God’s Timeline – Part 43
Joseph’s
Dreams
Pastor Bruce A. Shields
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SERMON TIMELINE (2021 A.D. = 5781 Jewish
Calendar Year)
o Adam, Eve, and the Fall
-
Cain and Abel
o Evil Fills the World
-
Noah Did All God Commanded
Him
o The Flood (B.C.)
o God’s Covenant with Noah
o Noah’s Sons and Ham’s Sin
o Nations of Noah’s Sons
-
Tower of Babel
o Abram and Lot part ways (B.C.)
o Rescue of Lot (B.C.)
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The Lord’s Covenant with Abram for Isaac
o Hagar and Ishmael Born (B.C.) Abram 86 years old
o Sarai and Isaac
o The Three Visitors
o Abraham Pleads for Sodom
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Birth of Isaac (2066 B.C. Abraham 99 years old Sarah 90-Hagar and
Ishmael sent away)
o The Lord tests Abraham (B.C.)
o Sarah Dies 127 years old (B.C. Abraham is 136)
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Isaac marries Rebekah (B.C. Isaac was 40 when he
married Rebekah)
o Abraham dies at 175 (B.C. Isaac was 75)
o Isaac receives the Birthright and his father’s
blessing
o Esau marries two Hittites at 40 (B.C.)
o Esau marries a daughter of Ishmael
o Jacob travels to his grandfather’s family to
find a wife (B.C.)
o Jacob’s Dream at Bethel
o Jacob marries Leah then Rachel
§ Levi is born (B.C.)
§ Joseph is born (B.C.)
o Jacob fled Laban and is pursued (B.C.)
o Jacob Prepares to meet Esau
o Jacob Wrestles with God & Becomes Israel
o Jacob Meets with Esau after 20 Years
o Jacob’s Daughter Raped by Shechem (B.C.)
o Jacob Returns to Bethel
o The Deaths of Rachel and Isaac (Isaac was 180
years old)
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Joseph’s Dreams (Joseph
is seventeen at the time)
INTRODUCTION
Genesis 36 establishes Esau’s
descendants. This begins with his three wives. The two Hittite women from Canaan,
and the daughter of Ishmael.
It also lists the rulers
of Edom, the land named after Esau.
This brings us to Genesis 37 and Joseph’s Dreams.
SCRIPTURE READING
Genesis 37:1-11
“Jacob lived in the land where his father had stayed, the
land of Canaan.
2 This is the account of Jacob’s family line.
Joseph, a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks
with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives,
and he brought their father a bad report about them.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than any of his other sons,
because he had been born to him in his old age; and he made an ornate[a] robe
for him. 4 When his brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of
them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.
5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers,
they hated him all the more. 6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had: 7
We were binding sheaves of grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose
and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to
it.”
8 His brothers said to him, “Do you intend to reign over us?
Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all the more because of his
dream and what he had said.
9 Then he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers.
“Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and
eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
10 When he told his father as well as his brothers, his
father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you had? Will your mother and
I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the ground before you?” 11
His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.”
I.
JOSEPH
a.
Jacob’s family were living in Canaan on Isaac’s land
once more
i.
By
this time, Jacob finally began living as Israel.
ii.
The
Lord passed the covenant from Isaac to Jacob, they secured Bethel, and safely
returned to Isaac’s land just before his passing.
iii.
Jacob
now lived with his clan on the land of his father.
b.
Joseph is the son of Jacob and Rachel
i.
Rachel
only had two children.
ii.
Joseph
and Benjamin, who she died giving birth to
c.
Jacob loved Joseph more, as he did Rachel
i.
Jacob
was one to play favorites.
ii.
We
saw this in the way he treated Rachel and Leah, which lead to sibling rivalry,
and Jacob having children with both Rachel and Leah’s servants out of their
spite for each other.
iii.
In
Genesis29:30 we read, “…his love for
Rachel was greater than his love for Leah.”
iv.
Now
in Genesis 37:3, “Now Israel loved Joseph
more than any of his other sons…”
v.
What
rivalry does this cause?
1.
In
the very next verse, we read in Genesis 37:4, “When his brothers saw that their father loved him
more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.”
vi.
Therefore
Romans 5:8 is important, “But God
demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ
died for us.”
1.
God
loves us all equally, no one can boast a greater love than their brother or
sister. There can be no rivalry.
2.
Cain
had a problem with Able because he thought God loved him more because the Lord
approved of Able.
3.
This
was not true, as the Lord pointed out to Cain before he murdered his brother
Able, saying in Genesis 4:7 “If you do what is right, will you not be accepted?
But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires
to have you, but you must rule over it.”
vii.
God
loves us all equally, though that love does not equal approval.
viii.
Jacob
was not wrong in loving Joseph in this manner, as the Lord pointed out to Cain.
We know Jacob was right because the Holy Spirit calls Jacob “Israel” in verse
3.
d.
Jacob let the world know he loved Joseph more
i.
Making
an ornate robe for Joseph
ii.
We
know this angered the brothers and revealed jealousy and the desire to kill
their brother, just as it did with Cain.
iii.
This
coat represents the “father’s blessing” being bestowed to Joseph. Once again,
the Holy Spirit choosing to whom the blessings were to be given to, rather than
Reuben the firstborn.
1.
We
saw this with Jacob and Esau!
2.
The
birthright and the father’s blessing given to whom the Holy Spirit chooses, not
man!
3.
The
one who receives the birthright was to be the High Priest to the family, which
would eventually be Joseph after Jacob died.
e. Joseph is a type of Christ
in the Old Testament
i.
Joseph,
the son, being lavished with birthright, the father’s blessing, and an ornate
coat, (covering of the Holy Spirit), and because of this, being hated by his
brothers, as Jesus was hated by the Jews!
II.
JOSEPH’S DREAMS
a.
Joseph’s first dream
i.
Genesis 37:5-8 “Joseph had a
dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the
more. 6 He said to them, “Listen to this dream I
had: 7 We were binding sheaves of grain out in the
field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves
gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”
8 His brothers said to him,
“Do you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they
hated him all the more because of his dream and what he had said.”
b.
Joseph’s second dream
i.
“Then
he had another dream, and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had
another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down
to me.”
c.
His family’s response
i.
“When
he told his father as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said,
“What is this dream you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually
come and bow down to the ground before you?” 11 His brothers were jealous of
him, but his father kept the matter in mind.”
III.
THE MEANING OF THE DREAMS
a.
Jacob’s first dream’s meaning
i.
This
dream was the future, not just Joseph’s, but Christ’s
ii.
It
refers to Christ and Israel
iii.
He
tells the truth, and they hated him MORE because of it
b.
Jacob’s second dream meaning
i.
This
second dream, also revealed to his brothers and father in truth and innocence,
showed them their future, though they did not know it yet.
c.
What Jacob’s brothers plan to do about it
i.
The
brother’s hatred reflects the Jew's view of Christ in His day.
ii.
“He
came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.” John 1:11
CONCLUSION –
The second dream of
Josephs is a prophecy of the Second Coming of Christ Jesus.
When all the tribes of
Israel will, at the time, bow at the feet of Christ. Zechariah 12:10;
13:1; 6; 14:9
“When he told his father
as well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream
you had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to
the ground before you?”
This is exactly what they
did after Joseph became the Viceroy of Egypt. It is exactly w2hat Israel will do as
well before Christ.
Next week we will read about Joseph’s brothers selling him into slavery.
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