Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread,"
The backdrop of Joseph's thrilling drama is the great controversy between Christ and Satan. It's far more than a novel; the fate of the plan of salvation is in the balance with that son of Jacob. In Genesis chapters 12-17 God has promised and sworn on oath (placing His own existence and His throne in jeopardy) that from Abraham's "seed" will come the Messiah, the Savior of the world. Otherwise, there can be no Savior of the world.
Jacob's twelve sons are that "seed," and Satan knows it. He inspires ten of them with murderous hatred of the one whom God has called to be the "savior" of the "seed." Failing to kill him outright, they sell him into hopeless slavery.
If only he can crush Joseph's spirit of love, Satan may win! Just embitter the young slave, an abandoned exile all alone in a foreign nation and culture, get him on to liquor or drugs, get him to drown himself in self-pity (that's somehow the bottom line of most alcoholism), if only--then the "seed" will perish with no "savior" and with them will perish God's only possible plan of salvation.
God can't ditch Israel and start from scratch with some other "Abraham and his seed," for He has sworn High Heaven on His promise to Abraham. (You say, that's exactly what He proposed to do with Moses in Exodus 32:10--wipe them out and start afresh with Moses! But wait a moment--He was testing Moses for that same agape-love, for he too is a link in this chain of salvation.)
The great God of heaven has put all His eggs in the Joseph basket (and later, Moses, too). Into one fallible mortal, a sinner by nature, a man inclined by his DNA to be bitter toward those brothers who betrayed him into miserable slavery. Can we imagine how breathless were the inhabitants of heaven as they watched the drama unfold?
Glory! Joseph endures the test! After all those years of bitter separation, when he meets his once-hateful brothers, his heart still loves them; he forgives them. Satan slinks off defeated.
Joseph as "savior" of the "seed" demonstrates to the universe his link to Christ, the Savior of the world who prays for His crucifiers and is the Vindicator of God's oath to Abraham.
Where do YOU fit in, in this drama? (And me?) Respect yourself; you are important. Hang on.
From the "Dial Daily Bread" Archive: May 6, 2001A.
Copyright © 2010 by Robert J. Wieland.
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