GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXXXVI
“I, Joseph, the official under Pharaoh, am getting on in age…. I just celebrated my 110th birthday… We had a wonderful celebration with my family… I was very tired afterwards…. That is not too surprising… I am getting quite frail now… I sense the Lord is preparing me that my time here on earth is coming to an end…That will mean I will never see my homeland again… I am too old now to travel back to Canaan…However, I know that one day my people will go back there…. It may not happen right away… But I know it will happen…God knows when it is the right time for my people to go back to Canaan…In fact, my great-grandfather Abraham was told we would be in Egypt for 400 years before we would return to the Promised Land… So it will not happen for quite a while as yet….I know too that my body should not remain here in Egypt…My body should be buried in Canaan… I must, therefore, give instructions for my body to be embalmed so it can be preserved and taken back when it is time to do so.”… Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn of Joseph’s death at the age of 110.
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
GOD MEANS IT FOR GOOD
PART LXXXVI
Joseph, the official in charge of the grain distribution in Egypt, knows that at the age of one hundred and ten he is about to die as you can read in Genesis 50:26
So Joseph died at the age of a hundred and ten. And after they embalmed him, he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
The family takes care of Joseph’s body and prepares it for an eventual return to Canaan.
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