Before we discuss this dream we shall compare another dream so we shall understand the role of the peculiar narrative mode of the Holy Spirit. The thrust of it is for our spiritual instruction in righteousness. So history of nations is of the least concerns of the Spirit. Why nations fight against God is what we are to look for. "t shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion"(Isa.29.8) Isaiah refers here to the emptiness of soul despite of a feast and the dilemma is what St Pauls calls the enmity of flesh against the spirit so it is the body of death we look at. A sinful man lives for his pleasure but he is pampering his body for the day of slaughter."Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter."(Jas.5.5) St Paul annotates it thus: "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:/But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members./O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"(Rom.7.22-24) God is the sole authority over the soul of man and he shall give count of it in the day of slaughter which has another name,-Great White Throne judgment.(Rev.20.11-19)
Coming back to the dream of Pharaoh, God is warning him about a famine in the offing. God had already prepared His sanctied ones from the great tribulation leading the ungodly nations to the day of slaughter. It is thus the rider on the black horses sets out and power is given to him. (Rev.6.5-6). God deals with Pharaoh directly so He shall bring to surface a crime concealed by 10 brethren against Joseph
Before we discuss this dream we shall compare another dream so we shall understand the role of the peculiar narrative mode of the Holy Spirit. The thrust of it is for our spiritual instruction in righteousness. So history of nations is of the least concerns of the Spirit. Why nations fight against God is what we are to look for. "t shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion"(Isa.29.8) Isaiah refers here to the emptiness of soul despite of a feast and the dilemma is what St Pauls calls the enmity of flesh against the spirit so it is the body of death we look at. A sinful man lives for his pleasure but he is pampering his body for the day of slaughter."Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter."(Jas.5.5) St Paul annotates it thus: "For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:/But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members./O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"(Rom.7.22-24) God is the sole authority over the soul of man and he shall give count of it in the day of slaughter which has another name,-Great White Throne judgment.(Rev.20.11-19)
Coming back to the dream of Pharaoh, God is warning him about a famine in the offing. God had already prepared His sanctied ones from the great tribulation leading the ungodly nations to the day of slaughter. It is thus the rider on the black horses sets out and power is given to him. (Rev.6.5-6). God deals with Pharaoh directly so He shall bring to surface a crime concealed by 10 brethren against Joseph
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