How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

—A CTS 9:4

God called these names twice to seize the attention of the individual. The purpose was to indicate to that person that a major transition or change was in the process. God called Abraham’s name twice to prevent him from offering his son on the altar. With Samuel, he was a young boy, and God was preparing to transfer the office of the priesthood in Israel from Eli’s house to Samuel. The lad would become the future spiritual adviser for Israel’s first and second kings, Saul and David. Simon’s name had been changed to Peter by Christ Himself (Matt. 16:17–18). However, in Luke 22:13, Christ used his former name, Simon, and spoke it twice. The Lord warned Peter that Satan was setting a strategy against him, determining to shake Peter’s faith. The fourth example where God said, “Saul, Saul,” is where the proud Pharisee from Jerusalem was, at that very moment, receiving a heavenly visitation from Christ, which led to his conversion while on the road to Damascus. Saul’s name was then changed to Paul (Acts 13:9). Just as the double name caught the attention of the person addressed, so a double dream on the same night is an indicator that the dream is established from the Lord and will come to pass in a short time. Many years ago in my earlier ministry I had a very troubling dream involving serpents. During the first dream the symbolism indicated that some form of difficulty (actually a spiritual attack) would follow a revival at a local church. This dream was immediately followed up by a second dream about a serpent in which the snake bit my feet and then