Genesis 46

Thank you, Jesus.

Genesis 46, verse one to five.

So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, "Jacob, Jacob." And he said, "Here I am." Then he said, "I am God, the God of your father.

Now, we see this explicitly throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament.

Uh, for example, in Genesis 46, the gen- uh, the, like the genealogies that we all read in, of Israel, they're tracked explicitly through the patriarchal heads that are listing the sons and daughters as belonging to the fathers.

Uh, furthermore, uh, when you, um, when God covenants with Abraham in Genesis chapter 17, he establishes the covenant through Abraham and his seed, placing the spiritual and, and the structural burden of the children squarely upon the father's shoulders.

Now, again, even, uh, children are, are given as a reward.

Now, we see this explicitly throughout the Old Testament and the New Testament.

For example, in Genesis 46, like the genealogies that we all read of Israel, they're tracked explicitly through the patriarchal heads that are listing the sons and daughters as belonging to the fathers.

Furthermore, when you...

When God covenants with Abraham in Genesis chapter 17, he establishes the covenant through Abraham and his seed, placing the spiritual and the structural burden of the children squarely upon the father's shoulders.

It's so good.

Okay, Genesis 46.

It says, when Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected.

He's in prison too.

70 bulls, that should ring a bell for somebody.

The connection of the 70 bulls to the 70 nations that God has ordained is taken back in Genesis 46, which states all the people in Jacob's family who enter Egypt numbered 70.

And so the rabbinic commentaries hint as well that this is the explanation.

And I believe that this is a foreshadowing that Adonai desired to provide covering for sin, not only for Israel, but for the world.

That's capping off Exodus 12 there in verse 41.

But let's look in Genesis 46, okay, some ways back, just at the entry of Jacob.

So that I think reads very clearly.

And now let's look at the entry of Jacob, which I also feel like reads very clearly.

He certainly understood that the people in Egypt weren't his people.

And so he probably was afraid to go down.

And God says in Genesis 46, verse 4, I will go down with thee.

How beautiful is that? Into Egypt, just like God comes with us into the sinful world.

And, and he had a dream two different ways, and he's sold into slavery 13 years, and the dream does come true.

So when he says to his brothers, and they show up, and, and we'll come back to this, Genesis 46, um, "God sent me ahead of you." Right? "God sent me ahead of you." And if you look at Psalm 105, very interesting.

Let's go look.

I'll look at that quick.

When they went down to Egypt, the Shekhinah was with them.

Genesis 46.

I shall go down with you to Egypt.

When they went up, the Shekhinah went up with them, and I shall also bring you up.