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What in the world is God doing it he just darn old is going and go off and leave it or maybe maybe he's sitting in a heavenly recliner with a remote watching all this like a a grade sweepings soap opera or is it possible that God has a plan and that he is working the plan you know there's reason to believe that most of the time in most of the world God just lets things run but there are individuals and there are circumstances that he seems to steer from time to time it doesn't look like he really needs to manage every detail that he doesn't have to be a micromanager he knows his people he knows their hearts he knows all the probabilities and so all he has to do is tweak things from time to time to get the results that he's looking for but once in a while he finds it necessary to communicate with somebody because if he doesn't they're not going to do what they need to do and so it was that the Gyptian Pharaoh had a dream and I gather this was not one of those dreams that come about from going to bed on full stomach somehow Pharaoh knew this dream was different from the rest of the dreams that he head because in a dream piece 7 fat cows come up out of the river they were followed by 7 extremely Leni mean cows and in the dream the 7 lean cows ate the 7 fat cows must have been an ugly dream and Pharaoh probably woke up in a sweat. Well when he finally got back to sleep again he dreamed again this time he saw stalk of corn heavy with 7 lush ears of corn then just like before a stalk was 7 fin ears that were all dry and mildewed came up on another stalk and they ate up the 7 good ears of corn and feral woke up again very troubled by what he had seen but he couldn't find anyone who could interpret the dream and tell him what it meant and then his one steward remembered something he had forgotten he remembered a terrible mistake he had made he remembered a man named Joseph that he had known in prison it had been over 2 years before this that the wine steward himself had had a dream and very troubled by his dream Joseph interpreted for him he told him well what's going to happen is you're going to take you out of out of prison and put you back where you were before and everything will be just fine and everything worked out in precise detail from that dream exactly what Joseph had told him in prison was going to happen well Joseph when he left prison that is when his steward left present told him Now look I'm down here unjustly I was accused of rape I didn't do it I'm an innocent man would you speak for me to the pharaoh Well the steward went back to work and promptly forgot all about Joseph 2 years past and now when this dream comes up he remembers in and I would be surprised if he wasn't loaded down with a pretty heavy load of guilt for letting Joseph down the way he had done it now at long last he tells Pharaoh about the young Hebrew servant who interprets dreams. So they sent some guys down to the john dungeon and they dragged Joseph out of there gave him a bath and a shave remember it had been something well over 2 years since poor Joseph had had a shave he put some decent clothes on him and they brought him into the King and the King looking at his just polished a prisoner they brought before him says they tell me that you can interpret dreams and Joseph answered Pharaoh in saying well it's not in me but God will give Pharaoh the answer and we have this image of a king sitting on his throne communing with a servant and telling the servant about his 2 dreams and Joseph listens attentively to the whole thing and then he tells him This is what your dreams are about the 2 dreams are actually about the same thing the fact that the dream is doubled means it is confirmed and that it's urgent there are going to be 7 good years for grain in Egypt and they're going to be followed by 7 very very bad years now Joseph who seems to have had a gift of a singular gift of wisdom from God for a relatively young man he is by the way when all this is going on only 30 he says to the king there's going to come 7 years of great plenty throughout the land of Egypt and at the end of that you're going to have 7 years of famine and all the plenty will be forgotten it's going to become so bad the plenty it won't even be known in the land by reason of the famine that follows it's going to be so bad everybody will just forget about the good years. And for that the dream was doubled under Pharaoh twice it's for this reason the thing is established by God and God will shortly bring it to pass so we understand what's going on here it's confirmed not merely Is it confirmed it's urgent we need to act now Now here's what I suggest we have now a prisoner a former slave bought and sold into slavery by his brothers after 2 years in a dungeon in prison standing here giving advice to Pharaoh what to do about the economy of Egypt he says here's what I think we ought to do Pharaoh needs to look at a man discreet and wise and set him over the land of Egypt needs to make him kind of a czar over this question of agricultural let Pharao do this or let him appoint officers over the land and take up the 5th part of the land of Egypt into 7 plenteous years you know what he's doing they're imposing a 20 percent surtax on the crops that are going to grown for 7 straight years one 5th of them gathered up put into storage but then gather all the food of those good years that