I hate to say it, but evil stuff like what I read in these verses (despite the fact slavery is now illegal everywhere) still happens to a huge extent today, and most of it is never dealt with legally, even twenty years into the 21st century A.D., nearly 4,000 years after this occurs. I think it’s nuts that Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery and told their father he was dead! One thing I did notice, though, is that it says in verse 35 that Jacob has multiple daughters on top of having many sons by this time. I’m like, “Interesting…” I didn’t know this! I also found out today that Dinah is mentioned one more time in Genesis 46:15… I’m so sorry; I thought she was never mentioned again 😅😨😰 I’m like, “How embarrassing!” 😓😓😓 But even if you get something like this wrong, whether it’s in the Bible or not, God’s not embarrassed with you ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍💕💞💓💗💖💝💝💝 I do wish people were more forgiving in matters like this, though, for it’s not like I’m trying to lead anyone astray… by the way, this passage is found in pages 22-23 of my NKJV Bible, page 29 of my NASB Bible, pages 49-50 of my VOICE copy (notes and all — Joseph shouldn’t have been said to be arrogant, but we see here that Jacob had already decided in the Holy Spirit not to give his birthright blessing to Reuben because he had slept with his Jacob (Israel)’s concubine; see Genesis 35:22, and also Genesis 49:4 — this helps for Jesus to come from Judah much later, for Simeon and Levi had acted violently in Shechem, thus prompting Jacob to avert the birthright blessing for them, too; see Genesis 34:25-26, 49:5-7) — sorry, this went really far away from the main topic; I went in a tangent I couldn’t help but fall into the rabbit hole of — and pages 48-49 of my Amplified Bible (Classic Edition) copy.
Those who know me would already know what I would say when someone brings this chapter up, so I feel no need to bring it up again — it’s a long story anyway. But needless to say, I’ve learned that this culture is highly offensive to Jesus, as if God had encouraged people to persecute Him worse than the Jewish people did. The sermon that Jonathan Edwards wrote in 1741, as I’ve mentioned before, is unfortunately still a really popular thing in the Church today, and I want to undo that hateful legacy by means of getting people saved, but the political strife I’m seeing everywhere is getting in the way of that. Feels bad, man… also, have you noticed that many young adults are hated for the dreams they want to pursue? The “Christian” families who have known them all their lives are among the worst because they should’ve preached the Gospel to them. I know that was the case for me, and as a result, I got roasted so hard I couldn’t really bounce back into getting a degree, even to this day, 11 years later. At least my time at Arizona State wasn’t wasted, though… I just wish no one else had tried to drive me away from there, either. But it doesn’t matter because jobs are still hard to come by, and I’m actually convinced there may never be a lot of opportune occasions for me to seek work again, even to some extent — not to exaggerate it — getting another self-employment gig. At least I can sell things in good condition on eBay and make a pretty good living out of it, though 😊😊😊 if I play my cards right, this can actually be pretty lucrative 💰💵💳🧾 speaking of economic advantages, I pray Japan’s economy is booming in the Holy Spirit!! 📈📊 Seriously.
When Jacob had heard the fib Joseph’s brothers told him, he was inconsolable, willing to die grieving for Joseph, thinking he had died. Also, he was sold to slavery in Egypt. Some of you may recall that last year, I wrote about how Abraham lived in Egypt for a time because of a famine that was occurring in the land of Canaan. Well, it was there that Joseph later saved all humankind by the Holy Spirit giving him knowledge of dreams and interpretation of them (see chapters 40-41), thus leading him to store lots of food during another famine in Egypt. Too bad the people groups (Hebrews and Egyptians) had enough strife towards one another that they eventually enslaved them, and the Israelites found it unbearable to even get through the day (Exodus 5:1-6:9). Yet they had adopted lots of idolatries by the time they had left… and I don’t know why. Maybe it has something to do with the lack of willingness to preach God’s Name among the citizens there by many of those who knew about Him then… but I’ll get into it later; I just know that God speaks of this in Ezekiel somewhere. At least Jesus came to save the world, though (John 12:47) 😇😇😇😇😇😇😇
Any prayer requests? I haven’t gotten any still, so feel free to write me one at ron.outland4727@gmail.com! I’ll read each one, write them down, then tape them to my bedroom walls! Oh, I forgot to mention one last thing: I think Jacob’s favoritism on Joseph prompted his brothers to hate him enough to not even want to speak of him, and this continued the division Esau had started years before (Genesis 27:41). There’s hardly anyone wanting to reconcile as a result, and I honestly think that the conservative crap that’s being touted so much, even without the big elephant symbol, is promoting endless division between the rest of the people, even trying to divide the godly people, seeing that Satan’s last-ditch effort in taking people captive by means of the Bible and godly things is his most diabolical scheme yet. Sadly, because of it, and especially in the last several years, the U.S. has already lost, but if you’ve read many of my notes before, that shouldn’t be anything new. Regardless, I pray for godliness to have its way throughout each nation, and I’ll see you in the next chapter! This’ll get pretty shocking…
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