So the Pharaoh has had some
troubling dreams, but none of the Egyptian priests and astrologers can
interpret it for him. It’s at this time that the cupbearer finally remembers
that Joseph is in prison. It’s been two years, but at least it wasn’t a
lifetime. Still, the cupbearer should probably have taken some ginkgo, maybe
then he wouldn’t have been in prison in the first place.
Pharaoh’s dreams are actually
pretty straightforward. He dreams of seven stalks of grain that are nice and
plump. Then the seven stalks wither away. Next Pharaoh dreams of seven fat
cows, but then they became thin and wasted away.
Joseph, without breaking a sweat,
tells the Pharaoh that there will be seven years of plenty followed by seven
years of famine. Pharaoh is so impressed that he pulls Joseph out of prison and
makes him governor of all of Egypt. So it’s a good thing that he had experience
doing that for Potiphar and that Potiphar’s wife accused him of rape.
The dreams are a big thing that
I’ll deal with next, but rest assured there is more to Joseph’s story that
needs to be told.