Prophetic dream-Mary E. Adamsmeamin@mtaonline.netSubject: Fw: prophetic dream
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 08:52:51 -0800
A DreamMay 22Last night I had a strange dream. I was on a large boat, but not by choice--I was actually assigned to the wheelhouse and put in charge of turning the wheel where the Captain ordered the ship to go. We were on the ocean, and suddenly there appeared a huge red circle in the water. As we got closer, it was identified as an under-inflated life raft, barely afloat. Parts of it were below the surface. There were no people on board. This scene appeared twice in the dream. When I awoke, the vision was still with me as I pondered its meaning.
A life raft serves only one purpose: to provide a means of survival when a ship is sinking. The red color of this particular raft is significant, as red is used to get attention or for warnings (danger and stop signs, red lights, etc).
Folks, our ship is sinking. All around us, we are facing a crisis in our economy and in the consequent instability of our government. Answers come like darts to a target, but none seem to hit the mark.
Like the Titanic, there are the false prophecies that assure us our ship is unsinkable, but the ship is sinking, nevertheless. Were there enough life rafts to save all the passengers and crew of the Titanic? No. They were not prepared because no one believed they would be necessary. But in this dream of mine, there were life rafts--big ones. Large enough to save every person, yet each of them was grossly under inflated. They had not been regularly inspected and kept ready for the time when they would be needed. So, though they were thrown into the water, people who clung to them found that they only weighted them down--there was not enough air to hold them up out of the water and they all drowned.
It is a fact that rubber life rafts lose inflation when they are stored in dark places. Only the bright sunlight gives us any hope that they are fully inflated and ready for rescue. Jesus told his disciples to "walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth".
(John 12:35) That is why the foolish virgins were not ready--they had no oil to light their lamps!
Has God prepared us a way of escape? Yes, indeed. But there are conditions attached to it. The book of Zechariah tells us that the Lord will be a wall of fire about us. When wildfires break out, the firefighters know they must set "backfires". That means they will intentionally set fires to burn an area ahead of the blaze, so that when the fire approaches, it will merely burn itself out, for it has nothing more to consume. Our God is a consuming fire. He will destroy all wickedness, just as He did in Sodom and Gomorrah. As days of distress approach us, we must make sure we have already burned out anything that we have left as fuel for the fire.
Zechariah was told to measure Jerusalem
(2:1-5). This was "new Jerusalem"--the one that will one day come out of heaven. He was to inspect it, and when he did he found that this city did not have walls about it like a fortress and inside there was no temple. God's people are said to be the Temple
(1 Cor 6:19) and it is in Jesus that we live , move, and have our being. The Church is comprised of those who worship God in Spirit and in Truth
(John 4:23). They do not live with one foot in Babylon (confusion, the world system) and one foot in the church. They do not mix the Word with the world, but are a Holy Seed, pure and Royal Priesthood, seated with him
(Eph 2:6) in heavenly places.
A Christian sister, Lucinda Evans, writes about her death experience:"It was over twenty years ago that I went into cardiac and respiratory arrest and was 'caught up' in the Spirit before the Lord. It is as fresh in my heart today as it was then. Truly it was a time set in the heart of the Father for the release of a journey of illumination, refreshing, release and revelation. As I was before Him, he spoke these words to me "I shall be a wall of fire around about you and the glory in your midst" as He released me for my return.
So extraordinary was my time with Him, suffice it to say that words cannot express that which is infinite. It would be a couple of years later before my eyes fell upon the scripture in
Zechariah 2:5. When the written word met the spoken word in my spirit, it released vision and a journey toward manifestation. His church is not a building of bricks and stone, but it is a people clothed in His presence, woven into the fabric of His nature, and a painting of His character. A people personifying His love, His grace and His mercy. A people filled with song!
"In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; We have a strong city; salvation will God appoint for walls and bulwarks."
Isaiah 26:1
Bulwarks: a fortified wall; a safeguard; a rampart; a means of protection or defense. This people are a city which is strong in the power of His might with SALVATION appointed for their walls and protection. SALVATION is their FORTIFIED WALL which cannot be penetrated, even by darkness. Truly she is resplendent in beauty encompassed about by the fire of His presence. Truly He is radiant beyond comprehension and her glory forever!
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Revelation 21:1-3From The Cupbearer Journal (www.cupbearer.com)
The world about us may be in troublous times, but our loving Father has His Word we can lean upon--a shelter in a time of storm, a secure rock on which to stand, and safety if we abide in Him and do not neglect so great a salvation... (Hebrews 2:3)
Mary E. Adams
