VISIONS IN THE BIBLE

LEARNING TO PROPHESY

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DREAMS AND VISIONINTERPRETATIONS SEMINAR

Summer SemesterJune - July

VISIONS IN THE BIBLE

Session #7Julio 13, 2016

• We are moving now to review a couple of visions from the bible, and then share our own ones and pray for a release of the revelatory gifting through visions.

VISION• an experience in which a personage,

thing, or event appears vividly or credibly to the mind, although not actually present, often under the divine or other agency

• :a heavenly messenger appearing  in a vision.

VISION

• The produced thoughts of a sanctified mind.• At difference of dreams that happen when sleeping,

visions occur in an awaken state.• A vision to be considered given by God, has to be in

complete alignment with the Word of God.• A vision, for more vivid, important and real appearing

cannot override the Word of God.• The Bible is our final authority in matters of faith.

FOR NIT• A vision will completely agree with what God has

already revealed.• If you consider to have received a vision from God,• Review your vision and see if completely lines up

with the word of God.• In prayer ask God for the right interpretation.• If God has giving you the vision, He will give you as

well the interpretation, prayerfully ask God for it.• Also prayerfully ask God what you should do with the

given vision.

• A vision can come spontaneously.• You can create a vision by meditating on a subject.• You can stop the vision at any time.• “The spirits of prophets are subject to the control of

prophets.” 1 Corinthians 14:32• “18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he

that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18

VISION OF THE PROPHET MOSES

EXODUS 3:1-10

EXODUS 3:1-3 (NKJV)MOSES AT THE BURNING BUSH

• 3 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock to the back of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 And the Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire from the midst of a bush. So he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, but the bush was not consumed. 3 Then Moses said, “I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush does not burn.”

WHY THE BUSH DOES NOT BURN.

EXODUS 3:4 (NKJV)

• 4 So when the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said,• “Moses, Moses!”• And he said, “Here I am.”

EXODUS 3:5-6 (NKJV)

• 5 Then He said, “Do not draw near this place. Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.” 6 Moreover He said, “I am the God of your father—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look upon God.

TAKE YOUR SANDALS OFF YOUR FEET,

EXODUS 3:7-8 (NKJV)

• 7 And the LORD said: “I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt, and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. 8 So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.

EXODUS 3:9-10 (NKJV)

• 9 Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel has come to Me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. 10 Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

EXODUS 3:11 (NKJV)

• 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?”

• Compare “Here I am” v4• With “Who am I” v11

POINTS TO CONSIDER• God reveals His holiness.• Who is the Angel of the Lord.• The call of attention, the burning bush.• The desire to investigate.• The call by name.• The positioning reply.• The warning, the order to remove the sandals.• Holiness of the ground.• God’s introduction of Himself.• Moses reaction• God’s explanation, the call to Moses.• Moses resistance.

VISION OF THE PROPHET JOSHUA

THE COMMANDER OF THE ARMY OF THE LORD

JOSHUA 5:13 (NKJV)

• 13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?”

JOSHUA 5:14 (NKJV)

• 14 So He said, “No, but as Commander of the army of the LORD I have now come.”• And Joshua fell on his face to the earth

and worshiped, and said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?”

AND JOSHUA FELL ON HIS FACE

JOSHUA 5:15 (NKJV)

• 15 Then the Commander of the LORD’s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your foot, for the place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.

DISCUSSION POINTS.• Theophany, Christophany or Angelophany• Preparation for battle.• The man with the sword.• The question of Joshua.• The reply and identification of the visitor.• Declaration of the holiness.• Joshua’s reaction, worship.• Second question.• The command.• The surrender.

VISION OF THE

PROPHET ISAIAH

VISION OF ISAIAH6:1-8

ISAIAH 6:1-8 (NKJV)

• Isaiah Called to Be a Prophet• 6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw

the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. 

ISAIAH 6:2-3 (NKJV)

• 2 Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. 

ISAIAH 6:3-4 (NKJV)

• 3 And one cried to another and said:• “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts;

The whole earth is full of His glory!”• 4 And the posts of the door were shaken

by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

ISAIAH 6:5 (NKJV)

• 5 So I said:• “Woe is me, for I am undone!

