In this episode we continue studying the Book of Genesis. In this episode Joseph is called to interpret Pharaoh's dream, two years after he successfully interpreted the butler's dream.

Joseph told Pharoah that dream interpretation belonged to God. And by giving the interpretation, God was revealing what he was about to do.

God wanted Pharaoh to know that a famine was coming and that He was sending it.

This had to be made clear because the Egyptians worshipped the bull/kine and the god of the Nile.

And when Pharoah saw the skinny bull/kine come out of the Nile river and they ate the fat bulls/kine; after the famine started they would think these gods sent the famine.

They would think they had done something to offend the gods and they would start performing abominable ritutals to appease them.

Through Joseph God revealed that 7 years of abundance would precede the famine. If Pharaoh stored up grain during the 7 years of abundance they would survive the famine.

After receiving the interpretation, Pharaoh believed, Joseph had the Spirit of God in him and was the perfect person to administer the complicated process of storing grain.

Joseph was immediately made a ruler in Egypt there was no one higher in the land except Pharaoh.

When the famine arrived, people from all over the world came to Egypt to buy grain.

Joseph sold grain to all peoples and nations. Even the Ishmaelites and the Midianites, the ones he blamed for stealing him from his land and sold him to the Egyptians.

We note he could have hated all Ishmaelites and Midianites becase it was men from their countries that sold him to the Egyptians, who then made him a slave and put him in prison based on false charges.

He could have been an angry and bitter man and made them all starve. Their lives were in his hands.

He could have hated them all and made them all pay for the troubles he experienced in his life but he didn't.

He was not obligated to sell grain to them or any other nation but he did. And because he chose to do good and sell grain he was blessed by God and found favor with man.

Here's the text:

Proverbs 11:26 He that withholdeth corn, the people shall curse him: but blessing shall be upon the head of him that selleth it.

Proverbs 11:27 He that diligently seeketh good procureth favour: but he that seeketh mischief, it shall come unto him.