Though not recorded as such in the record of the Jews, certainly this was
the situation among Joseph's brothers even as it was of Nephi and his elder
brothers. Jewish traditions back this fact up (Legends of the Jews, volume
II. From his very birth, Rachel, Jacob's wife of chose had prophesied
concerning her son, Joseph had had a number of dreams of confirmation and
even Jacob had bestowed upon Joseph the rainbow symbol of the covenant, the
coat of many colors. Some surmise that Joseph flaunted his position before
his brothers, but some also think this of Nephi, though Nephi but spoke as
moved upon by the spirit in attempted correction of his brother's wickedness.
Rueben had lost the birthright through a sexual sin which degraded one of
Jacob's wives leaving Joseph the heir apparent. Simion and Levi had commeted
murders of revenge and where not worthy of the covenant either. As to Leah's
sons, this left Judah in line as the eldest son of Jacob. Perhaps Judah so
saw himself as the heir of Jacob, particularly if he could rid himself of
his younger brother Joseph. Judah was among those seeking to take Joseph's
life and it was Reuben who forbid them from kill the lad. But while Rueben
was absent in turn at the flocks, it was Judah who seazed upon the oportunity
to compile his remaining brothers to self Joseph into slavery. This parallel
is significant in that 'Judah/Judas' was also he who did sell the Lord unto
the Jews for the price of a slave. And Judah seems to have won the right of
head of the family after Joseph's demise.
Yet the Lord would fulfill Rachel's prophecy, Joseph's dreams and Jacob's
blessing of the birthright upon Joseph through Joseph's sons, first Ephraim
and then Manasseh. And the Lord went with Joseph down into Egypt and not only
preserved him but raised him to power over the land that Joseph ruled in the
name of the Pharoah when eventually Jacob's sons had to come to Egypt, the
land of Joseph to be preserved and saved from the famine. There in Egypt the
Lord would fulfill Joseph's dreams in part as his brother's there did bow
down before him and became subjects unto their younger brother's ruling over
them. And through Joseph's House, the Lord would raise up seed unto Joseph
which would eventually fulfill all of Joseph's blessings, the blessing of the
covenant Firstborn.
Perhaps the only place, according to the Old Testament Lexicon-Stong's Number
3084, that the full and propher name of Rachel's oldest son is given is in
Psalms 81:5. And that name is 'Y@howceph' (Transliterated word) pronounced
yeh-ho-safe' meaning 'Joseph'= "Jehovah had added". Like many propher names
in the Bible which begin with 'J' ('Y' in Hebrew), the short contracted
'Y' (or 'Y') stands for 'Jehovah' in the persons name perhaps as a part of
committing or anointing that person unto God. The second part of the name,
which when prefixed with the leading contraction 'J' is taken to mean 'to
add, increase but Strong number 3130, the common form of Joseph's name takes
the second form of the name to Strong number 3254- again or to be joined to or added to - again. Without the
leading 'J' the corresponding singular word is that of 'asaph'/'oseph' where
Hebrew uses no vowel letters, thoses sounds many vary depending in what
conjunctive circumstance the word is untilized. But 'asaph', Strong number
622/623, by it self means 'gatherer' or 'gather in'; to collect or to gather.
Another word 'Eliasaph' tends to show this same contraction and name meaning
variant. Strongs number 460 combines the two 'Eli' meaning God and 'asaph'
which at is given to mean 'God adds' but due to the variation meaning of
'asaph' could just as well mean 'God Gathers'. And thus it is also with
'Yeoseh' or Joseph, it could just as well be deammed Jehovah Gathers. Now in
terms of the gospel, the 'gathering in' has a much more meaning full depth of
connotation than just Jehovah Adds. And in term of Joseph and Joseph's seed,
applying that connotation as the meaning of Joseph is much more telling than
just 'adding'. Joseph was used to 'gather' in Israel unto salvation from the
famine, those of the covenant of Joseph/Abraham of the latter day work to
'gather in' Israel in the process of the 'Gathering'. And Jesus Christ/Jehovah
himself has spoken often that he Jehovah would have gathered in Israel as
a hen her chick many times throughout history if they but would be gathered.
