May 12, 2024
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Reading along with us in Genesis? Here’s today’s reading:
Genesis 47 (NIV)
1 Joseph went and told Pharaoh, “My father and brothers, with their flocks and herds and everything they own, have come from the land of Canaan and are now in Goshen.” 2 He chose five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh.
3 Pharaoh asked the brothers, “What is your occupation?”……Continue Reading
Joseph must have been so glad to have his family back with him. He provided the best land and plenty of provisions despite the horrible famine that was going on around them.
As an administrator, Joseph was wise, fair, and honest. He made Pharaoh a very rich man indeed and by the end of this famine he owned pretty much everything right down to the people themselves. This must have truly solitified his choice to put Joseph in charge. Amazing the things we see God orchestrate! From sold, imprisoned to know an essential part of such wealth and power.
Genesis 47
Genesis 47
Pharaoh met Joseph’s father Jacob. He told them they could have Goshem, a great part of the land. Soon the people of Egypt were running out of food. Joseph provided them with seed to grow what they needed. He asked for 1/5 of what they grew. The next year they gave Joseph all they owned and land I exchange for food. He made Pharaoh extremely rich. He ended owning all of Egypt! I cannot imagine how his brothers felt knowing what they had done to Joseph and Joseph treating them all like kings! Joseph promises not to bury his father in Egypt!
Genesis 47
“And they said, ‘Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.'”
Egypt gave all they had of money, cattle, and land in order to survive the famine; Joseph, through the divine preservation of the LORD God, had more than ample food, plus seed for sowing crops.
This chapter is “pregnant” with spiritual parallels to the gospel and New Testament. We would do well to consider the salvation of Egypt, though of the physical sort. -reb
Genesis 45-47
Timothy 1. 1-6.
Joseph makes a promise to his father that when he dies Joseph will bury him; not in Egypt but with his fathers. This is in some ways similar to request that when the nation of Israel leaves Egypt after being in bondage for 400 years that the bones of Joseph will be carried out of Egypt when they are all freed. Although he will be buried in a tomb in Egypt, Joseph will be carried out.
Genesis 47
Talk about a chapter that shows the principle of being blessed by association. It works for Joseph’s family in the way Pharaoh is gracious and generous to them because of all that Joseph has done for him, even trusting them to care for his livestock. But it also works for Pharaoh in being associated with Joseph. Pharaoh becomes exponentially wealthy because of what God revealed to Pharaoh through Joseph and the wisdom Joseph used to manage the good years and how it would be distributed in the bad years. It just reinforces to us that we should live a life that others could be blessed through and also make good decisions about who we associate with and connect ourselves to, that we would be blessed through them as well.
And I just love the picture of elderly Jacob, leaning on his staff, seeing how God has brought his life full circle and had blessed him abundantly, and he worshipped. Very much another model for living….
Genesis 47