Genesis 37
23 So when Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped him of his robe—the richly ornamented robe he was wearing- 24 and they took him and threw him into the cistern. Now the cistern was empty; there was no water in it.
The underlined statement is there for a reason, but what is the spiritual meaning behind it? I want to know.
Joseph is a symbol for God's chosen, sent ahead to save the rest of mankind. But first God's chosen have to be judged. So God puts us into a pit with no water. He drys up all our pools, makes us cast off our idols, makes us thrist for the Living Water. Then (if we remain faithful) God repays each woe with two mercies.
Zechariah 9:11 Because of the covenant I made with you, sealed with blood, I will free your prisoners from
death in a waterless dungeon. 12 Come back to the place of safety, all you prisoners, for there is yet hope! I promise this very day that I will repay you two mercies for each of your woes![/list:u][/color][/b]
David thristed for God from a land where no water was.
[A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.]] O God, thou [art] my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee
in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.[/list:u][/color][/b]
In judgment, God first drys up our own pools of water and makes waste of our high places. Then He leads us out of darkness.
Isaiah 42:14 I have long time holden my peace; I have been still,
[and] refrained myself: [now] will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once. 15 I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and
I will dry up the pools. 16 And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods.[/list:u][/color][/b]
God dries up proud green trees, but then gives new life to the dry tree.
Ezekiel 17:24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.[/list:u][/color][/b]
Jesus grows up like a tender plant in the PARCHED ground.
Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him,
[there is] no beauty that we should desire him.[/list:u][/color][/b]