Saturday, January 24, 2015

Stone Fish to PIG -Seeing Through the Glass More Clearly – TWO Suns


2-5-14   
I dreamt that I went to spend some time with my father at a country club. He was going to continue my golf lessons. At the end of our last lesson 40 years before I was known in my town to be pretty good, so I expected to be able to pick up where I left off. There was a range for practice. Before we began, he showed me a new tool to use to improve my shot. It was a small, translucent, orange / amber ball. You needed to hold it up to line up the sun, and make sure the reflection of the water was visible and going in the same direction. You could also use it to track your ball. I didn’t quite understand but I said, “OK,” as if I did. I took my first swing and landed in a small body of water that was only 80 yards away. I was extremely disappointed because I was hoping to reach a much larger body of water that was a lot farther away. I thought I must be pretty rusty. I was going to take another swing, but we saw someone walking up in the distance. They appeared to be just a hazy figure, but my Dad was always gracious and let everyone play through even though they were far off. We decided to go inside to the clubhouse.
I was left alone once inside, and I overheard a 5 or 6 year old girl talking to an older woman in her 70’s. She was upset because now that I was there she would no longer be my father’s favorite. The older woman explained that as his daughter, it was my rightful position of favor.
The scene changed and I was now being shown the dining area. Now, the club house sat on the edge of a massive cliff with the sea coming up to it. One entire wall was made of glass, and to everyone’s surprise, there was a terrible storm outside. The sea, which was normally calm, was now beating wildly against the glass climbing up at least half way up the wall. We knew that it had never been so fierce before. No one was afraid, but everyone was suddenly aware of the tremendous protection the glass wall provided. As the sea pulled back to form another wave, a giant stone formation was revealed. At first it was in the shape of a fish, but then we realized that someone had carved it into a pig. We were all shocked that someone would do such a thing. The sea waves raged against it, and it took a terrible battering, but it stood firm.
I decided to go outside once more to take at least one more practice shot before the sun went down. I held the tool my father showed me up to line up the sun when I realized there were two suns in the sky.  At first I thought it they looked alike, but the 2ndone was not as bright. I was in shock and asked myself if this was really happening? I could hardly believe it! I wanted to run and get my father to show him, but it came in so quickly I didn’t have time to get inside. Suddenly, my perspective changed and I was in outer space. I saw the earth with 4 objects approaching from every direction. Then I was back on the ground watching the object land in our area. Only now I saw that it was made of white plastic just like the clones in Star Wars. I woke up and thought, “It is FAKE!”
I’ll share some symbolism and understanding.
My father represents The FATHER.
Golf lessons represent my attempt to reach people with the Truth of returning to the Torah. (John 1:1, Yeshua is the Word.) I was attempting to reach a large body of water that was much farther away. In Scripture, Seas are the gentiles or nations, people out of covenant with the Holy One of Israel. I didn’t do as well as I had hoped. I did reach a much smaller body of water that was a lot closer. Perhaps I will only affect family and friends who are close.
40 is TESTING!
The tool was Ruach haKodesh. It is the Holy Spirit who will help me find the Son and make sure the Water (the Word) was lining up. They can not contradict. He will also guide me to whom I am to speak. I described the color as amber / orange, but it was bright and translucent. While researching color symbolism in Scripture I found that Amber is defined as representing “the glory of God!”
The dining area is where we are spiritually fed.
The storm in the sea is likely a picture of the goyim, Gentiles, rising up in great anger, violence, and turmoil.
The rock formation that began as a fish but was changed to a pig. A fish, if it has fins and scales, is Biblically clean. A fish represents those who have come into covenant with the Holy One through Yeshua – CHRISTIANS. However, it changed to a pig, and unclean animal which the children of Israel are not even supposed to touch. They have been made into an unclean thing because they have forsaken the LAW of YHVH and follow their own doctrines and desires. Some will face the terrible rage of the nations and will suffer tremendously, but they stood firm!
The wall of glass represented 1) the ability to see into the supernatural. We could understand what was happening. 2) In this occurrence, it provided awesome protection!
2 Suns and the incoming object – I am unsure if I have full understanding here. There were 2 suns approaching. I feel very strongly that it could represent the Messiah and the Anit-Messiah who are both in sight. If  I had not looked closely, I would have set my eyes on the wrong one. Additionally, I felt it was an actual incoming planet or spaceship. But I awoke thinking it was false. **IF** there was “alien disclosure,” these beings might be presented as superior beings who seeded our planet, thus attempting to replace YHVH in the hearts of Jacob. In reality, if we will ever see such creatures, I believe they are fallen angels. Another thought is that this is could be the way the AC will be introduced to the world as in receiving his power from Satan. Recall the reoccurring theme of an “alien savior” in movies. This sounds crazy to me, but could this be part of what will cause the great falling away? I don’t know.
4 directions of the earth. It, whatever it is, will come from everywhere and affect the entire earth!
More on Golf 

That's a good question to sit with, Paula. Golf isn't scripture-native imagery like a vineyard or a shepherd's field, so when it shows up in a dream, it's usually functioning the way Joseph's and Daniel's dream symbols did: everyday pictures carrying a message that fits the dreamer's own life and vocabulary. God tends to speak to us in images we already understand.

