How to Interpret Dreams and Visions Perry Stone

purchased the field of his uncle’s son for seventeen shekels of silver and took both a sealed and opened title deed, burying them in the ground in a clay (earthen) jar as a sign that the Jews would one day return to the land and rebuild on the property that would lay dormant during the captivity. (See Jeremiah 32.) The assault by the Babylonians did occur years later, as predicted, and Jeremiah chapters 51 and 52 give a detailed summary of all of the vessels and sacred pieces of furniture carried away to ancient Babylon, the city on the Tigris. The priests didn’t believe Jeremiah’s prediction, but the old prophet believed the word the Lord had given him. Imagine the stress these godly men experienced in their day when warning dreams and visions from the God of Israel, Jerusalem, and the Jews came to them, and they were commissioned by God to speak aloud what was being revealed in their prayer closets. Many times their dreams and visions would not come to pass in their own lifetimes. For example, both Daniel and John saw the final prophetic empire identified as a beast with ten horns, and these predictions, which will unfold in the last day, have not yet occurred. God instructed Daniel to “seal the book until the time of the end” (Dan. 12:4), knowing these latter-day visions were a long way off. Some warnings are so advanced in their visual presentation that their fulfillment may not occur during the lifetime of the visionary. This is also true with warnings and even dreams or visions that reveal good things to come, such as the future binding of Satan, Christ’s one-thousand-year reign on Earth, and the New Jerusalem coming down to Earth as seen in John’s vision in the Apocalypse (Rev. 21; 22).