Dreaming dreams and the depths of Satan

When God sent Moses to deliver Israel, Moses asked, “How are they going to know that you sent me?” God answered, “I’ll give you two signs.” One was healing and the other was picking up serpents.

“When Jesus Christ comes in His earthly ministry and casts out serpents and devils and heals people, He’s demonstrating Himself to Israel that He’s 'the greater than Moses,' ” explains Jordan.

“Deuteronomy 13 says, [1] If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
[2] And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them.’

“You know what’s going to happen in the tribulation when the Antichrist shows up? The ‘false prophet’ is going to be able to make an inanimate object speak. He’s going to give life to the image of the beast. He’s going to be able to perform supernatural events.

“The issue is not whether it’s supernatural or not. In Matthew 7:22, Jesus said to some people, in that day of judgment, ‘Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?’

“He doesn’t say, ‘No, you didn’t; you’re a faker.’ He just said, ‘I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.’ They were workers of iniquity doing supernatural demonstrations.

“II Thessalonians 2, Paul talks about the coming of the Antichrist with 'lying wonders,' warning, ‘Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
[10] And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.’

“Now, all of that stuff is coming through there to deceive and seduce Israel into believing a lie. Israel was subject to that because John 4 says they wouldn’t believe except they see a sign. They want a confirmation; they’re hard-headed.

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“So here comes a guy who says, ‘I’ve got a word from God and here’s the sign that proves it.’ What are they to do?

“Moses said, ‘If somebody comes along and shows you a sign, gives you a supposed word from God, and that word tells you to disobey the written word God's given you, don’t believe them.’

“Deuteronomy 13:3 says, ‘Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.’

“How would they know if they loved the Lord their God with all their heart and soul? They’d find out by whether they obeyed the written Word of God.

“They were doing that back at the time of Hosea and he says, ‘These guys are fools and they’re mad men. They’re out of their gourd!’

"Hosea 9:7 says, ‘The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.’

“That’s what’s driven them mad. Now what would the hatred be toward? Verse 8 says, ‘The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.’

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“There’s a religious hatred aimed toward God’s people, the nation Israel, God’s truth, the Word of God. It says, ‘They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.’

“The prophets are snares; they’re out there trying to catch you. That’s all that stuff about the seductive program—in Mark 13 He talks about how even the elect would be seduced.

"They’re trying to seduce them out of the truth into the Lie program and it’s seducing spirits teaching doctrines of devils that produces the hatred of God’s Word and God’s plan IN God’s house.

“So you had the temple of Jerusalem, the temple of God, turned into the temple of Satan. Revelation 2 calls places associated with it ‘the synagogues of Satan.’ Baal worship never ceased in Israel; that’s the idea about them being deeply corrupted.

“That’s like in Revelation 2:24 when he talks about the depths of Satan: ‘But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.’ ”

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Daniel 1:17 says, “As for these four children, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.”

“Daniel was a man of knowledge and skill, a man whom learned quickly and whose learning was varied,” explains Noah Hutchings in his book, Daniel the Prophet. “In other words, his interest and knowledge were not just confined to one field. He knew something about everything—sports, politics, theology, and various skills. And, last but not least, we read that God gave him wisdom . . .  

“In addition to a keen and perceptive mind, we read in verse 17 that Daniel had something else going for him. God gave him the ability to understand visions and dreams.

“In the Bible we find 24 people who dreamed dreams of sufficient spiritual or prophetic importance to be recorded in the Bible. These 24 people dreamed 34 separate dreams (22 in the Old Testament; 12 in the New Testament).

“Some of these people were godly people and others were ungodly. It is apparent from Scripture that God did reveal great prophetic truths to these people.

“Jacob dreamed about a ladder that would reach up to heaven; Joseph was a dreamer, and his brothers hated him because God so favored him; the great prophecy about the Gentile empires would rise up in the world was revealed to Nebuchadnezzar in a dream; an angel appeared to Joseph in a dream to reveal that the child Mary would bring into the world would be a great and holy personality; Joseph was also warned in a dream about the plan of Herod to kill all the babies; and Pilate’s wife was warned in a dream that her husband should have nothing to do with the plot to kill Jesus.

“These are just a few of the notable dreams mentioned in the Bible. But just as God speaks to men in dreams, so does the Devil. We read in Ecclesiastes 5:7: ‘For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.’

“We read in Jeremiah 23:27 that the prophets of Israel were misled in dreams to believe that their god was Baal. Zechariah 10:2 also speaks of diviners, spirit mediums, conjuring up false dreams.

"There is indeed a mystical relationship between dreams and the spirit world, and Daniel had the spiritual perception to determine whether a dream was of God or the Devil, and to decipher its meaning.”

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