Joseph in Typology
Consider how Jacob’s son, Joseph, is a nearly complete ‘type’ or ‘illustration’ of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Joseph delivered a message from God to his kinsman (brothers),
- just as Jesus of Nazareth came to deliver the message of the “Kingdom at hand” from God to “the lost sheep of the house of Israel” (Matt 15:24)
What did their kinsman do? His brothers rejected Joseph,