In the Skrull of Genesis, we meet a young man named Joseph.

He's a mere boy, and he's got ten older brothers, and he tells his brothers a dream.

Joseph just had a dream about being exalted up high over his brothers over the sun moon

and stars.

Now his brothers, they don't like this.

In fact, they kind of hate Joseph for it, and they scheme up a plan to kill him.

And while they scheme, they throw their brother Joseph in a pit.

Down into the pit below the ground.

You think you're meant to be a ruler of the sky?

Well now you're a dweller of the pit, from the heavens to the grave.

He goes from one end of the cosmos to the other, so to speak.

Today, we begin the fourth movement of Genesis.

It's all about Joseph, and we're tracing the theme of exile.

It's an important theme in these stories.

Joseph's descent to the pit is descent to Egypt as a slave, are all going to be accumulating

as images of his exile.

From his family, exile from his royal, special status, exiled from the love of his father

and from the promised land, going down.

You probably know what it feels like to be separated or left out, to be set aside, or

to be banished from relationships.

exile is a form of death.

And in these stories, we're going to explore exile in one of the most extreme forms.

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