5
¶ And they dreamed a dream both of them,
each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of
his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in
the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto
them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh’s officers that were
with him in the ward of his lord’s house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to
day? 8 And they said unto him, We have
dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them,
Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you. 9 And the chief butler told his dream to
Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me; 10 And in the vine were three branches: and it
was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof
brought forth ripe grapes: 11 And
Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into
Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand. 12 And Joseph said unto him, This is the
interpretation of it: The three branches are three days: 13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up
thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s
cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. 14 But think on me when it shall be well with
thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto
Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: 15
For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here
also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon. 16 When the chief baker saw that the
interpretation was good, he said unto Joseph, I also was in my dream, and,
behold, I had three white baskets on my head: 17 And in the uppermost basket there was of all
manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket
upon my head. 18 And Joseph answered and
said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
19 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh
lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and the birds
shall eat thy flesh from off thee.
20 ¶
And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he
made a feast unto all his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief
butler and of the chief baker among his servants. 21 And he restored the chief butler unto his
butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand: 22 But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had
interpreted to them. 23 Yet did not the
chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.
Isn’t it odd how both chapters 39 and 40 have 23
verses? The baker and the butler both are given a dream. Each one had their own
dream. The dreams grieved them and confused them. Joseph, being an astute
observer wanted to know why they were so downcast. They told Joseph it was
because they dreamed dreams that they did not understand. Joseph acknowledged
that all interpretations of dreams belonged to God and offered to help.
The butler’s dream meant that he would be restored to
his position and the baker’s meant that he would be executed. Joseph asked only
of the butler that he would bring up Joseph to the Pharaoh himself due to
Joseph’s predicament. Both consequences for the two officials would occur in
three days.
Daniel will also interpret dreams by God’s
understanding.
Three days is a very significant in that it represents
three days when mankind’s fate is settled, either to resurrection in glory or
in an eternity of agony. Consider these possibilities, even if you disagree.
They are interesting to ponder prayerfully.
The third day represents
to us the resurrection of Christ after three days.
Luke
24:46 And said unto them, Thus it is
written, and thus it behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the
third day:
This resurrection is a theme mentioned in several
places in prophetic verses in the Old Testament.
Hosea
6:2 After two days will he revive us: in
the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight.
Matthew
12:40 For as Jonas was three days and
three nights in the whale’s belly; so shall the Son of man be three days and
three nights in the heart of the earth.
Jesus Christ was three days in Hell preaching to the
lost. He arose from the dead. What the dead of that time and the living of the
time since choose, Him or Hell, determines their fate.
1Peter
3:18 ¶ For Christ also hath once
suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God,
being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: 19 By which also he went and preached unto the
spirits in prison; 20 Which sometime
were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of
Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were
saved by water.
But, for our purposes here, the chief butler forgot
all about Joseph. God’s timing isn’t always pleasant to those whom He uses for
His purposes.
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