Speaker 1: M hm.
Speaker 2: That sold else missed? What made you?
Speaker 3: A little?
Speaker 1: Smoke?
Speaker 3: Just stories called in stone. Fire still burn sane when
you strike it on your own. Crowns build out of
borrowed life, Thrones wired in the fear, truth chained out
on mountain walls, while vulture circle near.
Speaker 1: If knowledge is a crime, we were guilty from the stop.
They don't fear the questions, They fear the spark. So
we steal the fire. Not true, not train just to seecret,
smoking mirrors and calls me by name. They say the
truth will cost you. Friends, can't fuck me.
Speaker 3: Some mind.
Speaker 1: The savory who has a softer face, swim fires, let feed.
Speaker 3: Songs were split and the lines were drawn. While scher
set to rule, Whispers fed into the thrones, while schools
trained obedient fools. Servings don't just.
Speaker 1: Lie with words, they plant them in the ground.
Speaker 3: Three troops wrapped around the line make wisdom sound.
Speaker 4: They sailed without a sword, so weaken without a roof.
If the path of Aoi's the cross, it's not the truth,
So we steal the fisire.
Speaker 1: Not to burn it down, but to warm the one
still frozen them by the lies passed around. They call
it dangerous thinking. They call it heresy, but by doesn't
fear the dark and only the shows was real?
Speaker 3: Who told you that?
Speaker 2: Was it true?
Speaker 3: Did you search you or trust of your.
Speaker 4: The foundation first.
Speaker 1: Before you climb the frown of smoke, we'll steal your time.
Speaker 2: Serious without truth.
Speaker 3: Slavery, we steal fire.
Speaker 1: Can we pass a hand? A hand not as cheese,
not as master's, just as that shows to stamp ship
and replace you the strangers. You're closer, then you'll think
the flame once never Master give you only try to keep.
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Speaker 3: Anoledge is a crime?
Speaker 1: We will guilty from the super They don't fear the questions,
they fear the spot.
Speaker 2: So we see the.
Speaker 1: Just see through small they come for thinking. They heresy,
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Thank you so very much. Appreciate you guys coming and
hanging out. Oh but before we get into the reading,
I wanted to make a little correct if you do
follow me on social media, I ended up like making
real good friends with the river Winds, you know, Chief
Joseph and doctor Laura Riverwind and just a couple of
days ago, man, just out of the blue, Joseph messaged me.
He's like, hey, man, you want to go to Israel.
All expenses page. You just got to pay the taxes
on all that kind of stuff. He was like nine
hundred bucks. I was like, yeah, dude, I'd love to. Man,
He's like, okay, we're going. We're going in October. I
was like, okay. So I made like a little gofund
me page because I only got like three weeks come
up with this money. So I did like a little
gofund me and I made like a little aim It's
just telling people about it, you know, and if they
wanted to pitch in, hey, man, I appreciate it. But uh,
when I made it, I didn't know what to call it.
I just put mission trip. And Joseph messaged me and
he's like, it's not a mission trip, just and it's
like a diplomacy type thing. And I was like, oh, look,
I didn't know, man, I didn't know what to call it.
So it's not a mission trip. So we're going on
behalf of the first nations people to meet with some
of the diplomats and stuff like that, and go to
that Holocaust Museum and a couple other little places. So
it's kind of like a diplomacy support kind of thing.
It's not missionary. So I misspoke there forgiving me, folks.
But man, if you guys are ready, we will settle in.
We will get to reading. We're actually starting a new
chapter this week. We're on chapter seven and we're getting
into Joseph. Now, okay, so now we'll be getting into
Joseph and Egypt and the Code of Many Colors, which
most of us already know. That's the supernatural garments from
the Garden of God. Really excited to dig through this.
I've not got this far yet, so hey man, consistency.
We're on our twenty ninth episode going through this guy,
So hey man, sit back, relax, put on your seat belt,
and let's enjoy this journey. I'll go ahead and get
all my stuff dust. Uh. And if you guys have noticed,
I ditched my glasses just the other day. I mean
I didn't ditch them. I still got them. But I
think I say, hey man, I still got some contacts,
and I ain't wore my contacts in like a year.
I was like, Hey, I'll just you know, give my
glasses a rest for a little while. So no spectacles tonight.
