How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

WHEN DREAMS SEEM TO CONTRADICT This was not the only time that a prophetic vision seemed to contradict itself. In the Old Testament, two major prophets, Jeremiah and Ezekiel, predicted that the Babylonians would destroy Jerusalem in the days of King Zedekiah. Jeremiah predicted that the king of Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar, would “lead Zedekiah to Babylon” (Jer. 32:5), whereas Ezekiel predicted that “he [Zedekiah] shall not see it, though he shall die there” (Ezek. 12:13). The Jewish historian Josephus writes that since these two predictions seemed to contradict—the king would be led to Babylon and yet the king would not see it —it meant that Zedekiah rejected both predictions and refused to believe the words of either prophet.1 Here is how both predictions were fulfilled. In 2 Kings 25:6– 7, at the final siege of Jerusalem, King Zedekiah was brought before the king of Babylon, where the Babylonians put out the king’s eyes, bound him with fetters of brass, and led him into Babylon! He was led away but did not see . The king should have believed what he heard and not tried so much to figure out how it could occur. A second example is when Isaiah told King Hezekiah that the day would come when “all that is in your house, and what your fathers have accumulated” would be carried away into Babylon, and nothing would be left (2 Kings 20:16–17). Daniel, who was a young captive in Babylon, wrote in Daniel 1:2,