How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

When King Abimelech saw Abraham’s wife, Sarah, and secretly planned to take her for his wife, God appeared in a dream warning him that he would be a dead man if he so much as touched Sarah. In the dream the Almighty informed the king that Abraham was a prophet and would pray a healing prayer for Abimelech, and God would hear and answer Abraham’s prayer (Gen. 20:1–7). When Samuel was just a young child about twelve years of age, he heard the voice of the Lord calling to him on three occasions. After answering the third time, God revealed to Samuel that He was expelling the high priest Eli and his sons from the future priesthood in Israel. The vision from the Lord to Samuel came to pass. We read that “all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the Lord” (1 Sam. 3:20). In Acts 2, on the Day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit descended upon the believers, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit (Acts 2:1– 4). Peter stood among the brethren and began expounding about the prophecies of Christ that were concealed throughout the Old Testament. Peter mentioned a prediction that David gave concerning how God would not leave the Messiah’s soul in hell and not allow His holy one to see corruption (v. 31). Peter called David a prophet, since the sweet king of Israel, who had lived a thousand years before Christ, had foreseen the coming of the Messiah. In each instance these men (and numerous others) received direct knowledge about things to come and were classified as prophets as a result of it! In the last days the Holy Spirit will speak to both young and old men. Some more liberal Christian