Seeking for the help of the Lord,
I spread your prayer for attention to Genesis chapter 45, and by way of a text, speak to
you from verse one. Then Joseph could not refrain
himself before all them that stood by him. And he cried, cause
every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him,
while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren. Genesis 45, verse one. And I want to speak to you the
Lord's help of the revelations of Genesis 45. What a day that this was. What great changes happened on
this particular day. We finished reading or we read
in chapter 44 And really it could not have
been a darker hour for Joseph's brothers to have the prospect
of Benjamin, after all that had happened in Jacob letting him
go, having Benjamin to stay in Egypt. And even though Judah
had made that supplication, There was no indication that Joseph
was gonna allow it, and it was at that point, instead of being
told, no, Judah, you can't stay, Benjamin must stay, instead of
it being told either way that way, we have the words of our
text where Joseph made himself known to them. And then all of
those revelations which we hope to look at in that chapter. But we are reminded how many
times in scripture things have changed so very quickly. We are told the thing was done
suddenly. And often that is the case. We are warned that the last day
should be like that. It should be like the days of
Noah, when men were marrying and giving in marriage, buying
and selling, no indication that anything was out of the ordinary,
why they should not continue on in their lives, until the
flood came and took them all away. And the last days shall
be like that. We should always remember that.
Life shall be just as what we have always expected until that
very last hour. That day and that hour knoweth
no man, not the angels in heaven, and in one place is there not
even the sun. A mystery to us. I may have said this before,
but I often felt in the tsunamis 20 years ago, 2004, was an illustration
of how the end would come. There were many there that were
in Thailand, and they were literally buying and selling. They were
driving along the Forfun, the same as any day. And then they
started to see signs, strange signs. The sea suddenly going
right out to sea. Things happening that were unusual,
they hadn't seen before. And then before there was ever
time to get to higher ground or to save themselves, the waves
came in and destroyed them all. We are told in the last day,
there shall be signs, signs in heaven, great fearful signs,
sights in heaven. And the seas roaring, which of
course the seas governed by the moon, the moon's only got to
move and the seas were raw, they were moved, and men's hearts
failing them for fear. Not to think that this goes on
for days and weeks. With the tsunami, it was enough
to realize it, to see it, to know these things coming, but
it's too late to save themselves. Coming so suddenly, and our Lord
speaks in another place, And we could interpret it when the
destruction came on Jerusalem in 70 AD because in that chapter,
Matthew 25, we find part could be interpreted the sign of the
end of the world and part the destruction of Jerusalem. But
he says there that they that are on the housetop, let him
not come down to take things in the house or let him in the
field, let him not return from the field that quick shall the
end be. The signs will be there, but
it won't be I'm going to go and warn my wife or I'm going to
go into the house and see her, it's too late, it's too quick.
And so when we have a day like this, we think of those other
days that are to come, those days that did come, the resurrection,
How that day began, the disciples perplexed, sorrowful, sad. Why weepest thou? Whom seekest
thou? Our Lord said to Mary at the
grave. They have taken away my Lord. I know not where they have laid
him. But how quickly it changed, that suddenly her Lord was there.
It's like here with Joseph. Suddenly he is there. And by
the end of that day, that first day of the week, then were the
disciples glad when they saw the Lord. And these things happened
in a day that began like this, with darkness, trouble, and sorrow,
and ended up in joy and gladness for them. Many times you think
of the solemn case of Sodom and Gomorrah, how again, That was
destroyed so suddenly, so quickly. For those who are God's people,
it's a blessing when the Lord comes. For those who are not,
it's a terror. The psalmist in Psalm 73 speaks
of how perplexed he was that God's people were in trouble
and trial, but the wicked, they were lived in prosperity and
ease, and even no bans in their death. They weren't even troubled
there. But they were so blinded, they
were so ignorant, when he came into the house of God, then understood
he their end. And he said how suddenly they
are consumed with terrors. Death like a narrow sea divides
that heavenly land from ours, but death like a narrow sea divides
that terrible lost eternity. Banishment from God and in the
torments of hell forever and ever, and we do not see that
here, but in a moment we could be in the midst of it. And so
with here, just what one day can bring forth, what happens,
what is revealed, what is interpreted, what is found out in one day,
that remember for 22 years, had been hidden from them from the
time that Joseph had been sold. 22 years had taken place and
Jacob did not know he was alive. They did not even seem to believe
that he could have been alive and they had no idea that he
stood before them or that he understood them because he was
speaking through an interpreter, the only one Perhaps indication
they would have got. They would have got indications. Why were they put in age order?
