August 18, 2022 – Click here to listen
I have often wished that I could interpret dreams as the prophets of the Old Testament did. Joseph became the favorite of pharaoh when he explained the meaning of Pharoah’s troubling dream of seven fat cows and seven skinny cows to him. The seven gaunt, ugly cows ate up the fat fine-looking cows. All of pharaoh’s magicians, seers, and various and sundry fortune tellers and medicine men could not interpret this dream.
Joseph through help from the Lord explained that the fat cows represented seven years of plenty whereby Egypt would harvest enormously, that was to be followed by seven years of famine represented by the skinny cows. He told him to fill his granaries during the good times and there would be enough to last during the bad. This would make him rich(er) in the process. When the rest of the world, not privy to this forecast, would flock to buy from Egypt he would be richer than he ever imagined. It worked like a charm and Joseph became pharaoh’s “right-hand man” and ended up exceedingly rich himself.
I had an awful dream the other night. I have had dreams whereby I could see and hear and even fly, but this was the first time I have dreamed that I could actually smell during my dream. Unfortunately, I dreamed that I was smelling under my arm, and it smelled so bad that I almost threw up. It was horrible! It smelled worse than any stinking, sweaty person, devoid of both bath and deodorant that I had ever smelled. In fact, it was much worse than words can describe! It was so bad in fact, that I woke up.
As I laid there reviewing what had just happened, I became aware that I’d been dreaming, but just to be sure that it was indeed a dream, I tentatively took a sniff under my arm to confirm. ( Everything was fine, indeed it had been a dream!) This dream had such an effect on me that I could not go back to sleep, and it has been on my mind ever since. Why in the world would I dream such a dream?
If I were called in to see the pharaoh in Washington D.C. to explain this dream, what would I say? I realize that interpretations of dreams are reserved for prophets and come from God, and I know that God would not waste His time on something this stupid, but just for fun, I thought I would take a stab at it on my own.
I pondered this for a day or so and then while fishing yesterday it came to me. I knew the meaning of the dream and could explain it to Big Joe Pharoah that all of these wars being cooked up in congress and fueled by ARMS company lobbyists, (Arms – Get it?), making billions by selling everything from cruise missiles to bullets stinks to high heaven. Why sell high technology weaponry to other countries in the name of peace? At the risk of sounding like a liberal, (yuck!), I think that we should give this policy a rest and try implementing the lyrics of the liberal John Lennon, “Just give peace a chance”.
OMG, I went against the billions spent on the defense lobby group brainwashing machine. I hope it doesn’t raise the ire of all my hawk friends to dare to say I am against all of these wars. Americans are told to believe there are WMDs under every bush. This while the U.S. already has enough nukes to destroy the entire planet ten times.
Did you ever wonder how much we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan alone? One study shows $5.8 trillion. Yikes, Biden could hire far more IRS agents than the 87,000 new army he is hiring now with that kind of cash. Now that stinks . . .
Hebrews 12:14
Pursue peace with all people
and holiness, without which no one
will see the Lord . . .