Genesis
Chapter 45 & 46
Judah Intercedes for Benjamin
• Gen 44:32-34
• 33 Now therefore, please let your servant
remain instead of the lad as a slave to my
lord, and let the lad go up with his
brothers.
• NKJV
• Isa 53:11-12
• 11 He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
• By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify
many,
• For He shall bear their iniquities.
• 12 Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
• And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
• Because He poured out His soul unto death,
• And He was numbered with the transgressors,
• And He bore the sin of many,
• And made intercession for the transgressors.
• NKJV
• Phil 2:7-8
• 7 but made Himself of no reputation,
taking the form of a bondservant, and
coming in the likeness of men. 8 And
being found in appearance as a man, He
humbled Himself and became obedient to
the point of death, even the death of the
cross.
• NKJV
• He did not reveal Himself except to His own, who yearn
to resurrected life.
• In other words, crucifixion and burial were realized in
public, to proclaim His salvation to all mankind; but as far
as the secret of resurrection is concerned, it was not to
be enjoyed except by those who wish to recognize its
secrets, and to enjoy His risen life;
• as the resurrection of the Lord Christ, is the secret of
Christ‟s transfiguration, the conqueror of death, and His
revealing Himself in His Church, that enjoys life with
Him and abiding in Him.
• Luke 24:25-27
• 25 Then He said to them, "O foolish ones, and
slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets
have spoken! 26 Ought not the Christ to have
suffered these things and to enter into His
glory?" 27 And beginning at Moses and all the
Prophets, He expounded to them in all the
Scriptures the things concerning Himself.
• NKJV
• Luke 24:28-31
• Then they drew near to the village where they were
going, and He indicated that He would have gone
farther. 29 But they constrained Him, saying,"Abide with
us, for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent." And
He went in to stay with them.
• 30 Now it came to pass, as He sat at the table with them,
that He took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to
them. 31 Then their eyes were opened and they knew
Him; and He vanished from their sight.
• NKJV
• Phil 3:9-10
• 10 that I may know Him and the power of
His resurrection, and the fellowship of His
sufferings, being conformed to His death
• NKJV
Jesus Restores Peter
• John 21:15-18
• So when they had eaten breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son
of Jonah, do you love Me more than these?"
• He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You."
• He said to him, "Feed My lambs."
• 16 He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love
Me?"
• He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You."
• He said to him, "Tend My sheep."
• 17 He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me?"
Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?"
• And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You."
• Jesus said to him, "Feed My sheep.
• Tριακοσιων = Three Hundred
Be'er Sheba` —
• Beer-sheba = "well of the sevenfold oath"
• Gen 21:30-31
• 30 And he said, "You will take these seven ewe
lambs from my hand, that they may be my
witness that I have dug this well." 31 Therefore
he called that place Beersheba, because the two
of them swore an oath there.
• NKJV
• Gen 15:13-16
• 13 Then He said to Abram: "Know certainly that your
descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs,
and will serve them, and they will afflict them four
hundred years. 14 And also the nation whom they serve
I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great
possessions. 15 Now as for you, you shall go to your
fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age.
16 But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for
the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete."
• NKJV
Chapter 46
• God‟s Vision to Jacob.
• 400 years Gal 4:3-5
• 4 But when the fullness of the time had
come, God sent forth His Son, born of a
woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem
those who were under the law, that we
might receive the adoption as sons.
• NKJV
Egypt
• Scholar Oriegn:
• [It is fit for us to contemplate quietly in what the Lord said to Jacob in the vision, how
he strengthened and encouraged, as though he was going to war, saying to him . “Do
not fear to go down to Egypt” , as though he was going to “go against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age”
• (Ephesians 6: 12);
• He is telling him, not to fear them, and not to be troubled; Why ? “I will make of you a
great nation there. I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up
again”. We should not fear going down to Egypt, nor confronting the struggle
• against this world, or the battles against the devil, the enemy, against whom the Lord
came down to do battle.
• Listen to what the apostle Paul says: “I labored more abundantly than
• they all, yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me” (1 Corinthians 15: 10).
• In
• Jerusalem, when he had been confronted by amazing struggle, because of the Word
and the preaching of God, God appeared to him, and addressed him with words
similar to what he did to Israel, saying: “Be of good cheer, Paul: for as you have
testified for me in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness at Rome” (Acts 23: 11) ].
• I assume that He means, that at the end of days,
as the Only-begotten Son of God descended
into the lower parts of the earth (Ephesians 4: 9),
for the sake of salvation of the world, He brings
the first man up.
• Let us understand, that the talk here, concerns
what was said to the robber on the right hand:
“Today, you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke
23: 43).
• This proclamation does not concern him alone,
but concerns all the saints, for whose sake the
• Son of God descended.
• .Therefore, I wish everyone of us, descend
(allegorically) to Egypt, amid the battles,
• in the same way, walking along the same
route, to be worthy that God would not
forsake him,
• but make of him a great nation. That great
nation, is the collection of virtues and
righteousness,in which, the Book says, the
saints grow and increase.
How many came to Egypt
• Gen 46:26-27
• 26 All the persons who went with Jacob to
Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob's
sons' wives, were sixty-six persons in all. 27 And
the sons of Joseph who were born to him in
Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the
house of Jacob who went to Egypt were
seventy.
• Acts 7:14
• 14 Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob
and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people.