How did he know their ages? Why was it when they ate that
their brothers ate over there, the Egyptians ate over there,
and Joseph on his own? Well, they might have thought,
well, he's such a high, mighty man, he didn't even eat with
the other Egyptians. The reason was he didn't fit
into either camp, really, because as he was dressed and acting
like an Egyptian, Well, he couldn't sit with the Hebrews. Not an
Egyptian wasn't allowed to do that. But he couldn't sit with
the Egyptians because they knew he was a Hebrew. But his brothers
didn't. So there were those things they
could have looked back and realised. But they didn't know and it was
hid from them. And this day was going to be
such a pivotal day, such a difference. The secret was to be unfolded. So, I want to look, with the
Lord's help, at three points. Firstly, I want to look at Joseph
as a type of Christ, and those things where we can see a very
clear parallel between him and our Lord Jesus Christ. And then
secondly, the revelations of that day, looking through this
chapter, those things that were revealed to the brothers, not
only to them, but also to the Egyptians. And then lastly, the
revelation to Jacob at the end of the chapter when they come
back to him. But firstly, Joseph is a type
of Christ. There are some that take the
view that unless the New Testament clearly states that a person
is a type of Christ, then it's not valid to say that He was. But I disagree with that, and
I think we can very clearly see that He was. There's nothing
in the inspired, infallible Word of God that is by chance, and
the Lord has been pleased to raise up many that, not in all
of their lives, but in aspects of it were a type of Christ. Moses, he says, a prophet, shall
the Lord thy God raise up unto thee of your brethren like unto
me. So Moses was a type of Christ
in that, as a leader of his people, as one that made intercession
for his people when they had sinned, and was a mean to bring
them to the promised land. Of course, he wasn't able to
go in. Joshua brought them in. Our Lord speaks of a sign, the
sign of Jonah's the prophet. But you certainly can't think
in all of the running away of Jonah and all of his anger, there's
any type of prize there. But it was in the time that Jonah
was in the whale's belly. 3 days and 3 nights as our Lord
says in Matthew. And of course we have others,
we have like Mordecai who was next unto the King and speaking
peace unto all who see. Many ones like that. But here
we have Joseph. So what are the tithes? Well
one is that he was a near kinsman. One of the great things that's
hinged upon the whole of everything that was done here is that he
was related to those brothers. He was a blood relation, and
he knew them. He was in a position to redeem. He's like Boaz, who had a right
to redeem. And Joseph was that, our Lord. was made of the seed of Abraham,
who has made light unto his brethren. It was vital that that be so. He is the second Adam. And what
a thing that is for anyone who claims to be a Christian and
yet dismisses the Genesis account as but a myth and not actually
real. Well, if that's the case, what
does Paul mean? when he says there is the first
Adam and the second Adam. It unravels the whole world of
God. But our Lord Jesus Christ was
the seed of the woman that should bruise the serpent's head. And
we have, of course, in Matthew, and more especially in Luke,
where we have, going back from our Lord, lying right through
to Adam and to God. He was the son of God. And so he is of a near kinsman,
a right to redeem. And so was Joseph. The next thing is that he was
sent before them. He says in verse seven, God sent
me before you to preserve your posterity in the earth. Our Lord
Jesus Christ was sent before his people. And you might say,
well, what about the Old Testament saints? They went before Christ. No, our Lord was the Lamb slain
from the foundation of the world. In the purposes of God, he was
slain. We might promise to do something
in several years time and something comes along, we can't do it,
we can't perform it. But when our Lord promises, it
is as good as done. It will be performed. There can
be nothing that stops the Lord from fulfilling his promise. Hath he said and shall he not
do it? And so Joseph was sent before
using these means, very strange means, of the cruelty of the
brothers to sell him and being the means of bringing him into
Egypt. They thought we shall see what
shall become of his dreams, but in actual fact they were being
the very means of bringing those dreams to fruition. and what
Joseph must have felt when he saw them bowing down to the earth,
and what they must have realized when he made himself known to
them. But our Lord was sent before. And so, in the gospel, we have
the preaching of the Lord Jesus Christ as the first begotten
from the dead. as our forerunner, as one that
has entered into heaven and into the presence of God for us. And it is a comfort, a blessed
thing for the people of God to realize why he has gone before. Joseph was very clear to tell
them as to why he had gone before, and of course that again and
another type of our Lord. He'd gone before to preserve
their lives. That is why the Lord Jesus Christ
came into the world, that His people might have life, that
He would save His people from their sins, that He would deliver
them. Did Joseph's brothers realize
that this was all happening for them? No, they had no need, and
all of God's people as well. When they're born into this world,
dead in trespasses and sins, have no idea of their need of
a Saviour, no idea of their sin, no idea that the Lord has gone
before them at all. And yet, He has. Another likeness is where Joseph
was sold, our Lord was sold. Joseph was dealt with by his
brothers, By his own kin, his own people, Pilate said to our
Lord, Thine own nation hath delivered thee unto me. Betrayed by his
own people, by his own, one of his own apostles, disciples,
and dealt with by his own people in that way. And so Joseph was
in that a time of our Lord Jesus Christ. Another way is that He was unknown
until He was revealed. The Lord Jesus Christ came unto
His own, His own received Him not. And it was only those to
whom God chose to reveal Himself to that knew Him, many they saw
the wonderful things he did, they heard his words, they wondered
at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth, but they said,
is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, the carpenter's son?
