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Joseph : Introduction
Intro : Rehearsal Dinner Story
Genesis
On the night before our wedding.
Beth and I had a rehearsal dinner.
We didn’t really rehearse dinner be we had a rehearsal (of the wedding) & dinner afterward.
The wedding coordinator was a very imposing figure.
She was a family friend, of my wife’s family, but I had never met her.
Susan Russo entered the room that night and it was very clear that she was in charge.
She stands at nearly 6’ tall.
I’ll never forget the very first instruction she gave at that rehearsal.
I later went on staff at that church and did a performed a few weddings with her.
She says this at the beginning of every wedding rehearsal, and I’ve adopted the phrase as well.
She said: “No matter what happens in the next 24 hrs., our job (talking to the family, the bridesmaids, and groomsmen) is to make sure that by tomorrow evening these two are married.
She painted a picture of what was to come...
No matter what!
So in those next 24 hrs here’s what happened:
Found ants in our apartment.
The toilet clogged
Beth’s family ended up stalling the wedding b/c her grandmother was late
I and my groomsmen were stalling the wedding b/c one of the singers was in a car accident on the way to the church.
Some “friends” thought it would be funny to let the air out of my truck tires
However, what Susan Russo spoke over us came to pass: No matter what happened, at the end of the day on Nov. 20, 2004, Beth and I were married.
What was foretold from the beginning came to pass, it was a wild a crazy journey, a roller coaster of a day.
No one told of us the crazy… but we did know how this thing would end.
This brings us to
We’re starting a series of the life of Joseph and here in Genesis we’re introduced to our main character.
And in this brief passaged we’re told the end at the beginning.
Joseph tells his brothers how this thing ends even though we are at the beginning of the major events in the life of Joseph.
Let’s read:
Pray
God to reveal himself through his word
The Holy Spirit to be our teacher
Genesis 27:1
Jacob (Patriarch)
Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob
Jacob means liar/deciever
He deceived his father and stole his brother Esau’s birthright
He fled into exile - Worked 7 years for Rachel and married Leah, worked another 7 and married Rachel.
Along the way there was a child bearing competition between Rachel and Leah and their maid servants who also became Jacob’s wives… in all Jacob had 12 sons.
these sons would become the leaders (or at least roots) of the 12 tribes of Israel.
Jacob, it would seem has fulfilled the promise given to Abraham
He’s living in the land of Canaan.
Land promised to Abraham
He has many children (well on the path of establishing a nation)
The story could simply go… “ and the were fruitful and multiplied… and eventually ruled the land.”
But that was never God’s plan...
Genesis 15:
The story of Joseph is the fulfillment of God’s word given to Abram.
tells the entire story of Joseph in 4 verse.
It even gives us God’s purposes behind all he does!!!
get’s into the details of those 4 verses get’s into the lives of the men and women living out God’s purposes and plans.
The fulfillment of these words about sojourning in a foreign land, being servants for 400 years, and leaving with great possessions all begins with a 17 year old boy.
In God is revealing how he will accomplish/fulfill his promise as he is making the promise
Joseph was a boy.
The text says 17 and that is meant to make us think of a boy, not a man.
This is a time in Human history when men were living in their parents/families homes until their 30’s or 40’s.
Even Jacob stayed w/ Laban his father-in-law until he was in his 80’s
I’m barely nearing 40 and I look at 20 somethings getting married, and I think to myself, “kids!”
vs. 2
Is Joseph being a tattletale or is he simply doing what is expected of him as a shepherd?
I dont’ think it really matters in the narrative, other than to realize this behavior does seem somewhat childish.
One thing to note is, and we’ll see this in the next section, this portion of scripture is narrative literature, but it is by no means neutral.
What do I mean by that.
The writer of Genesis is not simply reporting the facts.
This is not journalistic writings.
It is narrative.
The author, Moses, throughout Genesis and Exodus, provides plenty of commentary on the motives of the people he writes about: Pharaoh, Cain, Even his brothers in this passage.
Notice the passage doesn’t say they were mad, because of the bad report.
They might have expected him to give report if that was his job/responsibility.
They hated him because their father’s love for him.
Genesis 38:5-7
Genesis
Dreams in the ancient near east are not as simple as dreams you and I have about flying through the air, or falling and waking your self up with a jolt.
Dreams, especially reoccurring dreams were though to be extremely telling.
Interesting fact: In Egyptian hieroglyphics the left eye of Horus is translated as “dream.”
But Egyptians would never say I had a dream.
In stead they would say, “I witnessed a vision”
With that in mind you can see why Joseph’s brothers reacted the way they did!
They immediately understood what this “dream/Vision” meant.
They didn’t need to interpret it.
Their hatred of him grows because he’s favored by his father, and it seems even by God (if this dream is real).
Genesis 37:9-
The second dream.
It get’s even more specific.
here we have not only 11 stars (sheaves) bowing before Joseph, but also the moon and the stars, his father and (by now deceased) mother.
This time we don’t hear about his brother’s reaction.
We are given Jacob’s reaction.
He rebukes his son.
Never in this culture would a father ever bow to a son.
What Joseph is talking about is scadalous...
Is it any more scandalous than ? is it any more scandalous than Jacob stealing the birthright from Esau?
Is it more scandalous than Isaac being the child of the promise over Ishmael?
God’s ways are not man’s ways.
Men’s traditions have no bearing on the ways God moves in this world.
Through Joseph’s dream God is telling his people, at this time it’s just Jacob and his sons, what the end of the day will look like.
Like a wedding coordinator at the start of the rehearsal, telling the wedding party, “this is our mission.
No matter what, this is the outcome we’re all working toward.”
God is revealing the end of the story at the beginning.
We’re going to spend this summer in our Sunday gathering getting witnessing Jacob go from a 17 year old boy watching flocks to becoming the right hand of the king of Egypt.
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