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Genesis 41 now there might be
a little bit of overlap with Some of the things Bernie has
covered with looking at the chief butler and the chief baker But
wanting to work through this text and looking at Pharaoh's
dream. So the title of this message
or lesson is the king of dreams now, that's hopefully something
you are aware of as a play on the dis or I guess it's dream
works that did the Joseph movie and it's called The King of Dreams.
Now, I titled it as such because we're going to look at Joseph
was not the king of dreams. God is the king of dreams. And
Joseph would have been the very first to admit that. And so we're
going to look at that. And we will look at basically
four parts to this message or to this chapter. Verses 1 through
8 is Pharaoh's dream. 9 through 13 is the butler's
remembrance. 14 through 24 is Joseph's summoning. And then the last, 25 through
36, Joseph gives the interpretation. Now, what is some, just getting
the context, getting up to speed, I like to do a little bit of
review. It's like an on-ramp on the highway, you know, rather
than hitting the ground running at 80 miles an hour, or excuse
me, 55 miles an hour. We want to get up to speed, appropriate
legal speed. So what is the context of Genesis?
Maybe the immediate, broad context. What have we seen thus far in
the book of Genesis? Creation, right? The book is
literally beginnings. And so what better place to start
than the beginning? And with that, we saw clearly
God existed before the beginning, right? He's eternal. He's the
creator. And there is a distinction between
him and creation. Now, that's the foundational
truth that we would do well to remember, because I think it
makes sense of all difficult passages. Partly because, okay,
let's take an example of the Trinity. How well can you say
you confidently understand the Trinity? At least fully satisfactory
in your mind. Probably not many of us, right?
Why is that? Because the Bible teaches that
God is one. But the Bible also shows that God the Son, God the
Father, and God the Spirit are distinct, and yet God, and God
is one. How do you explain that? Well,
if you try using human arguments or creation framework, you're
gonna fail, right? You're gonna run into contradictions.
Well, three is not one and one is not three. There's, you believe
in three gods. No, we don't, we believe in one
God. And God tells us, he reveals himself to us, and it may not
make sense, but that's because he's creator and we're creation.
And we have to understand the creator in his self-disclosure
of himself in his word. And so what else, contextually,
maybe getting into the nearness of chapter 41? Who's Joseph? And that's not a knock on you.
That's a great start. But we would take the whole lesson
going through all of it. Actually, you're right. It's
creation from the beginning to the birth of the nation. Yeah. And moving forward, God's
plan of salvation from the beginning. Yeah, and that's a great segue
because from the beginning of creation, we then get introduced
to the beginning of man, the beginning of God's relationship
with man, the beginning of the fall. And then we see the beginning
of Abraham or Abram and God making promises to him, those promises
passing to Isaac and then to Jacob. And then Jacob has sons. And now we're focused on one
of his sons, Joseph. Why? Hey, he was the favorite. Brothers
didn't like that, right? And so they sold him off to slavery
and thwarted God's plans, right? Is that what we saw? No, they
were playing right into God's plans. Now, somewhere along the
line, we're not told when it was clear to Joseph, I kind of
tend to think that he trusted the Lord every step of the way,
but we learn later when he's talking to his brothers, what
you intended for evil, God meant for good. And so this is kind
of the theme or the undertone of this entire narrative that
I want you to keep in mind so as to not get lost in the details
of the drama, right? That's one of the risks you run
with historical narrative, is the drama is so enticing or thick
and interesting, intriguing, that sometimes, not that that's
not important, but we can lose the message that is being conveyed.
And we've talked about, and Dan kind of helped make this clear,
that dream motif, right? We've highlighted that Moses
intentionally includes themes or motifs or foreshadowing in
the book of Genesis that will have present significance, but
definitely later significance. And one of those is dreams. And
we've seen thus far, God speaks to man directly, but he also
speaks through dreams. In fact, that's how Joseph kind
of ended up here, right? In a roundabout way. But now,
and this isn't the first time, God also speaks to rulers, to
Gentiles, people outside of the covenant. God speaks to them.
And so we want to pay attention to those things. Yeah. Did the
Lord ever speak to Joseph at any time? I don't remember. Well,
I think that... Yeah. He must have known he was selected
by the Lord to do certain things. And I think the dream made that
clear. But we're not told of a direct
conversation between God and Joseph. It could have happened,
but if it did, it wasn't fit for Scripture apparently. It
seems that later on, he told his brothers what you did for
evil, God made for good. So I just wondered if he had
some kind of connection that knew that he was elected. It's a good question. I would
tend to say that I don't think God came down and explained everything. But that's fascinating, right?
