F4F | The Story of Joseph is NOT About God Giving You Dreams

Welcome to another installment of Fighting for the Faith. My name is Chris Roseborough. I am your servant in Jesus Christ. This is the channel that compares what people are saying in the name of God to the Word of God.

So I've made a little bit of a decision. I've been, you know, kind of thinking about what are we gonna do? You know, next videos and things like this. And what I wanted to do is today I'm gonna pick somebody that I've never reviewed before, ever, and and so I've got like no emotional investment in this at all.

I couldn't tell you anything about the person that we're going to be listening to, but I can tell you that the sermon he's preaching is a twisting of God's Word. And so this gives us an opportunity to take a look at the message itself, which is very popular, and see what is wrong with it, and why it doesn't actually, it doesn't fit into the category of rightly handling the Word of Truth.

Instead it ends up breaking another commandment. Remember, we talked about the first commandment, you shall have no other gods before me. Another commandment is you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

And when a pastor or a preacher makes promises for God that God has not made, then what ends up happening is is that he is breaking that commandment, and it's it's a form of blasphemy. But it's a very famous and well-worn trope, at least at this point, in the annals of Narcissus.

And so what we're gonna be doing is we're gonna be looking at the story of Joseph, but rather than teaching on it in an extended teaching like I've done in the past, although we're gonna spend a lot of time in that story, what we're gonna do is we're gonna break down what exactly is going wrong with this sermon in real time, so that you can see how this Bible-twisting technique called Narcissus works.

So that if your pastor is engaging in it, you can politely and firmly push back on him and tell him that he's not rightly handling God's Word. And if you won't turn around and rightly handle God's Word, then find the door and then go and find a church that rightly handles God's Word.

So you get the idea. So let me whirl up the desktop here and and, you know, I wanted to show that. Yeah, that's one of my favorite photos. Shot that in New Mexico. Anyway, coming back, I'm distracting myself already.

So where we're gonna go, we're gonna go to a place called the Healing Place Church. And the vision casting leader there, which is a problem, is named Mike Heyman. And let me do this. I'm gonna open this up in a new tab.

And I just want to see what it says about this place. So a vibrant community of believers whose heart is to be a healing place for a hurting world. I mean, it sounds like a positive thing, but in order to heal a broken world, you need to do it with truth, not with lies or errors or false doctrine.

So and then let's find out where they're at. Let's see here. I'm going to copy this and I'll throw that in here. And well, oops, something says. All right. So let's go to their main page. Where are they located?

All right. Hang on a second here. Let me go forward. About. So let's see where they're where they actually are located. Grow, expect tiny little letters. I could barely read this. 225 area code. Huh. All right.

I just give about connect locations here, which I should have gone there. All right. So they seem to be in the US South, primarily Baton Rouge, Louisiana. So I mean, this is all I know about them. I mean, legitimately, this is all I know.

And so we're going to just take a look at the at the message itself. We're not going to listen in its entirety. And what I'm going to do here is I'm going to turn the subtitles on and I'm also going to increase the speed just a little bit, because we really legitimately have a long way to go in the sermon.

And of course, you'll know I've got my Bible ready. And we'll just kind of do the stream of conscious and kind of walk you through like, you know, if this isn't your pastor, it's not my pastor. I'm a pastor, by the way.

And so we'll just take a look at the actual message itself and see where this thing goes off the rails. So here we go. So here's their music.

Also, if you have your Bibles, turn to Genesis chapter 37. Genesis chapter 37. And we are going to kick off a study on the life of Joseph. I love the Bible from cover to cover, but perhaps one of my favorite characters to study to learn from in the Old Testament is the story of Joseph.

And I felt like this would be a great follow-up conversation to what we discussed last week when we said, perhaps the Lord, whatever it takes. We talked about vision. We talked about commitment. This is a study on the life of Joseph.

All right. So already we got a little bit of a problem because, you know, they talk about vision. So he's a vision casting leader and that is a huge problem. Nowhere in Scripture does it say that pastors are to cast vision.

In fact, Jesus is the head of the church and all churches have the same commission. We have been committed by Christ to make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, and teaching all that Christ has commanded.

