We now move on to Joseph and his dreams. Jacob was living in the land of Canaan, but it would be several hundred years before it was truly their land, and there would be a time of slavery before this came about.
Jacob had some pretty unlikeable traits, and Joseph is no different! The account starts off with Joseph snitching on his brothers. In fact the whole scenario was geared to make Jospeh a hate figure in the eyes of his brothers. He snitched on them, he was his father's favourite, and soon he would boast about his dreams. Yet God worked through all this to achieve His purposes.
Jacob made his favouritism obvious by giving Joseph a multi-coloured robe, thus increasing the jealousy of his brothers. Joseph had the first of his dreams and then told his brothers about it. As if this wasn't bad enough he had another dream, and in this one his brothers and his parents all bowed down to him. Again he told them all about it.
Now of course the dreams were to come true, but before this happened God had a great deal of work to do in Joseph's life.
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