receiving the prophet

On Dec 21st I had the 3rd & 4th dreams in the series of 4 (mentioned in prior postings). Today I will share dream #3.

In the 3rd dream I was upstairs in a church and realized I had something important for its leaders. They were in a meeting downstairs which I decided to attend. I picked up a yellow banner with fine embroidery on it and brought it down the stairs with me.

As I went down the stairs I saw an important looking man, who walked next to me into the lobby. He said “Do you know who we are?” I listened for the Lord’s answer, and just as He said to me “You are men who make important decisions” we came to the opening of the sanctuary, and the man went in. I didn’t get a chance to give the Lord’s answer to the man. The men gathered there received the yellow banner I handed them but one stood in their midst with his hand outstretched towards me, indicating I was not to enter in. I turned around and left, thinking it was strange that women could not come to the meeting.

I began walking back towards the stairs and the same man whom I had walked with in the lobby came along side of me again. He was friendly and so I asked him his name. He told me his name, and I told him mine. When we were with other people he invited us into a room upstairs (like a Sunday school room). I thought it would be a meeting where he would share content from the “important men’s” meeting, but instead he was trying to sell us soap. I got up to leave, explaining that I was allergic to soap, except for Ivory, yet he convinced me to stay for his demonstration, assuring me that his soap would be fine (being a little condescending to me, as if I was seen as not giving him a chance). I watched him squeeze beads of soap inbetween his fingers, shaping them into a fish. We all were given a Petri dish to do the same thing, but each came up with all different shapes of his soap. End of dream.

Interpretation – Yellow banner = prophecy about time. (I have been praying for what the Lord’s message is for the coming year. Also, in a prior dream the Lord used a yellow ribbon in the sky to represent that His Word had come into the present time.)
Gathering of men in the sanctuary = pastor’s prayer meeting. The Lord has given them spiritual authority to make important decisions in this county and city. He laid it on my heart to take the prophecy to them, yet I was not received (though the prophecy was taken).
Man who walked along side of me = probably a local, and encouraging pastor
Upper floor of the church = like the upper room; where one receives from the Holy Spirit
Lower portion of the church = where the foundation is; its values and the decisions made
Soap = what we are cleansed with. Jesus said we are cleansed by the Word of God (Jn 17:17)
Ivory = pure white soap; able to represent the Word of God and His intentions
The man’s soap = since he had to manipulate the beads of soap to form them into a Christian lesson (fish) they were not the pure Word of God. Perhaps I had been invited to learn about prophesying/the use of God’s rhemas Word, yet the lessons were not pure.

This dream is about not receiving the prophet, yet teaching prophecy according to Man’s traditions. Though pastors are in authority in their churches, God has 4 other branches of his authority; Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, and Teachers. Rather than instruct prophets in what may not be the area of a pastor’s knowledge, the Lord would have us receive each other and the ministry worked in us by God’s Spirit.