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Day 121 Tuesday 8/19/14 Genesis 45:6-15 The Truth Be Known.
Gen 45:6 "For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest."
Gen 45:7 "And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance."
These two verses set up for Joseph the beginning of explaining just what has happened in the past twenty years. Two years of the seven year famine which covered the land had come to pass, and five years are left to occur. Joseph, being the godly man that he was, revealed who the author of their deliverance from starvation was. "Hey guys, Elohim is the One Who thru your ill treatment of me, sent me here to Egypt so that the promise of Abraham, to build a great Nation thru our father and us would continue thru this famine." We serve an amazing omnipotent God Who's way are not our ways. For His children, He is always in the background by His Spirit Who is in us, and Angels who have been assigned to us. This is the way that He will never leave us or forsake us no matter what comes our way. Praise our loving, powerful, and mighty God, Elohim.
Gen 45:8 "So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt."
Joseph explains the architecture of God's unbelievable plan to save his family but also to be a valued and trustworthy friend to Pharaoh. "a father to Pharaoh" simply means one who is responsible to guard and favor the wellbeing of another person. Someone suggested that this is a new younger Pharaoh, but I couldn't find more info. on that so I'm assuming that this is the same Pharaoh.
Gen 45:9 "Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not."
Gen 45:10 "And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast."
Gen 45:11 "And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty."
These three verses explain to Jacob, Israel, number one, Joseph is alive. Not only is he alive but a very rich man with a very high position of leadership in Egypt, well ably to sustain their lives during the next five years of famine,
Gen 45:12 "And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you."
Joseph realized that his father, at first, would not believe that his favored son Joseph was still alive. Joseph hoped that the testimony of the brothers and especially the statement by Benjamin would convince his father that he indeed was alive and wanting him to join him in Goshen, near him.
Gen 45:13 "And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither."
Gen 45:14 "And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck."
Gen 45:15 "Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him."
After instructing his brothers what to say to their father Jacob, Joseph could no longer hold his mighty role in Egypt, he became a brother and kissed and wept with them all. That must have been simply a wonderful scene of love, forgiveness, and restoration. It was then that all the walls of hostility had come down and now the brothers acted like brothers and must have had a wonderful time of discussing the past twenty years.
In this whole story of Joseph's life, I see two words that stand out in my mind. Those two words are IMO the two greatest words in all Scripture. those words are "BUT GOD". Oh my, just think about our lives as well as Joseph's. BUT GOD I would still be lost without Jesus, BUT GOD! I would have died, BUT GOD! I'll tell you about a very dramatic event in my life. I used to own a Harley Davidson Electra Glide motorcycle. For those who are not familiar with Harley's It is the biggest and heaviest one they manufacture. About ten of us "bikers" were headed from Massachusetts to Washington for "Rolling Thunder". We were on a New York thru way when a young lady in a small red car decided to come from the right lane to the left passing lane, trouble was, I was in the lane that she wanted to come thru to reach the passing lane. She cut thru my lane, just grazing my front tire. That sent my big old Hawg into a jumping, scary, back wheel off the ground then front wheel off the ground, something very close to a bucking bronco. All of a sudden, I could feel a force grab my front tire and all the bucking ceased immediately. The rest of the bikers could not believe that I did not go down. At 65 miles an hour, I would have been run over if I had gone down. BUT GOD! I would have been easily killed BUT GOD!
Gen 45:6 "For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest."
Gen 45:7 "And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance."
These two verses set up for Joseph the beginning of explaining just what has happened in the past twenty years. Two years of the seven year famine which covered the land had come to pass, and five years are left to occur. Joseph, being the godly man that he was, revealed who the author of their deliverance from starvation was. "Hey guys, Elohim is the One Who thru your ill treatment of me, sent me here to Egypt so that the promise of Abraham, to build a great Nation thru our father and us would continue thru this famine." We serve an amazing omnipotent God Who's way are not our ways. For His children, He is always in the background by His Spirit Who is in us, and Angels who have been assigned to us. This is the way that He will never leave us or forsake us no matter what comes our way. Praise our loving, powerful, and mighty God, Elohim.
Gen 45:8 "So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt."
Joseph explains the architecture of God's unbelievable plan to save his family but also to be a valued and trustworthy friend to Pharaoh. "a father to Pharaoh" simply means one who is responsible to guard and favor the wellbeing of another person. Someone suggested that this is a new younger Pharaoh, but I couldn't find more info. on that so I'm assuming that this is the same Pharaoh.
Gen 45:9 "Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not."
Gen 45:10 "And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children's children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast."
Gen 45:11 "And there will I nourish thee; for yet there are five years of famine; lest thou, and thy household, and all that thou hast, come to poverty."
These three verses explain to Jacob, Israel, number one, Joseph is alive. Not only is he alive but a very rich man with a very high position of leadership in Egypt, well ably to sustain their lives during the next five years of famine,
Gen 45:12 "And, behold, your eyes see, and the eyes of my brother Benjamin, that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you."
Joseph realized that his father, at first, would not believe that his favored son Joseph was still alive. Joseph hoped that the testimony of the brothers and especially the statement by Benjamin would convince his father that he indeed was alive and wanting him to join him in Goshen, near him.
Gen 45:13 "And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither."
Gen 45:14 "And he fell upon his brother Benjamin's neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck."
Gen 45:15 "Moreover he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them: and after that his brethren talked with him."
After instructing his brothers what to say to their father Jacob, Joseph could no longer hold his mighty role in Egypt, he became a brother and kissed and wept with them all. That must have been simply a wonderful scene of love, forgiveness, and restoration. It was then that all the walls of hostility had come down and now the brothers acted like brothers and must have had a wonderful time of discussing the past twenty years.
In this whole story of Joseph's life, I see two words that stand out in my mind. Those two words are IMO the two greatest words in all Scripture. those words are "BUT GOD". Oh my, just think about our lives as well as Joseph's. BUT GOD I would still be lost without Jesus, BUT GOD! I would have died, BUT GOD! I'll tell you about a very dramatic event in my life. I used to own a Harley Davidson Electra Glide motorcycle. For those who are not familiar with Harley's It is the biggest and heaviest one they manufacture. About ten of us "bikers" were headed from Massachusetts to Washington for "Rolling Thunder". We were on a New York thru way when a young lady in a small red car decided to come from the right lane to the left passing lane, trouble was, I was in the lane that she wanted to come thru to reach the passing lane. She cut thru my lane, just grazing my front tire. That sent my big old Hawg into a jumping, scary, back wheel off the ground then front wheel off the ground, something very close to a bucking bronco. All of a sudden, I could feel a force grab my front tire and all the bucking ceased immediately. The rest of the bikers could not believe that I did not go down. At 65 miles an hour, I would have been run over if I had gone down. BUT GOD! I would have been easily killed BUT GOD!
