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846. My Personal Experience while studying Ezekiel 22, the Holy Spirit and Dreams · Faith by annm2705

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I went to tell you something personally that happened to me
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as I was studying Ezekiel chapter 22.
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The night before, last night or the earliest morning, I had a
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very short scene. It was like a dream.
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I was asleep, but I saw this and and it's relevant to Ezekiel 22.
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So I had this dream that Satan was inside this glass cube.
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I prayed against him in Jesus name.
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I wouldn't look at his face. I didn't want to see his eyes,
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but so I looked away. But this was a really large, it
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was, it was very large and I it was glass all the way around.
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It was a cube and it was all glass and he was inside and he
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was kind of like in a crouched down position where he was, he
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was on his knees and like his butt would be up in one corner
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and his head in the other corner of the cube.
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And and so my reaction to that was just to pray against him in
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Jesus name. And that was the end of the
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dream. So I wrote it down and I didn't
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really know what to make of it. I have a journal that I keep for
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all my dreams. This was actually dream number
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96. So then I am in the morning and
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preparing for the podcast for Ezekiel chapter 22.
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And so for this particular podcast, I'm in tandem reading
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the Exploring Ezekiel book written by Amir Safadi with
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Doctor Rick Yon. And so I went to chapter 22 and
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I was reading it and I'm not going to read the whole chapter
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that he said on this until I get to the point where this impacted
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me. So the first thing that I
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underlined in his, it's on page 114 of his book.
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You can probably get his book on his website, Behold Israel, or
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from Amazon. I think that's where I got it.
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It's called Exploring Ezekiel. It's a really good book.
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Anyway, I'm reading from it now and what I underlined was when
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God is our focus, we have a supernatural temptation
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protector in quotation marks in the Holy Spirit who allows us to
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know when the enemy is trying to bring us down.
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However, when we forget God and turn away from Him, when we
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quench that warning bell of the Holy Spirit, this opens us up to
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the devil's wily ways. That's the very reason the
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Apostle Peter warned be sober, be vigilant because your
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adversary, the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking
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whom he may devour. That's in first Peter chapter 5,
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verse 8. I watched a YouTube.
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This is from the book. I watched a YouTube video
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recently of a young child at a zoo.
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His back was to a large glass window behind which spread a
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large cat exhibit. While he titled and shuffled,
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waiting for his parents to take that his picture, an enormous
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tiger sulked over a rise a number of meters behind him.
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It spotted the boy and crouched. Slowly, it began to creep
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forward, one inaudible step at a time.
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Meanwhile, the child was laughing and dancing for his
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parents, totally oblivious to what was taking place.
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The tiger took a few more steps than it lunged.
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People nearby who were watching the scene cried out, causing the
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little boy to run crying to his parents.
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The disappointed tiger, having once again been reminded by the
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glass that he was not in the wild anymore, moped away.
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Now. I saw that video, so I went to
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try to find it again because I myself saw that same video and I
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found a different one, but it was similar and it was actually
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on a news channel that a news channel had broadcast it.
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So I'm sure if you look at social media, you can find it.
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But this is a great depiction. But it's the next part of Amir's
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book that related to my dream. This is a picture of our
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spiritual life. We are the little boy.
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The tiger is the devil and his minions, and the protective
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glass is the Holy Spirit. Think about that like this is
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this. This is what happens to me when
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I have dreams like this, like the name of Jesus.
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That's why I believe this was a dream from God, because it was
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the name of Jesus. The dream was elevating Jesus
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and his protection. I always know, you know the name
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of Jesus's protection. My very first dream, I knew that
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I needed to speak the name of Jesus in the dream, but I wasn't
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able to. And that was the very first
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dream. The second maybe, no, it wasn't
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the second dream, but a a subsequent dream.
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I was able to speak it and I saw the power in the name of Jesus.
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So many times the name of Jesus has been featured in my dreams.
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And, and so then what has happened in the past with dreams
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I've had is that a scene from a dream will happen in my real
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life that'll cause me to say to myself, wow, I dreamt that.
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And it'll be a real life like I, it will be really impactful.
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And just like today, it was just like another kind of an
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affirmation to me that I happen to be on chapter 22.
