Dreams I Had In November
Sue Love
December 4, 2006, 12:07 p.m. Summary of all eleven dreams:
The Lord gave me eleven dreams in November 2006, six of which came in three sets of two each per night/day. I have read back over all eleven dreams, and I see these as the messages God is trying to convey through them and through the scriptures following and/or preceding the dreams:
We, as sinners, are in need of a Savior, Jesus Christ. He has provided a way for us to be free from our sins – punishment of and bondage to – and the Church has been given the responsibility of spreading the gospel of repentance and salvation to the whole world.
The Universal Church, nonetheless, for the most part has turned to the gospel of men, spiritual idolatry, forsaking God and the true gospel of repentance, and they have shunned the sinners and/or have covered up the sin rather than confronting it lovingly. They have become partakers in the world rather than partakers in the kingdom of God and are following after the gods of their stomachs rather than laying up treasures in heaven.
They have refused to listen to God and to his messengers, and have refused to repent of their sin, so God is going to bring a judgment upon them in order to bring about repentance and restoration – restoration once they call on him, that is, and when they turn from their sin. The judgment is near, it will be swift, and it can not be stopped. The matter has firmly been decided by God, and he will do it soon. And, he will use our enemies against us as his instrument of judgment.
He has promised his protection for those who hide in the shelter of the Almighty. He will lift them out of the slimy pit; out of the mud and mire and will put them on a rock where they can stand and will put a new song in their mouths – a song of rejoicing to God. He wants us to look to him for our refuge, not to man. And, he wants us to obey Him and His commands.
If we do not call on him in repentance, then he will reject us. He will take his kingdom from us and will give it to the “prostitutes” and “tax collectors” or whoever will listen to his voice and will walk in obedience to him.
When this judgment comes, and it will come, God is going to provide places of safety for those who call on His name. I believe he has given me the promise of Downtown, Rock Hill, SC, as a place of refuge, and he has confirmed that once again. I believe many cities will be destroyed and people will be left homeless (out on the streets) where there will be large gatherings of people talking about what has just happened and about how God is fulfilling prophecy of scripture.
I believe this is a warning to take heed to make sure we are in a right relationship with the Lord, that we are listening to his voice and that we are walking in obedience to him, because time is running out.
Dream #1 - 11/9/06, 6:01 a.m. - I woke up with this song in my head: "I'm gonna live what I believe, I'm gonna walk that line... so everyone can see, I'm gonna live what I believe." I don't know all the words, obviously.
I also woke up with this dream:
In the dream we were getting ready to go somewhere, but we had this really huge pile of dirty clothes and blankets and we were in the church, so we were trying to find a place to pile the dirty clothes in the sanctuary where they would be out of the way and could not be seen during the service.
Rick and I were also trying to set up some kind of drink/snack area at the church and we were trying to figure out how to set up a slushy bar and he was making crushed ice for the next day.
Then, I got in a van, we put some of the dirty clothes and blankets in the van and I started to back out of the parking space and someone was behind me. My brakes gave out, and all of a sudden the van was moving backwards out of control at a very fast pace. The person outside the van was not able to control it and I could not, either. End. I think that is when I woke up with that song in my head.
The first scripture I read was "If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."
Then, I read the passage in Matthew 21:28-32 about the man with the two sons and how one said he would do something, but didn't and the other said he wouldn't, but then he did and Jesus asked the question, "Which of the two did what his father wanted?" They answered that it was the son who went, even though at first he said he wouldn't. Then, Jesus went on about how the prostitutes and the tax collectors were entering the kingdom of God ahead of them. In the following parable (vs. 43-44), he said the kingdom of God would be taken away from them, because they rejected the Lord, and would be given to a people who would produce its fruit.
Dream #2 - 11/12/06, 4:24 a.m. - I had a dream about an nuclear disaster coming and David & Erin (son & d-i-l) asked me where I was going and I told them "Downtown Rock Hill," because that is where I believe the Lord told me two years ago that I was to go when the huge disaster he promised hits. There was some kind of data entry in the dream where I typed the location. End.
