Waters of Affliction

5thMarch – I had a dream last night. It reminded me of Noah’s ark. I don’t remember everything in the dream. I know we got very little notice, it was a quick event. We had very little time to get to the top of a mountain. We were barely at the top when the first wave came. There were three waves. The first wave, or surge, brought water to the foot of the mountain, the next wave brought it higher, and by the third wave, it was literally lapping around our feet. At the top of the mountain we were in something, like a cement foundation with very low walls, or a cement boat. The water was splashing in. Animals that had been down below the mountain when the water came, were washing up with the waves on the top of the mountain, alive still.

6thMarch – Last night I dreamed we were at a resort of some kind, seemed in the mountains. They were showing us around, and around the side of this resort was a light house. It was up the mountain slope a little way, and it was very broad based – like the base of the light house was sort of cut into the mountain itself. In my dream, I panicked. As I stood there, looking up at it, I recognized it as the place where I had been in my previous dream. What I had seen as a foundation with low walls had been part of this light house – the roof! The top of it was adjacent to the crest of the mountain, because it was built into the mountain – that’s where the animals had been washing up. As I looked at it, my knees went weak and my colour drained. I wanted to run as fast as I could to get away from this place, but the slope we had walked up was smooth and steep, and difficult to get down. End of dream.

As I write about it now, I think of Jesus saying men’s hearts will fail them, and they will be filled with fear and foreboding at the raging of the waves of the sea. This place was inland, and yet my other dream showed it completely consumed by water. I had that other dream a couple of months ago about seeing the water coming down the street, and knowing as I stood there that it was too late, and I could not escape. I also think of the words of Jesus - 'it will come upon the face of the whole earth.' These dreams disturbed me immensely. I prayed on them, and the scripture he gave me was Isaiah 30v20: And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes will see your Teacher. And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it,".... So, I see the water in the dream as being symbolic. I googled lighthouses, and the only one out of hundreds that looks anything like my dream is the one in Cape Town - the top of it is level with part of the mountain peak, and it is square, not round.