布鲁斯·艾伦博士：异梦—来自神的沟通！
題目：异梦—来自神的沟通
作者：布鲁斯·艾伦博士
日期：2019年7月10日
当人躺在床上沉睡的时候，神就在梦里，在夜间的异象里，开通他们的耳朵，封闭他们的教训。（伯33:15-16 新英王钦定版）
当人躺在床上沉睡的时候，神就在梦里，在夜间的异象里（人可以听见神的声音），开通他们的耳朵，封闭他们的教训。（伯33:15-16扩大版）
在我所有不同译本的圣经中（我有许多个译本），每次我查考上面这段圣经时，它暗示了同样的基本思想，即封闭的教训是通过梦给与我们个人的。
英王钦定版中说神“开通他们的耳朵”。被翻译为“开通”的希伯来词原文是galah，גָּלָה (gâlâh gaw-law’)，意思是“暴露”，“透露”，“亲密”，或者是 “交流”。
来自神的梦有一个超越预言的目的。许多拉比把希伯来文的动词“开通”看作一个piel（意思是亲密），因此得出结论认为梦是神跟我们分享祂的秘密的一种方式。
许多古代的智者教导说，在睡着时，你的灵魂很活跃，并且不会被你的肉体所影响。正是在睡着的时候，主可以跟你的灵魂很亲密。在这样的亲密中，你将会看见祂所看见的。
主能看见过去，现在和未来。因此，跟主亲密时光的一个副产品是，我们能够看见祂所看见的，包括未来。
众所周知，如果我们真的能看到主所看到的，我们会无法忍受，尤其是事关未来。因此，在祂的仁慈中，祂用象征包裹起我们的梦，这样我们就不会对我们所看到的过于震惊。在许多情况下，祂甚至不允许我们记住一个梦，因为与神亲密获得的知识对我们来说太令人震惊以至于我们无法忍受。
这就是为什么，如英王钦定版中所说，主会“封闭”我们的教训。祂给我们一个梦，与我们有一段亲密的时刻，然后把祂用象征意义与我们分享的隐藏起来，或者让我们完全忘掉它，直到将来某一个合适的时刻。
约伯记33:17给了一个理由说明我们为什么会忘掉神在梦中与我们分享的信息，那是因为我们会骄傲自大！（创世纪37:5中约瑟的梦就是一个很好的例子）或者也有可能是因为我们虽然得到一个关于未来的梦，但是我们还没有准备好接受为我们预备的东西。
然而也有时候，我们的梦是一个警告，就像玛丽亚的丈夫约瑟在梦中被警告要逃到埃及。
你是否曾经想过为什么神把我们创造成三分之一的生命是在睡眠中度过？如果祂愿意的话，祂本可以把我们创造为完全不需要睡眠。祂的设计是否有其他的动机或原因呢？
在希伯来文“梦”的含义中可以发现回答这个问题的一条线索。希伯来语中“梦”是“Chalam沙拉姆”，意思是“恢复健康”。沙拉姆这个词告诉我们，我们在梦中发现我们的生活，正是我们的梦可以使我们恢复健康。
如果我们意识到我们的睡梦状态可以是一段与主亲密相交的时间，梦使我们恢复健康这种说法就是可能的。我们的身体可能是无意识的，但是我们的灵魂却是非常清醒的。
当我们的身体在休息，而不是分散我们的注意力时，神可以利用我们的睡眠时间与我们分享祂的心。这是一个与主相交的时刻，是我们目标和焦点的更新。
我们今天所拥有的圣经经文中，有近三分之一是来自梦和（或）异象。因此，做梦是一个与主沟通的时间，是接受祂的智慧、洞察力、策略以及安慰和更新的时间。
然而并不是所有的梦都来自神。也有一些是恶梦。我们必须学会辨别和明白，有时候梦只不过是我们自己潜意识中的想象，而其他时候，梦可能是与主亲密时间的表达。也许有时候恶梦是我们的灵魂在述说什么或者是被仇敌影响的结果。
考虑一下这个问题：在你临睡前，你在用什么充满你的灵魂？是观看淫秽和暴力的电视节目？是读关于黑暗主题的小说？记住，在夜晚，你的身体可能处于休息状态，但你的灵魂不睡觉。它继续保持清醒。
在你睡觉之前，你用什么喂养你的灵魂，并且让它继续沉浸其中？让我给你一个改变生命的挑战！
哥林多前书14:32说，“先知的灵原是顺服先知的。”这个挑战就是：在你晚上睡觉之前，祈祷并用耶稣的血来遮盖自己。然后，当你睡觉的时候，吩咐你的灵聆听耶和华，敬拜祂。
你可以通过在睡觉前默想一段经文或唱一首赞美和敬拜神的歌来搭建这个舞台。当这成为你的生活方式，你就会发现你经常会在半夜醒来，敬拜赞美主。也有时候，主会亲自到你这里来分享祂的秘密和祂的心。
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Dreams — As Communications from God
July 10, 2019 Dr Bruce Allen
“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,” Job 33:15-16 NKJV.
