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"HE DWELT"
(Weekly Reading>>Genesis 37:1-40:23, Amos 2:6-3:8, Acts 7:9-16)
Joseph would have cried out for help but his brothers were not bothered by their decision, and with callousness (Olam Hazeh) they all comfortably sat down to eat a meal together. Breaking bread helps us see and when the brothers broke bread they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming towards them, their camels loaded with goods on their way to Egypt. When they looked up – God set in motion the next plan in Joseph’s life and the life of his family.
•Joseph is a type and shadow of Messiah Yeshua
•Yeshua’s Israelite brother’s, the ruling council of Pharisees of Israel/Sanhedrin, under the influence of the Olam Hazeh, callously approved of the Roman style of crucifixion as a way to eliminate Yeshua, and at his death they all comfortably sat down to eat a meal together called Passover/Pesach.
•Yeshua’s death was preordained from before the foundation of the earth, to regather and ingather the twelve tribes of the whole commonwealth of Israel, not to tear them apart (Acts 1:6).
It was Judah who recommended they sell Joseph to the traders of Midian so they would not have his blood on their hands. This idea seemed good to the brothers, thus they sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver, the price for a young slave.
•Yeshua was sold for thirty pieces of silver, the price for a mature slave. Silver also represents redemption. Like Joseph’s brothers, when the Pharisees discussed Yeshua, rather than have His blood on their hands, they also decided to have their victim die by the hand of someone else (the Romans), thinking that it absolved them of their guilt. (Matthew 20:19).
The caravan Joseph found himself sold to carried spices, balm, and myrrh used for making perfumes. These were also the spices used with linen in the Hebrew culture when wrapping a dead body before burial.
Joseph facing a certain death in the well in effect rose from the dead, and was carried away into Egypt. From his death – being entombed alive in the cistern – came his deliverance. Joseph had to die first (spiritually) before resurrection life could enter. This was the end of his carnal life and the beginning of Yahweh’s heavenly life in him.
•Joseph is an illustration of Yeshua. The women came to the tomb to prepare Yeshua’s body with spices but He had already risen.
The brothers would not see Joseph again until he had prepared a place of deliverance for them. In the same way Yeshua our Bridegroom has gone to prepare a place for us. (In a Hebrew wedding the Groom prepares a bridal chamber in his father's house)
Yahweh had given Joseph revelations by way of dreams. Now he was about to walk out those prophetic revelations. From the moment of his deliverance from the pit Joseph knew he had been saved from certain death and it was Yahweh who had saved him. He now came into submission to Yahweh, as he no longer had the freedom to live by his own preferences and choices. In his captivity Yahweh enabled Joseph to walk into true freedom, the salvation of his soul. In reflection Joseph laid his life on the Altar in order to receive Yahweh’s greater Life within.
The journey from Dothan to Egypt was approximately three hundred miles. Doing twenty miles per day by camel, if conditions were good, the journey would take about fifteen days. Reaching their destination, the Ishmaelites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.
continues tomorrow...
"HE DWELT"
(Weekly Reading>>Genesis 37:1-40:23, Amos 2:6-3:8, Acts 7:9-16)
Joseph would have cried out for help but his brothers were not bothered by their decision, and with callousness (Olam Hazeh) they all comfortably sat down to eat a meal together. Breaking bread helps us see and when the brothers broke bread they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming towards them, their camels loaded with goods on their way to Egypt. When they looked up – God set in motion the next plan in Joseph’s life and the life of his family.
•Joseph is a type and shadow of Messiah Yeshua
•Yeshua’s Israelite brother’s, the ruling council of Pharisees of Israel/Sanhedrin, under the influence of the Olam Hazeh, callously approved of the Roman style of crucifixion as a way to eliminate Yeshua, and at his death they all comfortably sat down to eat a meal together called Passover/Pesach.
John 12:32 Yeshua said, “And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.”
•Yeshua’s death was preordained from before the foundation of the earth, to regather and ingather the twelve tribes of the whole commonwealth of Israel, not to tear them apart (Acts 1:6).
It was Judah who recommended they sell Joseph to the traders of Midian so they would not have his blood on their hands. This idea seemed good to the brothers, thus they sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver, the price for a young slave.
•Yeshua was sold for thirty pieces of silver, the price for a mature slave. Silver also represents redemption. Like Joseph’s brothers, when the Pharisees discussed Yeshua, rather than have His blood on their hands, they also decided to have their victim die by the hand of someone else (the Romans), thinking that it absolved them of their guilt. (Matthew 20:19).
The caravan Joseph found himself sold to carried spices, balm, and myrrh used for making perfumes. These were also the spices used with linen in the Hebrew culture when wrapping a dead body before burial.
Joseph facing a certain death in the well in effect rose from the dead, and was carried away into Egypt. From his death – being entombed alive in the cistern – came his deliverance. Joseph had to die first (spiritually) before resurrection life could enter. This was the end of his carnal life and the beginning of Yahweh’s heavenly life in him.
•Joseph is an illustration of Yeshua. The women came to the tomb to prepare Yeshua’s body with spices but He had already risen.
The brothers would not see Joseph again until he had prepared a place of deliverance for them. In the same way Yeshua our Bridegroom has gone to prepare a place for us. (In a Hebrew wedding the Groom prepares a bridal chamber in his father's house)
Yahweh had given Joseph revelations by way of dreams. Now he was about to walk out those prophetic revelations. From the moment of his deliverance from the pit Joseph knew he had been saved from certain death and it was Yahweh who had saved him. He now came into submission to Yahweh, as he no longer had the freedom to live by his own preferences and choices. In his captivity Yahweh enabled Joseph to walk into true freedom, the salvation of his soul. In reflection Joseph laid his life on the Altar in order to receive Yahweh’s greater Life within.
The journey from Dothan to Egypt was approximately three hundred miles. Doing twenty miles per day by camel, if conditions were good, the journey would take about fifteen days. Reaching their destination, the Ishmaelites sold Joseph to Potiphar, one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard.
continues tomorrow...
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