I woke up with this song in my head: "I lift up my eyes unto the hills. Where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, Maker of heaven and earth."
Then, I read Psalm 63:1 O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Vs 6-8: On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night.
7 Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings.
8 My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.
Mark 1:35: Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.
Psalm 5:3: In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.
Jeremiah 29:13: You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Isaiah 26:3: You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
#3 - Same day, 11:16 a.m. - I had gone back to sleep since I woke so early the first time and I had another dream. This dream was continuous. It had to do with writing out a situation and then writing another and stacking it on top of the first so that there were two, one on top of the other. Then, and only then could the situation be resolved. Then another was formed with one on top of it until there were three groups of two. This dream seemed to continue on & off for several hours. End.
This is the passage of scripture I read when I woke up:
Matthew 28:16-20: “Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
#4 - 11/17/06, 7:18 a.m. - I was dreaming a lot last night. I dreamt we were back in Raleigh and everything was white and sandy color: all the houses, apartments, etc. You could not tell one from the other. And the apartments and houses were all really close together, too. It was really weird. The only other color I remember was red and it was at one particular office inside, but I don't recall where.
Then there were like these bad guys who came through and we each had to play a specific role. Rick and I chose something that was putting our lives on the line if we were actually called to duty. End.
This was the scripture I read when I woke up (I read wherever I last left off in my QT or whatever verses were in the Bible study I was working on for that day):
Psalm 9:5-10: You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
6 Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.
7 The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.
8 He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice.
9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.
10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.
And, skipping down to vs. 19-20:
Arise, O LORD, let not man triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.
20 Strike them with terror, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah
#5 - 11/19/ 5:59 a.m. - I woke up out of a dream. All I remember of it was that very significant prophecies were being fulfilled and I wanted to tell Jenny (my one and only daughter - I have 3 sons) about them, one of which had to do with people or a person giving Israel's land back to them.
There was a large gathering of people outdoors. I remember seeing people from various churches sitting in groups discussing the fulfilled prophecies and what they mean.
There was also a sense that royalty was coming through and people were keeping their heads low.
There was a section of video games that I walked through and some kids tried to get me to adopt them but I told them I already had my hands full with my children and grandchildren.
Someone was cooking meat of different kinds and I was concerned that all they had was beef and I wanted turkey.
At some point we were decorating bedrooms but I saw no point to it since I knew the Lord would be moving me soon. End.
This is the scripture I read:
Psalm 14:7: Oh, that salvation for Israel would come out of Zion! When the LORD restores the fortunes of his people, let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad!
#6 - 11/20/06, 5:49 a.m. - All night long I have had this song going through my head:
"I just want to be with you. I want this waiting to be over. I just want to be with you. I know the days are getting closer. Every minute lasts an hour..." That's all the words I know.
I had a dream that Rick (husband), David (son) and I were together like at a mall, only there was rain and mud everywhere and there were men working on the roads.
I remember driving around all the mess to try to find the entrance to the mall and I was driving against the flow of traffic – against the direction everyone else was going.
At the mall, I noticed a phone for sale that was like a walky-talky, only much more sophisticated. I thought if I had it, that I would have a direct line to our local 4 year university. So, I decided to buy it. It cost $30 + $40, a total of $70.00.
David & Rick were all excited about the phone and its possibilities, but as soon as I made the decision to purchase it, I realized again the shortness of time and what a waste of money that would be. But, by now, David & Rick had their hearts set on buying it, so they continued to stand in line to buy it.
All of a sudden, I became aware that my jeans were torn, ripped and frayed, so I decided to get another pair of pants, but it was 9:05 p.m., so the store was closed.
I then decided to go out to my car and wait for David & Rick to come out. I asked them to call me when they were ready and I would meet them.
They drove in a separate car from me and I wanted to put something in the back of my car, but they would not let me. They wanted it in their car. It may have been the phone, but it felt like a live animal, though I don't know why.
As I left, I ended up driving against the flow of traffic again. I remember doing that twice in the dream. End.
I read this scripture prior to recording the dream:
Psalm 33:10-11: The LORD foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.
And, I read this scripture after I recorded the dream:
Psalm 40:1-4: I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry.
