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Window of opportunity in the midst of spiritual malnourishment

From: D&V List No.1259
Date: Saturday 20 October, 2007

The Laodicean church condition is particularly true in materially rich countries where Christians are lulled into being spiritually lukewarm by their material comfort. Such lukewarm state of Christians in a lost world that is escalating down the path of inward and outward environmental self destruction is unacceptable with God. Dream by Dawn and interpretation by Paula Cavu.

Dream by Dawn Braun on 15 October, 2007

I dreamed that I was in a foreign country, possibly Vietnam. I remember the
faces of the people. I was walking down a long dusty road with some people, I did
not know.

I happened to look to the left of me and I saw some houses. They were
very peculiar looking because they looked like residential houses, something you’d
see in a high class neighborhood. The houses were “A-Fame” and on wooden stilts
with wooden steps going up into them. They were in the middle of fields, trees and
high grass. The scenario did not fit the picture. These houses should not have been there.

Somehow I knew that these houses were completely empty on the inside.
The people by the houses were smiling as we passed like they were
happy with their surroundings and accomplishments.

The houses were only there for show and were not real. They looked good
on the outside, but in the inside they were totally empty.
END OF DREAM

** I was just about to give up waiting on some revelation coming through with regards to insight into this dream when I was enlightened with what I believe is the companion scripture. This seems typical of your dreams of late – perhaps the Spirit is teaching in a particular way.

The dream is portraying a poor country (Vietnam is poor by Western standards) where there was an illusion of riches (façade of pretended high class residential houses) in the midst of real poverty and health issues associated with it.

The smiling people, seemingly happy with their unreal and pretended surroundings and accomplishments, depicted the spiritual condition of the Laodicean church in the companion scripture. (Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked)

The dream is saying that this is the actual spiritual condition of much of modern Christendom.

Rev 3:14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;
Rev 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.
Rev 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.
Rev 3:17 Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

The Laodicean church condition is particularly true in materially rich countries where Christians are lulled into being spiritually lukewarm by their material comfort. Such lukewarm state of Christians in a lost world that is escalating down the path of inward and outward environmental self destruction is unacceptable with God. (Rev 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth)

The fruit of being lukewarm is therefore inward degeneration and religious hypocrisy that is fundamentally antichrist, as it was with Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes of the Gospels.

Mat 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Mat 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Mat 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Mat 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Our modern end time generation is now confronted with a window of opportunity. This involves being weaned from the imperfect parenting and nurturing of flesh and blood ministers into the perfect teaching and leading of the Spirit of God. As with Jesus Christ, we will be led through the fiery furnace of trials and sufferings at the hands of God that will refine the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ in believers. This is true riches of the glory of God’s inheritance in redeemed humanity.

Mat 20:23 And he saith unto them, Ye shall drink indeed of my cup, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with: but to sit on my right hand, and on my left, is not mine to give, but it shall be given to them for whom it is prepared of my Father.

Rev 3:18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye salve, that thou mayest see.
Rev 3:19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

Eph 1:17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
Eph 1:18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,
Eph 1:19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
Eph 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,
Eph 1:21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Eph 1:22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
Eph 1:23 Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all.

Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
Rev 3:21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.
Rev 3:22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

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Author: Pastor Paula M. Cavu (paulamcavu@yahoo.com.au)
Maintained by: Dr Gavin Porter PhD
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Last Updated: 31 October 2007
Unless otherwise stated, all scriptures have been quoted from the Old King James Version of the Bible.