DECEMBER 7, 2020 Genesis 45:7-8 “And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God.” Perhaps up until this time Joseph had blamed them for his affliction. If so, the famine and their descent into Egypt made […]
DECEMBER 6, 2020 Genesis 45:5 “But now, do not therefore be grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God sent me before you to preserve life.” In this verse it becomes clear that Joseph understands why all that happened to him was meant to be. It is one thing for the brothers […]
DECEMBER 5, 2020 Genesis 45:1-2 Then Joseph could not restrain himself before all those who stood by him, and he cried out, “Make everyone go out from me!” So no one stood with him while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. After seeing that his brothers were remorseful about how they mistreated him, how they […]
DECEMBER 2, 2020 Genesis 44:18 Then Judah came near to him and said: “O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s hearing, and do not let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even like Pharaoh.” The Hebrew root term translated as “came near” simply means “to approach” which implies “close […]
December 1, 2020 Genesis 44:18 Then Judah came near to him and said: “O my lord, please let your servant speak a word in my lord’s hearing, and do not let your anger burn against your servant; for you are even like Pharaoh.” Despite the fact that Judah’s history is checkered with unwise decisions, at this crucial time […]
NOVEMBER 30, 2020 Genesis 44:15-16 And Joseph said to them, “What deed is this you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can certainly practice divination?” Then Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity […]
NOVEMBER 29, 2020 Genesis 44:1-2 And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with food, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack. Also put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his grain money.” […]
NOVEMBER 28, 2020 Genesis 43:26 And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house and bowed down before him to the earth. Upon their return to Egypt, the brothers are told to go to Joseph’s house for a noon meal. Initially they were fearful that this was because of […]
NOVEMBER 27, 2020 Genesis 43:8-9 Then Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones. I myself will be surety for him; from my hand you shall require him. If I do not bring him back to you […]
NOVEMBER 26, 2020 Genesis 43:2-3 And it came to pass, when they had eaten up the grain which they had brought from Egypt, that their father said to them, “Go back, buy us a little food.” But Judah spoke to him, saying, “The man solemnly warned us, saying, ‘You shall not see my face unless your brother is with […]
NOVEMBER 25, 2020 Genesis 42:29-30 Then they went to Jacob their father in the land of Canaan and told him all that had happened to them, saying: “The man who is lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country.” Upon their return to Canaan, the brothers related their experience in Egypt to […]
NOVEMBER 24, 2020 Genesis 42:21-22 Then they said to one another, “We are truly guilty concerning our brother, for we saw the anguish of his soul when he pleaded with us, and we would not hear; therefore this distress has come upon us.” And Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not speak to you, saying, ‘Do not sin against the […]
