“And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.”
But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance. The language of remnant and great deliverance is the language of exodus and redemption — the same language that will describe Israel's rescue from Egypt in Exodus 14. The application: what Joseph does for his family in Egypt is a preview of what God will do for Israel at the Exodus. The pattern of being sent ahead to prepare the way is the pattern of the greater Deliverer.
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