How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

and that the point man was shot to death. Out of eight hundred men who went into Vietnam with Lewis’s company, only eight returned—Lewis Stone was one of those eight. Other dreams or visions are veiled in symbolism. Years ago while touring Rome, Italy, I pondered as to why the Book of Revelation was written with so much symbolism. It occurred to me that chapters 17 and 18 speak of mystery Babylon’s destruction—the city ruling over the kings of the earth. This is believed by many scholars to be a cryptic reference to the city of Rome, which was the headquarters of the Roman Empire in John’s day. If John was predicting the total destruction of Rome and using the symbolism of Babylon to conceal the meaning, then it is clear why God chose the symbol of a woman riding a beast. If John would have clearly stated that the great city of Rome would be judged and destroyed in the future, then the Roman government, which had confined him to the desolate island of Patmos (Rev. 1:9), would have refused to allow John to bring the apocalyptic scroll with him when he was released from his captivity. John’s prophecy of Rome’s demise would have been considered to be anti-Roman propaganda. The Book of Revelation would have been confiscated and destroyed, never to be read in any church. Imagine when John’s Roman captors asked to see his writing, and they read of a flying red dragon, a women with a crown of twelve stars who was giving birth in heaven, and a woman hanging on to a ten-horned beast. Perhaps they would have thought, “This old man has been in the cave too long and needs some fresh air!” The bizarre symbolism may have actually provided protection for the actual scroll, allowing it to