Well, if you have not been to the 2011 DC yet, and you don't want to know the program before you go, stop reading now. I can't keep quiet about the drama about Joseph and Potiphar's wife.
The script segued back and forth between Joseph and a modern day young brother having the same kinds of problems. Potiphar's wife claimed Joseph raped her so he ended up in jail for ten years, making you want to go back in time with a crime scene investigator to correct this great injustice, but Joseph endured in prison. The modern day brother had an unbeliever after him to "hook up" and she was pretty sure of herself that she could get him. When she failed in her efforts, she posted on a social network internet site about their encounter, making it up as she went along and fabricating a tawdry rendezvous that left a lot of people assuming the brother had actually been with the girl. She was persistent, using all her feminine wiles and saying that she needed his help in school as a math tutor and she was cute and seemed very experienced in, well, hooking up.
The time when she reported they had been together turned out to be a time when the young brother was at a circuit assembly and having dinner with his Uncle Jack and his mother. Uncle Jack is an elder, they are out of town, that's a pretty good alibi. The adults approached the girl, Bianca, with this evidence and she publicly retracted her words. A good ending - but I kept thinking wow, if she had done a little homework on when he was not so well documented for his whereabouts, this could have ended differently. Horribly, for our brother.
I don't mean to be sympathetic to Bianca or Mrs. Potiphar. But a part of me is sorry for them. No, not that they brought trouble to our brothers. What they did was wrong, but I can understand what drove them to behave that way. Bianca is watching music videos and reality TV and that is what men want from women. It must have really confused her when our brother did not want the one thing she believed men valued about her. If he didn't want it, then she was useless to him, and felt her own worth totally undermined. And she talks the talk when she is trying to detour him.
Not as good, however, as Mrs. Potiphar. She really lays it on Joseph thick. She tells him how they are both aliens in Egypt, how seldom she sees Potiphar himself, and how she's so lonely and Joseph is always so nice to her. I totally understand how a good Christian man appeals to a woman tired of the trappings of our current culture. Who wouldn't prefer an elder to a drug addicted rapper? Some would, but some women are tired of this world's scene. Sisters face this too. Plenty of guys like the idea of a girl who is untarnished by the world's acceptable behavior.
So here are two women separated by centuries, one of them fictional even, and I realize the point of the drama was about Joseph and our brother and endurance. But I have to admit that I thought the script gave good context for what the women were going through, what their motivation was. This world is in the hands of the wicked one, and he is certainly no friend to women. Sometimes I think it is worse for women than for men even.
Anyway, it was a great drama. In another talk, a brother was talking about all the faithful ones of old being resurrected and how we'll get to meet them, and then he gave a list. Oh what a long list he gave, and it mentioned more women than men! With Moses and Abraham was Sarah, Zipporah, Hannah, Esther, Ruth, Naomi. One time when the CO was at our hall, there was a part on what do you do during family study night, and I commented that my daughters and I spend time researching different women in the Bible. Well, the next visit of the CO he comments during a talk about the different things that can be done on family night and he said one of our sisters and her daughters research women of the Bible. And I thought wow, this was something to remark on, how sweet. Of course I am interested in the women of the Bible.
And I often thank Jehovah in my prayers that of the 144,000, many are faithful sisters. I want a woman judging me when that day comes. Of course I do.
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