Pharaoh’s Dreams are also Type 3, heavily symbolic and
requiring inspiration to interpret. It
is not just skill and experience with dreams –
“And
Pharaoh said unto Joseph…I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a
dream to interpret it. And Joseph
answered Pharaoh, saying, it is not in me:
God shall give Pharaoh an answer…”
Joseph’s interpretive power comes because he is one “in who the Spirit
of God is.” (v. 15, 16, 38)
All of the
dreams reported in Genesis before Joseph’s story are messages from God giving
commandments or making offers. All of
the dreams in the Joseph sequence foretell the future. Explicitly, in Pharaoh’s case, offering an
opportunity to adjust behavior to take advantage of one’s foreknowledge.
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