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Pharaoh’s Dream
Truly God’s schools are not like our schools. To prepare a man for the position he had for Joseph, we would have sent him to Princeton; God sent Joseph to prison. We find that two years had gone by and Joseph was still in prison (v. 1). Then one day Pharaoh had two dreams t …

Pharaoh Tells Joseph His Dream
It becomes very evident in this passage that it was God’s will to elevate Joseph to a position of great power in this world system. The long years of discipline and development had been designed to prepare Joseph for the high position that was soon to be his. It was the wil …

Joseph Interprets Pharoah’s Dreams
After hearing the contents of the dreams Joseph immediately interprets them. According to him both dreams meant the same thing (v. 25). It meant there would be seven years of plenty throughout the land, when everything would grow in abundance (v.26). Then after that there would b …

Joseph Rises to Power
Pharaoh and his officials were so impressed with Joseph, who was “a man in whom the spirit of God is” (vv. 37-38) that Pharaoh elevated him to a position second only to his own position (vv. 39- 40). He made Joseph governor of all of Egypt (v, 41), placed his royal …

Joseph Put in Charge of The Store Houses
Joseph and his wife had two sons before the famine began (v. 50). Their names were Manasseh and Ephraim (vv. 51-52). During the seven years of good harvest Joseph worked hard, storing up the grain throughout Egypt. Then, as Joseph had predicted, the seven prosperous (fat) years w …