Prophetic Dreams or Not?

[MariAnn96]

Hi, I'm new on this website so I might be posting in the wrong thread but I've been having dreams about tsunamis and floods over the years and recently they have become more frequent. In the dreams, I am either with family and friends, other Christians or alone. However, God always delivers me from the tsunami wave into a hiding place or most of the time he leads me into a high high place where the wave or flood waters do not reach me. My last dream was very interesting. I dreamt of knowing a tsunami was coming but I did not know exactly when. I was right by the shore serving food at a restaurant. However, I knew the time was near and right by the shore there was a huge hill and together with all Christians I began to climb that hill and we all climbed to a high place and were safe and there was darkness all around us but light shed on all the Christians on the hill. The rest were unbelievers and were all left behind and a tsunami came after the believers got to the hill and swept all of the unbelievers away. This was like a month ago that I had the dream. Could it be about the rapture being soon? The previous dreams about tsunamis did not involve other Christians as much, the last one, however, is really interesting in my opinion. What do you think about this?

 

[Sabertooth]

Your vision is more consistent with Jesus' teachings in The Wheat & The Tares parable (Matthew 13) than it is with Rapture teaching, particularly verses 28-30,

"The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather [the tares] up?’
But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest,
and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers,
“First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them,
but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

and verses 40-42,

"Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire,
so it will be at the end of this age.
The Son of Man will send out His angels,
and they will gather out of His kingdom
all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,
and will cast them into the furnace of fire.
There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

 

[MariAnn96]

Your vision is more consistent with Jesus' teachings in The Wheat & The Tares parable (Matthew 13) than it is with Rapture teaching, particularly verses 28-30,

"The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’
But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest,
and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers,
“First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them,
but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

and verses 40-42,

"Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire,
so it will be at the end of this age.
The Son of Man will send out His angels,
and they will gather out of His kingdom
all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness,
and will cast them into the furnace of fire.
There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth."

Thank you for your reply. I think God has really given you wisdom in such things because I can see clear alignment and correlation here. Thank you. May God bless!

 

[Jonathan Walkerin]

Could it be about the rapture being soon?

There is no doubt. It is time to relinquish your dirty worldy possessions, give money to the poor and retire to solitude to purify yourself when the imminent rapture soon descends.

I guarantee that this action will bring you wisdom hard to reach otherwise.

 

[SkyWriting]

Hi, I'm new on this website so I might be posting in the wrong thread but I've been having dreams about tsunamis and floods over the years and recently they have become more frequent. In the dreams, I am either with family and friends, other Christians or alone. However, God always delivers me from the tsunami wave into a hiding place or most of the time he leads me into a high high place where the wave or flood waters do not reach me. My last dream was very interesting. I dreamt of knowing a tsunami was coming but I did not know exactly when. I was right by the shore serving food at a restaurant. However, I knew the time was near and right by the shore there was a huge hill and together with all Christians I began to climb that hill and we all climbed to a high place and were safe and there was darkness all around us but light shed on all the Christians on the hill. The rest were unbelievers and were all left behind and a tsunami came after the believers got to the hill and swept all of the unbelievers away. This was like a month ago that I had the dream. Could it be about the rapture being soon? The previous dreams about tsunamis did not involve other Christians as much, the last one, however, is really interesting in my opinion. What do you think about this?

Dreams are a way of the subconscious cleaning up the scraps of the day. If people are woken up so they don't experience dream sleep, they loose the ability to process information pretty quickly.

Back in the 1960s, researchers discovered that subjects selectively deprived of REM sleep (Dreams) experienced weight gain, concentration difficulties, irritability, anxiety, tension, delusions, and hallucinations.
-Dream Deprivation Is Just as Unhealthy as Sleep Deprivation

 

[tturt]

Everything God does has a purpose. It might be for you to pray for the unbelievers to follow Jesus. We need to asks God what our dreams mean and what He wants.

 

[Aussie Pete]

Hi, I'm new on this website so I might be posting in the wrong thread but I've been having dreams about tsunamis and floods over the years and recently they have become more frequent. In the dreams, I am either with family and friends, other Christians or alone. However, God always delivers me from the tsunami wave into a hiding place or most of the time he leads me into a high high place where the wave or flood waters do not reach me. My last dream was very interesting. I dreamt of knowing a tsunami was coming but I did not know exactly when. I was right by the shore serving food at a restaurant. However, I knew the time was near and right by the shore there was a huge hill and together with all Christians I began to climb that hill and we all climbed to a high place and were safe and there was darkness all around us but light shed on all the Christians on the hill. The rest were unbelievers and were all left behind and a tsunami came after the believers got to the hill and swept all of the unbelievers away. This was like a month ago that I had the dream. Could it be about the rapture being soon? The previous dreams about tsunamis did not involve other Christians as much, the last one, however, is really interesting in my opinion. What do you think about this?

