Dreamed this last night 10/9/07. Dreamed I moved into a nice apartment. It was a very spacious apartment and most of that space was for all the big windows. It was a sunny day so my abode was filled with light. All the walls were white, the carpet was white. It was simple and clean, just like the neighborhood. The neighborhood had mid-size white ideal American dream homes with perfect manicured lush green lawns. Teens and kids were jump roping in the streets; a great activity for kids and it was a beautiful day.

Something was not quite right. I looked out my window at a run down old school that had been abandoned for a long time. It looked like the bell in the bell tower could fall down at any second given the condition of the wooden supports, then the bell started to ring, all by itself! This was the kind of bell a person had to be in the bell tower pulling the rope in order to ring, and it was ringing by itself. I heard peals of loud, deep thunder as it rang, but there was no sign of a storm.
It stopped, and it started up again at exactly 3:30pm. How strange! Whoever heard of a bell not marking just the start of every new hour but every half hour of the new hour? Anyway, I felt sorry for the building, a place that served the community so well shouldn't be allowed to rot away.

Here's what the school looked like, it looked the school in the top photo labeled old school:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~k...oto/schools.gif

Mom gave me some info on the school. It was actually an old church, an old Presbytarian chruch. When she said that, the church changed, the paint freshened, the rotting process of the wood reversed, and it was as it used to be. A white sign on the front of church read in blue letters that kind of looked like Greek read:
OVERCOME MAN. A longer similar sign along the side of the building read, MANKIND MUST BECOME EXTINCT.

I was invited by the some of the church decons to come and help fix up the church. My job was to clean up the basement. As I was cleaning the basement, many old women would come and bow to the basement windows. They would set a lighted white candle in front of them and mourn silently for the past.

Meanwhile, I found strange things in storage down in the basement. I found mashed potatoes, still fresh. I found an old wedding photograph that looked like it was taken around the first World War. I was careful with that, because I wanted to find the elderly woman who's photo this belonged to, and give it to her. The old women started to get up and leave at that point. There was also an enormous old chifforobe (http://www.ask.com/reference/dictionary/ahdict/30680/chifforobe). It was made of very dark wood. It gave me kind of an eerie feeling. Do I even want to know what's in that old thing? Suddenly, the basement that had moments before crammed with miscellanous junk (some of it not junk) became clean and largely empty. How did I so fantastically complete my task so quickly?

Some much of this dream has haunting images...there was such sad feeling with the wedding photo of the bride and her husband on the staircase - what happened that they left it behind? Bells seem to open doors in the spirit world in my dreams, sometimes bringing death, sometimes good things, but always opening doors to let in some great power. The sad little school building...the wood of the church was cut to fit so no one could rip it off and take it home to use in their own home...these things might be important...and something made me afraid to look into the chifforobe.

Reminds me of the cardinal thread- specifically these posts:

http://www.christian-forum.net/index.php?s...ost&p=91988

http://www.christian-forum.net/index.php?s...st&p=110207

The apartment I moved into represents a change in myself. My mind is open to 'light', to GOD's voice. This is symbolized by all the windows letting in light. The white walls and carpet, nice neighborhood and innocent kids playing an innocent game, represent pure thoughts, and a life that is peaceful, and stable.

The abandoned school/church represents a time when education was more personal, and therefore better. There was just education, but the whole community and school instilled a sense of social responsibility, high moral standards, and wisdom. This system has been abandoned for a long time, as a consequence, education is corrupt, it serves the political agenda, not the community. Nobody dares take responsibility for anything, from the street to the White House, it's always somebody's else's fault. Morality and values are self-centered now. I feel sorry that core community values...responsibility, morality, and family, have been allowed to rot away. The church restored when I began to believe it was possible to restore these values.

The bell in the school rang at the 3rd hour and again at 3:30pm, accompanied by thunder. The feeling I got in the dream is that this represented the hour of Christ's death on the cross, which scripture gives at 3 in the afternoon, and that Christ was in the tomb 3 days prior to the ressurection. The thunder felt like it represented the moment when the curtain was spilt in half at the moment of Christ's death ( Luke 23:44 and 45).

Also 'times, times, and a half a time', or 3 1/2 years (3:30 is 3 and 1/2 hrs) appears the same numerically as 42 months or 3 and 1/2 years the world will worship the beast ( Rev chapter 13) and the two witness of GOD are dead in the street for 3 and 1/2 days before they stand up on their feet and are called up to Heaven (Rev 11). When I reviewed these sections of scripture after the dream, it seems more that the beast is not a person but a group of nations acting as one to make war againist all the righteous of the earth, and the two witness, real people or figurative, represent the Old and New Testaments, testifying to the reality of GOD existance.

The bell is also a summons, summoning all belivers to get their spiritual state from a state of neglect to a state of purity, ready to serve the LORD.

The sign, "OVER COME MAN" written to look Greek is a reference to the New Testament, since it was written in Greek. The message represents that all believers must learn to overcome the temptations of this world. The other sign, MAN MUST BE BECOME EXTINCT, also references the New Testament, where in the end, mankind is nearly wiped out, and the earth and sea give up their dead to stand before GOD to be judged. These are two facts believers must face.

The basement crammed with stuff represents everything believers have been holding onto that is completely worthless and must be thrown away. The old women represent mature believers who, don't do any work, just solemnly observe certain holy days and are busy bodies the rest of the time. This is pointless, there is work to be done! The wedding photo is of a woman, a bride, who lost her first love! All the believers are the bride of Christ, but the Bride has lost her first love! She must return to her first love and repent! ( See Rev chapter 2). I had the sense that I had not lost my first love for Christ but it was my job to help make the Christian community useful again. The chiffarobe represent dirty secrets those in the body of Christ have hidden, and I'm afraid to know what they are.

