17 October 2024
The dream
I was in my old house. It was dim. It was being renovated by my father. He showed me the plans of his renovation on his tablet. There was a hole in the wall, like a dumbwaiter, and I tried to look through it into the kitchen. I could see the kitchen. It was bright. I could not go through. I wanted to work out how to drive to my place of stay in a student halls of residence. I got there and wanted to check out, but I was too tired, so I slept. A lady who also wanted to check out tried to shake me to get me up. I was too tired. I asked her to leave her stuff, to save money on checking out. When I was awake, she was already gone.
What I know
The tablet is the Bible. I use it almost exclusively to read Scripture. The house is the church. In the Bible the house is God’s people. Renovating is improving it. The father is God. A dim house is darkness. A student in the halls is a disciple. This is the first of the house dreams.
All I know of my part in it is this. My objective is to help church, or churches, understand much about the Bible. That is as much as my simple brain can handle. The house dreams are what led me to set down the building passages on Faith, Obedience, Grace.
The house is the church
Scripture does not leave the house as a building only. The house is the people of God.
“For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building.”
(1 Corinthians 3:9 ESV)
“Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?”
(1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV)
“So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord.”
(Ephesians 2:19–21 ESV)
“But Christ is faithful over God’s house as a son. And we are his house, if indeed we hold fast our confidence and our boasting in our hope.”
(Hebrews 3:6 ESV)
“You yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house.”
(1 Peter 2:5 ESV)
The old house in the dream is the faith community. It is dim. That is darkness. The Father is renovating it. He shows the plans on the tablet. The plan of the improvement is Scripture.
“The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them has light shone.”
(Isaiah 9:2 ESV)
“And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil.”
(John 3:19 ESV)
“Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.’”
(John 8:12 ESV)
“For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.”
(Ephesians 5:8 ESV)
“This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.”
(1 John 1:5 ESV)
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
(Psalm 119:105 ESV)
“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.”
(Psalm 127:1 ESV)
The page that came out of these dreams says the same thing:
“The Bible employs the powerful metaphor of constructing a house to illustrate the life of faith—a spiritual edifice built for God’s kingdom, where faith, obedience, and grace interweave as essential pillars.”
“For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.”
The Father shows the plan in a dim house. The house is the church. The plan is the Word, and the Word is the lamp. Helping the church understand that Word is the renovation I can see.
The dumbwaiter
I look through a hole in the wall, like a dumbwaiter, into the kitchen. I can see the place where the household’s food is prepared. It is bright. I cannot go through. In Ezekiel the temple kitchens are for those who minister. The people do not enter that room. The plan is still shown.
“These are the kitchens where those who minister at the temple shall boil the sacrifices of the people.”
(Ezekiel 46:24 ESV)
“This is the place where the priests shall boil the guilt offering and the sin offering, and where they shall bake the grain offering, in order not to bring them out into the outer court and so transmit holiness to the people.”
(Ezekiel 46:20 ESV)
The house is dim. The light is in the kitchen, and I only see it through the hole. I see the plan on the tablet. I see into the place of feeding. I do not enter it.
The halls
Then I leave the house for a student halls of residence. That is temporary lodging for a disciple. I want to check out, and I am too tired, so I sleep. A lady in the same lodging also wants to check out. She tries to shake me awake. I tell her to leave her stuff, so the checkout costs less. When I am awake, she is already gone.
“Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me.”
(Matthew 11:29 ESV)
“The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
(Matthew 26:41 ESV)
I am not sure what this second part is. It may be ahead. A temporary stay among disciples, a leaving that sleep defeats, a woman who also wants to leave, a word about her things, and then her absence. I do not know more than the shape.
The Father is improving his church by the plan in the Bible. The house is the church, and it is dim, and that is darkness. The Word on the tablet is the lamp. The kitchen is bright, and I only see it through the dumbwaiter. My aim is to help the church understand that Bible. The opening into the place of feeding is there, and I cannot yet use it. That is as much as I can handle.
Hence, this first “house” dream gave the idea of starting https://findgod.help
For more information, you can go through all of “Phase Zero” and “Phase One” in https://findgod.help especially https://findgod.help/en/Seeking%20God.html https://findgod.help/en/Word%20of%20God.html and https://findgod.help/en/FaithObedienceGrace.html
