NOTE: We are following the Triennial cycle but the Parashat will still have the same number and name as the One Year cycle and its exact Hebrew name. It is just that the Septennial Parashat 9 for instance is divided in shorter pieces in stead of a few chapters at once. So If you are following the One Year cycle, just look on right hand side of this page for all the Parashiot under the Triennial cycle that has the same name as the One year Cycle and then you can study all the different portions of the specific Parashat, You will know with which Parashat number and name you are busy with now in the One Year cycle and then look at all the portions under that name on the Right hand side under Septennial Torah Cycle.Blessed are you, YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have selected us from among all the peoples, and have given us your Torah. Amein.
Psa 119:29
Remove from me the way of falsehood, And favour me with Your Torah.
Psa 119:34 Make(cause) me understand, that I might observe(preserve) Your Torah, And guard it with all my heart.
What does Miketz mean? It is usually translated, “at the end or even in the last days”. In Hebrew thought, however, miketz can mean either "at the end" or "at the beginning" -- or both - in Hebrew thought, every ending is a new beginning, and every beginning is an ending to that which went before.
The story of Yosef is the longest continuous narrative in the Torah – Is it about Yahshua’s first and second coming? In His first coming He proclaims the ‘’acceptable year of YHVH’’ (Yesh 61) in His second coming He brings judgment and an end to this age and gives the bread of life to all whom he has chosen - Rev 12:5 And she bore a male child a who was to shepherd all nations with a rod of iron. Psa_2:9 And her child was caught away to Elohim and to His throne. Footnote: aSee also Isa_26:17, Isa_66:7, Mic_4:9-10.
The Tabernacle and its accompanying sacrifices are the most taught about subject in the Torah.
הנמצא
Gen 41:38
And Pharaoh said to his servants, “Could we find another like him, a man
in whom is the Spirit of Elohim?”
Gen 41:39
Then Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “Since Elohim has shown you all this, there
is no one as discerning and wise as you.
Gen 41:40
“Be over my house, you yourself, and at your mouth all my people shall
kiss – only in the throne I am greater than you.”
“upon your mouth he will kiss all my
people”
Gen 41:41
And Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “See, I have set you over all the land of
Mitsrayim.”
Gen 41:42
And Pharaoh took his seal-ring off his hand and put it on Yosĕph’s hand.
And he dressed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his
neck.
Gen 41:43
And he had him ride in the second chariot which he had. And they cried
out before him, “Bow the knee!” And he set him over all the land of Mitsrayim.
Gen 41:44
And Pharaoh said to Yosĕph, “I am Pharaoh, and without a word
from you let no man lift his hand or foot in all the land of Mitsrayim.”
Vs 44 adds “word” in the translation. The
Hebrew word “uvileadeicha” means “apart from you” – Pharoah is stating that
because Yosef exists people can exist also.
1Co 8:6
for us there is one Elohim,1 the Father, from whom all came
and for whom we live, and one Master יהושע
Messiah, through whom all came and through whom we live. (Apart
from Yahshua we cannot exist)
Gen 41:45
And Pharaoh called Yosĕph’s name Zaphnath-Paʽnĕaḥ. And he gave him as a
wife Asenath, the daughter of Poti-Pherah priest of On. And Yosĕph went out
over all the land of Mitsrayim.
Another “Bread man of Life” – came from Beit –
Lechem ie ‘’house of Bread’’- Yahshua.
One of the biggest miracles He did was feeding the
masses – Mt 14 and 15 first He feeds 5000 men besides woman and children – then
4000 men besides woman and children = approx 40 000 people or even more.
Vs
45 – Strongs 6847 BDB - Zaphnath-paaneah = “treasury of the esteemed rest”
According to Rashi the name means “revealer of hidden things”
Asenath
– “Modern scholarship says her name derives from the Egyptian "she who
belongs to (the goddess) Neith", and that her name may be
phonetically transliterated from Egyptian hieroglyphs”
Neith
- Neith was a goddess of war and of hunting and had as her symbol, two arrows
crossed over a shield. As a deity, Neith is normally shown carrying
the was scepter (symbol
of rule and power) and the ankh (symbol of life).
An
“ankh” is a cross with a loop – see - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neith
Gen
41:46 Now Yosĕph was thirty years old
when he stood before Pharaoh sovereign of Mitsrayim. And Yosĕph went out from
the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Mitsrayim.
Luk 3:23 And when יהושע Himself began, He was about thirty years of age, being, as
reckoned by law, son of Yosěph, of Ěli,
Mat 2:15 and (Yahshua)remained there until the
death of Herodes, to fill what was spoken by יהוה through the prophet, saying, “Out of
Mitsrayim I have called My Son.”1 Footnote:1Ex. 4:22-23,
Hos. 11:1, Rev. 21:7
Gen
41:47 And in the seven years of plenty
the ground brought forth generously.
Gen
41:48 And he gathered all the food of
the seven years which were in the land of Mitsrayim, and laid up the food in
the cities. He laid up in every city the food of the fields which surrounded
them.
Gen
41:49 Thus Yosĕph gathered very much
grain, as the sand of the sea, until he ceased counting, for it was without
number.
Maybe this is a prophetic sign that in the
last days Africa (Mitzraim) will become the bread basket of the world again.
Gen
41:50 And to Yosĕph were born two sons
before the years of scarcity of food came, whom Asenath, the daughter of
Poti-Pherah priest of On, bore to him.
Gen
41:51 And Yosĕph called the name of the
first-born Menashsheh, “For Elohim has made me forget all my toil and all my
father’s house.”