So he's shown, you know, a favorable disposition towards the story of Joseph here. And again, I kind of made everything a little bit bigger as we listen in. In fact, I might even speed it up now just another notch just because we have so much ground to cover and see where this goes.

Next three Sundays, we'll look at dreams, we'll look at drama, and we'll look at destiny.

Dreams and drama and destiny. He likes alliteration, but is the story of Joseph about dreams, drama, and destiny? And so it makes me wonder if he's one of these fellows that teaches the dream destiny thingy doctrine.

You know, that Christianity is all about hearing the voice of God so that he can whisper into your ears and let you know what your destiny is, right? Destiny, destiny, no escaping that for me. This is not a biblical doctrine.

This is something that is a form of ear scratching. The very thing that Paul warns about in 2 Timothy chapter 4. Dreams, drama, and destiny.

Today, I want to drill down on the topic of dreams. Dreams, just some quick facts about dreams. How many of you, you have a lot of dreams? How many of you can't remember half of what you dream? You know, studies say that 12 of people dream only in black and white.

Only in black and white, 12 of you. I dream in color. When you have dreams, is it in black and white or color? Yeah, most of us are dreaming in color. They tell us that you can't read or tell time in your dreams.

All right, so this is kind of useless information because the story of Joseph, although it involves two dreams, they are prophetic dreams. In fact, I would say that there's more than two dreams involved.

If you got Joseph's two, you have the baker and the cupbearer. There's two more. Then you have the two dreams of Pharaoh. But those are all prophetic dreams. God is speaking to those people and letting them know what is coming in the future in those prophetic dreams.

So, we got a problem here because he's just talking about dreams in general. So, you and I, we dream three to seven times a night, and I don't normally remember my dreams all that often. And nowhere are we told to expect in Scripture that that's God's primary way of communicating with any of us or that our dreams actually are communications from God.

That doesn't mean that God can't do that. It's just that the story of Joseph isn't about that. Interesting fact.

You ever dreamed that you were reading something? You can't read anything or tell time. It's like you lose a sense of time. They say the average person spends six years of their life dreaming. Six years.

Some of you need to wake up. Most people have four to seven dreams every night, but they just don't remember them. They tell us that dreams are responsible for many of the great things that we enjoy, inventions that we appreciate today.

Dreams are responsible for the so...

All right. So, the setup is wrong. What he should be doing is reading the biblical text and then walking back through it exegetically and teaching us what the proper sense of the story is about and what it all, at the end of the day, means.

So, he's not doing that. Now, here's kind of a governing principle. And let me pull up a New Testament text, Gospel of John chapter 5. Gospel of John chapter 5. And Jesus is going to say something here that I think is worth our attention.

Okay? And that is that Jesus is going to make it clear that the scriptures are about Him. The scriptures are about Christ. They're not about me. They're not about you, unless we are talking about ourselves being the bad guys who've joined with the devil and have rebelled against God and sinned and we are in need of a Savior.

And the question is, what do we need to be saved from? Answer. Well, each and every one of us has a sword of Damocles sitting over our head, the very wrath of God that we've earned by our rebellion against God.

And so, when we read the scriptures and we read ourselves into the scriptures, then we've got a real problem. And hang on a second here. Here it is. John chapter 5, verse 39. Listen to what Jesus says to those who are His detractors.

He says, you search the scriptures. You can, some translations say you diligently search. You search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life. It is they that bear witness about me.

Yet you refuse to come to me that you might have life. Jesus is of the impression that Moses and the prophets wrote about Jesus. And we, the idea then is that the Old Testament stories in particular are types and shadows that in one way or another are going to point us to Jesus.

Let me give you another text in the Gospel of John chapter 20, which I think is an important one because in this text you can kind of think of it as the, well, I like to think of it as the thesis statement of the Bible itself.

So, John writes in John chapter 20, verse 30, Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples which are not written in this book. But these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

So, good way to think about it. All of the Bible is pointing us to Christ. Christ is even described in Romans as the last Adam. So, Adam and Eve point us to Jesus. Yeah, they do. Abraham in very real ways points us to Christ.

There's aspects of the story of Abraham that are really helpful in looking for this. The story of Joseph does this in spades. I would argue that out of all of the Old Testament characters, you know, humans whose lives are recorded in the Scriptures, Joseph's story parallels the life of Christ in compelling, meaningful ways.

