Friday, January 19, 2018

Dreams and Their Interpretation

UV 2887/10000 Dreams and Their Interpretation
And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his servants.
Genesis 40 v 20

This uni-verse has a lot of ironic humour in it. Pharaoh as predicted by Joseph, a prisoner lifted the heads of two of his personal staff- his butler or cupbearer and his baker. In the case of the former, he was restored to his position from which he was removed to be thrown into prison for some unknown annoyance he had caused to his boss. The baker also similarly thrown into prison as he had angered the Pharaoh in some unknown way not explained in scripture however had his head literally lifted.

The head of John the Baptist was similarly cut off on the orders of Herod to satisfy the whim of his wife and her daughter. The enemy of humanity is constantly trying to lift the head of people while the Lord God is trying always to lift the heads of His children so that they are restored, healed, blessed, prospered, promoted, delivered, redeemed. The Lord sent dreams to both the baker and the butler for the same purpose so that Pharaoh would recognise that there was no one like Joseph in all the land of Egypt who could help him rule the land wisely. Dreams are a means of divine communication that the Lord uses to make men listen which they would not when they are awake. Since Joseph was given both the gift of dreams and their interpretation, he was positioned at the right time in the wrong place- the prison in order to be the one to give the ruler of the day pin-point advice on what precisely to do.
The application of this uni-verse is that we too in this day and age can pray to the Lord to send dreams and visions to rulers, young and old, to give us the gift of interpretation of dreams. We can also be God’s dreamers dreaming of how He is going to lift our heads so that His name is honoured, His will is done on earth as it is in heaven. Joseph was given wisdom and discernment on how to speak truth to power. He was given both the grace and the boldness. He alone like Daniel in another age had the divine skill to interpret dreams. That became the means of his elevation to the second highest position in the land of Egypt. Some dreams can bode ill for a person as it did for the baker with uncanny and tragic accuracy even in the details and some can be for good.
Prateep V Philip

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