Many of us experience dreams! Mankind has many ideas about what dreams are really about, dream interpretations, even in scriptures Daniel interpreted a dream of Nebuchadnezzar.
Nebuchadnezzar’s Threat
One night, Nebuchadnezzar awoke frightened by a dream. The king called for his magi to interpret the nightmare. This was standard procedure in a culture that placed a high importance on dreams and their meaning. However, he added an unprecedented requirement: “Tell me what my dream was and interpret it” (Daniel 2:5). So, not only did the royal wise men have to provide the interpretation of the dream, they had to recount the dream itself. The penalty for failure was death: every magician, enchanter, sorcerer and astrologer in the kingdom would be executed. The worried magi replied, “What the king asks is too difficult. No one can reveal it to the king except the gods, and they do not live among men” (Daniel 2:11). When Daniel heard of this, he was determined to prove God’s power to the king (Daniel 2:18).
Daniel’s Response: The Dream
Daniel asked the king for some time to discover the dream, and then he proceeded to pray all night with three of his fellow exiles. God revealed the dream to him, and Daniel and his friends praised God (Daniel 2:19-23). The next morning, he went to the king and told him about the dream.
The dream featured a huge, glorious statue of a man. Its head was “made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay” (Daniel 2:32-33). Then a rock cut “not by human hands” (Daniel 2:34) hit the foot of the statue, and the whole image “became like chaff on a threshing floor,” while the rock “became a huge mountain and filled the whole earth” (Daniel 2:35). This vision, by the way, gives us our modern idiom “feet of clay,” meaning “a hidden fault or weakness.”
Daniel’s Response: The Interpretation
Daniel’s interpretation, given to him by God, explains that the statue represents a series of kingdoms, each less glorious than the one before, as indicated by the decreasing value of the metals. Daniel identifies Nebuchadnezzar as the head of gold, stating that God had given Nebuchadnezzar much power (Daniel 2:37-38). The next kingdom to arise will be inferior to Babylon, as will the next. “Finally, there will come a fourth kingdom, strong as iron. . . . It will crush and break all the others” (Daniel 2:40).
Finally, the feet of mixed clay and iron “will be a divided kingdom” (Daniel 2:41). During the time of this final world empire, the “rock” will smash them all to bits, a prediction that “God . . . will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed” (Daniel 2:44). All previous earthly kingdoms will be brought to an end.
King Nebuchadnezzar reigned from 605 to 562 B.C., greatly expanding the Babylonian Empire, conquering Jerusalem and deporting the Jews in the process. Daniel was one of those deported from Israel and granted an education in the king’s palace. When God granted Daniel the wisdom to interpret the king’s dream, it launched Daniel’s long career as a political leader, trusted advisor, and well-known prophet.
We know King Nebuchadnezzar was a Pagan King thus his dream came directly from the netherworld, the demonic hierarchies include spirit guides and they are directly linked to the fallen principalities and powers of darkness. When we consider the very nature of the dream, we realize it was a warning of fallen kingdoms (destruction) and of an odd creature each part representing a specific thing. Daniel be a true faithful to the true God was seamless in his understanding. What we also notice that the dream lacked guidance and resolve as so much he looked to men to interpreted it. The demonic hierarchy usually is unable to relate with men and woman in a clear and consist dream. Usually Chaos and ungodly imagery is deeply embedded into the metaphoric symbolism of the dreams. This is the absolute clue to not accept the dream, do not internalize it as if its something you should follow or give the power of belief too but rather “rebuke” the dream in Jesus name. Theses dreams and imageries are actually designed to be curses from the Netherworld.
In contrast lets look at the dream of St Joseph, the earthly Father of Christ. There is a certain clarity from dreams, those divinely ordered.
We see that St. Joseph was given instruction by the Lord in dreams, as follows:
But after he had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 1:20 - NIV)
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.” (Matthew 2:13)
After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt. (Matthew 2:19)
In St Joseph’s dream clear communication with words and clear direction was given, no need to interpret anything!
Both Divine Messages and Demonic Messages come through dreams, we are called to discern them fully and you do that by the clarity in which the dream is delivered. The demonic realm is full of Chaos and the conscious minds of the beings therein are also chaos. Many times, they use this chaos to steal energy from humanity (which by the way they hate us with a passion) that why you will wake up feeling exhausted. You must rebuke them in your dreams of call upon the peace of Christ by saying Christs words “My peace I give you, my peace I leave with you.” This crushes their agenda (distributing curses or extracting our energy). Don’t even worry abut interpreting it … chaos is like scrambled eggs! Don’t even consider it as advice or something that is in your curious imagination, it’s not!
Divine messages are full of life energy and clear and consist to human communications, heavenly messengers are extremely aware of how to communicate with mankind and have a great understanding of what we’re are going through. It’s very clear and fresh.
Yes, dreams are communications with the spirit world. This is why we pray before we sleep to be protected and when you are fully aligned in your spirit with God, you may have no dreams at all. That’s right, men and woman normally would not dream at all but rather be at perfect rest when they sleep.
I hope this brings light into your souls and empowers you to overcome subline curses issued from darkness to curses our lives.
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