ZAPHNATHPAANEAH
Genesis 41:20-21 [Pharaoh speaking] The lean and the ill favoured kine did eat up the first seven fat kine: and when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
One thing often forgotten in these woke times is that we are property.
I Corinthians 6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
There are channels of communication from God instructing us what to do which we ignore at our peril. Pharaoh had Joseph; when he paid attention there was mercy shown to his nation but Joseph was clear in explaining that not he, but God, was the active party. Genesis 41:15-16. Pharaoh accepted this new information, acknowledged the One True God Genesis 41:38-39, made Joseph prime minister, gave him a groovy new wife together with linen clothes à la mode – after all it gets quite warm in Egypt (and linen from Egypt's monotheistic period is renowned to this day) – renaming him Zaphnathpaaneah which I must say is rather snappy and much overlooked as a name for sons today.
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE
The following 23’’ clip demonstrates my point quite well
but you need to imagine it much much louder
I've noticed that intruder alarms produce 2 sounds simultaneously, designed to create a dissonance & throw an uninvited guest offbalance. |
When I hear someone saying one thing one day and something altogether different on another day, especially if there's an apology thrown in, it's easy to understand how a felonious wretch must feel when the alarm goes off half way through the window (or tunnel, if robbing a bank) except that alarms are designed especially to unbalance the human mind whereas a Pastor (one would imagine) is seeking to elucidate. "What must be going on," I asked myself, "in that preacher's head?" If he actually read The Bible instead of deriving inspiration from isolated verses there wouldn't be a problem. But there is, and in his head there's a dissonance – just like when that alarm goes off combining two different yet precisely out-of-tune sounds. "What two elements can be at work for the preacher?" I wondered. And the answer of course is right there in Corinthians.
I Corinthians 15:41-47 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
The two elements are well described there, there's no need to elaborate. The preacher however seems unable to do anything else! “In the sermon, I made insensitive remarks about women and made statements deemed unbiblical,” said Clark in a statement, but previously he'd attributed Biblical authority to those statements, according to the linked piece from Christian Post. Joseph was clear and consistent in what he said. Pharaoh took notice and acknowledged God in a way we wouldn't have, if Joseph was flimflamming. Egypt prospered. A later pharaoh departed from that simple understanding, bringing back idols and maybe an apology too. Egypt was blasted with plagues. For anyone departing from The Bible the siren blast of cognitive dissonance must be deafening indeed.
Originally posted by Johny Joe Hold
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