Gen 50 Kjv (2024)

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What does Genesis 50 teach us? ›

Always trust that God is in control, even when bad things happen. Like Joseph, Paul understood that God can use the evil acts of people for His greater glory: “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.” (Ro.

The statement made here brilliantly summarizes the difference between God allowing something, God deliberately causing something, and God "doing nothing" in response to human needs. Even when human beings try to do evil—and even when they succeed—God is still able to use those efforts to accomplish a greater good.

Genesis 50:20 [Joseph said to his brothers,] “Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good, in order to preserve a numerous people, as he is doing today.”

Genesis 50 begins with Joseph's weeping over his father's body, followed by the embalming of Jacob, a 70–day period of state mourning, and a trip to Canaan to bury Jacob with his fathers. Joseph's brothers, worried that he would take his revenge on them for selling him into slavery, seek Joseph's forgiveness.

So God humbles their pride and scatters them around the world. is a diverse group of stories, but they're all exploring the same basic point—God keeps giving humans the chance to do the right thing with his world, and they keep ruining it instead. These stories are claiming that we live in a good world gone bad.

While Genesis 1-11 teaches about God our Creator and mankind's beginning, fall, and exile, Genesis 12-50 teaches us about how God continues His plan to make Himself known through a treasured people. God chooses Abraham and Sarah to form a new family that becomes a means of blessing to the nations.

God's good dream was of a creation entirely in harmony with Himself, of a the world that He loved, who would love in return love Him, and love their neighbours. God had a dream, and it was good. And out of that dream, God created the world and everything He made was good, and only good all the time.

NLT So Joseph died at the age of 110. The Egyptians embalmed him, and his body was placed in a coffin in Egypt. KJV So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Genesis 50:20 “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result.” Something good is coming!

Genesis 50:24–25 Praises God for Sending His Son

You loved us so much that you gave your son, that whoever believes in him, whoever trusts in Jesus as savior and Lord will never perish, but will have everlasting life. God, we praise you that death is not the end.

Who was Joseph in Genesis 50? ›

Genesis 50 Introduction: Joseph was truly Jacob's son, and Jacob's influence on his life was profound. Joseph was one 12 sons that became the patriarchs of the nation promised to Abraham. Like Jacob, Joseph's character was challenged early in his life because of the brokenness in his family.

In one of Scripture's most pivotal remarks, Joseph explains his conviction that, though their intent was evil, God's good purposes were behind everything that had happened. Despite their bad intentions, God used their acts to save many lives. Joseph assures them he will not harm them.

JACOB'S BURIAL (50:1-13): After Jacob's death, Joseph commanded the physicians to embalm his father. The embalming process took 40 days and the Egyptians wept for Jacob for 70 days. After the 70 days, Joseph fulfilled his oath to his father (47:29-31) and took his body back to Canaan for burial.

NLT Jacob loved Joseph more than any of his other children because Joseph had been born to him in his old age. So one day Jacob had a special gift made for Joseph — a beautiful robe. KJV Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.

Joseph's story shows us that when we fix our gaze on God and choose to rely on him, even the heaviest situations can be made lighter. Remember that “God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love him” (Romans 8:28).

Genesis 50:15–21 reveals that Joseph's brothers are consumed with guilt and fear after their father's death. They worry Joseph has been waiting for Jacob to die before taking revenge. This would not be unexpected, as they cruelly sold Joseph into slavery as a teenager (Genesis 37:26–28).

Joseph's story shows us what it looks like to trust in God's overarching plan. While he couldn't foresee the specifics of how his pain would lead to a greater purpose, Joseph held onto the belief that God was working behind the scenes.

One of the most important themes of Genesis is God's love for humans and his involvement in our lives. God created the universe and all life, and he was pleased with his work. He gave the people the responsibility to take care of his creation.