Jesus (Yeshua) in the Torah

Joseph the Dreamer

The early Church at some time developed the idea of Joseph as a type or shadow of Yeshua. The hidden codes that I have found in Genesis 41-42 can add to this view. It would be a good idea to first review this narrative on your own. The story of Joseph can be found from Genesis chapter thirty-seven to Genesis chapter fifty.

In the lives of Joseph and Yeshua, there are many similarities.

Joseph was 30 years old when he became second in Egypt, and Yeshua was 30 when he began his ministry.

Like Joseph, Yeshua's Jewish brothers hated Him. Luke 23:23 - "And they were instant with loud voices, requiring that he might be crucified. And the voices of them and the chief priests prevailed."
Genesis 37:4 - "... they (Joseph's ten brothers) hated him, and could not speak peaceably with him."
In his book "The Hebrew Factor", Ya'aqov Rambsel has noted that encoded every 27 letters you can find "Ach (brother) Yeshua" ( ), starting from " they hate him."

Joseph rose from the pit where his brothers at first hoped he would die (Gen. 37:20 "Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit..."); likewise, they crucified Yeshua, he died, descended into Sheol, then arose from the dead.

God sent Joseph to Egypt so he could save his family, Egypt, and the surrounding nations from famine (Genesis 45:7). Joseph said: "And God sent me ( ) before you to preserve you a remnant in the earth, and to save the lives by great deliverance." In the same way, Yeshua was sent by God the father to save us from the penalty of Sin. A remnant will be saved from the whole earth; the Jew first and the Gentile.

In the Gospel of Luke chapter 4, Jesus begins His ministry after He is baptized by John and anointed by the Holy Spirit. Returning to Nazareth:
"He went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up to read." "The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the LORD has anointed ( ) me to announce good tidings to the meek; he has sent me ( ) to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and open the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD ..." - (Isaiah 61:1).

This passage in Isaiah 60 is the Sabbatical Year of Jubilee; the year of deliverance and release. Jesus is announcing the beginning of His ministry as Messiah on that particular Sabbath (approx. 27 A.D.). This Hebrew word mashah ( anoint ), means "to consecrate to religious service." In chapter 40 of Genesis, mashah appears encoded with the name of Yeshua. Before we look at this code, we need to first look at the dream aspect of the story.

The dreams in the story of Joseph play major roles. Together, there are six dreams, which are grouped in twos as they occur. The dreams are focal points, around which the plot of the story turn and the hidden codes. The three groups of dreams and their outcomes are listed below.

1. The first dreams of Joseph will turn his brothers against him. They sell him into slavery.
2. The dreams of the two servants of Pharaoh help him to be freed from prison.
3. The dreams of Pharaoh cause Joseph to rise to great prominence in Egypt and ultimately save his entire family from the famine and move them into Egypt where God would bring out their descendants.

The story of Joseph can be understood in another way when interpreted through the lens of the sod or hidden things. There can be seen two parallel but separate fulfillment's within these dreams. In fairness, prophetic "Double fulfillment"(i.e. where one prophecy can have more than one fulfillment), is considered invalid by some Bible scholars, but we will generously allow it here. Now that I have reminded you not to think that any non-literal method is more spiritually acceptable than another, we can safely continue.

The first prophetic dream obviously points to the time of Joseph and the other seems to points perfectly to the time of Yeshua. Throughout the narrative, Joseph interprets the objects in all the dreams as either symbols or units of time, and the dream itself, as referring to future events. In the same way the story of Joseph can be seen as a dream of future events and its interpretation. It is the events of the far future in which Joseph represents Yeshua the Messiah.

The Genesis narrative depicts how Joseph was sent from God to deliver his brethren from death and put them in a land (Goshen) where they would prosper and increase in number. The parallel can be seen in Yeshua being sent from God to deliver His people from their sins and bring them into His Father's Kingdom. In the second and third dreams, I have found some amazing references to Yeshua, the Messiah and the LORD.

Beginning with the narrative of the second set of dreams (Genesis 40), we can see a hidden pattern taking form. As this story unfolds, Joseph prospers wherever he goes because God blesses and keeps watch over him. While imprisoned in Egypt Joseph gains favor and is appointed the overseer of the prisoners. During this time Pharaoh's chief cupbearer and chief baker were thrown into prison where both have prophetic dreams on the same night. However, they do not understand the meanings of their dreams. When Joseph asks them why they appear troubled, they reply that it is because no one can interpret our dreams. From the following verses we can find a deeper meaning to this story; that will unveil the future of Israel. Go to Genesis 40, verse five and the fourth letter of the word:

From the above listing you can see that both dreams of the cupbearer and baker span the hidden "code": Anointed Yeshua (ELS 130). As mentioned before the word masah ( ) can be found used of the Messiah in Isaiah 61:1 "The Spirit of the LORD God is upon me ; because the LORD has anointed ( ) me to announce good tidings to the meek;" .
Here within these verses of Genesis chapter 40 is a Messianic prophecy within a prophecy. The word Masah , which means anoint or anointed, starts with the "dream" , of the cupbearer and Baker, then ends "in my dream" of the "baker".

Yeshua's name begins with the name of Joseph as he gives the cupbearer a favorable interpretation; and then Yeshua's name ends in the name of Pharaoh , whose word becomes both life and death to cupbearer and baker. Both dreams together depict the details of events that will occur at the time of Joseph and the time of the future, yet to come.

