S1:E25 The Revivalists - Genesis Chapter 37

This week on The Revivalists we begin the story of Joseph. A young naive 17-year old Joseph told his brothers and his father, Israel (Jacob), a dream he had. This dream sounded just too wild and cray cray for their comfort. For his brothers, it was the last line. Brothers went out to tend the sheep in another area. Joseph is then sent on an errand for his father to convey a message to his brothers. Seeing the opportunity, the brothers plotted Joseph's demise before he walked up to them with the message. Though Reuben tried to intervene to save Joseph and have him thrown into a cistern without water. The brothers plotted to then pluck him out of the cistern and sell Joseph as a slave to a band of "ites" traveling through. Brothers make up this wild story about how Joseph was torn to pieces all while handing the animal blood stained but untorn robe to their father.  Now we have a serious case of moral injury. Not just for Joseph who has been sold but for his father too.  His father goes into serious mourning for losing his favorite son. Rachel's son.  Think of the moral injury...becoming essential a prisoner of strangers, sold by your own brothers for nothing else but having a dream and telling them about it.  The moral injury of family and loyalty of that family, gone in a moment.  The moral injury of being physical injured. Of losing your father and everything that you knew to be true about life. Gone.  Innocence of life. Gone.  There's more to the story on Joseph...let's see where his faith takes him in his journey.