S01 E097 - Jacob's Grief and Joseph's Plan - Genesis 42:15-38

Join Stephen Armstrong as we continue our study in Genesis, chapter 42. We'll explore how Joseph’s strategic approach reveals his love for his brothers while testing their hearts. This episode dives into the complexities of Jacob's grief, his favoritism, and the brothers' growing fear. See how Joseph's actions create a scenario to provoke true repentance in his brothers which mirrors how God will use hardship to draw Israel back to himself. This study is critical for understanding how God uses pain and difficult choices to ultimately bring about restoration.

Genesis 42:15-28 (NASB):

42:15 “By this you will be tested: by the life of Pharaoh, you shall not go from this place unless your youngest brother comes here. 16 Send one of you that he may get your brother, while you remain confined, that your words may be tested, whether there is truth in you. But if not, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.” 17 So he put them all together in prison for three days.
18 Then Joseph said to them on the third day, “Do this and live, for I fear God: 19 if you are honest men, let one of your brothers be confined in your prison; but as for the rest of you, go, carry grain for the famine of your households, 20 and bring your youngest brother to me, so your words may be verified, and you will not die.” And they did so. 21 Then they said to one another, “Truly we are guilty concerning our brother, because we saw the distress of his soul when he pleaded with us, yet we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.” 22 Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the boy’? But you would not listen; now comes the reckoning for his blood.” 23 They did not know, however, that Joseph understood, for there was an interpreter between them. 24 He turned away from them and wept. But when he returned to them and spoke to them, he took Simeon from them and bound him before their eyes. 25 Then Joseph gave orders to fill their bags with grain, and to restore every man’s money in his sack, and to give them provisions for the journey. And thus it was done for them. 26 So they loaded their donkeys with their grain and departed from there. 27 As one of them opened his sack to give his donkey fodder at the lodging place, he saw his money, and behold, it was in the mouth of his sack. 28 Then he said to his brothers, “My money has been returned, and behold, it is even in my sack.” Then their hearts sank, and they turned trembling to one another, saying, “What is this that God has done to us?”

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