In the Scriprure, False Dreams are condemned. According to the Law, a false dreamer who urged the committing of idolatry was put to death.
In Deuteronomy 12 and 13, GOD teaches us by saying, "The LORD your GOD will destroy the nations as you invade their land, and you will occupy it and settle there. After the LORD destroys those nations, make sure that you do not follow their religious practices, because that would be fatal. (29-30) Do not try to find out how they worship their gods, so that you can worship in the same way. Do not worship the LORD your GOD in the way they worship their gods, for in the worship of their gods they do all the disgusting things that the LORD hates. They even sacrifice their children in the fires on their altars." (31)
"Do everything that I Have Commanded you; do not add anything to it or take anything from it. (12:32)
Follow the LORD and honor Him, obey Him and keep His Commands; worship Him and be faithful to Him. (13:4) But put to death any interpreters of dreams or prophets that tell you to rebel against the LORD, Who Rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. Such people are evil and are trying to lead you away from the live that the LORD Has Commanded you to live. They must be put to death, in order to rid yourselves of this evil. (5) GOD will be Merciful to you and make you a numerous people, as HE promised your ancestors, if you obey All His Commands and do What He requires."(18)
"Prophets or interpreters of dreams may promise a miracle or a wonder, in order to lead you to worship and serve gods that you have not worshipped before. Even if what they promise comes true, do not pay any attention to them. The LORD your GOD is using them to 'test you', to see 'if you love the LORD' with all your heart." (13: 1-3)
GOD speaks to His True Prophets by means of dreams. In Numbers 12 GOD teaches us HOW and to WHOM He manifested Himself:
Numbers 12: "Moses had married a Cushite woman, and Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses for it. Both of them said, "Has the LORD spoken only through Moses? Hasn't HE also spoken through us?" (1-2) The LORD heard what both of them said. (Moses was a humble man, more humble than anyone else on earth). (3)
Suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, "I WANT THE 3 OF YOU TO COME OUT TO THE TENT OF MY PRESENCE." They went and the LORD came down in Pillar of Cloud, stood at the Entrance of the Tent, and Called Out, "Aaron! Miriam!" The 2 of them stepped forward, and the LORD said, "NOW HEAR WHAT I HAVE TO SAY!" "When there are Prophets among you, I REVEAL MYSELF to them IN VISIONS and SPEAK to them IN DREAMS."
"IT IS DIFFERENT WHEN I SPEAK with My Servant MOSES, I HAVE PUT HIM IN CHARGE OF ALL MY PEOPLE. So I SPEAK TO MOSES FACE-TO-FACE, CLEARLY AND NOT IN RIDDLES; MOSES HAS EVEN SEEN MY FORM!" "HOW DARE you SPEAK AGAINST My Servant MOSES?" The LORD was angry with them; and so as HE departed and the Cloud left the Tent, Miriam's skin was suddenly covered with a dreaded disease and turned as white as snow. When Aaron looked at her and saw that she was covered with the disease, Aaron said to Moses, "Please, sir, do not make us suffer this punishment for our foolish sin. Do not let her become like something born dead with half its flesh eaten away." So Moses cried out to the LORD, "O GOD, heal her!"
The LORD answered, "IF HER FATHER HAD SPIT IN HER FACE , she would have to bear her disgrace for 7 Days. So LET HER SHUT OUT OF THE CAMP FOR A WEEK, and after that she can be brought back in." (4-14)
GOD was against "the prophets of false dreams," who led His People away from True Worship.
The Scripture speaks of dreams describing the ungodly defilers of the flesh who slipped into the Christian congregation. Jude warned the Believers against such men "indulging in dreams"apparently imagining that they could violate GOD's WORD and defile the flesh with impunity. This was a mistake, for they would inescapably receive adverse Judgment from the Supreme Judge.
Jude says in his letter, "For even though you know all this, I want to remind you of How the LORD once rescued His People from Egypt, but afterward destroyed those who did not believe. Remember the angels who did not stay within the limits of their proper authority, but abandoned their own dwelling place : they are bound with eternal chains in the Darkness below, where GOD is keeping them for that Great Day on which they will be condemned. Remember Sodom and Gomorrah, and the nearby Towns, whose people acted as those angels did and indulged in sexual immorality and perversion : they suffer the punishment of eternal fire as a plain warning to all." (5-7)
"In the same way also, these godless people (that slipped inside the congregation unnoticed, who distort the Message about the Grace of our GOD in order to excuse their immoral ways, who rejects JESUS CHRIST, our Master and Lord, and who long ago the Scripture predicted the condemnation they have received) have visions which make them sin against their own bodies, they despise GOD's Authority and insult the glorious beings above. Not even the chief angel Michael did this in his quarrel with the Devil when they argued about who would have the 'body of Moses.' Michael did not dare to condemn the Devil with insulting words, but said, "The LORD rebuke you!" But these people attack with insults anything they do not understand; and those things that they know by instinct, like wild animals, are the very things that destroy them. How terrible for them! They have followed the way that Cain took. For the sake of money they have given themselves over to the error that Balaam committed. (8-11).
1 Corinthians 6 says to the Believers : "If any of you have a dispute with another Christian, how dare you go before the World court system who provide heathen judges instead of letting GOD's People settle the matter? Don't you know that GOD's People will judge the World? Well, then, if you are to judge the World, aren't you capable of judging small matters? Do you not know that we shall judge the angels? How much more, then, the things of this life!" (1-3)
"If such matters come up, are you going to have them settled by people who have no standing in the Church? Shame of you! Surely there is at least one wise person in your fellowship who can settle a dispute between fellow Christians. Instead, one Christian goes to court against another and lets unbelievers judge the case!" (4-6)
"The very fact that you have legal disputes among yourselves shows that you have failed completely." (7) "Surely you know that the wicked will not possess GOD's Kingdom. Do not fool yourselves; people who are immoral or who worship thoughts or images or are adulterers or homosexual perverts or who steal or are greedy or lack self-control or who slanders others or are thieves -none of these will possess GOD's Kingdom. (9-10)
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