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[00:00:35] Hey. Good evening, everyone, and welcome to life Walk with Christ God. And we're going to kind of jump right on into it. And we are on Genesis 47. Genesis 47.
[00:00:47] So we're on chapter 47, Genesis 47. Anyway, we have a lot going on, and we have been going through Joseph, Jacob's family safe in Egypt and everything else in the land of Goshen. And here we go. Then Joseph came and told Pharaoh and said, my father and my brethren and thy flocks and thy herds and all that they have are come out of the land of Canaan. And behold, they are in the land of Goshen. And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto his brethren, what is your occupation? And they said unto Pharaoh, thy servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers. They said moreover, unto Pharaoh, for we. So we sojourn in the land where we come.
[00:01:39] For thy servants have no pasture for their slot for their flocks, for the famine is sore in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, we pray thee, let thy servants dwell in the land of Goshen. And Pharaoh spoken to Joseph, saying, thy father and thy brethren are come in, are come unto thee. The land of Egypt is before thee in the best of the land. Make thy father and their brethren to dwell in the land of Goshen. Let them dwell. And if thou knowest any men of all activity among them, make them rulers over my cattle. And Brosa. And Joseph brought in Jacob his father and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, how old are thou? And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, the days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years.
[00:02:35] Few and evil have the days of my years been of my life, and have not obtained until the days of the years of my life, of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh and went out from before Pharaoh. And Joseph placed his father and his brethren and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt. In the best of the land in. In the land of Ramses Pharaoh had commanded, Joseph nourished his father and his brethren and all his father's household with bread according to their families. And there was no bread. And all the land for the famine was very sore. So the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the fan.
[00:03:22] Now, Joseph is one exceptionally. He's in good graces with Pharaoh. He has pretty, you know, predicted everything that was going to come about. He knew that there was going to be Seven years of great crop. And then afterward, after he was interpreting Pharaoh's dreams, seven years of famine. And, of course, Pharaoh. And this is him coming out of prison, if you remember. And Pharaoh said, okay, well, you know, he's like, hire a wise man to do this. And Pharaoh said, it's you. You're the one. You're going to do this. So he has done well, you know, number two. And now he's taken his whole family, his brethren. They've. They've. They've had that conflict from what they did to Joseph and the reconciliation. And now they're under Joseph's care in the land of Goshen.
[00:04:17] Beautiful land. Pharaoh gave him the best.
[00:04:21] So here we go, and we're on now. Verse 15, chapter 47. And when the money failed in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph and said, give us bread, for why should we die in thy presence?
[00:04:38] For the money. The money faileth. And Joseph said, give your cattle, and I will give you for your cattle if money fail. And they brought their cattle unto Joseph, and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses and for flocks and for cattle and herds and for the asses.
[00:04:59] And he fed them with the bread for all their cattle for that year.
[00:05:06] So now he's getting the property too, because he's prepared so well. And the people are now saying, okay, there's no money here, and we can't sell stuff because it's, you know, there's no money in it right now with the. The famine and everything going on, we'll go ahead and give Joseph our. Our flocks and our cattle, and then he'll give us bread. So now he's getting the possessions for Pharaoh, too. So here we go.
[00:05:36] When that year was ended, they came unto the second year and said unto him, we will not hide it from my Lord how that our money is spent. My lord also hath our herds of cattle. There is not, not ought left in the sight of my Lord, but our bodies and our hand and our lands. Wherefore should we die before thy eyes, both we and our land. Buy us and our land for bread. And we in our. In our land will be servants unto Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, that the land be not desolate. And Joseph bought the land of. Of all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh and for the Egyptians sold every man his field because of the famine prevailed over them. So the land became Pharaoh's. And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from One end of the borders of Egypt, even to the other end thereof. Not only the land of the priests, but bought he not or only the land of the priests he bought thee not so, but everybody else that was touched by this famine, understand? First they had to spend all the money. Then they sold the cattle and everything they had flocks and everything. Then it was the land. And then they're becoming servants. So Joseph now has gathered unto Pharaoh just ultimate riches and has done well. And, and he has. And of course he has not. Only the land of the priests bought he not. For the priests had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion from which Pharaoh gave them, wherefore they sold not their lands. Then Joseph said to the people, behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh. Lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. So he's got him working for Pharaoh.
