Harvesting People During The Famine

Joseph said, "There are five more years of famine coming", and Joseph invited his father and his brothers and their families to come to Egypt so that he could provide for them. And they came. Here we see the first picture in this chapter. This first group of people was treated as royalty, because they were of the family of Joseph, and Joseph was royalty. The children of Israel were given the best of the land. The land of Goshen was the Nile-delta. It was the most fertile land of Egypt. They received the land for free. Joseph nourished his father and his brethren with bread totally free of charge. They received the honor to be rulers over the cattle of Pharaoh. They did not have to pay for any of those favors. Pharaoh welcomed Jacob and his household with open arms into Egypt. They were treated like kings in the land of Egypt. You have to realize that all this happened in the midst of a famine, when there was not enough food for the Egyptians. What is God telling us here?