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Caption transcript for Joseph: Dreamer/Redeemer — “Brother for Brother” (7/9)

• 00:31 From the pit to the palace,
• 00:34 From certain death to abundant life,
• 00:38 Joseph the Patriarch
• 00:40 who pictures Messiah.
• 00:52 Shalom, I'm Myles Weiss
• 00:54 and I'm Katharine Weiss.
• 00:55 And we want to welcome you to our series on Joseph,
• 00:57 the Dreamer and the Redeemer.
• 00:59 Yeah, he's really a picture of Yeshua at the end of the age
• 01:03 being revealed to not be an Egyptian,
• 01:05 to not be a foreigner or a Gentile
• 01:07 But to be actually the LORD of Lords, KING of Kings, the Messiah of the Jews.
• 01:12 You know, Amos 8:11 speaks about
• 01:14 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 01:17 There's a time of a famine
• 01:18 of the hearing of the Word.
• 01:20 And we're really in a time like that right now.
• 01:21 There's Biblical illiteracy.
• 01:23 People are not aware of what the Bible teaches.
• 01:26 And the Bible is the only way to understand what's going on in the world.
• 01:29 Right, and not only that,
• 01:31 but we're also in a time where Joseph now is testing his brothers.
• 01:34 They've come, they need bread, they're in a time of famine.
• 01:37 They've come because their father has sent them.
• 01:39 But Joseph recognizes them and realizes
• 01:42 that he needs to see if there's been repentance on their part.
• 01:45 So he's asking them to go back and to bring the other brother.
• 01:49 But can you imagine Myles what it would be like
• 01:52 for their Dad Jacob to send their youngest son with them?
• 01:57 That would be horrific.
• 01:58 That would be hard.
• 02:00 So Jacob is wrestling but he does come through.
• 02:04 So let's pick up are narrative where it is right now,
• 02:07 where Jacob is distressed but dealing with the goings on in Egypt.
• 02:16 Jacob is delighted at the sight of his sons and the grain
• 02:20 but Jacob's joy will be short-lived.
• 03:38 You know, the brothers are now returning back
• 03:41 to speak to their father about what they've encountered in Egypt.
• 03:44 They went down to get grain
• 03:46 and they found a stern response
• 03:48 from the second in command.
• 03:49 He said, you've come to spy out this land.
• 03:52 And they said, No!
• 03:53 We have other brothers behind us back in the land, and our father too.
• 03:58 We're not spies, we're just simply hungry people wanting bread.
• 04:02 And he said, you will not be able to take Simeon away from here unless you bring Benjamin.
• 04:08 So they come back.
• 04:09 They tell their father about what has been told to them.
• 04:12 And you know what?
• 04:14 Denial is broken.
• 04:16 It's the first time that we see Jacob say,
• 04:18 You will not bereave me of not only Joseph, Simeon and now Benjamin.
• 04:23 You know, it's notable, the Rabbis teach
• 04:26 that they left Simeon behind because his name means "hearing"
• 04:31 And the Midrash, the teaching of the Rabbis over the centuries, has been related to
• 04:35 the fact that they believe that Simeon was the one who threw Joseph in the hole
• 04:40 and then did not listen when he heard the cries of Joseph.
• 04:43 And so what poetic justice is being played out here?
• 04:46 Another one that they say,
• 04:48 is that at some point Benjamin tells the story of his life after Joseph is gone
• 04:51 and how he named his 10 children after Joseph in certain ways.
• 04:56 That he names one " Huppim "
• 04:58 because Joseph wasn't at his wedding.
• 05:00 He names one " Ehi " which means "brother"
• 05:02 because Joseph wasn't there to be his beloved brother.
• 05:05 It's such a very emotional teaching
• 05:07 that's come down through the centuries.
• 05:09 One final one that's kind of interesting
• 05:11 is that Joseph seems to supernaturally seek them in order
• 05:16 because he knew their ages.
• 05:18 And he purposely put Benjamin next to himself,
• 05:21 gave him 5 times the blessing at the table
• 05:23 in order to say to the brothers,
• 05:26 this is what it's like when someone is favored.
• 05:28 How will you react to the favoritism that I'm showing this one
• 05:32 as Jacob had shown favoritism to me?
• 05:35 Will you judge?
• 05:36 Will you withdraw?
• 05:37 Will you hate?
• 05:38 Will you do the wrong thing?
