Tuesday, March 16, 2021

IN SEARCH OF THE HOLY GRAIL - Part 2 of 2

  The dream was not about the chief butler nor the baker at all. It was about the Chief Servant — Jesus — and the poor servant — Judas. The latter should be obvious because Judas was hanged from a tree on the same day that Jesus died. Jesus was restored but Judas was surely scavenged by buzzards before his remains were buried in the Potter’s Field.

10 And in the vine were three branches: and it was as though it budded, and her blossoms shot forth; and the clusters thereof brought forth ripe grapes: 11 And Pharaoh's cup was in my hand: and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand.13 Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh's cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler. (Gen 40:10-13)

  That was the dream of the butler. From the Hebrew, the butler was the one “to give the water” (ibid), albeit he was the one to give the wine. In those days, drink was strong, bitter, and full of dredges. To be consumed, it was often diluted by water. Hence, the “butler” gave wine and water, and as is known from scripture, wine represents the blood of Jesus and water, the Holy Spirit. When Jesus died, He gave up the Ghost when He was pierced and gave blood and water for the sins of mankind.

  The blood represented the Man, Jesus… and the water, the Holy Ghost of Jesus. So, in the case of the butler, he represents Jesus giving blood and water to Pharoah. The good Pharoah is symbolic of God.

  On the other hand, the baker baked a basket of bread and gave it to Pharoah in the dream. The baker mixed the ingredients, kneaded the dough, let it rise, formed the loaf, and baked it to make bread. Whereas the butler merely served what God grew, he was a servant, but the baker did all the work for the Pharoah, but the rising of the dough. Yeast is impure in scripture. His contribution was unclean.

  The baker, in the dream, is a foreshadowing of the traitor, Judas Iscariot, who hanged himself on a tree and died. Judas, likewise, did not serve the Lord, but served the devilish chief priests. Then, rather than wait for Jesus to die for his sin of blasphemy, Judas did the “bloody deed” himself (referring to what Zipporah called circumcision when she chastised Moses).

  The silver chalice, therein, is the cup that Pharoah drank in the dream. The servant served his master by giving him the fruit of the vine. The Father is the “Husbandman” and Jesus is the “Vine” (John 15:1). The grapes and the silver chalice belonged to Pharoah. He was the husbandman, and the silver chalice was his estate. It represented his riches.

  Since the butler obtained the grapes and God made it into wine, then the butler merely served what God had made. With that, the butler represents the vine and as the server. He is as the Son serving His Master. The dream was about Jesus and Judas long before Jesus and Judas! It was not about a cup at all, but about salvation and the butler about the Servant Jesus! Who did it? As always, the butler, but what the “butler” did in this research, is to save the victims!

  Working is not efficacy, but serving is: “If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour” (John 12:26). Jesus is honored by service, and in like manner Pharoah was honored by the service of the butler. The butler was the antitype of Jesus of whom it is written, “For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45).

  Jesus was a “Butler.” He served the wine and water from His own “cup,” to wit: “But one of the soldiers (Longinus) with a spear pierced his side, and forthwith came there out blood and water” (John 19:34). The wine and water were elements just as the bread and wine would have been in the dream… if the baker had been right with Pharoah.

  The baker served Pharoah with bread in a basket. The basket was porous, and crumbs surely were sifted out. Satan is the one who sifts; Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat” (Luke 22:31). On the other hand, the wine of Pharoah would need to be spilled. That is what Jesus did on the Cross and when he gave up blood and water (wine), He gave up the Holy Ghost.

  The Father is represented by Pharoah. He planned all things for Egypt. Likewise, the death of Judas and Jesus was planned by God. Joseph knew the immediate plan for Pharoah and what the Father had in mind for His “Butler” and “baker,” Jesus and Judas, respectively.

  Was the dream that Joseph interpreted about a basket and a cup, or was it about something else? It is about the purpose of Judas sifted and Jesus poured. “Jesus poured?” you ask.

  Jesus told those apostles that pretended for honor in His Kingdom, “And he saith unto them, ‘Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father’” (Mat 20:23). Jesus served His blood and water for mankind. Rather than receiving the “Living Water” as the Pharoah would, Jesus gave up the Living Water, meaning His Holy Ghost, which was water mixed with the “wine” of Jesus.

  The apostles, excepting Judas, indeed drank of the “cup” of Jesus, and were baptized with His Water. All the apostles suffered and died for Jesus except Judas, who did not drink of the cup of Jesus when Jesus passed it around. Jesus sopped the wine and gave it to Judas. “Sopping” is using bread to partake of the wine. Jesus was revealing the story of the baker and the butler to Jews who would understand what He was implying! The wine itself would be good to serve, but by sopping with unleavened bread, it mocked the baker who surely used yeast for Pharoah, and thus his offering was unacceptable to the Lord.

  The baptism of Jesus is baptism by the Holy Ghost of Jesus. Jesus poured out His Spirit into the world. Jesus was the “cup” that He poured of Himself to serve mankind. The butler wasn’t serving Pharoah at all, but a purpose. His cup would be used for God to sift out who was His and who was not: “God forbid that I should do so: but the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my servant; and as for you, get you up in peace unto your father” (Gen 44:17).

  Benjamin was selected as the “butler” for Judah. The southern realm of Judah (later Judea) had only two of the twelve tribes who were faithful — Benjamin and Judah. Throughout history, the tribe of Benjamin was always there butlering (sic) Judah.

  Perhaps, Benjamin was the keeper of the silver chalice for Judah, and that it was kept in the House of God (the Righteous “Pharoah”). Could it be that among the treasures from the east, that a silver chalice was among them? That Jesus had the cup that Joseph used to sift the servant from the baker — Benjamin from Judah?

  What was Jesus doing at the last supper? He was not drinking and eating; he was serving bread and water as a baker (man) and as a butler (ghost). Jesus was coyly sifting out the baker from Himself. Judas would be the “baker” and he had the “yeast” to put in the sop. Paul wrote, “Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump” (1 Cor 5:6). Judas spoiled the Last Supper for all, and Jesus did not eat nor drink.

  The Last Supper was not in the upper room, but on the Cross where Jesus served all mankind from Adam to all his kind. He poured strong wine mixed with life-giving water from his “cup.” It was not hold My beer, or even hold My wine, but pass the wine and water to Pharoahs and butlers — to kings and servants!

  Jesus while in agony for mankind sweated water as if it was blood. “He went away again the second time, and prayed, saying, ‘O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done’” (Mat 26:42). “Cup” in the Greek means “vessel.” Jesus, the Son of Man, is the vessel for the Holy Ghost, and that vessel is the Son of God. But His vessel was lined within.

  Perhaps the gold that was given to Jesus was lined with silver. That is called “vermeil” in modern terms. Perhaps Jesus was drinking from the silver chalice that the butler served. The “vessel” of Jesus is the golden flesh, but inside it has a silver lining. Perhaps Solomon knew that treasure when he said about death, “Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern” (Ecc 12:6). Was he thinking of silver and gold as treasures or as a purpose? The ladder between God and mankind is the silver cord fastened to Jesus. Did that golden bowl (vessel) have a silver lining? We shall find out when the Holy Grail is before us!

  I found the Holy Grail! The cup that the butler passed was just a dream. Joseph passed the real cup to Benjamin to serve Judah. Was it the cup that was the treasure or was it Judah? It was revealed to John, “Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof” (Rev 5:5).

  Jesus is the seed of Judah. He is the “Lion” that was unleashed to devour the devilish roaring lion. Jesus is the butler who would do the “bloody deed.” He cut off the devil’s flesh when His Flesh was served to God for the sins of mankind. All the while, the “baker” was hanging in his own tree, and his rotting flesh indubitably pecked by scavengers.

  The silver chalice from which Judas sopped, was just a prop in the Passion of Christ. The real Holy Grail was the vessel of Jesus — His cup of gold with a silver lining. Judas would not pass the chalice, but he would accept the silver from the High Priests. It turned out that the silver was just blood money for doing the bloody deed. Even the priests would not be that dastardly. They bought the Potter’s Field to bury Judas. The earth was the vessel that Judas was to have, and he tried to serve death to all mankind.

  The point to this is that neither the silver chalice nor even a golden grail is of little value. Those represent the love of money, or avarice. The valuable “Cup” can never be melted down to make a graven image in Babylon nor can it be melted for money. I found the Holy Grail and It (sic) is Jesus. He is the Vessel that all have searched for so long. The Holy Grail is the Temple of God and Jesus is that Temple.

  Christians are the “lively stones” and pillars of God’s Temple, to wit: “Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord” (Ephes 2:19-21).

  Christians are empty vessels that have been filled with Living Water drank from the Cup of Jesus, from whose belly flows living water (John 7:38). Jesus is the “butler” and His “belly” the silver chalice, or rather His soul within His Body. I have found Jesus! I have found the Holy Grail!

  The Holy Grail is just as much a legend as King Arthur, but Arthur missed the point. It was not the chalice that was so important but Christ Himself. In the legend, the Fisher King had possession of the Holy Grail. The Fisher King had a wound that would not heal. The Fisher King, although legend, is real, and I have found Him.

  The Fisher King is not a sorcerer but the King of the Jews who fished for men to serve the Father. The wound that would not heal are perhaps the scars from his crucifixion; the ones that Jesus displayed to Thomas. Or perhaps, the scars of the Fisher King continue to be His agony for mankind until all who will, will find the Holy Grail. All men are in search of the Holy Grail! Inside the souls or mankind is nothing until it is filled. Either the baker will fill it with yeast and leaven the whole basket, or Jesus will fill the “cup” with “wine” and make it full of the Spirit of God.

  THE Holy Grail is Jesus. The unholy basket of deplorables is us. God calls every man to be like Jesus. The leaking “basket” within everyone can be sealed and miraculously found in our knapsack. It was a cup all along that was empty. Just as Benjamin had a sack and not a basket, the cup within was of silver. All it needed was for God to serve it to him, and Joseph, as the master butler gave Benjamin that assignment until the Good Butler served, not just Judah (Jews), but all mankind.

  Where did I find the Holy Grail? Not on my camel as Benjamin did, but in my car. Was the Holy Grail found in Egypt? No, but on the way there, I found the Holy Grail on my trip to Michigan, and still have my trophy to show for it! I have the prize as if in hand, as Paul would say!

(picture credit: Pinterest; "Woodward Antique Silver Goblet")



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