A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXXIX
“I, Joseph, the official in charge of the grain distribution here in Egypt, have just been to Goshen…The reason I went to Goshen was to welcome my family from Canaan…They had all come over at the invitation of Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt… Pharaoh did not know of my family back in Canaan… He only knew that I was a Hebrew…However, I told him of my family after my brothers had recently come to me for the second time to buy grain…He then learned of the famine that was affecting Canaan… That caused him to extend to my family an invitation to move to Egypt…They have now arrived…. I met them earlier on….I have introduced five of my brothers to Pharaoh so he could tell them where they can live…. They are shepherds so they are in need of much land for their flocks to graze…. Pharaoh has kindly offered to give them the land of Goshen to live since it is very suitable for them… I am now going to present my father Jacob to Pharaoh… It will be such a special moment for me to be able to present my father Jacob to him…. Who would have thought that I would see my father again after these many years of separation….Moreover, I am now in a position of honour unlike the past when I was either a slave or a prisoner….Thankfully, my father does not need to know that I, his favourite son, once was a slave and a prisoner…. All he needs to know that God has taken care of me all these years…. And that He has brought me to this high position so that his life and the lives of his family members can be preserved.”…Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that Joseph presented his father to Pharaoh.
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXXIX
After Joseph had presented five of his brothers to Pharaoh, the ruler of Egypt, he brings his father before him as you can read in Genesis 47:7a
Then Joseph brought his father Jacob in and presented him before Pharaoh.
Jospeh is more than delighted to introduce his aged father Jacob to Pharaoh.
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