Gen 41:39 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath showed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: 40 Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled:
Through the cooperation of the Believing Pharaoh, Joseph is raised to the second in command over Egypt.
Joseph’s Pharaoh and his obedience to God is a beautiful act worthy of recognition. God raised up both Pharaoh and Joseph to collectively save the starving masses during the seven years famine and to preserve the seed destined to birth Messiah.
Due to a dream from God, Joseph prophesied to his brothers that they would one day bow down to his place of power ( Gen 37:9). Not aware they were helping to bring the dream to life, Joseph’s brothers cruelly sold him into Egyptian slavery at the young age of seventeen. But like Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob….Joseph believed God. He lived the imprisoned years in humility and service to others knowing the day would come when the dream would become reality. And not even Joseph imagined the roll an Egyptian Pharaoh would play in the salvation of Israel!!
To say Joseph merely dreamed his appointed rise to glory is to grossly minimize the encounter of spirit with Spirit which is the essence of the dream from God. And the soul who experiences such encounter knows it has been visited by the Divine. The dream is vivid, real, powerful, and makes an everlasting imprint on the mind. Such dreams are alive! They are fuel that fires the soul to great endurance. And Joseph surely endured his afflictions undergirded by the knowledge that God keeps His promises. The dream was a promise of deliverance to Israel.
Years of seeming injustice and humiliation were serving to affirm gentle Joseph as a man of great wisdom and knowledge. The time had come for shaken Pharaoh and patient Joseph to come together because of another visit from God via Pharaoh’s dream. The benevolent Pharoah believed the reports of those who testified to the authenticity of Joseph’s ability to interpretation
God sends Joseph to Pharaoh to save both the just and the unjust from starvation.
dreams. He believed the reports of Joseph’s humility and kindness throughout his years of imprisonment. And Joseph became known as a prophet when the dreams he interpreted came to pass. But while Joseph’s faithfulness is much acclaimed, Pharaoh gets little mention though his belief swung open the doors of Egypt’s power to Joseph and, thus, go God. The account of Joseph and Egypt’s Pharaoh is a beautiful reminder that God truly ‘…rules in the kingdom of men and sets over it the basest of men (Dan 4:17)’. It is a beautiful reminder to not judge nations nor men since God’s decreed, desired, and permissive will is continually shaping, managing, chastising, and rewarding both the just and the unjust. The Potter rules and there is none above Him! And because God saw Pharaoh’s heart and knew he would believe, I shine a spotlight of focus on the Believing Pharaoh. I honor him for his cooperation with God in saving both Israel and masses of men through the grievous famine.
All are familiar with the Genesis 41:14 account of Pharaoh’s dream. The whole of the story of Egypt and Israel is the story of ‘in the world but not of the world.’ It is a type of the deliverance of the people of God from death to Life….to New Jerusalem. And because the event of Joseph in Egypt is huge in the decreed, desired, and permissive will of God, I honor the benevolent deeds of Pharaoh towards God.
Gen: 41:41 Joseph is given rule over all Egypt
Jospeh embraces Israel and welcomes them to the blessing of Egypt.
42: Pharaoh gives Joseph the ring of power, adorns him with clothes of fine linen, and puts a gold chain about his neck.
43: Joseph is ordained by God and permitted by Pharaoh to ride in the second chariot behind Pharaoh’s command of ‘bow the knee’ to Joseph as ruler over all of Egypt.
45: Pharaoh gave Asenath to Joseph as a wife and thus set the fate for Ephraim and Mannesah’s birth.
Gen 44:17: Pharaoh sent Joseph to bring the seventy members of Jacob’s household (Israel) to partake of ‘the good of all the land of Egypt.’
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