The birth of Jesus has brought this Good News: “but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,”
Why is this Good News? The answer is : ...https://kzlam36.wordpress.com/2024/12/05/christmas-journey-day2-death-abolished-immortality-revealed/
Peter knew that he was leaving soon, and he wrote this. His last testimony. He knew Jesus. And he followed to the end. There is no record of his personal life except that he was married with a wife and also a mother-in-law! Peter brought his family...
Nothing could be more ridiculous. The only good thing about it is that it was only a dream. The watchman was with a small group of people for no particular reasons in a large gated house. There was an alert that the enemy were coming so they had to prepare themselves. There was no indication of who and why and when and from where and how, all the details in a real world that would have mattered were missing. Anyway the group of people did not consist of members of a family. Nor were they related in anyway, social, political, economic, religious, or ideological affiliation of any sort. It was an unfamiliar house and compound. Were they tourists? A decade ago the watchman had dreams of being tourist in similar but different in details dilemma.
Somehow he became the ad hoc leader of the band of people. So he said they had to arm. There were nothing except kitchen ware. Some took a butter knife. Some carried an umbrella. Some a plastic rod or something, hat hanger? The watchman led them to line up with their back facing the gate, which seemed as if the enemy would come from inside the house and they had to be outside and stand against the wall that surrounded the house and yard/garden.
None of the participants seemed to have had any training in using weapon or self defense or martial art or any form of combat. They were women wearing dresses, old men, children, and ordinary tradesmen such as the watchman. Some looked like the watchman’s old classmates from junior school whom he ad not met for over fifty years. The watchman in the dream was a rather senior person with white hair.
The mood was strangely calm and unhurried. No one had any idea what strategy we were to adopt should the enemy come. Butter knives, forks, umbrellas, and the unidentified plastic stuff the watchman and a few others carrying were hardly anything of any value in terms of warfare, if any.
When the watchman woke up it was a great relief. Any story writer would have found this plot too rudimentary to be worthwhile to continue. Yet, It was so real in the dream. It was like a scene out of a future when ordinary people would find themselves the center of a reality plot whether anyone would want to record it or not.
The watchman had not had this kind of dreams or any lucid dream at all for about a decade. Standing with their backs against the wall and knowing that it was ridiculous that they were totally unprepared, the watchman decided to wake up. it was still early but there was no desire to sleep further.
After boiling water with a steel pot the watchman made a mug of strong coffee and sat on the floor to ask a few questions. Above all, “what is the Lord trying to tell me?” A week ago he found his old One Year Bible in a former house, brought it back and started reading it daily. When he opened the day’s reading it was on 2 Thessalonians. So he read.
Here are some verses from the Epistle for the believers:
Chapter one 11 Therefore we also pray always for you that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfill all the good pleasure of His goodness and the work of faith with power, 12 that the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and you in Him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Chapter two 13 But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God from the beginning chose you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth, 14 to which He called you by our gospel, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the traditions which you were taught, whether by word or our epistle.
16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, 17 comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work.
Chapter three Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified, just as it is with you, 2 and that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men; for not all have faith.3 But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one. 4 And we have confidence in the Lord concerning you, both that you do and will do the things we command you.
5 Now may the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God and into the patience of Christ.The immediate week before the dream the watchman watched some testimonies given by teachers of faith about how they encountered the presence of God in the Spirit and the reality of the spiritual realm of God. There was a sharing of a book titled, The Spirit of Prophecy: A Portal to the Presence and Power of God. After watching, the watchman thought about his own experience with the gift of prophecy, and the manifestation/application of it years ago. As there were no occasion to use the gift he had put it in the closet. Very occasionally when needed he would use the gifts of the word of knowledge and the word of wisdom.
Is there any interpretation for this dream? For years, he has sought answers directly from the Word. The Word will come in time.
καὶnotes, 2022-10-17