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Date Posted: 21:50:00 08/07/12 Tue
Genesis 47:11-13 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded. 12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all his father's household, with bread, according to their families. 13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the famine.
Though the world fall apart and and misery abound God will take care of His people. This is a a central truth throughout the Bible. God took care of Noah through the flood. He took care of Abraham in a strange land. He took care of Jacob and prospered him when he was servant to Laban. God took care of the widow and her son through famine. The handful of meal and small amount of oil never ran out for the widow and her son and Elijah through a drought of 3 1/2 years. (1 Kings 17:1-16) Manna and quail in the wilderness was the food of the Jews during the exodus. For 40 years God fed and clothed them. This with Joseph and his family is just another example of God's unseen hand working to take care of His own.
Joseph, as a type of Christ, becomes the provider. When the famine comes in the tribulation (the black horse rider of Rev. 6:5-6) Israel will be fed and protected by God. Revelation 12:6
And the woman (Israel) fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they (possibly angels) should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. And again in chapter 12 verse 14 we read: "And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent." (both the 1,260 days and the time, times and half a time are 3 1/2 years)
We are so prone to worry about "tomorrow". We say "what it" and fail to trust God through all the "what ifs". We forget that Jesus fed "five thousand men, beside women and children" with 5 loaves of bread and 2 fishes. (Matt. 14:16-21) We read the admonition of Jesus about this matter in Matthew 6:30-33 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. God takes care of His own.
I read one time about a man that had been weeks in a life raft after his ship sank. He had all but given up hope as he was starving for lack of food. He had been able to catch some rain water and had thus survived but he had nothing to eat for days on end. He prayed that God deliver him yet with little hope or faith that he would. A sea gull or waterfowl of some kind looking for a place to land actually landed on his head. He caught the bird and ate it and survived because of that bird. Some would say "how lucky" for him that the bird landed on his head. The bird was probably exhausted and in need a place to rest. I tell you that God sent it just as he has had fish to jump in boats of others who were perishing for lack of food and in the same circumstances. God takes care of His own.
Joseph, his father and his brethren with their families were given the best land in Egypt, were fed by the kings supply and were given favor among the people by a God who takes care of His own. All of this was in God's master plan for the tempering of Israel in the "iron furnace" called Egypt. Deuteronomy 4:20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
As we see the dark days descending on God's people today we do not need to doubt God nor give up hope. True Christians have a promise from God that He will never leave us nor forsake us (Heb. 13:5) and I for one believe Him. We may, as Israel, have to go through our own "iron furnace" but there is deliverance and as Job said: "When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. " (Job 23:10)
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