• 05:40 Or will you understand that it's God's sovereignty that puts favor on one and elevates him.
• 05:45 And so we have things we can learn from the Rabbis
• 05:48 as we continue in the Biblical narrative.
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• 07:08 Jacob had hoped that time would somehow change things.
• 07:12 But the famine continues.
• 07:14 No crops...
• 07:15 Empty grain sacks...
• 07:17 Without bread on the table
• 07:19 Jacob's family could soon die of starvation.
• 07:23 The writing was on the wall.
• 07:25 His sons would have to return to Egypt...
• 07:28 with Benjamin.
• 07:34 As we get to the point of the
• 07:36 reunion of all of the sons
• 07:39 I can't help but think about
• 07:41 how the Gospel is revealed
• 07:43 through the Old Testament stories.
• 07:46 The birth of Jacob's sons,
• 07:48 the 12 Tribes,
• 07:49 actually tell the story of our relationship with Messiah
• 07:52 and our walking into life with him.
• 07:55 Think about it.
• 07:56 The firstborn son, his name is "Reuben"
• 07:59 and it means "See, a son",
• 08:01 pointing to Yeshua ,
• 08:02 pointing to the firstborn of many brethren, the Messiah.
• 08:07 The second son, "Simeon"
• 08:09 whose name means "Hearing".
• 08:11 Think about that.
• 08:12 We see the son and then we hear,
• 08:14 this is the Son of God.
• 08:15 We begin to be drawn to him
• 08:17 and that's why the third son is "Levi"
• 08:20 which means "to be joined with"
• 08:21 And now a considering, the being joined with the Son of God.
• 08:26 Fourth son is "Judah" whose name means "Praise".
• 08:29 Once we begin to get a hold of the fact that
• 08:31 this story is real, it's Jewish, it's Gospel,
• 08:34 then we are ready to praise the LORD.
• 08:37 And then comes "Dan".
• 08:39 Dan means "Judgment"
• 08:40 and our sins judged.
• 08:42 And if we are faithful enough to say, yes I am the man; I am a sinner in need of a Savior.
• 08:47 And then we begin the wrestling match.
• 08:49 "Naphtali" the next son means "Wrestling".
• 08:52 We wrestle with God until he wins.
• 08:55 Which is certainly what happened to me.
• 08:56 It happened to many of you.
• 08:58 And then we become part of "Gad" which means "Troop".
• 09:00 We're joined to the body, to the body of Christ, the body of Messiah.
• 09:04 And we have a family which leads to "Asher" the next born son
• 09:08 whose name means "Joy".
• 09:10 And there's joy because the life is in the blood
• 09:12 and the blood flows through the body.
• 09:15 The next son is "Issachar".
• 09:16 Remember the sons of Issachar knew the times and seasons.
• 09:19 It's a picture of wisdom.
• 09:20 We begin to grow with the LORD.
• 09:22 We begin to learn about who he is.
• 09:24 And we come to "Zebulun"
• 09:26 whose name means "Occupy".
• 09:27 We find our destiny, our placement in the body and in this life
• 09:31 and what we're supposed to do with the life that we've been given.
• 09:34 And then comes "Joseph".
• 09:36 Joseph means "Fruitful" or "God has added"
• 09:39 and praise the LORD if we faithfully continue to walk with him
• 09:42 we become more and more fruitful, we grow up into mature sons of God.
• 09:47 And the last and final name of the tribe is "Benjamin",
• 09:51 "The Son of my Right Hand".
• 09:53 And it pictures the warrior picking up the sword,
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• 16:22 So we are in this
• 16:23 deep, deep time for Jacob
• 16:26 wrestling with the giving up of his sons,
• 16:29 the loss, the threat of moral loss.
• 16:32 It's just a really difficult time as a parent.
• 16:36 It's hard to imagine.
• 16:37 Well, you know, maybe we haven't been second in the command to Pharaoh
• 16:41 but we've been in an opportunity
• 16:43 where we could get back at somebody who has done us wrong.
• 16:46 And maybe God has elevated us so we could retaliate.
• 16:51 But God is even helping Joseph to have restraint now at this time.
• 16:56 He's simply measuring out to see if the brothers have changed
• 17:00 And yes, Jacob is having to send now his youngest one Benjamin.
• 17:05 And I can't imagine losing or sending my youngest son ever.
• 17:10 Stephen...
• 17:11 Actually Stephen Joseph.
