A scary, but good, dream...

I awoke from this dream early this morning, April 10, at around 1:00 CST.
This, of course, is AFTER MIDNIGHT.  When this dream finished, I was
tired, relieved and VERY, VERY, thankful to God for providing safety for
me and the person with me...

I was exploring, it seems, in a rented jeep.  I went into a place where I
had never been and came to a wall, a sheer cliff which had a vine hanging
down which I thought would be good to climb.  Once I climbed up, I found
myself in a VERY precarious and dangerous situation.  My exploring had
made me wish I had NEVER left home...I just wanted to be back home.

For some reason, ONLY THEN, I noticed my companion had also reached
the top with me and it was Paul Newman.  Paul Newman is a Jew and, I
remember a woman on TV recently describing him as BEAUTIFUL.  Paul
was shouting a message while standing on the very edge of the huge
precipice that we found ourselves on.  He was screaming out as if to the
world "something".  I was literally hanging onto the piece of earth which
represented an "edge" or end of the place we had climbed to.  I remember
thinking to myself, "When he gets through shouting, I have some 'rough'
news to deliver to him...we are in a VERY scary situation!!!"

We were thousands of feet high as if in the Grand Canyon which has these
rock edges which just jut up out of it a mile or more.  We were on the top of
one of these type places.  When he finished shouting, we both grasped the
top by laying down (I could feel both sides of this extremely high cliff...like on
a horse) and as we did, the "cliff" came apart and became like a parachute
which we rode down to the bottom.  I remember telling him that this was God's
doing and that IT WAS QUITE DEFINITE THAT HE HAD SAVED US!!!

As we reached the ground, it was like we both had found some JUST
INCREDIBLE NEWS that was TOTALLY freeing and the BEST POSSIBLE
NEWS one can find.  As we were landing, I noticed that Paul's sword was
laying on the ground beside a tree or against the cliff where he had left
it when he started his climb.  For some reason, I had taken mine with me.
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I woke up with a "flutter" in my heart after this dream.  I had felt SO
helpless and yet the dream had had such a good ending...but it was
tiring, too.  The "piece of knowledge" that we had discovered on our
adventure was imperceptible / unexplainable but VERY, VERY GOOD!!!
Also, we were both VERY THANKFUL for the safety which we had just
been provided on our "adventure".

I can only say that this might represent that the "beautiful" Jews are
about to "pick up their swords"...they are about to shout to the world
the freeing knowledge of "something" (we Christians know "what").

The two parts of Revelation 7 represent 2 ENTIRELY different means of
"escape".  I have always said that, even though they are given in two
separate episodes, they are in the same chapter which is chapter 7
and "7" represents spiritual completion.  These 2 things, I have always
felt, happen at almost the same time.  The one described in verses 9
through 17 is OUR RAPTURE INTO HEAVEN!!!!  The sealing of God's
covenant people, the Jews, is in verses 1 through 8.

The verse below which says:  "These are they who have come out
of the great tribulation", I believe describes our rapture.  I take the
"out of" as meaning "away from".

   Revelation 7
   144,000 Sealed
   1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth,
   holding back the four winds of the earth to prevent any wind from blowing
   on the land or on the sea or on any tree. 2 Then I saw another angel coming
   up from the east, having the seal of the living God. He called out in a loud
   voice to the four angels who had been given power to harm the land and
   the sea: 3 "Do not harm the land or the sea or the trees until we put a seal
   on the foreheads of the servants of our God." 4 Then I heard the number of
   those who were sealed: 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel.
       5 From the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed,
       from the tribe of Reuben 12,000,
       from the tribe of Gad 12,000,
       6 from the tribe of Asher 12,000,
       from the tribe of Naphtali 12,000,
       from the tribe of Manasseh 12,000,
       7 from the tribe of Simeon 12,000,
       from the tribe of Levi 12,000,
       from the tribe of Issachar 12,000,
       8 from the tribe of Zebulun 12,000,
       from the tribe of Joseph 12,000,
       from the tribe of Benjamin 12,000.

   The Great Multitude in White Robes
   9 After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that
   no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language,
   standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing
   white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. 10 And they
   cried out in a loud voice:
       "Salvation belongs to our God,
       who sits on the throne,
       and to the Lamb."
   11 All the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders
   and the four living creatures. They fell down on their faces before the
   throne and worshiped God, 12 saying:
       "Amen!
       Praise and glory
       and wisdom and thanks and honor
       and power and strength
       be to our God for ever and ever.
       Amen!"
   13 Then one of the elders asked me,
       "These in white robes--who are they, and where did they come from?"
   14 I answered, "Sir, you know."
   15 And he said, "These are they who have come out of the great
   tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the
   blood of the Lamb.
       Therefore,
       "they are before the throne of God
       and serve him day and night in his temple;
       and he who sits on the throne will spread his tent over them.
       16 Never again will they hunger;
       never again will they thirst.
       The sun will not beat upon them,
       nor any scorching heat.
       17 For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd;
       he will lead them to springs of living water.
       And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."