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Episode: “Famine and Recognition”
Famine leads Joseph’s brothers to Egypt for grain. Unrecognized, Joseph tests their hearts to see if they have truly changed. Israel’s situation will change when they eventually recognize the Messiah, Yeshua.
Series: “Joseph: Dreamer/Redeemer”
Perhaps more than any of the patriarchs in the Bible, Joseph presents us with a clear preview of the Redeemer, Yeshua Ha Mashiach. From his humble beginnings to his ascendancy as a leader of the known world, Joseph pictures the One to come. Born to humble parents, Yeshua’s suffering and ultimate sacrifice as the Lamb of God will lead to His return as the Lion of Judah. In this nine-part series, we lay bare the “Egyptian” (foreign) identity and centuries-long gentile view of Jesus and reveal Him as the Jewish Messiah and Savior of the world.

Caption transcript for Joseph: Dreamer/Redeemer — “Famine and Recognition” (6/9)

  • 00:31 From the pit to the palace,
  • 00:34 from certain death to abundant life,
  • 00:38 Joseph the Patriarch
  • 00:40 who pictures Messiah.
  • 00:52 Shalom and welcome to our program, I'm Myles Weiss.
  • 00:55 And I'm Katharine Weiss.
  • 00:57 And we are teaching a series on Joseph, Dreamer - Redeemer.
  • 01:00 Boy, that is so much the case.
  • 01:02 Joseph is a picture of Yeshua .
  • 01:04 He's a type and he becomes a lesson for us
  • 01:08 about the progress that has gone on in the church age.
  • 01:11 And now we're coming into a time
  • 01:13 when Joseph pictures the revelation of Yeshua
  • 01:16 as in fact the Messiah of the Jewish people.
  • 01:19 We've seen Joseph grow in wisdom and stature just as Jesus did.
  • 01:23 We're looking at the parallels between Joseph and Jesus.
  • 01:26 And we are seeing the unfolding of the truth that's spoken in the Hebrew in this way,
  • 01:30 (Speaking Hebrew)
  • 01:36 And isn't that true?
  • 01:37 How can we understand the headlines?
  • 01:39 How can we understand what's going on around us?
  • 01:40 Unless we view it by the Word and the Spirit of the LORD.
  • 01:44 There's no way to interpret the world situation than by the Spirit of God.
  • 01:50 And that's what Joseph is really portraying for us.
  • 01:52 He's been exalted to the place next to Pharaoh.
  • 01:55 Just as in Acts 2:24 we see that God raised Yeshua .
  • 02:00 And 1st Peter chapter 3 speaks about Yeshua being placed at the right hand of the Father.
  • 02:06 There's something about this elevation that is going to bode well
  • 02:10 for the entire nation of Israel and the world, Egypt included.
  • 02:15 Right, you know even in a time of famine God has a plan.
  • 02:18 And we see time after time again
  • 02:20 that there's a famine in the land but God has a remnant and he has a plan.
  • 02:24 So let's go more into the life of Joseph.
  • 02:36 Famine was crippling the land of Canaan.
  • 02:39 When Jacob hears there's food in Egypt
  • 02:42 he sends his sons to buy grain for their families
  • 02:46 but he keeps his youngest son Benjamin beside him
  • 02:50 concerned that mischief might befall him.
  • 02:59 Fascinating to be standing
  • 03:00 in a dry river bed.
  • 03:01 You know, these beds are caused
  • 03:03 by water coming off the mountains
  • 03:05 and flash floods
  • 03:07 and washing out the roads.
  • 03:09 I've been caught in one of these flash floods down here in the desert.
  • 03:13 And it reminds me of the Scripture of streams in the desert,
  • 03:15 that God is going to provide in the midst of a dry place.
  • 03:19 And that's what we're seeing in the story of Joseph.
  • 03:21 God has raised him up,
  • 03:23 placed him next to Pharaoh,
  • 03:25 and we're about to experience the " teshauvah ", the return, the turning, the repentance
  • 03:30 of his brothers towards him.
  • 03:32 He is still hidden from them
  • 03:35 but that season is upon us now in the story.
  • 03:38 And I'm thinking about the resource that Joseph has become for all of Egypt.
  • 03:43 He is the provision.
  • 03:45 He has the bread of life to give them.
