What would happen if we found Josephs embalmed body in his casket today?

[Dave]

"So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt" (Gen. 50:4).

I can see wars starting over this.

It, or rather he would be really cool to see, though.

The Catholic Church would want him. Muslims would want him.

Jacob too for that matter.

It could happen.

Thoughts?

 

[Fred]

The Catholic Church would want him.

To worship.

 

[Dave]

Bingo!

 

[3 Resurrections]

"So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt" (Gen. 50:4).

I can see wars starting over this.

It, or rather he would be really cool to see, though.

The Catholic Church would want him. Muslims would want him.

Jacob too for that matter.

It could happen.

Thoughts?

If you look up the constant disputes and wrangling over the various sites purported to be Joseph's tomb, there are plenty of examples of a state of warfare over who gets to have access to Joseph's burial location.

Same thing has happened for the traditional site which (incorrectly) claims to be the cave of Machpelah. The real cave of Machpelah in Hebron has been opened and explored, and there are no bones whatever left within it. There are three hand-dug, double-burial niches inside, which would have accommodated three pairs of individuals: namely, Abraham and Sarah in one niche, Isaac and Rebekah in another, and Jacob and Leah in the third one, just as Jacob listed the cave's occupants in Genesis 49:29-31.

There is no point in searching for Joseph's mummified remains either. All these patriarchs were bodily-resurrected and taken to heaven long ago. The constant battles over who gets to claim rights to either the Hebron or Shechem burial sites are a complete waste of time.

 

[John Bauer]

There is no point in searching for Joseph's mummified remains either. All these patriarchs were bodily-resurrected and taken to heaven long ago.

I have never heard this idea before. What supports it?

 

[3 Resurrections]

I have never heard this idea before. What supports it?

Am I going to be accused of going off-topic if I answer this question?

Paul supports this in Acts 24:15 (YLT), "Having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, that there is ABOUT TO BE a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous." Paul was then addressing Felix after his trial dated around AD 60.

Paul again in 2 Timothy 4:1 (YLT), "I do fully testify, then before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is ABOUT TO JUDGE living and dead at his manifestation and his reign..." This was written to Timothy just before Paul's imminent martyrdom in AD 67, because Paul said "my departure is at hand" in 2 Timothy 4:6.

Christ Himself in Matthew 16:27-28 (KJV), "For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works. Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom." Christ bodily-returned while some of those He was speaking to were still alive to see Him return to the Mount of Olives.

Daniel also supports this in his description of the bodily resurrection in Daniel 12:1-2 which he predicted would occur just after a great tribulation for Daniel's people would take place - an unprecedented tribulation which had never before happened since there was a nation. Those of Daniel's people who were "written in the book" (of life) would be "delivered" by being resurrected, including Daniel himself (as promised at the end of the 1,335 days.

Christ duplicated Daniel's prediction by His description of the "great tribulation" which was coming for Judea and Jerusalem (Matthew 24:21). "IMMEDIATELY AFTER the tribulation of those days" Christ promised He would be "coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory, to gather the elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other." That's the second bodily resurrection event at Christ's second coming. All the patriarchs were included in that bodily resurrection, as well as every saint who had died from creation up until that point.

All of these texts and more throughout the scriptures testify that there was a first-century bodily resurrection event which took place in AD 70. This took place on that year's Pentecost Day, to be exact, according to the ending of the 1,335 days countdown, which started with those two events of Daniel 12:11 taking place in AD 66 when Jerusalem was surrounded and broken into by Cestius Gallus's Roman army.

We now await Christ's third coming in our future and the final bodily resurrection event for all of those saints who will have died since AD 70.

 

[John Bauer]

Am I going to be accused of going off-topic if I answer this question?

No, because it's both relevant and related to the topic.

All of these texts and more throughout the scriptures testify that there was a first-century bodily resurrection event which took place in AD 70. ... We now await Christ's third coming in our future

Sounds like a species of preterism (which would be off-topic to explore). Thanks for answering.

 

[Josheb]

"So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt" (Gen. 50:4).

I can see wars starting over this.

It, or rather he would be really cool to see, though.

The Catholic Church would want him. Muslims would want him.

Jacob too for that matter.

It could happen.

Thoughts?

Little or nothing.

There would likely be a modest, temporary increase in the attendance of religious services, but that kind of information is not sustaining, intellectually or spiritually. Josheph's descendants watched God part the Red Sea and then close it again to destroy Pharoah's entire army. They stood on the shore frozen in fear knowing they could not outrun chariots. They then stood there on the dry shore watching a massacre, seeing the despair, the horrifying new knowledge everything every Egyptian thought he knew proved wrong. When the sea calmed, they saw the corpses, man and animal alike, floating, bobbing, lifelessly in the sudden quiet alongside broken chariots remnants..... their dread momentarily redirected to cheers slowly turning to frightening, silent awe lest God unleash that power on them. They saw it with their own eyes. It wasn't a news report in some magazine or online broadcast to be blindly trust as a second-hand or third-hand report. They saw it.

You'd think those people would leave the shoreline filled with pity for their next enemy, "Heaven help whoever stands against us next," and the bold confidence that begets.

Yet only two of them made it to the promised land.​

An entire generation was wiped out because of unbelief, even though they'd seen the sovereign power of The Almighty up close and personal. No one is going to war over a corpse. Now, if that corpse revives and starts telling the truth , well, that's another matter .

Matthew 12:38-42
Then some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Him, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You." But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation craves for a sign; and yet no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet; for just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the sea monster, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. "The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here. The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.

The gospel has been preached around the world and anyone getting the news Joseph's corpse has been found already knows someone grater than Solomon is here.

Want to know what else will happen? A spate of new cults.

 

[Tambora]

I find it interesting that Joseph's burial site was one of three actual land purchases (as opposed to land conquered).

1 was land purchased by Abraham where Abraham & wife Sarah, Isaac & wife Rebecca, and Jacob & wife Leah were buried. Genesis 23:16-18

2 was land purchased by Jacob where Joseph's bones were brought from Egypt and buried. Joshua 24:32

3 was land purchased by David for the Temple Mount. 1 Chronicles 21:25