← A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace
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Welcome to A Year in the Bible with daily grace. This year, we want to spend a few minutes with you every day walking through our study, Christ in All of Scripture. Each week, we will dive deeply into two passages of scripture, one from the Old Testament and one from the new, seeing how they connect and point to Jesus.
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Whether you are doing the study yourself or just following along with us here, we are hopeful that through studying these passages each week, you will see how Christ is not only present throughout the entire biblical story, but with the center of it.
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Hi, everyone, and welcome back to the Year in the Bible podcast. My name is Beth and I'm here again with my co host, Alexa.
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Hello. Today we're going to be diving a little deeper into Genesis 49, 8, 12. So, Beth, can you explain for us where this passage falls in the biblical story?
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This passage comes at the very end of Genesis, which is the first book of the Bible. So last week we talked about Abraham, and we saw God's promise to him to give him a son. And then now we're seeing that his family is growing. So Isaac, his son, had children, and his son Jacob had children. He had 12 sons. So Judah is one of these 12 sons, but he's not the most famous or the most reputable. Actually, probably the most famous of Jacob's son is his son Joseph, who we're gonna read his story and talk more about it next week. But for now, it's important to talk about a little bit of what happens to Joseph so that we can learn a little bit more about Judah. So Joseph is one of the younger brothers of Jacob, and he's Jacob's favorite. And so his brothers are actually really jealous of him, especially Judah. And Judah is the one who initiates the selling of Joseph into slavery. And so Judah gathers all of his other brothers and is like, let's sell Joseph into slavery, which isn't the nicest thing to do. And so he's clearly a leader. He's just not leading them in the best direction. But this passage that we read and annotated is the record of a blessing that Jacob, Judah's father, says to Judah just before Jacob dies. So just before this blessing is given, we actually see a little bit of a redemption for Judah. So we see that Judah was later on after Joseph had been sold into slavery and was now in Egypt. Again, we're gonna talk a little bit more about this next week. But he stands up for his younger brother, Benjamin, and he actually is willing to sacrifice himself for his younger brother, which is something that he did not initially do for Joseph, but he, yeah, has a little bit of a redemption arc in the story, which is just really cool. And if you do your study day to day, you'll see more about this and how it actually works out. But so what we see in this passage is that Judah has always been an influencer in his family, but he grows into a protector and a leader as well, who also takes responsibility for his siblings and is willing to sacrifice himself for them. So what we see is that Judah finds redemption and then he's blessed by being named the line through which Israel's royal family would come by his father, Jacob.
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That's super helpful and really helpful as we dive into Joseph's story more next week as well. So what does this particular story, Beth, teach us about God?
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Yeah, that's a really interesting question for this passage, mostly because God isn't actually mentioned anywhere in it. What we have here is a blessing that is given to Judah by his father Jacob, not by God. And so when we're reading Genesis 49:1, we see that Jacob gathers all of his sons to tell them about what is going to happen to them in the days to come. So he's kind of giving them what their destinies are going to be and the destinies of the tribes that are going to come from each of these sons. But God is nowhere mentioned. But we're going to see how these destinies get worked out in different ways throughout the Old Testament for each of the sons and the tribes that come from them. But the particular blessing that's made to Judah is especially noteworthy because his line is said to rule. And we see that later in the Old Testament, God does indeed bring this about. And so through that, what we see is that God affirms Judah's redemption and he blesses him and his family line and actually does make them the rulers of Israel. This shows that God is great and sovereign and that he has great compassion.
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That's great. And I. I just love that continual reminder of God being faithful to the family line. The only other thing that I wanted to add was more on what I had questions about in yesterday's annotation day. If you listened yesterday, you might remember my confusion with the repeating words of donkey, vine and wine. And I honestly had trouble finding more information about this. But one commentary I was reading said that verses 11 through 12 are speaking about exuberant, intoxicating abundance. So essentially these verses are likely referring to the golden age of the coming one, whose rule we see in verse 10. So the vine and the wine are symbols of abundance which this ruler brings. And the commentator actually linked this passage to the age to come that Jesus points to in his first sign of turning water into wine, which I thought was really fascinating. So just for anyone who was thinking yesterday, I'm with you, Alexa. I don't know what that's about.
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There you go.
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A little, a little bit more information about those verses. That is all that we have for you today. We'll see you tomorrow when we discuss the passage on Revelation 5:5. Bye everyone. Thank you for listening to today's episode of A Year in the Bible with Daily Grace. Be sure to check out our show notes for some helpful links and resources related to today's episode. And make sure you're following aalygrace Podcast and hedaily Grace Co on Instagram for more Bible study resources and encouragement. We're looking forward to studying God's Word with you again tomorrow. Bye friends.