Whatever Returned

And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;

24 And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.

25 And they sat down to eat bread: and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and, behold, a company of Ishmeelites came from Gilead with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt.

26 And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

27 Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmeelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.

Genesis 37:23-28

Well, I've got a theory about how now things have come to look like this once again. How now you might wonder but I'm afraid you just won't like the answers I have because of what it means to you now and then. You know, consider if the line between Benjamin and Zebulon wasn't straight linear but rather connected round like a year in particular. Well, it's more like a journey then really where you're starting place is back home with the Father again or it should've been really were you just honest and then. That's from where you go out from the broad place into a narrow one once before, almost like Joseph stripped of his coat that made him familiar and thrown into a pit ill-fit for containing his person. Not that he was so important of course, especially not that he should've been taking the place of the Lord. Still though, I'm sure throwing house leaders whether junior or senior into deepish and dark sorts of places and then selling them as into slavery just isn't the sorts of things the Lord would've had his children be doing. Talk about behavior ill-fitting of house leaders and also their followers so as in general. Though when you first allow it or start to teach all these practices, things will go bad to worse very quickly with the children soon exceeding their parents then even. I mean, not in terms of rewards and some prizes but in bad behavior that just sort of happens. It's natural at this point isn't it though, unless the Lord should've done some whole house cleaning a lot long ago. Indeed, looking back on the situation then really that's just what had happened where Abram and Sarai ran in. The Lord had given the Egyptians some good education as far as his children went then on the matter. Well, it was testing and trials and also some plagues but what sort of good Father doesn't even bother correcting his children in general. Jacob as you'll soon see did no sort of thing from the beginning. Consider this as almost an introduction into what Benjamin would've been had the powers been entered into from the wrong sort of end. Though poor Joseph on the other hand wasn't about to be learning a lesson right there in Zebulon but rather in seeing how good our God was, is, and will soon be to his children.

And Reuben returned unto the pit; and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes.

30 And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

31 And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

32 And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.

33 And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

34 And Jacob rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son many days.

35 And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

36 And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.

Genesis 37:29-36