“In a dream, a vision of the night [one may hear God’s voice], when deep sleep falls on men while slumbering upon the bed, then He opens the ears of men and seals their instruction,” Job 33:15-16 Amplified.
In all the translations of the scriptures I have (and I have many), every time I look up this passage, it alludes to the same basic idea of sealed instruction being given via dreams to us personally.
In the King James Version it says that God “openeth the ears of men.” The Hebrew word translated “openeth” is galah, גָּלָה (gâlâh gaw-law’) which means “to lay bare,” “to reveal,” “to be intimate with,” or “to have intercourse.”
Dreams that come from God have a purpose beyond just the prophetic. Many rabbis see the Hebrew verb for “openeth” as a piel (meaning intimacy) and so would conclude that dreams are a way in which God shares His intimate secrets with us.
Many of the ancient sages taught that during sleep, your soul is active and not influenced by your physical body. It is during this time that The LORD can become intimate with your soul. In such intimacy, you will see what He sees.
The LORD sees the past, the present, and the future. Thus, a byproduct of this intimate time with The LORD is that we get to see what He sees, including the future.
It is commonly understood that if we were to actually see exactly as The LORD sees, we would not be able to endure it, especially in terms of the future.
Therefore, in His mercy, He wraps our dreams in symbols so that we will not be too shocked by what we see. In many cases, He will not even allow us to remember a dream because the knowledge of our intimacy with Him would be too shocking for us to endure.
This is why, as it seems to be in the King James Version, that The LORD will “seal” our instruction.
He will give us a dream, have an intimate moment with us, and then bury what He has shared in symbolism or cause us to forget it completely until an appropriate moment in the future.
In Job 33:17 give a reason why we may be caused to forget — because we would be lifted up with pride! (Joseph’s dream is a good example found in Genesis 37:5)
Or it might be because we’ve had a dream about the future, and we are not yet ready to accept what is in store for us.
There are times, however when our dreams are a caution; a warning as when Joseph, Mary’s husband was warned in a dream to flee to Egypt.
Have you ever wondered why The LORD created us to spend one third of our lives in the state of sleep?
He could have created us without the need of sleep at all if He had wanted. Was there an ulterior motive or reason in His design?
There is a clue to be found in the meaning of the word “dream” in the Hebrew. The Hebrew word for “dream” is chalam. It means “to restore to health.”
This word chalam is telling us that we find our life in our dreams, and it is our dreams that can restore us to health.
This is possible if we realize that our dream state can be an intimate time with The LORD. Our bodies may be unconscious, but our souls are very much awake.
With our bodies at rest and not distracting us, The LORD can use our sleep time to share His heart with us. It is a time of communion with The LORD and a renewing of our purpose and focus.
Nearly one third of what we have as scripture today came through the auspices of dreams and or visions. Dreaming therefore is a time of communication with The LORD and receiving His wisdom, insight, strategies’ as well as comfort and refreshing.
Not all dreams however are from God. There are such things as nightmares. We must learn to discern and understand that sometimes dreams are nothing more than the imaginings of our own subconscious, while other times they can be the expressions of intimate times with The LORD.
Perhaps sometimes nightmares can be the result of our soul conversing or being influenced by the enemy.
Consider this question: before you go to sleep, what do you fill your soul with? Do you watch lewd and violent television? Do you read a novel about dark subjects?
Remember, at night, your body may be in repose, but your soul does not sleep. It continues to remain awake.
What did you feed your soul and give it to dwell on before you went to sleep?
Let me give you a life altering challenge!
“And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets,” 1 Corinthians 14:32.
Here is the challenge: Before you go to sleep at night, pray and cover yourself with the blood of Jesus. Then, command your spirit to listen to and worship The LORD as you sleep.
You can set the stage by meditation on a scripture or by singing a song of praise and worship to Him before you fall off to sleep.
As you make this a lifestyle, you will find that often you will be awakened in the middle of the night, worshipping and praising The LORD.
At other times, The LORD Himself will come to you to share His secrets and His heart.
For his glory,
~ Bruce Allen