D - Joseph Pt. 10
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13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Last week we kind of wrapped up our story if Joseph. We were able to spend some time learning that God had a plan for Joseph’s life since the beginning. And in that, even though we go through difficulty, God has a plan for our lives as well. At the end of all of this Joseph says this:
5 And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you.
6 For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping.
7 But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Joseph recognizes that God was the one who sent Joseph, it was not his brothers that hurt him. Although his brothers’ intention was to hurt Joseph, Joseph turns it around and says, that’s cool. God had my back the entire time.
As we read the Old Testament though, we have to read it with this understanding:
The entire Bible is about God and His plan to save the world.
Which means, that when you and I read it, we can’t separate the Old Testament from the New Testament. So when we read the Old Testament, we must:
Read the Old Testament with the understanding that its intention is to reveal the Jesus that is to come.
What does that mean? The the Old Testament is going to reveal Jesus to us. There are so many stories in the Old Testament that are referring to Jesus. In other words, this story is not just about Joseph and how he saves his family, it’s about Jesus too. What? How?
In the Old Testament, God uses a specific set of characters that are supposed to represent Jesus. Those people are called:
Archetypes or Types of Jesus
This person is supposed to be a representation of Jesus. And Joseph is one of those people. He is not the only one. There are others. Moses, Joshua, David, Gideon and so many others are also Archetypes of Jesus in the Old Testament. So today, we are going to look back at Joseph’s stories and see how Joseph parallels Jesus.
Here is the first one:
Joseph’s brothers plotted to kill him.
The Jews plotted to kill Jesus.
So, if you remember after Joseph’s brothers learn that Joseph is loved more by his father, and that Joseph is acting a little proud. So his brothers get together and make a plan to kill him. But instead, Joseph is saved by his oldest brother and instead of getting killed, Joseph is thrown into a pit.
11 He said to them, “If any of you has a sheep and it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will you not take hold of it and lift it out?
12 How much more valuable is a person than a sheep! Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”
13 Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” So he stretched it out and it was completely restored, just as sound as the other.
14 But the Pharisees went out and plotted how they might kill Jesus.
So as soon as Jesus performs a miracle, there are a group of people called the pharisees that were also Jealous of Jesus, and made a plan to kill him.
I am only going to go through 3 examples. Here’s the second one:
2. Joseph foretold he was going to be king
Jesus does the same thing.
If you remember, Joseph spends some time explaining his dreams to his brothers. One of his dreams is that one day, the sun and the moon and the stars would bow down to Joseph. The sun represents Joseph’s dad, the moon his mom and the stars his brothers. And the whole family was upset with Joseph. and this is what his dad said:
10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
Jesus actually does the same thing in the New Testament right before He is sentenced to death:
63 But Jesus remained silent. The high priest said to him, “I charge you under oath by the living God: Tell us if you are the Messiah, the Son of God.”
64 “You have said so,” Jesus replied. “But I say to all of you: From now on you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven.”
And once Jesus said He is also going to be King, or in this case that He is God, everyone that heard it got upset.
Here’es the last one for today:
3. Joseph suffered, but God’s intention was to save his family.
Jesus suffered, but God’s intention was to save the world.
Joseph recognizes that God had a plan all along and that all of the suffering was worth it. Because through that, he was able to save all of his family.
The book of acts says this about Jesus’ death and resurrection:
23 This man was handed over to you by God’s deliberate plan and foreknowledge; and you, with the help of wicked men, put him to death by nailing him to the cross.
24 But God raised him from the dead, freeing him from the agony of death, because it was impossible for death to keep its hold on him.
It was our intention to get rid of Jesus, But it was always God’s plan to raise him from the dead to save us. And all of this culminates to something beautiful:
13 for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
It provides us with the opportunity to be saved. But my question to you is: Can you see how God is trying to reveal Jesus to us in the Old Testament? If you want more examples, I have a paper that gives you more examples of how Joseph Parallels Jesus.
