And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. Acts 2:17
I don’t know if you believe in dreams or not; the Bible is full of them.
Jacob had a dream about a ladder or stairway to heaven.
Joseph had dreams about his brothers and then interpreted the dreams of Pharaoh, the baker, and the butler.
Nebuchadnezzar had dreams that Daniel interpreted.
Joseph had a dream that warned him about Herod seeking to kill the infant, Jesus.
Though I don’t fully understand why God used or uses dreams to communicate with us; nevertheless, it has happened and will happen, according to the scripture.
I don’t remember too many of my dreams these days but I recall one from several years ago.
It was a documentary type dream – almost like something you’d see on the National Geographic channel, including a narrative.
It started out with a “family” of donkey’s heading to a watering hole.
Each and every day the head donkey would lead the herd to this spot.
Then the narrative changed and became about the wily kangaroo.
He, too, wants to drink from the water but the donkey herd is so large and slow that he has to wait.
The narrator says he uses a diversion to keep the donkeys from going to the watering hole.
At that time, in my dream, the kangaroo came bounding over the top of a hill and going full speed down the other side.
He pounces right on top of the “princess” donkey, daughter of the leader.
She is knocked over.
All the other donkeys mosey over by her side to stand and stare at her.
Meanwhile, the kangaroo goes alone to the watering hole.
The narrator says the deception is effective.
At this point the kangaroo looks up from the water and smiled.
I recognized the smile and face of the kangaroo; it was someone I knew.
I woke up and knew that I, and several others, were all being deceived.
More than that, I realize that Satan, who deceives the whole world (Rev 12:9), deceives us to get our attention off the pathway.
God’s word gives the warning let no one deceive you. 1 John 3:7
In these days when evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 2 Tim 3:13-15
Keep your mind and heart on Christ.