Take your brother and arise and return to the man;
14 May God Almighty give you mercy and favor before the man, that he may release to you your other brother and Benjamin. If I am bereaved [of my sons], I am bereaved.
15 Then the men took the present, and they took double the [grain] money with them, and Benjamin; and they arose and went down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
16 And when Joseph saw Benjamin with them, he said to the steward of his house, Bring the men into the house and kill an animal and make ready, for the men will dine with me at noon.
17 And the man did as Joseph ordered and brought the men to Joseph's house.
18 The men were afraid because they were brought to Joseph's house; and they said, We are brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks the first time we came, so that he may find occasion to accuse and assail us, take us for slaves, and seize our donkeys.
19 So they came near to the steward of Joseph's house and talked with him at the door of the house,
20 And said, O sir, we came down truly the first time to buy food;
21 And when we came to the inn, we opened our sacks and there was each man's money, full weight, returned in the mouth of his sack. Now we have brought it back again.
22 And we have brought down with us other money to buy food; we do not know who put our money in our sacks.
23 But [the steward] said, Peace be to you, fear not; your God and the God of your father has given you treasure in your sacks. I received your money. And he brought Simeon out to them.
24 And the man brought the men into Joseph's house and gave them water, and they washed their feet; and he gave their donkeys provender.
25 And they made ready the present they had brought for Joseph before his coming at noon, for they heard that they were to dine there.
26 And when Joseph came home, they brought into the house to him the present which they had with them, and bowed themselves to him to the ground.
27 He asked them of their welfare and said, Is your old father well, of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?
28 And they answered, Your servant our father is in good health; he is still alive. And they bowed down their heads and made obeisance.
29 And he looked up and saw his [full] brother Benjamin, his mother's [only other] son, and said, Is this your youngest brother, of whom you spoke to me? And he said, God be gracious to you, my son!
30 And Joseph hurried from the room, for his heart yearned for his brother, and he sought privacy to weep; so he entered his chamber and wept there.
31 And he washed his face and went out, and, restraining himself, said, Let dinner be served.
32 And [the servants] set out [the food] for [Joseph] by himself, and for [his brothers] by themselves, and for those Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, according to the Egyptian custom not to eat food with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
33 And [Joseph's brothers] were given seats before him--the eldest according to his birthright and the youngest according to his youth; and the men looked at one another amazed [that so much was known about them].
34 [Joseph] took and sent helpings to them from before him, but Benjamin's portion was five times as much as any of theirs. And they drank freely and were merry with him.
Genesis 44:1-13
1 AND HE commanded the steward of his house, saying, Fill the men's sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put every man's money in his sack's mouth. 2 And put my cup, the silver cup, in the sack's mouth of the youngest, with his grain money. And [the steward] did according to what Joseph had said.
3 As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.
4 When they had left the city and were not yet far away, Joseph said to his steward, Up, follow after the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, Why have you rewarded evil for good? [Why have you stolen the silver cp?]
5 Is it not my master's drinking cup with which he divines [the future]? You have done wrong in doing this.
6 And the steward overtook them, and he said to them these same words.
7 They said to him, Why does my lord say these things? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing!
8 Note that the money which we found in the mouths of our sacks we brought back to you from the land of Canaan. Is it likely then that we would steal from your master's house silver or gold?
9 With whomever of your servants [your master's cup] is found, not only let that one die, but the rest of us will be my lord's slaves.
10 And the steward said, Now let it be as you say: he with whom [the cup] is found shall be my slave, but [the rest of] you shall be blameless.
11 Then quickly every man lowered his sack to the ground and every man opened his sack.
12 And [the steward] searched, beginning with the eldest and stopping with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack.
13 Then they rent their clothes; and after each man had loaded his donkey again, they returned to the city.
The second trip to Egypt and the testing by Joseph Genesis 43:1-44:13
⦁ I have left the chapters of Joseph’s dealings with his brothers as I wanted to include them to show the lengths that Joseph went to. So that he will finally get a confession from one of his brothers to own up to their guilt for what they had done to him.
⦁ As I have written at great length about what God will do to bring about the confession of His people re the blood guiltiness of His people I won’t go much further than to say that God will not let us from the nations get off lightly either.
⦁ If we confess our guilt before Him and this includes His Hebrew brethren He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and cleanse us from them for we have an advocate with the Father the man Jesus Christ.
⦁ Should His brethren repent and confess their sins the Lord will cleanse them from their blood guilt and He will regraft them back into their native Olive Tree and love them as His own dearly beloved children.
⦁ This is what He has always longed to do make peace with them and He has made peace with them through the cross for Jesus said Father forgive them for they know not what they do and that includes all of humanity be they Israeli / Jew or Gentile.
Jesus said all blasphemies against the Son of man will be forgiven men and they have blasphemed Him big time but this will be forgiven them if they turn to Him in true repentance and accept His atoning death on the cross but they are the ones to come to Him and confess their guilt before Him.
