Genesis 46:28–47:12

Genesis 46:28–47:12

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Jacob Settles in Goshen

28 Then he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out before him the way to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen. 29 So Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

30 And Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.”

31 Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. 32 And the men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.’ 33 So it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ 34 that you shall say, ‘Your servants’ occupation has been with livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.”

1 Then Joseph went and told Pharaoh, and said, “My father and my brothers, their flocks and their herds and all that they possess, have come from the land of Canaan; and indeed they are in the land of Goshen.” 2 And he took five men from among his brothers and presented them to Pharaoh. 3 Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, “What is your occupation?”

And they said to Pharaoh, “Your servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers.” 4 And they said to Pharaoh, “We have come to dwell in the land, because your servants have no pasture for their flocks, for the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen.”

5 Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, “Your father and your brothers have come to you. 6 The land of Egypt is before you. Have your father and brothers dwell in the best of the land; let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know any competent men among them, then make them chief herdsmen over my livestock.”

7 Then Joseph brought in his father Jacob and set him before Pharaoh; and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8 Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old are you?”

9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.” 10 So Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.

11 And Joseph situated his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with bread, according to the number in their families.

The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), Ge 46:28–47:12

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  Going Live takes sending out the text message. Joe, we need to make sure everything is heading out the way it's supposed to be. Perfect. moonbow Hey, hey, good morning. Good morning. Welcome to Coffee and devotions. We were in Colorado. little gift that Deborah got me whenever we go to trips. Deborah. Sorry. You're just talking about me. And Deborah often likes to buy me a mug that says where we were. So this one she got me for saying Colorado so we had a good couple of weeks out there. Thank you so much for your prayers for our family as we were gone, but I gotta tell you, I'm so glad to be back with you this morning doing coffee and devotions. Why don't we have some coffee? We'll pray and we'll jump right back into God's Word. Let's pray. Father, we rejoice that you have woken us up this morning. You've given us the blessing, the privilege of coming to your word. And we pray that your spirit would work in our hearts now that we would understand what we're reading and that you would apply it to our lives. Please help us Lord, we pray in Jesus name. Amen. All right. So we are at Genesis chapter 46. Genesis chapter 46, beginning at verse 28. And we'll go through chapters 47, verse 12. So right about half a chapter. Here we go. Then he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out before him the way to Goshen, and when they came to the land of Goshen, so Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to Goshen to meet his father, Israel. And he presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while, and Israel said to Joseph, let me die, since I've seen your face because you were still alive. Then Joseph said to his brothers and his father's household, I will go up and tell Pharaoh and sit and say to him, my brothers and those of my father's house who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me. And the men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock, and they have brought their flocks or herds and all they have. So it will be when Pharaoh calls you and says, What is your occupation that you shall say Your servants occupation has been with livestock from our youth, even till now, both we and also our fathers, that you may dwell in the land of Goshen, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians. Then Joseph went and told Pharaoh and said, My father and my brothers, their flocks, and their herds, and all they possess, have come from the land of Canaan, and indeed, they are in the land of Goshen. And he took five men from among his brothers, and presented them to Pharaoh. Then Pharaoh said to his brothers, what is your occupation? And they said to Pharaoh, your servants are shepherds, both we and also our fathers. And they said to Pharaoh, we have come to dwell on the land, because your servants have no pasture for their flocks. For the feminists severe in the land of Canaan. Now, therefore, please let your servants dwell in the land of Goshen. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, saying, your father and your brothers have come to you. The land of Egypt is before you and your father and brothers dwell in the best of the land. Let them dwell in the land of Goshen. And if you know any competent men among them, then make them chief herdsmen over my livestock. Then Joseph brought his father Jacob and set him before Pharaoh. And Jacob blessed Pharaoh. Pharaoh said to Jacob, how old are you? And Jacob said the Pharaoh. The days of my years of my pilgrimage are 130 years, few and evil have been the days of my years of my life, and they have not attained the days of the years of the life of my father's in the days of their pilgrimage. So Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh. And Joseph situated his father and his brothers and gave them a possession of the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Ramsey's, as Pharaoh had commanded. Then Joseph provided his father, his brothers and all his father's household with bread according to the number in their families. Well, we need to ask ourselves a What's this about? Be what's the best versus summarizes and see what are we called to do in response to this so Jacob's Father has come right. We left off last time two weeks ago, with Jacob sending his brothers home. So don't squabble amongst yourselves, right. Don't fight go home and tell dad, Tom alive and come back down here. And Jacob's father or Jacob, Josias father was amazed at what my son is alive. This is incredible. We don't have the full story. I wonder what that conversation looks like. But he gets in his in his carts, all of his household, and they head down to Egypt, and they're I love this scene. I absolutely love this. Verse 29. So Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to Goshen to meet his father as Rome, and he presented himself to him and he fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while. This boy is now a man, second in command of Egypt, just wants to go see dad to wrap his arms around him and just kiss him on the neck and just weep. He never thought he'd get to see his dad again. His dad thought he was dead. Now let me die since I've seen your face because you're still alive. You can imagine the homecoming you can picture it in your mind, this overwhelming sense of father and son being brought together this beautiful picture of of things being made right, that were wrong and after that, Joseph coaches his brothers right Hammond take some you get a pharaoh. All right, because you're gonna live here. You're gonna live here, but I want you to make sure that you got the best land. I'm going to take you to Pharaoh. He's going to ask you what your job is. You tell him that your shepherds right? Don't lie. Don't don't puff yourselves up. Right you need to actually tell him that you are a shepherd, a job that to them is abominable, right? They don't want to do it. They don't like it. Why? Because you tromp around and in manure and and you take care of animals and you have to get your hands dirty and you have to sleep outside sometimes and it's a hard rough life. Right? So Egyptians don't really like doing that type of work. But you need to say your that's the type of work you do cause reason being, it will give you the land of Goshen. So this is exactly what happens. Right? The first part of verse 47 is exactly that. They go to Pharaoh, Pharaoh awesome. What's your job? They say we're shepherds. We deal with livestock. We have our father has a granddad has a great granddad has lived but we've always taken care of animals. He says Great. Great. I'm gonna give you good pasture land. I'm gonna give you the land at the at the Nile Delta in the area of Ramsay's, where his possessions are, I'm gonna put you up there because there's good fertile fields. You're able to you're able to put out your livestock to pasture you'll be well fed to go ahead and live there. And then he does something even further. I'm not sure if Joseph expected this or not. But he he tells Joseph he says Hey, make sure that you apportion them land in Goshen, and if there's any of them that are really good. Make sure you put them in charge of my livestock to the kings tables always got to be fed. And so he's got his own cows, he's got his own sheep. He's got his own horses. He's got his own lambs. And so he he needs his flocks and his herds taken care of so he puts them in charge of the Royal farm. And then there's a turn in the story and I wasn't expecting this turn. Joseph didn't prepare his family for this one. So brings dad Joseph brings his dad Jacob to Pharaoh. Pharaoh's got some interesting things that you want to say he wants to inquire about this guy. He asked him How old are you? Sorry, for so for the honor. How old are you? Is the old dude. Jacob 130. But my dad has been evil. It's been a rough life. And I'm not nearly as old as my dad. My grandpa. Right? Isaac and and Abraham are the ones before him. So he knows his life has been short in comparison. But he blesses. This is the interesting thing. Pharaoh, one of the mightiest men of the world is blessed by Jacob. And this doesn't just happen one time, but did you catch it? It happens two times in verse 20, in verse seven of verse 47 of chapter 47, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and then in verse 10, so Jacob blesses Pharaoh is Jacob here, the old man that the Pharaoh shows reverence