Genesis 40 Never Forgotten

Joseph’s Long Years of Slavery and Prison

Welcome to the podcast of Recast Church in Mattawan, Michigan, where you can grow in faith, community, and service. This message is by Lead Pastor Don Filseck and is a part of the series Beginning with God, Walking Through the Book of Genesis.

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Praise his holy name. I encourage you to get comfortable as much as possible with your Bibles open to Genesis chapter 40 as we're gonna dig in and walk through this text this morning. Remember that you can get more coffee or juice or doughnuts at any time during the message.

Restrooms are out the door to the end at the right. If you need to get up and stretch out in the back, I know that the chairs are not the most comfortable that have been made by humans, so you might need to get up and stretch out, and that's fine, too.

But whatever it takes to, I mean, ultimately keep our focus on the Word of God over the next 35 to 40 minutes or so, and just keep at this and looking and digging in and figuring out what it is that the Holy Spirit desires to communicate to us as his people here this morning.

What we find out right away in verse 1 is that some time has passed since Joseph was thrown into prison. Some time has gone by. And remember that he was thrown into prison based on false accusations of attempted rape, so he did not do anything wrong.

As a matter of fact, he was trying to flee the advances of his boss's wife when she accused him, and he has been found guilty by his boss and put in the slammer. Joseph was 17 years old. Just to give you some math here to think through, he was 17 years old.

The text told us earlier when he was sold into slavery by his brother, so he was 17 at that point. He's going to be 30. This is a little bit of a spoiler alert, but he's 30 years old when he's raised to power as the chief only next to Pharaoh over all of Egypt, and so you can do the math and figure out that if you take into account the time of his slavery in Potiphar's house as well as his time in prison, that's going to amount to 13 years.

Okay, nobody did the math real quick for me. It's going to be 13 years, so approximately 13 years of slavery and time in prison combined, and how many of you think 13 years, I mean, just in the scope of your own personal life, 13 years seem like a big chunk?

I mean, when you're allotted maybe 80, maybe 90, maybe fewer. We don't know how many days God has numbered for us, but when you're allotted a set number of years, I mean, one year wasted sounds pretty tough, right?

One year doing something completely and utterly against your will and just being owned by somebody else does not sound fun to me. This is 13 years of enduring and putting up with being sold into slavery and being owned by somebody else and then also being falsely accused, and I believe 13 years is a sufficient time to develop a pretty heavy bitterness.

I think it's a sufficient time to develop and nurse a significant grudge. Many of us have done better in fewer times, you know, less amount of time developing a grudge, and he's got 13 years to nurse this.

Anybody in agreement with me on that, that this is enough time for him to develop some significant problems? But while Joseph was in prison, we were told last week that he has been placed in a prominent position by the prison keeper.

So regardless of how there seems to be setback after setback in Joseph's life, he's still by his character, the character that God is infusing in him and is creating in him, he is able to rise up. I mentioned last week, it's like Joseph seems to be like a chunk of wood thrown into a river that keeps bobbing up to the surface.

So as he, they try to drown him, he just keeps bobbing back up and he keeps rising up. Whatever circumstances he's thrown into, he finds himself up at the top of the water again. And so here, wherever, wherever he is, I mean, he goes to prison as a prisoner and ends up being a leader in the prison.

It's like they were looking for a new guard and they were like, hey, let's take applications from the prisoners. And he ends up becoming one of the guards, so to speak. And it's like, that's not very common, is it?

It's a sign of the supernatural hand of God on his life that a prisoner is given significant responsibility within the walls of those prisons, that prison. But I want to be clear that we're gonna have to take it at his word later, that we're gonna actually see mentioned later in the text that Joseph wants out of this situation.

So I think that my Sunday school mindset growing up was like, prison wasn't that bad for Joseph, right? Like, I mean, he was, he was a leader in prison, right? So how bad could it have been? We're gonna see him desperate to get out.

He's gonna plead to get out. He's gonna plead with the cupbearer. Don't forget me. Get me out of this house. Get me out of this. He's gonna refer to it as a pit. So don't, don't think, don't think, don't picture Joseph in like really awesome, great circumstances during this time.

He's a leader among leaders and things are just going, he's a leader among criminals, okay? He's in prison in a place that's not meant for joy. Not, don't, don't think, don't imagine that he got, you know, courtyard time, that there was a weight room, and that he was able to watch cable TV all day.

