Once more, like the dreams, this vision was prophetic as this entire book is. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John” (Rev 1:1). Once more we see that this vision is from God as he was “in the Spirit.” The Book of Revelation is not the revelation of John but is actually the “revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. In the Book of Revelation, John wrote that he “was on the island called Patmos on account of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day” ( Rev 1:9-10). This vision was prophetic of the house of Israel that would be resurrected again and that God had not abandoned Israel forever. Obviously this was not a dream but a vision because the Lord had His hand upon Ezekiel and the fact that bones were joined to bone and flesh came upon them was representative of something that God was telling Ezekiel about what was to come to pass someday.
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This was no dream nor was it in reality because no one can look at God and not be instantly incinerated (Ex 33:20).Įzekiel also had a vision of the Valley of Dry Bones in Ezekiel 37 where he wrote that “The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley it was full of bones” (Ezk 37:1). It was the vision of the glory of the Lord as his vision was of the throne room of heaven. In Ezekiel 1:1a-3 it is Ezekiel records “I saw visions of God. On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin), the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the Lord was upon him there.” The literal Hebrew says that Ezekiel saw visions “from God” so this vision was clearly from God. God can use dreams to try and communicate to people and I will not limit what God can do but we already know for certain what God’s will is and it is found recorded in the Scriptures so there is no reason to guess about it. All I can say is that the dream may have come from God but dreams are so random in nature that it is humanly impossible to say with any authority whether they are from God or just something that they ate before bedtime. I would say that any time that a dream seems contrary to what is written in the Scriptures, then that dream cannot be used as something that God has sent because God would never contradict Himself by sending a dream that goes against what is revealed in His written Word, the Bible. Without that gift, it is impossible for me or anyone else to interpret someone else’s dream.
It is impossible for me to interpret dreams because I am no Joseph who not only had dreams which came true, but had been given the ability from God to interpret dreams ( Gen 40). I have heard from many who say that they have dreams and I am then asked what these dreams mean. When dreams are mentioned in the Bible, they are almost always prophetic in nature and when they are fulfilled at a later time, they are validated as having their source from God. This dream has been realized today because Abraham and his sons have descendants in both the Arab world and in the nation Israel with descendants totaling into the millions. Your offspring shall be like the dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.” This dream was also prophetic and would later come true. The land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it! And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. This dream is recorded in Genesis 28:12-14 where “he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. It’s ironic that Jacob didn’t believe in Joseph’s dream when he had one himself. After his brothers sold him into slavery, he later became second in power over Egypt and his brothers actually did bow down to him. And behold, your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.” Joseph’s brothers hated him even more for this dream and his father Jacob rebuked him for it but this dream was prophetic and later came true in Joseph’s life. He said to them, “Hear this dream that I have dreamed: Behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and stood upright. In Genesis 37:5-8 it says “Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers they hated him even more.
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