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Written by Cyrus Wong

Tuesday, 15 December 2009 09:17

by CyrusWong

Many believe that God still talk to man with dreams even today. Dream interpretation is mentioned in different stories mentioned in the bible. So how to interpret the dreams we or others have? Let's look at Joseph's life.

There are many examples of prophetic dreams in the bible. Joseph the son of Jacob is one of them. His whole life was shaped by dreams and the interpretation of them. Joseph's father is Israel who had 12 sons including Joseph. Israel loved him the most among all the other eleven ones. He even gave Joseph a multi color coat. Joseph's brothers were very jealous and so treated him harshly.

One night, Joseph had a dream. He saw that he and his brothers were working in the field binding sheaves. And Joseph's sheaf arose and stood while his brothers' sheaves also stood roundabout and bow to Joseph's sheaf. Being an immature child and perhaps a little bit arrogant, he told his brothers about this dream. And his brothers can immediately understand the meaning of the dream, which is that Joseph is going to reign over them. The result is obvious. The eleven brothers hated Joseph even more.

After that, Joseph had another dream. In the dream, the sun, the moon and eleven stars were around him and bowed to him. This dream was even more provoking because there were the sun and the moon which obviously symbolized Israel and his wife. Everyone was angry at Joseph. "How dare is he saying something like that! Are you saying we should all bow to you?" Israel felt that this dream has some further meaning and importance, so he pondered about it. And turn out he was right.

These two dreams were very important dreams of Joseph which have significant meaning and impact. Because of the two dreams, Joseph's brothers decided to kill him and eventually sold him to be a slave in Egypt. The dreams were shaping his destiny.

In this story, we could learn some significant spiritual principles. First, we can see how vicious is the sin of envy, which can even motivate brothers to slay each other. Second, we know that in the end the interpretations of the two Joseph's dreams were correct. They really would bow to their little brother Joseph in Egypt. We can see that the dreams of Joseph are really foretelling the future. However, I think it is not wise for Joseph to tell people about these two dreams. I believe that he can clearly understand the meanings of the two dreams because he has the spiritual gift of interpreting dreams plus the two are easy to understand, even his brothers can immediately know. He also knows that his brothers are jealous of him since they didn't speak peaceably to him normally. Joseph knew that telling the dreams would provoke his brothers but he did it anyway. The only reason is that he did it in pride, which did not give rise to a good result.

Not only is the interpretation of dreams needed the guidance and help from the Holy Spirit, even the telling or keeping of the message. Lord, give me wisdom and revelations!

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