12:4note/verse-11planets,sun,moon prostrating
12:4note/verse-11planets,sun,moon prostrating An Adventure Starting with a Dream. (Edip's Note) . 12:4 When Joseph said to his father: "My father, I have seen eleven planets and the sun and the moon, I saw them prostrating before me." Note. The dream perhaps has another prophetic meaning besides the one related to Joseph's family. For Joseph and his family, the dream was fulfilled about 2600 years ago with a good ending (*12:100). As for the other meaning of the dream, it is still waiting to be fulfilled. Does this allegory give us a clue regarding the number of planets in the solar system? The number of planets in our solar system may ultimately be determined by the conventional definition of astronomers and remain controversial for long time to come. Interestingly, the differences between planets and the controversy around them too resemble the differences between brothers and half brothers and their acceptance and dynamics in the family. The Old Testament nar...