From a FB pal:
'The Coming Crisis' John Taylor:
Now there are several ways in which the pure and
obedient get revelations. It will be your privilege in due time to
become acquainted with these various ways. One
way is, through the inspiration of the Spirit. The Spirit is given to
every man to profit withal. All men have such a measure of the Holy
Spirit as to enable them to make a profitable use of the light and
opportunities that they have and to obey the law under which they are
placed. All the different methods of revelation are not probably given
to all men now. God dispenseth His gifts severally as He will. The
inspiration of the Almighty giveth understanding. Every various method
of immediate revelation, however, always accords with the inspiration of
the Spirit. If an holy angel talks with a man, what the angel speaks
accords with the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. If the Urim and Thummim
is consulted, it accords with the teachings of the Holy Spirit. An open
vision or dream, each accords with the inspiration of the Holy Ghost.
Now one mark of a dream from God is, that it is distinguished for the
clearness and simplicity of the impress that it makes upon the mind of
him that dreams. A dream from the Lord being always true in all its
legitimate bearings, will be so disembarrassed from error and
uncertainty to him that has the Spirit of truth in lively exercise, that
he will know it perfectly in distinction from all false hallucinations
or deceptions of the mind.
Reader,
take your Bible and read the Bible account of dreams. There you will
see that dreams from the Lord, for any important end, are plainly
distinguishable from all deceptive influences . When Jacob went toward
Haran and lay upon his stone pillow, and dreamed of seeing a ladder
reaching up to heaven, etc., after he awoke he knew, beyond a doubt,
that the dream was from God. Hence he says, “How terrible is this
place,” etc. When Laban wanted to cheat Jacob out of his just wages, the
Lord appeared to Jacob in a night dream, and told him how to increase
the number of his cattle, so that he could get the advantage of the
cheating employer. Jacob understood the dream perfectly, and so managed
as to have the best of the increase fall to his share. When Joseph told
the simple dream of the sheaves, his brothers all understood it well.
And when he told the dream of the sun, moon, and eleven stars bowing
down to him, his father Jacob felt the force of the meaning, although he
rebuked Joseph. When God gives a dream to a wicked man, He makes him
fully to understand it, unless He wishes to hide the meaning from him.
Abimelech understood his two dreams from the Lord, concerning Sarah,
Abraham’s wife.
The
Lord gave Solomon wisdom, and riches, and dominion, in a dream, and yet
Solomon knew the import of the dream, and that the Lord had appeared to
him, in that dream. The Lord does not suffer wicked spirits to foul and
blot and mar a dream, when he wants to communicate His mind and will in
a dream. Foul spirits are rebuked and commanded to depart when God
wants to indict the truth upon any one’s mind. The Angel of God guards
the dreamer till a clear and distinct impression is made. And that
impression is of an unmistakable character, it cannot be misunderstood,
any more than the light of the sun can be mistaken for the darkness of
midnight. An open vision is another method of revelation. David saw an
Angel of the Lord with a drawn sword, even the pestilence, standing
between the heavens and the earth. The Prophet having prayed that the
eyes of his servant might be opened, showed him that the armies of
heaven were more numerous than the host of his enemies.
This is absolutly true. I testify of it for I have experienced it.
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