Is Joseph a type of Christ?

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Whosoever Will, The Pit, the Prison, and the Palace: Thread 3 (the story moves toward a King) runs through Joseph as a type. The favored son, rejected by his brothers, thrown into a pit, raised to a throne, before whom every knee bows. Paul will read this pattern in Philippians 2. The one who descended into the lowest place is the one whom God highly exalted. The pattern was in Joseph before it was in Christ, because Joseph's story is one of the longest and most detailed types of the incarnation, death, and exaltation in the canon. Dantès is elevated too. He arrives in Paris as a wealthy count with a mysterious past, and society bows before his money and his manner. But his elevation is his own construction. The fortune of Monte Cristo was a prisoner's bequest dug out of an island; the identity of the Count was his own invention. Nothing about the elevation was bestowed from above. He raised himself, which is precisely why the elevation does not produce the same outcome. A man who raises himself can use the height for whatever he chooses. A man who is raised by God is positioned for a purpose he did not originate.

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