Elephant Breaking into the Church
Lance Sneath
In my dream, I was approaching an old church building that sat on a hill. I was aware that I was on a mission to inspect the building. As I opened the front doors, I saw that the sanctuary was very dark and still. The windows had been bricked shut, and the lights were burned out. The air was thick and stale. I spoke out loud, "Lord, we're going to need some light in here!"
Immediately, I heard the roar of an elephant, a loud boom, and the building shook! Bricks were flying from one of the windows on my left. The elephant continued ramming His head through the bricked-in windows and his white tusks swept back and forth throwing bricks in every direction. The elephant stuck its full head through the bricks and made eye contact with me through one of its huge eyes. There was a Spirit to spirit communication in that instant from the elephant to me: "Don't get in my way, and you will be fine." I went from feeling an intense fear, to an overwhelming sense of assurance and peace in that moment. The elephant continued to clear bricks out of the sanctuary windows.
As light began to dramatically increase in the sanctuary, I could see the dirt that had accumulated. The building was filthy! I then saw a door at the other end of the sanctuary that apparently led to the fellowship hall of the church. I proceeded to go and open the door as the bricks continued to fly out of these windows and the elephant was roaring and shaking the building. When I first opened the door, I couldn't see much, it was very dark in the room. As light entered the sanctuary from these openings the elephant made, it began to drift down into the fellowship hall, and I could make out many people sleeping. I could hear people beginning to sigh and moan - they were stirring as if beginning to awaken. I could then see that they were all sleeping on army cots and were dressed in military camouflage uniforms. I suddenly became aware that part of my mission was to awaken these sleepy warriors. I began to shout, "Get up! Get up! It's time to get ready for war! It's time to get ready for war!"
The sleepy warriors began to get out of their army cots and were beginning to make the kind of noise of a barracks after the drill sergeant has come through at first call in the morning. I was satisfied that the soldiers were getting up, and I realized I needed to get back into the sanctuary to check out what the elephant was doing. As I stepped back into the sanctuary, I was shocked to step into cool, clear, and rising water. The elephant had cleared out the bricks in the windows and had made "elephant sized" windows for light to enter the sanctuary. Then, the elephant had found a spring in the middle of the sanctuary, tore up the floor, and opened up a gushing fountain of water in the sanctuary. The elephant was joyfully roaring and hosing down the sanctuary and all its filth with water being shot out of its trunk. It suddenly turned in my direction and gave me an incredible blast and "hosing down" of cold water. I felt so alive!!!! Talk about being revived!!! It was as though every fiber of my being was leaping full of life. I was fully awake - though still in my dream. The elephant seemed to really enjoy seeing my reaction! It continued to roar, and play in the sanctuary.
The next thing that happened was that two of the soldiers I had just woke up in the fellowship hall came in the sanctuary with sump pumps and long hoses. I asked them what they were doing. They said, "Now that there's plenty of water in the sanctuary, we are taking it out to all the dry wells. There are a lot of dry wells that need filling. I went out to oversee their operation and watched them pumping water from the rapidly filling sanctuary into dry wells outside the church building. As I looked around the church building, the landscape was filled with dry holes as far as the eye could see. I then woke up.
As I awoke from this dream, I sensed the strong presence of the Lord, and I asked Him what this dream is about. He promptly and clearly replied, "Joel chapter three. I am going to break back into My house and there will be water and light in My house. The bricks - made of clay - represent those human elements that My people have learned to trust in rather than in Me. They have bricked shut the windows to heaven and closed up the openings to the wellsprings of My Spirit. People will know that I am dwelling in My House and My church will be My Holy Sanctuary. I will roar from Zion, and My people will know Me as their stronghold and their refuge. I will rouse My warriors from their sleep and from the darkness and send them forth with a bountiful supply of life-giving water from My sanctuary. I am taking back My house and raising up My army to go forth and conquer!
Joel 3: 9-18 9 Proclaim this among the nations: Prepare for war! Rouse the warriors! Let all the fighting men draw near and attack. 10 Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into spears. Let the weakling say, ?I am strong!? 11 Come quickly, all you nations from every side, and assemble there. Bring down your warriors, O Lord! 12 ?Let the nations be roused; let them advance into the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side. 13 Swing the sickle, for the harvest is ripe. Come, trample the grapes, for the winepress is full and the vats overflow? so great is their wickedness!? 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision. 15 The sun and moon will be darkened, and the stars no longer shine. 16 The Lord will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem; the earth and the sky will tremble. But the Lord will be a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel17 ?Then you will know that I, the Lord your God, dwell in Zion, my holy hill. Jerusalem will be holy; never again will foreigners invade her. 18 ?In that day the mountains will drip new wine, and the hills will flow with milk; all the ravines of Judah will run with water. A fountain will flow out of the Lord's house and will water the valley of acacias. (Bold - Emphasis added)
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Lance
Get on Board God's School Bus!
