War

This morning I had 2 significant dreams. In the first dream an angel encouraged me and my husband Dave, giving us the house of our destiny. In the second dream a diabolical plot was discovered. I would like to share the second dream with you and its significance to the battle Christians are embroiled in at this time. Here is the dream;

I was a spectator in the house of our destiny. I saw a boy, about 10 – 12 years old. He was being ensnared by an evil man who intended to kidnap him. There was knowledge that the news had sent out an alert that there also was a small baby boy that had been kidnapped and people were looking for him. Suddenly the young boy’s mother came in the front door where the boy and wicked man were. She had rigged the door so that, when it opened, a gun would shoot a bullet, aimed to the left. She looked like Barbara Billingsly, with white gloves on. And so it happened as she had planned, that coming in the door, the bullet was fired and went into the evil man.
“Nice going Mom!” her son said. “You just killed Jerome, the man who was ‘helping’ us. He was perpetrating the evil on me which he intended I would perpetrate on others.”

The focus shifted to Jerome, who hadn’t died. We realized that he was one of satan’s agents. He had a baby in a bassinet next to him, whom he had kidnapped. We knew he would raise the baby to perpetrate evil. Though the 10-12 year old boy was safe, we wondered if we could rescue the baby. End of dream.

Interpretation – Barbara Billingsly represents the perfect wife, God’s perfected church or Bride. She has all the wisdom and skill needed to defeat satan, catching him in his own snares.

White gloves – pure works

Young son – the first movement of the Lord in our generation. Satan tried to “kidnap” this movement by cruelly wounding Christians, who in turn would wound others

Baby – God’s current movement. Innocent and unwounded so far

Jerome – In real life he was a saint who had been subject to the sin of pedophilia. In this dream he represents defilement through spiritual abuse.

After having received this dream the Lord brought me to the realization that some of this important material was given in a dream I had 12/24/08. Though this makes for long reading, it will bring more insight into the times we are now living, and is as follows;

There was a fierce war going on, but our group of about 50 people were gathered off to themselves, having not entered the battle. A few times I saw scenes of the battle, as if I were there. The field was full of dead bodies, old and new, stacked high on top of each other and covering the entire field. There were only a hand full of men standing. They had WWI style helmets on and just stood like statues, easy prey for what the enemy dropped on them. The enemy was shooting dead bodies, which landed on the field and on the soldiers. There was no shelter, and there was no plan. It was night time.

Our group had a discussion that I was not part of. A man who looked like one of the prominent pastors in our area gave a stirring pep talk and convinced the others that it was time to go to the battlefield. The group began a march up the road to the battle field. It was day-time. My husband Dave and I were last, and lingered behind. Our belief was that a plan would come to us that would better equip us to win, if we weren’t hasty to get there. I stopped along the road to get a drink from a drinking fountain.

This dream showed the same concept of wounded or slain men being used as weapons against those faithfully holding their ground in Christ. We saw the need for people to be equipped and mentored or we will not endure to give God the glory.

An evangelist’s efforts are often called a “campaign”, and so are military moves. The local pastor’s campaign was initiated from his personal motivation and did not include God’s strategy. God’s plan is to have a people who stand in victory against the devil, satan. Yet, if wounded people are used by satan to wound others, we will become weapons in the enemy’s hands instead of Jesus’ hands. When an enemy cannot defeat a people from without he will cunningly use those within to bring defeat.

What should we do, then? We cannot remove ourselves from the evil of this life. But we can love, and pray for grace to endure our hardships. One great thing we can do is to let God use us for the encouragement and equipping of each other. We need to have confidence to use those gifts given to us by God, for there is no security in doing what great leaders tell us to do. But there is every confidence that the Lord will equip and train us, sharing His plan for victory with those who wait on Him. Amen.