Dream 274 – Jesus: “Your wilderness training is almost finished”
Received on Monday, February 5, 2018
Communion
Dear Father,
Thank You for another day! Thank You for my family and friends. Thank You for the sunshine after our recent snowstorm. I woke up at 5:15am on the morning of January 31st, 2018 to the sight of a clear sky and the massive Super Blue Blood Moon.
The moon was amazing and fully illuminated the blustery snowy fields next to us. It was simply stunning. Fresh powdery snow blanketed the entire area and it was so beautiful. Thank You for creating this incredible scene, Father!
While I then tried to go back to sleep, I was now extremely restless from my pain. I also had further difficulty sleeping as my husband had already left for an overnight business trip. However, this felt like more than just a business trip. I felt as if he was more like a warrior going off to battle in a major war.
Father, You have revealed several plots to him of things going on ‘behind the scenes’. Thank You so much for this! When I eventually drifted back off to sleep, You then sent me a beautiful dream. Thank You for this too, Father, as this was truly a great gift…
Sub-Dream 1 description begins…
I was young again. When I say ‘young again’, I mean ‘really young again’. It seemed that I was only around 4 or 5 years old. As I looked around me, I could see a makeshift ladder that appeared to be attached to a tree trunk. For some reason, I vaguely recalled that a family relative had done something similar with a ladder in their backyard, but I can no longer remember which relative.
As I gazed at the ladder ‘in wonder’, I decided that I would try to make my way up it. I looked up into the sky and noticed that the ‘climbing area’ was thick with branches. I strained to see where the ladder went, but could only see that it ended at a portal. I shrugged my tiny shoulders and decided to climb.
When I finally reached the top, I pulled myself up through the portal. This took great effort on my part as I was just ‘so little’. After I dragged myself through the portal on my belly, I flipped over on my back in exhaustion. After I rested a bit, I looked back towards the portal, but it had already somehow disappeared.
I was lying in a soft thick patch of grass. As I laid there, I could feel the warmth of the sun on my body. I could smell flowers and freshly mowed grass. This fragrance seemed familiar to me as it reminded me of my grandparent’s backyard.
As I stared back up into the sky, I could not help but start to giggle. An amazing cloud parade had begun. I started to laugh aloud. The first cloud was a lamb and I soon announced its arrival in a child’s voice. To my surprise, my voice sounded like a 4 or 5 year old’s voice. What I said was even childlike!
Me: “Ooooh, a pretty lamb!”
The second cloud was in the shape of a bird. The shape was incredibly detailed and something that you could never see on Earth.
Me: “Wow, a birdy!”
Someone then stood right over me and blocked my view. I quickly became excited when I saw that it was Jesus! I leaped up into His arms and hugged Him tightly. Even my excitement to see Him was ‘child-like’.
Me: “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!”
We both laughed together and I felt such joy.
Jesus: “Come on, Erin, I am going to show you some blossoms today.”
Me: “Hurray! And butterflies too?”
Jesus: Smiling. “Yes, Erin, and butterflies too.”
I reached my hands up for Him to carry me. He laughed just like an adoring father would laugh like when his daughter was excited to spend time with him.
Jesus: “Hmm, are you sure that you do not want to walk on your own?”
Me: “No, no, no!”
I kept my arms up in the air and jumped up and down for Him to pick me up. He laughed as He picked me up. I wrapped my arms around His neck and I looked behind us at His footprints as He walked.
I smiled when I saw that His footprints would quickly ‘disappear’ almost as soon as His foot left the soft living grass. The grass simply popped right back up into its original shape and blended in perfectly with the rest of the grass in less than a second.
I felt the warmth of His body as He carried me and I felt completely safe in His arms. I decided to reach up and touch a lock of His hair. I had never done this before and it felt like the finest of silks in my tiny hand. Perhaps prompted by the warmth of the sun and the comfort in His arms, I decided to rest my cheek on His shoulder.
The last thing I recalled before I then feel asleep was the beautiful blossoms all around us, along with the vibrant deep blue sky above us. While the blossoms were mostly white, they had a slight pink cast in the middle.
A breeze began to blow and I saw the blossoms start to fly in the air like snow. Just as my eyes started to close, I looked into Jesus’ eyes.
Me: Softly…sleepily. “Look, Jesus, snow…”
My eyes closed.
Sub-Dream 1 description over…
I then had a dream just last night that seemed to somehow blend in perfectly with this one. As I laid there sleeping in bed, I could hear Jesus speak to me. He was laughing as He spoke.
