Genesis 45:4-8
45:4 Joseph said to his brothers, “Come closer to me,” so they came near. Then he said, “I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.
45:5 Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here,
for God sent me
ahead of you to preserve life!
45:6 For these past two years there has been famine in
the land and for five more years there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
45:7 God sent me
ahead of you to preserve you
on the earth and to save your lives
by a great deliverance.
45:8 So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me an adviser
to Pharaoh, lord over all his household, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.
Isaiah 45:1-5
45:1 This is what the Lord says to his chosen one,
to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold
in order to subdue nations before him,
and disarm kings,
to open doors before him,
so gates remain unclosed:
45:2 “I will go before you
and level mountains.
Bronze doors I will shatter
and iron bars I will hack through.
45:3 I will give you hidden treasures,
riches stashed away in secret places,
so you may recognize that I am the Lord,
the one who calls you by name, the God of Israel.
45:4 For the sake of my servant Jacob,
Israel, my chosen one,
I call you by name
and give you a title of respect, even though you do not recognize me.
45:5 I am the Lord, I have no peer,
there is no God but me.
I arm you for battle, even though you do not recognize me.
Isaiah 49:23
49:23 Kings will be your children’s guardians;
their princesses will nurse your children.
With their faces to the ground they will bow down to you
and they will lick the dirt on your feet.
Then you will recognize that I am the Lord;
those who wait patiently for me are not put to shame.
Acts 7:20-25
7:20 At that time Moses was born, and he was beautiful
to God. For
three months he was brought up in his father’s house,
7:21 and when he had been abandoned,
Pharaoh’s daughter adopted
him and brought him up
as her own son.
7:22 So Moses was trained
in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was powerful
in his words and deeds.
7:23 But when he was about forty years old, it entered his mind
to visit his fellow countrymen
the Israelites.
7:24 When
he saw one of them being hurt unfairly,
Moses
came to his defense
and avenged the person who was mistreated by striking down the Egyptian.
7:25 He thought his own people
would understand that God was delivering them
through him,
but they did not understand.