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Messianic Parallels Between Joseph & Yeshua

Chapter 37

• Shepherd (2)
• Mediator (2,13)
• Beloved of his father (3)
• Raised with sons of “weakness” [= “Bilhah”] (2)
• A son of wisdom (Aramaic translation, 3)
• Firstborn (1Chron.5:2)
• Hated without a cause (sinat chinam) (4)
• Receives physical and spiritual rule (5-9)
• Sent by his father… (13)
• …to a place of prior sin and disaster [i.e., Shechem] (12)
• Arrived in “the field” (15)
• “My brothers do I seek” (16)
• Found his brothers in “double law” [= “Dothan”] (17)
• They conspire to kill him (18)
• Was stripped of his garment (23)
• Lots cast over his clothing (?) (Midrash Rabbah)
• Betrayed by Judah… (26)
• …for silver (28)
• Was placed in the earth (24)
• The pit was “unused” (i.e., empty) [Luke 23:52-53]
• They sat down to a meal (25)
• Came forth from the earth (28)
• Went among the Gentiles (28)
• Absent from his brothers for two decades (2,000 yrs.)
• Garment was dipped in blood… (31)
• …and presented to his father (32-33)
• The father tore his garments [Matt. 27:51](34)

Chapter 39

• Was tempted… (7-15)
• …but did not sin. (7-15)
• Was punished for the sins of others (19-20)
• Filled with grace and kindness (21)

Chapter 40

• Mediator between God and man (8)
• Commissioned one he had rescued (14)
• Gives new meaning to bread & wine (9-22)

Chapter 41

• 30 years old when he entered public service [Lk.3:23] (46)
• Exaltation was dependent upon suffering (9-13)
• Second only to the king (41-43)
• Takes a Gentile bride (45)
• By his word all people are sustained (40)
• Predicts seven years of “tribulation” (30,54)
• Savior of the world (57)
• The king commands everyone, “Go to him!” (55)

Chapter 42

• Made ruler over the earth (6)
• Was the source and provider of life to all (6)
• His brethren come to him during seven years of ‘tribulation’ (6)
• Was not recognized by his brethren… (8)
• …but he recognized them (8)
• Did not reveal himself immediately (9-21)
• Feigned harshness toward his brothers (9,14,30)
• Spoke through an interpreter (23)
• Wept (24)

Chapter 43

• Rescue delayed twice [2,000 years] (10)

Genesis 41:43  And he made him ride in his second chariot. And they called out before him, “Avrech!” Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt.

אברך = “Kneel!”

 Genesis 41:45  And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaph’nat-panei’ach. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.

צפנת פענח

Ankh  = “life”

Zaph’nat-panei’ach = Savior of the age; Savior of the world; Giver of nourishment of life; Prince of the life of the age…

Genesis 42:5  Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

1st appearance: בני ישראל

REFERENCES:

1 Chronicles 5:2  Though Judah became strong among his brothers and a chief came from him, yet the birthright belonged to Joseph).

Luke 23:52-53  This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Yeshua. Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and laid him in a tomb cut in stone, where no one had ever yet been laid.

Matthew 27:51  And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom…

Luke 3:23  Yeshua, when He began His ministry, was about thirty years of age, being the son (as was supposed) of Joseph, the son of Heli.