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UNLOCKING
 
THE
 
MYSTERIES
 
OF
 
DREAMS
 

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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 

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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.
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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.

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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.