Joseph’s Family Moves to Egypt: Christ’s Family Grew Exponentially After Being Destined to Sin

Genesis 46

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• God speaks to us by name those who are devoted to Him.
• A great nation of Christians has been made through Jesus Christ, and we will have eternal life.
• We were destined to be captives to sin, but God had another plan.
• A few of God’ people became as innumerable as the sand on the sea.
• Jesus Christ will return to pick up the ones set apart from the ways of this world.

• Global government of the beast detests the leaders of Christianity.

God speaks to us by name those who are devoted to Him. As followers of Jesus Christ, we offer our sacrifices to Him from a heart filled with the Holy Spirit. Those sacrifices include glorifying His name, sharing His testimony, and devoting our body as the home of the Holy Spirit. When Jacob (Jacob’s name is changed to Israel in Genesis 32:27-28 and Genesis 35:9-10) started the journey to Egypt, he stopped to offer sacrifices to God. Those sacrifices were made to the God of his father Isaac, who is the God of Jesus Christ. “So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.” Genesis 46:1 As we offer our sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ, He gets our attention by speaking to us personally through His word. Even in the night, where we ae today in this Christless world. We are eager to make ourselves available to the will of God, as was Jacob, “Then God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” And he said, “Here I am.” Genesis 46:2

A great nation of Christians has been made through Jesus Christ, and we will have eternal life. Any word we receive from God will always be according to the Holy Bible and will always serve to glorify His Son Jesus Christ. When God spoke to Jacob, it was to let him know that the place he was traveling to is for the purpose of multiplying the numbers of his sons, the twelve tribes of Israel. “So He said, “I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.” Genesis 46:3 That is always the Word of God, and that is always how He identifies Himself, with the purpose to increase the numbers of those who come to Jesus, His Son. Within this sin-enslaved world, God will always be with us through Jesus, who has given us the Holy Spirit. He is our comforter and the giver of empowerment to share His testimony. Although we are earthbound and destined to the grave, we will be brought up from the dead to live eternally with Christ in the New Jerusalem. Symbolically, Joseph is Jesus Christ who will have His hands on our eyes during death. With those same hands, He will open our eyes and God will surely bring us up again, “I will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also surely bring you up again; and Joseph will put his hand on your eyes.” Genesis 46:4

We were destined to be captives to sin, but God had another plan. The rise of Christianity started with a few people, the followers of Jesus Christ, and blossomed exponentially to where His name is known worldwide to this day. Every single follower of Christ started in the direction of sin before acknowledging Him as Lord and Savior. Today, the global government of the mark of the beast is destroying the chief cornerstone (Jesus Christ) which created this world. They even expect the world’s populations to hop in their carts and to serve them over God. Even then, the rise of Christianity happened within a world whose destiny was captivity to sin, under the noses of the brutal Roman Empire. Even before that, God rose up the nation of Israel with about seventy people, and they grew to several hundred thousand under the nose of the Pharaohs. “Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him. So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him. His sons and his sons’ sons, his daughters and his sons’ daughters, and all his descendants he brought with him to Egypt.” Genesis 46:5-7 Every single person who has ever come to God has done so in this sin-enslaved land of Egypt called earth. The multitudes upon multitudes of people who enter the pearl gates of the New Jerusalem are those who have come to Christ after starting in the direction of sin.

A few of God’s People became as innumerable as the sand of the sea. Verses 8-25 gives every single name of those who went to Egypt, which was a total of about seventy, “All the persons who went with Jacob to Egypt, who came from his body, besides Jacob’s sons’ wives, were sixty-six persons in all. And the sons of Joseph who were born to him in Egypt were two persons. All the persons of the house of Jacob who went to Egypt were seventy.” Genesis 46:26-27 Imagine starting as a nation with seventy people! Where was the family tree of Jesus Christ within those seventy? There are four mentioned here from the tribe of Judah, “The sons of Judah were Er, Onan, Shelah, Perez, and Zerah (but Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan).” Genesis 46:12 The story of Judah, Tamar, Perez, and Zerah is told in Genesis 38. Four people who were alive together became tens of thousands by the time Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt. There will always be a faithful few on this earth who hold to the testimony of Jesus Christ. They exist under the government of the mark of the beast who despise the name of Jesus. Because of the remnant of the followers of Jesus Christ, many more people will come to God through Jesus before His return.

Jesus Christ will return to pick up the ones set apart from the ways of this world. From the tribe of Judah came the birth of Jesus Christ, and Judah leads the way to where Joseph is in the land of Goshen. “Then he sent Judah before him to Joseph, to point out before him the way to Goshen. And they came to the land of Goshen.” Genesis 46:28 As people filled with the Holy Spirit, we want to lead others to Jesus Christ into a place of peace within this sin-enslaved world. That land of peace comes by being set apart from the world and dedicating ourselves to God, to devote our body as the temple of the Holy Spirit. In a sense, we are set apart in the land of Goshen. When Jesus Christ returns, He comes to collect us in the land of Goshen. That is represented by the Holy Spirit when Joseph went to meet Israel. Israel represents God’s people, who are the children of Jesus Christ today, and Joseph symbolizes Christ, “So Joseph made ready his chariot and went up to Goshen to meet his father Israel; and he presented himself to him, and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.” Genesis 46:29 There are going to be tears of joy on that great day when Jesus returns to take us home. When we make Jesus Christ the Lord and Savior of our life, then we will be ready to die. Today is the day to proclaim that we serve a risen Savior. “And Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face, because you are still alive.” Genesis 46:30

Global government of the beast detests the leaders of Christianity. Jesus Christ is the Great Shepherd over all His followers, and His followers are shepherds in the sense that we share His Gospel with the whosoever. Shepherds are detestable in this world dominated by those who live for the mark of the beast, in the same way that shepherds were despised and kept apart from the social network of the Egyptians. All of Joseph’s family, the whole twelve tribes of Israel were shepherds, and detested by Egypt, “…for every shepherd is an abomination to the Egyptians.” Genesis 46:34b

Pharaoh is a powerful figure of the global government, and he keeps a census of who moves within his territory. Joseph made the report to Pharoah that his family has arrived to come to him. “Then Joseph said to his brothers and to his father’s household, “I will go up and tell Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘My brothers and those of my father’s house, who were in the land of Canaan, have come to me.” Genesis 46:31 Today, those who govern by the mark of beast are keeping tabs of every group that might be contrary to the global agenda. The whole family of Jesus Christ is being monitored, and all those who come to God through Him are being watched. That is the spoken word of prophecy which is carried out due to dark and Christless hearts. They are especially keeping tabs on the shepherds, leaders, feeders, and enablers of the followers of Jesus Christ, as the Holy Spirit says here, “And the men are shepherds, for their occupation has been to feed livestock; and they have brought their flocks, their herds, and all that they have.’” Genesis 46:32 Those who govern and live by the mark of the beast have uncanny knowledge and heightened intuition, so contradicting what they know is treacherous road to travel. Plus, we want to uphold our testimony for Jesus Christ. The government of the mark of the beast wants to keep the people of God separate from the society of the mark of the beast. They want to keep us set apart in Goshen, “So it shall be, when Pharaoh calls you and says, ‘What is your occupation?’ that you shall say, ‘Your servants’ occupation has been with livestock from our youth even till now, both we and also our fathers,’ that you may dwell in the land of Goshen;” Genesis 46:33-34a

“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11