Points on dreams, judgment, prophecy, and rejection are shared, today. Where dreams are not devices used to make the character and nature of divinity known, dreams are a by-product of being alive in flesh and responding to appetite (e.g., hunger, thirst, sexual cravings), sense (e.g., hearing, seeing, tasting, touching) and emotion/mental functions (e.g., anger, fear, imagination, recall). With GOD, the future is not foretold and shown to mankind as knowledge to benefit an individual, as instructions and messages for only one person and their family, or to announce discrete events and their outcomes. Rather, the future is declared and proclaimed in such forms as law, prophecy and Scripture that reveal divine intent, ongoing sacred process, and eternal purpose. A new writer at “Yahoo! Answers” using the ID “Lindsay” (Level 1 with 95 points, a member since March 10, 2015) posted the following:
Dreams about being rejected by God?
Lately I have been having so weird dreams. They all come in different ways but they all end up with me getting rejected by God. I don't go to hell or anything but I'm in this really weird purgatory and I'm trying to find God and I can hear angels singing. As soon as I get close to him I just get pushed back. It s really got me messed up.
I know I probably should have taken this to a Christian site or something but I couldnt find one... So.. Help?
THE GOLDEN ARROW: The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the LORD. Is not my word like as a fire? saith the LORD; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that steal my words every one from his neighbour. Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the LORD, that use their tongues, and say, He saith. Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD. (Jeremiah 23: 28-32, KJV)
THE DOUBLE DAGGER: Divinely Sent Dreams? (02/26/2015); Prayer, Dreams and Messages? (01/27/2015); Both Lost and Found? (11/08/2014); Two Different Sides? (11/09/2014); Condemned by the Church? (08/19/2014); Principles of Correct Belief? (08/20/2014); A Culture of Judgment? (03/20/2014); Beyond Punishment (03/21/2014); If You Are Sent…? (06/08/2013); Scriptures and Sayings? (06/09/2013); About Conversion (09/03/2012)
“Lindsay”, it is usually best to avoid giving personal or intimate spiritual advice (we say, pastoral counsel) to others when we have no clear knowledge of their preparation to receive sacred fruit from the ministries of Jesus Christ. Those who intercede and intervene for strangers also must be accountable for unforeseen and unintended outcomes within experiences, and lives they can not control. Even so, there are many principles and seeds for correct understanding that believers may share to further release others from spiritual confusion. Consider the following:
(1.) The operations of GOD to reveal divinity through dreams only appear as a further presentation of prophecy—demonstrations and messages from divinity through specially prepared agents (we say, apostles, prophets, spokespersons, those sent) intended to build up (we say, edify), comfort, and exhort (we say, urge to immediate action) the entire church.
(2.) GOD is not the author of confusion, thus, dreams, miracles and visions are not the most important features for Christian believers. While there is diversity for the multiple gifts and messages ministered among mankind, they all agree (we say, corroborate) and support one another as expressions of a single Deity, of clearly documented eternal purposes, and of specific principles that continue doctrinal and historical unity.
(3.) The interpretation of dreams sent by GOD certainly can be supplied by the Holy Spirit (as seen with Joseph in Genesis, or the Apostle Peter in the Book of Acts). However, all believers are not given that specific gift. Like sin that overwhelms human awareness and self-will, fascination with death, occult, and supernatural teachings influence mankind to oppose the holy writings.
(4.) For many, admonition, caution, and warnings are most clearly provided through the sanctions (declaration of consequences, effects and results of disobedience including punishments) proclaimed as divine law.
There is far more to be said, correctly understood, and properly apprehended. (For example, (5.) Through Jesus Christ, believers should be able to grasp that the process of GOD has not been focused upon damnation and death. Rather, the focus is salvation, eternal life, and love. Christ has avoided cruelty, threats, and violence. The Lord has gone forward using such tools as fellowship with experienced believers, forbearance, forgiveness, healing, repentance, and truth. All are correct to be in awe, for GOD does appear. However, anxiety, dread, and fear that signal deep human emotions are useless to establish and maintain right relationship with our Creator.) Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you according to your faith and spiritual maturity.
THE BLACK PHOENIX
Washington, DC
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