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There is a long road, with a slight curve, going up a hill. Near the top on the left are two houses. Only two. I’ve never known who lives in the first house; just a driveway separates the two, although neither the occupants own a car.
The second house is a shotty run-down affair. I can describe each and every room in the house. This is because my first wife Bett and I live there.
Now and then we see people in the first house next door. We don’t know them. Sometimes they nod; they seldom speak. I can’t describe their faces.  In our house sometimes we have children; sometimes not. One time an old man led a pony up onto our front porch.
“I wanted to show you my pony,” he said.
“How old is he?” I asked him
“Sixty Eight,” he replied.
I can’t tell you where these houses are. That is because they don’t exist. You have suspected that by now I trust, they exist only in my SLEEP dreams.
The dictionary separates SLEEP dreams from DAY dreams. Sleep dreams: “A sequence of sensations, images, and thoughts, passing through a sleeping person’s mind.”  However Day Dreams are like the hot days in August, when at New Cypress Country School we sat and dreamed for two o’clock to arrive. “RECESS!!!” We got our tin cups, lined up at the well-house and enjoyed a draught of thirst quenching water- coal water. Then a quick game of “fox and hounds” before Miss Ephraim rang the bell for “in-time-books”, and the last, long, hour before we went home.
I supposed many of us have heard of attempts by people to interpret dreams. We know this power was granted to people in the Old Testament Bible.
In Daniel (chapter 2), King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had bad dreams. The Bible tells us, “his sleep left him.”  Old Neb found out about Daniel and had him come. Neb had tried soothsayers and such- nothing worked. Daniel told the King what his dreams meant. Evidently the news wasn’t all that bad. The Bible says, “The dream is certain, and its interpretations is true.” (Daniel 2:45)
Then Neb fell on his face and confessed God to be the only God, and the “Lord of Kings.”
But it was a “fox hole” confession. Like a pig in a Sunday dress, King Neb went back to the same ole mud hole; doing the same bad things he did before; shortly after he put the three Hebrew children in the fiery furnace.
When Nebuchadnezzar died, his son, Belshazzar came to the throne of Babylon. He was a scoundrel like his old man. He was the guy who saw the “hand writing on the wall.” (Daniel 5:24-30)
Daniel was gain called to interpret. This interpretation was not good: “You, son of Nebuchadnezzar have lifted yourself up against the Lord of Heaven. You have taken the vessels from God’s house; you and your wives have drunk wine from them: you have praised the Gods of silver and gold, iron, wood, and stone, which do not have breath.” “Here is what the handwriting on the wall said; ‘your kingdom is finished. You have been weighed in the balances and found wanting.”
That very night, the Bible says, “Belshazzar was slain.” (Daniel 5:30)
Daniel, the prophet, told the future via the interpretation of dreams. When Christ came, among other things, he said, “I have come to fulfill all prophesy.”
My take; it has been accomplished. Therefore we have no need of people trying to interpret dreams, even if they could.
Well, what about the Apostle John writing the book of Revelation? We might ask.
John, exiled on the isle of Patmos, didn’t say he was dreaming. He said, “I was in the Spirit on the Lords Day when God reveled to me in a loud voice… ‘What you see John write in a book and send to the seven churches which are in Asia…” John said “OK, I will.” John did.
Evidently God spoke to John via an Angel; He (God) sent and signified it (His message) by His Angel to His servant John. “(Rev. Chap 1-1)
John was not a prophet, he was simply a messenger; God’s messenger to the seven churches in Asia, informing and instructing about the end times when Christ returns… at the SEVENTH TRUMP.
Kindest Regards…