All right, I got the chat over here, switch it up. Ah,
there we go. Now we're cooking with peanut hole. All right, guys,
have y'all all ready, let's do it. The favorite son,
Jacob was not exempt from the lot that falls to
the share of all the pious. Whenever they expect to
enjoy life in tranquility, Satan hinders them. He appears before
God and says, is it not enough that the future
world is set apart for the pious? What right have
they to enjoy this world? Besides? After the many hardships
and conflicts that had beset the path of Jacob, he
thought he would be at rest at last, and then
come to loss of Joseph and inflicted the keenest suffering.
Verily few and evil had been the days and years
of Jacob's pilgrimage. For that time spent outside the holy
land had seemed joyless to him. Only the portion of
his life passed in the land of his fathers, during
which he was occupied with making prial sets in accordance
with the example set him by Abraham and Isaac did
he consider worthwhile having lived and this happy time was
of short duration when Joseph was snatched away but eight
years and he lapsed since his return to his father's house.
Quick little comment here. I thought it was funny they
talked about, you know, is that not enough that the
pious is going to inherit the next kingdom? So why
should they you know, do well here too? That reminded
me of my mom used to say. I remember as
a kid, I'd talked to her and I just like, why,
you know, how come these people are not Christians. They're
the ones with all the money, and they're the ones,
you know, living their best life and doing all this stuff.
You know, we're God's people. Shouldn't we be happy and
have money and do all this stuff. I was a
little Joe lostein. I guess Mom was like, justin, yes,
we are God's people and our reward is in heaven
with eternal life. These people, this is the only life
they're going to have. She said, they're going to, you know,
wake up in the fires of hell. You know, were
Southern Baptists, and she said, so we go through hell
now so we can have heaven for eternity. She said,
they go through a little small portion of heaven now
because they got an eternity of hell coming. So yeah, good, good,
Southern Mama logic there educating her boy, all right. And
yet it was only for the sake of Joseph that
Jacob had been willing to undergo all the troubles and
the adversity connected with his sojourn in the House of Laban. Indeed,
Jacob's blessing and having his quiver full of children was
due to the merits of Joseph. And likewise the dividing
of the Red Sea and of the Jordan for the
Israelites was the reward for his son's piety. For among
the sons of Jacob, Joseph was the one that resembled
his father most closely in appearance. And also he was
the one whom Jacob transmitted the instruction and knowledge he
had received from his teachers Shim and Eber. The whole
course of the son's life is but a repetition of
the father's. As the mother of Jacob remained childless for
a long time after her marriage, so also was the
mother of Joseph. As Rebecca had undergone severe suffering in
giving birth to Jacob, so Rachel in giving birth to Joseph,
as Jacob's mother bore two sons. Also Joseph's mother, like Jacob,
Joseph was born circumcised. As the father was a shepherd,
so the son. As the father served for the sake
of a woman, so the son served under a woman.
Like the father, the son appropriated his older brother's birthright.
The father was hated by his brother, and the son
was hated by his brethren. The father was the favorite
son and compared with his brother, so was the son
as compared with his brethren. Both the father and the
son lived in the land of the Stranger. The father
became a servant to a master, also the son. The master,
whom the father served, was blessed by God, so was
the master whom the son served. The father and the
son both accompanied by angels, and both married their wives
outside of the Holy Land. The father and the son
were both blessed with wealth. Great things were announced to
the father in a dream, so also to the son.
As the father went to Egypt and put an end
to the famine, so the son, as the father exacted
the promise from his sons to bury him in the
Holy Land, so also the son. The father died in Egypt.
There died also the son. The body of the father
was embalmed, also the body of the son. As the
father's remains were carried to the Holy Land for inter minute,
so also the remains of the son. Jacob. The father
provided for the sustenance of his son Joseph during the
period of seven years. So Joseph the son provided for
his father Jacob during a period of seven years. Until
he was seventeen years old. Joseph frequented the bet high Midrash,
and he became so learned that he would impart to
his brethren the holakot he had heard from his father,
and in the way he may be regarded as their teacher.
He did not stop at formal instruction. He also tried
to give them good counsel, and he became the favorite
of the sons of the handmaidens, who would kiss and
embrace him. In spite of his scholarship, there was something
boyish about Joseph. He painted his eyes, dressed his hair carefully,
and walked with a mincing step. These fobos of youth
were not so deplorable as his habit of bringing evil
reports of his brethren to his father. Oh he's a
little snitch, little tattle tale. He accused them of treating
the beasts under their care with cruelty. He said that
they ate flesh torn from the living animal. And he
charged them with casting their eyes upon the daughters of
the Canaanites, and giving contemptuous treatment to the sons of
the handmaidens bill Ha and Zilpa, who they called slaves.
