How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

assault from the adversary, Job was stricken with boils and endured severe physical trauma (Job 2:7). From the moment of his attack, Job sought for answers to the enigma of why the righteous suffer. Three friends visited Job during his loss and engaged in a long discussion about life, faith, and suffering. It is evident that Job was seeking God for a divine revelation to his dilemma. As we read the narrative, there are some eye-opening passages that reveal how God speaks to men.

Now a word was secretly brought to me, And my ear received a whisper of it. In disquieting thoughts from the visions of the night, When deep sleep falls on men,

Fear came upon me, and trembling, Which made all my bones shake. Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair on my body stood up. It stood still, But I could not discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes; There was silence.

—J OB 4:12–16

The first point is the use of the phrase “deep sleep.” There are many passages in Scripture about a prophet who was being given a divine revelation from a visit of the Lord that indicate the prophet entered a “deep sleep.” In Genesis 15:12, a deep sleep came over Abraham as the sun was going down, and the Lord spoke to him. In Daniel 8:18, Daniel remarks that he was in a “deep sleep with my face to the ground” when the angel of