And Joseph answered and said, This is the interpretation thereof: The three baskets are three days:
The words were spoken in prison, when the favorable interpretation given to the chief butler's dream encouraged the chief baker to tell his own dream. Joseph understood its terrible meaning and looked sad because of it, yet though kind and sympathizing, his high sense of duty moved him to give the truthful sad meaning. The three baskets upon the baker's head meant three days.
The baker's three days stands together with the butler's three days as paired three-day prophecies. As in the dream the birds ate the baked meats out of the upper basket, so the baker would be hanged upon a tree and the birds would eat his flesh. The interpretation came true exactly as foretold, for after that time, on the third day, Pharaoh had the baker executed and put to death.
The verse shows that time prophecy is literal and exact, fulfilled in accordance with the prediction within the stated three days. It is one example of God's pattern of limiting predicted events to a given time, proving that the chronological portions of the Bible are as reliable as any other Scripture. It therefore gives reason to trust chronological periods extending to the second coming of Christ as appointed times revealed by God.
The words were spoken in prison, when the favorable interpretation given to the chief butler's dream encouraged the chief baker to tell his own dream. Joseph understood its terrible meaning and looked sad because of it, yet though kind and sympathizing, his high sense of duty moved him to give the truthful sad meaning. The three baskets upon the baker's head meant three days.
The baker's three days stands together with the butler's three days as paired three-day prophecies. As in the dream the birds ate the baked meats out of the upper basket, so the baker would be hanged upon a tree and the birds would eat his flesh. The interpretation came true exactly as foretold, for after that time, on the third day, Pharaoh had the baker executed and put to death.
The verse shows that time prophecy is literal and exact, fulfilled in accordance with the prediction within the stated three days. It is one example of God's pattern of limiting predicted events to a given time, proving that the chronological portions of the Bible are as reliable as any other Scripture. It therefore gives reason to trust chronological periods extending to the second coming of Christ as appointed times revealed by God.