The Dream
I dreamt of a train network going through a fantastical amusement park type area, though at times it went through my childhood church. In one part of the dream, I was helping pilot one of the trains, while in other parts I was simply waiting to board the correct train. According to my piloting and also according to the schedule generally, the trains were constantly moving somewhat repetitively. However, there was a specific end time for which my family awaited to board a shiny golden train. We didn’t know when this time would come for the special train to arrive at our stop, but we knew that whenever it did come it was important for us to promptly board the train before it was too late.
Worried that my Family was Distracted by Past Trains
In part of the dream, I remember piloting one of the trains and the time came for us to leave. Therefore, I was piloting the train to my family’s house, however I worried that they wouldn’t board for whatever reason because of the much previous traffic of trains circuiting causing false alarms and bringing desensitization. Moreover, I felt that my parents hadn’t really understood the train or where it was going, and therefore it was largely mysterious to them. Hence, I desperately called out “All Aboard” repeatedly.
Pride Cycle
I also remember in the dream thinking that the movement of the trains represented the pride cycle, of which this diagram explains:
My Brother who Rejected Christianity
In another part of the dream, I remember boarding the train with other family members – therefore in this part I wasn’t conducting the train. The train was very ornate and shiny, as you might for example see in a carousel, and it had two stories. However, the brother of mine who has rejected Christianity didn’t take his place in the train with us. Instead, he had chosen to spend his time in an evil part of the park, and at times in the dream I thought of him as the villain.
Said brother also reported seeing a red deer with no blemishes sitting perfectly still in his seat, which creeped him out. At another time, this brother reported seeing his train car from a distance occupied by “something else”, which had no markings, and made his car appear plain red, which again creeped him out.
* I don’t know if this symbolizes anything or not, but I also remember at one point in the boarding process seeing many of my relatives taking different cabins, some of which were on the train’s second story (and this brother was not among them), leaving me deciding which cabin I should myself take and who I should accompany. However, in this scene where we heard my brother talking to us, we were all sitting in one single cabin waiting for the train to start, while my brother had partially entered this car to chat with us. This brother wasn’t sitting down, and I thought he wasn’t going to wait inside with us for the train to leave.
Climbing to the front Car
There was also a scene where I had missed the first desired train car in which my family had entered but managed to catch the car immediately behind it. Thus, as the train started moving, I climbed onto the exterior of the train car to transit into the more forward car which contained my family.
However, there was an intermediate stop during which my family saw that there were donuts outside the train and so left the train to eat them (while I stayed inside). This distracted them from the mechanical sounds of our train starting to leave, and so they missed re-entering the train for the final leg of its journey.
Being a Missionary
In one scene, I was still in this weird carnival world merged with my childhood church with trains, but this time my role was as a missionary. Specifically, I was in the church building of my youth and learned of the bureaucratic structure of us missionaries: there was a man who was our true and rightful leader, however, he was absent, so we were left maintaining during his hiatus. There was also a change in leadership of us missionaries coming up, in which my companion and I would leave since we were being replaced with new missionaries, and a rising missionary would take a leadership position in our organization. I knew that this new and rising missionary was really bad: firstly, because he was indolent and disobedient, but also because he was nasty and cruel. I also felt that this missionary’s influence was moving around all over the organization and was present everywhere – as if in the absence of the true leader, he was taking complete control – my only comfort being the knowledge that I would be gone when this process finalized.
I then saw the scene of my missionary companion and I waiting to board the train to leave. However, my companion was not spiritually prepared: he was so drunk from partying that he couldn’t walk, and moreover I was under the impression that he had had sex with a sister missionary. Consequently, when our desired train came and it was time for us to go, this missionary did not appear as though he was going to make it: firstly, because he was hardly even cognizant enough to get up and only did so after my incessant begging him to do so, and this only after he had delayed for too long. And secondly, because when he got up, he stumbled in the wrong direction into an unknown room. Therefore, in the dream I felt that I would need to leave this companion behind in order to make it on the train myself.
In this scene, my missionary companion also showed me these pictures of himself in a wedding that I was under the impression was somehow about to happen (dreams are about symbolism, not about sensical sequences of causality). These pictures were then deleted by the new evil missionary entering leadership just as we were leaving.
