Joseph's Coat

Genesis 37:5-7

Joseph had a dream. When he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. He said, "Listen to this dream I had. We were all out in the field gathering bundles of wheat. All of a sudden my bundle stood straight up and your bundles circled around it and bowed down to mine."

Genesis 37:31-35

"They took Joseph's coat, butchered a goat, and dipped the coat in the blood. They took the fancy coat back to their father and said, "We found this. Look it over—do you think this is your son's coat?"

He recognized it at once. "My son's coat—a wild animal has eaten him. Joseph torn limb from limb!" Jacob tore his clothes in grief, dressed in rough burlap, and mourned his son a long, long time. His sons and daughters tried to comfort him but he refused their comfort. "I'll go to the grave mourning my son." Oh, how his father wept for him."

Joseph's father loved him deeply, because of who was his mother... Jacob loved Rachel so much more then his other wives and showed favor to his two son's from her. Did this start their hatred of Joseph? Was it because a coat made for him separated him from them, and then the Gift from God magnifying his set apartness? I think so... If it had not been for one brother, Reuben, their hatred of his favor, would of killed him...

The Coat of many colors started the Call to Specialness...

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