The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

The location of the dirt imagery is important as it figures prominently into the dream. Dirt highlighted in forests has a different connotation (that of thickets, meaning obscurity), than dirt on a highway, which could mean building, landscaping, or some other human endeavor. Wet dirt is mud and this could signify slander, exposés, and scandals. Rich, dark dirt speaks for itself. It is ground ready for seeding. Lighter colored dirt can indicate shallowness and ground that will not bear good or long lasting fruit. See Sand. 384. Dispensation—A word used to identify the unique economy of the Lord’s kingdom. Dispensation means stewardship, administration, management, and oversight of another’s property. More than merely a period of time in which the gospel is scheduled to be preached, a dispensation is actually an economy. This word includes terms like “distributed allotment,” “allocated funds,” “disbursed payments,” “expenditures,” and “subsidy.” Subsidy adds the features of aid, allowance, pension, and bounty. To these God attaches the word providence. Hence a dispensation is more than a preaching epoch. It includes the financing, provisions, and monetary benefits of doing so. What makes this important to the prophet is the reason the Bible links the office to prosperity, wealth, riches, and so forth. Since God does everything by His word, He intends for it to always profit Him. God being the embodiment of all riches and wealth in creation dispenses these in every generation to every soul. However, prophets get a greater measure of these dispensed to their mantles because they are empowered by the Lord to release and impart the ability to prosper to others. See 2 Chronicles 20:20; Isaiah 48:17; Jeremiah 2:8,11, 7:8, 23:32. All these associate prophetics with profitability. 385. Distinction—What sets different objects apart from each other in a way that designates the better over the lesser in qualitative ways. Creator God’s apostles and prophets are called to make God distinct for His people. Every time His people are overrun with carnality and demonism they are commissioned to move to renew God’s distinctions. The influx of the forces of carnality and demonism into the body of Christ means it ceases to have the ability, or capacity, to discern the righteous and godly from the evil, demonic, and worldly. Leviticus 20:25 and 11:47. 386. Diva—A goddess believed to have fallen from the sky to dwell with the people of a certain area. A female priestess of such deities whose celebration of the idol included performances of a dramatic nature to commemorate the idols falling to them, and to demonstrate what the deities were doing, had done, or would do, for their people. Such performances also emulated the conduct,