Part A Joseph's life points 4-6 Joseph's dreams and his being sold into slavery.
Points 4-6 will be under these headings.
Point - 4 Joseph’s Dreams.
Point - 5 The fulfillment of this dream I am skipping ahead to show how Joseph’s dreams were literally fulfilled.
Point - 6 Scripture passage on Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers and its comparison with Jesus being betrayed and sold. His being taken captive for our sakes.
Point - 4 Joseph’s Dreams
⦁ This next segment will focus on the dreams that Joseph had when he was a young teenager.
⦁ The dream that Joseph had of his family bowing down to him came true when he was made Prime Minister of Egypt under Pharaoh.
⦁ Joseph’s brothers hated him because his father favored him being the son of his old age.
⦁ I will put in the account of Joseph’s two dreams from Genesis 37 and when his brothers came to Egypt to get food to show how these dreams came to pass.
Even though it was over thirteen years later before they did and much work had been done in Joseph’s life by the hand of the Lord before these two dreams came to pass.
⦁ As it is often true in our lives that God may show us a glimpse of the future through dream, vision or prophetic word or a particular scripture may stand out.
⦁ However before that happens the outworking of the word or vision from the Lord.
Genesis 37:5-11
5 Now Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him still more.
6 And he said to them, Listen now and hear, I pray you, this dream that I have dreamed:
7 We [brothers] were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright, and behold, your sheaves stood round about my sheaf and bowed down!
8 His brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or are you going to have us as your subjects and dominate us? And they hated him all the more for his dreams and for what he said.
9 But Joseph dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers [also]. He said, See here, I have dreamed again, and behold, [this time not only] eleven stars [but also] the sun and the moon bowed down and did reverence to me!
10 And he told it to his father [as well as] his brethren. But his father rebuked him and said to him, What is the meaning of this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow down ourselves to the earth and do homage to you?
11 Joseph's brothers envied him and were jealous of him, but his father observed the saying and pondered over it.
Point - 5 The fulfillment of this dream I am skipping ahead to show how Joseph’s dreams were literally fulfilled.
Genesis 42:1-9
1 NOW WHEN Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, Why do you look at one another?
2 For, he said, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; get down there and buy [grain] for us, that we may live and not die.
3 So ten of Joseph's brethren went to buy grain in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph's [full] brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers; for he said, Lest perhaps some harm or injury should befall him.
5 So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who came, for there was hunger and general lack of food in the land of Canaan.
6 Now Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was who sold to all the people of the land; and Joseph's [half] brothers came and bowed themselves down before him with their faces to the ground.
7 Joseph saw his brethren and he recognized them, but he treated them as if he were a stranger to them and spoke roughly to them. He said, Where do you come from? And they replied, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them and said to them, You are spies and with unfriendly purpose you have come to observe [secretly] the nakedness of the land.
⦁ Joseph knew his brethren, but they did not know him. (Centuries later another man came to His brothers the house of Judah and Israel and they did not know Him the God man Yeshua John 1:11
John 1:11
1 He came to that which belonged to Him [to His own--His domain, creation, things, world], and they who were His own did not receive Him and did not welcome Him.)
Point - 6 Scripture passage on Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers and its comparison with Jesus being betrayed and sold His being taken captive for our sakes.
Genesis 37:12-31
12 Joseph's brothers went to shepherd and feed their father's flock near Shechem.
13 [One day] Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers shepherd my flock at Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. And he said, Here I am.
14 And [Jacob] said to him, Go, I pray you, see whether everything is alright with your brothers and with the flock; then come back and bring me word. So he sent him out of the Hebron Valley, and he came to Shechem. 15 And a certain man found him, and behold, he had lost his way and was wandering in the open country. The man asked him, What are you trying to find?
16 And he said, I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, I pray you, where they are pasturing our flocks.
17 But the man said, [They were here, but] they have gone. I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
18 And when they saw him far off, even before he came near to them, they conspired to kill him.
19 And they said one to another, See, here comes this dreamer and master of dreams.
20 So come on now, let us kill him and throw his body into some pit; then we will say [to our father], Some wild and ferocious animal has devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams!
⦁ Thank the Lord they didn’t kill him or else the end of Israel would have happened due to the severe famine that came upon that whole area.
By God having Joseph being sold into slavery. He was able to preserve the family of Jacob alive by sending Joseph before them but this is still years in the future.
The devil wanted to try and destroy the one God had planned to raise up to help rescue Israel and his family but he didn’t succeed and what satan meant for harm God turned to good.
21 Now Reuben heard it and he delivered him out of their hands by saying, Let us not kill him.
22 And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit or well that is out here in the wilderness and lay no hand on him. He was trying to get Joseph out of their hands in order to rescue him and deliver him again to his father.
⦁ Reuben intercedes for his brother this spared his life, we too must intercede on behalf of Israel to the Lord that he will raise up a remnant for Himself from the house
of Jacob for these last days so that His prophetic promises can be fulfilled through them.
