iRunScriptures / Season 1, Episode 11
Dreamer
iRunScriptures Season 1, Episode 11: "Dreamer" --- THE FAVORITE SON Jacob had twelve sons, but one was special. "Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many colors." The robe. That famous robe—richly ornamented, distinctive, marking Joseph as favored above all his brothers. In a culture where the firstborn received the double portion and the primary blessing, this was scandalous. Joseph wasn't the oldest. He wasn't even close. But he was Jacob's favorite, and everyone knew it. "But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully to him." The family dynamics were poisonous. Ten older brothers watching their father lavish attention on this younger sibling. Ten men who worked the same fields, tended the same flocks, but never received the special robe, the lingering looks, the obvious preference. Hate was already simmering. Then Joseph started dreaming. --- THE DREAMS "Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more." The first dream: sheaves of wheat in a field. Joseph's sheaf stood upright while his brothers' sheaves gathered around and bowed down to his. The brothers understood immediately: "Are you...