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Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":0.207,"endTime":17.394,"text":"A firm foundation he saints of the Lord is made for your faith in his excellent word. Last words are important. You remember them."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":20.724,"endTime":33.264,"text":"Welcome to Through the Bible where we're wrapping up our study in the book of Genesis. And this time, we'll eavesdrop on Jacob's last words to his sons and find out why Joseph's brothers were so worried when their father died."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":33.404,"endTime":39.534,"text":"You know, it's not often that we attend two funerals in one day, but that's exactly what we'll do with Dr. J. Vernon McGee."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":39.734,"endTime":46.524,"text":"We're going to begin in Genesis 49 with Jacob's death, and then fast forward to Genesis 50 and close with the death of Joseph."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":46.854,"endTime":54.674,"text":"Well, this may be the end of Genesis, but the Bible bus doesn't stop here. We're headed next to the first book of the New Testament, the Gospel of Matthew."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":54.964,"endTime":58.454,"text":"So as you buckle your seatbelt and settle in, we got time to read a letter."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":58.744,"endTime":105.794,"text":"It's from Guadeloupe in the US and she writes, there is no doubt in my mind that the Bible bus changes lives. I'm a recovering addict and from the day Jesus Christ rescued me from the depths of darkness just 6 months ago, I have ridden the Bible bus daily."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":105.794,"endTime":120.254,"text":"I feel that a saved soul cannot be right on with their salvation if they are not meditating on the words of our holy God on a daily basis."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":120.624,"endTime":125.794,"text":"And who better than Dr. McGee to lay out the profound meaning of the Word of God?"}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":126.044,"endTime":130.084,"text":"Quite simply, the Word of God is sustenance for the soul as food is to the flesh."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":130.404,"endTime":137.524,"text":"We cannot live without His holy Word. We can't expect the world to understand the real aim of God's program without His Word."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":137.664,"endTime":144.604,"text":"The Bible bus does just that. It helps us understand the program of God in its most revealing form. How profound is that?"}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":144.754,"endTime":147.454,"text":"Victory is His, glory to God."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":148.164,"endTime":153.384,"text":"Well, thanks for that good word, Guadeloupe, that word of encouragement. Victory is indeed His."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":153.664,"endTime":154.694,"text":"And let's pray and thank Him now."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":155.034,"endTime":159.694,"text":"Father, we praise You for rescuing lives and sustaining souls through Your holy Word."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":160.004,"endTime":162.154,"text":"Thank You for the victory that belongs to You alone."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":162.374,"endTime":167.974,"text":"As we finish Genesis, Lord, write these final words on our hearts and strengthen us to walk faithfully with You."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":168.274,"endTime":169.834,"text":"In Jesus' name, Amen."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":173.344,"endTime":177.344,"text":"Turn to Genesis 49, as we go through the Bible with Dr. J. Vernon McGee."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":189.375,"endTime":198.545,"text":"Now we come to this last study in the book of Genesis, and we got down in the 49th chapter, to verse 16."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":198.885,"endTime":209.115,"text":"Old Jacob is on his deathbed, he'd called his 12 sons around him, and we had already seen what he had had to say concerning six of the boys."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":209.695,"endTime":218.105,"text":"Now we have six more to go and we'll be much briefer with these because we feel like the one that was really now all important is Judah."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":218.105,"endTime":227.185,"text":"And why? Well, it's because we know now that the Lord Jesus is coming through Judah."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":227.645,"endTime":232.415,"text":"You see, all we knew at the beginning was that it would be the seed of the woman."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":232.855,"endTime":242.0,"text":"Then we saw that it went down through Seth, and then to Noah, and it moved on down then to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":242.0,"endTime":245.925,"text":"But Jacob had 12 sons, which one will it be?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":245.925,"endTime":247.555,"text":"Well, we know it's not going to be Reuben."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":248.065,"endTime":251.985,"text":"Looks like Joseph, does it not, but not Joseph, it's Judah."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":252.415,"endTime":262.905,"text":"And God, by His marvelous grace, picked him and out of that tribe there would come the Messiah, there would come the Deliverer, there will come the Savior of the world."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":263.365,"endTime":268.495,"text":"Now in verse 16, we take up the tribe of Dan."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":269.155,"endTime":273.405,"text":"Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":274.065,"endTime":283.675,"text":"Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":284.155,"endTime":287.125,"text":"I've waited for thy salvation, oh Lord."