This is clearly an allusion back to Genesis 12, 3, where Abraham and his descendants are going to be a blessing to the nations.

And now we see that coming to fruition.

And Moses is showing us that this blessing is going to come in surprising ways.

It's going to come perhaps through things and through people who look weak to the world

and through people who might just look like crucified Jewish carpenters.

Welcome to episode.

You know, I'm laughing listeners because we already did this once and Sam forgot to record it. So welcome yet again to episode 18 of Bible Talk, a podcast brought to you

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visit nine marks.org. My name is Alex Duke and with me are my two very competent friends.

I'm still Samavati and Jim Hamilton. Praise the Lord. Last week, guys, we saw finally Joseph telling his brothers who he was. And finally, they, after all these years, they reconciled. And after that, Joseph sent his

brothers on their way to tell his father, Jacob, the amazing and unexpected news that Joseph is

alive. To which Jacob responded there at the end of Genesis 45. It is enough. Joseph, my son,

is still alive. I will go and see him before I die. Now, we've spent enough time with

Jacob to know that when he thinks he's about to die, there's still a little bit more in the story.

And in fact, there is one reconciliation left to cover here in the book of Genesis. And that is

Jacob, the father, and his beloved son, Joseph. That's what we're going to get to today in Genesis 46 and 47.

But before that reconciliation can happen, Jacob and his sons need to get back to Egypt.

And so that's where Genesis 46 begins. The text calls him Israel. Jacob, he's on the road again,

verse 1, with all that he had. Before he gets to Egypt,

Moses makes us wait. And the Lord shows up again, as he's done many times, and he appears to

Jacob in a vision. Now, Jim, we've talked before about how throughout these chapters in which

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