Discussion
I think these trains represent waiting for the rapture. Specifically, all the movement of the trains to some degree represents the many different watching periods and warnings over time that the people have received warning of the end, as well as the movements of the church, and the long awaited train represents Christ’s long awaited return.
Worried that my Family was Distracted by Past Trains
Consequently, my relatives being less likely to board because of these past trains is reminiscent to how Christians are very dismissive of warnings that the end will come, in part because they remember how many people said the world would end in 2012 and it never did.
It is my opinion that watching these high watch times come and go has somewhat divided God’s truly elect from others. Namely, for people less elect, when they watch these times pass by, they interpret this as all evidence that the “rapture watchers” are just crazy and so turn to mockery and scoffing (2 Peter 3:3–4). But for the elect, we are somewhat grateful for all these watch days, because each high watch time has incentivized us to increase our spiritual preparedness, and if we hadn’t been always trying to stay and become holy as a consequence of this much waiting, we would probably be much less righteous and spiritually prepared than we are.
Pride Cycle
These train movements also represent the pride cycle – which makes sense in that the pride cycle itself has many different “mini” apocalypses which occur when Judgement comes to the people for their pride. So, on one level, these mini apocalypses are always happening as people continuously are punished for their pridefulness. But the main event will be the great tribulation, which has yet to start, and starts, as represented in the dream, around the time the train we had been waiting for leaves.
My Brother who Rejected Christianity
My brother not wanting to take his place on the train of course represents how people who have rejected Christ will reject His salvation, even if it is right in front of them. And the creepy red deer obviously represents how Satan wants to steal away from us our spots in God’s train going to heaven.
Climbing to the front Car
Regarding the scene where I took the train car behind my family’s car, I think this represents the unfortunate irony of how some people will fail to be spiritually ready when the end comes – despite having been part of churches and in all appearances being righteous for most of their life – whereas others, like hopefully myself, will indeed be spiritually ready when the time comes, despite spending much of their life in sin. The donuts therefore represent the things of the world which distract these Christians from waiting on the Lord.
This reminds me of the parable of the Sower, in Matthew 13:20–22:
20 But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
21 Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while: for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.
22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
All I can say to this is: I am sorry that it is like this, and I pray that my own sins are not too great because I worry that I too won’t enter. All I can do is pitifully beg for the atonement to take hold of me, and rigorously shake me until I can became better than I have been (and I extend this prayer to the person for whom I have been praying). In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Being a Missionary
In this scene, I think my drunken missionary companion represents the many Christians who are spiritually unprepared. The true leader of our missionary organization who was absent but to return represents Jesus Christ. And the evil missionary taking leadership represented how the servants of Satan are presently taking control of organized religion.
Regarding the wedding pictures, on waking I knew that these pictures represented the heavenly wedding feast for which we patiently wait. Thus, for them to be deleted represents my companion losing his preparedness to be the bride.
Similar Dreams
This present dream aligns with many of my past dreams, which also contain the theme of needing to boarding vessels at the right time before it is too late. Apparently, warning people that they need to be spiritually ready is very important! Here is an overview of these dreams:
Airport Dreams
God’s Kingdom on Other Planets and the Fall of Earth
Secret Combinations in Mormon Church
Bible Texts, Jordan Peterson, Microwaves, and More – airport symbolism applied for the gospel coming to the world instead of us leaving the world here.
Nuclear Attack; Flee to Europe – in the essay I thought the airport was literally how we left America, but this could also be interpreted symbolically.
Train Dreams
People Replaced, Microchips in Food, and Other Stuff – less applicable, but only because I didn’t know what the dream meant.
Secret Orgies, Sexual Slavery, The Pit, and the Tribulation
Scenes of the Tribulation, and Degrees of Heaven – in this dream I interpreted the train as literally taking people to refuge, but it also could be interpreted symbolically.
Boarding Ships
3DOD and Betrayal from Republicans
Safe Rooms
For these dreams, instead of trying to board a vessel, it was necessary to enter into a safe room. The symbolism remains the same however: being ready to escape to God’s kingdom when the world ends.