[00:07:51] And it should come to pass in the increase that you shall give a fifth part unto Pharaoh. The four parts shall be your own for the seed of the field and for your food, and for them of your households and for the food of your little ones. And they said, thou hast saved our lives. Let us find grace in thy sight, my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants. And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have a fifth part, except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaohs.
[00:08:33] So Jacob blesses the family in Egypt, in the land of Goshen. We're moving right along here. Verse 27, chapter 47.
[00:08:45] And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen. And they had possessions therein and grew and multiplied exceedingly. And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt 17 years. So the whole age of Jacob was a hundred forty and seven years. And the time drew near that Israel must die. And he called his son Joseph and said unto him, if now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh and deal kindly and truly with me. Bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt. But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in the burying place. And he said, I will do as thou has said. And he said, swear unto me. And he swore unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the beds head.
[00:09:51] So if you remember before, there is a burying place. And this was purchased early on and it's been, it's been carried through, through the family and everything. So we're going to, we're going to find out. We're on chapter 48 now.
[00:10:08] And it came to pass after these things that one told Joseph, behold, thy father is sick. And he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim.
[00:10:23] And one told Jacob and said, behold, thy son Joseph come unto thee. And Israel strengthened himself and sat upon the bed. And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan and blessed me and said unto me, behold, I will make thee fruitful and multiply thee. And I will make thee a multitude of people. And I will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee in Egypt, are mine as Reuben and Simeon, and they shall be mine.
[00:11:10] And thy issue which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of the brethren in their inheritance.
[00:11:23] And as for me, when I came from Patton, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way when there was.
[00:11:37] When. When yet there was but a little way to come unto Ephraim. And I buried her there in the way of ether, the same is Bethlehem. And Israel beheld Joseph's sons and said, who are these? And Joseph said unto his father, they are my sons, whom God hath given me in this place.
[00:12:05] And he said, bring them, I pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them. Now in the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him. And he kissed them and embraced them. And Israel said to Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face. And lo, God hath showed me also thy seed. And Joseph brought them out from between his knees. And he had bowed himself with his face to the earth. And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands unwittingly. Manasseh was the firstborn. And he blessed Joseph and said, God before me, who my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life unto this day, and the angel which redeemed me from all evil. Bless the lads, and let thy name be named on them. And the name of thy fathers Abraham and Isaac, and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth. And when Jason, Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon Ephraim, it displeased him. And he held up his father's hand to remove it from Ephraim's head and to Manasseh's head. And Joseph said to his father, not so, my father, for this is the firstborn. Put thy right hand upon his head. And his father refused and said, I know it, my son. I know it. He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great. But truly his younger brother shall be greater than he. And this seed shall become a multitude of nations. And he blessed them that day, saying in the shall Israel bless, Saying God as the. As Ephraim and as Manasseh. And he set Ephraim before Manasseh. And Israel said unto Joseph, behold, I die, but God shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. Moreover, I have gotten. I have given to thee one portion above my brethren, brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow.
[00:14:52] What I found interesting was, if you remember, when they were tussling with Jacob and. And Esau were tussling inside Rebecca, and she didn't know exactly what was wrong. And then she realized, okay, you know, she was told you have twins, and the older will serve the younger. And of course, Esau comes out, and hanging on his heel is Jacob right there. And you know, it's going to be two great nations coming out. But certainly Jacob, it was the blessed one and tricked his brother out of the firstborn, the. The blessing. So Jacob now is kind of doing the same thing, same thing here with Ephraim and with Manasseh. So it's kind of.
[00:15:49] You're seeing this. This repetitive kind of thing going on here. And let's take a look at what's going to happen now.
[00:15:58] Chapter 49, Genesis 49, page 63. And Jacob called into his sons, and they gathered yourselves together that I may tell you that which shall befall you in the last days. Gather yourselves together and hear ye sons of Jacob. And hearken unto Israel. Your father.
