Joseph, part 1: Because of His Dreams
Holy Ghost Stories
Justin Gerhardt
4.9 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Favored by his father and reviled by his brothers, Joseph has a pair of controversial dreams.
Text: Genesis 37:1-31
Players:
- Yahweh
- Joseph
- Jacob
- Reuben
- Judah
- Simeon
- Levi
What's Spooky:
- A teenage boy is accosted
- An animal's throat is slit
Credits:
Research, Writing, Narration, Sound Design: Justin Gerhardt
Manuscript Editing: JL Gerhardt
Production: Hazefire Studios
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, Justin here. Welcome to Season 8. We are devoting this entire season to one uninterrupted |
| 0:07.6 | multi-part telling of the story of Joseph, and I'm delighted to take this journey with you. Now, |
| 0:13.1 | some of the initial ground that these first few episodes will encompass, we covered a while back |
| 0:18.5 | on the show, but we've painstakingly rewritten, re-narrated, and |
| 0:22.8 | rescored it all for this season. I hope it blesses you. And then one note, so that you're not |
| 0:28.3 | distracted when you get to this point of the episode, I wanted to let you know ahead of time |
| 0:31.9 | that you might be surprised by a couple of details in our telling of the story, specifically |
| 0:36.6 | who sells Joseph. We have reasons, |
| 0:39.5 | of course, for the choices we've made. And if you're wondering what those reasons are, I'm sharing |
| 0:44.3 | them and some other really interesting things about this story in this week's edition of the latest |
| 0:48.9 | in email I send out to quite a few of you every other week. If you're not on that list, |
| 0:53.9 | you can sign up for free at holy ghost stories.org or by clicking the link in the show notes. |
| 0:59.3 | And if you're listening to this after March 9th, 2026, you can head to the archives of the latest and check out the issue from the week of March 9th. |
| 1:08.4 | All right. How about a story? |
| 1:17.0 | No. the week of March 9th. All right. How about a story? Why does it sometimes feel as though God is far away? When loss or sorrow or hardship slips |
| 1:25.7 | in like a thief, what can we conclude, |
| 1:28.7 | but that our dreams of a protective father's love |
| 1:31.6 | were naive and childish, |
| 1:35.4 | that he is nowhere near, |
| 1:38.7 | that we are, as we've always feared, alone. |
| 1:47.0 | This is the story of a man living through the varied movements of a divine symphony, |
| 1:53.0 | the brisk lively sonatas, the slow-plodding adagios, |
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