Because that means the conclusions Joseph was coming to was based
on the information that he did have, the promises of God that
he did have. And so he came to certain conclusions
based on what God has revealed. And I think that could be an
example to us as we seek to do the same with God's Word. I think so. Yeah, I mean, with
the proclaiming of the dream to his family, I think that would
qualify him. You know, it's interesting. That
is where this started back with Abraham, because he was told
that his sons, his family, they would go down to Egypt, and they
were told they would be there, that they would become a great
nation there. Yes. And so when you see all
of this, I think that's something that Joseph may be aware of. Everything's oral tradition back
in his home. But they're going to be made
aware. So he seems to be the only one
that got it. But he understands that this
is what's going to occur at some point in the future. And that's
something we were told from the past. Absolutely, and that's the actually
the conclusion of today's lesson, so you stole my thunder but We
will come back to that thought because I think that is absolutely
what's happening You know what we could talk about what level
of understanding Joseph had now Dan mentioned oral tradition
they didn't have scripture, but they had a History, right? How many of you come from a family
that tells stories, family stories? Now, all of us can maybe think
of our lifetime, oh, I remember being a child and we would go
down to this place or that place and it was a great time. But
how many of you have grandparents that they remember their childhood?
Well, now you're getting way back in history, right? Well,
what if those grandfathers lived to be 500? A lot of history,
right? And so that's what happened,
especially when you didn't have TV or media or those sort of
things, families would talk. Imagine that. And they would
talk and they would tell stories. And I think especially when those
stories had the creator speaking to you, it's worth sharing, right? And so that oral tradition was
passed down. And that's why Moses, you know,
Moses didn't live through these things, right? How did he know?
Did he just make it up? A great novelist wrote a good
series, you know, fiction. No, he had access to all of these
things. And he was also under the process
of inspiration of the Holy Spirit and wrote these things down. Well, Abraham. Rare though, friend of God. And
so looking at section number 1, 1 through 8, we see Pharaoh's
dream. And in verse 1, we see that a
dream comes to Pharaoh. Then it came to pass, at the
end of two full years, that Pharaoh had a dream, and behold, he stood
by the river." Now just pausing for a moment, where's Joseph
during these two years? Jail. Now, yeah, he's in a better
position, right? God has favored him and blessed
him, and he's ahead of the jail, but he's still in jail, right?
He can't come and go as he pleases. And so he's been in jail this
whole time. Now, how many of us have been in that similar
situation in our life, waiting on the Lord to do something,
and the waiting is longer than we'd like it to be? We're praying,
praying even specifically, we're praying even trusting God, imagine
that, but nothing's happening. Well, the Old Testament is filled
with scripture, and we looked at some of these on Wednesday
night, of waiting on the Lord. trusting in Him. We looked at
one of my favorite passages, Lamentations, chapter 3, is a
beautiful, beautiful picture in the midst of perhaps one of
the darkest books of Scripture. And one of the sentiments that
Jeremiah, the writer of Lamentations, communicates is that he will
wait on the Lord, the God of his salvation. Now the context
is he just saw Jerusalem destroyed. Now we're going through the book
of Matthew and a lot of the conversation is on the kingdom. Can you have
the kingdom without Jerusalem? Without the temple? Without Israel
or the Jews dwelling in the land? You can't, right? So he knew
that it was a long ways off. Plus he also was the one who
was given the prophecy for 70 years they would be out of the
land. And yet what was his heart? I will wait on you. I will trust
in you. I'll be patient. It's hard to
be patient, right? And so we see that with Joseph,
just trusting the Lord, trusting in God's plan, God's timing.
We might struggle with one or both of those. We might be on
board with God's plan, but not on board with his timing, or
we might be on board with his timing and not on his plan, or
we're not on board with his timing or his plan. but Joseph appears
to be just trusting the Lord. Now we see verses two through
four, we get into the dream and we actually see that there's
two dreams that Pharaoh has. So verse two, suddenly there
came up out of the river, seven cows, fine looking and fat, and
they fed in the meadow. Then behold, seven other cows
came up after them out of the river, ugly and gaunt. and stood
by the other cows on the bank of the river. And the ugly and
gaunt cows ate up the seven fine-looking and fat cows. So Pharaoh awoke."
