Before I discuss the dream, a rant:
I remember listening to a video from Morgan where she discussed how in the past she had received more dreams that involved herself living through the tribulation or being offered the mark of the beast, but how more recently she was receiving more dreams about being recruited into God’s army. She theorized that this was due to how in the past she wasn’t prepared to meet God, so if the tribulation had started sooner she might have actually been among the people who took the mark; however, since she had grown a deeper relationship with the Lord, now if the tribulation happened she likely would be among the 144,000, hence the change in topic of dreams. Could this be true for me as well? I started off having a lot of dreams about the mark, but lately I’ve been having dreams that are more related to The New Jerusalem. Indeed, even just a year ago I was living much more sinfully than I do now (though much progress remains for me) – and so if the tribulation had happened then it’s likely I would have not been spiritually ready.
And so yes, I started receiving dreams during a period of my life when I was not spiritually ready – meaning I didn’t “earn” these dreams. Just to note however, prior to receiving my own dreams, I had started studying other people’s dreams (because I was insane, I was more interested in eschatology than in my own spiritual welfare or abandoning my sinful ways).
Or perhaps this theory is false, and I dreamt about the mark first because it was more important for me to know about at the time.
The Dream
I started out in this town in a forested fjord inlet, where some of the trees were deciduous and others coniferous. I remember hiking along the side of the mountains at one point but then being in a restaurant with friends in the town center. The buildings of the town were fancy and European-looking, and the streets were cobble stone. The restaurant itself was large, perhaps two stories tall, with a huge McDonald’s style play place, but nobody was there except us. Across a plaza from the restaurant, I observed (what I thought was) a hotel. Each room had a very large single pane window, letting us see that all the rooms were empty, and on the first floor there may have been a restaurant. I remember a woman walked in asking us what we were talking about, and we said we liked the business idea of combining restaurants with hotels, but we weren’t really serious about this and were more just commenting on what we observed in the city. Overall, I remember there not being many people in the city. I also remember at one point discussing hidden serious moral corruption in world leaders.
The scene shifted and I was driving through different cities with my twin brother. I was lamenting how there were no good places left in the USA – everything was corrupt. I remember seeing a scene of a forested rural area that was gradually developed and urbanized, and I knew that with the urbanization came moral corruption and greed; I felt sorry for any of the former landowners there who held out and watched the city grow around them. As we drove, my brother showed me different cities as if trying to prove that at least some cities were OK, but my response was that all were corrupted. I also remember seeing a scene of old-style tall buildings in New York and then seeing them replaced with ugly modern buildings – this was emblematic of how New York used to be good but now has been corrupted.
The scene sort of shifted – we were in Boston trying to drive out of the city, and I was driving. I kept on making wrong turns which made my brother frustrated – he was giving me directions because he had lived in Boston before. At one point I remember taking a wrong turn and then having to dangerously switch to the right path, which took us up this ramp to the top of a tall skyscraper. Said tower was much higher than any of the other buildings in the city.
We got out and came into this room in the skyscraper that had a model of the city including a detailed model of the freeways. I used the model to plan how I would be able to drive out. The freeways were very complicated – I remember the highway I planned on taking out was sort of more like two freeways right next to each other (one going forward and the other backward obviously), but then there were several times when there were overpasses making the side going forward shift – so the forward highway shifted from the right side to the left side or vice versa. Also, the freeways I saw were all elevated. I noted that, after driving down the ramp to the freeway, the freeway split into three and I had to be sure to take the middle path. I also think our route off the tower was different than onto it – there was a grand ramp pretty much going in a straight line down from the tower to the freeway, but to get to the top of the tower we had taken a ramp that had many turns going up levels (so I guess more like what you might find in a parking garage, but we weren’t fully indoors since there were no walls blocking our view of the city I think).
At this point, I accidentally knocked over some parts of the model, so tried to pick up the pieces and put them back up correctly but it was difficult to do so. Then this security guard walked into the room and we knew we had to leave because we weren’t supposed to be there. The timing of this scene was odd – we felt like it was 3am and we were tress passing at night, but the scene of us driving up to the top of the tower was at daytime and the streets were full of cars. My brother tried to hide but he was just standing in a nook in the shelves in plain site (for some reason the room had shelves / I don’t remember what was on the shelves), I tried to approach the guard and explain ourselves, but the guard didn’t really interact with us. Nevertheless, we knew we weren’t supposed to be there – so started leaving. I had this plastic box full of filthy water and rotting vegetables that I wanted to clean but couldn’t. So instead, I wanted to take the box with me out of there since I didn’t want to leave trash behind. But I knew this would slow me down and that I needed to just leave it behind.
Discussion
I think the town in the fjord represented the New Jerusalem. The hotel represented how people would be moving into the city, but its empty state reflected how few people will find their way to the city (fewer than expected?).
The tower reflected our journeys to God – I only got to the top of the tower after taking wrong turns, and it was an awkward journey with near accidents and disputes with my navigator. Likewise, I believe many people’s journey to Christ is also awkward and might seem accidentally (I know mine certainly did). My view from the tower of the city and the freeway model both represented guidance we have received from God (through the scriptures, etc.) on how to escape the world.
The plastic box with dirty water and rotten vegetables represented sin – I wanted to take the sin with me out of there, but I knew that I would have to leave it behind. Also, the physically heavy nature of the box with water represents how sins weigh us down. The security guard represents God’s warnings to us to leave sin behind.
Apostasy in the church; a call to leave was very similar and had the same meaning – I was trespassing in an area at night, and a security guard called us to leave, but I wanted to take trash out with me instead of leaving it behind.
Overall, freeways in my dreams have represented fleeing Babylon towards God’s refuge. In A New Church & Food Corruption, I gave directions to a driver on how to drive home (from there we then went to a new and glorious church). In Escaping Church Corruption / 144,000 Missions, we took freeways while escaping dark forces and found our way to a sort of refuge from God.
Regarding the paradise we found, here are some similar dreams I have had:
Adoption into Secret Paradise & Black Hole – We moved to a private island in a paradisiacal setting looking much like Greece.
Vision and Dream of Paradise (September 2, 25) – In the dream, there was a very beautiful European style building on the side of a mountain range. In the vision, there was a very beautiful settlement inside a fjord.
Confusing Dreams of 3DOD Date and MOB – We were journeying to a beautiful European style city on the coast which had green mountains going into the ocean and many bays.
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