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God Uses Dreams and Visions To Speak To Us. Throughout the Bible, God has also used dreams, visions and words of knowledge to reveal His plans, will and instructions. It was Pharaoh, his butler and baker who had dreams—and it was Joseph who interpreted them (Genesis 40-41).
May 11, 2024 · God used dreams and visions to confirm His promises to His people. In the book of Numbers, God spoke to a prophet named Balaam through a vision. This vision confirmed that God would not go back on His promise to bless the Israelites and bring them into the promised land.
Jan 14, 2024 · Learning to recognize divine communications requires prayer, biblical wisdom, and discerning community. In this comprehensive guide, we will explore how God reveals Himself, how to prepare to hear from Him, ways we can miss His voice, and how to respond when we believe He has spoken to us.
- Moses Has A Vision of God
- Elijah Has A Vision of God
- Three Apostles Witnessed A Vision of God at The Mount of Transfiguration
- Paul Has A Vision of God
- We Have and Will Have A Vision of God
When Moses ascended Sinai, God brought him into heaven. Exodus 24:9–10 records part of his ascent by saying: Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up, and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness. The ground turned into...
Elijah, high on slaying the priests of Baal, gets a wake-up call when Jezebel threatens to murder him. So he flees to Mount Horeb where God gave the covenant and Moses had his vision of God. There, God too passes him by. While we learn that God’s presence is dangerous in the story of Moses, the narrative of Kings gives us a vivid picture of this da...
It is small wonder that Moses and Elijah appear on the Mount of Transfiguration talking with the glorified Jesus. That had already done this as Exodus and 1 Kings records. They are the ones who, while yet alive, talked with the glory of God, that is, Jesus. At the Mount of Transfiguration, they stood in the presence of Jesus whose “clothes became r...
When Paul has his vision of Jesus (Acts 9), he decides he needs to reevaluate his life. So he says he spent three years in Arabia before heading to Damascus (Gal 1:17–18). Possibly during this time he “received [the gospel] through a revelation of Jesus Christ” (Gal 1:12). Interestingly, Arabia, where Paul went, included Mount Horeb in its region (...
By the Spirit, we unite to Christ. Through uniting to him according to his humanity (we share a common nature), we then have full access to God since we have the whole Christ. So we come to know God experientially in this way. In prayer, we “with confidence draw near to the throne of grace” (Heb 4:16). In this sense, we have a partial vision of God...
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Nov 13, 2020 · First, we need to clarify the difference between a dream and a vision. A vision occurs when a person is awake and alert; a dream occurs when a person is asleep. Peter was awake for his vision of the unclean food (Acts 10:9-23). John was awake for his vision recorded in Revelation (Revelation 1:9-11).
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Dec 7, 2015 · John was in spirit to see the four great visions in the book of Revelation (Rev. 1:10; 4:2; 17:3; 21:10). God desires that we too would see what He has revealed in His word. But for us to receive spiritual vision is much more than to know and understand the facts in the Bible.
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May 19, 2019 · God can use visions He gives us to guide and direct us. We see in the book of Acts, God using different kinds of visions to provide guidance and direction to His people. God can and does still speak to His people through visions.
