This week we pick up the story with Joseph standing before the Pharaoh. How did he get here? We’ve been following the twists and turns of Joseph’s life and we’ve seen his life have some dramatic turns. Most of us can sympathize with Joseph. Joseph was a young man in Canaan, loved by his father…
When Joseph was 17, he had two dreams. In one his brother’s sheaves bowed down to his. In the second, the sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed down to him. These two dreams were interpreted as foretelling the future. One day, Joseph’s family would come a bow down before him. Of course, this drove his…
As we start Genesis 40, we find Joseph sitting in an Egyptian prison. Remember where he has come from. Joseph was born in Mesopotamia and as an infant was brought into the land of Canaan and lived near Shechem. His older half-brothers Simeon and Levi murdered all the men of the city of Shechem while…
In chapter 38 of Genesis, we read the story of Judah and Tamar. In the story, we learned about how God used the sinfulness of all the people in the story to bring about new life. Though God put to death Er, and Onan, he brought life from Tamar with the birth of Perez and…
In chapter 38, we have the story of Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar. This is another one of those true and honest looks at the history of the Israelites. This story is not a sanitized version of the heroes of the faith but a faithful retelling of the events as they occurred in history. Last…
Psalm 2 tells us that the nations, the kings of the earth, and the rulers all gathered together and in a rage the plot against the Lord and his anointed. They want to get rid of their authority over them. But all of their anger and plotting is done in vain. It’s pointless. It’s comical….
JR Miller said, “When a story of providence begins – we never know what the end will be.” Often, we live so much in the present, we forget where we have come from, what God has led us through. We are like the Israelites who forgot that they were slaves and had their children murdered…