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BAMENDA | Bro Akoso Peter

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Bro Emmanuel Nanji

The account in Gen. 44 tells us about Joseph and his re-meeting with his brethren in a foreign country after their sinful act of envy in which they had lied to their father that he was dead. We see that their repeated lie about the whereabouts of Joseph had seemed so long ago that their lie seemed like truth to them.

As one sin leads to another so the brethren of Joseph told their brother, still unknown to them, their usual lie for fear of the man who had Pharaoh’s authority to do as he wished. This is a type of Christ and us today.

Judah, one of Joseph’s brethren is the spokesman for the brethren. He remarks in verses 19 and 20 of Gen. 44 to Joseph “do not let your anger burn against your servant: for you are even like Pharaoh”. This is the type of appeal we are to be daily making to Jesus. Jesus is like God, just as Joseph was like Pharaoh. It was in the power of Joseph to do as he wished to his brethren. He would not revenge but went and wept for his brethren. In Gen. 45:57 Joseph comforts his brethren with the following words: “do not grieve upon the sin of having sold me” but that was God’s way of deliverance and why Joseph was sent to Egypt. “God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth.”