When reading Acts Ch 7, Stephen talks about biblical hero in old testament time, to show the isrealite which the temple is not the only place to meet god, but any place and any time by heart and honest.
Joseph is one of the example to show he can be with god anywhere even in the worst place of the world, Egypt.
"As a viceroy, Joseph built himself a magnificent palace, placing in it a great number of slaves. He equipped also a considerable army"(wikipedia)
With pharaoh king acting god, how can anyone else believe in another religon/god, especially one with a position of viceroy! how he clean himself up out of all trial of woman, wealth and pride? is marrying a egyptian lady as wife allowable in god?
Acts 7:9....God was with him 10and rescued him from all his troubles. He gave Joseph wisdom and enabled him to gain the goodwill of Pharaoh king of Egypt; so he made him ruler over Egypt and all his palace.
Joseph showed great discernment in preserving the grain which he gathered, by storing in each district only the amount which had grown there (Gen. R. xc. 5). Later, when the famine grew more intense and the Egyptians went to Joseph for grain, he compelled them to undergo circumcision, refusing food to uncircumcised people (ib. xc. 6, xci. 5). He stored up in Egypt all the gold and silver of the world, and it was carried away by the Israelites when they left Egypt. According to another opinion, Joseph placed the gold and silver in three hidden treasuries, of which one was discovered by Korah, one by Antoninus, son of Severus, and one is being kept for the righteous in the future world (Pes. 119a; comp. Sefer ha-Yashar, section Wayiggash).
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