Sounds like current events today . . . And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed . . . Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them (Genesis Ch. 41) (A time is coming), in the providence of God, when the rulers of this world, represented in Pharaoh, begin to be sorely troubled. Visions haunt rulers, of weak things destroying strong, of hungry creatures eating up the fat and flourishing. The oxen strong to labour are seen to be consumed; and, what is worse, the thin and hungry ones are none the fatter for it. The seven good ears, of which it is twice noticed that they came up upon one stalk (Gen. 41:5, 22), (Note: Nothing like this is seen in the thin ears.) are devoured by the poor and weak, in whom is seen no bond of union. The strong and good, having union among themselves, are destroyed by those who are alike in misery, but have no bond of fellowship. Surely it is an awful dream, which the worlds rulers are beginning to see, and not without perplexity. What does it portend? Such is the question this day with some to whom the butler has given the cup, but who do not know Joseph. It portends a trouble, which the world unaided cannot meet; one for which the learning and counsels of Egypt will find no remedy. For God HIMSELF shall bring all Egypt to such self-despair, as will render the need of His Elect Servants presence and help plain to all. At this day (1853) a million men in Europe are needed to keep order; to keep, while it may be so, the weak and hungry from devouring the strong before them. Sooner or later, spite of all its boastings, the world will discover that it needs Christ; that neither its present rulers nor magicians can solve their own riddle. Sooner or later they must confess their own weakness, and admit that a power not in them, -- the government of Christ and His Spirit, -- alone can save the world. Blessed be God, the day is AT HAND when the Despised One shall rule: the night has been dark, but the light of day cannot be far off. When the night is darkest, the morning is at hand; and the child is born, when the travail pains are sharpest. The world has long travailed and been in pain, waiting for the manifestation of the Son of God, and the redemption of the body. His day shall surely come, and then, while earth bows itself, shall His Virgin Bride be given to Him. Then shall the earth be glad, for He cometh to judge the world with equity, and the people with His truth. Through judgment shall the world be saved. His wisdom shall rescue it, even while it passes through the consumption which is decreed on all the earth (Isa. 28:22) Andrew Jukes The Types of Genesis
Posted on: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 03:55:37 +0000