JOSEPH AND THE COAT OF MANY COLORS - THE PRIESTHOOD GARMENT

 This happens to be fascinating to me and I have wanted to do something for some time.  My money is on the garment that is called "the coat of many colors", to be the very garment given to Adam in the Garden of Eden and passed down to all of the birthright sons.  Often, this was not the first-born son due to the frequent phenomenon of them selling themselves and their spiritual futures for a mess of pottage.  And it was passed on down the line to one that would bear the burden of covenant keeping.

Thus the reason that the older brothers were enraged with Joseph (other than he may have been a little cocky and spoiled by his doting father).  But her merited the garment that represented his birth right.  This is the reason it was taken from him by his brothers in a fit of jealousy and possibly rage.  At least they had enough conscience to pluck him from the pit and spare his life (although, that is kind of questionable....).

God always turns a bad into a good.  We need to always be cognizant of that in our lives and expect it!

Here is the story that I snagged from a FB post:

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/evidences-of-a-christian-population-in-the-egyptian-fayum-and-genetic-and-textile-studies-of-the-akhmim-noble-mummies/?fbclid=IwAR2bc0rUIM10Uv7ztp9sd4CoeiIuGtv4EkjQ2FOodqQFdQjx-xiFnsydKoY

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What did Joseph of Egypt’s coat look like? Why is it described as having many colors? There’s no way to know for sure. There are many theories and at the end of the day, all we can do is make an educated guess. In this light let us consider a paper in the BYU Scholarly Archive discussing ancient Christian burials in Egypt. In the article, it details the white woolen undergarments worn by Christian mummies which have distinct markings, one over each breast, and one over the right thigh just above the knee, as well as an embroidered slit across the navel.

Over these garments, the mummies are wearing several layers of robes. Some of the robes are white with white ribbons gathered into a knot across the right or left shoulders. According to the article, in the ancient Egyptian tradition, these shoulder knots represented priestly authority. It’s also interesting to consider Hugh Nibley’s scholarship on Egyptian religious rites in The Temple and the Cosmos in which he explains that the ancient Egyptians performed a temple ceremony that mirrors the modern-day Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint temple ceremony in every respect.

Now we come to the part of this article that’s even more relevant to our original question. Aside from the caps worn on the heads of the mummies, the final articles of clothing discovered were layers of brightly colored robes, intricately woven with scenes depicting the creation, the Garden of Eden, the tree of life and so forth. Other robes had specific purple markings indicating royal status in the afterlife. Some mummies wore as many as 26 layers of garments and robes! And it’s interesting to note that both the women and men were dressed in exactly the same manner.

Given that as a birthright son of the Abrahamic covenant, Joseph would have inherited the priesthood authority of a high priest, it stands to reason he would have acquired the ceremonial robes that accompanied his position. Is it possible that layers of robes would have been impractical in nomadic life and all the images of the temple ceremony, the symbols, and indications of priestly authority discovered on the many layers of these ancient Egyptian Christian tombs, were included on one single article of clothing that Joseph wore, namely a robe or coat of many colors?

But what was ultimately the brightest color on Joseph’s many-colored robe? The goat’s blood that was shed in sacrifice to cover the sins of his brethren. Just as Joseph was the scapegoat, so too is the blood of Christ the ultimate covering that allows us to partake of the goodness, power, and grace of God through priesthood covenants and ordinances. Without the power and presence of Jesus Christ, these rites and symbols are meaningless. Without the sacrifice of God’s son, all Joseph would have had was a brightly colored coat.

So, in the end, whatever the colors on Joseph’s coat were, the most important color was and is bright red.

See: https://byustudies.byu.edu/.../evidences-of-a-christian.../

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