[00:16:18] Israel now is going through the entire family of Joseph's brothers and everything else. So he is going to be a predictor of what is going to happen to them.
[00:16:37] Reuben, thou are my firstborn, my might and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power.
[00:16:48] Unstable is water. Thou shall not excel because thou wentest up to thy father's bed, then defiled thou it. He went up to my couch.
[00:17:02] Well, he had a relationship.
[00:17:05] I think it was Billa the concubine. So that caused some problems. And you can see Jacob knew. He knows about this.
[00:17:20] So let's move on to Simeon. Simeon and Levi are brethren. Instruments of cruelty are in their habitations. O my soul, come not thou into their secret. Unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thou united. For in their anger they slew a man and their self, and and their self will they digged deep down a wall. Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce, and the wrath for it was cruel. I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
[00:18:00] Their sister, if you remember, was raped. And of course, the man who did this wanted to marry the sister, but he did. He raped her. And of course they had told them, listen, if you men all get circumcised, if you do what's right, we will give our sister you to marry. And you, you must do this. So the guys did that. And then, of course, they put them to the sword and wiped them all out. So. And that was because of what happened to their sister.
[00:18:37] Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise. Thy hand shall be in the neck of thy enemies. Thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp from the prey. He he crouched as a lion and as an old lion who shall rouse him up the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come. And until him shall the gathering of the people be building his foal unto the vine, and his ass cold unto choice vine. He washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes. His eyes shall be red with wine and his teeth white with milk.
[00:19:30] So, so far he's not doing too bad. But here we go. Zebulon shall dwell at the haven of the sea, and he shall be for a haven for ships. And his border shall be unto Zidon.
[00:19:47] Issachar is a strong ass, couching down between two burdens. And he saw that the rest was good, and of the land that it was pleasant, and bowed his shoulder to bear, and it became a servant unto the tribute. Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path that biteth the horse heels so that the rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O Lord.
[00:20:26] Gad is a troop shall overcome him. But he shall overcome him or he shall overcome at the last. Out of Asser Asher shall the bread be fat, and shall he yield royal dainties.
[00:20:44] Naftali is a hind let loose. He giveth goodly words. Joseph is a fruitful burrow. Our brow, even a fruitful brow by the well whose branches run over the wall. The arches have sorely grieved him and shot at him and hated him. But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hand were made strong by the hands of. Of the mighty God of Jacob. From thence is the shepherd. The stone of Israel.
[00:21:20] The stone of Israel. You know it. It's funny. We're going back and forth. So we went kind of back and forth. Dan shall be like the serpent, by the way.
[00:21:32] And of course, when Adam and the woman were kicked out, God said, hey, I'm going to put enmity between you and the woman. And you know, the serpent down there will be biting at the heels and everything. And here we are with Dan, and we're seeing that. And then we're seeing the stone. The stone of Israel. Well, it's kind of foretelling, or if you are watching, it's kind of paying attention. The cornerstone. You know, Jacob's dream.
[00:22:04] He's used the rocks down there at the ladder as he saw the angels ascending and descending. And the stone like the cornerstone again right there. And narrow is the path, narrow is the gate to everlasting life. All these different.
[00:22:25] We're seeing these like things, and you can see the twelve tribes of Israel being laid out. It's. It. It's just such a wonderful, wonderful thing going on. But all this is going on in the. In. In the background.
[00:22:43] All right, so here we go.
[00:22:47] Even by the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the beasts and of the womb. The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitor.
[00:23:10] I'm so. I can't see the word. Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills. They shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separated, that was separate from his brother. Benjamin shall raven as a wolf. In the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
[00:23:34] All These are the 12 tribes of Israel, and this is it that their father spoke unto them and blessed them. Everyone, according to his blessing, he blessed them and he charged them and said unto them, I am to be gathered unto my people. Bury me with my fathers in a cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Makpala, which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite, for a possession of a burying place. And they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife. And there they buried Isaac and Rebecca his wife.
[00:24:22] And there I buried Leah. The purchase of the field in the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.
[00:24:34] And when joke had made an end to his commanding his sons, he get. He gathered up his feet into the bed and yielded up the ghost and was gathered unto his people.
[00:24:48] So now we're on chapter 50. And what an incredible story with Jacob, who is. Who is Israel. He was, you know, you will no longer be called Jacob, you will be called Israel. But it. But it's absolutely wonderful. We're going to get into what is going on now.
[00:25:09] Joseph obviously leading the brothers. He's taking care of the family. So let's get on to that. Chapter 50. And Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept upon him and kissed him. And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father. And the fishes physicians embalmed Israel. And 40 days were fulfilled for him, for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed. And the Egyptians mourned for for him three score and 10 days. And when the days of his mourning were passed, Joseph spoke unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, if now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, my father made me swear, saying, lo, I. Lo. I die in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan. There, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again. And Pharaoh said, go up and bury thy father according as he made thee swear. So Pharaoh is honoring Joseph in so many ways.
[00:26:26] He knows what Joseph has brought to the table. And Joseph has been prosperous in every single thing that he has done. And he's made Pharaoh prosperous. And Pharaoh is really. I mean, the Egyptians were mourning for Israel. They were mourning and loving and being caring. And you know Pharaoh's telling. No, you. You made an oath to him. You swore to him. Go, you need to take care of it. In all the house of Joseph and his brother, in his father's house, only the little ones and their flocks and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen and there went up with him both chariots and horsemen. And it was a very great company. And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan. And there they mourn with a great and very sore lamentation. And he made a mourning for his father seven days. And when the inhabitants of the land of the Canaanites saw the morning in the floor of a tab, they said, this is a grievous morning to the Egyptians, wherefore the name of it was called a Bezel Mizalor, which is beyond Jordan. And the sons did unto him according as he commanded them. For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan and buried him in a cave in the field of Makpala, which Abraham bought with the with field for a possession of a burying place of Ephron the Hittite. Before Mamre and Joseph returned into Egypt, he and his brethren and all that went up with him to bury his father after he had buried his father. And here we go. Joseph dies in. In. In Israel. Now chapter 50, verse 15.
[00:28:17] And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead, they said Joseph would pre adventure hate us, and will certainly requite all the evil which we did unto him. And they sent a messenger unto Joseph, saying, thy father did command before he he died, saying, so shall ye see unto Joseph. Forgive, I pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for they did unto thee evil. And now we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept and he spoke, and they spoke unto him. And his brethren also went out and fell down before his face. And they said, Behold, we be thy servants. And Joseph said to them, Fear not, for I am in the place of God, but as for you, he thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good to bring it to pass as it is this day, to save much people alive. Now therefore fear not.
[00:29:31] I will nourish you and your little ones. And he comforted them, and he spoke kindly unto them. And Joseph dwelt in it is in Egypt, he and his father's house. And Joseph lived 110 years. And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the of the third generation, the children also of Masher, the son of Manasseh were brought upon Joseph's knees. And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die and God will surely visit you and bring you out of this land unto the land which he swore unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying God will surely visit you. And ye shall carry up my bones from hence. So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old, and they embalmed him and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
[00:30:38] Absolutely. Just fantastic.
[00:30:44] All right, so let's. We're going to get on here. And this is where we are heading into Exodus that concluded Genesis, which was just a fantastic, wonderful, wonderful part of the, the Bible. Many parts of, of the Bible and 66 books. And this one was just absolutely fantastic.
[00:31:10] I think that we're going to pick up in Exodus in this next segment on Sunday. I'm sorry, guys. I still been a little under the weather and I had some things going on and today I wanted to kind of make up for that and kind of close out what was going on with Genesis.
[00:31:29] And we saw everything, conflict, reconciliation, all the way back from the very beginning when we started this, all the different myths and everything that we heard or that you hear today's world, you know, Eve took a bite of the apple. Well, that's not true. We know that's a lie. Okay? The woman, she took a bite of fruit, never says apple. And she was the woman, okay? And she was the woman. God looked at the woman, said, what have you done?
[00:32:04] And of course, after he finished with her, he went right down to the serpent and he said, because you have done this, and he punished him. And we had some interesting questions that came along the way, like, how is it a punishment for the serpent to crawl on its belly when that's what it does, or how does the serpent even speak?