For these groundless accusations, Joseph had to pay dearly. He
was himself sold as a slave because he had charged
his brethren with having called the sons of the handmaidens slaves.
And the pop Tar's wife cast her eyes upon Joseph
because he threw the suspicion upon his brethren that he
had cast their eyes upon the Canaanish women. And how
little it was true that they were guilty of cruelty
to animals, appears from the fact that the very time
when they were contemplating their crime against Joseph, they yet
observed all the rules and prescriptions of the ritual, and
slaughtering the kid of the goats with the blood which
they had dismembered. His coat of many colors that's the
end of that little sub section there. I'll check back
in with you guys in the chat uh cake. You
can't take the few bad eggs in a bundle and
call the whole carton bad. Now, that's just lazy, I
tell him, somebody. I think it's the rifle man. He was.
He was commenting giving me some crap over that Israel
trip to and I teld him, I said, well, man,
I said, the Bible says they're his people. And then
he ends, you know, the one hundred and forty four thousand.
He waits to the end to turn him back, you
know what I mean. So that's what the scriptures say.
So you got to be able to eat chicken, separate
the meat from the bone, you know what I mean.
You can't just throw the baby out with the bath water.
And that's something I see a lot with this movement,
and it's it's never been cooler or more fatty, you know,
to just hate the juice, you know, and what the
scripture tell you, narrow is the way, But why is
the path to destruction? That's a very wide path. I mean,
that's herd mentality. Every sob in or brother is on
that jew hating bus. That's a pretty broad path in
my view. Uh, we gotta be careful, man, We gotta
be careful with that kind of stuff. Oh, thank you, Pam.
You're gonna make me blush. I knew that was Kevin Oats.
Is he on the payroll now? Yeah? Totally love your mom. Oh,
thank you, mad Max Man, Thank you, dude. Appreciate that. Brother.
My people suffer from lack of knowledge. That's right, all right, man,
I guess we'll keep going on. We're just having some
light chat in the chat there. I'll continue all right.
Now we're at Joseph Hated by his Brethren is the
subtitle on this one. Joseph's tail bearing against his brethren
made them hate him. Among all of them, God was
particularly wrathful for a good reason. Goad was a very
brave man, and when a beast of prey attacked the
herd over which he kept guard at night, he would
seize it by one of his legs and whirl it
around until it was stunned, and then he would fling
it away to a distance of two stadia and kill it.
Speaker 1: Thus.
Speaker 2: Once, Jacob sent Joseph to tend the flock, but he
remained away only thirty days, for he was a delicate
lad and fell sick with the heat, and he hastened
back to his father. On his return, he told Jacob
that the sons of the Handmaids were in the habit
of slaughtering the choice cattle of the herd and eating
it without obtaining permission from Judah and Reuben. But his
report was not accurate. What he had seen was Gad
slaughtering one lamb, which he had snatched from the very
jaws of a bear, and he killed it because he
could not kept he could not keep it alive after
its fright. Joseph's account sounded as though the sons of
the Handmaidens were habitually inconsiderate and careless in wasting their
father's subsistence. And the resentment of the brethren was added
their envy of Joseph, because their father loved him more
than all of them. Joseph's beauty of person was equal
to that of his mother Rachel, and Jacob had but
to look at him to be consoled for the death
of his beloved wife, reason enough for distinguishing him among
his children. As a token of his great love for him,
Jacob gave Joseph a coat of many colors, And here
we go. We got that supernatural garments from the Garden
of God. Here, so light and delicate that it could
be crushed and concealed in the closed palm of one hand.
The Hebrew name of the garment Passim P A S.
S I M, conveys the story of the cell of Joseph.
The first letter P stands for popa Tar pop Tar,
almost like pop tart. His Egyptian master. Samak stands for Soharum,
and the merchantmen that bought Joseph from the company of
the Ishmaelites, to whom his brethren had sold him. Yeowd
stands for these same Ishmaelites, and the men for the
Midianites that obtained him from the merchantmen and then disposed
of him to pop Tar. But Passim has yet another meaning,
and it means clefts. His brethren knew that the Red
Sea would be cleft in the Twain in days to
come for Joseph's sake, and they were jealous of the
glory to be conferred upon him. Although they were filled
with hatred of him. It must be said in their
favor that they were not of a sullen spiteful nature,
but did not hide their feelings. They proclaimed their enmity openly.
