The End of the Beginning

Genesis 50:22-26

So Joseph lives to the age of 110 and sees three generations of his children's children. Interestingly, he still passes before at least some of his brothers- we know this because he tells them he is about to pass. He asks them to promise to take him out of the land to bury him.

He assures his brothers that God will come through and fulfill the promise that he made to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This is the message here for me...patience.

How easy it would have been to have lost faith that it wasn't actually going to happen. This promise is hundreds of years old at this point. But even at death, Joseph isn't bitter about missing it, or skeptical about it happening. Instead, he assures his brothers to hang on...it's coming.

And Genesis ends.