This is not a pleasant circumstance that he's in. Well, we see in the text right away that he receives two new prisoners under his care in verse one. The cupbearer and the baker, the chief cupbearer, the chief baker for the Pharaoh have done something against Pharaoh.

Now the word that is there that's used for the something that they did wrong is actually sinned against. It's unclear what they actually did, but certainly to Pharaoh it was perceived as a significant wrong that they have done.

Now it's indicated somewhere, some kind of like, between the lines it seems to be that he's unsure which one of them is guilty. So he's placed them into the jail to determine this, and I think we're gonna see by the end of the text that he's made a decision.

He's figured out what has gone on, but it's, I mentioned last week that in ancient Egypt we've got documents to indicate that prisons were used, but they were not a final sentence. Prison was just only if you didn't know the verdict.

If you knew the verdict, if you knew guilt and could, could establish guilt, the sentence was carried out on the spot at the time. So prison was not like this long-term, you know, you've done wrong. And so even with Joseph, it's indicated that Potiphar probably still doesn't know exactly what has happened enough to be willing to put his right-hand man to death for something that he's not sure he's actually done.

It indicates that. But we see that whatever these, whatever the baker and the cupbearer have done, it has incited Pharaoh to significant anger. It says in the text, his anger burned against them. The word for anger, I love it, the Hebrew language has more, it's very good at demonstrating emotion.

So it's got multiple words where we just kind of say he was angry and we then have to modify that a lot. The actual word for anger indicates a brand of anger, a type of anger, and this word that's used here denotes brash, quick, powerful, but short-lived anger.

Like this would be like saying he went off on them, okay? I mean, he just lost it. He lost his temper with them and he was so angry at something that these two did. Now, since they worked in the food industry, you notice the common theme there?

One is the cupbearer, one is the the chief baker. Many commentaries like speculate that maybe Pharaoh got sick from a meal, okay? That's a possibility. One of their, one of their chief responsibilities is to make sure Pharaoh is okay, make sure he gets good food, make sure they didn't, nobody poisons him.

And if he gets sick from a meal, how many of you think that might make Pharaoh angry? And so he might think, well, who's guilty for this? Which one of these guys have done this to me? Or maybe he even thinks that they've done it on purpose, intentionally, or you know, even if it was an accident.

Maybe they delivered a subpar meal in the presence of dignitaries. Maybe they brought something in and they had burned a loaf of bread, or they had, you know, something wasn't just, the meal itself was not pleasing to him.

We know that Pharaoh's could be pretty picky about their food and picky about having things just so, just like some of our rockstars who have to have the water temperature at, you know, it's 63 .5 degrees, get me a bottle of water, and I only want blue M &Ms and, you know, all that kind of stuff that they have to have when they fly in to do a gig.

So maybe he delivered some kind of a, they delivered a subpar meal, shamed him in some way or whatever. But whatever they did, Pharaoh was upset, he was angry, and put them in the same prison where Joseph was confined.

Now, without them coming in contact with Joseph, I just want to point out, we would never know anything about these guys. It's only in light of them coming in contact with this man of God that they're even mentioned in the text, and it's because they happen to be put in prison with him.

God orchestrating these events that he would rub shoulders with these two dignitaries. Joseph was appointed to care, or to take care of, or to attend to these two high-standing officials who are now in prison.

Now, I want to make sure that we all understand how significant these two roles would have been in this ancient, ancient culture, in ancient times. Both of these men are entrusted with the health and well-being of Pharaoh, who is the king over all of Egypt.

They would be thoroughly vetted. They would be completely and utterly dependable and trustworthy in the eyes of Pharaoh himself, the king over all, in order to be the ones who are able to provide him with food and provide him with drink.

And so, this is a high office. And not only are they a cupbearer or a baker, but the chief cupbearer, the chief baker, the head over all of them within the court of Pharaoh. The chief cupbearer likely had responsibilities that went far beyond just tasting, like what we maybe have in your mind that he hands a cup to him from time to time.

And maybe, you know, you maybe you've read enough or you've heard enough in sermons or whatever that, well, he drank a little bit, made sure he didn't die, and then handed it to Pharaoh, and Pharaoh was able to drink it or whatever.

But this would go far beyond that to probably even the the realm of making wine. We see that in his dream, that's going to be part of the function of what he does, is actually squeeze the, squeeze the grapes.

And he's probably the chief vintner, responsible for the growing of the grapes, the production of the wine. He is the head of the wine industry in regard to Pharaoh's court. That's this man's office. The chief baker, likewise, probably spent less time with actual flour and dough, but was more a manager of sorts, overseeing a massive bakery operation in the courts of Pharaoh.