It is the story of a beloved son who, well, is sold into slavery, is humbled. He sort of dies, if you would, by being sold into slavery and then put in prison for a crime he didn't commit. He's innocent.

And then God rescues him but for the purpose of saving the world. Joseph is a savior. And there are aspects of his life that if you really consider and try to look for the connections between Jesus and Joseph, you don't have to look far.

I mean, it's really obvious in so many ways. So, you get the idea. That's kind of my governing principle. We're going to make the Old Testament. We're not going to make it. It already does. We're going to look for the ways in which it connects back to Jesus and the overarching story that we find ourselves in.

The overarching story is that we are rebel sinners in need of repentance, in need of being forgiven and pardoned by God, indwelled by the Holy Spirit, and then bearing fruit in keeping with that repentance.

So, yeah. So, we're off to a bad start. Now, I'm going to drop the play head at just a little bit farther down the road. And we're going to listen as he makes promises for God that this text doesn't state, and I would argue are probably not even biblical.

Here we go. Yeah, yes, indeed.

Dreams, dreams. Well, this study on the life of Joseph, and especially today, I think it's going to help us as it relates to understanding the purpose and the power of a God-given dream.

In fact, the purpose and the power of a God-given dream. The story of Joseph is not leading us to expect that God is going to give us a God-given dream. That's not the purpose of this story. In fact, here's what he's doing.

He's taking a descriptive historical narrative and turning it into a prescription, as if the real reason why God had Moses write the story of Joseph was so that you can expect a God-given dream in your life so that you can be, well, you know, go from the prison to the palace like Joseph did.

That's not what this text teaches at all. I want you to write this down somewhere.

I want you to consider this, that the man without a dream is always at the mercy of a man with a dream. Where'd you get that from?

Okay, the man without a dream is at the mercy of a man with a dream? Did you find that in a philosophy book? Did you find that in a Cracker Jack box? Where'd you find that? Because that's not in the Bible.

So he's giving a principle here that cannot be justified exegetically from the text. He hasn't read this out of the biblical text. He's reading it into this account and forcing Joseph's story to conform to these thoughts rather than letting God speak to us what the true thoughts are that are revealed in the story of Joseph.

The person without a dream is always subject to the one who has a dream. I believe that God does powerful things through ordinary people like us through dreams. When we said perhaps,.

I believe that God does powerful things through people who have ordinary, ordinary people like us through dreams. I believe, let me back that up, okay? So, I believe that God does, I believe that God who has a dream, I believe that God does powerful things.

Through ordinary people like us through dreams. When we said,.

Where in scripture does it teach that God does powerful things through ordinary people through dreams? Because you'll know that's all plural, that he's creating an expectation in our Christian walk that somehow this is the thing that God wants to do.

God wants to do something powerful through ordinary you, ordinary me, but through our dreams. And he says, I believe this. And my question is, why? Why do you believe that? The biblical text doesn't teach this.

Perhaps the Lord last week, that was all about dreaming.

That was all about a vision. It was all about a preferred outcome. You couldn't see it with your natural eyes, but a dream allows you to see something in the future that's better than what you're looking at right now.

Can you help me preach today? What kind of dream are you talking about?

Because Joseph had a prophetic dream. And here's where we're going to do a little bit of work in actually taking a look at the account of Joseph. And Genesis chapter 37. Okay, so Jacob, who's now been renamed Israel at this point in the story.

He lived in the land of his father, sojourning in the land of Canaan. So these are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being 17 years old, was pastoring the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives, and Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.

Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors. But when his brothers saw their father loved him more than all of his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him.

Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more. He said to them, hear this dream that I have dreamed. Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright, and behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.

His brothers said to him, are you indeed to reign over us? Or are you indeed to rule over us? So they hated him even more for his dreams and for his words. Now here's the thing. That was God talking. That was a prophecy.

That was a prophetic dream telling him what would come in the future. And God always keeps his word. But here's the thing. You know, there's different dreams. There's prophetic dreams. Then there's daydreams.

Then there's like the I have a dream speech, you know, where you're helping people envision a better world or whatever. You know, things like this. But note here that Mike Heyman is, he's not making a distinction between a prophetic dream that God gives and these other kinds of dreams.

