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"Jewish" piece of furniture

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I dreamt for what seemed to go on all night long, that my husband and I were deciding on what furniture to keep in the family and what furniture not to.

IRL, his mom passed away recently and we are going through many things.
IRL, his family are traditional Jews, but have not truly practiced. They celebrate Christmas before they celebrate Hannukah.

One piece of furniture is like an end table that seems to have a lot of value. It is a two-tiered wooden endtable, with a lamp on the top tier. On the sides of the bottom tier, there seems to be some kind of tubing for oil to flow through inside wooden enclosures, as if this oil was for fueling the lamp itself, yet the lamp looked like a regular lamp with a bulb.

Anyway, taht's really all I can remember about this piece, and I recall thinking it was ugly and I normally would not want this piece, but I felt like it was Jewish and I needed to keep it because it was Jewish.

That's really all I can remember.

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Sometimes I dismiss these dreams that are very vague, but that it seemed to go on all night has caught my attention to it.

Thanks for any imput....

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I really like this dream but don't why....praying Holy Spirit will give me insight. I feel great blessings are coming your way--an inheritance of some sort...give us understanding Lord!
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this bit of scripture comes to mind, I'm not sure why - I wasn't going to respond, but it keeps coming......

"The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness. Therefore take heed that the light which is in you is not darkness. If then your whole body is full of light, having no part dark, the whole body will be full of light, as when the bright shining of a lamp gives you light." (Luke 11:34-36)

Perhaps this lamp-table represents a "way of looking at things?"

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HI Tal,

I will pray about it. But it does fit in the sense that oil is there, but is not what is really causing the lamp to burn. It is a bulb.

Inside the bulb is mercury. All I could remember is saying "it is ugly" but there was something very "jewish" about it.

I know there was more to this dream that could be the missing pieces. I'll ask the Lord to see if He will reveal those pieces.

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My take on this after prayerfully pondering....

Did your mother-in-law witness to Jewish people?

The two-tiered lampstand is two generations--your mother and your husband. You felt it was Jewish because it represents the Jewish lineage. The oil flowing is an anointing that is passed on and this anointing enables the "lamp" to shine--I feel esp in your case, towards the House of Israel especially in light of your husband's heritage. God's promise is to bring His people back to Him and they are the "apple of His eye".

You mentioned mecury was flowing through the lamp which is NOT normal. The planets all have a symbolic biblical meaning--Mercury is symbolic of Gabriel and Gabriel was a Messenger (I don't know but maybe towards the House of Israel primarily?)


People don't light a lamp and put it under a basket but on a lamp stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house
Matthew 5:15

House--
oikia oy-kee'-ah: residence (abstractly), but usually (concretely) an abode; by implication, a family (especially domestics) -- home, house(-hold).

In reference to the "ugly"

He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him
Isaiah 53:2

Jesus was "ugly" to the House He was sent to.....( I love HIM)

Does this all make sense? I feel like I'm all over the place but I do feel that what was passed on to your husband is a spiritual inheritance from his mother! Like I said, I like the dream a lot--it's a good dream.

My reference for the planets/biblical symbolism:

Writers have dealt at length with the spiritual significance of the constellations and their respective stars, but little has been said of the significance of the planets from a Biblical point of view. Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, has long been characterized as the messenger god…In Acts 14:12 Paul as the chief speaker is called Mercurius. This same characteristic of being a message-bearer is attributed to Gabriel, God’s archangel, whom God sent to Mary in Nazareth in Luke 1:26

At this point, we should be reminded of the mythological roots of planetary symbolism, and how the planets Mercury-Gabriel, Mars-Micheal, Saturn-Satan, & the Sun as the light of the world-Jesus Christ, also called the Covenant Angel named Wonderful, are associated with these archangels.

The site if you'd like more info:

http://www.try-god.com/view_page.asp?id=167
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Keilani,

This is really good. I just want to clarify. I did not mean mercury, the planet was running through the tubing. I meant, mercury, the chemical was in the bulbs. It should be oil that was in the tubing and then lighting the lamp, for that is the reason it is there in the first place. But it did not.

