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• 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 and welcome to our program, I'm Myles Weiss
• 00:55 and I'm Katharine Weiss.
• 00:56 And we want to welcome you to our series,
• 00:58 "Joseph, Dreamer - Redeemer".
• 01:00 You know, God gives us so much in the life of Joseph,
• 01:04 there's so much written about him for our own encouragement,
• 01:07 for our own exhortation and comfort.
• 01:10 Because they'll be times in our life
• 01:12 maybe God has given us a vision, given us a plan for our lives
• 01:16 but we find ourselves in a pit
• 01:18 or in a "so-called" pit and in a "so-called" prison,
• 01:22 a place where we feel limited or restricted.
• 01:25 But God is taking us to the palace to rule with him.
• 01:29 And it is in the lessons that we've learned when we're in those low places
• 01:33 that we're able to rule with compassion and wisdom.
• 01:36 That's good and we're really beginning to see Joseph as a man of compassion.
• 01:40 We're going to get to the reunion of him with his youngest brother Benjamin
• 01:45 and how poignant that is for him.
• 01:48 And all the family dynamics that are in this are so accessible for us and yet at the same time
• 01:53 they speak to the majesty of who Yeshua is;
• 01:56 Joseph as a type of Jesus.
• 01:59 And now more than ever where we are in time
• 02:02 it's so important that we understand
• 02:04 both the church international,
• 02:06 the Gentile church and Jewish people
• 02:09 understand that Yeshua is the Jewish Messiah and the Savior of the world.
• 02:13 So, let's go now to our story.
• 02:16 Let's pick it up where the reunion takes place
• 02:19 and we'll see the family begin to wrestle with the past, the present and the future.
• 02:30 The sons of Jacob arrive back in Egypt
• 02:33 and are immediately escorted into Joseph's courtyard.
• 04:01 You know, Israel is the land of miracles.
• 04:05 It's the land of the Bible.
• 04:07 It's the land where all of the stories of the Bible take place
• 04:09 and we're standing here now near a building that was built
• 04:13 to commemorate the road to Emmaus, the story of Yeshua .
• 04:17 And we thought it would be a really good place to continue our story
• 04:20 because of the revelation of who Joseph is.
• 04:23 And the reunification of Joseph and his brothers
• 04:25 is such a picture of what is happening in the day in which we're living
• 04:29 as Yeshua is revealing himself to the people of Israel.
• 04:32 Right near here is where Joshua commanded the sun to stand still in the Valley of Aijalon.
• 04:38 And right near here is where the Maccabees defeated the Seleucids
• 04:41 which led to what we know as " Hanukkah ", the Feast of Dedication.
• 04:45 We come to this story where Joseph says to his brothers,
• 04:48 you meant it for evil but God meant it for good that he might save you and many lives.
• 04:54 God has ordained that Joseph be the place of provision
• 04:58 for not only himself but his brothers and his father.
• 05:02 His father had grown so sick in heart for the loss that he occurred over these years.
• 05:07 Even when the brothers went back to tell him that Joseph was alive,
• 05:11 at first he didn't believe, he was numb, he was in unbelief.
• 05:15 And isn't that how unbelief happens in our life.
• 05:17 It causes us to shrink back and to lose heart.
• 05:20 But it says further on in the Scripture that God revived Israel.
• 05:25 God calls him Jacob... his name is Jacob
• 05:29 but every time God brings fresh revelation he calls him Israel.
• 05:34 Proverbs tells us that hope deferred makes the heart sick
• 05:36 but the answer is a tree of life.
• 05:38 And isn't that the situation that Jacob - Israel is in?
• 05:42 The blessing is going to come.
• 05:44 In fact, Exodus 20:6 tells us,
• 05:50 And that's what we're about to experience in our story
• 05:52 as they work out all the difficulty of the pain of the past
• 05:56 and look forward to the blessing of the future.
• 05:59 There's going to come some promises asked of one another.
• 06:03 Jacob is going to want to be buried in Machpelah.
• 06:05 And Joseph is going to want to be buried in Shechem where he went and saw his brothers.
• 06:10 Remember Jacob sent Joseph out originally
• 06:13 to find out about the shalom of his brothers in Shechem.
