Genesis 49 1-4 Podcast Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Genesis 49:1-4 wherein we observe Reuben getting a wave to the face and are encouraged to learn from our own past splashes. Then Jacob called his sons and said, “Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.  Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.  Reuben, you are...

GENESIS 48:8-11 PODCAST (rt. click/cmd. click to open separate tab) Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Genesis 48:8-11 wherein we see three generations enjoying some final, glorious moments together. When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, “Who are these?”  Joseph said to his father, “They are my sons, whom God has given me here.” And he said, “Bring them to me, please, that I may...

Genesis 47 19-21 Podcast Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Genesis 47:19-21 wherein we see the wise activity of Joseph in managing a people in need. “Why should we die before your eyes, both we and our land?  Buy us and our land for food, and we with our land will be servants to Pharaoh. And give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not be desolate.”  So Joseph bought...

Genesis 46 1-4 Podcast Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Genesis 46:1-4 wherein we see retirement-aged Jacob set out for one last adventure under the blessing of the Lord. So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.  And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here am...

Genesis 45 4-7 Podcast Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Genesis 45:4-7 wherein we see Joseph share with his brothers the kind of perspective that only God can give. So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, whom you sold into Egypt.  And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for...

Genesis 44 32-34 Podcast Welcome to today’s Daily Scripture Reading and Meditation covering Genesis 44:32-34 wherein we see through Judah a picture of the coming Lion of the tribe of Judah. For your servant became a pledge of safety for the boy to my father, saying, ‘If I do not bring him back to you, then I shall bear the blame before my father all my life.’  Now therefore, please let your servant remain instead of the boy as a...