Dream: Overcomers: A Martyr Dream

July 14, 2016 

(I was the Martyr!)

Recently I had a strange dream about being beheaded - martyred.  Revelation 20:4 speaks of a time when believers will go through this fiery trial when rejecting the "mark of the beast" soon to take place.  Psalm 23:4 says: Yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. for Thou art with me.  I had no fear regarding how I was martyred but had perfect peace.  This dream, while horrific, seemed to convey a message of our hope in Christ Jesus our Lord, and soon coming King. Also how suddenly one can step out of this earthly clay vessel, into our Heavenly dwelling.  My dream..

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I was at an unfamiliar "camp" or facility and was walking around with a man who seemed to be a guide or guardian.  I saw bodies lying on the ground in body bags - I recall the bags were shaped like an Egyptian sarcophagus that you could not see through, except the shoulders up. I could see their neck - their head was missing!  I then stopped at one person, which I suddenly recognized as me!  I knew it was me, and that my head was gone!  I was not as upset over seeing myself there in that condition as I was perplexed over my current state ... I still felt alive but then, there I was, lying there with no head!  I asked my guide (who seemed familiar,  perhaps my guardian angel?): "what is this all about - I don't understand, as that's me but here I am - how can this be?"  He answered: "it is you - you were martyred".  I said: "but I still feel alive and am breathing, ... so how can these things be?"  Again he answered: "your spirit is reacting to your fleshly body". I followed close beside him insisting that I really was here, it was me, myself and I could feel myself breathing and tried to show him that I was still myself, breathing, as I inhaled - no difference, yet I was lying there on the ground lifeless!.  

I had not remembered at all the death blow that took my life and beheaded me.  There was hardly any difference except I seemed to have a more spiritual type body that I knew was not yet finished - as if I was between the resurrection and this physical existence: like when a caterpillar sheds it's skin and goes into its chrysalis, transforming into a beautiful butterfly! I was unable to see my final transformation, perhaps like many believers who currently await the resurrection, currently in the Lord's presence.

What's even more strange: I was not at all upset or disturbed like you would think, about being beheaded ... even upon awakening from the dream.  I was more disturbed over not understanding how these things could be, since I still was surely alive and breathing (at least in my perception of things it appeared I was breathing).

After awakening and discussing the dream with my daughters, I watched a YouTube video from "The Two Preachers"  in which they showed a photo of a very bad auto crash involving a motor cycle with emergency personal and police on the scene, motorcycle in between, and what appears to be a spirit leaving the body, watching right above the wreck.  (Link: "The Two Preachers: Who is this in the picture??? End times signs from God July 15, 2016."  https://youtu.be/JRApwgjm9xU )  The timing of the video was not an accident considering my dream. There are no coincidences in God's kingdom concerning His children.

Also about this same time, I had been having a private pestilence problem on my deck regarding my bird bath water turning red.  I like to photograph birds, butterflies and nature, so this disturbed me.  In my investigations (which included the County Extension Office, which I managed to perplex regarding my problem) it was discovered that a caterpillar, new to Georgia, called: "Orange Stripped Oak Worm" was shedding  it's caterpillar skin and going through its metamorphosis, stepping out of its old destructive life and into a period of rest, in which it was being transformed into a completely new creature - a butterfly, old things passed away, all things becoming new! 

This dream, along with all the closely associated confirmations (same two week period of dream) made me reflect upon God's Word the following scriptures: 

2 Corinthians 5:17.  Therefore If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Revelation 20:4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them  and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshiped the beast, neither his image, † neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Psalm 23
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leads me beside the still waters.
3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.
6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. Amen

1 Corinthians 15:35-57:  But some man will say, how are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.  There is one glory of the Sun, and another glory of the Moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It Is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit  that was not first  which is spiritual, but that which is natural;  and afterward that which is spiritual.  The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from Heaven. As is the earth, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. Now this I say brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither do corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.  But thanks be to God, which gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.