Gen 47:9, And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “THE DAYS OF THE YEARS OF MY PILGRIMAGE ARE ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY YEARS; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
When Jacob appeared before Pharaoh it was 582 years after the flood. Jacob calls his life a pilgrimage or a journey! WE TOO ARE ON A PILGRIMAGE AND, WE ARE AMBASSADOR’S OF OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN!
Eph 6:20, FOR WHICH I AM AN AMBASSADOR in chains; THAT IN IT I MAY SPEAK BOLDLY, AS I OUGHT TO SPEAK.
Gen 47:29-30, When the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him,… PLEASE DO NOT BURY ME IN EGYPT, BUT LET ME LIE WITH MY FATHERS; you shall carry me out of Egypt and bury me in their burial place.” And he said, “I WILL DO AS YOU HAVE SAID.”
Egypt is a type of the world! THIS IS NOT OUR HOME, WE ARE STRANGERS IN THE LAND MADE POSSIBLE BY CHRIST. WHO DELIVERED US FROM THE POWER OF DARKNESS AND CONVEYED US INTO THE KINGDOM OF THE SON OF HIS LOVE, IN WHOM WE HAVE REDEMPTION THROUGH HIS BLOOD! COL 1:13-14