A look back at a Treasurer of Egypt – צָֽפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ

A look back at a Treasurer of Egypt – צָֽפְנַת פַּעְנֵחַ

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This Egyptian ruler was not unlike a later Candace of Ethiopia encountered by the evangelist Philip.

Philip and the Ethiopian official in his chariot on the road from Jerusalem in Gaza, reading the scroll of Isaiah before he is baptized
Philip the Evangelist – a first century evangelical Christian
Thus Joseph stored up grain in great abundance like the sand of the sea, until he stopped measuring it, for it was beyond measure. – Genesis 41:49 LSB

You know this treasurer of Egypt as Joseph

At first glance of Acts of the Apostles we hardly notice so many parallels in encounters between important men of the past. Men like Philip (who is not even an Apostle) called to meet with a eunuch reading Isaiah. Or similarly a lost son of Israel turning up in Pharaoh’s administration of all Egypt.

The Spirit of the Lord led these men to the places where they obediently follow God’s will and do the Lord’s gracious work.

Today’s Summer Scriptural rerun takes a more detailed look at Joseph’s ascent to power as a leading administrator of Pharaoh doing the LORD’s work by preparing for a great famine millennia before Christ.

A River of Redemption Flowing from Eden – Joseph
July 31, 2018 – from a series on Genesis
Summer Reruns! with picture of sun wearing sunglasses
Summer 2021 AD {Scriptural} Reruns
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