The story of Joseph foreshadows Yeshua’s life in so many different ways. However, I wonder if it also provides clues concerning how the unbelieving majority in the modern state of Israel may eventually come to accept Yeshua. Some of today’s patterns seem to give us some hints about how things may turn out. PATTERN ONE: […]

Their father Jacob said to them, “You’ve taken my children from me. Joseph’s gone. Simeon’s gone. And you are taking Benjamin. All this can’t really be happening to me!”-Genesis 42:36 When reading about Jacob’s sons and pondering that it is through these men and their descendants that God will choose to save the world, it […]

Even though Joseph had arrived at a place spiritually where he is now capable of extending forgiveness to his brothers, he’s still not sure about his brothers. Had their hearts softened over the years? Had God prepared them as He had prepared Joseph? Some testing was needed. So Joseph pretending not to recognize his brothers […]

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 […]