How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

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He sees the ideal ruler for whose advent he longs.…“He brings cooling to the flame. It is said he is the shepherd of all men. There is no evil in his heart.…Where is he to-day?…Behold his might is not seen.”3

The Hebrews were shepherds, and Egyptians hated shepherds (Gen. 46:34). When Joseph requested that his estranged brothers meet Pharaoh, he instructed them that when the king asked about their occupations, they reply, “We raise cattle.” The brothers instead chose to reveal they were shepherds. Joseph may have been fearful that Pharaoh would restrict his family from living in Egypt, since the predicted future leader was called a “shepherd.” There was also an ancient prediction from a dream concerning a lamb that would defeat Egypt. This account comes from Adam Clarke’s commentary: Jonathan ben Uzziel gives us a curious reason for the command given by Pharaoh to the Egyptian women: “Pharaoh slept, and saw in his sleep a balance, and behold the whole land of Egypt stood in one scale, and a lamb in the other; and the scale in which the lamb was outweighed that in which was the land of Egypt. Immediately he sent and called all the chief magicians, and told them his dream. And Janes [ sic ] and Jambres, (see 2 Tim. 3:8) who were chief of the magicians, opened their mouths and said to Pharaoh, ‘A child is shortly to be born in the congregation of the Israelites, whose hand shall destroy the whole land of Egypt.’ Therefore Pharaoh spake to the midwives, etc.”4

The Jewish historian Josephus wrote this: