Christ has infinite power over all things, and yet He veiled it during His ministry. It was only seen briefly in the miracles He wrought.
Although Joseph is often described as a type of the Lord Jesus, there are some striking differences between Joseph and Christ.
There is a difference between Joseph's relationship with Jacob his father, and Jesus' relationship with God His Father.
Joseph and his father were alienated from each other by the wickedness of his brothers, so that Joseph's great work of rescue was carried out in isolation from and ignorance by Jacob.
Not so our Lord Jesus, Who was obedient in all things unto His Father, and carried out our salvation by accomplishing the eternal plan determined by the Trinity.
Another striking difference is seen in Joseph's early life. When he was a teenager, his brothers hated him because he was Jacob's favorite son.
Jacob's sinful favoritism started when he mistreated Leah because he favored Rachel over her. Now Jacob is favoring Rachel's oldest son Joseph.
Joseph's brothers had to live their lives in the knowledge that they were the sons of unloved mothers.
To make matters worse, Joseph had dreams of future exaltation above his brothers and his parents, and he improvidently told them all about it.
This made his brothers hate him all the more. Joseph unnecessarily antagonized his brothers, and didn't seem to learn not to repeat the error.
Even Jacob rebuked Joseph for telling his dreams, and disrespecting his own parents.
Praise God, our Lord Jesus never behaved in such a manner, and God His Father never rebuked Him for anything!
Rather, God declared He is well pleased with His Own Son!
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John Pittman Hey was born in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, to Godly parents who from the beginning raised him in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. With child-like faith he came to Christ on his fourth birthday at his mother's knee. He received his education at church...
