Hey everybody. Welcome to Tuesday's edition of The Daily Bible Podcast. Tuesday's a great day. Is it a great day? It it, it is. I love Tuesdays. I like Tuesdays. Tuesdays are good. Yeah. You seem hesitant. No, Tuesdays are good. We're back in office. Well, you have a different schedule, but. Yeah, Tuesday's a good day. Yeah. I can get with Tuesdays. I think why I love Tuesdays is Monday is over, and it's funny to me 'cause I'm like, the weekend's only two days, but you know, you gotta get the momentum back. And Tuesday is when I feel like I've got my momentum back. You know, Monday there's lots of little things that have to be addressed Tuesdays when I feel like it can get down to, real work. Okay. Okay. Yeah. So you, regular listeners have heard us say this before, but pastor Rod and I both take Mondays off. Pastor Mark takes Saturday instead off, and it just different schedules and everything like that. So Monday is my day off and so Tuesday is kind of my Monday. And so sometimes Tuesday's great. Other times Tuesday's like, oh man, I gotta go back to school today. As much as I love my job. Yeah, I love my family too, and when I have to leave and come into work sometimes it's like, oh, okay, here we go. Let's go. Yeah. One of the interesting things to me, and I was told this by many, many wise people, so thankfully it wasn't a surprise, but you would love to think that working in a church office is just somehow magically this perfect bliss. But unfortunately, it's still work. There's still thorns, there's still weeds. And it is great. It is great. Don't hear me saying that it's not great, but I still have to deal with my flesh. It didn't stay at my corporate job. Well, we didn't hire you well enough then. Yeah, no, no, you're right. Yeah, you're right. It is. And there's gonna come a day when it's no longer the burden. That's right. But that's not here now. That's right. But it's a good burden here now. It's a good burden. And we get to serve an awesome church family that we're thankful for. We do, we do. So Pastor Rod's back. He was on vacation, so he's back. So he'll be back on the podcast, I think tomorrow. Yes, you'll hear him again as long as he agrees to jump back on sometimes after a break and he hears the podcast from other people, he is like, Hey, you guys got it. I don't need to jump on here anymore. And so we'll see. We'll do our best to get him back on there. I trust that he'll be back. But I've been on the podcast now for. What, a couple weeks you have, man. You let me a great, lemme this opportunity since I'm just gonna wedge it in here to thank you all. This is a great church. You're welcome. This is a great church. I'm really thankful for you guys. It is a blessing to, to do this podcast, but it's a blessing to. To serve you and to see you throughout the week. And I'm sure I'll be back on this podcast, but he's not going anywhere. We're not firing you. I'm thankful for Pastor Rod who is does this year round. Yes, he does. It's a lot of work. It's a lot of work and it's a good thing. But I'll take this opportunity to thank you listeners and my dear church. You're welcome. On behalf of the listeners in the Dear church. Well, hey, let's jump into our daily Bible reading today. We're in Genesis 46 through 48. As the Joseph story continues and now everybody knows and so now it's all out there and now we get to see what happens. And it's fascinating at the beginning of chapter 46, 'cause Jacob agrees to go. And he gets on his way and he gets all the way down to Beersheba and he stops at Beersheba and you're going, what is going on? Well, if you read through the rest of the scriptures, you're gonna find references to sayings like from Dan to Beersheba. And what that's a reference to is the entirety of Israel, because Dan was the northernmost city in Israel, Beersheba the Southern. City in Israel. So why this is significant is Joseph is stopping right on the edge of the Promised Land, or Jacob rather is stopping right on the edge of the promised land. He's ready to cross over and leave the Promised Land, which we've talked about this before, is a big deal. Yeah. Because God was calling people into the Promised Land and he, the Abrahamic Covenant was about entering the Promised Land. And so Jacob's leaving the Promised Land going with his family to settle in Egypt and he understands that he's gonna die in Egypt at this point. And so he's not. Totally okay with this at this point, even though it means seeing Joseph. So he stops here to worship God, and God comforts him and shows up to him and says in verse three, I'm the God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down to Egypt for there. I will make you into a great nation. So he's afraid of forfeiting, or giving up at least temporarily. One part of the Abrahamic covenant, and that is the land. But God's saying, I'm gonna fulfill another part of the Abrahamic covenant and that is the seed. I'm gonna, I'm gonna multiply your people down in Egypt. But that's what's going on in the beginning of 46. Jacob's stopping at that last stop on the road before he leaves Israel there. And he worships God there. And God shows up to comfort him at that point before he finishes going down into Egypt. Yeah, throughout, and we've said this before, throughout the Old Testament, Egypt is a place of false salvation. Why is that? Because it's not God's land. It's not where God. Dwelling. And Jacob, to your point, is right to be concerned about that, right? Yeah. He's rightly worried because it hasn't gone well already and it's gonna continue to not go well. But what's different here right, is God in verse four says, I myself will go down with you to Egypt. And that's gotta be a huge comfort to Jacob. That's gotta be a huge comfort to him because he's rightly worried about this. Yep. He lists there does our author, Moses, the the sons of Israel, the sons of Jacob that went down into Egypt with him. And so this is gonna be a lot of the offspring. Some of these names we've read about before, like in verse 12, you'll get the Sons of Judah. Remember Er and Onan, we talked about them with the Tamar incident there. Shayla Perez. Perez is the line of Christ line. There. You've got Hezron again, line of Christ. And then you've got more of the sons that are there. So list all the people. At the very end it says all the people that went down in. Egypt where 70 people in all. Now that's gonna be significant 'cause there's gonna be way more than 70 that leave Egypt as we're gonna see here in the next handful of days. But 70 people go with him, including Joseph and Joseph's sons down into Egypt to settle there. What will be for the next 430 years at this point. Yeah, and there's a really interesting thing here that shows up when they talk about exactly where they're gonna settle. In the land, right? They're gonna be in the land of Goshen in Egypt. And at the very last verse of our chapter, it says, for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians. Shepherds are recurring theme. Again, we've talked about recurring themes. Shepherds are recurring theme, and it's amazing how the. People of Israel are an abomination, but God loves those lowly shepherds. He loves them so much so that he will call himself a shepherd, right? The shepherds we don't quite have a parallel for in our modern day, but they truly are, they truly are the lowest of the low. They're smelly they're stinky, they're illiterate. But God loves the humble and we see that here in one of the first places where we start to see this theme of shepherds show up in our Bibles. Yeah. End of chapter 46, you've got the emotional scene of Jacob and Joseph being reunited, where Jacob throws his arms around his son and weeps, and Joseph likewise weeps with Jacob. And it is this. This sweet scene of a father and son being reconnected and there's a lot there that's not written for us about, Hey dad, lemme tell you what's happened. And oh, by the way, did my brother share with you what they did to me yet? Because we should probably catch up on that. They might need to be grounded and maybe take away their phones for a little while, but there's so much there that we don't see. And maybe Joseph just covered that over because of his trust in God's sovereignty. He was like, dad, don't worry about it. You're here. I'm here. This is all. And Jacob basically says I can die now. Now he's not gonna die right away. In fact in chapter 47 one interesting scene is when Jacob appears before Pharaoh, and this is such a fascinating thing, you've got the one who is going to represent the, be the representative head of Israel, the nation standing before the representative head of Egypt, Pharaoh. And there's just this interchange before them. As you can see, I think Pharaoh respects Jacob. He's saying, how old are you? I want to know the number of your years. And Jacob tells him, and there's this just interesting dynamic there before they agree to. Settle and then the rest of chapter 47. Don't just skip over it as though this is just the rest of the administrative details of how Joseph helped with the rest of the famine. I mentioned it before. This is massively significant because Joseph is consolidating basically all of the power, all of the land, all of the possessions and all of the ownership with Pharaoh. And so this is establishing the office of Pharaoh, the role of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, as one of the most powerful roles in the entire world. And so later on we're gonna read, spoiler alert, that after the death of Joseph, there are Rosa of Pharaoh who did not know Joseph. And that's not gonna go well for God's people. And God's people aren't gonna have a leg to stand on, in part because of what happens in the rest of chapter 47 when Jacob sell, or Joseph rather. Buys all of the land and all of the people as they come to find food because the famine was so severe. Yeah. Truly, truly amazing. Again, can I just go back a little bit? I want to just see something here that I think is really cool, which is Jacob, when he's standing before Pharaoh, you think right. Pharaoh is this guy who is this super powerful, super powerful super true super power in the world at this time, and you would think that because of that position, it's Pharaoh who blesses Jacob, but in 47, 10 it's actually Jacob who blesses Pharaoh. Mm-hmm. And that again, we've, again talking about themes, reoccurring things God has promised to Abraham that the nations would literally be blessed through his people. And here we see it, right? The nation, even the foreign the foreign nation that does not know God is blessed by. God's people. Yeah. Chapter 48. There's kind of a zoom in again with Jacob and Joseph as they're really trying to get to know each other again. And so Joseph introduces his two sons, Ephrem and Manas and Jacob says, okay, well they're gonna be mine. They're mine, you can have the rest. But he identifies them and says They're gonna be mine as Ruben. Ruben and Simeon are mine. And then he's going to give a blessing over. The head of both ere and Manas. Now Joseph is gonna do something interesting here 'cause his dad puts his hand, a blessing on the younger one instead of the older one. And Joseph thinks, oh, my dad just can't see. So he tries to. Fix it. And Jacob says, no, I know what I'm doing here. And he gives this prophecy where Eem is going to be greater than Manasses. And I think in part, we see some fulfillment of this because Eem does become, again, that standin moniker for Israel. And in the Northern Kingdom, EEM kind of becomes the more dominant between the two tribes. And I think that's in fulfillment here of the pronouncement. Pronouncement of a blessing from Jacob on the life of Freeman Manassas. So, I don't know that there's a whole lot more significant there because these are not the lines of Christ or anything else like that. But from here in chapter 49, he's gonna go on and bless the rest of his sons. And so I think this is just kind of transitional saying he's gonna bless Joseph's sons as his own. This is them formally being welcomed into the tribe formula of Israel as half tribes there. Then in chapter 49, he's gonna bless the rest of his sons as well. Why do you think Jacob switches that blessing in other places? We get real clear reasons why, but we don't exactly get that here. Do you have any thoughts on why? No. He just says, I know my son. I know he also shall become a people and he also should be great. Nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he. I don't know, other than he seems to be a prophetic utterance from Jacob. Yeah, I don't know either. My, my only. Thought is that perhaps Jacob has witnessed and remembers from his parents telling him how God has done this in the past. Like this is a common theme that God has carried out. And maybe he's, and there's no indication that this is instruction from God. But maybe he's just doing this because he knows that this is how God often works. I don't know. I don't know. It just, that's an interesting thought to me. Yeah. Alright. Matthew, chapter 14, or do you have more? I was just gonna say, yeah, no, go for it. Hey, if you're a kid listening and you we're gonna start reading about the tribes of Israel, don't miss this. 'cause as a kid I always wondered, where's the tribe of Joseph? Yep. Well this chapter that we just read here answers that question, so, hey, if you're a kid, don't be confused about that. Jersey gets two tribes. That's right. Yeah. Yeah. Neither of them end up very good though. So Yeah, that's, that is true. Yeah. That is a bummer. Yeah, it's alright. New Testament, Matthew 1422 through the end of the chapter there, verse 36, chapter 22, or chapter 14 verse 22. Opens with Jesus walking on water. And this is one of those parable or parables, one of those miracles that. Is again, it's just like the feeding of the 5,000. Just astounding. This is something that we've never seen before. You've never seen anybody take two loaves and feed 5,000 people, 15,000 people. You've also never seen, contrary to trying to run as fast as you can off the edge of your pool when you were growing up, you've never seen somebody walking on water. Neither had the disciples. And that's why when they see him, they're afraid. They're going, what in the world is happening? And so this is when he says, take heart. Do not be afraid. Peter says in Matthew's Gospel, Hey, let me come to you, Lord. And you get that amazing scene where Peter comes out of the boat. And yet, as soon as he takes his eyes off Jesus, he begins to sink. Jesus saves him and confronts him for lacking faith. How do we know He lacked faith? Because he took his eyes off Christ. He put his eyes on the circumstances. He put his eyes on the waves, on the storm, on everything else. Us and took his eyes off Jesus. Well, when they get back in the boat, they worship the Lord and they confess truly, you are the son of God. That's a messianic confession there. So this is this is amazing. The response of the disciples, anytime Jesus calms the storm or walks on water is always the same. They say, who is this? They're in awe. They worship him. And I think we see that again here in chapter 14. And that's because Jesus is the God man. He is fully human, truly human. But he is also God and he is demonstrating here that he is in fact the creator. Right? Think about Hu Hebrews chapter one, right? He is in fact the creator who upholds the world with the power of his word, and he's also the man who walks on the water, but he is demonstrating that he has power over creation, and so it's right to ask, who is this right? Of course we know the answer. Right? Right. No, for sure. The chapter ends with Jesus crossing over and coming to land at Nesset. There. This is an area where he had done other miracles and done other acts of power there. And this is a unique. Area, because this is along the Sea of Galilee. This is in the region of the Sea of Galilee, but this is gonna be, again, a gentile region, predominantly there which is fascinating because in chapter 15, you're gonna find and we'll see this next time we get together. But the Pharisees and the scribes are gonna come to him there, they're gonna come to him into Gentile territory which just shows the amount of heat that is being turned up on Jesus at this point. This is a geographic note here. He comes there, he's healing, he's ministering even in a region that was largely a gentile territory at the time. And eventually the scribes and the Pharisees are gonna come and try to meet him there. So if I go and find this garment that Jesus was wearing, assuming it hadn't been eaten by moths, and I touched it. Would I be healed? No, you wouldn't. Why not? No, because the power, not the power. Unfortunately, pastor Mark was not in the garment, but in the garment wearer. So yeah, man. Just fascinating. You think of the woman with the hemorrhage who touched the Yes. The edge of his garment. She was made well it seems like others were doing that too. Yes, yes. And there are some who have worshiped. The garment and not the one who wore the garment. That's true. Yep. Yep. Well, hey, let's let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, thanks for your word. Thanks for this time together. We just pray that we would give ourselves over to its study and be wise bean and good students of it as we do so. And so we thank you for today and just pray that we would steward the rest of our time well today. And Jesus name, amen. Hey keeper in your Bibles and Pastor Mark on behalf of all of our church, thanks for pinching and over the last two weeks. It's been good. Good. I'm glad. Yeah you're welcome. And thank you. You're welcome. Alright guys. Thank you. We'll catch you tomorrow. Bye. See you soon.

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