How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

the “time appointed was long” (Dan. 10:1, KJV ). Daniel initiated a twenty-one-day fast to receive more insight on the prophetic vision he had seen, which is recorded in chapter 8 (concerning the Tribulation). An angel of God (Gabriel; see Daniel 8:16; 9:21) stood before Daniel and began revealing the most detailed order of future events from Daniel’s time in Babylon to the end of the Great Tribulation. (See Daniel chapters 10–12.) Joseph’s dream appeared somewhat contradictory since his mother had died in childbirth. If the moon was a symbol of Rachel and the dream alluded to Jacob and his sons ending up in Egypt, where Joseph would be second in command, then the moon should not have even been in Joseph’s dream. However, consider this. The sun and all of the stars are always visible throughout the year. However, the moon is only full several days out of each month, and there is a brief period when the moon is called a new moon , meaning it cannot be seen in the sky from the earth. Darkness appears to fill the night, but the moon is still there nonetheless. Rachel was now dead; however, the prophet Jeremiah, hundreds of years after her death, described her weeping in her grave knowing her children would be taken captive one day:

A voice was heard in Ramah, Lamentation and bitter weeping, Rachel weeping for her children, Refusing to be comforted for her children, Because they are no more.

—J EREMIAH 31:15