What exactly is a Dreamer of Dreams? Joseph and Daniel had dreams. Someone may receive dreams like that. There is a meditative state a man can fall into. It somewhere between being awake and asleep where someone is receiving from God. It is more like Day Dreams or Visions in a meditative state.
- Young man is sitting in a Church. The pastor is talking about things that don't relate him. He starts day dreaming. He enters a state where he is somewhere between being awake and falling asleep. He catches some elbows to wake up.
- Man is mowing his lawn. He starts day dreaming. He goes into "The Zone." Everything around him, he forgot. He is day dreaming, and focused on his dreams. Somehow he keeps cutting the grass in a straight line.
- Man is shooting basketball alone. He starts day dreaming. He is in "The Zone." The zone here isn't that he is making all his shots exactly. He is able to keep shooting while losing track of everything else around him. He is in a meditative state with his dreams.
These were things I was doing prior to being called by God. I didn't think much of them. They were just day dreams. Fast Forward and it is November 2013. I had received a calling from God. One day, I suddenly became aware like a curtain was lifted from me. God had been guiding me all my life, and nothing was by chance. All the dreams I had, they may have allegorically been something God would like me to do, or something God would like to happen. They were prophetic. Was this Lucid Dreaming? I wasn't taught anything about that. There have been occult teachings on it. I wasn't aware of it. I discovered it exactly as described.
A Dreamer of Dreams may hit a point where he is constantly in this state of meditation without doing anything. It is 100%, all the time. Music does help focus more. It may help guide some dreams or thoughts. Music is not necessary.
That is the understanding God has given me of a Dreamer of Dreams. (Deuteronomy 13) There may be more to it. Writing about it too much about it may be boasting. Something to pray and reflect on.
Addendum -
Question: Were any of the prophets of the Bible a Dreamer of Dreams?
This getting into dangerous territory. If someone were to ask me "Who is the Greatest of Prophets?".....That would be a trick question. God has predestined certain men to serve him through time and space. It is not about being greatest. It is about obedience to God. It is like being on a racetrack. Everyone has their lane. All a man does is stay his lane. We don't worry about what anyone else is doing or has done. Someone is in obedience, in the lane God gave him. We all have our role to play no matter how big or small it was. We all do our part.
Were any of the Prophets in the Bible a Dreamer of Dreams? There hasn't been one in the line of Abraham other than The Lord Jesus Christ. I am not Jesus.
Question: How does Predestination work with Freedom of Choice?
God has delegated authority. Society is not Atomistic. You are not an Atom unto yourself. Society is Organic. Christian society is The Body of Christ. We all have a function in the Body. (Ephesians 4:11)
Israel, with Moses, they were a Body of People like a Body of Christ. Balaam son of Beor came along. He was a false teacher. He lead the Body into sin. Sin in the body is like a wound. Wounds fester. Sometimes there may have been a cancer. A cancer needs cut out, and/or hit with extreme heat and pressure. Israel, as a body of people, they had freedom of choice to listen to Balaam or to not. Given God did not immediately act, Israel as a Body of People, like a Body of Christ, it may have ended up in generations of darkness.
In Parable of the Tenant Farmers, mankind is like God's Vineyard. (Luke 20:9-19) He hired out some Tenant Farmers to take care of the vineyard for him. These Tenant Farmers were teachers of religious law. They were shaping how man perceives himself, how man perceived God. Given the Tenant Farmers were off, and hostile towards God, everyone under them was in darkness.
Christians are not of the darkness, they are Children of The Light.
God judges the false teachers more harshly. (James 3:1)(Matthew 18:6)
Given there was a falling away, many people were in darkness. A lot Christian denominations and/or Churches there within, they were going through the motions. Something was off. Through time and space, God has planed for certain men to bring people back.
Question: How have Christians become off or in darkness?
There was Spiritual Warfare. In Spiritual Warfare, something may have shifted. Given Christians were blind to this, they were not vigilant watching for danger, they may have missed a queue, and they became off.
A pastor has a peer group. In Academia, for example, a college student is in a peer group. He was "Class of 2000" or something. When he graduates, he is in a peer group with other college graduates. Was something off with teachers or professors? Was there something off the culture at the college? In the 1960's, colleges in the US became more known for debauchery than higher learning. Whose watch was that done on?
Are you familiar with "Jesus Revolution?" There was a movie about it with Kelsey Grammer. In the 1970's, the Counter Culture was mainstreamed into mainstream American Culture. Even more conservative Christians may have been participating in that counter culture. The Mainstream media, which has often been anti-Christian, they were pro "Jesus Revolution" movie. That is sign something was wrong. In Catholicism, one Pope was anti-Modernism and the next seemed all for it, and then there was Vatican II. That is a sign of something.
This is a complicated topic with a lot of history and moving parts. Bear with me.
A lot of Pastor-Teachers were in a community, a peer group. There was something off with how they were being taught. Being a Pastor is a calling. Being a Pastor is not a degree coming from teachers that didn't know what a woman is, or in that peer group.
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