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• 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.
• 00:56 And we want to welcome you to our series on
• 00:58 Joseph; Dreamer / Redeemer.
• 01:00 We're really seeing the parallels between Joseph and Jesus.
• 01:04 Joseph is a type of the coming Messiah.
• 01:06 Right and we're right at the end of our series.
• 01:08 And we're so excited because we know what's coming.
• 01:11 Finally the dream is becoming a reality.
• 01:14 The brothers had been caught...
• 01:16 or there was a planned snare, if I can say it that way.
• 01:21 The silver cup put in the bag to see how the brothers would handle the...
• 01:28 Would they betray their brother Benjamin?
• 01:30 Or would they stand and lay down their life for Benjamin?
• 01:32 And we see in the Scripture itself
• 01:35 that the brothers all came and fell down before Joseph
• 01:41 just as his dream when he saw them bowing down.
• 01:44 And they said, we would never bow down to you,
• 01:46 we would never be your slave.
• 01:48 And now they're saying, not only we will bow down but we'll be your slave
• 01:52 just don't take Benjamin away from our father.
• 01:55 It's amazing how the dream becomes a reality in this section of the story.
• 02:00 And it's not the first time nor the last time that we'll see this pattern in the Bible
• 02:06 where at first the hero of the story is un-noticed or unseen
• 02:10 and then finally is recognized.
• 02:12 Think about this.
• 02:13 Moses, when he comes to his brethren in Egypt he says,
• 02:17 I want to help.
• 02:18 And they say, who made you a prince over us?, in Exodus 2.
• 02:21 When Joshua was given the leadership of the army,
• 02:25 they first saw him as one of the 2 spys who returned
• 02:28 and they didn't receive him, didn't receive his report.
• 02:30 But later they saw him as the leader of the army.
• 02:33 And even King David to come...
• 02:35 David was unrecognized.
• 02:37 His brethren were mad at him when he came out to seek the welfare of his brothers.
• 02:41 So there's this pattern
• 02:43 where the person who is come to help the children of Israel
• 02:46 is not known or noticed until later.
• 02:49 And it really points to the biggest part of this story
• 02:53 which is Genesis 43:3 where the brothers do not receive him
• 02:58 and he says...
• 03:03 And it relates to Matthew 23:39
• 03:05 where Yeshua himself says...
• 03:15 So let's pick up our story
• 03:17 as the family reunion comes to its conclusion.
• 03:23 Could it be any worse?
• 03:25 The brothers had agreed that one of them would be enslaved
• 03:28 if missing chalice was found in one of their bags.
• 03:32 And the chalice had somehow turned up in Benjamin's bag.
• 03:36 If the Lord of Egypt upheld this sentence they would not return with Benjamin
• 03:41 and tragically the promise to their father would be broken.
• 04:37 This is our final program in this series
• 04:39 and we wanted to bring it to you from the Garden Tomb.
• 04:42 This place for over 100 years has been a place of prayer
• 04:47 and reaching for the best that God has to offer.
• 04:50 Pilgrim's come from all over the world to be here,
• 04:53 to reach for communion with the LORD and with each other.
• 04:57 And it's such a special place because it pictures what we call "the finish line".
• 05:02 The empty tomb - the resurrection life,
• 05:04 and that is the story of Joseph.
• 05:07 Even to the fact that his bones we shall see
• 05:11 are going to be carried up from Egypt into Israel.
• 05:14 Into the Promised Land.
• 05:15 You know, Joseph is now reaching for something fresh and new in his brothers.
• 05:20 His brothers were just eaten up with envy and malice and threw him in the pit.
• 05:26 But as the testing goes on in the life of Joseph and his brothers
• 05:31 there's something that begins to change.
• 05:33 There's a remorse that comes over the brothers.
• 05:37 There is a grief that they're now interacting with their father Jacob.
• 05:43 And they just cannot bring another grief upon their father.
• 05:47 They said it would bring him down to Sheol.
• 05:49 It would bring him down to the very depth of depths
• 05:53 if Joseph's brother Benjamin would suffer any kind of harm.
• 06:01 So Judah begins to intercede.
• 06:03 And I love this, that Judah steps up.
• 06:05 And so now there's a turn.
• 06:07 And they're trying to implement something of integrity and righteousness.
• 06:10 And isn't it amazing that as Judah steps forward,
• 06:13 because Judah is the one who will be the tribe of whom Messiah will come.