It's possible. I had a dream about a church I attended imploding. I knew what it meant and I warned the pastor. He did not listen so I left the church. And yes, the church imploded.

 

[tturt]

Other forums that might interest you are "Pentecostal and Assemblies of God." Also, on the forums page, 'the 'Spiritual Growth" forum then click. "'Spiritual Gifts." There's also a subforum "Sign Gifts" available.

 

[paul1149]

It could be an affirmation of the Rapture. It could also depict a "micro-rapture", where you and other believers are saved from some danger in this life. If the presence of other believers is new to this dream scenario, it could be an encouragement to fellowship - that you will meet like-minded believers who will accompany you. I would take the salvific aspect of the dream as an affirmation of faith, and serving in the restaurant as an encouragement to keep doing good as the Day approaches, even as you watch and pray. I would pray on it and let it any definite meaning be confirmed.

 

[Deade]

Hello MariAnn,
welcome to CF.

I hope you'll enjoy your stay here.

 

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[MariAnn96]

Hello MariAnn,
welcome to CF.

I hope you'll enjoy your stay here.

Thank you so much! I feel so welcomed here. It's so great to have access to so many believers around the world. Blessings!

 

[FutureAndAHope]

Hi, I'm new on this website so I might be posting in the wrong thread but I've been having dreams about tsunamis and floods over the years and recently they have become more frequent. In the dreams, I am either with family and friends, other Christians or alone. However, God always delivers me from the tsunami wave into a hiding place or most of the time he leads me into a high high place where the wave or flood waters do not reach me. My last dream was very interesting. I dreamt of knowing a tsunami was coming but I did not know exactly when. I was right by the shore serving food at a restaurant. However, I knew the time was near and right by the shore there was a huge hill and together with all Christians I began to climb that hill and we all climbed to a high place and were safe and there was darkness all around us but light shed on all the Christians on the hill. The rest were unbelievers and were all left behind and a tsunami came after the believers got to the hill and swept all of the unbelievers away. This was like a month ago that I had the dream. Could it be about the rapture being soon? The previous dreams about tsunamis did not involve other Christians as much, the last one, however, is really interesting in my opinion. What do you think about this?

What I would say is just be careful who and what you listen to. I had a dream some years ago and in it was a tsunamis, and other things. I started to listen to all sorts of youtube videos where people had posted their so called revelations on the tsunamis. One guy had predicted a date, and so I started to believe it was going to happen on that date, so I started warning people. It turns out the guy was either deceived by the devil, or had deliberately lied. I ended up with egg on my face. Just be careful what you believe, and say. Pray constantly that the LORD will reveal to you personally the meaning, don't trust things like youtube. As it stands I don't worry about tsunamis.

 

[Hidden In Him]

My last dream was very interesting. I dreamt of knowing a tsunami was coming but I did not know exactly when. I was right by the shore serving food at a restaurant. However, I knew the time was near and right by the shore there was a huge hill and together with all Christians I began to climb that hill and we all climbed to a high place and were safe and there was darkness all around us but light shed on all the Christians on the hill. The rest were unbelievers and were all left behind and a tsunami came after the believers got to the hill and swept all of the unbelievers away. This was like a month ago that I had the dream. Could it be about the rapture being soon? The previous dreams about tsunamis did not involve other Christians as much, the last one, however, is really interesting in my opinion. What do you think about this?

Greetings, sister.

I would agree with @FutureAndAHope here. My sense is that the dream (and likely your other ones as well) are symbolic representations of what is coming rather than literal illustrations. Thus, they likely do not prophecy tsunamis or the rapture in the literal sense (though more tsunamis will certainly be coming in the literal), but rather the physical and spiritual deliverance of Christians from the things that will be coming upon the earth.

The theme of Christians being "lifted above" the coming judgments of God is common in both Biblical and modern prophecies. Peter's use of it is a good Biblical example (1 Peter 3:18-22). A modern example would be the following from Anna Rountree. I will include a link at the end, if you'd like to read further.

P.S. The part I highlighted in bold at the bottom has particular relevance to what I think your dreams may be trying to communicate.

God bless, and welcome to the Forum.

