When Joseph became vizier of Egypt, second only to Pharaoh and wearing his ring of authority,

he also got a new name that doesn't exactly roll off our English-speaking tongues. It is Zafnath

Panja, and what it lacks in clarity to us, it more than makes up in its meaning, which

is, Savior of the world. Yes, his starving family will come from

Canaan, hoping to buy the corn that Joseph has stored in Egypt, but his name signifies

even more than that. We'll tell you today.

Hello, we're Scott and Maureen Proctor, and welcome to Meridian Magazine's Come Follow

Me podcast, where today we'll study Genesis chapters 42 through 50 about Joseph saving

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The seven years of plenty that Joseph had described from Ferrell's dream were now at

an end, and for two years the world had been in the desperate plight of famine. Joseph

opened the granaries of Egypt, and surrounding nations came for food, including some familiar

faces from Canaan, 10 of Joseph's brothers. The last time he had seen them was when he

was the anguished 17-year-old sold as a slave to Egypt. Joseph was now 40 years old when

his brothers came and bowed down themselves before him and their faces to the earth, a fulfillment

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