How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

W hen empires are under spiritual and economic stress and nations flirt with iniquity while playing on the brink of an abyss called judgment , there always comes a clash between two kingdoms: the kingdom of God and the kingdom of Satan. It is more than a struggle between political parties called the conservatives and liberals, or divisions caused by two opposite moral views. This clash includes angelic messengers and demonic beings that are assigned in both camps to plot and plan against the opposing side. (See Daniel 10.) We see this battle when two Egyptian magicians, Jannes and Jambres, withstood Moses and duplicated Moses’s miracle by turning the rods into serpents (Exod. 7:11–12; 2 Tim. 3:8). Centuries later, Elijah began preaching on Mount Carmel as 850 false prophets failed to pray down fire in the name of the weather god, Baal (1 Kings 18). These “prophets of Baal” were men motivated by compromise who had freely eaten at Queen Jezebel’s table and were more concerned with a full belly in a famine than having the fullness of God during the crisis. Most secular people view spiritual manifestations differently than a believer does. A secularist who hears that a believer was healed by prayer will call the process a faith healing and equate the results with some guru living in a hut on foreign soil who claims his followers believed and saw miraculous results. When a secular American with no biblical background hears of a minister of the gospel revealing a detailed word of wisdom or knowledge that comes to pass, the unbeliever will classify the minister as just another psychic . Once when I was ministering, a man who was cynical of spiritual manifestations said, “So