Torah16 min
God Sent Me Before You
Genesis Genesis 45:1-28
Joseph's restraint finally breaks, and three times over he reinterprets the worst thing that ever happened to him: 'God sent me before you.' Genesis 45 states its own theology of double causality — the brothers sold him and God sent him, both true — and names the goal in the vocabulary the prophets will spend the rest of the canon developing: a remnant and a great deliverance.