pastord writes "God send Pharaoh two dreams of the thin and scraggly devouring the plump and pleasing. Whether cows or wheat grains the message was the same, things will be very good and then they will be very bad. No one in his court could interpret the dream and as Pharaoh is getting impatient the cupbearer remembers his two year old promise, and mentions Joseph. In the interview of his life Joseph gives God all the credit for any interpretive ability and, when told the dream, identifies it as a message from the God of Abraham to the Pharaoh of Egypt. Seven years of abundant harvest is coming and seven years of terrible famine will follow. After Joseph interprets the dream he sees fit to continue and advise Pharaoh how to set up a system to save food in Egypt in order to survive the coming ecological disaster. As audacious as it was for a prisoner just out of the dungeon to give the ruler of the most powerful nation in the area advice, Pharaoh sees through appearances and listens closely. Let us remember that sometimes the best ideas come from those we least expect to find the right solution to a problem.
Without Wax,
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