Understanding the Book of Genesis is essential to understanding the rest of the bible and the world as it is today. After we finish the Book of Genesis, we will start a study of the Antichrist. We will study the characteristics of the individual and the signs of his impending presence. Saved Christians won't be here when the antichrist is here. We will be raptured before then.
Jacob has gone to Egypt and lives in the land of Goshen with his family, and has lived there for 17 years now. He is old and getting ready to die. He knows who Joseph is, his missing son and now second ruler of Egypt.
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1 ¶ And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph, Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. Joseph married an Egyptian lady, a daughter of one of the priests of Egypt, and Pharaoh had picked out Joseph's wife for him. All we know is she had two sons.
2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed. Jacob is 147 years old, sick and almost blind, so he raised himself on the bed with great effort.
3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, Jacob reiterates some of his history to Joseph.
4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. At this point in time in Jacob's life, this promise is not too far away.
5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee ..... |