Now, if you were having this dream, that might frighten you,
right? Because first of all, do cows eat anything other than
grass or hay or corn? No. So that would be disturbing
to see a cow eating a cow, right? And so he wakes up, as one would,
And then we see in verses five through seven, the second dream
is described. He slept and dreamed a second
time, and suddenly seven heads of grain came up on one stock,
plump and good. Then behold, seven thin heads,
blighted by the east wind, sprang up after them. And the seven
thin heads devoured the seven plump and full heads. So Pharaoh
awoke, and indeed it was a dream. Now I wanna pause here. Many
of us have read this, right? We know kind of the essential
revelation that's being communicated. But if you didn't know that,
as hard as it might be, try to scratch that from your brain.
Would you have any idea what this is intending to communicate
to you? None, right? You might try to
see the significance. Okay, well, seven is apparently
significant, right? There's seven cows. Two sets
of seven. Two sets of seven of the grain.
So seven is important. But within that, there's a whole
lot of uncertainty and unknown, right? You might see the nature
of it, the tone of the dream as a warning, right? Okay, those
ugly gaunt cows ate the healthy ones, the thin blighted grain
devoured the others. So, okay, maybe it's a warning,
but what do I do? What did I do? And what must
I do going forward? So this is where Pharaoh was
at, and we see his response to the dreams in verse eight. Now
it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled
and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt and all
its wise men. And Pharaoh told them his dreams,
but there was no one who could interpret them for Pharaoh. And
then, so this section comes to a close. So Pharaoh's response
is troubled and he tries to understand or discern the meaning. What
did I just see? And we also have to understand
in the ancient world, God, the creator, was not the only one
communicating with man, right? Fallen angels communicated with
fallen man. That's why later in scripture,
God says, don't seek out mediums, spiritists, soothsayers, sorcerers. In fact, when the Mosaic law
is given, they're not permitted to live, right? And so it's a
serious thing, but we see Pharaoh would have understood, okay,
something greater than me is trying to tell me something.
And I have no idea what that is. And quite frankly, I'm terrified
because this apparently is something significant. So he tries to find
an interpreter. He does the same thing Nebuchadnezzar
would later do in history by getting all the wise guys that
he could to try to interpret this dream. And none of them
are able to. Yeah? Then we see Nebuchadnezzar, we
see Jerusalem Pharaoh and everything, specifically because it relates
to God's people and it's given specifically for the purpose
of bringing Joseph up into this position. Because we see Cyrus,
and he doesn't appear to have an interpreter, it's a dream,
hey, rebuild the temple. But again, it's all directly
related to And it's, like I said, I know it's speculative. Yeah,
it is speculative. We don't know. Could God talk
to anyone He wants to? Absolutely. Now, I am inclined,
based on the testimony of Scripture, that God appears to only speak
to Gentiles when it's significant to His program as it relates
to Israel, as it so happens. But, of course, could He go and
talk to some king You know, at this point, there were probably
tribes in the Americas, and he says, hey, there's gonna be a
famine, I wanna spare you guys. Sure, but we don't know, right? So
to the question, I can't answer it, but I would say it leads
to a good conversation on why does God communicate? He doesn't communicate just because
he's bored, he's feeling lonely, he wants to talk to someone.
It's to explain something about his program. And that's, to Dan's
point earlier, the point of, I think, the point of this narrative.
