Beginning of the End - Ellen G. White

live?"
Reconciliation!
His brothers stood motionless, silent with fear and amazement.
The ruler of Egypt was their brother Joseph, whom they had envied
and would have murdered, and finally sold as a slave! All their bad
treatment of him passed before them. They remembered how long
they had hated his dreams and had worked to prevent their
fulfillment. Yet they had acted their part in fulfilling these dreams.
Now that they were completely in his power, he would, no doubt,
avenge the wrong that he had suffered.
Seeing their confusion, he said kindly, "Please come near to
me," and as they came near, he continued, "I am Joseph your
brother, whom you sold into Egypt. But now, do not therefore be
grieved or angry with yourselves because you sold me here; for God
sent me before you to preserve life." Feeling that they had suffered
enough for their cruelty toward him, he nobly tried to banish their
fears and lessen the bitterness of their self-condemnation.
"God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the
earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. So now it was
not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to
Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land
of Egypt. Hurry and go up to my father, and say to him, 'Thus says
your son Joseph, "God has made me lord of all Egypt; come down
to me, do not tarry. You shall dwell in the land of Goshen ... lest you
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