How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

Instead He said, “They are like the angels, neither marrying or being given in marriage.” The verse is silent, yet the implication is that there is a possibility of both male and female angelic beings in heaven. However, there is no marriage among the angels in heaven. If these two women carrying the basket are female in gender, and the Hebrew word indicates they are, and they are wicked spirits and not angels of the Lord, then this would indicate female spirits in the satanic realm. If Satan’s kingdom consists of fallen angels, and these two women are fallen angels, then their appearance would be like that of the angels before the wicked angels were cast out of heaven with Satan. Perhaps the least controversial manner of interpreting this, according to some scholars, is to say that they appeared to the prophet to look like women but were not women. This is similar to the strange demonic locusts that come from the abyss during the Tribulation and had “faces of men” and “hair like women’s hair” (Rev. 9:7–8). In ancient cultures, women grew very long hair. Thus John described either the hairlike appearance or the headdress on these creatures as the appearance of women’s hair. If these women simply had long hair and feminine-looking faces, then the argument is that all angels in Scripture are masculine in appearance except these two. However, in most spiritual dreams and visions the messenger will appear in a masculine form. It is possible that God could permit an angel to appear as a woman in a dream, but this is certainly a very rare instance. Perhaps the controversy is better settled when we get to heaven!