Rev. E. Anderson

ADVANCEMENT THROUGH THE PROPHETIC

GENESIS 46-50

There is a great deal of worth and wealth in the prophetic. God desired/designed that His servants and people should live/know by this means and measure. The forefathers and patriarchs knew what it was to have this divine input, and were prophets/seers in their generation. Being such to their people, God revealed Himself and spoke into their situations and future and made them see they were a people of divine destiny, therefore, they could live in great hope and grand expectation.

1/.  THE PREDICTION OF BEING BLESSED IN EGYPT – GENESIS 46: 1-7

As Jacob contemplates the move into Egypt he need not fear or be anxious because God was in it. There was to be the out-working of His plan and that embraced progress and rich blessing spiritually, geographically, materially and numerically.  Jacob would be in the position where he would be able to bless Pharaoh who had been kind and good to his son – Genesis 47: 7-9.

2/.  THE PREDICTION OF A DOUBLE PORTION BLESSING – GENESIS 47: 7-9

This was quite a thing for Joseph. Not only had he the pleasure of a wife and two sons, these offspring would figure greatly in the future in God’s purposes and signified a double blessing and much more than he had ever dreamed.  Jacob was delighted at God’s goodness in allowing him to see his beloved son/grandsons but there was so much more in the pipe line –vv10, 11. Joseph was to have the birthright v22 “I give you an extra portion beyond what I have given your brothers.”

3/. THE PREDICTION OF A FULL PRODUCTIVE LIFE – GENESIS 49: 20-26

Jacob was full of prophetic inspiration, insight and benediction on his death bed. One notes the tremendous words spoken with regard to both Judah and Joseph. They were of a far reaching order and involved great prospects. For Joseph there is the declaration that he is a fruitful bough by a well and the forecast is of almighty blessings from the Almighty and of being a mighty prince. His life had become totally productive and fulfilled and many others were enjoying the fullness that flowed through him.

4/.  THE PREDICTION OF EXODUS FROM EGYPT – GENESIS 48:21; 50: 24-25

Both Jacob and Joseph assert the fact that Israel’s stay in Egypt is not to be permanent. God has much in mind with regard to His people. Whilst they there, they are to become a great nation in readiness to take possession of the most fruitful land of all, Canaan. They predict that the Lord will visit and lead this people out to this choice inheritance and Joseph affirms that he wants his bones transporting out when it occurs.

CONCLUSION

God expected them to possess, be assured of and live in the prophetic. The prophetic was to become a divine dynamic that stirred and encouraged them forward. It was to be a means of spiritual enrichment, advancement and enlargement.