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Joseph was the Beloved Son, the Despised Brother, the Slandered Alien, the Prophetic Captive, the Prince of Life, and the Exalted Lord. In all this history the young man was a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough whose branches run over the wall, even as his father Jacob had prophesied (Gen. 49:22)
Joseph now stands before him -- Joseph, his beloved child. Jacob thinks he is alone with him so that there is now opportunity for some intimate conversation. The aged patriarch again speaks. Fixing his dimmed eye upon his son, he says: "And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh ….are mine; as Reube
Let him go home to his father’s house. Let my life be for his life. Let my freedom be for his freedom. It was these words of Judah that pushed Joseph over the edge with emotion. He could help himself no longer. The man before him was clearly not the same man who sold him into slavery. He was a chang
Therefore he does what he must, what he is called upon to do, that events may take their rightful course. Consider how God had set the stage, had created the proper situations. There was Goshen -- a luxuriant pasture land, at that time sparsely settled by a folk not strictly Egyptian, a land, where