come and lay up the grain under the hand of Pharaoh and let them keep the food in the cities and that food shall be for store for the land against the 7 years of famine which shall be in the land of Egypt that the land perish not through the famine. You know I suppose this this is the origin of the idea because I never heard of anything before it the origin of the idea that government can act as an economic buffer against times of trouble that the government is big enough that it can take money out of the economy in good times and put money back into the economy in bad times and sort of mellow out as it were the economic cycle now the idea that some people have is we have too much government which I don't particularly disagree with but the point simply is this there is a legitimate role of government in acting as an economic buffer because people black Forsyte people won't really look ahead and people will eat up all that they have right now today and tomorrow they won't have anything and so the idea of a government that looks ahead and works for the benefit of all the people actually buffering people against hard times that during good times is not a bad idea so they have put this 20 percent surtax in storage and they're going to dole that back out to the people when the going gets rough thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh he says this is smart and all of his other service said yeah that is that's a wise thing to do in Pharaoh looked around and said Well where are we going to find a man like this one a man that the Spirit of God is and he said to Joseph gun issue would you all this is plain that there's nobody around here that says discreetness wise as you are you're going to be complete steward of my house you're going to be over it all and according to your word all my people be ruled only in the throne will I be greater than you but this man does his elevate a man from prison a slave to make him the prime minister of all of Egypt. He told Joseph I put you over the whole thing he took off his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand here radium invest years of fine linen he put a gold chain around his neck he made him ride in the 2nd chariot that he had they cried ahead of him as he ran through the streets bow the knee and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt and Pharaoh said to Joseph I am the boss and without your say so Joseph No man is going to lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt probably something of an exaggeration but what he is saying here he is really busy stowing enormous power on this former slave he gave him Gyptian name which is unpronounceable and gave him to wife Asanov the daughter of part of fair a priest of on and then Joseph starts running the land of Egypt at the age of 30 and so began the richest period in the history of the Egyptian people. What happened after that we'll talk about when I come back. 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I said earlier that I think many times God doesn't continually intervene in world affairs but only occasionally steps in and tweaks things a little here and there that said sometimes the depth at which he works and the foresight the length of time ahead of time he makes provision for things is really astonishing what's coming in this particular case is a famine is going to affect not merely Egypt is going to affect the whole region around there and what happens is also the fact that God for seeing the famine reveals it to Pharaoh and sets Joseph up in position because of another part of his plan he's working but in fact what they accomplished by this is to save thousands of lives in the entirety of the region because no other part of that in the world at that time made this kind of preparation for this famine for 7 solid years their ground in Egypt brought forth grain by the hand full time mean they headed everywhere they headed stored in the temples stored in houses running out the windows they had green green and more green and they laid it up and stored it Joseph it says gathered corn like a sand of the sea the point they finally stopped keeping account of how much they brought in because they had too much. Meanwhile Joseph had 2 sons in that 7 year period of time his wife as enough the daughter of the priest board these sons to him he called the name of the 1st Mormon Assa God he said has made me forget all my work and all my father's house and the name of the 2nd he called it for him for God has caused me to be fruitful in the land of by affliction you know it's interesting just in passing that the 2 boys who will receive the birthright blessing from Jacob were half Egyptian just as the 2 sons of Judah who would carry the kingship of Israel were half Canaanite and you have to come to conclusion that race doesn't really seem to matter that much to God as the birthright is passed on through the sons and the daughters the concern over what appears to be interracial marriage in the Bible really has to do with religion not race as we use the term today. After the 7 years of plenty is that they were all over and the 7 years of drought began to settle in on the land just like Joseph said it was coming and it was everywhere but in the land of Egypt how there was bread there so when all the land of Egypt was famished the people began to cry to Pharaoh for bread and Pharaoh said to the Egyptians you go talk to Joseph what he says to you you do that the famine it was over the whole face of the earth and Joseph opened all the storehouses and sold to the Egyptians and the famine waxed sore in the land of Egypt and all the countries came into Egypt to Joseph to buy corn so the famine was sore in all lands and isn't this just like the government. 