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Why Does God Seem So Quiet During Joseph’s Long Descent?

Genesis 37–41 can feel emotionally disorienting. Joseph receives dreams of future leadership and then loses almost everything that could make those dreams possible. Betrayal by brothers. Slavery in a foreign land. False accusation. Years in prison. God speaks rarely in these chapters. For many readers, that silence raises an urgent question: What does covenant faithfulness look like when God’s presence feels hidden and progress disappears?

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