He's kind of convoluting things. So when we see that Joseph dreamed, these are prophecies, and they are fulfilled later in the story. So he dreamed another dream, told it to his brothers and said, behold, I dreamed another dream.

Behold, the sun, the moon, and 11 stars were bowing down to me. But when he told his father, told his father and his brothers, his father rebuked him and said to him, what is this dream that you've dreamed?

Shall I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves to the ground before you? And his brothers were jealous, but his father kept the saying in mind. Now a little bit of a note here.

If you're looking for connections back to Christ, already there are some. One would be the book of Revelation. So in the book of Revelation, it describes kind of a rainbow type color thing that is behind the throne of Christ.

I think it's invoked here in the coat of many colors that Joseph wears. He's the beloved begotten son of his father. It sounds like Jesus. But there's another connection. In fact, what I'm going to do, I'm going to pull this over here.

If I were to go to the gospel of Luke chapter 2, and let's see here. I'm going to need a Greek text just in case. That's too big. Here we go. In the account of what happened with Mary, all right, and the things that occurred.

So in particular, let's see here. All right, here we go. So when the angels went away from the shepherds into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, this is Luke chapter 2. This is the nativity narrative of Christ in the gospel of Luke.

They said, let us go over to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us. And they went with haste and found Mary and Joseph and the baby lying in a manger. When they saw it, they made known the saying that had been told to them concerning this child and all who heard it wondered at what the shepherds told them.

But Mary treasured up all these things, pondering them in her heart. Well, take a look. Israel said his father kept the saying in mind. There's similarities going on here and already you should be saying, so Joseph is a type and shadow of Jesus.

Bingo. That's the whole point of the text. And I would even add into the mix here, if you were to look at the gospel of Matthew chapter 1. So Jesus doesn't have an earthly father biological, but he has a legal father in a fellow by the name of what?

Joseph, right? So watch how this goes down. So the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way, when his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph. Joseph, hmm. Before they came together, she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit and a husband, Joseph.

Being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered these things, behold an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a what? In a dream. Okay. So these connections, they are so thin.

You know, this is like an Easter egg hunt with the Easter eggs all on, you know, a green mat. Okay, out in the open. They're just really easy to find. All you got to do is open your eyes and look. So you get the idea here.

And so what is this dream that you've dreamed? And so Joseph's dreams are prophetic dreams. But you'll note that Mike Heyman is talking about mixing different types of dreams as if somehow Joseph's dream is a different type.

And this is a problem. Let me back this up just a little bit. And I'm going to slow him down just a smidge as we listen to this section.

It was all about a vision. It was all about a preferred outcome. You couldn't see it with your natural eyes, but a dream allows you to see something in the future that's better than what you're looking at right now.

Can you help me preach today? Okay.

That's not the point of Joseph's dreams. And he was sent by God in order to save lives. He was a savior like Jesus.

In Genesis 37, it's, in fact, I love the story of Joseph because the book of Genesis dedicates more chapters to the story of Joseph than it does to Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, or Jacob combined. Starting in Genesis 37, and it rolls all the way to the end of the book of Genesis, it's almost like God recorded this for a specific reason, not only to learn from the life of Joseph, but how he used Joseph and the dreams that he gave him.

Now, Joseph is one of...

Yeah, God did have the story of Joseph put into the Bible for a very specific reason, to point us to Jesus. These things are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and by believing, you might have life in his name.

So we got a problem, and it's huge. It's not small. This guy doesn't understand.

That the scriptures are about Christ. They're not about me and you. Of many sons, okay? The Bible says that Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he's one of the founding fathers of our faith, that Jacob had a bunch of children by four different women.

Okay, bad idea. I highly recommend against that, but there were four women that produced a bunch of kids, and Jacob, when he was 91 years old, was given Joseph. Joseph was the child, the son, that was born of Jacob's old age, and the Bible says that Jacob loved Joseph more than all of his other kids.

Joseph was favored. In fact, he was favored so much that the Bible says Jacob gave Joseph a special coat. Bible says it was a coat of many color. There were so many colors on this coat, but it represented something about prominence and power.

