Genesis 37: When Dreams Turn Into Nightmares

According to George Fox, author of Foxes Book of Martyrs, there are three types of dreams:
~1. Dreams that result from a multitude of business and an overworked mind
~2. Dreams that represent the whisperings of Satan in man in the night-season

~3. Dreams that come as the result of God speaking supernaturally to man

Job 33:14-18 “For God does speak-now one way, now another--though man may not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men as they slumber in their beds, he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings, to turn man from wrongdoing and keep him from pride, to preserve his soul from the pit, his life from perishing by the sword. ”But sometimes dreams are nothing more than hidden desires of the soul, and as a result, are rarely fulfilled in the manner we might hope: After waking up one morning, a woman told her husband, "I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for our anniversary. What do you think it means?"

"You'll know tonight." he said. That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to his wife. Delighted, she opened it to find a book entitled "The Meaning of Dreams. "We all have had dreams in life:

Visions in the night as well as hopes and aspirations for the future.

In the text of Genesis 37, Joseph experienced both the visions in the night and the aspirations for his future. But before the dreams of God would be fulfilled in his life, Joseph would know firsthand the perplexing and agonizing experience of when “Dreams Turn into Nightmares.”

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