If they don’t do so then two thirds will be destroyed and only one third will remain to come into the Kingdom with Jesus at His return.
⦁ 1 John 1:9-2:2, Luke 23:34, Zechariah 13:8-9.
⦁ I will include Judah’s confession to Joseph for this is important to read this confession in full.
Judah confesses their guilt and Joseph reveals himself to his brothers.
Judah confesses his guilt and that of the other brothers.
Genesis 44:13 –34
13 Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house, for he was still there; and they fell prostrate before him.
15 Joseph said to them, What is this thing that you have done? Do you not realize that such a man as I can certainly detect and know by divination [everything you do without other knowledge of it]?
16 And Judah said, What shall we say to my lord? What shall we reply? Or how shall we clear ourselves, since God has found out and exposed the iniquity of your servants? Behold, we are my lord's slaves, the rest of us as well as he with whom the cup is found.
17 But [Joseph] said, God forbid that I should do that; but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for [the rest of] you, arise and go in peace to your father.
18 Then Judah came close to [Joseph] and said, O my lord, let your servant, I pray you, speak a word to you in private, and let not your anger blaze against your servant, for you are as Pharaoh [so I will speak as if directly to him].
19 My lord asked his servants, saying, Have you a father or a brother?
20 And we said to my lord, We have a father--an old man--and a young [brother, the] child of his old age; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother's [offspring], and his father loves him.
21 And you said to your servants, Bring him down to me, that I may set my eyes on him.
22 And we said to my lord, The lad cannot leave his father; for if he should do so, his father would die.
23 And you told your servants, Unless your youngest brother comes with you, you shall not see my face again.
24 And when we went back to your servant my father, we told him what my lord had said.
25 And our father said, Go again and buy us a little food.
26 But we said, We cannot go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then we will go down; for we may not see the man's face except our youngest brother is with us.
27 And your servant my father said to us, You know that [Rachel] my wife bore me two sons:
28 And the one went out from me, and I said, Surely he is torn to pieces, and I have never seen him since.
29 And if you take this son also from me, and harm or accident should befall him, you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow and evil to Sheol (the place of the dead).
30 Now therefore, when I come to your servant my father and the lad is not with us, since his life is bound up in the lad's life and his soul knit with the lad's soul,
31 When he sees that the lad is not with us, he will die; and your servants will be responsible for his death and will bring down the gray hairs of your servant our father with sorrow to Sheol.
32 For your servant became security for the lad to my father, saying, If I do not bring him to you, then I will bear the blame to my father forever.
33 Now therefore, I pray you, let your servant remain instead of the youth [to be] a slave to my lord, and let the young man go home with his [half] brothers.
34 For how can I go up to my father if the lad is not with me?--lest I witness the woe and the evil that will come upon my father.
Joseph reveals himself to his brothers
⦁ It was only when Judah confessed that God had found out their iniquity of what they had done to their brother. He is willing to become the Governor’s slave as long as the youngest brother is allowed to go back to his father or else if he doesn’t it would kill Jacob as his soul is tied up with the youngest son of his and Rachel’s union.
⦁ Judah is taking responsibility for the family and is thinking of his father’s good not wanting to harm him. This is when Joseph could no longer contain himself and reveals his identity to the brothers who needed a lot of convincing to be sure that it is Joseph as they haven’t seen him since he was 17 and he would now be 39 years of age.
⦁ Remember his true identity was hidden from them for he is Egyptian in every way, in his looks, how he dressed, how he spoke for he would have spoken the language of the Egyptians and he spoke through an interpreter to his brothers at one stage. He even had a new name an Egyptian name.
⦁ There is a parallel too here between both Joseph and Jesus in revealing themselves to their brethren upon the confession of Judah. In Joseph's case it was his revealing who he was upon his brother's Judah's confession in the case of Jesus it will be when the tribes led by Judah call for Him and confess their sin of rejecting Him along with the tribe of Levi the priestly tribe.
⦁ As in the case of Joseph's real identity being hidden from his brothers because he looked like an Egyptian and spoke their language along with having an Egyptian name.
So too with the case of Jesus His real identity is hidden from the Jewish people.
That is why there is such confusion in their minds about Jesus who He is, He is the God of Israel the Son of the God of Israel, He is Hebrew and Jewish this is who He is chiefly.
Yet He is also the God of the nations for Father promised Him the nations as His inheritance Psalm 2:8.
So as the gospel went out into the nations the true identity of who Jesus is has become obscure over the centuries because He had taken on the nations identity or they gave Him their identity of how they look, spoke, act and dress and they have even given Jesus many different national names.
⦁ Yet in spite of the outward trappings of what the nations had done to Jesus. So that He seems to be more Gentile than Jewish on the surface.
However He is still Jewish / Hebrew underneath and this will be made clear to His very own people when He returns that He is the Messiah first and foremost of the Jews but He is the Messiah of the nations the Gentiles who have called upon His name from the nations He is their Messiah / Savior too.
