by Tim Green
Christ Jesus, the King of the Jews. I had recorded the names of every royal member from Adam until Christ in the royal books of heaven. I will give you an account of but a few of these great men.
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The Dreamer of Dreams. #11
Joseph had saved his family from certain death from a severe famine while in exile in Egypt. His spiteful brothers had sold him, as a slave. His brothers hated him because their father, Jacob had openly loved Joseph more than all of his other sons. Joseph was the son of Jacobs old age and the first born of his wife Rachael, the wife that he truly loved. Jacob had two wives, Rachael and Leah but Jacob openly showed greater love towards Rachael. However Rachael was barren and could not bear children of her own. But God graciously opened up her womb and she conceived and she bore Joseph. I, Gabriel the archangel of the Lord, his faithful spokesman felt extreme sorrow and pity for young Joseph. But as an angel of the Lord I was under instruction and therefore forbidden to intervene to save him.
Jacob had made Joseph a tunic of many colours that reached down to the soles of his favourite sons feet. Joseph continually brought an evil report to his father regarding his wicked brothers. When his brothers saw and noticed that their father loved Joseph more than them all. They began to despise Joseph and developed hatred in their hearts towards him. They couldn’t even speak peaceably to him and continually showed aggression towards him. One night, I Gabriel, the messenger of the Lord, came down and caused Joseph to dream a dream. Joseph awoke in the morning and told his dream to his sadistic brothers. This angered them even more and fuelled their passionate hatred towards him even more.
One day when Joseph went to the fields to check on his brothers that it happened that his brothers stripped him of his colourful tunic, the tunic that reached to the soles of his feet that their father had arrayed him with. They then took him and threw him into an empty waterless pit. We angels as well as an innocent Joseph were all taken by surprise and shocked at their unruly behaviour. We angels knew that Joseph was hated by his brothers but we had no idea of their intent to harm him. We angels were all amazed by his brother’s lack of feeling and conscience.
His brothers burned so violently with anger that they wanted him dead. Then Judah said to his brothers, “What will it profit us if we should kill our brother and hide his bloody body? Rather let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let’s not lay our hands upon him, for he is after all our brother, our very own flesh and blood.” The rest of Judah’s brothers listened to him and took heed to his wise plan of action. It made sense to make money out of him rather than kill him. So they sold Joseph into slavery for twenty filthy pieces of silver to the Midianite traders that came passing by. They pulled Joseph, their own flesh and blood up out of the pit and sold him as a slave.
I Gabriel the Archangel of the Lord, his declarer of good tidings desperately wanted to intervene and rescue the lad from the rejection and persecution of his brothers. But it was the intention of God Almighty to prepare Joseph to fulfil his destiny according to the dreams that he had given him. The journey of preparation for developing the character of Joseph had sorrowfully begun. The waterless pit was only the beginning of this lonely journey for Joseph. He had to pass the test of being despised and rejected by men. He had to learn to become acquainted with sorrow and grief.
His brothers then took Joseph’s colourful tunic that their father had arrayed him in. They killed a young goat and dipped the tunic in its blood. They then delivered the tunic to their father and they said, “We have found this. Do you know whether it is your son's coat or not?” Jacob knew immediately that it was Joseph's coat and so he replied, “It’s my son's tunic. An evil beast has eaten him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces.” Jacob then tore his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his loins, and mourned for his son for many days. All his sons, and all his daughters, rose up to comfort him. But he refused to be comforted by any of them.
In Egypt Joseph was sold once again to Potiphar, a eunuch of Pharaoh, the chief of the executioners. He was an Egyptian man, who decided to buy Joseph from the trading Ishmaelites. Yet the Lord was with Joseph, and he became a prosperous man while he served in the house of his master the Egyptian. His master saw that God was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper. Everything that Joseph set his hand to do, he did it with all his might and God Almighty blessed the work of his hands. Joseph had found grace and favour in his masters sight, and he served Potiphar diligently. So Potiphar made Joseph overseer over his entire house, and he placed everything into his care. So it happened from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that God blessed the Egyptians house for Joseph's sake. The Lord God blessed everything that Joseph did both in the house and in the field.
Joseph was beautiful in form and hansom in appearance. He was a rather good looking young man. It so happened that his master's wife cast her lustful eyes upon Joseph and she said to him, “Come and lie down with me and sleep with me.” But Joseph refused and said to his master's wife, “Behold, my master does not know what is in the house with me, and he has entrusted me with all that he has. There is none greater in this house than I. Neither has he kept back anything from me except you, because you are his wife. How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against the God of heaven.” Young Joseph walked away and made no mention of the matter to his master.
A few days later Joseph went into the house to complete his work. He did not realize that he was alone as none of the other men of the house were inside. Potiphar’s wife then caught Joseph by his robe saying, “Lie down with me and sleep with me.” But Joseph fled the house leaving his robe grasped tightly in her adulterous hands. He ran out of the house fleeing sexual immorality. When she saw that he had left his robe in her hand, and had fled, she called to the other men of her house and spoke to them, saying, “See, he came into the house to seduce me and to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.” She then laid Joseph’s robe beside her until her husband came home. Then she spoke to him saying, “The Hebrew servant whom you have brought to us came in to me to seduce me. I lifted up my voice and cried out aloud; look he left his robe with me and ran out.” When his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him saying, “Your servant did this to me,” he burned with rage and anger, in violent jealousy.
Potiphar felt that Joseph had betrayed his generosity and kindness. He felt that Joseph had abused his position of ruler-ship and that he had violated his trust that he had entrusted him as ruler over all the affairs of his house. Potiphar pursued Joseph, caught him and put him in prison, the prison where all the king's prisoners were bound and kept captive. I have accompanied many men in prison. I’ve even broken men out of prison on God’s instruction. Paul and Silas had no idea what was going to happen when they started worshipping God at midnight from their dark jail cell. I smashed that cold steel prison gate completely off its hinges and split that cell wide open. Yet with Joseph, God Almighty had instructed me to watch over him but not to break him out under any circumstances.
So the Lord was with Joseph, and he showed him great overshadowing grace and mercy. He gave Joseph favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison. The keeper of the prison gave all the prisoners in the prison into Joseph's care. Once again whatever Joseph did, God made it to prosper greatly. One day Joseph used his spiritual gifts to interpret the dreams of two of the king’s servants. God Almighty had spoken in a dream to the king’s butler and baker while they were serving sentences in the prison where Joseph was. God had spoken to them simultaneously on the same night. God’s dreams had left both these men extremely troubled and puzzled when they awoke in the morning. They spoke to each other about t
he dreams that they had dreamt and Joseph heard them speaking. So he interrupted them and interpreted their dreams with precision and deadly accuracy. He then requested that he be remembered by the cup-bearer when all went well with him according to the prophetic fulfilment of his dream. The cup-bearer agreed to show kindness to Joseph, and make mention of him to Pharaoh, to bring him out of the jail house.
But the chief cup-bearer did not remember Joseph after being reinstated to his lofty position. He simply forgot all about Joseph as he went about his daily duties serving the King of Egypt. Until one day when Pharaoh dreamed a dream from the Lord God. When Pharaoh awoke from his peculiar dreams his spirit was troubled. He sent for and called all the magnificent magicians of Egypt and all the wise men in the land. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was none who could interpret them for Pharaoh.
Then the chief cup-bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my sin this day. I can remember when Pharaoh was angry with his two servants, and put us under guard in the chief of the