Why is God speaking to Pharaoh? Why did he speak to Abimelech
when Abram was there? Because Abram's significant,
and he doesn't want this king, this Gentile king, to become
cross with Abram and face God's wrath, because God has bound
himself to Abram. And so we're seeing this. Now,
at this point, it's somewhat preliminary. I know we're kind
of jumping around because we know the story and how things
end up. But we want to do our part in
how would the original audience understand this? How would Pharaoh
deal with this information? How would Joseph and those sort
of things? Now some summary application,
God is seeking to reveal something to Pharaoh, that's clear. Pharaoh
has two dreams, one dealing with livestock and the other vegetation. So looking at interpreting the
dream, humanly speaking, we could maybe deduce that, right? Okay,
maybe there's something to do with livestock and agriculture
or vegetation. That much is clear. Seven is
a significant number. Maybe even say 14 is a significant
number. And so, you know, but that's
it, right? You're limited. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. Or maybe even
in their thinking, maybe, okay, those are, economical. So maybe it's the
economy. Maybe it's a warning that, you
know, like those stock market guys like to do and issuing these
warner warnings. And if you buy their stock, you
know, you're gonna survive this collapse. Yeah, Jonathan, go
about your question. You know, if we had sensed there
was something very special about this dream, these two dreams,
what might we have made of it? I think what's fascinating is
The element that Joseph brings in that I would not have gotten
at all is the element of hope. In other words, it's a scary
dream. And his spirit was troubled,
as we read. And I wouldn't have taken anything
positive from it. It sounds bad, whatever it is. And yet, as you know, what Joseph
brings in is a solution that brings hope. Well, and that's
an excellent observation because that really is kind of the difference
between a believer and an unbeliever, right? Joseph has that context
of who God is. He knows that even though it
might run against our personal agenda, whatever it is, because
who God is, is good. It's going to be good. Whereas,
you know, Pharaoh probably thinks of the gods in a very capricious
way. that, okay, this is maybe a warning and who knows, this
may be the end of all, right? And so to your point, I think
that brings up kind of that conversation of maybe even some application
on how we can minister to people by our knowledge of who God is,
that contextualizes what God has revealed to us through his
word. Yeah, I guess I was speaking
to just of his planning for this. Because of that, it says that
though it was throughout all the lands, in Egypt there was
grain. Yeah, and we're going to get
to the point, and Dan kind of alluded to it, we're going to
see that the apparent focus is not the focus. This dream sequence
with Pharaoh is not the focus of this narrative. It's the revelation
that God is giving to Pharaoh that is, but even Pharaoh is
not the necessarily intended audience. I think Israel is the
focus, right? How do we get Israel and company
to Egypt? That's what God is doing. And
we'll get to that maybe next time. Maybe today, who knows? It's interesting that the very
last pause, but there was no one who could interpret it. There was no answer. And then
there was Weissman, and his assistants, and so on. They were unable to
work. Which is interesting, because
you get guys or gals of that line of work, they're going to
come up with something, right? No one's just going to say, sorry,
can't help you. Yeah. And I think they knew that,
OK, whatever this is is significant. And if I offer my interpretation
and it's wrong, that's not going to end well. So maybe that's
why they keep silent. Or perhaps God intervened and
stopped the mouths of these wise men and weren't confusing Pharaoh
with all sorts of interpretation. So then the next section, verses
9 through 13, the butler's remembrance. So now recall the sub narrative
with the chief butler and the chief baker and the candlestick
maker. And they all end up in prison.
They meet Joseph. They have dreams. Joseph interprets
their dreams. their dreams come to pass exactly
as Joseph said, right? So think about the setting. Pharaoh
just had a dream. Now the most important man in
the nation, perhaps in the world at this time, apart from Abraham,
but Gentile speaking, most important man has a dream and it's a parent
warning and none of the wise men are able to interpret. So
just imagine the type of panic going on around Egypt as to,
well, what in the world is this going to be? What is happening? So everyone's thinking, well,
golly, what could this mean? What could this possibly mean?
Who could possibly interpret this? And the chief butler's
racking his brain. And then he finally remembers,
oh, well, I had a dream I didn't know. And there was this Hebrew. And so we pick up with verse
nine with this remembrance. Then the chief butler spoke to
Pharaoh saying, I remember my faults this day. Duh. When Pharaoh
was angry with his servants and put me in custody in the house
of the captain of the guard, both me and the chief baker,
we each had a dream in one night. He and I, each of us dreamed
according to the interpretation of his own dream. Now there was
a young Hebrew man with us there. a servant of the captain of the
guard. And we told him and he interpreted our dreams for us.
