April 2

Genesis 49:29-Exodus 3:22 We are in the World Stream today and will compete the book of Genesis and start the book of Exodus. We are reading from the World English Bible this week. 7streamsmethod.com | #7Streams |  @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis <blockquote>Dear Lord Jesus, seasons come and go as the reading today encompasses a 400 year period. Let us take this calling of Moses very seriously for you call us to lead enslaved people into freedom. You've told us to receive nations into your Kingdom. We are to live for our Deliverer too;  Assure us also as you assured Moses - that you will be with us.  Amen.</blockquote> <p>Jacob's departure is upon us. I like his determination to not be buried in Egypt. They were a culture obsessed with the process and their definition of the afterlife. For Egyptian royalty, death was what one's entire life was spent preparing for. It's one of the matters Jesus is hinting about when he declared he was the God of the Living / not the Dead. Jacob wants to be sure that he is buried back on the other side of the Nile with his father Isaac and his grandfather Abraham near Hebron. He finished his speech and ... he was gone.</p> <div>Gen. 50 - the funeral for Jacob is ornate, and as soon as this is overwith, Joseph shows his good ethics yet again to assure his brothers that they were family and not enemies.  Jump to the end of Joseph's life and what does he insist? that his bones be carried out of Egypt when the Israelites leave.  Fascinating reference to an Exodus that would take place 400 years later!  Joseph soon breathes his last after being in Egypt 93 years.  Interesting "book-ends" in Genesis: the warning in Genesis 2, "do not eat this fruit or you will surely die."  At the end of the book, Jacob dies - and Joseph dies just a chapter later.  Genesis seems to end with "I told you that this is where your disobedience would take you."  At any rate the 4,000 year march from leaving Eden to the Calvary event is well on it's way.  Chronologically, we are 2