• 06:19 Meshiach ben David will come from the tribe of Judah.
• 06:22 "Judah" we know also means "praise"
• 06:24 It's the tribe that goes forth in warfare,
• 06:27 it's a picture of the roles of spiritual warfare and praise
• 06:30 in the praises of God that are the two-edged sword
• 06:35 that God releases through the tribes.
• 06:38 And so now we're seeing that there's a new thing that's about to take place.
• 06:43 And Joseph is overcome because he knows that the time is coming
• 06:48 when he's going to have to reveal himself.
• 06:50 It's interesting isn't it?
• 06:51 That this is taking place in the deserts of Egypt.
• 06:54 And Egypt - the deserts - the word for "desert" is " midbar ",
• 06:59 it means to speak, to hear, to be listening for the LORD,
• 07:02 to be set aside into the silence of communion with God
• 07:06 in order to hear his direction and his purposes.
• 07:09 And now we see that Joseph and his brothers are reaching for something new.
• 07:13 And something new is going to happen.
• 07:16 There's going to be a new revelation
• 07:19 of the power of substitution
• 07:21 and the power of going before.
• 07:23 And the power of redemption is about to unfold in our story.
• 07:36 Our offer on this program,
• 07:38 the DVD series
• 07:39 "Joseph, Dreamer / Redeemer"
• 07:41 From his humble beginnings
• 07:43 to ascendancy as leader of the known world
• 07:45 Joseph pictures the one to come.
• 07:48 This series lays bare the Egyptian identity of Joseph
• 07:52 as well as the centuries long Gentile view of Jesus
• 07:55 revealing him as the Jewish Messiah
• 07:58 and Savior of the world.
• 07:59 Nine 30 minute programs on two DVD's.
• 08:03 "Joseph - Dreamer / Redeemer"
• 09:09 This is the place of substitution.
• 09:12 We wanted to bring this to you from Golgatha
• 09:14 from Calvary, from the place where Yeshua died for our sins
• 09:18 because we're coming to the end of our story
• 09:20 and we need to recognize that there is a substitutionary death that is taking place
• 09:26 in the "Suffering Servant" who gave his life for the sake of the world
• 09:30 and for the sake of the Jewish people.
• 09:32 And that's who Yeshua is.
• 09:34 Joseph pictures Messiah ben Joseph.
• 09:37 It looks forward to the suffering that Yeshua did.
• 09:40 Remember Isaiah 53 speaks of he who was wounded for our transgressions,
• 09:45 was pierced for our iniquities
• 09:47 and by his stripes we are healed.
• 09:50 And that, as we said at the very beginning of this series
• 09:52 is the difficulty for the Jewish people
• 09:55 because we say to ourselves, wait a minute
• 09:57 Messiah ben Joseph, Messiah ben David,
• 10:00 well who is he, which one is he?
• 10:01 Well, he's both.
• 10:03 And Joseph actually pictures both.
• 10:04 There was the pit, the palace, the prison,
• 10:07 and then being next to Pharaoh.
• 10:09 And there's also this incredible ruling and reigning
• 10:13 where because of the revelation of the famine that was coming
• 10:16 and the provision that he was able to give to Egypt,
• 10:21 all of Egypt was saved and all of the Hebrew people were saved.
• 10:25 The house of Jacob, 70 people were saved as well.
• 10:28 WOW, what a story.
• 10:31 Because isn't Yeshua that very one who came
• 10:34 as the Mashiach of the lost sheep of the house of Israel and the Savior of the world?
• 10:40 That's what Scripture tells us.
• 10:42 And we're seeing that revealed here.
• 10:45 Now, at the end of his life, when Jacob was leaning on his staff,
• 10:49 when he was crippled from that Genesis 32 encounter
• 10:53 with the Angel of the LORD, with the LORD himself,
• 10:55 forever he walked on a staff, he walked crippled in his thigh.
• 11:00 He was dependent on God.
• 11:02 And in that dependency, in that frailty,
• 11:04 in that time of the very end of his life
• 11:07 he asks Joseph to bring his sons to him so he could bless them.
• 11:11 And he crossed his hands
• 11:14 and put the blessing of
• 11:15 the first born on the second
• 11:17 and the blessing
• 11:18 of the second on the first
• 11:20 What does that mean?
• 11:21 Why would he do that?