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":287.125,"endTime":291.685,"text":"Now Dan is going to need the salvation of the Lord."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":291.955,"endTime":302.265,"text":"Because Dan was one of the tribes, you will recall that actually led in rebellion, we'll see that when we get to it."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":302.505,"endTime":309.775,"text":"Now verse 19, Gad a troop shall overcome him, but he shall overcome at the last."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":310.375,"endTime":321.725,"text":"Now actually these are tribes, if you'll notice the location of them, the prophecy is given to the sons, and these sons were the founders of the tribes."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":321.725,"endTime":328.695,"text":"That actually were in the north, you find that Dan was really the one farthest north."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":328.695,"endTime":333.155,"text":"We use the expression Dan to Beersheba."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":333.725,"endTime":343.345,"text":"And we find that along the coast, we have seen Zebulun and Issachar."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":343.795,"endTime":354.235,"text":"And now we move on down, it says verse 19, Gad a troop shall overcome him, but he shall overcome at the last."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":355.05,"endTime":360.77,"text":"And we're now beginning to move down just a little."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":360.77,"endTime":365.98,"text":"Out of Asher, his bread shall be fat and he shall yield royal dainties."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":366.18,"endTime":389.26,"text":"Now I can't go into detail, but as I mentioned last time, this young man, who was a Lutheran, he wrote a thesis and I understand it was published, I couldn't tell you much about it now, I know that I had a copy of the thesis, and have it somewhere today."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":389.26,"endTime":409.8,"text":"I can't put my finger on it, but it was quite remarkable, how he took each one of these boys and showed how these prophecies were fulfilled in the life of each one of the tribes. You see that different ones, in fact, everyone that we'll deal with personally from now on comes out of one of the tribes of Israel."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":409.8,"endTime":417.89,"text":"In fact, we follow of course, David, and his line, and we know he came out of the tribe of Judah."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":417.89,"endTime":423.86,"text":"We saw that last time that the kingly line would come from Judah."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":424.34,"endTime":427.35,"text":"Now we come to Joseph, verse 22."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":427.35,"endTime":433.09,"text":"Joseph is a fruitful bow, even a fruitful bow by a well."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":433.09,"endTime":435.53,"text":"Whose branches run over the wall."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":435.79,"endTime":441.97,"text":"Now Joseph, you see, had left the land, gone down into Egypt, but he still was a witness for God there."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":442.22,"endTime":451.78,"text":"And you'll find that Ephraim and Manasseh were put in the land where actually the Samaritans were later on."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":451.78,"endTime":456.12,"text":"It was called Gentile territory in Christ's day."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":456.49,"endTime":461.35,"text":"Great place for witness, the Gospel went into that area."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":461.35,"endTime":466.0,"text":"Why, you could follow each one of these through in such a very remarkable way."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":466.44,"endTime":472.18,"text":"And then we have here, verse 23, the archers have sorely grieved him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":472.18,"endTime":482.5,"text":"And shot at him and hated him, but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":483.0,"endTime":485.66,"text":"From thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":485.99,"endTime":488.29,"text":"The shepherd and the stone, you see."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":488.6,"endTime":498.41,"text":"Verse 25, even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":498.85,"endTime":505.42,"text":"Actually, the two tribes that came from Joseph, Ephraim and Manasseh."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":505.79,"endTime":508.84,"text":"became very prominent, important tribes."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":509.11,"endTime":513.79,"text":"But out of these tribes also, there came the division of the kingdom."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":513.79,"endTime":515.65,"text":"They were just that potent by the way."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":516.03,"endTime":521.84,"text":"Now we have here verse 26, the blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of thy progenitors."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":522.09,"endTime":526.47,"text":"Unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":526.69,"endTime":531.62,"text":"They shall be on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":532.0,"endTime":539.04,"text":"The thing Jacob does is to try to tie Joseph and the two tribes that are going to come from him back to the God of Israel."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":539.04,"endTime":542.84,"text":"The God of Jacob, the Creator, the Redeemer."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":543.14,"endTime":543.76,"text":"And why?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":543.76,"endTime":550.91,"text":"Well, it's these two tribes, especially Ephraim, that led into idolatry and caused the division of the kingdom."