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2/8 Reading Portions: Genesis 41; Mark 11; Job 7; Romans 11
Genesis 41:43
And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, “Bow the knee!” Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.
BOW
Joseph is thirty years old at this point. After thirteen years of slavery and imprisonment, and despite his many sufferings, he was elevated to the second position of power in the ancient world. Today, Joseph is known to the Jews as God’s sufferings servant. Joseph’s life certainly reflects a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ’s earthly ministry began at age thirty according to the third chapter of Luke. Although Jesus is very God, He took on…
the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. Philippians 2:7
This is foreshadowed in our verse, And he made him ride in his second chariot. Jesus told His disciples, “Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him” (John 13:16), expressing His position as second behind the heavenly Father. Jesus, “being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” (Phil 2:8), foreshadowed by Joseph’s sufferings, considered dead by his father, Jacob, through the deceit of his brothers. Because of Christ’s sacrifice,
God has highly exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth. Philippians 2:9-10
As Joseph was made ruler over all the land of Egypt, this foreshadowed Christ’s rule over everything (Eph 1:21). Jesus, indeed, sits upon His heavenly throne with the promise to return. We who are saved by His grace are called out and commissioned to call out before Him, to call out before His return, and to call out to others: “Bow the knee!” Are we doing so? Interestingly, by the power of its heavenly truth, we cannot call out to others to bow the knee before Him unless we are doing so ourselves.
Joseph’s story foreshadow’d Christ,
God used him to proclaim
The glories of Christ’s sacrifice,
‘nd salvation in Christ’s name.
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