  • 03:47 He is unveiling to Pharaoh the method by which they can save many people alive.
  • 03:52 Not only the Egyptians but also his brethren the Israelites.
  • 03:56 It reminds me of the promises to the nations just as
  • 04:00 Egypt represents the world, the international community.
  • 04:03 So it is here that we would remember
  • 04:05 that Isaiah prophesied 800 years before the time of Jesus
  • 04:10 that a Light was coming to the Galilee.
  • 04:12 "Galilee of the Nations" we call it, "Galilee of the Gentiles".
  • 04:16 And that the nations will see a great Light.
  • 04:19 And isn't that the season we've been in?
  • 04:20 This so-called church age, this 2,000 year period is replete with salvation,
  • 04:26 coming out of the nations to the LORD,
  • 04:29 out of the nations to the LORD.
  • 04:31 And we're slowly coming to the time
  • 04:34 when the attention of the LORD
  • 04:36 is going to be fully on Jerusalem,
  • 04:38 fully on Israel or on the Jewish people.
  • 04:40 And we're seeing that with the restoration of Israel
  • 04:42 We're seeing also the spiritual renewal of Israel taking place.
  • 04:47 The Orthodox, the modern Orthodox are looking for Messiah.
  • 04:50 The believers in Yeshua are looking for Yeshua .
  • 04:53 The Christians are looking for Jesus.
  • 04:55 And we're coming to a delta point where we're all looking for a deliverer,
  • 04:59 a deliverance to come from above.
  • 05:02 And that's what Joseph represents in this picture.
  • 05:04 He even named his children...
  • 05:14 There's something about that looking back and being honest
  • 05:18 about what has been, the difficulty that there has been
  • 05:21 but looking forward to the time of joy and renewal and plenty.
  • 05:26 And that's what the story of Joseph shows us.
  • 05:29 Joseph is going to be in charge of providing
  • 05:33 just as the only one who can provide for you and for me is Yeshua , is Jesus.
  • 05:38 Acts 4:12 tells us...
  • 05:44 And that is the truth.
  • 05:47 And because of our national rejection
  • 05:49 salvation has come to the Gentiles.
  • 05:51 Because we have said "no" nationally to Yeshua
  • 05:55 salvation has been opened for over 2,000 years.
  • 06:00 And we're coming to a time when Jew and Gentile together will worship the LORD.
  • 06:05 And we will be looking for his soon return.
  • 06:08 Famine - picturing our need for the Word, our need for the Bread of Life, the Word of Life.
  • 06:13 Drought - picturing our dryness and our need for spiritual sustenance
  • 06:18 The power of the Spirit - the water of the Spirit.
  • 06:22 All of those things make us thirsty for the reality of God.
  • 06:27 And that's what we see in this story.
  • 06:29 The reality of the provision of God is coming to you and to me.
  • 06:41 Our offer on this program...
  • 06:43 The DVD series "Joseph - Dreamer / Redeemer"
  • 06:47 From his humble beginnings
  • 06:49 to his regency as leader of the known world.
  • 06:51 Joseph pictures "the One to come".
  • 06:54 This series lays bare the Egyptian identity of Joseph
  • 06:57 as well the centuries long Gentile view of Jesus
  • 07:01 revealing him as the Jewish Messiah
  • 07:04 and Savior of the world.
  • 07:05 Nine thirty-minute programs on two DVD's.
  • 07:09 "Joseph - Dreamer / Redeemer"
  • 07:20 At the end of their journey Jacob's sons are brought
  • 07:23 before Joseph, now the overlord of all Egypt.
  • 07:27 Second only to Pharaoh himself.
  • 07:30 They fail to recognize him
  • 07:32 as the brother they sold into slavery.
  • 07:35 But Joseph remembers them all too well.
  • 07:40 Speaking through an interpreter to hide his identity
  • 07:44 Joseph asks about their family, their father and if they have other brothers in Canaan.
  • 07:51 As they answer Joseph suddenly accuses them of being spies
  • 07:57 out to find Egypt's weak spots.
  • 08:00 Despite their claims of innocence,
  • 08:02 Joseph has them in prison.
  • 08:13 Joseph's brothers spent 3 days in jail
  • 08:17 wondering if they would ever see their homes and their families again.
