Dream 793 – Renovating the House of Seven Gables
Received on Monday, March 11, 2024
Communion
Dear Father,
Thank You for another day here! Thank You for the wonderful divine delay for my kidney removal. If You would, please just heal me so I won’t even need this operation. Father, please let one of these new tests reveal that this tumor is completely gone.
I had a vivid dream last night…
Sub-dream 1 “Renovating the House of Seven Gables” begins…
A little background on the House of Seven Gables from Wikipedia: The House of the Seven Gables (also known as the Turner House or Turner-Ingersoll Mansion) is a 1668 colonial mansion in Salem, Massachusetts, named for its gables. It was made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1851 novel The House of the Seven Gables. The house is now a non-profit museum, with an admission fee charged for tours, as well as an active settlement house with programs for the local immigrant community including ESL and citizenship classes. It was built for Captain John Turner and stayed with the family for three generations.
I had just purchased the House of Seven Gables. However, in this dream, it was larger than what the House of Seven Gables actually is. The outside was very dark and the home was positioned in a quiet sea cove. The landscaping was beautiful. The north side of the home had a porte-cochere.
However, instead of an entrance for horse drawn carriages, a train track ran through it. When I looked out to where the train tracks went, I saw that there was a turntable toward the sea in the ground that was used to turn the train around. It had to be a single car operation, like a trolley car. It was very specific.
I then went inside the house. It was dark inside and not inviting at all. I knew it would be quite a task to remodel all of this. One day, I received a knock on the door. When I opened it, there was a crew of expert artisans and remodelers standing there.
Head contractor: “We were called here by an angel of the Lord to help you with this great task of bringing this into this century. This will be the last renovation of the house and you will be the last tenant and owner.”
Another craftsman chimed in: “Let’s do this justice!”
Me: Laughing. “Well, since the Lord sent you, I am in great hands. Come on in!”
I opened the door to the workers. I had some blueprints that I had been revising.
Me: “The Lord has called us together to make this current Home greater than the former house.”
Another artisan: “God’s Glory will be upon this Home and nothing shall come against us!”
Just then, we heard a knock on the door. When I opened the door, there stood a woman all dressed in black. She was gaunt and had black-rimmed glasses. She held an official looking paper.
Woman: “Excuse me, but are you the woman who purchased the Gables Museum?”
Me: “Yes, I am the woman. I am the new owner of the Gables.”
Woman: “I see you have contractors.”
Me: “Yes. We are remodeling with only the very best.”
Woman: “Well, this paper I am holding is a cease-and-desist order as this home is on the historical register.”
Me: “While this is true, that is the old way, the former house. This wasn’t working. The entire place had fallen into disrepair. No caretakers. No budget. No museum. Hence the sale of the Home to me, the purchaser.”
I pulled out my bill of sale and showed it to the woman.
Me: “As you can see, it says here that the only thing that must remain is the exterior footprint and the placard. All museums have now been closed. All museums across the land have now been pillaged. We are all professionals here.
“Besides, I can see that this document you have presented to me has been altered, possibly forged, and not even notarized by a judge. In addition, an officer of the court would be serving me personally, not a private citizen.”
The woman became noticeably nervous. She was shifting from foot to foot.
Me: Now looking straight into the woman’s eyes. “Are you from the witch’s museum just down the road? I would turn and leave right now and not come back.”
The woman looked at me with great hate before turning in a huff. A few of us then prayed together after the woman left that none of her kind would come against our work again. While many of the town folk said the house was haunted, we never encountered any of this.
As I reviewed what was being done, it was easy to see that there had been many remodels over the years. Because it was so piecemeal, we decided to change all of it. We first removed any unnecessary walls to open up the space. We then added beautiful rustic wood beams and hand scraped wood floors.
The walls were re-plastered with a venetian finish and were flawless. The finish carpenters were the finest I had ever seen. Every detail was covered and we were as a team “one” in our goal. There was laughter, no bitterness, no jealousy and no shortages of materials. It was a dream team and we all became friends in the process.
