Visions on the glorious church and on the roaring lion
(A dear sister from the USA, Donna Rodriquez, sent me an e-mail during December, 2004, requesting me to interpret her vision and dream. I have interpreted the same prayerfully).
Ist Vision
A temple with pillars
I had this vision three days ago and would like to share it with you. I saw what looked like a temple only open with pillars on the four corners having stairs all around. The roof of this temple was like gold or bronze and was rounded on top. There was a man sitting in the middle of this temple on a throne like chair or seat. I could see myriads of people all around as far as the eye could see and in the distance I could see in the sky birds flying coming from the direction of the sun setting (it was reddish orange). I do not know who the man was but it did not appear to be Christ.
Interpretation:
The Temple is the Body of Christ under the New Covenant. The pillars are the five types of New Testament ministers i.e. apostles, prophets, evangelists, teachers and pastors. The roof of this temple being like gold or bornze shows that it is a glorious church without spot or wrinkle for which Jesus would come again. Its top being rounded up shows that it is a perfect one without any division. We are the members of this glorious church. You could not recognize the Man who was sitting on the throne. According to you, he did not look like Christ. This shows that it is not the mere image of Christ but the glory of His Church that matters here. The people of God attach more importance to the image of Christ these days than to the Body of Christ, (the Temple which is full of His glory) with the result that they may be tempted into believing false visions of Christ. In fact, many ministers of the gospel had received such false visions.
Prophet Isaiah "saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple" (Is.6:1). He saw both the Lord and the throne. We should also see the high throne of the Lord. We cannot separate the throne from His image. We get deceived mostly when we see only some image. Isaiah also saw the seraphims in the vision (Vs.2). The seraphims are symbolical of the ministers of God who minister to God in the Body of Christ. Then Isaiah heard the cry of the seraphims, saying, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of His glory" (Vs.3). The true ministers always perceive the holiness of God and the glory of God filling the whole earth. They see everywhere the omnipotent and omnipresent God. Their vision is fixed on His glory. Thirdly, Isaiah, after seeing the vision of the Lord on His throne and after hearing the voice of the seraphims, looked at the shortcomings of his life and cried out, "Woe is me! for I am undone: because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts" (Vs.5). Every vision of Christ should result in a revelation of your secret life. If a person gets a true vision of the glory of the Lord, he will repent in sackcloth and will cry, "Woe is me!".
Vision of myriads of people all around the Temple shows that thousands of people would be born into the Kingdom of Christ, whom we cannot count. A great revival would take place in this world through this glorious church supported by the pillars (the five types of the New Testament ministers). Sky birds are seen flying from the direction of sun-setting. The spiritual giants from the Temple i.e. the glorious church would rise up and would fly to greater heights. These spiritual giants would rise only if their own images and their work in flesh die as the sun sets. They should have the experience of self-crucifixion. They should say, "I am crucified with Christ....." (Gal.2:20). They should cease to do many works in flesh. They should abide in their calling and do only the work assigned to them by the Holy Spirit in the Body of Christ. The colour of reddish orange shows that they have to make sacrifices at the altar of the Temple.
2nd Dream:
The Roaring Lion
Yesterday I had a dream about a lion chasing me. There was a person who was telling me to climb up a white mesh net up against a building so I began to climb up getting to the top rather quickly thinking the lion could not reach me but as he got closer, he got bigger and could indeed reach me and he tried to grab for me with his paw but the person who was helping me was trying to get his attention away from me. There was a pole next to the building and I jumped towards it and slid down to the ground where I was immobilized for a short period but then I got up and began to run knowing somehow that the lion could not really hurt me but I should run anyway. A person on a motorbike came out of nowhere and told me to hop on and so I did and we drove off. Interpretation:
This lion is symbolical of the devil "as a roaring lion", who walks about, seeking whom he may devour" (I Pet.5:8). You are a prophetic sign to the Body of Christ. The helper was a servant of God who advised you to climb up a building to escape the lion. Climbing up a building has not prevented the lion from pursuing you. A man-made building is seen here. There are many ministers of God in our midst who have established their own empires in this world. When the Antichrist pursues the people of God, these ministers cannot help them. Their ministries do not help us to expose the deceits and the pernicious doctrines of the Antichrist and the False Prophet. They merely distract the attention of the roaring lion for some time. They merely perform wonderful works and cast out evil spirits in the Name of Christ but do not lead you to the right doctrines of the Bible.
The pole helped you to jump over the building. The pole is symbolical of the prophetic anointing that helps us discern the subtle attacks by the great serpent, the Devil against us, the God's anointed people. In his epistle, John while warning us against the Antichrist, writes about the anointing "which ye have received of Him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in Him" (I John 2:20-27). In these last days, we have to abide in Christ Jesus so that His anointing leads us to the truth of His Word.
The man on the motor bike is a prophet who takes care of the people of God and carries them to a safer place - a place (the Promised Land) where the people of God get the right doctrines. There are two types of ministries involved. The first type, a servant of God, who merely turns the attention of the lion away from you, and the second type, a prophet, takes us to a safe place through his ministry likened to a motor-bike. A motorbike on a traffic congested road can take you swiftly to your destination. These days, there is spiritual traffic congestion in the Kingdom of God. We need prophetic ministers to teach us the right doctrines and to take us to the Promised Land without much delay.
by Job Anbalagan