Some thoughts on Scripture

Genesis 41:51-52--"Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh, 'For God has made me forget all my toil and all my father's house.' And the name of the second he called Ephraim: 'For God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.'" After enduring so much suffering for many... Sign in to see full entry.

Genesis 40:8--"And they said to him, 'We each have had a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.' So Joseph said to them, 'Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, please.'" Joseph correctly attributed to God his ability to interpret dreams. Certainly not to Freud or Jung. God, in... Sign in to see full entry.

Genesis 39:2,4, 21-22--"The Lord was with Joseph, and he was successful man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian....So Joseph found favor in his sight, and served him. Then he made him overseer of his house, and all that he had he put under his authority....But the LORD was with... Sign in to see full entry.

Genesis 37:19-21,26, 27--"Then they said to one another, 'Look, this dreamer is coming! Come therefore, let us now kill him and cast him into some pit; and we shall say,"Some wild beast has devoured him." We shall see what will become of his dreams!' But Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of... Sign in to see full entry.

Genesis 35:3--"Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone." I am struck with how prayer over and over again is represented in movies and on television--in a church, as... Sign in to see full entry.

Genesis 33:4--"But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept." Jacob had worked up a lot of apprehension about this moment of meeting his brother. He had left Laban because it had been a long fourteen years of servitude. Now he was returning to his... Sign in to see full entry.

Genesis 32:9,12--"Then Jacob said, 'O God of my father Isaac. the LORD who said to me, "Return to your family, and I will deal well with you"... 'For You said, "I will surely treat you well, and make your descendants as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude."'" Jacob had made a... Sign in to see full entry.

Luke 24:46-47--"Then He said to them, 'Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day, and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem." When Christ died and defeated death... Sign in to see full entry.

Genesis 30:23-24a--"And she conceived and bore a son, and said, 'God has taken away my reproach.' So she called his name Joseph." I have heard a number of preachers liken Joseph of Genesis to a Christ-type. At the very onset, at his naming there is a significance. Rachel had not borne any children... Sign in to see full entry.

Genesis 29:27-28,30--"'Fulfill her week [Leah's]. and we will give you this one [Rachel] also for the which you will serve with me still another seven years.' Then Jacob did so and fulfilled her week. So he gave him his daughter Rachel as wife also....Then Jacob also went in to Rachel, and he also... Sign in to see full entry.