Also God made sure Reuben was not there to stop Joseph from being sold into slavery by Judah. If Reuben had have been there Joseph would not have been sold to the Ishmaelites who were passing by.
23 When Joseph had come to his brothers, they stripped him of his [distinctive] long garment which he was wearing;
⦁ Another side note they also stripped Yeshua of a distinctive long garment
John 19:23
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, one share for each soldier, and also the tunic (the long shirt like undergarment). But the tunic was seamless, woven [in one piece] from the top throughout. and the Roman soldiers gambled over who should have it at the foot of the cross,
⦁ Also this garment like Joseph’s garment was soaked in blood, His (Jesus's) blood not that of an animal. It was soaked with the blood off His back from the beatings and that blood which may have run down from His face and head, this was His sacrificial blood for our sins.)
24 Then they took him and cast him into the [well-like] pit which was empty; there was no water in it.
25 Then they sat down to eat their lunch. When they looked up, behold, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites [mixed Arabians] coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum [of the styrax tree], balm (balsam), and myrrh or ladanum, going on their way to carry them down to Egypt.
⦁ A side note that myrrh was one of the gifts given to the young child Jesus by the wise men Matthew 2:11 signifying that he was born to die for the world and this oil was one of the embalming spices for His burial John 19:39 Joseph in a way went down to Egypt to die a death to his old life go through suffering as a slave and a political prisoner.
26 And Judah said to his brothers, What do we gain if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
27 Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites [and Midianites, these mixed Arabians who are approaching], and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers consented.
28 Then as the Midianite [and Ishmaelite] merchants were passing by, the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the well. And they sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph [captive] into Egypt.
29 Then Reuben [who had not been there when the brothers plotted to sell the lad] returned to the pit; and behold, Joseph was not in the pit, and he rent his clothes.
30 He rejoined his brothers and said, The boy is not there! And I, where shall I go [to hide from my father]?
31 Then they took Joseph's [distinctive] long garment, killed a young goat, and dipped the garment in the blood;
Next post will be the events of Joseph's life first as a slave then as a political prisoner and his interpretation of Pharaoh's chief butler's and chief baker's dreams
⦁ This next segment will focus on the dreams that Joseph had when he was a young teenager.
⦁ The dream that Joseph had of his family bowing down to him came true when he was made Prime Minister of Egypt under Pharaoh.
⦁ Joseph’s brothers hated him because his father favored him being the son of his old age.
⦁ I will put in the account of Joseph’s two dreams from Genesis 37 and when his brothers came to Egypt to get food to show how these dreams came to pass.
Even though it was over thirteen years later before they did and much work had been done in Joseph’s life by the hand of the Lord before these two dreams came to pass.
⦁ As it is often true in our lives that God may show us a glimpse of the future through dream, vision or prophetic word or a particular scripture may stand out.
⦁ However before that happens the outworking of the word or vision from the Lord.
- We too must go through much dealings in our lives to be ready to step into that work or calling that God has for us to fulfill in Him to bring Him the glory He deserves by our doing the task He has called us to do in Him.
- God is more interested in developing our character than in releasing us too early into the calling / work He has for us.
- He wants to be sure that we will have the character / strength to stand when the time comes and the heat is on.
- He wants us to have His character to be like His Son in all things.
- So He will work on us and will refine us until He is satisfied that we are ready to do His will perfectly in submission to His will.
Genesis 37:5-11
5 Now Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him still more.
6 And he said to them, Listen now and hear, I pray you, this dream that I have dreamed:
7 We [brothers] were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright, and behold, your sheaves stood round about my sheaf and bowed down!
8 His brothers said to him, Shall you indeed reign over us? Or are you going to have us as your subjects and dominate us? And they hated him all the more for his dreams and for what he said.
9 But Joseph dreamed yet another dream and told it to his brothers [also]. He said, See here, I have dreamed again, and behold, [this time not only] eleven stars [but also] the sun and the moon bowed down and did reverence to me!
10 And he told it to his father [as well as] his brethren. But his father rebuked him and said to him, What is the meaning of this dream that you have dreamed? Shall I and your mother and your brothers actually come to bow down ourselves to the earth and do homage to you?
11 Joseph's brothers envied him and were jealous of him, but his father observed the saying and pondered over it.
Point - 5 The fulfillment of this dream I am skipping ahead to show how Joseph’s dreams were literally fulfilled.
Genesis 42:1-9
1 NOW WHEN Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, Why do you look at one another?
2 For, he said, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt; get down there and buy [grain] for us, that we may live and not die.
3 So ten of Joseph's brethren went to buy grain in Egypt.
4 But Benjamin, Joseph's [full] brother, Jacob did not send with his brothers; for he said, Lest perhaps some harm or injury should befall him.
5 So the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those who came, for there was hunger and general lack of food in the land of Canaan.
6 Now Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was who sold to all the people of the land; and Joseph's [half] brothers came and bowed themselves down before him with their faces to the ground.
