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January 28, 2025 - Genesis 46-47
28th January 2025 • Daily Bible Podcast • Compass Bible Church North Texas
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00:00 Introduction and Current Events

00:32 Gratitude and Opportunities for the Church

02:04 Bible Reading: Genesis 46 Overview

02:23 Jacob's Journey to Egypt

04:53 Reunion of Jacob and Joseph

08:51 Joseph's Administration During the Famine

10:34 Conclusion and Prayer

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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It is Tuesday, January 28th.

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And, uh, man, it's just been fascinating.

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It's been interesting.

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I'm sure you've been watching everything

going on over the last week with

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president Trump's first week in office.

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And as I record this, it's only Saturday.

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So I don't know what's coming on

Sunday, Monday, or even today on

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Tuesday as you listened to this, but.

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Ah, man, there's been a lot of good

things happening over this last

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week that we, as believers should be

thankful for even just the pardoning

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of the pro pro-life activists.

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The fact that he showed

up at the March to life.

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Um, there's just good things happening

and we need to be grateful for that.

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And again, it just seems to me that.

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Uh, God is, is positioning

the church to, to.

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To have an opportunity.

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And almost as though he's saying

to the American evangelical

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church at large right now.

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Okay.

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Here's another opportunity.

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Here's another chance.

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Uh, what are you going to do with it?

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Are you going to seize this?

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Is there going to be a season

of revival that's going to come?

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Is there going to be a season where

the church really steps up and is

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the church and fulfills her mission?

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Uh, or is this going to be a

season where you're going to maybe

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waste this is, is this, maybe

you are our last shot who knows?

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Uh, between now and in persecution

and really paring down and

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disciplining the church.

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All that to say.

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We need to be grateful for what's going on

right now and what's happening right now.

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And the fact that there's even

a little bit more openness.

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I mentioned it on Sunday.

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Uh, in 2024 Bible sales shot

up by 22% in the United States.

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Now.

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That doesn't mean that everybody

that bought the Bible bought it

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for good reasons, but it does

mean that that's a good trend.

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We should be thankful for that.

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The religious nuns, those that

identify as, as unaffiliated,

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religiously, that number dropped.

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Uh, for the first time in a

long time, that's something

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to be good to be grateful for.

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Uh, and so let's be thankful church

not and sit back on our laurels

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and say, well, we get the rest now.

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But to say let's let's Excel still more.

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Let's let's seize the opportunity.

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Let's seize the day.

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Uh, when it seems that

we've got a cultural shift.

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And I'm not going to say it's going

to, it's a total reversal because it's

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not that the enemy is still very much

at work, but man, we've got a cultural

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shift that's working in our favor.

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Let's let's ride that wave

and let's seize the day.

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So let's be.

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The lampstand that God desires

us to be that Christ exalting

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church, equipping culture, engaging

lampstand, and, and do it all for the

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glory of God for the glory of God.

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Well, let's jump into

our Bible reading today.

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Uh, Genesis 46 through 47.

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Uh, Genesis 46 opens up with

Jacob coming down to Egypt.

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So.

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Uh, Joseph had said to his

brothers, Hey, go get your father,

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go get our father, bring him down

here and, and let's be together.

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And I'll take care of you during

this famine that's taking place.

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So that's what happened, Jacob.

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Heads down to Egypt, but he stops

first in a town or an area called beer

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Sheba or in the Hebrew Bert beer Shava.

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Um, and this would have been right on

the borderline of the promised land now.

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Jacob knew the promises made to

Isaac knew the promises made to

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Abraham of the promised land.

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And Jacob now is about to

leave the promised land.

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And Jacob also knew that Egypt was

not necessarily where God had always

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wanted his people to be in fact, had

been prohibited from going to Egypt.

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And so now he's going to

stop there at Beersheba.

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Right on the border of the

promised land before leaving.

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And there's almost an uneasiness there.

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You can sense in him, but God shows up to

him here and God confirms that it's okay.

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That it's good and says,

Hey, go to Egypt for there.

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God says that he would bring part of

the Abrahamic covenant to fulfillment by

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forming that nation from his descendants.

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And so that the remainder of the chapter

and chapter 46 details, those descendants,

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the ones that go down with Jacob there.

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And, uh, and we find out at the

end of it that there's 70 in all,

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according to the Hebrew text and

magnetic text and that number there.

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Would have included Jacob and Joseph and

his two sons already down there in Egypt.

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So it's either including Jacob or

including Dinah perhaps, and maybe there

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were 71 if Dinah's included in this and

Jacob is not counting himself either way.

