Joseph’s Silver Cup and Benjamin: Jesus Christ Uncovers the Betrayal of His Redemption and Prophecies

Genesis 44:1-17

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“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
John 3:16

Salvation is for individuals, by Jesus Christ, not according to who the majority likes or dislikes.

• There is an abundance of blessings in Christ for the faithful.
• Those who betray Jesus are stealing from the redemption He offers.
• Jesus Christ condemns those who rob the world of His redemption and prophecies.
• Christ’s judgment is according to each person’s heart and does not come by majority rules.
• We are all guilty as a group, but Jesus Christ gives Salvation to individuals.
• Jesus Christ sees our heart and condemns the guilty and sets free His people.

There is an abundance of blessings in Christ for the faithful. Joseph commanded that his brother’s sacks be filled with as much grain as what they could carry, and their money returned to them, “And he commanded the steward of his house, saying, “Fill the men’s sacks with grain, as much as they can carry, and put each man’s money in the mouth of his sack.” Genesis 44:1 This is like Jesus Christ blessing us with the abundance of the Holy Spirit, “Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be put into your bosom. For with the same measure that you use, it will be measured back to you.” Luke 6:38

Those who betray Jesus are stealing from the redemption He offers. Judas betrayed Jesus Christ by prospering financially on the intimate knowledge He had of Him. In a sense, he tried to steal the silver cup from which Christ drank. The silver cup is the one Jesus had to drink from to bring the atonement of sin, “He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” Matthew 26:39 The spoken word of God puts everything in motion to fulfill His word and all Bible prophecies.

Because of the betrayal and rejection of Jesus, the dark hearts in today’s world are bringing to pass the prophecies of the global government. The world government and its global culture lives by the entity giving them what to think, feel, do, and say as it enables the image of the beast to live and speak through them. The masses of the global culture are groomed to the mark of the beast by what they say and do. The affliction of the people of God is present in the world today.

Joseph represents the spoken word of God, and the last days meaning of the name, Benjamin, is a ravenous wolf who devours the prey in the morning (Genesis 49:1-27). Judas is represented through Benjamin (the youngest) as written here, “Also put my cup, the silver cup, in the mouth of the sack of the youngest, and his grain money.” So he did according to the word that Joseph had spoken.” Genesis 44:2

Jesus Christ condemns those who rob the world of His redemption and prophecies. In the morning, all of Joseph’s brothers were sent on their way, filled with an abundance of grain and money, and one of those brothers had the silver cup that belonged to Joseph, “As soon as the morning dawned, the men were sent away, they and their donkeys.” Genesis 44:3 That represents the Holy Spirit filled followers of Jesus Christ, along with the ones who betray His redemptive purpose in exchange for money, possessions, and physical comfort. A day is coming when Jesus Christ is going to check our heart, which is the sack that holds our devotion to Him. When He discovers the heart that has participated in stealing His plan of redemption from this world He will ask, “Why have you repaid evil for good? as written, “When they had gone out of the city, and were not yet far off, Joseph said to his steward, “Get up, follow the men; and when you overtake them, say to them, ‘Why have you repaid evil for good?” Genesis 44:4

The redemption that Jesus made on the Cross is also the source of all prophecy, “For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” Revelation 19:10 It is evil to steal the prophecies of the Bible from this world, and it’s like stealing His silver cup, “Is not this the one from which my lord drinks, and with which he indeed practices divination? You have done evil in so doing.’” So he overtook them, and he spoke to them these same words.” Genesis 44:5 The prophecies of the Bible reveals the agenda behind the global government, brings to light the entity that governs through thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors, and explains the affliction towards Christianity. Those who live and govern for the global culture want the silver cup of redemption and prophecy gone.

Christ’s judgment is according to each person’s heart and does not come by majority rules. Today, if the society of the global culture likes you, then you are accepted into their network. If those who govern fr the society of the global culture does not like you, then you are out. It happens in schools as peer pressure, happens at the workplace, in the churches, and everywhere. Unfortunately, those who live by the entity giving them what to say, do, think, and feel don’t vote in favor of those who follow the teachings of the Bible. However, the judgment of Jesus Christ is not according to who the people around us likes or don’t like, it’s according to our relationship to Him. The relationship we have with Jesus Christ doesn’t work on the “buddy system,” each individual is responsible to God according to what is in the sack of our own heart. In other words, God doesn’t recognize the majority rule, nor the community family frame of mind, nor the global “democracy.”

