Genesis 42:29–34
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We come now to a scene of profound domestic misery. Jacob, the patriarch, the man who wrestled with God and was renamed Israel, is about to receive a report from his sons that will feel like the sky is falling. He is a man acquainted with grief, much of it self-inflicted, and much of it the result of the sin of those closest to him. And as we see this scene unfold, we must understand a central principle of God's dealings with His people. God always delivers His people, which means He always has to get them into a jam first. God is telling a death and resurrection story, and you cannot have a resurrection without a death. Jacob is about to be driven into a deeper kind of death, a death to his own plans, his own comforts, and his own understanding of how the world ought to work.