They were offended at him, and he was unknown. They said to the man that had
been born blind, Moses we know, but this man, we know not from
whence he is. And that dear man, he said, why,
hearing is a wonderful thing. You know not from whence he is,
and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Was it ever heard from the beginning
of the world that one opened the eyes of one born blind? If
this man were not of God, he could do nothing. And they ridiculed
him, they cast him out. And so the similarity there,
unknown until revealed. Another way is a time how that
he was brought next to the king. Joseph, his glory that he had
in Egypt, he was next unto the king. This is the same with Mordecai,
brought into a position of authority with the authority of Pharaoh,
with the authority of the king Ahasuerus and Speaking that peace
to all his seed, Mordecai was and Joseph providing for them
in the best of the land. And so it is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is one with the Father. He
is our advocate with the Father. He appears in the presence of
God for us. It is a friend at court. Our
Lord is there just the same as what Joseph was. And it's good
for us to realised that. But not only his position next
to the king, he is a type in the authority that the king had
given him. Pharaoh gave Joseph such authority,
said, only in the kingdom am I greater than thou. And he could
do as he wished. He organised all of the farming,
if you like, all of the storing, and everything that happened.
was all done by Joseph. He had that authority. Remember
what the Jews said to our Lord? Who gave thee this authority?
By what authority doest thou these things? So the Lord asked
them a question. He said, the baptism of John,
he said, was it of God or was it of men? If you can tell me
that, I'll tell you by what authority I do these things. They couldn't. They had a predicament. They
said, if we say that it was of God, then He'll say to us, well,
why did not you believe Him? And if we say of men, then the
people will stone us because they think He's a prophet. So
they said, we cannot tell. The Lord said, neither do I tell
you by what authority I do these things. But Joseph had that clear
authority, and we read of it in the Word of God. And we read
of our Lord, this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. And our Lord testified that that
which he spake, he spake of his father. But then we have the likeness
of Joseph, as far as his father was concerned, as far as his
brothers, he was dead. But then suddenly he was alive.
and the Lord Jesus Christ died, crucified, and then risen again
and appeared. And that we have a beautiful
time, a picture of how our Lord should die and rise again. Similar to what we've already
said, we think of the treatment that he had, how cruelly he was
treated. When the brothers were convinced
of what they'd done, they said that they hadn't listened to
his cries. We saw the anguish of his soul,
they said. We think of how he was treated
in prison, whose feet they hurt with fetters in Psalm 105. It testifies of until his time
came, the word of the Lord tried him. And so in that way, in the
way that our Lord was treated, we read in Hebrews, to consider
him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
ye be wearied and faint in your minds. But another example is
this. Joseph, he drew his brethren
to him, He was the one that ordered exactly what had happened, putting
the money back into their sacks, keeping Simeon there, directing
that they don't come again unless Benjamin is there, not just relying
on the fact that Simeon was kept there. I've often wondered of
that, because with Simeon Levi, when Jacob makes prophecy, He
said, instruments of cruelty. It was them that dealt with those
at Shechem and destroyed them all. I'm sure it would have been
Simeon who'd be a ringleader in what happened to Joseph and
no doubt the one that would have had him killed. And so that's
why Joseph chose to lock him up and keep him in that way. And so he draws him and makes
his brothers keep coming back. He knew that there was five more
years of famine. Well, that was from this time.
