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Is This A Sign?

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This is a sign:

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Not necessarily. Dreams and visions were a pretty big thing in the Bible.

And now we have the bible.

God may send you dreams, you check them against what the bible teaches and if you know your bible that well, would you need dreams etc from God.
 
And now we have the bible.

God may send you dreams, you check them against what the bible teaches and if you know your bible that well, would you need dreams etc from God.
The first verse describing the final eschaton is from God telling Adam: "Cursed is the Earth because of you".
Saying that it will die.
 
Only to Joseph and the heathen...
God does not give His Spirit to the heathen. But this is what we find in Joel 2:28,29: And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit.

This passage was partially fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost (and during the Apostolic Age) and will also be fulfilled after the Second Coming of Christ, and the redemption of Israel.

At the same time, God primarily communicates to us through His complete written Word today, and also by His Spirit.
 
God does not give His Spirit to the heathen. But this is what we find in Joel 2:28,29: And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my Spirit.

This passage was partially fulfilled on the Day of Pentecost (and during the Apostolic Age) and will also be fulfilled after the Second Coming of Christ, and the redemption of Israel.

At the same time, God primarily communicates to us through His complete written Word today, and also by His Spirit.
Pilate's wife?
 
Pilate's wife?
"Pontius Pilate's wife, otherwise unnamed in the Bible, appears in a single verse of the Gospel of Matthew, where she tries to persuade her husband not to condemn Jesus to death. She is named as Procla or Procula in early Christian tradition (later also Percula, Claudia, Claudia Procula orClaudia Procles). She is considered a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. She is first named as Claudia in 1619, in the chronicle of Pseudo-Dexter." Wikipedia
 
That someone would "discover" that Pilate's wife was some kind of believer and in this case a saint. Because God talking to unbelievers through dreams makes Believers feel less special in some fashion.

And considering that the fashion I presented the fact was a "slam dunk" against his assertion to the contrary...he felt the need to recover his pride in a fashion and not admit to being incorrect.

Pilate's wife was a Gentile. Not a Jew. She knew nothing of Jesus except for what Pilate said. She was a member of the ruling class of Romans... absolutely uninterested in Jewish people except for how her husband ruled over them. (Pilate himself wasn't a complete pig of a man but neither was he all that caring of a leader either...he made friends with Herod on that day. Herod being an equivalent of a Jesse Jackson in today's society)
 
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