THE DREAM: I lived in a house with three children. This house had a fireplace with a huge opening inside that went straight down to the furnace. This house also had a huge rectangular-shaped register on the floor with only a thin piece of screen laid on top of it. It was completely open with a very deep dropdown. Most likely if anyone fell down there it was certain death.
One day one of the children disappeared. I discovered that she had gone into the fireplace and had fallen down the hole into the furnace. So, I called 911, and they came and rescued her out of the furnace. While they were still at the house, I showed them the fireplace with the huge hole and dropdown to the furnace, as well as I showed them the large open air register on the floor with the thin screen laid on top and the deep drop dropdown.
After the 911 responders left, I discovered that another child was missing and had also fallen down into the furnace, only it was too late for this child and the child was dead.
Then, all of the neighbor children, who were all on some kind of riding toys, showed up at my children’s bedroom, which looked like an individual unit standing by itself in the backyard. The bedroom had an entry door on the left (west) side and an entry door on the right (east) side.
I was trying to block these children from advancing into my children’s bedroom at the east door, but they were insistent, so I closed the door on the east side. One or some of them may have slipped inside the bedroom via the door on the west side while I was busy blocking the children from entering on the east side, though. So, I was headed over to the door on the west side to close that one, too, I believe. END
Speak, Lord, for your servant is listening. I read Luke 14:25-35:
The Cost of Being a DiscipleMy Understanding: I read these news articles: Christmas Miracle Nearing for 9/11 Health Bill - http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/Christmas-Miracle-Nearing-For-911-Health-Bill-112156554.html; 9/11 responders' $4.2B aid package called miracle - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_HEALTH_ATTACKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-12-23-06-31-55; Gays ousted from military now hoping to return - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GAYS_IN_MILITARY_REENLISTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-12-23-06-32-33; Obama signing 'don't ask, don't tell' repeal - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GAYS_IN_MILITARY?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-12-22-03-38-33; US poised to approve nuclear arms pact with Russia - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_US_RUSSIA_NUCLEAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-12-22-03-02-24; Senate ratifies nuke pact, delivering win to Obama - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_US_RUSSIA_NUCLEAR?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-12-22-16-15-17; Deal reached on aid package for 9/11 responders - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONGRESS_HEALTH_ATTACKS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-12-22-16-16-34; and Obama toasts 'season of progress' after big wins - http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-12-22-20-06-16.
25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple. 27 And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? 29 For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, 30 saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’
31 “Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Will he not first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand? 32 If he is not able, he will send a delegation while the other is still a long way off and will ask for terms of peace. 33 In the same way, any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple.
34 “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? 35 It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile; it is thrown out.
“He who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Sorry about the number of news articles, but they represent the progression of the process that these bills went through throughout the day yesterday. I have taken extensive notes on all the news articles and have identified them with the symbolisms in the dream, but I just have not sat down with the Lord yet to let him put it all together for me, as best as I understand it. I will mention one extremely significant symbolism, though, that I believe the Lord has shown me here and that is in the article where the US-Russia New START Treaty was ratified by Congress, it stated that the treaty “reins in the nuclear weapons that could plunge the world into doomsday…” Then, it said, “The question is whether we move the world a little out of the dark shadow of nuclear nightmare.” Immediately here I made a connection between these two statements with the fireplace with the huge hole that went straight down to the furnace, that one person (or group of people) was rescued by the 9/11 responders, but after they “left,” the next person (child/group) died. A similar story was in a dream I had today called, “He Was Dead.”
Thursday, December 23, 2010, 10:00 p.m. – I am going to begin by looking at what I believe to be the key words and/or phrases in this dream and how I see them relating potentially to these news articles and then see where the Lord takes this.
A house – Congress; Washington D.C.