Once Joseph dreamed a dream, and he could not refrain
from telling it to his brethren. He spoke and said, here,
I pray you this dream which I have dreamed. Behold,
you gathered fruit, and so did You're fruit rotted, but
mine remains sound. Your seed will set up dumb images
of idols, but they will vanish in the appearance of
my descendants, the Messiah of Joseph. And that kind of
goes back to that uh, that Jewish tradition you know
of uh uh the two messiahs I kind of talked
about a little bit in my book. Uh. Their first Messiah,
they kind of see the archetype as uh Joseph. They
call his name, Uh, I think it's Josiah Yosiah ben Joseph.
So that's the other uh messiah. And of course they
rejected Jesus, so they're still waiting on that that second Messiah.
They're looking for a uh basically a political leader or
military conqueror to you know, physically liberate them. M. Once
Joseph dreamed a dream and he could not refrain from
telling it to his brethren, Alres said that part haven't
I yeah, okay sorry. The brethren refused at first to
listen to the dream, but when Joseph urged them again
and again, they gave heed to him, and they said,
shalt thou indeed rain over us, or shalt thou indeed
have dominion over us. God put an interpretation into the
mouse that was to be verified in the prosperity of Joseph.
Jereboam and Jehu, two kings, and Joshua and Gideon, two judges,
have been among the descendants, corresponding to the double and
emphatic expression used by his brethren in interpreting the dream.
Then Joseph dreamed another dream, how the Sun, the moon,
and eleven stars bowed down before him. And Jacob, to
whom he told it first, was rejoiced over it, for
he understood its meaning properly. He knew that he himself
was designated by the Sun, the name by which God
had called him when he lodged overnight on the holy
side of the Temple. He had heard God say to
the angels at that time, the sun has come. The
moon stood for Joseph's mother, and the stars for his brethren,
for the righteous, or as the stars. Jacob was so
convinced of the truth of the dream that he was
encouraged to believe that he would live to see the
resurrection of the dead. For Rachel was dead and her
return to earth was clearly indicated by the dream. He
went astray there, for not Joseph's own mother was referred to,
but his foster mother, bill Haw, who had raised him.
Jacob wrote the dream in a book, recording all the circumstances,
the day, the hour, and the place, for the Holy
Spirit cautioned him take heed, these things will surely come
to pass. But when Joseph repeated his dream to his
brethren in the presence of his father, Jacob rebuked him, saying,
I and thy brethren that has some sense. But I
and thy mother that is inconceivable, for thy mother is dead. Okay,
who else just had a princess bride moment right there? Inconceivable?
I don't think that means what you think it means.
I totally had that moment. Sorry, I had to share.
Jacob already wrote that part to see. Okay, inconceivable, for
thy mother is dead. These words of Jacob called forth
a reproof from God. He said, thus, thy descendants will,
in time to come seek to hinder Jeremiah in delivering
his prophecies. Jacob may be executed. I'm sorry, get ahead
of myself. Jacob may be excused. He had spoken in
this way only in order to avert the envy and
hate of his brethren from Joseph. But they envied and
hated him because they knew that the interpretation put upon
the dream by Jacob would be realized. That's the end
of that little section. I'll check back here with the
Chad over here. Yeah, yeah, and responded to way, man,
I agree with you in part. But I'm not one
of these all or nothing guys. And that's why I
feel so conflicted to kind of just like abruptly speak
out about these kind of things like some people, because
I don't want to get that wrong. If you get
that wrong, man, I would assume God would be pretty
pissed at you and displeased with you if you got
it wrong and rejected his people. You know, paul A
talked about you know, don't don't hate and discourage and
scoff at the branch that was cut out because only
by them where you grafted in and they plan on
later for them to be grafted in. And you guys
already know. I mean, I'm the weird friends gay anyway.
I believe in serpent seed. I believe in the Edomites,
you know, enter weaving themselves taking over some of the
government and stuff like that. I've had rich Tidwell on.
It's just one of those things I do. I think
that stuff's going on. Oh yes, I do. But I
don't think it's everything, you know, because that's just me though,
Because to me, that's something that's pretty extreme. And if
you come out and you condemn those people and say,
you know, they're not who they say they are, Da
da da, and you're wrong, that's a pretty big wrong.