Certainly this connotation of 'Jehovah Gathers' has a much more indepth gospel
meaning and personal meaning to the name Joseph than just 'adding', though the
two concepts are not that far apart in themselves. Of joining interest both
#460 'Eliasaph' which combines 'God' and 'Asaph'; and #3130 Yowceph or Joseph
in common form, both lead their second name 'asaph' or 'owceph' to the same
word origin #3254 indicating that both 'asaph' of Eliasaph and 'owceph' of
Yowceph/Joseph are indeed the same primary root or original word given at
#3254 to mean to add, increase - again. But is Eliasaph can alter the meaning
to God 'gathers in' then why cannot Yowceph be taken to mean similarly tht
Jehovah 'gathers in' when both use the same primary root original word?
Now in short, The etymology of the name Joseph is usually defined as "the
Lord addeth" or "increaseth". Yet when Rachel named her son Joseph, it was
actually taken from the same Hebrew root word that is 'asaph' which means,
'to gather in' or 'he who gathers', 'he who causes to return' or 'God
gathereht' as in Eliasaph. Thus the idea is that Joseph could be looke to to
be he that 'gathers in' as in the case of Jacob and his sons families
gathering to Egypt to be saved from the famine. Or in the case of Moses, as
of the House of Joseph, 'he who causes a return' of Israel to that land of
Jacob from whence they had come. And then is the case of Jesus Christ as
Messiah ben Joseph, to be the ultimate 'gatherer' past Old Testament',
merridian as Jesus Christ would have gathered, and in the end both through
Joseph Smith and the House of Joseph to the Church in preparation for the
second comeing, and at last in the end when every knee bows and tongue
confessings, having been turned or gathered in to Christ in the final
judgment. That 'Joseph' does mean 'Jehovah Gathers' has enriched meaning when
reading such scripture verses as, 3 Nephi 10:3-7, Matthew 23:37-39, Luke
13:34-35, as well as D&C 43:24-32 and 10:65. All these speak of Christ
gathering Israel and even the nations of the earth.
Further that in the name Joseph meaning Jehovah Gathers, it takes on even
greater immplication, appication and meaning that it is Jehovah, Jesus Christ
who gathers as well as in and through those that serve him in the priesthood
when one studies all the scriptures listed in the Topical Guide under
Israel, Gathering of. And that Joseph was he so anointed with that name to
the gathering of Jehovah Gathers must have heightened significance as to the
name and relationship between Joseph of Egypt, Moses, Jesus Christ as Jehovah,
Joseph Smith and all those of Joseph who do fulfill the covenant of the
fathers, the covenant of Abraham in the Gathering of all mankind unto the Lord.
And certainly one cannot leave out Jehovah/Jesus Christ from the name of
Jehovah Gathers, of Joseph in that he must be seen as Messiah ben Joseph;
'the Anointed son Jehovah who Gathers' which is the literal meaning of
'Messiah (the Anointed) ben (son) Josph (Jehovah Gatherer). After all what is
in a name? So from Joseph - Jehovah Delivers to Messiah ben Joseph - the
Anointed son Jehovah Gathers'; Jesus - Jehovah Delivers or Saves.
Finally, concerning the name 'Joseph' and the meaning as to the 'gathering in',
another traditional etymology should be considered, which though through
Joseph may be the case, it specifically infers that such is but by the Lord
('The etymology given from BR 73, 5-6 has several prophecies found in Rachel's
words of Gen. 30.24. "The etymology given there of the name Joseph as "the
increase by the Lord" occurs also in Philo, De Josepho, 6.
A number of people have studied the vast parallels between the life of
Joseph of Egypt and Jesus the Christ. So astounding and overwhelming are these
many similitudes and foreshadowings that they are convinced that Joseph may
have been a previous 'incarnation' of Jesus. That is to say a previous
appearance of Jesus Christ in the person of Joseph of Egypt. This would imply
a belief in reincarnation. Such is not a principle of the gospel. Yet these
who have studied and seen the overpowering evidences of just to what degree
Joseph the son of Jacob was in the very similitude of the life of Jesus,
they must conclude some connection of a strong relationship and nature. How
close yet 'no cigar'. The truth is to be found in the fact that Jesus would
be the rightful hier and legal seed of the house of Joseph, even Messiah
ben Joseph.
Joseph was the heir of the birthright blessings and covenants, that is all
the patriarchal blessings of the promises of the fathers of the covenant,
from his immediate ancestors, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham. And these blessing
where passed on to Ephraim over Manasseh under the hand of Jacob through his
blessings of the sons of Joseph and the adoptive process whereby Ephraim and
Manasseh became considered the sons of Jacob and of the tribes of Israel.
