Thought it would be interesting to start a thread on dreams and visions you have had. Not that you heard others have, but which you have had given to you.
I'll go first.
Years ago before I was saved I was given a vision. It actually helped propel me to surrender to the claims of God and repent.
I saw the entire world, almost like I was in space looking at the planet. I could sense all the people on the planet though I couldn't see them individually.
There was a blanket laying across the world. It looked to be about a couple hundred miles thick in proportion to the world. It was made out of darkness itself, as if darkness was SO dark it was palpable and heavy, like a lead blanket made out of pure dark-stuff.
I could feel the heaviness of it weighing down on everyone, literally choking and suffocating everyone. I could feel the suffocation, the weight of it. It was nightmarishly real, so much pure depression, misery, evil, blindness, death...
But as I looked a saw a light on the earth. The darkness was trying to smother it like it was everything else. But the light cut through the darkness like a burning hot knife through butter. It literally dissolved and dispelled the darkness all around it. In the light there was room to breathe, a release from the depressing suffocating weight.
The light was a golden colour. If you've ever been outside during a solar eclipse, where it's bright sunlight yet simultaneously not so bright then you will have an idea what it looked like.
Yet at the same time it was a bloody red, kind of like a fire was burning somewhere. I looked and this light was emanating from a wooden cross. The cross wasn't burning but the light shining from it was both golden and fiery red (not a mixture but somehow both at the same time).
I understood instantly that the world is suffocating in darkness (me included) but the cross dispels the darkness, brings light and the ability to breathe, and that life giving light was a burning flame.
I had been wrestling under conviction but when I had that vision it pretty much sealed the deal for me: the message of the cross, the gospel, is the only light in this world.
Years later I read that passage of scripture that speaks of gross darkness covering the earth and the nations as well as the verse that speaks about "at evening it shall be light" and was blown away because they describe so perfectly what I saw in vision years before.
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