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Dreamed January 13, 2017

The names have been changed, but otherwise, the following dream plays out, as to what I have recorded, to the best of my recollection.

The dream started with two Christian brothers talking with me in the back of a mom-and-pop grocery store. Kevin and I were talking with a brother who was a janitor there. He told us about some signs he had just put up in the bathrooms. We asked the man, Lonnie, why he had placed the signs in the bathrooms stating that the owner (who was his brother in Jesus) was under the curse of God and anyone shopping at the store would receive the same punishment.

Lonnie looked like an actor I have seen in movie and TV shows. I can’t remember the name. He often played middle-aged sheriffs and detectives – solid and beefy, but with a pot belly.

Lonnie said that he hadn’t wanted to put the signs up, especially because he worked at the store for Jack and thought Jack was a good Christian.

“Then why did you do it?” I asked.

I did some things and I wasn’t proud of it,” answered Lonnie, as he hung his head, “and this other brother knew about it. He threatened to expose me if I didn’t cooperate with him.”

Kevin asked, “Who is this brother who blackmailed you?”

“I don’t know,” responded Lonnie.

“Even if what this unknown brother said is true, and God is judging the owner of this store, the way this brother is going about it is wrong. It has a very bad feel to it. Kevin needs to speak for himself, as to how he feels, but I think you should take the signs down. We’ll try to find out who is blackmailing you. If God is judging the owner of this store, we won’t be able to stop that, but neither your actions nor the actions of the brother who is blackmailing you are the actions of Christians who love Jesus.”

Kevin agreed. Lonnie walked into the ladies restroom and came out with the signs tucked under his arm. When he went into the men’s room, we followed Lonnie inside and thanked him for taking down the signs.

The bathroom was spacious, well lighted, clean and smelled like floral air freshener. We watched Lonnie remove the signs in the men’s room. The sign read, “God will judge you if you keep shopping at Jack’s Market! I am the Lord’s Anointed Prophet. I am warning you that Jack is about to be judged. For your protection, you need to shop somewhere else from now on. If you stop shopping here, you will be spared. If you do not stop, you will share in his punishment. I am Prophet [Blank] (unreadable name written in cursive), an instrument of God Almighty, and I approve this message.” I had tried to read the name of the prophet, but could not interpret the man’s scrawled signature.

Kevin and I were shocked at the audacity of the man who so boldly claimed to be God’s instrument of judgment. We both looked at each other and shook our heads.

I said to Lonnie, “We are living in the New Testament now, the way this man seems to be operating is very Old Testament. It has the stink of religious, controlling and Nicolaitan spirits. The man may be a sincere Christian acting in ignorance or a man who just uses religion to control people. I don’t know. Jesus knows. If God really is going to judge brother Jack, then Jesus will take care of that issue. That said, the way this is being done is not right.”

Meanwhile, the bathroom door flew open with a bang as a short elderly man, livid as molten lava and as formidable as a small granite mountain, crashed into the room. He yelled at Lonnie and jabbed his finger within an inch of his nose. Lonnie gasped like a fish out of the water but became so fearful that he was unable to speak.

Kevin and I looked at each other in shock. We both recognized Prophet Dylan!

Dylan bellowed, “I warned you, Lonnie! You have defied the Lord your God, and you will be judged. You have come against God and you have come against His Anointed Prophet. And you shall pay!” Immediately Prophet Dylan pumped both his short heavy arms back and then slammed them into Lonnie’s stomach.

Kevin yelled, “Dylan! Stop! You can’t do this!”

“I can and I will!” shouted Dylan as he double punched Lonnie again in the stomach. Lonnie fell groaning to the tiles.

He scowled at me and then said, “I will deal with you later, Wayne!” Prophet Dylan turned to Kevin and shouted, “You’re next!”

I exclaimed, “Jesus does not need an enforcer, Dylan!  Even if you have a word of judgment, you give it and let go and let God. This is not right! And you are taking a mistake and making it even worse!”

Prophet Dylan ignored me. He continued, “I curse you in the Name of God, Kevin. You obviously are the one in authority here and are more responsible. You too have defied your God and His prophet!”

Kevin did not look afraid, as Lonnie had, but he was stunned by the events that had so quickly unfolded before him. Prophet Dylan slammed him with one fist in the gut. Kevin bent forward and gasped for air.

Dylan cocked his other fist and prepared to hit him again. “You have meddled where you have no right! You will share in the judgment of brothers, Jack and Lonnie! I, the prophet of Almighty God, have spoken!”

I yelled, “In Jesus’ Name, you religious spirits of control, violence, and lording-it-over, stop now!”

I woke up. I did not see if Brother Kevin was punched a second time or if Prophet Dylan was stopped from his violence by the spiritual cease and desist order.

This dream illustrates an issue that is a problem within Christendom. Many of us have callings to warn brothers and sisters. If we do not warn them, we are responsible for God for their blood.

Ezekiel 3:17-19

17 Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

 

18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

 

19 Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

 

Acts 20:28

 

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

 

That said, some of us who are obedient to that call, often go about it the wrong way. Either we don’t stop after we give the warning, or we “go the extra mile” and horsewhip brothers and sisters. Another mistake that we can make, is to use intimidation or lord-it-over brothers and sisters in Jesus’ Name.

Revelation 2:6

 

     But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

 

Revelation 2:15

 

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.

 

Jesus warned us while giving His message to the church at Ephesus and at Pergamum, that He hates the deeds of the Nicolaitans. Historically, Nicolaitans were followers of the disciple, Nicholas. “Laitans” in the word is representative of the word “laity”. One of the sins of the followers of Nicholas was the control of the laity. This sin may also refer to leadership encouraging or forcing other Christians to engage in pagan festivities, participate in temple prostitution or partake in general sexual sin. When people, especially those in leadership or when operating in the five-fold ministry, “lord-it-over” their brothers and sisters of the flock, they do not seem to understand just how much Jesus hates this activity.

We can get so caught up in our “offices” that we go way beyond our mandate when we force people to “obey” our “Word from the Lord”!  In some cases, we may have a legitimate “Word of the Lord”; at other times, we just think we have such a word. What can also happen is that we start out to the best of our ability walking in obedience to our callings, but get off-track.

Meanwhile, we either let it go to our heads, or we become tainted by spiritual error, and then give out bad words, or give out the correct words, but do it improperly. We become like “a bellowing bull in a china closet,” and do more harm than good.

At the other extreme are people who quote Matthew 7:1 out of context, “Judge not lest ye be judged.” This is a warning not to be hypocrites when we make judgments, not a mandate to avoid judging within the church! In 1^st Corinthians 6:3, Paul warns us that we will one day judge both angels and the world, and in like manner we are also responsible for judging now within the body of Christ. Making judgments is part of walking in fellowship with one another. We are responsible for maturing, walking in purity and learning how to judge in a manner which is consistent with New Testament teachings.

For a good teaching on correction from Bible.org, please follow this link:

https://bible.org/seriespage/lesson-15-ministry-correction-1-timothy-51-2