The words “Us” and “We” are not in the vocabulary of Jesus Christ when it comes to evaluating each person’s soul, but the brothers of Joseph tried to vouch for each other’s innocence by using those words, “And they said to him, “Why does my lord say these words? Far be it from us that your servants should do such a thing. Look, we brought back to you from the land of Canaan the money which we found in the mouth of our sacks. How then could we steal silver or gold from your lord’s house?”” Genesis 44:7-8 Only Jesus Christ knows what is in each person’s soul, so vouching for the devotion of others is fruitless. Judgment is according to the “Whosoever,” and the “Whomever,” so when the brothers said to let the guilty person die, then there was agreement of doing it exactly that way. As the Holy Spirit verifies in this verse, “With whomever of your servants it is found, let him die, and we also will be my lord’s slaves. And he said, “Now also let it be according to your words; he with whom it is found shall be my slave, and you shall be blameless.” Genesis 44:9-10 The guilt of each individual person is according to the works we have done, and we who come to God through Jesus Christ are redeemed and guiltless.

We are all guilty as a group, but Jesus Christ gives Salvation to individuals. The day is coming when each person will have to account for the content of their heart. We will have to unload the content of our soul in front of the eyes of Jesus. Have we dedicated our body to be the home of the Holy Spirit, or have we allowed ourselves to be the seat of government for the entity that makes its homes in thoughts and feelings?

During the time of Christ’s betrayal and crucifixion, it was the ravenous wolf, Judas, who tried to rob this world of the redemption and prophecies of Jesus Christ. The silver cup of Joseph was found in Benjamin’s sack, whose name means the ravenous wolf in the last days (Genesis 49:1-27). Today, Benjamin represents Judas and all those who reject Christ’s Salvation and prophecies of the Holy Bible, “Then each man speedily let down his sack to the ground, and each opened his sack. So he searched. He began with the oldest and left off with the youngest; and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.” Genesis 44:11-12

If we were judged as a group, rather than as individuals, no one would be saved because the broad way leads to destruction. In the judgment of the afterlife, we will have to come face to face with our judge, Jesus Christ. The group of brothers tore their clothes when the sin of one came upon them all, but we will have to bow before Jesus Christ to give account as individuals. That is represented when the brothers bowed before Joseph who is symbolic of Christ, “Then they tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey and returned to the city. So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph’s house, and he was still there; and they fell before him on the ground.” Genesis 44:13-14

Jesus Christ sees our heart and condemns the guilty and sets free His people. Today, the majority of people in this world has no belief in a God who sees and knows all that we do. They have no belief in the need to reconcile to Him through Jesus Christ, and they trample on the Holy Spirit with every step they take. They live by the earthly entity that gives thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors and they serve it as if it is God. Humanism is the fig leaf they wear to cover their sin and they scoff at the judgment to come in the afterlife by an all-knowing and all-powerful God who is everywhere. Jesus Christ says to us what is said through Joseph, “And Joseph said to them, “What deed is this you have done? Did you not know that such a man as I can certainly practice divination?” Genesis 44:15

The last days meaning of the name Judah is very good (Genesis 49:1-27), and our response to Jesus Christ should be exactly the response of Judah. What can we say, or how can we clear ourselves, because Jesus knows every detail of the content of our heart. The only answer is that we are made blameless by coming to Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin.

Judah felt that the sin of one would make them all guilty, “Then Judah said, “What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how shall we clear ourselves? God has found out the iniquity of your servants; here we are, my lord’s slaves, both we and he also with whom the cup was found.” Genesis 44:16 Jesus Christ is not going to lump us all together into one group who deserves condemnation and eternal torment. Those who reject Jesus will be condemned, but we who accept the atonement He made for sin will ascend into Heaven to live eternally in peace with God the Father. The words of Joseph represent the words of Jesus Christ, “But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so; the man in whose hand the cup was found, he shall be my slave. And as for you, go up in peace to your father.” Genesis 44:17

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11