How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

I t was approximately 2,500 years after the creation of Adam that God came to Moses in the wilderness and revealed the first written record of God’s Word to mankind. From Adam to Noah’s flood is about ten generations, stretching for 1,658 years. From Noah’s son Shem to the arrival of Abraham is another ten generations and a span of several hundred years (Gen. 11:10–26). These years are called by theologians the dispensation of human government , as mankind had no written law to turn to and follow. God, however, did not remain silent for 2,500 years. He began revealing His will through dreams, visions, angelic encounters, and even personal visitations from Himself. When a righteous man or a patriarch such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, or Joseph dreamed a spiritual dream, there was always a cryptic message encoded in the dream or the symbolism thereof. In the Bible, dreaming dreams is referred to 115 times, and the word vision is used 79 times in the English translation of the Bible. Some suggest that since we have the Bible, there is no longer any need for God to speak through a dream or a vision. However, the Bible itself is clear that as God pours out His Spirit in the last days, the visitations from heaven will be accompanied by both visions and dreams:

And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, That I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your young men shall see visions, Your old men shall dream dreams. And on My menservants and on My maidservants