Thus the promises of the fathers where preserved and the earth to be blessed
by the linages of Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to Joseph and thence to
Ephraim as assisted by his brother Manasseh.
The relationship between Abraham and his beloved son Isaac was called upon to
enact a similitude of the Father's, God's, sacrifice of His Son as the lamb
of God when God command Abraham to literally sacrifice his son Isaac. This
was additionally testing upon the faith of Abraham, as he himself once laid
upon a pagan sacrificial alter resulting from the actions of his father and
would have so been killed if Jehovah had not intervened. In the case of
Abraham and Isaac, the enactment was stopped short by the hand of God, as
Abraham's and Isaac's faith had been tested. But the actual sacrifice of
made by the Father and Son of Heaven and Earth was not cut short, as the
Savior of all mankind did perform the ultimate sacrifice for he sins of the
world and the cup was not removed from him, but was fulfilled in him.
But through Abraham's test of faith, he was selected to be the ancestor of
the salvation of the world as all nations would be blessed through him and
his descendants which not only included the latter-day saints of the House of
Joseph but also the Lord Jesus Christ, even the Messiah. And so was Isaac
selected to be the carrier of these patriarchal blessing and responsibilities
and so even was Jacob. As he won the birthright from Easu who cared little
for it and obtained the covenant blessings under the hand of his father
Isaac.
But then Jacob in his own patriarchal blessing of Judah and Joseph seemed to
divide the promised covenants of the fathers into two and even the Messiah in
two. And as just discussed one of the classical Jewish positions is that
indeed there was to be two Messiahs, a Messiah Ben Joseph and a Messiah Ben
David, acnestrially stated as Messiah Ben Judah according to the Jewish
interpretations. And it did seem that the leadership and patriarchal
blessings had been divided between Judah and Joseph and a dichotomy between
Judah and Joseph or Ephraim was initiated. Yet Joseph we know to have been
the beloved and anointed son of Jacob and not Judah.
Just as Abraham and Isaac's enactment foreshadowed the sacrifice by the
Father of the Son, which son was to be of the chosen promised lineage of
the covenant, so did the relationship between Jacob and Joseph foreshadow
the Father and His Beloved Son. Joseph's entire life was but a forshadowing
of the Savior of the covenant to come. Joseph, the son of the covenant
blessings of Jacob was the very similitude of the beloved son.
Jacob's wife of selection was Rachel. And her first born son was Jacob's
most beloved son. And just as the rainbow with its spectrim of the light
of the sun through the life giving water of heaven did spread forth the
colors in the bow in the heaveans as the token of the everlasting covenant,
so was Jacob's obvious intent portrayed of making of Joseph the son of the
birthright covenant blessings in the act of Jacob giving Joseph the
rainbow coat of many colors.
And then thence from bestowal, Joseph would have prophetic dreams of the
fulfillment of the covenant through him and his seed after him. The Jewish
Bible yields but two of Joseph's dreams, but according to traditon, Joseph
also had other dreams of even more revealing content. And as Joseph's dreams
and their predicted fulfillment foreshadowed Joseph to be of the prime
position to inherit the full patriarchal responsibility including being the
legal and rightful ancestor to the Savior of the world, the envy and hatred
of his brothers grew towards him.
And from thence on the numerous aspects of Joseph's life did parallel and
where a type of the Messiah ben Joseph who would come thence form the house
of Joseph. In the 'Old Testament' student manual for the LDS Institues of
Religion = Genesis = 2 Samual, can be found a listing of many ways in which
Joseph was a type of the Messiah to come. On page 97 is given a listing of
9 summarized paralleling features of the life of Joseph which do directly
correlate and foreshadow the life of Christ in the type of Joseph the son
of Jacob renamed Israel. And this listing of 9 can be enlarged upon by a
more thurough review of the life of Joseph of Egypt as compared to the life
of Jesus of Nazareth. In all over 30 such aspects of the life of Joseph as
a type of Messiah to come can be and will be here after listed.