• 17:13 I named him after Joseph.
• 17:15 The LORD named him that.
• 17:16 And he is a crown to us.
• 17:18 And so for the heartbreak of Jacob to have to send another son away
• 17:24 not knowing if he'd return takes a great amount of faith.
• 17:28 And that's what we see through the Patriarchs of the wrestling
• 17:32 and yet God sustaining them.
• 17:34 It's hard for us as parents to relate to what it would be like
• 17:38 to go through what Jacob is going through.
• 17:40 But in a way, his earlier life before he was changed to Israel
• 17:44 and the deception that he was involved in, in different ways
• 17:47 now is coming back on him in a certain way.
• 17:49 There's a measure of recompense going on
• 17:53 but it's still heartbreaking for us as we looked at his parents.
• 17:57 Isaiah 55:6 says,
• 18:04 And that's what we're seeing now.
• 18:06 The family is going to have to call on the LORD in a new way
• 18:09 as they go back to Egypt to confront this man
• 18:13 who they do not yet know is actually their brother Joseph.
• 18:16 Let's go there.
• 19:29 The journey to Egypt would be different this time.
• 19:33 Jacob's sons were taking the very best they had in exchange for grain
• 19:38 and for the return of their brother Simeon.
• 19:41 Most importantly they were accompanied by their youngest brother Benjamin
• 19:47 just as Joseph had requested.
• 19:50 This time it was life or death.
• 19:57 As you know, my Jewish people read through the Bible
• 20:01 year by year, week by week.
• 20:03 And this passage about the reunion
• 20:05 and the part of the story we're at now is called Mikeitz ".
• 20:09 And it means "at the end of".
• 20:11 Isn't that amazing that this story of Joseph,
• 20:14 the end of the book of " Bereshit ", "Genesis"
• 20:18 is about the end of the age as well.
• 20:21 It's so perfect, it's so appropriate
• 20:23 because the story of Joseph is about the hidden-ness of Messiah
• 20:28 and the Revelation of Messiah as the Deliverer of Jacob.
• 20:32 Think about it.
• 20:33 It's called...
• 20:38 And Joseph is hidden from his brethren,
• 20:41 he's hidden from Jacob.
• 20:43 He has Egyptian clothing,
• 20:44 an Egyptian wife.
• 20:46 And he is shaved like an Egyptian.
• 20:48 He has an Egyptian name that has been given to him by Pharaoh.
• 20:51 He is unrecognizable to his own brothers, his own Jewish people.
• 20:56 Isn't that the situation that we've had with Jesus for 2,000 years?
• 21:01 I know growing up in New York I thought he was a foreign god.
• 21:04 I thought the one thing that defines the Jewish people
• 21:08 is that we do not believe in Jesus.
• 21:10 And yet here we are near the end of the age
• 21:12 looking for the coming of Messiah,
• 21:14 looking for the return of Yeshua .
• 21:16 And he is being revealed in our midst
• 21:18 to Jews and Gentiles alike
• 21:20 as the Jewish Messiah.
• 21:23 Romans 11:26 says,
• 21:32 And that's what we're seeing in the story of Joseph
• 21:35 as Jacob and his children are going to be reunited
• 21:39 with the one that has been lost but now is found.
• 21:41 And it's also what we're seeing on planet earth as
• 21:44 we are turning towards the LORD and he's turning towards us.
• 21:48 And the sins of Jacob are being washed away.
• 21:51 What an incredible story.
• 21:53 What a beautiful, poetic story
• 21:56 about the hidden-ness of God being revealed in our midst.
• 22:00 And the only answer available to us
• 22:02 being revealed as Yeshua HaMachiach .
• 22:09 Just as Joseph is hidden from his brothers
• 22:11 and they don't yet know who he is,
• 22:13 you may be asking as you see this program,
• 22:15 who is this Jesus that these two are calling " Yeshua "?
• 22:19 What is this person?
• 22:20 Who is this Messiah, the Savior that they're talking about?
• 22:24 And that's a really good question to ask.
• 22:26 I know that there have been times in our lives
• 22:28 when we had to ask that very question.
• 22:31 Are you who you say you are?
• 22:33 And come out of hiding.
• 22:35 Ask the LORD to reveal himself.
• 22:36 To come out of hiding.
• 22:38 He's not consciously hiding from us
• 22:40 but our own sin keeps us from seeing who he really is.
• 22:44 Right, he wants to reveal himself to us.
