Comments on: Joseph Gets Passed Over http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2010/04/27/joseph-gets-passed-over/ Theology you can eat and drink Fri, 10 Aug 2018 15:01:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Mike Bull http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2010/04/27/joseph-gets-passed-over/comment-page-1/#comment-7188 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:07:13 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=4952#comment-7188 Hi there
Thanks for you comment!
I follow the views of Warren Gage and James Jordan on this matter. Joseph’s patient suffering (and God’s Spirit) gave him great wisdom. He then tested his brothers to gauge their reactions to trials. He wished to see if they had changed. See: http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2009/11/26/josephs-dysfunctional-family/ Of course, Greater Joseph did the same with the brothers who betrayed Him in the first century. Those whose hearts were cut at Pentecost were those who dined with Him in the kingdom.

]]> By: Baraholka http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/2010/04/27/joseph-gets-passed-over/comment-page-1/#comment-7187 Tue, 11 Jan 2011 11:54:24 +0000 http://www.bullartistry.com.au/wp/?p=4952#comment-7187 Joseph was torn between the desires of revealing his identity to his brothers and his deep pain at their betrayal and inhumane treatment of him.

Joseph, like most of the other Patriarchs was an emotionally damaged individual. It took God to do a mighty work in him to help Jospeh forgive his brothers and hence allow Jospeh to play his part in the continuation of the Abrahamic blessing.

http://indifferencegivesyouafright.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/i-forget-reading-the-story-of-joseph-in-harmony-with-the-other-patriarchal-narratives-of-genesis/

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