Joseph The Dreamer

Let's pick up where Joseph went down into the land of Egypt. He is sold into bondage. They cast him into the pit, and after that they cast him into the pit we are told how the Midianite merchants, or the Midianite people along and pick him up there. Remember now Ishmaelite, Midianite, all of those people come from some man, some lineage there, like the Ishmaelites comes from Ishmael, and so forth. Everyone of them has some forefather there, like Abraham was of the Israelites. And you know the Israelites came from the name Israel. Israel. And today they still call them Branhamites, and all kind of ites, you know. And it just goes right on and on. It don't ever stop. So, anyway, here we find him, and we spoke of Dothan here, and Brother Taylor tells me it means a place of two wells. And this place Shechem means shoulder here. All right. It is believed that Shechem here is the same place where Jesus talked to the woman at the well later on. Now, we can't prove that, but it's believed to be that. And we want to bring out some things that maybe we can prove a little later on in the teachings. But Joseph was cast into a pit and then the Midianite merchants drew him out while his brother planned to draw him out and they beat them to it, and they sold him to the Ishmaelites and he was taken down to Potiphar, who was the captain of the guard, the office of Pharoah. And the Bible said that when this man took Joseph, and bought Joseph__ Remember they sold him for twenty pieces of silver. The Midianites sold him to the merchant men for twenty pieces of silver, to the Ishmaelites, and then they sold him into bondage in Egypt. I don't know how much they got out of him down there. But anyway, we find that everything that Potiphar did it prospered. Everything from the time he took Joseph it prospered. Now, I made the statement this morning, you take a man of God into your confidence, into your home, you take the church into your confidence, and your home and you start supporting it and you'll prosper. For the Bible said they that bless you shall be bless, and they that curse you shall be cursed. And who ever we bless will be blessed. That's the Bible. And so then, this man, the Bible said that God blessed everything that he did because he had Joseph. Now you say, Well, does this whole true, Brother Pike, with anybody? There is another recording in the Bible where it says that they took a certain priest into their home, and the Bible said they begin to prosper. Every time you bless a person that is a Christian you are blessed. And then the Bible teaches that after Joseph was taken out of the hand of Potiphar and put down in prison the man that put him over the prison, the Bible said, whatever he began to do was prosperous. So, then it stopped off with Potiphar. So you see it wasn't Potiphar that was being blessed it was Joseph that was being blessed. All right. The Bible said he was a godly man, and we brought some of these things out the other night. We might relate them, or go back over them here right quickly. The Bible said that he was put over everything that his master had. And everything that his master did prospered, and the Bible said that God blessed him. Now then. Just before we carry on here with Joseph, notice that between the time Joseph is sold into bondage, between this time that he falls into the pit and is sold into bondage, Judah, something happened to Judah. Remember Judah said let's sell him? Now, Brother, be sure you sins will find you out. You just be sure of that. Reuben's sins found him out when Jacob blessed him down there and said, He's unstable as water. That's what he said about him. Levi and Simeon, remember how they went over there in Shechem and destroyed the people over there, and when Jacob blessed them he said, They're instruments of cruelty, they're self-willed, he said. And then we find Judah here, even though Judah is bless of Jacob as being, extensively speaking, as being the one from which Shiloh shall come; yet in spite of this Judah pays for his wrong. We'll just see just what happens to him. The Bible said after this Judah went down to a certain place and turned in to an Adullamite. Now when you thing of it saying turning in to an Adullamite the first thing you think is a woman. No, now Hirah, the Adullamite, was a man. It was a friend, and he turned in here to a friend which was Hirah, the Adullamite. He turned in here and the Bible said he saw a Canaanite woman named Shuah. And here the Bible said he went in unto her. Well, you again think of harlotry, but that wasn't right because Judah took her to wife. And so then, the Bible said she bore him three sons. And we brought them out. We named these three sons the other night. We brought them out here how that God had blessed Judah with three sons from this woman Shuah, the Canaanite woman. Now, the Bible said that Judah went in unto this woman and she bore him three sons and that he also had a daughter-in-law by the name of Tamar. Tamar. Now then, the Bible teaches the first son died. We name these the other night. The first son died, and the first son was Er, and the second was Onan. And they died. The first one, Er, was wicked in the sight of God. The last one was Shelah. And the first one was wicked in the sight of God, and the Bible said God smote him. And then that left Tamar a widow. And then the Bible says that Judah told Onan to go in unto his brother's wife, that is, take her to wife, and raise up seed unto his brother that the name of his brother be not cut off that the name of the lineage might continue. But the Bible said that he went in unto her, and this is plain talk but this is what the Bible said, and it said the seed was spilt upon the ground and God was angry. And when he did the Bible said that He also killed Onan. All right. Then after this, knowing that they would not be his children, the Bible said he refused to do that unto her as a husband. And so then Shelah was promised unto Tamar. And Judah said, You wait until Tamar, until Shelah is old enough and I will give Shelah to husband to you. Now, the Bible said that when Shelah was old enough to wed Tamar that Tamar saw that she was not given unto Shelah to wife. All right. Then the Bible said that she put off her widow's garments, and she put a veil about her and she wrapped herself and she went over to a place called Timnath. Now, remember. This really shows something here if you can keep your minds out of the gutters now, and be pure minded here. Went over to a place called Timnath and there she feigned herself to be a harlot. And Judah, given to the passions of the body, when he came by, the Bible said he and his friend Hirah, the Adullamite, went up there to shear the sheep, or something up there. And when they got up here to Timnath to__ Remember, this is the same place now where Samson came to to get his wife, here. So it really shows something here. He went up there and he found this woman by the wayside and he thought her to be a harlot, and he ask if he might come in unto her. And she said, What will you give me? She said, I want a pledge. He said, I'll give you a pledge. And the Bible said he ask her, What shall I give you? And she said, I want you ring, which is your signet. Now, remember these three things. It show something spiritual here. I want the signets of your finger, which is a ring. I want the bracelet, and I want your staff. These are the three things now I'm asking for them. And he gave them unto her for a pledge, but the things that she ask for was a kid. She wanted him to give her something to eat. She acted off as a harlot, and she acted like she wanted him to give her a kid, which was a goat, or something. And he said he would give her a pledge until he could deliver this to her. She took the pledge, and then after this deception she went off, after this deception of harlotry, she went off and she kept the pledge and when Hirah, the Adullamite, returned with the kid to take the pledge she was gone, and it put Judah to shame because he couldn't find her. So when Hirah, the Adullamite, inquired of the harlot that was there they said, There was no harlot here. So then, later, three months later the Bible said she's found with child by whoredom, and they come to Judah and they said, You daughter-in-law is with child by whoredom. And then the Bible says that Judah immediately said, Bring her forth and burn her. You see the difference in the day they lived and the day we live in. Now, today they just practice harlotry, and they just go up and down the street and practice harlotry, give in to the passions of their body, and the law permits it, and everybody permits it, and it's just a big thing, a big exciting things for them to commit the evils that they commit. But the Bible said in that day they took them and burned them when they committed harlotry like that. If you had a daughter, had a wife, or had somebody that committed these evil things they'd take her out and burn her at the stake out there. That's right. Somebody said, Well, God has changed. I beg your pardon. He hasn't changed at all. The Bible said if a son cursed mother and father let him die the death. Some of the rebellious children that rise up against mother and father, the Bible teaches they'd have been stoned to death out there. God hasn't changed a bit. That's right. You say, I think God's changed. My friend, you're going to find out that burning at the stake and stoning to death is a lot easier death than burning to death. You're going to find that out. God hasn't changed. He magnified the law. He told Jesus, said, I haven't changed any of it. Jesus said, I come to magnify. So then, you find out God hasn't changed. He just gave a little space of grace in here for you to get right, and when He pours out His wrath on the harlots and adulterers__ The Bible said God hated the whoremonger. That's right. You whoremonger, God hates you, the Bible said. And He's angry with the wicked every day. And said, I'll pursue you until you perish from off of the face of the earth. All this talk going around about God loving everybody, God's going to bless everybody, and God ain't angry. The Bible said, God is angry with the wicked everyday. He said, I will pursue you until you perish from off of the face of the earth. That's right. I said, then you see, the Bible said that when she was brought forth to be burned she sent to Judah, and she said, By the man who owns these am I with child. So, the Bible said when Judah saw these things he acknowledged these things. Now, he acknowledge these things. Remember, God creates the good, God creates the evil, and God has his way in every one of them. I want you to notice something here. I know people get critical, but I want you to be clean minded and notice something. Did you know that through every act of harlotry, just about it, was the way that Christ came? Did you notice that. All the way down. You see this act of harlotry? Here's where Zarah and Pharez comes in right here. That's right. Zarah was the one that his hand broke forth in the breach. There while his hand was out they tied the red cord about it, twins was in here womb, and so forth. And Pharez broke forth by breach and came forth first. All right, now then. But the thing is Judah acknowledge these things right here, acknowledged these things and said, She's more righteous than I am, because I promised to give Shelah to her as a husband that she might__ Now, you say, Why did Tamar do a thing like that? Why did she want Shelah? Why did she go marry somebody else? Because here she was suppose to have an inheritance out of the house of Jacob, and Jacob was a rich man. And she wanted an inheritance. She deserved it. Her husband was gone. They didn't give her an inheritance and she intended to have a husband, or the seed, if she had to commit harlotry to get it so she would have some of the wealth coming to her. And so then, she went and played the harlot. So then, you see right here, through the seed of Pharez comes Christ. You read on down, it goes on to David. I named the lineage. You've got it wrote down. Check back and you'll find out it come right through this just exactly like it come through the harlotry of Bathsheba, right on down. God did it. Always showing, always showing the great harlot. And always showing the seed of Christ coming down, showing the beast in everything, all compact in one, and showing God getting a church out from among the Gentiles. All right. Now, so then, you see Pharez here. Now, Judah paid for his sins when he sold Joseph into bondage, didn't he? The Bible said his first son died. Then it said his second son died, and then it said his daughter also died. So you see he paid for his sins. The things that he did wrong he paid for them. Somebody, like David over there. Somebody saw David, or they read about David, you know, and through the eyes of their understanding they see David committing harlotry and think it's a big thing. And they say, God, he's a man after God's own heart, and some of these evangelist they go out here they commit harlotry, and they say, Well, I'll repent over it. David repented over it. And then they go back, but they overlook the fact that the Bible said the sword never departed out of David's house. All he ever had was heartaches and trouble. You see here, Judah committed wrong, didn't he? But now, Brother, look. He lost three children right there. Now, if you think that you want to commit wrong out here with some man's wife, or some man's daughter, if you want to do it and pay that kind of price then go ahead. When you have three funerals in your home then you'll see what I'm talking about. I don't think it's worth it, do you? Just for a few minutes of passion? All right. When God has given a man and a woman right to passions, and to satisfy their passions in purity according to God's plan. All right, now. You see these things that's happened here? All right. God made his sins find him out, didn't He? All right, then. Remember the staff, the signet, and the bracelet and you'll get something out of that. If you'll look real close in there you'll get something out of it, because through this act came the seed of Christ here. All right, now then. But notice now after this the Bible tells us that Joseph was found with Potiphar down here, and God was blessing everything he done. And watch the act of harlotry again. All the way through it's an act of harlotry. All right. Now, notice it again. Here's the woman. The Bible said Joseph goes into the house to take care of his master's business, and at this particular time there is nobody in the house. This ought to learn you men and women something, that men have no business in a man's home with his wife, with his wife when the husband is not there. You ain't got no business there. How many of you know you ain't got on business in his house when he ain't there? You ain't got no business there. Now, it's the same way with the woman. She ain't got no business out with a man either. And this picking men up and giving them a ride, you ladies that pick brethren up here and give him a ride over yonder, you ain't no business doing that. Now, I know it's a different thing when you run into something out here when somebody's stranded and in trouble. But you've got no business doing that. That's right. All right. Now then. I know some of you are bold enough to do it anyway, because you are self willed, but you still ain't got no business doing it. All right, now. So we see Joseph was here in the house and the Bible said while he was in the house this evil woman started to progging at Joseph, and saying lie with me, lie with me. And she had a husband but she was wild in passions, and the devil had come on her and excited her passions, and she started to crying out. Now, the Bible said that Joseph, being a godly man, an upright man, he turned and said, I'll not do any such a thing. He said, I won't stoop to any such filth and lewdness because I'm over all that my master has here, and said, I'm not going to do it. So she, wild with passions, saw that she couldn't prevail, being wicked she grabbed his clothes and torn some of his clothes off of him trying to get him, force him, to take up time with her. And Joseph, being a man of integrity with God in his heart, to torn out of the house, and he left the garment there in her hand. And he refused to take up time with her. And then she fell into a rage, and she felt like that if I can't subdue you, the devil said, if I can't subdue and overthrow you I'll put you in prison. So, that evil devilish spirit, that ugly. filthy thing that was in her rose up, and begin to accuse Joseph, and caused him to go down into the dungeon. But, my Brother and Sister, the Bible said all things work together to good to them that love the Lord Jesus Christ. It was God all the way. You say, Why was this, Brother Pike? The same thing with the church. Why did the church go through with what they had to go through with? Paul said, because we are always delivered unto death, accounted as sheep for the slaughter, showing about the dying of Jesus Christ, who suffered in His body in our life from day to day. That's what we do. Everything working together for our good to show the Lord Jesus Christ's suffering and His dying over and over in our body that God might be glorified, that God might bring us from victor to victor over ever evil that attacks us to show the victorious Christ in our life. Paul said, God chose me from my mothers womb to reveal Christ within me. Now, God will reveal Christ in you as the Word is made flesh according to your yielding, and surrendering to Almighty God. According to your surrender that's how much of Christ will show forth in you. All right, now then. Paul said if we know Him in the fellowship of His suffering then we can know Him in the power of His resurrection, having been made conformable unto His death through His suffering. Learning obedience by the things He suffered, the Bible said He became the author of our salvation and was made perfect, also the finisher. Now then, we see here in this thing another harlotry act took place just as it did with Judah here, and with Tamar. And the Bible said that this woman screamed out and called the servants of the house and said, This Hebrew he tried to mock me, and tried to force me to lay with him, all these things, and tried to cause Joseph to look bad in their eyes. And then when the master of the house come home he was angry because he believed his wife. Now then, I want you to notice this. We brought it out the other night. The Lord Jesus Christ hanging upon Calvary, you see it here in the life of Joseph as Jesus hung upon Calvary, before he would commit spiritual harlotry with this world like some of you are doing, before he would commit harlotry with this world and let the evil powers of the world, and the lewdness of harlotry overpower Him, the Bible said the inner man of Jesus Christ torn a loose from this outer man, which was the garment, (We spoke of the coat of many colors.) he torn a loose from this outer garment and left it in the hands of the world and went back to be with His Father before He would let the world defile Him, and before He would take the integrity of His heart out against God. So then, you see, according to the Bible, Joseph here showing the life of Jesus Christ over and over in His sufferings. It was the same thing that happened to our Lord. Jesus was faithful, and He tore a loose. The Bible said that they gambled over His garment. There as He hang upon Calvary they gambled over His garment and they could not find any seams in it. As the song says, it was woven by His mother. And I say this, that we know that the church garment is woven by the church. The garment of the Lord Jesus Christ that we wear is woven by the church, because the Bible calls them the garment of righteousness. The righteousness of the saints, the Bible said, it is the wedding garment, and we know that that righteousness is woven by the hands of the mother, which is the church, and we are arrayed in that beautiful garment, and the Bible said they tried to separate it, and the thieves gambled over it and cast lots for it, but they could not find any seams in it. Now, today you know Jesus called the church a bunch of thieves and robbers. That is those that did not live according to the Scripture, and said you've made my Father's house a den of thieves. And it's true that they are actually gambling over the church, and trying to divide it in to the church of God, and in to the Assemblies of God, and in to the Pentecostal Holiness, and in to the Methodist, and in to the Baptist, the Presbyterian, and the Catholic, and I don't know how many hundreds of denominational parts they're trying to divide it in. But the Bible said the truth of it is that they found no seams in the garment. Eventually they learned they could not divide it, and finally they had to give up on it. And so then, it's a true fact that the real church of God will not be separated. Now, they might divide what they think is the church out there, but the real church of God will not be separated. It will stand as one compact unit. They'll march hand in hand. They'll speak the same thing. They will not break ranks, and they will not pierce each other through. It's a garment, as the song says, woven by the mother, and there's no seams within it. So then, you see the body of the Lord Jesus Christ who's body you are, members in particular, hath no seams in it. And it is a garment of righteousness that is woven together part to part. And Joseph showing this down there he refused to take up time. Now notice this. After he refused to take up time with this woman, the Bible said that he was put in the dungeon. Is that right? Now, after Jesus refused Calvary where was he put? Let's go over here for just a minute. Where was he put right here when he refused Calvary? Did He go into the dungeon? When he refused the woman, which is world, the harlotry, then he went into the dungeon, didn't he? He went into the prison for the Bible said he spoke of the souls in the days of Noah, the long suffering of those that waited in the days of Noah. The Bible said that Jesus went into the heart of the earth to preach to the souls in prison. Isn't that right? These souls were in prison, and the inner man, the God man, which came forth in the resurrection, went into the heart of the earth to minister to these souls in prison. Men like Abraham that was there, men like Daniel that was there, and the great patriarchs of old, He took the Holy Ghost to them. Why would He do this? Because the Bible said these without us could not be made perfect. Isn't that right? So then, all of these died under the law not having received the promise. Isn't that right? Why? Because the Bible said these seen the promised child, embraced it and confessed that they were pilgrims and strangers in this land, but they without us could not be made perfect, because God had ordained that the Holy Ghost should come. When? At Calvary. And so then they could not be made perfect. They saw these things but they could not be made perfect. We brought it out the other night how that the days of Noah over here when he got drunk off of wine, how that it pointed and paralleled with Calvary back over here when Peter got the keys to the kingdom, and when he got drunk off of the new wine over there. All right. Then, of course, you see the act of harlotry that happened also in the days of Noah that brought about Sodom and Gomorrah. We spoke of that. So then, He went into the heart of the earth here because they without us could not be made perfect. These men saw the promise. They embraced it. Now what was the promise? The promise was to Abraham that through thy seed shall all nations be blessed. Not seeds as of many but Christ, seeds as of one through Jesus Christ. And so then, through thy seed shall all nations, the Bible said, be blessed, through the seed of the Lord Jesus Christ all nations shall receive redemption, and the Bible said they without us could not be made perfect in as much as the promise to Abraham was the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, His seed the Holy Ghost, which came at Pentecost. And Joel said this is the last days, the thing, the prophecy of Joel that was to come to pass in the last days where He'll pour out His Spirit upon all flesh, and this thing died out at Pentecost just giving us a preview that it might be manifested in this latter time of pouring out His Spirit upon all flesh. All right. He said your sons and daughters would prophesy, your old men would dream dreams, and your young men would see visions. In the last days I'll pour out of my Spirit upon the handmaids. Now then, that's why the church out here is having revival. The church out here, not the bride now. The bride is not a handmaid, but all of these other churches out here they are handmaids, which has worked with the church. They always sent a handmaid along to deliver the children, because there was a midwife. They didn't have doctors in that day, and there was a midwife. But He said, I'll pour out of my Spirit upon the midwives. Remember that Jacob also married the handmaidens, and so then they got blessings. Abraham had handmaidens and there they were blessed, but remember the Bible said that Solomon and David when they gave unto their concubines, which is a common law wife in Mexico, they gave unto these concubines gifts, and they gave unto these handmaidens and their children gifts, and they sent them away, but they were not heirs to the kingdom. They did not receive the power of riches, and the authority of the kingdom as it was with the promised child, which is also the bride or the sons of God. They did not. They were sent away with gifts. And we've got a good picture of it today. All of these handmaidens, which is denominational powers, is the redemptive names of the Lord. That is the redemptive names of Jehovahjireh, and Jehovah-shalom, and all these other names. About nine redemptive names there that we see portrayed in the denominational powers of today. God using redemptive names as Baptist, and Methodist, and all this, but that's all it is. It's a redemptive name because the body itself is the name Jesus Christ. And so then, all of these are just names by which he works to bring about the handmaidens working and causing, bringing forth the deliverance as the travail comes to the bride. So then, these are just handmaidens, but He promised to bless them and give them revival. Or that is to pour out His Spirit upon them in the last days. Then, He said, your sons and daughters will prophesy. Now then. The Holy Ghost will show you things to come. Is that right? All right. Through the mind of Christ we see things to come. So, Jesus went into the heart of the earth here. And as He went into the heart of the earth here, according to the Bible, He preached to the souls in prison, and we brought it out the other night in that dissecting of the triune thing where one part went one way, and one part went another way, and one part went another way. There we brought it out as it was stretched over in an extensive manner toward the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the millennium here, being the Sabbath of God. All right, now then. According to the Bible Joseph went down into the dungeon. And let's just get some idea here of what Jesus did while He was down in the dungeon. First of all, the Bible said Joseph wound up with the keys to the place. That's what Jesus did, wasn't it? The Bible said that Jesus went down there and He came forth with the keys to death, hell, and the grave. Is that right? He overcame everything and He came forth with the keys. And here He came over with the keys of death and hell, and He stands over there in the book of Revelation and He tells John, I've got the keys, He said, to death, and I've got the keys to hell. He didn't say to the kingdom, because He had done give them to Peter. But He did have the keys. He took them right here. When He went down there He had those keys. He came out, was victorious, with the keys, according to the Bible. How many of you know what keys are? The Bible speaks of those ministers of that day back there, said, You have taken away the key to knowledge. Is that right? You have taken away the key to knowledge. And so then we find what the keys are if we look real close here. The Bible said over in Revelation, said there was an angel came out of heaven having the key to the bottomless pit. Do you understand what keys are? So then, we find right here that while Joseph was down here in the prison he took the keys, and soon everything down there was under his hand. Everything was under his hand. Now then, let's just get a picture here of what happened. The Bible said that Pharoah was wroth with his chief baker, and with his chief cook, or with his chief butler, which was the officers of Pharoah. And he put them in ward, the Bible said, which was down in the dungeon. He put them down here in ward, and the Bible said while they were there one morning they had a dream, and one morning here Joseph he came around. And the Bible said he looked at them and said, Why are you sad? And one of them said, I dreamed a dream. The Butler said, I dreamed a dream. And Joseph said, Tell me the dream. They said, We don't know the interpretation. He said, Well, the interpretation belongs to God, and he said, Tell me the dream. Now I want you to get a picture of this tonight now. So the butler said, I had a dream. And here he said, I had a dream, and he said, I dreamed that there was a vine that sprang up. And he said, Out of this vine came forth three branches. We'll let Frank illustrate it here. Came forth three branches out of the vine, and he said, Out of the branches there came forth buds, and out of these buds, he said, there came forth the fruit. And out of the fruit here, he said, I mashed this fruit into Pharoah's cup, and then when I mashed it into Pharoah's cup, he said, I delivered it into Pharoah's hand. And here's something beautiful if you can see it. And so then, we see it here. Now notice it's the vine and then it's the branches, and then it's the sap that's in the branches, and then it's the little buds that come out on it. And then it turns into the grapes. Now then, he ask him the interpretation, and he said, Here is the interpretation. And he said, The three branches mean three days, and in three days you shall be restored back into the presence of Pharoah, and you shall again serve Pharoah and deliver the cup in his hands. Now, finally what Joseph saw was the sap of this vine right here. Now let's look at it. Jesus said, I am the vine. He said, You are the branches. Is that right? All right. We know that the bud of the branches indicates faith. Is that right? Solomon speaks of this in his writings over there. So then, we see these little buds imitate faith. And from this faith bud comes forth the fruits of the spirit. And then comes forth the grapes, and we call it the blood of the grapes, which signifies the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now, I been telling you according to the way I understand it. And then....(Begin side two.) there comes forth the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and here Pharoah, being back in this life here over here as a symbol of God because he's the rich man, or the great man of that land. And Here Jesus Christ is in the heart of earth redeeming the prisoners, and here they stand there to be judged according to what they knew back under the law. And here the Lord Jesus is rewarding them accordingly. He rewards the baker according to his dream. He rewards the butler according to his dream. Now I made the statement the other night that in this world this is a dark night. David said to follow the shadows here. So this is a dark night, and God looking down from the hill tops of glory, He can't look upon sin so Jesus comes into this world. He interprets our life, that is where we're in this night here as lights that show forth in the night, reckoning night time from evening unto morning. So he comes here and he interprets our dream, which is our mind here. Like you're in a daze, or you're in a dream going through this life. Interprets your life and you are judged according to your deeds done in the body. That is your dream while you're here. Jesus said you're dead while you live. That is you're asleep. He referred to it as sleep one time. And so then, in the darkness of night here, He said He would come as a thief in the night, which means in your carnal mind of night. All right. So then, here Jesus comes to__ Remember, Pharoah up here, that these men indicate doors. Two kind of people, as it was at the cross there at Calvary, the thief on one side, and so forth, on the other. Really it indicates those that have died out of life that served Pharoah. That is, served him in this life, died out of life, and gone into the grave, and now it is determined as to what the resurrection will be, and what the reward will be when they come before God. And so then, here Joseph is down here as a symbol of Jesus in the heart of the earth judging the souls in prison to see who's going to get the Spirit of God, and see who's going to get the wrath of God. Two kind of people. And so then, he takes this here, and he says, (Now, the Father is the vine.) He says, I am the vine, you are the branches. As long as you abide in me you bear fruit, and if you don't abide in me you are cut off, and men gather you and burn you. All right. Now then. Speaking of hell. Now, the water that comes in here. Remember, He said, My Father is the husbandman. He's the owner of the vine. I'm the vine. And said, My Father He's the husbandman. He's the one that owns me, and you're the branches that run off from me, members in particular. And this life which is in this vine__ Now, remember God owns the vine and Jesus is the vine, and of course, you're the vine because you're the branches. And the Holy Ghost is the spiritual life. That is, coming up into the branches. The Bible said the trees of God are full of sap. And here comes the Holy Ghost of life up into these branches, and out of the bud of our faith comes forth the fruits of the Spirit, which is the grapes of the vine, and out of these grapes comes forth the blood, which is referred to as the wine of Pentecost, the new wine, the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, that which has strength to preserve. The alcohol has the power to preserve within in and here comes forth the wine that maketh the heart merry, the new wine, the Spirit of God, the blood of Jesus Christ. And it comes forth here into the cup, right here. You see it? Now, remember, the Catholics use this. The Catholics use the cup. They have a golden cup they drink this out of. And the Bible speaks of their cup being full of fornication, because they have a symbol and that's all they have. But we have the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. And David said, This is my cup, and he said, My cup runneth over. And the Bible said this was pressed into the cup. Isn't that right? So it was pressed into the cup, the blood here. Being atonement for this man's sins it was pressed into the cup. Do you follow me now? It was pressed into the cup. The blood atoning for his sins showed that his service had been satisfactory to Pharoah, and he was restored. Three branches, three days and nights in the heart of the earth, restored here and he went back. And I brought it out how that the Gentiles from Calvary go down two days. Is that right? Two days, two thousand years, and comes up on the third one over there, which is the millennium. And so then, he was restored back. The Bible said it came to pass on Pharoah's birthday that this butler was restored back, and he delivered the cup into Pharoah's hand and he was pleased with him. And he went back to his old job. Is that right? He went back into service. Why? Because the blood was the atonement here in the symbol that he had give a life of satisfaction. Notice, butler ship shows something of service, but then the next one was the baker. And when the baker saw that this interpretation was good he said, I'd like for you to interpret my dream, too. So, the baker said, I was standing and I had three baskets on my head, and on the upper most basket he said it was full of all kinds of meats, and I was taking them to Pharoah, and said, here come birds, or fowls and begin to pick this meat out of the upper basket. And Joseph said this is the interpretation of it. Three days and Pharoah will lift up thine head just as he will the butler. He said, He'll hang you on a tree, and the birds shall pick the flesh from off of your bones. All right. Now then, look at the interpretation of this. Notice, first of all he was a baker. The Bible speaks of people that are glutton's that make their belly their god. They can't get out of the kitchen. And so then, notice this. Everything he did was the service of his belly that made his belly his god, the flesh. Do you understand what I'm saying? He couldn't get out of the kitchen. He couldn't get his mind out of the kitchen we'll say. And so all of his labor, the Bible said all of your labor is for your belly, because your belly craves it of you, for you've made your belly your god. And David said, let their table be made a snare unto them. That is, they just can't get away from it. All of their labor is to get the biscuits, and to get the meat, and to get the ham so they can get home and have a good supper. Do you understand what I'm saying? So, it indicates here that his labor had been for the flesh. And the Bible said here, three days. It all goes through the very same thing right here. And those baskets, out here we see those three basket here that indicates the thing, and here as he's lifted up on the birthday of pharoah it comes forth here, and he goes where? The Bible said Judas went out and hanged himself. Isn't that right? Now you say, What has that got to do with the revelation? The Bible said, cursed is every man that hangeth upon the tree. It shows that Joseph brought the curse upon him and told him that he was cursed, and that every man that dies out of grace, the Bible says that he is under the law. And the Bible said cursed is every man that continueth not in the law to do all things that are written within the law. And then Paul tells us that no man can't keep the law, no flesh can be justified by the law, so he's under the curse of the law, and he went out and hung himself to show the curse, because cursed is every man that hangeth upon a tree. Is that right? Then in the book of Revelation we're told that God invites the fowls, which are the evil spirits in symbols, to come to the great supper. And that's what they're doing right now. They are devouring flesh, they're coming to the great supper. And he said, Come to the great supper, and eat the flesh of great men. The Lord's Supper. Come and eat the flesh of great men, and the fowls come and eat the flesh after the great battle. The natural flesh over there will show the consuming power of evil, the spiritual powers of evil that is consuming men today that reject the gospel. All right. Let's go over here for just a few minutes over here and pick it up. Look right here at Calvary. In the days of Noah what happened? The Bible said he let out the dove and he let out the raven, and they went out over the waters. Isn't that right? And they found the dead out there, and the raven went out there and got his share of it. Isn't that right? That's right. All right. So then, the dove was let out, which symbolized the Holy Spirit, but he couldn't rest anywhere until he found that olive tree over there, or found that branch of life. He couldn't rest. He couldn't feed off of corruption so the Holy Spirit would not depart from the ark of the Lord Jesus Christ until there was life over there in the earth. Now see the very same thing here at Calvary. When he released the Spirit and went to paradise it plucked a leaf from the tree of life, and it came back over here at Pentecost. Isn't that right? And here is the ark right here as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, which was pitched inward and outward in the likeness of Almighty God, and the Bible said here that He was pierced in the side to show the door of the ark. Whereas, he was pierced here as we brought it out, the rock, the cleft of the rock over there that Moses stood in, and Jesus Christ being the rock that followed him. And in this rock through baptism as the water, blood and spirit comes forth then we are baptized by one spirit into this through the water baptism and the blood into the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, the name of the Lord being a strong tower, the righteous flee into it and they are saved. And so then, we see this right here, if you catch what I'm talking about. This was the flood right here, the wrath of God. And when God's wrath came down upon this ark right here, everyone that was in this ark we see them smitten of God, everyone that's in that ark during the time this wrath of God is coming down in the name of Jesus Christ, symbolized by water, the little ark that saved Noah over there, the ark of His covenant, bringing it again right here, the covering cherubs right over here. You see the two thieves on each side, and we brought it out as the (?) being saved by the ark of the covenant as they went through the wilderness. It was the saving of them as they went through the wilderness. They had this ark that saved them from all these things that took place in the wilderness. Saved them from the serpent, the brazen serpent lifted up. And then we see the ark here again, the ark of the covenant right here. Brought it out about the covenant. And Revelation 10 speaks of the angel, the mighty angel that comes down with the rainbow over his head here. They said, The messenger of the covenant shall come, which is Jesus Christ, Revelation 10, right here. All right. When we see the Lord Jesus Christ here as He hangs upon Calvary, and the door is in the side. Isn't that right? And the Bible said that God preserves a specimen for the millennium in every way. Didn't He? Two, two of a kind right here, didn't He? Now He preserved seven of the right kind, because some of them were to be sacrificed. And you see the great sacrifice in taking place through the dark age here, which is the modern age. You see it taking place where many were sacrificed that you and I might come into this precious land of pain, and yet it's a symbol. And so then the Lord Jesus Christ after this great deluge right here, what do you find? You find that men are twice dead and plucked up by the roots after this. See, after the great wrath of God comes down then you find Pentecost, which is a new world that Noah came into, but you also find__ Remember water symbolizes people. You find corruption out here where the waters are polluted out here, and the devil which is the evil spirit wherein Christ was made sin. Satan was raised to go out there as that raven to feed off of those that are in spiritual corruption, and until this day he's still feeding off of those things that are floating around out there on those filthy muddy waters. That's the way some people's minds are. And so then, you see at the same time the dove when up there and got that leaf from heaven, came back at Pentecost over here with that tree of life, that symbol of eternal life, isn't that right? The gift of God is eternal life, the measure of the olive tree, and so forth, that symbolized the oil. So we see this thing taking place here as the Lord Jesus Christ went into the heart of the earth to judge the souls that are in prison. And then getting back to Joseph over here, here we see this thing right here as it symbolizes he that is hanged upon a tree, he is accursed. And Jesus hanging upon the tree to take us out from under the curse that we might not be cursed anymore. And so then, he said the other night that He took our place in death and died out of the presence of the Father that we might take His place in life and live in the presence of the Father. All right, let's go a little farther now. Can you stay with me just a little bit longer? All right. Notice this now. Joseph, after this he told the butler, he said, when it goes well with you, he said, remember me. The butler went out of the prison and two whole years passed by. Now there's four years in here that we can't account for. I don't know where it went to. There's no record in the Bible here that we know of, but we know there's four more years. We'll try to bring it out in a little bit. But two years went by and nobody had mentioned Joseph. Then the Bible said that Pharoah had a dream. Now when he had a dream over here, the Bible said as he had this dream he dreamed he was by the river and seven kine fat fleshed, they were very good, well favored, came up out of the river and grazed in a meadow. And the Bible said that immediately he looked and seven kine, ill favored, came up out of the river and devoured the seven fat fleshed. Now, Pharoah was troubled. And then the Bible said he went back to sleep and he dreamed and he looked and here came up seven stalks of corn rank and good. Then he looked and here came up seven that was terrible, he said, that were very bad and blasted by the east wind and they devoured the seven good ones. And so he was troubled and he called for his wise men and magicians, and all those kind of things. See? In that day they had men that could interpret, in that day, like Daniel and Joseph and different men, just like we've got in this day like Brother Branham and others. He could preach the gospel and understand it. And then, of course, they had make believers back there, which is this denominational preaching that they've got out here. They had real and they had false back there that really didn't know how to interpret the things of God and the Scriptures. But anyway, the Bible said that he was very disturbed and he called for them and they couldn't do him any good. He called for the priest, and everything, and they couldn't do him any good. And finally this butler said, Today I do remember my fault. I do remember my fault today. And he told him about this man. Said we were down there and dreamed this dreams, and he interpreted these dreams and they came to pass just exactly like he said. Said, You restored me and you hanged the baker. And so then he sends for Joseph, and Joseph washed, Joseph shaved. Now, see the resurrection in that little body and all. He washed, He shaved, and he changed his raiment, and he came and stood before Pharoah. See? Jesus going to the right hand of the Father. Now watch and see if he goes to the right hand of the Father. He comes up out of there and the Bible said he comes to Pharoah, Pharoah tells him the dream, and Joseph said, It's one. Said, In as much as you dreamed it twice, remember God establishes in the mouth of two or three witnesses. Said, It means the thing is established. Said, It will shortly come to pass. He said God shows Pharoah what he's going to do. And so he said, The best thing for you to do is plant throughout all the land and save a fifth part of it. Take a fifth part of this and save it through the seven years of plenty and then through the seven years death which is coming, he said, you'll have a fifth part from each good year to tide you over the seven bad years. He said, This is what's going to happen, seven good years of plenty and then there is going to be seven bad years. Said, Let Pharoah pick out somebody that's wise and discreet and set him over this matter that he might have food in that time that the land perish not. And Pharoah said, Well, who is wiser than Joseph. He called together his counselors and he said, Who is wiser than the man that was able to interpret the dream? I called for all the rest of them and they couldn't do it. Said, he was the one that done it. Said, he must be the wisest among them so we might as well set him over it. And so the Bible said he did, and at thirty years old Joseph began to reign. Does that show Christ? At thirty years old. The priesthood starts at thirty years and there at thirty years old he begins to reign here over the house of Pharoah, and Pharoah said, Joseph, I'll only be greater in the throne. or in the throne. He called his name Zaphnathpaaneah; that's what he called him, and gave him a woman by the name of Asenath, which was the daughter of the priest of On Potipherah. And so then, the Bible said that he set Joseph over everything, put him in the second chair, and as he went down the street everybody said, bow the knee to Joseph. And so then, he was made governor over all of Egypt. Now then, remember there has been a lot of time that has passed by. Is that right? We've covered a lot of territory today. As a matter-of-fact, he was seventeen years old when he left his father's house and now he's thirty, so that makes him, that proves he's been down there for quite a long time. Is that right? If you figure it up right quick you can get it, thirteen years or something like that. About the number of the bride. And so then, you see here he's been away from home now for about thirteen long years, thirteen long years, and he's become a governor, and he knows Asenath is down there, and the Bible said that she bears him two sons, the Egyptian woman which symbolizes the bride of Jesus Christ taking them out from among the Gentiles. Here he marries her and she brings forth two children down there, bears him two children down there. And the Bible said from these two children he is relieved of the grief here of his father's house. And so then the Bible said that Joseph was placed over all of what Pharoah had. Now then, I'd like to try to go on and finish what little here we like if you will bear with me, because I'd like to get into Moses on the next lesson if we could if you don't mind staying with me just a little bit longer. All right. Now then, I want you to notice this. The Bible said seven years of famine. Isn't that right? And then seven years of__ Seven years of plenty and then seven years of famine. Is that right? Remember Jacob labored seven years for one wife, and seven years for another. Isn't that right? And we said it was a type of Jesus Christ in His natural body going to get Rachel, going to get Rachel. Remember the resurrected Jesus comes for a Gentile bride and got Rachel. And the natural Jesus went to the Jew and got Leah. Is that right? So he had to take the Jew before He could take the Spirit, because the Spirit is always bred within the natural. So he had to follow the pattern. When he really wanted the Gentile bride but he had to go through the Jew. A lot of times we say that the Jew is God's chosen people and make God a respect of person when the Bible said God is no respecter of human anatomy. And when we speak of the chosen people being the Jews it just means that he chose those people to use just like you'd chose a ball team out here. That's all. Now, there's no difference with God. All our flesh is flesh and there's no difference and the Jew got into trouble by not knowing that. So, there's no special sect. I don't care how religious you are, or how religious you've been that doesn't move God one bit. Paul said we're all justified by faith. You're religion ain't worth a dime unless it's faith in Jesus Christ. That's all that matters. He purifies our hearts by faith. So your ritual, Baptist, Methodist, whatever you have, it's no good. It's has to be Jesus Christ. Catholics are just like the rest of it. And these churches called Church of God, and Assemblies of God are just like all the rest of them. Just another denomination. It don't mean anything unless you've got your name on the Lamb's book of Life. So then, you see here, God gives us a symbol of a time of plenty; spiritual plenty here. A time__ The number seven is always a complete number that God uses, the seven church ages, and so forth. And He gives us a time here to show this in the seven years of the church ages which is plentiful. Is that right? God gives the seven church ages here when His Spirit is poured out and it's plentiful to where he can have all of the good things of God that we want, and the wise men gets it and lays it up. Isn't that right? But remember, he said after the seven years of the church age and the plenty then there would come the seven years of tribulation when there would be nothing. Isn't that right? There would be a great famine that would come in, a great death that would come in. And during this time that there would not be anything. And at this time Jesus Christ, Himself, would rise up and rule. Isn't that right? Remember, Jesus rules Spiritually through the church ages. And then, through this time when the tribulation comes isn't that when the brethren comes? Isn't that right, Brother Tommy? The brethren come in during the tribulation. Is that right? When the Jew comes in. And the brethren came to Joseph during the famine. Remember, they did not come down there until two years of the famine was gone. Isn't that right? Two years of the famine was passed by and Joseph was at that time how old? He was thirty when he started to reign. He spent seven years of good times here and now he has spent two years. That's nine years more. He's now thirty nine years old, almost forty years old just like Moses at the time for the delivery of the children of Israel to show that number forty in there. Remember for the mourning of Jacob, remember they took forty days for the embalming to show that it takes, like the forty days of fasting of Jesus, the embalming process of going into the wilderness, and then seventy days of mourning, the Bible said, showing that completeness over there where God takes that span of seventy all the way over from the beginning to the end. And then they had seven days, the Bible said, just beyond Jordan at the floor, the threshing floor of Atad. They had a mourning up there that lasted seven day over in Canaan. And the Bible said they called it Abel-Mizarim, which I suppose relates back to the misery of Abel over there is why they used that coming there just a little bit latter when we get to Jacob down there just as he dies. But the thing is here we see the church ages in the planting, and we also see Jesus Christ reigning through the great tribulation. Isn't that right? But we see the great reign of Joseph during this time where God has His power, authority, and He has His way in this time right here. And I would say that it pays us, friend, to take what we can in this time, because when this time comes there's going to be a lot of sorrow. And I tell you, you're a lot farther along than you think you are right now. All right, now then. After this the Bible said that Joseph ruled and reigned down here in the land of Egypt. He ruled and reigned, and instead of trying to go on I think I'm going to stop here because I've held your attention real good; you've listened real good. And we could go on, but we might just better make another subject out of the last part of Joseph. All right. So then, we see right here that Joseph is reigning and ruling, and the famine here__ We'll stop right here at the famine. When we start back if the Lord will we'll refresh our mind on the famine, and take up the particulars here of it, and then we'll go on from that. All right. May the Lord bless you. Let's everybody stand together. I appreciate your attention tonight. Appreciate your kindness and your concern. And truly I want to say this again as we come to the close of another service, that all of this about Israel and the Roman Catholic church, and all of these things that's happening to the Arabs over there right at this hour means the end of the world is here. The end of the world is here. Remember, when Christ left off with the Jews He went to the Gentiles. Isn't that right? I want to give you one more picture that you've probably already seen. He left off with the Jews, didn't He? Remember how we brought it out about Jacob and Rachel and so forth? Now we see it in Joseph. He left off with the Jews. He left his father's house, isn't that right? He went down there to get the Gentile bride. Isn't that right? But now when he got the Gentile bride, what does he do in the famine? He's turning back to who? The Jew back to his brethren; back to his father's house. So we see it again. We're getting near the end of the world. We're right here seeing a preview of it again, back to the hours of the end of the world. It's coming right back in. So whatever you do folks, remember that God is leaving off with the Gentile bride. He's leaving off with her right now. You might not believe it, but He is. You look in the church and see if there is travail. Look in the church and see if there is anything left in the church. You'll find that Rachel is bringing forth that last son, which is that Jew son. She's bringing him forth and she's dying. The church is dying in travail right now, bringing this forth. This is the last thing. So then, the Bible said this was around Bethlehem that this happened. Almost Ephraim. So tonight let's remember these things and keep these things in mind, because something is definitely taking place. Now, let's sing that little chorus, closer than a brother. Can you give me the key of G.

By Rev. George Leon Pike Sr.

Founder and first President of Jesus Christ’s Eternal Kingdom of Abundant Life, Inc.

Holiness Unto The Lord