The cupbearer and baker: " we have each had a dream, but we do not know what it means"." Joseph then replies in verse 8: "Do not interpretations belong to God? Please tell me your dreams".
Joseph then continues to interpret both their dreams. Hidden in verse 40:12 and again in 40:18, we find the LORD's name. Each time they are found preceding Joseph's interpretation. From this we can see that Joseph's ability to interpret comes from the LORD. In chapter 40 verse 12, the name of the LORD ( ), is spelled every fifth letter, starting from Joseph.

Genesis 40:12 "And Joseph said to him, this is the interpretation of it : The three tendrils are three days:

In the cupbearer's dream there is a grapevine, the fruit of which he presses into Pharaoh cup to drink. The grape vine is often a symbol for Israel (Hosea 10:1 " Israel was a spreading vine " & Psalm 80:8 " You brought a vine out of Egypt; ") who God has planted and tends as a gardener. In the Gospel according to John chapter 15, Yeshua calls himself the vine, or more correctly "the true vine". "The Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he trims clean so that it will be even more fruitful." This statement clearly shows that the Messiah Yeshua equates Himself with the Vine, which is Israel.

The new wine from the grapes that Pharaoh delights in suggests the blessings of the land that will come to Israel (Deuteronomy 11:13,14 "your new wine " = ). Joel 3:18 can be interpreted to mean that in the reign of Messiah "The mountains shall drip down new wine and the hills shall flow with milk..." -i.e. prosperity and a happy life! -.

Joseph gives the cupbearer a favorable interpretation to his dream.
Genesis 40:13 "...within another three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head, and restore thee to thy place".
The restoring the cupbearer to his original status after three days can be seen as symbolic of the Messiah being restored to life after three days. Both the names of the LORD and Yeshua start from the first letter of Joseph's name. This connects all three. Joseph is the shadow or picture of the future Messiah and the nature of the future savior is connected to God, Himself.

In verse 18, when Joseph interprets the baker's dream we can find the LORD's name hidden again with slightly different wording. The equal distant count of 5 is identical with the previous one.

Genesis 40:18 "And Joseph answered and said, this is the interpretation: the three baskets are three days:"

The slightly different wording has a very different out come for the Baker. 40:19 "within another three days shall Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree; and birds shall eat thy flesh from off thee."
After three days the baker is killed and "hung on a tree". The cupbearer is "restored" to his position. Both picture what will happen to Yeshua. They lifted up and crucified Yeshua on a Roman cross. The three days are just as the three days Jesus was buried after His death. Also, like the cupbearer, He was raised up and restored to his place of honor. But the story does not end. There are still more interesting things to find.

Two years after the cupbearer is restored, Pharaoh has two dreams in one night. In the morning he was troubled in his spirit, so he sent for the magicians and wise men of Egypt . None of them could interpret Pharaoh's dream. It was then that the chief cupbearer remembered Joseph. The cupbearer explained to Pharaoh how after he and the baker were put into prison, Joseph interpreted each of their dreams. Both interpretations came to pass just as Joseph said. Pharaoh then sent for Joseph. When Joseph arrived, Pharaoh asked if he could interpret his dreams.

Genesis 41:16 "And Joseph answered Pharaoh saying, it is not me: God shall give Pharaoh a favorable answer."

Truer words could not have been spoken because once again we fine the LORD's name ( ) encoded in this verse every five letters starting with Elohim (God) and ending in Pharaoh . This hidden "code" precedes Joseph interpretation of Pharaoh's two dreams.

In chapter 40, in the dreams of the cupbearer and baker we found encrypted the prophetic Anointed Yeshua which began in the word dream . Now in chapter 41 of Genesis when Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams, "seven good cows" and the "seven good ears" to be one dream we can find encrypted: Behold The (Anointed One) Messiah , and in verses, 29 and 30, we find His (Anointed One) Messiah.

In Genesis 41:26 Joseph says: "God has declared to Pharaoh what he is about to do. The seven good cows are seven years; and the seven good ears are seven years: the dream is one."

Joseph interprets the dream to mean there will be seven years of plenty followed by seven years of famine. Very remarkably we find ending in the word dream , the last letter of Behold Ha Mashiach (The Messiah) . You can observe both codes in the boxes below.

A slight re-association of these encrypted letters will give , which can mean wail or lament (Ezekiel 32:18 Micah 2:4) the (Anointed One) Messiah. We know from Isaiah's suffering servant (Isaiah 53) that the Messiah must suffer, die and then be raised from the dead.

Amazingly, within the interpretation of Pharaoh's second dream we find, equally space again at 5 letters, the phrase, His (Anointed One) Messiah; that is, God's Anointed, whose name we found encrypted in Chapter 40: Anointed Yeshua.

Genesis 41:26-32
"God has declared to Pharaoh what He is about to do. The seven good cows are seven years; behold, and the seven good ears are seven years : the dream is one. "And the seven thin and ill favored cows that came up after them are seven years: and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine. Thus is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh: what God is about to do He has shown to Pharaoh. Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt. And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land; and the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of the famine following; for it shall be very grievous. And as for the repetition of the dream to Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is fast determined by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass."

Again, the plain understanding of this story tells of God's plan to send Joseph to Egypt. Rising to power, second only to Pharaoh, Joseph not only saves his family, Egypt and the world, from a deadly famine, but also becomes reunited and reconciled to his estranged brothers.

At the end of the story when Jacob dies, Joseph shows grace and great compassion toward his frightened brothers. He tries to allay their fears and comfort them for their past deeds against him.
Genesis 45:5 - "Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that you sold me here: for God did send me before you to preserve life."
In the same way Yeshua was sent to save His fellow Jews, and also the Gentiles from God's judgement.

When Yeshua returns, He will be reconciled to His Jewish brethren and likewise comfort them at His appearing, and they will say:
"...Blessed is He who comes in the name of the LORD!" - Matthew 23: 9

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