So this would not just be a small thing. We have ancient hieroglyphic writings that go back to this very era, where there are documents and lists of different types of pastries and rolls and breads, 38 different types of cakes, nine varieties of bread made in Egypt during this era.

Now, there might be 39 different types of donuts at Sweetwater's, I don't know, but at this time, I mean, imagine they're pushing the envelope of the pastry industry in Egypt during this time. And they're making new stuff all the time and bringing it before him and, and stuff like that.

And so it's a pretty significant undertaking that this baker, the chief baker, is responsible for. So they, they're in prison. And on one night, one fateful night, they're there in prison. It's undisclosed amount of time passes.

We don't know if it was a year. We don't know if it was two years. How long were they there, imprisoned with Joseph? But they have a dream. And the cupbearer and the baker both have dreams on the same night.

And many of us have had dreams that stuck with us. Raise your hand if you've had a dream that just kind of stuck with you throughout the next day. And probably most of us, just on a routine basis, we just forget our dreams or we don't have dreams or whatever, or they're just kind of fuzzy and hazy.

If you ever had a dream, you kind of were like trying to think through and it just evaporated almost in front of your eyes. And it's like, I don't really remember it that much anymore. But then there are other dreams that, that, that have troubled us throughout the day.

And these guys, it says in the text very definitively, they were troubled by these dreams. I think what bothered them most is something that wouldn't bother us as much, and that is that they don't understand the interpretation.

It's like they literally don't have anybody to go to, to ask, what does this dream mean? You see, the expectation in ancient culture was that dreams brought to the individual who is dreaming a message from the gods or from God.

And there was literally an occupation, like you could walk down the street in a city in ancient Egypt and, and see the office on the corner, you know, the storefront on the corner was the dream reader.

And that was an actual office, that was a position, that was a paid service that was provided for people in that ancient culture that you could go in and tell them your dream and then they would basically tell you their future or something like that.

Kind of like tea leaf reading or, you know, the crystal ball or whatever, or palm reading, or that kind of stuff. But that was pretty common in ancient Egypt, that dreams were thought of as very significant.

And these men being in prison have no access to a dream reader. And that's, that's, that's a setback for them. They're concerned about this. Now, now you only, now you also put into account that they're in prison trying to determine, and they're, they're concerned for what their fate is.

So now they're kind of like double troubled because they're, they're also assuming, I would think they're assuming that this dream had something to do with their, what's, what their status is gonna be.

God the Interpreter of Dreams

But since Joseph was given the task of attending these two dignitaries, he goes and sees them in the morning and he notices that they're troubled, they're distraught. Their faces show that they're, they're concerned about something.

Now, I mentioned in a previous sermon that most of my dreams are just random and senseless. But there are times that I have had dreams that troubled me all throughout the next day or even on into, on into the week.

But like I said, usually dreams just fade. Occasionally a dream or a nightmare seems so real that it shakes us and we wake up and it's like, was that real? That wasn't real? No, of course that wasn't real.

But you ever had one that was just like absurd, but it still troubled you? It's like that. That was absurd. That was obviously fictional and yet I'm still disturbed by it. They recall their dreams with clarity.

These are not the kinds of dreams that just fade away. They're able to speak in detail of what they saw in these dreams. Now, the ancients would often reserve interpretation of dreams for only dreams that contained visual images only.

Now, this was an interesting find and I don't know how beneficial it is to you other than just to kind of understand that what, what we look at in our dreams and what we see here in the text, there's a certain brand of dream that they were looking for for interpretation.

If one was spoken to in a dream, you heard someone speak to you or you spoke in the dream, they would not interpret that kind of, that kind of a dream. Because the, the words themselves would be, they would expect you to be able to determine from the word spoken what it was about.

And so they would particularly pick out these visual dreams and that'd be an interesting study for someone to go out and, I mean, you ever thought about like how, what percentage of your dreams actually have words spoken in them versus how much of, how many of them are just silent pictures that are going by in your mind or whatever?

And I don't know how significant that is, but they would leave the wordless, the wordless dreams up to the dream reader. I'm sure that the sense of importance over these dreams is heightened by their current position.

They're stuck in prison and they assume that their current situation, these dreams have something to do with it. Now Joseph is, is able to pull out of them that the dreams are the cause. He's there and he's attending to their needs and, and he says, you know, it's obvious that you're troubled, you're distressed, and notice Joseph's availability for them in their time of trouble, their time of crisis.