• 11:22 And Joseph tries to correct him
• 11:23 but it is done intentionally
• 11:26 because it's a picture for us
• 11:28 of the blessing that comes to us
• 11:31 as those who come after the firstborn of many brethren, Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach.
• 11:38 The double portion blessing that rightfully belongs to Jesus is given to us.
• 11:45 And those crossed hands picture forever that substitution,
• 11:50 that gift of the rights of the first born to you and to me.
• 11:55 What a story.
• 11:57 Even today - every Friday Jewish people at the Shabbat service, at a Sabbath service
• 12:02 will cross their hands and bless their children in the name of Manasseh and Ephraim,
• 12:07 the patriarchs, the fathers in the faith,
• 12:09 the fathers of the religion,
• 12:10 the fathers of our culture.
• 12:12 But it always will be a picture to me of the wonder that Jesus,
• 12:18 whose right it is to have the double portion blessing
• 12:22 freely gives it to us.
• 12:24 Isn't it interesting that when Jesus lived on earth
• 12:28 his adoptive father, his earthly father because we know he came from heaven,
• 12:32 his adoptive father was Yoseph ,
• 12:35 so he was known as Yeshua ben Yoseph .
• 12:38 That is his earthly name.
• 12:40 The day is coming...
• 12:42 And even the Rabbis and the Jewish people at large recognize this man who was a prophet
• 12:46 was a Rabbi, lived in among Israel, walked among us,
• 12:50 was born in Bethlehem, raised in Nazareth.
• 12:52 We recognize him.
• 12:55 And we call him Yeshua ben Yoseph
• 12:58 so we are acknowledging that his lineage goes back to Joseph
• 13:03 because spiritually he is both the suffering servant
• 13:07 and the reigning King to come.
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• 15:05 Well we are in the pinnacle of the story of Joseph.
• 15:10 His brothers are there
• 15:12 and he is able to say, you sent me into slavery
• 15:17 and you sold me.
• 15:18 But God sent me to preserve life.
• 15:21 Exactly, it's really a picture of the over-arching sovereignty
• 15:26 of God in the story of the establishing of the line that will lead to Messiah
• 15:31 and a picture for the future of who Messiah will be.
• 15:34 Think about this.
• 15:35 As we come to the end of the story the similarities between Joseph and Jesus,
• 15:40 we've been telling you about this throughout this story.
• 15:42 It's very important for you to know that because right now we're in a time
• 15:48 when the Jewish people are under assault, they're under attack.
• 15:51 We need to know who are Messiah is, we need to know what our identity is.
• 15:55 And so Joseph is a beautiful picture as one of the main patriarchs of our whole life
• 16:00 that points to the character and the purpose and the person of Yeshua as the Jewish Messiah.
• 16:07 Think about this.
• 16:08 They are both beloved of the father.
• 16:10 They were both shepherds.
• 16:12 They were both tempted.
• 16:13 They were both falsely accused.
• 16:15 They were both bound and put in prison.
• 16:17 They both went down to Egypt.
• 16:19 They both were judged falsely.
• 16:22 They both were exalted.
• 16:25 And they both were thought to be dead
• 16:28 but turned out to be alive.
• 16:30 And in Joseph's case it's a human story full of wonder.
• 16:33 But with Yeshua it's an empty tomb.
• 16:36 So let's pick up our story
• 16:38 as the brethren move forward to understanding who their brother Joseph is in their life.
• 16:48 Joseph is overcome.
• 16:51 He orders his attendants to leave.
• 16:53 Tears fall.
• 16:55 His aching heart tells him it's over.
• 16:59 This is Joseph's finest hour.
• 18:14 The story of triumph is complete.
• 18:17 Joseph has been revealed to his brothers.
• 18:19 And it's our prayer that Yeshua will be revealed
• 18:22 to his brothers, to the Jewish people.
• 18:25 We see Joseph as the savior of Egypt
• 18:28 and the redeemer of his brethren
• 18:30 and that's who Yeshua is to us.
• 18:32 He's the Redeemer of Israel and the Savior of the world.
• 18:35 And that's the time we're living in now where his Egyptian garb is being taken off.
• 18:39 You know for two thousand years we have considered Jesus to be
• 18:43 related somehow to other religions and other groups and other people.
• 18:47 And we didn't realize nationally that he is Mashiach ben Yoseph and Mashiach ben David.
