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GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXXI
"I, Jacob, am on my way from Canaan to Egypt... My son, Joseph, the official in charge of the grain distribution in Egypt, has invited us to live there.... He has suggested as well that we move to Goshen... However, we have not been there before... So we need to find out the best route for us to go there... It is especially important for us since I have a large family including many younger ones... God has blessed me with a large family... And He has blessed me with much livestock.... And many possessions.... I have not always felt blessed... In fact, I have not felt blessed since the day my son Joseph went missing... For twenty-two years I believed that God had led me down by allowing my son, my favourite son, to be killed by an animal... But I now know I was wrong... My son is alive!....God has kept him alive so that the dreams He had given him could be fulfilled...And they are being fulfilled....I am about to see him!.... I have sent Judah ahead to get directions for us how to reach Goshen... I chose to send Judah because I learned from his brothers that he pleaded with Joseph not to keep his youngest brother Benjamins as a slave...But that he would serve as a slave in his place... So that Benjamin could go home to me.... Truly, God has done a work in the heart of this son of mine...I have not always been so sure of him... But today I am...Today I can see he meant what he said..... When he told me he would give his life for the life of his youngest brother... Because he could not face me suffering the loss of that son who has beome so dear to me."... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Jacob sends Judah ahead of them....
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXXI
When Jacob and his family get nearer to Egypt, he sends Judah ahead of them to Joseph as you can read in Genesis 46:28a
Now Jacob sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen.
Jacob knows that they should settle in Goshen so it is important that that they not waste time but go there straight away after their arrival in Egypt.
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