This is written as a series of Dream Interpretation Helps concerning dreams from God. I will cover the things that I feel are mandatory for correct dream interpretation and application of the truths revealed in the dream. © 2013, Elizabeth Elam. All rights reserved.
SYMBOLS THAT HAVE CONSTANT MEANINGS
There are a few symbols in dreams that I have had that have never varied in meaning:
-Snakes. They always seem to represent a spiritual attack from satan or demonic forces. Usually in a dream it is obvious that the snake is a bad thing. But, if you find yourself having ‘compassion’ on a snake in a dream for whatever reason- watch out! Don’t have compassion on demons (snakes) no matter how ‘pitiful’ they are portrayed. If a snake represents a person with a Pharisaical attitude, don’t kill the snake or you will become like it. Jesus didn’t kill the Pharisees, but He did forcefully address them.
-Extremely dark clouds are descriptive of the ‘Day of the Lord’ (coming in judgment).
- Another unchanging symbol is shoes. Being conscious of losing your shoes, putting on inappropriate shoes for the terrain, needing to clean your shoes, or not putting them on in circumstances in real life where you would wear shoes is symbolic of not walking (fully) in the true gospel that the Bible teaches. God is trying to say that something is missing from your walking out the gospel truths of the Bible or sharing it with others. The gospel shoes are part of the full armor of God. Eph.6:15 states, “…having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace”. I know that Moses took off his shoes on Holy ground and King David went barefoot in humility when his kingdom was in jeopardy. But in this time in America, the Lord is trying to get the truth of the gospel out in an imperative manner and the only meaning in dreams for shoes I’ve come across in this hour is what I just stated.
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I would like to sidetrack this page about dream interpretation with an urgent statement about the gospel according to the Word of God. You see, I have had many dreams about shoes and I keep hearing dreams from others that they are missing their shoes (the gospel). Just this week as I was writing this, I found out a man from the church we attend had a dream about walking barefoot on thorny, prickly dead grass as he tried to work, to mow the grass. He heard a voice in his dream saying, “You can’t work without your shoes.” In other words, he couldn’t do God’s Kingdom work without preaching and living the full gospel. His dream was on Monday and he had the same dream again on Wednesday. My latest dream about shoes came on the Tuesday between his two dreams. So without being aware of each other’s dreams, the Lord gave dreams about shoes on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this past week as I was writing this section, not to mention a dream that a woman in our church had that same week about a false gospel being preached in America that was difficult to escape from. That is also equivalent to being without the correct shoes. By the way, note that it was difficult to escape from the false gospel in my dream, too (next paragraph). Many of us have entrenched within us an American gospel of SELF. I know that I’m still in the process of coming out of that false gospel. And these are just some of the dreams that I’ve been made aware of from among our own congregation. What alarmed me about my ‘shoe’ dream on Tuesday was that it was the first time I have dreamt about more than one pair of ‘lost shoes’.
In my dream, I was on the property of a mega-church walking barefoot on its grass which had numerous thorns in it (just like our brother’s dreams). I had lost my sandals (a partial gospel- can’t take you ‘everywhere’ a true Christian is asked to go by the Lord, to take up our cross and follow Him) and I was looking for them to protect my feet from the thorny ground, as well as looking for a way out of this mega-church which was trying to keep me from leaving, that is, from getting free of the deceptive teaching. As I was searching for a way out, I came across the biggest dumpster that I’ve ever seen. It was full of hundreds of pairs of sandals – a partial gospel. I understood that many who had attended this mega-church had cast off even the little bit of gospel truth they had once walked in (Yes, I know that there are some wonderful mega-churches out there that really DO preach the complete gospel).
Dear Reader, please don’t cast off the gospel which Jesus paid such a high price for. The Lord is speaking to the American church about this ‘lost gospel’ repeatedly at this point in time. He wants it embraced once again. So what exactly does it mean to walk in and to preach the complete gospel? What are American Christians missing? (You will recall that I have already mentioned my dream where I went back in time to the founding of America to find the pure white, clean, sturdy gospel shoes to bring them back to present day America. The dream ended before I could see if I had succeeded.)
I have done a Bible study of the gospel and wish to offer my thoughts as to what the Lord is so concerned about that He is giving repeated dreams on this subject. That article is next, “Biblical Definition of the Gospel - The Lord is Working to Restore It.”
SYMBOLS THAT HAVE CONSTANT MEANINGS
There are a few symbols in dreams that I have had that have never varied in meaning:
-Snakes. They always seem to represent a spiritual attack from satan or demonic forces. Usually in a dream it is obvious that the snake is a bad thing. But, if you find yourself having ‘compassion’ on a snake in a dream for whatever reason- watch out! Don’t have compassion on demons (snakes) no matter how ‘pitiful’ they are portrayed. If a snake represents a person with a Pharisaical attitude, don’t kill the snake or you will become like it. Jesus didn’t kill the Pharisees, but He did forcefully address them.
-Extremely dark clouds are descriptive of the ‘Day of the Lord’ (coming in judgment).
- Another unchanging symbol is shoes. Being conscious of losing your shoes, putting on inappropriate shoes for the terrain, needing to clean your shoes, or not putting them on in circumstances in real life where you would wear shoes is symbolic of not walking (fully) in the true gospel that the Bible teaches. God is trying to say that something is missing from your walking out the gospel truths of the Bible or sharing it with others. The gospel shoes are part of the full armor of God. Eph.6:15 states, “…having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace”. I know that Moses took off his shoes on Holy ground and King David went barefoot in humility when his kingdom was in jeopardy. But in this time in America, the Lord is trying to get the truth of the gospel out in an imperative manner and the only meaning in dreams for shoes I’ve come across in this hour is what I just stated.
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I would like to sidetrack this page about dream interpretation with an urgent statement about the gospel according to the Word of God. You see, I have had many dreams about shoes and I keep hearing dreams from others that they are missing their shoes (the gospel). Just this week as I was writing this, I found out a man from the church we attend had a dream about walking barefoot on thorny, prickly dead grass as he tried to work, to mow the grass. He heard a voice in his dream saying, “You can’t work without your shoes.” In other words, he couldn’t do God’s Kingdom work without preaching and living the full gospel. His dream was on Monday and he had the same dream again on Wednesday. My latest dream about shoes came on the Tuesday between his two dreams. So without being aware of each other’s dreams, the Lord gave dreams about shoes on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this past week as I was writing this section, not to mention a dream that a woman in our church had that same week about a false gospel being preached in America that was difficult to escape from. That is also equivalent to being without the correct shoes. By the way, note that it was difficult to escape from the false gospel in my dream, too (next paragraph). Many of us have entrenched within us an American gospel of SELF. I know that I’m still in the process of coming out of that false gospel. And these are just some of the dreams that I’ve been made aware of from among our own congregation. What alarmed me about my ‘shoe’ dream on Tuesday was that it was the first time I have dreamt about more than one pair of ‘lost shoes’.
In my dream, I was on the property of a mega-church walking barefoot on its grass which had numerous thorns in it (just like our brother’s dreams). I had lost my sandals (a partial gospel- can’t take you ‘everywhere’ a true Christian is asked to go by the Lord, to take up our cross and follow Him) and I was looking for them to protect my feet from the thorny ground, as well as looking for a way out of this mega-church which was trying to keep me from leaving, that is, from getting free of the deceptive teaching. As I was searching for a way out, I came across the biggest dumpster that I’ve ever seen. It was full of hundreds of pairs of sandals – a partial gospel. I understood that many who had attended this mega-church had cast off even the little bit of gospel truth they had once walked in (Yes, I know that there are some wonderful mega-churches out there that really DO preach the complete gospel).
Dear Reader, please don’t cast off the gospel which Jesus paid such a high price for. The Lord is speaking to the American church about this ‘lost gospel’ repeatedly at this point in time. He wants it embraced once again. So what exactly does it mean to walk in and to preach the complete gospel? What are American Christians missing? (You will recall that I have already mentioned my dream where I went back in time to the founding of America to find the pure white, clean, sturdy gospel shoes to bring them back to present day America. The dream ended before I could see if I had succeeded.)
I have done a Bible study of the gospel and wish to offer my thoughts as to what the Lord is so concerned about that He is giving repeated dreams on this subject. That article is next, “Biblical Definition of the Gospel - The Lord is Working to Restore It.”
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