Visions of Africa and dead elephants

Dreams of Volcano and Whirlwind!

A dear brother, Benjamin Levi, and his wife Jessy, hailing from India, are now in Switzerland. Jessi and her parents in Delhi are very close to us. Benjamin and Jessi are serving the Lord in Switzerland. Benjamin wrote to me about his dreams and requested me to interpret the same during Sept.2004. He had three dreams.

First dream:

One of the main reasons for me to write this mail is to share my dream which I had couple of months ago. Before I explain my dream, let me briefly tell you about the gifts the Lord has bestowed me with. Dreaming is one of the gifts that the Lord has blessed me with. I am the 3rd son in the family. My parents dedicated me to the Lord's work when I was born. Even while I was very young the dreams I saw had come to pass. (Sadly, when I changed my ways towards the world I stopped having such dreams), but after this transformation experience the Lord has restored this gift back to me.

On the 12th of July I had a dream: I was standing in the center of a city (was familiar to me which looked like the city of Fribourg where we are put up now). The city was surrounded by mountains. I could see that people were very sad, troubled and could sense that something bad was going to happen. I quickly went to a man who was troubled and told him not to worry about anything because the Bible says; "No weapons that is formed against His children shall prosper". He was very skeptical about my words but rather received it gladly. Soon after this I heard a huge cry, people running everywhere. I lifted up my head and saw a huge volcano erupt from one corner of the mountain coming down to the city. I looked around to East, West, North and South - from the four corners of the mountain; the fire was coming into the city. After this dream I suddenly woke up.

My interpretation:

The Lord has anointed you as an evangelist. The city represents the places where people worship the god of materialism. There are mountains that surround this city. It is very difficult to minister to the people that live in such places though it is easy to preach the gospel to the poor people in nations like India because these people would receive your word and accept Jesus Christ. But this is not the case with those living in the city. You stand in the midst of this city. You have a ministry in this city only. This city does not mean the city in which you live in a literal sense. A vision needs to be interpreted in an allegorical manner. As an evangelist, you have to minister to the unsaved in these materially prosperous nations. These people do not need miracles for their day to day life because they have all the luxuries and comforts of this life. You have to tell them about the impending judgment of God on them because of their sin of self-indulgence. You found in this city some people who were not happy; one man heard your message of comfort. This shows that people will hear you and accept the Lord. You saw fire from a volcano. Your message should revolve around "this volcano". This does not mean you have to preach on the subject of "volcano". You have to point your fingers at the impending judgment of God in your gospel message. Your message should be like that of Jonah to the city of Ninevah.

Second and third dreams:

To my surprise on the 13th of July I had the same dream. I was standing in the same place. Everything was exactly the same but this time I saw the people were very happy. All of them were filled with joy. After this I saw from the four corners of the mountain a huge whirlwind coming down to the city. Soon after this I woke up and later I again went to sleep again. I saw another dream in which I was inside my home and there were two big poisonous snakes inside a hole. I caught hold of the two snakes with a stick by its head, came outside of my home and crushed the heads of the snakes killing them instantly. All the people who saw me killing the snakes reacted differently. One group of people was very happy that I killed the snakes but the majority of them were not happy. They were very angry with me for killing the snakes.

My interpretation:

God is confirming your calling by repeating this dream. Now the people were filled with joy. Truly, the people were not happy in the Lord. They were happy because of their material prosperity. But they need Christ and the true joy of salvation. You saw in this dream a huge whirlwind coming down to the city. Whirlwind represents the ministry of the Holy Ghost with the spiritual gifts. You have to minister to them through the spiritual gifts that the Lord would give you. You would receive power from above through the Holy Spirit. Through His power, you would cast out the demons that hold sway over these cities. There are two poisonous snakes inside a hole. You have exposed these snakes through your ministry. These are spirits of witchcraft and of astrology reigning over the people of the city. You would take hold of them and crush their heads in the Name of Jesus Christ. God has already given you His authority i.e. rod in your hand. When you minister to the people, many of them would not accept your message. Only a small group of people would accept you. Do not worry about that. This small group of believers will become a strong nation one day. One will become a thousand.