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I'm reading this book and Amir is explaining the protective
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glasses of the Holy Spirit. Obviously exploring Ezekiel does
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not feature the tiger and a child in a glass, but Amir's
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book did. And this was everybody could
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say, oh, that's a coincidence. You know, maybe you're reading
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too much into this. And I thought that at the
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beginning I wasn't. If you go back to my website and
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look at some of the things that I wrote about as this was
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happening, I did wonder, are these coincidences?
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I think more more because that's what people suggested to me.
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I did feel like these are more than coincidences, but doubt
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crept into my mind when others would say, well, you've been
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reading the Bible a lot. You know, it's probably you're
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having biblical dreams because you are reading the Bible.
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But the truth was that the first time I read the Bible was two
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years before I ever had a dream. And I was, yes, I was reading
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the Bible. Like I really didn't stop
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reading the Bible and studying it from the time that I read it
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because I was, I was seeking information.
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I was seeking understanding. And God does say that when we
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seek him, we will find him. I had a lot of questions and
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that's why I was reading the Bible was because of my
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questions. And, and The thing is, I, I
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didn't have dreams when I was reading the Bible, but I learned
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I was, I was convicted of the way that I was living as I read
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the Bible. And it did 'cause me after
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reading it to say, wait a minute, I need to look at how
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I'm living. Because if this is true, which I
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do believe, I always have believed that the Bible is true.
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And, and I was like, if this is true, then I can't continue to
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live like I'm living. And I just began reading more
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actually, because of my rebellious ways.
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I was looking for loopholes. I was like, surely it doesn't
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mean that. And so I was trying to find ways
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around it to justify the way I was living.
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And the more deeper I went into it, I was more convicted.
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Like, no, it means what it says. You're not finding the loopholes
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that you were looking for, You're finding truth.
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And that's what was happening to me.
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And so it went on and it, and then I maybe a year later, not
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not too very much long I read in the fall of 2019.
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And then by spring of 2020, I was ready to commit to to God
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that I no longer wanted to live like a hypocrite and that I
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would get baptized as a symbol of that, you know, and that's
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what baptism is. It's putting to death your past
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and rising up a new creation. And that's what Jesus says that
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we need to be born again, born of the Spirit.
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And baptism isn't born of the Spirit.
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The, the type of baptism that I was doing that was in the Bible.
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There are two different baptisms.
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The first one in the Old Testament was the baptism of
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repentance that John the Baptist gave people.
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And this was the purpose of this was for people to repent of
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their sins. Kind of like what I was doing.
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I was convicted by what I heard, what I read in the Bible, and
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then I didn't want to do that anymore.
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That's what repentance is, is turning away from those things,
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agreeing, say I'm not going to live like a hypocrite.
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That's probably a very simple explanation.
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No longer living like a hypocrite.
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You know what it says. You're not just going to do the
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opposite of it, but you're going to be obedient to God and not be
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a hypocrite. And that's what my intention
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was, that I would not be a hypocrite.
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And so up until then, you know, my whole life I had always
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believed because I went to a religious school and I went to
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church and I knew about Godfather, Son, Holy Spirit.
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And so my belief was always there.
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I always had faith but I never had a changed life and that's
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what this was about was to live a changed life.
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It was only through reading the Bible that I realized my life
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needed to change. When I then event.
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Well, baptism was cancelled because it was during the
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pandemic of 2020. So in the next year, I almost
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missed it. But I did get baptized then.
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And there were two pastors that were there when I got baptized.
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And they laid their hands on me and spoke, you know, on my
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shoulders. And I went down underwater and
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came out again. And, you know, there was, I
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didn't feel anything different. You know, I was still the same
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person. And then a friend of mine was
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actually there and she had an extra ticket to a concert.
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And so I went to it. And when I was there, I felt
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very convicted being there because while the lead singer
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actually did mention God, what I saw in the background of the
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imagery was like, evil. It was like chains and not, you
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know, it's kind of like imagery from like Halloween or
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something. And and so it was kind of a
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mixed message. And I really felt convicted
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being there. And I actually started praying
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when I was there saying, God, I'm never going to do this
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again. You know, like this was a
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mistake. This is not where I want to be
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right after getting baptized. And so that night is when I had
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my very first spiritual dream. And it was a dream of of
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darkness coming after me or my family.
