Wrath, Judgment or Warning?
WRATH AND JUDGMENT DREAMS
VS WARNING DREAMS
The most common deception within the church is called warning dreams. They swallow the lie that because the dream has some kind of an alarming disaster in it, that they have heard from God and need to send out a warning. God does send warnings of judgment through dreams, but people are not discerning the source of their dreams because they do not understand God’s heart. Many of these kind of dreams are not Holy Spirit inspired dreams but are inspired from second heaven principalities who desire wrath, fear and chaos.
Wrath dreams show the demonic intent to totally destroy. Wrath in the Hebrew means a violent passion to punish. Scripture says Christians are not appointed to wrath. God’s warning dreams are not sent to promise wrath, but sent to keep people from it.
1 Thess 5:8-10 NKJV
For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
God does send forth His judgments. Judgments are the spankings and chastisements of God and they are given with warnings for repentance and change. Judgment in the earth is to teach the inhabitants of the world about righteous choices.
Isa 26:9 NKJV
With my soul I have desired You in the night, yes, by my spirit within me I will seek You early; for when Your judgments are in the earth. The inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Heb 12:8-11 NKJV
Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? 10 For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seemed best to them, but He for our profit, that we may be partakers of His holiness. 11 Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
Judgment comes after God carefully weighs in the balance scales, the pros and cons, just like the discernment process of separating every motive and matter of the heart. The discernment process is the act of weighing and separating each part. Once the piles are separated, if a decision is rendered of guilty, judgment comes unless there are intercessors to stand in the gap.
1 Peter 4:17-18 NKJV
For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God?
Jer 9:24 NKJV
But let him who glories glory in this, that he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment , and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight,” says the LORD.
God’s heart is always to look for an intercessor, because mercy triumphs over judgment. Warning dreams will call God’s people to pray and repent. Warning dreams should not leave people without hope in prayer and the goodness of God.
James 2:13 NKJV
For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy . Mercy triumphs over judgment .
Ezek 22:30-31 NKJV
So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one. 31 Therefore I have poured out My indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of My wrath; and I have recompensed their deeds on their own heads,” says the Lord GOD.
Isa 50:2 NKJV
Why, when I came, was there no man? Why, when I called, was there none to answer? Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem?
Or have I no power to deliver?
Isa 59:16 NKJV
He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor; therefore His own arm brought salvation for Him; and His own righteousness, it sustained Him.
Jer 5:1 NKJV
“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; See now and know; And seek in her open places if you can find a man, if there is anyone who executes judgment, who seeks the truth, and I will pardon her.
Ps 106:23 NKJV
Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in the breach, to turn away His wrath, lest He destroy them.
WHAT IS AN AUTHENTIC WARNING DREAM FROM GOD?
Job 33:13-18 NKJV
Why do you contend with Him? For He does not give an accounting of any of His words. For God may speak in one way, or in another, yet man does not perceive it. In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while slumbering on their beds, then He opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction. In order to turn man from his deed, and conceal pride from man, He keeps back his soul from the Pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
Authentic God given warning dreams will have some aspect of heaven covering and protecting the person in the dream, so they feel secure and safe. They may hear the voice of the Lord telling them not to fear, they may have an angel standing with them. Jesus may be pointing and telling them to look. There may be a message of redemption for those who repent, or how to stay safe. They will be validated and backed by other confirmations of 2 or 3 witnesses.
The most important thing to remember about an authentic warning dream is that God always provides a way out. In some way, there is a redemptive quality, even in the worst news, because that is Who God is.
Neh 9:18-19 NKJV
Even when they made a molded calf for themselves, and said, ‘This is your god that brought you up out of Egypt,’ and worked great provocations, yet in Your manifold mercies You did not forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of the cloud did not depart from them by day, To lead them on the road; Nor the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, And the way they should go.
Jer 15:1-2 NKJV
Then the LORD said to me, “Even if Moses and Samuel stood before Me, My mind would not be favorable toward this people. Cast them out of My sight, and let them go forth.
Num 14:20-23 NLT
Then the LORD said, “I will pardon them as you have requested. 21 But as surely as I live, and as surely as the earth is filled with the LORD’s glory, 22 not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they tested me by refusing to listen. 23 They will never even see the land I swore to give their ancestors. None of those who have treated me with contempt will enter it.
EXAMPLE OF A WARNING DREAM
A friend was given the following prophetic dream about David in the Old Testament. While pondering the dream, I realized that God was not speaking about the lost who will come in during the great harvest — He is speaking to David — the king, the leader, the prophet, the intercessor, the worship leader, the anointed one, the warrior! God is weeping over His chosen ones who are entangled in carnal entertainment.
DREAM: I was in a palace that looked like a palace in Napoleon’s day. There was a great sadness throughout the whole palace. I am standing before some kind of a booth and there was an angel who was working a video game controller really fast. Many other angels were standing around him and they all had on long white robes. When the angel was done, he handed it to the angel who was in control of that station. That angel said, “You have 200. David at his very best only got 15.” They were speaking of David of the Old Testament. The angel started to hand me the controller and he said, “No, I just can’t do that, it belongs to David.” He had been David’s teacher and he walked off crying for David.
Another angel came by and said, “Jesse is coming home.” At that moment I knew in my spirit that David had been wounded in battle by a sword. I walked out on the portico and I could see a big long fountain in the courtyard. The whole palace belonged to David and it was filled with many angels, all dressed in long white robes. All these angels were dedicated to David’s service. I could see that God had done all this for David while he was a young man, and now he had left the palace and gone out into the world. The angels had been waiting for David a long time, and had nothing to do but wander around the palace. They were all extremely grieved and at the point of tears.
As I looked down the long courtyard, I saw a jeep driving into the palace grounds. Two children angels were with the jeep. One was driving and the other was laying on top of the hood. David was in the passenger side. As I watched David coming down the driveway to the palace, I knew David had been living with the Romans and partaking of the debauchery of their world.
The jeep stopped where all the angels were standing. David got out and climbed on top of the short wall surrounding the fountain. Dressed in a fool’s outfit like the court jester, he began to talk about all the wine and the women and the song and joys of living in the debauchery. I could see a wistfulness in his demeanor and eyes — that he still wanted to live that life. When he finished talking about his longings of the world, he said, “A sword has brought me home.”
I looked at his body and he wasn’t wounded in a physical sense. David, with great submission and even compassion, said, “The sword of the Spirit.” At that moment, all the angels in the courtyard raised their hands in unison to the Lord in heaven and began worshipping God. I did the same thing and could not see anything because I was sobbing so much.
[end of dream]
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJ)
