The purpose of God was that Joseph, following his symbolic death and resurrection, would be greatly exalted just as Jesus would be; but before the glory both men had to pass through great suffering. Like Jesus, by his character and behaviour, Joseph found favour with both God and man, Luke 2:52Waiting for response for Luke 2:52 although they were each falsely accused of crime and cast into prison - Jesus' prison being in the grave. Nevertheless, despite Joseph’s suffering he maintained his trust in the LORD who preserved him and he, like Christ and many men and women in the scriptures, is set forth as an example of enduring adversity in the right spirit. He was able to do this because he knew the purpose of God and, like the apostle Paul, reckoned: “that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us”. Romans 8:18Waiting for response for Romans 8:18
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Waiting for response for Genesis 39:2-5The purpose of God was that Joseph, following his symbolic death and resurrection, would be greatly exalted just as Jesus would be; but before the glory both men had to pass through great suffering. Like Jesus, by his character and behaviour, Joseph found favour with both God and man, Luke 2:52Waiting for response for Luke 2:52 although they were each falsely accused of crime and cast into prison - Jesus' prison being in the grave. Nevertheless, despite Joseph’s suffering he maintained his trust in the LORD who preserved him and he, like Christ and many men and women in the scriptures, is set forth as an example of enduring adversity in the right spirit. He was able to do this because he knew the purpose of God and, like the apostle Paul, reckoned: “that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us”. Romans 8:18Waiting for response for Romans 8:18