Read Part One HERE
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LIV
"I, the "Egyptian" official in charge of the grain distribution, was speechless for a moment... I have eleven men in front of me... They are all brothers who have come from Canaan... They had bought grain for their families... They were on their way back home earlier this morning... However, they returned to me because my special silver cup was found in the sack of their youngest brother... I had told them they could all go back home to their families... Onely the youngest one in whose sack my cup had been found was to remain as my slave...After I had spoken these words I waited... It did not take too long before the one who had told me they would become my slaves spoke again....He pleaded with me to let his youngest brother go free... For his father would not be able to cope if he did not return home.... He told me that he would take his place as my slave!!...This brother was willing to become my slave so that his youngest brother could go free!!... These words were more than I could bear... Emotions engulfed me... I was silent until somehow I found the strength to tell my attendants to leave the room....It did not matter to me what they thought....Then I, the "Egyptian" official burst out in tears....And I wept and wept....It is time to let these men in front of me know who I really am."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that the "Egyptian " official cannot control his emotions after one of the brothers, Judah, pleads with him that he be allowed to become a slave in the place of his youngest brother Benjamin...
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LIV
The official in charge of the grain distribution in Egypt is overcome by emotions after one of the men in front of him, called Judah, pleads to become a slave instead of his brother Benjamin as you can read in Genesis 45:1-2
Then Joseph could no longer control himself before all his attendants, and he cried out, "Have everyone leave my presence! So there was no one with Joseph when he made himself known to his brothers. And he wept so loudly that the Egyptians heard him, and Pharaoh's household heard about it.
The official realises that a great change has taken place in the heart of Judah as well as the other sons of Jacob, which causes him to weep.
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