Ryan Pitterson

And then as you continue, he says, "'They waited for me as the rain.

They opened their mouth wide as the latter rain.

If I laughed in them, they believed it not.

And the light of my confidence they cast not down.

I chose out their way and sat chief and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforts the mourners.'"

And so again, he's describing himself as, I was in this region, which is the ancient Egyptian empire in that time, in second millennium BC, I was the king.

I was the top person.

And so again, I believe that he's revealing that he was the actual king.

So of course, he would have the authority to build the pyramid.

Another interesting factor that connects to this is that when you look again at the

secular accounts of Cheops who built the pyramids.

Herodotus, again, also talks about the fact that the Egyptians, they hated him.

we see an interesting detail, I think, that confirms this in the life of Joseph.

So, of course, Joseph in Genesis gets sold into slavery, goes to Egypt.

God raises him up to become the vizier to the Pharaoh.

He's the second command.

And, of course, this is after Job, right?

Job is way before, centuries before we get to Joseph.

And he, of course, in the end, reveals himself to his brothers.

He saves his family.