So I'll just stay neutral, that's me. I'll just sit
back and love my neighbors. I love myself and do
as Jesus taught me to do, and I'll see how
it plays out. That's just me. Hey, TIF, welcome to
the party. Welcome, welcome. If one plans a trip to
Mexico with that, in return, make them Mexican and a
part of the cartel asking for a friend, that's funny,
all right, We'll continue on. So this little section here.
We're getting through this pretty quick this go around. If
I'm reading faster, these are just shorter, I know, so shorter,
I know. Sometimes we get into some of these many
sections take you sometimes twenty thirty minutes for me to
get through. So it's nice to have these quikies here, Okay.
Joseph casts is cast into the pit. Once the brethren
of Joseph led their father's flocks to the pastures of Shechem,
and they intended to take their ease and pleasure there.
They stayed away a long time, and no tidings of
them were heard. Jacob began to be anxious about the
fate of his sons. He feared that war had broken
out between them and that the people of Shechem, and
he resolved to send Joseph to them and have them
bring word again whether it was well with his brethren.
Jacob desired to know also about the flocks, for it
is a duty to concern oneself about the welfare of
anything from which one derives prophet. Though he knew that
the hatred of the brethren might bring on unpleasant adventures.
Yet Joseph, in filail reverence, declared himself ready to go
on his father's errands. Later, whenever Jacob remembered his dear
son's willing spirit the collection stabbed him to the heart.
He would say to himself, thou didst know the hatred
of thy brethren, and yet thou didst say, here am i.
Jacob dismissed Joseph with the injunction that he may journey
only by daylight, saying furthermore, go now see whether it
be well with thy brethren and well with the flock,
and send me word and unconscious prophecy. He did not
say that he expected to see Joseph again, but only
to have word from him. Hence the Covenant of the Pieces.
God had resolved on the account of Abraham's doubtingriest, that
Jacob and his family should go down to Egypt and
do well there. The preference shown to Joseph by his
father and the envy it aroused, leading finally to the
sale of Joseph and his establishment in Egypt, were but
disguised means created by God. Instead of executing his counsel directly,
by carrying Jacob down into Egypt as a captive, Joseph
reached Shechem, where he expected to find his brethren Shechem
was always a place of ill omen for Jacob and
his seed. There Dinah was dishonored. There the ten tribes
of Israel rebelled against the House of David, while real
Boam ruled in Jerusalem, and there Jereboam was installed as king.
Not finding his brethren and the herd in Shechem, Joseph
continued his journey in the direction of the next pasturing place,
not far from Shechem, but he lost his way in
the wilderness. Gabriel, in human shape, appeared before him and
asked him, saying, what seekest thou, And he answered, I
seek my brethren, where to The angel replied, thy brethren
have given up the divine qualities of love and mercy.
Through a prophetic revelation, they learned that the Heavites were
preparing to make war upon them, and therefore they departed,
hence to go to Dothan. And they had to leave
this place for other reasons too. I heard, while still
standing behind the curtain that veils the divine throne, that
this day the Egyptian Bondage would begin, and thou wouldst
be the first to be subjugated to it. Then Gabriel
led Joseph to Dothan. When his brethren saw him afar off,
they conspired against him to slay him. Their first plan
was to set dogs upon him. Simon then spoke to LEVI, behold,
the master of dreams cometh with a new dream, he
whose descendant Jereboamh will introduce the worship of bail. Come
now therefore, and let us slay him, that we may
see what will become of his dreams. But God spoke,
Ye say we shall see what will become of his dreams?
And I say, likewise, we shall see, and the future
shall show whose word will stand yours or mine. Simon
and Gad said about slaying Joseph, and he fell upon
his face and entreated them, have mercy with me, my brethren,
have piety on the heart of my father. Jacob. Lay
not your hands upon me to spill innocent blood, for
have done no evil unto you. But if I have
done evil unto you, then chastise me with the chat aastisement.
But your hands lay not upon me, for the sake
of our fauther Jacob. These words touched Zebulen, and he
began to lament and weep, and the welling of Joseph
rose up together with his brothers, and when Simon and
Gad raised their hands against him to execute their evil design,
Joseph took refuge behind Zebulen and supplicated his other brethren
to have mercy upon him. Then Reuben arose, and he said, brethren,
let us not slay him, but let us cast him
into one of the dry pits which our fathers dug
without finding water. That was due to the providence of God.
