Becoming Again

Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

Genesis 37:3-5

Well, I don't know if you've recognized the issue or not but right off the bat, Jacob knew he had some special kids so he was told. I'm sure though he hadn't need of anyone telling him anything, at least then not really. The issue isn't with Jacob's good bit of speciality children or even their magical abilities which made them all strangers much as their father was before them in the land he was born. Well, maybe it made them strangers, that much is not clear from the text. Dear old daddy Jacob was though at least in the spiritual sense. Let's say though, Jacob's sons didn't get all their powers from him, since they had been since the beginning of time with twelve in particular and the thirteenth, by far then the greatest, being the sum of the whole. Then, there's the whole other issue of Jacob's favoring of Joseph himself most of all. He'd even made him a coat specially as one reserved for house leaders typically wore. Which is fine, except for the many colors almost as though the others were blending into the background there once again. I mean, Joseph of all people, remained humble most of all and hardly let it get to his head. I'm sure deep down in the darkest of hearts, Israel favored Joseph like his own son or daughter mostly because he in some way resembled that of his father. There's not an issue with that yet, really and truly. Though, notice where it starts and how it's all gonna end. Joseph it seemed was just a dreamer of dreams. In this day and age we'd call him a prophet that much for sure now really. Then he chose to take up telling his dreams to his brothers, which some have found issues with, as someone who shouldn't have said anything at all from the start. The only issue I have with that regardless of rightness or wrongness thereof, is that these hadn't hardly needed no introduction. As in Proverbs, a man's gift makes room for him and brings him before great men. Then too, Joseph's gift hardly needed introduction but of course. Doubtless he was seeing things and hearing them also and had been for a long time still to come. Dreaming though is slightly different than the other forms of the media. It's much less interactive and a more impersonal way of the seeing. Still though, without proper interpretation and guidance, there's much damage yet to be done. Dearest daddy couldn't do anything but watch very much rather, quite unlike the time he fell asleep dreaming of ladders and angels also so bad that it affected him later. I mean, a rock for a pillow isn't quite what was wanted, was it, for spending the night safe and sound. Then too, there's the equal but opposite separate sorts of an issue. That's the whole thing of the improper prophet for you now whose prophecies don't come true as they've been told from the source. Basically, these were worthy of death or better still to just have stopped listening. The only thing I see old daddy Israel do for his children in the way of comfort and guidance and leadership proper is teaching Joseph that all wasn't quite as it seemed and in passing the baton of leadership so to speak on down to his son.