“Now the third day was Pharaoh’s birthday.”

(Genesis 40:20)

On his birthday Pharaoh “made a feast for all his servants … He hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.” (Genesis 40:20, 22) Indeed Joseph had indicated to the chief baker: “The birds will eat your flesh from you.” (Genesis 40:19) “Were all these detailed events recorded solely to give us Bible history? … No, they were also recorded because they constituted a prophetic drama.” (The Watchtower, January 1, 1970, page 28) The events at the Egyptian court have a parallel in our day, though “today it is not Pharaoh who is ruler … [but] Jehovah God, the Greater Pharaoh,” and “the Greater Joseph [is] Jesus.” (Survival Into a New Earth, page 79, 80) But who is the “chief baker” today?

The chief baker oversaw the feeding of Pharaoh and his servants. And today “the faithful and discreet slave class .. those making up the Governing Body [of Jehovah’s Witnesses] oversee the spiritual feeding.” (The Watchtower, August 15, 2009, page 23) Soon – in a spiritual sense on “the third day” – “Jehovah God, the Greater Pharaoh,” will dispose of “those making up the Governing Body.” As foretold “under the direction of the Greater Joseph, Jesus Christ,” soon “all the birds” will “eat the flesh of kings,” that is, “those making up the Governing Body” who would like “to ‘rule as kings over the earth.’” – Revelation 19:17, 18; The Watchtower, May 1, 1987, page 20; April 15, 1992, page 17.