In fact, Jacob wore this Armani suit coat while all of his brothers wore stuff from Goodwill. Jacob gave his son special treatment. Here, Joseph has these Air Jordans, and all of his brothers are wearing Skechers.

How many know it wasn't really popular?

Somebody say favor ain't fair. Somebody say favor ain't fair. Yeah, this is a problem. So again, first time I've ever reviewed anything by this fellow, and already we got some big problems. So let's review the prophecy that the apostle Paul gave in 2 Timothy chapter four.

2 Timothy chapter four, he gives admonition to young pastor Timothy, who is a pastor at one of the congregations in the city of Ephesus. And he says to him, I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who's to judge the living and the dead and by his appearing in his kingdom.

Preach the word. You know, rightly handle it. Preach the word. Be ready in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke, and exhort with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming, and I would add, and is now here, when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions.

They will turn away from listening to the truth and they'll wander off into myths. And so when you take the name of the Lord your God in vain, you are teaching mythology in his name. And that's what this fellow is doing.

And by saying favor ain't fair, that's the bait on the hook. He's baiting you with greed. Oh, I want God's favor. I wanna be God's favorite.

There was favor on Joseph. Now Joseph wore this coat and he was really proud of it because the coat not only recognized him as being the favorite, but it also said something to all of his brothers about the future of the family.

Jacob intended to empower Joseph and leave him as the leader of the entire family. Joseph didn't handle this very well.

Now notice, he's not reading the biblical account. He's summarizing it without teaching it. We're to preach the word. And so by him giving his synopsis, rather than actually reading out the biblical text, he can make Joseph's story about anything he wants it to be.

That's another problem. I flaunted his favor like he showed off his coat. And I want you to see how God uses some dreams in Joseph's life to prepare him for his future. Look at what it says in Genesis 37, starting with verse five, okay?

Genesis 37, five, the Bible says, one night Joseph had a dream. Okay, you're just, okay. One random night, probably just like any other night, Joseph had a dream. If you're taking notes, write this first thought down.

God is a dream giver.

So this creates the false expectation that God's gonna give you a God-given dream. This is a mythology. This is actually breaking the commandment. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.

Now, it's true. God does give dreams. But the reason he's saying this is to create the expectation that God's gonna give you a dream. And nowhere in scripture does he say he's gonna do that. Not like this.

So be ready. Let me back that up. Watch it now in its entirety.

Night, probably just like any other night, Joseph had a dream. If you're taking notes, write this first thought down. God is a dream giver. So be ready.

So the other error that's happening here is he's using the story of Joseph as if somehow it is a normative paradigm that you should expect for your life. It's not. This is about Jesus.

God is a dream giver. So be ready. Dreams are a glimpse of what can be. It's amazing the great things that we enjoy today that were once started just as a seed of a dream. This country, you know,.

During the midweek services that we had leading up to Easter at Kongsvinger, I preached through the story of Joseph, the entirety of it. And most of my time was spent actually reading out the biblical texts and then walking back through them to pick up the points that were relevant, you know, as it relates to how do we understand this and how they connect to Christ.

He's barely reading any of these,.

The text at all. I mean, if you look at the history of the United States, there were dreamers who shaped the trajectory of our nation.

Dreamers that shaped the trajectory of the United States. You're putting them on the same level as Joseph? Are you kidding me? What? Henry Ford was a dreamer. Henry Ford. He's up there with Joseph, you know.

Thomas Edison. Edison, up there with Joseph. Really? You think that this is what this is about?

Was a dreamer. Martin Luther King Jr. had a dream.

Yeah, he did. But that's not what the story of Joseph is about.

It's amazing the power of a dream. This random ordinary night, the Bible says Joseph had a dream. I want you to know the God that you serve, the God that you love, he wants to give you a dream for your life.

Really? You're making promises for God that he's not making, and this story is not about that. Wow. Life.

He wants to give you a vision. He wants to give you a revelation of how he can use you to make a difference in the earth. Now, let me

We're not called to make a difference in the earth. We're called to make disciples. Wow, this is really bad. I mean, it's about as bad as it gets. This guy is taking away the glory of Christ that's in this account, and basically teaching people to believe in complete pipe dreams.