It was as the tubing was there, but the oil was not. It is as the tubing was there, the potential for oil was there, but instead what was in the lamp was a bulb that was filled with the chemical mercury.

My mother in law did not witness as she was not a Christian and did not even practice her own Judaism. She became a Christian towards the last few weeks of her death in June, and she had a radical conversion. This was a witness to her daughter Barbara who now lives with us, also not yet saved.

I love how you mention "apple of His eye". I just wrote about that in a newsletter I wrote, and the word is IYSHONE. Apple. He told me He wanted me to remain in the apple of His eye which is in the center.

In the Center of the Storm;
The Apple of His Eye
Here the will conforms, and
Here the flesh will die
With tempest all around us
We burn bright in blackened skies
Within the center of the storm,
Kept as the
Apple of His Eyes

Thank you for the symbolism of the two tiered furniture being the lineage in my husbands family.

I'm interested in hearing whatever else it is you have...

Blessings,
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Oh no, I know you meant mercury the liquid but oftentimes God speaks in ways where we may "Know" mercury but He means a different "mercury" if you know what i mean. In a dream, you may not know what that round thing is in the bulb unless you know exactly what the planet Mercury looks like (i mean i suck at astronomy). But if you "know" it was mercury in the lamp, the Lord knows someone will put it together eventually. I just happen to hear a teaching weeks ago that talked about how the planets all have Biblical counterparts which is why I thought of it. I believe, He meant the Bibilical meaning behind the planet mercury:)

To clarify:

Mercury is the anointing (or power if that makes more sense in light of the analogy--ha no pun intended!) for being a messenger (witness)--you said oil (anointing) should've been in the lamp but in it's place was mercury. To me this affirms what I felt earlier--what was passed from your m-i-l to husband I believe is that the Lord wants him (I say him but mean you both as one entity) to be a messenger to the House of Israel (his family and whoever He brings your way). Your mother started the legacy by witnessing to her daughter before she went home. I believe even more firmly now that what is being passed on is an anointing from God for you and your husband to be a voice on His behalf to His people (I mean Israel in this case). Does this coincide with what He's been speaking to you in your quiet time? Like I said, I Looove the dream:)
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, I see...

I look forward to the more to come. :lol:
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Yes, I claim it for you as well!

That's what Jesus told me the first time I saw Him face to face:)
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Sorry, could not leave this but really feel I had to add this:


Acts 1:1-11 “... [Jesus said] you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth....”

“The Greek word αποστολος apo-stolos, "messenger" or apostle, conveys the idea of being sent forth as in αποστελλω apo-stelloo, sent.”

“Witnesses bear testimony. They give evidence. The word "witnessing" is used far too loosely today, and the testimonies that people give are often unsubstantiated claims that are little more than wishful thinking. The witness of the apostles was a true and substantiated testimony backed by irrefutable evidence.”

The site I got the above quotes from:

http://members.datafast.net.au/sggram/f005.htm
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Post by galena »

really great discussion... about the dream.

Itisdonerev21 - was the tubing empty? these are the verses that came to my mind while I read your dream:


Prov 6:23
23 For the commandment is a lamp; and the law is light; and reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
(KJV)

Zech 4:11-14
11 Then answered I, and said unto him, What are these two olive trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?
12 And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?
13 And he answered me and said, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.
14 Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the LORD of the whole earth.
(KJV)

Perhaps... the light (bulb) you see as an inferior light, because it is from the law (two leaves of tablets-5 each = two tiers?), while Jesus Christ has brought the light of the Spirit to us... (anointing)
Yet you see the law as Jewish? And this end table (like the table of fellowship) was preparing for the oil (tubing).

just an idea... it is what came to my mind while I read your dream.
(Eze 39:8; Lk 14:22; Rev 16:17; Rev 21:6
John 19:30)