Genesis 50:12–14
The Bible4Jesus.com Podcast
About this episode
We live in a sentimental age, which is to say, we live in a faithless age. When it comes to death, our culture is deeply confused. We either try to deny it with euphemisms and Botox, or we try to spiritualize it away into a disembodied ether. We scatter ashes over the ocean as though the person has dissolved into the cosmos. We have become modern Egyptians, obsessed with preserving the present, memorializing the past, and terrified of the future. It was a magnificent testimony to a people who had no forward-looking promise from the one true God. They lived in Egypt, they prospered in Egypt, and they held high office in Egypt. They knew that Egypt, for all its grain and glory, was a temporary arrangement. And the ultimate test of where you believe your home is, is the question of where you are willing to be buried.