He had hindered the water from rising in them in
order that Joseph's rescue might be accomplished, and the pitch
remained dry until Joseph was safe in the hands of
the Ishmaelites. Reuben had several reasons for interceding in behalf
of Joseph. He knew that he was the oldest of
the brethren or I'm sorry. He knew that he, as
the oldest of the brethren, would be held responsible by
their father if any evil befell him. Besides, Ruben was
grateful to Joseph for having reckoned him among the eleven
sons of Jacob in narrating his dream of the sun,
moon and stars. Since his disrespectful bearing towards Jacob, he
had not thought himself worthy of being considered one of
the sons. First, Ruben tried to restrain his brethren from
their purpose. Now, Chad, let me know if I'm recalling
this right, is that because was Ruben the son of
a concubine and not of you know, Rachel or one
of the other wives. I can't remember, but that's what
I'm thinking. And that's maybe why he's saying that he
didn't know that Joseph because he was a legitimate air
even seeing Ruben as a brother, because he maybe he
was a bastard. I could be wrong, but that's kind
of how remember, let's see where I'm at. Okay, First,
Ruben tried to restrain his brethren from their purpose, and
he addressed them in words full of love and compassion.
But when he saw that neither words nor entreaties would
change their intention, he begged them, saying, my brethren, at
least hearken unto me in respect of this, that ye
be not so wicked and cruel as to slay him.
Lay no hands upon your brother, shed no blood, cast
him into the pit that is in the wilderness, and
let him perish. Thus, Then Reuben went away from his brethren,
and he hid in the mountains so that he might
be able to hasten back in a favorable moment to
draw Joseph forth from the pit and restore him to
his father. He hoped his reward would be a pardon
for their transgression that he had committed against Jacob. His
good intention was frustrated. Yet Reuben was rewarded by God,
for God gives a recompense not only for good deeds,
but for good intentions as well. As he was the
first of the brethren of Joseph to make an attempt
to save him. So the city of bezir in the
tribe of Reuben, was the first of the cities to refuge,
appointed to safeguard the lives of the innocent that seek help. Therefore,
God spoke to Reuben, saying, as thou wast the first
to endeavor to restore a child and to his father,
so Hoseiah, one of thy descendants, shall be the first
to endeavor to lead Israel back to his heavenly father.
The brethren accepted Reuben's proposition, and Simon seized Joseph and
cast him into the pit, swarming with snakes and scorpions.
Besides which was another unuseful pit filled with the o fall.
As though this were not enough torture, Simon bade his
breth fleeing great stones at Joseph. In his later dealings
with his brother Simon, Joseph showed all the forgiving charitableness
of his nature. When Simon was held in durance in
Egypt for it as a hostage, Joseph, so far from
being him a grudge, ordered crammed poultry to be set
before him in all his meals. Not satisfied with exposing
Joseph to the snakes and scorpions, his brethren had stripped
him bare before they had flung him into the pit.
They took off his coat of many colors, his upper garment,
his breeches, and his shirt. However, the reptiles could do
no harm. God heard his cries of distress and kept
them in hiding in the clefts and in the holes,
and they could not come near him. From the depths
of the pit, Joseph appealed to his brethren, saying, oh,
my brethren, what have I done unto you? And what
is my transgression? Why are you not afraid before God?
On the account of your treatment? Of me. Am I
not flesh of your flesh and bone of your bone? Jacob,
your father? Is he not my father? Why do you
act thus toward me? And how will you be able
to lift up your countenance before Jacob? Oh Judah Ruben
Simon Levi, with the orphan gave food to the hungry
and clothed the naked. Oh I skipped the line. Sorry, guys,
Oh Judah Ruben Simon Levi, my brethren, deliver me. I
pray you from the dark place into which you have
cast me. Though I committed a trespassed against you. Yet
are you children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who were
compassionate with the orphan, gave food to the hungry and
clothed the naked. How then can you withhold your piety
from your own brother, your own flesh and bone? And
though I send against you, yet you will hearken into
my petition for the sake of thy father. Oh, that
my father knew what my brethren are doing unto me
and what they've spaken to me. To avoid hearing Joseph's
weeping and cries of distress, his brethren passed on from
the pit and stood at the bowshots distance. The only
one among them that manifested piety was Zebulin. For the
two days and two nights, no food passed his lips
on the account of his grief over the fate of Joseph,
who had spent three days and three nights in the
pit before he was sold. During this period, Zebulun was
charged by his brethren to keep watch at the pit.
