5thMarch – I had a dream last night, I’m not sure if this one meant anything or not, but I thought I would jot it down in case it makes sense later. It reminded me of Noah’s ark. I don’t remember everything in the dream. I know we got very little notice, it was a quick event. We had very little time to get to the top of a mountain. We were barely at the top when the first wave came. There were three waves. The first wave, or surge, brought water to the foot of the mountain, the next wave brought it higher, and by the third wave, it was literally lapping around our feet. At the top of the mountain we were in something, like a cement foundation with very low walls, or a cement boat. The water was splashing in. Animals that had been down below the mountain when the water came, were washing up with the waves on the top of the mountain, alive still. There were other elements to this dream, but I didn’t sleep with pen and paper next to my bed last night, and I can’t remember it all.
6thMarch – Last night I dreamed we were at a resort of some kind, seemed in the mountains. They were showing us around, and around the side of this resort was a light house. It was up the mountain slope a little way, and it was very broad based – like the base of the light house was sort of cut into the mountain itself. The stairs to get to the top of the light house were cut into the mountain slope, spirally around the mountain. In my dream, I panicked. As I stood there, looking up at it, I recognized it as the place where I had been in my previous dream. What I had seen as a foundation with low walls had been part of this light house – the roof! The top of it was adjacent to the crest of the mountain, because it was built into the mountain – that’s where the animals had been washing up. As I looked at it, my knees went weak and my colour drained. I wanted to run as fast as I could to get away from this place, but the slope we had walked up was smooth and steep, and difficult to get down. End of dream.
As I write about it now, I think of Jesus saying men’s hearts will fail them, and they will be filled with fear and foreboding at the raging of the waves of the sea. This place was inland, and yet my other dream showed it completely consumed by water. I had that other dream a couple of months ago about seeing the water coming down the street, and knowing as I stood there that it was too late, and I could not escape. Are these dreams just my imagination? I pray to God that these dreams are nothing but my own imaginings. Because if they are from God, he seems to be telling me that there is no escape from this. He did not make any appearance in these dreams, to rescue me – he wasn’t there. Does the water represent actual water, or is it symbolic? It feels so real in the dreams. And a few weeks ago I had a dream that I didn’t bother to write down, because I couldn’t remember most of it, but in that dream I was on a small ship / large boat, there was something wrong with it, I think it was sinking, and there was something burning falling out the sky in front of it – a plane?
In most of my dreams from God, I feel his power, and I am never afraid – but in these dreams? He’s not there, and I’m terrified. Is this the enemy messing with me? Or is it God – and what is he saying? Or is it just in my own mind?
Thank you everyone for your prayers on this and for your feedback. My own feelings on these dreams are this. 1. They were disturbing - because God was not there. 2. I thought I was high enough, or I thought I was 'in time', but I wasn't.
I think the manmade lighthouse, as tall as it was, and although it may have seemed like the obvious place to be - was not where God wanted me, because if it was, he would have been there, and one of the things that really stood out in these dreams was the absence of God. I was so busy trying to save myself and everyone else that I ended up on the brink of being consumed by the waves myself. I felt lost and vulnerable - but I couldn't see where else to go, there was nowhere.
Basically, the places that had seemed logically safe in the natural, ended up not being safe at all. This reminds me of a dream I had maybe a year and a half ago - we were driving as fast as we could to our 'safe place', which was in the middle of the African bush - and yet, even there, my husband was "activated" (that was the word used in the dream) - he had been fine, but when we arrived at our safe place, he lost his mind, changed his appearance, started devouring his own arm and began chasing us - we had to run away from him, leave him behind. This was before there was any talk of cannibalism, and before news of any pestilence that we should escape from, and I couldn't understand in that dream why we were running from people who wanted to control our minds.
I am one who tries to spend an hour in the Word every day, and at least an hour in prayer every day. As for most of us, that is not easy when you have a job and a household of unbelievers. I don't know how to get closer to God, but I do feel these dreams are saying - don't rest in the idea that you have a safe place. Jesus must be our safe place. Our only rest must be in him, because when the end times get momentum, they will 'come upon the face of the whole earth'. He brought words to me as I prayed the other day - "you don't fight the evil by running from it or hiding from it, you fight it by confronting it with prayer, by operating in your spiritual gifts and doing what I called you to do". If we are of those who have fear and shrink back, our safest place will not be safe enough. Jesus walks on water, he doesn't run away from it. If we look for safety apart from him - he will not be there (I know he's everywhere, but do you know what I mean? That we have to be in his will, in the place where he tells us to be, not where we think we should be). "Apart from me, you can do nothing" - that verse comes to mind. And "escaping by the skin of your teeth" - that's not where he wants us. I am finding it difficult to grapple with this interpretation, which I feel is true. If he is saying that what I think is enough, is not enough - it's a scary thought.
I am not sure of the interpretation.....though I will pray about it. When you were on top of the mountain in the first dream, did you feel like you were still in danger? How much of the wave came over the wall? Could it be that you were protected there, even though some water got through??
Mountains in dreams always remind me of the Mountain of GOD which is talked about through out the Bible. It is the place where GOD lives. I don't know in your dream, exactly what the mountain represents.
The only thing that came to me was that the 3 waves could represent the 3 waves of this virus upon the earth. The enemy comes in like a FLOOD!!! However, we know that the LORD can chase it away......we need to pray!!!
"When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him." Is. 59:19
"And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth." Rev. 12:15-16
In my opinion, this dream is from God. There are several connections to the story of Noah's Ark, like you said. I think since lighthouses are used to guide boats, it was symbolic of God herding people to safety in these scary times. The water might be symbolic of the deluge that will consume the people who belong to this world. The animals, I am hearing, represent those people, who are more animal like at this point. Please do not be afraid, as there is no faith in fear. The judgement and end times are prophesied, so there is no escape, but God will protect His children.