I've been thinking how come the basement seemed to clean itself so quickly? When I saw all the junk, I thought it would be impossible to clean it to leave it looking nice, and even getting 1/3rd of the way through would be very time consumming task. But as I proceeded, it got much easier, and the basement cleaned itself. All the junk vanished instantly except for the photo and the chiffarobe. It is because the burden of Christ is light, and it was Him doing the really hard work, all I did was help a little....and GOD blessed the effort so it became effortless.

Thanks, Julie for your links! Those posts, I believe, are related to the dream!

I'm sure there are others reading this and have insights that were missed and should be posted, I'll be happy to see those.

maybe this will shed some light :}
places in a dream, represent

[b]SCHOOL:

Church

Place of Teaching, Preparation

Mentoring, Discipleship

Teaching Ministry

Equipping for the Work of the Ministry

BASEMENT:

Storage area, Memories

Past Experiences

Hidden sins

Carnal nature, lust

Flesh

Thoughts, attitudes

Sins of Forefathers, Iniquities hidden
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Death Of Eight Bells

Phil Hammer

I have been shaken in the spirit by this event today in Kentucky, and the powerful implications for our nation. Please post this prophetic word as a warning.
the DEATH of EIGHT BELLS at the Kentucky Derby. and "the cry at midnight" in Matthew 25:6

Many of you may have watched the tragic event that unfolded at the Kentucky Derby. But what is more important is what the Lord is saying to us as a nation through this tragic event

The EIGHTH BELL is the one that gets rung at "MIDNIGHT"!!

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Number of bells

Bell Pattern

Hour (a.m. and p.m.)

One bell

.

12:30

4:30

8:30

Two bells

..

1:00

5:00

9:00

Three bells

.. .

1:30

5:30

9:30

Four bells

.. ..

2:00

6:00

10:00

Five bells

.. .. .

2:30

6:30

10:30

Six bells

.. .. ..

3:00

7:00

11:00

Seven bells

.. .. .. .

3:30

7:30

11:30

Eight bells

.. .. .. ..

4:00

8:00

12:00

The term "Eight bells" can also be a way of saying that a sailor's watch is over, for instance, in his or her obituary. It's a nautical euphemism for "finished".

On April 8th the Lord showed me an angel high over southern California holding a watch that said three seconds to midnight. The Lord told me the three seconds are 3 months.



[size="4"]There will be a "cry at midnight" on July 8th when the eighth bell strikes midnight, not any cry, but wailing, and weeping and a travail that will literally shake the earth!

Philip Hammer

philip0246@yahoo.com

Tucson regional house of prayer
Brass Nautical Bells

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by Staff Writer
Brass nautical bells played an important role in years past when there was a greater dependence on using ships to transport goods and people, not to mention for the protection of a country. As early as the 15th century, bells were used aboard ships as a means of announcing the time and keeping the boat running smoothly and on schedule. In those early days, an hourglass was used in order to keep track of the time as the sand slowly slipped from one end of the container into the other.

A ship that carried a full compliment of workers also had someone that stood watch over the boat and kept track of the time. On every hour and half hour, the bell would be rung by the helmsman, using a series of pauses and rings. Two bells represented the hour and then a pause with one bell would represent the half hour and there would be a maximum of eight bells rung at the end of a shift, when the ringing would start over with one bell at the next half hour.


Using Brass Nautical Bells Today
In today's world, most people keep track of the time by their own personal watch or with a clock in their room. Brass nautical bells are still used aboard passenger, training, and naval vessels where the tradition stays alive. As an individual yacht owner, the choice can be there whether or not to use the bell system to make the passengers aware of the time.

The brass bell is a great accessory to bring beauty to the vessel, as well as to provide a means of communication to the people on board. There are many differing kinds of boat hardware that can be installed to appeal to the owner's eye. The brass ship bell can be a wonderful addition.

Worshiping the Lord in all righteousness. A child of God. Light of the Lord.

Eph 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,



Old abandoned ideas and teachings that were from out of the mind of man rather than of God. Teachings of man are not sound doctrine and will rot and will not stand. God is getting your attention concerning this matter by the ringing of the bell.

Eph 4:18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Eph 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.



Three is the number of completion and perfection. This part of your dream speaks of being made perfect in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 1:30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

Colossians 1:28 Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:



Being taught of the Holy Spirit the truth of Christ.

Eph 4:20 But ye have not so learned Christ;

Eph 4:21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:



This all speaks of putting away the old teachings (mashed potatoes) and the old self (wedding photo). We keep clothing in a chifforobe (the old corrupt person)

Eph 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

Eph 4:23 And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

Eph 4:24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.




This is the word for you and other believers from the Lord within this dream:

Live as children of the Light. We belong to God. Clean out and get rid of the former self and renew your spirit through Holy Spirit guidance in prayer and reading the Word of God.

Ephesians 4:17-24 NLT
With the Lord's authority let me say this: Live no longer as the ungodly do, for they are hopelessly confused. Their closed minds are full of darkness; they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds and hardened their hearts against him. They don't care anymore about right and wrong, and they have given themselves over to immoral ways. Their lives are filled with all kinds of impurity and greed.
But that isn't what you were taught when you learned about Christ. Since you have heard all about him and have learned the truth that is in Jesus, throw off your old evil nature and your former way of life, which is rotten through and through, full of lust and deception. Instead, there must be a spiritual renewal of your thoughts and attitudes. You must display a new nature because you are a new person, created in God's likeness-righteous, holy, and true.

Thank you for the interpretation I appreciate it!