7 Joseph saw his brethren and he recognized them, but he treated them as if he were a stranger to them and spoke roughly to them. He said, Where do you come from? And they replied, From the land of Canaan to buy food.
9 And Joseph remembered the dreams he had dreamed about them and said to them, You are spies and with unfriendly purpose you have come to observe [secretly] the nakedness of the land.
⦁ Joseph knew his brethren, but they did not know him. (Centuries later another man came to His brothers the house of Judah and Israel and they did not know Him the God man Yeshua John 1:11
John 1:11
1 He came to that which belonged to Him [to His own--His domain, creation, things, world], and they who were His own did not receive Him and did not welcome Him.)
Point - 6 Scripture passage on Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers and its comparison with Jesus being betrayed and sold His being taken captive for our sakes.
Genesis 37:12-31
12 Joseph's brothers went to shepherd and feed their father's flock near Shechem.
13 [One day] Israel said to Joseph, Do not your brothers shepherd my flock at Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them. And he said, Here I am.
14 And [Jacob] said to him, Go, I pray you, see whether everything is alright with your brothers and with the flock; then come back and bring me word. So he sent him out of the Hebron Valley, and he came to Shechem. 15 And a certain man found him, and behold, he had lost his way and was wandering in the open country. The man asked him, What are you trying to find?
16 And he said, I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, I pray you, where they are pasturing our flocks.
17 But the man said, [They were here, but] they have gone. I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
18 And when they saw him far off, even before he came near to them, they conspired to kill him.
19 And they said one to another, See, here comes this dreamer and master of dreams.
20 So come on now, let us kill him and throw his body into some pit; then we will say [to our father], Some wild and ferocious animal has devoured him; and we shall see what will become of his dreams!
⦁ Thank the Lord they didn’t kill him or else the end of Israel would have happened due to the severe famine that came upon that whole area.
By God having Joseph being sold into slavery. He was able to preserve the family of Jacob alive by sending Joseph before them but this is still years in the future.
The devil wanted to try and destroy the one God had planned to raise up to help rescue Israel and his family but he didn’t succeed and what satan meant for harm God turned to good.
21 Now Reuben heard it and he delivered him out of their hands by saying, Let us not kill him.
22 And Reuben said to them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit or well that is out here in the wilderness and lay no hand on him. He was trying to get Joseph out of their hands in order to rescue him and deliver him again to his father.
⦁ Reuben intercedes for his brother this spared his life, we too must intercede on behalf of Israel to the Lord that he will raise up a remnant for Himself from the house
of Jacob for these last days so that His prophetic promises can be fulfilled through them.
Also God made sure Reuben was not there to stop Joseph from being sold into slavery by Judah. If Reuben had have been there Joseph would not have been sold to the Ishmaelites who were passing by.
23 When Joseph had come to his brothers, they stripped him of his [distinctive] long garment which he was wearing;
⦁ Another side note they also stripped Yeshua of a distinctive long garment
John 19:23
23 Then the soldiers, when they had crucified Jesus, took His garments and made four parts, one share for each soldier, and also the tunic (the long shirt like undergarment). But the tunic was seamless, woven [in one piece] from the top throughout. and the Roman soldiers gambled over who should have it at the foot of the cross,
⦁ Also this garment like Joseph’s garment was soaked in blood, His (Jesus's) blood not that of an animal. It was soaked with the blood off His back from the beatings and that blood which may have run down from His face and head, this was His sacrificial blood for our sins.)
24 Then they took him and cast him into the [well-like] pit which was empty; there was no water in it.
25 Then they sat down to eat their lunch. When they looked up, behold, they saw a caravan of Ishmaelites [mixed Arabians] coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing gum [of the styrax tree], balm (balsam), and myrrh or ladanum, going on their way to carry them down to Egypt.
⦁ A side note that myrrh was one of the gifts given to the young child Jesus by the wise men Matthew 2:11 signifying that he was born to die for the world and this oil was one of the embalming spices for His burial John 19:39 Joseph in a way went down to Egypt to die a death to his old life go through suffering as a slave and a political prisoner.
26 And Judah said to his brothers, What do we gain if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?
27 Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites [and Midianites, these mixed Arabians who are approaching], and let not our hand be upon him, for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brothers consented.
28 Then as the Midianite [and Ishmaelite] merchants were passing by, the brothers pulled Joseph up and lifted him out of the well. And they sold him for twenty pieces of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took Joseph [captive] into Egypt.
29 Then Reuben [who had not been there when the brothers plotted to sell the lad] returned to the pit; and behold, Joseph was not in the pit, and he rent his clothes.
30 He rejoined his brothers and said, The boy is not there! And I, where shall I go [to hide from my father]?
31 Then they took Joseph's [distinctive] long garment, killed a young goat, and dipped the garment in the blood;
Next post will be the events of Joseph's life first as a slave then as a political prisoner and his interpretation of Pharaoh's chief butler's and chief baker's dreams
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