2 He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
3 He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.
4 Blessed is the man who makes the LORD his trust, who does not look to the proud, to those who turn aside to false gods.
and vs. 9-10: I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; I do not seal my lips, as you know, O LORD.
10 I do not hide your righteousness in my heart; I speak of your faithfulness and salvation. I do not conceal your love and your truth from the great assembly.
#7 & #8 – 11/24/06, 8:57 a.m. I had two dreams last night. The first one had to do with a rat being in hiding somewhere, but I can’t recall the rest of the dream. The reason I mention it is because the rat enters the second dream.
Definition of rat: zoology a long-tailed rodent, larger than a mouse. Genus: Rattus; a mean sneaky deceitful person, especially somebody who betrays friends or confidences.
The second dream took place at Chapel Hill Church, which sets on a very high hill above the city where roads of the city called by names on a compass, such as NE, NW, SE, SW meet together (5 roads in all coming into a traffic light). This is an actual place in an actual city in the USA where I lived and went to church.
In the dream my husband, Rick and I were just beginning at the church and we decided to join the choir. We had choir rehearsal right before the service, but before the service began I had to go to the bathroom. I hurried to the sanctuary to join the choir before they sang, but they were already in place. I decided I would find my place and join them, so I began to climb the stairs of the choir loft which were many and steep. The steps beneath me began to crunch so they made a noise. The choir director must have been at the top of the choir loft, because he turned around and looked down at me in anger and disgust.
After the service, he scolded me for walking in late. He instructed me that none of us should leave between rehearsal and the service and we should never walk in late. He was very legalistic about it. I remember feeling that the presence of the Holy Spirit would never survive in that church because everything had to be so structured. I felt that obviously starting the service on time without interruption was more important than people and true worship. At this point I was feeling much anger inside over their legalism and lack of love for people. I remember talking with another choir member about how I have to go to the bathroom before the service because I have a weak bladder.
I decided not to remain with this choir (probably the church, too), so I tried to find the choir room so that I could return my stuff to them, but I could not find the room. I even went outside looking, because I thought it might be in another building, but I still could not find it. Another choir member caught up with me and he tried helping me, but we ended up at another church. By now we were in a car driving through the city trying to find the church and we kept driving until we made it back to the church and the choir room.
When we got back to the choir room it appeared that I had put a rat (or several rats) in among the choir stuff because of my anger, but now the people were expressing regret for how they treated me, so I removed the rat(s) so that no one would get hurt. End.
I sensed this dream was from God and that it had to do with legalism in the church and/or the rules of man choking out the Holy Spirit and the love of God from the congregation. I also sensed the “rat” was a judgment of God on the church that, in turn, produced repentance, God’s forgiveness and mercy, and his removal of the judgment (the rat) from the church once they called on God, sought him out and repented. At least, that is how the dream hit me on the surface. I prayed about it, and the Lord spoke to me through these scriptures:
Psalm 78:56-60: “But they put God to the test and rebelled against the Most High; they did not keep his statutes.
57 Like their fathers they were disloyal and faithless, as unreliable as a faulty bow.
58 They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59 When God heard them, he was very angry; he rejected Israel completely.
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent he had set up among men.”
Psalm 80:8, 12-19: “You brought a vine out of Egypt; you drove out the nations and planted it.”
“Why have you broken down its walls so that all who pass by pick its grapes?
13 Boars from the forest ravage it and the creatures of the field feed on it.
14 Return to us, O God Almighty! Look down from heaven and see! Watch over this vine,
15 the root your right hand has planted, the son you have raised up for yourself.
16 Your vine is cut down, it is burned with fire; at your rebuke your people perish.
17 Let your hand rest on the man at your right hand, the son of man you have raised up for yourself.
18 Then we will not turn away from you; revive us, and we will call on your name.
19 Restore us, O LORD God Almighty; make your face shine upon us, that we may be saved.”
Psalm 81:6-16: He says, “I removed the burden from their shoulders; their hands were set free from the basket.
7 In your distress you called and I rescued you, I answered you out of a thundercloud; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
8 “Hear, O my people, and I will warn you— if you would but listen to me, O Israel!