⦁ He is still very God and only Jesus can be both the God of Israel which is His inheritance the land, the people and the Kingdom and in particular the tribe of Judah is His inheritance and heritage through Father and being born among the Hebrew people into the tribe of Judah and He is the God of the nations as well for the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.
The whole world is His but out of all of the peoples/nations of the earth He has chosen Israel and her people to be His own very special prized possession as a treasure unto Him.
As also are those who come to faith out of the nations in Him they are grafted into the Olive Tree of Israel, co heirs with the people of Israel through faith in their Messiah Yeshua.
⦁ So too it is possibly that Yeshua will reveal Himself when the chief tribe Judah confesses that they had rejected Him and they want Him to come back as their King to rule over them and also when the Levites confess their rejection of Him as the priests. Who should have recognized Him the first time as their spotless Lamb of God that Yahweh sent to atone for sin that has been foretold by the prophets down through the ages.
⦁ When both the political ruling class and the religious ruling class of Israel confess their sin of rejection of the One and Only Son of God then Yeshua will make Himself known to them to rescue them at the end of the age.
⦁ Can you imagine what it will be like for the house of Jacob (Israel) when they finally recognize the Lord for who He is and what He has done for them they will truly repent and mourn for Him as for a long lost first son. God will give the house of David and Israel a spirit of supplication and grace.
⦁ Remember too like Joseph and all the sons of Jacob and all those of the House of Abraham had to be circumcised in order to be part of the covenant of God made with Abraham before the birth of Isaac.
⦁ So too Jesus had to be circumcised to be part of the House of Abraham through the covenant of circumcision. Like Joseph possibly showed this very private thing to his brothers and father when he came down to Egypt. So too Jesus may show the mark of circumcision to the Jewish people. He will show this very private thing to the Jewish male leaders and priests to show that He is part of the House of Abraham a true descendant of Abraham for God Himself bears the mark of circumcision in the body of His Son.
This is a very private thing and not for outsiders to see that is why Jesus will reveal Himself to His brethren privately and there may have been other things Joseph did to prove who he was that only his family would know and likewise too Jesus may reveal Himself in ways to His Jewish people privately / personally that only they will know and relate to.
⦁ Of course at His physical glorified coming all of Israel (and the nations of the world) will look upon Him whom they have pierced at His very public second coming.
Mourning for the One They Pierced
Zechariah 12:10-14
10 “And I will pour out on the house of David (political power) and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. 11 On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. 12 The land will mourn, each clan by itself, with their wives by themselves: the clan of the house of David (king Mary husband’s Joseph’s line through Solomon) and their wives, the clan of the house of Nathan (David’s other son to Bathsheba, this is Mary’s line of descent the line through which Jesus was born) and their wives, 13 the clan of the house of Levi (priests) and their wives, the clan of Shimei and their wives, 14 and all the rest of the clans and their wives.
Genesis 45:1 -16
1 THEN JOSEPH could not restrain himself [any longer] before all those who stood by him, and he called out, Cause every man to go out from me! So no one stood there with Joseph while he made himself known to his brothers.
2 And he wept and sobbed aloud, and the Egyptians [who had just left him] heard it, and the household of Pharaoh heard about it.
3 And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph! Is my father still alive? And his brothers could not reply, for they were distressingly disturbed and dismayed at [the startling realization that they were in] his presence.
4 And Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me, I pray you. And they did so. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt!
5 But now, do not be distressed and disheartened or vexed and angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life.
6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years more in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a posterity and to continue a remnant on the earth, to save your lives by a great escape and save for you many survivors.
8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
9 Hurry and go up to my father and tell him, Your son Joseph says this to you: God has put me in charge of all Egypt. Come down to me; do not delay.
10 You will live in the land of Goshen, and you will be close to me--you and your children and your grandchildren, your flocks, your herds, and all you have.
11 And there I will sustain and provide for you, so that you and your household and all that are yours may not come to poverty and want, for there are yet five [more] years of [the scarcity, hunger, and starvation of ] famine.
12 Now notice! Your own eyes and the eyes of my brother Benjamin can see that I am talking to you personally [in your language and not through an interpreter].
13 And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and of all that you have seen; and you shall hurry and bring my father down here.
14 And he fell on his brother Benjamin's neck and wept, and Benjamin wept on his neck.
15 Moreover, he kissed all his brothers and wept upon them; and after that his brothers conversed with him.
16 And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh's house, saying, Joseph's brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.
- I will end this session here. It has been a long session but I felt it was necessary to show the comparison between the life of Joseph and Jesus and how both were betrayed and sold by their brother Judah.
- Also to show how Joseph tested his brothers before Judah confesses his and his brothers sin and guilt in selling Joseph.
- That upon this confession Joseph made himself known to his brethren and how this will be the case for the brethren of Jesus to confess their sin and guilt to him led by their brother Judah.
- Next post I will continue on with points 3-6 and I will start with Jacob coming down to Egypt. So in a sense this will be the story of Jacob continuing on linked with his son Joseph.
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