Genesis 41 - Job 7 - Mark 11 - Romans 11

Genesis 41
- Joseph was in jail 2 years
- Pharaoh had 2 bad dreams; one with 7 fat cows being eaten by 7 thin cows and 7 plump ears of grain were eaten by 7 diseased grains.
- The cup bearer remember that Joseph could interpret dreams.
- Joseph corrected Pharaoh and gave credit to God, not himself, about the dream interpretation.
- Giving Pharaoh 2 duplicate dreams means that it WILL happen and soon.
- Joseph told Pharaoh that there would be 7 years of plenty followed by 7 years of severe famine.
- Pharaoh made Joseph the 2nd highest man in all of Egypt because his God had shown Pharaoh what will take place.
- Joseph tells Pharaoh to store up 1/5 of the extra grain over the next 7 years for the future famine.
- Joseph's new Egyptian name was Zaphenath-paneah and he married Pharaoh's daughter, Asenath
- Asenath bore Joseph 2 sons; Manasseh and Ephraim.
- Why did Joseph give his children Hebrew names when even his name was Egyptian?
- Was it okay for Joseph to marry an Egyptian since it was before Moses' laws?
- Joseph still remembered and gave credit to God for all his abundance even in the names he gave his children.
- Joseph opened the storehouses when the famine got severe and people from all over the earth came to Egypt for supplies.
- Was the famine really over the whole earth or just that region?

Job 8
- Who is Job directing his bitterness of soul toward; God, his friends, or both?
- Job is saying that life is hard and it's short. he will be gone soon like a fog.
- Job's skin disease keeps him from sleeping and he's covered in worms.
- Why does Job think he will never again see good?
- If Job feels bitterness but doesn't express it verbally, is it not considered sin? (This contradicts what Jesus says in Matthew about killing and adultery)
-Is Job having nightmares too?
- Job is in self pity, wanting to die, and not wanting to be tested, by friends or by God I'm not sure.
- Who has marked Job and who is he a burden too?
- Job, the man who said earlier "You give and take away blessed be your name, now says,"Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity?"
- Does Job no longer have faith in God to restore him?

Mark 11
- Jesus tells disciples to go get a colt for Him to ride into Jerusalem on.
- Jesus enters the city and people shout Hosanna and spread coats and branches on the street as He passed.
- What dies Hosanna mean?
- Why did Jesus enter Jerusalem and then return to Bethany?
- Why did Jesus curse the fig tree for not having figs out of season?
- Jesus overturns tables and chases money changers and pigeon sellers out of the temple for "turning the temple into a den of robbers"
- Upon seeing the fig tree withered up the next day Jesus tells the disciples that if they have faith in God shall see what they say come to pass.
- The chief priests and scribes were upset and looked for a way to trick Jesus.
- They ask Jesus by what authority He does and says the things He does.
- Jesus asks them whether the baptism of John was from man or God. They knew He had tricked them so they replied they did not know.

Romans 11
- Paul says that God has not rejected His people totally because Paul is a Jew.
- The prophet Elijah had appealed to God against Israel for their wickedness. God saved those who had not bowed to Baal.
- The present remnant is there by grace NOT by their works. (It's all done by God)
- v.11 - 24 compare the relationship between Israel, God, and the Gentiles to the grafting in of olive branches.
-Some Jews were like branches taken out of the olive tree and the Gentile believers are like a wild branch grafted back into the tree. (This is a work of grace).
- Paul is preaching and saving the Gentiles hoping to make the Jews jealous so that they tool may believe and be saved.
- Is it biblical to make someone jealous?
- Paul warns the Gentiles that they too could fall away from God like previous Jewish generations had done so to be careful. (This'll keep the Gentiles humble and guarded). They should fear and not be proud as the Jews had done in the past.
- Paul is telling the Gentiles that Israel has been partially hardened, while the Gentiles are being saved, so that later the Jews may too be saved.
- God has been merciful to those He has called and Paul remind the Gentiles of this.
- v. 36 is an awesome powerful verse. It says, "For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen."
- We can't give or do anything for God that isn't already His!