[00:32:30] So we're seeing this kind of poetic story going through, and it's a factual story. But how many times have people been on the street and said, I know that guy, he's, he's a snake or he's a serpent.
[00:32:52] What is the euphemism of that? What do. What is really going on? And a lot of these things are written right in there. So we know whatever it is is crafty. We know that it is vile. And, you know, we've seen everything that comes out. And we, we know that Adam wasn't born in the garden. He was. He was created and then put in the garden. So all these different things that people say when they say that they, you know, they've been through this and been through the Bible.
[00:33:30] We're learning about facts and, and what is going on. And, and I tell everyone to look at it as, okay, look at it as like the Titanic. And here's the fact it sank the ship was the Titanic, okay? It's a fact. Everybody knows it. That's it's proven. We know where it's at.
[00:33:58] The rest of it is going to be things that we have to put together or a murder scene. We know this man was shot. It's a man.
[00:34:08] We looked at the cartridge. It's a.22. All these things are happening in the Bible though, too. You can. And I relate this like this.
[00:34:16] The facts of what happened in the Bible, they were approached by a serpent, okay? Is that a crafty man, a euphemism for something else? It was still a fact that it was crafty. And he tricked the. The woman, okay? And she gave to Adam, and Adam's the one who called her Eve just before they were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. They were already going. But those are like the facts. And then the other events that go on around it, people have their own personal points of view on it, and that's the same with anything in this world. But pay attention to the facts. And these are the facts, and they're undisputed. The Bible is, is a living word of God, a great book, the best love story you will ever read. But you have to pay attention to the facts.
[00:35:16] These are the facts. We, we've learned a lot of this coming out of Genesis. And we saw these things go on. We saw, you know, all these different events, all these different things in the background and how wonderful it was. And every single time God had mercy, God showed love. I mean, it was just, you know, God slowed anger and has put up with us for so long. And people are like, well, why did he even put up with us? Well, he created us in his image. And one of the things is that He. He truly loves us. He doesn't want to lose one of us. Christ tells us that he doesn't want us to lose anybody. He wants to save everybody. But we have a choice, a choice that we make.
[00:36:09] So.
[00:36:11] And you're going to see this all the way through the Bible. Exodus is an excellent, excellent book.
[00:36:20] It's going to be really fun.
[00:36:22] We saw just about everything and anything in Genesis, Enoch.
[00:36:30] We saw. I mean, just every single thing. It really, really cool. And it was just wonderful to read through and go through it all. I mean, absolutely wonderful. So I thank you for joining me on the very first part of the Bible. And we're going to continue on because we have a whole Bible to read within a year.
[00:36:52] So next time right here on Life Walk, we're. And. And I'm only bringing up those things where I was trying to make comparisons of facts and stuff like that. But try to remember that these things in the Bible happened. And there's a lot of, oh, how do I say? The way, the way that they put things, how they saw things could be interpreted so many different ways, but it doesn't change the fact of the events that happened. And, and that's, that's the biggest purpose. So let's just, we're going to continue on and read that next week.
[00:37:33] Chapter one, Israel's rapid multi multiplication, Exodus 1. It'll be page 69.
[00:37:45] Let's see, 12. Let's see, today is 1217.
[00:37:55] Wonderful being with you. I thank you all. Enjoy yourself on this wonderful Tuesday night. We'll back at it on Sunday at our normal time. Like I said, I've just been kind of fighting with sicknesses and different things going on, but very cool. I love reading the Bible with you and keep in mind, and I tell this every time, not a deacon, pastor, priest, preacher, rabbi, bishop, anything. I'm nobody. I'm just a guy that loves to read the Bible and, you know, love spending time with it every day. And it helps me immensely. And how you might see things is you might say, okay, he's wrong, and see things totally different. If you're going to do that, come on the show sometime and we'll talk about it. You know, that would be wonderful. I always like to get a different perspective. I always like to, you know, hear somebody tell me something different. So always open to interpretation. But I'll tell you what, it's the greatest book, especially when you're talking. So listen, thank you. Thank you all very much for joining in. And we'll talk to you next time at Life Block.