1st of all they tax the people 20 percent of all the grain if they had those years and they stored it away and then when the time comes for the people to get it back they have to pay for it that seems to be the way the government works now this famine again was over the whole region Egypt was the only place where there was food and it was there only because God created so and here's our question coming rolling back again what on earth is God doing here busy have a plan it would seem so Meanwhile back at the ranch back home where Jake whose father is and where is 11 brothers live they are starving and Jacob looked out the boys he said were you sitting here looking each other for I've heard that there's food in Egypt now you get yourself up you get down there and you buy some food so we're not going to die in this terrible famine and so Joseph Tim brother and went down to buy corn in Egypt but Benjamin Joseph's brother Jacob wouldn't stand with his brother and for he said I'm afraid something bad is going to happen to Benjamin you know it's funny Joseph was always his favorite son and Benjamin born of the same mother is now his favorite son and Jacob hasn't learned anything he is still playing favorites with his boys but in the process he sets up one of the really great scenes in this ongoing soap opera his boys who sold Joseph into slavery are going to have to face him to buy green to stay alive the irony of it all. And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came for the famine was all over the land of Canaan Joseph we already know was the governor of the land he was the one that sold to all the people of the land and here come Joseph's brethren and they bowed themselves down before him with their faces to the ground they head no idea who he was one incredible irony there is here do you remember Joseph had had a dream in which there were 12 sheaves of grain and the 11 sheaves of grain ballad down to the one and his brethren when they heard that dream said are we going to bow down to you we're not going to bow down to you in fact that dream had nearly gotten Joseph killed and now it's coming to pass his brothers are bowing down with their foreheads on the ground in front of them he knew them recognized him immediately but he made himself strange to them and spoke roughly to them and said What are you doing here and here we came from the land of Canaan to buy food and he remembered the dreams that he had dreamed and he said to them your spies you've actually come down here to see the nakedness of the land you come down here to look at what's going on you're going to take advantage of us and he said No no my lord we've just come down here to buy food we are all one man's son we are true man your servants are no spies he says no no you come down here to see our hardship you come down here to spy out the land and they said no we're 12 brothers the sons of one man the land of Canaan behold the youngest is with our father this day and and one is not. The Corinthian that Joseph I'm sure you listen this beats Are you Ok 12 sons right Ok continue your story whereas the other one he's up there with a dad Ok that's 11 What about the 12th when. Well he doesn't exist anymore and Joseph said to them it's what I said your spies tell you how I'm going to test you by the life Pharaoh you're not going to go out of here unless your younger brother comes down here send one of you but infect your brother and you'll be kept in prison that your words can be proved Joseph wanted to see Benjamin but he also wanted to make his brothers scared to death he put them all in prison and board for 3 days and the 3rd day Paul pulled him out and says Ok here's what we're going to do for I'm a God fearing man if you're a true man that one of your brother and be bound in the house of your prison we're going to keep one of them here as a hostage and the rest of you can go home and carry the corn for the famine in your houses but you bring your youngest brother to me that's how I'm going to know that you're not a spy and your words can be verified and they left they decided have to go they said to one another you know we're very guilty concerning our brother we saw the anguish of his soul and when he asked us we would listen and therefore is this distress come upon us in Ruben Ruben wasn't about saying I told you so because Ruben was the one that tried to talk him out of it in the 1st place didn't I say don't sin against the child and you wouldn't listen now behold that's what's going on his blood is being required of us Now what's interesting this whole conversation goes on with Joseph standing right there. They didn't think Joseph understood them because they shifted back into the landing language of Canaan Joseph for all they knew only speaks booky Gyptian because he had been speaking to them by an interpreter and he listened to this conversation and he whipped around turned around from them and left to cry he wept he returned to them again and commune with them and took from them Simeon and tied him up right there in for their eyes tied his hands and sent him back into the prison the