October 5, 2016

Scene one: It was set back in the mid-19th century, similar to scenes from Oliver Twist. We were trying to clean up the city and dead bodies were spread throughout the city streets. As we cleared away dead bodies we found some people were still alive.  

 There was a child carrying a sack with a baby in it. One of the watchmen of the city stopped and asked “what is that?” I told him it was a sack of potatoes but then he saw the bloodied foot.  

When I saw the baby’s feet sticking out of the burlap bag, I felt like I was seeing the days of Moses described in Exodus 2. It’s when Pharaoh ordered the midwives to kill the boys that were delivered at birth.

As I looked at the burlap bags, they appeared to be made similar to the papyrus baskets that Moses was placed in. “The king of Egypt had a talk with the two Hebrew midwives; one was named Shiphrah and the other Puah. He said, “When you deliver the Hebrew women, look at the sex of the baby. If it’s a boy, kill him; if it’s a girl, let her live.” Exodus 1:15-16

As I was walking along the edge of the cliffs of Normandy, I found a burlap bag and told two people to hide underneath it and I’d pretend they were a sack of potatoes. I told them that in order to save them, we could throw them over the cliff and into the water.

Scene two: I was a child. There were a bunch of college students throwing people down. I went to walk away and they told me to run. I ran. People had their belongings spread out on the ground. I don’t remember anything else, nor does this scene make sense to me, I wrote.

Scene three: I was an adult again. I was standing at the kitchen sink washing delicate coffee cups and saucers. I was trying to get the stains out and the dirty water out of the sink. I could not. It felt animated, robotic;  doing one after the other. 

There was a timer with the number 19. As I stood there I kept remembering how I was trying to move the people that were “dead,” but “yet alive.” The water was getting dirtier and I kept thinking of people dying from their sins and made alive in Christ Jesus. “The dead in Christ will rise,” I thought.

End of dream

INTERPRETATION

Number 19: I begin with the number 19 from the timer because it confirms the time for this dream is now. The time when the world is facing a pandemic due to COVID-19.

Some bodies were dead, some were alive, which can represent the destruction and clean up in the natural world after the riots from America’s civil unrest. Some will not be “save-able” in the spiritual and others will need us to help them heal and will be saved. 

Baby/Moses baskets: In the dream, I felt I was looking upon the era when the Hebrew babies (God’s children) were being slaughtered after a live birth. This represents today’s sin of abortion. When I had the dream in 2016 (the election year), late abortions weren’t legal. During President Trump’s term, several states passed legislation for late-term abortions, meaning, a live, after birth killing. Personally, I never would have conceived that man in the 21st century would pursue this kind of evil.

Scene two: What resonated with me in this scene is when people were throwing their belongings on the ground and I was running away. The scene was similar to what has taken place where protestors have embedded autonomous zones in American communities.

Society in general, believers and non-believers, are “robotically” walking around to the widespread sin and godlessness among us. Abortion is so routine and embedded in our society that we have become desensitized to its horrors. The majority of Christians do little, myself included.

We may post a sound-bite on social media that it’s a horrific sin, but for most, it ends there. Millions of babies have been slaughtered and for decades we have walked among “the dead,” and go about our day. If their little corpses and body parts were spread throughout the gutters and city streets, would it be so easy to walk past them day-after-day?

It’s not just the babies that are dying, it’s those who are the perpetrators, i.e, those depicted in the streets, “dying in their sins.” Not just one kind of sin, all sins.

 Cups and Saucers: They represent how fragile a man’s life and soul are. This dream begins with me trying to save people and ends with a beautiful picture that I cannot save men from their sins, only Christ can. We are delicate beings (cup/saucer) and no matter how filthy and stained our “cup” is of sin and shame, it is Christ’s blood that cleanses us from all unrighteousness. 

The more we try to wash the sin from our lives, the dirtier the “water” gets. We cannot do it for ourselves. No matter how much we do for others, our works are in vain. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.” Ephesians 2:8-9

Also, the washing of dishes connected to the people who were still alive. I will be praying this scene through and that those who are being awakened to what is going on will turn to Christ for salvation. God loves us: “Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.” Psalm 51:1

One final word:

During this time of “revolution” in our nation, the Lord keeps piercing my heart with one word: Distraction. Spiritually, don’t let the enemy try to abort what God has planned in your life. Be fervent in prayer so that you aren’t misled and redirected from what the Lord is asking of his Church.

What does God see in my heart and is he pleased? “Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts. Don’t talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust.” Proverbs 4:23-27 MSG

When I had this dream in 2016 there were rallies against those enslaved in human trafficking with little news against the injustices of structural racism. In June 2020 when this dream began to unfold, the silence on the injustices of racism were no longer defeaning and became headline news. How quickly the enemy gets people sidetracked from one issue to the next, even when they are for good. This is yet another reason God gave us this dream. Don’t forget about the children. He sees the unborn and the born. He sees everything that is taking place.

Focus on heaven: The work you are doing for the Lord may seem overwhelming. The sin of those in your city may be too great to sense you are making a difference. Don’t give up doing good and the will of the Lord that you are called to. Bring light to the darkness in your home, your church, your city. Walk with them to the feet of Jesus. “So everywhere we go, we tell everyone about Christ. We warn them and teach them with all the wisdom God has given us, for we want to present them to God, perfect in their relationship to Christ.” Colossians 1:28

“Do not give up doing the work of the Lord. “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.  Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers.” Galatians 6:7-10

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