• 06:17 We say in King James "shek-hem"
• 06:19 Here in Israel we say "shkem".
• 06:21 It's been renamed "Nablus" by the Arabs who dwell there now,
• 06:25 the Muslims who dwell there now.
• 06:27 Machpelah also is in Hevron which is under contest also regarding the land itself.
• 06:33 And I think it's important to recognize that the blessing
• 06:37 that God intends for the Jewish people,
• 06:39 for the descendants of Jacob and his descendants of Joseph is including the land.
• 06:46 And this land is under discussion right now.
• 06:49 And this tiny little piece of land is continually under assault
• 06:52 that it needs to be divided up or withheld or given away
• 06:56 and it is just wrong.
• 06:57 The fact the places where these stories take place
• 07:01 it is actually the heartland of Israel.
• 07:04 This place Emmaus which means "warm springs"
• 07:06 and it's the place where the disciples will meet with Yeshua .
• 07:10 And as he reveals himself their hearts will burn with the desire to know him.
• 07:21 Our offer on this program...
• 07:23 the DVD series
• 07:25 "Joseph, Dreamer - Redeemer"
• 07:27 From his humble beginnings
• 07:29 to ascendancy as leader of the known world,
• 07:31 Joseph pictures the one to come.
• 07:34 This series lays bare the Egyptian identity of Joseph
• 07:37 as well as the centuries long Gentile view of Jesus
• 07:41 revealing him as the Jewish Messiah
• 07:44 and Savior of the world.
• 07:45 Nine 30-minute programs on two DVD's.
• 07:49 "Joseph, Dreamer - Redeemer"
• 07:55 Joseph is overcome by the sight of his brother Benjamin.
• 07:59 At last his dreams have come true.
• 08:27 Joseph lavishes upon his brothers the very best that the land of Egypt had to offer.
• 08:33 But they couldn't help but wonder,
• 08:36 what did this all mean?
• 08:38 And what would happen next?
• 08:50 Joseph tells his steward to fill their sacks with as much grain as they could hold.
• 08:55 Replace everyone's money, he says, just as you did before.
• 09:02 And here...put this in Benjamin's sack as well.
• 09:18 Emmaus is the perfect place
• 09:19 to draw the parallel
• 09:21 between Joseph revealing
• 09:23 himself to his brothers
• 09:24 and Yeshua revealing himself
• 09:26 to his brothers - the disciples.
• 09:28 Remember, all the first disciples were Jewish people.
• 09:31 And the story takes place here
• 09:33 where after the crucifixion
• 09:35 the disciples were heading west,
• 09:38 heading west as the Gospel is about to go west.
• 09:41 And they are distraught because of what had just happened in Jerusalem
• 09:44 with the crucifixion of Yeshua .
• 09:47 And he comes up to them in a somewhat humorous and interesting way
• 09:51 reveals himself to them slowly by preaching to them
• 09:54 what's been called "The Gospel according to Moses".
• 09:57 I love that.
• 09:58 Because if you look through the Hebrew Scriptures
• 10:01 with a view towards the identity of Messiah
• 10:03 it is so clear that the Torah, that the Prophets and that the Wisdom Books
• 10:08 all point to Yeshua HaMashiach .
• 10:11 They point to Jesus and the finished work of the cross.
• 10:14 The essential part of "The Gospel according to Moses"
• 10:17 is that call of Abraham to come and sacrifice his son.
• 10:21 God says, your son, your only son whom you love.
• 10:24 Now, Abraham had Ishmael as well.
• 10:28 But this was the son, the miracle son that was given to him provided by the LORD,
• 10:33 just as Yeshua was provided to Miriam and Yoseph by the LORD as well.
• 10:38 A miraculous birth.
• 10:40 Luke 24 we see the Disciples in pain, emotional pain over the crucifixion.
• 10:47 And they're walking down this road when Yeshua comes to them.
• 10:51 And he talks to them about who he is, from the Scripture.
• 10:56 Genesis 22 forms the central part of the "akedah", the "binding of Isaac".
• 11:01 Some people according to the timing of the death of Sarah
• 11:05 and her relationship to the age of Isaac, that he was probably
• 11:09 around 37 years old when he went up that mountain with Abraham.
