The story of Joseph shows how God preserves his chosen people-despite their best efforts to destroy themselves and each other. His work in Joseph's family testifies to his electing grace and his building of a nation out of a dysfunctional band of brothers. This is a story that strikingly prefigures the gospel, by which God redeems and restores broken and dysfunctional sinners like us, remaking us into a family of worshipping saints. Book jacket.