  • 08:21 They knew the next appearance before the Prince
  • 08:24 would seal their fate.
  • 08:28 Scripture tells us,
  • 08:30 (Speaking Hebrew)
  • 08:34 That Jacob heard
  • 08:36 that there was grain in Egypt
  • 08:39 I think about the grain that God has given through Yeshua to the nations.
  • 08:44 And how now it's time for the nations to give back to the Jewish people.
  • 08:49 And we're supposed to according to Romans 9:10-11 provoke the Jewish people to jealousy.
  • 08:55 And we're hoping that we're coming into that season where
  • 08:57 Jew and Gentile together will find the God of Abraham together
  • 09:01 Yes, so the story begins to continue to unfold where the
  • 09:04 brothers go down to Egypt to find bread for the family.
  • 09:09 And when they come Joseph recognizes the brothers right away.
  • 09:14 But they do not recognize him at all.
  • 09:16 He keeps himself distant and he keeps an eye on them
  • 09:20 because he's wondering how they've changed over these years.
  • 09:23 They bowed down immediately
  • 09:26 and Joseph's reminded of the dream that he had and that he told his brothers.
  • 09:30 And his brothers said, let that not ever be that we would bow down to you.
  • 09:34 But God in his sovereignty warned them that this would happen.
  • 09:38 And he has set up a divine plan to unfold.
  • 09:41 It's really true.
  • 09:43 You know it takes humility for reconciliation to take place.
  • 09:45 I think about our counseling practice,
  • 09:48 working with marriages and parents and children for so many years,
  • 09:51 and how reconciliation doesn't come just by an intellectual process
  • 09:56 but it really is an act of humility.
  • 09:58 For example, we teach people that it is up to the person that has offended
  • 10:02 to go to the hurt one and say, this is what I did wrong, what I did to hurt you.
  • 10:07 And then from there to say to them, this is the pain that I believe I caused you,
  • 10:12 this is how I feel about causing you that pain
  • 10:15 and this is my commitment to not bring that into this relationship again.
  • 10:20 And then finally, will you please forgive me.
  • 10:23 Well what we've seen is that rather than it being an intellectual exercise
  • 10:26 based on what's right for believers to do
  • 10:29 it becomes a way for the Holy Spirit of God through the Word
  • 10:32 to deepen the relationship and for people to come to that place
  • 10:35 because as I always hear you say
  • 10:38 forgiveness is granted but trust is earned.
  • 10:40 It takes time for people to really believe that they're back together again, doesn't it?
  • 10:45 Right, and well Joseph is testing his brothers
  • 10:49 and he's causing there to be a lot of awakening in them to say
  • 10:55 this is what's happening to us because of what we did to our brother.
  • 10:59 So their conscious is beginning to be awakened.
  • 11:02 Yeah, that's really good.
  • 11:04 It's important for reconciliation to happen,
  • 11:07 that the conscience awakens.
  • 11:09 And we're seeing that in the brothers aren't we?
  • 11:11 They're beginning to ask,
  • 11:12 are these things happening to us because of what we did to Joseph?
  • 11:15 They still don't see him
  • 11:17 but they're beginning to understand that there's consequences of sin.
  • 11:20 I think of the Scripture that God is not mocked.
  • 11:22 And the fact is, that there comes a time for where there's a reckoning.
  • 11:25 But thank God that he is merciful.
  • 11:28 And we always ask that in judgment he will remember mercy.
  • 11:32 And we're going to see that happen in the life of the brothers of Joseph.
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  • 13:26 So we see that in the story of Joseph
  • 13:29 that not only is he been exalted to the right hand of Pharaoh
  • 13:34 but that the reunion with his family is getting near.
  • 13:39 And remember, this all started with a dream.
  • 13:42 And in fact, Pharaoh re-names Joseph, gives him an Egyptian name "Zaphenath-paneah".
  • 13:48 The Rabbis say it means "revealer of secrets".
  • 13:51 the Egyptians say it means "Savior of the world".
  • 13:54 In fact, Joseph is going to function as both because of the time of famine.
  • 13:58 There are 13 famines in the Word of God.
  • 14:00 And every time there's a famine it speaks about something spiritual.
  • 14:04 But also God uses them to move the story of the Word forward.
  • 14:09 Yeah, he moves us through his Word.