He is there to assist. He is there to help. He is there to listen. Now I would suggest to you that this is going above and beyond what would be the job description of your average prisoner at this time to interpret dreams.

I, I don't believe that there was probably anything in his contract that said you must interpret dreams for people while you're in jail. He could have just said, too bad, that's none of my business. Obviously, they're troubled, but that's, that's up to them.

Of course, they're troubled. They're in prison. Duh. So he could have just, how many of you know that he, that there's a way that you, you have at times identified a co-worker, you've been at work, you've been in a, in a context and in a situation outside of your home where you've identified that someone is troubled and you've just kind of left a minute.

I think all of us have been there at some point. I'm too busy. I don't have the time. I'll, whatever. But Joseph here is, I mean, his role is to attend to them for sure, but he is also available. He's willing to help and assist and to listen and take that opportunity when he sees that somebody is visually disturbed or troubled.

He engages these two and is concerned for their express needs. Uh, notice where, though, Joseph points these two men. Immediately. Immediately. They're troubled. They're disturbed. They tell him, well, we had some dreams last night that were really problematic to us.

And his first response is, do not. Interpretations belong to God. Goes there right away. He doesn't, he doesn't, he doesn't beat around the bush. He doesn't try to make them all comfortable and, you know, make, make sure that, you know, well, are they people of faith or not?

Or, but right, he just goes right for it. In essence, Joseph says, isn't God the solution to your problem? Have you considered God? I love how here in this prison, Joseph is eagerly testifying to the power of God.

Joseph knows that God hasn't given up on him and Joseph himself hasn't given up on God. And even here in this pit, as he calls it, he, he brings with him the light of the power of God and says, let's, let's go to God with this one.

There's all these dream readers out, but you don't, you don't need a dream reader. You don't need to get out of jail and go to the, go to the corner and pay money to have a dream reader. Isn't God the one who knows what this was all about in the first place?

Can't we turn to him? He asked for them then to share the dream with him and the cupbearer starts first. He had a dream of a fast-motion process. Have you ever seen those fast-motion movies where the, where it goes from, like, seed to flower, like, in just a matter of seconds and it just kind of, like, you see the, the plant grow and then the blossom and then it withers and then it fades and it's dead?

Those are kind of cool. And that's, like, the image of his dream. That's what he sees in his mind as he sleeps. He sees the vine grow a, a branch, I mean a vine, and it grows into three branches. It buds, it blossoms, forms clusters, and then the cupbearer prepares it, pours it, and serves it, all just in a matter of, really, really fast.

It's like, this just, this happens. Everything in this accounted dream, everything in the statement of his dream spoken to Joseph is in triplets. The vine does three things, three verbs ascribed to the vine.

The cupbearer does three things. The vine has three branches. Pharaoh is mentioned three times. The cup is mentioned three times. You might start to think three has some significance in this dream. And Joseph keys in on the three branches and identifies that, that that does indeed matter, and that he will be called into the presence of Pharaoh in three days.

And not only that, but the interpretation is quite simple. He's going to be restored to his office. He's going to be brought back as the cupbearer. The phrase, by the way, in case you're curious, because it's mentioned a couple times and it's used as a play on words, the phrase, lift up your head, is a figure of speech for being called into the presence of the king or Pharaoh.

So it's used in the passage three times. Two of them are referred to being called into the king's presence, and one of them means to literally lift up a head. And so one of them is a gruesome literal translation.

The other two that are used in the text are indeed figurative. But I'll help you understand what I mean when I say it's a figure of speech. When you would enter, when the king would enter his throne room, everybody in attendance would look down at their feet.

Nobody would ever make eye contact with the pharaoh unless requested to make eye contact with the pharaoh. So to lift up one's head is for pharaoh to literally step forward and touch your chin and bring you up to eye level.

You've been summoned to have an interaction with the king. Are you getting what I'm saying? And so that's the notion of him lifting up your head is calling for your attention. Now, it might not be physical lifting up your head.

It might be by saying your name or by declaring you and then you now are to give your full attention to him and he has your attention. And that's a pretty, I mean, I think that's a pretty significant thing to be called and have him lift up your head.

And that's what we're talking about here as this figure of speech. Now, it's clear that Joseph was depending upon God. He said God is the one who interprets dreams and God and he's giving him the glory and yet he speaks directly on this interpretation.

