So they said to Pharaoh, ‘Your servants are shepherds, both we and our fathers.’ And they said to Pharaoh, ‘We have come to sojourn in the land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, ‘What is your occupation?’ “And he took five men from among his brothers, and presented them to Pharaoh. They can grow into a nation while retaining their distinctive identity, without the corruption that Canaan had already begun to insinuate among them. It isolates them from the main stream of Egyptian population and the priestly centers on the central Nile. Parunak: The seclusion of Israel in Goshen is crucial to God’s purposes. “Then Joseph went in and told Pharaoh, and said, ‘My father and my brothers and their flocks and their herds and all that they have, have come out of the land of Canaan and behold, they are in the land of Goshen.’” (:1-12) JOSEPH’S DIPLOMACY - EXERCISING POLITICAL WISDOM TO ENSURE THE SUCCESSFUL SETTLEMENT OF HIS FAMILY IN IDEAL INCUBATION CONDITIONS IN EGYPTĪ. Let’s study 3 Key Areas Where God Prospered Joseph What are we making the priority in our life? Can we expect God to prosper us if we obey His commands and devote ourselves to His program for today which is the growth of His church? What will that prosperity look like in our lives? “Seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things will be added unto you.” We are reminded of Christ’s command coupled with His promise of reassurance in Matt. We have seen God’s sovereign providence at work in protecting and prospering Abraham and then Isaac and then Jacob and now Joseph to accomplish His ultimate purposes. The covenant promises made to Abraham were critical to the ultimate blessing that God intends to bring upon the entire world. Then we saw God’s focus narrow to working through the lineage of one man – Abraham – and his key descendants – Isaac, Jacob and now Judah and Joseph. As mankind again began to populate the world, it took God’s sovereign judgment of the multiplication of tongues and dispersion as a result of man’s pride and rebellion at the Tower of Babel in order to further God’s Kingdom Agenda. The worldwide focus of God’s program recorded the increasing wickedness that culminated in the Flood with God saving only a small remnant in the family of Noah via the ark. 3 of the promise of the seed of the woman who would eventually come to accomplish ultimate redemption and restoration. After the Fall of man, we saw the introduction in Gen. We began the book in Paradise – the Garden of Eden where all was right and good in the world dominated by God’s righteousness and justice. In studying the book of Genesis we must never lose sight of God’s Kingdom Agenda. Why should we die before your eyes? For our money is gone." 16 And Joseph answered, "Give your livestock, and I will give you food in exchange for your livestock, if your money is gone." 17 So they brought their livestock to Joseph, and Joseph gave them food in exchange for the horses, the flocks, the herds, and the donkeys.GOD PROSPERS THOSE WHO SEEK FIRST HIS KINGDOM AGENDA 15 And when the money was all spent in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, "Give us food. And Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house. 14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan, in exchange for the grain that they bought. 12 And Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father's household with food, according to the number of their dependents.ġ3 Now there was no food in all the land, for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan languished by reason of the famine. 11 Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning." 10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from the presence of Pharaoh. 8 And Pharaoh said to Jacob, "How many are the days of the years of your life?" 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
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