What does the Bible say about dream?

Well, that's a great question.

And to discuss with me the subject of dreams today, author, lecturer, Ken Johnson.

Ken, glad you're here with me and let's talk about dreams.

Let's do that. Ken has written a book among his many books

called the ancient language of dreams. And it's all about dreams from the biblical perspective.

And it's a subject that I think a lot of people encounter in their lives. Of course, we all dream.

And sometimes there's a question, well, what constitutes a dream in the biblical sense?

Or what's a vision? And so let's talk about dreams and visions in the Bible.

In fact, let's talk about your book. What convinced you that you should sit down and do a manuscript on dreams and visions?

Well, throughout the years going to church, I'd run across people that would tell me, I believe the Lord want me to tell you this, or you should be doing this, or I had a dream about this. And it seems like almost always it amounts to nothing. So those were false

dreams or false prophets. But throughout the scriptures you see false prophets, of course, but then

true prophets. Sometimes people have visions, they have angelic visitations or they have dreams.

In Daniel, a dream is called a night vision. So if it's something from the Lord. So I wanted

to set down and go through a list of examples. There's a lot of examples in scripture,

but pull out specific ones to get us thinking about if I had a dream, how would I interpret

that?

Well, I want to read the scripture that I think everybody will recognize. Peter on Pentecost, Acts chapter 2,

verse 17, it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, that I will pour out of my spirit

upon all flesh, and your sons and your daughter shall prophesy, and your young man shall see visions.

And your old man shall dream dreams.

And of course he's quoting prophet Joel, and he is standing up and making an announcement

...