Is Dream Interpretation Biblical?
Many believe that God still talk to man with dreams even today. Dream interpretation is mentioned in different stories mentioned in the bible. So how to interpret the dreams we or others have? Let’s look at Joseph’s life.
The most famous example of dream interpretations is probably the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis. Joseph was the youngest son of Jacob who had eleven more sons. Jacob, who is renamed by God as Israel, loved Joseph more than all his children. He made Joseph a coat of many colors. But this provoked the jealousy of his fellow brothers.
Joseph’s adventure began like this. One night Joseph had a dream. He saw himself and his brothers binding sheaves in the field. Then he saw his own sheaf stood up and his brothers sheaves stood around it and bowed to it. Joseph told his brothers about his dreams which had a clear meaning which is that so how his brothers would bow to Joseph someday. His brothers hated that dream and hated him some more.
In another night, Joseph had another dream again. This time he saw the sun, the moon and eleven stars bowed to him. Without stopped by the fear of further provocation, he told the dream to his father and brothers. They were all angry because they can all understand the implications of the dream, which is Israel, his wife and sons, are bowing to Joseph. All the brothers are filled with envy. But Israel pondered about the dreams because he knew, feel that the dreams have some significance.
The dreams and the attitude of little Joseph irritated his brothers. The terrible sinful hearts of the eleven brothers were even thinking about killing this little brother together.
What can we learn from these two dream interpretation examples? We know that in dreams there are often symbols that symbolize persons or events that are important to you. But the arrangement and the numbers of the symbols we could understand more about the meaning of the dreams. We also learn that it is not always wise to tell people about your dreams, especially when it creates bad feeling or effect of someone else. In Joseph’s example, the dreams even provoked his brothers to try to kill him. How tragic is that!
Not only is the interpretation of dreams needed the guidance and help from the Holy Spirit, even the telling or keeping of the message. Lord, give me wisdom and revelations!
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