Dreams
What
are dreams?
Dictionary;
a
series of thoughts, images, or emotions occurring during sleep had a dream
about climbing a mountain
gives me bad dreams.
an
experience of waking life having the characteristics of a dream; such as
a visionary.a state of mind
marked by abstraction or release from reality.
an
object seen in a dreamlike state.
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Genesis
20;3
But
God came to Abimelek in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as
good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”
Genesis
28;12
He
had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its
top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on
it.
Genesis
37;1-10
Joseph’s Dreams
37 Jacob lived in the land where
his father had stayed, the land of Canaan.
2 This is the account of
Jacob’s family line.
Joseph,
a young man of seventeen, was tending the flocks with his brothers, the sons of
Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives, and he brought their father
a bad report about them.
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more
than any of his other sons, because he had been born to him in his old age; and
he made an ornate robe for him. 4 When his brothers saw that
their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not
speak a kind word to him.
5 Joseph had a dream, and when
he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more. 6 He said
to them, “Listen to this dream I had; 7 We were binding sheaves of
grain out in the field when suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while
your sheaves gathered around mine and bowed down to it.”
8 His brothers said to him, “Do
you intend to reign over us? Will you actually rule us?” And they hated him all
the more because of his dream and what he had said.
9 Then he had another dream,
and he told it to his brothers. “Listen,” he said, “I had another dream, and
this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
10 When he told his father as
well as his brothers, his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream you
had? Will your mother and I and your brothers actually come and bow down to the
ground before you?”
Genesis
41;15-26
15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I
had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that
when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
16 “I cannot do it,” Joseph
replied to Pharaoh, “but God will give Pharaoh the answer he desires.”
17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph,
“In my dream I was standing on the bank of the Nile, 18 when out of
the river there came up seven cows, fat and sleek, and they grazed among the
reeds. 19 After them, seven other cows came up—scrawny and very
ugly and lean. I had never seen such ugly cows in all the land of Egypt. 20 The
lean, ugly cows ate up the seven fat cows that came up first. 21 But
even after they ate them, no one could tell that they had done so; they looked
just as ugly as before. Then I woke up.
22 “In my dream I saw seven
heads of grain, full and good, growing on a single stalk. 23 After
them, seven other heads sprouted—withered and thin and scorched by the east
wind. 24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads.
I told this to the magicians, but none of them could explain it to me.”
25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh,
“The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what
he is about to do.
26
The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads of grain are
seven years; it is one and the same dream.
Numbers
12;6
he
said, “Listen to my words: “When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord,
reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams.
Deuteronomy
13;1-5
Worshiping
Other Gods
1 If a prophet, or one who
foretells by dreams, appears among you and announces to you a sign or wonder, 2 and
if the sign or wonder spoken of takes place, and the prophet says, “Let us
follow other gods” (gods you have not known) “and let us worship them,” 3 you
must not listen to the words of that prophet or dreamer. The Lord your God is
testing you to find out whether you love him with all your heart and with all
your soul. 4 It is the Lord your God you must follow, and him you
must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. 5 That
prophet or dreamer must be put to death for inciting rebellion against the Lord
your God, who brought you out of Egypt and redeemed you from the land of
slavery. That prophet or dreamer tried to turn you from the way the Lord your
God commanded you to follow. You must purge the evil from among you.
1
Samuel 28;15
Samuel
said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing me up?” “I am in great
distress,” Saul said. “The Philistines are fighting against me, and God has
departed from me. He no longer answers me, either by prophets or by dreams.
So I have called on you to tell me what to do.”
1
Kings 3;15
Then
Solomon awoke—and he realized it had been a dream. He returned to
Jerusalem, stood before the ark of the Lord’s covenant and sacrificed burnt
offerings and fellowship offerings. Then he gave a feast for all his court.
Ecclesiastes
5;3
A dream
comes when there are many cares, and many words mark the speech of a fool.
Ecclesiastes
5;7
Much
dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God.
Isaiah
29;8
as
when a hungry person dreams of eating, but awakens hungry still; as when
a thirsty person dreams of drinking, but awakens faint and thirsty
still. So will it be with the hordes of all the nations that fight against
Mount Zion.
Jeremiah
23;32
Indeed,
I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares the Lord. “They
tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not
send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least,” declares
the Lord.
Jeremiah
27;9
So
do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your interpreters of dreams,
your mediums or your sorcerers who tell you, ‘You will not serve the king of
Babylon.’
Daniel
1;17
To
these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding of all kinds of
literature and learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams
of all kinds.
Jude
1;8
In
the very same way, on the strength of their
dreams these ungodly people
pollute their own bodies, reject authority and heap abuse on celestial beings.
Joel
2;28
[ The
Promise of the Spirit ] “It will come about after this That I will pour out
My Spirit on all mankind; And your sons and daughters will prophesy, Your old
men will dream dreams, Your young men will see
visions.
Daniel
2;1
[ The
King’s Forgotten Dream ] Now in the second year of the reign
of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was
troubled and his sleep left him. Then the king gave orders to call in the
magicians, the conjurers, the sorcerers and the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams.
So they came in and stood before the king. The king said to them, “I had a dream
and my spirit is anxious to understand the dream.”
Matthew
1;20
20
But after he
had considered this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream
and said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your
wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.