The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying
Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 12, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker
to your heart. The Topic today
is: "Joseph the President next to the young Pharaoh confronts his
brothers". The Opening
Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God" The Sabbath
School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on
page 152 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 98. The SSnet.org
site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose
your own language to see God speaking also to your heart. ---The part
that dr. Doukhan did not get, is that Pharaoh was much younger than Joseph, who
was 30 at presidency in 1959/1958 BC. ---Sesostris I
took over from his father and was young according to Egyptian history but also
in Genesis 41:37 where the suggestion of Joseph for an economic program was
good in Pharaoh's eyes but also in the eyes of his servants! Supporting staff
for a too young ruler. ---This is a
game changer in the whole palace drama. Joseph is like a father to the young
Pharaoh. ---Dr. Doukhan
is not correct that Joseph did not appeal to God with the Pharaoh. He did in
Genesis 41:12 "God will shortly bring it to pass". ---From now on
the Pharaoh was to listen to Joseph as his near counselor and not to the other
servants. Joseph got his signet ring (Genesis 41:42). ---Joseph's tax
system of 20% is supported by the Kahun Papyri from exactly the same time as
Sesostris I as I could see in Griffith 1898 pages 17-18 in that text (Kahun,
LV, 3 Plate VIII, lines 23-29, downloadable from online). Joseph's mathematics
is all there! ---The Papyri
talks about storehouses, tithe and payments had to be made to the pharaoh
Sesostris I, overseers of cities and famine preparation, women were given a
more natural role in Joseph's days as the Stelae shows (Bright 2005/2006, page
16 also online); the name change of Joseph in Genesis 41:45 as p3-ankh
"and Pharaoh called Joseph Zaphenath-paneah" Genesis 41:45; Joseph
made to live with the king as one can see in literature from the same time by
Landgrafova 2007 page 73 in the Berlin text 1204 at 22; Joseph fed his brothers
also in Landgrafova 73; Joseph furnished his fathers’ house with riches (also
Landgrafova 2007 page 73 downloadable from the internet); land reform as
preparation for the famine (Landgrafova 2007 page 74 at 77); seal bearer and
overseer example in Landgrafova 2007 page 80; second in command in Landgrafova
2007 page 183; trusted by Sesostris I as in R. Landgrafova 2007 page 179;
invent new ideas when famine creates gap Landgrafova 2007 page 180. ---Joseph is
not just a story. It is evidenced by Egyptian sources. ---But what do
people do with the Bible in the Laodicean church? They have eyes to read what
the Bible says about saving people from their sin not in their sin but they
look the other way. ---They
spiritualize the Bible when it is literal when it fits them and insists on
literal reading when it fits them. Welcome to big problems in spirituality. ---They create
their own festivals that are not biblical and God says I hate your festivals
because it is not mine. But they do it anyway. ---God is still
in control and also with us if we are faithful like Joseph.