Dream Interpreper

By Allison Kohn

Poor Joseph has been maligned as a spoiled brat by some. Sunday School teachers portray him as the boy whose brothers were mad because his daddy gave him a pretty coat. But Joseph was more than either of those portrayals. He was a human being, with human failings like you and me. The difference with Joseph was his God. God set him apart and molded him for a special job. He gave him a good reputation, a wife and sons - a new life in a foreign land when his position and natural rank were ripped away from him. I have tried to fill in the blanks in this book of fiction based on his life as recorded in the Bible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Allison Kohn
• Release date: Sep 11, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310104008

Allison Kohn

Allison Kohn is a 75 year old ordained Presbyterian elder who has worked with both children (of all ages) and adults to help them with their Christian walk. She has published 11 books - five of them in the Baker family Saga. Since her example, Jesus, used stories to teach truth, she does the same. Everyone wants to be entertained and a good book teaches in an entertaining way, just as a good sermon preaches in an entertaining way. The author has a lot of experience with people and how they react to the ups and downs of life and she puts it to work in her writing.

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Dream Interpreter

A Fictional account of Joseph, son of Israel

Published By Allison Kohn at Smashwords

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Copyright 2014 by Allison Kohn

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Table of contents

Acknowledgement

Dedication

Early Days

Betrayal

Temptation

Prison

Pahraoh’s Dream

Asenath

Interlude

A mighty God Indeed

Consumation

About the Author

Other Titles by this Author

Contact the Author

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Acknowledgement

To the love of my life, Yeshua Ha Mashiach, I give my thanks and adoration for the insights into the life of Joseph I have gained since I first read it 58 years ago.

Dedication

Dedicated to the memory of my little sister, Marjorie Lane, who never stopped telling me what a good writer I was. I thank God for the memory of her encouragement.

Part One,

Early Days

As Joseph walked the long miles through the desert dragging a chain between his legs there was plenty of time for visions of his eventful youth to dispel the depressive feeling of nonentity trying to take control of his tortured young mind. These memories he deliberately set before his self as a testimony of a life to hold fast to.

He reached into the farthest recesses of his memory and pulled out the files, one by one. First there was the time when he was still a babe in arms, about six years old - one of his first memories - when his father picked him up and set him, with his mother, on the back of a kneeling camel. He remembered the secure feeling while he was in his father’s arms, and the mingled fear and excitement as he was placed before his mother. Then, before he could guess what was going to happen, the camel rose in the air with a swaying motion that nearly took his breath away. The memory was still, after all these years, accompanied by a slight feeling of dizziness. Then he remembered a feeling of wonder as they begin to move forward. He remembered the thrill as his mother explained they were all leaving. Joseph’s ten brothers, his sister, Dinah, his aunts, with his father’s livestock as well as all their other personal possessions were never going to return to the land of his birth.

Ignoring the heavy iron chains that burned into his flesh and slowed his gait, Joseph focused his attention on the events of that journey that were sharp in his memory. There was the argument ten days into their trip, between his father and grandfather, in the hill country of Gilead when everyone seemed to be holding their breath. It seemed that his grandfather had been angry at his father for leaving without saying good-bye. And Joseph’s father had been angry about the ill treatment Joseph’s grandfather was guilty of. The argument ended when the two of them built up a great heap of stones on the mountain that would separate the grandfather and father forever. They had a big feast that night and the following morning Joseph’s grandfather kissed them all good-bye, and that was the last time Joseph ever saw him.

Joseph could remember the panic that spread through the camp when the news came that the dread Uncle Esau was on his way to meet them with 400 followers. Joseph was sitting with his mother on the camel while his father rushed about dividing his family and stock and lining them up.

They were in the narrow Jabbok Valley and everywhere he looked he saw scarred limestone cliffs, very different from the grasslands around the home he had known all his life. Joseph and his mother were directed to stay at the end of the long line of family and stock. They would be safe back there, his mother said, but Joseph didn’t like being so far away from his father.

He remembered his very flesh was tingling with excitement. The whole thing was extremely exhilarating. However, the thing that made the greatest impression on his young mind was that prayer of his father's.

His big strong father, who seemed a tower of strength and reliability to Joseph, looked toward the heavens and cried out to the God of his fathers. He prayed humbly, reminding Yahweh of his mercy and his guiding care and revealed truth. Then he pled, with the conviction of one who knows Yahweh hears and answers prayer, for the deliverance from Uncle Esau. He pled for the lives of his family and reminded Yahweh of his promise to bless them.

Then his father sent presents to Uncle Esau and lay down to sleep.

Joseph’s father, Jacob, knew the principle that, years later, wise Solomon and his father, David, would record that, A gift in secret pacifies anger…I laid down and slept: I awakened for the Lord sustained me. I will not be afraid of ten thousands of peoples who have set themselves against me round about.

That was a night of somber anticipation when they crossed over the ford of the Jabbok River without the trusted father. But in the morning, when his father limped into camp to get his family ready to cross the Jabbok for the third time, the mark of royalty was on his countenance.

Later, he told Joseph of the struggle with the Man and the resulting blessing. And Joseph set his own face to seek Yahweh’s blessing.