Sermon Tone Analysis

And He Settled

Torah: Gen. 37:1-40:23

Haftarah: Amos 2.6-3.8

Gospel: Matt 1.18-25

INTRODUCTION:

After the promise of the seed of the woman

The Book of Genesis is about the FIRSTBORN

Is this the one who was promised?

Firstborn # 01060 bechor

child emulates parent

Gematria bet haf rash 2, 20, 200

Genesis 30:24

“So she called his name Joseph, and said, “The LORD shall add to me another son.””

# 3130 Joseph = Let him add

It is Joseph who will continue the mission which was entrusted to Jacob by Abraham and Isaac.

That is why in the genealogy of Jacob - Joseph is listed first, as though he were the first born of Jacob.

Genesis 37:2

“This is the history of Jacob.

Joseph…

Although a savior, Joseph was not THE Savior of the promise, but a ‘type’ of Him.

Yeshua the Firstborn

Colossians 1:15, 18 ““He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.”

“And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the pre-eminence.”

Torah: Genesis 37:1-40:23

He settled:

Jacob longed for shalom after having dealt with Laban, and then his frightening encounter with Esau.

He turns to the promise God had given Abraham his grandfather.

He turns to the land where Isaac his father was a stranger.

He turns to the land of Canaan.

history #08435 towlᵉdah to-led-aw’

descendants, generations, genealogies

lad #05288 na‘ar nah’-ar a boy, lad, servant, youth, retainer

The adolescent Joseph is working as a kind of apprentice shepherd with his older brothers.

Hebrew naʿar is also used in this sense in describing Joshua’s relationship to Moses.

Bilhah and Zilpah

The order of the wives is here reversed since Joseph would have been naturally closer to Bilhah, his late mother’s maid.

The concubines were until now referred to as “maidservants” when mentioned together with Rachel and Leah.

The use of “wives” here, as Ramban suggests, may indicate a new status acquired after their mistresses had both died.

The outer garment identified you – who you were.

It is interesting that the text uses the name Israel as opposed to Jacob, implying that the love was not just sentimental but on a level that pertained to the nation of Israel as God's people.

Leah still rejected, and Reuben and brothers rejected

Rachel accepted - so Joseph and Benjamin accepted

Genesis 29:30 (NKJV)

Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also loved Rachel more than Leah.

And he served with Laban still another seven years.

Genesis 30:8 (NKJV)

Then Rachel said, “With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed.”

So she called his name Naphtali.

Leah speaking to Rachel

Genesis 30:15 (NKJV)

But she said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband?

Would you take away my son’s mandrakes also?”

And Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

Genesis 37:4 TREE OF LIFE VERSION

When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak to him in shalom.

“binding sheaves in the field”?

Genesis 47:3 (NKJV)

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.”

Wheat foreshadows Egypt

Prophetic words and not just concerning Joseph in Egypt;

Gideon, Joshua, Jeroboam, and Jehu we're all descendants of Joseph.

Hebrews 1:2 (NKJV)

has in these last days spoken to us by His Son, whom He has appointed heir of all things, through whom also He made the worlds;

“And they hated him”

The threefold repetition of this phrase (vv.

4, 5, 8) suggests an ever-increasing intensity of hostile emotions.

Philippians 2:9–11 (NKJV)

Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Throughout the Joseph narratives, dreams come in pairs, in order to demonstrate their seriousness

Genesis 41:32 (NKJV)

And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

Jacob expresses himself as taking the dream seriously

This particular episode seems to assume, in flat contradiction of the preceding narrative, that Rachel is still alive, though Benjamin has already been born (there are eleven brothers in the dream bowing to Joseph).

“bow down to the earth”

Joseph has not uttered this phrase.

In adding it, Jacob subconsciously echoes the manner in which he himself had made obeisance to his brother Esau.

Its use here is an intimation of future developments, for it appears in the narrative each time the brothers bow to Joseph in Egypt.

Genesis 42:6 (NKJV)

Now Joseph was governor over the land; and it was he who sold to all the people of the land.

And Joseph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the earth.

Genesis 43:26 (NKJV)

And when Joseph came home, they brought him the present which was in their hand into the house, and bowed down before him to the earth.

Genesis 44:14 (NKJV)

So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there; and they fell before him on the ground.

Luke 2:19 (NKJV)

But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.

Luke 2:51 (NKJV)

Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but His mother kept all these things in her heart.

Luke 2:33 (NKJV)

And Joseph and His mother marveled at those things which were spoken of Him.

Luke 2:51 (NKJV)

Then He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them, but His mother kept all these things in her heart.

Shechem A distance of some 50 miles (80 km.).

The entire journey must have taken about five days by foot

1 Samuel 17:17 (NKJV)

Then Jesse said to his son David, “Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dried grain and these ten loaves, and run to your brothers at the camp.

Then they said to one another, Look, this dreamer <01167> <02472> is coming!

# 02472 chalowm khal-ome’ dream

# 01167 ba‘al bah’-al noun of relationship used to characterize, master of dreams