How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

“Some of the articles of the house of God…” were carried to Babylon. Was it part or all of the treasures from the temple that went to Babylon? Did these two visionaries get their visions of the future crossed? Did one prophet prophesy in the flesh and the other in the Spirit ? The answer lies in the text of 2 Chronicles and in Jeremiah. During the first stage of the invasion, Nebuchadnezzar took only part of the gold vessels. (See Jeremiah 27.) Nebuchadnezzar had appointed Zedekiah’s brother, Jehoiakim, the new king of Judah. Jeremiah attempted to exhort Jehoiakim to submit to the Babylonian king. The Judean king refused, and thus we read: “Therefore He brought against them the king of the Chaldeans.…He gave them all into his hand. And all the articles from the house of God, great and small, the treasures of the house of the Lord…all these he took to Babylon” (2 Chron. 36:17–18). The vision was correct when the entire invasion by the Babylonians was completed. THE AMAZING PART OF JOSEPH’S DOUBLE DREAM As stated earlier, Joseph’s mother had died in childbirth; it was impossible for her to bow with the father and the other brothers. However, notice in Joseph’s sheave dream that there were eleven sheaves bowing. If we omit Joseph, there were eleven sons of Jacob who remained in the family after Joseph was sold to the traveling Ishmaelites as a slave. Years later, when Joseph interpreted Pharaoh’s dream of a coming famine, he set aside seven years of corn to prevent