Endings
Jesus said to them, “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so,
I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
John 14:2
Genesis, the book of beginnings, concludes with important endings. At the beginning of chapter 50, we find one of the Old Testament’s greatest examples, Joseph, weeping over the death of his father, Jacob. The chapter ends with Joseph’s death and burial. In between, three key events take place.
First, Joseph takes his father’s remains back to Canaan to their familial home. This marks Joseph’s first return to the land since the dark days of Genesis 37, when his brothers sold him into slavery.
Second, Joseph reassures them of his love and forgiveness by affirming God’s purposes and his own desire to care for his brothers and their families (50:19–21).
Third, Joseph, anticipating his own death, again reminds the Israelites of their proper home in Canaan by asking that they take his bones to be buried in the land of promise.
These ideas prepare the way for the exodus; God’s eventual rescue of Israel from bondage in Egypt more than 400 years later.
How wonderful, that God, through His own Son the Lord Jesus Christ, has rescued each one of us who put our faith in Him; And more than this, the Lord Jesus is preparing a heavenly home for each of us too.
Bible Reading
Genesis 50:22-26.
Prayer
Father God, I thank You that there is a heavenly Home prepared for all Your saved people through ages. Amen.
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