LENTEN WEEK-LONG FAST AND DREAMS

Just finished a seven-day bread and water fast that began Ash Wednesday.  I usually receive dreams during fasts, and this time was no exception.  When the fast began, I had been troubled about a prophet that preaches Universalism, and I received a dream about it.  I saw two prophets.  One looked like the prophets of old, and he carried a wooden staff like that of Moses.  I can't even remember the other prophet's features because my eye was drawn to his wooden staff.  The top of it was carved into a fox's head. It's eyes were yellow.  I meditated upon the dream and the Holy Spirit gave me understanding that the second prophet was a false prophet.  A fox is cunning, and is a predator and opportunist. It lives in the dark underground in a hole of its own making. I think that might sum up a false prophet, or perhaps a 'fox prophet'. The second dream was about God's wrath. There were lighting bolts crashing to the earth, and the ends of the bolts parted into many smaller bolts.  I knew God was full of wrath, so I ran through an open door and hid just inside a house or building, don't know which. As I stared through the open doorway, another bolt crashed down and curved inward as if to strike me, but it didn't. A third dream was of sitting in a circle with children.  One asked me, 'how can I keep from going to hell?'  I told the children things like, 'remove all malice from yourself, all anger, ill will, all resentment and desires for revenge.'  I found it notable that I was surrounded by children...