The Attack

The sound was ancient and terrifying. Startled, I spun around to see a colossal battering ram relentlessly moving under its own power across a desert basin. Its wooden wheels were at least sixty stories high, and they groaned and yawned under the extreme weight they bore. Blasphemies were carved into its black battering arm, the end of which was the iron head of a goat. Although it moved slowly, people on the desert floor seemed helpless to avoid its path; they were crushed as it rolled over them. Screams filled the desert valley and ricocheted off distant rock formations, filling the desert basin with terror.
Slowly the battering ram topped a sandy hill and began to pick up speed going down the other side. Breathless from shock, I clawed with my hands and dug with my feet into the deep sand of the hill in order to reach the top and watch its path.

It picked up tremendous speed as it plunged down side of the hill into a deep valley. In its path at the bottom of the hill was a walled city. Both city and wall were the color of the sand and seemed to be half sunk into it, almost reclaimed by the sand from which they had come. In faded Lettering on the side of the wall, I could read: THE CHURCH.
The battering ram was massive, and the adobe wall of the city did not look strong. With brutal impact, the goat's head smashed into the wall and continued through it. It plowed through houses and buildings, losing little of its speed. When it broke through the wall on the opposite side of the city, it slowed to a stop, settling into the sand.

A strange silence fell. Occasional screams broke this silence. They came from those who had been mutilated or from those who recognized that a loved one had been killed. But stranger than the silence was the fact that few sought to escape across the rubble of the wall---few. Then slowly, all by itself, the battering ram began to start up the hill again, moving in my direction. The goat's head on the end of the ram was laughing, exhilarated, as if drunk with blood. I thought it might see me, so I left the top of the hill and began to run in the opposite direction. As I ran, I frantically scanned the desert basin for a hiding place. I could hear the huge wheels laboring as they carried the battering ram toward the top of the hill again. Suddenly an angel began to fly beside me. "Where can I hide from the battering ram?" I shouted as I ran. "The battering ram rolls relentlessly over all the earth now. Up high," the angel said, "up higher than it can see is the only safe place. Let me show you."


The Escape

With a wave of the angel's hand, a stairway appeared, touching the earth and reaching beyond my view into heaven. I moved to the base of the stairs and looked up. I was still heaving from running. The angel flew beside the stairs, higher than its base on earth, and waved me upward: "Come on!" the angel shouted. "The ram is coming, and we don't want him to see this stairway. Come on!" There were no hand rails on the narrow stairs. The stairs were clear like glass, which can be slippery. I could hear the battering ram rolling; although I was still panting, I began to run up the stairs.
"Faster!" the angel called.

I kept my eyes on the stairs. In his hands the angel had a scarlet cord fastened to the stairs at the bottom. I could hear the battering ram getting closer, but the angel pulled the cord and brought up the first section of the stairway, like attic stairs that can be lowered and raised. "Hurry!" the angel urged. I continued to run up the steps, breathless. The angel pulled the thin rope, and another section of the stairs rose. "Keep climbing," the angel said, although now his tone of voice was less urgent. With a mighty effort, I completed the stairs and turned to make sure I had indeed escaped. The battering ram was directly below, rolling beneath us as the third section of the stairs was pulled up. "You were safe after climbing the second set of stairs; but to be really safe, you needed to pass the third," he said.
As the battering ram rolled past, I tried to catch my breath and settle myself. Only then did I look around.
"Where am I?" I asked.

Paradise

"PARADISE," THE ANGEL smiled, as he tied the cord holding the stairs to a docking post. A sign above the post read STAIR PORT. I looked out over the most beautiful park I had ever seen. There were gentle rolling hills, beds of subtly colored flowers, and grass as uniform and green as the rolled lawns of English manor houses. A walking path crossed this part of the park. There were also quiet pools, a stream, and luxuriant trees that on earth would have provided shade, but there was no shade or any shadows here. A soft light emanated from everything growing. Beautiful, I thought. "Yes, isn't it," the angel answered. I did not seem surprised that he read my thoughts. I turned to look at him; only then did his appearance register with me. He looked to be six feet two or six feet three inches in height and in his mid-thirties, if I were gauging by human years. He had brown curly hair and wore a brown, transparent, full-length robe. Underneath the thin brown robe, I could see that he had on blue-and-white-striped work overalls, the sort one might obtain in the store of a farming community. The thought struck me that the brown over-robe was so thin that it was probably cool to wear when working.