1. First Joseph and Jacob like Abraham and Isaac where themselves a typing
and foreshadowing of the relationship between God the Father and His Son
Jesus Christ. As already cited, Jacob's wife of selection was Rachel. And
Rachel's firstborn son was Joseph. And Joseph was Israel's most beloved son
and the son of the covenant promises as evidenced by Jacob's endowment upon
his son the rainbow coat of many colors which signified the token of the
everlasting covenant being placed upon Joseph by his father Jacob.
4. The child Joseph's early prophetic dreams placed him as the leader in
Israel with his brothers and father and mother bowing before his recognized
position. A summary review of these dreams, scriptural and traditional, seem
to be appropriate at this point.
B) Joseph's dream of the Sun, Moon, and Stars. Joseph's second
dream did enforce the dream of the sheaves. And from Jacob's recorded
interpretation, Jacob considered that even he Jacob represented by the
sun, and Leah, the hen surviving mother as Rachel was deceased, as
well as the other sons represented by the stars, did all make obeisance
to Joseph. That too was fulfilled temporally by Joseph's position in
Egypt and Jacob's family coming there to be saved from the famine. But
again, a more heavenly and eternal interpretation lies therein when
Christ as the descendant of Joseph is brought into the picture. We
understand that the Sun, Moon and Star are representative of the kingdoms
of heaven to which man may attain to. The Cellestial Kingdom is of the
glory of the Sun. The Terrestrial Kingdom is of the glory of the Moon,
And the Telestial Kingdom is of the glory of the Stars. And all who have
lived will be consigned to those kingdoms and all will pay obeisance to
Joseph's promised descendant, the shepherd and stone or rock of Israel,
even Jesus Christ. (Genesis 37:9-11)
C) Joseph's dream of the rotted fruit. It only become cystal clear
through Joseph's 'other' traditionally held dream, that all these dreams not
only portrayed Joseph in the temporal sense but also the Messiah in the
eternal sense. Jesus was the fruit of Joseph's posterity of the harvest
which sheaf did stand before all others to be so worshiped. And as just
presented, all those of the kingdoms of heaven's glories with bow down
before the Lord. In Joseph's 'other' dreamed he and his brothers were
gathering fruit, again fruit meaning posterity. His brother's fruit rotted,
but Joseph's remianed. Joseph explained that the children of Israel would
set up dumb idols to worship, but that they would vanish at the
coming of Joseph's descendant, Messiah ben Joseph. (Isaiah and the Prophets,
p. 28 & Ginzberg, The Legends of the Jews vol. 2:7)
Whether Joseph ever offered explanations to the two dreams in the Jewish
Bible is not therein recorded. But Joseph's brothers envied and hated him
for the cause of the position which was apparently Joseph's. And it is
stated that Jacob his father did observe the saying of Joseph's dreams
(Genesis 37:11).
5. By Jacob's initial selection of Joseph and his bestowal upon him the
coat of the covenant, Joseph was initial selected by Jacob to be God's chosen
bearer of the covenant and the leader for the Family of Israel. Then through
Joseph's own works of fulfillment, Joseph did become that leader of Israel.
And God made his choice clear both to him and to the Family he was to rule.
6.
And its final confirmation was had not only in the patriarchal blessings of
Jacob, but also in God's own endowment of blessings upon Joseph in the
blessings of prophecies made unto Joseph by the Lord directly. These we have
in part as the prophecies of Joseph in the JST of the Bible and in Lehi's
reference to them in the blessing of his son Joseph. We will speak to these
more fully in item number 8.
7. Like Christ, Joseph's brothren rejected him, not accepting him as the one
possition by the hand of God and they plotted his death. And it was likely
conspired by 'Judas' or Judah as the prime ring leader of the assult.
8. Then Joseph like Christ, was judged by his brethren who buried him
in the ground. Joseph was placed in the pit as a 'dead man' to die.
9. Yet Joseph, like Christ, was yet raised again from the ground and
carried forth to do his work elsewhere for a season. Chirst worked with his
other sheep in the spirit world and at other locations upon the earth.
Joseph performed his further work after his rising, in the land of the
nations of the world at that time, Egypt.
10. Joseph like Christ was called upon to be but a servant to the world.
Christ decended below all and became the least of these, a servant of service
to all in providing through his service of heavenly salvation to all mankind.
Joseph provided a physical temporal salvation for a starving world
experiencing famine of the land of want of food. Christ provided spiritual
salvation for a starving world experiencing famine in the land of the want for
the spiritual bread of life, the word of God.