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70.

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People there with him down in Egypt,

but God is going to turn that into a

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nation by the time that they leave.

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And we'll find that out as, as the

book of Genesis turns into the book of

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Exodus and we see what God does through

the growth of his people here, but.

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Uh, you may remember when we talked

about this more in depth last year,

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I believe, but acts chapter seven 14.

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So in Stephen's defense that he's

giving an acts chapter seven.

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Uh, there it listed, there were

75 people that went down to Egypt

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and that's based on the LX ex

translation, which is the Septuagint.

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Okay.

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The Septuagint.

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And so the Greek Septuagint, the

Greek translation of the old Testament

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reads 75 people, not 70 people.

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Um, This is not a gotcha scriptures,

faulty scriptures erroneous here.

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Uh, it's possible that the Greek

translation was not accurate on there.

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Their accounting methods there.

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It's also possible that the

theoretic texts may have missed

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a couple of people, but 70 to 75

is, is a comfortable area there.

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Pastor rod has often talked about

the fact that, uh, there are elements

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that point to the fact that scripture

was not as concerned with absolute

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precision in every detail, the way

that we are in our Western culture.

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Uh, we see that with time

references sometimes.

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So whether it's 70, 70, 1, 75, Uh, we

can be comfortable that, that, that

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was the general ballpark number that

went down there to Egypt with Jacob.

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And so that's, what's going

on here in chapter 46.

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Is he's going down to

reunite with his son.

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And then in verses 28 through

34, that's the first 27 verses

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of chapter 46, at least.

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28 through 34, then.

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This is the reunion and what a

reunion it must have been to see,

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and we get a glimpse of it, but, but

we can't really fully capture this.

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I mean, if it was emotional for.

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Uh, Joseph to see his brother

Benjamin, how much more so to

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see his father, Jacob, remember.

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Jacob loved Joseph, Jacob and Joseph

had a special relationship with

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special bonds, such as Jacob even

gave him that coat of many colors.

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And so this was a close, this

was an intimate relationship

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between a father and a son.

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And here, they're back together again.

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And Joseph thought, I'm sure I

will never see my father again.

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And, and Jacob thought that he had died.

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And so the, the idea that they are

back together again in verse 29,

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he presents himself to him and fell

on his neck and wept on his neck.

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And just as a good while.

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I can imagine the tears and the

joy and everything else there.

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And then after that, that just

the time of, let me tell you

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everything that's happened.

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Let me tell you all that God has done.

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And, and Joseph is told by

his father, Israel, verse 30.

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He says, now I can die.

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Now let me die.

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Since I've seen your face and

know that you were still alive.

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In other words, Israel saying, now I am.

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Content I'm okay.

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And he's going to tell Pharaoh

here shortly, he's going to

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say I've lived a hard life.

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Uh, but this is a glimpse in the fact that

he's saying, okay, this is, this is good.

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Again, the parallels would

Jobe and the restored fortunes

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at the end of job's life.

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Uh, if there's a little bit of a

parallel there, here, this is the

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restored fortunate for Israel that

he is back with his son, Joseph.

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And even just all of his children

together there in Egypt, in the hope

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that would have been there to know that

they were going to be cared for, they

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were going to be provided for, but this

reunion in verses 23 through 34 is just

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a sweet reunion there between his father.

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Uh, and him, and he gives him some advice.

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He says, Hey, when Pharaoh calls you,

because Pharaoh is going to want to meet

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you when he calls you, uh, let him know

that your shepherds and you're going to.

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I'm going to set you up over and Goshen,

Goshen, would've been a land that would

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have been great for pasturing flocks,

and would have allowed his family to

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thrive there, which they're going to do.

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And again, I mentioned it a last

episode of the episode before shepherds

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were an abomination to the Egyptians.

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So that would have been a

land that would have allowed.

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Uh, Jay Jacobs.

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Uh, family.

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They're the descendants

there and Joseph's brothers.

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That's what I'm trying to say to

enjoy some, some Liberty, some

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freedom to, to not have a lot of

interference from the Egyptians there.

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And it's true.

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I mean, they were shepherds, this is not

deception, so it's going to set them up.

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Well, Uh, chapter 47, then

verses one through 12.

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Uh, Joseph settled his family

there in Goshen and Israel is

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summoned indeed to meet Pharaoh.

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And he has an interesting, just

brief interaction with Pharaoh here.

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And Israel is the Fountainhead

that the patriarch of the family.

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Would have blessed Pharaoh.