And he knew they couldn't just keep away. They would need to
come back. And he made sure they did. And so our Lord, he said, no
man cometh unto the Father but by me. And then he says, no man
cometh unto me except the Father, which sent me to all heaven.
And of course, our Lord and the Father as one, but in Joseph,
in this, we have a time of our Lord, how his brethren are drawn
to him. And then really, above all, it's
how he forgave his brothers. You think of our Lord on the
cross. Father, forgive them. They know
not what they do. His brothers could hardly believe
that he would forgive them. They couldn't forgive themselves.
When Jacob died, they thought now that their father was dead,
then their brother would deal really hardly with them. And
when they came seeking mercy, he cried. He was so taken that
they were really so fearful that he would deal badly with them.
No, we know our sins. know the evil of our heart, we
will wonder, how can the Lord forgive me? How can He put away
my sin? How can He blot out those sins? How can He put them back? How
can He not forget? How can He forget? As far as
the East is from the West, so far has He removed our transgressions
from us. How can He do that? And you can
see that with the brothers. They're struggling to grasp the
greatness of the forgiveness and kindness, the genuine kindness
of their brother. And what a picture we have of
the Lord, in that all manner of sin shall be forgiven against
the Son of Man, all manner. And so we have many things that
point us to the Saviour, shows us some aspects of the Lord Jesus
Christ when we look at Joseph. But I want to look at our second
point, the revelation of that day. The backdrop, of course, is the
22 years and the time before, possibly two years, or two years
at the maximum, you don't know how long before they did come
down into Egypt, that there'd been this bringing of their sin
to remembrance and his dealings with them. The happenings of this day, they
are shown against the dark backdrop of what had come before. And
Joseph had to make sure that his brothers really were sorry
for what they'd done, really were convinced of their sin,
and he tried them in that. How would they deal with Benjamin?
How would they react to him? Would they still be the same
jealous nature? Would they still be the same
way that they had treated Joseph? And so he tried, he tested them. And like we said at the beginning,
what a dark hour that was when they had the prospect of Benjamin
being locked up and then sent back to their father. And as
Judah says, how can I bear, how can we bear to see the sorrow
and death of our father? And so it is at that point that
then the first revelation that Joseph then reveals himself. Those words are so amazing really. I am Joseph. Joseph said unto
his brethren, I am Joseph. Just a few words, but just think
he was speaking to them now in Hebrew. He was not speaking to
them through an interpreter. He was not speaking in Egyptian
and an interpreter was speaking to them, because He says to them
that they can see now that it is My mouth that speaketh unto
them. That must have been such a token,
such a a reason for them to really see, because he must have changed.
You think he was 17. I somehow look back at photographs
when I was 17, and then when I was 39. I think that's what
Joseph would have been. He was 30 when he stood before
Pharaoh, and seven years of planting, and two years of famine. So he would have been 39. And
I think I looked a lot different when I was 39 than I did when
I was 17. Now Joseph's brothers, he obviously
recognised them, they were older, we don't change as much when
we're a bit older perhaps. And of course he would have been
dressed like the Egyptians as well. And just to suddenly then
have him state who he is and in their own tongue what a revelation
that that was. I am Joseph, and we think of
that first day of the week, what the Lord did in showing himself
to Mary, the other disciples, and the two on the way to Emmaus,
how he was made known unto them in breaking of bread. And this is Mary. All of God's
people, they do not know the Lord by nature. They do not. They're like Samuel. Samuel did
not yet know the Lord. He didn't know his voice. He
thought the voice was Eli's. It wasn't. And then he came to
know the voice of the Lord. My sheep says the Lord, they
know my voice, they follow me. You find the Ethiopian eunuch.
