“And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”
Then Joseph said to his brothers: I am about to die. But God will surely come to your aid and take you up out of this land to the land he promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The final speech of Joseph — I am about to die, but God will come to your aid — is the covenant testimony of a man whose life has demonstrated exactly what he is saying. The application: the dying covenant person who speaks of what God will do after their death is the person whose faith extends beyond their own lifetime. Joseph does not say God has been faithful; he says God will be faithful.
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