Preservation of Yosef

This document determines how long Yosef’s body was preserved prior to leaving Mitzrayim.

Yosef died at 110 years of age, Bereishis 50:22.

²² And Yosef dwelt in Mitzrayim, he, and his father’s house and Yosef lived an hundred and ten years.

Although it is thought by many that the Children of Yisrael were in Mitzrayim 400 years, it was actually 215 years.  Refer to 215 Years in Mitzrayim.

Yosef started his ministry in Bereishis 41:46-47.

⁴⁶ And Yosef was thirty years son when he stood before Pharaoh king of Mitzrayim. And Yosef went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Mitzrayim. ⁴⁷ And in the seven plenteous years the land brought forth by handfuls.

The Children of Yisrael entered Mitzrayim after the second year of famine, Bereishis 45:11.

¹¹ And there will I nourish you; for yet five years of famine; lest you, and your household, and all that you have, come to poverty.

At this point, there were already 7 years of plenty and 2 years of famine; therefore, Yosef was 39 years of age.  From the time the Children of Yisrael entered the land to the death of Yosef would be 110 years minus 39 years.  Yosef lived an additional  71 years.  Therefore, from the time of Yosef’s death to when the Children of Yisrael left Mitzrayim would be the 215 years minus 71 additional years of Yosef’s life.  This is equal to 144 years.  Peter tells us in 2 Peter 3:8.

⁸ But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.  

144 years equate to 144,000.  There are those that purse the High Calling of God in Yeshua Messiah in the Age of Yosef, these will be preserved through time, Philippians 3:13-14.

¹³ Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended.  But one thing, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before, ¹⁴ I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Messiah Yeshua.

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