Jesus: “Awake, Erin. Rise up!”
As I woke up from my very deep sleep, His voice seemed to blend in with this dream. As I was still half-asleep, His voice seemed to be here with me in the room.
Me: “Lord? Lord?”
I felt called to go to my devotional chair, so I immediately got out of bed and went to meet with Him. While I was still yawning in drowsiness, I was immediately ‘taken up’. This was different from the ‘usual process’ and was truly awesome!
Jesus: “Erin, come up.”
Me: “Oh, please forgive me, Lord, as I must have fallen asleep. Did I miss anything?”
Jesus: Smiling. “No, Erin. Did you rest well?”
Me: “Wait, Lord. How long was I asleep? I am much older than I just was in the other dream. I know that I still look and feel 55, but I now look and feel 25 up here. Were You not just carrying me around as a 4 or 5 year old a little while ago?”
Jesus: Laughing. “Do you feel like you have been asleep for fifty years?”
Me: Laughing. “Well, I had wished I had been on some days…well, many days. Oh Lord, I feel so refreshed, strong, healed and young again here. Will You please replace my current state on Earth with the state that I am in here? After all, ‘on Earth as it is in Heaven’, right, Lord? Please, Lord, pretty please?”
Jesus: Smiling. “Oh, Erin, your prayer is good. Now, tell Me about some of the other dreams you have had recently.”
Me: “Well, I had two different dreams, but some of it really did not make a lot of sense to me…
Sub-Dream 2 description begins…
I had a key to a former employer’s home. For some reason, I had decided to take a shower in her home while waiting for her to come back. When she arrived home, she was understandably angry with me for coming in and making myself at home. I even shook my head at my own foolishness as I would never do this in real life.
Woman: “I cannot believe you came into my house without first asking me if you could. I will not be hiring you again.”
Me: “I understand, but I am not here to ask for employment.”
Woman: “What do you mean? You don’t need the work?”
It was only then that she noticed that I was now in my Transformed state. She instantly became frightened of me.
Me: “I now have something much larger that I am working on.”
She started to panic. As I could somehow know her thoughts, I knew that she had become worried that I was opening up a competing business.
Sub-Dream 2 description over…
Jesus: “So, Erin, what do you think this was all about?”
Me: “Well, is it that, when You heal us and bring us back to this area, people will be a bit shaken up by our ‘reappearance with a different appearance’?”
Jesus: Smiling. “Yes, Erin, as you will be changed and the former things will be removed. When you return, it will no longer be as a slave to man, but as a worker for Me. The shower that you took in this dream meant that you had washed yourself clean of the things she had soiled your reputation with, removing all of your shame.
“Because you will no longer lack any good things, you will no longer need what those who had used you had offered. You will be returning free and you will see right through the walls of their ‘houses’, their hearts.
“This will be scary for those who have wronged you as they will unwillingly confess with an unbridled tongue. They will confess to all that they had done to you. Now, tell Me about your second dream.”
Me: “Well, this one really did not make that much sense to me either…
Sub-Dream 3 description begins…
I was in a Pratt & Larson showroom. It was a brand new showroom and was state of the art. I was laying out some brand-new ‘artist tiles’ and the tiles were in a red terracotta with beautiful colors and designs.
I soon pulled out my favorite linen, a Scalamandre-Baroque floral multi-patterned fabric, and held the linen up to the tile. It was a perfect match. I stood there with a smile on my face as I could not help but admire the amazing materials in front of me.
As I began to rearrange the pieces of tile, I accidentally broke one of the main pieces perfectly in half. For some reason, I decided to cover this up in front of the people who saw that I had broken the tile in half by acting as if I had done this on purpose.
Sub-Dream 3 description over…
Jesus: “So, what do you think about this?”
Me: “Well, back in 1998, I had big plans. I had just been published the year before and my business was being blessed in abundance. However, my circumstances were soon to change and I was never able to complete any of the dreams I had for myself.
“While I still used this expensive linen several times for my clients, my dreams of using this for myself never came true. This fabric and tile are so ridiculously expensive that, other than using a yard or two for pillows or a couple of tiles for a kitchen backsplash, I just could never imagine that I would ever be in the position to afford these again.
“This handmade tile is so delicate that it had broken right in half. While this happened in my dream, this could just as easily happen in real life. Forgive Me, Lord, for desiring such extravagance all of those years ago. Being able to afford such a thing was so short-lived and so long ago that I now wonder if this had ever been the case at all.”
Jesus: Smiling. “Oh Erin, do not worry as you no longer long for the things that you once had. I tell you the truth…I delight in what you delight in. Now, what is it that you liked about these things?”