• 11:14 You know throughout the centuries art has depicted Isaac as a young boy,
• 11:17 but he's really most likely a young man
• 11:20 because he had to voluntarily lay his life down
• 11:23 just as Yeshua would voluntarily lay his life down for you and for me.
• 11:29 He's called " Se Ha'Elohim ".
• 11:31 He is the Lamb, the Provision of God.
• 11:34 Just as we see in that story with Isaac
• 11:36 that the ram caught in the thicket produces the name of God as...
• 11:45 He knows what we need.
• 11:46 So Yeshua is unveiling who he is from the Scriptures
• 11:51 to the disciples on the road to Emmaus.
• 11:54 And then when the timing is right he breaks bread and disappears.
• 11:58 What a story.
• 12:00 The supernatural revelation of the Son of God.
• 12:03 And in our story of Joseph
• 12:05 we're coming to the unveiling of who he is to his family
• 12:09 to complete the story.
• 12:11 To let them see that there's only one way for provision to come to them.
• 12:15 And Joseph will be the provision for Egypt, for the world,
• 12:19 Yeshua as Savior of the world and for the Jewish people,
• 12:22 the Sons of Jacob, the Israel people as well.
• 12:25 My people today are looking for more of God,
• 12:29 looking for more about him.
• 12:31 We're hungry for who He is.
• 12:33 As the nations come against Jerusalem
• 12:35 it becomes more and more pressing of an issue that we know HaShem, God;
• 12:41 and that we know HaMashiach, Yeshua.
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• 14:36 And the life of Joseph is continually being a strength to all of our lives
• 14:40 to remind us that God is sovereign.
• 14:43 We might find ourselves in adverse circumstances.
• 14:46 But God has a plan.
• 14:48 And God has also given Joseph a plan
• 14:50 right about this time Myles
• 14:52 in the dialogue of the Scripture that we're studying.
• 14:54 He's put something in one of the bags.
• 14:57 And it's a silver cup.
• 14:58 And to me, we know the silver cup is the cup of redemption.
• 15:02 And whose did he put it in?
• 15:03 Benjamin's bag.
• 15:05 And he also laid a little test
• 15:06 to see how his brothers would do with this.
• 15:09 Would they throw Benjamin under the bus, in the pit?
• 15:14 Or would they lay down their lives for their brother?
• 15:17 And we're going to see what will happen.
• 15:19 It's really a picture of the awakening of conscience
• 15:21 that leads to salvation.
• 15:23 When something comes to us, adverse circumstances, or life happens,
• 15:26 and how we respond often at first is with the awakening of this conscience
• 15:31 as we find this fulfillment of the Word that says that
• 15:34 it's God's kindness leads to repentance.
• 15:37 And so we're seeing this test for the brothers
• 15:40 but also we see the sovereignty of God in this as well.
• 15:44 Because the Scripture tells us in Hosea 5:3
• 15:46 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 15:56 No matter what is going on in the life of Joseph, Jacob, the brothers;
• 16:00 God is sovereign; he's in charge.
• 16:02 And I would say that for you as well.
• 16:04 So let's pick up our Biblical narrative
• 16:06 as the family continues to work out the reunion.
• 16:13 And so Joseph's brothers head back again to Canaan,
• 16:17 their bags bursting with grain.
• 16:19 Enough, they hope, to keep bread on their tables until the end of the famine.
• 16:24 Things looked good.
• 16:27 Benjamin was safe and alongside.
• 16:30 They were certain their father would be well pleased.
• 17:43 We're here in a Byzantine Basilica
• 17:45 on the road to Emmaus,
• 17:47 that faithful place
• 17:48 where Yeshua revealed himself to the distraught disciples
• 17:51 in Luke 24.
• 17:53 And this story just as that story
• 17:55 is a story of redemption,
• 17:57 the story of Joseph and his brothers
• 17:59 the story of Joseph with Egypt.
• 18:01 It's a story of redemption even when the grain was sent by Joseph with the brothers
• 18:05 he put a silver cup in there to test them.
• 18:08 And silver cups always remind us of redemption and the wedding feast, the marriage to come.
• 18:15 You know in ancient Israel when a young man wanted to marry a girl
• 18:18 he would put a silver cup before her
• 18:20 and if she drank from that cup she drank the cup of redemption.