Three children –
• 3 bills under consideration in Congress that day or waiting for Obama’s signature – 1) Repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell;” 2) New START Treaty, and 3) 9/11 health bill
• Three expected victories, one of which was the approval of the tax compromise
Fireplace with hole leading to furnace –
• Ground Zero in NYC
• Nuclear weapons that could plunge the world into doomsday
• The dark shadow of nuclear nightmare
• The Christmas miracle (Santa comes down a chimney into a fireplace) has arrived
Rectangular-shaped open air register on the floor with deep dropdown –
• Homosexuals serving openly in military (register for military service)
• A large auditorium at the Interior Department – many gay rights activists present there for signing ceremony of repeal of “Don’t ask, don’t tell”
• A hefty yearlong record (register) of legislation
• A long, rough year in Washington for Obama
Thin piece of screen on top of register but not attached –
• Guidelines that must be finalized that cover a host of practical questions before actual lifting of ban against gays serving openly in military
• The ban on gays serving openly in the military
• The New START Treaty “capped” a hefty yearlong record (register) of legislation
A fall down this register would mean certain death –
One child disappeared, went down hole in fireplace to furnace –
I called 911 who rescued the child from the furnace
• 9/11 health bill used to help rescue the New START Treaty?
• A big comeback for Obama’s arm controls efforts – treaty appeared all but dead just weeks ago
• 911 responders are those who were there for America on 9/11/01 in its hour of greatest need
I showed the 911 responders the fireplace opening to the furnace and the open air register
After 911 responders left, another child was missing
The child had fallen through the hole in the fireplace down to the furnace but died –
• Obama had to ensure the ban’s end (death) is carefully prepared for
Children’s bedroom with west and east entrances –
• The treaty exposed divisions within the Republican Party that could stretch into the 2012 presidential and congressional elections
• A timetable with the present on the left and 2012 on the right
Neighbor children on riding toys at children’s bedroom trying to get inside -
• The heroes who rushed to the towers on 9/11
• Courts waiting in the wings in relation to repeal of Don’t ask, don’t tell
I was trying to block the children from getting inside
• 9/11 health bill was blocked in the Senate
• “Don’t ask, don’t tell” was a roadblock to full acceptance of gays in military
The children were persistent
• Pressure from liberals who complained Obama was not acting swiftly enough on signing bill to repeal “Don’t ask, don’t tell”
• The signing ceremony was a breakthrough moment for the nation’s gay community
• Obama is persistent
I closed the door on the east side –
• Closed the door to 2012 elections?
Was heading to west side to close that door, too –
• On my way to close the door to the present Congress?
Conclusion: This dream is troubling for me, yet I know it is very significant. The bottom-line I see here without understanding all the symbols is that this year of legislation in Congress has been covered with some kind of thin screen (concealment), that what we read in the news is mostly lies, that the New START Treaty is not about protecting Americans, in fact it is just the opposite, that this is about nuclear weapons being used against us, and it is about doomsday, and it is about betrayal and the shutting down of America and Congress so that the New World Order can rule the world. I don’t know when this is going to happen or how, but the Bible tells us it is going to take place and the Lord keeps showing me over and over again that this time is soon.
It appears to me that the child that was rescued was this New START Treaty and that the child that died was this ban on gays serving openly in the military, yet I also see that the child that died is America because God will judge us for the decisions our government has made, especially for this past year. We are becoming more and more like Sodom and Gomorrah every day, so with this killing of this ban on gays serving openly in the military I felt also came judgment, i.e. doomsday. Yet, even this open air register represented this year of legislation in Washington and anyone who fell into the register (record) was to face certain death, i.e. God is going to judge our nation for turning its back on Almighty God.
Jesus is calling out to his children and is telling them the cost of being his disciples. We must love God/Jesus with such love and passion in our hearts to serve him and to obey him that our feelings toward our family members will be like hatred in comparison. We have to be willing to leave our parents, adult children, brothers, sisters, etc. in order to follow Jesus. It is required that we take up our cross daily (die to sin), that we “hate” our own lives, i.e. that we do not hold on to our own selfish desires, and we must give up, i.e. lay all our desires, our will, our possessions, our relationships on the altar before God, allowing him to decide what he wants in our lives, etc. if we want to be his disciples.
Oh, to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus, Thy perfect likeness to wear…
Stamp Thine own image deep on my heart.
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