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GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXI
"I, Joseph, the so-called "Egyptian" official in charge of the grain distribution knew that my brothers needed more time to believe that I really am who I just told them I am... That is not too surprising... After all, for two years now they have only known me as the "Egyptian" official... My treatment of them up till now has been quite harsh... Only a short while ago they feared they had to become my slaves... Life looked extremely bleak... They did not think they would be able to go back home to their families.... They then heard from me that they could all go home apart from their youngest brother... Because my silver cup had been found in his sack... But they knew they could not go home without their brother Benjamin.... Their father simply would not survive the loss of his youngest son... Judah, one of the brothers, then offered to take the place of his youngest brother... But he did not know how successful his plea would be... My response to his words would have completely taken them by surprise... Because I began to weep... And I wept long and loud.... They would not have been able to make sense of these tears... It would have caused great confusion... Very likely my words to them that followed my tears would have caused even more confusion.... For I told them that I am not an "Egyptian" official... But that I am their long-lost brother Joseph.... I can see on their faces that they still have a hard time accepting that I really am the brother they had sold... I must tell them one more time that it is really I, Joseph, who is speaking with them.".... Please read th typed out attachment when you will learn that the "Egyptian" official tells the brothers one more time that he really is Joseph whom they had sold to merchants....
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXI
Joseph, who is in charge of the distribution of grain in Egypt, can see in the faces of his brothers that they have difficulty believing he is who he claims to be as you can read in Genesis 45:12
"You can see for yourselves, and so can my brother Benjamin, that it is really I who am speaking to you."
Joseph is particularly keen that his youngest brother Benjamin knows that he really is their long-lost brother Joseph.
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