"I Am Joseph Your Brother" — The Most Dramatic Scene in the Bible and Its Prophetic Echo

The Heart of the Drama

The Torah portion of Vayigash is probably one of the most dramatic in the whole book of Genesis. Right from the opening statement of the text, Judah — yes, the same Judah who suggested that the brothers don't kill Joseph in the Valley of Dothan, but sell him to the Ishmaelites — is now approaching Joseph. It is on Judah's initiative, and he volunteers himself, saying:

Here is the most dramatic moment in the whole five books of Moses! It could be that these are the most prophetic words in the Bible too, and the most important paradigm of how I picture Yeshua is going to act after landing with a band of angels on top of the Mount of Olives.

In my opinion, there is here in this story all the elements of true confession and true repentance of all the characters involved.

Joseph Reveals Himself

I have seen movies of the story of Joseph and plays and musicals, but I have not seen a stage even of the best actors that has or could capture that moment where Joseph asks all the Egyptians to leave the room and says to his brothers:

The interesting thing for me is that Joseph asked all his Egyptian servants and guards to leave the room. He wanted to be alone with his brothers. Joseph was crying. He didn't want his servants to see him cry, but probably more than that he wanted that moment of revelation when he identifies himself to his brother to be, as we say, "in the family." Joseph did not want to share that dramatic moment with the Egyptians.

Joseph knows that the natural reaction of the brothers would be great fear, fear of retribution for the evil that they did to Joseph their brother. So, Joseph immediately makes it clear to his brothers that he has no intention to pay them back for the evil that they had done to him. In fact, Joseph does not know that they didn't actually succeed to sell him, but that the Midianites plucked him out of the well and took him and sold him as a slave in Egypt. Joseph is still under the impression that it was the brothers who made all this plan and they sold him to slavery in Egypt.

Making Yeshua a Jewish Problem

Some might not like it, but I believe that the best thing that can happen to Israel, and the quickest way for the Jewish nation to believe, is to make Yeshua and the New Testament a Jewish problem, not a Jewish Christian problem. Both historically and biblically, Yeshua the Messiah is a Jewish issue. From every page of the New Testament it is so clear that the issue is not with Rome or Constantinople. The problem is a Jewish problem, and it will be resolved inside the nation of Israel.

Joseph for a long time has been a prototype of the Messiah. He was rejected by his own brothers and became their savior. Joseph was sold out by his brothers who wanted to kill him, but others did their dirty work. Joseph was made great among the Gentiles in Egypt and from there, from among the Gentiles where his greatness was recognized and appreciated, he becomes the savior of his brothers and the whole family of Jacob his father.

Yes, we the Jewish nation, rejected our brother Yeshua the Messiah and King of the Jews, and sold Him to be a slave of the Catholic and Orthodox churches, and all their Protestant daughters. Yeshua is still the MO of all those who hate Jews in the world. He is the excuse why it is OK to hate Jews, and kill Jews in their synagogues.

The majority of the church leaders even today don't take a clear standing on the side of the Jewish community and don't actively condemn the hate crimes against Jews in their own countries and communities. I have personally experienced both great love and support of Christians for Israel and for the Jewish people, and especially for me personally. Also, I personally experienced the hate and antisemitism of those who called themselves leaders of the Christian communities.

As the Apostle Paul said it:

Yeshua Returning to Jerusalem — The Final Scene

When I read this text in the Torah, I can't help to close my eyes and imagine Yeshua landing on the Mount of Olives with the thousands of angels surrounding and singing Hallelujah to the Lamb. The Supreme Court of Israel will come to bless and greet the Messiah. The Orthodox rabbis will come trembling and white-faced from fear, to welcome the Messiah Yeshua. The Messiah will ask to kick all the foreign missionaries out of the Knesset, and after they are all out, like the Egyptian servants and guards of Joseph went out, Yeshua the Messiah will say to the Israeli rabbis and judges and Knesset members, "I am Yeshua your brother! I am the One against whom you screamed 'crucify Him, crucify Him….' I forgive you because you didn't know what you are doing!"

The day will come here in Jerusalem that Yeshua will stand in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, and lift up His hands and lift His shirt out of his pants (to show his wounds) and say, "I am Yeshua your brother!"

May I and you live long enough to see Yeshua's return to Jerusalem and stand and speak in the Israeli Knesset, our parliament, and reveal Himself to the people of Israel and to the world as a true Jew, son of Abraham, son of David! At that moment all of Israel, all the rabbis and all the secular Jews and ultra-Orthodox Jews will fall down and worship the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords!