“Don’t Dream It’s Over”
Crowded House“There is freedom within
There is freedom without
Try to catch the deluge in a paper cup
There’s a battle ahead
Many battles are lost
But you’ll never see the end of the road
While you’re travelling with me
… Hey now, hey now
Don’t dream it’s over
Hey now, hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
We know they won’t win…”
“So it will be afterward,I will pour out My Ruach on all flesh:your sons and daughters will prophesy,your old men will dream dreams,your young men will see visions.“Also on the male and the female servantswill I pour out My spirit in those days.I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth—blood, fire and pillars of smoke.The sun will be turned into darknessand the moon into blood, before the great and awesome day of Adonai comes.Then all who call on Adonai’s Name will escape,for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalemthere will be rescue, as Adonai has said,among the survivors whom Adonai is calling.”The Prophet Joel Chapter 3 Verse 5 Tree Of Life Version
My name is Brian Newman and I have been studying Dream Interpretation for 5 full years now. In 2020 I graduated a course totally dedicated to the subject of Biblical Dream Interpretation. Dreams can be viewed through the lens of History, Psychology and Spirituality. There are also Jewish, Christian and Pagan ways of looking at dreams.
However the only way of finding Truth in our dreams is to going to The Word of our Creator, both the Logos (Written Word) and the Rhema (Whispered Word). He created us body, soul and spirit. He created dreams and sleep and even night itself.
He knows what each dream means and where it comes from and
He shares this with us in His Word how to interpret our dreams.
His Prophets Daniel and Joseph and Ezekiel were dreamers.
His Apostles such and Paul and John were dreamers as well.
He even spoke to those in dreams who lived in rebellion against Him
(Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar and the wife of Pontius Pilate).
In the Last Days He has promised to speak in dreams to old men (whether that is physical or spiritual maturity) and in Visions to young men. He also promises to pour His Spirit out on ALL flesh (Jew and Gentile, Male and Female, Christian and Non-Christian). These days He is personally appearing to Muslims in the dreams by the thousands. So we should rightly expect more and more people to dream the closer we come to the edge of time and looking down at the end of History as we have known it so far.
“For thus says Adonai, the God of Israel:
“Do not let your prophets who are among you or your diviners beguile you,
and pay no attention to the dreams
which you make them keep dreaming.”
The Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 29 Verse 8 TLV
There are around 20 kinds of dreams but there is a kind the dreamer must be very careful of.
This is a kind of dream called a “Soul Dream”. This is a dream that is not from The Spirit of God but is simply an overflowing at night of whatever we have filled our Souls with during the day. An example of this would be a greedy person having frequent dreams of winning the lottery or a lustful person having frequent dreams of women in swimwear. This kind of dream often expresses itself politically when someone consumes far more news in a week than they consume Scripture. In short, we are prone to this when we spend more time gazing into our screens than we do our Scriptures and more time listening to Talk Radio that we do listening to the Spirit of our Creator. These Soul Dreams result in either false hopes or in false fears that are mistaken for prophecy or for being a prophetic dream. Then the true prophetic is called into question by everyone.
Every 4 years or so we experience an explosion of dreaming in our Nation just as the Prophet Jeremiah did in his nation during the years leading up the Exile to Babylon.
In our day, just as in his day, these dreams seem to all revolve around either hopes or fears about politics and patriotism and the outcome of the Nation (Israel then America).
In the time of Jeremiah, The Creator was trying to warn the people of Judah that the political and national outcome would not be what they had been hoping for. The Nation was going into bondage for it’s sins instead of into prosperity, just as Deuteronomy 30 promised the Nation.
The people however had set up a group of mega-pastors and social media influencers (called prophets) that kept their positions by telling the people exactly what they wanted to hear.
The people-pleasing (in the style of King Saul) become so pervasive that the expectations of the people began to cause the spiritual leadership to have dreams according to the whims of the people. It’s almost like sunflowers facing the sun the way the prophets sought the whims of the people for direction while turning away from the true Son-Shine that gives Truth and Life.
It was not The Creator giving these dreams to the spiritual leadership, it was the fleshly desires of the people demanding a validation from the Soul and Flesh instead of The Spirit.
Essentially, the spiritual leadership of the Nation had been feeding their own Souls and Flesh so long that they could not longer discern the difference between their own Soul and The Spirit of The Creator. This led to the airwaves being full of Soothsaying, which means they were giving a message that is exactly what the audience expects instead of what The Creator instructs. Just as we often find in our pulpits and televisions today and at our local Christian Bookstore.
“Build houses and live in them; also plant gardens and eat their fruit; take wives and have sons and daughters; and take wives for your sons and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may bear sons and daughters; and multiply there,
and do not decrease. Also seek the shalom of the city where I took you as captives in exile, and pray to Adonai for it—for in its shalom will you have shalom.”
The Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 29 Verse 5 TLV
Judah would be set free from Babylon but it would be 70 years (nearly two generations later or the time between The Great Depression and the Year 2000) before that “hope and a future” of Jeremiah 29:11 would come to pass. Jeremiah instructed the people to go about their daily lives and conduct business, build homes, and pray for the peace of their city while waiting on prophecy to come about. He did not instruct them to compel its arrival or to live in terror of its coming. There are many Dreams and Visions and Words that are for a far future time than our time.
Jeremiah also did not instruct them to overthrow the government which God was using for their discipline. He instructed them to pray for the Shalom of their cities. The Prophet Daniel understood this principle and he prayed Repentance for his people before praying for their Deliverance. He knew that Salvation began with the the Spirit instead of the Ballot Box.
I believe as others do that the Principality over the Nation of Daniel was firmly in place because the hearts of the people desired it to stay. Only when the hearts of the people were changed would the political and financial environment of the Nation truly be changed. The spiritual world works by invitation and the heart condition of Judah was aligned with the presence that overshadowed them. The values of the people became more Babylonian than Hebrew and dominance by Babylon (later overcome by Persia) is what they were given. Then it was this exact same Principality (Fallen Angel who has dominance over a region) that Daniel was told of in a Dream/Vision. Daniel was able to see with his spiritual eyes while he was sleeping what the natural eyes could not see when they were open during the daytime. Dreams are our spiritual night vision goggles. They let us see what we must pray against in the hearts around us.
John Paul Jackson’s “Dreamipedia: A Case For The Biblical View of Dreams”
“Do not say: ‘It’s a conspiracy!’ about everything that these people call a conspiracy.
You must not fear or tremble at what they fear. Adonai-Tzva’ot,
Him will you sanctify, and let Him be your fear, trembling at Him.
The Prophet Isaiah Chapter 8 Verses 12 and 13 TLV
We find later on in the time of the Prophet Isaiah that it was not the false hopes that controlled the hearts and minds of the Nation, it was False Fears. Conservatives like myself recall the frenzy of Dreams and Visions all over that airwaves which came out during the Obama Administration. Youtube was filled with dreams and visions about invasions from every Nation on the Earth from Russia to China to North Korea complete with concentration camps and secret tunnels under Wal-Mart. Then we experience some relief from Obama and the terror comes back under Biden. With every round of conspiracy and soulish dreams, more credibility falls away from the Church.
If we collect the “dreams and warnings’ from the past few decades alone we will find dozens of absolute and unquestionable candidates for Anti-Christ in addition to the destruction of the United States by every natural disaster in existence. We would have also been conquered by half of the foreign nations both inside and outside of the U.N. and NATO. When we witness this frenzy of contradictions that are proclaimed in a State of hysteria, we know the Enemy is sowing seeds.
“For God has not given us a spirit of timidity but of power and love and self-discipline.”
The Second Letter To Timothy Chapter 1 Verse 7 TLV
Every 4 years we are told we are in the midst of another Apocalypse or an impending Apocalypse according to the Dreams and Visions and supposed “Words” from the Souls of well-meaning individuals. This is exactly what the Prophet Isaiah warned us to not give into.
There are also many hard hearted individuals who much like Jonah are hungry to witness a catastrophe. Sometimes this hunger for catastrophe produces cataclysmic dreams and visions that lead the dreamer into becoming a self-appointed watchman or prophet. When the fatigue of constant End-Times Anxiety finally wears off many simply walk away from the Faith. Others will quietly fall spiritually asleep and become unmovable by any actual warnings from The Creator.
The last two years the Corona Virus has unleashed a level of fear this Country has not known since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Our level of fear of simple humanity and community has caused more deaths from suicide and overdose and medical neglect than any disease we are facing. The virus is very real but fear is the even more harmful contagion. This fear has manufactured so many nightmares in the minds of dreamers who have been sharing on Youtube and Facebook.
This fear mongering isn’t helpful at all to so many facing mental illness or isolation or addiction. In the words of the Apostle Paul, who was assigned to create Halakah (daily living rules) for the Gentile Church, we must be mindful to “bear with each other’s weaknesses”.
When we live our lives in such a terror that it produces self-induced nightmares then we have no hope to offer the World. We are simply in a panic just like everyone else, only because of different reasons. The Scriptures tell us that the end arrives in a time of unprecedented peace, not anxiety.
“But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners,
your dreams, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers,
who speak to you, saying,
‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’”
The Prophet Jeremiah Chapter 27 Verse 9 TLV
So how do we handle these dreams?
Firstly, we stewards our dreams well.
The better we steward any gift like dreams the more skilled in discerning we become.
This is like a wine connoisseur that can identity which nation and vintage he has sipped.
We record our dreams, we pray over them for the meaning and the source and the timing.
We guard our dreams, meaning we only share when led to those we are led.
We consider our brothers who are weaker in the faith and therefore prone to end times panic and irrational decisions like leaving their jobs to go live in a bunker until the sky falls down.
We also watch for patterns to see if the dreams we recorded ever came to pass.
We also keep in mind that dreams are Parables, not film footage from the Future.
The vast majority of dreams are one or another form of Soul Dream.
The Prophetic Dreams are usually the ones that we can’t shake for years.
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