Welcome to the Word of the Lord endures forever with Pastor Will Whedon.

I think St. John's words there are wise. They help us remember that while we always look back

into the Old Testament through Christ, They who were living in those days

are straining forward and at times only seeing

in the glass dimly.

The Old Testament does bear witness

to belief in the resurrection of the dead,

but with nothing close to the certain joy

of the New Testament on the other side of death's defeat.

The Word of the Lord endures forever is a daily verse-by-verse Bible study with the church,

past and present.

Pastor Whedon is leading us in a study of the book of Genesis, chapters 37 to 50.

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all.

Amen.

Greetings, people, loved by God.

Well, in our previous study, we had wrapped up chapter 49 and just considered the opening verses of chapter 50.

The 12 sons had each received a fitting blessing from Jacob, and remember that

all were blessed in the way that Joseph typified the coming Lord Jesus and in the seed that

would descend from Judah to reign over nations and kingdoms. That means that even the hard blessings,

think, for example, of Jacob's words to Rubin, were still gracious words, for they belong together to the family, from whom the one

would come who would be like Joseph only better. Jacob had again reminded all his sons,

as he had earlier extracted the oath from Joseph himself,

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