Me: “Well, the terracotta red clay tile reminded me of an old friend of mine who was an amazing tile maker. I ‘had spec’d’ her tiles many times for my wealthier clients, but I never did buy any for myself nor could I ever again afford them for myself.
“I would sometimes stop by her studio and enjoyed watching her craft these amazing tiles. Eventually her small studio became a large warehouse as her business continued to expand. As for the Scalamandre linen fabric, it is meticulously hand screened and incredibly beautiful in its details.
“Oh Lord, I had so many dreams back then. I had even imagined that I would live in a small handcrafted stone cottage someday. The cottage would have wood floors, beautiful windows with shutters and a yard full of flowers. I wanted to raise my kids there. I wanted to paint and illustrate nature there.
“As You know, none of this ever came true for me. Instead, all that I had planned and saved for was soon to be auctioned off to pay for attorney and medical bills. My life took a different path, a very difficult one.” I smiled. “However, it was on this path that You found me, Lord!”
Jesus: “One day soon, you will be given so much more than what you had lost. The former things will be removed and only joy will remain. I have seen and felt your sorrow. Now that your pain has become greater, it has disconnected your hope. This second dream was not to tell you that you need to throw things away. It was instead given for you to make peace with your desires, your past dreams. Are you at peace?”
Me: “Yes, Lord, as this was left behind long ago. By 2008, I had laid this to rest. I left it behind me. Still, I feel that I missed out on the joy of raising my children in a ‘normal way’. I feel like we were robbed. I went from having great success in my area of trade to instead having no one wanting to even associate or do business with me.
“When people did hire me, they only did so because they knew the trouble I was in and that they could get my services at half price. All of my employers and clients took full advantage of my troubles and it was awful. It was a nightmare, a horrible nightmare! While my dreams had now ended, the nightmares continued.”
Jesus: “I know, Erin, but I am here to tell you that you are now free.”
Me: “I may be free when I am here with You, but I still don’t feel that way on Earth. Even the little girl You carried on Your shoulder could see more clearly, hear more keenly, smell more vividly and feel more comforted than I feel right now. While I am how we who love You will forever be perfected in the image of God here, I will surely be back in my old decaying earthly body as soon as this vision is closed off.
“Surely how I am now does not reflect Your image, Lord! How can a walking corpse like me testify boldly about the wonders of Heaven? I cannot! While it no longer matters that all of my material things are gone as this is not the measure of a man in God’s favor, Lord, health, youth and wisdom certainly are.”
Jesus: “Ah, you sound like an attorney pleading before the Court.” He smiled. “Well, Erin, your case is very good. Now, while you are right about the current age being vain with self-worship, you are wrong about material things not being a measure of a man in God’s favor. No matter what god you serve, this current age worships ‘mammon’.
“They are the lovers of self and of all the things that this world can offer. Just know that the allure of pleasure, the passion to have things simply to ‘show off’ and the pompous sense of superiority from their wealth does not come from My Father. These are the withering decaying fruits of this world (1 John 2:16).
“Even if I gave you all of the great wealth that you have here in Heaven, as well as restore your youth, you would still be hated because of Me. No matter what, you will be hated because of Me. You will be spoken of poorly because of Me. Many of you will be persecuted because of Me. As for you, Erin, you have been sent to bear witness to the glory of Heaven.”
Me: “Lord, I am also a witness to Your wonderful heart! You are so much more than our Savior. You are amazing to be around. I have never dreaded one day with You! I learn from You. I am enriched in my heart and nourished to my very core when I am in Your presence.
“You are my Best Friend. You are the One that I run to when I am in trouble. You are my Deliverer and You love me. As to why You love me, I will never fully know why until I am eventually here with You forever. However, I know that You do! I cherish You and cannot wait for the day when others can experience Your presence like I have.
“I could go to college for a hundred years and still never learn about all of the things You have instructed me on in just five years. You care deeply about me and even about the smallest of things that matter to me. I will follow You everywhere.
“However, I still feel that I am barely hanging on as I wait on You here on Earth. This is becoming even more difficult as my pain often now prevents me from even writing. Sometime I even have trouble getting this decaying body out of bed. I have fears now that I will soon become of no use to You because of my increasing immobility.”
Jesus: “Oh Erin, I have not forgotten any of My promises to you. I have not forgotten you in either the small things or the big things. Do not worry, Erin, as your wilderness training is almost finished. I love you.”
Me: “I love You, Lord.”
Dream over…
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