11. Joseph was sold by his brethren as conspired by Judah or Judas for 20
pieces of silver as did Judas the Messiah for 30 pieces of silver..
12. Joseph had been sent on a mission of mercy by his father in behalf of
his brethren. So was Christ so sent upon his mission of mercy. Both were
rejected.
13. Joseph's brethren claimed he was dead when they really knew that he
was risen and was really alive. So also was the case of Christ, as many saw
and heard him, and knew that he had indeed was risen. This confirmation will
be fully realized during the reign of the Messiah as it was fully realized
during he reign of Joseph in Egypt when his brethern came to find him there.
14. Joseph's true brethren and family, Benjamin, Jacob and others
sincerely mourned his death. Christ's true followers, his brethren and
sisters in the gospel of the apostles and his deciples did so morn his death.
15. Joseph's rejection by his brothers caused him to be sent out among
the world of the gentiles. Christ's mission after being rejected by his
own turned to taking his mission and gospel to the gentiles.
16. Like Christ being turned over to the Romans, Joseph was handed over
to the gentiles to the expected fate of his death.
17. Like Christ, Joseph was falsely accused and suffered innocently as a
lamb to the slaughter for crimes he had not committed.
18. Like Christ, Joseph's brethren willingly of their own iniativve did
give up Joseph's to the gentiles, counting him as naught, though it was they
who did truly need him. They knew not how much they needed him not did they
understand what it was that they did do.
19. Like Christ, Joseph was dishonored by some of the gentiles who sought
to use him for their own ends. But others would come to accept him and raise
him to the position of honor and look to him to provide them salvation.
20. Joseph was honored by others because God was with him.
21. Joseph provided life, hope, and the wisdom of God to prisoners, kings, and those in between.
22. Joseph's message brought life to some, but death to others.
23. Joseph foretold of times (seven periods or years of time) of tribulation, and how to survive them.
24. Joseph was made ruler over the gentiles.
25. Joseph took himself a bride by whom he had Israelite or covenant children.
26. Joseph's brethren failed to recognize him. They mistook him for a false ruler.
27. Because they didn't recognize their brother, God's chosen, the sons of the covenant, Israel, had to leave the land of Israel, beg for mercy from gentile governments, be falsely accused, and suffer among the gentiles as their brother had.
28. Judah lead the sons of Israel in pleading for forgiveness when it was time for the Family of Israel to recognize him during a seven-year time of Jacob's troubles, arranged by God for this purpose.
29. Joseph revealed himself to his brethren and saved both them and the gentiles.
30. Joseph united his own family with the Family of Israel, and settled them all in a good, prosperous land with their revived father, Israel.
31. Joseph was made a great ruler and honor in a position of glory, second only to he who was regarded as God.
32. Like Christ, Joseph was placed in a position to offer forgiveness
(see Genesis 50:17) to the chosen house of Israel.
33. Joseph's typing of Christ only comes full bare in considering Joseph's
reign in Egypt as parallel with Christ's reign in the Millennium. though
purely symbolic, Joseph is given full charge to rule over all of Egypt in
providing temporal salvation to all the people and to all nations. Likewise,
God the Father has given Christ full charge to rule over all the earth in
dispensing his salvation unto all people and nations.
34. Further, like Joseph who reigned and provided salvation from a place
of the gentiles separate from the promised lands of Israel (Jacob), so will
Christ rule and reign and provide his salvation to teh world from a place
outside of the Israelite promised lands about Jerusalem. From America is
salvation broguht to the world through Christ's restoration of his gospel
and the center of his earthly kingdom from which he will reign from Zion in
America.
35. And even beyond this, it was Joseph, who like Christ, was the most
benevolent benefactor, returning good for evil to Israel and the world, who
had treated him so poorly. Forgiving and also bestowing so many good gifts
of benefit and salvation to all who did call upon his name for relief
It is only in this further analysis of Joseph's full life in parallel with
Christ's full mission, extending into and through the time of the Millennium,
can a full understanding of just how complelely the life of Joseph indeed and
in fact was a similitude and a type and a foreshadow of Christ the messiah,
who was to come of Joseph's legal and rightful seed. For the fact that
Christ is the latter-day King David see item number 51.
