So after being sold to the Ishmaelites, Joseph is now Egypt-bound. I wonder what was going through his mind right about now. Did he wonder about his dreams? Was he beginning to think that maybe God had abandoned him? Maybe he was thinking, “I got so excited because I had a vision about something great […]

“Now his brothers had gone to graze their father’s flocks near Shechem, and Israel said to Joseph, “As you know, your brothers are grazing the flocks near Shechem. Come, I am going to send you to them.” “Very well,” he replied. So he said to him, “Go and see if all is well with your […]

“Joseph had a dream which he told his brothers, and that made them hate him all the more.”-Genesis 37:5 God has just communicated to Joseph via a powerful dream.   After waking up, Joseph just can’t contain his excitement.  He goes out to find his brothers and relates to them the vision of how there […]

“When Joseph was seventeen years old he used to pasture the flock with his brothers, even though he was still a boy. Once when he was with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, he brought a bad report about them to their father.”-Genesis 37:2 Joseph was hated by his […]

Up to this point in the Torah, we have encountered several immutable God principles. The first principle we uncovered is the Principle of Separation. This concept means that God is constantly in the process of dividing, separating, and electing a people unto Himself for His purposes. We saw this governing dynamic at work in the […]