• 22:46 but sometimes we don't want to receive him in the way he's coming.
• 22:50 He might be coming with a hand of love.
• 22:53 Or he might be coming with a hand of correction.
• 22:56 God is for us.
• 22:57 That much I can say.
• 22:58 No matter where you are he's for you.
• 23:00 You might feel like he's not but he is.
• 23:03 He's a good God and his mercies are new every morning.
• 23:06 And he's going to show himself strong on Joseph's behalf and on Jacob's behalf.
• 23:11 That's good.
• 23:12 So that's what this program is really about,
• 23:14 that we want to see the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
• 23:17 reveal himself to everyone who sees this.
• 23:20 We're blessed to be in partnership with Eitan Shishkoff
• 23:23 He's a pioneer, a Messianic leader in Israel.
• 23:27 And he is going to speak to us now about this revelation
• 23:31 of who Jesus is at the end of the age
• 23:33 and also the cooperation that God is building between Jews and Gentiles.
• 23:38 Let's hear from Eitan right now.
• 23:42 In the saga of Joseph's life
• 23:44 we see that his time with
• 23:46 the Gentiles was a key time
• 23:49 in all that God used him to do.
• 23:51 And this is also reflected in the life and
• 23:54 in the relationships of the Jewish people and of Israel.
• 23:58 We read in the book of Isaiah, chapter 60...
• 24:07 and just a couple of verses later...
• 24:15 I wrote of this in my book, "What About Us?"
• 24:18 The roll of the Gentiles in Israel's end time revival.
• 24:23 Which I believe that the life of Joseph carries a key
• 24:27 to the relationship between the Jewish people, especially Messianic Jews
• 24:31 and the Gentile believers, the disciples of Jesus around the world.
• 24:36 This relationship is so strong in the life of Joseph
• 24:41 that I can't escape the parallels with the 60th chapter of the book of Isaiah
• 24:49 where God also speaks about the fact that the sons of foreigners will build your walls.
• 24:54 He talks in glowing terms about how the Gentiles will be used
• 24:59 at the end of the age to help prosper Israel
• 25:02 and really to help us come back to a faith in the Living God.
• 25:07 We know that we're not self-sufficient as a nation
• 25:09 neither economically nor otherwise.
• 25:12 And we greatly prize our relationship of friendship
• 25:17 with America, with other nations.
• 25:20 There are growing relationships with places in Asia like India and China
• 25:23 that are becoming also economic superpowers.
• 25:27 What this tells me is that there are very interesting days ahead
• 25:31 in which we will see the parallels
• 25:33 between Joseph and modern Israel repeated again and again.
• 25:37 Watch for it...
• 25:39 and I believe you will be inspired.
• 25:42 Just as we see this remarkable connection between Egypt and the Israelites
• 25:47 we're going to see in the days ahead strange alliances and new treaties;
• 25:52 new alignment of nations as nations decide
• 25:54 if they're going to be "sheep nations" - that is, for Israel and for the LORD,
• 25:59 or "goat nations" - turning against Israel and against the LORD.
• 26:02 And we really see that.
• 26:04 And I'm grateful to Eitan that he touched on that.
• 26:06 And his new book is about that.
• 26:08 His book is called "What About Us?"
• 26:10 speaking of the Gentiles at the end of the age.
• 26:12 And he goes through the history of cooperation between the two.
• 26:16 So watch for new alignments
• 26:17 and pray for America
• 26:19 that we will be a "sheep nation"
• 26:20 Yeah, we're involved with several things overseas,
• 26:22 not only what we do here
• 26:24 but more and more Asia and India and South America are standing with Israel like never before.
• 26:31 And it's the Americas that we don't see so often in Israel.
• 26:35 But it is the nations that are coming
• 26:38 and I don't want you to be left out of the blessing
• 26:41 that's in it for us as we stand with Israel, we stand with his chosen people,
• 26:45 and we align ourselves scripturally to what he's doing.
• 26:48 We are in the days, the end of days.
• 26:51 And we know how it turns out and where we want to line up don't we Myles?
• 26:55 We don't want to be on the wrong side of history.
• 26:57 No we don't.
• 26:58 And America has a wonderful history of standing with Israel.
• 27:01 And we're jealous over that.
• 27:02 We want that to continue because we know as Genesis 12:1-3 says
• 27:07 there will be a blessing in it
• 27:09 for those who bless the sons of Abraham.
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