Genesis 41:15

Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

From Background Notes [BN] for Sept 27th & 28th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

No sooner is he finished giving explanations of the twin dreams than Joseph tells Pharaoh what he must do to prepare for the coming famine. There is no Middle Eastern fatalism for Joseph.

 

Genesis 40:8

“We both had dreams,” they answered, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”

From Background Notes [BN] for Sept 27th & 28th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

What the dreams in this chapter reveal about God is that He, not the empire and its dream handlers, truly knows and shares His knowledge with those he chooses. Here is mystery, both for the two men and for Joseph.

Genesis 41:1-2

When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream: He was standing by the Nile, when out of the river there came up seven cows, sleek and fat, and they grazed among the reeds.

From Background Notes [BN] for Sept 27th & 28th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

While having a general sense of who the Pharaoh was in the time of Joseph, the fact remains that from an Israelite perspective, it really didn’t matter who he was. After all...

Genesis 3:2-3

The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”

From Background Notes [BN] for Sept 20th & 21st written by Pastor Bob Brown:

"You shall be as God, knowing Good and Evil." This is the word of the Serpent, the planter of doubt and the purveyor of falsehood.

Genesis 39:20

Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined.

From Background Notes [BN] for Sept 20th & 21st written by Pastor Bob Brown:

And God was, apparently, not limited in the places where he could carry out that plan. Neither the pit of his brothers nor the servitude of the Ishmaelites could interfere with the purposes of God on his life.

Genesis 39:1

Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

From Background Notes [BN] for Sept 20th & 21st written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Potiphar must have marveled at his Hebrew servant. Not only was Joseph successful, he brought blessing to the house and field of his master.

Genesis 15:13

Then the LORD said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there.

From Background Notes [BN] for Sept 13th & 14th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Even if we go to Egypt, still God’s word proves true! And so we shall surely come up out of Egypt “with great possessions.”