Knots on the Family Tree Broken Bulbs

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So yes Jesus is related to the right people, but they are certainly not the righteous people.
It’s a story about a gift that’s not based on the righteousness of the receiver but on the grace of the giver. 12 sons of Jacob; they become the 12 tribes of Israel. 
Gen. 37:3,4 (3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate[a] robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.”
Read Gen. 37:18-25a. ( But they saw him in the distance, and before he reached them, they plotted to kill him. 19 “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to each other. 20 “Come now, let’s kill him and throw him into one of these cisterns and say that a ferocious animal devoured him. Then we’ll see what comes of his dreams.” 21 When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue him from their hands. “Let’s not take his life,” he said. 22 “Don’t shed any blood. Throw him into this cistern here in the wilderness, but don’t lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this to rescue him from them and take him back to his father. 23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the ornate robe he was wearing— 24 and they took him and threw him into the cistern. The cistern was empty; there was no water in it. 25 As they sat down to eat their meal, Apparently stripping your brother of his robe and throwing him into a cistern you can work up quite an appetite. 
Gen 37:29-35a (29 When Reuben returned to the cistern and saw that Joseph was not there, he tore his clothes. 30 He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy isn’t there! Where can I turn now?” 31 Then they got Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a goat and dipped the robe in the blood. 32 They took the ornate robe back to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe.” 33 He recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! Some ferocious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces.” 34 Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and mourned for his son many days. 35 All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. 
 Read v. 35b (“No,” he said, “I will continue to mourn until I join my son in the grave.” So his father wept for him.)
Secret Keepers:
Become overly critical of others who shared his same sin.
tend to become alienated from God.   
Gen. 42:21-23 (They said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that’s why this distress has come on us.” 22 Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn’t listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.” 23 They did not realize that Joseph could understand them, since he was using an interpreter.
Gen. 42:28 (Their hearts sank and they turned to each other trembling and said, “What is this that God has done to us?”” 
God sent a Savior through a secret-keeper 
Gen. 43:3 ( But Judah said to him, “The man warned us solemnly, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’) 
Gen. 45:3, “I am Joseph. Is my father still living? But they were not able answer him because they were terrified at his presence.”  Joseph is weeping and wanting information but they are paralyzed.
Read Gen. 45:5-8 (5 And now, do not be distressed and do not be angry with yourselves for selling me here, because it was to save lives that God sent me ahead of you. 6 For two years now there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years there will be no plowing and reaping. 7 But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.[a] 8 “So then, it was not you who sent me here, but God. He made me father to Pharaoh, lord of his entire household and ruler of all Egypt.And God goes, “Ahhh! That’s perfect!”  
Gen. 49:8-10a (“Judah,[b] your brothers will praise you;your hand will be on the neck of your enemies; your father’s sons will bow down to you. 9 You are a lion’s cub, Judah; you return from the prey, my son. Like a lion he crouches and lies down, like a lioness—who dares to rouse him? 10  The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet,[c]
until he to whom it belongs[d] shall com and the obedience of the nations shall be his.-