He had chosen to stand guard because he took no
part in the meals part of the time. Judah also
refrained from eating with the rest and took turns at
watching because he feared Simon and Gad might jump down
into the pit and put an end to Joseph's life
while Joseph was languishing. Thus, his brethren determined to kill him.
They would finish their meal first, they said, and then
they would fetch him forth and slay him. When they
had done eating, they attempted to say grace, but Judah
remonstrated with them, we are about to take the life
of a human being, and yet would bless God. That's
not a blessing, That is condemning, contemning the Lord. What
profit is it if we slay our brother? Rather, will
the punishment of God descend upon us. I have good
counsel to give you yonder passeth by traveling company of
the Ishmaelites on their way to Egypt. Come and let
us sell him to the Ishmaelites. And let not our
hand be upon him. The Ishmaelites will take him, will
take him with them upon their journeys, and he will
he lost among the peoples of the earth. Let us
follow the custom of former days of Canaan to the
sons of Ham was made a slave for his evil deeds,
and so will we do to our brother Joseph. So
we got the tale of the brothers throwing him in
a pit. Let me check back with you, guys that
you begin to know about the Ruben thing. I could
be wrong, but that's why I was asking you, guys. Okay,
Pam's got on top of it. Here. Ruben was the
firstborn son of Jacob also called Israel, not the son
of Joseph, and he was one of the original twelve.
But was his mother a concubine some reason, I'm thinking
that I do know as far as the whole you know,
the uncovering of thy father's nakedness, you know, sleeping with
thy father's wife. Uh Reuben gets brought up for that
because he slept with his father's concubines in an act
of rebellion, same thing that Absolom did when he run
David out of the kingdom. He pitched a ten on
David's house and went into all of his father's concubines
and the sight of all of Israel to show his
dominance that he was the man in charge. Now, all right,
I'll continue on. Okay, this is not too long. It's
probably the last one right here. We'll continue on and
shout out to everybody watching. U god little over thirty
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Don't be stingy, don't be stingy. Okay the cell. While
the brethren of Joseph was deliberating upon its fate seven minion,
this merchantmen passed near the pit which he lay. They
noticed that many birds were circling above it. Whenceday assumed
that there must be water therein, and being thirsty, they
made a halt in order to refresh themselves. When they
came close, they heard Joseph screaming and wailing. And they
looked down into the pit and saw a young youth
of beautiful figure and calmly appearance. They called him, saying,
who art thou? Who brought thee hither? And who cast
thee into this pit in the wilderness. They all joined
together and dragged him up and took him along with them.
When they continued on their journey, they had to pass
his brethren, who called out to the Midianites, why have
you done such a thing to steal our slave and
carry him away with you. We threw the lad into
the pit because he was disobedient. Ah Lie, lie pants
on fire. Okay, Sully, thank you, He says, No, Reuben
was not the son of a concubine. He was the
firstborn son of Jacob. Okay, thank you. I'm getting to
confuse where he slept with his father's concubines. I guess
that's where I had that in my head from and
O there were concubines associated with Ruben. Oh Virginia, she
made it. Hey girl, hey, okay, where was I at? Okay?
Here it is? Why then will you speak lies unto us?
We will not give ear into your words nor believe you.
For we found that the lad was in the wilderness
and in a pit, and we took him out, and
we will carry him away with us on our journey.
But the sons of Jacob insisted, restore our slave to us,
least you meet death at the edge of the sword. Unfrightened,
the Midianites drew their weapons and amid war whoops, they
prepared to enter into combat with the sons of Jacob.
Okay so corn this story. They had some sellers regret
with their brother. Then Simon rose up, and with a
barred sword, he swung upon the Midianites at the same
time uttering a cry that made the earth verberate. The
Midianites fell down in great consternation and said, I am Simon,
the son of the Hebrew Jacob, who destroyed the city
of Shechem alone and unaided, and together with my brethren,
I destroyed the cities of the Amorites. God do so
and more also, if it be not true that all
the Midianites, your brethren, united with all of the Canaanite
kings to fight with me, cannot hold out against me.