Rediscovering the Gospel or Doubting
Out of Body Experience, Fleeing Religious Persecution
Ancient Civilizations and History Faking
Other Dreams
I dreamt of a race in my rainy neighborhood, and at the end one person who was second place pulled way ahead. I’ve had a few dreams like this over the last year, and I think they represent our mortal race, and how some will fall behind spiritually at the very end while others will excel. See also 1 Corinthians 9:24–27, Philippians 3:13–14, 2 Timothy 4:7–8, Galatians 2:2, Galatians 5:7, Philippians 2:16, and Hebrews 12:1–2.
I also dreamt of seeing scriptures on the ground in blue pieces of paper, but I don’t remember them. I knew they were supposed to be notes to add to other dreams of mine, but I had never done so. Worrying…
I dreamt of seeing a garden of plants grown by a kid, where longer plants represented revelations that mattered more or he had taken better care of. He was discussing climate change and a coming darkness, and I agreed. I then saw a flash scene of looking down on earth to see it covered in dark, brownish clouds representing this darkness. I assume this dream is about the three days of darkness.
Land of Numer
I dreamt of meeting a kid named Emory who I thought was in my congregation’s scout troop whilst in a Walmart parking lot (where my scout troop often met whilst preparing for a campout). He had been raised in a place called Numer, and he taught me about works, explaining how people in our church (the Mormon church) think that life is like a video game and we are saved by our works, but that this is not exactly true. He said his ideology tied to a place long ago called Numer, which I felt was probably in the middle east. People who held this place’s ideology often were seen as angry, and the kid explained that this was simply because they knew their kingdom hadn’t come to earth yet, and they were, well, dissatisfied. People whose kingdom is already here have no reason to be angry. The kid then walked away.
* Interestingly, the name Emory derives from the germanic name Emmerich, which composed of “amal”, which means “work” or “effort”, and rīc, which “power” or “ruler”. Therefore, the kid’s name linked work to power, which seems fitting given his message.
Word from God
While laying in bed, I thought I received this word from God in my mind:
The Lord speaketh: Follow the old paths to find me. Only with careful yearning, faith, and sacrifice can man hope to approach my holy tabernacle. But the wicked one is everywhere. He parades through the highways. He tramples the hedges. His smoke covers the vineyards. And his spirit deceives all, with its lascivious whispers that all is well with your soul.
Awake, awake, wicked generation, and see the destruction in front of you. For no man, who is vain, can find me. What difference doth it make, if this man – though he cross plain and valley to prove to the world his own personal holiness – still tramples under his feet one of my little ones.
It is great wickedness to ignore the commandments of a mighty God, because you see yourself as a little god worth saving, who has, if it were possible, already saved himself.
Can’t you see? Yes, believing in adulterated and impure grace justifies sin. But hyper-works is to the same effect: mankind thinking he is above my simplest and most basic commandments – to be meek – to show kindness to the poor – to forgive – to approach a terrible God with awe and trembling – because man feels he has already completed the law.
This is foolishness. This is looking beyond the mark. This is vanity and pharisaical thinking.
It isn’t that my commandments aren’t worth keeping, but to the contrary: enduring to the end means realizing that you still must follow the commandments, even despite your past efforts.
I will leave you with this: Yes, I want you to follow the commandments. But please do not use my commandments as an excuse and weapon to overlook the simpler things of the law. One man disregards the law because of his vain views of grace. Another disregards the law because he thinks that he is already good enough, and that all is well in Zion. Instead, see my commandments as the race to my prize: until you have entered into the mansions of my father, you are still on the racetrack. So fasten your eyes earnestly on the mark set before you, and do not fail. For this is why you are all here – my sons and daughters – to win this heavenly race. Don’t stop halfway through because you think you are already good enough. Do not slow down or get confused and blinded because of the fog of vanity that so easily besets man. Please don’t listen to pide pipers, or dance amidst the flowers like children. But strive earnestly and you will be rewarded. I am a just God and a merciful God, and I see your efforts. He who earnestly seeks me, with pure intent and humility, with longsuffering and sacrifice – with an unmovable faith – and with magnanimity – the desire to serve, to protect, to uplift, to help, to build – and with loving intent even to the point of self-sacrifice – this man surely will find me. And I will move heavens and earth to find this man, wherever in creation he might call home – even if he is alone, even if she is a widow, even if they are at the bottom of the world – they are with me in my heart, and I will remember them.
This is the God of everything speaking. Alpha and Omega. I come for a righteous bride. Amen and Shalom.
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