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A PURPOSEFUL LIFE; OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
FROM THE PIT TO THE PALACE
PART XIV
"I, Joseph, looked at the faces of the two men in front of me... They are in the same prison that I am in.... Because Pharaoh has sent them here.... Today they looked particularly sad... I learned they felt depressed because both of them had had a dream last night they could not understand...But my God is able to give me understanding of their dreams... So I asked the cupbearer to tell me his dream.... He told me that in his dream he had seen a vine... On that vine were three branches... The vine budded and then blossomed.... Its clusters ripened into grapes....He then saw that he had Pharoah's cup in his hand... And he squeezed the grapes into Pharaoh's cup... he then gave the cup to Pharaoh....As I listened, the Lord impressed upon me the meaning of the cupbearer's dream... The cupbearer listened intently as I shared with him what the Lord had put on my heart... I told him hat within three days he would be restored to his position as chief cupbearer to Pharaoh.. The cup bearer looked at me with great relief in his eyes.... He knew that what I had said would come to pass.... He would be released soon so he could once again serve his master Pharoh.".... Please read the typed out attachment when you will learn that the cupbearer tells Joseph his dream...
ATTACHMENT A PURPOSEFUL LIFE, OLD TESTAMENT STORIES
FROM THE PIT TO THE PALACE
PART XIV
Joseph looks at the two prisoners who are with him in the same prison he was put in by his master Potiphar.Both men have had a dream the night before but do not know its meaning. However, Joseph is convinced that God will reveal the meaning of these dreams so he asks th chief cupbearer what his dream has been about as you can read in Genesis 40:8b-13
Then Joseph said to them, "Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams." So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, "In my dream I saw a vine in front of me, and on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters ripened into grapes. Pharoah's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, squeezed them into Pharaoh's cup and put the cup in his hand." "This is what it means, " Joseph said to him. "The three branches are three days. Within three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your position, and you will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand, just as you used to do when you were his cupbearer."
As soon as the cupbearer tells Joseph the dream, the Lord reveals to him the good news that the cupbearer will be restored to his old position as Pharaoh's chief cupbearer.
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