I had an interesting dream last night. Before bed, I had prayed and asked God to please speak to me in my dreams if there was anything He wanted to tell me.
The details are a little fuzzy. But I remember that I was in a large store. It was similar to Walmart, but bigger. Maybe more like a department store at a mall. I was just walking around with my best friend and her family. Her 15 year old daughter kept leaving to go give things to a man right outside the front door. She kept saying she didn't feel like doing it, but she was trying to do the right thing and be nice. (Kind of like she was helping someone in need, but I can't remember exactly what she was taking to him)
Then, I was towards the entrance to the store. My friends were somewhere else in the store and I was alone. There was one of those small rides for kids similar to the ones that are at a lot of malls. I think it had 4 seats and it went around in circles. It was blue and pink. And the name of the ride was The Rapture. (I just want to add that I am not even sure what my beliefs are on the rapture as far as pre-trib or post-trib, etc. I know thats a sensitive subject and I am praying for God to help me understand more.) But the ride was called The Rapture and it was plugged into an outlet in this huge store. But the store got all of its "power" from this ride. I'm guessing the store somehow got its electricity from this ride, but I kept thinking about the word "power". But this store was huge and the ride was very small because it looked like a kids ride so it was weird that the store was powered by this small ride. So I got on the ride and it started. I think my 2 young children were suddenly there and on the ride too, but I can't clearly remember. They weren't walking around the store with me in the beginning. But as soon as the ride started, the store went completely dark. Because the ride was now using the power so now the store didn't have any power.
And the last thing I remember is riding on the ride. It was lit up and running in a completely pitch black and silent store.
I'm not sure what this dream means. I am terrible with dream interpretation. But I felt led to post it here. 😊
Four seats seems a very measured, determined, limited amount.
Colors might show individualized, reserved seating... expectations as sons and daughters -- not by achievement and knowledge, but childlike love for our Father. Only these who come as faithful children will (choose to) ride.
Walmart is pragmatic and comprehensive -- people go there for much of what they need, low-frills. A mall is more-frills, less practical, enticing us to want more than we need; or offering favorite stores people can rely on. Defining tastes, like choosing churches that "fit" well. (Spencers vs Ann Taylor).
Shift in dream stores might have shown where you started, then panned out to other resource options.
Once things got dark, you stayed faithfully on the ride. The source of power was the core, not dependent on all the stores. The darkness is probably how it feels in countries where churches are banned or state-run. Believers hold onto their faith, with very little social support.
Ytb rolled into this link, on the R. It may stir up pre/post, but has a good collection of verses surrounding the promised event, that might bring out more to the dream.
A term caught my attention, something like events whirring up to the R.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhfCFT5rG18
This is probably unrelated, but the power-out reminded me of Benedict XVI's passing, funeral tomorrow. How people find momentum in leadership.
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/on-the-passing-of-pope-benedict-xvi-and-his-service-to-truth
I wonder if the mall represents the Church, with individual stores like denominations or sects.
The rapture, or God's intent for us, being the real core, when we assume what we need to get will come from the stores.
When it goes dark, the stores/churches shut down, because believers have left. Even if there were unbelievers active in the churches, they can't uphold the institutions with so few numbers.
I've heard some channel hosts say they stored videos in a way others could access them if anything happened... people kept extra Bibles in their homes. Maybe there is something you can do to provide continuity of faith.
I also wonder if there's a fake aspect, complete opposite interpretation... where religion or influencers in society are using Christian anxieties to fuel their industries.
Throughout history, governments have partnered with religious leaders, to accomplish greedy ends. Children as unsuspecting innocents.
I've had a comical rapture image flash through my brain for years. Gravity tethering us all to earth, and the a pole shift or change in electromagnetism releases slews of people, radiating outward in all directions. Lol. Meet Him in the clouds, around the earth.
Everyone going up from their standpoint, looking like a pincushion. Anyhoo.