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Gideon Overhears A Dream 
In the book of Judges, (Judges 7:9-15) Gideon was 
fearful of the enemy and took his servant with him while scout-
ing the enemy camp at night and overheard a man’s dream. The 
DREAMS THROUGH THE AGES 

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man was relating to his friend that he saw a barley loaf tum-
bling into their camp. This loaf of bread struck a tent so that the 
tent fell, turned upside down and lay flat. His friend was able to 
interpret the dream saying: 
 This is nothing else than the sword of Gideon, the 
son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand God 
has delivered Midian and the whole camp (Judges 
7:14). 
King Solomon’s Dream 
When King Solomon was a young man, around 1,000 
B.C., after he had offered a thousand burnt offerings on the al-
tar, the Lord appeared to him in a dream at night. 
 And God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?” 
Then Solomon said: “ You have shown great 
mercy to your servant David my father, because 
he walked before You in truth and righteousness, 
and in uprightness of heart… You have made 
Your servant king instead of my father David, but 
I am a little child; I do not know how to go out or 
come in…therefore give to your servant an under-
standing heart” (I Kings 3:5-9). 
God answered King Solomon’s humble request by giv-
ing him a wise and understanding heart. There was no one 
wiser than he before or after his life. 
Daniel’s Dreams 
Daniel’s life was similar to Joseph’s. He was taken as a pris-
oner to a foreign land when he was young. He was one of the prisoners 
taken captive from Israel to Babylon in 605 B.C. He lived 623-536 B.C. 
UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF DREAMS 

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He stayed faithful to the Lord and was rewarded for his excellent spirit. 
In spite of many death threats and being thrown into the lion’s den, the 
Lord rewarded him with many dreams of the future and the interpreta-
tion of many other dreams. 
Daniel was able to interpret King Nebuchadnezzar’s 
vision of an image with head of gold, chest and arms of silver, 
belly and thighs of bronze, legs of iron and feet partly of iron 
and clay. A stone that was cut without hands, came and struck 
the image and broke it in pieces. This was foretelling the three 
kingdoms, which would follow Nebuchadnezzar’s rule. The 
stone represented our Lord Jesus. The dreams Daniel inter-
preted were full of symbolism. 
Another one of the king’s dreams, which Daniel inter-
preted, was about a tree, which grew, became strong and was 
visible to the ends of the earth. However, a holy one descended 
from heaven and commanded the tree to be chopped down. The 
tree represented the king who would be driven away into the 
field. It was a warning. Daniel gave the king this advice: 
O king may my advice be pleasing to you: break 
away now from your sins by doing righteousness, 
and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the 
poor, in case there may be a prolonging of your 
prosperity (Dan. 4:27). 
Sadly, the king did not take the warning and was con-
sequently driven out of the palace and forced to live as an ani-
mal for seven years. Finally, his reason returned to him and he 
gave praise to God (Dan. 4:36,37). 
Daniel saw world governments coming into and going 
out of power. One notable dream Daniel had was of four beasts, 
which represented the present kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar and