This dream occurred the night of 7/22/2020 and the scene was an expansive church and church grounds. In the dream, I was training for ministry. I was aware that I was preparing to begin my ministry in a large church and was given my first assignment, to perform a wedding for a couple. There were other people with me and as I approached the sanctuary doors with my wife and my guide, I was told that my assignment was to perform a same-sex marriage. I knew that this assignment was against my teaching and against what I learned from the Bible. It was heretical, yet I was prepped, given the assignment and told I had no choice but to perform the marriage ceremony. I was reluctant, but entered the sanctuary with anticipation, because I never had performed a wedding before.
Sanctuary
As I entered the large doors opening into the sanctuary, there seemed to be no end to how large it was. I had a Bible in my left hand and was making my way toward my seat at a ceremony preparation table in the audience seating area. As I felt the weighty Bible in my hand, I suddenly realized that I was not fully prepared to marry this couple, who I did not know. I also had knew that marrying them would be a disastrous spiritual mistake, but I had no option to warn them.
The sanctuary was quite large with no end at the edges. It was filled with people and as I arrived at my seat, I was aware that there were other activities going on in the sanctuary other than the wedding. Other ceremonies being performed by other ministers with various events happening on the stage. Since I was now on an assignment I could no longer dismiss, I sat down at the table to prepare for the ceremony. As I sat down, My mind was recalling Psalm 91. I repeated, “Psalm 91, Psalm 91” several times under my breath as I scooted my chair in and was about to open the Bible to read the verses of this chapter.
Woman And The Bible
There was an Asian woman seated at an adjacent table to the left of me who asked me about the other small Bible on the table in front of me. I recognized this Bible right away, it was the free Bible given out by a local United Methodist Church I had once attended.
The middle-aged Asian woman asked me about the Bible and I responded and told her what it was. I joyfully gave the woman the Bible to have. After a few minutes, she turned around and gave the Bible back, but it was transformed. I looked at the Bible and it had been altered. It was a different, older Bible and had name of a different church inscribed on the inside cover. The Bible was complete containing both the old and new testaments.
Cannon
The scene quickly changed and I was walking out of the sanctuary. I did not perform the ceremony and as I turned left into a giant cathedral-like hallway, I walked along and talked with someone who I believe to be an angel, as my guide. I laughed about a few things we discussed as we walked away from the sanctuary deeper into the church. Still in a large expansive hallway, I saw above our heads a great bottle conveyor/filling system that seemed to be automated with thousands of bottles lined up on a conveyor belt system. The bottles were being filled up with water, but poured out quickly as to show that the bottles were spilling out everywhere. The system appeared to be broken in some way and not working as designed. I struggled to take it all in and found myself marveling at all that I saw. I do not recall what was said at this moment or if anything was said while I looked at the large scale operation working above our heads and was surprised by the malfunctioning system.
Next, we entered the connected section of hallway and I saw a large pipe-organ-looking device that was appeared to be a pipe-organ and a multi-cylinder Gatling style gun / cannon all-in-one.
As I looked at this large device, hanging from a tiered mezzanine, I saw a man in a black clergy frock or robe came out of a door on the mezzanine above us and he walked around the giant cannon device and placed an envelope type document into a cylinder or loading chamber of the hanging pipe organ Gatling cannon. After he placed the envelope into the gun, he closed the small hatch and reached for a lever with a large red grab handle to fire the gun. As he fired the gun, there was a loud muffled explosion. Sparks and black smoke immediately began billowing out of the gun, the pipes, and the entire mezzanine and filling the room and leaked from the pipes that were located throughout the church. The man who loaded the envelope and others in the area began choking and coughing and were surprised that the firing of the cannon had failed, but were laughing at the comedy of all the commotion. It was obvious that whatever he put into the chamber of the cannon had backfired. I made a comment to my guide and laughed about what I had seen and moved on to the next area of hallway.
Foundations
As we left this area of the expansive church, we walked down the hallway away from the smoke, the bottle assembly line and the cannon toward the end of the hallway. The floors were made of either granite or marble tile, which quite large and extravagant. As we neared the end of the hallway, there was another hallway located to the left that led to more rooms and they were filled with people who seemed oblivious to all that we saw. As we approached the wall of the end of the hallway, I looked down to see uplifted and broken tiles on the floor with crumbled concrete underneath. I spoke to my guide and laughed again and said, “what is this?” He said “what do you see?”, but I looked at the floor and back at him and said the no one is looking at the problem, but the concrete underneath the church had crumbled and appeared as dust. It was obvious that this had been ignored and put everyone in danger. The foundation of the church was bad. I laughed, because I was flummoxed that no one was able to see the issues of the same-sex wedding, the bad bottling operation, the backfired cannon or the crumbling floor as problems, that when left alone would be the destruction of the church. I put my foot out to pick up the tile pushed up to expose the underlying crumbled concrete with my toe. I then put it down and proceeded to jump upon it, while laughing that no one had noticed the damage before. I then immediately woke from the dream with clear recollection of what had occurred.
Interpretation
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I am reluctant to interpret this because I know that it is hard for people to accept that same-sex marriage is not an acceptable to God. Marriage is made between a man and a woman to be joined together for the purpose of a covenant between each other and with God. Two become one flesh for the purposes of being fruitful and multiplying. Genesis 1:28 I must, however, be true to God and His people by revealing what this dream entailed and do my best, with the utmost humility, to inform anyone who is willing to listen with what He has to say.
The dream is about the United Methodist Church and churches like it, who are modifying God’s word and church doctrine to show gay marriage as acceptable to God and allow LGBT identifying persons into Christian leadership. In the dream, I was a ministry student and I was given an assignment to marry a same sex couple, against my will and against the word of God. Ministry students attending the current UMC schools are being taught to accept gay marriage and seminaries everywhere will begin instructing students to participate in gay marriage ceremonies or they will not be ordained clergy in the UMC church or other churches.
God showed me that it was the UMC by the Bible on the table I gave to the woman. The fact that the woman was Asian, indicates work that the UMC may be doing indoctrination in the Asian regions of the world to spread the gospel, but their own version of sin acceptance. This doctrine is no longer inline with teachings of the Bible or the teachings of the original Methodist church, founded by John Wesley.
Psalm 91 is a message to all people and particularly the people and clergy of the United Methodist Church in this hour that do not agree with the what is happening in the UMC and with the changing of foundational doctrine that accepts evil as good and good as evil.
The botched bottle operation I witnessed showed me that the church is using their church to bottle up or process the Holy Spirit (living water) and using God’s spirit to market the church in ways that God is not happy with. The bottles were vessels or souls that were freely given acceptance of the Holy Spirit as though He was something they could automate and process like a product.
The cannon pipe organ was how the church processed its doctrine or canon or the UMC book of discipline to incorporate the new LGBTQ+ material and same-sex marriage acceptance. In the attempt to add the policies of LGBTQ and gay marriage acceptance to the UMC canon, it will back fire and have everlasting reporcussions to God’s people.
The broken tile floor and crumbling foundation was shown to me to see if I was aware of the fullness to the danger of changing UMC’s book of discipline. I understood right away the ramifications were that the very foundations of the church were in danger of crumbling and becoming an everlasting danger to God’s people and their salvation.
Conclusion
I do write this with heavy heart, as I love all people and I personally know people who identify as both gay or lesbian. This does not mean I don’t love them, in truth, it reveals that I do. I want them to experience an everlasting life with Him also.
God is a God for all people, not just straight-identifying people. We are all sinners, yes, but the Bible is very clear on sin and people who have strayed away from God’s purpose for their life to follow identity in race, gender, sexual preference, religion are making a choice in this hour who they are choosing to follow.
There is our God, the one true loving God who sent His only begotten son to pay for our sins by dying on a cross for to save us from our sin, and there is a ruler of this world. Satan is the ruler who people worship when they do not crucify themselves to follow Jesus Christ or make the choice to live a holy life. The god of this world is worshipped by many and we cannot serve two masters.
The church, whether it is UMC, the Catholic church, or other church who have changed God’s word to follow their own ways or passions are leading people astray or keeping them from living according to God’s plan. These churches and the leaders of these churches are in peril and face dire consequences if they do not repent and turn back to what God has told us in His word, Jesus Christ.
Likewise, we, the people of the church cannot engage in the world’s ways. God calls us to be holy as He is holy. We cannot defile ourselves with worldly humanism and the like. We cannot engage in things that are considered against His word. It is nearing a time when there will be no more grace and mercy for sin. When those who do not follow Christ will be judged, not by man, but by a judge. It is time to repent, to change our ways and follow Him to stay on the narrow path so that we may have hope in an everlasting life with Him in Heaven. Jesus Christ is the way.
Follow Up Dream
I had a follow up dream this morning, Sunday 7/26/2020, that reminded me that I was given this message to deliver. In this morning’s dream I was given responsibility of delivering a semi-truck and trailer and I forgot my keys. I didn’t deliver it and when I went to get my keys, I realized I left them at home. So I began towing the semi-truck and message by hand with a rope to my house to get the keys. On the way there, after I towed the rope through traffic on a long road, I turned around and the truck and trailer had disappeared. It was lost. In this dream, the truck is my ministry. The trailer is God’s message for me to deliver. I was to deliver this message soon, before it was lost on the roadway of life. We must be faithful in delivering His messages when we receive them for the aid of those who are able to receive them. It’s imperative that God’s people hear what God has to say, even if it isn’t what the people want to hear.
Blessings to all people in this hour. May God cast His everlasting joy and love on you and keep you in the hour of your trouble. You are loved.
In Christ,
Darrell B. Jones
Psalm 91
1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust.”
3 Surely he will save you
from the fowler’s snare
and from the deadly pestilence.
4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.
5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.
7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.
8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.
9 If you say, “The Lord is my refuge,”
and you make the Most High your dwelling,
10 no harm will overtake you,
no disaster will come near your tent.
11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;
12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.
13 You will tread on the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.
14 “Because he loves me,” says the Lord, “I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.
15 He will call on me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.
16 With long life I will satisfy him
and show him my salvation.”