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Week 9
Joseph in Egypt
Learn to Read the Bible Effectively: Genesis
Betrayed
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Week 10
Saved
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A prophecy fulfilled
JOSEPH JESUS
Beloved of his father (Genesis 37:3) ‘You are my beloved son’ (Luke 3:22)
A good shepherd compared with his ‘I am the good shepherd’ (John 10:14)
brethren (Genesis 37:14)
A ruler over his brethren (Genesis 37:7-10) The Messiah, the ‘king of the Jews’ (John
18:37)
Rejected by his brethren and sold for ‘He came to his own and his own did not
twenty pieces of silver (Genesis 37:28) receive him’ (John 1:11)
Consigned to a pit…(Genesis 37:24) Laid in the tomb… (John 19:41-42)
…later found empty (Genesis 37:29) ‘He is not here, but is risen!’ (Luke 24:6)
Goes into a far country (Genesis 37:28) Taken up into heaven (Acts 1:9-11)
37 v 29) in power to his brethren
Revealed ‘…they will look on me whom they have
(Genesis 45:4-6) pierced; they will mourn…’ (Zech. 12:10)
Learn to Read the Bible Effectively: Genesis