A coil of rope crossed his shoulder and chest, circled in a wide loop near his waist, and returned across his back to the shoulder again. He wore a white belt, from which hung a white tool pouch. This pouch looked a little like the hand tool belt worn by telephone repairers. He was unlacing a pair of silver-tipped, brown, high-topped work boots as he spoke to me. "No shoes up here," he smiled. "This is holy ground." I looked down at my own feet and saw that they, too, were bare. He stood up, putting the boots under his arm. "You're safe here," the angel continued, "All of that is down below." "What was that?" I asked. "The great enemy of our Lord and of His church." "But it was destroying the church," I exclaimed.

The Two Churches

"SOME OF IT may be destroyed-that which calls itself the church," he continued. "It has a sign saying it is the church, and many live behind that sign. But the church-the real church-escaped; the real church is alive and can run faster than any battering ram can roll. It's clumsy, really; but if you are dead stones, if you are not alive, then of course it is more than any man-made structure can resist. However, the real, living church of Jesus Christ can hide in caves, float on the water, or climb into Paradise. A member of the real church will know where the hidden stairs are located. That person can call for help, and we will let down the stairs so that he can escape. The real church is more agile than the battering ram. Living stones have feet." Then, like someone who had just remembered his manners, he said, "Would you like some refreshments? It would help you." "All right," I said, trying to get my bearings. A tray of fruit floated to US. "Here you are," the angel said, gesturing toward the tray, "a choice." I reached to make a selection of fruit. Some varieties I had seen on earth, and some I had not. All were without blemish. We both made selections and began to eat. "You need to get acquainted with the locations of the hidden stairs," he continued. "Is there a map?" I asked. "No," the angel laughed. "The map is in the Spirit. By following His leading, He directs you to the hidden stairs." I glanced toward the stair port. "These stairs look like glass," I said. "Light," the angel replied. "Nice, aren't they?" "Do people ever fall off these stairs?" "Not if they keep their eyes on Jesus," he chuckled, "but I wouldn't advise looking over the side. You might get wobbly doing that." "This is good fruit," I exclaimed. "Yup, everything's good up here," the angel said, mimicking a cowhand. I laughed, bemused. He was not anything like my idea of an angel. "What is your name?" I asked him.


The Heavens Opened by Anna Rountree

 

[Francis Drake]

Dreams are a way of the subconscious cleaning up the scraps of the day. If people are woken up so they don't experience dream sleep, they loose the ability to process information pretty quickly.

Back in the 1960s, researchers discovered that subjects selectively deprived of REM sleep (Dreams) experienced weight gain, concentration difficulties, irritability, anxiety, tension, delusions, and hallucinations.
-Dream Deprivation Is Just as Unhealthy as Sleep Deprivation

You are speaking from unbelief.
God promises to speak to his children, either through the gifts of the spirit or through dreams. It should be quite obvious that the OP is the latter.

I have had countless dreams from the Lord, revealing all sorts of things that would never fit into your psychobabble definition.

 

[tturt]

prefer to stick with Scripture too "And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:" Acts 2:17

I know that not every dream is from the Lord. But everything He does has a purpose. So we just need to asks.

This forum is for believers who believes God communicates with us. See forum rules please

 

[Catherine Alarma]

Hi, I'm new on this website so I might be posting in the wrong thread but I've been having dreams about tsunamis and floods over the years and recently they have become more frequent. In the dreams, I am either with family and friends, other Christians or alone. However, God always delivers me from the tsunami wave into a hiding place or most of the time he leads me into a high high place where the wave or flood waters do not reach me. My last dream was very interesting. I dreamt of knowing a tsunami was coming but I did not know exactly when. I was right by the shore serving food at a restaurant. However, I knew the time was near and right by the shore there was a huge hill and together with all Christians I began to climb that hill and we all climbed to a high place and were safe and there was darkness all around us but light shed on all the Christians on the hill. The rest were unbelievers and were all left behind and a tsunami came after the believers got to the hill and swept all of the unbelievers away. This was like a month ago that I had the dream. Could it be about the rapture being soon? The previous dreams about tsunamis did not involve other Christians as much, the last one, however, is really interesting in my opinion. What do you think about this?

 

[Catherine Alarma]

I'm also new here. Been getting dreams about flood and tsunamis but this year they were more frequent.

 

[Paul James]

It's possible. I had a dream about a church I attended imploding. I knew what it meant and I warned the pastor. He did not listen so I left the church. And yes, the church imploded.

Now that is a dream I can go along with. It had a definite message about the future of the church and did not need interpretation by a third party who has the "gift" of dream interpretation. And the significant fact is that the pastor did not take the warning seriously, and the dream came true.

 

[tturt]

With dreams like that, sometimes we're to repent on behalf of the party and asks for His mercy.