The pastor of a predominantly black church in Virginia recently preached this service. He's obviously a leader and not one of the sheep. For obvious reasons we are not publishing his name or the name of his church.
"Good morning, brothers and sisters; it's always a delight to see the pews crowded on Sunday morning, and so eager to get into God's Word. Turn with me in your Bibles, if you will, to the 47th chapter of Genesis, we'll begin our reading at verse 13, and go through verse 27.
"Brother Ray, would you stand and read that great passage for us?"
(reading)..
"Thank you for that fine reading, Brother Ray..... So we see that economic hard times fell upon Egypt, and the people turned to the government of Pharaoh to deal with this for them. And Pharaoh nationalized the grain harvest, and placed the grain in great storehouses that he had built. So the people brought their money to Pharaoh, like a great tax increase, and gave it all to him willingly in return for grain. And this went on until their money ran out, and they were hungry again.
"So when they went to Pharaoh after that, they brought their livestock, their cattle, their horses, their sheep, and their donkeys, to barter for grain and verse 17says that only took them through the end of that year..