I often picture myself walking along beside him, holding his hand, as he shares his heart. When we search his heart to understand his mysteries, it brings him great delight. He is fond of speaking in dreams because when he communicates with us in that way, we spend time with him, asking for the interpretation. It is the nature of God to seek to communicate with his kids when we are awake and when we are asleep. Like the parables of Jesus, dreams are filled with metaphors. In the past 18 years, I have been both a student and a teacher of how God speaks in dreams. Even so, God used Joseph to achieve His purpose.How you think about God is the single most important thing in your life. Joseph’s dreams and ability to accurately interpret them showed him to be God’s revealer, yet few of his wise actions were supernatural, rather they involved the natural world.
Joseph’s whole life bears witness to God’s providential care.
The colours for the various characters in this scene were established in earlier cartoons, principally Genesis 37 – Joseph’s Dreams – Scene 02 – The coat of many colour. We aren’t told what Rachel’s reaction to Joseph’s dreams were. Perhaps Jacob/Israel was more open to dreams having a meaning, since he himself encountered the Lord God in a dream, at Bethel (see Genesis 28:10-22). Although Jacob/Israel scolds Joseph, he started to wonder what the dreams might mean. Perhaps he was just immature, & didn’t appreciate the negative effect his revelation would have on his siblings. All bow down to Joseph in his dream.Īs I stated in the previous cartoon’s description, for some reason Joseph didn’t seem to understand that telling his brothers about his dreams would turn them against him.
The sun represents his father Jacob/Israel, the moon represents Joseph’s mother Rachel, & the elev stars represent his brothers. This scene shows Joseph telling his father Jacob/Israel & four of his 11 brothers about his second dream. This scene is set outside, with weak sunlight coming from above & to the left, casting shadows to the right of figures & objects.įrom left to right: Joseph, Jacob/Israel (these people’s father), Naphtali, Zebulun, Simion & Levi. “Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow to the ground before you?” 11 But while his brothers were jealous of Joseph, his father wondered what the dreams meant.Īlthough the dreams took place at night, I imagine Joseph told his father and brothers about them in the morning, so I’ve set this scene at that time. “The sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed low before me!”ġ0 This time he told the dream to his father as well as to his brothers, but his father scolded him. “Listen, I have had another dream,” he said. 9 Soon Joseph had another dream, and again he told his brothers about it.
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