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60 • P R O LOGU E : F R OM THE B EGINNING TO THE F U L L N E S S OF T I ME

Joseph Genesis 37, 45

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Key Verse

Genesis 50.20 As for you, youmeant evil against me, but Godmeant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today.

The Lord will raise up a deliverer, who will be rejected by his people, but who will save them from death.

Theme

Setting

• The house of Jacob • A field near Shechem • Egypt

Joseph’s brothers throw him in a pit and sell him as a slave

Christ foreshadowed (See note on page 41) The Passion: Prayer in the Garden , p. 196