Parashat 10 (Miketz- last days) Portion 40 Ber 42:4 – 43:23 Amos 8:4-12 + 9:14-15 Rev 21:9-27

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.

כי ישׁ שׁבר – because there was grain…

“Will there be grain during a ‘’new world order’’?

Maybe just enough to make complete slaves of mankind.

Will there be grain during the Great tribulation?

Only for a remnant.’’

Rev 12:6  And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by Elohim, to be nourished there one thousand two hundred and sixty days.

 Gen 42:1  And when Ya‛aqoḇ saw that there was grain(כי ישׁ שׁבר) in Mitsrayim, Ya‛aqoḇ said to his sons, “Why do you look at each other?” 

Why were they looking at each other? They obviously were not looking forward to the prospect of going down to a pagan country bowing down and begging for food. After all they were a Covenant people in covenant with the Maker of Heaven and earth. (‘’miketz’’?)

Or maybe something like this ‘’we will have to bow down to the leaders of a ‘’New World Order’’ so that we and our families can put food on our tables.’’

Gen 42:2  And he said, “See, I have heard that there is grain(כי ישׁ שׁבר) in Mitsrayim. Go down to that place and buy for us there, and let us live and not die.” 

Gen 42:3  And Yosěph’s ten brothers went down to buy grain in Mitsrayim

Gen 42:4  But Ya‛aqoḇ did not send Yosěph’s brother Binyamin with his brothers, for he said, “Lest some harm come to him.”  

We may be called upon to surrender the things we treasure the most – liberty, freedom of choice, freedom of speech, freedom of worship. Eventually we will be required to surrender our faith to worship the anti messiah. This of course most believers cannot do and will suffer the most horrific consequences for their refusal. Fortunately, there will be a way of escape for a remnant who will not worship “The beast” and take his mark.

Gen 42:5  And the sons of Yisra’ěl went to buy grain among those who journeyed, for the scarcity of food was in the land of Kena‛an. 

Gen 42:6  And Yosěph was the governor over the land, he was the one who sold to all the people of the land. And Yosěph’s brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the earth. 

Yosef’s prophetic dream:

Gen 37:5  And Yosěph dreamed a dream, and told it to his brothers. So, they hated him even more. 

Gen 37:6  And he said to them, “Please listen to this dream which I have dreamed: 

Gen 37:7  “See, we were binding sheaves in the midst of the field, and see, my sheaf rose up and also stood up. And see, your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.” 

Gen 37:8  And his brothers said to him, “Shall you indeed reign over us? Shall you indeed rule over us?” So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. 

Gen 42:7  And Yosěph saw his brothers and recognised them, but he acted as a stranger to them and spoke to them harshly, and said to them, “Where do you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Kena‛an to buy food.” 

Why would Yosef act in such a manner? He appears to be offensive. His brothers found him to be very offensive before his captivity and now Yosef appears to be treating his brothers harshly. Yosef is not seeking revenge, but he is tactfully trying to reveal YHVH’s purposes to his brothers.

YHVH is about to deeply offend both houses of Israel, because of our arrogance.

Isa 8:14  “And He shall be for a set-apart place, but a stone of stumbling and a rock that makes for falling to both the houses of Yisra’ěl, as a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim. Isa 8:15  “And many among them shall stumble and fall, and be broken and snared and taken.” 

Mat 11:6  “And blessed is he who does not stumble in Me.” 

Gen 42:8  So Yosěph recognised his brothers, but they did not recognise him. 

How is this possible? For such a long time the family of Israel has been estranged from one another. A ‘’Yosef remnant’’ will be a very important part of this family that will play a key role in bringing the family together before the return of Messiah. This important part of the family may look like ‘’Egyptians’’ but they are not.

Gen 42:9  And Yosěph remembered the dreams which he had dreamed about them, and said to them, “You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land!” 

A spy seeks to uncover the secrets(‘’nakedness’’) of the enemy. So, Yosef knew that his brothers would soon discover the ‘’secret’’ withheld from them.

Does YHVH want to play games with us? No! But He does hide from us.

Isa 45:15  Truly You are Ěl, who hide Yourself, O Elohim of Yisra’ěl, Saviour! 

Why does He hide Himself?

 To see who will truly seek Him.

Deu 4:27  “And יהוה shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where יהוה drives you. 

Deu 4:28  “And there you shall serve mighty ones, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. 

Deu 4:29  “But from there you shall seek יהוה your Elohim, and shall find, when you search for Him with all your heartb and with all your being. Footnote: b Jer_29:13. 

Deu 4:30  “In your distress, when all these words shall come upon you in the latter days, then you shall return to יהוה your Elohim and shall obey His voice. 

Deu 4:31  “For יהוה your Elohim is a compassionate Ěl, He does not forsake you, nor destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your fathers which He swore to them. 

 

Gen 42:10  And they said to him, “No, my master, but your servants have come to buy food. 

