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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