  • 14:12 But you know I'm just reminded so much of Joseph's life
  • 14:15 of how God brought him so far.
  • 14:18 He brought him...
  • 14:19 You know, first he was loved by the father.
  • 14:22 He was sent out to see the welfare of his brethren.
  • 14:26 He was a shepherd.
  • 14:27 Then he was betrayed.
  • 14:29 Then a plot was set against him to kill him.
  • 14:32 And then he was ransomed.
  • 14:33 And then he was sold for slavery.
  • 14:35 I mean on and on and on the odds were against him.
  • 14:38 But if God be for us who can be against us?
  • 14:41 And I believe that God is saying that over your life today
  • 14:44 that God is for you.
  • 14:46 No matter what plot has come against you or what plan of the enemy has tried to scheme.
  • 14:50 Even if it's somebody that's near and dear to you
  • 14:52 God has a plan and he is on your side and his hand is upon you.
  • 14:57 It's very encouraging.
  • 14:59 Well we need to go back to our story now,
  • 15:01 see the Biblical narrative
  • 15:02 as the reunion is coming between Joseph and his brothers.
  • 16:15 The brother's empty sacks are filled with grain.
  • 16:18 And unbeknownst to them, their money pouches are also hidden within their sacks.
  • 16:27 Mission accomplished they finally head back home to Canaan
  • 16:32 with food for their families
  • 16:34 but without their brother Simeon.
  • 16:44 The theme of substitution runs throughout the story of Joseph.
  • 16:47 And now we see that Joseph is going to keep
  • 16:50 Simeon.. Shimon .. Shema - "hearing";
  • 16:53 He's going to keep that hearing one behind so that the brethren
  • 16:57 will hear the severity of the circumstances
  • 16:59 and obey and respond appropriately.
  • 17:02 Yeah, this is part of the test that he has set up so that he'll make sure that they come back,
  • 17:07 and hopefully with his younger brother and his father.
  • 17:10 You see they told him that the father is alive and they have one more brother.
  • 17:15 And this is the dilemma that they find themselves in,
  • 17:18 that their sin is now finding them out.
  • 17:21 But it's a divine setup because God has ordained that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
  • 17:26 be brought into the fruitfulness of the Land and there multiply
  • 17:31 and become a great nation.
  • 17:32 That's beautiful.
  • 17:34 You know there's always mystery with God,
  • 17:36 we cannot understand him logically.
  • 17:37 He greater than our mind.
  • 17:39 I'm so grateful for that.
  • 17:41 If he's as big as my mind we're in trouble.
  • 17:42 But he's greater.
  • 17:44 Throughout the Scriptures we see God reaching in Hosea for the bride, for the wife.
  • 17:48 We see him reaching for establishing destinies in different leaders.
  • 17:51 Think about this,
  • 17:53 Joseph is first unseen, he's unknown, he's not recognized.
  • 17:56 That's what happened to Moses.
  • 17:58 Moses was not seen at first.
  • 18:00 And then Joshua also was not acknowledged until after Moses' death.
  • 18:04 Even David was anointed but yet was not acknowledged
  • 18:09 as the leader, as the king, until God's timing.
  • 18:12 And we're seeing God's timing unfold with Joseph as well.
  • 18:16 Well I just want to encourage all of us that God's appointed times are not our time.
  • 18:21 There's so many times when we feel like there should have been that provision come.
  • 18:25 But I want to encourage you that God has a deliverance for you,
  • 18:28 and he has a plan for you,
  • 18:29 and to hold fast into what he said over your life,
  • 18:33 the dream that he's given you.
  • 18:34 And he will bring it to pass if we put our trust in him.
  • 18:38 I'll tell you a story of a mystery.
  • 18:40 We were down in the desert at Masada and the Dead Sea over 10 years ago maybe 12 years ago
  • 18:45 with a bus full of people who were with us on a study tour.
  • 18:49 We got caught in a flash flood and next to us was a bus
  • 18:52 from an orthodox religious girl's school in Mea Shearim,
  • 18:57 the most religious neighborhood in Jerusalem.
  • 18:59 Well, it was interesting to me that we were caught at the same time
  • 19:03 because about 3 months earlier Katharine had been asked to pray
  • 19:07 for a specific street of that ultra orthodox neighborhood
  • 19:11 that they would see Yeshua , that they would come to faith,
  • 19:13 that they would be released from the ultra religious activity into some life with God.