• All the Sons of Jacob‟s and His Gand childerns
=66
• 66+ Jacob+Joseph+2 sons of Joseph=70
• Gen 50:23
• 23 Joseph saw Ephraim's children to the third
generation. The children of Machir, the son of
Manasseh, were also brought up on Joseph's
knees.
• Joesph‟s Grand Cildern= 5
• Total = 75
HYKSOS
• By Josephus [Apion, i, 14] as being compounded of the
Egyptian hyk, "king," and sos, "shepherd" or "Arab," i.e.
nomade),
• a race who invaded Egypt, and constituted the 15 th and
one or two of the following dynasties, according to
Manetho , especially as preserved by Josephus : "In the
reign of king Timaus there came up from the east men of
an ignoble race, who had the confidence to invade our
country, and easily subdued it without a battle, burning
the cities, demolishing the temples, slaying the men, and
reducing the women and children to slavery."
• (from McClintock and Strong Encyclopedia, Electronic
Database. Copyright (c) 2000 by Biblesoft)
HYKSOS
• A mixed race, predominantly NW Semitic, which gradually infiltrated
Egypt and finally took control (c. 1720 BC - 1550 BC). They reigned
during Dynasties XV and XVI. Their capital was at Zoan-Tanis in the
Delta.
• Archaeological excavations have uncovered many Hyksos remains.
They introduced the horse and chariot into Egypt, as well as the
composite bow. These implements of war made possible the New
Empire of Egypt after 1550 BC and the expulsion of the Hyksos. The
Hyksos Dynasties of Egypt were brought to an end when Khamose
and Ahmose expelled them from the Delta (c. 1600 BC - 1550 BC).
Amenhotep I inaugurated the splendid strong Eighteenth Dynasty (c.
1546 BC - 1319 BC).
• Although many scholars maintain that the Exodus took place under
the Nineteenth Dynasty
• (from The New Unger's Bible Dictionary. Originally published by
Moody Press of Chicago, Illinois. Copyright (c) 1988.)
• Hebrew “Goshen” = "drawing near"
• hieroglyphics Kesem
• The land of Goshen, chosen by Joseph, for his father
and brothers, and all their children, it
• is located north-east of the Nile delta, where the province
of „Sharkieh‟ is today.
• It is also called „Rameses‟ (Gen. 47: 11), and a very
fertile pasture land, where the children of Israel
sojourned,herding Pharoh‟s and their flocks, up till their
time of affliction !
The Land of Gashan
• (1) To be at the north-east of Egypt; the nearest location
to the land of Canaan... as though,
• he wanted them, even in their sojourn along more than
300 years, to have their hearts
• set and prepared for the departure to Jerusalem.
• (2) To spare them the despite of the Egyptians, who
considered the occupation of sheep
• shepherding an abomination. Living far away in Goshem
would spare them of getting
• in contact with the Egyptians.
• (3) By living in Goshem, they would not be, as much as
possible, affected by the pagan
• worship, and the evil customs.
• Joseph presented his father before
Pharoh, who, despite his old age, frailty,
and probably poor eyesight, yet Pharaoh
was impressed by his obvious dignity, and
asked for his blessing;
• “Jacob blessed Pharoh” (Gen. 47: 5); that,
most probably implied that Pharoh bowed
before the old man, to put his hand on his
head to bless him.
• Jacob felt that feeling of pilgrimage all the days of his
life; especially that his life was a continuous of troubles:
In his adolescence, although his mother loved him and
favored him over his brother,yet it seems that he
suffered much from the fierce nature of the later;
• In his youth, he had to escape to a foreign land, where
he vigorously served his uncle “in the day, the draught
• consumed him, and the frost by night; and the sleep
departed from his eyes” (Gen. 31:40);
• who deceived him and changed his wages ten times.
• When he fled from the face of his uncle, he was
devastated by fear from his brother Esau; and on his
way, he wrestled with an angel the whole night (Gen.
32).
• In Shechem, his sons Simeon and Levi caused
him much trouble, and made him obnoxious
among the inhabitants of the land, because of
their sister Dinah.
• In „Ephrath‟, his beloved wife Rachel travailled in
childbirth and died (Gen. 35);
• then his father died. After that, his firstborn son
Reuben laid with his father‟s concubine,
something that was very painful forJacob (Gen.
21).
• This was followed by the episode of Joseph, that
rocked his whole being.
• the Egyptians at that time, we find that they first presented their silver to
Pharoh, then their livestock, and their bodies and lands, namely their whole
life.
• If silver refers to the word of God (Psalm 12: 6), the beginning of our setting
forth toward servitude, is surrendering our weapon -- the word of God -- to
the enemy; who would draw from our heart its attachment to the word, to
deprive us of the warmth of the Spirit, and take away from us the sweetness
of the experience of the cross, and the fellowship with our Savior; as man
surrenders his Bible to live without it, the enemy would demand the
livestock, namely the bodily lusts, to turn him with his body under the
servitude of the enemy, who agitates the bodily lusts, to act as hooks to
• catch the body with all its energies, to put all its movements, its feelings,
and all its energies, namely to put all the land under the authority of Pharoh
-- the devil.
• When man loses the sanctification of his livestock, body, and land, all to
become Pharoh‟s, there will be no way for the soul, but to bow, with its full
will before Pharoh, to beg him to acquire it to his account; to work as an
instrument of wickedness, rejoicing in the fall of others and their
punishment.