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THE PURPOSE OF DREAMS 

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Chapter 4
Types of Dreams 
The subject of dreams, their types and their interpreta-
tion is an exciting and very interesting subject. Dreams are 
much more frequent now than ever before. The Lord is pouring 
out His Spirit. 
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour 
out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daugh-
ters shall prophecy, your old men shall dream dreams, 
your young men shall see visions (Joel 2:28). 
Warning Dreams 
This type of dream was explained before in Chapter 2. 
King Abimelech was warned not to take Sarah as his wife or he 
would be a “dead man” (Gen. 20:3). Laban, Jacob’s uncle was 
warned not to speak good or evil to Jacob when he caught up to 
him when in pursuit (Gen. 31:24).
The Bible records several more instances of warning 
dreams.. King Nebuchadnezzar had a dream, which he could 
not remember. Daniel and his three friends prayed and Daniel 
received the knowledge of this dream and its interpretation. 
(Daniel 2:19) The dream was about an image with a head of 
gold, breast and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 
legs of iron, and its feet of iron and clay. A stone, which repre-
sented Jesus, struck the statue and it disintegrated. The king 
was warned that his kingdom would perish.

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The magi were warned by God to return by another 
way to their country after visiting the baby Jesus. Joseph was 
also warned by the angel to flee to Egypt and later warned to 
return to Galilee rather than Judea (Matt. 2:19-22). 
One of our friends had a dream that she saw an earth-
quake come to a neighboring town at three o’clock that after-
noon. The name of the town began with the letter “A”. She was 
alarmed and phoned my husband for the interpretation. My hus-
band said that the dream was an invitation to intercede for the 
town. They looked on the map for a nearby town beginning 
with the letter “A” and found two of them. She prayed and the 
earthquake never happened. Our prayers are important! 
As a word of encouragement, Jane Hamon says, “ God 
will always find a way to speak to us if our hearts are sincerely 
seeking to do what is right in the sight of the Lord.”
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If we 
need a warning, He will speak to us because He loves us and 
does not want us to fail.