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Friday 2 October: Acts 7: 8-16:
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Friday 2 October: Acts 7: 8-16:
V8: God established His OT covenant with Abraham, with circumcision as its sign. Isaac was born, then Jacob, and Jacob’s sons, who became the Patriarchs of Israel, and from whom the 12 tribes were descended. ( In all this long tracing of God’s OT purposes and His sovereign power, Stephen is leading to how all the promises led to and were fulfilled in Jesus.)
V9-10:He recounts how Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery – but God was with him, and raised him to eminence in Egypt, working out His purposes in it all.
V11-12: So, in the outworking of God’s plan, the famine in ( and beyond ) Egypt duly brought Joseph’s brothers down to Egypt to buy grain.
V13-14: Then how Joseph revealed himself to the brothers, and the whole ( extended ) family came to Egypt.
V15-16: But on their deaths, Jacob and in due course his sons ( this adds to the Genesis record) were brought back to the Promised Land for burial, in the very tomb that Abraham had purchased there long before to ” bury his dead”. ( Genesis 23:3, Genesis 23:13-20.) Surely, we should marvel at this summary of God’s faithfulness to His promises, and His Sovereign power in bringing them to pass.