Gen
41:52 And the name of the second he
called Ephrayim, “For Elohim has caused me to bear fruit in the land of my
affliction.”
Gen
41:53 And the seven years of plenty
which were in the land of Mitsrayim came to an end,
Gen
41:54 and the seven years of scarcity of
food began to come, as Yosĕph had said. And the scarcity of food was in all
lands, but in all the land of Mitsrayim there was bread.
Gen
41:55 But when all the land of Mitsrayim
hungered, and the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, Pharaoh said to all the
Mitsrites, “Go to Yosĕph, do whatever he says to you.”
Gen
41:56 And the scarcity of food was over
all the face of the earth, and Yosĕph opened all the storehouses and sold to
the Mitsrites. And the scarcity of food was severe in the land of Mitsrayim.
Gen
41:57 And all the earth came to Yosĕph
in Mitsrayim to buy grain, because the scarcity of food was severe in all the
earth.
Gen 42:1
And when Yaʽaqoḇ saw that there was
grain in Mitsrayim, Yaʽaqoḇ said to his sons,
“Why do you look at each other?”
Gen
42:2 And he said, “See, I have heard
that there is grain in Mitsrayim. Go down to that place and buy for us there,
and let us live and not die.”
Gen
42:3 And Yosĕph’s ten brothers went down
to buy grain in Mitsrayim.
Gen
42:4 But Yaʽaqoḇ did not send Yosĕph’s
brother Binyamin with his brothers, for he said, “Lest some harm come to him.”
Note
there was no seed in Yisrael, they had to go to Egypt for the seed. The prophet
Amos speaks of an end time famine in the land of Yisrael – read the whole
chapter 8 to get the correct context.
Hegg
What are we to understand by this strange turn of events? How can Joseph possibly stand as a foreshadowing of the suffering Messiah, having taken a foreign wife? If we are looking at Joseph as a foreshadowing of Yahshua, then the picture is stunning! Like Joseph, Yahshua is forsaken by his own brothers. And during the period in which his brothers have turned away from him, Joseph takes a Gentile as his bride. We cannot help but parallel this to the ingathering of the Gentiles into the body of Messiah:
Joh 1:11 He
came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.
Joh 1:12 But
as many as received Him, to them He gave the authority to become children of
Elohim, to those believing in His Name,
Joh 1:13 who
were born, not of blood nor of the desire of flesh nor of the desire of man,
but of Elohim.
I believe this is the moral of the story of our parasha – the way Yosef
was treated was a reflection on how his father Yacov was treated and how his
descendants will be treated as well.
This Messianic
movement will be more than "church with a kippa on," or Christianity
with Jewish traditions. A much more radical Messianic movement is about to
arise like unto the one in the first century. It will be characterized by faith
in Yahshua, including careful obedience to everything commanded by Moshe.
Rather than just reading Moshe from a Torah scroll on Shabbat as a Jewish
custom (which certainly is proper), these Messianic Believers will zealously study
the Torah, including the Apostolic scriptures, in order to carefully obey
everything that is written. Elohim will raise up new Ezras to lead the way just
like He did at the exodus from Babel.
This Messianic
movement will be mightily blessed by Yahweh with anointing and power, and
rather than seeking the approval of the church, it will carry the
authority from heaven to profoundly change the church and the world –
TIME magazine’s
March 24 cover story “10 Ideas That Are
Changing the World”
includes some interesting articles:
“Re-Judaizing
Jesus” makes it in Time Magazine’s top “10 Ideas That Are Changing The
World”! “More than money, more than politics, ideas are the secret power
that this planet runs on.” According to Time, this is one you should
know about: Re-Judaizing Jesus. In the article series “ What’s Next in 2008,” the resurrection of the Jewish Jesus is
along with topics like (surprise) a global economy—the number one idea! Anyway,
that’s besides the point.
“if you get the
[Jewish] context wrong, you will certainly get Jesus wrong.”
“This is seismic.”
“Ideally, the
reassessment should increase both Jewish-Christian amity and gospel clarity, things
that won’t happen if regular Christians feel that in rediscovering Jesus the
Jew, they have lost Christ.”1
If the Ecumenical
Movement’s reaction against Hebrew-Roots is any sign, many regular Christians
and leaders do indeed feel that Christ is lost in rediscovering the Messiah.
But if it is Biblical truth, what can you do? One pastor describes the
reassessment as “so logically powerful” that there is no way back.
“Once in, [the
pastor] says, ‘you’re in deep. You’re hooked. ‘Cause you can’t ever read it the
same way again.’”
Well, Time
picked up on the real thing this time. The (ancient) idea of a globalized
economy will change the world, and a thoroughly Jewish Messiah is coming
back with his own ideas for this planet.
End quote.
Additonal reading - https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:400169/FULLTEXT01.pdf
This great famine occurred around 2000 BCE
– This period also known as the ‘’holocene’’ period brought about a massive
‘’desertification’’ of large parts of the earth;s surface. The now great desert
of the earth were once fertile agricultural areas.
Is it possible that 2000 CE we may find a
repeat of this earlier desertification period? Deserts are growing, sea levels
are rising and the risk of world -wide chaos and famine once again faces us.
Will a small remnant Yosef/Joseph
‘’Ein lechem, ein Torah, ein Torah ein
lechem’’ where there is no bread there is no Torah, where there is no Torah
there is no bread.
Blessed are
you YHVH, our Elohim, King of the Universe, you have given us your Torah of
truth, and have planted everlasting life within our midst. Blessed are you,
YHVH giver of the Torah – Amein