Lance Sneath
I found myself waking up from a sleep on a bus during my dream. The bus was a school bus, and as I was waking up, the bus was pulling out. I did not see the driver, but I recall that I seemed very comfortable with his driving. The bus went somewhat wildly around unexpected twists and turns in the road, and up and down hills and valleys. I had a genuine trust in the driver, and so I was free to move around the bus.
The other people on the bus I did not recognize, yet I felt very comfortable with them, and it seemed as though they knew me quite well. They seemed very intelligent, and they were extremely vigilant and watchful, looking out the windows very intensely. I found myself joining them and moving from window to window to look out at what they were seeing. I heard some of them talking in the back of the bus and turned to see them gathered at the back window, watching something as the bus was moving in the opposite direction.
I went to the back of the bus and stood by one who was very serenely staring out the window. Then I saw what they were so vigilant about. There was a very great wall of darkness on the horizon behind us building in intensely and slowly moving our way. The darkness was ominous - and the feeling I had as I looked at it was of genuine alarm. The man I stood beside looked at me with a sense of relief when he saw that I understood what they were watching and that I felt the alarm and he said to me rather matter of factly, "Good, now you know."
Suddenly there was some enthusiastic commotion from these other watchers from the front of the bus. I turned to see a great church building. What happened next absolutely shocked me! We drove through the glass forrier and parked the front of the bus so that we were watching the worship service from a side view.
People were calmly listening to whoever was up on the platform speaking. I could not see the one speaking. What concerned me was that the people in the church did not seem to notice the bus and our dramatic arrival. They seemed comfortably seated and did not appear interested in moving. The people looked very well dressed and it seemed as though they were fascinated by what they were hearing.
At first, I felt drawn by the sense of peace the people seemed to have and I wanted to get off the bus and join them. I started to move toward the bus door, but another one of the men on the bus spoke to me strongly with words of caution: "Don't get off the bus. We are not here to join them. We are here to warn them so that they might join us."
I suddenly glanced at the back of the bus and saw why he had said this to me. The ominous darkness was moving more quickly toward us. Time was obviously running out before this darkness would be on us. When I looked back at the church, the light in the church seemed so inadequate when I compared it with this great wall of darkness on the horizon and heading our direction. I said to those around me: "What should we do? How can we warn them?"
One of the men on the bus said to me, "We are going to drive this bus right through the church so they can't miss us if they have their eyes opened." So the one driving proceeded to drive through the Sanctuary with the horns blowing and flashing lights - first yellow, then red. We came to a stop in the center, with the lights still flashing and the horn still honking. Many of the people still did not seem to see or hear us, though their eyes appeared to be wide open and we were right in front of them. They seemed to be mesmerized or in some sort of hex spell.
The dream ended with me lowering the windows and yelling for people to get on the bus so we could get to safety. I kept yelling, "Great darkness is coming and you are not in a safe place. You must get on the bus, now!" I remember a feeling of frustration and concern that few people seemed to pay much attention to my words of warning or my pleas to get on the bus. A few people seemed to have a casual interest in what I was saying, but no one had yet to get on the bus when the dream had ended.
Interpretive Comments after listening to the Lord and reflecting on this:
After praying, the Lord said to me: "Events are happening now that should get the attention of the watchful eye of My people. Terrorism, Tsunamis, Hurricanes, Earthquakes - are all evidence in the natural realm of the raging battle already underway in the spiritual realm. Many of my people are fearful, but they don't walk with Me and they don't see any need to change their comfortable lifestyles of convenience and living for self. They are sitting comfortably in the church, and are blindly getting overcome by the darkness. My word to My Church is to repent and follow Me. The Church will not be able to endure with a ?business as usual' attitude. Many of My people will find that much of what they fix their eyes on will be taken from them in a moments time when the darkness comes in its fullest intensity. Get on board My school bus and learn what I have to teach you that you might be prepared to be light in a very dark world."
The Lord led me to this passage in Luke 21:25-28, as well as Matthew 24.
Luke 21: 25-28
25 "There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among nations, in perplexity at the roaring of the sea and the waves,
26 &nbs p;men fainting from fear and the expectation of the things which are coming upon the world; for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
27 &nbs p;"Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
28 "But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near."
I believe this school bus represents God's prophetic ministry that has been driving though the world and into the church in recent years and calling people to "straighten up and lift up your heads." I think the driver of the bus is the Spirit of the Lord Jesus, because the testimony of the Lord Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy. I think the fact that I did not see the driver is evidence of the person of the Holy Spirit working His teaching and prophetic ministry coordinating the work of angelic messengers and the human messengers, the prophets. I think the men on the bus who I did not recognize, yet who knew me were the angels who are God's holy watchers. These angels have a responsibility to teach me and show me that I (and other prophetic speakers within the church) must speak the word of the Lord to be mindful of the signs of the times, watch the signs of growing darkness, and straighten up (repent), lift up our heads (be people of prayer, praise, and worship of the living, loving, Christ.
This dream is a call to sober watchfulness, repentance, and focus on the prayerful power found only in "being on the bus with Jesus." The good news for God's people is that the call is still going out to "get on His bus"! The Lord is taking His disciples to school to equip us for a whole new level in the Kingdom work He has prepared for us. Hallelujah!
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