Joseph Troublesome Coat  1 - Hal Meyer
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Date: 2018-05-14

In the  pages of sacred history, Joseph stands prominent among the few characters of whom inspiration has recorded no faults. Joseph received one of the three portions of the birthright. It is interesting to note that each part of that birthright has been immortalized. Judah, in his home life, perfected such a character that the honor of being the progenitor of Christ was bestowed upon him; and before the throne of God in heaven, holy beings point to Christ and say, “Behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah.”  Levi triumphed in the time of a great crisis in the cause of God, and thus perfected a character which entitled him to the priesthood, whose work was a shadow of that of the great High Priest in heaven.  Joseph, separated from his brethren, surrounded by idolaters in a strange land, gained a victory which entitled him to the double portion of the inheritance. Two portions of the promised land were given to the family of Joseph; and throughout eternity, these two divisions of that distinct company,-the one hundred and forty-four thousand,-bearing the names, one of Joseph and the other of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, will be a reminder of his faithfulness. This was prophetically announced in the blessing given by his father: “The blessings of thy father and of thy mother Have prevailed beyond the blessings of the eternal mountains,Beyond the glories of the everlasting hills
They shall rest upon the head of Joseph, And upon the crown of the head of him Who was separated from his brethren.”  Joseph was the eleventh son of Jacob, and the first-born of Rachel, the beloved Wife.  The first seventeen years of his life were spent with his father’s household.  The principal points recorded in the early life of Joseph were the great love of Jacob for the lad, the coat of many colors, Joseph’s dreams, and his being sold into Egypt.Joseph had the privilege of sustaining his father and his brothers many years, and of seeing the fulfilment of his youthful dreams, During Joseph’s long life of one hundred and ten years, we have no record of his ever proving untrue to God in any way. He died with a firm faith in the promise made to Isaac, and Jacob. His last words were, “God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.”  His body was embalmed, and when Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt, they fulfilled his dying charge.  When the voice of Christ shall call the sleeping saints from their dusty beds, Joseph will spring forth clad in glorious immortality, to greet the “Shepherd, the Stone of Israel,” 28 through faith in whom he gained all his victories.