Read: Gen 42.6-15, Gen 43.26-30 & Gen 45.1-9
I wonder if you have ever had a big family reunion, and was it a happy occasion?
We are looking at the family reunion of Joseph and the brothers who had sold him into slavery. Once they had held his life in their hands, now he holds their lives in his hands. Joseph recognises his brothers, but in his Egyptian finery, and using an interpreter to communicate with them, his brothers don’t recognise him. Given the last time they had seen him he was hauled away as a slave, they can be forgiven for not realising the governor of Egypt and Joseph are one and the same person.
We are looking at the family reunion of Joseph and the brothers who had sold him into slavery. Once they had held his life in their hands, now he holds their lives in his hands. Joseph recognises his brothers, but in his Egyptian finery, and using an interpreter to communicate with them, his brothers don’t recognise him. Given the last time they had seen him he was hauled away as a slave, they can be forgiven for not realising the governor of Egypt and Joseph are one and the same person.