Now restore the boy you took from us, Else will
I give your flesh into the fowls of the air
and the beasts of the field. The Midianites were greatly
afraid of Simon, and terrified and abashed. They spake to
the sons of Jacob with little courage, said ye not
that ye cast this lad into the pit because he
was of a rebellious spirit. What now will ye do
with the insubordinate slave? Rather sell him to us, We
are ready to pay any price you desire. The speech
was part of the purpose of God, and he had
to put it into the heart of Midianites to insist
upon possessing Joseph, that he might not remain with his
brethren and be slain by them. The brethren assented, and
Joseph was told as a I'm sorry, and was sold
as a slave. While he set over the meal, God spake, saying,
over a meal, did ye sell your brother? And thus
shall a hazardous sell your descendants to Haaman over a meal?
And because ye have sold Joseph to be a slave,
therefore shall we shall sorry? Therefore shall ye say after
year after year slaves were to be unto Pharaoh. In Egypt,
the price paid for Joseph by the Medianites was twenty
pieces of silver, enough for a pair of shoes for
each of his brethren. Thus they sold the righteous for silver,
and the needy for the pair of shoes. For so
handsome a youth as Joseph, the sum paid was too
low by far, but his appearance had been greatly changed
by the horrible anguish he had endured in the pit
with the snakes and the scorpions. He had lost his
ruddy complexion, and he looked shallow and sickly, and the
Midianites were justified in paying a small sum for him.
The merchantmen had come upon Joseph naked in the pit,
for his brethren had stripped him of all of his clothes,
that he might not appear before men. As an unseemly condition,
God sent Gabriel down to him and the angel in
a large the ambulant hanging from Joseph's neck until the
until it was a garment that covered him entirely. Joseph's
brethren was looking after him as he departed with the Midianites,
and when they saw him with the clothes upon him,
they cried, after him, give us his raiment. We sold
him naked without clothes. His owners refused to pay yield
to their demands, but they agreed to reimburse the brethren
for the four parish shoes, and Joseph kept his garment
and the same in which he was a rayed when
he arrived in Egypt and was sold to Potiphar. See
I said that wrong earlier that it comes to me Potiphar,
the same in which he was locked up in prison
and appeared before Pharaoh, and the same he wore when
he was a ruler over Egypt as an atonement for
the twenty pieces of silver taken by his brethren in
exchange for Joseph, God commanded the very first born son
shall be redeemed by the priests with an equal amount.
And also every is every Israelite must pay annually to
the sanctuary as much as fell to each of the
brethren as his share of the price. The brethren of
Joseph brought shoes for money, where they said, we will
not eat it, because it is the price of the
blood of our brother. But we will tread upon him,
for that he spake he would have dominion over us,
and we will see what will become of his dreams.
And for this reason the ordnance has been commanded that
he who refuses to rise up a name in Israel
and unto his brother, that hath died without having a son,
shall have his shoe loosed from off of his foot,
and his face shall be spat upon. Joseph's brethren refused
to ought to preserve his life, and therefore the Lord
loosened their shoes from off of their feet. For when
they went down to Egypt, the slaves of Joseph took
their shoes off their feet as they entered the gates,
and they prostrated themselves before Joseph as before a pharaoh.
And as they lay prostrate, they were spat upon and
put to shame before the Egyptians. The Medianites pursued their
journey to Gleid, but they soon regretted the purchase that
they had made. They feared that Joseph had been stolen
in the land of the Hebrews, though sold to them
as a slave, and his kinsmen would find him with
them death would be inflicted upon them for the abduction
of a free man. The high handed manner of the
sons of Jacob confirmed their suspicion that they might be
capable of man theft. Their wicked deed would explain too
why they had accepted so small a sum in exchange
for Joseph. While discussing the points, they saw coming their
way a traveling company of Ishmaelites, and they had been
observed earlier by the Sons of Jacob, and they determined
to dispose of Joseph to them that they might at
least not lose the price they had paid and might
escape the danger at the same time of being made
captives for a crime kidnapping a man. And the Ishmaelites
brought Joseph from the Midianites, and they paid the same
price as his former owners had given for him. All right, guys,
I'm gonna stop there. We only got a few more minutes,
and this next section will pick up on next week.
It's called Joseph's Three Masters. So we will get back
together next Sunday for believe it or not, the thirtieth
installment of our Lewis Ginsburg Legends of the Jews. So
thank you guys for sticking with us. Man, this is
going to be a h across country uh trip here,
This ain't no quick trip. This is a cross country trip.
Uh give me a second here, I'm trying to move it.
There we go. One of my windows was getting stuck
on the other screen. Oh, I'll check in with you guys.
See if he Mays said anything about the reading, huh.
Reven was the firstborn and Jacob Okay, all right, guys,
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