THE BIBLE'S VIEWPOINT - Are Dreams Messages From God?

REPORTEDLY, inventor Elias Howe's idea for the design for the sewing machine was based on a dream.  The composer Mozart said that many of the themes for his music came to him in dreams.  The chemist Friedrich August  Kekule von Stradonitz likewise claimed  to have discovered the shape of the benzene molecule in  a dream. Such occurrences are hardly unique.  Throughout history many cultures have attributed dreams to be the supernatural.  Some believe that the dreaming and waking worlds are equally real. 

The Bible contains several accounts in which dreams are described as an important source of information-a form of divine communication. (Judges 7:13, 14; 1 Kings 3:5) For example, God communicated with Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph in dreams.  (Genesis 28:10-19; 31:10-13; 37:5-11)  Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar received prophetic dreams from God.  (Daniel 2:1, 28-45) So might there be good reason to believe that even today some dreams are messages from God?  

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From the Awake! magazine