• 18:24 It's the same cup that Yeshua used to begin the communion service at the Passover Seder.
• 18:31 And that always looks towards the provision of God to bring humanity to himself.
• 18:37 And that's what the story of Joseph is about.
• 18:41 When Yeshua revealed himself to the disciples he preached the Gospel of Moses.
• 18:45 He told them who he was,
• 18:47 going through the Scriptures with them
• 18:48 and letting them see how every Scripture spoke about him.
• 18:53 He took them to Deuteronomy 6:5 and said to them,
• 18:56 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 19:06 And he added Leviticus 19:18
• 19:09 (Speaking Hebrew)
• 19:14 It's been said by the Rabbis
• 19:16 that the truth of the Torah could be taught standing on one foot.
• 19:20 Because those two principles, love God, love others,
• 19:23 are the core of the story of Yeshua HaMashiach .
• 19:27 It's the story of God's desire to speak through Israel to the entire world.
• 19:32 That Israel would be a light to the nations.
• 19:35 And we're in that place in our story right now.
• 19:37 Isn't God amazing?
• 19:39 The seventeen years that they had together
• 19:42 when Joseph was young before his brothers threw him in the pit
• 19:45 is matched by the 17 years that Jacob will have, Israel will have
• 19:50 with Joseph at the end of his life.
• 19:52 God bookends that loss in the middle
• 19:55 but those wonderful years on either side.
• 19:57 What a good God.
• 19:59 He is a mathematical genius.
• 20:01 He is the only one who can make these perfect symmetrical moments out of creation
• 20:07 where people themselves are living out the story of the LORD
• 20:12 And Joseph is getting ready to completely reveal himself
• 20:14 and he'll be able to say in truth, you meant it for evil but God meant it for good.
• 20:20 I don't know what you're facing in your life
• 20:22 but I do know that whatever the circumstances
• 20:25 God wants to use it together as Romans 8:28 tells us.
• 20:35 As you've surrendered your life to the LORD,
• 20:36 as you walk with the LORD,
• 20:38 as you get to know him
• 20:40 he will take even the trials and circumstances of your life and use them for good.
• 20:44 And that's what we're seeing here.
• 20:46 I'm thinking about this reunification that's coming
• 20:49 and we're going to be looking towards the empty tomb
• 20:51 and the future of all the world having to choose "yes" or "no" about Messiah.
• 20:57 And that's hidden in the story of Joseph about to be revealed.
• 21:00 And as we go from this place I wanted to call my Jewish people to the LORD.
• 21:06 I want to call you and your family to the LORD as well.
• 21:09 Just receive this as from the LORD.
• 21:12 (Myles singing)
• 21:13 ♪ Shema Yisrael ♪
• 21:16 ♪ Adonai Eloheinu ♪
• 21:20 ♪ Adonai Echad ♪♪
• 21:24 "Hear O Israel"
• 21:26 "The LORD our God, The LORD is One"
• 21:29 The story of Joseph is a hidden story
• 21:33 about Mashiach ben David
• 21:36 The One, the greater son of David who is coming as the Lion of the Tribe of Judah.
• 21:49 Not only do we see Joseph as Jesus throughout this series
• 21:52 but we begin to see ourselves in the brothers.
• 21:55 Just think about this.
• 21:56 How their conscious is awakening
• 21:58 and they're looking for ways to do what we might do as well.
• 22:01 They're trying to...they're scheming in a way to buy corners
• 22:05 there's something we can do of ourselves to get involved in this
• 22:08 instead of receiving the grace that is coming.
• 22:10 I think about when we do baptisms at the Jordan River.
• 22:14 I tell the story of Naaman who had to receive the gift of healing.
• 22:18 Or the prodigal who wakes up in the corn crib and says I'll go back and be a hired servant.
• 22:23 But God has something greater for us.
• 22:25 Well there's a personal responsibility that God wants us to take
• 22:28 when we receive that silver cup
• 22:30 we receive personal responsibility for the sin that we've committed.
• 22:34 Yes
• 22:35 And also receive it as a gift.
• 22:37 So it's both ends, just like you were saying.
• 22:39 And I love the picture of Joseph.
