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†. Gen 41:47-49 . . During the seven years of abundance the land produced plentifully. Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored it in the cities. In each city he put the food grown in the fields surrounding it. Joseph stored up huge quantities...

†. Gen 41:37-38 . . Joseph's suggestions were well received by Pharaoh and his advisers. And Pharaoh said to his courtiers: Could we find another like him, a man in whom is the spirit of the gods? If there was one thing those old-time pagans valued, it was a connection to the spirit world, and...

On a bright sunny day, amidst the African brush- Playing in the sand, two tiny lion cubs. Filled with potential, though they be yet small, Furry balls of terror unaware of the dangers about them all. They play, in their little sand pit, preparing for what is ahead. Unaware of it, yet preparing...

Hey Everyone, I am absolutely stoked! This is my 100th post on my blog! Anyways, I was wanting to do something really special for my 100th. The forefront idea was a video (one of my side projects), but time is against me . So I thought that my 100th post would just simply be an … Keep reading →...

†. Gen 41:25b-32 . . Both dreams mean the same thing. God was telling you what he is about to do. The seven fat cows and the seven plump heads of grain both represent seven years of prosperity. The seven thin, ugly cows and the seven withered heads of grain represent seven years of famine. This...

†. Gen 41:15 . . I had a dream last night; Pharaoh told him; and none of these men can tell me what it means. But I have heard that you can interpret dreams, and that is why I have summoned you. Potiphar of course would have been responsible for delivering Joseph, and probably informed him of...

†. Gen 41:1a . .Two years later Poor Joseph. He's now at the very threshold of his fourth decade of life and still hasn't slept with a girl, nor does he even really have a life of his own. He was under his dad's thumb for seventeen years as a kid, and now he's been a slave in a foreign country...

†. Gen 40:20a . . Pharaoh's birthday came three days later, and he gave a banquet for all his officials and household staff. What really is the purpose of a birthday party anyway if not to celebrate your own existence? For a guy in Pharaoh's position, life is good: better than what you could...

†. Gen 40:4b-8a . . After they had been in custody for some time, each of the two men-- the cupbearer and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were being held in prison --had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. . . .When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw...

Joseph was 17 when he arrived in Egypt, and 30 when he became prime minister. So 13 years of his young adulthood were wasted in slavery and confinement; and all that time without even so much as a date or a girlfriend. More than a full decade of the best years of his life went by with no female...

†. Gen 39:1-3 . . Now when Joseph arrived in Egypt with the Ishmaelite traders, he was purchased by Potiphar, a member of the personal staff of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. Potiphar was the captain of the palace guard. The Lord was with Joseph and blessed him greatly as he served in the home of...

†. Gen 38:18b-23 . . So he gave them to her and mated with her, and she conceived by him. After she left, she took off her veil and put on her widow's clothes again. . . . Meanwhile, Judah sent the young goat by his friend the Adullamite in order to get his pledge back from the woman, but he...

†. Gen 38:12a . . As time went by, Judah's wife Bath-shua died. This event left Judah single, and eligible to remarry; so that Tamar and Judah are now both single adults; however, Tamar is betrothed, and that makes things a little complicated. †. Gen 38:12b . . After he got over her passing...

†. Gen 38:6 . . Judah got a wife for Er his first-born; her name was Tamar. Ms. Tamar is a total mystery. Neither her family, her ethnic identity, her age, her looks, her education, her material worth, nor anything else is known about her. But she's the one through whom God will bring Messiah...

†. Gen 38:1a . . About that time Joseph was 17 when he arrived in Egypt (Gen 37:2) and 30 when he became prime minister (Gen 41:46). When he went to work for Pharaoh; a 14-year period began, consisting of two divisions-- seven years of plenty, and seven years of famine. After 9 of the 14 years...

†. Mtt 12:40 . . For just as Jonah was in the belly of the huge fish three days and three nights, so the Son of man will be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. When you think about it, Jesus' corpse was never in the heart of the earth. It wasn't even in the earth's soil. It...

†. Gen 37:29-30 . .When Reuben returned to the pit and saw that Joseph was not in the pit, he rent his clothes. Returning to his brothers, he said: The boy is gone! Now, what am I to do? Precisely where, and why, Reuben wasn't present when his brothers sold Joseph isn't stated. Reuben wasn't...

†. Gen 37:21-22 . . But when Reuben heard it, he tried to save him from them. He said: Let us not take his life. And Reuben went on: Shed no blood! Cast him into that pit out in the wilderness, but do not touch him yourselves-- intending to save him from them and restore him to his father. The...

In the sacred hallways of heaven, A crystal jewel so precious and rare. Nestled amidst grass, thick and soft as down. So soft and fragile,one must only whisper there. Tis jewell, a beauty rare, so hard to find, unique. So perfect and complete- but touch it and it breaks. With our cracked...

†. Gen 37:9-11 . . He dreamed another dream and told it to his brothers, saying; Look, I have had another dream: And this time, the sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me. . . . And when he told it to his father and brothers, his father berated him. What; he said to him; is this...