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Genesis chapter 45, verse 8.

So it was not you who sent me here, but God.

He has made me a father to Pharaoh and Lord of all his house

and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

That is one more, just one more startling statement in this story of Joseph.

As Joseph is speaking to his brothers, he says, it wasn't you who sent me here.

Well, in one sense, absolutely it was.

Like, they're the ones who sold him into slavery.

He wouldn't have been there if they hadn't sinned against him, if they hadn't heard him,

if they hadn't betrayed him, if they hadn't almost killed him,

and instead decided to sell him into slavery. So in a sense,

yes, they did. They did send him there. But Joseph realizes that ultimately there's a bigger picture

at work, that there's a whole other perspective. So yes, his brothers did that.

They sold him.

That's what he says in verse 5.

You sold me here, but God sent me.

That's what he says in verse 8.

There's not you who sent me here, but God.

So God sent me.

Now again, that is just mind-boggling,

theologically baffling.

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