Myths. I mean, if you believe that this is true, I got some magic beans I'd like to sell you in a bridge in New York. You know, I sell it for cheap. It connects Brooklyn and Manhattan. Oh man, I'd sell it to you for a song, you know?

Let me be quick to give you some guidelines, okay? If we're talking about dreams, let me give some context, and the first is this. We must be sure of the source of our dreams. You gotta be sure where this dream is coming from.

Why aren't you reading this account? By the way, I did an extended study on, you know, how to understand, you know, the Bible and how to understand finding Christ in the Old Testament. We'll put a link down in the description to the one that I did regarding Joseph, an extended teaching on this entire passage, this entire narrative.

And you're gonna see the difference like night and day. But again, the purpose of this video is to point out the problems in this approach and this mythology that's being taught regarding Joseph and the hijacking of a biblical text like this.

Making promises that God hasn't made.

If you have a dream, maybe it did come from God. Or maybe it just came from your own flesh. Or maybe it was the bad pizza you had the night before. Come on, somebody. You have to learn to distinguish the source of your dreams.

With our kids, and I love this about my wife, Rachel, she prays over our three children. We have three kids. We have Eenie, Meenie, Miney. We ain't having no more. She prays over our children. And you know what she says?

God, release dreams inside of them. God, give them vision. Give them revelation. God, speak to them about the mysteries of your will. I love that because what she's trying to speak into them is position your heart and get ready because God has something special for you.

Position your heart and get ready because God has something special for you. Jesus promised his believers that the servant is never greater than the master and if they hated the master, they're going to hate you.

And the thing he promised us in this life is suffering and persecution. This is the epitome of what it means to scratch itching ears. Wow.

I want to tell you, Healing Place Church, position your heart and be ready because God has something special for you.

And how exactly does one position their heart? You see, none of this makes any sense. None of this makes any sense at all. Alright, so if I fast forward to the 1616 mark, he's going to explain to us about how we get into position to receive a dream.

Which isn't taught in this text or any other text in scripture. Alright, let's see what we got.

Be ready. Think about the physical position of a dream. When you're asleep in bed at night, think about it. You are laid out at rest. Spiritually, God wants your soul to be at rest because it's hard for him to speak a dream when your mind is so busy.

Where does it say that in the Bible? It's hard for God to speak a dream when your mind is busy. I mean, what kind of God is that? He can't interrupt your day. Let me just kind of throw this into the mix here.

Man, this is so bad. Wow, this is just... Alright, Luke chapter 1. There was a fellow who got a message from God while he was at work. Let me read the account. So, in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, there was a priest named Zechariah of the division of Abijah.

He had a wife from the daughters of Aaron and her name was Elizabeth. And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord, but they had no child because Elizabeth was barren and both were advanced in years.

And while he was serving as priest before God, when his division was on duty, according to the custom of the priesthood, he was chosen by law to enter the temple of the Lord and to burn incense. And the whole multitude of the people were praying outside at the hour of incense and there appeared to him an angel of the Lord standing at the right side of the altar of incense and Zechariah was troubled when he saw him and fear fell upon him and the angel said to him, Do not be afraid, Zechariah.

Your prayers have been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son and you shall call his name John. You see, when God wants to communicate, if you're busy, he'll find a way to communicate where, you know, boom, what he has to say to you will get your attention.

He just happened to send the angel Gabriel and interrupt Zechariah while he was on duty at work. You know, hard for God to speak a dream. Hi, this is the Holy Spirit and I really have a dream that I'd like to speak to you, but, you know, your mind is really kind of busy right now and I'm just having a hard time kind of working the angles to figure out how to get your attention.

Do you think that you could rest a little bit so that I can kind of finally get in there and tell you something? Because right now I'm really frustrated and this is really hard for me to speak right now.

Uh-huh.

Think about it, your eyes are closed in the natural, in the spirit realm. You may have to shut your eyes to what's happening around you. So, when I sleep,.

I go to sleep and I'm asleep to everything. The world, the spiritual realm and everything. How many of you have like two switches? You know, the physical switch for sleep and then the spiritual realm.

This is nonsense. Utter nonsense. Where does it say that Joseph, you know, opened himself up to the spiritual realm so that he can receive that dream?