underhiswing wrote:Ecclesiastes 5:3
"A dream comes when there are many cares, and many words mark the speech of a fool."
Ecclesiastes 5:7
"Much dreaming and many words are meaningless. Therefore fear God."
I have been interpreting dreams for years now, and I have seen many ..many people dream of what they desire that is not to be... teenagers dreaming of marrying movie stars, young men conquering and ruling the world, marriages to people that have long since left their lives and are already married to another, winning the lottery, younger or richer lovers coming to unhappily married people, young people dreaming of becoming a lead singer in a famous "already" existing band, owning elaborate houses in tropical places, people dreaming of deceased relatives that come back to life.
Yes, our Father is a God of miracles, and He does give us the desires of our hearts...but He does not give us whatever we desire that is not part of His plan. He also is not an enabler who does not teach us through what He gives us. Jesus told many of the people He healed to "do" something before the healing takes place..."take up your mat", "go show yourself", "go and wash in the". We have to engage and do our part. If we pray for a job to be given to us, and never go out to look for one....it will not come. If we pray for a mate, and never leave our home, how is it we will meet someone?
Isaiah 65:2
All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations
hi Underhiswing,
These scriptures you are quoting could apply to anything. What about the rest of the bible? There is nothing in these scriptures about money or the significance of the number 5 but you're saying they apply to this woman's dream. Sorry but I very strongly disagree. You are free to believe what you want of course.
We must be careful when interpreting dreams just as we must be careful when interpreting the bible or we can get it all wrong. I've been learning a lot lately about dreams myself and what strikes me most is how many different ways of interpreting things there are.
It doesn't matter how long anyone has been doing something, it doesn't mean they know everything or that they've even studied the proper material.
MONEY can talk of many things in the bible such as talents that are natural; spiritual or natural wealth; powerful authority; man’s strength; ability, power, control, credit, loss or gain of favour, favour to attain goals or objectives, authority, provision, and a lot of other things. Feel free to look through these scriptures about money to see the various different ways money can be interpreted Du 8:18; Gen 31:15; Luke 19:23; 1 Tim 6:10; Jer 7:8-11; Ho 19:5; Ecc 7:12; Luke 16:11
FIVE: This is the number of power and Divine grace.
Five kinds of animals were sacrificed under the Old Covenant Law of sacrifice: goats, sheep, cattle, pigeons and doves [Genesis 15:9; Exodus 29:38; Leviticus 1:1-17; 3:1; 4:3, 14, 23, 28; 5:6-7]
God changed Abram's name to Abraham by adding the letter/number five to his name [Genesis 17:5]. He changed Sarai's name by adding the same letter/number with the value of "grace" to form the name Sarah [Genesis 17:15]. Abraham and Sarah were transformed by grace to become the parents of a family from which the Messiah would be born
The Tabernacle was measured in multiples of five [Exodus 25 - 27]
There are five books of the Torah (first 5 books of the Old Testament)
Matthew's Gospel is divided into five "books" composed of five narratives and five discourses.
Jesus bled from five wounds on the altar of the Cross: His two hands, his two feet and His head.
Daniel proclaimed the Fifth Kingdom to be an Everlasting Kingdom [Daniel 2:37-44].
Also, what you wrote here below - each one of these scenarios can be interpreted symbolically. I've been learning from a number of biblical dream interpreting teachers that most our dreams are symbolic. Dismissing these types of dreams mentioned below and saying they have no meaning doesn't make sense when they are symbolic
"teenagers dreaming of marrying movie stars, young men conquering and ruling the world, marriages to people that have long since left their lives and are already married to another, winning the lottery, younger or richer lovers coming to unhappily married people, young people dreaming of becoming a lead singer in a famous "already" existing band, owning elaborate houses in tropical places, people dreaming of deceased relatives that come back to life"
That's just a bit of info to help you see other ways of looking at interpretations of the bible and give some insight into how we can interpret symbols in the bible. Holy Spirit is our main teacher and should be heard above all logic or other teaching.
Anyway, I hope some of that helps you and I pray you do not feel offended that I disagree with what you've written.
