All right, now we've saved the best for last. Let's wrap all of this stuff up about Joseph here as the Savior and look at it in the typological framework. We talked last lesson if you remember about how Joseph was a type of Daniel, and I shared with you, there's more typology and now is the time to do it. So we've seen Joseph as Savior, not just of all of Egypt and not just of all of the world coming to him for grain, but also of his family.
He's a Savior of his family as well. And in that, he is a beautiful type of Jesus who is the Savior of the world, the Savior of the universe who brings about a new creation. So it is a really beautiful thing, really saving the best for last year. There's a conclusion to this lecture, and as well as the whole Bible study of Genesis.
Look at Joseph, not only is a type of Jesus, but also we're going to see Joseph as a type of Saint Joseph, Jesus' Father. But first, in a major way, Joseph is a type of Christ. And all the early church fathers have talked about this, beautiful connection here. So if you look down at your notes, I've got 15 points, 15 connections for you showing how Joseph is a type of Jesus.
So you can just follow along with the notes that I provided to you, and I'm just going to make the connections here where it's going to go down the list because if you try to write this down too quickly, you won't be able to do it. All righty. So number one, both are the beloved son of their father. So we saw how Joseph is greatly loved by his father Jacob.
Well, Jesus of course says the beloved son of God has said multiple times in the gospel. So both of the beloved son of their fathers. Two, both of them are hated and are betrayed by their brethren. Okay.
So Joseph's brothers hated him. They're envious of him and they're jealous of him. And so they sold him into slavery. Well, the fathers have said that to the Jews, specifically the religious leaders were envious and jealous of Jesus.
And so they've betrayed him as well, which brings us to number three. Both of them are soulable. Joseph and Jesus are soul to foreigners or soul to Gentiles. So for Joseph, it would be the Midianites, for Jesus is the Romans.
They're sold for silver coins at the price of a slave, 20 shekels for Joseph. There is such a thing as inflation, which we're all dealing with right now. And 30 shekels for Jesus, he sold, but they're sold by a brother of the same name. Judas is the one who sells Jesus like Judah was the one who sold Joseph.
Okay. So both are sold to foreigners for silver coins at the price of a slave by a brother of the same name, Judah versus Judas. Okay. I love that one.
So interesting. Number four, both of them are stripped of their clothing or right strip naked in humiliation. Next both of them are condemned with two men. This is so fascinating.
It's in your commentary. Both are imprisoned by both are imprisoned with two men. One of them is saved. So the butler and Joseph's case.
And of course the good thief in Jesus's case. But the other one is condemned. You've got the Baker and Joseph's case case. And we call him the impenitent thief for Jesus.
That one's so fascinating. How both are imprisoned with two other men. One is saved and one is condemned. Fascinating.
I love it. Okay. Next both of them are cast into a pit. So the Hebrew were for pit as we discussed with prison or well, it's the same word.
So there's the pit, the well or the prison. And of course there's the tomb for Jesus. But both are raised up again, which brings us to the next point. Number seven, both are exalted to the right hand of Pharaoh versus of God, of course, to rule over the kingdom, Egypt versus heaven after great suffering and humiliation.
All right. They both go through this period of humiliation. Of course, Joseph is enslaved for 13 years. But nevertheless, he still has this really interesting parallel, how they're suffering, how they're humiliated, and yet they're exalted and lifted up to be sitting at the right hand of Pharaoh and God, respectfully.
Awesome. Number eight, both of them are 30 years old when they begin their quote unquote public ministry. Joseph is 30, it says right there in the scriptures when he was exalted to Pharaoh's right hand man and Luke tells us that Jesus was 30 when he began his public ministry. Love that.
Number nine, this is awesome. I like this. They're all great. I love them all.
Right. Number nine, both of them bring salvation to the world here by providing bread to all the nations. That's awesome because all the nations are coming to Joseph looking for bread. If in Jesus is going to bring salvation by providing bread as well, but it's the bread of light.
It's better bread than Joseph's. It's the bread of life. It's the bread of life. It's the bread of the whole universe.
So Joseph provides bread and saves them physically. Jesus will provide bread, the bread of life in the Eucharist to save us spiritually. Great parallel there. Number 10, Joseph gives special honor to Benjamin out of banquet.
In much the same way, Jesus gives special honor for John, the youngest disciple. Of course, Benjamin is the youngest brother. John, the evangelist is the youngest disciple. And Jesus shows this honor to John at the banquet of the Last Supper.
So in that sense, Benjamin and John are connected there. Number 11, both of them forgive those who committed evil against them. Remember everything that we discussed, that beautiful theme of forgiveness in this whole story of Joseph that really the theme of forgiveness for all of Genesis. Joseph forgives his brothers and says, no, you meant evil that God brought good out of it.
Same thing with Jesus. Forgive them for they know not what they do. Beautiful. They both, this one to my personal one.
In fact, some of these are some of the insights here, but this one's kind of weak, but I still like it. I'm giving it to you anyways. But both of them are weepers. Both of them are weeping.
This is going to be important when I talk about the typology of Saint Joseph. But remember, Joseph's always running out of the room weeping, right? He can't contain his emotions. And what is the shortest verse of all the scripture?