• 18:55 But the time is now that he is being revealed in our midst
• 18:59 and will continue to be revealed until he comes in fullness and glory
• 19:04 and reveals himself to everyone.
• 19:07 Joseph's desire was for his bones to be taken up to Israel
• 19:11 and brought to the Promised Land.
• 19:13 That was his last command.
• 19:15 God had placed him in Egypt for a purpose
• 19:18 and he knew that even through the suffering that it wasn't about him
• 19:21 but there was a bigger plan.
• 19:23 And God's plan was to save all mankind
• 19:27 but also to redeem back his brothers
• 19:30 and to redeem back the plan that God had for the 12 tribes to go in and take the land.
• 19:35 So there was a charge given to them to not leave his bones in Egypt
• 19:40 no matter how beautiful, how grand Egypt would be.
• 19:44 He did not want to identify with the world.
• 19:47 He wanted to identify with the home that's in heaven
• 19:50 and the home...the Canaan that God had promised them.
• 19:54 It's so awesome.
• 19:55 The acacia wood box that the bones of Joseph came up with were covered with gold
• 19:59 just as the Ark of the Covenant was acacia wood covered with gold.
• 20:03 And it's covered so you can't really see what's going on inside.
• 20:08 There's some mystery in God.
• 20:09 There's always some mystery.
• 20:11 There's always more to God than our minds can figure out.
• 20:14 The bones come up out of Africa
• 20:16 just as Jesus came up out of Africa, out of Egypt.
• 20:19 There's something about this coming up.
• 20:21 The bride comes up out of the wilderness
• 20:23 leaning on the arm of her Beloved.
• 20:25 Song of Solomon 8:5...
• 20:27 Who is this coming out of the wilderness leaning on the arm of her beloved?
• 20:31 She's covered in gold.
• 20:32 She's hidden but she's leaning on the arm of her beloved.
• 20:36 And we're in that season when the bride is being revealed,
• 20:40 the bridegroom is seeing the bride
• 20:42 and the bride is beginning to see the bridegroom.
• 20:44 The dreams that Joseph had have come true.
• 20:48 The sheaves bowing down are a picture that every knee shall bow and every tongue confess
• 20:54 that Yeshua HaMashiach is LORD to the Glory of God the Father.
• 20:58 And the sun, moon and the stars all revolve around the finished work of the cross.
• 21:11 Joseph's embrace marks the close of a painful chapter in the life of his family.
• 21:16 But the story continues.
• 21:18 Joseph's father Jacob would be reunited with his beloved son
• 21:22 whom he thought was no more.
• 21:25 Jacob would bless all his sons.
• 21:27 And their families in turn would give birth to the 12 tribes of Israel.
• 21:34 The future of a mighty nation had just begun.
• 21:43 And so the nation of Israel will be born
• 21:45 and the 12 tribes will come.
• 21:47 And triumph and tribulation and incredible changes
• 21:50 will take place over the 1,000 year history.
• 21:53 This really is a story
• 21:54 of Romans 8:28
• 22:02 And we really see that throughout the life of Joseph.
• 22:04 And now this very poignant gathering of the tribes together
• 22:08 the future being unveiled
• 22:11 and Jacob is about to come into the scene, prophesy and then be gathered to his fathers.
• 22:15 Right, but also Myles I just want us to remember how important it is to forgive.
• 22:21 Because if Joseph hadn't postured himself to forgive
• 22:25 and be ready to forgive when that time came,
• 22:28 the opportunity could have been lost.
• 22:31 And I think a lot of us face those exact same opportunities in our own family.
• 22:35 There's been betrayal
• 22:37 or there's been heartache
• 22:38 or there's been misunderstanding or accusation.
• 22:41 And it's our job, as a believer it's our privilege
• 22:45 to receive his forgiveness and release that forgiveness in and through us to those around us.
• 22:51 And then we'll see God work miracles.
• 22:53 I mean miracles.
• 22:55 And he loved not only in word, but he loved in deed.
• 22:57 He sent provisions back with the brothers to go get his father Jacob.
• 23:02 And when Jacob heard his son was alive
• 23:06 can you imagine that much time going by?
• 23:09 I mean he's like 130 now and his son - it's been so many years
• 23:13 he thought for sure he was dead.
• 23:15 But he's alive.
• 23:16 And it says in the Scripture that he revived.
• 23:18 So faith revives us.