  • 19:19 And do you know that girl's school was exactly from
  • 19:23 the street that Katharine had been praying for.
  • 19:25 So here are these two buses,
  • 19:27 one full of believers in Yeshua ,
  • 19:28 one full of believers in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
  • 19:31 but not knowing Messiah.
  • 19:33 And the girls were so responsive.
  • 19:34 They kept coming to Katharine and asking her to write her name on a rock
  • 19:38 so they could remember her,
  • 19:39 so they could have her in their hearts.
  • 19:42 And I thought, you know God, there's a mystery in this.
  • 19:44 We don't always know what our prayers and what we are doing.
  • 19:48 We don't know the affect.
  • 19:50 But sometimes God is mysteriously working
  • 19:52 behind the scenes to bring about his purposes.
  • 19:55 And we believe that those " Bat Zion ", "the daughters of Zion"
  • 19:58 will some day look up and say "Yes" to Yeshua as well.
  • 20:02 Just as in Joseph's story the mystery is continuing to unfold.
  • 20:11 When Joseph was brought into the palace at 30 years old
  • 20:15 not only was he given an Egyptian name but he was given an Egyptian bride;
  • 20:20 speaking to us as the one new man
  • 20:23 that God is not a God of prejudice
  • 20:25 but God is the God of inclusion
  • 20:27 and he brought in the Gentiles and gave him 2 sons and they became part of the tribes.
  • 20:32 The lineage continues.
  • 20:34 God is always dealing with our prejudices.
  • 20:36 That's why we have made it our life's work to reach for our Arab cousins.
  • 20:40 Because God is always looking for reconciliation.
  • 20:42 First with himself and then for mankind one with another.
  • 20:45 And he's so far above the petty prejudices of mankind.
  • 20:51 And we see that he's written that into the Biblical narrative over and over again,
  • 20:54 with Moses and Zipporah;
  • 20:56 we'll see later with Ruth and Boaz.
  • 20:59 And God is always doing that.
  • 21:01 So we see that here as well.
  • 21:02 The Egyptians are knit into the line of the tribes of Israel.
  • 21:07 It's amazing.
  • 21:08 You know there's a mystery in this,
  • 21:10 the bride made up of the international church and the Jewish people.
  • 21:14 The international Gentile body together with
  • 21:17 those Jewish people who believe that Yeshua is in fact the Promised Messiah.
  • 21:21 And this whole story unfolds because of Joseph being humbled
  • 21:26 by God through the circumstances that he's faced
  • 21:29 and also through the picturing of Yeshua .
  • 21:33 Remember Philippians 2 says...
  • 21:55 And I tell people we can bow now or we can bow later,
  • 21:59 but we will bow to the once and future King
  • 22:02 because he's going to sit on David's throne as promised in Scripture.
  • 22:07 Amen
  • 22:08 So were going to go now to our friend in Israel, Eitan Shishkoff.
  • 22:13 He's going to be speaking to us about the times in which we're living
  • 22:16 and this continued revelation of the Jewishness of Jesus.
  • 22:20 As we get close to his return we are seeing that Jewish people are asking again
  • 22:25 could we have something to do with him and something that he has to do with us?
  • 22:29 Let's go to Eitan.
  • 22:39 Joseph was not recognized by his brothers.
  • 22:42 As we follow the life of Joseph
  • 22:45 we see that in the time of his
  • 22:49 "premiership" should we say, in Egypt.
  • 22:52 Meanwhile a famine had come upon the earth and Jacob and his sons were suffering.
  • 22:58 The sons came to Egypt but they didn't recognize Joseph.
  • 23:01 This has been repeated and really is still the situation in modern Israel.
  • 23:07 The people of Israel, the Jewish citizens of this nation
  • 23:11 of which I'm a part and also a citizen,
  • 23:14 do not yet recognize that Yeshua , Jesus is ours, is our King.
  • 23:20 The parallel is striking.
  • 23:22 And what I want to focus on is that non-recognition,
  • 23:25 that sort of strangeness of Yeshua to the sons of Jacob of today.