9 You shall have no foreign god among you; you shall not bow down to an alien god.
10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth and I will fill it.
11 “But my people would not listen to me; Israel would not submit to me.
12 So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts to follow their own devices.
13 “If my people would but listen to me, if Israel would follow my ways,
14 how quickly would I subdue their enemies and turn my hand against their foes!
15 Those who hate the LORD would cringe before him, and their punishment would last forever.
16 But you would be fed with the finest of wheat; with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
Psalm 82:8: “Rise up, O God, judge the earth, for all the nations are your inheritance.”
#9 - 11/28/06, 7:06 a.m. - I had a dream about a house where we lived and the kids were still at home with us. We lived in only one portion of the house, however. There was another whole section to the house that remained untouched.
Rick was talking about needing more space and I remembered that we had other rooms. In fact, the Master Bedroom Suite remained untouched, as well as two fully decorated and furnished bedrooms for the kids with five beds in each room. There was even a waterbed for John (son #2) in one of the rooms.
Outside the bedrooms was a huge open room, ideal for a family room, which Rick wanted to have. The part of the house where we had been living was getting worn, the walls were dirty, etc., but this was all nice and new.
I was beginning to get excited about the possibilities of utilizing these rooms and then I remembered the disaster that is coming, so I told Jenny we must first wait to see what the Lord does. Then we'll see what he preserves out of the disaster. End.
#10 followed: There was another dream about a big open room that we could make into a family room, only this one was outside. We had a sofa & a chair, but they were on the grass, for this was more like a park with sections of grass and trees and sidewalks.
Someone told us that a restaurant upstairs was serving food in a spot where they are not normally situated, but that the food was good. Jenny and I tried taking the elevator, but it was not working. Then, we tried the stairs, but they were blocked. Someone said to try the elevator again, but inside the elevator we still had to climb very narrow stairs.
Since the stairs were narrow, only one-way traffic was feasible. I led the way and Jenny followed behind me. At the top of the stairs some women were waiting to go down. They assumed we were employees and one woman remarked that lunch time was about over, but she did not realize we were free all day and we were not limited by a certain lunch hour. End.
I have had dreams before of hidden or unused rooms in houses. I was thinking in this first dream that I would find rooms with dining tables, chairs, desks, etc, like in my other dreams, but instead I found bedrooms with all new furniture. I remember thinking what a waste of money. We bought all that furniture for our kids that they could have been using, but it just sat there, I think for two years, and now it will most likely be gone.
Then, I read this:
Psalm 124: If the LORD had not been on our side— let Israel say—
2 if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,
3 when their anger flared against us, they would have swallowed us alive;
4 the flood would have engulfed us, the torrent would have swept over us,
5 the raging waters would have swept us away.
6 Praise be to the LORD, who has not let us be torn by their teeth.
7 We have escaped like a bird out of the fowler’s snare; the snare has been broken, and we have escaped.
8 Our help is in the name of the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 126:5-6: Those who sow in tears will reap with songs of joy. 6 He who goes out weeping, carrying seed to sow, will return with songs of joy, carrying sheaves with him.
Psalm 129:1-4: They have greatly oppressed me from my youth— let Israel say— 2 they have greatly oppressed me from my youth, but they have not gained the victory over me. 3 Plowmen have plowed my back and made their furrows long. 4 But the LORD is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.
Psalm 130:5-6: I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. 6 My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning, more than watchmen wait for the morning.
December 2, 11:03 a.m. Dream #1 - My understanding so far:
I've been thinking and praying about the meaning of this dream and how it relates to the scriptures. So far, what I understand is that the dirty clothes and blankets represent the prostitutes and tax collectors that the church is shoving aside and hiding so that they are not seen, perhaps as an example of how church's often treat those outside the church who are not like them or perhaps they are covering up sin.
Rick and I preparing a slushy bar to me represents us ministering in the church and offering refreshing of some sort, but I'm not clear on that one yet.