Gen 42:11  “We are all one man’s sons, we are trustworthy, your servants are not spies.” 

Gen 42:12  But he said to them, “No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land.” 

Gen 42:13  And they said, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Kena‛an. And see, the youngest is with our father today, and one is no more.” 

Gen 42:14  And Yosěph said to them, “It is as I spoke to you, saying, ‘You are spies!’ 

Gen 42:15  “By this you shall be proven: By the life of Pharaoh, you do not leave this place unless your youngest brother comes here. 

Gen 42:16  “Send one of you, and let him bring your brother, while you are kept in prison. So let your words be proven to see whether there is any truth in you, or else, by the life of Pharaoh, you are spies!” 

Gen 42:17  And he put them all together in prison for three days. 

Our Hebrew Messiah has been presented as one clothed with Egyptian pagan garments for more than 2000 years, we are now in the third day and these pagan garments and influences are about to be removed.

Now we may ask ‘’why would YHVH choose such an ‘’unnacceptable’’ way to reveal Himself?

Isa 55:8  “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares יהוה. 

Isa 55:9  “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. 

Parashat 10 Portion 39 – (Miketz) -Ber 41:38 – 42:4 Yesh 11:2-10, 16 Luke 9:46-48

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.

 

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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:

Parashat 10 – (Miketz) Portion 38 Ber/Gen 41:1-37 Yesh 29:1-19 Ps 35- Rev 7:1-17

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. Torah

מקץ- ‘’miketz’’ Strongs 7093 – ‘’at the end (of time)’’ In Hebrew thinking it can also imply the end of or the beginning of something.

Gen 41:1  And it came to be, at the end of two years’ time, that Pharaoh had a dream, and saw him standing by the river,

Perhaps this Torah portion give us a hint – Remez – that we are the generation living “two thousand years after Messiah’s first coming that will usher in his second coming – “it came to be after the end of two years” This is also where this Torah portion gets its name

The Torah has much to say about the last days – any study of the last days excluding the Torah is bound to be misleading.

Pro 28:9  He who turns away his ear from hearing the Torah, Even his prayer is an abomination.[a] Footnote: See also Job_15:29, Isa_59:1-2, Joh_9:31, 1Jn_3:22. 

What will it take to provoke the Jewish people to jealousy?

Perhaps an end time remnant from the house of Yosef walking in the blessing and protection of YHVH’s Covenant blessing according to Torah.

Gen 41:1  And it came to be, at the end of two years’ time, that Pharaoh had a dream, and saw him standing by (על)the river, (Heb. Standing over the river)

This is significant because the ‘’water spirits’’ that came from The river gave enormous power to the occultic powers that controlled Egypt. These occultic powers with their priesthood were not able to interpret Pharaoh’s dream.

So too in the last days, a remnant set apart priesthood of YHVH will be able to interpret and understand the events of the last days.

Gen 41:2  and saw seven cows coming up out of the river, fine looking and fat, and they fed amongst the reeds,

Gen 41:3  then saw seven other cows coming up after them out of the river, ugly and lean of flesh, and stood by the other cows on the bank of the river.

Gen 41:4  And the ugly and lean of flesh cows ate up the seven fine looking and fat cows. Then Pharaoh awoke.

Gen 41:5  And he slept and dreamed a second time and saw seven heads of grain coming up on one stalk, plump and good,

Gen 41:6  and saw seven lean heads, scorched by the east wind, coming up after them.

Gen 41:7  And the seven lean heads swallowed the seven plump and complete heads. Then Pharaoh awoke and saw it was a dream.

Gen 41:8  And it came to be in the morning that his spirit was moved, and he sent and called for all the magicians of Mitsrayim and all its wise men. And Pharaoh related to them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh.

Gen 41:9  Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my crimes this day.

Gen 41:10  “When Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in confinement in the house of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker,

Gen 41:11  each one of us dreamed a dream in one night, he and I. Each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream.

Gen 41:12  “And there was with us a Heḇrew youth, a servant of the captain of the guard. And we related to him, and he interpreted our dreams for us. To each man he interpreted according to his own dream.

Gen 41:13  “And it came to be, as he interpreted for us, so it came to be. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”

Gen 41:14  Then Pharaoh sent and called Yosĕph, and they hurriedly brought him out of the dungeon. And he shaved and changed his garments and came to Pharaoh.

The Jewish Rabbis say that when Joseph shaved and changed his clothes, this is a Hebrew idiom that refers to Joseph hiding his true identity as a Hebrew, and as a son of Jacob.  In this last half of Genesis 41:14, Joseph could no longer be recognized as the son of Jacob, but instead became “gentilizied”.  He became an Egyptian.  He forsook or at least hid his heritage.  In 2,000 years of church history the Greek name “Jesus” was given to the real Messiah Yeshua.  He was “shaved” and his clothes were changed to look like an Egyptian by the pagan influenced Christians who started severing the Herbew root of the Hebrew “Olive tree”.