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GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXVIII
"I, Jacob, father of twelve sons, was so pleased to have eleven of them safely return to me earlier today... They had been to Egypt to buy grain... I was so relieved that none of them had been kept behind in Egypt this time... They then told me a story I could not believe... They told me that my favourite son Joseph was not dead but is alive!!.... I wanted to tell them off for telling me such a story.. But they insisted that they were not telling me a lie.... They told me they fully understood that I could not believe them... However, they told me they had proof that Joseph is alive... And not only is he alive... He is the so-called "Egyptian" official in charge of the grain distribution in that country...I asked them to show me their proof...However, I did not expect to see anything I might need to consider... But they then showed me the carts Joseph has sent to take me and my family to Egypt...Seeing the carts and everything else that Joseph has sent me has convinced me!!... My son Joseph is alive!!... God is good!!... He has preserved the life of my son.... The dreams my son had when he was seventeen years old have come true....His brothers have bowed down to him when they came before him to buy grain from him.... I had chosen to forget these dreams Joseph shared with us at that time...I should not have done that.... I should have trusted God to bring them to pass in His time... I must now get ready to go to Egypt and meet my son... I cannot wait to embrace him."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Jacob sees evidence that his favourite son Joseph is still alive...
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXVIII
The eleven sons of Jacob, who have just returned from Egypt with the news that Jospeh is still alive, know their father needs more proof to be convinced that Joseph is not dead as he has believed for the last twenty-two years as you can read in Genesis 45:27-28
But when they told him everything Joseph had said to them, and when he saw the carts Joseph had sent to carry him back, the spirit of their father Jacob revived. And Israel said, "I am convinced! My son Joseph is still alive. I will go and see him before I die."
Once Jacob hears from his sons all the details of their conversation with Joseph and sees the carts that he has sent with them, he gladly accepts the fact that his son Joseph is alive and that he will see him.
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