Posted on 06/23/2024 7:30:33 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6
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The chief butler dreamed about being productive and devoted to his job and boss.
The chief baker dreamed about being idle, with divided loyalties.
Joseph was put in charge of the prisoners, so he knew the prevailing attitudes of the guests.
And besides, he could tell what kind of Pharoah was running things just by the types of prisoners that would arrive.
For example, if over the years the new check-ins were actual criminals for the most part, but then suddenly a bunch of J6ers flooded in, he would have known there’d been a regime change from that data point alone..
No gossip or chitchat would have been needed to get a read on the personality of the Pharaoh, so if the current ruler had been sending down the truly guilty, and then with the big party coming up these dreamers were going to get the chance to be themselves...
It was not lookin good for the flakey baker. Not good at all. He just wasn’t going to be able to rise to the occasion.
Didn't want to stick his neck out....
You highlight an important facet of Joseph's unique story. God placed him in that prison for a lengthy time, giving him a platform from which to learn some critically important lessons. Joseph was to be entrusted with overseeing the region's physical salvation, and he needed to learn intimately what it was to be needy--he learned not merely through his own catastrophic situation but also through the prisoners under his supervision.
Joseph knew that the chief baker was not long for this world because a glaring ‘tell’ was his choice of leavening agents.
Red Star, instead of Jewish Fleischmann’s.
What was he thinking?!
His buns fell flat.
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