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GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LX
"I, the "Egyptian" official in charge of the grain distribution, know that it is time for all my family to live with me here in Egypt.... For there will be five more years of famine....I stored up plenty of grain during the seven years when we had abundant harvests...So there is more than enough food to carry us through the years of lack... I must now convince my brothers of the necessity to make that move to Egypt....I am sure it will not be easy for them to tell my fahter that I am alive and not dead...No doubt, twenty-two years ago they made up a story to make him believe I had been killed.... They will have done so to cover over the fact that they had sold me to merchants...I wonder if they used my multi coloured coat as evidence at that time...But it does not matter... Our father needs to hear that I am alive and well... And that I am the most important person in Egypt.... Apart from Pharaoh... They can move to the region of Goshen where their flocks can freely graze."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Joseph, the "Egyptian" official tells his eleven brothers to hurry home and tell their father that he is alive and wants the whole family to live with him in Egypt...
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LX
Joseph, who is in charge of the grain distribution in Egypt, then tells his eleven brothers to let his father Jacob know that is alive and well as you can read in Genesis 45:9-11
"Now hurry back to my father and say to him, "This is what your son Joseph says: God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me, don't delay. You shall live in the region of Goshen and be near me - you, your children and grandchildren, your flocks and herds, and all you have. I will provide for you there because five years of famine are still to come.Otherwise you and your household and all who belong to you will become destitute."
Joseph wants his brothers to go back home to Canaan as soon as possible and tell his father that he and his family should move to Eypt to be near him. He even has a region designed for them to live where they can graze their flocks.
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