Joseph's Blood-Dipped Robe
L ast week we started a series on Joseph. We talked about some of the family dysfunction that was going on in Joseph’s family such as Jacob’s favoritism of loving Joseph more than his other sons, and the jealousy that brought up in Joseph’s brothers. And we talked some about how Joseph didn’t do himself any favors in helping the relationship with his brothers with how he pridefully shared dreams in which his brothers were bowing down to him. He even tattled on his brothers when he observed them slacking on their jobs. Well, we pick the story back up today when Joseph is again instructed by his father to go and check on his brothers and make sure they are doing the job they’re supposed to be doing with shepherding the flocks. It is here when Joseph is approaching them way out in the wilderness that his brothers conspire to kill him out of jealousy and vengeance. They had ...