Joseph meeting with his brothers for the second time after 20 long years has got to be one of the wackiest family reunions of sorts ever to happen in the history of mankind. The brothers who in cold blood had sold Joseph into slavery and thought they would never see him again are now thrust […]

 “Then ten of Joseph’s brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt. But Jacob did not send Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, with the others, because he was afraid that harm might come to him.“ -Genesis 42:3-4 There is a tremendous amount of psychological complexity baked into Genesis 42 that would take volumes to unearth.  If I was to […]

Today we begin Genesis Chapter 42. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. So just as God predicted, the famine struck. We learn from this chapter that it wasn’t just Egypt but the whole Middle East was affected. Joseph, being number two next to Pharaoh, was now one […]

Today we’re going to continue to show how Joseph foreshadows the life of Yeshua. My studies uncovered ten patterns as follows:  PATTERN ONE: Joseph was clothed in the right garments and brought to Pharaoh. In like manner, Yeshua clothes us in His righteousness when we’re brought to him. PATTERN TWO: -Joseph points to God as the only one […]

“Pharaoh called Joseph by the name Tzafnat-Pa‘neach and gave him as his wife Asenath the daughter of Poti-Fera priest of On.“-Genesis 41:45 I want to point out something obvious about Joseph’s wife Asenath I think many of us have a tendency to skip over without giving it much thought. Joseph’s wife is considered to be […]