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":551.17,"endTime":559.18,"text":"Where we have Jeroboam, out of the tribe of Ephraim leading, and it was up in these two tribes that the two calves were placed for worship."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":559.5,"endTime":565.4,"text":"So that he did well, you see, to call them back to the God of his fathers."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":566.02,"endTime":573.57,"text":"Now, he gives then, having given Joseph, Joseph is next to the youngest, we have Benjamin, verse 27."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":574.05,"endTime":583.91,"text":"Benjamin shall raven as a wolf in the morning, and he shall devour the prey and at night, he shall divide the spoil."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":584.45,"endTime":590.35,"text":"This is a strange prophecy concerning Benjamin."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":590.93,"endTime":600.22,"text":"But again, why, you will find that Benjamin was closely identified with Judah, so much so that Benjamin went with the tribe of Judah."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":600.22,"endTime":606.0,"text":"The division of the kingdom, they're the only tribe that stayed with the house of David."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":606.39,"endTime":619.0,"text":"This is a remarkable prophecy that has other fulfillments, we're not going into detail on all these."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":619.0,"endTime":625.32,"text":"It just make a remarkable study to just spend time on following these 12 sons into the 12 tribes."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":625.32,"endTime":627.42,"text":"And the history of the 12 tribes."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":627.65,"endTime":630.98,"text":"We read verse 29, and this is Jacob now."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":631.32,"endTime":644.75,"text":"And he charged them, that is his sons and said unto them, I am to be gathered under my people."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":644.75,"endTime":648.74,"text":"You see, death to him was not an end of it all."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":649.03,"endTime":651.15,"text":"He was going to be with his people."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":651.15,"endTime":653.25,"text":"Bury me, that is his body."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":653.25,"endTime":659.51,"text":"Bury me with my fathers in the cave, that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":659.81,"endTime":662.63,"text":"Now this is the cave that Abraham bought."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":662.94,"endTime":667.63,"text":"And he wanted to be buried there because that one was bought and paid for."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":667.96,"endTime":676.1,"text":"He wanted to make sure he stayed in that land until the day that he'd be raised from the dead to live in that land."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":676.49,"endTime":680.12,"text":"He goes on now in verse 30, depicting all of this."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":680.12,"endTime":688.16,"text":"In the cave, that is in the field of Macpila, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field of Ephraim."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":688.47,"endTime":693.0,"text":"The Hittite for a possession of a burying place."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":693.45,"endTime":698.54,"text":"Now you see how much this man knew of his own history."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":698.88,"endTime":700.41,"text":"It's quite remarkable."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":700.41,"endTime":703.49,"text":"I don't think he carried with him a written record at this time."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":704.14,"endTime":708.57,"text":"He says there they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":708.87,"endTime":712.27,"text":"There they buried Isaac and Rebecca, his wife."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":712.5,"endTime":714.07,"text":"And there I buried Leah."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":714.07,"endTime":720.08,"text":"Now it's not that he's interested in being buried with Leah, after all, Rachel is buried up at Bethlehem."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":720.08,"endTime":729.02,"text":"But he wants to be where he'll be raised from the dead at the resurrection, when God fulfills his promises to this nation."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":729.28,"endTime":732.61,"text":"And you see, it's going to be each one of these tribes too."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":733.26,"endTime":735.63,"text":"And now he goes on in verse 32."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":735.94,"endTime":741.97,"text":"The purchase of the field and of the cave, that is there in, was from the children of Heth."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":742.36,"endTime":753.94,"text":"And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, yielded up the ghost and was gathered unto his people."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":754.29,"endTime":760.84,"text":"And I think this is quite interesting, up to the very last, Jacob kept his feet on the floor."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":761.64,"endTime":770.83,"text":"He'd started out in life a man that was a man of the flesh, he took hold of his brother's heel at birth and his name supplanter."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":771.12,"endTime":775.47,"text":"And he lived up to that name, it is certainly characteristic of him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":775.47,"endTime":780.26,"text":"He'd seize everything that he could hold on to."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":780.26,"endTime":782.91,"text":"He was always reaching out."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":783.21,"endTime":786.63,"text":"Trying to be first and he started out by going on all fours."