God still speaks today. It is true that He sometimes reveals through dreams. We understand dreams as one kind of visions that appears during sleep. Researches show that dreams is common to happen during rapid eye movement state of sleep. On average, a person dreams 4 dreams every night. But we normally forget most about them. Most dreams are abstract and confusing. Common reasons for dreams are day time activities or thoughts. Like bible tells us in Ecclesiastes that dreams are from multitude of business. And external stimulus like voices or temperature also causes dreams to happen.
In Deuteronomy, God commanded the Israelites that if any dreamers give a sign and the sign came to pass, but if he by this suggests anyone to leave God and worship other gods, they must stone him to death without mercy. These dreams are obviously from evil spirits. The devil is always trying to seduce people to leave God. Wise men would always be ware and praying, opposing the devil with strong faith and the sword of the Spirit, truth.
In books like Job, Genesis, Kings, Daniel of the Old Testament, there are many occasions when God spoke to man with dreams. Some of the most famous examples include Jacob who dreamed of a ladder to heaven, Joseph who dreamed of the sun, moon and eleven stars bowing to him and King Solomon who asked God for wisdom in his dream. In the New Testament, the father of Jesus, Joseph, himself had four divine dreams with revelations to guide him through the important events.
Like all other things that God does, He gives divine dreams with a purpose. In some special occasions in the Bible, God gave significant dreams that affected the whole generation and the age to come. These kind of big dreams seem to be no more after the writing of the scripture is completed. But God still speaks through dreams today, with more personal purposes. We have heard witnesses in which God gave genuine divine dreams helping someone to become more mature, to be saved and to preach the gospel. A very important biblical truth about dreams which the reader should learn is that no one in the bible has ever asked for a dream. We believe that no one should do that, either.
God is kind and His love endures forever. Some dreams reveal his plan for the move of the Spirit. In the age we live in, God is going to do big things. He would never do anything without revealing to His servants. And one of the ways He would use is dreams. They stop people from sinning and make them turn back to Him and avoid judgment.
It must be clear that any kind of special revelation that are received by anyone today must be override the authority of the canonized Bible. People must not despise prophetic messages but test them with truth. Therefore, rather than chasing after prophetic experiences, believers are reminded to spend time praying and studying the Bible in the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
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Revelation Chapter 22: 18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.