To each man he interpreted according to his own dream. And it came
to pass, just as he interpreted for us. So it happened. He restored
me to my office and he hanged him." So that's that section. We basically get the retelling
of the events. Any comments or questions? It's
pretty straightforward as far as what's happening. So 14 through 24, we get Joseph
is summoned. So now Joseph enters the picture
and verse 14, Joseph summoned and made presentable. Then Pharaoh
sent and called Joseph and they brought him quickly out of the
dungeon and he shaved and changed his clothing and came to Pharaoh. Now verse 15, we see Pharaoh's
estimation of Joseph based on what The butler said, and Pharaoh
said to Joseph, I have had a dream and there is no one who can interpret
it, but I have heard it said of you that you can understand
a dream to interpret it. So his estimation, he has high
hopes that, okay, based on what I'm hearing, you're the guy,
you're the, the savior of Egypt. You're the man for the job. You're
the king of dreams, right? Now, if Joseph was what his brothers
thought he was, that would be a exciting thing, right? Oh, powerful emperor, ruler of
the land is seeing potential in me. Now's a great time for
me to kind of be a little bit full of myself, right? But what
does Joseph say? Verse 16, Joseph's correction
of interpreting dreams. So Joseph answered Pharaoh saying,
it is not in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer
of peace. So similar to Daniel, right?
And so he recognizes he has no ability except what God has given
him. And he says, God will make this
known. Verses 17 through 24, Pharaoh
recounts his dream to Joseph. So now we're getting a little
bit of commentary from Pharaoh, right? These weren't in the description
of the dream, but in Pharaoh's retelling. So we're seeing that filter and
we're getting some description that kind of tells us a little
bit at least of what Pharaoh was working with and
what his level of understanding was. Verse 20, the gaunt and
ugly cows ate up the first seven, the fat cows. When they had eaten
them up, no one would have known that they had eaten them, for
they were just as ugly at the beginning. So I awoke. So there's
an added detail, right? We don't get that in the description,
but apparently they ate and remained the same. Interesting. 22, also I saw in my dream, and suddenly
seven heads came up on one stock, full and good. Then behold, seven
heads withered thin and blighted by the east wind, sprang up after
them. And the thin heads devoured the
seven good heads. So I told this to the magicians, but there was
no one who could explain it to me. So now we come to the last
section, verses 25 through 36, where Joseph gives the interpretation.
Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, the dreams of Pharaoh are one.
God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. Now is this special
skill that Joseph has or is God giving him the interpretation?
I think it's God giving him the interpretation. So the fact that
Joseph says that these two are one is God's revelation to Joseph
and that it is what God is about to do is clearly God's revelation
to Joseph of what he's about to do. So then we come to 26
where we see the duration of what God is about to do. The
seven good cows are seven years and the seven good heads are
seven years. The dreams are one. So we get
that repeated. phrase of the dreams are one
morning. Excuse me. Sorry. Uh, verse 27,
we get a breakdown of the 14 years and we see in the seven
thin and ugly cows, which came up after them are seven years
in the 70 empty heads blighted by the East wind are seven years
of famine. So we're seeing that, okay, there's
seven good years, seven bad years. There's a breakdown of 14 years
whole, seven good, seven bad. Now we come to verse 28. Joseph
summarizes the dream's origin and function. This is the thing
which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he
is about to do. So again, he, Repeats that this
dream originates with God and the function of the dream is
for God to tell Pharaoh what he is about to do now 29 through
32 Joseph summarizes the dreams interpretation and Indeed, seven
years of great plenty will come throughout all the land of Egypt,
but after them, seven years of famine will arise, and all the
plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt, and the famine
will deplete the land." Now that's something to work with, right?
Pharaoh, king of the land, now has information that can cause
him to act or respond in a way that can benefit. Although that
doesn't seem to be clear yet to Pharaoh, so Joseph emphasizes
this. in verse 32, and the dream was
repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing is established by God
and God will shortly bring it to pass. Now we get Joseph's
explanation, 33 through 36, his suggested response to the dream.
