Episode 82: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 48

Episode Summary:

And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. (Genesis 45:4-7)

186 And they said, “We are the sons of one man, which is Jacob, which is old; you know, Israel, and which was the blessed of the Lord, and so forth.” And then he heard that his dear old daddy was still alive. Listen what he said here. And he made hisself known to them when he closed up the doors. His heart, look at the love of God there, still calling. And there those Jews standing there, poor boys, they’re starving.

187 Their father was starving, said, “Go down and get a little more corn, or we’ll starve to death.”

188 And he kept Benjamin down there for a token. And you know how it was, how he stood before him. And then he looked and he seen Benjamin, he couldn’t refrain any longer. He made every man go from him, get away. And poor Joseph stood there, and he said, “I am Joseph, your brother.”

189 And his brothers had just told him, said, “We have one brother which is not, that was killed by beasts,” and he was talking right to his brother. That was his brother, Joseph, who was standing there.

190 And he—he made them all leave, then he revealed himself, he said, “I am Joseph, your brother.” And they were scared, the patriarch. They was afraid. He said, “Don’t be afraid.” And he begin to scream so loud till even over in Pharaoh’s palace they heard him screaming, heard his screams and cry. He run down and throwed his arms around little Benjamin, and hugged him and kissed him, and fell on his neck and begin crying, said, “You mean to say that my poor old daddy’s still alive up in Canaan?” What a feeling! What, the love of God that’s shed abroad! “My daddy’s still alive and I’m giving him some corn.” Said, “Oh!” And he screamed to the top of his voice.

191 I wonder what that will be, the day when our Lord Jesus breaks down through the eastern horizon, coming back to the earth again. Hallelujah!

192 There he screamed and wept, that great prince standing there, and the patriarchs. Said, he said, “Don’t feel bad.” Said, “God sent me.” See the Holy Spirit, how Love Divine will do? Said, “God sent me down here. Don’t feel bad at yourself.” Said, “God sent me down here to preserve life for these times.”

193 And what did God send Him here for, but to preserve Life? What’s the Holy Spirit here for tonight, but to preserve Life? He was rejected of the Jews, and sent over here to the Gentiles, to preserve Life. Have you got It tonight, my friend?

53-0325 – “Israel And The Church #1”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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