I believe that prostitutes and tax collectors being placed in the van and the van "backing away" from the church at a very fast pace represents the passage of scripture where it says that the prostitutes and tax collectors are entering the kingdom of heaven ahead of those whom Jesus was addressing in his story and that the kingdom of heaven will be taken away from them and given to those who would produce its fruit.
Since so many of my dreams have judgment of God as subject matter, I wonder if the van losing its brakes and speeding out of control is a representation of the judgment of God and the speed at which it is approaching.
December 3, 9:45 a.m. Dreams #2 & #3 – My understanding so far:
Quote: #3 - Same day, 11:16 a.m. - I had gone back to sleep since I woke so early the first time and I had another dream. This dream was continuous. It had to do with writing out a situation and then writing another and stacking it on top of the first so that there were two, one on top of the other. Then, and only then could the situation be resolved. Then another was formed with one on top of it until there were three groups of two. This dream seemed to continue on & off for several hours.
This is the passage of scripture I read when I woke up:
Matthew 28:16-20: Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go. When they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted. Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” End Quote.
On 11/26/06, the Lord gave me this verse from Genesis 41:32: “The reason the dream was given to Pharaoh in two forms is that the matter has been firmly decided by God, and God will do it soon.”
This dream I had, I believe, was a follow-up dream to the previous one about the nuclear disaster and about Downtown, RH as our destination of refuge. I believe the Lord is saying in this follow-up dream that the matter has been firmly decided by God - Father, Son & Holy Spirit - and that God will do it soon. He was showing that His authority was behind it. At least, that is how I perceive what God is saying through these two dreams, one after the other. When that time comes, too, we will be making disciples and baptizing new believers and teaching them about God.
December 3, 9:53 a.m. Dreams #7 & #8 were the RATS dreams, so there were two dreams that night/day. Dreams #2 & #3 were the same day/night as were dreams #9 (10) & #10 (11). So, out of the eleven dreams, there were 3 sets of 2, each set in one day/night.
December 4, 1:05 a.m. Quote: Rick and I were also trying to set up some kind of drink/snack area at the church and we were trying to figure out how to set up a slushy bar and he was making crushed ice for the next day. End Quote.
This quote was from dream #1. I was reading it again in my journal, seeking the Lord for additional insight, when I read one of the scriptures again that I had read and recorded following the dream:
Matthew 21:44: "He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”
My commentary says: "As a pot dashed against a stone is broken, and as one lying beneath a falling stone is crushed, so those who reject Jesus the Messiah will be doomed."
December 4, 1:12 a.m. The same night/morning that I had the "RATS" dream, Rick also had 3 dreams. Rick rarely dreams and he even more rarely remembers the dreams he has, so it is significant when he remembers them.
He said that all 3 dreams were different, but they had one common theme. In each dream he was driving a van (we don't own a van), a car in front of him stopped suddenly, and due to the weight of the van (he normally drives a compact car), the van could not stop. It crashed into the back of the car in front. This happened in all 3 dreams, all in one night.
December 4, 1:25 a.m. I read back through my November journal today and noticed I had overlooked one of the dreams, which would have actually been dream #9, bringing the total to 11 dreams for November.
11/27/06, 9:31 a.m. - I had a dream last night where there was bad stuff going on in the government (cover-ups). I was working for someone in the dream who was not a believer and we were out helping people. I began telling the people about Jesus, but he did not seem to mind. I remember we helped a girl out of the thorn bushes and I told her about Jesus. Everyone I was telling about Jesus seemed to be in some kind of bad situation where they needed hope. End.
This is what I read in God's Word that morning:
Psalm 116:7-16: Be at rest once more, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you.
8 For you, O LORD, have delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling,
9 that I may walk before the LORD in the land of the living.
10 I believed; therefore I said, “I am greatly afflicted.”
11 And in my dismay I said, “All men are liars.”
12 How can I repay the LORD for all his goodness to me?
13 I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the LORD.
14 I will fulfill my vows to the LORD in the presence of all his people.
15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.
