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THE MYSTERIES OF DREAMS 27 that He will give you power to lead a victorious life. As part of the Triune God, the Holy Spirit comes to dwell in your mortal flesh. This is the greatest miracle. Your dreams will begin to change because your spirit was born again. As you read the Bi- ble daily, your spirit will grow stronger and you will begin to hear more clearly from God. Your dreams will be greatly af- fected for you will receive a new joy and peace. NEW MYSTERIES ARE BEING REVEALED 28 29 Chapter 2 Dreams Through the Ages History shows that many ancient cultures placed em- phasis on dreams and their analyses. In Egypt there were pro- fessional dreamers who were paid to dream because they were thought to receive messages from the gods. These dreams had the value of shaping the destiny of a nation. The Babylonians, the Greeks and the Arabs placed a great emphasis on dreams. The Arabs showed reverence for a man who was sleeping. Primitive people knew that a man could control his thoughts while awake, yet knew he was utterly incapable to control his thoughts while asleep. Therefore they were led to attribute dreams to outside and supernatural agencies. They thought that dreams could come by “incubation” in which a person desiring to hear from a particular god would worship at the temple of the deity, perform some ritual and thereby prove he was worthy to hear from the deity. The Sphinx Dream In Egypt, there is an interesting granite pillar between the forelegs of the Sphinx, which recounts a dream Thutmose IV (c.1400-1390 B.C.) had. In this dream, Thutmose was in- structed to clear the sand from around the body of the Sphinx (because it was covered by drifting sand). As a reward for this work, Thutmose would be given the kingship. 4 History records that Thutmose cleared the sand and did become king, but he reigned for only about thirteen years and died at an early age. 30 According to history, Plato and Aristotle were of the opinion that dreams indeed were messages from a divine being. Some Greeks thought that the gods would even reveal remedies for sickness in dreams. Dream interpretation became an art because of the dif- ficulty of interpreting symbols and figures. Eventually, rules were laid down and handbooks compiled for the guidance of the priests in explaining the meaning of the dreams. One of the first dreams recorded in the Bible, was the one given to King Abimelech of Gerar, in which he was warned not to take Sarah as his wife. God spoke to the king in a dream and told him he was a “dead man” for taking Sarah because she was Abraham’s wife. He was told to return her because Abra- ham was a prophet. The king even had a conversation with the Lord in which he explained that he took Sarah in the integrity of his heart (Gen. 20:3-7). The king then returned Sarah to Abraham with a gift of sheep, oxen and some servants. Download 381.73 Kb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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