“Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life. For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.”  Genesis 45:5-7  (KJB)

REFERENCES: Genesis 40; 41; 42; 43; 44; Isaiah 40:1-2; Luke 23:34; 2 Corinthians 2:7, 11; Acts 2:23-24; 4:24-28; 7:9-15