Understanding Dreams

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Hi P____,

You ask about the meaning of a dream in which you had a wreck in a car that was being driven by another person who died in the wreck, leaving you unscathed. Then as you were climbing away from the wreckage the rescue team that had been sent to save you was perceived as your executioner, so instead of showing that you were now alive, you played dead to avoid dying.

You have said:

Well, before I tell you what the scriptures reveal in the symbols of your dream, let me remind you that all of mankind will “live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God”. If you have been following our weekly Sunday morning at 11 A. M. Eastern Standard Time series on the book of Revelation, then you know that “All things, things present and things to come, are ours” and we all will “keep the things which are written” in this revelation of Jesus Christ”.

Mat 4:4  But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
1Co 3:21  Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;
1Co 3:22  Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

Rev 1:3  Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

These three verses being true, the Truth of this verse becomes obvious:

Ecc 9:2  All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as [ is] the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

There are a million variations of that “one event” but that ‘one event’ requires that we all face the fact that we are all first the first natural beastly ‘Adam’ before we can become the last spiritual Adam, by the agency of the predestined death of that first Adam. Indeed “all things are ours, the world, life, death, things present, and things to come, are all ours” and are all a part of that “one event which comes to the righteous and to the wicked”.
So what I am about to show you is addressed to us all and not just to you. The fact that God has given you this dream is a wonderful sign of His work in your life, admonishing you that we are all required to “die daily” and be “crucified with Christ” as He admonishes all who are given eyes that see and ears that hear the things of the spirit.

1Co 2:13  Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14  But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know  them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Joh 12:24  Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.
1Co 15:31  I protest by your rejoicing which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.
Gal 2:20  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

To the natural man it is foolishness to seek to die. Whereas in scriptural terms, we are all already dead unless we have Christ and we know God and His Son Jesus Christ.

1Jn 5:12  He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
Mat 10:39  He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

Being natural men by birth, we all fail to see things in that light, and we all strive in vain to maintain these dying natural bodies. No one yet has succeeding in doing so, and it is a fairly safe bet that we will all “return to the dust that we are”.

Gen 3:19  In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.

The death we seek is death to the things of this world and death to our fear of death and our fear of being rejected by all of our friends and families in this world. So we seek to die, “nevertheless we live, and the life we now live is by the faith of the Son of God…”
Your dream reveals that you, along with all mankind, still fear death.

Heb 2:14  Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
Heb 2:15  And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

In your dream you fear death to the point of faking being dead, rather than demonstrating that you have been saved from death. We all do this because we all deny our Lord at our own preordained time. This is not just true of the apostle Peter, it is common to us all:

Ecc 9:2  All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

Now let’s see where the symbols of your dream are found in scripture. Let’s see if there is a place in scripture where anyone is saved from a terrible wreck, told to stand and demonstrate that their faith is in God, and instead they seek to save their own lives in their own way. Is there any such story? As a matter of fact there is just such a story, and as I have said before, this story is a story that is common to all mankind. The car’s driver is driving the car in a way that guarantees the destruction of all we have worked for, and it is all ‘out of our hands’, just as Israel’s destruction by the armies of the King of Babylon was ‘out of Israel’s hands’ in Jeremiah’s day. God had told Israel that they would not be permitted to return to Egypt, but that they would be the servants of the Assyrians when He brought them up out of Egypt. When God speaks, He brings it to pass.

Hos 11:5  He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian [ Babylon] shall be his king, because they refused to return [ to God].
Hos 11:6  And the sword shall abide on his cities, and shall consume his branches, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

When we do what we want to do without seeking God’s counsel, or worse yet we are told what is God’s counsel and we still do what we want to do, we have just denied our Lord in an attempt to save our own lives, and we will still have to endure death. Here is that whole story. God has already delivered Israel into the hands of the Assyrians, the Assyrians have been conquered and absorbed by the Babylonians, who are also Assyrians, and Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, has carried Judah and Judah’s king and all of Judah’s prominent men and women and children, away as captives into the land of Babylon. This is the wreck by the unnamed driver of your dream. But miraculously, a remnant of God’s people are unscathed by the catastrophe and are placed as rulers in the land. Another wreck takes place because another driver drives off the cliff and kills the ruler who was installed in power by King Nebuchadnezzar. The people who are saved from this ‘wreck’ come to Jeremiah.

Jer 40:1  The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.
Jer 40:2  And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, The LORD thy God hath pronounced this evil upon this place.
Jer 40:3  Now the LORD hath brought [ it], and done according as he hath said: because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed his voice, therefore this thing is come upon you.
Jer 40:4  And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which [ were] upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, come; and I will look well unto thee: but if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, forbear: behold, all the land [ is] before thee: whither it seemeth good and convenient for thee to go, thither go.
Jer 40:5  Now while he was not yet gone back, [ he said], Go back also to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon hath made governor over the cities of Judah, and dwell with him among the people: or go wheresoever it seemeth convenient unto thee to go. So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go.
Jer 40:6  Then went Jeremiah unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam to Mizpah; and dwelt with him among the people that were left in the land.
Jer 40:7  Now when all the captains of the forces which [ were] in the fields, [ even] they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed unto him men, and women, and children, and of the poor of the land, of them that were not carried away captive to Babylon;
Jer 40:8  Then they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their men.
Jer 40:9  And Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan sware unto them and to their men, saying, Fear not to serve the Chaldeans: dwell in the land, and serve the king of Babylon, and it shall be well with you.
Jer 40:10  As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put [ them] in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.
Jer 40:11  Likewise when all the Jews that [ were] in Moab, and among the Ammonites, and in Edom, and that [ were] in all the countries, heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant of Judah, and that he had set over them Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of Shaphan;
Jer 40:12  Even all the Jews returned out of all places whither they were driven, and came to the land of Judah, to Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, and gathered wine and summer fruits very much.
Jer 40:13  Moreover Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that [ were] in the fields, came to Gedaliah to Mizpah,
Jer 40:14  And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.
 Jer 40:15  Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?
Jer 40:16  But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