The messianic imagery in the history of Joseph is so clear that the rabbis,
who have imaged to divide the Messiah in two since the time of Jesus Christ,
have opportunistically taught that the Torah speaks of two Messiahs. Messiah
Son of Joseph is to be a Warrior-Messiah, suffering for the sins of His
People, betrayed by a dear friend, rejected and handed over to the gentiles
and killed. He is to be brought back to life by Messiah Son of David, the
King to rule the world in shalom from Jerusalem. The Rabbis have
recognized the two aspects of the One Messiah and mistaken Him for two
Messiahs. And they have failed to associate an all important asspect that
Joseph was taken for dead and was found alive in a second event which
ushered in his reign over all from this separate gentile nation. Christ
who is deemed by Judaism as having died and is dead, will be found alive
still at his second coming, having been resurrected like Joseph from the
pit. This parallel the Rabbis baulk against, as they do not accept that
Jesus rose again in the resurrection and will come again to so rule and
reign as stated in 32 and 33 above.
As one continues to review and learn of Christ and the life of Joseph of
Egypt, there will certainly be additional parallels to identify. Some of
the forgoing could be consolidated. Some could be further divided and
elaborated upon. Yet it is enough to understand that Joseph's life did
foreshadow his promised Messianic seed, the Messiah ben Joseph our
redeemer. And in closing perhaps an appropriate consideration is this.
As a sign of His tender respect for the godly traditions of His People,
God sovereignly arranged, that when the Messiah actually came among us to
suffer and die for our sins as promised, for the people to ask, "Is this
not the Son of Joseph?" (see item 36 ~ John 6:42) And
this is where we will end
this item by also asking, 'Is not the Messiah the promised son of Joseph?'
'Is not Jesus Christ not only the son of Joseph the carpenter, but also the
very promised Messiah and Lord of heaven and earth promised by the covenant
of the fathers which continued through Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and
Ephraim to bring salvation to the world by his work of restoration and
Second Coming, ushering in the Millennial Reign under the direction of God's
selected firstborn, the promised son of Ephraim, and as is carried out by
God's selected firstborn, Ephaim of the covenant of Abraham to bless all the
nations of the in and through this promised seed?'
Joseph Chosen Son
"We will not that our younger brother shall be a ruler over
us." ~ 1 Nephi 18:10
"This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, ..." ~ Psalms
81:5
"I think that such a concept of a cloth with family markings
might also have been relevant when Joseph, son of Israel, became the
birthright [covenant] son and received the unique cloth coat of many
colors—a fabric symbolic of the birthright." ~ BYU Speeches
of the Year, "Christ the Savior Is Born", Russell M.
Nelson, 10 December 2002
Joseph: A Shadow and Type of Messiah ben Joseph to Come
2. Thus Joseph was and is the selected heir to the House of Israel just
as Christ/Jehovah was and is the heir to the House of Elohim. This will
be further explored and more fully discused in following item number
6 of the arguements of the case of Messiah ben David and
Messiah ben Joseph. In short, that discussion will show that there was no
dichotomy and division in the blessings and covenants of the fathers between
Judah and Joseph. It will show that the full blessings of the Abrahamic
Covenant where fully bestowed upon Joseph and thence on to Ephraim, including
that the promised Messiah, the Son of God would be of the house of Joseph
through Ephraim, the Lord's selected firstborn son.
3. Third, as already alluded to and will be more fully establishd in item
number 6 hereafter, Joseph was blessed under the hand of
Jacob and told directly in that blessing that 'from thence would the shepherd
and rock of Israel come.' Judah's blessing merely stated that his bloodline
descendants, from between his legs, would hold the 'scepture' until the
coming of Shiloh, who is considered to be Christ at his Second Coming.
Joseph's Prophetic Dreams
A) Joseph's dream of the sheaves. Joseph and his brethren
where binding sheaves or the fruits of the field. And it was
Joseph's fruit or sheaf which arose and stood upright. And all
the other sheaves, fruits or posterity of his brothers of Israel
made obeisance to sheaf or fruit of Joseph. This was fulfilled
in the temporal salvation provided by Joseph of Eygpt unto his
brothers saving them from the famine and they did pay obeisance to
Joseph directly. But the fruit of Joseph, the Christ, the Messiah
to come will be the heavenly fulfillment as all people will come under
the scope of Israel as children of Abraham, And all the earth will
be blessed and will made obeisance to Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord.
(Genesis 37:5-8)
Joseph's Life Parallels Christ's, King David's, Millennial Reign