Because I am a man of unclean lips,And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;For my eyes have seen the King,The LORD of hosts.”

YOUR INIQUITY IS TAKEN AWAY,AND YOUR SIN PURGED.”

ISAIAH 6:6-7 (NKJV)

• 6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. 7 And he touched my mouth with it, and said:• “Behold, this has touched your lips;

Your iniquity is taken away,And your sin purged.”

ISAIAH 6:8 (NKJV)

• 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:• “Whom shall I send,

And who will go for Us?”• Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

DISCUSSION POINTS• Theophany• The majesty of the Lord displayed.• Seraphim, What they do, Why it have 6 wings.• Declaring the Holiness of God.• Isaiah declares his sinful condition.• God cleanses his sins.• After his sins are purged God speaks.• He is looking for a man who can follow His

instructions.• Isaiah declares: HERE AM I, SEND ME.

• Compare these two answers• Moses answer:• Here I am.

• Isaiah answer:• Here Am I.

VISIONS OF THE PROPHET JEREMIAH

• Jeremiah 1:9 _10 (NKJV)• 9 Then the LORD put forth His hand and

touched my mouth, and the LORD said to me:• “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.

10 See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms,

To root out and to pull down,To destroy and to throw down,To build and to plant.”

JEREMIAH 1:11-12 (NKJV)

• 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying, “Jeremiah, what do you see?”• And I said, “I see a branch of an almond

tree.”• 12 Then the LORD said to me, “You have

seen well, for I am ready to perform My word.”

THE ALMOND TREE• Even that is still winter almond trees blossom all over

Israel every winter. They are the first tree to blossom and yet the last to bear fruit.

• The Hebrew word for almond, shaked, is also translated “to watch”

• In here God is saying I’m watching and you have not repented.

• I have been patient with you but now.• I’m going to fulfil my word.• Calamity soon would fall on Israel.

GOD WATCH ALL THE TIME

• Jeremiah 31:28 (NKJV)• 28 And it shall come to pass, that as I have

watched over them to pluck up, to break down, to throw down, to destroy, and to afflict, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD.

JEREMIAH 1:12-14 (NKJV)

• 13 And the word of the LORD came to me the second time, saying, “What do you see?”• And I said, “I see a boiling pot, and it is

facing away from the north.”• 14 Then the LORD said to me:• “Out of the north calamity shall break

forthOn all the inhabitants of the land.

I SEE A BOILING POT

• The boiling pot represents the people from the north, the Chaldeans and the Assyrians who will come to ravage the land of Israel.

• The content of the pot represents the judgement of God spread all over the land

DISCUSSION POINTS• The purging and the commissioning.• The vision of the branch of an almond tree.• The significance of the vision.• The boiling pot vision.• The meaning of the vision.• What will happen.• Encouragement for Jeremiah• For I am with you,” says the LORD, “to deliver you.”

• Compare the cleansing or purging on sins between these two prophets.

• “Behold, this has touched your lips;Your iniquity is taken away,And your sin purged.”

• 9 Then the LORD put forth His hand and touched my mouth,

ACTIVATION #7• Can you see the well in Samaria where Jesus met the

Samaritan woman?• We call upon the Holy Spirit for His divine inspiration.• We close our eyes, we quiet ourselves and let the

anointing and inspiration from God do the rest.• See yourself at the well with Him.• When the vision closes, write down what have you

see.• Ask for the interpretation.• What you think God is telling you to do?

• In biblical times a well was a very important place.

• The well was not only a place where to get the vital element.

• It was a business place for the shepherds.

• A social point for the women of the place.

• And a place for divine encounters for many:

• Hagar met God• Jacob met Rachel• Moses met Zipporah• The Samaritan met Jesus

• Why I’m coming at this time?• Because of your fears and insecurity. But today I’m here

to be with you.• He sat me with Him at the edge of the well facing away

from it, He put His right arm around my shoulders and draw me closer to Him.

• I felt the warm of His body and some chills ran down my spine. He said from now on I will go with you always, you can count on me.

• I smiled, said thank you, jumped to the ground, took a pebble and turned around facing the well.

• Our faces were reflected in the water.• Simultaneously we smiled.• I dropped the stone in the well, ripples were formed and

we laughed.

• Now is your turn:• Share one of your visions