1
¶ And it came to pass at the end of two
full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river. 2 And, behold, there came up out of the river
seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow. 3 And, behold, seven other kine came up after
them out of the river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other
kine upon the brink of the river. 4 And
the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven well favoured and
fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke. 5 And he
slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon
one stalk, rank and good. 6 And, behold,
seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind sprung up after them. 7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven
rank and full ears. And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream. 8 And it came to pass in the morning that his
spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and
all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none
that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Two complete years have gone by and Pharaoh has this
dream. This reminds one of Nebuchadnezzar’s dream and his calling of all his
wise men together to interpret it for him, although he insisted he couldn’t
remember it, so they had to tell him the dream, as well.
Daniel
2:1 ¶ And in the second year of the
reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was
troubled, and his sleep brake from him. 2
Then the king commanded to call the magicians, and the astrologers, and
the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, for to shew the king his dreams. So they came
and stood before the king. 3 And the
king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know
the dream. 4 Then spake the Chaldeans to
the king in Syriack, O king, live for ever: tell thy servants the dream, and we
will shew the interpretation. 5 The king
answered and said to the Chaldeans, The thing is gone from me: if ye will not
make known unto me the dream, with the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut
in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. 6 But if ye shew the dream, and the
interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great
honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.
Dreams are often disjointed things with actors and
events that make no sense and seem like the extra stuff left over from what you
thought about the day previous. It is almost as if the mind uses the film that
lies on the proverbial cutting room floor in the old movie days and creates
something surreal. The kind of sleep that allows you to dream is important for
a successful sleep, we are told. But, occasionally, in cases mentioned in the
Bible, some dreams are communications. These are communications from God and
God also provides the interpreter of the dream. It is like the New Testament
speaking in tongues, foreign languages. If there is no one in the assembly who
can translate the speech does it serve a purpose from God and can it be from
God? Paul says no. It is nothing more than confusion and God is not the author
of confusion.
So, we have a dream that means something and we have
need of someone to interpret it.
Here we have the definition of well favoured and ill
favoured in the text as they are contrasted with fatfleshed and leanfleshed.
Kine are cows, as is evident from the
twenty or so verses in the Bible where the word is used. Do a word search on
use a concordance to see.
And again, for corn,
understand that it is a reference to a head of wheat in British English as
it can refer to any type of grain. For example, look up the English “Corn
Laws.”
John
12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Except a corn of wheat fall into the
ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
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