I’m on a farm, which is a gardening farm. Very large scale. It’s my first day. I am seeing a lot of activity. I am introduced to my own personal trainer she’s a lovely person. She’s called away yet I go with her. We view various pieces of the estate. We meet various other workers. Some of whom are very young – children. Some of them are older than me. Yet they’ve been there working. The boss comes back to help us a few times to make sure I’m on the right track.
There’s an incident but it’s someone relating a past story of what happened when someone started shooting some of the workers and how everyone who worked there all worked together to sort it out.
One thing I was shown was some vegetable which had to be separated from a growth. There were a couple of other scenarios which I was shown in how to garden and what was needed.
Lastly, I was taken to where I had to start, on my training area which was under cover, where I met a young lad about 10 or 11 who was going through the training process and I had to follow his example. He was very cheerful. It looked a bit complicated. He was carrying various large vegetables back and forth but they were all individual. They were all exchanged and put in individual stalls. He ended up doing an amusing flip to get over a stall wall into what seemed to be a bath where he splashed around.
I stood there thinking I need to do all of this! Incredulously. The trainer instructed me in this is what I was to do following the young lad’s example.
There was more detail but that was the main thrust of the whole thing.
Apart from the last part it was all outdoors.
This is about being trained in the kingdom of God. The woman is the Holy Spirit. The boss is the Father. The workers are those in the harvest field. The incident is an enemy incursion and how we stand together to fend it off.
This dream is in stark contrast to my other ‘new’ job dream called a weird work place dream.
I am being trained up outside (maybe a reflection of my day time work as a gardener) before I can go ahead and be involved in more kingdom work. Yet I am then taken inside to be trained up again by a child. Sounds like something Jesus might do!
The wolf will live with the lamb,
The leopard will lie down with the goat,
The calf and the lion and the yearling together;
And a little child will lead them.
In pondering the dream the scripture that came to me is the one in bold above.
In one of the following nights from the dream, I was wondering vaguely about the kingdom.
I’ve been dreaming and looking at my dreams for some time now. This dream seems to fit the kingdom of God kind of dream. These last few in the last couple of weeks are about the kingdom and what is required to live a kingdom kind of life.
Reading on in the Isaiah passage that’s quoted from I’m struck again by the earth language. Jesus came to establish his kingdom on the earth. It is often called a now and not yet kingdom. Heaven and earth together. That’s what it means by a new heaven and a new earth. Hence the imagery of a garden city in Revelation and this imagery here in Isaiah 11. Jesus has joined the two together and is in process of making it happen.
Here are two notes from Isaiah 11. 9 New English Translation.
tn Heb “in all my holy mountain.” In the most basic sense the Lord’s “holy mountain” is the mountain from which he rules over his kingdom (see Ezek 28:14, 16). More specifically it probably refers to Mount Zion/Jerusalem or to the entire land of Israel (see Pss 2:6; 15:1; 43:3; Isa 56:7; 57:13; Ezek 20:40; Ob 16; Zeph 3:11). If the Lord’s universal kingdom is in view in this context (see the note on “earth” at v. 4), then the phrase would probably be metonymic here, standing for God’s worldwide dominion (see the next line).
tn assumes that a universal kingdom is depicted here, but אֶרֶץ (ʾerets) could be translated “land” (see the note at v. 4). “Knowledge of the Lord” refers here to a recognition of the Lord’s sovereignty which results in a willingness to submit to his authority. See the note at v. 2.
This is certainly a back way of understanding what I’ve been asking the Lord about my role gardening in my awake world. Here I am being trained to garden in my dream but the dream is not all about gardening! It’s about the kingdom being established and my part in it!
The point of starting a new job gardening in the dream and then starting training is to demonstrate that the kingdom is already operating but it’s also not yet fully. I was initially puzzled by that but now that’s obvious.
Keeping the book of Revelation in mind. Remembering that it is figurative language. This earth isn’t all going to be burnt up. What is not of Him maybe, yes, but the references in Peter are more about disclosure, unveiling.
To disclose is to reveal or make known.
But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will disappear with a rushing noise, and the celestial bodies will be destroyed by being burned up, and the earth and the deeds done on it will be disclosed.
Note that Peter says the celestial bodies will be burnt up not the earth.
Celestial bodies will be destroyed by being burned up
The Greek word stoicheia can refer to the physical elements (earth, air, fire, water), the heavenly bodies (sun, moon, stars), or spiritual powers (see Gal 4:9; Col 2:8, 20).
Faithlife Study Bible. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
will be disclosed
While some Greek manuscripts read katakaēsetai (often translated “burned up”) here, the more likely original reading is heurethēsetai (often translated “found” or “laid bare”). The implication is that on the day of judgment all of the deeds done on earth will be brought to light.
Faithlife Study Bible. Bellingham, WA; Lexham Press.
These celestial bodies I think, and it makes sense to me are the spiritual powers as I have referenced here on this blog before (See supernatural world). They will be shown for what or who they are.
3:12 hastening Peter stresses that his readers are not to sit around idly waiting for Jesus to return, but should instead busy themselves with the work He left for them to do (compare Acts 3:19–20).
Faithlife Study Bible. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
For further reading on the 2 Peter passage there’s a book by Justin Bass: Battle for the Keys of the kingdom which deals with the ‘harrowing of hell’. The author is writing about Revelation 1:18 but the material is still relevant.
Somehow my job in life figuratively speaking, is to move large vegetables around to their correct places. That’s quite specific. When I say my job I am the child in the dream. A child is a learner and has the right kind of heart as Jesus said to enter the kingdom of God you need to become like children. I think the vegetables may be dream interpretations. I’m learning how to line them up with the right situation.