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 Zaphnath Panea, and what it lacks in clarity, 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 his family in Egypt. The transcript for this podcast,

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The seven years of plenty that Joseph had described from Farrell'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, ten 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 of the

dreams Joseph had as a youth. We will tell this story in more detail in a few minutes, but something

beyond the story details begs to be mentioned. We have talked in former podcast that the stories

of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are specifically crafted

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