Consider these ideas.
**Joseph had a dream from God that he would rule over his brothers, Jacob favors Joseph. God restores the LDS Church and endows it with authority and to be the true church above all other christian churches.
**Jacob sends Joseph to check on his brothers. The LDS Church is sent to preach to other christian congregations.
**The brothers persecute Joseph. Christian congregations persecute the LDS church.
**The brothers bloody the coat which identifies him as the favored son and Joseph is exiled to Egypt. Christian mobs kill Joseph Smith (thinking that would put an end to the church) and the LDS church goes into exile into the wilderness.
**Joseph prospers but is thrown into prison because of false accusation of immorality. The Church is placed in debtors prison by the US because it is accused of immorality (polygamy).
**Joseph interprets the dreams of the baker and butler, baker dies, butler is reinstalled. The church must abandon it's desire to establish the physical kingdom (no more political government), yet rises in prominence as a spiritual kingdom.
**Joseph interprets Pharoah's dream and is placed in a position of prominence and prepares for famine. For quite some time, the church has been a respected institution (except among christian congregations), it has prepared for famine (spiritual and temporal), and has proven to be quite the administrator, like Joseph.
If this parallel is carried out, the day will come when humbled christian congregations will have the veil removed from their eyes and see Mormons for what we really are, their younger brother in Christ. Faithful believers will come to the Zion which Joseph sets aside for them to dwell. Joseph (LDS) will be the ruler in Zion because of the Priesthood authority and fulfillment of prophecy.
It is interesting that Joseph in Egypt worked under the authority of Pharoah to acquire the lands of the Egyptians (gentiles). Will that have a parallel?
It will be fascinating to see the mechanics of how Zion is established in the US in the midst of the coming famine!
Carlos
Fascinating Carlos. Excellent insight. Thanks for that. It makes perfect sense to me.
A quote that seems to support this.
Remarks by President Heber C. Kimball, made in the Bowery Great Salt Lake City, July 26, 1857
The day will be, and it will not be many years either: it will be about the time the United States want to send a sufficient force here. About the time they will get unto the hottest times will be about that time. They will persecute us all the time the same as Joseph's brethren did Joseph in Egypt. They whipped him and threw him into a pit, and then they thought of killing him; but Judah prevailed and saved him, and then they took him and sold him as a slave, and he obtained favour in the eyes of the King, and finally held dominion over that whole kingdom, and reared the kingdom, and raised grain previous to the famine, and saved and redeemed his whole father's house and millions of others; and everything had to bow down to the power of Joseph.
As true as that thing is true, so true it will be that our enemies will have to bow down to us; and we may do the best we can to store up stores; and it is all we can do before they will come bending unto us. And the President of the United States will bow to us and come to consult the authorities of this Church to know what he had best to do for his people.
You don't believe this. Wait and see; and just about the time they think they have got us, the Lord has got them fast. Now mark it, George; you may write every word of it.
I will tell you that brother Brigham and his brethren can tell the difference between the wheat and the chaff. [Voice: "The Lord gives wheat and the Devil gives chaff.] Retain all the wheat; and if there is any chaff there, give it to the Devils and the wheat, and the oat, and the barley you shall have; and the day is at hand for you to go to work to raise sheep and raise flax, and there shall be a coat on it four times thicker than any flax you ever saw, and everything else shall increase.
(Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. [London: Latter-day Saints' Book Depot, 1854-1886], 5: 93.)
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