How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

T here have been countless believers who have experienced a dream with a warning of coming danger, a threat to their life, or a satanic attack that was being plotted against them. One of the most common and most important questions asked is: “When you receive a warning of coming danger through a dream (or a vision), is it possible to alter the situation and prevent it from occurring?” Let’s begin by considering prophetic warnings in the Scripture. When Moses was given the Torah (the Bible’s first five books), the prophet told the people of Israel that if they disobeyed the commandments and laws of God, they would be given the opportunity to repent and prevent judgment from overtaking them. However, he warned them that if they persisted in their sins and continued their rejection of God’s divine instructions, they would be taken captive by their enemies, drought would destroy their crops, their animals would suffer, and they would see the consequences of their disobedience. (See Deuteronomy 28; Leviticus 26.) In Israel’s history, God did not immediately move His hand from mercy to judgment. There was always a gap of time that gave the people opportunity to turn or repent. Christ warned the church at Thyatira that a selfacclaimed female “prophetess” was seducing God’s servants. She and the entire church were given “time to repent,” and if they refused, a “great tribulation” would come upon them (Rev. 2:21–22). Year after year, generation after generation, Israel continued its rejection of God’s commandments, and so the Almighty predicted that the nation would be taken into captivity in Babylon for seventy