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":787.05,"endTime":789.7,"text":"He took what he wanted by any method."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":790.07,"endTime":793.63,"text":"Now as a young man, he walked in his own strength and ability."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":793.99,"endTime":797.8,"text":"Depended on his own cleverness and ingenuity."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":798.12,"endTime":800.86,"text":"He's able to take care of himself, he didn't need God."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":801.89,"endTime":805.28,"text":"And he learned his lessons when he visited Uncle Laban."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":805.28,"endTime":812.56,"text":"Self-sufficient, self-opinionated, self-assertive, aggressive and contemptible and despicable."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":812.9,"endTime":817.9,"text":"And then he comes after that experience to Peniel at the brook Jabbok."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":817.9,"endTime":822.42,"text":"And God crippled him, God had to break his leg to get him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":822.42,"endTime":824.78,"text":"And I think God was prepared to break his neck."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":825.21,"endTime":827.1,"text":"And he went through life limping."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":827.1,"endTime":831.63,"text":"In other words, he started out on four legs."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":832.06,"endTime":834.82,"text":"He went on two legs."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":834.82,"endTime":835.83,"text":"Now he's going to go on three legs."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":836.19,"endTime":837.24,"text":"He's going to use a staff."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":837.76,"endTime":839.4,"text":"He'll walk on a walking stick."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":840.06,"endTime":843.51,"text":"And he could not any longer walk by himself."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":844.27,"endTime":853.64,"text":"And now here at death, he's still sitting up in bed and he's leaning on his staff, but now the time has come, he just pulls his feet up in bed, puts down the staff and he lays down and dies."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":854.1,"endTime":859.38,"text":"This is Jacob, he'd walked a long ways through life and he'd come a long ways."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":859.69,"endTime":863.0,"text":"Now we have in chapter 50, actually the burial of Jacob."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":863.0,"endTime":867.28,"text":"And it's a fitting chapter to end Genesis that began with the creation."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":867.57,"endTime":872.24,"text":"And then it ends almost dolefully, but sin has come in and brought death."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":872.24,"endTime":876.13,"text":"And you have here the death and burial of Jacob."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":876.45,"endTime":878.78,"text":"And you have the death and burial of Joseph."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":878.78,"endTime":881.08,"text":"The burial of Jacob up in Canaan."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":881.08,"endTime":882.38,"text":"Burial of Joseph in Egypt."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":882.68,"endTime":883.67,"text":"Now notice, verse one."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":884.22,"endTime":890.16,"text":"And Joseph fell upon his father's face and wept upon him and kissed him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":890.72,"endTime":892.42,"text":"He sorrowed."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":892.83,"endTime":894.75,"text":"Naturally, he loved his father."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":895.17,"endTime":901.44,"text":"And Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians to embalm his father."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":901.44,"endTime":903.11,"text":"And the physicians embalmed Israel."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":903.61,"endTime":908.48,"text":"As you know, the Egyptians were quite experts at this sort of thing."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":908.88,"endTime":912.83,"text":"We hear the mummies in Egypt."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":912.83,"endTime":915.99,"text":"Well, they had a method of burying that we haven't caught on to really today."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":916.48,"endTime":922.09,"text":"Here was something that was quite remarkable that they knew."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":922.09,"endTime":927.0,"text":"A great many people think that it was the nation Israel that developed this down in the land of Egypt."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":927.42,"endTime":930.34,"text":"Well, I'm not prepared to discuss that."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":930.68,"endTime":933.27,"text":"But at least Joseph called in the physicians."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":933.64,"endTime":936.42,"text":"And had them embalm his father."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":936.42,"endTime":938.83,"text":"And you don't laugh at a funeral."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":939.06,"endTime":943.43,"text":"But I can't help but smile when I think they made old Jacob into a mummy."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":943.43,"endTime":944.57,"text":"That's what happened to him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":945.02,"endTime":949.63,"text":"And I'm of the opinion that mummy's up there at Hebron today."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":949.91,"endTime":953.1,"text":"His request was, I want to be taken and buried up there."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":953.1,"endTime":954.2,"text":"Why?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":954.2,"endTime":956.41,"text":"His hope is an earthly hope, friends."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":956.41,"endTime":957.51,"text":"Don't you see it?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":957.51,"endTime":962.0,"text":"He wants to be buried up there in that land because some day he's to be raised from the dead."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":962.0,"endTime":965.73,"text":"And when he is, why he'll be there in the land with the nation Israel."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":966.42,"endTime":974.72,"text":"Now, he has no promise of being caught up to meet the Lord in the air and going to a place called the New Jerusalem out in space."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":975.05,"endTime":979.0,"text":"Now that's a promise given to the child of God today and the church."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":979.31,"endTime":982.96,"text":"Two different hopes by the way, but they're both glorious, wonderful hopes."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":982.96,"endTime":987.97,"text":"I'll be honest with you, I just soon have one as the other, but I'm confident that it's a superior hope to go and be with Christ."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":988.38,"endTime":992.0,"text":"That is the hope today of the believer in the church."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":992.34,"endTime":996.95,"text":"Now we're told and 40 days were fulfilled for him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":996.95,"endTime":1000.75,"text":"For so are fulfilled the days of those which are embomed."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1001.07,"endTime":1003.54,"text":"And the Egyptians mourned for him three score and ten days."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1003.88,"endTime":1008.26,"text":"And I'd call attention to two things there, the length of time that it took to embalm."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1008.26,"endTime":1009.28,"text":"40 days."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1009.52,"endTime":1014.28,"text":"Evidently, there were several processes to this and that which we know nothing about today."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1014.54,"endTime":1016.03,"text":"Now the Egyptians mourn for him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1016.51,"endTime":1018.67,"text":"And I don't think this was professional mourning."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1018.82,"endTime":1024.97,"text":"I think he'd became a real saint in the land of Egypt and probably looked up to and respected as the father of Joseph."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1024.97,"endTime":1033.4,"text":"Joseph was the deliverer, but certainly this was his father and he at this time was a real saint of God."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1034.02,"endTime":1038.07,"text":"Now, verse four, and when the days of his mourning were passed."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1038.07,"endTime":1040.66,"text":"Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh saying."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1041.02,"endTime":1055.67,"text":"If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you in the ears of Pharaoh, saying, my father made me swear, saying, lo, I die, in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shall thou bury me."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1055.85,"endTime":1061.64,"text":"Now, therefore, let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father and I'll come again."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1062.06,"endTime":1066.86,"text":"Pharaoh said, go up and bury thy father, according as he made thee swear."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1067.42,"endTime":1077.58,"text":"And Joseph went up to bury his father, and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, and all the elders of the land of Egypt."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1077.58,"endTime":1084.28,"text":"You see, this man was greatly respected and loved and honored in the land of Egypt."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1084.58,"endTime":1088.39,"text":"This is probably the longest funeral procession the world's ever seen."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1088.39,"endTime":1093.59,"text":"When I say long, I mean by that, it was all the way from Egypt up to Canaan to Hebron."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1093.59,"endTime":1097.43,"text":"And that's a pretty long funeral procession."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1097.87,"endTime":1107.54,"text":"And all the house of Joseph and his brethren, and his father's house, only their little ones and their flocks and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1108.34,"endTime":1115.0,"text":"I don't know this, but I highly suspect that Pharaoh required this to make sure Joseph would come back."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1115.54,"endTime":1116.48,"text":"Pharaoh needed him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1117.06,"endTime":1124.23,"text":"Verse nine, and there went up with him both chariots and horsemen, and it was a very great company."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1124.64,"endTime":1137.52,"text":"And they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond Jordan, and there they mourned with a great and very sore lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1138.07,"endTime":1147.66,"text":"And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, this is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1147.66,"endTime":1154.54,"text":"Wherefore the name of it was called Abel Mizraim, which is beyond Jordan."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1154.87,"endTime":1157.97,"text":"And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1158.41,"endTime":1166.42,"text":"For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Macpila."