What do you think? That's pretty direct, pretty just bold for him to say this is the interpretation of your dream. His confidence, I'm going to be honest with you as your pastor. This is something I struggle with.

What is the mechanism of his confidence? How does how does one stand in the presence of another and with assurance interpret their dreams? Three days you're going to be restored. Everything's going to be great.

How many of you, if you're honest, in your heart you wrestle with the notion of that level of confidence that Joseph shows here in the text? Anybody with me on that? A handful of us? Okay, we're just this this notion that like how do I know?

How did he know? How do you look someone in the face and say dude three days from now you're going to be called back into service out of prison. Everything's going to be fine. It's all going to go just like it used to.

It's obvious to me that God is capable of giving like he gave to Joseph this kind of confidence. He's capable of doing so. Now what that looks like in our lives, it's hard to tell. I mean, I've heard that abused a lot.

And so it's very very cautious thing, you know like the like the guy in college who says God told me to marry you. God told me you're supposed to date me, you know, whatever. It's like, um, there's all kinds of weirdness that gets rolled in or God told me to buy two houses.

God told me to buy the Maserati. God told me to buy the Bukhari, whatever it is, you know, it's like uh, you could, how many of you know that is open abuse? A little bit, okay. And so I don't understand the mechanism of it, but I'm pretty sure that we can know when God is in that.

And I think even the one who says God told me to buy the Maserati, they know. They know in their heart. We know in our heart when we are extending beyond ourselves and we're using God's name to try to get what we want.

I think we have a pretty good indication of that as well if we're honest in our own hearts. But as if to emphasize how assured Joseph was. I mean, Joseph is so sure that this is going to go down the way that he says it is, that he has the right interpretation that he goes further and says when you are restored definitively, when this happens, when you get back in the good graces of Pharaoh, only remember me.

Please do this kindness to me and just in any subtle way possible by your kindness, please mention my plight to Pharaoh. If you would please just do that. I mean he he's overboard in his uh in his emphasis on just humility and only just just this one small thing I'm asking of you.

I've done this favor for you. I've interpreted your dream and I've told you what it means. Could you please mention my situation to Pharaoh? But before we get the notion of this prison being a favorable favorable situation, like I mentioned earlier, we need to let Joseph's request here in this portion of the text stand on its own.

He is not at all saying, hey, this prison gig is pretty good. They feed me. I've got clothes. I'm taken care of. I have responsibility. The prison keeper likes me. I wouldn't mind just staying here. The text is very clear.

He wants out. He's been stolen. He declares to the cup bearer. I've been stolen and I've been falsely imprisoned. Tell this to Pharaoh, please. Now, well, we might technically think that he's exaggerating when he says he was stolen.

Wasn't he sold? He's not stolen, but we need to keep in mind that when someone sells something that doesn't belong to them, they are stealing. And that is what has happened to him. And even the end of verse 15 shows that even though many years have passed, the word, it's interesting, the word pit, the word for cistern, is not far from his mind.

As many years as have passed, it's as if in the text what Joseph is identifying is I just haven't moved that far from where my brothers threw me. They threw me in a pit, and here I still am. He's here, in essence, by using this particular word for the prison, he's identifying that he doesn't feel the progress that you and I think he feels.

Because we've been in Sunday school class. We've thought Joseph, awesome, cool, great. He rises up. We know the end of the story. We got the spoiler alert, and because we know the spoiler at the end, we assume that this is going well for Joseph.

This is not going well for Joseph. This is not pleasant circumstances for him. He says, I'm right where, right where I started out. My brothers threw me in a pit, and here I sit in this pit still. Have there been some ups?

Sure, there have been some ups and downs in his life, rising up in the house of Potiphar. But imagine the, imagine the difficulty of the harassment that he faced from Potiphar's wife, even during that time.

Do you think that that might have wore him down? Do you think that might have been a adverse working situation for him? That wasn't super pleasant. And so he has not had an easy time of this. From Joseph's viewpoint, he has just not moved that far.

And as exciting as his life might look from 10 ,000 feet, we need to keep in mind that it was going nowhere from Joseph's viewpoint. From the practical day in and day out of what Joseph faced every morning when he woke up, just not much movement.

I point this out to suggest to you that being significant in God's plan doesn't always look like being significant in God's plan. And it certainly doesn't always feel like being significant in God's plan.

Are you getting me on that? Many people have been used to do awesome things for the kingdom of God, while from their perspective, all they were doing was what felt mundane and routine to them. We live in a culture that deifies the big sacrifice, evangelical culture.

