How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

theophany , the appearance of Christ in the Old Testament. The man Daniel saw in the vision was clothed in linen held by a golden belt. His eyes were like lightning, his arms and his feet like brass, and his voice like the sound of many waters. Parts of this description are parallel to John’s vision of Christ in Revelation chapter 1! 4. The word mar’eh The fourth word means sight or appearance and is used in Daniel 10:1 where Daniel had received a vision but did not have the understanding. He privately fasted for three complete weeks and broke through the spiritual opposition that existed in the atmosphere where a demonic prince of Persia was restraining the revelation from reaching him. (See Daniel 10:1– 12.) The various words indicate that visions occur in different ways. In the Scriptures, the prophets would be in exile near a river when suddenly the inspiration of the Spirit would overcome them, and they would be “caught up” in spiritual ecstasy. John was on the isle of Patmos surrounded by the Aegean Sea when he was “in the Spirit” on the Lord’s day (Rev. 1:10). To be “in the Spirit” indicated to suddenly be into the very mind of thinking of God Himself! Ezekiel was a political prisoner in Babylon near the river Chebar when suddenly the heavens opened, and he saw the visions of God. The prophet describes the occasion as “the hand of the Lord was upon him there” (Ezek. 1:3). The seer then describes in detail the appearance of cherubs carrying the throne of God and how they traveled, moving like a “wheel