16 O LORD, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant; you have freed me from my chains.
Four Dreams Sue Love
December 7, 2006
The past four mornings I have woken with dreams that I remembered and through which God spoke. I don’t think I have ever had dreams four nights in a row before that I remembered. Since some are long and detailed, I’m just going to give summaries of what the Lord said through them:
Mon., Dec. 4, 6:09 a.m. – I awoke with this Psalm going through my head:
Psalm 121:1-2: I lift up my eyes to the hills – where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
This dream had to do with seeing danger, taking refuge, staying far away from the paths of the wicked and sharing your food with the poor.
Scripture reading: Prov. 22:3, 5 & 9.
Tue., Dec. 5, 6:34 a.m. -
This second dream had to do with the shortness of time. There was a clear message that the judgment of God; the disaster, as well as God’s provisions for those who call on his name, is near and not far away as some suppose.
It was a warning against those who lead the upright along an evil path that they will fall into their own trap, and it was a promise that an inheritance awaits those who follow the path of holiness.
It was also a warning against laying up treasures on the earth, and an encouragement, instead, to build our “houses” with wisdom, understanding and knowledge.
Scripture reading: Prov. 24:3 & 27; Prov. 27:10 and Prov. 28:10.
Wed., Dec. 6, 12:05 a.m. –
This third dream was a warning not to follow the way of the people and not to fear what they fear, but to fear the Almighty God, to make him your sanctuary and to put your trust in him, not in man.
There was also a warning that God will be a stone that causes men to stumble and fall; that he will be a trap and a snare to the house of Israel, but that we should wait on the Lord who is hiding his face from us and we should put our trust in him.
Scripture reading: Isaiah 8:11-17.
Thu., Dec. 7, 3:55 a.m. –
The fourth dream was about the fall of the nations - nations who had great power, pomp, pride and who thought they were above everyone else – those who began to put themselves in the place of God in the lives of the people; who raised themselves up high.
It also had to do with God’s compassion on his people - his care and protection of them and his deliverance of them out of the cruel bondage of the nations and then how they would in turn rule over their oppressors.
Scripture reading: Daniel 5:22-28; Isaiah 14:1-6, 9-17
In summary: God is saying to look to him, not to man, for your refuge. He is saying to fear God, not man. He is promising that terrible times are coming soon, but that he will have compassion on his children and will rescue them from cruel bondage. He is giving a warning to stay away from the paths of the wicked; to not follow the ways of the people, and he is warning those who rule others in an oppressive manner that their doom is coming. They will fall from their high places.
So, in these dreams and scriptures are both warnings against following the ways of man; the ways of the wicked and warnings against those rulers who have raised themselves up that they are about to fall, as well as there are promises of God’s protection, his provisions and his deliverance to those who fear God and who follow His ways.
Three More Dreams – All in One Day Sue Love
December 8, 2006
I had three dreams today. The first one was at a few minutes after midnight, the second one was about 3:00 a.m. and the third one was between 8:00 and 8:30 a.m. I did not get up and write the first two down because I was so tired. When I woke up at 5:11 a.m., I could not remember either dream, though I could kind of feel them right at the tip of my brain. I kept having this song going through my head:
“Go; tell it on the mountain, over the hill and everywhere. Go; tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born…”
I knew that if the Lord wanted me to remember the dreams that he would bring them to my recall, but they weren’t there.
This passage of scripture really jumped out at me. Isaiah 18:2b-3:
Go, swift messengers, to a people tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared far and wide, an aggressive nation of strange speech, whose land is divided by rivers. 3 All you people of the world, you who live on the earth, when a banner is raised on the mountains, you will see it, and when a trumpet sounds, you will hear it.
Commentary: “banner. A pole with a banner was often placed on a hill as a signal for gathering troops or for summoning the nations to bring Israel back home. Trumpet. Used to summon troops.”
8:49 a.m. –
I went back to sleep for a couple of hours, because I was so tired, and I had a third dream.
This dream was about David P., who is a minister of the gospel about 500 miles from where I live. He was my youth minister when I was a teenager and he holds a special place in my heart. He helped me to get to know Jesus in a very personal way and he taught me so much about the Bible.
