By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. Hebrews 11:21 And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence. So Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old: and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt. Genesis 50:25f And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. Joshua 24:32

This is dedicated to the memory of my father, Clarence Joseph Shedlock, who by faith made promise from his hospital bed that when he got out of the hospital he would attend church, even if he had to be wheeled inside the doors. Just as the bones of Joseph were taken in a coffin to a place symbolic of eternal life, my own father’s body was wheeled in a casket to a place symbolic of eternal fellowship with the saints of God, an Assembly of God church in little Byesville, Ohio. May this work remind us to join these two men.