Matjohluk, while I appreciate your exhortation to test the spirits, there are some things here that I take issue with. God absolutely DOES speak in dreams in these last days, just as Joel predicted and Peter quoted at Pentecost. Most of the time there is something that can be gleaned from a dream even if it is a dream that betrays our soulish obsessions or reveals the schemes of the enemy. I've been a dream interpreter for around a dozen years, and I have seen it all. Just like in real life, we can always take it to the Lord and say, "What can I learn from this?" Your quotation from Revelation 13 included something that is not there in the actual Bible. You wrote (dreams, visions, and messages) ostensibly to explain what the signs from the antichrist and the beast are. It's obvious to me that the signs are "attesting miracles" that might deceive people into thinking that they are seeing the Messiah, physically seeing him, not in their dreams.
According to my observation over the last dozen or so years, God often does speak in ways that are confusing to the mind. Jesus spoke in parable to prevent the natural mind from figuring out what he was saying, and that still happens! Also, I think our natural minds sometimes get in there and confuse things, presenting to us pictures of something we have seen before to represent something we have not seen before; I am sure some of that went on in the Revelation to John. And as others have said here, dreams are usually symbolic - that is scriptural! Even Peter's trance vision was symbolic!
I like the painting "Prince of Peace". Seems very plausible to me.
Why did you post that painting here? Really curious!
Well good thing Joseph didn't think his dreams were caused by a bad side of meat.
amen, brother!
In the last days your old men shall dream dreams. We just have to test them.
One guy here on the dream forums had a dream about God the Father and God the Son, two white persons, you can't see the Father. Jesus is the Representation of the Father.
But since dreams are
symbolic, you CAN see a
representation of the Father. And the representation could be of any race!
Are you one of the unique chosen Apostles? The very ones who have given us what Jesus has spoken?
And are you one of those people who believes that God clammed up in the first century A.D.?
Dream symbolism needs to be understood, and how we approach the interp, but I have had some dreams from the Lord, that came to pass with pinpoint accuracy.
Let it be know that on this day in the year of our Lord 2014 I agreed with Frogster....
If I have a dream & the Holy Spirit doesn't explain or tell me what it means, I ignore it.
And you are the poorer for it. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out! (that's scripture, btw)
It's important to get cleaned up if people have been involved in the deeper things of Satan. It's important that every believer become familiar with how to judge (by the Spirit) and take heed to what's written in the Word about testing, vigilance, etc.
At the same time, dreams and visions are a promise of God that should be embraced, agreed with and expected. But you've got to test it out by the fruits. Get godly counsel if you're unsure.
The best way to avoid deception is to walk closely with your Shepherd, because there is where the rod and the staff are nearest, and the wolves are furthest.
That's not scriptural. The book of Revelation is confusing and very symbolic.
You don't possibly think that the Tower of babel formed with forbidden man made bricks for getting to heaven that resulted in everyone speaking a different language could possibly be a prophecy of the modern day church with its thousands of denominations all saying come to heaven our way
I believe that God reversed the Tower of Babel at Pentecost, and that the language of dreams is in effect a "tongue".
