When the LORD God finished speaking to Moses after 40 days and 40 nights on Mount Sinai – God gave Moses back two tablets of stone, with the ten commandments written by the finger of God. He told Moses the specific man who would be given the skill and ability to make beautiful furniture and […]
Many times we wonder, is God in this situation? It seems we are between a rock and a hard place or an impossible place. Moses and those two million slaves leaving Egypt had to have felt that way. What are you doing, God? God led them in a difficult way. In fact He led them […]
There is a difference between escaping and being delivered. Yet that is exactly what happened to the sons of Israel, slaves in Egypt. They escaped by leaving when God said, Go! They were delivered by God’s hand through 10 plagues and then the pursuit of the Egyptians through the wilderness to the Red Sea. Exodus […]
Joseph must have been surprised by his sick and dying father, Jacob. Jacob asked for Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph’s two sons born in Egypt. Jacob said that the LORD appeared to him and blessed him, he also told them that the LORD promised he would be fruitful and fill the land given to him and […]
Joseph was in charge of Jacob, his father’s embalming. This required 40 days. There were 70 days of mourning by the Egyptians. Joseph used Egyptian court protocol, to leave Egypt and go to Canaan to bury his father. Joseph promised the Pharaoh he would return. Joseph was permitted to leave. Genesis 50:1-6 A large […]
Jacob was dying. He summoned his 12 sons to bless them. Reuben – first born – he had uncontrolled passions, he had bedded his father’s concubine, not good! Simeon & Levi – they were violent men, self-willed and would be scattered throughout Israel. [Levi was the priestly tribe, and they were scattered throughout the nation […]
Jacob was dying… Joseph, his son who was the prime minister in Egypt, took his two sons to his father. Jacob had a special message he wanted his son and grandsons to know, and he sat up in bed. Jacob told them about how the Almighty appeared to him and blessed him. He also told […]
Many times, our circumstances seem to be not so good. People talking about us, in a derogatory and mean way. Even when we can’t see God at work, He is. In us! And in the ones bad mouthing us. We tend to look at our circumstances and go with our feelings, don’t we? Neither are […]
Even when it seems circumstances are beyond the bounds of comfort. When circumstances are out of control. We are experiencing that in the world today! Famine was in Egypt and all the surrounding countries. It was severe and would last seven years. That’s a loooong time! Joseph was in charge of the stored grain in […]
Jacob-Israel heard the wonderful news that his beloved son, Joseph, was alive and prime minister in Egypt. He offered sacrifices to God when he arrived in Beersheba. God spoke to Jacob during the night. “I am the God of your father; do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you […]