While it took around three months altogether to remodel, the home was so beautiful once it was finished. On the final day and into the evening, we had a great celebration and praised God for such a supernaturally perfect project.
While celebrating we saw from one of the windows a startling sight. A strange boxcar was coming on the railroad tracks towards our Home. There were flames billowing out of the windows. It was coming straight for us. When we all then prayed against this, the boxcar suddenly changed directions and went straight back to the witch’s museum where it had come from.
As time passed, we made many new friends. However, we also made many new enemies. Even so, this Home finally had what we needed… less of the world and more of God. While this Home had been cursed and bankrupt, it was now blessed and prosperous.
Sub-dream 1 over…
Thank You, Father! I remember going to see this house when I was a child. When I was in this house, the hair on my arms stood up. It felt like such a depressing home to me. While I don’t recall any of the individuals’ stories, I just know that this dream seemed both hopeful and fun. In reality, owning this house has never been a thing that I have ever aspired for. I am not sure what any of this even means.
Jesus: “Erin, come up!”
He once again spoke to me while I sat in my devotional chair. His Voice was very clear.
Jesus: “Erin, I am here and I am with you. This dream was symbolic of you and your house. Though your beginnings were small, your latter days will be great. Why? Because I am in you. When you were young, you never imagined that anything of great value would come to your days, so you fought.
“Despite your station in life, your lot according to the world, you saw yourself as small. However, with Me in you, you are no longer small. Your tent pegs will expand as I call you together for My purposes. This new House will be greater than the old house. I am about to shake the nations, Erin.”
Me: “Lord, what about Job 8 and Haggai 2? You are speaking of these things here…
Job 8:1-22 (Bildad Speaks: Job Should Repent): 1Then Bildad the Shuhite answered and said: 2“How long will you say these things, and the words of your mouth be a great wind? 3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right? 4If your children have sinned against Him, He has delivered them into the hand of their transgression. 5If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy, 6if you are pure and upright, surely then He will rouse himself for you and restore your rightful habitation. 7And though your beginning was small, your latter days will be very great.
8“For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out. 9For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow. 10Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding? 11“Can papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Can reeds flourish where there is no water? 12While yet in flower and not cut down, they wither before any other plant. 13Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish. 14His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider’s web. 15He leans against his house, but it does not stand; he lays hold of it, but it does not endure.
16He is a lush plant before the sun, and his shoots spread over his garden. 17His roots entwine the stone heap; he looks upon a house of stones. 18If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’ 19Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring. 20“Behold, God will not reject a blameless man, nor take the hand of evildoers. 21He will yet fill your mouth with laughter, and your lips with shouting. 22Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”
Haggai 2:1-9 (The Coming Glory of the Temple): 1In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet: 2“Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, 3‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes? 4Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the Lord. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts, 5according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not. 6For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. 7And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts. 8The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, declares the Lord of hosts. 9The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.’”
Haggai 2:10-19 (Blessings for a Defiled People): 10On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, 11“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests about the law: 12‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, “No.” 13Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.” 14Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before Me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
15Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord, 16how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. 17I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to Me, declares the Lord. 18Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider: 19Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you.”
Haggai 2:20-23 (Zerubbabel Chosen as a Signet): 20The word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, 21“Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth, 22and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother. 23On that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the Lord, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the Lord of hosts.”
Jesus: “Erin, then study My Word. These are true. However, these are for now and what is to come in these times. I did not bring you here to this point with no guidance, no words or no map. Now, what do you need to proceed with your changes?”
Me: “Blueprints. Blueprints! Blueprints are the beginnings of everything.”
Jesus: “You already have the Blueprints. However, I will now call in the craftsmen and the artisans to work with you. You will be restorers of My Walls on the Foundations I have made. Rejoice! Greater is My Glory in this, My House, than in the former house. Rejoice, Erin. Rejoice as I am about to do some groundwork.”
Me: “Shaking?”
Jesus: “Yes! Preparations to ready hearts, humble the proud and make the wicked tremble! This is good!”
Dream over…
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