Daniel 1:17 To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of all kinds.
I believe we are all Daniels. God speaks to all of us. Dreams and visions are invitations to pursue God. He imparts wisdom to us through the process.
God uses dreams to reveal His plans and purposes for our lives. He uses visions to reveal Himself – His nature – His character – to us.
One third of the Holy Bible is about dreams, visions or prophesy. Both the Old and New Testaments are filled with symbolic language – dreams, visions and parables. In the end, it’s about paying attention and listening – truly listening – to what the God of ALL the heavens and the earth, is trying to say to us.
After I had the first dream recently, I prayed and asked God to continue to speak through me with dreams and visions, and to help me understand what He’s saying to me. If God gives us a dream or vision, He will tell us what it means. But we must seek Him for the answers.
I write them down as soon as I wake up. I note the specifics – any color that is present, people, objects, atmosphere, emotions and words. I believe doing this shows God that I value what He’s given me and I believe He will continue to give me more. Then I go to the Bible and ask God to reveal through scripture (knowledge and understanding) what the dream means.
As I noted in a prior blog, there are three types of dreams and visions; soulish (fleshly), demonic & God given dreams. Pray and ask God to reveal which type you’ve had.
December 2, 2019 The Vision…
It was early in the morning. I had woke up and went downstairs – fixed my coffee and sat on my couch. It was then that I had a vision.
In the vision, I was seeing the preacher, Robert Morris, giving an altar call to a large crowd of people. We were in a sanctuary (smaller than his church) and everything was washed in a blue light (the walls, the floor, the people). Robert began to pray and as he prayed, people in the crowd started to get up and turn their backs to him and quietly walk out of the service. One man – who stood out from the rest – was pushing a cart full of equipment, but kept looking back over his shoulder. I also remember he had on a white shirt. There were just a few folks remaining in their seats – heads down – praying.
I was sitting on the sideline, watching all of this and I wasn’t alone. I sensed other Christians around me. I was disturbed that people were being so disrespectful and were leaving during such an important part of the service. Robert Morris continued on as though nothing was happening.
The vision was over.
Breaking it down:
Key elements: preacher, Robert, altar, large crowd, sanctuary, blue color, prayer, people turning their backs to God, man with cart of equipment, sideline, me and other Christians.
The name Robert: means “bright fame”.
The preacher: Is a representative of God, a shepherd, one who teaches God word
The sanctuary: Sacred, deep connection to the spirit realm.
The color blue: denotes revelation, throne room, judgement, justice
The altar: God’s throne, the judgement seat of God, covenant of God
The call: calling others to the throne of God. Compelling the lost to be saved.
The prayer: Presence of God – seeking God.
The large crowd: in this case, I believe it was people who refer to themselves as Christians, but don’t know God.
The people leaving: people turning their backs on God – refusing to heed His calling them to His throne room.
My interpretation:
After much prayer and thoughts on this, this is what I believe God was showing me.
We are clearly living in the end-times. What’s happening in the world today and especially all around the little country of Israel and the seat of humanity – Jerusalem – is evidence of Bible prophesy coming true. My father was an end-times preacher. He recognized the end-time significance of Israel becoming a country in 1948 and their taking of the capital Jerusalem in 1967 – and the mass of Jewish people returning to their land even today. I heard him say to me many times before his death in 1981, that he believed Christ would return in my lifetime.
I’m beginning to believe he was right. The evidence is all around. The high priests (the Rabbi’s) in Israel today are pushing for the rebuilding of the 3rd temple. According to Daniel 9:27 that is where the abomination of desolation will make his stand in the very last days – the Antichrist – the counterfeit Christ. Messianic Jewish Rabbi’s are revealing today that the instruments needed for the temple have been gathered by the non-Messianic Rabbi’s – they’re preparing. They know the time is here too – the Messiah is coming.
We must prepare too – for we know the Messiah is coming again! 2 Thessalonians 2:1 tells us that many will fall away in the end. Included in that “many” could be our loved ones; mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters – our children! God is reaching out to those who will hear and respond and not turn their backs on Him.
In the vision God gave me, the preacher represents the Great Shepherd – our God, who desires to love and protect us and is calling the lost to come to Him. The name of the preacher, Robert, means “bright fame”. Through this I believe God is calling us to personal revival. God’s last call to the believers before His son returns. I believe that’s the tingling we’re feeling in our spirits – that God is on the move. He's moving and shaking and exposing those who are his and those who are not.
The blue sanctuary represents the sacred throne of God – like a sea of Sapphire. The altar call was for both, those who don’t know God, to seek Him and to be saved and for those who are born-again to know God in a deeper way. But MOST people today are turning their backs to God – the ones who got up and turned their backs to the throne and began to walk away. Sadly, most will abandon their faith or just deny God altogether. The few who remained will be saved.
Let that sink in – FEW will be saved.
The man with the cart of equipment, I believe, represents technology and the impact it’s having globally in this time. I’m not saying it’s entirely bad – it certainly helps true believers get the Word out. But it represents distraction – that many are being led away and distracted by what’s going on in the world instead of seeking God. The white shirt he was wearing, I believe signifies that many “Christians” (white shirt - white as snow) have fallen into this trap. The fact that the man kept looking back over his shoulder as he walked away, meant that he was divided. The world was pulling him away and he gave in. He wasn’t committed.
Those of us on the sideline – we’re the believing church today. I believe this vision was a prophetic call to the church on the sideline. The call is to intercession for the lost.
The larger church has become apathetic. So many are wrapped up in the here and now and have lost sight of what our faith walk should be about.
In case you don’t know, our calling is twofold: 1) for each of us to know God intimately and 2) to lead others to Him. We are being called to live out our faith so that others will be hungry for the living God. We are being called to share our faith to anyone who will listen so that they might come to know God.
Instead, too many are like selfish, self-centered little children, who think the world revolves around them instead of God. Many “appear” to be doing the work of God – but they fall short as they allow competition for fame and wealth and their fleshly desires to be in the limelight, get in the way of being the light in a fallen world. That’s pride at work – the same pride that took Lucifer down.
Regardless of what’s happening around us we must continue on - just as in the vision, the preacher kept on for the sake of the few. As my good friend and sister, Terri Broome, teaches, "Even if those around you don't listen - keep doing what God called you to do!"
Folks – the time is here! It’s time be true representatives of the light of Jesus Christ! Begin with prayer! Live out the Word! Share the Word! Lead the lost home!
God bless!
Allison Pelphrey
Supporting verses:
Matthew 28:16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
2 Thessalonians 2:1 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition
Luke 16:13-15 “You cannot serve two masters at the same time. You will hate one master and love the other. Or you will be loyal to one and not care about the other.
Joel 2:28 28"And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.
Acts 2:17 17"'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.
Daniel 9:27 He will confirm a covenant with many for one 'seven.' (7 year tribulation) In the middle of the 'seven' (3 1/2 years into tribulation) he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And at the temple he will set up an abomination that causes desolation, until the end that is decreed is poured out on him."