And John, Jesus, wept because Jesus felt emotions. He was truly men. He had true human emotions. So I think that there's a connection there too, not just that they weep, but that they really feel deeply.
Okay? I like that a lot. Number 13, this is a good one that the fathers point out. Joseph's bones are going to later be taken to the Promised Land after the Exodus.
That is a foreshadowing the fathers will say of Jesus' ascension. Jesus, after his own exodus, which remember at the Transfiguration, Jesus is talking with Moses and Elijah about his exodus, Luke tells us. So after Jesus' exodus, which is the Paschal Mysteries, if the ascension, he goes up to the Promised Land of heaven. Okay?
So Joseph goes to the Promised Land. That is foreshadowing of the ascension. Jesus is going to the Promised Land of heaven. Both after an exodus event.
So verse 13, all nations bow down to Joseph, just like all nations will bow down to Jesus as Peter will say in Acts and Apostles. Then finally, number 15 here, Ferrell will say, if you were looking at chapter 41 and 56, I made a big fuss about this. So beautiful, there's a bit of Joseph going to Joseph, do everything that he tells you. Do whatever he says.
That's what Ferrell says about Joseph. There's an echo there with Mary. Remember Mary says at the wedding of Canaan, John chapter 2, to the servants there. Do whatever he tells you.
There's a parallel there, I think that's really beautiful. So these are 15 points. We've done it pretty quickly here because we're at the end of our time of our lecture. They're 15 points of typology.
They're not coincidental. Joseph's whole story of him being betrayed, right? Him trusting in God and him being elevated and providing bread of the nations and everything that we discuss with these beautiful themes of God's providence and reconciliation and forgiveness. It's all ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
I love it. So hope you're all with me here. Okay. Now let's conclude really quickly with in a minor way Joseph is a type of Saint Joseph, right?
The father of Jesus Christ. So the first couple of you might think are pretty weak but it gets us going. Okay. Number one, they both have the same name.
All right. They both have the same name. But number two, their fathers have the same name as well. Jacob, if you go to the genealogy that Matthew has, you're going to see that Joseph's father is Jacob, which is pretty interesting.
And then number three, both receive messages and dreams. That's definitely significant. And then both next, number four, both of them went to Egypt after two dreams. So they received messages and dreams, but both of them go down to Egypt after receiving two dreams.
And then next, both save their family by bringing them down to Egypt. Joseph brings an entire family of Jacob to Egypt to save them. So Joseph brings his family, the Holy family, down to Egypt in order to escape Herod's wrath, right? So both of them next are virtuous and chaste and holy.
You remember all the stuff that we saw with Joseph? Maybe as a 17 year old, maybe his father's love is getting to his head. He's a bit inflated, pridefully. That's a theory.
I think it's very fascinating. Maybe Joseph has proved to be trusting of God and faithful and obedient and chaste. All of that is a foreshadowing of Saint Joseph. Number seven, both of them are entrusted with all the affairs of their master's house.
So Joseph is in charge of all of Pharaoh's house. It's all about things after he interprets dreams. But it's interesting here how Jesus submits himself to Saint Joseph. Saint Joseph is given the responsibility of protecting the Holy family.
And not just the Holy family because the church will teach that Joseph is the patient of the universal church. All right? Jesus, just as Jesus honored Joseph and gave Joseph this duty, this duty, this responsibility of protecting the Holy family. No to in heaven does Jesus give Joseph that responsibility to protect his entire worldwide family, his church.
All right? So it's a really beautiful connection here. And then finally, number eight, now this is a personal thought of mine. It struck me one day.
But I think it's really cool. And I don't think I'm too far off the mark here at all. But it's really interesting. If you go back to the point I made earlier about how Joseph was a weeper, right?
It's crying all the time. If you actually count up how many times he wept it seven times. First that's significant because seven is the number of the covenant, right? So Joseph is weeping because of the broken covenant between him and his brothers.
But he's also weeping that this covenant is restored, right? It's the broken and the restored covenantal bonds. That Joseph has with his family. So I think that's significant in and of itself.
But then if you go to Saint Joseph, according to the spirituality of the church, Saint Joseph traditionally had seven sorrows and seven joys, just like Mary has seven sorrows and seven joys, right? So I've listed them all here for you on your notes. The traditional spiritual seven sorrows of Joseph would be the doubt of Saint Joseph or really the questioning doubt would probably be the wrong word because doubt is a sin against the virtue of faith. But in any case, the questioning, the puzzlement of Joseph, okay, the poverty of Jesus's birth, the circumcision, the prophecy of the sin, the flight into Egypt, the return from Egypt and in the loss of the child Jesus.
These are the traditional seven sorrows and I think there's a parallel there with the seven times that the patriarch Joseph leaps, all right? So there you have it, my friends. This is a great way to conclude these 14 lessons that we've spent together looking at Genesis. And I think Joseph is probably my favorite patriarch, to be honest.
They're all significant, but Joseph's awesome. So I've really enjoyed spending these two lessons with you. And I really hope that you like this typology because it's dynamite. This is how we read scripture.
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