Sometimes we don't understand what is happening in our lives specially if its something that hurts us so much.

4. 1. The acquired flawed family
• Gen 35:22 … Now the sons of
Jacob were twelve:
• Gen 35:23 The sons of Leah;
Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and
Simeon, and Levi, and Judah,
and Issachar, and Zebulun:
• Gen 35:24 The sons of Rachel;
Joseph, and Benjamin:
• Gen 35:25 And the sons of
Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan,
and Naphtali:
• Gen 35:26 And the sons of
Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad,
and Asher: these are the sons of
Jacob, which were born to him in
Padanaram.

5. 2. The loss of a loved one
• Gen 35:18 And it came to
pass, as her soul was in
departing, (for she died) that
she called his name Benoni:
but his father called him
Benjamin.
• Gen 35:19 And Rachel died,
and was buried in the way to
Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.

6. 3. The betrayal of loved ones
• Gen 37:3 Now Israel loved
Joseph more than all his
children, because he was the
son of his old age: and he
made him a coat of many
colors.
• Gen 37:4 And when his
brethren saw that their father
loved him more than all his
brethren, they hated him, and
could not speak peaceably
unto him.

7. 4. The separation from loved ones
• Gen 37:27 Come, and let us
sell him to the Ishmeelites, and
let not our hand be upon him;
for he is our brother and our
flesh. And his brethren were
content.
• Gen 37:28 Then there passed
by Midianites merchantmen;
and they drew and lifted up
Joseph out of the pit, and sold
Joseph to the Ishmeelites for
twenty pieces of silver: and
they brought Joseph into
Egypt.

8. 5. The loss of freedom
• Gen 39:1 And Joseph was
brought down to Egypt; and
Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh,
captain of the guard, an
Egyptian, bought him of the
hands of the Ishmaelites, which
had brought him down thither.
• Gen 39:2 And the LORD was
with Joseph, and he was a
prosperous man; and he was in
the house of his master the
Egyptian.

9. 6. The reward for being faithful
• Gen 39:20 And Joseph's
master took him, and put him
into the prison, a place where
the king's prisoners were
bound: and he was there in the
prison.
• Gen 39:21 But the LORD was
with Joseph, and showed him
mercy, and gave him favor in
the sight of the keeper of the
prison.

10. 7. The long-lasting uncertainty
• Gen 40:21 And he restored the
chief butler unto his butlership
again; and he gave the cup
into Pharaoh's hand:
• Gen 40:22 But he hanged the
chief baker: as Joseph had
interpreted to them.
• Gen 40:23 Yet did not the chief
butler remember Joseph, but
forgot him.