This week Judah offers his life in exchange for Benjamin’s freedom. This is the same brother who convinced his other brothers to sell Joseph into slavery. It has been 22 years since Joseph was sold into slavery. In that time Judah grew up and matured through his experiences with Tamar. Now after Joseph sees the change in Judah he sends everyone, but his brothers away. Joseph breaks down and reveals who he is to them. The brother we’re in shock and speechless. The last time they saw Jospeh the word says they could not even speak peaceably to him.

When Jacob finds out Jospeh is alive he packs up and moves to Egypt. Pharaoh sends wagons and foots the bill for the move. During the move Jacob makes it to Beersheba he offers offering to the God of Abraham and Isaac. This is the place where Isaac made a covenant with Abimelech after being kicked out of his land because of the blessings of God. Now Jacob goes back to Beersheba to honor God. God gives Jacob a word that he will die in Egypt but he will be with his son Jospeh when he dies. God also tells him that his numbers are about to increase greatly.

When Jacob arrives imagine how he remembers the dreams of Jospeh. Now Jacob is brought to the savior of Egypt and by extension the savior of the world at that time. God had a plan to use a vessel named Jospeh to save the world a precursor to His Son who had not yet come. Notice that everything Jospeh went through didn’t change him. It matured him. It helped him grow up. It made him compassionate. It took what was inside of him and amplified it. On the flip side what was in Judah transformed him into being able to usher in the King. What are you going to allow what you are going through to do to you? Will it change you? Will it amplify who you are? The choice is yours.