Pam Padgett ... teacher
God caused Jacob and all of his house to go to Egypt, having prepared a
great deliverance there from the famine by the hand of Joseph.
Although they had been led by God to dwell in Egypt,
this was not the land God had promised the descendents of Abraham to inherit. They were strangers in Egypt. God had previously told Abraham his seed would dwell as strangers in a land not their own, but that HE would judge that nation, bring Abraham's seed out, and give them the land promised for an inheritance ...
Geneis 15:7 And he (God) said unto him (Abraham),
I am the Lord that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee
this land to inherit it. 8 And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know
that I shall inherit it? 9 And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of
three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three
years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon. 10 And he took unto him
all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one
against another: but the birds divided he not. 11 And when the fowls
came down upon the carcases, Abram drove them away. 12 And when the sun
was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of
great darkness fell upon him. 13 And he said unto Abram, Know of a
surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs,
and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14
And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and
afterward shall they come out with great substance.
18 In the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates:19 The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, 20 And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, 21 And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
God also told Isaac of the land his seed would inherit ...
Genesis 26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless
thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these
countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy
father; 4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven,
and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall
all the nations of the earth be blessed; 5 Because that Abraham obeyed
my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
God also told Jacob of the land HE had promised to his children ...
Genesis 48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty
appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, 4 And
said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I
will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy
seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
Joseph believed what God told Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. He
believed that God would bring the children of Israel out of Egypt and give them
the land HE had promised them. Because Joseph believed what God had
said, he told the children of Israel this would happen and instructed
them to carry his bones from Egypt when God brought them out of Egypt
...
Genesis 50:24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God
will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land
which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 25 And Joseph took an
oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and
ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 26 So Joseph died, being an
hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a
coffin in Egypt.
And when the children of Israel were led out of Egypt, Moses took the bones of Joseph, as Joseph had instructed ...
Exodus 13:18 But God
led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of the Red sea:
and the children of Israel went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he
had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit
you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.