Dream is a way God uses to communicate with people. When we or others receive a dream that seem more meaningful than a normal one, we could try to understand more whether it is a divine dream by some principles we learn from the Bible, like its intensity and efficacy. Another important principle is conformity.
The content and the message in a divine dream must conform to the messages in the Bible. If the message of the dream is a prophecy, then the prophecy must conform to the event that happens in the future. This is the conformity of dreams from God.
In Deuteronomy chapter 13, we see a law of the Israelites. If a man claim to have a dream of divine nature, but he says to the people that they should worship another God. The man must be killed without mercy. Clearly the dream is not in line with the teachings from the Bible and hence cannot be of God. All dreams or visions that carry messages that contradicts the Bible are not from God, even if they came with miracles.
The Lord lives outside of space and time. He sees the past, present and the future. It is amazing to see the prophecies in the Bible to fulfill. The bible predicted several thousand years ago that the nation Israel will be reestablished. It came true in 1948. If a dream predicted something in the future and if it was from God, then the prophecy should come true because God never makes mistakes.
We know that God is infinite. But we have to know that the principles to judge a revelation are finite. Therefore, we must not limit the way God communicate with us. Of course, we must test each and every claimed prophecy or dream with biblical truth. We must not accept some messages as the word of God casually or according to ourselves. But at the same time, we must stay tender and open to God. We welcome the new work of God. We welcome God to speak to us and encounter us in whatever ways He wills.
I think the most difficult part is how to stay tender and open but at the same time absolutely firmly standing on truth. Jesus says no one who tried the old wine would like new wine. Most of the people hold onto what they were taught in the earlier time and refuse to accept any deeper knowledge. Others run into the danger of too open minded that their brain falls out. Anyway, we must stay humble and true to ourselves and to God. Do not accept any information as divine lightly and also do not judge someone else’s encounters as not from God.
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