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1166.42,"endTime":1176.33,"text":"Which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a burying place of Ephraim the Hittite before Mamre."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1176.67,"endTime":1181.56,"text":"Now maybe this will answer the question that I'm sure several will ask."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1181.56,"endTime":1185.0,"text":"And that will be, well, what about Jacob?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1185.0,"endTime":1188.0,"text":"Why wasn't he buried with his lovely Rachel in Bethlehem?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1188.37,"endTime":1189.28,"text":"It was nearby."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1189.6,"endTime":1192.35,"text":"Probably 20 more miles farther north."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1192.7,"endTime":1195.1,"text":"Well, I think it's obvious now."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1195.45,"endTime":1205.51,"text":"Again and again, we've been told that this is the place Abraham bought and Jacob wanted to be put in the place that was bought and paid for."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1205.51,"endTime":1208.0,"text":"Make sure he'd stay in that land."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1208.43,"endTime":1210.23,"text":"I think that's important to see."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1210.55,"endTime":1213.56,"text":"That's the reason he was buried here with the other patriarchs."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1213.88,"endTime":1214.92,"text":"This was their hope."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1215.71,"endTime":1220.25,"text":"And now, verse 14, and Joseph returned into Egypt."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1220.25,"endTime":1225.43,"text":"He and his brethren and all that went up with him to bury his father after he had buried his father."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1225.79,"endTime":1229.4,"text":"And when Joseph's brethren saw that their father was dead."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1229.4,"endTime":1233.56,"text":"They said, Joseph will peradventure hate us."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1233.56,"endTime":1237.28,"text":"And will certainly requite us all the evil which we did unto him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1237.59,"endTime":1243.68,"text":"And they sent a messenger unto Joseph saying, thy father did command before he died, saying."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1243.68,"endTime":1258.82,"text":"So shall ye say unto Joseph, forgive, I pray thee now the trespass of thy brethren and their sin, for they did unto thee evil, and now we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father, and Joseph wept, when they spake unto him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1259.07,"endTime":1268.42,"text":"You see, evidently, these brethren, before old Jacob died, they came to him and said to him, what'll happen to us when you die?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1268.86,"endTime":1273.74,"text":"Joseph will turn on us and against us at that time."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1274.07,"endTime":1283.45,"text":"Well, he said, then here's my message that I want you to give to Joseph, and he'll not, I'm sure, persecute you or tempt to get even."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1283.45,"endTime":1293.18,"text":"Finally, the confession of these brethren brings from Joseph, you see here, this matter of just weeping because of it, because they're now repenting of it."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1293.45,"endTime":1301.35,"text":"And verse 18, and his brethren also wept and fell down before his face, and they said, behold, we be thy servants."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1301.76,"endTime":1308.2,"text":"You see the prophecy that he'd had of the sun, moon and stars falling down before him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1308.2,"endTime":1309.28,"text":"It's certainly come true."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1309.28,"endTime":1314.53,"text":"Verse 19, and Joseph said unto them, fear not, for am I in the place of God?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1315.0,"endTime":1318.25,"text":"And Joseph will give God the glory in every case."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1318.25,"endTime":1319.06,"text":"Notice."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1319.67,"endTime":1321.49,"text":"But as for you."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1321.49,"endTime":1323.51,"text":"Now here's a remarkable verse of scripture."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1323.51,"endTime":1324.23,"text":"Verse 20."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1325.32,"endTime":1337.89,"text":"But as for you, ye thought evil against me, but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass as it is this day, to save much people alive."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1338.44,"endTime":1343.83,"text":"Friends, God has a far off purpose that you and I do not see."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1345.54,"endTime":1347.96,"text":"And that respects your life and my life today."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1348.24,"endTime":1357.34,"text":"And I must confess how human I am about this because I tell you, I can't see any farther than my nose when trouble comes to me."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1357.34,"endTime":1360.59,"text":"And my question is, why does God permit it to happen?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1360.59,"endTime":1362.0,"text":"Well, he's got a good purpose in view."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1362.33,"endTime":1368.12,"text":"And he's not going to let it happen to you unless it will accomplish a good purpose in your life."