• 22:41 I'm gaining so much from his life and I hope you are too.
• 22:44 He's a perfect picture of Christ.
• 22:46 His brother's despised him, sold him for silver.
• 22:49 He was taken to Egypt.
• 22:51 He was put into prison.
• 22:52 He was put into shackles.
• 22:54 He was with two in the prison; two men.
• 22:57 And here we see how God through great suffering brings great exaltation to him.
• 23:03 Yes, it's amazing.
• 23:04 We are blessed throughout this series to be hearing from Eitan Shishkoff,
• 23:08 our dear friend who's a leader in the Messianic movement and in Israel.
• 23:12 Let's go to Eitan as he expounds on the story of Joseph.
• 23:17 The name Joseph is synonymous
• 23:20 both with suffering
• 23:21 and with success.
• 23:23 In this portion of what
• 23:26 I've been sharing about
• 23:27 the parallels between
• 23:29 the life of Joseph
• 23:30 and the history of Israel
• 23:31 I'd like to touch on the portion
• 23:33 that is successful,
• 23:34 the prosperity that took place
• 23:37 as Joseph was assigned the role
• 23:39 of feeding all of Egypt.
• 23:42 We read in Genesis...
• 24:02 This speaks to me of what has become of modern Israel.
• 24:05 Our country is incredibly successful.
• 24:08 We're a nation of only 8 million people
• 24:11 and yet we're listed as 23rd out of 133 nations in economic competiveness.
• 24:18 Our highways are bursting with cars.
• 24:22 The skyscrapers are rising up apartment towers.
• 24:25 The marketplaces is flooded with goods and people buying them.
• 24:29 This is a modern nation that really has risen literally
• 24:33 out of the graves of the holocaust.
• 24:36 Isaiah spoke of it and he said,
• 24:41 That really has happened.
• 24:43 It really did happen in the life of Joseph.
• 24:45 And it's happening in the life of Israel.
• 24:47 How has it happened and why?
• 24:49 Those are legitimate questions.
• 24:51 Well I believe for one thing
• 24:53 when the immigrant Jewish people have returned to this country
• 24:57 they have had to work, they've been motivated.
• 25:00 And they've brought a pent up desire and ability of centuries, really thousands of years.
• 25:06 Secondly we see that it's the blessing of God.
• 25:10 He promised that he would do this when he brought us back to the land.
• 25:13 And finally could it be that this is also a preparation for
• 25:17 a time of want as it was in the life of Joseph?
• 25:21 If that's the case we need to be like Joseph;
• 25:24 alert, applying ourselves
• 25:26 and ready to glorify God no matter what the circumstance.
• 25:33 It's always great to hear from Eitan.
• 25:35 He brings such insight as a citizen of Israel.
• 25:38 And having lived with the restoration that's taking place
• 25:41 we see that modern application.
• 25:43 Some folks have said that the United Nations and the world community blinked for a moment
• 25:48 because of the compassion they felt after the 6 million were killed in Europe.
• 25:53 And so the State of Israel was born.
• 25:55 But we know that it's been God's plan for restoration
• 25:58 because He's compassionate.
• 26:00 And we see that in the life of Joseph as well.
• 26:02 Do you know he weeps 7 times over his brothers, over the story that is unfolding.
• 26:08 I think he let God mold him
• 26:11 and he let God make him the man that God wanted him to be
• 26:14 when he gave him the dream way back when.
• 26:16 You know Joseph must have trusted in the God of El Elyon the Sovereign God.
• 26:21 We see his life begin to come to...God you meant this for something.
• 26:27 You sent me here ahead to save...
• 26:30 so he came to the realization before his brothers did.
• 26:33 Of that God can work all things together for good.
• 26:35 Romans 8:28
• 26:37 And we do see that playing out in this incredible tale.
• 26:41 And it reminds me of Ephesians 2:8 because it's such an obvious work of God.
• 26:47 Sending him ahead and preparing just as he does in your life and in mine.
• 26:51 So think about this...
• 26:59 God in his sovereignty saves our souls by his incredible grace
• 27:04 that we don't deserve and that he gives the gift and he gives us the faith to believe in him.
• 27:10 It's a miracle.
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• 27:15 from Psalm 122:6
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