ENTERING EGYPT

ENTERING EGYPT

Genesis 46:4 (NKJV) “I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again, and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.” Egypt is known as a place of bondage; a house of darkness, and a place of sin. Egypt is a place every believer should avoid....
ENTERING EGYPT

UNIQUE APPEARANCE

Genesis 46:2 (NKJV) “Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’” There’s nothing like God coming to you personally and directly and calling you by your name. One personal experience of God and with...
ENTERING EGYPT

PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT

Genesis 45:22 (NKJV) “He gave to all of them, to each man, changes of garments; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of garments.” Depending on how you do it, preferential treatment is not necessarily wrong, because affections and...
ENTERING EGYPT

ACTIONS VS. WORDS

Genesis 45:15 (NKJV) “Moreover he kissed all his brothers and wept over them, and after that his brothers talked with him.” The brothers could still not trust Joseph’s words until he kissed them and cried over them. It was only then that they could believe that he...
ENTERING EGYPT

A HIGHER PERSPECTIVE

Genesis 45:7-8 (NKJV) “And God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was not you who sent me here, but God…” Wow! Look at that perspective. Joseph had had time to reflect and...