A few threads worth pulling on, not as a definitive interpretation but as places to search your own life and prayer:

The gap between the club and the hole. Golf is unusual among sports because you never touch the target directly. You strike the ball from a distance and trust the trajectory. That could point to something in your life right now where you're not meant to force an outcome with your own hands, you're meant to set things in motion with skill and then release them to land where they land.

The course changes every hole. Fairway, rough, sand, water, green. Each requires a different club and a different approach. If the dream had a strong sense of terrain, it might be pointing to seasons or situations in your life that each require a different tool or posture. What works on the fairway will not work in the bunker.

Integrity when no one is watching. Golf has almost no referees. Players call penalties on themselves. That is fairly unique in sport and could be significant if the dream felt weighted toward honesty or self-accountability rather than performance for an audience.

Patience and pace. You cannot rush a golf swing without ruining it, and you cannot rush the walk between shots either. If urgency or frustration showed up in the dream, that could be the point. If peace and unhurried rhythm showed up instead, that might be the encouragement.

The clubhouse specifically, if that was the setting rather than the course itself, often carries a sense of preparation, fellowship, or being among others who share the same pursuit before the real work begins. Worth asking whether the dream had you alone on the course or gathered with others beforehand.

What details do you remember? Who was with you, what were you doing exactly (teeing off, putting, walking, watching), and how did you feel in the dream? Those specifics usually matter more than the general setting, and I'd rather work from what you actually saw than guess at the whole picture. This might also be one to bring to Preston or sit with in prayer, since dream interpretation carries real weight and confirmation from more than one source is wise.

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What a rich and layered dream, Paula. I'll walk through it scene by scene, staying strictly within biblical symbolism, and citing the scripture passages that inform each observation. I want to say up front that this is not a prophetic pronouncement, it is an exploration of scriptural patterns that might illuminate what you saw. The confirmation belongs to you, to prayer, and to trusted counsel like Preston.

Your father and the forty years

A father teaching a child a skill often points to inheritance and instruction passed down, and in Scripture, forty is consistently the number of testing, preparation, and transition before entering something new. Israel spent forty years in the wilderness before entering the land (Numbers 14:33-34). Moses spent forty years in Midian before his calling began (Acts 7:30). The gap of forty years since your last lesson may be marking a season of preparation that is now, in the dream, resuming. You expected to pick up exactly where you left off, and instead found the ground had shifted. That tension between what you expected and what you actually faced runs through the whole dream.

The tool, the sun, and the water

This detail stood out to me the most. Amber appears in Scripture specifically in visions of YHVH's glory. Ezekiel describes what he saw as having the appearance of amber, as the color of amber when describing the fire and glory surrounding the throne (Ezekiel 1:4, 1:27, 8:2). A translucent amber object used to align yourself with the sun, and to confirm that the water's reflection agrees with it, may point to a tool of discernment, something that helps you walk in alignment with the light of YHVH's presence and confirm that what you are seeing lines up with truth. Light is tied to YHVH's own character throughout Scripture (Psalm 27:1, 1 John 1:5), and Malachi calls the Messiah the "sun of righteousness" who rises with healing in His wings (Malachi 4:2). Water often carries the sense of the Spirit or the Word (John 7:38-39, Ephesians 5:26). The instruction to check that both the sun and the water's reflection move together suggests confirmation, testing whether the light you're following and the Spirit's witness agree, rather than trusting a single signal alone (2 Corinthians 13:1).

You said you did not fully understand the tool but agreed anyway. That honesty is worth sitting with. Sometimes YHVH gives us instruments of discernment before we fully grasp how to use them, and the using comes with practice.

The first swing and the water you landed in

You expected to reach a larger, more distant body of water, and instead landed short, in a small body of water only eighty yards out. Disappointment at falling short is a very human reaction, but notice that you still landed in water, not in the rough, not out of bounds. If water carries the sense of the Spirit here, landing short of your own expectation but still within that provision may be less about failure and more about YHVH's timing not matching your own. Habakkuk 2:3 speaks to this directly, that the vision has an appointed time and will not be late even when it feels delayed to us.