You and I are Gedaliah and the remnant who are gathered to him by the Lord. We are warned that there are “grievous wolves” among us, and we blow it off as if it were a lie, and in so doing we have turned control of the car over to those grievous wolves who will surely shipwreck our boat or drive us off the cliff. We are then miraculously delivered again, just to repeat the same failed policy of attempting to save ourselves instead of obeying God, being willing to die in order to obey Him, and trusting Him to protect us from those we fear. The consequence is always the same and we discover that our old man simply must die, and we must learn to trust in our Lord and His Words.
This story is so important that it occupies five chapters of the book of Jeremiah. Chapter 43 tells how the people who asked Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord for them, and who vowed to obey the Lord’s words, did just the opposite, and called Jeremiah a false prophet for remaining faithful to the word of the Lord. Here is how it all played out and this is what becomes of our old man when we return to Egypt thinking we will somehow save our lives by returning to our old ways, and by seeking to avoid death and rejection by the world.

Jer 44:1  The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
Jer 44:2  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, and upon all the cities of Judah; and, behold, this day they [ are] a desolation, and no man dwelleth therein,
Jer 44:3  Because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger, in that they went to burn incense, [ and] to serve other gods, whom they knew not, [ neither] they, ye, nor your fathers.
Jer 44:4  Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending [ them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
Jer 44:5  But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.
Jer 44:6  Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted [ and] desolate, as at this day.
Jer 44:7  Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye [ this] great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
Jer 44:8  In that ye provoke me unto wrath with the works of your hands, burning incense unto other gods in the land of Egypt, whither ye be gone to dwell, that ye might cut yourselves off, and that ye might be a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Jer 44:9  Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Jer 44:10  They are not humbled [ even] unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.
Jer 44:11  Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, and to cut off all Judah.
Jer 44:12  And I will take the remnant of Judah, that have set their faces to go into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, and they shall all be consumed, [ and] fall in the land of Egypt; they shall [ even] be consumed by the sword [ and] by the famine: they shall die, from the least even unto the greatest, by the sword and by the famine: and they shall be an execration, [ and] an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach.
Jer 44:13  For I will punish them that dwell in the land of Egypt, as I have punished Jerusalem, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence:
Jer 44:14  So that none of the remnant of Judah, which are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall escape or remain, that they should return into the land of Judah, to the which they have a desire to return to dwell there: for none shall return but such as shall escape.
Jer 44:15  Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,
Jer 44:16  As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
Jer 44:17  But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for [ then] had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
Jer 44:18  But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all [ things], and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Jer 44:19  And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
Jer 44:20  Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to the women, and to all the people which had given him [ that] answer, saying,
Jer 44:21  The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it [ not] into his mind?
Jer 44:22  So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of your doings, [ and] because of the abominations which ye have committed; therefore is your land a desolation, and an astonishment, and a curse, without an inhabitant, as at this day.
Jer 44:23  Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
Jer 44:24  Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word of the LORD, all Judah that [ are] in the land of Egypt:
Jer 44:25  Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
Jer 44:26  Therefore hear ye the word of the LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
Jer 44:27  Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
Jer 44:28  Yet a small number that escape the sword shall return out of the land of Egypt into the land of Judah, and all the remnant of Judah, that are gone into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, shall know whose words shall stand, mine, or theirs.
Jer 44:29  And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the LORD, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:
Jer 44:30  Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give Pharaohhophra king of Egypt into the hand of his enemies, and into the hand of them that seek his life; as I gave Zedekiah king of Judah into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, his enemy, and that sought his life.

When we do what we want to do, it is always an attempt to save ourselves by ignoring God’s plain and simple commandments and attempting to avoid “dying daily” to the things of this world. It has never yet worked and it never will, because Christ, and He alone, is our salvation, and that salvation comes only “through death”.
I hope this has, as you put it, “shed some light” on the meaning of your dream. That is the meaning of the symbolism in your dream, of not wanting to die, and the attempt to save ourselves. Jer 40-44 chronicles the outcome of that part of our walk. All our attempts to save ourselves simply fulfill what is already written in God’s book concerning our inevitable death to this flesh.
We will all “live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God” (Mat 4:4), because “these things happened to them, and they are written for our admonition (1Co 10:11), all things are ours, things present and things to come (1Co 3:21-22), we will keep the things written in the book (Rev 1:3), because all things do come alike to all men” (Ecc 9:2)..

Your brother in Christ,
Mike

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