Dearly beloved in Christ, the Holy Spirit has given these dreams to the Body of Christ so that some of you who have been put into the evangelical ministry by God may minister to the unsaved people in your nation, pointing to the impending judgment of God on them.

Visions of Africa and dead elephants!
 

(A dear sister wrote to me during Sept.2004 about the dreams she had seen, seeking my interpretations):

I am a fellow believer and subscriber to your website through InJesus.com. I recently had a vision, the first real vision I have ever had, and I was wondering if I could tell you about it and maybe get some feedback as to what you think it might mean. If that is ok with you, here goes:

One night last week while lying in bed getting ready to go to sleep, I was talking to the Lord. Suddenly, I saw a city in Africa, as if I was hovering over the city from far above, then I saw a picture of a picture frame with 9 pictures in it as if it were on the front page of Time magazine.

The nine pictures were of dead elephants, each of different elephants in different poses. Then I heard in a voice, as if somebody were talking to me aloud, "Specialty Truck Services", and "Friday the 24th". I immediately felt it had to do with a bomb. I worked the dates of all the Fridays that fall on the 24th of a month for the next year, and only three dates matched: Sept 24th 2004, Dec 24th 2004, and June 24th, 2005.

I prayed and asked the Lord what it meant. About ten minutes later, I had another vision, or a continuance of the first, I'm not sure which.

Here is the next vision or 2nd part of the first: I saw a city full of Africans (They had black skin). The people were protesting something violently. They were almost rioting. I heard the words "Gay Sex". I saw one man in particular who was in power, either in government or a dictator or something of that type. This man in power was a "Bad Man", evil. I saw fighting. That was the end of the vision.

Please, if you have any input, I would sure appreciate it!

Your sister in Christ,

Michele Coleman
760-438-0610

Dated: 5^th September, 2004

My interpretation of the dreams

This vision needs prophetic interpretation. The names of places, people, figures, etc. are allegorical. Africa, a continent that needs to be still evangelized fully, is typical of those areas in this world that need to be evangelized.

The nine dead elephants represent the dead religious practices that rule the roost in the churches today. Religious practices have become part of the worship services these days when people worship God by giving lip services to Him and when they do not have any burden to preach the gospel in places that need to be evangelized.

Why it is 9, an odd figure, instead of 10? In our eyes, if we come across a figure like 9, we tend to ignore it. But, if we come across a figure like 10, 20, etc., we easily note it down and attach importance to it; we remember it. Similarly, the people of God do not take seriously such dead religious practices while worshipping the living God.

"Specialty Truck services"! This shows that all such worship services where people of God pay lip services to God, when they live in sin, are not lively services for the glory of God. They are dead church services. They are called here "specialty truck services". In other words, they are known as commercial services meant for transporting goods through trucks, and not holy worship services.

"Friday 24th"! We, the people of God, "observe days; and months, and times, and years…." (Gal.4:10). Paul in this epistle wondered how the people of God in Galatia became entangled into legality or laws, from which they had been set free. We now find that the cult of astrology is spreading like wild fire even in European and western nations. The cult of astrology is based on particular days and movement of stars and planets. Please note that today (5th September, 2004) in our church services I was given the public reading of the Scriptures. The scripture reading was taken from this portion of the Pauline epistle to Galatians.

In our midst, there is a denominational church called "Seventh day Adventist". They are very particular about worshipping God on the seventh day only. Recently, I found somebody claiming to be an apostle in USA. He wanted to gather the people of God for observing the Jewish festivals like Passover, Pentecost and Tabernacle.

The churches are thus drifting away from the grace and falling into the laws of the Old Testament.

You saw a city in Africa full of Africans. The Holy Spirit shows us in visions so that we can easily remember these visions and thus understand the truth. This means that in many of our cities there are millions of unconverted people who are not yet born again. They are self-righteous people. They know about the morality but do not know Christ Jesus. They indulge in violence and protest against immorality like Gay-sex, etc. The churches have to reach out these people through the glorious gospel.

You saw one evil man in power i.e. a dictator. This shows that the Devil is reigning over these people who have put on the garb of "morality". The Devil as the dictator has been instigating these people to resort to violence.

(Job Anbalagan)