JOSEPH’S PROMOTION

Pharaoh finds a worthy man in Joseph to lead this operation…

So then Pharaoh said to his servants

Where can we find a man like this?

A man with brilliance

In whom is the Spirit of God?”

He then looked and said, So Joseph,

Yes, your majesty…

Since God has shown you all this travesty

There is none so discerning as to miss

And we see none as wise as you are.

So you shall be over my house as czar

And all my people shall order

Themselves at your command

Only as regards to the throne

Where you stand

Will I be greater than you

See, see, I have set you over all our land

Then he took his signet ring from his hand

And put it on Joseph’s, upon command

He was clothed in garments

Of fine linen and set with a gold chain

About his neck to show his reign

He was made to ride in the second chariot.

Bow the knee! We will yet remain to be free!

Thus he set him over all the land of Egypt

I do declare without your consent

No one shall lift up hand or foot to descend

And to Joseph he gave a new name

It was given as Zaphenath-paneah,

Now a man of honor and fame

Then he gave him in marriage to Asenath

The daughter of Potiphera priest of On.

So he went and traversed over all the land

By now he was a thirty year old man

So he entered into this service

For all of Egypts land and surface

And Joseph went out from the king

Throughout all the land of Egypt

During the seven plentiful years

The earth produced abundantly

And all it’s people had no fears

We gathered up all the food

Of these seven years, and it was good

For all that occurred in the land of Egypt,

and we stored the food in the cities.

We put, in every city

The food from the fields around it

And I stored up grain in great abundance

Like the sand of the sea

Until I ceased to be able to even measure

Before the year of famine came

Two sons were born to my wife

Asenath, was the love of my life

I, Joseph called our firstborn Manasseh.

God has made me forget

Hard times that had beset me

The name of my second boy

I called him Ephraim, for he was such a joy!

For God has made me fruitful

In the land of my afflictions

And I remained steady in my convictions

Then the seven years of abundance

Ended and then came droughts abhorrence

We barely could remember the good times

For all the land was barren to climb

So famine was in all of the lands

However in Egypts sands there was bread

And all the peoples cried out and said

We are so famished with dread

And have no sustenance today

They came to me imploring me to say

Open the vaults of grain this day

For Pharaoh had told to so go to you

What he says to you, so do

Once the drought had spread as main

I opened all the stores for the breads grain

And we sold to the Egyptians with vigor

For the famine became quite severe

Moreover, all the earth came to me

The drought was so extreme

I just marveled at Gods hand of protection

Despite this mighty affliction

BROTHERS JOURNEY TO EGYPT

Well, when I, Jacob

( I also go by Israel)

Learned of the Egyptian grain for sale

I said, We need to go get a few bales

Boys, why do you look at one another so?

As if you don’t know what to do…

Behold, I have heard that Egypt has grain

And we have none, being we’ve had no rain

Go down and buy some reserves

That we may live and so preserve

Our families and herds

So ten of his boys,

Who can certainly make some noise

Went down to buy rations

To a strange nation

Departing with reservations

But I did not send my youngest Benjamin,

For I did fear that harm might befall him.

So my sons came to buy among the others

For they were ten and all were brothers…

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To be continued…JOSEPH MEETS HIS BROTHERS

Now read it for yourself. God’s word is what changes us from within!

“And the food shall be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of Egypt; that the land perish not through the famine.

And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants. And Pharaoh said unto his servants,

Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom the spirit of God is? And Pharaoh said unto Joseph,

Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou: thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.

And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck; and he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him,

Bow the knee: and he set him over all the land of Egypt. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt.

And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah; and he gave him to wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On.

And Joseph went out over the land of Egypt. And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.

And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt. And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

And he gathered up all the food of the seven years which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.

And Joseph laid up grain as the sand of the sea, very much, until he left off numbering; for it was without number.

And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto him.

And Joseph called the name of the first-born Manasseh: For, said he, God hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.

And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.

And the seven years of plenty, that was in the land of Egypt, came to an end.

And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said: and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians,

Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do. And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the store-houses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine was sore in the land of Egypt.

And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy grain, because the famine was sore in all the earth.”

‭‭Genesis‬ ‭41‬:‭36‬-‭57‬ ‭