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And I was trying to protect and I knew I needed to speak the
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name of Jesus, but I was unable to.
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And I was angry with myself because I was unable to.
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And and that was the end of the dream that I had.
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And then I did contact people who were much further along in
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their faith, actually, my sister and, and she talked about
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rebuking evil, which I had never done before.
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We didn't grow up that way. And it was unfamiliar to me.
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But I thought I, I'm going to do this, you know, just just to
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make it known that this evil is not wanted in my life and that I
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am a child of God. And there is no like there's
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authority when you are a child of God.
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And we have, we have control over what we allow in our life.
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And I was 100% rejecting anything evil and only wanted
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God, only wanted the Holy Spirit.
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And so I did that and I have not had a threatening dream since
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then. Well, you know, nothing that was
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really, I guess nothing that concerned me about like I where
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I didn't feel like I felt like I didn't have any power there.
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I have had other dreams where things have come against me, but
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it was always the power of the name of Jesus that was in my
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dream that I defeated what was coming after me.
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So people may, you know, I don't know how people feel about this.
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I'm sure people will make fun of this or think that, oh, you
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know, I don't believe in people's dreams and everything
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and that's fine because I would be skeptical of anybody who says
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anything about dreams. However, now that I've had 96 of
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them, I'm not skeptical. I've kind of accepted it and and
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even more so, I've actually learned that there the Bible
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talks about this. There were many people in the
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Bible who received dreams. Joseph, the son of Jacob, he
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received dreams and he was he. I mean, it really caused him
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problems with his family where they wanted to kill him, but
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instead they threw him in a pit. And then he was found by
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Ishmaelites and taken to Egypt. And that brings about a whole
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long biblical story. But his dreams enabled him
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because it was not his dreams. They were communication from
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God. And that's the other question
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that people say, well, why would, you know, when I started
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having these dreams, they would say, why do you think God would
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be speaking to you? Like you think you're some
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prophet or something? And I was like, no, I don't.
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But I don't know. I was like, I never had dreams
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like this in my entire life. And all of a sudden these dreams
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start, they start the night of my baptism and then they they
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continue and I start having all these dreams.
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And, and so I didn't know what was going on and I didn't know
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whether I should share it or not.
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And they were more personal to me than they were something that
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was a warning to anybody. But I just had so many dreams
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and again, so many dreams that were about Jesus or about
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spiritual things or spiritual truths.
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I was actually learning things from the Bible that I'd, I'd see
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in a dream first, even a scripture.
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I didn't have scripture memorized.
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But then I would have scripture show up in a dream, multiple
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dreams, the exact same verse. And to be honest, I'm not really
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good about this because I can't tell you where it is in the
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Bible, but I know it's in the Bible and I know the verse and I
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don't know, to tell people like it's this chapter, this verse, I
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just haven't made that a priority.
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But knowing what it says is really important to me.
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Anyway, that happened to me. So things were revealed to me in
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the Bible that I saw in my dream and then went to search the
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Bible to say, does the Bible say this?
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And they have confirmed. Then other people were like,
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well, you know, maybe it's something evil that's coming to
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you in your dreams and maybe it isn't God.
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And so I considered that also. But then why would evil elevate
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the name of Jesus? It's, we know from Scripture
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that anyone who doesn't acknowledge Jesus is the
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Antichrist spirit, the spirit that is against Christ.
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So any evil spirit would be against Christ.
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So it can't be something evil because in my dreams it's
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elevating Jesus. It is showing me the power in
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the name of Jesus that has, like I said, has happened so many
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times in my dreams. And so anyway, I, the other what
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I, I guess what I, the whole purpose of this is not really to
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talk about my dreams, which I'm getting it's sidetracked doing
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that, but it's to encourage people to truly repent, truly
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seek God and God will communicate with you.
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He does different things with different people, but people who
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are saved know God and they have their own personal experiences
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with God where other people may not understand it, but the
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person who experiences it knows that this was God.
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So looking back, like I said, in hindsight, these things become
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clear. I did not have a mentor.
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I did not have a Christian person who is leading me along
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the way telling me here's what you need to do or anything.
