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<div class="SSN_title">"MANASSEH AND EPHRAIM"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE TRIALS THAT JOSEPH ENDURED.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He was despised by his brothers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Can you imagine how it would be to have 10 older brothers that all hated you?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The taunting and teasing that must have gone on.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. His brothers hated him enough to kill him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When they saw him coming to them they conspired to kill him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. His oldest brother did not want to go that far, so he suggested that they just throw him in a pit and let him starve to death, at least they wouldn't get their hands bloody.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They ignored his plea's for help as he was thrown into the pit in which there was not even water to drink.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. They then decided to sell him to traders who were headed for Egypt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They bargained and sold him for 20 pieces of silver.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. As he was bound and being taken to Egypt, they by their own confession ignored the anguish of his soul and his pleading with them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. IN EGYPT HE WAS BOUGHT BY A OFFICER OF THE PHARAOH NAMED POTIPHAR.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. He proved to be so astute and diligent in business affairs that he was placed over the whole affairs of Potiphar.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. How long he served in that capacity we do not know for certain.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. What we do know is that the wife of Potiphar became infatuated with him and sought to seduce him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. One day she caught hold of his robe while he was alone in the house, and tried to force him into bed with her. He freed himself from her clutches by leaving his robe in her hands and fled from tho house.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Being scorned she began to scream and falsely accused him of attempting to rape her.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. She held his robe for evidence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. She reported this to her husband who had him put into a special prison for the king's prisoners.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. While in prison he was made a trustee, and was put in charge of the prisoners.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The Pharaoh's butler and baker were accused of being a part of a plot to assassinate the Pharaoh and were placed in the prison with Joseph.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. One day while Joseph was checking on the prisoners, he saw that they looked troubled and inquired as to their problem.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. They shared that they had both had dreams and there was no one to interpret the dreams for them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. Joseph volunteered declaring that interpretations belonged to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">e. The butler shared his dream of squeezing three grapes into a cup and bearing the cup to the Pharaoh.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">g. Joseph told him the three grapes represented three days, and in three days he would be restored as the butler and would again serve the king. He told the butler to say a good word for him to the king, and he shared the false charges for which he was put into prison.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">h. The baker shared his dream of baking three loaves bread for the king and as he was carrying them to the king in a basket on his head, the birds came and ate the loaves.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">i. Joseph told him that the three loaves represented three days and that in three days the king would remove his head.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">j. In three days the interpretation Joseph gave to them concerning their dreams came true, and the baker was killed and the butler was restored. However the butler forgot all about Joseph.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. After two full years the Pharaoh had a dream, and called his wise men to interpret the dream for him, which they were unable to do. At this point the butler remembered Joseph and told the Pharaoh about his abilities.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Joseph was called to come in before the Pharaoh to interpret his dream.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The Pharaoh told of dreaming of seven very healthy cows coming up out of the Nile river and feeding in the meadow.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. After them seven skinny cows came out of the river and ate the fat healthy cows but still looked skinny and sickly.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. He then had a second dream of seven stalks of wheat with hearty shocks of grain, these were followed by seven shocks of wheat that were thin and blasted by the East wind, but the thin shocks of grain devoured the seven fat stalks of grain.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Joseph interpreted the dream of the Pharaoh as being seven good years that the land would produce bumper crops, but these would be followed by seven bad years in which the all of the grain would be used up.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. He recommended to the Pharaoh that he appoint a wise man to oversee the storing up of the surplus in the good years so that they would be able to survive the bad years that were coming.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gen',41,38);">GEN 41:38</a> And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find a man so capable as this man who has the Spirit of God?</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gen',41,39);">GEN 41:39</a> And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Inasmuch as God has shewed you all this, [there is] none so discreet and wise as you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gen',41,40);">GEN 41:40</a> You shall be over my house, and according to your word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gen',41,41);">GEN 41:41</a> And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gen',41,42);">GEN 41:42</a> And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gen',41,43);">GEN 41:43</a> And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried before him, Bow the knee: and he made him [ruler] over all the land of Egypt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. At this time Joseph was thirty years old. He was 17 when his brothers sold him, so 13 years have transpired in Egypt. That means that from the time he became a slave to Potiphar till he stood before Pharaoh, 13 years had passed by. Just how many years he was in prison before the butler was put in prison we do not know. It was a long 11 year period from the time he began to serve in Potiphar's house till he met the king's butler in prison. How much of that 11 years was spent in prison, we are not told.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. The Pharaoh also gave to Joseph a wife who bore him two sons.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The firstborn he named Manasseh which means forgetting. For Joseph said that the Lord had caused him to forget the bad experiences of his past.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THE HAND OF THE LORD UPON JOSEPH.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. From this vantage point, you can now see how the Lord's hand was upon Joseph even in the bad experiences.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God knew in advance the 7 year famine that would hit that part of the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God wanted to preserve his servant Jacob.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He had caused Joseph's brothers to conspire to sell him to traders headed to Egypt.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. He had caused an officer of Pharaoh to buy Joseph, so that when Joseph was placed in prison he would be in the kings prison.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. He had the wife of Potiphar to file false charges against Joseph.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. He had Joseph put into the kings prison.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. He caused the butler of the Pharaoh to come into disfavor with the Pharaoh and be placed in the same prison where Joseph was.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. He gave the dream to the butler so that Joseph could interpret the dream for him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">9. He gave the dream to Pharaoh, and caused the butler to not remember Joseph until the Pharaoh had his dream.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">10. Had Joseph been released earlier, he would probably never been called upon to interpret the dream.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">11. It is quite possible that he would have headed home.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">12. Joseph could now see the hand of God in all these things.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Now blessed so abundantly, all of the sorrowful sad experiences of the past are forgotten.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. All of the hurts.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. All of the painful experiences.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. All of the seeming tragedies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. They were all a part of God's plan.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. All things were working together for good.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. If you have committed your life to the Lord, you can be sure that "All things are working together for good in your life." God is working out His eternal purposes even in the seeming tragedies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. One day in the discovery of God's full purpose, you will forget all of the present painful experiences. "If we could see beyond today as God does see, Then all our tears we'd wipe away, our sorrows flee O're present griefs we would not fret, Each sorrow we would soon forget, For many joys are waiting yet, for you and me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. Joseph had a second son who he named Ephraim, which means fruitful. Because God had made him fruitful in the land of his affliction.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God gave a message to Jeremiah to send to the people who had been taken captive by the Babylonians. <a onClick="return mV('Jer',29,11);">Jer 29:11</a> "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Herein lies a great problem. Many people when facing hardships that they do not understand turn against God and become bitter.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. They thus never see the full cycle, they never see the fruitfulness that God intended to bring to them through the suffering.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Job in the midst of his afflictions declared:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Job', 23,10);">JOB 23:10</a> He knows the way that I take: [when] he has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. This was true, we read that at the end of Job's life:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Job',42,12 );">JOB 42:12</a> So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Job',42,13 );">JOB 42:13</a> He also had seven sons and three daughters. </Div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. "If we could only see, if we could know, we often say, But God in love a veil doth throw across our way, We cannot see what lies before, So unto Him we cling the more, He'll lead us till this life is o're, trust and obey.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Years later when Joseph's brothers fell before Joseph asking forgiveness and offering themselves as slaves, Joseph answered:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Gen',50,19);">GEN 50:19</a> And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for [am] I in the place of God? I know that you thought evil against me; but God intended it for good, in order to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save many people alive.</div>
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