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So that's, that's part of that,

that greeting between him and the

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king there as the family, patriarchy

would have represented his family and

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blessed the ruler of the land, which

would have been Pharaoh, obviously.

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Pharaoh asks this question in verses

eight and nine, he says, how old are you?

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And Pharaoh's seems to be fascinated here.

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How many are the days of

the years of your life?

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That's an interesting question.

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If you meet somebody.

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Uh, and it's appropriate to do so

you should ask them that question.

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How many are the days of

the years of your life?

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See what they do.

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Uh, but, but Pharaoh's fascinated

because the average Egyptian lifespan

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at this time was 110 years old.

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Okay.

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Which is.

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Not, I guess.

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It's, it's not totally foreign for us

to think of somebody living to 110.

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Now, what did we say that

to the average lifespan?

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No, that that's, uh, a

pretty well lived life.

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That's an old life, but.

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At this point, um, he's looking at,

at Israel going, how old are you?

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And Israel says I'm 130 years old

and he was going to live another

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17 years beyond that point.

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And so this, this is Pharaoh is intrigued.

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He's fascinated by Jacob and he

wants to know how old are you?

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And so this is inter.

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Interesting interaction between Pharaoh,

this pagan king and, uh, and, and

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Jacob who was not a king, but is the,

the, uh, one of the sons of promise.

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That's continuing the blessing

through whom the king of Kings and

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Lord of Lords was going to come.

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And so you have a, uh, a paradox here.

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You have the most powerful man

perhaps in the world at this time in

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Pharaoh, looking at a man who is, is

very much not in a position of power.

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And yet the one that would rule

all the one that would be the

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king of Kings and Lord of Lords.

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Who's not going to come

from Pharaoh's line.

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But from the line here of Jacob?

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Well, from here, Uh, we get into

more of Joseph's administration.

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Then in verses 13 through 21, the famine

is still severe to the point that the

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Egyptians run out of money and they say,

Hey, we don't have any money to buy food

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from you anymore, but we still need food.

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And so Joseph says, okay, well, I will buy

your flocks and your herds for Pharaoh.

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And so they sell their flocks

and their herds to Pharaoh.

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In exchange for food.

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And even that runs out and

they come back and they say, I.

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We're out of money again, and we

don't want any flocks or herds

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because you've got them all.

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He says, okay, I'll buy

your land and I'll buy you.

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And so, uh, they give their land and

they even sell themselves and slavery.

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Uh, to Pharaoh and in this

way, Pharaoh's power in Egypt

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becomes unrivaled in unmatched.

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He literally owns everything in

Egypt at this point, and that's

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going to impact what transpires after

Joseph's death, because when a new

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Pharaoh arises, who doesn't remember.

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Uh, Israel or Joseph or any of

the, the descendants they're in.

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We're going to find that that's going

to be problematic for the Israelites in

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that in some ways it's traced back to

this right now that that Pharaoh becomes.

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Inordinately powerful.

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You already was the ruler

of the land, but even more.

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So he's going to own it all now.

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And it's a result of, uh, this

administration that takes place

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under Joseph's leadership here.

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Uh, which you can't fault him for

because he's doing his job and there

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needed to be a transaction there of

goods for services, the services being

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food, but still this sets up something

wherein, uh, this is going to be a

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situation where, uh, Pharaoh is going to

rise to a level of power never before.

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And don't hear.

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Uh, and then in chapter 47,

verse 27, it says thus Israel

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settled in the land of Egypt.

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In the land of Goshen and they

gained possessions in it and they

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were fruitful and multiply greatly.

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And that's just a reminder to us.

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Uh, of the Abrahamic, Kevin and blessings

to the people that they're fruitful and

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multiplying greatly that he is indeed

going to turn him into the nation.

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These chapters here are just good

reminders for us of God's faithfulness

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to his people and to us as individuals,

uh, God was kind to allow Jacob

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to see Joseph again and spend last

time with him before his death.

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He doesn't die.

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It's not as though.

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Even Jacob says, even though Jacob says.

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I've seen you now I can die.

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God gives him another 17 years with

his family, with his sons there.

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And that's just a sweet grace of God.

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So what an encouragement

that is to us, let me pray.

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And then we'll be done with this episode.

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God, we are grateful for the sweet

kindnesses you give to us on a daily

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basis that we're not even aware of just

to be able to see the smile of somebody.

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Uh, to be able to experience warmth,

to be able to experience good food.

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Uh, and fellowship with

brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Uh, those are, are, are sweet

kindnesses and elements of your

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grace that you've given to us.

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And so we are grateful for them, help

us to be a continually grateful people.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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