American Christian culture deifies the big huge sacrifice. Pick up your family, move to the Middle East. That's something. The cutting-edge ministry we elevate and lift up. The big names, the big numbers we elevate.

While God is working through the routine everyday people who often wake up in the morning feeling forgotten and left out and go to bed feeling forgotten and left out. Like Joseph. How many of you, you know where the story is going.

Does God have big plans for Joseph? Amazing plans for Joseph. Is there any indication that Joseph is just just living in that, just just thrilled in that right now? Like get me out of this house. Just only do this one favor for me.

Just just be just be kind for just a moment. Just say something to Pharaoh for me and maybe something will move. So when the chief baker sees that the cupbearer received a good interpretation, I think in that phrase that the the the baker only after seeing the positive interpretation that was given to the cupbearer then feels free, indicates some level that the baker has some indication things aren't good in his dream.

He has already some latent sense that he wants a positive interpretation, but I'm not sure that he really thought he was going to get that if we consider what his dream was. He shares his dream and his dream is also visual and in it he has three large baskets of pastries on his head.

A common way of carrying things in that era. So he's got these three large baskets and there's one balanced in between the other two on the top and in the uppermost basket there's all kinds of cakes and pastries that have been made.

A pretty simple dream but in the dream the birds are eating from the basket. It's a very different dream if you think about it from what the cupbearer's dream was. Notice the absence of pharaoh. There's no there's no pharaoh that he would have been supposed to be serving.

Notice the negative connotation of the baker having his baked goods stolen by birds. Notice the absence of him, any motion or movement from the baker to try to shoo away the birds or anything. It doesn't seem likely that this that it does seem likely rather that the baker might have had some notion from just thinking about what he dreamt that this is not going to go well for him.

You see what I'm saying? You have a dream like that. It's like things are not working out well according to his career. If you bake pastries, you don't make you don't make them for the birds. Just like the cupbearer, the number three is significant.

But in this case in three days the baker will indeed be summoned into the presence of pharaoh and have his head required of him. He will be decapitated and then impaled on a stake as an example to all who displease pharaoh.

Not a pleasant picture in our minds of that. You need to be understanding that what we what we think of in the wild west when we see an English standard version or various translations, we think hanged.

So we're thinking wild west, gallows, that kind of stuff. That is not the picture that we have there. When you see the word hanged, most often in the old testament, like you see that Haman was was hung on a and a lot of times the translation is gallows.

It's a pike. It's a stake. It's impaled. That's what they did in that ancient time. So think not wild wild west, but wild wild east. And that's what they did and they would usually kill the person first.

So there was a method of execution in this case. We're actually told he was decapitated. He was beheaded and then his body is placed on a stake for the deterrence of rubbing the pharaoh the wrong way.

Okay. I mean, I think that might be a deterrent in your community if on a regular basis, you know, you might pay your taxes on time and stuff like that if that was a legitimate way and method of getting your obedience.

And so that's what we've got going on here. And this is the interpretation of Joseph of this dude's dream. And when I read this, I think wow, Joseph. Like if there is ever a time for a convenient lie, okay.

I'm not suggesting that you lie. But what I am just saying is like, I mean the whole like does this dress make me look fat question? You guys know exactly the question I'm talking about here. You know, you're looking for a creative way to address that question.

When you're looking at this and you're saying like is there any room any wiggle room for Joseph to look at this text and look at this dream and go, you know, I'm just not getting it. This one looks fuzzy to me.

I'm not quite sure or even just You know what? It looks like to me baker. You're gonna go back. You're gonna bake some bread birds are gonna eat it. That's what i'm getting from this one. That's what i'm seeing here birds eating your bread.

They like your cakes. It's gonna be great. You're gonna you're gonna work at the zoo. You're gonna work at the zoo i'm getting this. Um feeding the leftovers, uh, but that's not it. Do you and I and I use humor there just to point out the exact opposite of what i'm what i'm joking about.

And that's how utterly direct. How utterly harsh this interpretation comes off in the text anybody with me on that? Does this come off harsh? Guy says oh, here's my dream. You've just given a positive interpretation.

Here's my dream and you're like dude, you're gonna die three days from now. You're gonna it's done. What are you like? Ah, I didn't I didn't really want you to. I don't want you to interpret my dream.

Stop. Um too late. Um, Joseph clearly had some divine revelation. Would you agree with me on that in order to speak? This clearly about the future with assurance and clarity. This is this is not merely psychology.