We are moving forward in one of the series.
We're doing several different series on Friday and we're changing them. Ah, we
rotate them. But this one is one opening up an amazing foreshadow
of the Messiah in the first book of the Bible. And I love this
because it's deep and it just glorifies the Lord.
And um, and it, and it's, you may be, as I'm
sharing this you may see other things that I'm not even talking about because
this is so rich what's in here. This is the foreshadow of Messiah.
It is the actual account of the man called Yosef or Joseph. And let's begin, let me
just, we're not at this part but we want to just kind of recap. So ...
in this, Genesis 37, open up, or as we look to,
look to verse one. Jacob lived in the land where his father had sojourned
in the land of Canaan. These are the records of the generations of Jacob.
Joseph when he was 17 years old was pastoring the flock with
his brothers while he was still a youth along with the sons of Bilhah
sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought back a bad report about
them to their father. Now Israel, that's Jacob, loved Joseph more
than his, the rest of his sons because he was the son of his old age. He made him
a very, very colored tunic. His brother saw that his father
loved him more than all his brothers and so they
hated him and could not speak on friendly terms with him.
Then Joseph had a dream and he told his brothers that, when they told it
to them they hated him even more. Okay he tells
his dream. So it begins with Joseph the dreamer. He has a dream and the dream
he has is one of sheaves of grain of his
brothers, twelve of them bowing down to his. Then he has another dream where, where
basically the sun the moon and the stars
are basically bowing down to him. And so, and so his brothers hate him even more
because of the dreams. But also because he's the beloved, he's loved
even more. And so the amazing thing beyond the story, the story is real
and it happened, and I was actually in the West Bank
not long ago where in Samaria we're going to go there in the Mystery Tour.
We're going to actually see where Joseph was. But it is also an amazing
shadow of the Messiah. Joseph. Even the rabbis saw the story of Joseph
as being a shadow of the Messiah who was going to come. Now they didn't know it
was Jesus. But they still spoke about, saying this
is what Messiah is going to be like. We're going to talk about dreams.
Or actually the, that's what it has to do with. It has to
do with the man who was the Master of Dreams. You see the title here
is in Hebrew. Ah, Baal. Try that. Khalamote.
Okay that's not, not so easy, but ... that means
the Lord of Dreams, or the Master of Dreams, or the Dream Master.
That's the word used in this text and it's an amazing title.
Dreams. We all have them and ah, you know we always get, if you're a pastor you always
get people coming up and they will say here's my dream, what does it mean?
And it could be from the Lord. Most of our dreams are just dreams. But the Lord can
speak and I've seen that as well in my life.
Occasionally something can be of the Lord. Well this will have to do with that
aspect now. Dreams that are from God. Then there's
another way we use the word dreams and that is
the dream, I have a dream for my life. I have a dream. I have
a desire. I have a vision. Well that's the other thing. So this is all going to
touch on that as well. But this is as we go
through this it's going to be deep so focus because there's some deep things here.
And uh, but it's very rewarding what's here. First of all
we've got Joseph. Yosef. His real name is Yosef,
which means he shall increase. He is the son, the beloved son
of the father. Well, Messiah is the beloved son of the Father God. Joseph is rejected by his brothers.
Messiah is rejected by his brothers. Joseph is stripped of his clothes.
Messiah is stripped of his clothes. Joseph is
handed over to the Gentiles. Messiah is handed over to the Gentiles.
Joseph goes down, descends, begins a descent to Egypt. Messiah descends to death.
Joseph is taken for dead. It's a type of death.
He's taken as dead. His father believes he's dead.
They say he's dead. The brothers say he's gone. So, he goes to the type of it.
But Messiah actually goes through the reality of it.
And so Messiah, just as Joseph is separated from his family,
Messiah has been separated from his family
for 2000 years. There's always been those, the Jewish people who have believed in him.
But by and large Messiah has been
separated just like Joseph. So it's amazing because the rabbis
said this one is a shadow of Messiah. And so, but what
does that mean? It means that the Messiah is going to be somebody you rejected.
It's going to be somebody who's separated from Israel. So there's only,
in other words there's one, and that's Jesus, or Yeshua.
So when Joseph comes to approach his brothers,
his brothers see him coming and as they see him coming
they, they say and this is Verse 19, they said to each other
here comes this dreamer. Okay. Sarcastic. When they say that, when they
say that you read that in your English but
it doesn't capture the Hebrew. Here comes this dreamer but what they
called him was Baal Khalamote.
Here comes the Master of Dreams. Here comes the Dream Master,
or the Lord of Dreams. They reject him. They strip him as we said.
They throw him into a pit and then
they sell him to passersby who are going to take him down
as a slave, take him down to Egypt. He goes to Egypt. In Egypt
he is, he is falsely accused because the, the wife of his master tries to
seduce him. He rejects ... She accuses him
of raping her and so he is thrown falsely accused, thrown
in prison. He had done nothing wrong. Innocent, and yet he's falsely accused.
Another shadow of Messiah. It says in Isaiah 53,
Isaiah when he gives that amazing prophecy that speaks of Messiah's coming
he says, though he had done no wrong, no wrong
he was, he was, yet he was accused. He was, he was judged. He was punished. A shadow.
This is all a shadow of Messiah Jesus who's going to suffer
for the sins of others, not because of him.
In one of the rabbis ... in one of the ancient writings of the rabbis
and sometimes we look at this because it's amazing, because they don't,
they are denying Jesus so we don't follow them but they actually
are bearing witness of Jesus without trying to, which is
a powerful witness. It's a hostile witness. The rabbis said,
you know today they will say that Isaiah 53, when it talks about the suffering
Savior it's not about Messiah, it's about Israel. Well, well we've got
writings from more ancient times where those rabbis are saying
clearly Isaiah 53 the man who suffers for our sins is the Messiah.
One of them is called Targum Jonathan, a translation.
It says in Isaiah 52, 53. It says that, the verse, uh it says, behold my servant
the Messiah. It's saying this whole, all this is about the Messiah.
And the one who's going to suffer, but it also says he shall prosper. In Isaiah 53,
52 and 53 it talks about Messiah also prospering.
So you've got a picture of Joseph going down and down
and down. And then all of a sudden he's going to
start prospering when he gets to the bottom
he's going to start rising up. That is a, that is a foreshadow of Messiah
who's going to descend and descend and humble, and get
lower and lower and lower until when he gets to the lowest point of death
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