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1368.42,"endTime":1374.88,"text":"Listen to him, now, therefore, he says, fear ye not, I'll nourish you and your little ones."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1375.14,"endTime":1379.79,"text":"And he comforted them and spake kindly unto them."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1380.24,"endTime":1384.34,"text":"And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he and his father's house."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1384.77,"endTime":1387.69,"text":"And Joseph lived a hundred and 10 years."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1387.97,"endTime":1392.2,"text":"And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1392.2,"endTime":1394.39,"text":"I take it that he was a great, great grandfather."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1394.75,"endTime":1401.99,"text":"The children also of Maker, the son of Manasseh were brought up upon Joseph's knees."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1402.26,"endTime":1405.35,"text":"And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1405.82,"endTime":1413.43,"text":"And God will surely visit you and bring you out of the land, unto the land which he swear to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1413.88,"endTime":1418.57,"text":"And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1418.57,"endTime":1423.49,"text":"God will surely visit you and you shall carry up my bones from hence."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1423.82,"endTime":1431.25,"text":"So Joseph died, being a hundred and 10 years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1431.25,"endTime":1434.6,"text":"And that's the way the book of Genesis ends."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1434.6,"endTime":1437.5,"text":"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1437.91,"endTime":1439.1,"text":"That's the beginning."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1439.1,"endTime":1441.97,"text":"But now, a coffin in Egypt."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1442.27,"endTime":1443.08,"text":"What happened?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1443.08,"endTime":1445.14,"text":"Was sin entered the human family."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1445.47,"endTime":1450.41,"text":"But now, notice this specifically, the question arises, why wasn't Joseph taken up at this time?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1450.41,"endTime":1453.64,"text":"And buried in the land?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1453.94,"endTime":1458.74,"text":"Well, I think obviously, Joseph happens to be a hero in the land of Egypt."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1459.04,"endTime":1464.21,"text":"I do not think that they would have permitted his body to have been removed from that land at the time."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1464.55,"endTime":1472.0,"text":"I think he was one of the outstanding patriarchs that the Egyptians worshiped."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1472.33,"endTime":1478.43,"text":"Probably that at least they certainly treated with respect his grave and probably a monument was reared to him."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1478.74,"endTime":1483.9,"text":"But now he said to his own people, when you go up, don't leave my bones down here."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1484.09,"endTime":1488.0,"text":"Now again, friends, may I say that he had a hope."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1488.0,"endTime":1492.2,"text":"It was an earthly hope that some day he was to be raised from the dead."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1492.2,"endTime":1496.0,"text":"Now if he's to be raised from the dead, then be caught up to meet the Lord in the air."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1496.0,"endTime":1500.56,"text":"What difference does it make whether the launching pad's in Egypt or Canaan or Florida?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1500.56,"endTime":1501.9,"text":"Or wherever you live?"}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1502.19,"endTime":1503.22,"text":"It wouldn't make a bit of difference."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1503.74,"endTime":1508.0,"text":"We are to be caught up to meet the Lord in air someday."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1508.0,"endTime":1514.88,"text":"It doesn't make any difference where we're buried, but for these people, it meant a great deal to be buried in that land for that land is their hope."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1514.88,"endTime":1518.73,"text":"It's to be their eternal possession."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1519.82,"endTime":1524.0,"text":"And this brings us now to the conclusion of the book of Genesis."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1525.29,"endTime":1530.82,"text":"Next time, friend, we're going to the New Testament to the Gospel of Matthew."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1531.06,"endTime":1535.84,"text":"I hope you have our notes and outlines, if not, be sure and write in and ask for them."}

Dr. J. Vernon McGee: {"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee--]

{"speaker":"Dr. J. Vernon McGee","startTime":1536.2,"endTime":1539.86,"text":"May the Lord richly bless you, my beloved."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":1540.239,"endTime":1545.929,"text":"You'll find those notes and outlines in our app or at ttb.org, just look for our digital book briefing the Bible."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":1546.069,"endTime":1551.469,"text":"You can also call 1-800-65 Bible and we'll put an abbreviated print copy in the mail to you."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":1551.729,"endTime":1555.209,"text":"Again, that's ttb.org or 1-800-65 Bible."}

Host: {"speaker":"Host","startTime":1555.519,"endTime":1558.919,"text":"I'm Steve Schwetz, thanking God for the privilege of traveling through the Word with you."}