DREAM: THE PURPOSE OF PROPHECY

Hello all! 

This morning (17/8/13) I received a dream from the Lord that I feel is quite important to share. I don't remember everything precisely, but my best recollection is as follows: In the dream I was addressing a very large group of school students. Although I was sharing with them, it was also a time where they could raise their hands and ask questions, so it also became a question and answer time. I began to talk about prophecy, and said that God gave prophecy so that we would be encouraged to walk with Him uprightly in the present time (so that we would make a choice to follow Him uprightly in the present). I believe that I was also speaking about how at times in our walks with God it becomes very hard to follow God and to continue to love Him because of what we experience. I gave a simple illustration to this effect, saying that, 'it's like if we had a friend that began to starve us (imagining he had the power to do so)' it would be very hard to continue to love that friend.' Time to share then began to run out, but before the bell went, one more question was allowed. When I chose a student, instead of asking a question, that student gave a Bible verse. The student said, 'Hebrews 2v2-57.' I tried to look for it quickly, knowing that time was going to run out soon. I looked up the scripture, but said that it was too much to read out then and there. I then thought that the scripture he gave might have just been for me, but when I asked as much, two people that were with me laughed, like it was ridiculous of me to think such a thing. But I didn't think it was so ridiculous because it could've been.

The Lord is speaking about a few very specific things here. Firstly, He is encouraging His people to continue to love Him, despite what they see as Him not giving them what they want, and so 'starving them' (in a particular sense). Sometimes when we don't get what we want, we see that as God depriving us of what we need, and so starving us of the hunger (desire) inside of us. However we must remember that God never starves us of what we need, but only of what we want. He desires us to continue to love Him as our friend, despite what He is allowing us to experience in the way of great hunger of our desires. This is often extremely hard to do, but nevertheless this is what the Lord wants us to do. 

Secondly, the Lord is wanting us to pay careful attention to what He is saying regarding, not only what I've mentioned about, but also prophecy. He is wanting us to listen to the prophecy He gives because His intention is that in hearing what is to come, we'll be encouraged to walk uprightly with Him in the present. That is the main point of prophecy. In hearing what is to come, we are greatly motivated to walk with God in the present so that we'll remain spiritually safe and secure. 

One of the most important points of the dream was the following verse that was given to me by a student: 

Heb 2v2: 'For if the message spoken by angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, how shall we escape if we ignore such a great salvation?'

Many at the moment do not believe in the gospel, and are ignoring the message of it. These people are in great danger! In fact, those that ignore the gospel of the good news of Jesus Christ, even after it has been explained to them and revealed to them, are still in their sins and the Word says are condemned already if they refuse to believe it:

John 3v18: Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God's one and only Son.

Those of you out there that are ignoring God's way of salvation need to accept it and repent while you still can. God loves you so much that He sent His Son to die for you, so that you could receive the forgiveness of your sins and enter a relationship with Jesus. If, after you have heard about Jesus and salvation many times, you still ignore it and do not repent, then you are condemned by the Lord, and are in danger of great punishment. A time of great worldwide trouble is on its way, along with great judgments from God, and if you reject God, you are in danger of experiencing those awful things. Not only does judgment await you now in this life, but also judgment in the way of hell in the life to come. Don't ignore the great salvation that is offered to you! God is a gracious, merciful and patient God, and chances are you are experiencing all of those good things now, but the experience of those things will end one day if you don't accept the gospel and accept Him. Read Isaiah 57, because God shows quite clearly that He loves those that accept Him, but those that are wicked and love their wickedness and their idols were be destroyed by God. When you cry out to God for help, the Lord will not hear you, but will say to you, "When you cry out for help, let your collection of idols save you! The wind will carry them off, a mere breath will blow them away." But if you received God, and accept His salvation, He will look after you.