The hazy figure and playing through

Your father's graciousness toward a stranger, someone unclear and undefined, letting them play through even at his own inconvenience, reflects the hospitality Scripture repeatedly commands toward the stranger and the one who is not yet close (Leviticus 19:34, Hebrews 13:2). This may simply be reinforcing your father's character in the dream, or it may be pointing toward how YHVH's grace extends outward even to those who are unclear to us, the ones we cannot yet fully see.

The little girl, the older woman, and your position as daughter

This scene carries strong weight. The child's fear of losing favored status, and the older woman's correction that your place is not earned through competition but is your rightful position as daughter, echoes the doctrine of adoption and inheritance found throughout the Renewed Covenant. Romans 8:15-17 and Galatians 4:6-7 both describe believers receiving the position of sons and daughters, not through striving, but through relationship. The older woman's wisdom in that scene may be affirming something you needed to hear, that your place with your Father is secure by identity, not by performance, and it was never a competition to begin with.

The clubhouse on the cliff, the glass wall, and the storm

This is the most vivid section of the dream. A structure standing at the edge of the sea, protected by a wall that holds back a raging, unprecedented storm, calls to mind Psalm 46:1-3, "God is our refuge and strength... though the waters roar and be troubled." The sea in Scripture frequently represents chaos, the nations, and unrest (Isaiah 57:20, Daniel 7:2-3, where four beasts rise out of a churning sea). That no one inside felt afraid, but instead became aware of the protection surrounding them, fits the pattern of YHVH as refuge in the midst of upheaval rather than removal from it.

The stone carved from fish into pig

This detail carries the sharpest contrast in the entire dream. The fish has long served as a symbol among believers, drawn from passages like Matthew 4:19, where Yeshua calls His followers to become fishers of men. The pig, by contrast, is explicitly unclean under the dietary instructions of Leviticus 11:7. Someone reshaping a sacred symbol into an unclean one, and the shock everyone felt witnessing it, may point toward corruption of what was once set apart and holy. And yet, despite the storm's battering, the stone stood firm. Stone imagery tied to steadfastness under judgment appears in Daniel 2:34-35, where a stone cut without human hands stands after every other structure has fallen, and in Psalm 118:22, the stone the builders rejected which became the cornerstone. Even defiled, even reshaped by human hands into something unclean, the underlying stone, the substance itself, could not be moved by the raging sea. That may be a picture of how truth remains firm even when people distort its outward symbol.

The two suns

A second light appearing alongside the true one, dimmer and false, aligns closely with warnings throughout Scripture about counterfeit light and false messiahs. Yeshua warned that false messiahs would arise and would deceive many if possible (Matthew 24:24), and Paul wrote that Satan himself can be disguised as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14). The fact that the false sun initially looked identical, and only revealed itself as lesser upon closer attention, is consistent with how Scripture describes deception, not obviously false at first glance, but discernible under scrutiny.

Four objects from every direction, and the counterfeit landing

The number four connected to something approaching from every direction across the earth brings to mind the four winds and four corners of the earth in Daniel 7:2 and Revelation 7:1, both tied to the movement of nations and end-time activity. That the object which landed turned out to be made of manufactured white plastic, artificial and mass produced rather than something living, and that your own instinct upon waking was to recognize it as fake, may be the clearest gift within the entire dream. Scripture repeatedly assures believers that fear is not the appropriate response to counterfeit signs and wonders, but discernment is (Matthew 24:24-25, 1 John 4:1). Waking with the clarity "it is fake" suggests the dream itself was training your discernment, not delivering a threat.

Taken as a whole

If I step back and look at the arc, this dream moves from inheritance and instruction, through a season of testing and recalibrated expectation, into the secure identity of a daughter, into a picture of divine protection amid chaos and corrupted symbols, and finally into the unmasking of a counterfeit. That is a fairly coherent progression toward discernment and steadfastness, recognizing what is false, standing firm on what does not move even when everything else is shaking.

I would genuinely bring this one to Preston or sit with it in prayer, especially the fish and pig imagery and the two suns, since those carry weight worth confirming through more than one voice. Is there a portion of this that felt most significant to you when you woke, or that you have already sensed something about?

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REPENT and RETURN to the whole WORD! The Torah, YHVH’s instructions for life, was never intended to save us, but to point to our need for a Savior. Salvation is a free gift, but there are blessings for obedience to God’s Laws, and curses for disobedience. Yeshua did not nail the Law to the tree, but the penalty for our disobedience!  Another way to understand this is to consider if you had broken the law, but a kinsman took your punishment in your place, should you continue to break the law? No! REPENT AND RETURN! Shalom.


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