The famine is getting worse, in Egypt and surrounding lands. Soon the food purchased on the first trip to Egypt is running low and to survive, the sons of Israel must go back to purchase more food. Jacob said that they had to go back to Egypt, BUT the brothers dared not go back without Benjamin. The ruler had told them that they would not see his face if he was not with them. Jacob was not about to let his youngest son, by his beloved Rachel, out of his sight.
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REVENGE OR REUNION
Joseph is the second most powerful man in Egypt. There was not much that he could not do. So, when his brothers showed up from the land of Canaan, he was met with a temptation that many would have yielded to. He could have thrown his brothers in to prison and forgotten them, just as callously as they sold him to slavers.
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FAT COWS AND LEAN COWS . . .
When we left Joseph, he had just been raised from being a slave to being the second most powerful person in all of Egypt. That’s some serious corporate ladder climbing, right? But with the position came great responsibility. Now Joseph had to put the ideas which he had told Pharoah of into action. Joseph was not going to be fumbling around in the dark here. God had put him into all the positions he had been in to train for just this moment. First, he worked in Potiphar’s household. Not a huge undertaking but Joseph learned to manage a household. Then, Joseph went to prison where he became the manager of the prison. Here he learned to manage a much larger “household” (for want of a better word). Now, after thirteen years, Joseph has been positioned to care for an entire nation. To prepare for a time when food would be scarce, if not non-existent.
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OK THERE’S GOOD NEWS AND BAD NEWS
Have you ever had a dream that just stuck with you? Most of the time we don’t remember our dreams. I often wake up feeling like I’ve had a weird dream but don’t remember what it was. Frustrating, right? Well, Pharoah had a dream and not just one, but two dreams that would not go away. We are not told when he had the dream but suffice it to say that he probably lost sleep over them (LOL). It apparently bugged him so much that the next morning he called on his magicians and priests who were supposed to be able to interpret dreams. Interpreting dreams was big business in ancient times. There were many books on dream elements and their meanings. The magicians and priests who were supposed to be able to interpret dreams didn’t have the first inkling of what Pharoah’s dreams meant.
