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Hey, it's Shelby and Scott, and it's a big day.
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It is.
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We've made it to the end of the book of Genesis. If you're reading along with us, maybe you have read through the Bible several times in a year, or maybe it's your first time. I just want to say great job being consistent. Making it all the way through Genesis is a big step. But we're also really excited to go through Exodus with you starting tomorrow. So our. All right, can you wrap up Scott for us? The book of Genesis?
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B
Yeah, absolutely. So we got two chapters that we're looking at on this final day of Genesis. So kind of like the study day does. I want to mention real quickly a couple of the sons that Jacob addresses in 49. So he's kind of giving these blessings, which might feel like curses for some of these sons, but these final words to his, all his sons. It's important to remember a couple events from day 12 where we covered chapters 34 and 36. And so in 34, for example, you had Simeon and Levi, who rightfully angry about what Shechem had done to their sister Dina, kind of went over and beyond in retaliation. I mean, justice was not their goal. It was just revenge. And they went over and beyond what they should. You also have this comment in 35, real brief that we didn't cover, but with Reuben sleeping with his father's concubine, it's kind of mentioned and then moved on. But we kind of see the effects of these events in 34 and 35 here. It actually negatively affects what Jacob says to each of these three sons, the three oldest sons. And so none of them inherit this huge blessing from their father. There's consequences for their actions. But, you know, he, he goes through all of his sons. Most prominent though, are what he says to Joseph and then Judah. So Joseph, as we talked about yesterday, would continue to play a huge role among God's people for many generations to come. But Judah, too, has emerged as a. As a huge leader, an important figure in these chapters. You know, by sacrificing himself for Benjamin, um, he's emerged as a leader. And, and Jacob's blessing reflects that. I love. Jacob speaks of this. A future ruler who would arise from Judah, whose rule would be prosperous. And interestingly, when the kingdom of Israel is later split after Solomon dies, the southern kingdom was called Judah, and the northern kingdom was sometimes just called Israel, but a lot of times it was called Ephraim. So it's interesting, you see just the prominence of these two sons, even Just in what the kingdoms were called over time. Psalm 78, verses 67 and 68 point this out. Judah came to overshadow Joseph in prominence. And we really see this prominence in King David from Judah's line. And eventually, of course, Jesus, the descendant of Judah, and David, who is called the lion from the tribe of Judah in Revelation 5. 5. So just some neat groundwork is being laid in these words to Judah that reverberate all the way to Revelation.
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Yeah. Thanks for helping us kind of unpack and seeing between the lines of text and connecting that to other places in Scripture. That's really helpful. And any other final thoughts as we close out this book?
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B
I love just these final verses of Genesis. I think they're just so beautiful. So the Israelites, they've settled in Egypt, and yet they're prospering there. Life is good, yet there's this awareness that they're not home. Like, they're in Egypt, they're settled, but they know Canaan, the promised land, is their true destination. And I love what Joseph tells the Israelites before he dies. He says that God will certainly come to your aid and bring you up from this land to the land he swore to give to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And then he tells them, he makes them promise that they'll. They'll collect his bones after his death, bring them with him. Moses does that in Exodus, in the book of Joshua, Joshua will bury those bones in Canaan, which is a beautiful moment. But I love this. They're in a land that's not their home. But Joseph says God will come to your aid and he will bring them home. And the reason that resonates with me is I feel like that describes where we are right now. Like, we're here in this world, we're settled in many ways. And yet there's a sense in our hearts that's a bit unsettled. We're not in the place that we know is truly our final home. And yet we have this promise of Jesus return. We have this promise that he is going to come to our aid and bring us home. And so I just, again, I think what is true, what was true of these people at this point in history can be said of us as well as we wait to be brought home.
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A
Yeah. And even echoing back to the beginning of Genesis, where we saw that Adam and Eve did have a beautiful home with the Lord, but because of their disobedience, they were sent out of that home. And so here we see this promise that, like, no, you will have a home. With God again. And so we've seen, you know, so much messiness, so much chaos from the beginning of the world before God brought order to that chaos through the chaos that sin created all throughout this story. But we have also seen God's faithfulness and his redemptive work in action. And so thank you for guiding us through this Book of Genesis. Scott, it's been such a joy to sit here and chat with you. We're starting the Book of Exodus tomorrow with my good friend Paul. He's gonna be guiding us through that. If you haven't yet gotten the studies to travel through us, with us through Scripture, then I would encourage you to check out the year in the Bible Bible studies, because those will be immensely helpful and add even more depth and reflection and applic to what we're going through each day. So we'll see you back tomorrow for the Book of Exodus.