Re: "Shavuout dream"  http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/may2007/shanthini522.htm

 

Hi,

 

I was very, very disappointed when the Shavuot passed and nothing happened.  We have been going through these cycles these past few years, but this time I found it hard to take it, for we had so many signs and the rainbows which I presumed were from the Lord, and not form anyone else.  In the past though we used to prepare we never got any signs.

 

Hence last evening I was praying to the Lord and asking Him why He gave me those strange dreams about the Jews and Israel.  Then it dawned on me that I was barking up the wrong tree!! I guess it is always easy to be wise after the events and always in retrospect things look different. J

 

The first dream I had was in a Hebrew University...... there when I spoke to the students they were pretty clueless of the Russian invasion/ Ezekiel 38-39, or Jacob’s Trouble (Jeremiah 30:4) and least of all about the Rapture.  I must have spoken to 4 or 5 groups and they were all giving me blank-stares as if they were in a stupor.  In fact I pointed out to them that Jacob’s Trouble and the Russian invasions were in their OT. Yet they never wanted to open up and discuss the subject.  At the end of the dream, I was left with a very distinct feeling that I did not like the Hebrew University and that I was going to leave for the people were not friendly and they were in a world of their own, far removed from mine.  Every time I asked them they way to “Tel Abib”, none could give me a clear cut direction, in fact they never even bothered to answer my question, as if they were CLUELESS about what I was asking them. 

 

The second dream was about my son working for a Jewish firm.  He had to take me for an appointment with the Doctor, City (down-town) ,and he asked me to first accompany him to one of his official  meetings in the city and promised me that there would be a waiting area for me to stay.  But when we reached the place there was no waiting area, instead the waiting area had been turned into an informal meeting room and I too was asked to partake in the meeting, to which I was not enthusiastic at all.  Then the next thing the Jewish boss said “OK, let’s all go to sleep, take a little rest”.  I was speechless for this was supposed to be an important meeting and here this man wants everyone to take a cat’s nap!  At the end of the room, I found a group of youngsters milling around and  I asked them, “Do you speak Yiddish?”.  This really bugged me, for I wondered why I did not ask them Hebrew? I believe Yiddish is a mixture of German and Hebrew, not pure Hebrew.. a hybrid?

 

Yesterday it came to me, that in both these dreams the Lord was trying to show that most of the  Jews are clueless about anything from the Bible and there was no point in me calculating the Pentecost from their Passover.  They are a people without understanding, and that it was a case of blind leading the blind. 

 

Yet I was a little upset that the Lord was talking to me in riddles, and I told the Lord that I am not Daniel or Joseph to interpret dreams, and in the past He has always given me clear cut dreams.  In fact one or two dreams and visions were of my two brothers (whom the Lord had shown would come to Him, but not yet) and He gave me specific things He wanted me to tell them.  Then I moaned to my Mum and said that it was not fair that the Lord was playing games with me, especially with my operation round the corner.  Mum came out and pointed out that if the Lord could not tell His Apostles the time of His Second Coming, and even Paul was not sure, how did I expect Him to spell it out to me? No wonder for the first time the dreams were in riddle!!!

 

After all, the Lord was the First fruits and He rose on the Sunday, the Church was born on a Sunday and the first Pentecost fell on a Sunday, so it stands to reason that we should be raptured on a Sunday. Further the week begins with a Sunday and we worship on a Sunday far removed from the Sabbath which the Jews observe.  Further Enoch ( a gentile) was born and raputred on Pentecost.  In fact we too were baptized on a Pentecost Sunday and I am looking forward to being raptured on the Pentecost.  J

 

I am sorry if I had unwittingly mislead anyone.  I seem to have superficially interpreted the dream and thought that I should lean more towards the Jewish way of computing the Pentecost, yet all the while the Lord was trying to communicate to me that it was not the way to go about but to stick to the Christian way.  Sometimes we suffer from temporary blindness.  I guess I should have asked the Lord for interpretation instead of working out myself. 

 

Even so come Lord Jesus

Shanthi