Jenny,Your dream is fascinating simply because of your location. What I find in dreams is that not every detail is important, so don’t be too concerned in interpreting every detail. Sometimes, you just have to note the detail, and when there is a significance to it, it is brought back to your remembrance.
First thing that comes to mind is that Joseph interpreted the number of cows in Pharaoh’s dream as the number of years.
The reason that the cows had the heads of sheep or goats is because of the attributes also being cast into the image. Because of the area, there are churches that would very well represent the mixed up identity. They are fat from the good of the land, eating up all green they can get their mouths on to fill up their belly.
In this picture, you are representing the Lord and you passed right through them, without their notice or concern. Neither were you concerned for them. The only one you placed your concern was your young “walker” who was following you. All he wanted was to be held and be with you. You wanted him next to you, but since he was learning to walk, you could not hold him and carry him as you have always done. It is difficult for a young walker to follow without holding on to your hand. He falls easily. He skins his knees. He tires easily. But he must learn to walk on his own. Your loving care watches over him to quickly pick him up and hold him when it is needed, but he must learn to walk.
Eze 34:9 Therefore, O ye shepherds, hear the word of the LORD;
Eze 34:10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I [am] against the shepherds; and I will require my flock at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the flock; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; for I will deliver my flock from their mouth, that they may not be meat for them.
Eze 34:11 ¶ For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, [even] I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
Eze 34:12 As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep [that are] scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.
Eze 34:13 And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country.
Eze 34:14 I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and [in] a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.
Eze 34:15 I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord GOD.
Eze 34:16 I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up [that which was] broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.
Eze 34:17 ¶ And [as for] you, O my flock, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I judge between cattle and cattle, between the rams and the he goats.
Eze 34:18 [Seemeth it] a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
Eze 34:19 And [as for] my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.
Eze 34:20 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD unto them; Behold, I, [even] I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.
Eze 34:21 Because ye have thrust with side and with shoulder, and pushed all the diseased with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad;
Eze 34:22 Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.
Eze 34:23 And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, [even] my servant David; he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.
Eze 34:24 And I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David a prince among them; I the LORD have spoken [it].
At this point, the image changes and you see the thick clouds, but in the midst was an open window into heaven. A messenger from the east appears on the scene with no words of his own and with a trumpet to blow. When he spoke, the sound came from Heaven. The power of Heaven was displayed by reason of the voice.
Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.
At this point, you were not concerned for the children who were safe with their father. But you quickly gathered up the child following you because it was time to go.
There is the interpretation.
I did say that the location was interesting. I have spoken of it before.http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2007/wadeb530-2.htm
Although I didn’t explain a lot of what I was seeing, there were several elements there that I have made a number of references about. Once and a while, I will see a number and look it up in the Strong’s. Sometimes I get an impression of something I am seeing. Perhaps it is yet unclear, but I end up mentioning it anyway. Keep that in mind. I don’t always think about the other reader not seeing what I am seeing, and I possibly need to explain further.
http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2007/wadeb530-1.htm
Blessings,
Wade Balzer
wbalzer@newjerusalem.org