The first 30 minutes of Shapiro today is outstanding and lines up with what many of us have been preaching. One note here is the connection with conspiracy theories and the rejection of God.
https://open.spotify.com/episo....de/6lrFAfjh9g1rlzecP

Disabled FB accounts years ago. Accidentally reactivated one 6 years ago. Lately, someone has been trying to hack into it, so I reactivated it to see if I could delete it. Instantly appalling content on my feed! Now I cant disable or delete the account, so because FB announced I was back online, Im probably going to have even more headache than my account getting hacked. If I wouldve been allowed to delete those accounts years ago, everything would be fine. Grr! The Internet upsets me so much sometimes! Rant over. Thank you, Rhy, for creating this safe space!

As for the people, he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other.
Genesis 47:21

The Egyptians weren't enslaved by Joseph but by their own ignorance and lack of faith. They could have set aside much for themselves during the seven years of plenty if they had truly believed God's message to Pharaoh, but instead they relied solely on Pharaoh and Joseph to take care of the future.

If you treat the government like it is your master, it will happily oblige you.

And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?”
#genesis 47:8 #vayigash

Jacob probably looked older than he was. Pharaoh asked him "How many are the days of the years of your life." as if to say "What stories you must have to tell!"

"Few and evil have been my years," He replied. Jacob wasn't bragging or complaining. Just being humble as if to say "Whatever I have accomplished is trivial compared to what my fathers did and none of it by my own power."

Then Joseph brought in Jacob his father and stood him before Pharaoh, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.
#genesis 47:7 #vayigash

Joseph presented Jacob to Pharaoh as an equal, not as a subject. Jacob reinforced this relationship by standing in Pharaoh's presence instead of prostrating himself, but then he subtly elevated himself *above* Pharaoh by blessing him.

This is a prophetic picture of the relationship between Israel (aka Jacob), Messiah #yeshua, and the rest of the world. Yeshua (aka #jesus) elevates Israel above the rest of the world, but in turn blesses the world through them.

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