Genesis 42-50 Part 1 • Dr. Stephen Smoot • Mar. 16-22 • Come, Follow Me

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🗓️ 12 March 2026

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What if Joseph’s reunion with his brothers was a carefully designed repentance audit? Professor Stephen Smoot explores the literary brilliance, Egyptian context, and Christ-centered symbolism in Genesis 42-45, showing God can transform betrayal into redemption. SHOW NOTES/TRANSCRIPTS English: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT212EN French: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT212FR German: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT212DE Portuguese: https://tinyurl.com/podcastOT212PT Spanish: https://tinyurl.com/podcas...

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0:00.0	Coming up in this episode on Follow Him.
0:04.0	Even when people exercise their agency wickedly or unrighteously or evilly, that will not frustrate or thwart God's power in his purposes that he has for his children.
0:17.7	Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of Follow Him. My name is Hank Smith. I'm your host. And doth my co-host yet live?
0:27.7	John, by the way. Yeah, I'm still going. He has a pulse.
0:33.6	John, do you know where that question comes from? It's chapter 45 of Genesis when Joseph reunites with his brothers, and he says,
0:42.2	Doth my father yet live.
0:44.7	The more I think about this story, this is one of the greatest stories ever.
0:49.7	Joseph's life, the lowest of lows in prison, the highest of highs, with Pharaoh, his family. They should make
0:57.2	a Broadway play out of it or something. They should make a movie. John, we are privileged today to be
1:03.0	joined by brother Stephen Smoot. A year from now, he will be Dr. Steven Smoot, but right now we're
1:08.1	going to just call him brother, Stephen Smoot, which is an awesome thing to going to just call him brother, Stephen, which is an awesome
1:10.9	thing to be a brother. Stephen, welcome to follow him. Well, thank you, Hank. Glad to be here.
1:16.9	Thank you, John, for having me. I've been watching the podcast for a long time, and now I'm in the
1:21.4	hot seat myself. So I've stepped up my game, hopefully, and this should be a lot of fun.
1:25.9	John and I both know Stephen from the Internet, basically.
1:29.5	Stephen has been working online doing scriptures with the Interpreter Foundation.
1:34.3	Now he's with the Rapleys, Jasmine, and Neil, all things that we 100% support,
1:39.3	and we can talk more about that.
1:41.4	John, last week we were with Dr. Wilcox.
1:44.0	We began this story, and now we're going to finish
1:47.0	the story of Joseph of Egypt. The thing that I love is the emphasis on the Lord was with him.
1:55.3	In the lowest of lows and the highest of highs, maybe people can feel, is the Lord with me?
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