What was josephs dream

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Joseph has surely been torn to pieces. BU 35 All his sons and daughters came to comfort him, BV but he refused to be comforted. All rights reserved worldwide. So he told it to his father and his brothers; and his father rebuked him and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?

We all know that God was the one who gave Joseph his dreams, as evidenced by his life in the future as the second most-powerful man in Egypt. Yet, at the time, Joseph was but a young man who was looked down upon by his own brothers. When God gives a dream, it's always beyond us.

It'll always be bigger than us, simply because it's from God. Joseph's brothers hated him all the more for his dreams. His father even rebuked him for such "wild" dreams. Joseph grew into a handsome young man. Potiphar was frequently away from home and Joseph worked in his house. On a certain day, Joseph went to do his work in the house and none of the servants were there.

This time he fled and left his garment in her hand. She said that when she cried out, he ran and left his garment. Potiphar later came home and his wife told him these same lies: he was furious. Although Joseph was now in prison for something he did not do, God was still with him and he quickly found favor with the keeper of the prison. The keeper of the prison set Joseph in charge of all the other prisoners and he was accountable for whatever they did.

God made him succeed in his work there as well. Potiphar put them in the same prison where Joseph was and instructed him to attend to them. One night, both the butler and baker had dreams that troubled them and in the morning, they both looked sorrowful. Joseph took notice and asked them why they looked so downcast. They explained that they had dreams that perplexed them and there was no one to interpret for them.

Joseph asked them to tell him their dreams and he promised that God would give the interpretations. The butler said he had a dream where there was a vine with three branches which quickly budded, blossomed, produced fruit and ripened into grapes. The chief baker perceived that his friend had got a favorable interpretation so he decided to tell Joseph his dream. In his dream, the baker had three baskets on his head; the second on top of the first and third on top of the second.

The topmost basket contained all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh. The birds ate from it on his head. Three days after this, Pharaoh had a feast for his birthday and he restored the butler to his office but he hanged the baker on a tree and the birds ate his flesh.

In spite of this, the butler did not put in a good word for Joseph; he simply went on with his life. Two years later, Pharaoh had a dream. In it he was standing by the Nile and there came — out from the water — seven fat cows and they ate the grass by the Nile.

Afterwards, seven thin cows came up out of the water and stood by the fat ones. The thin cows then swallowed up the fat ones and Pharaoh woke from the dream.