The last Chapters of Genesis

The story of Jacob (Israel) and His Son Joseph consumes the last chapters of Genesis and, astounding! is this compelling account of their lives filled with jealousy, deceit, loyalty, and trust. The loyalty and trust of Gods word Joseph confidently adheres to is faith at its finest.

Jacob the father finds favor in Joseph hence therefore, jealousy and deceit is manifest in the older brothers. Joseph is gifted by God with an ability to reveal interpretations of dreams he and others experience, it serves him well and he trusted he would become a powerful person under God in this time of history. Joseph is sold by his brothers into slavery to a party of Ishmaelites or Midianites, who carry him down to Egypt. They then tell Jacob his father he was ravenously savaged by wild animals. After various vicissitudes he gains the favour of the king of Egypt by the interpretation of his dream, and obtains a high place in the kingdom, for the interpretation revealed a Famine that was to come to the land and motivated Joseph and the King to prepare by stockpiling wheat. The Famine did arrive as God revealed to Joseph. Forced by a famine his brothers come to buy food, and in the incidents that follow and the testimony of Joseph is a powerful message through Gods word. Joseph does not blame his brothers when they come to the his land for food but rather explains these awesome words of Gods will.

Then Joseph couldn't control himself before all those who stood before him, and he cried, "Cause every man to go out from me!" No one else stood with him, while Joseph made himself known to his brothers. 2 He wept aloud. The Egyptians heard, and the house of Pharaoh heard. 3 Joseph said to his brothers, "I am Joseph! Does my father still live?"

His brothers couldn't answer him; for they were terrified at his presence. 4 Joseph said to his brothers, "Come near to me, please."They came near. "He said, I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt. 5 Now don't be grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here, for God sent me before you to preserve life. 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest. 7 God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant in the earth, and to save you alive by a great deliverance. 8 So now it wasn't you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

What more can be stated as to this great message of forgiveness but this. The clarity that horrible things happen to God's people and we never really can know what is to come of such circumstances. We desire to know all things as humans and want to be able to logically explain, and think our way out or into everything that is present around us. There is nothing wrong with logic but have we have educated ourselves into imbecility? If we can't explain it, if we have no direct empirical evidence fore whatever it is that we experience, it cannot be true.
Famous Philosopher David Hume argued that a miraculous event, no matter how well attested by historical eyewitness evidence, could not be proven to be a miracle because you could not prove that a natural law had actually been overthrown.
He is saying we need to have a answer for it existing only in nature and the laws therein. It beg the question why are there things existing in nature that cannot be explained. Like the fine tuned constants of this earth, or irreducible comlexity concept popularized by biochemist Micheal Behe.
We need to read the Bible and God will speak his word in miraculous ways. It is obsolute truth that we need to have faith and trust in. Even more in todays Postmodern culture.