How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

This is the difference between someone who is carnally minded and someone who is spiritually minded. The brothers had never experienced a dream of their own with any meaning, but their father, Jacob, had on several occasions. No doubt Jacob saw the same type of anointing upon his son Joseph, even though one part of Joseph’s dream made little sense. Joseph saw the eleven stars, sun, and moon bowing before him. We know there were twelve sons of Jacob if we include Joseph, and there are twelve major constellations in the main circuit that the sun moves through during a solar year. The eleven stars were not eleven single stars somewhere in the heaven, but these eleven stars alluded to the eleven different major star constellations in the heavens. Joseph’s father, Jacob, interpreted the dream to mean that the stars were Joseph’s brothers, the sun was Jacob, and the moon was Joseph’s mother (Gen. 37:10). All eleven brothers and the father were living, but Joseph’s mother, Rachel, had died giving birth to Benjamin some years prior (Gen. 35:18–19). Rachel gave birth to only two sons—Joseph and Benjamin. Rachel was Jacob’s favorite wife, and these two boys were very special to him. However, Momma was now dead. It would be literally impossible for her to be the symbol of the moon and to bow down to Joseph, and I am certain this is why Jacob did not search out the full interpretation of Joseph’s double dream but instead pondered it. Some of the dream—at the time— didn’t make sense. One thing I have learned over many years of ministry as it deals with God sending you an instruction using a dream or vision is that there are times when certain parts of what you