DREAMS INTHE BIBLE

God certainly communicates to His people through dreams.

We will study some of the characteristics of those dreams.

The Holy Bible is full of them, both in the Old Testament and in the

New Testament.

Jacob’s ladder of Angels dream

Works in our dreams.

Genesis 2:21 (NKJV)21 And the LORD God caused a

deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

Gen 15:12-13 (NKJV) 12 Now when the sun was going down, a

deep sleep fell upon Abram; and behold, horror and great darkness fell upon him. 13 Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.

Put impressions in our dreams.

He reveals Himself in our dreams.

Gen 28:13 (NKJV) 13 And behold, the LORD stood above

it and said: “I am the LORD God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.

Reveals far away future plans.

Gen 37: 5-7 (NKJV) 5 Now Joseph had a dream, and he told it to his

brothers; and they hated him even more. 6 So he said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed: 7 There we were, binding sheaves in the field. Then behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and indeed your sheaves stood all around and bowed down to my sheaf.”

Reveals far away future plans.

Gen 37:9 (NKJV) 9 Then he dreamed still another

dream and told it to his brothers, and said, “Look, I have dreamed another dream. And this time, the sun, the moon, and the eleven stars bowed down to me.”

Reveals far away future plans.

Gen 37: 10-11 (NKJV) 10 So he told it to his father and his brothers;

and his father rebuked him and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Shall your mother and I and your brothers indeed come to bow down to the earth before you?” 11 And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

Reveals near future plans.

Gen 41:25-26 (NKJV) 25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The

dreams of Pharaoh are one; God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do: 26 The seven good cows are seven years, and the seven good heads are seven years; the dreams are one.

Reveals near future plans.

Gen 41:32 (NKJV)

32 And the dream was repeated to Pharaoh twice because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

Individual Messages.

Gen 40:5 (NKJV)

5 Then the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were confined in the prison, had a dream, both of them, each man’s dream in one night and each man’s dream with its own interpretation.

Individual Messages.

Gen 41:11 (NKJV)

11 we each had a dream in one night, he and I. Each of us dreamed according to the interpretation of his own dream.

Individual Messages

Gen 41:12 (NKJV)

12 Now there was a young Hebrew man with us there, a servant of the captain of the guard. And we told him, and he interpreted our dreams for us; to each man he interpreted according to his own dream.

Judges 7:13 (NKJV)

13 And when Gideon had come, there was a man telling a dream to his companion. He said, “I have had a dream: To my surprise, a loaf of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian; it came to a tent and struck it so that it fell and overturned, and the tent collapsed.”

Gives Courage.

Gives Courage.

Judges 7:14 (NKJV)

14 Then his companion answered and said, “This is nothing else but the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel! Into his hand God has delivered Midian and the whole camp.”

Judges 7:145 (NKJV)

15 And so it was, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, that he worshiped. He returned to the camp of Israel, and said, “Arise, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”

Gives Courage.

Grants Petitions

1 Kings 3:5 (NKJV)

5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”

Grants Petitions.

1 Kings 3:15 (NKJV)

15 Then Solomon awoke; and indeed it had been a dream. And he came to Jerusalem and stood before the ark of the covenant of the LORD, offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

Gives Dream Interpretations.

Gen 40:8 (NKJV)

8 And they said to him, “We each have had a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.” So Joseph said to them, “Do not interpretations belong to God? Tell them to me, please.”

Gives Dream Interpretations.

Daniel 1:17 (NKJV)

17 As for these four young men, God gave them knowledge and skill in all literature and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.

Gives Dream Interpretations.

Daniel 2:26-27 (NKJV) 26 The king answered and said to Daniel, whose

name was Belteshazzar, “Are you able to make known to me the dream which I have seen, and its interpretation?” 27 Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, “The secret which the king has demanded, the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, and the soothsayers cannot declare to the king.

Gives Dream Interpretations.

Daniel 2:28-29 (NKJV) 28 But there is a God in heaven who

reveals secrets, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head upon your bed, were these: 29 As for you, O king, thoughts came to your mind while on your bed, about what would come to pass after this; and He who reveals secrets has made known to you what will be.

Gives Dream Interpretations.

  Daniel 2:47 (NKJV)

47 The king answered Daniel, and said, “Truly your God is the God of gods, the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you could reveal this secret.”

Gives Dream Interpretations.

Daniel 4:6 (NKJV) Therefore I issued a decree to

bring in all the wise men of Babylon before me, that they might make known to me the interpretation of the dream.

Gives Dream Interpretations.

Daniel 4:7 (NKJV)

7 Then the magicians, the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers came in, and I told them the dream; but they did not make known to me its interpretation.

Gives Dream Interpretations.

Daniel 4:8 (NKJV)

8 But at last Daniel came before me (his name is Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god; in him is the Spirit of the Holy God), and I told the dream before him, saying:

Gives Dream Interpretations.

Daniel 4:9 (NKJV)

9 “Belteshazzar, chief of the magicians, because I know that the Spirit of the Holy God is in you, and no secret troubles you, explain to me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and its interpretation.

Gives Dream Interpretations.

Daniel 4:18 (NKJV)

 18 “This dream I, King Nebuchadnezzar, have seen. Now you, Belteshazzar, declare its interpretation, since all the wise men of my kingdom are not able to make known to me the interpretation; but you are able, for the Spirit of the Holy God is in you.”

Gives Dream Interpretations.

Daniel 5:11 (NKJV) 11 There is a man in your kingdom in

whom is the Spirit of the Holy God. And in the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and King Nebuchadnezzar your father—your father the king—made him chief of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers.

Gives Dream Interpretations.

Daniel 5:12 (NKJV)

… , now let Daniel be called, and he will give the interpretation.

Gives Instructions

Matthew 1:20 (New King James Version)

20 But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

Gives Instructions

Matthew 1:24 (New King James Version)

24 Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife,

Gives Instructions

Matthew 2:12 (New King James Version)

12 Then, being divinely warned in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed for their own country another way.

Gives Instructions

Matthew 2:13 (NKJV) The Flight into Egypt 13 Now when they had departed,

behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy Him.”

Gives Instructions

Matthew 2:19-20 (NKJV) The Home in Nazareth 19 Now when Herod was dead, behold,

an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, 20 saying, “Arise, take the young Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the young Child’s life are dead.”

Gives Instructions

Matthew 2:22 (New King James Version)

22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea instead of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there. And being warned by God in a dream, he turned aside into the region of Galilee.

Speaks in Dreams

Job 33:14-15 (New King James Version)

 14 For God may speak in one way, or in another,      Yet man does not perceive it.

 15 In a dream, in a vision of the night,      When deep sleep falls upon men,       While slumbering on their beds,

Speaks in Dreams

1 Kings 3:5 (New King James Version)

5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?”

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