A Prophetic Vision about the deceiving spirits in the churches

A dear member of our e-mail group saw the following dream and had requested me for its interpretation during May 2004.

"I had a dream that I was in a church and there was an altar call. I felt as though I needed to go up for prayer but for some reason, I hesitated. I did go up after a few moments. The minister was a man in my old church who was praying for the people. When he came to me, he told me to go and to fall forward when he laid hands on me. As I did, I fell on the floor and started rolling. All I could see was stars in my mind. When I got up, I felt very dazed as I walked back to my seat.

There seemed to be many people of Hispanic descent in this church. There was a man decked with all sorts of necklaces and jewels around his neck walking in the church. Then I sat by this woman who was offering me prescriptions of pain killers, but I wondered why, because I wasn't in pain and did not take them. I saw many children in the church building a sanctuary made of scrap cardboard in the church".

Interpretation

Your vision is a prophetic one. The minister whom you saw in your old church is typical of a group of ministers. No doubt, they pray for their sheep but cause the sheep under their care to go into captivity of the spirit of error who is of the Devil. It is a false revival fire. They experience outward emotional experiences but their inward men remain unchanged. A false revival fire is poured out on their sheep in that they experience only emotional experiences and make physical movements of their bodies. But in their lives they do not have the spiritual experience of crucifixion with Christ and the dominion of the Holy Spirit. The minister seen by you in the dream asked you to fall down when he laid his hands on you. In a true revival, nobody would ask you to fall down. When the glory of God is revealed, you will fall down and worship Him. Let us read the account of revival in Wales.

After you fell on the floor, you could see some stars in a vision. Seeing stars in a dream does not mean getting a revelation of God. You have seen only the stars created by God. You have merely got a revelation of the creatures of God and not of the Creator God. It is a deception only.

The end-result is that you felt very dazed. All such emotional experiences did not result in a revelation of God. When you get a revelation of God, you will feel your unworthiness; you will experience His love and you will be filled with His love towards the Body of Christ. You will never feel dazed.

In this church, you see many people of a particular descent. This shows that many sheep of these ministers are of a particular spiritual growth. It is a retarded spiritual growth.

You find a man decked with all sorts of necklaces and jewels walking in the midst of the church. You also find a woman offering you some prescriptions of pain killers. In the churches of these ministers, the deceiving spirits are roaming about. These are the spirits of error and are not of the Spirit of the truth. The ministers in these churches teach that poverty or disease is a curse of God. They lay undue emphasis on material prosperity and bring the worldliness into the churches.

They are interested in preaching selective messages with a view to giving immediate relief to the suffering sheep but they are not interested in teaching on the wonderful blessings that follow such sufferings. They merely offer pain killers but do not diagnose the diseases for offering the right medicines. In this regard, let us read the devotionals of Charles Cowman, the author of "Streams in the Desert".

These churches are merely building sanctuaries of scrap cardboard and not sanctuaries where the Holy Spirit is manifesting Himself through the ministries of the five types of New Testament ministers. These ministers are building their own sanctuaries and not the Body of Christ.

If you are part of a local church of this kind, it is time for you to leave this church and to have fellowship with a church where the minister concerned sincerely loves the sheep under his care and does not lead them to mere emotional experiences and false doctrines and where you get the revelation of the Body of Christ.