He says, now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise
man and set him over the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh do this
and let him appoint officers over the land to collect one
fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt in the seven plentiful
years, and let them gather all the food of those good years
that are coming, and store up grain under the authority of
Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities. And then lastly,
verse 36, then that food shall be as a reserve for the land
for the seven years of famine, which shall be in the land of
Egypt, that the land may not perish during the famine. So
God gave a revelation to Pharaoh to spare the nation from seven
years famine, right? If you're gonna have seven years
of famine, but you have seven years of plenty, you can take
what you need to survive, but also store and reserve what's
needed for the seven years of famine. So God prepares Pharaoh
for that. But some questions. Summary application. First of all, we see dreams are
a form of special revelation. God communicates to Pharaoh through
a dream. God revealed the next 14 years
to Pharaoh. Why would God do that? Why does
God reveal the next 14 years to Pharaoh? Don't famines come
and go? It was going to be a war. God built an area within the
Middle East since Egypt was more or less
the center of everything, that informed him, because he had
all the, well, he had the Nile River right there. Sure. Yeah,
and that's a fair interpretation, right? Significant, large empire,
they would be the one to give that information. It seems to
me that given the context of Moses' writing in regards to
Israel going into the land and everything surrounding that,
that God is, well, I mean, part of this is showing us that God
is, they're seeing His continued care for, you know, His people
before they even are people. He's preparing a way, and I don't
know if it's too much to say that he is saving an entire nation
as preparation and plan for where his people Israel are going to
be and where they will ultimately end up. And that leads to kind
of my conclusion that the apparent focus of this narrative is not
the focus of this narrative. Yes, it seems to be God revealing
something to Pharaoh, but I think is because of Israel. And so the last question, why
is God going to inflict famine on Jacob and company without
telling them? So if he's doing this to save
Israel and his family, why not go tell Jacob? Joseph had the authority to do
what he was supposed to do. And Pharaoh, clearly, it's a
time of history, too, when you look at history. We're the Romans. whether Greeks, whether Persians,
they're not. They haven't been. So Egypt, world history-wise,
if you go back, is pretty dominant outside. Who knows what's going
on in the Far East. But he needed to tell, he needed
to tell Pharaoh, he needed to tell the one that had the authority
so that we could do all this, so they could put Joseph under
control. Jacob and his sons, they knew he was Yeah, and I think that's fair But I
also think that well if God just revealed this to Jacob couldn't
they have done the same thing and their families preserved
So they they reserve during the seven years and then the seven
years of him, but that doesn't happen, right? What happens and
now I'm getting ahead of the narrative, right? but Jacob comes
down to Egypt. Why? Because the famine was so
bad in the land. Why weren't they prepared? He
didn't know. Why didn't he know? God wanted
him out of the land. Why? We'll close with this. Go
to Genesis 15. Then I'll go ahead while we're
turning to Genesis 15. for the mercy of God. Yeah, absolutely. For revealing this message to
what would be one of the greatest, if not the greatest power in
the surrounding area, best equipped to store the food, put everything
together, so that that's what we see later in the following
document. Everyone is coming to Egypt to
receive the food and to benefit from that and probably preserve
a lot of life. Again, it's another example that
I've tried to emphasize in Genesis of grace always. Every situation
that there is judgment in Scripture, grace precedes it. God is a God
of grace. He is a God that deals with sin,
but He's a God of grace. And so similar to how God rescued
them, God is going to come and destroy the earth. But what has
He done prior to that? He sent His Son to pay for our
sins. And anyone who simply believes in Him has everlasting life.
And so grace always precedes judgment. And again, that's why
Moses speaks in these themes and motifs and foreshadowing
so that the Israelites later would understand God is a God
of grace, but He also is a God that deals with sin. And it preps
them ultimately for the cross. Now, Genesis 15, real quick.
is when the covenant is officially cut with Abraham. So the promise
is ratified here and starting in verse 13, then he said to
Abram, no, certainly that your descendants will be strangers
in a land that is not theirs and will serve them. And they
will afflict them 400 years and also the nation whom they serve.
I will judge. Afterward, they shall come out
with great possessions. Now as for you, you shall go
to your fathers in peace. You shall be buried at a good
old age. But in the fourth generation, they shall return here for the
iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete. And it came to
pass when the sun went down and it was dark that behold, there
appeared a smoking oven and a burning torch that passed between those
pieces. On the same day, the Lord made a covenant with Abram,
saying, To your descendants I have given this land, from the river
of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the Kenites,
the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites,
the Rephaimites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites,
and the Jebusites. So in other words, God gave Abram prophecy
that they would go to Egypt and he was going to deal with those
dwelling in the land. So it's kind of a, okay, step
out, step aside while I deal with this, and then you will
reenter. And then that brings us up to
the conquest, right? With Joshua. So again, we're
seeing God move his program along He is in control of everything. And as far as application, what
greater comfort is there when everything seems to be going
astray or falling apart? God is in control. He's never
lost control. And one day he will have absolute
control when his son sits on the throne from Jerusalem on
this earth, and we will be with him.
Genesis 41:1-36
Series Genesis
| Sermon ID | 321241928414339 |
| Duration | 38:58 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday School |
| Bible Text | Genesis 41:1-36 |
| Language | English |
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