1. The O.T. is given for our study
Rom.15:4– “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that through patience and through comfort of the scriptures we might have hope.”
1 Cor.10:11– “Now these things happened unto them by way of example; and they were written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the ages are come.”

2. Genesis 50:22-26
“22 And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived a hundred and ten years. 23 And Joseph saw Ephraim’s children of the third generation: the children also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born upon Joseph’s knees. 24 And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die; but God will surely visit you, and bring you up out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 25 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. 26 So Joseph died, being a hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.”

3. Fulfillment finally came
Ex.13:19– “And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.”
Josh.24:32– “And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.”

4. No man is indispensable to God’s plan
Mortality
Gen.5:24; 2 Kings 2:11; Lk.12:19-21; Eccl.7:2; Psa.90:12
No man is indispensable to God’s plan
Gen.45:5,7,8; 50:20; Matt.3:7-10; Rom.9:20-24; Eccl.12:13
Hope of deliverance
Gen.50:24; Ex.1:7-14; 2:23
God will do what He says He will do
Gen.50:24,25; 2 Pet.3:7,9; Heb.11:11; Rom.4:19-21

5. He IS indispensable to God’s plan
Immortality
Jn.11:25,26; 1 Cor.15:22; Jn.5:28,29; 2 Tim.1:10; Job 14:14
He IS indispensable to God’s plan
Heb.10:11-14; Jn.14:6; Acts 4:12
Death/Resurrection basis of our hope
Rom.6:5; 1 Cor.6:14; 2 Cor.4:14; 1 Thess.4:13-18
God will do all He says He will do
Lk.24:44; Acts 13:27-30; Jn.15:6; Matt.10:22; 2 Thess.1:7-9