Positivity Successor - Episode 55 - Positivity Successor (Genesis 40-41, 41-42)

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

Mental Health Awareness! ❤️🙏 Another Interesting Bible Read! (Genesis 40-41, 41-42)

Hey, positive people. Welcome to Positive City Successor. Schedule us from Monday through Sunday, including holidays, every season, every year, including leap year. Thanks for tuning to a life-changing podcast. God bless. Amen. Happy Positive Day. Welcome to Positiveated Successor Episode 55. Continuing on with the Bible. Let's go into it. The Cup Bearer and the Baker. 40.

Sometime later, the Cup Bearer and the Baker of the King of Egypt. offended their master, the king of Egypt. Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, the chief cup bearer and the chief baker, and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard in the same prison where Joseph was confined. The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he attended them.

After they had been in custody for some time, each of the two men, the cup bearer, and the baker, of the king of Egypt who were being held in prison, had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. When Joseph came to them the next morning, he saw that they were dejected, so he asked Pharaoh's officials who were in custody with him. in his master's house. Why your face is so sad? We both had dreams, they answered. But there is no one to interpret them. Then Joseph said to them, do not interpretations belong to God?

Tell me your dreams. So the chief cup bearer told Joseph his dream. He said to him, In my dream I saw a vine in front. me. And on the vine were three branches. As soon as it budded, it blossomed, and it clusters ripened into grapes. Pharaoh's cup was in my hand, and I took the grapes, seized them into Pharaoh's cup and put the cup in his hand. This is what it means. Joseph said to him, the three branches are three days. Within three days, Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to

your position and you will put it put pharaoh's cup in his hand just as you used to do when you were his cup there but when all goes well with you remember me and show me kindness and mention me to pharaoh and get me out of this prison for i was forced forcibly carried off from the land of the hebrews and even have done nothing to deserve being put in the dungeon. When the cheap baker saw that Joseph had given a favorable interpretation, he said to Joseph, I too had a dream. On my head were three baskets of bread, and the top basket were all kinds of baked goods for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them out of the basket of my head on my head. This is what it means, Joseph said. The three baskets are three days.

In three days, Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on the tree, and the birds will eat away your flesh. Now the third day was Pharaoh's birthday, and he gave a feast for all his officials. He lifted up the heads of the chief cup bearer and the chief baker, and the presence of his officials. He restored the chief cup bearer to his pit bull. position so that he once again put the cup into Pharaoh's hand. But he hanged the chief baker just as Joseph had said to him in this interpretation.

The chief cup bear, however, did not remember Joseph. He forgot. Pharaoh's dreams, 41. When two full years had passed, Pharaoh had a dream. He was standing by the Nile. When now the river there came up seven cows, Silic and fat, and they grazed among the reeds.

After them, seven other cows, ugly and gaunt, came up by the Nile, and stood beside those on the riverbank. And the cows that were ugly and gaunt ate up the seven sleek fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up. He fell asleep again and had a second dream. seven heads of grain, healthy and good, were growing on a single stock. After them seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.

The thin heads of grain swallowed up by the seven healthy full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up, it had been a dream. In this morning, in the morning his mind was troubled, so he sent for all the magicians and wise men of Egypt. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him. Then the chief cup bearer said to Pharaoh, today I am reminded my shortcomings. Pharaoh was once angry with his servants, and he imprisoned me in the chief baker in the house of the captain of the guard. Each of us had a dream the same night, and each dream had a meaning of its own. Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he

interpreted them for us, giving each man the interpretation of his dream. And things turned out exactly as he interpreted them to us. I was restored to my position and the other man was hanged. So Pharaoh sent for Jacob, for Joseph, and he was quickly brought from the done When he had shaved and changed his clothes, he came for Pharaoh. Pharaoh said to Joseph, I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I've heard it said of you that when you heard of a dream, you can interpret it. I cannot do it. Joseph replied to Pharaoh, but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.

Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, in my dream, I was standing on the bank of the Nile. When out of the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the reeds. After them, seven other cows came up scrawny and very ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt. The lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first, but even after they ate them, no one can tell that they had done. so they looked just as ugly as before. Then I woke up. In my dreams I also saw seven heads of grain full and good, growing on a single stock.

After them seven other heads sprouted, withered and thin and scorched by the east wind. The thin heads of grain swallowed up by the seven good heads, I told this to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me. Then Joseph said to fair. The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven good cows are seven years and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. It is one in the same dream. The seven lean, ugly cows that came up afterward are seven years.

And so are the seven worthless heads of grain scorched by the Eastwood. They are seven years of famine. It is just as I said to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do. Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the land of Egypt, but seven years of famine will follow them. Then all the abundance in Egypt will be forgotten, and the famine will be ravage the land.

We'll ravage the land. The abundance in the land will not be remembered because the famine that follows it will be so severe, The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon. And now let Pharaoh look for a discerning and wise man and put him in the charge of the land of Egypt. Let Pharaoh appoint commissioners over the land to take a fifth of harvest of Egypt during the seven years of abundance. They should collect all the food of these good years that are coming and store up the grain under the authority of Pharaoh to be kept in the seas for food. This food should be held and reserved for the country to be used during seven years of famine that will come upon Egypt so that the country may not be ruined by the famine.

The plan seemed God to Pharaoh and to all his officials, so Pharaoh asked him, can we find anyone? like this man, one in whom is the spirit of God. Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one so disderned and wise as you. You shall be in charge of my palace, and all my people are to submit to your orders. Only with respect to the throne will I be greater than you.

Joseph in charge of Egypt. So Pharaoh said to Joseph, I hereby put you in charge of the whole land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put on Joseph's finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck. He had him riding a chariot as his second in command. And men shouted before him, make way. thus he put him in charge of the whole land of Egypt then Pharaoh said to Joseph I am Pharaoh

but without your word no one will lift hand or foot in all Egypt Pharaoh gave Joseph the name Zep Phineath and gave him as anath daughter with Patti Pera priest of An

to be his wife and Joseph went throughout the land of Egypt Joseph was 30 years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh King of Egypt and Joseph went out from Pharaoh's presence and traveled throughout Egypt during the seven years of abundance the land produced plenty fully

Joseph collected all the food produced in those seven years of abundance in Egypt and stored in the cities and each city put the food grown in the field surrounding it. Joseph stored up huge quantities of grain like the land of the sea. It was so much that he stopped keeping records because it was beyond measure. Before the years of famine came, two sons were born and Joseph by Asanath, daughter of papari priest of Van. Joseph named his firstborn menace and said it is because God had has made me forget all my trouble in all my father's household

the second son he had he named Afram and said it is because God had made me fruitful in the land of my suffering the seven years of abundance in Egypt came to came to an end and the seven years of famine began just as Joseph had said There was famine in all the other lands, but in the whole land of Egypt, there was food. When all Egypt began to feel the famine, the people cried to Pharaoh for food. Then Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, go to Joseph and do what he tells you. When the famine had spread over the whole country, Joseph opened the storehouses and sold grain to the Egyptians for the famine was severe throughout Egypt. and all the countries came to Egypt to buy a grain from Joseph because the family was severe in all the world.

So we're going to stop at 42 Joseph's brothers go to Egypt. Life in Bible Times, the Nile. The Nile is one of the longest rivers in the world. The people of Egypt lived along the top or northern part of the river. Every year the river overflowed, leaving, rich new soil where crops could grow when other lands that depending on the rainfall for their water supplies had, supply had famines. There was often still food in Egypt. 42.8. Why did Joseph pretend to be a stranger to his brothers?

Joseph wanted to find out whether his brothers realized that what they had done to him was wrong. Joseph kept untesting them. until at last they showed that they really cared for their father and each other too. So thanks for tuning to this episode of a positive successor. Remember to look at the reflection at yourself to the beautiful and handsome people out there. God bless, amen. Tune tomorrow for the next episode of Positive Your Successor. And have a positive day.