He's reading Isaiah 53, but he doesn't see the Lord there. He
does through the ministry. the ministry of Philip, declaring
unto him the Lord. And we should expect this when
the Lord reveals himself to us, that it will be just as sudden,
and it will be through the word, like here is my mouth that speaketh,
and the Lord showing himself and revealing himself to us as
who he is for the first time. When our Lord rose from the dead,
he only appeared to those of his people. He did not appear
to others at all. And here then, this is this wonderful
revelation of this day. I am Joseph. The second thing is that how they were sent, how
he came there. In verse eight, he says, so now
it was not you that sent me hither, but God. What a revelation that
was. In their minds, they knew what
they had done, they had done. Peter, the day of Pentecost,
He says, Hen, that was delivered by the determinate counsel and
foreknowledge of God, ye have taken and by wicked hands crucified
and slain. You have done it, they were pricked
in their hearts, but Peter is saying, this was by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God. Our Lord was sent for this
cause, for this purpose. Ye have not hindered, but ye
have been the means of bringing this about. It didn't take away
their sin, but it exalted God in bringing good out of evil. And God does that all the time.
You think of Balaam coming to curse, and the curse has turned
to a blessing. You think of the fall of man.
and what the Lord has wrought from them, no fallen man, there
be no Christ, there may be no blood-bought family in heaven
at all. And so this realization, this
is what Joseph said, not you but God. God was in it, God's
hand was in it. And many times we might do things
or things we've done that we might regret, or we might try
to turn the time back. Sometimes I've had it where I've
made an engagement and it's clashed with something, and I've thought,
oh, I've got to change this, got to turn it back. Well, sometimes
you do need to, but one particular time, I would not change it,
and afterwards could clearly see the Lord had kept me from
being in the place Well, I probably would have said and done things
I shouldn't have done. And the fact of having that engagement,
that I could see looking back, the Lord had ordered him to keep
me where he'd have me to be, keep me away from where he would
not have me to be. And it's a good thing when you
can see this by experience, that our mistakes are not God's mistakes. And quite often after remind
some of my loved ones on that when they are chastening themselves
for making a mistake or forgetting this or doing this or that. I
say we do make mistakes but God does not and he'll overrule it
for good. Not to be like Joseph's brothers
here were so hard upon themselves but here Joseph clearly says
to them it was not you but God. What a revelation. The third
revelation it is, was that God hath made me Lord of Egypt. Verse nine, haste ye and go up
to my father and say to him, thus saith my son Joseph, God
hath made me Lord of all Egypt, come down unto me, tarry not. The revelation of the authority
and the position that Joseph was in. They would have realized
then about the dreams. They would have realized what
had been fulfilled. They would realize also that
their brother, their near kinsman, was in this position of real
authority. He had not made himself that. God had made him that. God hath made me Lord of all
Egypt. The crown is put on God's head. not upon man, and also the authority
there is traced up to God. And this was revealed here. These
things have been revealed one after another, not just in a
day, but in minutes, if you like, one after another, opened up
to them. And then in the fourth place,
verse 10, a new land and a new home. You think of this, you
try and think before this chapter, and then suddenly these things
come up. Come down unto me, tarry not. Thou shalt dwell in the land
of Goshen. Thou shalt be near unto me. Thou
and thy children, thy children's children, thy flocks and herds,
and all that thou hast. How amazing if we were to have
a day like that, and suddenly be told, look, you're not going
to live in England anymore, you're going to go over to Australia,
and that's going to be your home, and not just you, but all of
your family are going to go. What a change. What a change. That was revealed to them. And
then there was a thing that was revealed to the Egyptians. as well. Because then it is,
the fame of them was heard, they heard it in the Egyptians house,
the Egyptians, and they say this, that Joseph's brethren are come. And you know, if you look at
that in a spiritual way, when those round about the people
of God, especially the church of God, when they are brought
to realize and know this is the brethren of our Lord, this is
the Lord's people, they are coming. Those are times of joy and gladness. When the church of God sees the
offspring come, that's why Barnabas, when he saw the grace of God
at Antioch, he was glad. They were the Lord's brethren.
He saw the evidence of it. And even, you might say, the
world, in Psalm 126, the Lord hath done great things for us,
we are glad. But even the heathen, they said,
the Lord hath done great things for them. You know, this must
have been an amazing thing to the Egyptians, to those that
were looking on, to those that knew of these things that were
being revealed the faith that of was heard in pharaoh's house
verse 16 saying joseph's brethren are come and he pleased pharaoh
well and his servants what a blessed thing when the lord's people
come and the lord is revealed to them when they are brought
to the lord may we know something of these Days of revelation,
these days that change from sorrow to gladness. You think of Abraham
going up Mount Moriah, that third day, and his son, as good as
dead, laid upon the altar his hand with the knife to slay him,
and then stopped. The substitute found, and the
blessing Because thou hast not withheld thy Son, thine only
Son, from me, in blessing I will bless thee, and in thee, and
in thy seed, shall all nations of the earth be blessed. How
that day finished, the revelation of that provision from God, just
at the last moment. These are blessed days, these
are times that are shown us in the Word, and what an encouragement
in our darkest moment, not to despair. When we think the end
is come, we've got no hope. Benjamin is going to be taken
from us. We're going to be, everything's
bad tidings. That's all we've got. You might
come to the house of God this afternoon thinking all there
is, is bad tidings in my life. The Lord's hand is against me. Remember Jacob saying all these
things are against me. And yet it wasn't. there came
this day of revelation. We might think it was going to
take years, it was going to take months to unravel all this muddle
of my life and to set things right. It didn't take a year,
it took about an hour as it were, a day, done in a day. On to look then lastly at the
revelation to Jacob. Now of course we don't know how
long it took them, they had the wagons, it would have been some
250 miles, 300 miles that they had to go, whether some were
on foot or not, but it would have taken several weeks on the
thought to go, because they had to go to their father and then
go back, but in the time of going to their father, and then he
sees them coming, And if it was a great day for them in Egypt,
what a day it was for him. Because all of those things that
we've discussed and we sat before you from this chapter was going
to be relayed to him in a moment. And he sees these wagons, well
he hears them first, and he doesn't believe them. He cannot believe that it's right. that
this is so. Jacob's heart fainted for he
believed them not. They told him all the words of
Joseph, all his things. Have not we got that in the gospels? We are told all the words of
Jesus. We are told all the words from
those that were witnesses. The inspired word of God describes
all that was done. In one sense we are like Joseph,
like Jacob, receiving and hearing all of what was done in a time
before. This was done several weeks before,
what our Lord did was several hundred thousand, a couple of
thousand years ago. And it is told, and it has the
same authority, it hasn't lost anything in the journey. It's
still told, and not only so, but these evidences of it, We
read that that made all the difference. He sees the wagons which Joseph
had sent him. He knew his sons could not manufacture
the wagons and all of the goods and all of the things that had
been sent. They were all tokens. They were
all that which was to convince him and to show him that it was
so. Lovely how it is put, the spirit
of Jacob. Jacob's always spoken of Well,
Jacob's the deceiver. Jacob's, his human nature, as
it were, his old nature, that which is of the natural man,
receive it not, the things of God, but the new nature. He said, and Israel said, it
is enough. Joseph, my son, is yet alive. I'll go and see him before I
die. Almost you see the conflict between
first the Jacob and then the Israel rises. You think of where
he was given the name of Israel, that he wrestled with God and
with man and has prevailed. And so then he goes. And one
thing with Jacob that was again the mark of his life, when he
left home to go flee from Esau, he was 77 years of age then, And he left home the very first
night, lying stones for his pillow, the Lord appears to him. And
so in this, when we read in the next chapter, Israel took his
journey. And then God spoke unto Israel
in the visions of the night. He ventures, and then the Lord
meets with him and blesses him. Jacob, he knew that. He knew
how the Lord had dealt with him in the past. And it's a good
thing for us as the Lord's people to notice how the Lord deals
with us in a way that his dealings are recognizable. And Jacob certainly
had that. He didn't have his word, his
tokens first. He ventured and then it was sealed. And how clearly the Lord revealed
to him Fear not to go down into Egypt. I will make of thee a
great nation. I will go down with thee into
Egypt. I will also surely bring thee
up again. And Joseph shall put his hand
upon mine eyes. We know it was 215 years from
the time God first gave the promise to Abraham, to the time they
went into Egypt, Another 215 years that they were in Egypt
and they were brought up out of Egypt. Paul explains this
in Galatians, 430 years. You need to compare the two,
otherwise we think that they were 400 years in Egypt. It wasn't. It was from the promise right
through to when they were brought up out. But while in Egypt they
were built up into that great nation and then brought out.
but what revelations this was of just one day or hours and
for the brethren and then for Jacob suddenly to find his son
that he thought was dead was actually alive and was such a
blessing to them. May the Lord bless the word and
may we be able to see through this chapter our Lord and Saviour
Jesus Christ and know also something of those things revealed to us
that changed our darkness into light and joy. Amen.