The dream was about the love relationship between me and David, like a father-daughter kind of relationship. I had always loved him and looked up to him. Well, in the dream he came into town and he preached a sermon. Before coming to our city to preach, though, he sent me a letter telling me that he would have to be more distant with me, because we had gotten too close, or something like that.
While he was preaching, suddenly I was out by myself in an area like on my knees at a rock of some sort with my Bible and journal, I think, but I did not look at him, because I wanted to keep my focus away from man and on to God.
After the sermon, when he got ready to leave, he did not hug me. He did not want me to hug him. He said that instead of a hug, he would pray with me. End.
I felt this was obviously a dream about not putting confidence in the flesh; in man, but to put our trust in God alone. Then, God brought to my memory the other two dreams.
The first one was about our son, David, and his friends from the Baptist group on our local college campus. (They were all in a dream with David P. back in June or July of this year, too.) Anyway, in the dream, we were all gathered together in a large meeting place that felt like a huge deck outdoors. I remember that I had to go borrow some chairs so that everyone would have a place to sit down, and it was like I stepped down some stairs off the side of a building to another level to get the chairs. I had not cleaned up and did not wash my hair, so I did not look my best, but no one seemed to notice. End.
The second dream was about my daughter Jenny’s wedding. During the ceremony we lost power/electricity to the building, so we scrounged around looking for candles, but then the lights came back on, so we continued. End.
I read a couple more chapters in Isaiah and nothing was standing out to me until I got to chapter 22:
An oracle concerning the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs, 2 O town full of commotion, O city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle. 3 All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away. 4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.”
Commentary on 1a: “Valley of Vision. May refer to the fact that it was the very place where so many prophetic visions had been received and then given to the people. This would, therefore, intensify the responsibility of her people for their reprehensible attitude.”
Commentary on 2b-3: “Isaiah’s main point is that the people could not glory in themselves, as if they had won a mighty victory. In fact, they were so demoralized at the approach of the enemy that they simply fled.” Commentary on 4-8a: “Isaiah knew that Jerusalem, delivered by a wonderful act of God’s grace, would one day perish at his hand. The people had learned nothing from what had happened. The spiritual sorrow of the prophet for his people was so deep that he was inconsolable. As a man of God, of course, he could accept what, as a Judean, he could not welcome; for the destruction of the people that had been revealed to him was the judgment of God. The Day of the Lord, prophesied in 2:6-22, would fall on Jerusalem…”
“The mention of the Elamites and Syrians serving in the army of the Babylonian king imparts an extra dimension of terror to the oracle, because it pictures the besieging army as an international one.”
Verses 5-14:
The Lord, the LORD Almighty, has a day of tumult and trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains… 8 the defenses of Judah are stripped away. And you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest; 9 you saw that the City of David had many breaches in its defenses;… 11 You built a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the Old Pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or have regard for the One who planned it long ago. 12 The Lord, the LORD Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth. 13 But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!” 14The LORD Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,” says the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
Commentary on 8b-11: “The prophet returns to the situation in Jerusalem when the Assyrian army appeared on the horizon. By their actions the people had made it clear to Isaiah that their trust was in human beings rather than in God.”
Commentary on 12-14: “There is something ominous about using a title of power – “the LORD Almighty” – instead of one of relationship, like “the God of Israel.” If the people would not seek his grace in repentance, they would feel his power in a terrifying act of his judgment on their city…”
“Verse 14 contains one of the Bible’s most terrifying sentences, comparable perhaps to the words of Rev. 22:11. The revelers had probably slaughtered the animals used by them for their feasts at Jerusalem’s temple. Let them not think, though, that any sacrifice could be offered to atone for this sin. At the very time when God’s promises to protect Jerusalem were being so wonderfully fulfilled, the threat was given that the city would most certainly fall one day before its enemies and that nothing – just nothing – could avert the judgment of God on it.”
Verses 15 through the rest of the chapter deal with God’s judgment on a ruler, Shebna, the steward of the king’s palace, a position second only to the king. He was to be dethroned and Eliakim was to take his place:
Vs. 22-24:
“I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 23I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will be a seat of honor for the house of his father. 24All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.”
This passage of scripture is quoted in part in Rev. 3:7 and is a reference to the Messiah.