• 23:20 Wherever you feel like you're dull or you're unable to feel
• 23:27 let God revive you in fresh faith today
• 23:30 to see his miraculous provision to you and to your family
• 23:34 and then to the lineages to come.
• 23:37 You just said something really, really important
• 23:39 about the power of forgiveness.
• 23:40 I think there's a connection between resurrection life itself and forgiveness.
• 23:45 I know that people look at how beautiful you are
• 23:47 and they must think I must be a really great husband, which I am,
• 23:50 however the reality is that we have to learn to forgive each other every day.
• 23:53 We work through things.
• 23:54 We have to not let accounts get stale and old.
• 23:57 It's important to keep fresh accounts, to keep short accounts
• 24:01 and work things through immediately.
• 24:03 I remember back in Bible College...
• 24:06 That's what I love about our marriage the most
• 24:08 is that we're able to recover quickly.
• 24:11 You know if you hold a grudge or if you keep bitterness
• 24:14 it's just a downer you know?
• 24:16 And it's when you can forgive quickly and move on
• 24:19 and know that you're going to get through it.
• 24:21 Yeah, there's a larger purpose involved.
• 24:24 And you know it's so sad sometimes we encounter people through counseling, etc.
• 24:27 where they are holding a grudge
• 24:30 or they are able to just camp at a place like that.
• 24:33 And what would have happened if Joseph hadn't allowed God to shape him
• 24:37 into the one who not only could forgive
• 24:40 but allow this incredible emotional trauma
• 24:43 to work through him in order to be a blessing to the entire world.
• 24:47 I really feel like there's a word out there for somebody today
• 24:50 that if you feel like your marriage is dead
• 24:52 and if it feels dull and it feels lack of luster or life
• 24:56 let God give you fresh love,
• 24:58 fresh faith and fresh forgiveness for one another
• 25:01 and he will revive even...
• 25:03 If he can revive the dead bones of Israel
• 25:05 he can revive a marriage if we let him breathe on us.
• 25:09 Yep...yep
• 25:10 I think about Joseph being able to say,
• 25:12 I think it was in chapter 45
• 25:14 he was able to say, you meant it for evil.
• 25:16 And he's at that point comforting the brethren.
• 25:18 They're coming to him repenting and saying, Oh what have we done
• 25:22 and he said, you know you meant it for evil but God meant it for good to save many people alive.
• 25:27 And what a testimony to be able to see beyond the personal pain
• 25:32 and see the larger purposes of God.
• 25:34 And he didn't stop there.
• 25:35 He could have said, well you're not responding like I want you to respond.
• 25:39 They didn't say a word.
• 25:40 They were like...
• 25:41 They were just silent.
• 25:44 But he just stood his ground in that love and that forgiveness
• 25:47 and he helped them work it through.
• 25:49 Yeah, exactly.
• 25:51 I think sometimes we can't go on the basis of the other's response.
• 25:54 We need to do what is right before the LORD no matter what.
• 25:57 And that's really a lot of what we see in this opening of Genesis.
• 26:00 Think about this number 70.
• 26:02 Jacob has 70 people in his family.
• 26:04 There were 70 days the Egyptians will mourn for him.
• 26:07 There were 70 nations that will eventually be named by God and sacrifices made for.
• 26:13 Moses will have 70 counselors.
• 26:15 And Jesus will send out the 70.
• 26:17 And I think there's a mystery in the fullness of that.
• 26:20 But think about this.
• 26:21 7 is the number of spiritual fullness.
• 26:23 10 is the number of testing.
• 26:26 70 is 10 times 7.
• 26:28 If we're going to have spiritual fullness there's going to be testing but God is going to
• 26:33 find a way to make it all work for good.
• 26:35 Again, according to Romans 8:28
• 26:37 That's beautiful... that's beautiful.
• 26:39 I think that we can't give up.
• 26:41 We need to move forward.
• 26:42 I think about the life of Israel.
• 26:43 Like when we say Israel now I'm thinking of Jacob because his name is "Israel".
• 26:47 But the country, the nation, this small group of people
• 26:51 and God says, I didn't choose you because you were stronger and bigger.
• 26:54 I chose you because you were frail and because you were small
• 26:58 that my name could be glorified.
• 27:00 And that's still going on today.
• 27:02 That's why we always choose to stand with Israel.
• 27:05 We understand they're not perfect.
• 27:06 We understand it's not a perfect nation.
• 27:08 Let God judge his own.
• 27:10 That's good.
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