  • 23:31 In fact his Name is not even known as " Yeshua " which means "Salvation"
  • 23:35 but as " Yeshu " which means "let his name and memory be blotted out"
  • 23:41 It's a sad fact but think about Joseph.
  • 23:45 He had gone through a time of separation from his brothers
  • 23:49 just as the Jewish people have been separated from Jesus for almost 2,000 years.
  • 23:54 There's a repetition of history here among the modern people of Israel
  • 23:59 And I've seen it; I've watched it.
  • 24:01 We've been persecuted.
  • 24:02 Had a fire bombing at our facility.
  • 24:05 I'm standing here in the city of Akko
  • 24:08 with a painting of Akko behind me
  • 24:11 where a local congregational leader,
  • 24:13 a man who grew up in this city, Guy Cohen, has been persecuted
  • 24:18 systematically by Rabbis in this town and yet he does not return evil for evil but good for evil,
  • 24:25 does humanitarian aid and speaks to people on the street even those who have persecuted him.
  • 24:31 I admire him greatly even as I admire Joseph.
  • 24:35 This speaks to me of the stage of history that Israel is in.
  • 24:39 We are about to recognize Joseph, that is to say "Yeshua" as our true brother.
  • 24:46 And you're going to see it.
  • 24:50 Eitan eloquently explains the situation that's currently taking place in Israel.
  • 24:56 You know he's really a pioneer.
  • 24:57 Absolutely.
  • 24:59 The Messianic leaders of the last 40 years or so
  • 25:01 they are pioneers in standing for the LORD Yeshua
  • 25:06 without being a threat or a danger to Israel in any way,
  • 25:10 in fact, being a blessing in the land.
  • 25:12 And it's frustrating sometimes that there's such attention
  • 25:16 paid to the potential threat of the Messianic believers
  • 25:19 when we know it was this whole thing of the Christian church began as a sect of Judaism.
  • 25:25 It's totally related to Jewish life
  • 25:27 and it reminds me of the misappropriation of energy and funds and military
  • 25:33 that's taking place all around the world
  • 25:35 when there's incredible persecution going on in the Muslim world of Christians,
  • 25:41 of women, of tribes of people around the world being slaughtered.
  • 25:46 And where's the attention that goes to that?
  • 25:48 I think about Yad Vashem
  • 25:50 where the righteous Gentiles
  • 25:52 are celebrated because they
  • 25:54 stood for the Jewish people
  • 25:55 during the time of the holocaust
  • 25:57 with no gain for themselves.
  • 25:59 There's no reason.
  • 26:00 They didn't need to do it.
  • 26:01 They did it because it was right to do.
  • 26:03 Now I would like to be counted among the righteous Jews.
  • 26:05 I'd like to say what about the Christians around the world?
  • 26:09 They're suffering in a way that is just wrong
  • 26:12 and yet the world is largely silent about that.
  • 26:14 Right we need to not only pray which we do but we need to be a voice in this hour and stand.
  • 26:20 We see in the life of Joseph
  • 26:22 that Pharaoh and Joseph worked together in a time of great crisis.
  • 26:26 So we're praying for something like that.
  • 26:29 We're seeing how God wed him to an Egyptian bride, gave him two children.
  • 26:35 And God, even in the names, Myles like you were saying before
  • 26:40 describes what he is doing.
  • 26:42 And in this time he has Manasseh and Ephraim.
  • 26:45 Manasseh is to forget the pain of the past.
  • 26:49 And Ephraim is to be fruitful in the land that he's in.
  • 26:54 It's amazing that of all the names of the tribes of Israel
  • 26:57 those are the two names we say every Shabbat as we bless our sons, right?
  • 27:01 There are different blessings
  • 27:03 and the one that we choose is Manasseh and Ephraim
  • 27:06 We bless them, bless our children with those names.
  • 27:09 And the legacy continues.
  • 27:11 Joseph's legacy continues.
  • 27:13 And so as we leave you today we want to remind you always,
  • 27:18 Sha'lu Shalom Yerushalayim
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Episodes in this series

  1. Jealousy and Rejection
  2. Betrayal and Deception
  3. Innocence and Accusation
  4. Faithfulness from Prison
  5. Prisoner to Prime Minister
  6. Famine and Recognition
  7. Brother for Brother
  8. Longing and Revelation
  9. Substitution and Redemption

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