Application:
I think, perhaps, this can apply to present-day Israel and to the USA. Our enemies are shouting at us from afar and we are retreating, giving away land, letting go of prisoners, making deals and concessions, etc. How many deadlines have come and gone for Iran to give up their nuclear ambitions and yet we do nothing? And, this is a country that has vowed to destroy us and Israel. So many Americans don’t even take the threat seriously and even make jokes about it. We learned nothing from 9/11 and so we continue with our lives as though we will go on like this forever and ever, eating and drinking, thinking we are indestructible.
We, as a nation, are not honoring God. We are not looking to God for guidance and direction, even though we have known his hand of protection on us for many, many years. We, as a nation, are not repenting of our sin. We are not wailing and mourning over the moral condition of our country. We idolize people and things, but we have lost the awe and the fear of the Almighty God. So, God is going to send his judgment upon us, a day of tumult and trampling and terror and it can not be averted. Nothing can avert the judgment of God that is coming upon us because of our (unrepented) sin against the Almighty God.
An Oracle Concerning Tyre
Sue Love
Two Dreams & Scripture
December 9, 2006
Saturday, Dec. 9, 7:29 a.m. –
I had two dreams last night. In the first one, Faith (mother of 3 young girls) was in a garage of another man. I thought she was being molested, so I called another person alongside me to help her. Nonetheless, when we got there, it became obvious that she was there of her own accord. When she saw us, she began buttoning up her blouse, because she was ashamed of her actions. End.
In the second dream, I was watching a story on TV. There were two rooms with TV’s in both rooms and the people in one of the rooms were watching another story. So, I left my purse in that room behind a chair and I went into the other room, so that I could continue watching my story. End.
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Isaiah 23, verses 4-5:
Be ashamed, O Sidon, and you, O fortress of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have neither been in labor nor given birth; I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.” 5 When word comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report from Tyre.
Commentary: “The sea is personified as the mother of the Phoenicians, and nothing could be more appropriate. With so many Sidonians slaughtered by Assyria, Sidon was bereft of her children and left as if she never had them. The sadness of the sea is matched by that of Egypt, whose trading with Tyre and Sidon gave her sympathy.”
Isaiah 23:6-9
Cross over to Tarshish; wail, you people of the island. 7 Is this your city of revelry, the old, old city, whose feet have taken her to settle in far-off lands? 8 Who planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are renowned in the earth? 9 The LORD Almighty planned it, to bring low the pride of all glory and to humble all who are renowned on the earth.
Isaiah 23:14-18: Wail, you ships of Tarshish; your fortress is destroyed! 15At that time Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute: 16 “Take up a harp, walk through the city, O prostitute forgotten; play the harp well, sing many a song, so that you will be remembered.” 17At the end of seventy years, the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire as a prostitute and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth. 18Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the LORD; they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothes.
Commentary on 6-9: “The prophet points to the contrast between Tyre’s past gaiety and wide-flung colonization and commercialism and its current humbling under the mighty had of God. No doubt all the rulers of the world empires from Assyria onward would plan to deal with Tyre on their way to other victories; but her downfall was really the work of the Lord, whose counsels ultimately prevail in the affairs of humankind. Isaiah never tires of saying that God is absolutely opposed to human pride in its every form.”
Commentary on 14-18: “Neither Tyre nor even Cyprus, across the sea, could be regarded as a haven of safety when Assyria, the instrument of God’s wrath, was on the rampage…
“Seaports have always been particularly notorious in connection with prostitution. Tyre was an old, old city and so would need to attract her clients now by singing some song associated with her trade.
“There is an important link here between the oracles against the nations (which come to their conclusion with this prophecy against Phoenicia) and the range of prophecies that occur later in the book. All three major parts of the book contain the notion that people from the Gentile nations will come to Jerusalem, not only to worship, but also to make their treasures available for the use of the chosen people and in the temple of God.
“God’s ultimate plan for Tyre – as for Ethiopia, Egypt, and Assyria – was to bring her into line with his central purpose for Israel.”
Lord, let your purposes for Israel be fulfilled, and bring us all in line with your purposes.