to now, there's all sorts of people who will argue about this type of stuff. This really happened. I think it actually happened. It's a real story. I think Jacob really is Israel. Jacob really is the patriarch of the faith, and I really think he stands before Pharaoh the prophet as a priest, as a king of the nation of Israel. He's the patriarch, and He blesses Pharaoh. He's the one who pronounces a blessing upon him. He's the one who prays for him. He's the one who has shown and told his son Joseph, all about the Lord, whom he would serve. How do you think Joseph learned about Jehovah? How do you think you learned about your father, your Tfrp the Lord of heaven and earth who created all things seen and unseen. He learned it from his father, as father had been promised to be made into a great nation. No, he's not a huge nation, you had only 70 people. But even still, the old man is reverent and he's able to bless Pharaoh himself. What's this whole story about? God hasn't forgotten his plan. Dave or Jacobs eight days may have been filled with whoa and difficulty but it was for a purpose. God had a plan. A plan is not the one that Jacob would choose. Certainly not the one Joseph would choose. And it the Lord was using it for a reason to protect his people. To bring about his promises. And then we find the story. It's all coming together. And we might think, Oh, this is great, right? This is the high point is finally going to be done from here. Now we're gonna have more and the book of Exodus comes next. And we're gonna find out after that, that there's more going on after that. And that's okay. Right. That's how the story goes. But God's got a plan for his people. Now what's what's the best first, to underline this or to underline? You know what, what gets at the heart of what this is about? Well, in my Bible, I have I don't know if this just sentimental or not but I have 29 and 13 underlined. I also have word or Jacob blesses Pharaoh, I have when that's done twice, double underlined right in both places. But I would also have underlined verses five and six of verse 47. Right where Pharaoh actually gives the land of Goshen to the Israelites. So I think that that's what's good. What's going on here. Well, what are we called to do? I won't. I'm gonna give you a high one right looking overview and then I'm gonna give you just kind of a practical application. God is sovereign and provident. Meaning go to Him and trust Him. You can love him. And he does not promise you that everything in your life, you're gonna have health, you have wealth and prosperity. Everything's gonna go perfect for you. That is not the promises that He makes us people. But what he does promise to his people, is that he will never leave us nor forsake us. That He has great plans for us in our life. That if we are redeemed by the blood of Jesus Christ, then he is not a God who just does whatever he wants, but that He is the God who gives us our daily bread. He is the God who is is provident over all of history, bringing about his purposes and his promises. So we can have faith in Him we can trust and we can go to him for strength. Some of you might be going through hard things in life right now. Don't be surprised. If there are hard things going on in your life. Don't turn away from Him. But run to him or high tower. He's strengthening you. He's teaching you to depend upon him. He's teaching you to run to him. He's teaching you that even though these might be hard and things might be difficult. He will provide for you. He's there for you. I'm gonna give you just a low low hanging fruit type application right? If you got it dad could tell them you love them. Or if you have a father you haven't seen for a long time. Give them a call. Tell them you love them. Right now I know some people have difficult relationships with their fathers, not trying to gloss over that. If you have a father that you haven't talked to for a while, maybe it's just been slipping your mind. I know it's about to be Mother's Day. I'm not ignoring that. I'm just saying from the text. I tell him you love him. Some of you you know you can't do that anymore. But maybe you have children. Maybe you're the father. Maybe you're the grandfather. Go see them. Call them. Tell them that you love them. wrap your arms around them, kiss them on the neck. Care for them. There's a beautiful picture we have here of the love that a father has for son and this love this on has for his father. It's exactly what God calls himself our Heavenly Father because he's able and ready to help us. He gives us a spirit to cry out up a father. He's ready for us to go to him. So maybe the third application would be go to your heavenly father today. Throw your arms around his neck. Weep upon His shoulder for he cares for you. And he loves you. He's always been longing for you. Even though you might have been estranged from him for a long time. Go to him. Go to him and let's pray. Father, we thank you for your care in your love for us. We thank you that we can trust you that you know best. And that you are doing all things for our good and for your glory. Please help us to trust you more. In Jesus's name, Amen. May the Lord bless you. When you walk in the joy and peace of Jesus. And I'll see you tomorrow. Bye Transcribed by https://otter.ai