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This was just happening. So that's, there's a couple
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points to that is #1 God will do it when God is calling a person.
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And that's one of the first things I wrote about on my like
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feeling like I'm being called. There was just like this.
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I felt like I was being drawn to seeking God.
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And it does say that God calls us.
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That's what that's what that experience is.
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And I didn't understand that. I honestly, I did not come from
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a religion that focused on these kinds of biblical truths.
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So anyway, so in hindsight, looking at what happened, I
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always believed. And this is where I I get pretty
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emphatic with people because I see this a lot online where
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people say all you have to do is believe.
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There's a little bit more to believing.
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Our believing should be defined, I guess, because I think it may
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give people a false sense of security about things, about
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just believing. And here's why I say it because
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it, you know, it says, I think it's James who says this.
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You say you believe, but even the demons believe and shudder.
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So that is a really good verse from Scripture that we should
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think about. Like even the demons believe,
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the demons know that Jesus is the Son of God.
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They know that he's the Messiah. They know that he died for us to
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save our sins, that he brings us into eternity.
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It was that's the only way we can be in God's Kingdom.
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So the demons know that they know all those things, all the
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things. But what the demons don't do is
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they don't want to accept Jesus as Lord over their life.
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They want to be Lord over their own lives.
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They reject being LED. They are rebellious to God and
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that's what's different. So believing is one thing, but
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repentance is where I think it truly matters.
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So in my own personal situation, I had always believed, I always
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had faith. But it wasn't until I truly
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repented when I decided that I didn't want to be a hypocrite
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anymore. I respected God's laws and
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wanted to live by them. That is when I had my first
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spiritual dream. And so people would say, like,
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I, I didn't even know about this until I read the Bible.
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I didn't know about fruit of the Spirit or gifts of the Spirit
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and gifts of the Spirit. The one that's relevant to what
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I'm talking about is prophecy. And there I'm just going to read
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where you can find the Holy Spirit gifts because says the
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Holy Spirit will give gifts to us when we believe.
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And in my experience or from my experience, it was when there
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was true repentance, when my heart had changed towards God, I
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wasn't in rebellion anymore. So First Corinthians 12 says
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verses 4 through 11, there are different kinds of gifts, but
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the same Spirit distributes them.
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There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.
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There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and
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in everyone, it is the same God at work.
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Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is
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given for the common good. Now that's important that we
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need to realize that anyone who has any gifts from the Holy
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Spirit, it's not for our own benefit, but it's for the common
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good, the common good of believers, the common good of
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all people. To one there is given through
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the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of
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knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the
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same Spirit, to another gifts of healing, by that one spirit, to
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another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another
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distinguishing between the spirits, to another speaking in
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different kinds of tongues, and still to another the
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interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of 1 and
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the same Spirit, And He distributes them to each one
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just as he determines. So the list from that paragraph
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is there are nine of them. Wisdom, knowledge, faith,
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healing, miraculous powers, prophecy, distinguishing between
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spirits, speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues.
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So then I had to look up what is the meaning of prophecy in the
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Bible because, you know, people would kind of Marta, Alec Lee
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say, you know, oh, you think you're a prophet.
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And I'm like, no, I don't, but I can't.
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I mean, what I'm saying is that I dream something and it's about
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Jesus. It's biblical.
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And then I see a scene later in my real life.
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So is that what prophecy is or what is that?
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So I've looked it up just to get a quick answer on this.
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OK. In the Bible, prophecy is
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defined as a divinely inspired message or revelation from God
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delivered through a chosen individual.
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In parentheses, a prophet to communicate his will, warn of
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judgment, offer encouragement, or reveal future events.
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While often associated with predicting the future, it is
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primary, primarily 4th telling, proclaiming God's truth, moral
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and spiritual guidance to the present generation.
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Divine source prophecy is not derived from human initiative,
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but is brought about by the Holy Spirit.
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That's confirmed in second Peter verse one or chapter one, verse
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21 forth telling present message.
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Much of the prophet's work was addressing their current
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audience, calling for repentance, moral obedience, and
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faithfulness to God. Foretelling future events.
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Prophecy includes God's revelation about future events,
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including the coming of the Messiah, judgment on nations,
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and the ultimate Kingdom of God. Purpose Prophecy is given for
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instruction, correction, comfort, and building up the
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church. 1st Corinthians 14 verse 3 Verification.
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True prophecy must align with God's word and if predictive, it
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must come to pass. So these are, that is, you know,
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an explanation of it. So when I reflect on the dreams
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that I've had, they've done all of those things.
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I've learned from them. They have revealed future
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events, they have offered encouragement.
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And they've also given me warnings of things I have dreamt
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with other people that I, of other people that I know in my
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dreams. And whenever that happens, I
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just tell that person what I dreamt about and if they were in
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it because it must be relevant to them in some manner.
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So I've done that. Most of the dreams that I have
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are are personal to me and and they do all of the things that
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are described here. So the beauty of this is that if
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God did this with me, that means he can do it with you if he
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hasn't already. And, and it is, I mean, it's so
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wonderful to know that God is communicating.
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We can't make this stuff happen. This just happens and it's not
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always the same subject that I dream about.
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It's things that I don't even understand.
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It wasn't like something that I was talking about necessarily
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during that day. Sometimes it is, but often it's
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not. It, it just is completely
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irrelevant to anything that I read or saw or anything.
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And that's another reason why I was like this.
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This isn't just me. This is not just for me, and
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this is God. And I can't just, you know,
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it's, it's not like one of those things that were, you know,
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you're predicting somebody's future or anything.
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That's not it at all. It's something that I have, I
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have no control over it. It just comes sometimes and
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it'll be quiet for a while and I won't have anything.
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But when I do, I, I truly appreciate that because I, when
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I know it's from God and I know that he's like that he cares
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that he communicates and, and it's a beautiful thing.
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And that's part of having a relationship with God.
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And, and I really want people to be encouraged by that.
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And I may I, I, I look at how I talk on these podcasts and so
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often I'm, I'm just saying, you know, stop being a hypocrite, it
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seems like. And, and I do, I guess that's
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something that I, I could relate to Jeremiah when he was saying
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he wanted not to say anything, but then it would just like, it
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was like impossible not to say anything.
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Like it just came out. And that's how I feel often too,
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is like it's uncomfortable to call people to repentance, moral
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obedience, and faithfulness to God.
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It's not a welcomed message to people.
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And so when you speak that way, you're going to offend people.
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But hopefully there there is a softness in a person's heart who
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hears that, that they realize eventually, maybe through some
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other interaction, that God really wants them in his Kingdom
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and that he does put people in other people's pathways to to
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wake people up. I mean, I had people in my
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pathways that kind of woke me up, that pointed me to God.
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And there were events in my life that, you know, that shook me
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up. And, and so those are
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purposeful. And it's we do have a loving
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God, a loving God who, who wants to be present with us, who is
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available to US 24/7 every single day.
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And the other part that I think is so important right now is
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that we have the Holy Spirit because today it with
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technology, AI is very deceptive things.
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It's really gotten good where it is really hard to tell truth
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from fiction. People can make videos that look
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real, but they're not. They're AI generated and and so
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we, we really need the Holy Spirit for discernment and
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especially Christians. I mean this, the gifts of the
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Spirit are available to all Christians and the Holy Spirit
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will give the gifts as he determines.
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We could certainly ask for things, but I mean one thing
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that I think all of us should ask the Holy Spirit, ask Jesus
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through the Holy Spirit God, you know, just ask.
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I would say Father, Son and Holy Spirit to give us distinguishing
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between spirits, discernment to understand what is true, what is
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not true and to be guided by the Holy Spirit.
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We need that so much today because if we succumb to media,
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to podcasters, to all these different types of people who
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are all speaking so loudly, how do we know what truth is?
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How do we know what God wants of us?
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We don't need to listen to all these other people.
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We need the Bible and we need to have a direct relationship with
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God so that we can hear from God and we can know when it's God
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speaking to us or God warning us or God telling us to do
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something. We need to be responsive to God.
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And, and I think this is just so important and I didn't even know
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this would happen as I started seeking God.
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I was unaware of these things. And I also want to share one
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more thing. It has it, it's about dreams
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that actually there's four dreams that really stood out
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when they happened to me and they truly affected my life.
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And, and I do want to share them because again, this is supposed
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to be if, if this is God speaking, it's supposed to be
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for the common good, not for me. So I want to share these with
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you. So seven days after my baptism,
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I had another dream. And in this dream, it was in a
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place that honest when I looked up to try to find, I was trying
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to find pictures that could represent what I actually saw in
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my dream. And what I saw was the Seattle
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Space Needle. So it wasn't in my dream.
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I didn't know that's what it was.
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But on the inside, I was inside this high place that had these
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floor to ceiling windows and overlooked a city in the valley.
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And I, the reason I was there was it was an engagement party
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and I saw family members that I knew and other people that I
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knew. There were lots of people that
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were there and they were all happy.
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And in my dream, I was wondering how did this happen?
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How did I get here? I, this isn't possible.
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And I was, I didn't quite understand what was going on,
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but everybody was happy. And and then I noticed on a
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counter, like a bar that's set up, you know, for a celebration,
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like an open bar, there was a date, a placard that was on the
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counter and it had a date of 12 blank 2026.
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Now I had this dream in 20211 week after I got baptized.
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And initially that was in the beginning of my dreams.
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I didn't really think my dreams were from God.
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I just thought they were just dreams, and so I didn't really
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know. But over time it started.
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I started picking up on different truths from the Bible,
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and that remains to be seen. We'll see what happens with that
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dream. In that dream, I didn't
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necessarily have the name of Jesus in that dream, but it was
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7 days, which is interesting. After my baptism, after I
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committed not to be a hypocrite anymore, seven days later.
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If you know anything about what a Galilean wedding is, it lasts
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like 7 days or there is like a A7, it's a seven day period.
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So there was somewhat of a significance of that.
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And, and I just, I mention it because again, it if it was from
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God, then I need to share that. And if it was just for me or if
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it was just some random dream, then at the end of this year,
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2026, I will know that it was just a random dream that I
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happened to have seven days after my baptism and it had no
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significance. But it has stuck with me for
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these past five years that I can't shake it.
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And I just tell people at the end of 2026, I will, if nothing
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happens, I will let it go. I'm obviously not going to talk
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about it anymore. But it impacted me because it
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was within all of these series of dreams that I had.
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So I don't know necessarily what that means.
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I have assumptions, but we'll just wait and see.
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So then there were three more dreams that were significant.
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These came later. So I was baptized in September
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and then in April the next year, April of 22, I had my very first
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rapture dream. And I am not one.
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I didn't really know much about Rapture.
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I was starting to study end times and I just didn't really
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understand all this. But I wasn't fascinated with it
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at all. And until this dream happened
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and then this dream, this was like a really long detailed
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dream. And I'm not going to get into it
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because it was very personal to me.
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And there were a lot of things from the Book of Revelation that
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were symbolized in my dream. Like I was going up this hill
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and there was this just gushing water coming at me that I could
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like barely make it up this hill in my vehicle, though I was in a
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vehicle and, and I didn't think I'd ever make it, but I made it
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to the top and there was this beautiful cabin that was at the
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top and everybody else there was peaceful.
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They were relaxing and cozy. And when I got there, I was
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frazzled and I just couldn't understand, like, how are you,
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all you people so relaxed and I'm, you know, just this
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frazzled mess. And then I went outside
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exploring the property because it was absolutely beautiful.
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It was enormous and just just comforting, beautiful, a
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wonderful place. And I went out into the back of
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this cabin and there were people that were out there and there
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was, it was starting to get dark outside and it was about even
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the weather was cool enough for a fire.
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And I looked over and there was a fire that was that was
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started. And there was a person that I
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actually used to work with that was sitting by the fire and it
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was someone I haven't seen for a very long time.
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I mean, I, and I don't stay in contact with this person.
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And so when I saw this person, I thought, Oh my gosh, I'm going
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to go over and say hi. It's been so long.
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And I went to go over to say hi to the person.
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But as I was going over to say hi to the person, I, I did
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notice that he was looking at a lake that was in the, in the
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distance. It was a beautiful large lake.
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So he was kind of like up on a hill and there was a fire going
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and there was this beautiful water that was in the
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background. And he was kind of, I guess
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maybe like watching us sunset or something.
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It was, you know, at the, the end of day and, and, and so it
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was just beautiful scenery. Like it was gorgeous.
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And, but as I'm making my way over to that place, everything
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went dark, went pitch black. And I could not even see my hand
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in front of my face. There was no light.
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It was utter darkness. And I panicked.
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And I thought, how am I going to get back to the cabin?
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Like where am I now? How am I going to find my way
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back? And then I, I was, I was walking
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in the darkness and I was trying to find my way back.
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And a friend of mine was there too.
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So there's another part to that story, but I'm going to leave
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that out. But all of a sudden I turned
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around and I looked out to the the lake area and there was
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light that was coming from it and there were these rolling
40:35
clouds that were like hovering over the lake.
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They weren't touching the lake. There was space between the lake
40:42
and the clouds and they were like curling upward.
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It was like a very slow movement above the lake and, and I, it
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just caught my attention because it was so strange, like it was
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down low to the lake, but it wasn't touching the lake, but
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the clouds were rolling and so they they caught my attention.
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There was light coming from them and then I saw which is really
41:08
strange. It was like a gingerbread shaped
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girl, like, you know, with a dress on a gingerbread one that
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was like connected to the cloud and like waving like a flag,
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like the whole body was flowing like a flag does in the wind,
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like it just waves. And and I looked and I thought,
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gosh, that's strange. What the heck is that?
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And then all of a sudden it in my dream, it clicked.
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It's the rapture and, or the gathering of people, you know,
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like people coming to meet Jesus in the clouds.
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And I was like, Oh my gosh. And then I told other people
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that were there. And then we start, we went up
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into the air and we as we were going up, it was like, it was
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like the pictures, if you search anything that NASA has from
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outer space where there are like these bright pink colors and
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there were these shiny things that were like clusters of shiny
42:09
elements. I don't really know what they
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were, but all I can say that it was like, aw, like incredible.
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Like I was just looking around and as I was going up in the
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sky, I started saying, Oh my God.
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And then there was like a conviction, like, don't use the
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God's name like that. And so I was like, I'm sorry,
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you know, I didn't mean that that way.
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I was just like impressed, like in awe, like this is beautiful.
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And I was like, I, I can't believe this is real.
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And it was like the most real feeling as I was there in that
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place. And it was all like God became
42:53
so real. And then as I was there, all of
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a sudden I remembered these books that I had bought that
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literally in my real life had just been delivered that day.
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And they literally in my real life were sitting on my kitchen
43:11
table. And they were books about the
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resurrection and you and I bought them for people.
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And I had not given them out. They were sitting on my, on my
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table. And so in my dream that I'm
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remembering in my dream, Oh my gosh, those books are on the
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table. They haven't been given out.
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I need to give those books out. And then I woke up And so I did,
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I, I was like, after that dream, I was like, Oh my gosh, I need
43:45
to get going on this. I need to give these books out.
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And I did give them to all the people that I had bought them
43:50
for. And it was really, you know, to
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let those people know that Christ died for us.
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And so I gave them to people. And that was my first rapture
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dream. Then I had another very, very
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short one similar to the scene that I described on this day
44:12
today that I had and I was in this place with a couple people
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and we were, there's a lot of details, but that doesn't
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matter. But everything went black, just
44:23
like in my dream. And people panicked and I said,
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don't panic. I remember this from a dream.
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This is when Jesus returns to gather his people.
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And so I was very calm and just told them don't worry.
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And I woke up from that dream. That was all that happened.
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Then I had a third dream that was probably a year later, and
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this dream was similar, but it was different too.
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So I was actually in the place that where I live and I was
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going to make coffee and everything, you know, in a
45:04
dream, sometimes, you know, it's your house, your home, but yet
45:09
everything looks different. But in this dream, everything
45:13
was identical. It wasn't, it wasn't that it
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wasn't a place that looked different from where I lived,
45:23
but I knew, you know, sometimes like, you know, it's your house,
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but it doesn't look like your house.
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Well, this time it was identical and it was light outside and I
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was going to get coffee. And as I was going to get
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coffee, the warnings, the the audible warnings that go out in
45:46
communities to warn people typically of like tornadoes or
45:49
bad weather, an emergency alert system starts sounding.
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And, and I was just like, oh gosh, you know, like it just
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startled me. And at that very moment,
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everything went black again. And all the lights on appliances
46:07
and everything went out. It was pitch black.
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And so I didn't know what to do in my dream.
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And I thought it's useless to try to walk anywhere.
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I will run into things. So I decided to lay down on the
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floor in the kitchen and I did and.
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And this is what was different and weird.
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When I laid down on the floor I did hear something speak to me
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but I couldn't understand it and I said what?
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And, and I also, I was thinking about having my phone so I could
46:46
turn on the light, but I didn't know where my phone was.
46:49
And so I laid there. But then this was very different
46:53
because in my real life, like I really felt this in my dream, I
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felt this pulling from my, my chest, like my shoulders, my
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chest, my upper body part. Like I felt like being pulled
47:05
upward. And then I was seeing myself
47:12
from like 1/3 party third person where I saw myself laying on the
47:19
kitchen floor. And then I saw myself being
47:23
lifted up and I got to about the point of my refrigerator in my
47:28
kitchen up about that high just before the ceiling.
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And I was saying, God, I love you, have mercy on me.
47:38
I knew where I was going and then I woke up.
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And so that dream was, it didn't have all the, I mean, I was
47:48
happy about it. It wasn't anything negative at
47:50
all. But when I woke up, I mean,
47:53
first of all, there was that emergency warning system that
47:56
happened. And then secondly, you know, I
47:59
felt this pulling in my chest. It was all different.
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Like I physically felt being pulled up.
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It was like a magnet. That's the best way to describe
48:06
it. Like it wasn't like a certain
48:07
area of my chest. It was almost like my whole, my
48:10
whole shoulders across my chest were like a magnet.
48:14
That's where the pole came. It was a magnet.
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And that's what it was like. And so afterwards, I wondered,
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was this another rapture dream or did I just see my death?
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And I don't know what it was, but that was my third dream.
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I haven't. And that was in 2023.
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It was in January of 2023. That was the last rapture dream
48:37
that I had. But I've had three of them in
48:39
total, if you want to call it. You know, everybody feels
48:43
differently about the word rapture.
48:44
I don't really like it, but people know that word.
48:47
But it's like the gathering of people to Christ.
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And so with those dreams, like I really do believe that that is
48:58
true simply because I've had so many other dreams like this is
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not a fake thing. It's, it's in the Bible.
49:04
It is true. And was God showing this to me
49:09
so that I, I would know, I mean, just for personal or, you know,
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was he showing it to me? So I would talk about it and
49:16
tell other people about it like it, it is true.
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And so I don't know. And, and again, those are all
49:25
the dreams that I think are any relevant ones to share with with
49:30
people. Just that, you know, God is
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real. I, I truly believe that there
49:35
will be a gathering to Jesus when that happens.
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I'm not really sure that dream that I, that first dream about
49:42
the engagement party is something that we'll see if
49:47
anything happens this year. And, and I just felt like, you
49:52
know, the timing of this is really important to share with
49:56
people and mostly important because you know that you have a
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creator who made you for a relationship with him and has a
50:10
purpose for you and wants to be known by you.
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And with our sin, it separates us from God.
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And if we can get that sin out of our life, we can have a
50:26
closer relationship from God with God and the way we get the
50:31
sin out of our life. It's it's it really truly is all
50:36
about a decision. Like you could make a decision
50:39
right now to say, God, I just want to, I just, I just want to
50:47
be with you. I want to know you.
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I want you to make me or change me, work with me.
50:55
Guide me to the person that you intended me to be when you
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created me. You had an idea of who I would
51:03
be and what I would do and what my purpose would be.
51:06
So please reveal that to me and let Your Holy Spirit guide my
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life. If we truly want that
51:14
relationship with God, it is there.
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It is available and I encourage everyone to do that if you
51:24
haven't already done this. I mean, it's so important and,
51:29
and I think I'm just going to leave it at that.
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But if you found this helpful, please share this with other
51:37
people because that's where my heart is.
51:39
I just want other people to know that God is real and to have
51:46
that relationship because it's changed my life and I want that
51:52
for other people. So I'm going to end.
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I didn't expect to do this right now, but thanks for listening
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and and I hope your day is good.